five billion dollars to assist ukraine in these and other calls that will ensure a secure and prosperous and democratic. little. doubt. that. at least. in the headlines this afternoon china prepares for. getting its military battle ready trade in terror and worsening relations with washington.

the poll shows that people in britain oblivious to the devastating war despite the u.k. being the second biggest arms applied to the study led by. the rights groups in france urging the french government to really launch a probe into the ninety ninety four rwandan genocide videos an urge comparing to show from more about the slaughter and it previously admitted. before you that you only to. give it to you because the people who believe in you deal with the image quality a good look to the field. my love of international h.q. in moscow is kevin i'm with you for the next. stay with me as i take you on today's

big story starting with this one the president of china has instructed the country's military to be war ready for the raising the specter of potential conflict over trade and beyond but what's really going on here beyond the scenes what's the rhetoric or is it real our senior correspondent more gadgety of takes a closer look. so here's the thing the chinese government almost never says anything you wouldn't expect that's their thing their game ik they're incredibly careful reserved at least with their tongues so when the chinese president orders his military to prepare for war serious indeed. the military to concentrate on the bouncy revenues for war the chinese are preparing for war out loud how over how did we get to this well trump for one aside from land blasting the chinese at every opportunity is tariffs is sanctions his trade war

he's also being very heavy handed congress has just approved a second arms deal with taiwan in eighteen months. kind of untruthful the sales of weapons by the united states to taiwan damages china's sovereignty and security interests beijing sees china and taiwan as two parts of a whole two chinese entities same culture ethnicity same languages with two separate governments communist capitalist the end goal is to reunite into one state there are differences of course currently preventing that and about one hundred kilometers of c. that separate the two and trump always a fan of sticking it to the chinese he's been floating his warships right between the two china's eyes in one thousand we have expressed our concerns to the u.s. side the taiwan issue concerns china's sovereignty and territorial integrity and is

the most important and sensitive issue in china u.s. relations. for starters how about you express your concerns about these important and sensitive issues to someone who cares a little more because that interim. if you worry about. i don't worry about things. let's be greats never worrying about anything unfortunately others are there are those in china who believe that america wants taiwan to declare independence and the chinese are preparing for that eventuality militarily. it's your own you know we are resolute to defeat any scheme or act of taiwan

independence in any form thing is the taiwanese don't really see a point to defending themselves taiwan which recently switched from conscription to a volunteer army is having huge trouble recruiting even reserve troops dodging the juicy after all that's the point the devil when. the government needs to think whether it's necessary to bring conscription back if they think national security matters but taiwan is a minor player in these confrontation if war does break out it likely be the people's republic of china slugging it out with the united states rather than taiwan and that is a war that trump really really ought to be worried about the world is really at a cross rolled facing major threats to world peace and development between china

and the united states the tensions are getting more and more acute and the united states has been pushing china rounds he really china and imposing unilateral tire of the chinese exports china does not want to have a trade war with the united states china does not want to have a conflict with the united states but if the united states really wants to impose these things aren't to china i think the chinese people will be fully mobilized behind the chinese government and the chinese military. the research says yemen's devastating wars claim fifty six thousand lives over the past two years some five times higher than previously thought despite it being considered the world's worst humanitarian crisis a british charities found out that almost half of people in the u.k. are unaware there's a war there at all even though crucially their country is the second biggest supplier of weapons to the country waging the bombing campaign polyploid has more

the findings in a moment but first here's a look at just how much of a toll three years of war has taken on the yemeni people. i. i. hi do you know what's happening in yemen. but. i'm afraid i. don't. know sorry what's happening in yemen. it is a wall. saudi arabia. or some middle east politics i have no idea do you know what's

happening in yemen sorry do you know what's happening in yemen. it's taken the lives of thousands of civilians and caused an unprecedented humanitarian crisis and yet according to a new poll almost half of the people in the u.k. have no idea that there is a war taking place in yemen a war in which a saudi led coalition is conducting a deadly campaign of airstrikes in an attempt to drive out who the rebels are you clearly don't know about most things happening in russia i can imagine shows terrible why do you think that is not enough has been said about it depends what the media synthesizing at a particular point in time which influences public knowledge and opinion so you think it's under-reported the war in yemen isn't just another humanitarian crisis in a far flung part of the world the saudi led campaign is being waged partly thanks to

