with traumas trade war showing no sign of abating old foes japan and china making the best of a bad situation in kings several economic deals. in germany polls predict the anti immigration a.f.d. party is on course to be represented in all of the country's sixteen regional

parliaments for the first time ever and the last remaining region is going to the polls on sunday and the f.t. is campaigning full throttle. been due today. but just a minute. in. italy says it refuses to revise its budget which was rejected by brussels to make the point more vividly one italian m.e.p. made it clear that he would rather give the e.u. with a boot than cave in. your world news on the hour every hour this is the international live from moscow welcome to your stories. japan's prime minister shinzo and the chinese premier have shaken hands and spoken about warmer relation. at this summit in beijing it's the

first visit to the country by a japanese leader for bilateral talks in nearly seven years the current thought follows years of territorial disputes. takes a quick look now at what has led to this change the japanese prime minister is in china and he's smiling. that was him with the chinese premier who was smiling to. so why of course these kind of guys put up a happy face for the cameras during the protocol handshake well sometimes things between countries get so bad that even handshakes can save the day. but both leaders surely would have preferred not to stand there together like that just a few years ago the gloves were off between beijing and tokyo because of these tiny

islands in the east china sea just to realize how much i hate that land dispute generated have a look at this. it was the it was i really wouldn't want to be a japanese car owner in china back in the days the two thousand and twelve conflict was spiraling out in all shapes and forms mr abbay mr she didn't even talk on the phone up until may this year today though we're pretty much back to seeing the new un friendship with the chinese state run media telling us this kind of stuff so what happened what kind of magical friendship did the in the dragon get prescribed maybe it was the donald trump pill the world knew mr trump was on a mission to give beijing

a real business beating the united states has just announced tariffs on another two hundred billion dollars in chinese made goods china's market distortions. and the way they deal. cannot be tolerated but who knew the president will then take aim at his biggest asia ally japan and his economic bowling well last month the media got a trade war to pay off and anyway the steel. and allan maybe i'm tariffs had already kicked in you know how it works now america first but we understand that president trump wants to reduce the trade deficit but i think it's very important for president trump and his administration to find out the root cause of why there is a trade deficit in america i think there is a possibility that they do not yet understand why and so the world silver and bronze medalists and g.d.p. are shaking hands smiling and are possibly even ready to team up what will the

golden boy have to say one expert on asia pacific relations we spoke to says trump's only got himself to blame if indeed he's on happy about china and japan cozying up to each other. us did not expect that the other that other countries would be able to set aside their differences and get to get to the table with each other as relatively easily as they had been able to do so but at the end of the day it is the us which has to be there and have a chance to it which has to carry the blame for this book the countries are with frankly facing unilateral and hostile trade enforcement action from the trumpet ministration china primarily but i would also suggest that part of the reason for the coming together is because both countries realize that they are important players. and that without speaking to each other their relationship

their relationship with each other as well as the larger geo political environment in which they operate becomes a little more negative. italy has ruled out changes to its twenty nineteen budget plan which was rejected by brussels and the e.u. commission has given rome three weeks to rewrite it claiming revisions are needed quote in the interests of italy and total quarter breakdown for dispute. brussels is sharpening its knife in preparation for a new battle with rome for the first time the e.u. has flat out rejected a member states budget demanding a resubmission. for the first as a commission is obliged to a. country that it was off budget to be blunt. but we seen no alternative to it all and to do so it is in.

the interest of whole. the e.u. claims that italy's debt situation is out of control and that solving these government needs to tighten its purse strings and fulfill its obligations the euro skeptics say it doesn't have anything to do with money since there are other states with bloated budgets that have never felt such a heavy hand from brussels this is the first time in budget the e.u. doesn't like no surprise this is the first italian budget written in rome and not in brussels. you tell me an economy is healthy and this is an economic move that will give. needs we want change one comma in this document to. be you know to go to. the. on. the future. spain belgium portugal and slovenia have all been in

violation of the e.u. agreements in the past and for years france has broken the three percent deficit threshold imposed on it by the e.u. as for debt it's been in the red since two thousand and two and only this year the second largest european economy received a carefully worded letter in response asking all very politely to reduce its debts . we thank you for sending the front twenty nineteen draft budget that we received on october fifteenth we would like to ask you for more details the commission's preliminary assessment also indicates that the growth rate for france does not respect the reference rate of ditch reduction in twenty nineteen so italy refused to be taken to heel by this double standard.

