look at. what. in the stories of the week on china gets its military ready for war trade and carrots world is the worst thing relations with washington. donald trump announces the renewal of new sanctions against iran that does. washington.

to protect their business interests in the islamic. and we talked to a survivor of rwanda's genocide its human rights group called for the reopening of an investigation into the failure to respond to the investor massacre. you hear a lot international with mean. 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 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 game make their 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 dancing red in these four war the chinese preparing for war out loud how oh 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's sovereignty and security interests. 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 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 is a 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 conscription to a volunteer army is having huge trouble recruiting even reserve troops dodging the juicy after all that's the point they ever win. 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 rolled 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 china does not want to have a conflict with the united states but if the united states really wants to impose these teens are due china i feel the chinese people will be fully mobilized behind the chinese government the chinese military. on friday the trumpet ministration

that it reimposing all sanctions against iran that were lifted as part of the twenty fifth. us president took to twitter to taunt iran with the news in a post is that the tagline from the hit t.v. series game of thrones the sanctions slated to come into effect on monday for america's unilateral withdrawal in may from the iran nuclear agreement new sanctions come on top of those already imposed by washington and focus on oil paralyzing states that refuse 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 even on the streets of tehran though told us it's only going to civilians who are bearing the brunt of the science and i'm 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 as people cannot know obtain things they used to obtain easily the forms 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. hacking 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 anymore they harm the u.a.e. in nation they have always been there for the past four decades and they've been harming the e.u. reigning 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 stayed at 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 brussels also vowed to protect e.u. companies that do business with iran but despite all the tough talk washington may be more flexible than its 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 official so for the child i want to see the same. with friends like that who needs enemies who want to be muscles that wouldn't be blinded to what american sound would you want us europeans to say economic interests a move one time economic relations with iran. we 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 themselves for you in for that indicates that they have the 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 is this connecting iran you know large. system which enables the signs messaging that can be. tossed against iran this enormously but that's the area of difference

inside the. officials in the cabin. and human rights groups are calling for an investigation into the nine hundred ninety four rwandan 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 assessor we held at the army fail to intervene. before you are your only two 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 opened 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 the genocide was committed mainly by the hutu government and its backers against the ethnic minority tutsi tribe and 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 have made mistakes they say they have no complicity in the genocide that took place there.

and one survivor of alaska she was surprised by the new fire vittia. nor i do no more no video doesn't surprise me i was very happy that media published the truth we survivors have known this really long time it's important that the french people knew what happened back in one thousand nine hundred four when the military are out there you know because i only know that promise to declassify the archives they didn't work out which everything he published was already known and the only thing

i have to is that the french people have to know the truth. i think the seaside village has found itself getting some unwanted attention in the us midterm 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 the republican party poster . explains why. what links this essex seaside town to the upcoming u.s. mid-term elections an insensitive political one hundred that's what locals here in jail exxon's in essex have been left fuming after 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.

wick 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 park in america are and then you come to a cover of walking and you see the different plane. when it is in america we don't leave room or for the right now again i was iraq and everything america we hear is just let's say we can referee it winds come in use an old fire of africa somewhere and say look you're town's going to look like this is the bad news. and that's no you shouldn't used are going to put a good picture on it we got a bit of hostility with the camera down there is it kind of is it is do you guys feel a bit kind of burned by the negative press attention that you guys have had yes because it's a really show that happened way before yeah now when you want to come study would say become a sticks in people's faces yes just you know we would you know people don't like it

they don't like it or the offending advice has now been removed and dr nick stella's folks person has issued an apology or cough 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 search 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 we have been boarded up unemployment

is rife in the town in fact sixty two percent of the people that live kids append 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 cameras 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 hometown 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 here would have one or two things to say to him. right after the break a frozen moment in time from the second world war was uncovered after a camera is found in a trench in russia still containing its original film. 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 and dave 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 press as a warning warning of breakin its treaty and other promise that the united states says it's going to leave a treaty a girl. like the program after almost two decades in national politics and political announced on monday she was stepping down as party leader of the christian democratic union