a hefty supply of british made weapons the u.k. government happens to be the second biggest supplier of arms to the saudi kingdom after the us according to the latest figures u.k. military sales to riyadh increased by two thirds in twenty seventeen from the previous year the murder of jamal khashoggi has brought the u. case closed to strategic partnership with the riyadh into the spotlight now an increasing number of politicians here in the u.k. are calling on the government to explain its unceasing support for the saudi led war in yemen perhaps if more of the public knew about it the government would be under more pressure to act. french human rights groups are calling for a probe to be reopened into the nine hundred ninety four genocide in rwanda in east africa is to establish where the french troops are there any blame for the deaths of of hundreds. people that they promise to protect in the village of buses ciro

video from a news website media part now appears to show a senior french military officer discussing an ongoing massacre there several days before the army decided to intervene. before war you only to get pushed on your duty but you took those on the only call you know you deal from with the mixed homebody i did most of the bouchard. the genocide in rwanda lasted just over three months and left nearly a million people dead or paris denies any culpability in the sierra massacre rights groups led by a french ngo now is saying that that case was closed prematurely. lines of inquiry were not sufficiently followed up to allow investigators to determine france's military and political responsibility french military authorities were aware that from the afternoon of twenty seventh of june on words civilians were being killed

the survivors open the case thirteen years ago although back in july it was scrapped due to lack of evidence and lack of convictions but survivors of the massacre claim they asked the french military for help on june twenty seventh one thousand nine hundred ninety four but the military only came three days later already after hundreds of people were killed in the massacre and the allegation now is that the french government actually knew what was going on and specifically decided not to intervene the genocide was committed mainly by the hutu government and its backers against the ethnic minority tutsi tribe and allegations of the french government supports for the hutus who carried out most of the slaughter in the genocide have been rough on the french government's relations with the rwandan government for years but the french although they admit that they have made mistakes they say they have no complicity in the genocide that took place there.

we spoke with a survivor of the massacre and i asked her if these revelations now are a shock at all. no we have to do more no video doesn't surprise me i was very happy that media part published the truth we survivors have known this for a long time but it's important that. french people know what happened back in one thousand nine hundred ninety four when the military was there but i only know that because fallen promise to declassify the archives they didn't work out it's everything he published was already known the only thing i have to add is that the french people have to know the truth the context of their one genocide was

a four year war this argument between france and rwanda has been going on since one thousand nine hundred four did the french have a mandate to french have a mandate to intervene if the french are to sears observe this and they had a mandate to intervene then they did something wrong. soldiers typically. do not do not. he can. now demanded. those mid-term elections looming in the us a poll suggests that a majority of voters view the two party system currently is outdated in florida seems many or most seeking a third substantial option to throw their support behind as cullum opens been discovered in the united states we have a first past the post electoral system where essentially voting for a third party is throwing your vote into the garbage or at least that's the mantra

coming from the media really people who say oh yeah you know i don't know about hillary and so i voted for jill stein i think you wasted a vote in north carolina for jill's my guess the hardest thing for an independent is to convince the voters that you're for real and that it's a viable choice and they're not wasting their vote the only thing that was kind of holding them back when you talk to them is they would say oh i don't want to waste my vote like a one of their vote to count i grabbed vote republican because i want i'm not going to waste my go as an independent in ohio earlier this year there was a special election in which a democrat was narrowly defeated by a republican twitter lit up with outrage not at the democrats for perhaps running a less than effective campaign but rather at the green party for daring to participate in the political process and win a few votes. de green party can you please wait to make you a symbolic votes and a time when our government isn't being overrun by white supremacists. you know what so i immediately think the green party tonight on russian mentally.

