well the at two pm for morse code into america's upcoming midterm election season. even long running the big bang theory weighs in now by sneaking into. yemen supplied to the sport. carefully worded call the saudis to stop

populated areas. incredulous the government tries to defend us. under threat to engaged in. i mean even we can see that. this is. territory in syria killing more than forty american fighters close to the border with iraq coming up we look into the reasons behind the group. here in moscow welcome to me kevin first in this latest live update was taught to me this just a week to go until the midterm elections in the year. yes it seems everyone who's

anyone is going to opinion about it even the popular t.v. comedy series the big bang theory is a message in its credits kaleb open reports much of the rhetoric is feeding public discord and social division but the mid-term elections approaching things are getting intense across the united states bombs are being sent through the mail shootings are happening and talk of division is everywhere now in this context you would expect that american media would try to calm people down bring them together well not this time just turn on c.n.n. this president has radicalized so many more people than isis ever did the commentator has sense apologized but trump wouldn't be trumped if he didn't fire back there was a woman who was just on c.n.n. a short while ago saying that you have radicalized more people than isis that was c.n.n. tonight well let this be some kind of a sick woman that's media and politicians but entertainment is where americans go to relax maybe have a few good laughs but now a lot of comedians have found

a new soapbox to stand on even a show that's about nerds with poor social skills is starting to put up anti trust messages. if you knew of divine wisdom believe a fascist hate filled fan mongering demagogic truth shuttering autocratic govt cheeta is what we need right now then you know they will be done but if there was inclined to more freedom more love more compassion i submissively os that now encourage voter turnout in that general direction h.b.o. comedian john oliver did a piece about state attorney generals there on the ballot in thirty different states come november for some reason he decided to criticize exclusively republican candidates across the country if you live in wisconsin just google brad she thousand dollar coins and you'll learn about how your money to spend ten grand of taxpayer money on coins reading. which stands for his actual personal motto kicking

ass everytime. and music is now all about politics r. and b. star farrah williams is threatening to sue donald trump because trump supporters were listening to his hit song happy while they were waiting for the president to come on stage it seems that some musicians would like to band the make america great again crowd from listening to their music if only they could for a row has not and will not grant you permission to publicly perform the worries broadcaster disseminate any of his music paid campaign advertising in the united states is very closely regulated by law however it seems that a lot of american t.v. not just news but also comedy shows celebrity gossip is taking sides and throwing punches no matter where you go in the united states you can't escape the great american divide say or it was a report of one particular story that donald trump had actually recruited more terrorists than isis ok that was then met with an apology and the apology was

then covered and then we covered the coverage of the apology and then whether the coverage of the coverage of the apology of the first statement was excessive so the media now are consuming our new you see we talk about living in the bubble we are in the media we believe that everyone sees things the way we do or that they care about things that we do it's for them sounds you think america cares do you think somebody is going to say you know what i was going to vote for whatever but doggone it i watched the big bang theory and i watched this one flash and i changed my mind come on it's vanity license plate. well we have a looks like the republican party has lost its most high profile celebrity supporter in a latest twitter rant the rapper kanye west said he's been used to being linked to

a campaign to convince african-americans to ditch support for the rival democratic party conservative can do so and says behind the campaign earlier praise the collaboration with west. blessed to say that this logo. these colors were created by my dear friend and fellow superhero kanye west. what difference a day makes him one tweet west said his eyes were no wide open that he's distancing himself from politics it comes just a few weeks after west a much publicized meeting with donald trump of course in the oval office which he preys on the president but now he claims he's being used to spread messages he says he does not believe in. next today after more than three years of devastating war the united states is calling on saudi arabia to stop its strikes on populated areas of yemen washington's urging all sides in the civil war to reach a ceasefire agreement in the coming weeks i.e.

quickly it's hanging on to its multi billion dollar weapons contracts with saudi arabia though for its part the british government which is also a major supplier of those weapons is now facing pressure in parliament for its dealings with regard to speed on march first it was a situation in london last year what more talks in parliament today on yemen some incredulousness there as well wasn't there earlier on take us through what's been happening. well indeed cavanagh all eyes seem to be on the u. west and u.k. in relation to the war in yemen in light of the scandal as america and britain are essentially being scrutinized for their role in supporting the saudi led coalition in conflict and we do know that the lead us reactions from washington specifically have been the u.k. and the u.s. defense secretary jim and matt mattis as well as the secretary of state might come pale have called on a cease fire they have called to return to negotiations including at the united

nations they have said it's important for the airstrikes by the saudi led coalition to and within thirty days and here in the u.k. the patience when it comes. this topic also seems to be dwindling as u.k. ministers face a grilling in parliament this week yesterday on tuesday we saw the middle east minister alistair burt being questioned by a committee in parliament essentially facing lots and lots of questions about the role the u.k. is playing by of the controversially supplying weapons to the saudi regime and according to bert he was insistent that supplying arms to saudi arabia is not playing a role in that conflict let's take a look at how that unraveled do you have a problem with condemning murder and international violations of into international law complete mistakes and they only thing that we don't do is actually press the

