subscribed to roughly. twelve euros fifty per month. a suicide bomb attack. on an islamic holiday in afghanistan leaving over fifty people dead in the country's capital.

mass protests over the french president's tax reforms on fuel leave one person dead and five hundred others injured including dozens of police officers. and flying high for twenty years the international space station celebrates two decades of pioneering research behind the scenes and take a look at its achievements both in orbit and on earth. it's nine o'clock here in moscow and you're watching international live with me and welcome to the program. over fifty people have been killed and dozens injured in a blast in afghanistan it's been reported that a suicide bomber targeted an area near a wedding hall in the capital kabul it of course comes on the back of peace talks between the u.s. the afghan government and the taliban no group has claimed responsibility yet local

journalist reports. this was a religious gathering by religious elders celebrating the birth of the prophet muhammad and the attackers somehow got inside the forest floor of the wedding hall and detonated a suicide vest we have confirmation from one senior afghan counterterrorism official explosives were used but the tragedy of this country i think lies. at the front line is everywhere the major cities including kabul is the target of such. deadly attacks over the last four years almost twenty eight thousand five hundred twenty nine casualties are also there among afghan national security forces i mean look what you have to really see is that peace really remains elusive in this country for well over forty years now saw that statement by u.s. officials the gathering in moscow and other statements have really created some

sense of optimism but at the end of the day everyone also knows that every side wants to really grab more territory we haven't really seen a ceasefire yet but there is expectation there could be a ceasefire and on any normal day you're actually talking about a lot of coffins soldiers getting killed in bigger numbers civilians and as well as the taliban at the end of the day there are so the impact of all of these coffins and deaths on the afghan society is simply catastrophic. protesters wearing yellow vests have come out across france in response to preston and money on micron's tax hike on fuel people have been blocking roads and burning tires as well as clashing with police the demonstrators also. on file the highway in france in. light as well as the heavy damage with the highway currently blocked he has taken

a closer look at what the protesters are telling. him here just on the outskirts of ruin where as you can see behind me there are a group of around one hundred yellow vests where is these are the they've come out to protest against the high tax on carbon fuels he in france which is increased by more than twenty percent in the last year if you just take a look you'll see that there's another group over here and what they're trying to do you see trying to block a druid's roundabouts like this this is one of the main arteries that would go from blue on all the way to paris and as you can see they've been. some of the traffic to a relative cool some people have described it as operation a scald go the idea is bringing the traffic to us down cellar or a crawl but nor actually completely blocking the roads one of the reasons that they've changed they tackle not when these protests started back on saturday at four days ago they were actually trying to block the roads but that's caused them

problems with the police so the idea here now is to bring the traffic to a snail cruel and to protest against not just the high price of fuel here in france but also the high cost of living in france let's have a look back now at the protests over the last four days. was. was. was your. plan was. worth. the burning fires to keep themselves warm here you might be able to see there's a fire just in the background there and if we walk around this roundabout you're going to see that there's another point here this is also where they're trying to stop the traffic and then again further in the distance they really have got this entirely covered and what they saying is that the president might call has said

lots of things he said he's going to come into power he's going to make reforms he's going to change the french economy for the better but the people here say there is noone magic formula and so far corn hasn't brought in a magic formula let's have a listen to what the protesters themselves are saying we don't want this president and his government to be useful anymore we don't want them anymore and we want to change the system. response with new laws every year every month laws that are worthless we have to say stop we are not dumb. we have no choice. because that's right i spent the night here to show that rule in this together and that we're going to make it to the end we're going to make it we're going to make it we are going to make it we won't let go i'm here all night again. as long as micron keeps clowning around with his pelham powder as he likes to say

well we'll do the same we'll stay here. the protesters here say that they are going to stay this is now the fourth day of the protests and they have set up some sort of campaign that giving out food and drinks and they saying they determine that they will dialogue with the government the president might call has said that he is prepared for dialogue but he hasn't said with whom and we've also heard from the interior minister christophe customer today who said that he believes that the demands of the protesters are incoherent these protests continuing across france fourth day now and we also know that there is due to be a very big or at least that's how it is a big protest on saturday where the yellow vests will continue to call for a reduction in the price of fuel and a reduction in the price of living here in france. israel looks set to take on travel accommodation. after the company removed home listings look at israeli

occupied west bank from its website says the move was down to political reasons in the disputed territory. we concluded that we should remove listings in israeli settlements in the occupied west bank that are at the core of the dispute between israelis and palestinians around two hundred listings that will be affected with the decision set to take effect in the coming days the company says it decided to remove the listings after determining they were in israeli settlements which are disputed with palestinians. the move was welcomed by the palestinian administration which had previously asked the company to end its relationship with israeli settlements israel is condemning the decision calling it discriminatory. this decision is something completely unacceptable this is pure discrimination something that is taken only against jews that are living in jew day and sumeria this is actually a racist decision and more than that i do believe it is