green party voter don't tell me you kiribati environment if you know your vote to make the difference between a damn winning over rap and you still choose to vote for a candidate who has no chance of winning now the u.s. state of maine tried to correct this with a new voting system essentially voters get to rank the candidates from best to worst and if no solid majority can be established by their first pick then the second votes are calculated. in order to pick a winner the idea is that one can still vote against one of the major parties and have their voice heard in the final results but in maine the state legislature overturned this new voting system and it was a big legal battle to get it going now there's other states eyeing something similar but there's a lot of pushback what i hear is that people do want to have independent and other parties come to the freighters so they're so tired and sick of the political dysfunction because the democrats are the publicans and i think americans are

really looking for a choice i think the united states skews it like that so there are only two parties and they don't want to let anybody else come into existence because. i think they both secretly know that other parties are not sort of corporatist parties but actually there are parties out there and independents out there that actually do want to advocate for the people but of course they don't want us to get in there because then we would win and they would most americans view the two party political system as outdated but the mainstream media continues to play the you're either with us or against us card so the voices of the majority of americans remain silenced in the political process caleb mopp and r.t. new york. who still lives in central europe ten have died now of the devastating floods a number of regions in italy three quarters of the city of venice submerged under water as the real record by his will was seventy miles an hour of sleep the authorities implement a code red level in the region in some parts of the water was his point five meters

as people waded their way literally run those iconic st most tourist areas closed officials say this is the fifth biggest flood on record time elsewhere in northern italy the whole area on alert to the because a storm this is the tone of genoa it badly hit off to the reinforced walls that collapse you can see the messes left those back to the sea from the roads going there. some of those sunk barly civil protection units were mobilized to help locals and to monitor high risk areas around the plant we'll keep you posted up for you to get people on our site as well. coming up how. this sinister mail bomb complainers got americans increasingly worried of a politically motivated hate speech just one of the stories.

start to bomb a really was very european and his approach would be very well suited is in brussels for example doesn't represent america is america for better or worse and i think what we're trying to do here is to let the world see. here. what politicians do something to. put themselves on the line to get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be president and you. want to be that's. actually going to be press that's what the book for free in the morning can't be good. i'm interested always in the waters of. course should. join me every thursday on the alec simon chill and i'll be speaking to guests of

the world of politics sports business i'm show business i'll see you then. again this is r t international in the u.s. the man accused of gunning down eleven jewish worshipers in that synagogue last weekend and also a separate suspect accused of sending those mail bombs are both separately appeared in court after donald trump announced his plan to visit the scene of the synagogue massacre there was backlash about across u.s. media outlets the coverage focused on whether the crimes were politically motivated and the result of a spike in hate speech and whether crucially the president has contributed to all that and it was not in the media against his visit either personally i would like him to stay away if he can come and not make it about himself and not make it

political and certainly why not he is fueling those people who are extremists and i am very very sad for this country if this could be the start of getting along them so be it and i think that would be a good thing we need to start working together in the wake of those incidents social media sites have come under increased scrutiny in both cases the suspects that express their hostility online the alleged pittsburgh robert gregory boas wrote a series of anti semitic posts on the social network gabbed dot com in the wake of the massacre the website which is popular with the so-called all right of free speech advocates was taken down indeed and then there's the case of cesar cherry say ark he's the man reported to have sent a series of mail bombs while he was active on twitter he's believed to have written death threats to politicians including former vice president joe biden on the platform for the links potential links between social media and hate speech up for

debate this is what came out of it. we don't want people telling us what we can and can't post and you don't also want to have the government telling companies what they can and can't put you know having said that. the companies themselves have a moral obligation i think an ethical obligation you know like like facebook or twitter to prevent. incitement in their sites but that's for them to do and it ought to be something that the public pressures them to do not the government requires them to do but it should be naturally what you would do with social media platforms that these social media whether it's facebook twitter you tube they can't be held responsible for whoever posts anything on their on their websites and that was so that you know we can continue to thrive in tech expansion now of course hate speech speech is protected in america even though hate speech is horrible and abysmal that is a protected right of speech we can't arrest somebody for for an opinion that they might have no matter how egregious or ugly that opinion seems there are solutions

to the problem of the power of google or the power of facebook or the power of twitter and those are to break the damn things up it's the same problem we have with newspapers and with in broadcasting you know we have these giant conglomerates that control all our media and they determine what gets in and what doesn't get in the all these organizations should be broken up and shouldn't be allowed to have the monopolies that they have we don't want the government coming down and telling us what we can and can't do especially when it comes to social media but i think if we put the power within social media company executives then we're just saying we don't want government to regulate it but we want this these powerful business to regulate it and so we're just putting the power into one other person's hand we're looking at three of four major social media platforms and much of the speech comes down and so we have to we have to consider the fact that it would be a lot more beneficial to have twenty thirty forty social media platforms i think the main thing is to accept personal responsibility and really to grow up i mean

