i've i. i. i. i i i i i. in the spotlight of washington issues a carefully worded call urging the saudis to stop bombing populated areas. as the british government tries to defend. on the threats and so

engaged. and if we did that. to begin with this is. a countrywide scandal a story about a christian woman's blasphemy case in pakistan she's a right wing islamic party called for the judges to be killed after they overturned the conviction. and america's upcoming midterm election see the. all important stephen long running the big bang theory. and message to its credit. good evening for me kevin i mean here in moscow this is not international it's just

turned seven pm no this wednesday. started with this after more than three years of devastating war the united states has called on saudi arabia to stop its strikes on populated areas of yemen. the time is now for the suspension of hostilities including missile and u.a.b. strikes from who controlled areas subsequently coalition air strikes must cease in all populated areas of yemen nonetheless washington is still going to hang on to its multibillion dollar weapons contracts with the saudis meantime britain's arms sales to riyadh have doubled over the last two years and other governments facing a grilling from parliament over its dealings with the kingdom. can with the latest from westminster. in 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 then end 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 that 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 continued to insist does not affect the situation on the ground do you have a problem with condemning murder and international violations of into international law incomplete mistakes and made the only thing that we don't do is actually press the button to drop the bomb i'm surprised there for those who need to defend themselves the amount of raids targeting civilians is going up north if these are

all there are is there seem to be an awful lot of i do not agree that if united kingdom was simply to. deny its support for. which is under threat it's so engaged in support of the legitimity government i mean if we go to the. moon the way it would go with it is 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 deaths of people who died in yemen is actually five times higher than

thought by the united nations. despite everything which is soon told by journalist a middle east commentator at all darwish told me he thinks it's unlikely the u.k. is going to hold its arms sales to riyadh or the terms. when asked before. is still arms sales from britain still.

but within the rules i don't see him a little bit good to. put six. when people in my constituency out of work so you have to actually get that balance in here and the pradhan office probably in your line which feeds the downing street always it is better to be engaged with the country so you can exert pressure behind the closed doors and twist arms very close doors or over the megaphone diplomacy which is practiced by the america that's not actually the british way of doing things. a blasphemy case against a christian woman in pakistan has got one political party calling for so-called religious justice the judges who overturned the woman's death penalty are now facing calls for their own sentencing from islamic hardliners correspondent aneesh sethi has more on the scandal. this is

a baby she's just been taken off death row but instead of celebrating a second chance at life it sparks outrage and mass protests across pakistan i got i i think spoken to for the parts nine years ago while out picking fruit it was a hot day and she drank some water yes that was enough to sentence her to death and put her in solitary confinement for almost a decade but the real reason is that us here is a christian the women who were with her that say said she had touched a cup which meant they could no longer drink from it i was beaten and accused of blasphemy with his sentence now overturned how about an islamist to demanding what they call religious justice. this is a very sorry moment for us we were shocked to hear this news regarding the release

order. but we are calling for our government to change that decision oh over there . was. was just on is a religiously conservative country there were near around two point five million christians making them a minority of just one point six percent of the population to protect islamic authority blasphemy laws were introduced in the nineteenth century that were among the strictest in the muslim world it means insulting a religious belief can lead to imprisonment or even that harsh punishments also stand for those who support the baby take the punjab governor sell mom to see if he was assassinated by his bodyguard in twenty eleven for wanting to reform these laws the federal minister for religion but the was also killed off to simply calling for her release. but from support for the assassinations the rights when pakistan's

islamist party or the tail pay began to grow they've called for mass protests if the blasphemy law is touched even say the country supremes court just as if to himself that if attending s.e.'s sentence the patron in chief of t.l.p. mohammad office all carbury has issued the verdict that says the chief justice and all those who ordered the release of deserve death as the cool for babies conviction to be held gripe and it's expected that office of asylum i brought will take. truck in those midterms coming up in the us just a week to go now to those elections it seems everyone who's anyone is going opinion as you'd expect but even the popular t.v. comedy series the big bang theory that has got to ante message squirreled away in its credits so that says caleb maupin reports much of the rhetoric is feeding public discord and social division and that is the worry 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 we're seeing them today 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 belief a fascist hate filled fan mongering demagogic truth shuttering socratic 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 oscon 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 and if you live in wisconsin just google brad she 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 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 in 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 over the first statement was excessive. so the media now our cones so mean our nose and 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 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 i watched this one flash and i change my mind come on it's vanity license plate and it seems you can never totally count of who is going to back you it looks like the republican party has lost its most high profile celebrity sports and in a twitter rant rapper kanye west says quote he thinks he's being used to being linked to a campaign to convince african-americans to ditch support for the rival democratic party conservative can do so in his initially behind the campaign earlier praise the collaboration with west very publicly as you may recall. blessed to say that

