i've. thought. i did i did. i think i did. i've i've i. was grilled by parliament over weapons deals with saudi arabia but admits britain is in no position to negotiate q-tip commercial interests. or anything just want to trade. if you reach for human rights. because of bricks we're going to

trade deals with everyone. from death row to a country wide scandal a christian woman to blasphemy case in pakistan sees a right wing islamic party call for the judges to be killed after they overturned her conviction. and kurdish forces in syria hold their operation against islamic state claiming they've come under fire from turkey just as i still gaining ground in their latest offensive. it's ten o'clock and you're watching our international live from moscow studio with mean a day or two to welcome to the program. the british foreign secretary has expressed shock over the latest information term merge in the murder case of saudi journalist

jamal khashoggi istanbul's chief prosecutor says she was strangled as soon as he entered the gulf states consulate in the turkish city and his body was then dismembered and disposed off the show he. is. incredibly shocked. i think i've spoken more openly and more strongly about it. in the foreign minister that i'm aware of but i made it very clear that if the press stories were true. he is increasingly large that. it would be completely contrary to all of. the dissident journalist was killed in the saudi consulate in istanbul at the beginning of october riyadh still claims he was murdered as a result of a fistfight by rogue staff members despite international condemnation and pressure to stop on the side to arabia jeremy hunt says the u.k.

can't afford to us to say it has the details because such a murder may be quote completely contrary to british values but it doesn't look likely that this will be affecting the trade relationship between the u.k. and it's a long time ally saudi arabia any time soon despite the renewed criticism of this trade relationship with the u.k. selling weapons to the saudi regime having been renewed following this latest scandal one of the issues is that there are some countries which have a very good human rights record that would end up being very salty if we said to them that we really prepared to start a trade deal with you if you agree to a human rights clause and i think there is a particular issue that because it breaks it we are going to be a we just signed trade deals with everyone but it's well there we have it u.k. for. and secretary saying that trade relationships with everybody are going to be continuing especially in light of bragg's it but this issue of the u.k.

support of the saudi led coalition in yemen has been at the forefront this week they also saw the middle east minister alistair burt appear in parliament where he was also questioned about the trade relationship between the u.k. and saudi arabia and he also insisted that this relationship is something that does not affect the dire situation with the conflict on the ground 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. or grades targeting civilians is going to go north if these are aware of is there six people forgive them well the u.k. government continues to be insistent that there is no link between the khashoggi murder and its involvement with the saudi led coalition in the war in yemen which as we know now has led to the deaths of as many as fifty six thousand people making

it all the more shocking to hear that u.k. foreign secretary jeremy hunt was saying in westminster that it's necessary to wait and see what kind of investigation results are going to come out of the khashoggi case and he also said that it's important to see how saudi arabia will react and potentially promise to not act similarly moving forward in the future journalist and middle east commentator says it's unrealistic for the u.k. to kindly stop dealing with riyadh. when asked before. is still the arms sealed from britain still. within the rules i don't see a member of parliament good to. put six thousand people in my constituency out of work so you have to actually get that balance here and the

pradhan office probably in law line which feeds the downing street always it is better to be in good 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. 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 and now facing calls for their own sentencing from islamic hardliners correspondent gary any society has more on the scandal. this is see a baby she's just been taken off death row but instead of celebrating a second chance at life sparks outrage and mass protests across pakistan i was 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 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 or was beaten and accused of blasphemy with his sentence now overturned how the islamists are demanding what they call religious justice. yes this is a very sad moment for i was shocked to hear this news regarding the release order. but we are calling for our government to change that decision for. pakistan is

a religiously conservative country there are 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 so mom to say here 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 supreme court just as if to himself that they've attending a sentence the patron in chief of t.l.p.

mohammad afzali carbury has issued the verdict that says the chief justice and all those who ordered the release of us year deserve death mobs with the basij of losing trust in the overall governance and they feel that if there is a problem then the. system may not be. efficient to pick up the issues and come up with a kind of justice in fact these are. matters also via the mob. has. killed people but this is not confined to just go on because it is the trust of the on the system. the stool. people coming to the courts and coming to the law enforcement

agencies and this law has certainly put a why did their best which is the call for babies conviction to be held gripe is expected that office of asylum brought will take. just a week to go until the midterm elections in the u.s. it seems everyone who's anyone has an opinion in the popular t.v. comedy series the big bang theory has an anti trump message in its credits and as caleb maupin reports much of the rhetoric is heating 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 a divine wisdom belief or fascist hate filled fan mongering demagogic truth shuttering socratic govt cheeta is what we need right now then you know that they will be done but if there was inclined to more freedom more love more compassion i submissively 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 row has not and will not grant you permission to publicly perform the worries broadcast or disseminate any of his music hate campaign advertising in the united states is very closely regulated by law however it seems that a lot of american t.v. not just in 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 nudes you see we talk about living in the bubble we need to 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. it looks like the republican party has lost perhaps its most high profile celebrity supporter in the to run and the rapper kanye west said he's been used after being linked to a campaign to convince african-americans to ditch support for the rival democratic party conservative candace owens whose initially behind the company earlier praised the collaboration with west i am blessed to say that this logo. these colors were created by my dear friend and fellow super hero kanye west. in one tweet west said his eyes were now wide open and that is he's distancing himself from politics it comes just a few weeks after west had a much publicized meeting with donald trump in the oval office in which he heaped praise on the president but now he claims he's been used to spread messages he says

