i. was. i. am was was i was thankful. join me every thursday on the alex simon show and i'll be speaking to guests of the world of politics sports business i'm show business i'll see you then. china prepares for war beijing is getting its military battle ready amid trade and territory disputes and worsening relations with washington. poll shows that half of

people in britain are oblivious to yemen is devastating war despite the u.k. being the second biggest arms supplier to the saudi led bombing campaign. rights groups urged the french government to relaunch a probe into the nine hundred ninety four rwandan genocide as videos emerged appearing to show france knew more about the slaughter and it previously admitted. before you only to you could put your d.v.d. but your clothes on the only people you know who didn't come with me to make somebody a good looking show off. by their good evening my name is kevin i mean this is out international law for most coaches ten seven in the evening here is cheese day. the president of china is destructive the country's military to be war ready for the raising the specter of

a potential conflict over trade and beyond but what's really going on here beyond the scenes what's rhetoric or is it real 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. of untruthful the sales of

weapons by the united states to taiwan damages china sovereignty and security interests that 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. 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. we worry about. work. i don't worry about things. let's be great 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 after rule 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 across 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 round him really china and imposing unilateral

tariffs on the chinese exports china does not want to have a trade war with the united states china does not want to have the conflict with the united states but if the united states really wants to impose these things on to china i think the chinese people will be fully mobilized behind the chinese government and the chinese military. u.s. allies around the globe are running on washington right now is the trade dispute over metal tariffs reaches the world trade organization countries like mexico canada or the e.u. members too are pushing the global body to review the levees saying that they're concerned by the impact of washington's behavior. this collective resort's a dispute settlement reflects the serious concern of the membership of the united states' actions norway's worried that the united states would offer a purported justification that is so evidently divorced from real world security concerns whether or not shelly or donald trump raised the import charges by ten

percent on many m. and twenty five percent on steel that was back in march washington says the move was for security reasons meaning it serve affectively out of the w t o's jurisdiction a number of countries including china russia have imposed retaliatory tariffs while that china was also hit with increased costs as well on an additional five hundred billion dollars worth of other goods to is really put in the firing line beijing's accuse washington of starting a trade war here and responded with similar measures let's go to peter rosen strike struggles for the leading online bank a leading on loans was boxer welcome to the program you live so washington claims the terrorists are for national security reasons here that's the other to be on it they say are right if they are but what you can tell me if the w t o were to rule in favor of the us that's going to open a huge color worms every country is going to be slapping tariffs on each other only . right i mean it really uses you know this idea of national security

exemption to the sort of the for this reach and if the w t o would rule in behalf of the u.s. favor you know we would see just about every country step forward with this type of usage and that would cause sort of significant disruption and you know and cause significant sort of gridlock within global trade which global demand is not ready to handle just yet. but it is all for national security concerns justified or is it just a front for picking a fight you know it's hard to rationalize that you know that steel and alan minium are really a core to you know the u.s. defense and security they do have access to these imports as well as a native of. production facility that can handle basic requirements of the u.s. military so i think it would be

a hard stretch to say with or without these protective tariffs then the u.s. would really be in jeopardy and defenseless course some of his key voters were from the rust belt this is what. it is about seems really to keep his key support go in the back. is there a danger that washington will side with the u.s. here although the deputy who will side with the u.s. . i mean you know i'm not an expert on a ruling so you know it's hard for me to speculate to you know how exactly how this works you know there's additional political threats that you know if if the rulings don't go in the u.s. is way. that that the u.s. would withdraw from the deputy oh and that also you know despite the fact that you're trying to keep a neutral impartial you know a system framework you know it's got to put some pressure on the people that are making these decisions it's become a highly political highly charged environment i think the really interesting thing

is that you know aside from these w t o negotiating tactics and you know reviews it's important to realize that that everybody recognizes that the tariff move in the name of fair trade in the name of security is more from a change of america's strategic position and changing bilateral relationships then it is about trade so what's happening now is really resetting the terms of bilateral relationships more than just you know import tariffs and how that actually plays out even a country from tonight switzerland's feeling threatened here that's full of complaints the what why what's. well switzerland is also caught up in a lot of this storm it's in the middle of you know how the world views and how it's

relationship with the u.s. so. it's as long with all the other european players sort of really are threatened right now by sort of these random events that trump is moving forward with it it's really policy by tweet and i think that threatens switzerland as well interesting that china and the u.s. well maybe move china is interesting but the u.s. not invited level w t o reform meeting recently what we read into the. well i mean it's pushing it like i sort of mentioned slightly before it's this idea of a redo examining a bilateral relationships and redetermine into these sort of historical relationships and trump is basically blowing them apart and the world is creating a new order where the u.s. is not the central figure and i think you know these so small but powerful moves by they. and other international communities is

a clear sign that it's moving shifting away from the u.s. as as the primary axis of power peter looked over the program peter rose a strike started just for swiss quote have a good evening. of the headlines tonight new research says yemen's devastating war has claimed 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 you may find it surprising to hear that a british charity has found that almost half of people in the u.k. are unaware there is any war that ole even though their country is the second biggest supplier of weapons to the country waging the bombing campaign has got more on those 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.

