north korea. launching what the pentagon describes as an intercontinental ballistic missile. the british government is to receive a helping hand from media giants facebook and twitter to look into alleged russian interference at last year's. president is met with protests. over the presence of french troops in the country. headlines every hour. thanks for joining us tonight here on r.t.

international. a north korea has conducted a ballistic missile test for the first time since september japan says the missile test flew for fifteen minutes and came down two hundred kilometers off its coast but didn't pass over japanese territory will have lives from. from the capital in just a few moments. our tech giants facebook and twitter have agreed to help the british government look into alleged russian interference in last year's vote early as this report from the. house of commons media watchdog wants to know what russia's influence has been in particular in that briggs that referendum they've been requested by the house of commons to speak and give any evidence as to alleged russian interference the company's include facebook and twitter and those companies have said that they will hand over information relating to so-called russian back

accounts 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 is free permissible 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 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 that a nun best nothing better to refer. that a 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 onix ation 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 very

will respond with their information to the committee by early december while twitter says it will respond in the coming weeks and they're finding. the case in the u.k. almost exactly mirrors claims of russian meddling in the us then i took over in the same the same tech shines testified to congress. we determined that the number of accounts we could link to russia and that were tweeting election related content was comparatively small. aggregate these ads and posts were a very small fraction of the overall content on facebook but any amount is too much .

these videos mostly had low view counts. you lack of resources a lack of commitment and a lack of genuine effort and that just won't do we could we could have done more but i think we are doing more today and have done more since no no no we need to do more this restructure same is true ok. i spoke to adam gary managing editor at the rand told us the british government is using russia as a distraction from domestic problems. and we'll probably see brock's it is invalid because of russia in the same way donald trump is invalid because of russia it's

really quite pathetic 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 we've all heard of looking for a needle in a haystack this is a bit more like looking into the i have a needle and trying to find a haystack there it really is total nonsense it's another distraction the failing politicians are putting forward to confuse people about the nature of why i things being run so terribly. ok let's get back to our top story this evening north korea's find a ballistic missile into the direction of japan is the regime's first missile test since september let's cross live now to a tranquil who's in seoul for. thanks for coming on the line just bring us up to date there what's the latest on the peninsula.

then good morning to you from so well you're absolutely right there was about two months of relative calm when it comes to the test activity of pyongyang and then there you have it came well into the night while koreans on both the north and the south war is the and then we found out about this latest missile launch by kim john and that is after the relative calm of tobar and november american and japanese military radars were quick to register the one thousand kilometer long flight of the north korean missile which ended somewhere in the japanese sea to be more precise somewhere where japan has its exclusive economic waters and i'll be putting it really miles. if i say that this puts governments in the region on high alert japan immediately summoned

a cabinet crisis team south korea its military responded with a for decision strike military exercise and donald trump found out about all this while he was meeting fellow republican party members members and he had to address the launch very quickly he said the u.s. will have to take care of it right away. a missile was launched. a little while ago from north korea i won't tell you take care of it we have general most in the room with us and we're going to have discussion about it. it is a situation that we will. well the u.s. president donald trump and the japanese prime minister shinzo have been on the phone during this conversation they reaffirmed their commitment to counter north korea after the wrists and recent sorry missile test that impacted within japan's

exclusive economic zone as i was saying the u.n. security council has scheduled an emergency meeting on north korea's latest missile launch italy chairs the council and its spokesperson says the wednesday after the meeting was requested by japan the u.s. and south korea the security council has already imposed its toughest ever sanctions on kim john government in response to its escalating nuclear and ballistic missile programs and the u.s. and japan are likely to seek even stronger measures but what is really important here maybe even more important than the launch is the actual response there are two ways to treat the north korean crisis there is an international consensus that the nuclear and ballistic missile launches are illegal. but what can make him stop more military drills more pressure or north korea or

a different kind of approach that is suggested by china and russia that is step by step concessions and the reduction. of military muscles in the region so. we will see what is going to prevail here. from the korean peninsula from seoul thanks for bringing us the update. on the french president tomorrow micro news on a three day tour of africa his trip got off to a difficult start. right . and what if it is in paris for ought to be with the latest on president micron's african tour. wasn't told smooth and read 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 it was very clear the president was not very welcomed on the african soil and as anyone might form said that he was from the generation that would not tell africans what to do all of that sounded very positive and very promising but apparently something went wrong because france's president didn't tell africans what to do and on several occasions first while speaking about trafficking problems in northern africa and then micron was meeting students of one the local universities and he proved responsibility blaming local people for this problem let's take a listen. you believe about who are the traffickers what is that they are for my friends it was they are good ask yourselves the questions on this not the french

or the traffickers it's the africa also the france's president lost his temper another time what i want to this is another deployment of an african student about the number of african students in runs comparing to the number of african of french troops in africa this is what he said look at the global you may have a grandfather who came to fight to help friends when it was attacked in one thousand nine hundred fourteen to eighteen or nineteen thirty nine to forty five we need to look at the shared history but don't talk to me like that about the french soldiers if you don't go there for it so just anything but this applaud. this question highlight brode issue the and the criticism among local population of french troops stationed on the ground in africa because there was a number of negative incidents with french military involved in the. most outrageous one from suspended two of its military over child abuse

allegations and there was just one of the examples they were many of them in several african countries so friends president reaction to this question was quite surprising than anything taking the president actually away from the initial mission of this tree but the journey still goes on and experts now say that the president might taps in time to clarify his position and to go back to his initial positive mission to build new bridges with africa was more a fresh reports of this isn't the first case 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 twenty six theme several victims who asked not to be named stories protesters and i was thirteen at the time i saw oranges and french troops asked me to bring them to

a room in their base when i entered it one of them jumped on me and raped me there was nothing else because. i was fifteen and saw french troops our sop 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. for i know children who socialized with french troops because they played football volleyball with the kids that's when most of the rooms happened sentence. trump has been getting the red carpet treatment in india that story and more still to come after this break.

