is there a plan b. . what does that have to do with. sexual assault allegations against supreme court nominee. crucial new trade deal with neighbors. germany reportedly joins all the european countries. this. participation in the. civil

war in. times of more lives than previously thought so according to a newly released. in from around the world. international i mean and only our top story. one of his campaign promises a new trade deal between american mexico but the announcement of the landmark agreement was overshadowed by sexual misconduct allegations against the u.s. president supreme court nominee. and it also added fuel to trump standoff with the media. truly historic good news this will be a new dawn this landmark agreement an incredible new this new deal will be the most

modern up to date and balanced trade agreement in the history of our country brett kavanaugh foods is there a plan b. i have two questions about judge cavanagh this week and mr president you said that it's incorrect to say you're limiting the scope of the f.b.i. investigation what does that have to do with i don't mind answering the question but you know what i'd like to do the trade has to do with the other headline in the news which is the can but i know but then how about talking about trade and then we'll get to that you have a question of dread will you want to more questions later and several question if you don't do that that's not mr president so just somebody is before you excuse me don't do that you have a question on trade you answered several but you have a question on trade my question is on judge question go ahead she shocked that a picture of her state of shock i'm not thinking of that service and i you know i think if you never did it was trumps big day as he unveiled a new deal with canada and mexico that's supposed to replace nafta and if you remember he once called nafta the worst deal ever but terms or placement deal is

apparently a historic transaction the deal which took over a year to negotiate is called the united states mexico canada agreement and it will apparently solve all of the problems with nafta has and it will open markets to farmers and manufacturers and reduce trade barriers but during his campaign trump had promised to either renegotiate nafta or break it so this new deal fulfills that promise but at the press conference journalist weren't concerned about the deal they were really interested in the capital case and to remind the viewers cavanagh's a supreme court nominee who was accused of sexual harassment some have even said the trump's moment was stolen from him so an important development in economic policy was once again overshadowed by the latest liberal scandal of the moment and it doesn't look like it will stop anytime soon. ok to a developing story we're closely following today germany has approved new arms exports to saudi arabia worth almost three hundred million dollars dollars according to the german media citing government officials the move came despite

strong criticism of the saudis for their participation in the yemeni conflict which has resulted in thousands of civilian casualties but as our reports there's plenty more foreign countries willing to send weapons to riyadh. innocent lives being taken away in yemen by saudi bombs you may get the impression it's a big deal for them we are concerned about the pulling humanitarian situation in yemen and the risk of home to the civilian issues this is the worst humanitarian crisis that is in china a humanitarian disaster this cannot become a forgotten crisis speaking of deals guess who saudi arabia and its coalition friends get their war machines from. these are called like clerk tanks made to joint they by france and germany here

they are in a yemeni desert. if it hadn't been for an m.r.i. the mogul who once served as a middleman between paris and abu dhabi we might have never learned about the nuts and bolts of the tank purchase but the guy didn't get his commission fee for his job as a broker he went on to sue the french eventually we keenly spilled the beans on the trial and the contract numbers the contract with the government of the us was concluded on sixth of april one thousand nine hundred ninety three for the delivery of three hundred eighty eight combat tanks leclaire forty six tank recovery armored vehicles two training tanks spare parts ammunition and various other deliveries at a price of three billion six hundred thirteen million four hundred sixty seven

thousand two hundred twenty three dollars. over three and a half billion bucks worth of tanks one of the coalition's many tools to reduce yemen to rubble of course the saudis see it as fight against terrorism. up next missiles. i'll show you another contract the money has already been paid although delivery is still pending saudi arabia is getting four hundred u.s. made laser guided missiles from spain they cost riyadh nine point two million euros that's pennies compared to the tanks i told you about earlier but the newly elected spanish government was having second thoughts about the deal eventually though they

