the. chinese president tells his armed forces to be ready for war amid growing tensions in the south china sea and increasingly hostile rhetoric with the united states. u.k. middle east minister is grilled over arms sales to saudi arabia as a poll reveals half of all britons are unaware of the devastating conflict in yemen

also ahead. what do you think i'm saying. actually start to get to that kind of colder air. i know they all look. from hillary clinton draws accusations of racism we asked people in the street what they thought of her remark. it's just it's pretty insensitive i mean that is pretty offensive yet some people think all the chinese thinks it's a. broadcasting a lot of direct partially because most of this is our chief international and sean thomas glad to have you with us but the president of china has instructed his military to be a war ready but is there any real threat of an escalation. so here's the thing the chinese government almost never says anything you wouldn't expect that's

their thing they're giving their 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 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 floating his warships right between the two china's. we have expressed our concerns to the us signed 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 grateful 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. 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 a 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 round him really china and imposing unilateral tyrus 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 are rounding on washington as a trade dispute over metal tariffs reaches the world trade organization mexico canada and european countries are alarmed by washington's behavior and the potential damage it could cause. this collective resorts to 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 trading partners retaliated with taxes on a long list of u.s. goods banking strategist peter peter ross and strike thinks trump is not motivated

by economic gain. to become a 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 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 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 the. and other international communities is a clear sign that it's moving shifting away from the u.s.

as the primary axis of power. 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 the u.k.'s top middle east diplomat was grilled by a parliamentary committee. do you have a problem with condemning an international violations of into it too much hold incomplete mistakes and maintain the only thing that we don't do is she press the button to drop the bomb i'm surprised that all those who need to defend themselves the amount of raids targeting civilians is going up north and if these are aware as they seem to be able to float it and i do not agree that if the united kingdom was simply to. deny its support for a proxy which is under threat and so be gauged in support of allegiance from

a government it would say that. the way to do that is it. despite the humanitarian crisis in yemen a british charity has found that almost half of the people in the u.k. know nothing about the ongoing conflict and britain's arms sales to riyadh are he's poor but go has more of 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. hi

do you know what's happening in yemen. but. i'm afraid i. don't. know sorry what's happening in yemen. now there's a war soldier rubia. kind of some middle east politics i have no idea really 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 a comp of the people in the u.k. have no i did that there is a war taking place in yemen a war in which a saudi led coalition is conducting a deadly campaign event strikes in an attempt to drive out who the rebels hope you carry don't know about most things happening in russia but if i can imagine china's

terrible why do you think that is no enough has been said about it it depends what the media synthesizing at a particular point in time we can through and through public knowledge and opinions so you think it's under-reported good 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 alms 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 close strategic partnership with riyadh into the spotlight now an increasing number of politicians here in the u.k. are going to go in the government to explain it's 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. meanwhile there are signs that the u.s. is also questioning its long running support for saudi arabia in the war in yemen speaking on tuesday pentagon chief james madison urged all sides to the conflict to start negotiations within the next thirty days on reaching a ceasefire. which gears now hillary clinton is facing backlash after jibing that african-americans all look alike she was correcting an interviewer who mixed up two democratic politicians using a 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 eric holder sorry i know they all look alike no they don't i. and they fired back at clinton on twitter calling her racist other suggested if it had been donald trump uttering the same line the

outrage would have been greater or he's been 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. they. should trump actually it was hillary clinton i want to go a david duke actually hillary clinton is a yes interesting approaches a david duke was actually turns out it was hillary clinton and. but it said they they all look the same i was surprised i don't think i look 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 you 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 now you understand why people might be offended by saying they all look the same about these two guys. yeah dicks people same things about me before so what you mean. some people think all the chinese and it's the same can you understand why people might be offended you i mean what do you make of hillary clinton saying that . it's it's it's pretty insensitive. especially when they don't look like it will

she probably meant it as a joke but do you think that's an appropriate joke oh no not at all the u.s. president has been paying his respects to the victims of a synagogue massacre that story much more coming up stay with us our trash.

really was very european approach. and brussels for example doesn't represent america is america for better or worse what we're trying to do here is to let the world see. your welcome back to international now the u.s. president and his wife have paid a visit to a synagogue in pittsburgh where a massacre took place last saturday but not everyone welcomed and.

protesters gathered with banners saying go home and words matter they also denounced immigration policies. the president has drawn widespread criticism for his response to the atrocity in pittsburgh especially his remarks blaming the media the city mayor and the jewish community leaders had urged 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 well on monday court trials began in the us for the only suspect in the pittsburgh shooting and accessed 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 gab dot com in the wake of the massacre the website which is popular with the so-called all right and free speech advocates was taken down and cesar. 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 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 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 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 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 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. eleven people died after devastating floods hit a number of regions in italy with three quarters of the city of venice submerged high winds have triggered

a red alert level in the surrounding region as you can see shoppers were wading through need deep water in flooded streets most tourist areas were closed with officials saying this is the fifth biggest flood on record elsewhere in northern italy the harbor town of the apollo near juneau it was badly hit after its reinforced walls collapsed and dozens of yachts were left battered on the front rows while other sank a civil protection unit has been mobilized to help locals. dru's arabs have boycotted a local election in the golan heights a disputed territory between syria and israel dozens of locals denounced of the vote as illegal and pro israel crowds blocked the gates of polling stations in several villages to prevent people from casting their ballots israeli soldiers used tear gas to break up the demonstrators many people living in the israeli occupied area have refused to take up israeli citizenship and consider themselves syrian is

the first local election since israel took control of the golan heights in one thousand nine hundred sixty seven the israeli government approved the poll last year after an appeal from pro israeli villagers. french human 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 a 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 would. only to you it's. your duty but you took those don't equal you know the deal to. dhimmitude for the field. the 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 n.g.o.s 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 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. are we spoke with a survivor of the massacre and i asked her if the revelations were a shock. nor had to do them no it 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 you know because 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 differentiate 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 without a mandate. or that doesn't from this hour i'll be back in thirty four and a half minutes with

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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 and the impact upon all of us i'm part children in washington thank you for being with us we're glad you're on board coming up today we take a look at global homeownership rates and then at some new u.s. housing numbers and we also look at the big apple event in the big apple new york city we'll tell you what took place and take a look at how consumer phone buying habits are changing with molly barrows plus there is a new study out of australia which tells the story of.