a double standard that is only taken against israel against jews that are living here in israel we heard from the general secretary of the palestinian national initiative and a former colonel in the israeli army for their views on a decision. the international law the united nations resolutions say that settlements are illegal and they are themselves discriminatory because they are built on stolen land from palestinians and that any relationship with these illegal settlements is a violation of international b. and b. just taken as a stick and right decision because they also realize that they will lose a lot because of the boycott campaign against them due to their violation of international law what is really recist and discriminatory is the system of apartheid that israel has created in the occupied palestinian territories which is favoring israelis to palestinians this should be a commercial company

a commercial trading between of apartments etc so their turn to be as a result of being cowards or pleasure being made by islamic terror which i don't know what but if you look forward backward to the history of ultra semitism or the history of the glowing the right of the jews to their homeland to biblical whole and of judea and samaria lo how many christians are now angry about this this step this is an awful step being made against the story again fate. the first module of the international space station was launched into orbit twenty years ago today and other stories are coming up after this break.

you know world of big partners a lot and conspiracy it's time to wake up to dig deeper to hit the stories that made stream media refuses to tell more than we need to be smart we need to stop slamming the door on the 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. china economy in the last fifteen years is different than other countries emerging that were once emerging economies that became big economies like united states did the same thing they were export exporting at it with unfair advantages until they got big and then they transition to a consumer economy so china and britain before then did the same thing so china is just following history and now they want to become

a big consumer economy and so far so good. welcome back to the program it was on this day twenty years ago russia launched the first martin of the international space station into orbit the i assess is the third brightest object to the night sky and the largest manned object in space first here's an anniversary message from the train currently up that. we are proud to serve in such a ship. the international space station is a unique scientific platform. mirror heathenish because of this just looked silly as if course most of.

our mission not only. stands see. the i assess as arguably the most expensive and one of the most complex structures at the belt in annandale explains. it's both a green hosts an aquarium and witnesses more than a dozen sunsets every day the international space station is one of my greatest achievements in our modern world but how much do we really know about it let's take a closer look in three day the station is to fight it into two major parts one is effectively russian the other american wherever there's also japanese and european scientific modules you can see here let's move to the russian segment which

currently has four docking ports marked in red that's twice as many as the americans each segment consists of several smaller modules which is how the whole station was initially put together a lot like building a giant lego model the russian segment for example has five of them however only four modules can host the cargo space ships coming on board the i assess efficiently allowing them to dock at any available port at any time currently three of those four docking ports are occupied one by this soyuz m.s.o. nine which recently docked at the module the ship experienced an early which was fixed by the crew another docking port is occupied by the cargo ship progress only nine which is stationed at the piers module and on sunday another ship the progress m s ten docked in the heart of the russian segment the module carrying two and a half tons of cargo ranging from science equipment to air and fuel will this area

is probably the most important for those onboard it contains the life support on flight control systems also we can find the living quarters for three crewmembers a conditioner to maintain the correct humidity even a kitchen table in short it's the russians living room. other modules of course are equally import. but. most of them serve as storage rooms and also a life for space walks docking there it is a short glimpse into the russian segment however the this isn't really about the russian or american sectors or even the space station itself the name of the game is global cooperation platform for countries to night as one which so far hasn't been possible to do but here on earth in space we are all allies. more

than two hundred people from eighteen countries to visit to the space station over the years it's become an example of close international cooperation and a beacon of warm relations between two former cold war rivals here's a look at how the russia u.s. friendship developed to the moon and back. so you would ski american ski is enough to get the work. that you let it be. stuck to your yes. you move out of.

the mission or if you need a roof supported think of i think population. better or for more of the feel. of her and see if there's less to her girl all the three of us so there are lots and lots we are all for a brother to what. they were cutting new ground we said well gosh let's see if we can build a bigger space station and what can we do what are the problems that might come up and what you learn. some of them an interesting and doesn't just give them for calling them some listen it was forceful for a meeting and if she were me i. just

needed to look at sixty two who could. still be released you're through a similar. it may not always be from. the other you. know what. we're working on for the future together. living in close quarters in zero gravity means some pretty clever designs for the

modules that make up the eye as. being given unique access to the simulators where future astronauts get to grips with their home in space. for two decades the international space station has been the most visible physical testament to man's dream of space exploration and like all things space it began as a smooth step which eventually turned to become a giant leap. in a way the international space station is the largest lego puzzle in the world because see it wasn't moved into orbit in one piece at first it was just one cargo

module this is the exact replica of it its name in russian means sunrise and indeed it did become the dawn of the i assess as we know it's. this small jewel a star is more of a living space there's a cubicle here a dining space also there's a docking simulation area as well where cosmonauts practice their sole use docking skills but some things i didn't plain sight because this is an actual space exercise bike. the first person to enter the u.s. says is part of expedition one was this man sergei krikalev jr bush when you got the moment when we talked the first few modules was one of the most memorable in my career because area which is floating around in space we had the u.s.p.o. unity attached to our shuttle a picture of the two modules together became

