the. because i don't think. that. the chinese president tells his armed forces it to be ready for war amid growing tensions in the south china sea and increasingly hostile rhetoric with the u.s. . middle east minister is grilled over arms sales to saudi arabia as the poll reveals half of all britons are unaware of the devastating conflict in yemen also

ahead. don't know anything about him saying essentially they start to get to that kind of a little i was eric holder. i know they all look alike now they. have wisecracked from hillary clinton draws accusations of racism we asked people in the street what they thought of her remarks. it's pretty insensitive i mean that is pretty offensive yet some people think all the chinese would say. are broadcasting live direct this is our t.v. international thomas certainly glad to have you with us. the president of china has instructed his military to be war ready but is there any real threat of an escalation of comments. 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 and this is the 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 through to 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 and try. we worry about. i don't

worry about things. let's be great never worrying about anything unfortunately others are and there are those in china who believe that america wants taiwan to declare independence and the chinese are preparing for that eventuality militarily. as 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 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 around he really china and imposing unilateral tariffs on the chinese exports china does not want to have a trade war with the united states and china does not want to have a 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 are rounding on washington as a trade dispute over metal tariffs reaches the world trade organization mexico canada and the european countries are alarmed by washington's behavior and the potential damage it could cause this collective resort's a dispute stance woman 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 donald trump slapped an import charge of ten percent on aluminum and twenty five percent on steel back in march america's biggest trade partners retaliated with taxes on a long list of u.s. goods banking strategist peter roskam trike thinks trump is not motivated by economic gain. it's become highly political highly charged environment 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 it's important to realize that everybody recognizes that the tariff moved in the name of fair trade in the name of security is more from a change of america's strategic position then it is about trade this idea of a reed examining the bilateral relationships and redetermine and of 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 the. 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. to saudi intervention in yemen has

claimed fifty six thousand lives in the past two years according to a new study that is five times higher than previous estimates and the british government is under scrutiny for its leading role in arming the saudis u.k.'s top middle east a diplomat was grilled by a parliamentary committee. do you have a problem with condemning an international violations of into international law incomplete mistakes and they ain't the only thing that we don't do is she press the button to drop the bomb i'm surprised that for those who need to defend themselves the amount of raids targeting civilians is going up north if seas or wherever it is they seem to be able to float it through and i do not agree that if united kingdom was simply to. deny its support for a policy which is under threat and so gave aim at support of allegiance from its

government and if we see that. it's difficult but it. does by the humanitarian crisis in yemen a british charity has found that almost half of people in the u.k. know nothing about the ongoing conflict and britain's arms sales to riyadh are supplied by god has more on those findings in a moment but first here's a look at how much of a toll three years of war has taken on the yemeni people. why

do you know what's happening in yemen. but. i'm afraid i suppose. no no sorry what's happening in yemen. now days are all. saudi arabia. for some middle east politics higher no idea do you know what's happening in yemen sorry do you know what's happening in yemen those oil. 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 i did there is a war taking place in yemen a war in which a saudi led coalition is conducting a deadly campaign of asteroids in an attempt to drive out who the rebels are you clearly don't know about most of. my conversion charts terrible why do you think

that is enough has been said about it depends what the media synthesizing at a particular point in time which you roots is 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 parts 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 act. were a question is facing a backlash after driving that african-americans all look alike she was correcting an interviewer who mixed up two democratic politicians. you think of cory booker's and you can comment to him in your killfile i adore anything about him saying kick him in the shins essential i start to get to that kind of clip when i was eric holder airco airco harasser i know they all look alike now they tell him i. i when he fired back at clinton on twitter calling her racist others suggested if it had been donald trump uttering the same a line the outrage would have been great artes killed mop and. has been gauging reaction in new york. so recently there was a political figure in the united states and they were talking about these two leaders eric holder and cory booker and they made the joke they all look the same

can you guess who it was who made the joke yes. donald trump. was trying donald trump trump. president trump. i'll give you choices right was it a president trump and b. hillary clinton c. george w. bush or d. david duke. should trump actually it was hillary clinton i want to go to david duke actually hillary clinton is a yes interesting probably say david duke it was actually turns out it was hillary clinton. but it said they they all look the same i was surprised i don't think that anything but anything like it was it was hillary clinton does that surprise you. yeah hillary clinton made the joke yes you are correct understand why people might be offended when someone says they all look the same in reference to these two guys no no no they came up in an interview and she said they all look the same as kind of meant to be a joke but people say it's pretty offensive. i mean that is pretty offensive yeah i

