more than just words for washington to elbow its way past beijing it has done of r.t. . the british foreign secretary has defended u.k. ties with saudi arabia that's after the saudi crown prince says three day visit to london prompted protests outside downing street i did outing riyadh's deadly three year bombing campaign in yemen britain supports saudi arabia's right to defend its national security against missile attacks from yemen many of which have targeted the kingdom cities including react. any solution to the conflict must ensure that saudi arabia no longer faces this cross border security threat roughly four hundred people gathered to protest the royal visit activists condemn the war in yemen and slam the u.k. arms sales to the kingdom a similar concerns were also raised in parliament by the leader of the opposition.

a humanitarian disaster is now taking place in the. millions face starvation six hundred thousand children have cholera because of the saudi led bombing campaign and the bloc a germany has suspended arms sales to saudi arabia but british arms sales of sharply increased and british military advisers are directing the wall it cannot be right that her government this is cannot be right that her government is colluding in one of the united nations ses is evidence of war crimes some came out in support of the saudi crown prince whose visit and to ensure a warm reception a promotional campaign was launched the prince's face so dawn of the sides of black cabs and vans as well as the billboards throughout the city center some of those we spoke to saw the move as blatant propaganda. but isn't convincing anyone in the

u.k. that the abuses of human rights the saudis are doing good is just propaganda for them back home to say oh look look how look at what this great well it's just a blatant propaganda display say it comes back to reflect badly on saudi arabia. they're trying to manipulate this public opinion on the eve of the visit saudi arabia's foreign minister to try to ease the concerns of critics saying that the war in yemen had been quote imposed on a riyadh he added that it was a justified war backed by international law although unicef calls it the worst manmade. humanitarian crisis in history. although ethnically motivated hostility and crime against germany is becoming more commonplace that's according to the capitol security chief is our correspondent. the burly and interior minister has had some pretty unexpected things to say about how native germans attrit in the nation's capital i have heard it's not the norm

but it is becoming more common to keep quiet about it would be wrong a recent survey has shown that where is this time last year around two thirds of said they felt safe in their city that's around just over half these days while those that said they felt very insecure it risen from nine percent a year ago to around sixteen percent right now as for what is fueling those fears or sort of pointed towards the influx of refugees and migrants into areas like this . district the local integration officer here says this well refugees don't fear arrest is they know that they'll be instantly released by the police should they be caught breaking the law does is the i don't think crime has decreased on the contrary it's actually increased i'd say ninety five percent of the crimes here are committed by foreigners that's way too much i think in general

. people start to panic way earlier and this is way news spread quite quickly and. i would say that berlin has gotten more dangerous than any pain i think it's just because of all the news server like it's spread all over the balloon and they just make a big deal out of every time the crime that's committed. this is you and so political our politicians should be made to commute using the underground for one week and then made to hang out in this neighborhood that way they would see what the situation is really like has become very hostile and aggressive not nice at all . some of the politicians who represent the area say that perception of danger could become the new reality if a majority of the people have the feeling that they don't feel secure anymore and there is some simpson basics for that and i think one of the problems is that the

that the figure is it official from the police what is the clear but there are many things that are not even declared to the police as crime or as harassment or whatever you can call it because you know well the police cannot do anything about it because our justice system is like that well they come in for maybe five hours and then they let them off again punishment is something that evidently or appear in italy in berlin context isn't there anymore and perhaps it's the thing that things could get worse that's driving public opinion to feel that the german capital has become less safe peter all of. the dispute over gas supplies between russia and ukraine has certainly come to a head at that story and much more after a very quick break. you

can say that. something is good. but for. whatever. the principle is good though the principle is but has to be apply equally and that is.

