the asia pacific summit it's where leaders fail to ramp on a joint declaration the trade rivalry between the u.s. and china is laid bare. also coming up on the program a popular russian cartoon is accused of being a kremlin propaganda tool designed to influence children's minds around the world. the pull of women backing female only public transport to tackle sexual assault and the global safety survey. facebook investors pushed for mark zuckerberg

to quit following a series of scandals the latest being the firm's links to a p.r. agency accused of. billionaire george soros. around the clock across the world this is our international from the team and myself you know me a welcome to the program our top story u.s. vice president mike pence ace washington is ready to continue its trade war against beijing by doubling tarr of chinese boots his remarks came at the annual asian pacific economic cooperation summit this weekend the event ended on a historically low note the member states failed to agree on a final joint statement taking us through all thought here nic here. fears over the

u.s. china trade war have still not been put to bed sure it's all smiles and much in shirts and the family photo. but unlike previous years this summits was less about togetherness and more kids who well divisions of a family breakdown with washington and beijing vying for the loyalties of other countries you know the two big giants in the room what can i say so which economic superpower would do you side with we have option a china striving to better communications and connections guns howard and time and i was looking at the vast ocean when i boarded the ship and it struck me that we are all indeed fellow passengers in the same boat that is keep steering the wheel steady and paddle in the right direction and it seems that whereas with misgivings that is what king on

becoming more open. mankind has reached a crossroads which direction should we choose cooperation or confrontation openness or closed doors when when progress or a zero sum game and it wants to be able to reach you easier by learned by see any way possible then we have option b. the usa now aside from everything else the us is better than china why because it says so united states has a principled approach that stands in stark contrast to some other nations our vision will prevail besides beijing is just a user anyway china is taking advantage of the united states for many many years. in those days are over. unlike china the us doesn't want to tie you down they just want you to do things the american way so it doesn't have to punish you the united

states. offers a better option we don't drown our partners in sea of debt we don't coerce compromise your independence with a lot to say on the local fun club at hand if this was a custody battle see jim paine good get the kids the red carpets were rolled the bones plates chinese flanks were waved clearly papua new guinea has already been wooed by the middle kingdom but how did the other countries feel some analysts say the u.s. still has its trump card and despite all this america first talk many countries in the region still crave a slice of the american pie the truck to put the seat has become. recent or an excuse for small countries to our support and this will help from the united states to hedge against china i think that is wonderful news for the small countries despite that the vision of disagreement between china and the us and the rivalry among them are escalating i think. very much.

rather than something i grew up all i'm actually not bring about because you provide a lot of opportunities for the smaller countries to get into these rivalries the scenario and trying to work together to try to find u.s. and china together so that it can get past a lockdown it was an apex of first time it's been held in papua new guinea and the only time leaders have been unable to agree on a formal declaration so is divorce on the cards for the apec family with trump and she said to me to the g twenty this month in their first face to face since the trade spun began the question is will the leaders be having double chocolate cake or coerced into sour grapes. sitting the kids in front of the t.v. to watch cartoons should be a safe bet to keep them quiet for

a. it at least just make sure they're not being covertly programmed with propaganda some western use reports claim a globally acclaimed russian series is trying to influence young minds i was checking for the reports. that little sweetheart was matia from the cartoon in the bear originally russian the series has been translated into dozens of languages and won the hearts of millions across the globe but it turns out there may be a sinister side to the enduring little girl and her protective hat trying to. see now what russia has forgotten to mention there is that some cartoons are in fact evil putin propaganda yep according to a times u.k. article moshe is just another putin puppet.

