still friends donald trump is willing to save america's partnership with saudi arabia despite accepting that riyadh may have known about plans to kill dissident journalist jamal khashoggi back in october. a suicide bomber targets

religious gatherings 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 and for twenty years the international space station celebrates two decades of pioneering research we go behind the scenes and take a look at its achievements both in orbit and on earth. it's ten o'clock am in moscow and you're watching international live with meaning to welcome to the program. the white house appears to have given society. the

benefit of the doubt as washington looks to continue its partnership with the gulf state despite a statement saying riyadh could have been aware of a plan to brutally murder. he went missing after entering the saudi consulate in istanbul back in october to discuss this further we're joined by our t.v. . given the up rules surrounding the murder of jamal khashoggi some might say this statement has been a long time coming what did total shock i have to say well there was certainly a huge amount of anticipation for this statement that was finally released from the president of the united states now the statement actually does answer what many say is probably the biggest question that has been out there is whether or not the two top people in saudi arabia the king and the crown prince were directly involved in altering the murder of his shoji let's take a listen to how trump addressed this issue king solomon and crown prince mohammed

bin solomon vigorously denies any knowledge of the planning or execution of the murder of mr. our intelligence agencies continue to assess all information but it could very well be that the crown prince had knowledge of this tragic event maybe he did and maybe he didn't that being said we may never know all of the facts surrounding the murder of mr jamal khashoggi in any case our relationship is with the kingdom of saudi arabia they have been a great ally in our very important fight against iran. now it's important to note the statement was actually called standing with saudi arabia and it seemed to emphasize the importance of the relationship between the united states and the kingdom now it's important to note the statement blamed blamed iran the islamic republic of iran for the war in yemen saying that this was the result of

iran's actions it also talked about the amount of money that saudi arabia has invested in the united states particularly in defense contractors and weapons manufacturers saying that if these contracts were to be put in jeopardy or to be canceled that would be foolish and bad for the united states and the statement also referred to the fact of the saudi arabia is after the united states the world's largest producer of oil in the united states produces more oil than saudi arabia now it's also important to note dollars from in the statement cites what he calls representatives of saudi arabia not specifying who they are but representatives of saudi arabia who say that to show he was an enemy of the state and was involved in the muslim brotherhood now from goes on to say that may or may not be true but regardless of the case that the saudi relationship with the usa is fully intact now the statement says that the relationship between saudi arabia and the usa is quote consistent with the absolute security and safety of america the opening line of the

statement is the world is a very very dangerous are the world is a very dangerous place and from there trying to promises to operate in a way that will be to the national interest of the united states the final phrase of the document are the two words america first ending in an exclamation point so it seems that with this statement trump is arguing that regardless of the killing and the murder of his shoji regardless of that other relationship between the usa and saudi arabia will remain intact and he feels that that is the best thing for the united states. ok caleb thanks for the update caleb maupin reporting from washington. now of 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 be allowed sorry 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 that poured in explosives were used but the tragedy of this country i think lies in the fact now that 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 a yellow vests have come out across france in response to president manuel micron's tax hike on fuel people have been blocking roads and burning tires as well as clashing with police and demonstrators also set on fire on the highway confronts the southeast on tuesday night as well as gate seven lines were heavily damaged with the highway currently blocked challenge defense has

a closer look at what the protesters are doing. i'm here just on the outskirts of ruin well as you can see behind me there are a group of around a hundred yellow vests wearers these are the they've come out to protest against the high tax on carbon and so on fuels hate 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 blockade roads around abouts 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 brought 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 as standstill or a cruel but nor actually completely blocking the roads one of the reasons that they've changed a tackle not when these protests started back on saturday 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 sure. 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 are 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 through the in the distance they really have got this entirely covered and what they're saying is that the president might

call has said lots of things he said he's going to. coming to 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 no magic formula and so for 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 these governments to be useful anymore we don't want them anymore we want to change the system. responds with new laws every year every month laws that are worthless we have to say stop we are not cheap we have no choice. that's right and i spend the night here to show that grew 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 protest says hey say that they are all going to stay this is now the fourth day of the protests and they have set up some sort of camp a they giving out food and drinks and they saying they determined that they will dialogue with the government the president might call his said that he is prepared for dialogue but he hasn't said with whom we've also heard from need to re and minister christophe customer today who said that he believes that the demands of the protesters 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 accent to take on travel accommodation. removed home listings located in the. west bank from

that website. says the move was down to political science 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 two hundred listings 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 that welcomed by the palestinian and stray shin 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 his room we heard from the general secretary of the palestinian national initiative and a former colonel in the israel army for their views on a decision. the international law united nations resolutions see 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 law b. and b. you just can just pick and decision because they also realize that they will lose a lot because of the boycott campaign against them due to the evolution of international law what is really racist 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. apartments and certain so their turn to be as a result of being cowards or persia being made by islamic jihad always i don't know what but if you look for it backward to the history of under semitism or the history of the glory the right of the jews to their homeland the biblical whole and of judea and samaria low home and we christians are now angry about this this step this is an awful step being made against the story again fate. european foreign and defense ministers have agreed on seventeen new projects for developing in the army and despite the fact that the u.k. is ready to leave the european union it seems london still very interested in its affairs including defense auntie's political gives us the details well he's

definitely rubbish the idea in fact appears to be following the first steps of the us president donald trump who last week tweeted that provisions were learning german or preparing to learn german and till the americans came and saved them from occupation jaring world war two say he didn't take well to the idea of a european ah me. either gavin williamson similarly forceful in his words saying he said he told the u.k. newspaper that an army certainly won't be happening on his watch take a listen it is an absolutely crazy idea nato has delivered european security for the last seventy years and we should feel very proud of it should we undermine not by forming a separate military force absolutely not you can absolutely rest assured that britain will never become part of the european army on my watch while some might question gavin williamson having an opinion at all and any few e.u. endeavors given that the u.k. isn't planning to be part of them they are leaving the european union nevertheless

