the. more you sell the the. these. your vision stopping the more sense to you and the fundies up in these crowds and. in the stories that shape the week china gets its military ready for war i mean trade in territorial disputes and worsening relations with washington. donald trump alliances the renewal all. wrong a decision that angers washington's european allies who vowed to protect their business interests in the islamic republic. and we talk to

a survivor of rwanda's genocide as human rights groups called for the reopening of an investigation into the french army's failure to respond to the. weekly here on the international with me all round up of top stories over the last couple days and the latest up to date news welcome to the program. china's president has raised the specter of potential conflict after instructing the country's military to be ready for war but how much of this is merely posturing takes a closer look. here's the thing the chinese government almost never says anything you wouldn't expect seeing gimmick 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 if only to own kind of untruthful the sales of weapons by the united states to taiwan damages china's sovereignty and security interests that. beijing sees china and taiwan as two parts of a whole two chinese entities same culture this is the 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 through seeing his warships right between the two chinas i see. we have expressed our concerns to the u.s. side the taiwan issue concerns china 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. it's 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 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 ruled the united states has been pushing china around 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 on do china i think the chinese people will be fully mobilized behind the chinese government the chinese military on friday the trump administration announced that it's reimposing all sanctions against iran that were left as part of the twenty fifteen u.k. deal u.s.

president took to twitter to taunt around with the news in a post and sounding the tagline from the hit t.v. series game of thrones the sanctions slated to come into effect on monday following america's a unilateral withdrawal in may from the iran nuclear agreement and the sanctions come on top of those already imposed by washington and focus on oil penalizing states that refuse to halt crude imports from iran the u.s. secretary of state says the main target is the iranian government before issues here or areas of a run for economy it is aim to deprive the regime of the revenues that it uses to spread death and destruction around the world. people on a street have to. tell a very civil war hero and. the sanctions time about manson's a hard to come by because of sanctions no doubt if you are caring for a patient your life is affected by these sanctions sanctions decrease the quality of life a speech will cannot know octane things they used to obtain easily the forms for

them but it was like i'm a merchant in a century cannot trade with businesses outside of iran anymore it would take its toll and we have yet to see to what extent that affect ordinary people in merchant marine taxi every year or every two to three years they see new sanctions will be imposed so people have gotten used to sanctions but that doesn't mean we accept them and it doesn't hurt it means we've had them so long they don't affect us any more they harm the regime in the nation they have always been there for the past four decades and they've been arming the you reining in nation all along their inquisition that's why many other. states that are on the sanctions like russia like any of theirs they are all against this move especially because this new round of sanctions by washington it doesn't have the u.n. support it doesn't have the support of even the united states close allies like the europeans that have stated their opposition in defiance china turkey or russia and

many others have defied the u.s. sanctions against iran and many are worried in washington that this could make these sharp tool or weapon blunts and make you know take it off the menu even for future u.s. administrations if it goes ineffective. despite pressure from the u.s. the european union has confirmed the block's commitment to the iran nuclear deal wessels also vowed to protect e.u. companies that do business with tehran but despite all the tough talk washington may be more flexible than it's letting on. we ask all nations to isolate iran's regime. as long as its aggression continues but we do not intend to allow our sanctions to be invaded by your poor any body else.

you know we will work to maintain the framework of the twenty fifteen deal in spite of the american decision by ensuring that our companies can stay in iran looking at the latest official so for them to try. a little to see the thing. with friends who need to show that he's going to want to be muscles that wouldn't be blindly to what americans do want us europeans to say to the top economic interests of one time economic relations with iran. we've never threatened anyone but we do not tolerate threats from anyone. we want to we want to achieve maximum pressure but we don't want to harm friends

and allies we. want. aiming for zero zero zero exports you're on. are now giving two countries the exemption is for you in for that indicates that they have maximum pressure on the wrong. and now they are changing that maximum pressure to enough pressure. that these sides will succeed that's also on the question because they cannot. be needed they think against iran because now there is an american capital. ministration on the disconnecting iran from the you know large file suit system which enables the scions absalom messaging that can be. tossed out there guessed you were on the economic lead but that's the area of difference inside the united states between the office of the. officials in the cabinet.