all vanished. in one thousand we found no reason not to fill up commitments we've made a decision that we have to honor this contract this brings us to one of the biggest armed deals in the history of canada. auto was been wary of what's going on with human rights in saudi arabia however change of government in ottawa doesn't. lead to the cancellation of contracts previously signed but moving forward we are committed to the kind of openness transparency and rigor or the number of zeroes on the twelve billion dollar paycheck is just way too tempting so hundreds of canadian made armored vehicles will be heading to the middle east next stop you hear politicians get emotional over innocent victims in yemen picture

a massive dollar sign in. your head there are the interests of. arms manufacturers and of course the largest be the united states something like sixty to seventy percent of the arms. but the english the french the germans. the norwegian. historically. so. that's never going to economic interest the current leadership of saudi arabia feels empowered. by their back to the u.s. you. well yesterday monday saudi arabia admitted it had made mistakes and its attacks in yemen during its three year campaign which has left more than ten thousand civilians dead that statement drew criticism from the united nations which stated there's no evidence that anyone was sanctioned over those so-called errors.

these three leaves an endless source of nutrition at times when there was a program at lax food for us to leave a one man from a very. you know i don't let you know. that there is no i one of my children suffers from a natural deficiency this and doctors ted that either has a kidney infection my dad because of this or and because of the lack of aid and clean water. we receive between ten to twenty cases of mid to severe malnutrition on a daily basis especially among children from displaced families from absent iran

many children suffer from severe acute malnutrition due to destitution and poverty in which displaced families live. and i'm going to. another country suffering the devastating effects of conflict is. the number of those dead as a result of the civil war in the african state has now reached almost four hundred thousand that's eight times more than previously realized gillum up and takes a closer look at the on notice conflict. south sudan is the youngest country in the world and according to a new report from the u.s. state department it's off to a pretty bleak start almost four hundred thousand people killed half of them killed in the conflict the other half dying of hunger and disease now previously prior to this report the estimates had only been in the tens of thousands but now it looks

like the numbers of deaths in south sudan are approaching the number that have died in the conflict in syria pretty bleak but it wasn't always like this now in the one nine hundred ninety s. there was no south sudan sudan was one country and it was embroiled in the longest running civil war in the continent. however there were some perks at that point sudan had lots of oil to sell and china was pouring in investments and that is when the sanctions rolled in sudan was declared to be a state sponsor of terror bill clinton bombed a factory in one thousand nine hundred eight that he said was making chemical weapons our forces also attacked a factory in sudan associated with. the factory was involved in the production of materials for chemical weapons but actually the factory was just making medicine no evidence of chemical weapons has ever been produced now the usa pushed for south

sudan's independence in two thousand and eleven the usa hailed south sudan for breaking away and becoming a new country we may only have the republic of south sudan and to think you have sovereign nations but the euphoria did not last long it breaks my heart to see what south sudan has become today country fell into a civil war between rival clams the president turned against the vice president and mass killings in a hunger ensued and all this killing was a headache for the united nations so with a new it meant. stray ssion now in the white house the u.s. role in south sudan is being reassessed the united states government will not continue in a partnership with leaders who are only interested in perpetuating an endless war characterized by ethnically motivated atrocities the government of south sudan has lost credibility and the united states is losing patience yes south sudan is yet

another example of the u.s. state department telling us that they're going to go rescue some or all press people on the other side of the planet and then they're left spending money to analyze results showing that the conditions overall are getting a lot worse to an extent the world seem to have forgotten about south sudan not too long ago it was the world that was running together to form this new nation then at the expense of northern sudan which was run by bashir and it would appear that petty politics between the chinese and the u.s. in terms of the respective influences on those countries of meant that for now at least the world seems to have forgotten about the sudan crisis some so forgotten about displacement of people women and children on displacement of children across the nation and is very much an impoverished states and i know of course we know that a lot of things do not work effectively in south sudan. for all intensive purposes

