in an instant small. the pain is indescribable it's feels like a really really bad chemical burn but it goes through your skin into your muscle. there's no relief. we're not sure this is. still friends donald trump is going to save america's partnership with saudi arabia despite accepting that riyadh may have known about plans to kill descendant a journalist. back in october.

mass protests over the french president tax reforms on fuel leave one person dead and five hundred others injured including dozens of police officers. and there's an outcry in western capitals as a russian official looks set to take over the reins at the international criminal police organization. and flying high 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. are broadcasting live and direct from our studios in moscow this is our to international and sean thomas certainly glad to have you with us. i thought house appears to have given saudi arabia the benefit of the doubt as washington. to

continue its partnership with the gulf state despite a statement saying it could have been aware of a plan to brutally murdered journalist jamal khashoggi he went missing after entering the saudi consulate in istanbul back in october. our intelligence agencies continue to assess all information but he 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 minute mr shoji in any case our relationship is with the kingdom of saudi arabia they have been a great town in a very important fight against iran while this statement was very long awaited people were anticipating to see what president would say now the statement that was released indicates that the united states will continue to cooperate with the kingdom of saudi arabia the title of the statement is actually standing with saudi arabia now in the lead up to today's statement donald trump has not been willing to

admit that saudi arabia may have had a role in the actual killing of jamal khashoggi however donald trump has been emphasizing all throughout this process that he indeed intends to maintain the relationship between the two countries especially trade. they are ordering military equipment everybody in the world one of that order we got it and we got all of it every bit of it i don't like stopping massive amounts of money that's being poured into our country spending one hundred ten billion dollars on military equipment and or things that create. like. others for this country now it's important to note that a large portion of the document is dedicated to rhetoric regarding the islamic republic of iran now that's interesting because iraq had nothing to do with the killing of jamal khashoggi this took place in turkey and was carried out by forces from saudi arabia the document blames iran. and for the conflict in yemen despite

the fact that it's saudi arabia that has attacked yemen and continues to bombard and be involved in yemen in the yemeni conflict and little evidence of iranian involvement has been presented now regardless of the document goes on to talk about how heavily invested saudi arabia is in the united states and the many contracts and deals that exist and argues that it would not be in the interest of the country for those contracts and deals mainly with defense contractors to be broken the document from there goes on to talk about how saudi arabia is actually the largest producer of oil second it only to the united states now in addition to that donald trump cites what he calls representatives of saudi arabia it's not clear who they are who argue that because shoji was a member of the muslim brotherhood and an enemy of this state now he does not confirm that that is true but simply sites these unnamed representatives of saudi arabia as accusing him of being such now the president of the united states

essentially arguing that the maintaining of the relationship between saudi arabia and the united states is in quote consistent with the absolute security and safety of america it's important to note that the documents first opening line it says the world is a very dangerous place and essentially the document goes on to argue that the united states benefits from this relationship with saudi arabia and that despite the fact that this journalist was murdered despite that fact the united states will keep this relationship intact because it is in the national interest the document ends with the phrase america first with an exclamation point and essentially argues that this brutal murder does not change the nature of the important economic and military relationship between the two countries. all right investigative journalist rick sterling told us that despite trump's claims washington's financial ties to riyadh don't benefit the american people and u.s. foreign policy is basically driven by the military industrial complex which as he

reports in this statement is due to receive one hundred ten billion dollars in weapons or orders from saudi arabia so that's what it's come down to the united states under president trump is first and foremost a weapons and arms dealer president trump starts and ends with america first and i would just suggest this is not in the interests of the american people this kind of poll a sea of just of making the us into primarily a weapons and arms dealer is really against our interests lockheed martin and raytheon and boeing like this but for the rest of it it's it's a disaster. protesters wearing yellow vests have come out across france in response to president emanuel micron's attack site on fuel people have been blocking roads and burning tires as well as clashing with police and the demonstrators also tollbooths on fire on the highway. france southeast on

tuesday night the booths as well as gates and lights were heavily damaged with the highway currently blocked he has taken a closer look at what the protesters are doing. i'm here just on the outskirts of ruin where as you can see behind me there are a group of around a hundred yellow vests where is these are the they've come out to protest against the high tax on carbon and so on 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 is they're 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 called go the idea is bringing the traffic to as standstill or