russia is funny steep. but also a plucky she punches a bunch of weight is no fun face to see is putin ask. i honestly don't know who should be more offended by that comparison so where's the evidence of the kremlin's influence well critics seem to be particularly worried about one scene and a single episode or moshe's seen wearing a soviet border guards hat. apparently that's meant to be a statement on russia's defense of its borders but even if we say that's true what kind of kid would pick up on that but hey it's best to start when they're young right the studio behind this propaganda masterpiece of course denies being influenced by the kremlin's hand saying they received no state funding but we did a bit of digging and found some ominous signs you simply can't ignore here comes

the kremlin for all. two seconds that could easily be interpreted as a soviet red star disguised as an innocent christmas decoration and you may not realize it but the weird hat that must have got on here is a traditional russian hat now i know those examples aren't so much propaganda as they are just random russian things but that's all we could try but worry not it turns out the bear itself is a representation of russia as a whole you see bear you think russia right. the best symbol is russia it's a fact it's a struggle for the minds part of a hybrid explosion in which a negative image of russia is replaced by a positive oh the horror the horror now you know what your children are being exposed to and can protect them accordingly. and the bear are not coming to invade your homeland mattea and the band is hybrid wolf

a. british empire. and who sums up american decadence bits of. my nephews are watching my shoot the bear too they don't seem to be particularly indoctrinated. i really really do not want to read more about how masha the bat is putin is propaganda. i can confirm that i watched two episodes of martian there when i was nine and i suddenly became a twitter bot he speaks russian. that want to bring attention to mexico where protesters have plush with police during a demonstration against the wave of migrants making their way through the country.

you're seeing scenes of hundreds gathered in tijuana on the u.s. border where a car of migrants from central america are trying to make their way into the united states last thursday about two thousand migrants arrived in the area around expected likely to be stuck there for a long while asylum applications are processed i think pressure mexico and local services to the u.s. has ramped up its border security with helicopter patrols and barbed wire and for the residents all of tempers are free. and they're not migrants it's a human avalanche but i'm not against the migrants i'm making is how they're entering the country. that if they don't cross it's necessary to deport them quickly to cause the southern border and try to treat this problem as a national security issue. i want to register i want to ask for asylum because nine months ago my brother tried to kill me in a political campaign what are we going to wait

a little bit because people say that it is like the not going to give us anything that the doing that so people get exhausted not deported to one douras. facebook sir premo mark zuckerberg is under pressure from the firm's investors who want him to step aside as chairman their patience is wearing thin following a series of scandals over the past year which plague the social media behave with facebook he's behaving like it's a special snowflake it's not it is a company and companies need to have a separation of church and c.e.o. that concentration of power creates a lot of defensiveness within the company it's an exercise in hyden that there is a problem around management and that there is a problem and set in the wrong map to fixing it. yet there have been plenty of headline grabbing scandals to hit facebook the latest run in with billionaire philanthropist george soros it locked up and goes through the. things are not going

well for mark zuckerberg he's been involved at facebook in a wave of scandals involving privacy violations and data leaks and now protesters are outraged. at facebook our mission is to give people the power to build communities and bring the world closer together more than two billion people come to our platform each month to stay connected with friends and family facebook is taking issue with a protest sign for training the zuck as an octopus with tentacles spreading all over the world they say that that imagery is anti-semitic however facebook had no problem playing the same card against the protesters they even hired a p.r. firm facebook employed republican opposition research firm to discredit activists protest is in part linking them to the liberal finance you know george soros it also tapped his business relationships lobbying

a juror civil rights group to cause some criticism of the company's anti semitic yeah blame it on george soros the liberal billionaire known for splashing money on liberal causes now he's certainly no fan of facebook do you didn't get that moment that is not. new word. to protect society accused of constant criticism of. debtors you know into a managed. days and i don't know that but here's the irony when it came out that facebook was accusing soros of being the master manipulator behind the protesters soros then accused of facebook of anti-semitism you know they're also aware that much of this hateful and blatantly false and semitic information is spread via facebook the notion that your company you'll direction actively engaged in the same behavior is frankly astonishing to me zuckerberg says that he's got nothing to do.

