the. european commission. that allegedly. made possible terror attacks during the upcoming holiday season european authorities. to spoil the christmas mood. and. join. me. with a federal state. and

a very warm welcome to. the european union has extended its approval for a weed killer produced by u.s. agricultural giant monsanto germany and poland were among the eighteen states who voted in favor of it. among the nine against with portugal abstaining and the move was met with protests in front of the european commission trying to depict the struggle its president supposedly faces. you know i believe that. can terry doesn't mean anything for you. he. answered.

today we're standing here hoping to get a message through to the commission too young to specifically that democracy is standing behind a ban on glad to see they can either choose to stand behind nonsense and legislate or they can stand on the side of citizens opinion polling has been clear those that signed the e.c. i have been clear we want a ban on good to see that is where democracy vies they have a choice now the chemical in question life or so it is found in the world's most popular killer is how its inventor and main producer monsanto describes it in its promotional videos but what about their main active ingredient life estate is it harmful how does it work in addition to the u.s. e.p.a. regulatory agencies in more than one hundred sixty countries have approved places state based products like the state is applied to once absorb it travels to the roots blocks

a specific enzyme found in plants not animals or humans. however concerns over the chemicals impact on human as were raised by the world health organization's common so watch dog which said it could probably cause the deadly disease and these concerns fueled the debate that preceded the e.u. vote. very concerned that this process is scientifically flawed there was sufficient evidence of cancer in animals and there were strong evidence for a mechanisms that we know to be associated with carcinogens have left it dry cleaning products burnt toast cold all issues which would be cost in the jennet working night shifts causing human sitting in front of a log far and eating processed meat if we are going to band life site on the strength of its carcinogenic risk don't you agree we have to ban these things as well for for figure eight smoking for example i'm telling you it's a hazard i'm not going to tell you how many cigarettes you must smoke in order to

get cancer and i can confidently tell you that the story of the company's top selling chemical gleick to sate is not one of truth but one of deceit carefully calculated and choreographed deceit we asked a member of the european parliament from greece a country with a voted against the weed killers approval why the e.u. is for it for who might be in this space if you thought it would be gentle and you don't go south who is good to be bullied by. the big pharmaceutical and jimmy got a president to call. it what it was that made broad themselves though it is tied to good days are still ahead for the people there believe. it will soon discover it's those kinds generals on the edge that are going to look you should be sure but may still be dishing revision which careful with the vote of the farmers as one of the

goals humorous of the brother it's the rebate with the user who. is not a big deal for the government. with less than a month to go until christmas european cities are starting to dress up for the festive occasion but with the threat of terror high cross the holiday season have come up with a creative way to maintain heightened security without spreading panic. who explains. festive trees aren't the only thing being installed in the run up to christmas on the streets of britain you're likely to see decorations christmas markets and an extra dose of concrete new security measures being put in place at festive markets across the country and steel barriers like these around london's winter wonderland are intended to protect pedestrians from ice still style truck attacks for anyone put off by all the steel and concrete this could be the answer

or thirty's in the city of whole have come up with this novel way of dressing up their antiterrorist crash barriers london's metropolitan police have said that this year the public may see additional protective measures and security checks at festival vents around the capital and it's not just rings of steel and concrete permanent bollards like these have become common place they prevent cars and trucks from entering pedestrians those and you feel a bit more sorry for seeing the police knowing that they were in top of it ok so the extra security visibly makes you feel better. you know we just expect small security everywhere now it's just because that's just fortunately the way of the world. after the deadly terror attacks this year many in the u.k. are feeling vulnerable last week a security alert at london's oxford circus tube station triggered mass panic.

nine people were injured when crowds ran to escape what they believed to be gunshots after a security lockdown the incident turned out to be a false alarm as well as an illustration of just how nervous many a feeling this festive season. not just in britain but all across europe seeking to secure locals and tourists visiting christmas markets concrete blocks have been installed in berlin munich budapest and other cities as well and as europe steps up security over the festive period an all minnes picture has spread online of an islamic state fighter holding a knife with the caption soon on your holiday written in english french and german concrete blocks in public places may help prevent certain types of attacks but as

our guest explains one hundred percent safety impossible to ensure. security services have to measure your dad this gaze is in days of decision a choice eve he decided not to respond promptly. for be it proper terrorists. would be blamed eve the. then of course there would be believe this somebody out being killed is never enough no security measure is enough especially because of when we believe in another day of years we need to start reviewing how to be on duty in areas with decent sure everybody's panicking that everybody expected something to happen. kurdish forces fighting in syria say that they quote have no problem in joining the government army if they're allowed to form

a federal state in the north of the country the statement comes after turkey claimed that the us president had promised to stop arming kurdish forces however there's apparently no clear position on this matter at the white house. once we started winning the campaign against isis the plan and part of the process is to always wind down support for certain groups and now that we're continuing to crush the physical caliphate that we're in a position to stop providing military equipment to certain groups but forces have been successfully fighting islamic state in northern syria this area you can see now on this map who controls what parts of the map well the u.s. has long been providing the codes with the various types of military equipment it has been something though irritating i washington's nato ally turkey just above the syrian border let's get some details on this now perhaps an explanation. as the probably says you can't ride two horses with one back side makes sense right