this logo. these colors were created by my dear friend and fellow super hero kanye west. may be our friend listener that when one tweet west said his eyes had now been made wide open and that he's distancing himself from politics it comes just a few weeks after west had that much publicized meeting with donald trump in the oval office it which heap praise on the president but now he claims he's being used to spread messages he says he doesn't believe it. if you're a luxury car found particularly italian cars or look away now hundreds of luxury sports cars have been destroyed by fire in the northern italian port city of savannah.

and what causes mighty far well this is a twist those cars were awaiting export when seaboard say you'd be right slowly the storage area causing about three to short circuit explode italy of course so hard hit the last few days where those huge and deadly storms are the cause so much flooding and damage and this is just another offshoot of. on this channel less than ninety seconds away is ice ill on the rise again in syria plus nato is holding its biggest war games in decades just a couple of the stories we're bring your way. what politicians do something to. put themselves on the line to get accepted or rejected

. so when you want to be president. or somehow want to. get it right to be close it's like them before three of them or can't be good. interested always in the waters of our. friendship. seemed wrong. just don't all. get to say proud just being educated and engaged equals betrayal. when so many find themselves worlds apart. just to look for common ground.

again i still terrorists are going territory in syria close to the border with iraq seems they've killed over forty u.s. backed fighters during offensive there now because washington had previously claimed that i still was almost completely decimated it was done for ports. 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 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 saw the latest propaganda video even includes the 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 eisel 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 tease 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 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 always calm number two it's a difficult problem it's also a divided syria because you have a border region where your 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 i still really means risking another wave of terrorist resurgence it goes down of a correspondent there will elsewhere in the troubled country tensions are up to this druze arabs protested the local election of the golan heights that's a disputed territory between syria and israel dozens of locals denotes the vote as illegal and pro israeli.

i.d.f. soldiers used tear gas to break up those demonstrations when crowds tried to block the entrances to polling stations and several villages many people living in the israeli occupied area have refused to take up israel should isn't shit they consider themselves syrian is the first local election since israel took power of the golan heights way back in one nine hundred sixty seven israeli government approved up told last year after an appeal from israeli religious leader spoke to political analyst he told me israel's actions in the golan heights are clearly against international law. it's definitely illegal well it's not it's and it's not an opinion by the syrian government it is the decision by the security council of the united nations the united nations issued resolution two forty two that calls upon israel to withdraw immediately from the golan heights from the west bank and 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 presentation 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 caught up the 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 are you know are making deals with the israelis it's really interesting that the syrians in the golan heights are not really 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 population that is falsely called the democratic process that isn't there is not democratic process under international law when it comes to our compassion their process is supposed to be a local holes from all between the locals there without any interference from the occupying force. here three people have been injured in a suicide bombing at russia's federal security service age two in the northern city of account girls in some home wednesday morning star. taken to hospital the conditions of not only 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. nato is set to hold an open day with the alliance inviting international observers to monitor its largest military drills since the end of the cold war books sent to

general accuse moscow though of never being transparent with its exercises over the last twenty five years but just last month observers from fifty seven countries no less did attend russia's latest drills and nato was invited to meet to always invite of service to our. exercises russia has not invited it in national service to 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 nato exercises are already underway there taking place from the baltic sea in eastern europe all the way up to iceland in the west of the continent military forces from thirty one countries are involved in the fortnight longer neuvirth consisting of over fifty thousand personnel two hundred fifty aircraft and sixty five ships the alliance has even put together

a tourist guide video from norway were a large part of those exercises being held this is some things you need to know about norway. that means i love morning in the weeds a symbol of our unique history reindeer and we have lots of reindeer. is a region where some say it's a bloody good ski on the beach and it's everything well it may be thirsty work because while those tools focus on restoring the region's sovereignty after an attack by a fictitious aggressor seems the icelandic capital said to replenish one of its core supplies.

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