the soros claims the p.r. firm was hired without his permission now they've been fired he says he has nothing but total respect for soros and billionaire to billionaire now the company does admit they did investigate soros connections to the protesters however they say it's got nothing to do with his jewish heritage to suggest this was an anti semitic attack is reprehensible and untrue both soros and zuckerberg say that the other guy is motivated by ethnic bigotry the same kind of ethnic bigotry to boot is your mind blown it should be able pop and artsy new york yeah as you might expect a lot of analysis on including from legal analyst on media come to our lionel he spoke to us and he's at the belief that the the often absurd blame game is obscuring some real and very serious issues with facebook it's that troll mentality anything i can throw at you to cause you to be defensive even if it did gillis

anti semitism zina phobia homophobia. myside jinnie you don't have to prove it nobody's ever said excuse me for it explain to me how i'm guilty of this no once i slap that label on you you have to disprove it so much the presumption of innocence in reverse but the real issue here is not fake nudes though raj and george soros it's one about my in for many you know the cambridge in a living what are you doing with me what about what are you taking from my family and me and children and where we live how are you using this seemingly innocuous seemingly welcoming social network information and data are the currency. of the twenty first century that's the issue that matt

that's missed pool lately. i'm afraid it's time to talk selfies it is fair to say many people out there are truly obsessed with taking them these days but for one month a room of the mill pics saved him from momentum behind bars. there

you go well if anyone has got the monday morning blues it's the british prime minister with a crucial week ahead to try and sell her beleaguered breaks at plunge we'll get you right up to speed on longer stories in like second.

manufacture consent to public wealth. when the ruling classes protect themselves. the roots to. dilute the real news is. to what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy confrontation let it be an arms race is on the spear in dramatic development the only i'm going to resist i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical time to sit down and talk.

just coming up to nineteen minutes into the program welcome back a new global study has shown that more than two thirds of women in tokyo support having single sex train carriages on public transport because of concerns over harassment women only courage is were introduced in tokyo nearly twenty years ago to come up the problem of groping on crowded rush hour trains no one is japanese or as chick come it's still a major problem in the city where more than two thirds of sexual harassment claims last year took place on metro trains or in stations when i was a junior high school student it took me an hour on the paths trying to get to school every morning she can happen to me almost every day my first you can

experience was when i was sixteen years old i was so scared i couldn't do anything i think my school uniform made me a target i froze i did nothing i just kind of the train and went to school i felt disgusted angry and confused but mostly scared. well in terms of single sex courage it's not a universally popular idea in tokyo just this february we saw one group of men protesting by boarding a women's only courage on the train calling the policy the scrim minatory other critics point out that it doesn't solve the wider problem segregated trains what's next instead of fixing the problem let's separate the sexes bad logic here and it will lead to other forms of segregation bassed women only facilities provided only moment to rest right doesn't stop sexual violence the ethical response to violence is to stop the aggressors not segregate the victims why is there no men only carriage to balance everything out and to offer

a place where men don't have to worry about being falsely accused well let's just go through the global story here tokyo tops a poll of five major world cities and is really way ahead of the average in support of female only courage as cairo is second while just over half of women in mexico city backed the idea that's the spike the study showing that it is the most dangerous city for females on public transport less than thirty percent interest in the of women in new york london supported they were more concerned with journey times and costs a lot spoking talk show host john galt thinks better law enforcement is the answer . but i really don't like the idea of segregation i mean where did you end if we go down that route and also actually use that dreadful term isn't victim blaming each not the women who are sold here it's the man with gold medals for harassment and abuse we must just enforce them out woman has every right to drive

the travel on the subway systems and be saved it isn't up to the subway systems and the courts and the police to enforce laws i don't think this will really seriously i want to live in a modern tolerant liberal society well woman just like a man can just like they wish go where they wish and be safe so we shall all of us to demand of our politicians and i will make is that these things are in force. here about the fate sure to continue the break the prime minister takes her brags that sales pitch to brussels this week treason me is struggling to get backing for her plan which has led to a raft of government resignations party plots to i start from downing street after one of her toughest weeks yet p.m.a. said that getting rid of her would not make brings it talks any easier it's actually about what's right for the country and as far as i'm concerned i would be

distracted from actually the important job in this critical week and against the ations of making sure we do get that final good deal for the country but you know a change of leadership at this point isn't going to make the negotiations uneasy and it's not going to change the parliamentary arithmetic of some of the most vocal criticism of trees amaze you towards plan actually comes from within our own party at least twenty five conservative m.p.'s say they have submitted letters of no confidence in the prime minister forty eight though that's the important number if that's what's needed to trigger a leadership. breach what it is all taking a toll on the party the tories are slipping in the pool. bragg's it supporting voters lose faith in the p.m.'s plan it's seeing the opposition labor party in fact take a three point lead pressure for us not election the u.k. is scheduled to leave the european union on march the twenty nine next year it is just that we're four months away not after a bitter fourth referendum in twenty sixteen sold the country normally vote for