unfortunately it doesn't stop people from trying to support turkey in the first fight against terror and terror groups like isis and the p.k. k. the president authorized the department offense to acquit kurdish elements of the syrian democratic forces we should be using we should be doing whatever the reason is it is not something that is acceptable for our friends and nato ally turkey is an ally obviously a strong partner certainly over the specter and friends here's how it is to us allies the turks and the syrian kurds as sworn enemies washington has on the kurds to the teeth saying they need these weapons to fight the jihad ists and turkey sort of understood since when do you need to cooperate with one terrorist organization to fight another terrorist organization it's not the way

a serious state should behave and it does not suit the united states so what next does the u.s. abandon one of its most trustworthy partners try to take back those guns the kurds are stupid they can play that game too there is no problem for us forces to join the syrian army but when you syrian constitution is drafted on a federal basis and the rights of all syrian parties are reserved this is a two pronged approach it's a warning to the u.s. we can dump you before you dump us and the message to actually add give us what we want autonomy and we won't need the americans now we need and as a kurd i can say that our people want to build a syria theory that the fourth or ethnic group dominating any other group i believe it is in the interests of the kurds as the second largest ethnic group to build multi-party. in federal service with the interests of the kurdish people would be

in showing fusion allowing kurds to participate in parliament and join the army in all the state institutions. a new constitution for syria is on the horizon russia iran and turkey backing the initiative but what the kurds get out of it is still up for debate. the us has never viewed the syrian democratic forces as partners unfortunately the us has only been using them to fight i saw him destroy iraq i believe the alliance between the us and forces on the ground including the syrian kurdish groups in iraq has never been a true partnership the us provided assistance and weapons for self-defense purposes and for combating eisel with these agreements have never been linked to military action. which leaves us with the us and its two horses betray the turks a valuable nato ally or betray the kurds their ace in syria alternatively wait for

them to betray the states it was the turkish foreign minister who said that donald trump had promised president or other one to cut military aid to the kurds and we asked the u.s. led coalition about this specific issue this is the response we received the coalition says it is committed to providing the syrian democratic forces the support they need in order to defeat islamic state author nicholas davies who says that washington's pronouncements on the issue of arming the kurds should not be taken at face value. i think we have to wait wait and see exactly what this means but at the same time we should be very conscious that most of the arming of the rebel groups in syria i the u.s. and its allies was done covertly so whatever they are saying publicly is not necessarily the whole story there's a lot of holes in that story that

a big enough to drive. ships planes and trucks loaded with weapons through. five months off to the worst residential fire in london in over one hundred years police have released their final findings concerning the number of lives claimed in total it is believed seventy one people died during the grand fell tragedy apartment building was a blaze for about sixty hours with more than two hundred fifty five is working to extinguish it now after the tragedy hundreds of angry residents and i think stormed the local town hall demanding a fair investigation into every aspect of what had gone wrong the investigative bureau redfish has made a documentary for ati where we hear the stories of those who claim they were quote failed by the state after the grunfeld disaster you can watch the full documentary on this channel on the fourth and fifth of december. it was my home for twenty

five years. to hold in a world. that was the most heartbreaking thing. it was it was traumatic. we will fill it by the state before. we see politics now and how we can take power. if we continue to make noise and people we can change his community. we need to realize that. we have. to be. so we need to seize these opportunities in.

it's good to have you with us today for your new united states and south korea will be conducting a major joint military exercise right along the north korean border next week russia has voiced concerns over the drills which will involve twelve thousand american soldiers. this report from seoul. what has been donald trump's approach to sorting out the north korea crisis in a nutshell all options remain on the table second option not a preferred option they will be met with fire and fury do not underestimate us and do not try this the distance from here to the

border with north korea is only about forty kilometers and once you end up in seoul which is well in the firing range of kim's artillery you can't help looking at that rhetoric from a different perspective especially if there is what you'd call a totally different approach. is absolutely no alternative to dialogue them but in order to start the dialogue everyone has to stop take a deep breath and a step from the red line which will. so why can we hope that the only option according to moscow will prevail well the south korean capital is hosting a russian valdai discussion club conference where local officials and experts have gathered to hear what the russian diplomats and researchers have come up with so russia's been saying hey we've got a plan step one north korea should completely halt its missile and nuclear tests

for the u.s. that means and ends to almost nonstop war games with seoul moscow calls it a double freeze step two might be very tough direct talks between washington and pyongyang on rules of peaceful coexistence and finally they should lead to step three establishing a security framework for the entire region with every player involved. doors are closed for the main session and one of the south korean officials who is taking part is the president's advisor for foreign policy mr. what do you think about the russian road map i think that the proposal is very realistic flexible i hope it on the occasion the pentode winter olympic all the parties concerned between particular between north and selves would come up with the most f. rest were straining behavior do you think it's enough in this case of course not