see why people might think it's offensive to say they all look the same in reference to these two guys and yes she probably meant it as a joke she wasn't actually air one doesn't so it can't be that one has a mustache one doesn't can't be that. but that's not appropriate joke is it no you understand why people might be offended by so. they all look the same about these two guys. yeah. it's people same things about me before so i mean. some people think all the chinese and so say can you understand why people might be offended. i mean what do you make of hillary clinton saying that. it's ok it's pretty insensitive. especially when it looks like at all she probably meant it as a joke but do you think that's an appropriate joke. no doubt at all. u.s. president has been paying his respects to the victims of a synagogue massacre that story much more so because you're watching international .

what politicians do something to. put themselves on the line to get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be president i'm sure. some want to be rich. but you going to be cross it's like the three of them can't be good. i'm interested always in the why. should. one else seems wrong. just don't call. me but yet to say proud to stay active. and engaged equals betrayal. when so many find themselves worlds apart we choose to look

for common ground. welcome back you're watching international president trump and the first lady have paid a visit to a synagogue in pittsburgh where a massacre took place last saturday. not everyone welcome donald and melania trump protesters gathered with banners saying trump go home and words matter they also denounced his immigration policies . president has drawn widespread criticism for his response to the atrocity in

pittsburgh especially his remarks blaming the media the jewish sorry excuse me the city mayor and the jewish community leaders had urged the trump not to visit pittsburgh. personally i would like them to stay away if he can come and not make it about himself and not make it political so and certainly he is fueling those people who are extremists and i'm very very sad for this country if this could be the start of getting along than so be it and i think that would be a good thing we need to start working together on monday court trials began in the u.s. for the only suspect in the pittsburgh shooting and a separate suspect in miami accused of sending mail bombs in the wake of those incidents social media platforms have come under increased scrutiny in both cases the suspects had expressed their hostility online the alleged pittsburgh gunman robert gregory bowers wrote a series of anti-semitic posts on the social network gabb dot com in the wake of

the massacre the website which is popular with the so-called all to write and free speech advocates was taken down and caesar all teary psylocke the man reported to have sent a series of mail bombs was active on twitter he is believed to have written death threats to politicians including former vice president joe biden on the platform we put the links between social media and hate speech up 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 on 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 who ever post 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 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 by me. the american public does need to grow up and accept responsibility but not engage in these things and then we can put proper public pressure. people have died after devastating floods hit a number of regions in italy with three quarters of the city of venice submerged the high winds have triggered a red alert level in the surrounding region as you can see shoppers were wading kneedeep through flooded streets most tourist areas were closed with officials

saying this is the biggest flood on record. elsewhere in northern italy the harbor town of apollo near genoa was badly hit after its reinforced walls collapsed dozens of yachts were left battered on seafront roads while others sank the civil protection unit has been mobilized to help locals. french humanitarian rights groups are calling for a probe to be reopened into the one thousand nine hundred genocide in rwanda and want to establish whether french troops had any blame for the deaths of hundreds of people they had promised to protect in the village of. a video from news website media part appears to show a senior french military officer discussing an ongoing massacre there several days before the army decided to intervene. before you only to it's a confession of your duty but you to close on the only quote you know you don't

flirt with the one who makes somebody a dignified position all shield. with genocide in rwanda lasted for three months and left nearly a million people dead while paris denies any culpability in the massacre rights groups led by french and geo are now 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 authorities were aware that from the afternoon of twenty seventh of june on words civilians were being killed the survivors opened 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 asked her if the revelations were a shock. nor i 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 but it's important that the french people know what happened back in one thousand nine hundred ninety four when the military was there you know because i only know that promise to declassify the archives if they didn't work out it 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 genocide was a four year war this argument between france and rwanda has been going on since one thousand nine hundred four just the french have a mandate to french have a mandate to intervene if french officers observe this and they had a mandate to intervene then they did something wrong. soldiers typically.

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this is says holland kentucky. this group the voice people were very funny zareen. a co money city it was almost no coal mines left. the jobs are gone all the coal was the fed i'd. love to see these people the survivors of a world disappearing before their eyes. i remember thinking when i was younger that if anything ever happened to the coal mines here that it would become a ghost town but i never thought in a million years i would see that and it's how it's happened. join me every thursday on the alex simon show and i'll be speaking to guest of the world of politics sports business i'm showbusiness i'll see that.

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