what politicians to do something to. put themselves on the line. to get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be president and. want to be. it should like to be press was like before the screen the point can be good that. i'm interested always in the waters of my college. first six. i. welcome to the

program donald trump's. visit to india for a business for the global summit taking place. in the south of the country let's get more on the story now from altie senior called joining us in the studio just bring us up to date on this visit because it's attracted quite a bit of controversy as well as that you know well. in hi there bride to advocate for women's rights at the global entrepreneurship summit she said hi there bride a city notorious for sex slavery and trafficking slaves to saudi arabia as well as other countries now how the hi there rather is actually the capital of tel and gone a state which is known as the stalking ground of traffickers and it has the fourth highest rate of human trafficking cases in the country with hundreds of cases recorded every year so this all has people questioning yvonne because true motives and whether or not her presence will do anything to address female entrepreneurship

as well as gender inequality however you did discuss the issue at the u.n. general assembly a few months ago so let's check out what she had to say. it is hard to grasp how tens of millions of people across the grove 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 model slave 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. now her visit has also drawn criticism because her clothing line employs indian women and they're paid extremely low wages so this the question is will a banker actually bring up the issue of sex trade and gender equality in the future

days of the summit or its recall though with drops latest visit to india thanks so much for. i was less than a month to go until christmas cities across europe all getting into the first of swing the threat of terrorism remains high the authorities have come up with a way to maintain security without spoiling that was fear boyko this report. 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

a crash barrier is 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 top of it ok so the extra security visibly makes you feel better from a different way you know we just expect small security everywhere now is just it 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. in other news a danish court has extended the sentence of a teenage girl who was planning bomb attacks in the country during her trial she explained that she had found islamic states message exciting on monday she was given eight years in prison after initially being sentenced to six other girls she's not been named she was fifteen when she was arrested near copenhagen in january last year the family alerted police when they became suspicious after chemicals they found in the basement of the home during a search police found bomb making ingredients and notes expressing sympathy with

islamic state evidence indicated she planned to attack a formal primary school as well as a jewish school in a statement the core of you will that since being jailed the girl had stabbed teacher with a broken mirror as laura smith explains there's been a growth of radicalized youngsters throughout 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 he was a soldier of the islamic state also a large knife and how much by police say that he was planning an attack similar to

the westminster attack in which a man in a van rammed a crowd of westminster bridge and then got out and stabbed a police officer. he posted i still propaganda on instagram and his instagram posts were believe it or not it 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 rested 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 hof was slightly older twenty to twenty five some of those arrests of course didn't lead to charges but home office statistics do show a rise in the number of young people being convicted of terror offenses. kurdish forces fighting in syria have said they would be willing to fight for the government if they can form their own federal state in the north of the country the statement comes after turkey claimed donald trump had promised to stop arming kurdish forces however there's apparently no clear position on the matter in the white house once we started winning the 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. ocurred us forces have been successfully fighting islamic state in northern syria. you can see

who controls which areas the us has long been providing the kurds with military equipment that's the spot protests from turkey where our guys if has more. 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 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 a message to ash sad give us what we want autonomy and we won't need the americans now you need and as a kurd i can say that our people want to build

a syrian city with no force or ethnic group dominating any other group i believe it is in the interests of the kurds is the second largest ethnic group in syria to build a multi-party. federal syria with the interests of the kurdish people would be in showing. allowing kurds participate in the parliament and join the army and 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 us is never going to be syrian democratic forces or partners unfortunately the us has only been using them to fight i saw them 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 with us provided assistance and weapons for self-defense purposes and for combating islip with 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 that's all from us for this hour you can check out any of our stories on our website or social media or mobile as well we're back with more headlines in about half an hour suitor. he's doing an actual job it's like basically it's like this big euthanasia clinic tromp is the euthanasia doctor america is being euthanized and he's doing in a way where it's the least amount of pain but that's not that's not cruel i mean these doing the other good euthanasia most of these doing things that look cruel

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. to try to. be on the fifteen e. this is the us broadcasting around the world from washington d.c. coming up bitcoin keeps rising. could we see the crypto currency soar past ten thousand dollars what does this mean for consumers or chilton will tell us and the congress is still working on getting tax reform passed but will it miss the deadline steve malzberg will join us to discuss now let's check the stories topping today's headlines. on tuesday jay powell president trump's pick to take over the federal reserve appeared on capitol hill for questioning from

senators if he is confirmed cole replacing current terror janet yellen was only served one term powell told the senate his aim is to maintain a strong job market and that he expects to see continued increase in interest rates but he also said that the future still cannot be known with certainty and whenever we endeavor to make the path of policy as predictable as possible the future cannot be known with certainty so we must retain the flexibility to adjust our policies in response to economic developments on top of replacing the l. in a number of other board seats remain open and bill dudley president of the new york fed will step down next year. bitcoins terror continued after monday intern closer to the ten thousand dollars threshold by tuesday morning the cryptocurrency was trading at nine thousand nine hundred forty two dollars which is nearly a two thousand dollar increase since friday of last.