a symbol of a new era as nobody could tell where it would lead. during that flight the crew watched on from orbit our earth and to the next millennium since then the isis has grown into a sixteen more jewel station roughly the size of a football pitch imagine old trafford circling. at first both russia and the united states sent crews into orbit but since the demise of the shuttle program culminating in its and in two thousand and eleven it's just be in russia. we got as close as we could to russia's workhorse rocket this saw use during their journey to and from the international space station this is the module where crews spend hours of their time and i mean it's not very spacious it's actually looks small even for one person while it is designed to fit three inside it's

a real work station and there are no random things here to mourn it is just to showcase all sorts of technical information about how the rocket is doing indicators buttons but the most crucial the buttons that attend the most crucial commands they're actually hidden behind small covers like this so they have to be lifted so that they are not touched or pressed by accident or in the. midst of among these problems there's one that might seem strange command to depressurize the cabin to let all of the air out even while the ships into orbit it so that the crew can put out a fire. because this partner's extremely important he has additional protection this small screw when the rocket detects a malfunction and measures lights up on this board and among them this one particular bar which we pretend to ignore says rocket failure is this top left one it turns red in the alarm goes off. for twenty years the station has been home away

from home for adventurers visionaries overachievers risk takers people of action it's instilled a passion for discovering the are known in our generation so that when it's life cycle and mankind's business is way beyond that first step into earth's orbit he goes down of r.t. . the space station orbits the earth once every ninety minutes or so with a crew saying sixteen. as the director general of the european space agency explain to us why it's important space exploration isn't bound by political barriers. space has a big advantage compared to other activities because it's a buff national borders mean this is possible as i assess i always said let's open the hatches of the i s s or to other states world right but still the hits just are not open for each and every country and therefore some countries especially china

is now developing their own space station which i think is not the best solution i still would like to see them working together but maybe in the post. we will reach that goal. we have in our convention that we are doing space for exclusively peaceful purposes and my wish is of course that we are not moving into any type of star wars or having military actions in space that's not necessary base should be for me always and buff these sleep problems in therefore i hope that we will really together work for peaceful use of space we should not move the war into the orbit. corp in space even during times of crisis is for me if i'm asked the question is very important to bridge crisis this is important because we have only this tiny

various which is very fragile and we should better secure this tiny jeff i'm very happy that even at these times we can launch european astronauts american astronauts japanese astronauts canadian astronauts in of course also the russian cosmonauts together to the international space station and they are working together in the station and when they move from the russian to the american part of the station they don't have to have a visa with them. don't forget you can look it up on social media and our website that started a con i'll be back with more the top of the hour but first it's been passed. pranking gave americans a lot of new job opportunities i needed to come up here to make some money i

could make twenty five thousand dollars as a teacher or i could make fifty thousand dollars a year truck so i chose to drive truck people rush to a small town in north dakota was an unemployment rate of zero percent like gold rush is very very similar to a gold rush but this beautiful story ended with pollution and devastation a lot of people have left here i don't know too many people here and just slow down too much they lost their jobs got laid off the american dream is changing that's not what it used to be. and it's a tough reality to deal. with the lawmakers manufacture consent to instant of public wealth. when the ruling classes protect themselves. in the final.

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this is boom bust broadcasting around the world and covering the world of business and finance and the impact upon all of us i'm bart chilton coming to you this time from miami our miami studios we're so glad you're on board coming up today as the holiday season is upon us and black friday approaches we talk about an incredible industry of more than four hundred sixty billion dollars that billion with a b this one is illegal and if you aren't careful you could be embroiled in it in a hurry and we'll talk about historic retail and what to expect this year which companies will be the big winners and the losers and where will be show folks be shopping and

are there are deals to be had telling ford which the c.e.o.'s drove mark will tell us plus international agreements on how to address and confront one of the key issues of our time cyber security is moving forward and more than fifty nations agree with the direction they've won the united states the c.e.o. of various software todd shipley joins us and later he's back and we are indebted and we aren't playing in the crypto infin tech league or at big four accounting firm pricewaterhouse coopers is with us to talk crypto all that ahead but first we had some headline let's go economic summit tree and asia leads our global report today as the u.s. and china take their turbo trade and tariff show on tour making no progress on issues at the asia pacific economic. cooperation summit or apec and pop out new guinea almost as soon as u.s. vice president mike presents arrive for plymouth every apec meetings he restated

u.s. grievances with china and stayed on message throughout the weekend earlier today mr pence warned asian nations against and gauge men in china's vaunted belt and wrote an issue that saying we don't drown our partners in a sea of debt we don't coerce or compromise your independence we do not offer a constrictor ring belt or one way road stay tuned this week for more from the apec summit and the region and staying in asia nice on motor company has forced chairman carlos goan out after he was arrested he was arrested for alleged financial crimes nissan says internal auditor it discovered evidence of efforts by mr goen to mislead his colleagues at nissan quote over many years before today the brazilian born executive was most well known for his reputed reboot of nissan and french automaker renault mr going personally chair the corporate partnership between the two as well as serving.