for critical thinking it's time to fight for the middle for the truth the time is now we're watching closely for watching. them all the time that i thought it was no let me just. how the city unarmed groups to catch a truce with israel after a deadly exchange of cross border fire also this hour. it's

all in the this is our. policy down there on the way to. the heads of the non-profits legal aid group has recorded describing how she trains migrants and you'll read by tricking border guards. and the high ranking police woman in france take her own life in the latest wave of suicides among offices in the country opposition party says it's an executive of all conditions police face. you're watching us he international with me a good to have you with us this hour. groups in gaza have declared a cease fire with israel off to the west cross border escalation since twenty fourteen over the past few days israeli warplanes have pounded targets across gaza

off to hundreds of missiles were launched by militants. the joint operation room of the palestinian resistance factions declares that the egyptian efforts have resulted in reinforcing the cease fire with the israeli occupation the resistance will abide by the cease fire agreements as long as the israeli occupation and he is to the egyptian brokered truce that statement from him asked for a phase when agreements mediated by egypt however has been no official word from israel on whether it will uphold the troops middle east correspondent paula slip joined my colleague neil harvey in this today to discuss the situation. well as we heard over there have mass which of course is in control of the gaza strip and monitors what's going on with all the groups that operate there has called for ceasefire incorporation with islamic jihad primarily has been firing a lot of rockets at israel now half an hour before they made that statement they did issue on their twitter account a statement in which they say that israeli strikes were targeting the civilians

saying that they believe that israel had run out of what they say are military targets and they blame the whole aggression on the israeli side saying that israel started this whole flare up of course a very different narrative coming out from the israeli side where we hear that they are holding no surprise i must responsible they say it was triggered by an incident yesterday in which a rocket landed on any israeli bus that was carrying soldiers and a nineteen year old soldier is in a critical condition and they say that they say has intensified and caused the whole situation to flare up they also hold responsible he ran they say that iran is the one that is supplying weapons money and orders to both amass and islamic jihad in the territories now the final figure we have at this stage is seven palestinians killed and one israeli killed who of course was a palestinian worker unfortunately was on the israeli side during the conflict we are expecting that these tensions will continue to climb so it seems like a daily thing that we used to hear about the violence and the deaths in the region how did we get to this point well the last war between israel and hamas was back in

two thousand and fourteen and it really has been an unstable situation along the border over the last few weeks we've had the great march of return that has intensified tensions and there's a lot of discussion a lot of emergency meetings that are being held in israel today there was a six hour security cabinet meeting where the israeli side is still trying to decide how to deal with the situation and what to do so it's not certain right now that this will flare up into a full scale war but certainly the tensions on the ground and every so often we witness what we've seen now is this kind of flare up in tensions in the last twenty four hours there were four hundred sixty rockets fired into israel hundred ninety. when intercepted by the iron dome that is the highest number ever that has happened at the same time israel struck a hundred and seventy targets in gaza over the period of twenty four hours just take a look at what the last twenty four hours have been like the i thought. i

. was. the i. guess looking at those pictures there when the level of violence is it's terrifying to think that it's escalating you dread where this was going literally the reason maybe it's temporary but the you know there is a pause in the violence and i must mention egyptian led efforts what were they referring to well egypt has always come to the party in terms of being a mediator between israel and hamas and it has the buy in from the israeli side has the buy in from the palestinian side so they are and natural mediator in this situation they have been egyptian intelligence officers in and out of gaza over the last few weeks because we have seen this flare up happening a few times this is nothing new together with the united nations and in this case

norway and switzerland they have brokered what seems to be a cease fire we're hearing from certainly the palestinian side that it's a cease fire that they are willing to die to if israel ends its hostilities so it always becomes a bit of tit for tat neither side really wants to see a flare up in violence it's not going to do the hamas and the palestinians in gaza any particular good and so israel wants to try and avoid it so the one good thing is that both sides will be trying to find common ground through the egyptians and reach some kind of mediated peace after the cease fire was declared as people took to the streets of gaza celebrating what they see as a victory for her mouth they gathered there. gathered at the ruins of the al aqsa t.v. station which was destroyed by an israeli arab. and across the board in this route people gathered to oppose any ceasefire with hamas they called for an immediate military operation in gaza we had some contrast to