the idea for an army has been floated in the past by several leaders but it's always kind of been a taboo subject but all that changed last week when angela merkel and emmanuel microland both expressed their support for the idea as part of the world war one centenary commemorations take a listen to what each of the leaders had to say that. we need to show that europe is moving forward on social economic issues reinforcing the eurozone tax system for the digital sector our investment policy in invasion in order to show intelligence the common defense and security of course through which we have laid the foundations for months our moves in theater where one has to say that either we manage together to find global solutions step by step sometimes too slowly we don't get it also concerns the question of the defense of europe and the question of long

term and codifying to european army. well the message coming from the u.k. defense secretary today is that france and germany already belong to one military alliance along with the u.k. the u.s. and a swathe of other countries remember nato and. williamson's point is that france and germany should be aiming to meet their two percent g.d.p. target of defense spending on nato before they start thinking about forming any alternative armies now france at the moment spends about one point eight percent g.d.p. on defense and germany spends about one point two and the e.u. is very much part of nato in fact just today the e.u.'s top diplomat. she met with the secretary general of nato in brussels and reaffirmed how important the military alliances take a listen corporation with nato that is strengthening i would be pleased to welcome

to the general still to again this morning with us and our cooperation with nato and strongest ever so disagreement over an e.u. army maybe but there is one thing that all of these countries agree on the u.s. the e.u. the u.k. is part of it still all agree on the need to defend themselves against russia said it when making this e.u. army proposal and nato officials repeat it like a mantra that there is growing russian military activity and they need to be able to counter it referring to political analysts crisper and he told us that govern williamson doesn't want to be left out in the cold by the u.s. . wants to keep nato as the sole game in town because of its links the united states that's why the united states wants to keep nato and you don't want to lose european army so britain does not want something else rivaling that but i don't

think there's any really serious commitment crazy if you like it's a rival to needs or as i see it involve a huge amount of defense spending the reason why britain britain is backing america of course is that britain and actually friends with the two european countries which had a relative military way unlike germany and intervened in afghanistan or iraq in goodness knows where where else britain wants to keep and doesn't want to see itself be frozen frozen which you would be if this when this went ahead the strange thing here of course is one of the destabilizing factors in europe has been the expansion of nato itself into eastern europe in the former soviet union that has led to deep worries in more school about this process the feeling of the americans and nato of renege on promises made at the time of the when the soviet union collapsed to gorbachev and it's strange that you know the nature of the nato expansion as he has these stabilize the situation in europe and no we have this

other idea that i did to this issue or another european army. the second day of a being held by the organization for the prohibition of chemical weapons has led to heated debate in the whole members voted in favor of additional powers for the appeal and to increase its budget from now on and the body will have the authority to name the perpetrators of chemical attacks. if in the whole with more or less. as the decision making part of the twenty third conference wraps up i've relocated away from the conference center here to the russian embassy where i've been speaking to some of those involved in the delegation now wasn't a great time for russia over the last forty eight hours rush's motion that they proposed alongside china was defeat is that was a proposal that would have tried to counter the proposal put forward by the united

kingdom back in june of this year now that. will give the o.p.c. w. extra powers essentially the powers to be able to identify perpetrators of a chemical attack russia and china amongst others were against that saying that it stepped on the toes of powers borelli held by the u.n. security council they defeated in their bid to try and get that motion struck down they were also defeated in their motions to try and block it through the budget that went through as well so it seems that from february these powers as it stands will be in place but i spoke to russia's permanent representative to the o.p.c. there on buster to the netherlands alex on the show again and asked him what he makes of the conference results and where he sees the future for russia the o.p.c. w. hile the result of fugitive information come in launched by.

the group. have been trying to push where do people. to. to to. you too cute. to go to do some budget just. in the near future. to. korea not damaged. limited limited policy we would. try and make sure on the list so the so called attribute tribute to mechanism be put on to close a bill and play ball in the executive council of war the newsagent twenty years we worked together in all countries also the for the issues regarding the o.p.c. w. and after the year i think we're told. two thousand and seven to

restore a bitch all these. all the issues. political issues and research organization not regarding. specific peeves of the o.p.c. w. . it will in this day twenty years ago russia launched the first module of the international space station into orbit. is the third brightest object in the night sky and the largest manned object in space first has an anniversary message from the crew currently up there. we are proud to serve in such a ship. the international space station is a unique scientific platform. mirror

heathenish of course because of this dizziness and mirrors that silly is emir of course most. of it over a smidgen are only just a stunt see. they i authored arguably the most expensive and one of the most complex structures ever built as you know neil explained. it's. both the 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 the flooded 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 conditioner to maintain the correct humility and even a kitchen table in short it's the russian living room. other modules of course are equally important but. most of them serve as storage rooms and also a life for space walks on the dock and 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 have visited the space station over the years it's become an example of international cooperation and a big can of warm relations between two form a cult rivals here's a look at how the russia u.s. friendship developed to the moon and back. so you would ski american ski just enough to get the experience that you let it be . stuck to your yes if you move

got a promotion that. commission or if you need a roof supported think of i think population growth by better or for your you'll. look for and see if there's a western bird girl all these years i could sit there all it's iraq we are all for a brother to what. they were cutting new ground they said well gosh let's see if we can build a bigger space station and what can we do one of the problems that might come up and what you learn. some more money interesting and doesn't just give you more in them some this new ideas for falsely media literacy will mean. that you suddenly choose

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