the the west and the international community seems to of when the blind eye. test case in england may be about to make historic changes to the rights of parents in the country the unprecedented situation could refer to the previous requirement for a mother to be registered on every birth certificate at the center of the legal battle is a single parent who was born a woman but lives as a mom after undergoing surgery he wants to be identified as the father or parent sais that not being. lived to do so violates his human right to privacy and family life english law however states he must appear is the biological mother on the birth certificate and all that is preventing him from receiving state benefits . while this is a unique case in england since twenty sixteen the u.s. state of california has given parents the choice to pick between mother father or

simply parent according to personal preference we got the views of l g b t campaigner peter tatchell political commentator david flint the question this case raises is who should be on the birth certificate shouldn't necessarily be a mother or father or could it just be a parent i think that it's not really important for legal reasons or any other practical reason why has to be a mother peter just said this let's remove mother from the birth certificate and replace it with something more more nonspecific such as parent but mothers give birth the kids sorry spoiler alert that's how it's been that's how it's always going to be and no one minds of debate are going to change that biological fact why why not just be make a reasonable accommodation in the small number of cases to acknowledge this person

of the parents of the child will know that this person is their parent legally as well as in reality this child would become the first child in the history of this country on a bi believe anywhere else who on their birth certificate the word mother is missing so just consider this for a moment can you imagine the cycle on the psychological damage that this would impact that child you know the child will probably find it different and unusual but as we have seen with same sex parents children get a handle on things pretty quickly love is about you know. a parent's commitment and care for a child. what's on the birth certificate really doesn't affect that love and commitment in those instance that you that you've mentioned same sex couples regardless of the configuration the child was always born to a woman simple biological fact you know what i mean that's not being judgmental

it's being it's being it's a fine dish and the fact that we must not be we must not run away from just because it might hurt some people's feelings there have been some trans men in a similar situation have given birth and they have accepted that they should be named as the mother so this case is unique and it's different but i think the number of instances that will be involved in a similar circumstance is so so tiny we should not get hot heads up about us and we should just make the accommodation but i cater to. your peter peter the law is not based on on the exceptions the law must apply to all you just can't operate it the way that you'd like to so the fact of the matter is that this child was born to a woman and there for the birth certificate should reasonably reflect that reality . violence erupts once again in spain's rest of catalonia the details in ninety

seconds. as a zombie bank plague has spilled over to zombie corporations what is a zombie banks zombie bank it's a bank best to complain solvent is kept alive by bailouts continuing rolling bailouts from the central banks because of their friends in the other the banks the commercial banks the lawyers they just b. c b m p citibank they're technically insolvent they're going to live in the mozambique to rolling a bail out they call quantitative easing or some other name they come up with every two months. so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy confrontation let it be an arms race. and spearing dramatic probably the only mostly i'm going to resist i don't see how

that strategy will be successful very. time to sit down and talk. nineteen minutes past nine am here in moscow this choose the morning welcome back frustration turned to violence in barcelona on monday pro independence activists were marking one year since a referendum to break away from spain was brutally quashed by police were on the streets in force.

i nearly two hundred thousand people gathered in barcelona cattle on regional capital tear gas and rubber bullets were used drugs had rallied in front of the parliament building the campaigners burn spanish fly chanted separatist slogans a little earlier in the day activists have blocked major roads. across the rest of . the british defense secretary gavin williamson has unveiled a new strategy for the arctic calling russia the biggest threat to the region eight hundred u.k. troops are due to be deployed to norway next year there are being disputes for

decades over territorial claims over the planet's most northern point concerning on top to natural resources on the seabed the british defense ministry says the arctic and the high north are not crucial to the country's security. envy arctic and high north russia is increasing their military presence to deal with this we will be launching our new defense arctic stress which are beyond behind your finances we must be ready ready to deal with the threats as they emerge the new defense arctic strategy will put the arctic in high north central to the security of the united kingdom has got nor will we just i'm a queen though whatsoever so what we're doing putting a hundred troops at some considerable expense in norway and all of the cheapest countries in the world so i don't quite get what is going on because it hundred troops is a drop in new ocean this is not a serious force if you're talking about a conventional grown war goodness sake but you know that the atmosphere is weird