enough in the day should be some new initiative to create and sustain peacefully imperishable donald trump keeps saying that all options are on the table north korean knew that in the military option it always under the table. by putting the military option and under the table. it's not like we change you know screen behavior as the advisor to the south korean president what do you tell them about the drills you know you know i personally in a favor engagement dialogue and negotiation which you know is korea and some people in the government may have different ideas that brings us to why the russian road map may never actually work. because i think most korean politicians believe the trills must be pursued for a defense to now we're not canceling us korean exercises we just want to postpone for the olympics. others openly reject moscow's plan like the neighbors in tokyo

who simply can't imagine security without the drills with their allies so for now south koreans have no other choice but to welcome us raptors in co for the vigilance ace rule games oh that's just me a few days anyway for those who live in seoul or who are here to talk about keeping the peace in korea there's something to bear in mind. for war games or real strikes that would put millions of lives at risk the decision to send let's say warplanes to the korean skies may depend on one single man miles and miles away on the other side of the pacific. the drills in south korea will be going ahead despite a lull in military activity from the north the regime has conducted no misato nuclear bomb tests since september and we heard from erik's iraq and from the national campaign to end the korean war. at a time in which there is this standoff and this misunderstanding and lack of

communication creates a very volatile situation it may be seem somehow as intimidating but these have never worked the proposal that anyone who cares about peace in the region is putting forth right now is that these military options are not realistic and you need to sit down at the table and when they do those exercises something could be mistaken as invasion something could be mistaken as live attacks and such and so we put the millions and millions of people in the sole area in south korea in japan and other places that risk this seems like folly and foolishness when we have such a volatile situation. the church of sweden has made the headlines with its bid to use more inclusive language its new prayer book encourages priests to refer

to god in gender neutral by resorting less to words like he or the lord some news outlets falsely took this to mean that the church had banned all masculine pronouns and this was its response of course the traditional expressions of christian faith remain in the new worship book however some gender neutral ways of addressing god have been added in some prayers in swedish there is nowadays an official agenda neutral pronoun him this word is not used at all in the worship book the church of sweden says it's now acceptable to use the word god as if it were a grammatical gender neutral at the start of services also the phrase holy spirit can be used in the female grammatical gender as in hebrew agenda inclusion is a divisive topic in modern society and week out the different opinions from comedian and political activist kate smith weight and christian voice leader stephen green. john reclusive languages for example when it says bless it is the

man who walks north in the council of young girls he will understand to the world and that means men and women when we talk about mankind it is just me but to the exclusion of women all of us so reject this divisiveness this searching men and women the future of the story is real in real life we have to get on with each other of course churches should not in eyes of course all religious organization then indeed all organizations to continually seat to modernize and to promote greater equality you know between the sexes and also you know between different races and between people from all sorts of different backgrounds and different life experiences and you know but but the church has a very poor history on this it's not it's not a question of it catching up with the times it's way behind the times it has a history of treating women pretty horrifically you know the best plan would be to get rid of it and frankly also you know to get rid of those people advocating for it and talking about the issues which are how do we present the christian phrase to people out there and i believe that we do that are being faithful to the scriptures

faithful to the to the witness and the ministry of the lord jesus christ if we want to look at it like what the actual scripture says the scripture says all sorts of horrific things if you know you go back to the old testament and and this god of yours stephen is killing people left right and center and and if you look at the new testament the most perfect woman is presented as a virgin you had a baby it's not really an achievable life goal what we need to do is for the church needs to modernize. twenty five past the hour here in moscow the russian space agency rolls cause most says it has failed to make contact with a weather satellite that was launched today it appears the me to your satellite never actually made it to warp it was cosmo says it is assessing the situation a satellite was launched using a soyuz two space rocket from a new cosmodrome in russia's east it was supposed to be monitoring climate and climate change that is the satellite me to your. eyes so my colleague. nicky aaron will be here in half an hour's time to continue

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paris went over the banking authority post brooks that the first let's get to the story is topping today's headlines. it's no secret that china has a problem when it comes to debt while the government has promised to. issue reforms and rein it in an analysis from reuters suggests that has yet to happen by the end of september the debt at over two thousand chinese companies jumped twenty three percent from a year ago and that only covers about three fifths of the country's firms the report follows a now famous comment from china's central bank chief at october is national congress where he warned of a minsky moment it was a direct reference to a collapse in asset prices after a long periods of growth fueled by debt in december policymakers will gather again for the central economic work conference at the annual meeting they're expected to balance the debt efforts with growth expectations. and bitcoin just keeps hitting record highs hours after passing the ninety four hundred mark on monday the

cryptocurrency climbs to nine thousand seven hundred twenty nine dollars and seventy two cents according to data on coin base which is the biggest bitcoin exchange in the u.s. one hundred thousand accounts were added between wednesday and friday of last week that brings the total to thirteen point one million accounts double the amount from a year ago the surge is widely considered to have been retail driven although it also follows big news from c.m.e. group by the second week of december c.m.e. will list futures which is seen by many as a step toward making the digital currency as a legitimate asset class so far it's risen over eight hundred percent from the beginning of two thousand and seventeen. speaking of cryptocurrency one canada based company is hoping to create its own point to disrupt the global remittance market.