adding she won't run for chancellor for a fifth time merkel's decision comes on the heels of her party's latest disappointing performance in regional elections. the figures that came in overnight from her selection of a wholly disappointing and bitter. one that's what it says it can no longer be business as usual process after this result after the result of the area after the conflict. the c.d.u. c.s.u. in summer and off to the difficulties in forming a government coalition as the previous attempts to form one between the c.d.u. c.s.u. f.t.p. and the green party fell through. her political career after the fall of the berlin wall joining the c.d.u. in one thousand nine ten years later she became the party secretary general and then its leader in two thousand and five made history by by becoming germany's first female chancellor sentence she has been re-elected a further three times but over the last few years popularity has taken

a hit. that . reward 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 or not .

measure that along political russian ality there is. going to myrtle it's 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 there was a less when. ever something important happened you usually are surprised by it happening right now and this is why the rule is really surprising that angular merkel is so quickly stronger consequences out of the disaster still electoral defeats during the last state elections and b. they aren't and in history. accommodating back to the second world war has been recovered from a trying in southern russia and against all odds one frame from the run a film inside has survived.

that's the troops couldn't approach the strange they killed him with were next to ground covered in. the form we're lucky that this is a good camera and an expensive film also the fighter covered camera with something like a notebook. they've been watching the week here lotty international i'll be back with more updates in thirty minutes but first it's was

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longer welcome to worlds apart as the western world faces the political reemergence of social conservatives there is one state that's been steadily progressing in the opposite direction bartle and one of the most traditional nations in europe has just lifted its ban on abortions and repealed. is it now on course of becoming one of the most liberal countries in europe to discuss that i'm now joined by ruth

irish politician and a member of the irish parliament ruth it's so good to talk to you thank you very much for coming on board for the invitation now i know that both the repeal of the abortion ban the repeal of the blasphemy law were major milestones for you personally for your party as well as for your country as a whole but i think to many outsiders the main question is not so much how did i do it but how did it manage to hold out for so long how do you explain it well it isn't unusual to. church control in the country since independence almost a hundred years ago the church and state were interconnected i suppose because it was a very weak economy. contrary to the new independent to close connection with the catholic church for social control. the church had

control of health education and specks of life includes including advising the government on passing. legislation. restricting the freedom of women working class people poor people and the despite all of the control things seem to be moving very very fast in two thousand and fifteen are they became the first country in the world to legalize same sex marriage by a popular vote and from what i understand it was done by a fairly big margin and i think this is still a very contentious a very divisive issue in the most liberal constituencies and i find. this accession of things very interesting the fact that people with indoor same sex marriage before they actually let's say did blasphemy provision or. abortion ban one. this is about arlen it kind of takes things. in

very different russian well. twenty fifty a referendum is put to the people but the country has been changing for about twenty years the catholic church has been in decline less and less people go to church and of course young people are much more progressive from advanced in their roster tube so the referendum. majority primarily by young people persuading older people and people showed solidarity with people and wanted to affirm tolerance and then young people then said well the next is abortion now let me ask you specifically about the blasphemy law i saw people characterize it as medieval but from what i understand it's still a fairly fresh legislation i mean it was passed less than a decade ago the did more detail definition of blasphemy what happened to your

country between two thousand and nine and now to produce such a dramatic turnaround because you mentioned that the country has been changing for two decades but it seems to have changed in just the last couple of years. the political establishment have been very slow to change i mean the ordinary people on the ground have been way ahead on all issues in terms of blasphemy i mean blasphemy has never actually been used nobody has been prosecuted but you are right yes it was only renewed ten years ago by a previous government and it really shows how out of step the political establishment. but now what's happened in the last number of years there's been a huge movement of women and young people reflecting a global famine asst movement as well that we see and alter countries have been pushing the political establishment you know relentlessly on the issue of the abortion rights because ten women a day leave the current.