breaks at a summit later this week is expected to see e.u. leaders sign off on the withdrawal deal. a lingering threat of a no deal breaks it is talking fears of the army being deployed onto the streets a number of british news reports citing military sources say about. troops are on standby and ten thousand more are ready to assist if chaos ensues journalist neil clark believes treason me has got another tough week ahead. the next five days are going to be absolutely crucial. but just in the for that reason may ask the conservative party and british prime minister. all direction all relationship with the european union it's going to be very difficult to get off if not impossible looking at the numbers unless he could somehow get from the e.u.

in the next couple of days some kind of further concessions that would make the deal. it carries or may have to fall this week have a new conservative leader coming in. after the election leadership then that's going to be very how that plays out because the fact of the maps it is the house of commons where the majority of m.p.'s are actually generally speaking favorable to remain even when usually deal. because that's wait and see that you read it it's a long document and it really is a bad deal that really is actually a deal with britain staying in the this is actually a deal which is a very long way i think for more. people. voted for. hope you're having a fine start to the week or every year maybe today do stay right up to date by following our t.'s twitter page and i'm here in just over half an hour's time with all the stories making waves this month.

in a world of big partisan news lot and conspiracy it's time to wake up to dig deeper to hit the stories that mainstream media refuses to tell more than ever we need to be smarter we need to stop slamming the door on the back and shouting past each other it's time for critical thinking it's time to fight for the middle for the truth the time is now for watching closely watching the hawks. i've been saying the numbers mean something they matter the u.s. has over one trillion dollars in debt more than ten white collar crimes happen each day. eighty five percent of global wealth you longs to the rich eight point six

percent market saw a thirty percent rise last year some with four hundred to five hundred three per second per second and that coin rose to twenty thousand dollars. china is building a two point one billion dollar a i industrial park but don't let the numbers overwhelm. the only numbers you need to remember is one to one business shows you can't afford to miss the one and only boom but. something seemed wrong but i. just don't. believe yet to stamp out this they become agitated and in gains from it because of the trail. when something you find themselves worlds apart. just to look for common ground.

i'm after a time when we're going underground as russia and the u.k. and other signatories of the ninety ninety three chemical weapons convention meet in the hague to discuss the future of the o p c w coming up on the show with the british government in chaos we speak to someone who once received the biggest individual democratic mandate in the european union a long time comrade of jeremy called in ken livingstone's and the agreement to lift sanctions on any track record one theme in the field peace and security and the positive steps every train is taking to meet the demands of the security council

while britain continues economic warfare all around the world what's behind it voting to drop the un sanctions against the fact the linchpin of global security eritrea plus we told clawson golden age hollywood and the ogre of show business with the son of joan collins author an artist alexander newly told us of all coming up in today's going underground but first to that country bombed out orders from tourism a is today is expected to be the last briefing at the u.n. of on boy staffan de mistura on syria this was the official his pleas arguably went unheard by the british government shortly before u.k. bombing in the spring we call old do insurance picked for international humanitarian and human rights law including your money did and access across syria to all people in need and we urge once more concrete respectively the lucian twenty four zero one throughout syria that resolution for a cease fire apart from against isis diet al qaeda linked groups wasn't really

a factor for trays of may and blairite labor for them it was about the highly lie. glee over the conclusive we judge is highly likely but both that the syrian regime has continued to use chemical weapons since then and will continue to do so or as our opposite number said i believe that the action was legally questionable and on saturday the united nations secretary general and tourney good terry said as much reiterating that all countries must act in line with the united nations charter luckily for tourism a compliant press over u.k. aerial bombardment i mean it's a civil war was never really legally questioned even if historic giving his briefing today will likely not mention it well stories i'm a responsible for escalating the syrian catastrophe that killed hundreds of thousands and that involved u.k. taxpayer funded militias opposing president assad even the media doesn't listen to corbin perhaps they should go back in this and to do.