breaking news north korea conducts a ballistic missile test japan claims that it came down just two hundred kilometers off its coast. british government is to receive a helping hand from the media giants facebook and twitter to look into alleged russian interference in last year's briggs. i. am the. president has met with protests in turkey the fast while students also grilled him over the presence of french troops in the country. for joining us this evening my name's neil harvey you're watching our international . breaking news north korea has conducted

a ballistic missile test for the first time since september japan says that the missile flew for fifty minutes and came down two hundred kilometers off its coast but did not pass over japanese territory. reports from seoul. it was deep into the night pretty much both koreas were asleep when we found out about what is the latest polish tech missile test by young yang according to estimates by the japanese military and also the pentagon the missile flew for about one thousand kilometers and landed in the sea of japan without causing any harm initially the location of where it touched down or the time was unclear but then the japanese prime minister's office tweeted that indeed a missile was launched from north korea and it landed somewhere and the exclusive economic zone of japan i'll be putting it mildly if i say that such launches put

governments in the region on high alert cabinet crisis team of the japanese government was immediately summoned as a result of this according to the south korean military their response was a for cision strike missile exercise the us president donald trump was immediately briefed on the situation while the missile was still in the air it all happened while mr trump was meeting the members of the republican party but journalists wanted quick reaction from him right away. here. as it is often the case with pyongyang's ballistic missile test the reaction to it from all the international players and mainly the u.s. could be more important than the launch itself so we'll be watching out for that. media giants facebook and twitter have agreed to help the british government look into alleged russian interference in last year is vote on tuesday so ali joins us

now from london with the latest he says he said what are these companies going to be doing then. well they've been requested by the house of commons the british parliament's main house they've been asked to speak and give any evidence as to alleged russian interference and the companies include facebook and twitter and so the house of commons media watchdog wants to know what russia's influence has been in particular in the brig's at referendum of last year and those companies have said that they will hand over information relating to so-called russian back accounts or adverts campaigning on those issues and it really comes as talk of alleged russian interference in the brags that process has got more and more intense with british politicians increasingly being critical of russia

given the widespread public concern over foreign and particularly russian interference in western democracies we're sure sure this house but the government and the electoral commission will examine these reports very carefully and reassure our country that all of the resources spent in the referendum reproduceable sources we must be open night about the actions of hostile states like russia who threaten the potential presence of eastern neighborhood and who try to tear our collective strength apart and i'm looking forward today to win huge commitments from european countries to working together to tackle these shared challenges in both security and development. now all of this very hostile kind of rhetoric about russia comes in the light of the break that negotiations which have been going on

between the u.k. and the european union and they haven't been going very well and just late last week we saw the e.u. giving the u.k. a ten day deadline to get issues like the northern ireland border sorted out and some critics say that this is a way for the prime minister to distract from those difficulties and even divisions within her own party as well on the issue of bragg's in a none best nothing better to reflect the recent speech where she made repeated references to russia chief among those today of course is russia but it is russia's actions russia's illegal annexation of crimea so i have a very simple message for russia because we know there's a strong and prosperous russia russia has the reach and the responsibility russia can russia does not to secure the best possible brics it

now facebook say that they will respond with their information to the committee by early december while twitter says it will respond in the coming weeks and their findings will be interesting to see what they reveal and it also comes along with a similar types of investigations in the u.s. then again claims of alleged russian involvement in the presidential election there certainly being is the very latest from london thank you. in other news emanuel micron is on a three day tour of africa the trip kicked off a bikini fast so where the french president didn't get the warmest of welcomes. right. i'm very very very rarely. of no. reflection is in paris for all to see she has the latest on

president my trans africa tour wasn't told smooth i mean what about cohen's trip to africa started with an attempted attack on french troops on the ground a security source told reporters that a grenade was thrown to military car and although it wasn't hate the mass h. was very clear the president was not very welcomed on the african soil and as anyone not for that he was probably did not tell africans what to do all that sounded very positive and very promising but apparently something went wrong because of france's president deep south africa and what to see on several occasions first while thinking about trafficking problems in northern africa and then my phone was meeting. one of the most of universities and responsibility blaming local people for this problem let's take a listen. you believe about who the traffickers africans

my friends africans ask yourselves the question is not the french or the traffickers it's the africa. france's president lost his temper another time while one this is another thing of an african student about the number of african students who runs comparing to the number of african of french troops in africa this is what he said the global you may have a grandfather who came to fight to help friends when it was a taxi nine hundred fourteen to eighteen or nineteen thirty nine to forty five we need to look at this shared history but don't talk to me like that. about the french soldiers you don't go to the fridge for just anything but this applaud. this question highlight brode issue the end getting criticism on local population of french troops stationed on the ground in africa because there was a number of negative incidents with. our rangers one

promises kinds of. allegations and there was just one of the examples they were many of them in several african countries so friends president the action into question was quite. an easy thing taking the president actually away for the initial mission of this tree but the journey still goes on and experts now say that the president might taps a time to clarify his position and to go back to his initial positive mission to build new bridges with africa was marouf a national just said this is not the first incident of abuse by french troops the central african republic has seen cases of rape by french soldiers with reports of local minors suffering sexual assaults back in two thousand and sixteen several victims not to be identified to share stories. botha's has when i