hi do you know what's happening in yemen. but. i'm afraid i. don't. know now sorry what's happening in yemen. that is of all. 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. is taking 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 can you don't know about most stuff when you question my conversion shows terrible why do you think that is enough has been said about it depends on what the media synthesizing at a particular point in time which you threw into 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 mother 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. truck in those bags to central europe ten dead after a devastating floods hit a number of regions in italy with three quarters of the city of venice submerged underwater robot that winds of over some. three miles an hour of being reported by the authorities of influence of the code red alert in the region as you can see some parts of venice the inundated by one of the half meters of floodwater people waited their way around those iconic straight most tourist areas a closed official say this is the fifth biggest flood of record more generally

northern it's lease on alert because of these storms that you see in there was is the town of genoa badly hit after it reinforced walls collapsed those yachts that's it some of maybe sank barely a civil protection units been mobilized to help the locals and to monitor high risk areas around the clock but keep truckin not you come to oxy dot com. past seven moscow time franks a big without the international coming up how a massacre and a sinister mailbomb campaigns got americans increasingly worried over politically motivated hate speech just one of the stories it. seems wrong. but all the blogs just don't call. me at all yet to

shape out this day become educated and in detroit because the trail. went something and find themselves worlds apart we just of the common ground. so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy confrontation let it be an arms race in this spearing dramatic development the only really i'm going to resist i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical time to sit down and talk.

french human rights groups are calling for a probe to be reopened into the one thousand nine hundred four genocide in rwanda in east africa is to establish whether or not french troops had any blame for the deaths of hundreds of people that they promised to protect in the village of buses sero video from news website media part appears to show a senior french military officer discussing an ongoing massacre several days before the army decided to intervene. before you were the only team you could push going. to kill you don't equal you know you don't for me to make somebody a. genocide in rwanda lasted just over three months and left nearly a million people dead while paris denies any culpability in the procedure massacre rights groups led now by a french ngo saying the 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 are were aware that from the afternoon off 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. or 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've made mistakes they say they

have no complicity in the genocide that took place there. we spoke with a survivor of the most secure enough to this day if these revelations will come out no a shocking i don't. norad you do not know the video doesn't surprise me i was very happy that media part published the truth we survivors have known this for a long time it's important that the french people know what happened back in one thousand nine hundred ninety four when the military was there so i only know that

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 the one in 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 when they did something wrong. soldiers typically. do not do not. take action now demanded. in the us the man accused of gunning down eleven jewish worshipers in the synagogue last weekend and also a separate suspect accused of selling those mail bombs are both getting caught separately after donald trump announced his plan to visit the scene of the synagogue massacre there was a backlash spots across u.s.

media outlets the coverage focused on whether the crimes were politically motivated and the result of a spike in hate speech of late and crucially whether the president contributed to all that was one of the media against his visit. 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 came under increased scrutiny in both cases the suspects of the spread of their hostility online the alleged pittsburgh gunman robert gregory boas wrote a series of the semitic posts on the social network dot com in the wake of the massacre the website which is popular with the so called all right and free speech advocates

was indeed taken down then there was cesar l teary say ok he's the man reported to have sent the series of mail bombs seems he was active on twitter he's believed to have written death threats to politicians including the former vice president joe biden on the platform we put the links potentially possibly between social media and hate speech for debate. 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 and 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 of the persons 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 really to grow up i mean the. in public does need to grow up and only accept responsibility but not engage in these things and then we can put proper public pressure meantime amid america's toxic political atmosphere right now hillary clinton is facing a backlash of the judging that african-americans all quote look alike she was correcting an interviewer who mixed up two democrat politicians beating of cory booker's and using comment to 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. money fired back at clinton on twitter the dog

braces for the joke similar to bit confused as to why there was no reaction to clinton's words others suggested if it had been donald trump uttering the same law and the outrage would have been far more vocal or this comes as many high profile african-americans are calling on others in the black community to ditch this support for the democratic party have long been a pillar of the democrats' base of course. i. the black said movement will spend twenty nineteen holding rallies in every major city in america that the democrats have to short.

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heading off across america we are beginning our journey for gonzo and we will this is our last episode before you and i will go on the road and so you the audience will be now watching us as part of our journey the kaiser report will be doing our journey from the road as well while we're on the road for three weeks with gonzo which is a new series coming to you soon from december so get ready for that part of the reason of course why we wanted to set out on this journey across america and find out what's going on is we want to look at the economic and cultural landscape and find out what not only did the mainstream media miss in trump winning but remarkably what they continue to miss because if you look at this first headline it looks like twenty twenty is looking good again for trump trump has raised more than one hundred million dollars for two thousand and twenty

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