button to drop the bomb surprise for those who need to defend themselves the amount of raids targeting civilians is going to know if these are aware or is there seem to be moved toward it and i do not agree that if you know that was simply to. deny support for a party which is under threat and so you gauge in support of illegitimate government i mean if we do the. move out of the way to go but this is your. well you can't foreign secretary jeremy hunt is also going to be cross-examined in parliament today also especially in light of some of the reports that have been circulating here in the british press suggesting that british intelligence might have been aware of some of the plans of some of the saudi plans when it comes to the case and despite the fact that the u.k. government's position on all of this has been about there is no link according to

them by that case and the role that saudi arabia is playing in yemen and we have to keep in my. and that all of this. seems to be clear that it's a high time that shift must come especially in light of some of the latest figures that have been really revealed recently that said that the number of those who have died in this war in yemen is actually five times higher than no the official numbers that have been circulating out of the united nations which was a ten thousand people but indeed a latest numbers have suggested that that number is actually at fifty six thousand people.

shocking pictures there we go back to yemen shortly to find trying work out where that is going to go over the next couple of weeks but next to brief you on i still terrorists against terror tree in syria close to the border with iraq killing over forty us but fighters during offensive washington who previously claimed that i saw was almost completely decimated as he goes down off explosives. from all the boasting you may have gotten the idea that moore's law mixtape in syria is so two thousand and sixteen the coalition to defeat isis has liberated very close to one hundred percent of the territory we've done a good job with those as we have just absolutely decimated those but the latest

carnage is a clear signal that the terrorists are not ready to buckle just yet they've squeezed every drop of profit from the victory they've been craving for so long from obvious territorial gains to a massive p.r. push they filmed their operation and spoils of war from all thinkable angles it seems even with reinforcements america's proxy ground force the kurds couldn't hold off the surprise onslaught hard for its incursion tuesday both sides but we will continue to go after them in the weeks ahead i thought the latest propaganda video even includes a not so subtle threat a skyline view of the government controlled town but hold on just how much of a surprise was this latest isola tag really short they moved in under the cover of a sandstorm but it's not like the kurds which are in charge of eastern syria didn't know i still was on their porch they have been fighting terrorists in the area for

a whole year but despite their best efforts to little success and that could be due to the fact that their effort has been dwindling gradually apart from i saw the kurdish fighters have been focusing on skirmishes with the syrian army and repelling the turkish operation against them in the north this plays into the yard as sounds perfectly since assad's forces are not going anywhere and neither is turkey as president erdogan te's the next phase of what he calls an anti terror operation in syria but don't use them as you know we have started active intervention operations against the terror organization in the last couple of days we will. soon come down hard on the terror organization with more extensive and effective operations the united states also has been convincing the world it's hell bent on cleansing syria of terrorists yet years on it's their area of responsibility where i still strikes well with its bloodiest attack in months and i

wonder could it be because american troops are in fact miles away from all the action we don't have a canter or a new mission here we have a defeat isis mission that competition between all these forces allows for isis to play back and forth every surrounding neighbor of syria including the syrian government have had other enemies to fight in other concerns isis is always calm number two it's a difficult problem it's also a divided syria because you have a border region where you rocks on one side the syrian the democratic forces on the other backed by the united states and a syrian army backed by russia and iran are on the other there are many players in the syrian conflict and all of them are hungry for a geo political bounty in syria and writing off i still really means risking another wave of terrorist resurgence. or.

up elsewhere in syria tensions iraq to this druze arabs protested a local election in the golan heights that's a disputed territory between syria and israel dozens of locals denounced the vote as illegal and pro israeli. body of soldiers used tear gas to break of demonstrations when crowds tried to block the entrances to polling stations in several villages many people living in the israeli occupied there have refused to take up israeli citizenship and they consider themselves syrian it's the first local election since israel took control of the golan heights back in one hundred sixty seven israeli government approved the poll last year after an appeal from pro israeli villages. no going back to one of our top stories you mentioned just now and as i mentioned yemen what's going on there are key talking point right now in washington westminster yemen

while the u.s. is guardedly calling for saudi strikes to stop the british government as we just heard getting pressured by m.p.'s over its dealings with saudi arabia arabia let's go to journalist and middle east comtesse darwish he's in london so you can give us a good view from where you are there about what the british side of it but i think the most important thing at the moment stop but the american side of this the dichotomy of it on one hand they're saying whoa we want to we want everyone run the negotiating table now with within three weeks or so at the same time those great big arms deals are still ongoing in that those arms with saudi arabia when used to cause most of the trouble in yemen so it's hypocritical here isn't it it is this awful conflict that so just look at latest figures fourteen million people now half the country's population relying on external aid for survival there's been so much death and horror is there any end to that on the horizon. well i think