to discuss this further i'm joined live by how many analysts are they a professor of political science at the university of toronto thanks for coming into the program here so washington they reported issuing waivers for aid to countries on iranian oil why do you think they're doing this. yes so it seems that the trumpet ministration has somewhat retreated from its earlier stated goal saying that i mean prior the they were saying that they were going to reduce ukrainian oil exports to zero by november fifth which is tomorrow but right now they seem to have retreated from that giving waivers to eight countries as you mentioned and i think there are two main reasons for that the first one being that they're under a lot of pressure from their allies such as india south korea and japan who are essentially saying that it's very difficult not to import any you may need oil and the second reason is right now there is very little spare capacity in the global

oil market and cutting the reigning in oil exports to zero is going to increase global oil prices which in turn is going to increase fuel prices in that's not something donald trump wants right before the congressional elections yeah i mean are these waivers going to be a big help for iran's economy. leg spirits are a very important and vital source of iran's economy and oil exports of course are a major source of the government's revenues so yes they do how nevertheless iran was expecting that even if they do not grant waivers they want would be able to export at least some of its oil in this is based on the oil iran souls to both china and india who had both indicated they would that they would continue to buy uranium oil even before these waivers were announced so is it almost an

admission. from the u.s. that they can't stop those states trading with iran. i think it is an admission that it's going to be very difficult for to force nations to stop trading with iran and we have to remember that from an international legal perspective this is a very rare moment because the united states is trying to impose its own internal laws on other countries the iranian nuclear deal d.j. c.p.o. way is virtually supported by the entire international community it is also in trying the new u.n. security council resolution and now you have the united states essentially trying to bully other countries to follow what it wants to do and i think we have are seeing resistance to this not even from only from russia china and india but also from the europeans who are trying to come up with

a economic package to help iran. essentially a void the costs of the sanctions that the united states is imposing. is funny though how many you mention the u.s. thinking that they can enforce internal laws or bully other states into doing what they want them to do but there must be a reason why the u.s. thinks that it can do that why do you think the u.s. thinks that it can to either. i mean this is a tactic that they have used to before i mean making unilateral decisions whether it was for example the invasion of iraq in two thousand and three which was opposed by almost the entire international community including the u.n. security council nevertheless that didn't stop the united states from following what it thought was its own national security interest and we all remember what happened in that in those circumstances and led to

a lot of instability and chaos in the middle east and i think the same is true today i think the reason why for example european countries even the united kingdom for example and france and germany want to keep the nuclear deal is i think they understand that the nuclear deal is the multi lotro accord that how improve relations between iran and the west and it helps the stability in the middle east and we have to remember that the middle east today is in a very dire and very unstable and dangerous circumstance ok we're going to leave that discussion lavasoft apra professor of political science at the university of toronto for us coming to the program. in the past two years the war in yemen has claimed five times more lives than previously thought that's according to new research results fifty six thousand people have been killed and there are some british m.p.'s and losing patience with that country's role in arm in a saudi coalition which had the military incursion into

a parliamentary committee this week grilled britain's top middle east a diplomat overly actions with riyadh. do you have a problem with condemning murder and international violations of into international law in complete mistakes and made the only thing that we don't do is actually press the button to drop the bomb i'm surprised that for those who need to defend themselves the amount of rage trouble between civilians is going up north to if these are all there is they seem to be able to float it i do not agree that if the united kingdom was simply to. deny its support for a party which is under threat and so gauged in support of the legitimate government i mean if we did that. it would go but it's just. a survey by a british charity found almost half of those questioned in the u.k.

well aware there's a war in yemen even though the country is the second biggest weapon supplier to the saudi military has more on those findings in a moment but first here's a look at how three years of war has a fact of the people of yemen. hi do you know what's happening in yemen. so much. i'm afraid. to go. right now sorry what's happening in yemen.

