terri where there where there are the remains of the. wife and son who both die in over the past few years and police have denied the they have touched or exude the remains of either of the bodies of the wife or the son of scriptural however attend a police tent has gone up there and people have seen police offices removing objects from the scene the other major development is that the military has been deployed to help with the investigation and there are specialists now and contamination experts who are helping to remove vehicles and items from the sea including ambulances that may have come into contact with this agent and been contaminated while assisting the victims the home secretary amber rudd was in seoul very a little bit earlier on as well that is of course the town where this all unfolded

and west. lived take a listen to what she had to say. people's curiosity about all those questions and wanting to have. there will be a time. but the best way to get to them is to make sure that we give the police the space that they need. well amber right also visited the hospital. and his daughter and also the police officer that came to their assistance are all being treated and speaking of medicine the police in wiltshire have said that as many as twenty one people have been treated in connection to potentially coming into contact with this nerve agent so west seeing an extensive investigation unfolding and at the same time extensive media speculation which just isn't letting up in case you haven't heard about who may be behind this attack take

a look at what's being said. is turned a blind eye to assassinations on its soil and has instead tried to protect the crime when bad things have been known to happen to russians who cross of lot of near putin the front that a nerve agent was use strengthens the likelihood that this was a sponsor of some sure and russia is the chief suspect of course and the speculation isn't limited to the media some of the politicians here have been indulging in it as well despite the words of the home secretary not to keep a cool had a not to speculate about it a lot of backbench m.p.'s have been talking about it pointing the finger of blame at russia some of even going as far as accusing russia of instigating an act of war if this indeed does lead back to the kremlin some of even used it as an excuse to call for more defense spending in the face of an ever greater russian threat moscow isn't very impressed with all of this and this. the foreign minister

spoke about this for the first time today and he made it pretty clear that the kremlin is getting frustrated with the way this is all developing take a listen to what he had to say. we're being accused not only of this our western partners accusers of basically everything that's going wrong on this planet it's not serious it's just more blatant propaganda and his styria. sergey lavrov added that in case anyone is interested russia is willing to help out with the investigation. divulges the results if there are any of this investigation should have big consequences many thanks bring us up to date there in london. now in other news on trump's court lots of people off guard by agreeing to meet with the north korean leader only recently the two were in engaged i should say in a bitter twitter spat over who had the biggest nuclear button the details as kelly

. heard the announcement and now we have confirmation from the white house that yes a meeting will take place between kim jong un and us president donald trump now this would be the first meeting between the head of state of the united states and the government of north korea their head of state this is quite a surprise to many people we've heard secretary of state rex tillerson who recently said that the usa was a long way away from any negotiations with north korea i don't know yet until we are able to be ourselves place to place with. representatives of the world. whether the conditions are right you can be doing if you about negotiations determine that direct talks with the united states and you asked me to go she ations or world always for me goes to asians and furthermore we've seen that the united states recently impose new sanctions on the country now there's also been quite a heated exchange and war of words between the two leaders in recent months the.

year of strategic patience. with the north korean regime has failed. utterly if. not make anyone ready to united states. they will be met with fire and fury. the u.s. neglects the international community's will to stop this b.s. on the korean peninsula. and we can't have mad men out there shooting rockets all over the place he will have no choice but to totally destroy north korea's. rocket. is on a suicide mission for himself no one. is on a suicide mission. he's

a sick puppy. double trouble is said that the sanctions recently placed on north korea will remain in place until any agreement is reached and pointed out that in the lead up to the meeting north korea has agreed to freeze any ballistic missile testing any nuclear testing or proliferation so at this point out there seems to be a free is in north korea in anticipation of a meeting now we understood that this meeting will take place before may and the location and time are yet to be announced earlier we heard from asia specialist chris ogden who told us that he's keeping his expectations low about this upcoming meeting americans truly want the north koreans to get rid of their nuclear weapons the north koreans don't want the american military to leave the peninsula and try