that the commander of the new british super aircraft carrier came out in the media yesterday and said that britain would win a naval war with russia firstly what at all if there is no possibility of a naval war with russia secondly if there was a war with russia it would just be an evil war it would be a disaster so i've no idea what this gung ho attitude is that really you know this we should be stepping up the ante by talking all the time about this military threat from russia the idea that russia is about to launch a conventional war in the arctic which is all these commanders could be there for a hundred of them not enough to stop any serious operation is a bit mind boggling so i think firstly this is playing to the gallery of the conservative party conference secondly it's a boat the continued expansion of nato forces i rode on the borders of the former so on and into the former soviet union. public companies in the u.s. state of california are now legally required to have women on their board of

directors the law say's that every public company should include at least one that woman on its board the end of the year with that number increasing to three in a three year period company in school. be fined least one hundred thousand dollars for a first offense any further offenses will make the fine three times as much. well long awaited for many of the bill does provoke concerns with california officials saying the move may impede further diversity goal some spark much public debates prius discrimination now against other people in favor of women who might not even be qualified i mean you're talking about putting one woman in place there and now we're having to mandate that where there are many women in the workplace that have been working hard so rather than hoping for encouraging in the workplace there to be equal treatment of women who do

a good job now we're just regulating than mandating it which is undoubtedly going to cause anarchy in the workplace is going to cause dissension among people perhaps amongst other women who have been working hard wondering why this woman got chosen just to meet a certain quota i think it's absolutely ridiculous to suggest that there is not a single woman qualified you know for the board of any public company in california i think we all know them and loads of women who are super well qualified to the question should be why haven't they been appointed to those boards already why have we put up with this outdated you know white male voice for so siloam i think there are lots of people on boards in california and all over the world you want qualified and i'm afraid to say the vast majority of them all men it only causes tension to grow against women against the very party that they're trying to eliminate discrimination over and so that's going to undoubtedly cause backfiring a lot more animosity against women not just from other men in the workplace who have been working very hard but from other women in the workplace who might not be

chosen to fit this one woman quota type thing for women who aren't going to be doing that and so you know it's causing dissension it's really going against it and it's going to continue to backfire against that until we change who we are intrinsically as americans in the workplace. allowing equal rights because they are deserving of it and not because the law and mandates it absolutely california should and will on the back of the success of this legislation as in further legislation that mandates that there be a person of color on board and then to pick people of color and so on and so forth i think that's absolutely and these are not conflicting issues it shouldn't be the case that women and people of color who incidentally many women are also people of color but we shouldn't feel like there's a sort of diversity spot and we all have to fight for it we should feel like we're all part of a movement that's working towards better balance on boards and working towards a future which people where companies like this belong to all of us not to a tiny you know pie on my island style corporate elite which unfortunately seems to

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greetings and sell you take should. with the united states war on terror now seventeen years strong there appear to be signs that this never ending self-perpetuating tragic and deadly experiment and continuous global war bear may finally be starting to crack and the evidence for these cracks can be found in the numbers the numbers of new recruits to be precise recently the u.s. army revealed that it fell thousands of troops short of its recruiting goals this year the first time it has done so since the height of the iraq war thirteen years ago this news comes despite the army spending an extra two hundred million on its already massive recruiting budget and the falls weren't contained to just active duty recruits. who fell about sixty five one hundred short of the seventy five

eighty thousand goal that that that the army was aiming for in fact the army national guard is about eight thousand under it's three hundred forty three thousand recruit total while the army reserve is down nine thousand from its almost two hundred thousand new recruit goal when asked why the army was failing to fill its ranks despite offering up to forty thousand bonuses to year in list months and student loan repayments sergeant first class michael t. peppers the commander of a recruiting station in urbandale iowa told the new york times simply we're competing with other businesses offering the same things beth ash a senior. economist at the rand corporation who studies military recruiting backed up peppers claims adding that you have fewer people who can serve they have more opportunities in the job market that makes it very hard on the army so according to those excuses of excuses it appears that u.s. president donald.