the. public does need to grow up and only accept responsibility but not engage in these things and then we can put proper public pressure. made america somewhat toxic political atmosphere hillary clinton is facing a backlash after judging that african americans quote all look alike and quote she was correcting an interviewer who mixed up two democrat politicians. using of cory booker's and using comedy him in your kill file i don't know anything about him saying kick them in the shins essentially start to get to that kind of political i was eric holder erica america what you're sorry i know they all look alike no they don't. allow their. well money for a bucket clinton onto a doubling of races for the joke so we're left a bit confused as to why there was no reaction to clinton's words other suggested if it had been donald trump uttering the same line the outrage of been far more vocal indeed all this comes as many high profile african-americans are calling on

others in the black community to ditch their support for the democratic party long been a pillar of the democrats' base. i . i. i i. i. the black said movement will spend twenty thousand nine hundred. every major city in america that the democrats have to short.

just admit that a few blacks are doing better i have a trump presidency. i i . this logo. these colors were created by my dear friend and fellow superhero kanye west thank you thank you. thank you. ecuador thrown out the case of wiki leaks co-founder julian assange should contested new rules over a stay at the country's embassy in london songs claim his rights are being violated but a judge disagreed earlier the whistleblower claimed that ecuador was planning to end

his political asylum two and hand him over to the united states where he's wanted still for releasing that trove of confidential documents new rule book for some. stay was handed to me earlier this month and go down well they include restrictions on personal visits and a ban on communications which might cause diplomatic harm to ecuador their colleagues publishers sought refuge inside that embassy six years ago now but relations with quito have soured under the current government leading to this current standoff with his lawyers it's clear this protocol was issued with strict respect for international law the ecuadorian state has an international responsibility to protect mr sunshine human rights activist peter tatchell spoke to us about it he believes ecuador is trying to wear it with a view to getting him out of that embassy. let's be clear the conditions imposed on during a songe by the ecuadorian authorities are extremely draconian they are in some respects similar to the kinds of restrictions that a prisoner would face in

a maximum security jail now of course in some respects some aspects of these conditions are reasonable but the way they're being imposed very clearly with the intention of making life on bearable for mr a sanjay does appear to be part of a deliberate strategy to make life so bad for him that he voluntarily leaves even though ecuador are saying that he's welcome to stay. well she says not to show us some of the world views from us so far don't forget we've got so many more stories for you on our main side dot com if you haven't checked throughout the day why no i mean get our up there as well to get all those headlines straight to mobile device totally free of charge kevin i would have a good day. when lawmakers manufacture consent to instant to the public well. when the ruling

classes protect themselves. with the final merry go round be the one percent. we can all middle of the room six. million real news is really. in twenty four to you know bloody revolution to correct the demonstrations going from being relatively peaceful political protests to be creasing the violent revolution is always spontaneous or is it your style or here i mean you are liz put video through me in the new bill is that i'm spoiling you go to the former ukrainian president recalls the events of twenty fourteen. those who took part in this today over five billion dollars to assist ukraine in these and other goals that will ensure

a secure and prosperous and democratic. you know world big part of the lot and conspiracy it's time to wake up to dig deeper to hit the stories that mainstream media refuses to tell more than ever we need to be smart we need to stop slamming the door on the back and shouting past each other. it's time for critical thinking it's time to fight for the middle for the truth the time is now for watching closely watching the hawks.

this is boom bust broadcasting around the world covering the world of business and finance in the impact upon all of us everybody around the world we're so glad you're with us i'm bart chilton in washington coming up today we've got lots from brazil where they've got a new right wing leaders to germany where the leader makes a major announcement to indonesia where there's a horrible human tragedy it's occurred in one of boeing's new airliners we have a show fall to the brim with important timely news like up to the day five seconds ago news we'll get to all of it plus we have to keep competition questions those wal-mart stand a chance of being a real rival to amazon lots for us to get to so we pop start today let's roll. we start with the markets after a week of down and dour markets last week as we told you about before save brazil and shanghai last week which were the exception.