except the e.u. commissioner in charge of budgets didn't seem to find the stunt very funny even connecting the italian shushan and against to a potential quick path to fascism the episode of the made in italy shoe is grotesque at first you smile and we trivialize it because it's ridiculous but then we start getting used to this kind of muted symbolic violence and one day we wake up with fascism stay alert democracy is a fragile treasure all the draft budget would have seen over five hundred million dollars worth of cuts to defense spending while putting more money towards social welfare and tax cuts not exactly a sound way to revive fascism and certainly not

a good way to be a shoo in with the new donald quarter r.t. . germany where i'm going to merkel's hard won grand coalition could be in for a new blow as polls predict low support in the region election in the state of hester on sunday among the main contenders are the green party allied with other leftwing forces though national conservative alternative for germany is projected to strengthen its position there as well peter oliver investigates. the party known for its the immigration stance is said to chalk up another milestone in german politics just over a year since they shocked the country by entering the bundestag for the first time polls predict that this sunday alternative for germany will enter the state parliament in hessen for the first time that will mean that they have representation in all sixteen german states as well as the national parliament head

of the vote in her alternative for germany have been campaigning aggressively. but you just want this to me and that momentum and the sticky see. if he. holds a special place for alternative for germany or the air it was at a meeting there back in february twenty fifth the party was formed setting themselves out from the get go as an anti establishment group focused on the economy. see the parties in the bundestag and bundesrat don't do any politics in the interest all consideration of germany and europe. in the five years since its formation alternative for germany has been widely criticized by those who condemn what they see as its populist and racist stance dva of to enjoy many has the rhetoric of the one nine hundred twenty s. and we'll move to karl and the continent see each have a blatant problem with anti semitism the whole of the anti liberal anti civic party

i was i was here. was here. despite having enjoyed steady growth in the polls here in germany at times even coming in as the second largest political group in the country while taking up seats in has so would see them represented in all sixteen of germany. states they aren't going to see this as job done or out. they just a ruling. who've the heads of the people they are doing things well the people don't want me as a police we have to search the people we have to do what the people want this is not only a moment. if you will look at. other european

countries in whole or in how degree in children already parties are on our ruling the same in our studio with the f.b.i. . and we see now also an entirely legal and. all those movements all those new proudly speech are behaving the same way like the air eat they becoming stronger and stronger and in many countries in europe they are already on the phone or. a white supremacist to running as the republican congressional candidate in the chicago area is trying to appeal to voters in the arab community by ratcheting up his anti israel and anti gay messaging adjourns placed a campaign ad in an arab american newspaper didn't get quite the reaction he was hoping for.

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erupted between supporters of maher say c.-o. ahead of the team's europa league football match in the french city on thursday night. forced to intervene after say the police were forced to intervene and used tear gas to separate the french and italian support his roughly eighty fans from each side are said to have been involved three were injured two of them a town the other a local media reported tens of thousands of bushes a lot c.e.o. found to address the black reportedly carrying weapons like knives and bottles the club was reportedly known to have of violent far right fringe among its supporters . the match ended three one victory for lots of you. are still up and coming here

on the program on r t today a twenty one people confirmed dead in a saudi air strike in yemen more details in just a. the thing about saudi arabia is they is the oil as a weapon and they get too close to investigating what's going on over there they push the price of oil up now on the last ten years because of fracking in america america a position to stop us energy independent and no longer subject to the political pressures that can be borne upon the opec and the saudis so we're going to see a real test of this because. all of the litany of horrors coming out of saudi arabia is making people. popular

almost two years in office many still question whether donald trump has a coherent foreign policy the same cannot be said about the president's national security adviser john bolton when you think of the word subtlety and diplomacy don't come to mind so is there no bolton doc. friday program here on out say at least fourteen children have been injured in a knife attack at a kindergarten in china according to police a thirty nine year old woman children while they were on the playground and she was arrested by officers on the scene some reports say that they have talked to was motivated by the government has been a rise in knife attacks in chinese schools on kindergartens over recent years the

perpetrators typically had mental health issues all claimed to be taking revenge on officials. the un's and humanitarian aid agency has confirmed the deaths of twenty one people in a saudi airstrike very close to the yemeni port city of hard data the attack was on a fruit and vegetable market a hospital chiefs say all the victims are civilians with children among the dead here is one witness account. another one. through washington packaging and the plane came and hit us from above as we were working. now the u.n. calls the yemeni wall the worst manmade humanitarian crisis in the world with twenty two million people in dire need of assistance and right now up to fourteen million people are facing starvation the saudi letting coersion in the country began in twenty fifteen with the aim of restoring the ousted government riyadh has