some conflict. i think. would like to see and to go as far as for the war like what happened in two thousand and fourteen so i think that. the homicide at least they said that from the very beginning that we are committed to. down the whole thing but at the same time we need to understand that this israeli are also going to do so as they thought in this last. they had achieved nothing get to the contrary if we look at the media absolutely wiping the government and say that there was a big failure by the government and the israeli army in even the you know dealing with the whole thing. so the israeli government on the one head would like to have a cease fire right now the problem is is the israeli government and specifically the israeli people want to put an end to this type of behavior and the way that hamas has been behaving in the violence and the terror of hamas which is seeks to

destroy the very state of israel if the come on us or any of the palestinian terror organizations would just lay down their weapons and stop you know inciting and stop terrorist stop paying terrorist families stop encouraging terror stop encouraging palestinians to kill jewish israelis the israeli army would react. if india has been really to allegedly showing the director of an n.t.i. which provides legal aid to migrants explaining how she teaches refugees to board. because you. are this is the. way that. this video that's been doing the rounds online is part of a larger investigation project by the canadian activist laura sullivan the clip allegedly shows rekha who's the executive director of the legal aid n g o advocates

abroad in this video clip she seems to be telling the undercover crew who were filming her against her knowledge that she coaches refugees and migrants on how they should how they should speak to border police and to other officials. at the moment knowing that. this is going to determine these characteristics. and. what many of you watching will be pretty unfamiliar with the name advocates abroad there are a legal aid n.g.o.s it's been operating since the beginning of twenty sixteen they provide legal aid to legal advice to people going through the asylum application process n.-g. o. operate in the e.u.

as well as right across the middle east area their own website says that they've helped fifteen thousand people cross into greece into the european union that way and another two and a half thousand into the e.u. through differing ways advocates abroad issued a tweet in which they said this was all right wing propaganda that had been the video it been altered and it was altered for political means now that tweet was later deleted they've also since deleted their online social media presence their twitter account has gone. their facebook account has gone as well so expect certainly more to come of this video coming out and more on that investigation into what's been going on there with n.g.o.s reportedly helping but in some cases asking to break the law those people who are trying to come into the country. the creation of the world's biggest trade bloc is on the table at the assy and summit of

southeast asian nations but the event has been overshadowed by tensions between china and the u.s. is igor standoff reports. vladimir putin is here in singapore and while his official program is set to start only on wednesday he's already kicked off some of the events he had planned on the margins of the summit like for example meeting with the singapore and counterpart of another big thing everybody is kind of looking out for here is the fate of the so-called regional comprehensive economic agreement now if that comes into fruition you could see this stablish mint of the world's largest ever free trade zone because the sixteen countries it seeks to unite they all together make up with a total of a third of global g.d.p. it is being pushed forward by china it is the main spearheading force but it also does have some opposition some skeptics like for example india doesn't want to cut back on its import tariffs they say their economy benefits greatly from them and so

that's why some analysts are saying that it is really unlikely that the deal that the pact will be signed here in singapore but well it's a good platform for those countries to sit down and resolve the cli's some of the differences another thing also kind of all revolving around china is any more city between beijing and washington you can see the two countries are literally at each other's throats over many many things for example china wants the united states to stop conducting military drills in the south china sea and washington just flat out ignores that washington made an arms deal with taiwan that did not sit well with china either and of course there's a trade war that donald trump launched against china and so with both leaders with both the xi jinping and donald trump not attending the summit these differences aren't going to go anywhere other nations who are present here they're concerned that they will have to pick sides between the regional powerhouse and the nation that sees itself as the globally dominant power things can get even worse because

the man that the united states decided to send here as their ambassador is mike pence and he did not words mince. when it came to china china has initiated an unprecedented effort to influence american public opinion the two thousand and eighteen elections and the environment leading into the twenty twenty presidential elections china wants a different american president his remarks have been compared to those major in the cold war between the united states and then the soviet union so it doesn't really look like that the whole animosity between beijing and washington will die down any time soon. china analyst and told us that the use of the u.s. dollar in trades between asian countries well the kleine over the coming is. i don't think it's likely to lead to d. or isolation as such you know in the sense that u.s.