to unify and and so there is a very very big. and very big the months one thing probably the best thing that could happen as long as our is that they meet with so through some kind of all they can agree that maybe there should be less the legitimate against each other and maybe this can downplay the threat which will help global stability and regional stability but i think in terms of some run bargain it's unlikely. fifteen trucks of receipts than cooter to deliver essential aid to the syrian district which is under the control of rebels and terrorists thursday militants shelled civilians who were trying to leave the area several fatalities of being confirmed auntie's bragg as they have looks at how such incidents bring the evacuation process. according to the russian military the three hundred families had allegedly gathered together to leave eastern ghouta crossing the frontlines is

always dangerous so it's best done when there's a safe window with the agreement of both belligerence the syrian government was waiting for them the rebels this he knew what was going on and shelled them they reportedly shelled the procession of civilians i mean a kilometer before they were out of east ghouta and then to top it all off they shelled the relatives and journalists waiting in the syrian side at the end of the corridor nothing's changed they aren't allowing civilians to leave just like the islam islam is brother and did in aleppo. that are starting to. serve you dickie. what they said about even any is. actually in some star city kind of thing. yet

here in washington tell it don't mention that they think it's joke like russia has called for these jokes like humanitarian corridor wars russia needs to just do what the united nations had agreed to and voted on and that is a countrywide ceasefire freeing civilians would mean less human shields it would be a p.r. blue people don't want to stay with the rebels they'll talk say all sorts of horrible things about life and the jihad ists they'll challenge the narrative why let them leave too many problems take also rebel shelling of damascus blind aimless shells peppered damascus daily for years now so many dead and still die. sighing still to die yet you won't see any hysteria about that in fact you won't hear much of tool they won't admit that rebels are keeping people hostage because that

justifies assad's operation as do those that die in rebel shelling so why mention it it ruins the narrative it's so much simpler when it's all black and white but most of the united states press is clearly on the side of the rebels they believe that assad is an evil person who is running an evil regime and they'd like to see it fall and therefore stories about the suffering of syrians in damascus because that rebel apartment don't make much impression and occasionally they get through the stories but they are they're not. they're not people are writing a story which is that this is a brutal regime and refuses to make compromise and sleeting to a very lopsided narrative. also on thursday dozens of other aid trucks were prevented from entering east and good so that was due to fighting on the ground

a u.n. convoy however was allowed into the area on monday but it had to leave made heavy fighting even before it was able to complete unloading the situation remains die and civilians as we have seen have very little chance of escaping. i am. going to be.

this is extraordinarily violent time it's been a very bloody two months here the beginning of this year it is really hell on ground for the children it is very difficult there are. they are scared they are see death and violence at a scale that you would hope no child would see there is a lack of food and water it brings to see many of the families are crowded into small spaces and basements. the biggest ever winter power lympics of kicked off in south korea as you can see from some spectacular images of the opening ceremony the games and beyond china will run for the next ten days a record number of competitors. taking apart this time five hundred sixty seven athletes from forty nine teams paralympians from russia though they've been banned

from competing under their own national flag because it claims a state sponsored doping. rule expects him to be barred from the qualification rounds if they'd let us take part it would have been a miracle but the fact we're not going well it's ok. because it's too much janitor coaching they are creatures i have mixed feelings because our boys are not going it feels like we've been dropped. and yes noble is one who had the years i felt bad to be honest it's my first time going to the paralympics i should have been jumping with joy that i got to go but i didn't feel

happy. he would return it's no surprise that they're being so harsh towards our team it may be inhuman but it was expected. everyone knows that we are athletes from russia russia is always with us anyway in our hearts the ways that i see the text is merged in ways that everyone knows in a way that we're from russia poland snow that we're from russia that actually afraid of us. things done thirty thing as they were and yes we're setting the highest goals for

ourselves so many years of preparation shouldn't go to waste which is why we going to prove that we are the best. use of the story we'll be doing that sportsmen that of course the fact that some of our athletes the not invited doesn't recall tim burton but they are united and i think they'll be able to produce. gunshots have been fired as border police conducted a raid on a west bank university outside the city of ramallah a recently elected student representative was arrested seen in footage the soldiers who are described as palestinian reporters first drew their guns and bystanders as they violently apprehended a man on the ground later they were filmed firing shots as they covered their escape towards israeli soldiers who were reportedly waiting outside in vehicles. oh marcus one he was the twenty four year old student council representative arrested on wednesday that's according to the university he was

