if it is not already will be larger than the united states economy which was a monumental impact on the balance of forces globally right now china has run the united states in africa on every front and it will take 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 after the saudi crown prince's three day visit to london prompted protests outside downing street denouncing riyadh's deadly three year bombing campaign in yemen britain supports the reviews 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 while roughly four hundred paypal gathered to protest the royal visit activists condemn the war in

yemen and slammed u.k. arms sales to the kingdom similar concerns water raised in parliament by the leader of the opposition. a humanitarian disaster is now taking place in yemen millions face starvation six hundred thousand children have cholera because of the saudi led bombing campaign and the block 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 cruel looting in one of the united nations is evidence of war crimes some noted come out in support of the saudi crown prince and to ensure a warm reception a promotional ad campaign is launched the prince's face and on the sides of black

vans and cabs as well as billboards throughout the city center although these ads to be catty were content with a red double decker bus carrying banners branding the saudi crown prince of war criminal some of those we spoke to see the saudi advertising is blatant propaganda . but is it 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 world through it's just a blatant propaganda display so it comes back to reflect badly on saudi arabia. that they're trying to manipulate this public opinion on the eve of the visit saudi arabia's foreign minister try to ease the concerns of critics saying that the war in yemen had been quote imposed on riyadh and he added that it was a justified war backed by international law or there unicef calls it the worst manmade humanitarian crisis in history. now

ethnically motivated hostility and crime against germans in berlin is becoming more commonplace that's according to the capitol security chief peter oliver takes a closer look. the berlin interior minister has had some pretty unexpected things to say about how native germans trust 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 the 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 due to social media 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 new stuff like this spread all over 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 they made to hang out in this neighborhood that way they would see what the situation is really like it's 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 figures that official from the police are what is declared 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 that feeling that things could get worse that's driving public opinion to feel that the german capital has become less safe peter all of a. thanks being with us today still to come for you this hour the dispute over gas

supplies between russia and the ukraine is coming to a head again we'll have a look at the details just after the break. it's been almost fifty years since we've had human beings on the surface of another planetary body and i hope that we could actually put together an international lunar exploration initiative much like we have the international space station consortium and together the countries of the world cooperating with the private sector could afford to get back into real space exploration and i think that would that would create a real a lot of excitement. you

call and say that. something is good in kosovo all. fall for. whatever. the principle is good all the principle is but has to be apply equally and that is. what i get now ukraine has started seizing assets belonging to the russian energy giant gazprom following a long term to speak the gas supplies that despite an appeal case stable still being heard by a court and still coming in to try and kill as more details. russia and ukraine could be on the brink of an all out gas war again. seizing the assets of

russia's energy giant gas but a few days ago gasper said it was scrapping all sales and transit contracts with ukraine's nafta gas and russia's gas from have been settling their disputes in a style called arbitration court and in the last few years there have been so many issues 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 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 boss is a 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 will categorically against the economic problems been solved. if there's jenga tower of contracts for the purchases the transit and all the political issues to top all that off collapse as staying warm in eastern europe during this very cold spring as we all know kids become an issue it's not in any of russia's interest to spoil its reputation as a reliable partner but previously kiev how. it's 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. that california seems to be getting increasingly irate about automation in san francisco for example there have been a number of attacks on self driving cars with passers by banging on their windows and also and in addition to that in the same city a robotic guard was taken out of service after a public outcry over security but he was tasked with chewing away homeless people from outside business offices it was vandalized though numerous times during its patrols and a new robotic kitchen assistant in a pasadena burger joint has also. flippy

the robot there is it's known has prompted the twitter hash tag rise of the robots with some complaining that jobs are being stolen from real people others see automation as inevitable one expert did tell us it's no surprise some people are angry. robotics is developing very fast and it's going to have big name parents and 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 being 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 of it one of the likely possible outcomes is is massive violence you know out of this kind of vandalism and salazar's i think you'll be seeing you'll be seeing even larger scale

disruptions here there are 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 sayings and we in the end to make sure that people benefit from technology instead of being dispossessed by technology. that women around the world are marking international women's day at the moment including in madrid where they've certainly been making some noise. thank people there bang pots and pans in support of women's rights chanting slogans such as if we stop the world stops taking the south koreans self came to the streets and supported the meeting movement calling for sex offenders to be brought

to justice meanwhile the p.r. efforts of some firms meant to be in support of women have been branded patronize ing with more haze and she said. if the label commemoration everywhere means right at home to right and wrong some companies say it's a topic. they are by showing their support for women all the 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 buffers with a few fellow travelers. have never been. in the much of. the difference between a rule and descent. is that i have never been harassed by a wolf and what's about the people behind to retire. to be a great idea to make snap the civic leaf 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