dollar would be totally abandoned but i was definitely lead to a more than a single currency being used in some of the major transactions where don't forget the beside it dollar we have already got the euro and the british pound i think that in the future we're going to see the remember. a more more. and you know not too distant future the importance of the remember could well match that of the at least the british are all the euro and could well overtake the japanese yen but there's the this doesn't mean that it's going to unseat the dominance of the u.s. dollar anytime soon it would take many many many years. still to come the u.s. democrats are threatening to launch dozens of investigations against president trump that story and more after the break.

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welcome back to the program the us democratic party is reportedly planning to hits president trump with eighty five investigations the posse will take control of the house of representatives in january after last week's midterm election. there is going to have to be investigations if the democrats do take the house president trouble wake up wednesday morning to a very different political scenario here on the hill they are going to investigate this president and his administration thoroughly they do intend to request

president's tax returns former speaker pelosi insisting that her party will be strategic when democrats take control of the house in january they're going to begin immediately to investigations on impeachment the democrats are expected to demand trump's tax returns which he has refused to really since taking office they could launch new probes into alleged collusion with russia they'll be looking into the president's alleged role in paying hush money to former porn star stormy daniels plus there are plenty of other items on the list ranging from the legality of a travel ban from several muslim countries to the administration's spending on finish . with control of the lower house and congress the democrats will have subpoena power meaning they can legally require any witness to testify in congressional hearings and produce documents since september alone the republicans have blocked sixty four subpoena requests from the democrats form an annoyed congressman michael patrick flanagan believes the democrats should use the new powers sparingly.

congress is not an investigative body it's not what it does it has the power of oversight but oversight of the administration executing congressional will and spending and in the direction of the nation democrats who have no agenda and ran on no agenda and have no desire to actually manage the business of the nation have only this to run on and they want to distract this president from the work he's doing because they just disagree with him they just don't want him to be successful and this is a way to derail him and the policies that he's doing i think the nation would like everyone to just take a breath step back let's do some stuff if there's really some wrongdoing the democrats think are some are some genuine wrongdoing not just we need to see his tax returns because we need to know he's not worth as many billions as he says he is we want to publicly embarrass him which is all that tax return thing is about that that's ridiculous and nobody wants to see time and energy spent on that

astonishing numbers of weapons are going to islamic state in syria and iraq that's according to a new draft report to be tabled to the parliament speaking as a debate on tuesday lawmakers have already expressed their anger i'm sick sports keep feeling conflicts and not a tool to muscle us sums up human rights a snap shot approach delivers policy countries need to share their interpretation of arms control's rules because currently we see member states failing to even make full submissions the troughs by chairman m. e. paisa being lazing expresses shock over the volume of weapon irate going to die i guess it calls for much tougher action to stop export licenses that might be used to supply terrorists writer and broadcaster jonathan fryer says the supply of european arms to extremists in syria has been known about for at least three as. all the reports of it indeed that has been the case this is something we've known

about really since two thousand and fifteen when diana shaw the mixtape was much stronger than it is today the syrian government was reporting finding caches of weapons which had an e.u. origin and even more importantly at that stage all the weapons that were being found in iraq which had been seized by highest fighters but the really key element of this is really the end use certificates what seems to been happening is that weapons which are not in principle destined for the i.r.s. went through particularly bold galleria into a lesser extent rumania and with an channeled to i.a.s. fighters and that's very concerning and one understands completely why members of the european parliament in strasbourg this week are taking this very very seriously and wishing to bring in new measures which could basically stop this sort of abuse

of and use. record numbers of french police officers are committing suicide with the latest victim a prominent campaigner for officer welfare r.t. charlotta been has more from paris well there's shock here in france because this individual is seen as being or having been a leading voice in the protests in the movement of police against the attacks that offices have been going over the last few years she was a woman called maggie biskup ski and she was actually the founder of that movement now the reports here in front suggest that she took her own life in the last day using her service weapon and she was found dead at home with a note nearby and that death now is being treated as a suicide here in france but why was she so important well the thirty six year old was actually also the founding member of the mobilization of angry policeman this