a well known pro palestinian activist with links to an affiliate of a must see previously been arrested several times before we got reaction to the story from dr nima a member of the right of education committee at birzeit university. this is an outrageous operation against the palestinians and special against the palestinian indication it's well known fact that university usually are a million of such interferences and no no police or government or even army usually enter the university especially a during the day or so the way they did it as a first in the first place it's every relation also for the rights of the journalists you know there are soldiers trained soldiers but there are dressed like that a senior and they're dressed like really senior journalists it's just it's just a crazy kind of thing to do differently this student are going to attack you once you are inside the universe that are sitting there council leader elected and

getting him out of the university and having all these soldiers inside differently there would be a reaction that had left us with a shock and real shock first of all they were inside the university during the day they were shooting at the students after. now it seems the selfie craze is taken off among a species of bird that famously can't take off a couple of inquisitive penguins been caught on the camera left behind following an expedition to antarctica. i am using it in its. current.

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is a global trade war imminent if donald trump follow through on increasing terrorist and ending existing trade deals it seems very likely after all this was at the very center of his campaign for the presidency it was a promise he made to his base look make america great again. greetings and salutations is the united states of america as a violence problem there is no if ands or buts about it far too often we as a society and government use violence to solve our problems both real and imaginary like an artist uses oils paints and like any intelligent clear headed problem

solving community does when confronted with the unwanted manifestations of using violence as problem solver namely when mad men open fire on schools or concerts we blame rightfully the video games yet as supposedly we blame the video games they hold the mysterious key to a mass murderers motivations at least that's what united states president donald trump is determined to uncover in this thursday's white house meeting on violence in video games the meeting features not only two titans of the video game industry in strauss's zelnick the c.e.o. of take two interactive of grand theft auto fame and robert altman the chairman and c.e.o. of his an emacs media company behind the billion dollar fallout franchise and of course on the other side of the table will be melissa henson of the parents television council known for such hits as hashtag me to fails to address hollywood's penchant for marketing sex soaps t.v.

the kids and the regressive and degrading billboard music awards as well as the pied piper of kill ology himself retired lieutenant colonel dave grossman while out there the wonderful book assassination generation video games aggression and the psychology of killing. and of course number one was to miss any nanny state big brother photo op us congressional members senator marco rubio and representatives vicki hartzler and martha roby these and other will hash out and ponder whether the ultimate cause of violence in society or the video game is based on society's violence meanwhile all the rest of us will be ignoring the scapegoats and watching the hawks. to. get the. real deal with. the politics if you.

like you know that i got. this. week. well they're going to watch the hawks am to a robot and on top of the last. play video games are like twenty five years and he's going to get me with a knife. now would be a it would be a broad sword or a battle lot or a battle or as a magical thing attached to it it started because you and i are both serious gamer full disclosure i'm a serious gamer have serious gamer i don't think any one of us would have i haven't shot up a school or a concert or thought about going to get that assault rifle to take out a bunch of people no mo i don't think i've met many people who play a lot of video i mean we're generally as we grew up xenia where we're called now

but we grew up you know video games were part of our lives i remember pong i remember pac-man i remember all these things and i was for a long period of history and i don't see the connection at all between people to play a lot of video games are going to be like bad health but old people play a lot of video games don't get out and work out a whole lot again you know what you do it too much right it's whatever it is but people the same people who are saying well we should have less video games because they're making people violent their answer to violence is to give more guns to other people to stop the violent people brilliant now it's a video game so i feel that there isn't a straight line for me to be on their thinking and i wonder you know while we look at like the. research doesn't really show this constant idea that video games and hard rock music that everything is going to make you we've been

hearing and since are kids are very generous or they will be somewhere and presently there is a man there i mean. there's a university your bum the evidence supports the theory then you game players makes them more violent they did a series of experiments with more than three thousand participants and found a video game concepts do not pry players to behave in one way or the other there's nothing to it no i think they call that boot camp you know i mean even the federal government themselves in security ways yes well they conducted a review in two thousand and four and it was the secret service the service the people who protect president you know money and stuff is conducting a review in two thousand and four and it was aimed at identifying whether or you know causes trying to figure out those causes of mass shootings you know from columbine on and found that twelve percent five out of the forty one incidents that they looked at the person responsible the attackers and only about twenty percent expressed interest at all in violent video. only interests that's not even saying

