i don't think. that. 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 u.s. . u.k. middle east minister grilled over arms sales to saudi arabia as a poll reveals all britons are unaware of the devastating conflict in yemen also ahead. do you think. they start to get to that kind of well i was

eric holder. i know they all look alike. the wisecrack from hillary clinton draws accusations of racism we ask people what they thought of her remark. it's pretty insensitive i mean that is pretty offensive some people think all the trying to say. broadcast. this is international thomas with us. or the president of china has instructed his military to be war ready but is there any real threat of an escalation which is what i would take 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 sovereignty and security interests. beijing's 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 currency 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 in trump we worry about. 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. 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 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 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 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 a conflict with the united states but if the united states really wants to impose these things onto 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 resort's a dispute stance woman reflects the serious concern of the membership of the united states actions norway is worried that the united states would offer a purported justification that is so evidently divorced from real world security concerns or donald trump slapped an import charge of ten percent on the low minimum 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 rosen strike thinks trump is not motivated by economic game. it's 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 that the u.s. would withdraw from the deputy oh it's important to realize 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 then it is about trade this idea of a reed examining a 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 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. to saudi intervention in yemen has claimed fifty six thousand lives in the past two years this according to

a new study that is five times higher than previous estimates and of the british government is under scrutiny for its leading role in arming the saudis u.k.'s top middle east of diplomat was grilled by a parliamentary committee. do you have a problem with condemning an international violations of international law in complete mistakes and the only thing that we don't do is she press the button to drop the phone i'm surprised. you need to defend them sounds. great targeting civilians is going well you know if these are aware of the six people floated and i do not agree that if you know i think it was simply to. deny support for a policy which is under threat and so he gave. name the support of allegiance and it doesn't mean if we treat us. the way to be that it is your.

will despite the monetary and 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 ali boyko has more of those findings in just 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. told me. i'm afraid i

suppose. i don't know sorry what's happening in yemen. there's a war saudi arabia. or 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 conference 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 seem to sizing at a particular point in time we came through it says public knowledge and opinion 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 u.s. 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 strategic partnership with the riyadh into the spotlight now when the increasing number of politicians here in the u.k. are going 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. meanwhile the u.s. administration is for the first time calling on saudi arabia to halt its bombing campaign in yemen speaking on tuesday both pentagon chief james mattis and secretary of state mike pompei or urged to all sides to the conflict to start negotiations within the next thirty days on reaching a ceasefire. hillary clinton is facing a backlash after jiving that african americans all look alike she was correcting an interviewer who mixed up two democratic politicians. you think of cory booker's and coming 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 was eric holder airco airco harasser i know they all look alike no they don't i. i many fired back at clinton on twitter calling her racist the other suggested if it had been donald trump uttering the same line the outrage would have been greater

charges came up 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. to trump actually it was hillary clinton i want to go to david duke actually hillary clinton is a yes interesting approaches a david duke was actually turns out it was hillary clinton. but it said that they all look the same i was surprised i don't think that anything but anything like it was it was hillary clinton 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. people say same things about me before so i mean. some people think all the chinese will 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 they don't look like at all 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 respects to the victims of a synagogue massacre that's right much more coming up to washington to international. politicians to do something to. put themselves on the line they get accepted or

rejected. so when you want to be president i'm sure. some want to press. you to go right to the press it's like the full story in the morning can't be good . i'm interested always in the lives of how. things should. 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 welcome donald and melania trump.

protesters gathered with banners saying trump go home and words matter they also denounced his immigration policies. and president trump has drawn widespread criticism for his response to the atrocity in pittsburgh especially his remarks of blaming the media the city mayor and jewish community leaders had urged to try not to visit pittsburgh personally i would like him to stay away if he can 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 so be it and i think that would be a good thing we need to start working together on monday court trials a began in the u.s. for the only suspect in the pittsburgh shooting and a separate suspect in miami accused of sending mail bombs. and 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 who 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 now caesar. 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 that platform and we put the links 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 air but 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 could 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 conglomerate . control all our media and they determine what gets in and what doesn't get in

those all these organizations should be broken up shouldn't be allowed to have the monopoly so 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 of the persons hand we're looking at three or 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 american 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 kneedeep water through flooded streets most tourist areas were closed with officials saying this is the fifth biggest flood on the record elsewhere in northern italy the harbor town of the apollo near genoa was badly hit after its reinforced walls collapsed dozens of yachts were left battered on the seafront roads while others sent a civil protection unit has been mobilized to help locals. bruising arabs have boycotted a local election in the golan heights a disputed territory between syria and israel dozens of locals denounced the vote as illegal and pro israel crowds block to 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 nine hundred sixty seven israeli government approved as a 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 they 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 cerro 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 it would be only too confessional unity unity because only and only can you know you don't conform with the one who makes somebody a good look to the pollution of all three of. the genocide in rwanda lasted for three months and have nearly

a million people dead while paris denies any culpability in the massacre rights groups led by a french n.g.o.s are now saying that 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've 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 actually do not know the video doesn't surprise me i was very happy

that media part published the truth we deserve vipers 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 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 things i have to add is that the french people have to know the truth the context of their one genocide was a poor year war this argument between france and rwanda has been going on since one thousand nine hundred four did the french have a mandate did 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. do not do not. take action now demanded.

all right thirty four and a half minutes that's why i'll be back with another lecture news washington fashions stay with us. when lawmakers manufacture consent to step into the public well. when the ruling classes protect themselves. in the final merry go round certainly the one percent. tonight we can all middle of the room six. million real news is really. in twenty four to you know bloody revolution of you tube clip the demonstrations went from being relatively peaceful political protests to be creasing the violent revolution is

always spontaneous or is it just always here i mean your list with video would put him in the. school and you go to the former ukrainian president recalls the events of twenty fourteen. those who took part in it invested over five billion dollars to assist ukraine in these and other goals that will ensure a secure and prosperous and democratic. state. while give easy vasan this as. i. said once like. the rational.

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i have the honor to once again the interview alister croaky is a former e.u. diplomat and founder and director of conflicts forums and of course we're going to discuss it elise. it's great to have you back in moscow and i'd like to continue the conversation we had about seven months ago because everything we talked about a month ago and still going on now i want to i want to mention istanbul for politicians and one country my country obviously in syria we had this meeting with oracle in krohn in istanbul the u.s. wasn't there what do you take away from the i think it's very symbolic first of all i mean it says very clearly that the whole political process has moved away from geneva from new united states to sochi. to russia in the leave a mole. very important symbolic event of two european leaders being

present that it participating i don't think much substance came out of this meeting but the importance was that the europeans took part in the starting to engage with a sad and with president putin and that is in him is very much the key thing and it's really part of what we see happening to i think also quite striking with the images coming from the u.n. general assembly where we saw him while while leading while i'm the foreign minister of syria actually being congratulated by certain arab states. voiding him like the plague premier or sort of and sort of congratulating him so i think there is a shift taking place so the shift is in europe finally.