it is good to have you with us today ukraine has started seizing assets belonging to russian energy giant gazprom following a long dispute over gas supplies that's despite an appeal case still being heard by a court in stockholm. picks up the story russia and ukraine could be on the brink of an all out gas war again kiev speak seizing the assets of russia's energy giant gasp but a few days ago gasper said it was scrapping all sales and transit contracts with kiev ukraine's nafta gas and russia's gas problem have been settling . there are disputes in a style called arbitration court and in the last few years there have been so many issues and between these two but just a short while ago one stockholm tribunals decision forced the firm to pay

the russians a sum of about two billion u.s. dollars that was basically a gas bill that they hadn't paid but then the latest decision was that russia's gas must pay ukraine's nafta gatt as more than four point six billion u.s. dollars that was for abusing their position as a monopoly and if you do the math then moscow and kiev more than two point five billion u.s. dollars and the bosses at gas more extremely unhappy they were saying that the reasoning for that was completely unfair and that they're just bailing out a shattered economy which many times as we've seen just couldn't pay for the gas that they were buying is justified the decision by the show of deterioration in the economy categorically against the economic problems been solved expands if there's

jenga tower of contracts for the purchases the transit and all the political issues to top all that off collapses staying warm in eastern europe during this very cold spring as we all know could become an issue it's not in any of russia's interests to spoil this reputation as a reliable partner but previously kiev has been caught for illegally siphoning off russia's gas intended for europe so there have been disruptions in gas deliveries but obviously russia how to protect its political and economic interests and technically it wasn't gas rahm's fault. flipping burgers is sometimes seen as a pretty mindless job which might be why one tech savvy restaurant in california decided to give the position to a robot. the

automation of burger flipping hasn't been welcomed by everyone with people on twitter using the hash tag rise of the robots complaining that jobs are being stolen from real people others though automation as something inevitable. well it's not just a book of flipping robots that have made some people happy san francisco residents of a driving cars several times in recent months banging on the windows and even banging on their bonnets as well now another robot in the same city was fired after a public outcry the security robot was tossed with showing away homeless people from outside business offices it was vandalized numerous times during its patrols and one expert told us it's no surprise people are angry about automatons. robotics

is developing very fast and it's going to have big impacts it's already having big so it's not surprising that you're already seeing these kinds of reactions from people when you start to talk about. of jobs threatened by the introduction of. the economy. fifty percent unemployment ok that is a crisis of social political economic crisis one of the possible outcomes and it won't lead wifely possible is is is massive violence. is kind of vandalism and salazar's i think you'll be seeing but you'll be seeing even larger scale disruptions here there aren't appropriate adjustments in our political and economic arrangements we need to start redistributing things more fairly we need to start to pay people to take care of people and clean up the

communities and to do so many sins and we in the end to make sure that people benefit from technology instead of being dispossessed by technology. women around the world are marking international women's day including in madrid where they've certainly been making some noise. thank you people banging pots and pans and a supporter of women's rights chanting slogans such as if we stopped the world stopped while people in south korea's seoul came to the streets in support of the need to movement you know calling for sex offenders to be brought to justice meanwhile the p.r. efforts of some men to be in support of women have been branded as patronizing. and if. it's a global commemoration every women's right

a chance to right from wrong for some company. it's a shock to some top p.r. by showing their support for women although not way successfully take this french anti harassment campaign showing female passengers on public transport being preyed on by animals instead of people a metaphor which hit the buffet as with a few fellow travelers have never been bothered by a shark in the subway stop in the metaphor the difference between a wolf and then distant looking watch french dude is that i have never been harassed by a wolf and what about the people behind to retire as told to chit who thought it be a great idea to make snap specifically for women so you know they could be more dainty and ladylike women don't like to crunch too loudly in public and they don't like their fingers generously and they don't like to poor little broken pieces and the flavor into their mouths tends out that judging by the reaction online most women found that caseless just like with the edgy big company dog who expected fame

outrage because to flock to them for pink even if it was a bit of sarcastic stereotyping it fell flat if you have to explain the joke maybe it's not very good joke hope rudolph's girl beer is gluten free too otherwise would be a real drink not the blue one it's for boys it seems that it's a marketing minefield when fems try winning and if the women take dumps a pad for matching bottles to different body sizes. it's as baffling as the day is insulting so perhaps i missed a when the struggle for women's rights should be celebrated as maybe the p.r. guys let's face it they probably are guys should take some time out to change the pattern i think pink dropping the gender pigeonholing and remember that political

