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a decision that angers washington's european allies to protect their business interests in the islamic republic. and we talk to a survivor of rwanda's genocide of human rights groups called for the reopening of an investigation into the french army to respond to this s.r.o. hills massacre. is that we hear a lot international with mean a day or two to us all round up of top stories of the last seven days on the latest up to date news welcome to the program china's president has raised the specter of a 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. so here's the thing the chinese government almost never says

anything you wouldn't expect that's their thing their 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. of untruthful the sales of weapons by the united states to taiwan damages china sovereignty and security interests that beijing sees china and taiwan as two parts of

a whole two chinese entities same culture ethnicity same languages with two separate governments communist capitalist the end goal is to reunite into one state there are differences of course currently 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 floating his warships right between the two china's. we have expressed our concerns to the u.s. side the taiwan issue concerns china's 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 interim. we worry about. work. i don't

worry about things. let's be grateful never worrying about anything unfortunately others are and there are those in china who believe that america wants taiwan to declare independence and the chinese are preparing for that eventuality militarily. as 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 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. to 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 he really china and imposing unilateral tariffs on the chinese exports china does not want to have a trade war with the united states and china does not want to have the conflict with the united states but if the united states really wants to impose these teens on do china i feel 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 iraq were lifted as part of the twenty fifteen nuclear deal the president took to twitter to toronto with the news in a post resembling the tagline on the hit t.v. series game of thrones the sanctions slated to come into effect on monday following america's unilateral withdrawal in may from the iran nuclear agreement the new sanctions come on top of those already imposed by washington and focus on oil penalizing states that refused to halt crude imports from iran the u.s. secretary of state says the main target is the iranian government. the sanctions hit a core areas of iran's economy it is aimed at depriving the regime of the revenues that it uses to spread death and destruction around the world people on the streets of toronto told us it's ordinary civilians who will end up bearing the brunt of the sanctions. time of what 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 as people cannot now obtain things they used to obtain easily before for them but of course i am a merchant in a century cannot trade with businesses outside of iran any more it would take its toll and we have yet to see to what extent that affect ordinary people and merchants. in fact every year or every two to three years they say 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 anymore they harm the u.a.e. 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 under sanctions like russia like many others 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 opinion has confirmed the blogs commitment to the tail muscles also vowed to protect the companies that do business with taiwan but despite all the tough talk washington may be more flexible and 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 europe or 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 decision so for them to try. a little to see the thing. with friends like that who need to show that he's going to want to be muscles that wouldn't be blindly to what americans want to do want us europeans to say economic interests move one time economic relations with iran. we've never threaten 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 he. wants. a mean for zero. on they are now giving two countries the exemptions for you in for that indicates that they have maximum pressure on the wrong. and now they are changing that maximum pressure enough pressure. that's also on the question because they cannot. be needed they think against iran because now there is an american captain. ministration on the disconnecting iran. system which enables the. messaging that can be. hard. to nomics that's

inside the united states between. officials in the cabin. french human rights groups are calling for an investigation into the one thousand nine hundred ninety four abandoned genocide to be opened that's after the release of the video which appears to show a senior french military officer being informed about a massacre taking place in an area known as the necessary hills and yet the army fail to intervene. before you would be only too confessional now human rights activists are demanding answers one leader of the organization survey is a plaintiff in the case she says it was too premature to close the case while other lawyers are accusing france were in direct complicity in the genocide lines of inquiry were not sufficiently followed up to allow investigators to determine france's military and political responsibility french military authorities were

aware that from the afternoon of twenty seventh of june on words civilians were being killed the survivors open the case thirteen years ago although back in july it was scrapped due to lack of evidence and lack of convictions but survivors of the massacre claim they asked the french military for help on june twenty seventh one thousand nine hundred ninety four but the military only came three days later already after hundreds of people were killed in the massacre and the allegation now is that the french government actually knew what was going on and specifically decided not to intervene in the genocide was committed mainly by the hutu government and its backers against the ethnic minority tutsi tribe allegations of the french government supports for the hutus who carried out most of the slaughter in the genocide have been rough on the french government's relations with the rwandan government for years but the french although they admit that they've made mistakes they say they have no complicity in the genocide that took place there.

one survivor of the if she was surprised by the newly found guilty at. norad to do no more no video doesn't surprise me i was very happy to publish the truth that we survivors had this very long time it's important that the french people knew what happened back in one thousand nine hundred ninety four when the military was there but i only know that promise to declassify the archives they didn't work out she

everything he published was already known the only things i have to do is that the french people have to know the truth. and then a seaside village has found itself getting some unwanted attention in the us election campaign. is known locally as one of the u.k.'s most economically challenged areas but images of its dilapidated streets have appeared on a republican party poster probably explains why. what links this essex seaside town to the upcoming u.s. mid-term elections an insensitive political one hundred that's what miracles here in jail exxon's in essex have been left fuming ofter a pro trump republican candidate for the senate for the state of illinois used a photograph of j. wick sands on his social media feed as an anti advertisement so the caption next to the photograph read only you can stop this from becoming a reality but the problem is the picture wasn't quite reality the image of j.