now there's a war soldier rubia. some middle east politics higher no idea really do you know what's happening in yemen sorry do you know what's happening in yemen thank god it's taken the lives of thousands of civilians and caused an unprecedented humanitarian crisis and yet according to a new poll almost a home for the people in the u.k. have no i did 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 so when you read my conversion charts terrible why do you think that is not enough is being sent over to it depends what the media synthesizing at a particular point in time which you would see is public knowledge and opinion so

you think it's under-reported 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 us 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 to strategic partnership with the riyadh into the spotlight now an increasing number of politicians here in the u.k. are calling 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. it is the end of an ear in germany as chancellor merkel says she won't run for the top job at the end of the next election more lots and

much more after the break. in terms of blasphemy i mean blasphemy has never actually been used nobody has been prosecuted but you are right it was only renewed ten years ago by a previous government and it really shows how out of step the political establishment has been there's been a huge movement of women and young people on days been pushing the political establishment you know relentlessly on the issue of of the abortion rights bombed because ten women a day leave the country and five others were taking abortion pills online illegally . the

united states under many pros as a warning warning out of breakin its treaty and other promises that the united states says is going to leave a treaty a girl. like her weeping after almost two decades in national politics i will america announced on monday she was stepping down as party leader of the christian democratic union adding she won't run for charles for a fifth time local decision comes on the heels of her party's latest disappointing performance in regional elections. the figures that came in overnight from her selection

a wholly disappointing and bitter. but it is. it can no longer be business as usual process after this result after the result of the area after the conflicts between the c.d.u. c.s.u. in the summer and after you know the difficulties in forming a government coalition. as the previous attempts to find one between the c.d.u. c.s.u. f.t.p. and the green party fall through. began her political career after the fall of the berlin wall joining the c.d.u. in one thousand eight hundred nine ten years later she became the party secretary general and then its leader in two thousand and five made history by becoming germany's first female chancellor since then she's been reelected a further three times but over the last few years her popularity has taken a hit. who

oppression political oppression we have a responsibility to help them based on the geneva convention for refugees based on our side in policy and article one of our constitutional whether we want to. measure it along political or russian ality this move by going to merkel is not surprising at all because her party was losing. confidence among the

electorate and the reason and so to speak the burden of this party was anglo-american herself so it was quite rational for her to leave office as party chairman but they were the less whenever something important happens you usually are surprised by it happening right now and this is why there was really surprising that anger merkel is so quickly stronger consequences out of the disaster still a electoral defeat during the last eight elections and if they aren't and it has. fifteen civilians had been killed by a u.s. led air strike on syria according to local media women and children are reportedly most of the victims one terrorist or profits in the east of the country is far from the first time that the coalition stands accused of killing civilians long. damascus called for a u.n. probe after reporting over sixty civilians killed in a u.s. raid on two villages in the same day or so province. we sent a request for comment on the allegations about the latest strike to the u.s.

led coalition it told us that terrorists were killed and critical facilities were destroyed adding that a battlefield assessment is now under way. you mean watching in the weekly here all out international i'll be back with more updates in thirty minutes but first time for a documentary game with drone. put him.

out. in twenty forty you know bloody revolution to to crush the demonstrations going from being relatively peaceful political protests to be creasing the violent revolution is always spontaneous or is it still war here. with video. spilling into the fall the ukrainian president recalls the events of twenty fourteen. of those who took part in this today over five billion dollars to assist ukraine in these and other goals that will ensure a secure and prosperous and democratic. place.

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in afghanistan or pakistan from the safety of the bunker in the. so how you feel about the trip i'm going to be honest with you this was three three film yeah exactly so really important that the relatives of the trolling victims honestly that's islamic body and time again otherwise we'll get nothing well yes we can go to the tribal areas on the way for because of security reasons. i think you'll find fewer flights that are you know. thank you again for your phone erica and please a sunday number i will that's the important thing and i'll call our producer ok and then we'll figure out just where you could look all the best. to get by by.

a lot of tourists a year according to the bureau of investigative journalism there have been more than four hundred drone strikes since two thousand and four killing around a thousand innocent civilians and that's just in pakistan a local contact just taken me to meet a man who narrowly avoided one of those strikes. but. oh. i'm going to get over you men out of these times above the fold. and nothing that is them if you can you give them but. i look at the. title of the struggle to go understand it was. my

b o o through the school day if you go if you do the job. to her. it was the worst on is the mountainous region between pakistan and afghanistan a self-proclaimed but i'm recognised states. lated with disaffected pashtun tribes it's been viewed as a taliban stronghold since two thousand and one attacks on the government has so far been unable to regain control of the area. malik claims to have been personally targeted by at least four drone strikes since two thousand and ten. was it a stunner to go in this time it was no. shortage of them but they had. to be. gentle to be. on his. face like a.