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welcome to the shore and as you see i've made a few changes this week to mark international women's day across the world this day has been celebrated for more than a century and indeed can be traced right back to one thousand nine hundred ninety eight when fifteen thousand women marched through new york city demanding voting rights and better paying conditions that campaign continues to this day and i'll be interviewing a quality campaigner helen pancoast his grandmother and great grandmother lead the suffragette movement in the united kingdom and the today show includes interviews the three remarkable individuals each of him in quite different ways are making a contribution to enhancing the position of women but first here's alex with your tweets your messages and e-mails. a lot of reaction to our coverage of

programs on the island and breck's at baltic bought us brought back very sad memories to me listening to many michael east talk of the troubles in northern ireland be a factor in year old son of a scot a british army soldier lived in lisbon for two years in ninety six to nine shops swimming pools cars blown up all around us people tarred and feathered terrible. rob says just watched alex salmon shows stripped this is a great wardrobe of broadcast focusing on the island of the consequences of bricks that they pull off being informative and entertaining and charles mcdonald back set up by saying watch the repeat of the interview with me mark lisa smiling part of the trilogy of programmes about island excellent and free scott adds another great sure the interviews were better have merely mcdonald the medium accolades what a delight if only to these or me had the vision and then state of these feet the u.k. wouldn't be in such a mess and from de villepin who says much praise for various john major interviews

this week but alex thomas interview of the former president of violin minimax lee's was better it watch to understand island border and why it's so important to support the e.u. project and to feel bret's it when phyllis and says hi alec could you please see if you can refute the proclaimers i'm going to see them later me here keep up the great work with the tale and. tell charlie and click the proclaimers that's an open invitation to come on the alex salmond chill and finally from loans winston i'm really enjoying the show and in particular the last few episodes and the impact to bricks and ireland great presentation style a pleasure to watch for sure thank you very much laughs so back to tires where you'll notice that normal service in the set has been resumed. among the star turns at last sunday's march for women in london was a speaker the most famous name of all in the historic struggle for women's rights however she has

a formidable record in her own right of equality campaigning and i'm delighted to be joined by her to welcome helen bankers and happy international women's day it's a place to be broadcasting and such an important day for women i want to start ask you a bit about your heritage as we all know you're either a great granddaughter or a granddaughter off air. christian spectacle how much of an influence has been related to the leaders of the british suffragette movement had on your life how could you not be influenced by two such amazing people and you know carrying the surname it had to be part of what i did with my life and you know they were so amazing because of what they did in the past but the fact is that that still relevant today the issue of women's rights resonates through the ages so that name is not just part of history it's part of the present absolutely and of course this is a quite important year to say is the need we've seen the anniversary of certain women having the right to vote earlier on this year november will bring i think that

a verse in the twenty first of the first from being able to stand there for parliament so great you know i support you but it's come out which came on the sixth of february on the anniversary of women certain women or an import to having the right to vote i knew just getting some great views tell us a bit about the so the book has got three aspects i speed's not words i should seize name of that is these are not words the story of women's rights then and now so it's in three parts the first bit in the prologue looks at how we got to nine hundred eighteen and that's a personal reflection on my family's background in the whole suffrage campaign and it's such an exciting and interesting issue one that increasingly i think we've been a learning the girls are learning at school and that's important so we keep that alive so it's a personal perspective on how we got to nine hundred eighteen and then the body of the book is to mattick on issues such as politics what's been happening since. such as women in the workplace what's been happening what are the key stories that women told me about full of anecdotes the third is about women's domestic life their personal relationships their family their health their sense of identity and what

was interesting as i did all of that and i pulled it then conclude on issues around the power is that violence against women kind of infects all the other aspects of women's lives so as we think about how much things have or haven't changed that issue about violence against women in the workplace in the political sphere at home in culture you can't go very far in terms of thinking of how much we progress without identifying violence as a key constraint that number of elections coming up the number of by elections going on in scotland and you know i will knock tours then women will say to me i'm not going to war i don't want to put men women and men but because i was talking specifically about women to be how do you think we tackled our hard fought and hard won success of getting one in the right really really important question so a number of thoughts i mean firstly it's approximately the same numbers men and women that vote this about one percentage difference over time and it goes both

ways sometimes it's slightly more men sometimes slightly more women so we shouldn't just say there are fewer women i think we feel that women have fought so recently so hard for it that they really should but then we can also ask given how poorly the system represents their interests you know maybe it's not surprising that they're not voting does not reflect the reflected by the policies and by the people there maybe it's really surprising that so many women do vote but what i would say to all the women and the young girls out there is it's a habit and it's a really really important habits it's habit that links to to your society and to your country globally we only have two countries where there are at least the same number of women represented in parliament as men twenty eighteen only two countries . is that have both a male and a female lends a status in terms of who you look at and what policies are implemented to me that is really sad in the comments of where we are and that you must change you like i