like over by a burger is maybe do it there's a i played call of duty a little bit of the real the most violent video games that are out there are ones that are recreate sions of world war one world war two vietnam these are the ones where you're sitting there going go carol the japanese and let's go that to me is real life situations those are the ones that get that are that are considered the most popular. because my fantasy world someone live in world war two i want to go to it's great to because even the supreme court weighed in on this of what was a seventy two this was interesting two things it was a seventy two decision which was this california law to ban children from buying violent video games it was interesting is that the majority opinion against against the idea of banning it was justice and antonin scalia so even he didn't. see they're more conservative that i know but that's the thing it's this idea that it usually comes from conservative politicians that people like marco rubio's

conservatives want less government why do we want another nanny state and i assume remember tipper gore was pushing you know she was in the anti-violence anti rock music thing back when the clintons were in office so this is not a left or right issue and let's look at it again like the bigger over why because we. are everything in our society it's an excuse and the fact that we're sitting here having a debate about violent video games while x. is happening over at the u.n. doesn't even matter and recently while there's nothing we have eight hundred bases around the world we have wars going on for fifteen years you wondering where are society's violence problems from when you look at the u.n. they the united nations the united states behind closed doors has a very different opinion about saving women and children. than they really do outside and part of that was that there was the u.n. anti-violence resolutions that came up with this idea to sort of curb violence against women and children and anonymous european told foreign policy that we had

a pretty absurd discussion on the convention for the rights of children they want to speak of unlawful forms of violence against children implying there are a lawful forms of violence against children and you want to know why that is because corporal punishment hitting your kids is legal in twenty states and they're going after bitter games this is absolutely ridiculous absolutely ridiculous. international women's day got off to a rousing start in spain this year with a full day of strikes and rallies commenced under a manifesto of change saying quote today we claim a society free of oppression exploitation and sex this violence we call for rebellion and the struggle against the alliance between patriarchy and capitalism that wants us to be docile submissive and silent and palestine a land under rocky. patient women march to defiance of israeli troops to thirteen. and the demonstration wasn't just for women's day either it is the beginning of a six week long tent city protest for their freedom. even in syria

a country torn apart by war women took to the streets to celebrate their lives loves and the strength of women standing side by side to lift each other up even in the most difficult situations women by and large are the ones who bear the brunt of wars famines and political turmoil years of economic sanctions have oppressed the lives of countless women around the globe increasing rates of human trafficking near conflict zones even in disaster zones we found of people meant to save lives reusing underage traffic women for sex and here in the united states women are watching a regression in national policy and all that twisting has led us to a totally useless internal battle of women against women fueled by patriarchy that is pitted us against each other democrats excuse the sexual predators and their minutes while republicans focus on reproductive health to an extent that legislation now questions women's ability to make our own decisions. this

international women's day take a moment to learn more about how we can all women and men make the world a better place by helping to lift women into true equality so we stand by side side by side and take on the world's most definitely most definite i couldn't agree more now get over there and so they read someone. know this is a baby of high international women's there's incredible baby and i'm glad it should be celebrated every day i've been here if not i'm going to be a little united states just steer clear and i'm glad i never said it's not a big but you know you know when you when you look at the problems that women are facing in the well i thought that was really brilliant pointing out look you're seeing people you know marching in war zones or people seeing people marching in occupied lands or see people marching in the suburban neighborhood on trees and it was a glorious the going to need to happen to me to do all of this is a start of that i mean look we've got to remember medically women are behind the

eight ball eight hundred thirty women die each day around the world from pregnancy complications that should have you know i believe in two thousand and eight and the death death rates highest among african-american women even when they have a higher income that is absolutely ridiculous in this day and part of it is actually it's interesting because the way i'm sister when she got pregnant recently had issues and one of problems she had was communicating durant doctors where they don't trust women and especially black women doctors will question what they have to say when they say they have problems i mean you look at some of the numbers that you've you've compiled these are important numbers that remind us why we have to celebrate these days why do we have to take that pause twelve thousand dollars is the average yearly salary of women around the globe twelve thousand dollars it's ridiculous we have to measure average just twenty one thousand that's even more it's just flip the number yeah man that upsets me that upsets me yeah i mean there's a couple of things i mean one oh oh.