. sleep and they don't like to poor little broken pieces and the flavor into them. tends out judging by the reaction online most women. just like with the edgy big company who expected fame to grow up to them for fear even if it was a bit of sarcastic stereotyping it felt that. if you have to explain the joke maybe it's not a very good job. to otherwise drink not the blue one it's for boys. it seems that it's a marketing minefield when fans try winning and if the women take dumps a fad for matching to print politicize it.

is baffling as the day is insulting so perhaps i'll miss day when the struggle for women's rights should be celebrated maybe the p.r. guys let's face it they probably all guys should take some time out to change the pattern i think tank dropping the gender pigeonholing and remember that political correctness doesn't wash with women. and she said he reports now that things in that i have not seen more news in just. a world cup twenty eight team coverage we've signed one of the greatest goalkeepers of all time but there was one more question and by the way he's going to be our coach. guys i know you are nervous he's a huge star among us and the huge amount of pressure you have to the center of the shuttle with you and you told the all the great the great good you are the rock at the back nobody gets past you we need you to get the ball going let's go.

alone and doesn't want to you know and i'm really happy to join us for the two thousand and ten world cup in russia meet the special one come on don't appreciate me to just say the radio the aussie team's latest edition to make up a bigger need to just say look. i've played too many clubs over the years so i know the game and so i got. the ball isn't only about what happens on the pitch for the final school it's about the passion from the fans it's the age of the super money kill you narrowness and spend each religion twenty million and one player. it's an experience like nothing else not to because i want to share what i think what i know about the beautiful guy great so what chance with. the piece it's going to.

this is. a church secret indeed just like priests accused of sexually abusing children it can get away with it quite literally i like to call this the geographic solution so what the bishop needs to do then he finds out that the priest is is a perpetrator is simply moves him to a different spot where the previous standard is not known the highest ranks of the catholic church conceal the accused priests from the police and justice so something that is as old as the eye and then i think you look at it tuesdays out and. this. is.

i. believe. in the middle of the sixty's there were thirteen million students in rolled in higher education in two thousand and fifteen there were two hundred million in less than fifteen years there expected to be four hundred million to overachieve. who is shall not hold live between people and. leveraging the border and. while the demand keeps growing university tuition fees skyrocket the world over the cost of education is high increasing it's terrible for college i was more now i'm an industry i don't understand how can a school be a scam. in the name of so-called economic pragmatism and as

a result of international competition universities are turning into a huge money making machine. and i know my family members when. i think i wanted to be i wanted to be got one. from shanghai to new york paris to berlin countries around the world reflect trying different moves each remodelling its system in its own way but at what price and who profits from it. at the starting point of us story which begins at the end of the ninety's. at that time you had this financial izing itself all the while expanding many intellectuals european university presidents and expert groups engage in a vast reflection on how to build

a more complete more ambitious europe. how to strengthen its intellectual scientific and technological influence. what is the secret of the united states and its economic power. the answer lies in higher education and research. a realm that has become undeniably strategic. the you are the eco at the end of the twentieth century american universities prevail and. europe is afraid afraid of finding itself on the sidelines it needs a strategy and so europe in gauges in a series of reforms to make its higher education more competitive so it can serve europe's economy its productivity its job market and its liberal project england

will quickly set the tone before anyone else and it gets straight to the point. after the second world war we had a system where local education authorities around the country were responsible for providing a grant to students and giving tuition covering tuitions fees. and that was at a time when roughly three percent of eighteen year olds went to university around twenty thousand a year. all science students will for their first two terms be required to attend lectures on physics chemistry mathematics and biology it will also be possible for science students to major in philosophy knowledge is not posted look at what a huge net them in one and covering all subject all all places. in the one nine hundred eighty s. and nine hundred ninety s. there was a funding crisis amongst universities lots of vice chancellors complaining that