was a group that was set up back in two thousand and sixteen after police officers received a massive attack they were attacked with protesters with molotov cocktails and in fact two individuals the police officers were severely burned with others being injured as a result of that attack as well now she has also been under investigation over the last year for what she described as speaking out to the media about attacks against the police without permission from senior officers from the police service now police suicide is a burning issue here in france with the statistics showing just how incredibly high it is for this particular profession now those statistics show that in july this is the latest it is sticks should that for this year nine thousand police officers and sixteen gen don had taken their lives that was back in july in two thousand and seventeen more than sixty police officers took their lives now it's such

a burning issue that the government did. a plan to tackle this early this year saying they will do more to help people realize if they colleagues needed support but there was criticism that that plan didn't go far enough well there's been a lot of reaction on social media today to the news of that death including from senior politicians such as the interior minister and the leader of the national rally i was in very city on with a co-exist few days ago. and here i hear the anger of the police and we are responding concretely with more effective measures and more resources on the ground the suicide of my keep scoops president of the mobilization of police officers association is a terrible symbol of the police suffering she said he denounced the suffering took and it's a big shock for all of us well we've spoken to many police officers over the last year or so who talk to us about some of the issues that they face some of the abuse

some of the attacks that they face in fact one police officer we spoke to in the last six months said that as a result of that piece they had actually considered it taking their own lives let's look back now at some of the most serious attacks that offices have faced in fronts . the french government is also coming into five for its treatment of royal officials

the mayor of advantage in the east of the country write an angry letter to the president after one thing in his resignation. after thirty years i've had enough the compromises then kept brahmas and the states withdraw have used up morally and physically according to official data more than one thousand mayors have resigned in front since the last local elections in twenty fourteen that number is twice as high as in the preceding four years we had from the director of the french rural mass association he said austerity cuts and government targets have made it difficult for local officials to do that chops. with the french government is trying to limit the powers of authorities in regions to minutes and this is a process that's been going on for a long time and it's made life difficult for local officials present martin is pursuing a policy of austerity in regard to local authorities he says he's not cutting funding for local authorities funding has never been this low there's

a toughening of standards which fish will struggle to carry out the plan the main task of room is now is to receive new arrivals because rural france is becoming more popular than ever there's never been so many people moving out some villages so it's important to maintain dialogue with the french government and get officials more room for maneuver so this is vital if you want to improve internet access health care education and expand employment in the broader economy we need to tackle these problems and the country will not develop if the government continues to hinder our efforts and up to date with the latest global news next on our take it's boom bust.

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a bucket something this show is full of brecht's news as a city of london contingency and axis of business is the c.e.o. of strong market we're ford which is here to bring us the latest and you're going to examine one of the strangest things i have ever heard about in years implanting chips in employees it's not theoretical it's actually have to see balls where it helps us go below that and examine the issues plus we look at those massive california fires from an economic and business perspective with our students often we do it in california and later margot suster from american university is back and helps us look at increased clamor for content among media companies all that directly ahead but first we have some headlines let's go. backstage drama around the united states disputes with china another major trading partners leads our global report today as world leaders prepare for the upcoming g. twenty summit in our. tina on the china front u.s.

charger secretary steven minu sion has reportedly been meeting with chinese vice premier lu he ahead of the summit in buenos or is at the end of this month the u.s. side is reportedly still insisting china put an offer on the table for discussion meanwhile china says a framework for further talk coming out of buenos aires should be the goal some news reports suggest the well known schism of the u.s. side between mr menuhin and u.s. trade embassador robert light hisor are hindering u.s. negotiators from taking a clear direction in the talks and on the canadian front justin justin trudeau the picture the prime minister of canada of course expressed optimism that he and president trump can resolve their trade related issues in buenos ariz the plan is for the leaders to sign the us mexico canada agreement the renegotiated version of nafta at the summit and turning to some apparent consequences a president trumps traders a honda motor company says that they will increase production of the x. .