the. examiners now without the we heard two voices in america one of them from the state department about actual holding a ceasefire we haven't actually heard from present himself in a bad just under forty minutes from now would be the prime minister's questions. minister would actually be. now i suspect some questions would be ours let's see what the prime minister would say number one number two this question when asked before. as still the arms sales from britain still. within the rules to be asian. interestingly this morning on b.b.c. radio four the four former foreign secretary was now working for you and david miliband who was actually putting pressure for the ceasefire so britain actually

can play a role that problem here is where are the two sort of friends if you were to send aid there one is the portal for data and the second one is the airport of borth are combing through by the league of the rebels called you supported by iran i don't actually see much pressure on there so we led coalition a list someone somewhere put pressure on iran to actually stop the five there so you need to sides for this cease fire it's strange often events lead to public awareness of other events we did a survey yesterday just off the street serve it was also public service and very few people in britain actually knew about what was happening in yemen the ongoing conflict the devastation it's interesting now that saudi arabia's been more in the headlines over the over the awful murder to mean more people know about it in britain do have strong feelings about the british side of things and the arms sales

to saudi arabia and how those arms are being used. well i think you know when you're flying there if it actually goes to the only city that was an appalling. and because that's actually cross the line a citizen was actually killed on. his embassy by the by diplomatic mission so this is quite a problem there however because people now spot that becoming aware then if it's actually a local m.p. who is going to take you and are benefiting for beast arms sales i don't see a member of parliament good to say ok just over the. six thousand people in my constituency. so you have to actually get that balance here and the foreign office probably north line which feeds downing street always is better to be engaged with

the country so you can exert pressure behind the closed schools and twist arms very close doors or of the megaphone diplomacy which is practiced by the americans that's not actually the british way of doing theatre we got a little sometimes it does we'll hear what the promise was so later in questions a dildo is from a journalist a middle east commentator thank you very much thank you hundreds of luxury car excuse me hundreds of luxury cars up in flames and devastating floods what a tough twenty four hours has been for italy everything hitting it there as our two reports among the stories coming up when we come back. what politicians do. they put themselves on the line they get accepted or rejected

. so when you want to be president. or somehow want to be preached. to the right to be close it's like the full three of them all can't be good. interested in the why. they should. seem wrong. just don't. get to say probably just. educate and engage. the trail. find themselves worlds apart. she still look for common ground.

see live from russia and here today three people have been injured in a suicide bombing at russia's federal security service headquarters in the northern city of a kind the instant the wednesday morning those injured the stuff members they've been hospitalized to receive treatment officials say the suspect who detonated the improvised explosive device was a seventeen year old who lived in the area. nato's ordering its largest military exercise since the end of the cold war the drills kicked off last week in stretch from the baltic sea to iceland military forces from thirty one countries are involved in the fortnight long maneuvers with over fifty thousand personnel two hundred fifty aircraft and sixty five ships taking part the alliances eve made to some video guide to norway were a large part of the exercises being held. norway.

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troubles in italy next hundreds of luxury sports cars are being destroyed by fire in the northern italian port city of. those cars were awaiting export when sea water flooded the storage area. what a mess. in the u.k. company in britain is calling for rules on gas exploration to be relaxed despite a string of tremors lately resulting from his drilling. pretties operations resumed earlier this month after a seven year battle over safety concerns but then those tremors cobra probably boy

could takes up the story what happens when a company's just been given the right to start shale gas extraction but tiny earthquakes keep getting in the way that's the situation in lancashire in the north of england where energy company quote driller after months of legal wrangling and protests. started commercial exploratory fracking two weeks ago since then there are already been two so-called microseismic events microseismic enough to hold drilling.

a boss of course driller has the answer the government should just relax the rules and allow the company doing the fracking to frack on even after larger tremors because all the reports of seismic activity are scaring people it may well be that we have reached that time not only for the u.k. show gas industry but also to address the concerns of local people who are becoming increasingly worried by reporting of tiny movements in the earth which occur thousands of times across the u.k. every day as if they were harmful so here's how the traffic light monitoring system works right now think of it as the government's danger scale for shale gas extraction anything over nor point five on the richter scale is classed as a red light event and means. an immediate suspension to drilling so for drilling wants the red light event to be anything starting from two point zero on the

richter scale environmentalist aren't so sure where with fracking at the moment it's a worrying situation and it seems to be going. very slowly and cautiously as they should. if you if you then. ground all terrain that's already been historically weakened significantly by historic cold. this consequences could be very devastating. and that effectively covers the entire. health of the for a king my sense is in this country now is where the real problem is the fracking fam has reasons to be hopeful though over the summer the u.k.'s energy minister said that the current monitoring system is cautious and could be adjusted up puts where the government came to prove that its policy of supporting shale gas

extraction is bearing fruit a change in the safety threshold could mean christmas coming early for the fracking frustrated by delays polyploid to the worst bearing in mind that's a story we've been on for years some of these stories are you sitting in the mainstream media now we've been across for ages if you want to keep across all the brit stories we've got. all of them updated for the history of the thing and we're going to go as well but for now in moscow one is kevin zero in for me in the rest of the team thank you for watching this bullet coming up to exactly twenty eight minutes past two o'clock here moscow time.

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