was thirteen at the time i saw oranges and french troops asked me to bring them to room in their base when i entered it one of them jumped on me and raped me there was nothing i could do you. know i was fifteen and sold french troops hours they take hold trays once they asked me to take them to the tank when i got there they seized me and raped me right there trying. to go for i know children who socialized with french troops because they played football volleyball with the kids that's when most of the rapes happens and. ok let's return to our story of facebook and twitter being brought in by the british government to look into allegations of russian interference in the vote and gary managing director and managing editor of the duran dot com joins me on the law and good evening will facebook and twitter find a smoking gun of russian meddling do you think. well we've all heard of looking for

a needle in a haystack this is a bit more like looking into the art of a needle and trying to find a haystack there it really is total nonsense we all remember a similar investigation relating to the u.s. presidential election when they found that the aggregate. about the election were literally i think like one percent of something a drop in the bucket and furthermore there's an issue that we need to make very clear when people talk about political ads for more we're not saying that of being put out by our t.v. saying vote for trump to vote for clinton yes vote the vote remain in the european union no we're not talking about that we're talking about political ads and say watch our coverage of trump of clinton of brax it at cetera and even in that case the percentage is negligible compared to that of the big corporate western mainstream media and of course the overall proliferation of state and western broad

cause does like for example the b.b.c. which talked a lot about brags that everyone has their own view on the verge coverage so yet again it's another distraction the failing politicians are putting forward to confuse people about the nature of why the things are being run so terribly it's not oddities fault not many people believe that but the political elites want as many people to believe that myth as possible i haven't seen any evidence presented to facebook or twitter in relation to the alleged cases of russian involvement will we see hard facts this time. i somehow doubt it they'll probably release a statement they might give a few facts and figures but they certainly won't give the whole story about for example how going back to the american example twitter actually asteroid t. some would say beg god to place the rads they helped them to do it they tailor made

a special package they made a lot of money maybe twitter is some russian agent of for all of we're going to go down this absurd rabbit hole that now the u.k. is going down as well because the u.k. is after all the little sister to america's big brother so no surprise they're going down the same line but the idea that i mean let's get down to the real political attacks of this russia had no opinion on breaks it and if it did if anything it would have lent towards what was then the status quo of the u.k. remaining in the e.u. simply because it makes the issue of dealing with yet another small european country easier for the russian foreign ministry but beyond that russia had no opinion russia has fairly few economic stakes in britain and vice versa so the whole issue with self the root of it is nonsensical in total since the vote to

leave the opinion in there has been a nonstop let's call it a grumbling from the remain as they've been banging that drum to try and get this decision overturned do you think this might be used as an opportunity to try and roll back the briggs's votes are the ones who voted to leave surely will be a bit concerned that the use of russian interference might be used that way. it's certainly something they're going to try and that shows the sad state of modern politics in countries like britain and the united states and in the e.u. as a whole there are all givens to be had on both sides economic arguments arguments about culture arguments about privateers and about history and instead of talking about these because of course both sides ought to have their feelings hurt even off to the referendum vote because new information keeps coming out instead you have a u.k. government that is redacting censoring crucial information from their own reports

about what breaks it will actually look like because very few people have a real idea of this even in the political classes but they won't even share the ideas they do have with people and stead will probably see bracks it is invalid because of russia in the same way donald trump is invalid because of russia it's really quite pathetic that people have to resort to sub standard mythology not even good juvenile fiction when they could be talking about real things but again there's no surprise it's a carbon copy of what happened in the us instead of talking about jobs instead of talking about national politics versus identity politics outsourcing versus investment it's just russia russia russia russia. and so the same thing is definitely going to happen probably on a slightly smaller scale in the u.k. do ordinary people believe it i think not but frankly on t.v. and the internet is one of the reasons they don't believe it because they can see

that donald trump versus hillary clinton was a quintessentially american is and the idea of bracks it is something that's been plaguing the relations of the major continental european countries with britain for ages from the soviet union arrow straight up to the present day so you can't say that russia which had a revolutionary change of government in this era can somehow be totally consistent and its policy on britain's problems with europe it's totally absurd adam appreciate you coming on to speak to is my guest and i'm gary managing editor at the dot com. the estate may be losing its hold over iraq in syria but it's still inspiring europeans and ever younger ones at that to carry out attacks at home a danish court has extended the sentence of a teenage girl who'd been planning bomb attacks in the country a monday she was given eight years in prison after initially being sentenced to six the girl who has not been named was fifteen when she was arrested in copenhagen

that was in january last year and family were the ones who alerted the police after they became suspicious about chemicals that they'd seen in the basement of the home during the search police found bomb making ingredients and notes that express sympathy with islamic state evidence indicated she had planned to attack a former primary school and the jewish school in a statement the court revealed that since being jailed the girl had stamped the teacher with a broken mirror it's not his lawyer smith explains there's been a growth of radicalized youngsters in europe. seventeen year old boy in wales found guilty of planning to ram a car into a crowd in the city of college if he apparently had several venues for this attack under consideration one of which was a shopping center another was a justin bieber concert so reminiscent told the teen that we saw attacked in manchester earlier this year.