encourage women continuous into some great project that there's a fifty fifty project a pilot project women for independence so many american assistance with the support of men also causing women to come into politics but then we have to be aware that once you do enter politics there's another world with which unfortunately women are having to deal at the moment and support needs to be offered in relation to that what do you think can be done from a social media perspective from other platforms exist to offer women greater protection then of course that will be active in college meant to bring them into politics or both i think there's so much that can be done at different levels i think parties have a sponsibility for support i think the government has a responsibility to support any woman that starts to emerge and to encourage them i think that. those who provide media platform who after all are now saying they can identify. the language around terrorism they can do something about that well why can't they identify a mechanisms to really do something decent and proper about all this vilification

of women on the social media so i think at every level if we challenge it and i think also there's somehow there's a permissiveness of speaking in very unpleasant ways that has been allowed in social media may be allowed in society more generally and i think that has to stop i think that you know there is a decency about how we need to talk to each other and listen to each other across our differences and we need to promote that and we all can promote that we can disagree with people but we have to listen and we have to be able to express that disagreement in a in a in an in a in a decent way not with the abuse people feel that they have an increased opportunity to be negative and to say nasty racist things to people and if there's one thing the last couple of years have done is just as it has given power. voice to some of that really negative things it is give power and voice to those who say enough just enough is enough and we're going to stand up and shoulder to shoulder we're going

to march and we are going to support each other and hold me to campaigns that every day in the media and for the last months every day there's a new item that is speaking truth to this idea of saying enough to all this discrimination wherever it's occurring and let's stand up for something better because we can change things so the positive angle on all of this is that because something start moving backwards enough people and the world is divided up you know in a way by most people who are in that middle and don't do much and if most people wake up to the dangers and say ok we're going to side with a more positive world which is more supportive of each other then we can and in a better place what would you see we need to do now in your head to continue that cause which is the see it's it changes as time goes on because different challenges come our way and we have to face to face those what you think we need to be doing now to make sure the world is a better or safer feared or more equal place for women so firstly there's the the.

the issue of legal change so act and act one hundred years ago started to change things not everything as we were talking earlier we had to wait another ten years for equal rights but the acts of parliament the acts around violence against women the equal pay incredibly important and we need to keep doing those but they only happen if individuals start to push for change and they only happen if society also acknowledge change so individual agency yours mine everybody else is standing up for something that's better and doing something is really important but individuals don't change it's society together that changes so for me the tighter we connect to those to be aspects individuals saying enough society saying oh yeah maybe we can change and laws that that ground that if we can do all those three out things then . then we achieved change when i was in in parliament elected and was going to a very difficult time because of high levels of social media abused it's my life it's my family etc i received

a card from you saying by you personally it just telling me to keep going and i wanted to let you know how much that meant to me and i'm very grateful for it thank you for mentioning that because that card it was actually the idea that we could a group of women just it's actually the olympics suffragette so women the came together through a volunteering at the olympics and other friends we just thought the people today women today who stand up get so much abuse it's the same type of abuse as the suffragettes used to get a hundred years ago and if we could offer some kind of support maybe just maybe that might help so number of us got together in the house we just signed and sent it to all the women m.p.'s irrespective of political backgrounds and i just think that sometimes individual actions like that of support and appreciation can go a long way in my book there's a quote of the eleven year old girl and she's saying she'd like to see that young girls don't only dream of becoming princesses and fairies but also astronauts

and superheroes so if we can support each other's dreams as parents as workers as as members of the general public then i think by the end of the ten years we can be proud of what we've done not just of what women did for us one hundred years ago well more power to elbow and thank you for all that you do get this started many many years ago with your with your great grandmother whom should be extremely proud of all of you've done to continue henny thank you very much indeed telapak pleasure thank you. fascinating stuff from helen pankhurst join us after the break when alex will be back to interview tricia marwijk the first woman presiding officer of the modern scottish parliament and i'll be speaking to leon by a woman who is currently making the transition from reality t.v. star to campaign against poverty and the oppression of women.

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