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a carefully. populated areas in the u.k. and peace in westminster left incredulous as the british government tries to defend . it so engaged in. an even lead to that. should it go is it. america's upcoming mid-term elections see the need to go all out to whip up those votes even long running the big. message and it's. still the game's territory in syria killing more than forty american but close to the border with iraq coming up we'll look at the reasons behind the group's.

good afternoon this is art international broadcasting around the world live from r.t. h.q. here in moscow is ages ten to one minute past four in the afternoon now first after more than three years of a devastating war the united states has called on saudi arabia to stop it strikes on populated areas of yemen washington's edgy all sides in the civil war to reach a cease fire agreement in the coming weeks it's hanging on a budget billion multibillion dollar weapons set of contracts though with saudi arabia none the less as for the british government which is also a major supplier it's now facing pressure from parliament over its dealings with and the situation has more from westminster. the west and britain are under great scrutiny for their support of the saudi led coalition in yemen specifically in light of the recent ashaji scandal we do know that the latest comments carefully worded ones coming from washington have indicated they're calling for a cease fire and an end to airstrikes by the saudi led coalition within thirty days

as well as a return to the negotiation table including at the united nations when it comes to yemen here in the u.k. also patience seems to be dwindling when it comes to this topic with u.k. ministers being grilled inside parliament just yesterday we saw the middle east minister alistair burt appear for questioning where a lots of questions were raised about the controversial britons continuing to supply weapons to saudi arabia something that this particular minister considered continued to insist does not affect the situation on the ground do you have a problem with condemning murder and international violations of international law in complete mistakes and made the only thing that we don't do is actually press the button to drop the bomb supplies for those who need to defend themselves of rage targeting civilians is going well you know if these are aware of

is there seem to be able to forgive i do not agree that if united kingdom was simply to. deny support for a party which is under threat and so engaged in support of illegitimate government i mean if we do that. with your u.k. foreign secretary jeremy hunt is also going to be facing a cross-examination at the house of commons later today following reports in the british media that the british intelligence may have had prior knowledge about the . scandal before it unraveled. we're continuing to see the position of the british government be that they see no link between the case and the situation in saudi arabia and yemen certainly a shift seems to be very much needed given the recent numbers having revealed that the number of people who died in yemen is actually five times higher than thought

by the united nations. journalist and middle east commentator earl darwish told me it's unlikely that the u.k. is going to hold to domiciles to riyadh or the times to. when asked before. as still the arms sales from britain is still. within the

rules i don't see a member of parliament good to. have the amnesty and put six thousand people in my constituency out of work so you have to actually get that balance here and the foreign office probably in your line which feeds downing street always is better to be engaged with the country so you can exert pressure behind the closed doors and with our very closed doors or of the megaphone diplomacy which is practiced by the americans that's not actually the british way of doing things. else around the world today just a week to go now to those mid-term elections in the u.s. it seems everyone who's anyone has got opinion on it well why not is a lot of free even the popular t.v. comedy series the big bang theory is an anti drug message in its credits the next is caleb maupin reports much of the rhetoric though on a serious side is feeding public discord and social divisions. 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 messages.

if you knew of divine wisdom belief a fascist hate filled fan mongering demagogic truth shuttering or socratic govt cheeta is what we need right now then you know that they will be done but if i was inclined to more freedom more love more compassion i submissively os that though encouraged to turn out 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 will tend thousand dollar coins and you'll learn about how your money is 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 for listening to their music if only they could for a row has not and will not grant you permission to publicly perform or the worries broadcast or 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 let's 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. oh

the media now are combs so mean are you nudes you see we talk about living in the bubble we're in the lead to media we believe that everyone sees things the way we do that they care about things that we do it's for themselves 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 watch the big bang theory and i i watch this one flash and i change my mind come on it's vanity license plate. meantime it looks like the republican party has lost perhaps its most high profile celebrity supporter of late in a twitter rant the rapper kanye west says he's being used things after being linked to a campaign to convince african-americans to ditch support for the rival democratic party conservatives can do so and susan is should be behind the campaign praise the collaboration with west remember this i'm blessed to say that this logo

these colors were created by my dear friend and fellow superhero kanye west. be good don't go with him though in one tweet where said his eyes were no wide open and that he's distanced himself from politics comes just a few weeks after west about much publicized meeting with donald trump in the oval office in which he praised on the president but now he claims he's been used to spread messages he says he doesn't believe in. i still terrorism can territory in syria close to the border with iraq it's killed over forty u.s. backed fighters during offensive there thus far washington previously claimed of course that ice was almost completely decimated as it was done of explosives. from all the boasting you may have gotten the idea that ms alarming state 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 isis 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 saw 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 geodes hands perfectly since assad's forces are not going anywhere and neither is turkey as president erdogan tease the next phase of what he calls an anti terror operation in syria but don't use them as you know that 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 he has own 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 contour 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 opposed tom 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 geopolitical bounty in syria and

writing off early means risking another wave of terrorist resurgence. it goes down a report of elsewhere in syria tensions erupted as druze arabs protested the local election of the golan heights its disputed territory between syria and israel still dozens of locals denounced the vote as illegal and pro israel e. i.d.f. soldiers used tear gas to break up those demonstrations when crowds tried to block the entrances to polling stations in several villages many people living in the israeli occupied areas refused to take up israeli citizenship and consider themselves syrian is the first local election since israel took control of the golan heights in many is since nine hundred sixty seven the israeli government approved the poll last year after an appeal from pro israeli villages. political analyst i'm in