in his bedroom they found martyrdom in which he said that he was a soldier of the islamic state also a large knife and a how much in a bind police say that he was planning an attack similar to the westminster attack in which a man in a van rammed a crowd on westminster bridge and then got out and stabbed a police officer. he posted i still propagand on instagram and his instagram post would believe it or not was truck attack now this comes at the end of a year of terror in the u.k. which has seen a number of attacks including a failed attack on an underground station in pawson screen it turns out that full of the seven people arrested in connection with that attack was under the age of twenty five in the person who is ultimately being charged is just eighteen not

all of those attacks were committed by youngsters but we do see a trend emerging one hundred seventeen people under the age of twenty five arrested for terror offenses in the year up to the end of june two thousand and seventeen hauffe of those were in the seventeen to twenty age bracket and the all the hoff was slightly older twenty to twenty five some of those arrests of course didn't lead to charges but home office to cystic do show a rise in the number of young people being convicted of terror offenses. with less than a month ago until christmas cities across europe are getting into the festive swing but it's with the threat of terror high authorities have come up with a way to maintain security without spoiling the sphere 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 i still styled 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 anti terror 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 though is you feel a bit more cypher seeing the police now when they were in top of it ok so the extra security visibly makes you feel better. you know we just expect more 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. r.t. london. for europe measures have been taken to secure christmas markets concrete blocks have been installed in berlin munich budapest and several other cities.

while the picture is spread online of an islamic state fighter brandishing a knife and it comes with the caption soon on your holidays it's written in english french and german we spoke to political commentator graham moore he believes that if a terrorist a term and to carry out an attack then putting up barriers won't help. because the situation in europe with while still flooding. into this country you can't really protect a guy standing who is determined whether it be a thief in annoy someone stated i'm out so i call whatever is you've someone is determined to carry out a criminal acts and we must remember all the times terrorism is. the ultimate crime is murder it goes against the christian faith and terrorism is a crime that's the mind thing you know it's remember what were the size of a practical situations show start thinking on the sidelines and yeah they're all

barriers all of these things but determined to cure. their curio it doesn't modo but what you know it's now you sit back and enjoy christmas what i want is you to be in for both christmas traditions. the interims daughter ivanka is now visiting india for a business forum the global on typin a ship summit is taking place in new delhi with more on the story she joins me in the studio so business related specifically if i could doing there why is it controversial for some well she's in hi there bob in the actually and hi there bride is a city in india notorious for sex slavery and human trafficking women to saudi arabia and other gulf countries now on top of that iraq is clothing white employees indian women who are paid extremely low wages so people are now questioning her

true motives and if her presence will do anything to address the gender inequality which she claims to be focusing on however they did discuss human trafficking at the u.n. general assembly a few months ago so let's take a look at that. it is hard to grasp how tens of millions of people across the can experience this scale of human suffering it is unacceptable we cannot stand by and silence. we join you today in a full throated call for enhanced international cooperation to tackle a model save modern slavery in all of its evil forms the trumpet ministration will continue to make this a priority and will work with your governments to identify and implements aleutians they can and these crimes once and for all. so the question is will evolve actually bring up the topic of sex trade during her visit or is this all or publicity yeah i

can see the controversy brewing if she does do with great interest samir many things. move on to other news now kurdish troops fighting in syria have said that they have no problem joining government forces if they are allowed to form a federal state in the north of the country the statement comes after turkey claimed the donald trump has promised to stop arming forces but there's probably no clear position on the matter in the white house once we started winning that campaign against isis 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. could be forces have been successfully fighting against the islamic state in northern syria you can see who controls what. the u.s. has long been providing the could with military equipment and that is something that irritated washington's can nato ally turkey as the of explains. as the problem

says you can't ride two horses with one back side makes sense right unfortunately it doesn't stop people from trying we support turkey in the first fight against terror and terror groups like isis and the p.k. k. the president authorized the department of fence to equip kurdish elements of the syrian democratic forces we should be using we should be doing that 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 with respect and a friend 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 our forces to join the syrian army if a new 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 ash sad 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 syrians with no force or ethnic group dominating any other group i believe it is in the interests of the kurds the second largest ethnic group in syria to

build multifunction. federal syria with the interests of the kurdish people would be in showing. 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 and. the u.s. is never viewed the syrian democratic forces as partners unfortunately the u.s. has only been using them to fight i saw him destroy iraq or i believe the alliance between the us and forces on the ground including yes and syria and kurdish groups in iraq has never been a true partnership with us provided assistance and weapons for self-defense purposes and for combating eisel but these agreements have never been linked to military action. which leaves us with the us and its two horses the trade the turks

a valuable nato ally or betray the kurds their ace in syria alternatively wait for them to betray the states you are out of today thanks for staying with r.t. this evening join me for the latest news headlines at the top of their. it's.

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