repeatedly denied attacking areas where civilians are present. where we did speak with and a contributor. one who thinks that the international community instead of standing by should stand up against the military attacks on young un. well i believe that there's a community now is concentrating on that that journalist georgie this is actually. a crime in itself should. make the international community concentrate on the bigger one bigger muscle which is taking place in yemen in more than thirty years and a half until now it is absolutely. unbelievable it is hypocrisy of them to understand why they are silent is it because saudi is rich is because they can't make money by sending weapons you know european countries and united states i don't believe this kind of hypocrisy is should continue there should be as bad as trying to stand

against this intervention in yemen to put down in the way. the story of a latin may not be as family friendly as this numerics out at least according to parents of pupils at one u.s. school in baltimore county the school drama club council this production of an a lot in student play because of alleged anti arab and barbaric content. is being brought to our attention that disney's aladdin jr has historically been criticized for its inaccurate negative stereotyping of arabic culture after careful consideration and within per from the perspectives of teachers parents and community members we decided that this production is not the best fit for our community. in the play arabs are described as barbaric those are the exact words they used and the actual play was very controversial apparently in the early ninety's it's not the first time the supposed barbarism of

a latin has provoked anger a year after the release of disney's a lot and the lyrics of the opening song which changed the original version including the line where they cut off your ear this was replaced with a neutral description of the desert not everybody sees the offense in the allowed in story and some parents have criticized the school's cancellation of the play. they're saying we're a community but yet they didn't even ask anyone they just made this decision by themselves middle east analyst john howard just says these days people are just too easily offended it seemed to me more to be about a love story it's an animated movie it's a disney movie does the you know wants to attract as large an audience as possible so i don't think there's anything in it that's particularly offensive anybody wants to claim victim status you know it to their benefit to the the other side as it risks being you know call the big good or intolerant or hater of some some kind and in no everybody has

a very low sensitivity to that so really it relies a lot on solve policing so for people to say really is this really that offensive is this really doing harm to the group that it's claiming the harm or is it or is it just a you know a very minor matter that should just be overlooked i thanks for sharing your time with us here at the international for the friday program we are back soon with. the best out of georgia. the high says this pain to

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to me. an investigative documentary. ghost war on oxy. well welcome to. sexual abuse in the catholic church is once again in the spotlight was encouraged to europe and north america what can be done to make a big thing of the past call mcgoohan himself a survivor insider against sexual abuse is with me today to talk about.

the catholic church with a record. high ranking officials are complicit will pope francis take the fight against abuse personally and break the system. which will transform the global conflict. palmo borman survivor and fighter against sexual abuse welcome to the show it's great to have you with us today so you have been complaining for accountability of clerical child abuse for more than twenty years what kind of change have you made over this time what are your successes. well i think our gracious success has been finally exposing the fact not just that the abuses happened on us on the scale that we've been talking about for many years but that it's endemic within the roman catholic church that it's systemic. and the coverup of abuse by church authorities was

a willful intended program that was designed to protect the institution its power and its money and that it was operated and directed by the vatican at the global level and that it's been a global cover up i think that's something we've now very clearly exposed so we're going to go through all of that step by step but first ireland is a very catholic country when you came out publicly about your deal when you see at the vatican where you supported by the irish or catholics around the world. it was a makes generally speaking when i when very public. i made a documentary with a european television station in two thousand and two and when that aired there was a very very strong in support of response from people here in our in our into particular but of course there were people who didn't want me to speak about what was happening i mean i got people warning me that i should spend the rest of my life looking over my shoulder i got death threats but in the main i got

a huge amount of support i think people were uphold not just stuff the the the crimes of rape and abuse that reflected on me and many others by the priest in my own case with more by the cover up of those crimes the facilitation of the collusion with them that we were able to expose by catholic bishops and indeed by the vatican itself so how hard was it for you to make your case how did church resistance change things for you were you prevented from speaking out. what was i mean first of all it was very difficult to get to the point where i could challenge my own. i suppose internal inhibitors the the the own spoken authority of the church wasn't something that was external to me it was internal so when i first start to think about it and in the mid one thousand nine hundred about one thousand nine hundred four about doing something about what had happened to me more than a decade earlier. my first instinct was to contact the bishop from as opposed to contacting the police so i had bought into this idea that the church was the

ultimate authority and that it was it was.