a shabby about this he says israel's actions in the golan heights are clearly against international law. it's definitely illegal and it's not an opinion by the syrian government it is the decision by the security council the united nations the united nations issued the resolution two forty two that calls upon israel to withdraw immediately from the golan heights from the west bank and gaza therefore under international law they are under occupation the occupying force has no right to interfere with their representation they are supposed to pick their own representation that is according to international humanitarian law geneva conventions that is on one side there on the other side there is also the people in . the golan heights perceived these persons who are who are so-called running for the so-called the elections they are corrupt elements they are collaborators with the enemy with the collaborators with the occupying force they are expecting the people to vote for people who are collaborating with the occupying force that is completely illogical it's impressive that these people in the occupied golan

heights i was. holding on to their national city and identity at a time when so many arab countries you know. no i was making deals with the israelis it's really interesting that the citizens in the golan heights are not really a buying all this they really believe that their rights rights of syrian citizens in syrian land they have the right to be to be in their own country to liberate their country from foreign occupation the syrians are taken to the streets they are not just boycotting their village acting the entirety of the operation that is falsely called the democratic process that isn't there is no democratic process under international law when it comes to a compression the process is supposed to be a local mall between the locals there without any interference from the occupying force many more stories to come including nato troops converging on norway right now finland says largest war games into caves we're covering it said just ninety seconds away.

i have the honor to once again interview croaky as a former diplomat and founder and director of conflicts forum and of course we're going to discuss the week's. seems wrong. wrong just don't call. me. yet to ship out just to educate and in detroit equals betrayal. when so many find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground. join me every thursday on the alex salmond shore and i'll be speaking to guest of

the world of politics sports business i'm showbusiness i'll see you there. again there's no to war games coming up before but three people have been injured in a suicide bombing at russia's federal security service h.q. in the northern city of a kind girls that incident happened wednesday morning the people injured the staff members there in all spittle but the conditions are unknown at this point the suspect who detonated the improvised explosive device was killed in the blast officials say he was a seventeen year old who lived in the area. so

nato said hold an open door day with the alliance inviting international observers to monitor its largest military drills since the end of the cold war the block secretary general accused moscow of never being transparent with its exercises over the last twenty five years but just last month observers from fifty seven countries did attend russia's latest drills and nato was invited to. made to always invites service to all over. exercises russia has not and why did it in national service to end the exercises the end of the cold war nato and russia exchanged reciprocal briefings on military exercises in may allied military attachés in moscow have been invited to a voluntary observation of the exercise the need to exercise is already underway than the taking place from the baltic sea in eastern europe away up to iceland in the west of the continent military forces who thirty one countries are involved in a fortnight long maneuvers with over fifty thousand personnel two hundred fifty

aircraft and sixty five ships involved the alliance has even put together a tourist video guide for norway were a large part of the exercise is a big help this is some things you need to know about norway puddleglum one that means i love morning. the symbol of our uniqueness the reindeer and we have lots of reindeer. skiing is a region where some say it's only since i boarded ski on the beach and it's everything or the drills focus on restoring the region sovereignty after an attack by a fictitious aggressor the icelandic capital is said to replenish the sympathy core supply.

we're fighting an overwhelming force. trucking company in britain is calling for rules on gas exploration to be relaxed despite a string of tremors resulting from a sterling activities operations resumed earlier this month after a seven year ban over safety concerns up in lancashire in the u.k. but now those come back 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 quadrent 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 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 drill now once the red light event to be anything starting from two point zero two on the richter scale. environmentalists aren't so sure where for a king 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 over ground or terrain that's already been historically weakened significantly by historic cold. conses consequences could be very devastating and that effectively covers the entire. half of the for a king my sense is in this country knows 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 are put 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 but that fracking frustrated by delays. your car love your way this next story

hundreds of luxury sports cars have been destroyed by fire in the northern italian port city of savannah. i'm pretty ironic those cars were awaiting export when sea water flooded the storage area caused the batteries to short circuit and explode it of course has been hit by huge and deadly storms in the last few days has caused widespread flooding and damage. stories and so much more. so the news is looking. for a snapshot of any way around the world so far this hour i'm back with more in just about thirty five minutes here in moscow is kevin owen saying thanks for watching international.

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really. you know world of big partisan movie lot and conspiracy it's time to wake up to dig deeper to hit the stories that mainstream media refuses to tell more than ever we need to be smarter we need to stop slamming the door on the bats and shouting past each other it's time for critical thinking it's time to fight for the middle for the truth the time is now for washing clothes for watching the hawks. this is born boss 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. 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 academic infiltration in many nations nations universities by what amounts to spies and foreign agents alex mahela that joins us to discuss all of that directly ahead but first we had some headlines go. u.s. consumer confidence is that its highest level since the year two thousand the consumer confidence index or c.c.i. measures consumers assessment of the present economic conditions in the united states and has increased from one hundred thirty five point three percent in

september to one hundred thirty seven point nine percent in october even though it was one.