week sounds that he used was taken several years ago and since then the local authorities have made quite a few improvements to the local area so the locals here all rather cross country to try to pocket america our i mean you come to a cover of our walking and you see the different plane. when it is in america we don't remember for there right now i was iraq everything america are here is just what sorry we can refuse it winds come in use an old fire of africa somewhere so i look you're going to look at this is the bad news. a match normally should be used are going to put a good picture we got a bit of hostility with the camera down there is it kind of is do you guys feel a bit kind of burned by the negative press attention that you guys have heard yes because of the t.v. show that happened way before yeah nobody want to come study with it so you become a switch in people's faces just you know we would you know people don't like it

they don't like you or the offending advert has now been removed and dr nick stella's spokesperson has issued an apology or call for an apology our intent was never to smear to town and to photo known to us as jay wick sands in essex we never used a name for us it was an example of a town overburdened by poor governance which is exactly what we in our district are seeking to provide at every level back in two thousand and ten and two thousand and fifteen the government named the area as the most deprived in england in fact i was here to report on it at the time the time was thought up as a holiday resort for city dwellers back in the one nine hundred twenty s. these are all meant to be summer houses but because rents were so cheap people started living here all year round some parts of the town like tarmac roads street lighting or even pavements lost to shops that were here have been boarded up

unemployment is rife in the town in fact sixty two percent of the people that live here depend on welfare payments. and the town isn't exactly a luxury seaside resort it is still a deprived area and even though local authorities have been keen to stress that they have invested in new roads and new drainage systems it could use more money there is some hesitation when you talk to the locals as well they don't want to talk to the camp. they've been burned before by bad press and they're keen to turn the image of the town around some concede that they could definitely use more investment but it's not up to politicians in america to judge their hometowns one interesting suggestion came from the director of a documentary about j. which she said that dr nick stella should come over here and she could show him

around the town and so he can see for himself all the improvements that have been made i get the sense that the locals would have one would choose things to say to him. right after the break a frozen moment in time from the second old boy's uncovered after cameras found in a trench and russia still containing its original still. so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy. let it be an arms race. very dramatic in the only. very critical.

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 your previous government and it really shows how out of step. political establishment there's been a huge movement of women and young people and dave been pushing the political establishment you know relentlessly on the issue of abortion rights because ten women a day leave the country and five others were taking the pills online illegally. welcome back to the program the u.s. by syrian democratic forces which are mostly made up of kurdish troops have announced a temporary halt to operations against islamic state it come to several kurdish

villages were attacked by turkey near its border with syria the u.s. has been supporting kurdish forces in the region. to be effective against. meanwhile on the opposite side of syria terrorists have gained ground close to the border with iraq killing over forty u.s. backed fighters during an offensive there and the group's resurgence goes against what many have been led to believe as. 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 as is 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 isolette that really sure 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 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 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 cantor arena mission here we have

a defeat isis mission there are many players in the syrian conflict and all of them are hungry for a geo political boundary in syria and writing off eisel early means risking another wave of terrorist resurgence earlier we talked with baroness caroline cox she's a member of the u.k. house of lords and has been heavily criticized for her stance on syria she thinks the media is turning a blind eye to many things happening in the war ravaged country. i've had very vicious articles about me in. newspapers like the london times there is a big media but it is very biased indeed and it really does not give an equal representation of the horrific atrocities perpetrated by the two hardest but it's not going to stop me people to say thank you so much for putting. all the truth from the b.b.c. we knew there was more to it than that in thank you for telling us the other side of the story and i'm sorry to say that u.k.

and saudi arabia big time have been supporting the jihad is i've managed to find out questions in parliament that the british government has used at least two hundred million pounds of taxpayers' money to support the hardest related groups and the truth must come out to have a democratic and open discussion and i've said in the houses of parliament in the house of lords that i think russia's been doing the right thing in syria russia's been helping the syrian army to get rid of. dating back to the second world war has been a trench in southern russia and against all odds one frame from the roll of film inside has survived. but the nazi troops couldn't approach the strange they killed him with were nails

the ground covered. up and the lucky that this is a good camera and expenses will also the fighter covered camera with something like a notebook. you've been watching the weekly here a large international i'll be back with more updates in thirty minutes but first is the great american.

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started out as an experiment where like you see me now i was sitting in a mirror dressed like this my hair was not done as well mind you but that's ok. in that foreshadowing i saw the great american pilgrimage and i said to myself stevie bit could you just get an r.v. and get the dogs along with everybody stick perfect on camera and back to one and. three how to sit. very good that's very rich. and head on out across this great land i didn't think you could add another task to what you dealt while driving but eating soup while patting your dog while texting while driving while talking on a fallen probably new record multitasking while driving on the highway i want to build a bridge but telling me anything is possible. in the wake

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