they didn't have enough money to cover the amount of students so now coming through the system so the government commissioned a report and this was called the daring report and that came up with a number of recommendations almost one hundred recommendations roughly half for the government about how it could. maintain sustain and improve higher education in the u.k. and one of the most controversial parts of that report was the introduction of was i in one thousand nine hundred seventy the british left led by its young charismatic candidate tony blair wins the elections after eighteen long years of conservative rule. at the age of forty three the head of the labor party takes charge of the country with a program whose foundation is to apply private sector management models to public services so as to make them more efficient more productive route higher education

will be no exception. right. we need to widen access to universities get more money into universities and the best and fairest way to do it is a balance between the state and the graduate. face became reality and nine hundred ninety eight and it was a key landmark in the history of higher education in the u.k. because of that moment the principle of free education free higher education in the u.k. finished. for this historic reform tony blair introduces the yearly one thousand pound tuition fee a smooth way to start five years later prompted by his second term election tony blair authorizes universities to charge tuition fees up to three thousand three hundred pounds yearly and tony blair. head of britain's labor party successfully passed a reform that the conservatives would never have dared bring forward. in two thousand

and ten the labor party rallies the opposition the coalition made of liberal democrats and conservatives led by david cameron take charge of the country very rapidly the debate of a jewish and fees arises on the political scene again this time the government intends to authorize tuition fees up to nine thousand pounds yearly all the while reducing the portion of public funding and it catered to universities this new reform violently divides both members of parliament and public opinion that have been very difficult choices to make we have opted for a such of policies that provides a strong base for university funding which makes a major contribution to reducing the deficit and introducing a significantly more progressive system of graduate paper and stuff we inherited and i'm proud to put forward that magic so this.

order. there is nothing a bank that tiny benefit to the lowest income graduates that justifies doubling or tripling the debt of the vast majority of brides isn't it credible that the party opposite who actually introduced the principle of graduates paying and fainted for two jewish fee increases is able to drum up quite so much fake anger on the issues out there was any young person ask any young person in any poor communities in our country what is your prospect what is your what do you want to do many would say i want to study i want to qualify i want to go to university i want to achieve something in life. help them. less they are very poor or they're going to borrow money to survive to get through university they simply will not do it this decision matters so much to

so many people. i'd say to the house if you don't believe in it vote against. it for the right three hundred twenty three you know most of the last three hundred true god. was. i was when the church was really from three thousand it became one thousand pounds i was up to university if they wanted to introduce nine thousand pounds a maximum face or anything between six thousand and nine thousand and one surprisingly most university decided to set nine thousand pounds most students we

have now half a million students going through every year most of those will be paying a minimum of nine thousand pounds a year and that's stands today. over the course of fifteen years british politicians are ruling class that had enjoyed free access to education inflicted a paying system on the new generation. british students along with a european fellows now have to deal with these new rulings that's the way it is. they're young they long for a solid future death thirsty for knowledge and dream of climbing the social ladder all that has a price tag and they'd better get used to him. and they took her up in a working class family in the south of poland the young woman could have enrolled in a university in krakow in copenhagen or even amsterdam. it would have been free in

england and it was granted a student loan to pay for her nine thousand pounds tuition fee. i knew i was going to go abroad to study and i think well for a little while i thought it was going to be scotland but then. i think i decided it was england you know like way back and it just stuck with me and i and i came here and it was it was scary it was so scary because i was away from home i was here alone i didn't have anywhere to turn to and look at me now i study chinese of all the crises that i could have chosen i can't wait for you know what the future holds and what i'm going to do i have so many ideas but we'll see. i talked to my grandfather once and we're talking about everything else and then kind of started talking about university and how much money that costs and

everything and i had many thoughts about ok maybe maybe i'll quit maybe i'll you know it's too much maybe it's not worth it and then i realized well how my going to pay it back but that's one of the reasons why i stayed and other reason bigger even is that i like what i do i think i'm not quite sure where that came from my need to go to university i think is because. none none of my family members went to university i think i wanted to be i wanted to be that one first person who did that and my mom my mom really wanted me to do that as well she did encourage me strongly i don't know what i would do with her if i fail i would i would feel like i failed her and i never want to do that ever. because being here and doing what i do and being university is my way of paying her back problem that she's to

me i think that. yeah i'm good it's my way of paying back for everything. and. will european students be forced one day to get into debt. should education become a sellable good. must didn't become self-made finance years to earn an education. northern european countries see things a bit differently.