he doesn't believe in. three people have been injured in a suicide bombing at the headquarters of russia's federal security service in the northern city of out of town guests russia's investigative committee has confirmed the incident as a terror attack and launched a criminal probe the suspect detonated an improvised bomb inside the building on wednesday morning causing severe damage the three injured staff were taken to hospital conditions are unknown at this point the suspect was killed in the blast authorities say he was a seventeen year old who lived in the area and they confirm he acted alone. now the u.s. banks syrian democratic forces which are mostly made up of kurdish troops have announced a temporary halt to operations against islamic state on wednesday several kurdish

villages were reportedly attacked by turkey near its border with syria the u.s. has supported forces in the region washington considers them to be effective fighters against eisel particularly in the dairies or province meanwhile on the opposite side of syria isis terrorists have gained ground close to the border with iraq killing over forty u.s. backed fighters during an offensive but washington had previously claimed i saw was close to total defeat as igor explains. from all the boasting you may have gotten the idea that muslim 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 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 choice in casualties down 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 sure they've 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 saw 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 and including the syrian government have had other enemies to fight in other concerts 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 anyone 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 and we talked with barrenness caroline cox a member of the u.k. house of lords has been heavily criticized over her stance on the syrian conflict she hopes that the major powers in the conflict will sit together to find

a peaceful solution i've had very vicious articles about me and. well no newspapers like the london times there is a big media onslaught i think it is very biased indeed and it really does not give me a representation of the horrific atrocities perpetrated by the jihadists but it's not going to stop me trying to be a voice for the people syria there's many people out there who do support is and i do find that i do speak in different contexts people to say thank you so much for putting you intend to put to me we knew but not all of the truth from the b.b.c. we knew there was more to it than that thank you for telling us the other side of the story so there's a lot of appreciation that is not of late and support waiting to be mobilized and i'm sorry to say that u.k. and saudi arabia big time have been supporting the jihad is that just prolongs the suffering the people of syria i think it's unacceptable. and my bottom line position is that the people who decide. let's stop intervening.

and i've managed to find out questions in parliament that the british government has used these two hundred million pounds of taxpayers' money to support the hardest related groups i think this is unacceptable i think a lot of british people would be very worried by that and the truth must come out to have a democratic and open discussion in the houses of parliament in the house of lords that i think russia's been doing the right thing in syria has been helping the syrian army to get rid of the jihad is that must be the priority and i really respect russia for doing that and i just hope very much that interest influence british and us foreign policy to prevent a constructive move forward one of the very positive developments again that doesn't get advertised publicized very widespread reconciliation program places that reconciliation programs but it's into the hundreds of nazism it simple for

rebuilding the community of knows in syria takes courage minister of reconciliation . and his they risked their lives going into some of these places to initiate reconciliation but that is an immense important way forward and again that doesn't get covered in the western media. tensions erupted as jews arabs protested a local election in the golan heights a disputed territory between syria and israel dozens of locals denounced the vote as illegal and israeli. i.d.f. soldiers used tear gas to break up demonstrations when crowds tried to block the entrances to polling stations and villages many people living in the israeli occupied area have refused to take up israeli citizenship and consider themselves syrian. it's the first local elections since israel took control of the one

thousand nine hundred sixty. israeli government of principle last year. from israeli flitters earlier we spoke to political analyst who says israel's actions in the golan heights a 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 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 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. 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. 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 they're rejecting the entirety of the population that is falsely called the democratic process that isn't there is no democratic process under international law when it comes to occupation the process is supposed to be a local mall between. the locals there without any interference or from the

occupying force. nato has opened its doors for the day with the alliance inviting international observers to monitor its largest military drill since the end of the cold war the bloc 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 attended russia's latest health and nato was invited to. meet to always invite a service to our. exercises russia has not invited to the 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 stretching from the baltic sea in eastern europe or the way to iceland in the west of the continent military forces from thirty one countries are involved in

a fortnight long maneuvers with over fifty thousand personnel two hundred fifty aircraft and sixty five ships involved political analyst chris bambery things that will fit into a larger picture nato has built up on russia's periphery but what they are troubled by is the arm to thrash around to explain why it's needful who's launching the biggest military exercise they've hired since the cold war along russia's borders and that military exercise isn't just a one off what we see here we should remind ourselves is the creation of a poem the needle presence on the very borders of russia they're in violation of promises given to former soviet president gorbachev that nato would not be expiring and into eastern europe that has happened and therefore all of this must be preserved of perspective of that need to expansion and the fact that no need to all in the very board those of. russia and that is something which is glossed over so

it's not just a simple question or one of military exercise this comes on the back about building a building up of a permanent build your presence while the drills focus on restoring the region sovereignty after an attack by a fictitious aggressor the icelandic capsule has had to replenish one of its core supplies. for fighting an overwhelming force.

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