a crawl but nor actually completely blocking the roads one of the reasons that they've changed they tackled 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 crawl 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. 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 further 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 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 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 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 cheap we have no choice. that's right and i spend the night here to show that we're in this together and that we're going to make it to the end you know 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 my crank keeps clowning around with his pal and pimp and powder as he likes to say well and 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 campaign that giving out food and drinks and they saying they determine that they will dialogue with the government the president might call his said that he's prepared for dialogue he hasn't said with whom we've also heard from need to re and minister christoph piston here today who said that he believes that the moines des. the protest is incoherent these protests continuing across france full staying now and we also know that there is a very big or at least that's how it is a big protest on saturday where the yellow vests will continue to cool for

a reduction in the price of fuel and a reduction in the price of living here in france meanwhile on tuesday around one hundred nurses gathered outside the ministry of health and parents to protest the government's planned health care reforms they say they feel neglected and want to the importance of their work to be recognized they are particularly unhappy that two hundred million euros are being spent on the creation of four thousand new medical assistant positions and believe the money would be better spent elsewhere there were also protests and other french cities including marsay ram and. at least fifty people have been killed and dozens injured in a blast in afghanistan it is being reported that a suicide bomber targeted an area near a wedding hall in the city of kabul of course comes on the back of peace talks between the u.s. and the afghan government and the taliban no group has claimed responsibility as a local journalist to be lawless reports. this was

a religious gathering by a religious elders celebrating the birth of the prophet muhammad in the attack or 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 explosives were used but the tragedy of this country i think lies and 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. 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 so that statement by u.s. officials the gathering and moscow and i the 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 cease fire 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 they're off guns so the impact of all of these coffins and deaths on the afghan society is simply catastrophic well despite the fact that the u.k. is planning to leave the e.u. next spring it is still seems to be interested in defense affairs including developing an e.u. army more about that after a short break to watch our children. show

seemed wrong. why don't we all just don't call. me. yet to shape our disdain become active. and engaged with equals betrayal. when so many find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground. what hope to do something to. put themselves on the line they did accept or reject . so would you want to be president. some want to. get it right. this is what. people are. interested always in the war.

or what about this is aren't international now a group of u.s. senators are putting pressure on washington's international partners not to elect a russian official as the next head of interpol they claim that alexander broke called choke who is expected to win the vote on wednesday will use the organization to target the kremlin's political opponents taking a look at the concern and controversy here's artie's nichiren. in sapulpa a politically neutral alliance of international police working together but now the agency's top dog is up for grabs and things have turned political maybe because the next head could be a russian and the response has been predictable a wolf at the door a fox in charge of the hen house chilling warnings that some courtesy of u.s.

thermoses who issued bad joint statement urging for members to oppose the candidacy of alexandre prokop chick and they say there's a very valid reason to be concerned russia routinely abuses interpol for the purpose of settling scores and harassing political opponents dissidents and journalists there's a lot that can be said about mr brown a man who could. names that russia has been trying to use in supposed to arrest him says twenty thirty he's a u.s. born british businessman had an investment fund which at one time was the largest foreign portfolio investor in russia and accused by russian authorities of grave crimes from embezzlement to excessive rita murder he denies all charges saying they are all politically motivated such attacks on russia have only helped him build a reputation of a brave man who stands for human rights it turned out that in putin's russia there

are no good guys no empathy and no morals to threaten me with death they threaten me with kidnapping the russians will do anything they can get away with or even stuff they can't get away with to arrest kidnap torture and kill to take people's properties away the russians are liars and who doesn't love a guy that accuses russia of being a baddie not ukraine who also have a problem with the russian leading interpol russia's possible presidency interpol is absurd and contradicts the spirit some goals of that organization a russian being placed in charge of a major international organization yes totally absurd and last despite procket chuck's own brother being the ukraine representative for an e.u. security organization all that aside if russia isn't the right fit for interpol's top job then who is well not china apparently the previous head of interpol was heavily criticized with concerns that he would arrest every single chinese

dissident on the planet which of course never happened so maybe just maybe the idea of interpol voting independently could actually work out ok almost two hundred nations each with one vote. european foreign and defense ministers have agreed on seventeen new projects for developing in e.u. army and despite the fact that the u.k. is getting ready to leave the european union it seems london's still very interested in its affairs including defense artie's point vocal gives us details. well he's definitely rubbish the idea there in fact appears to be following in 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 army either govern williamson similarly forceful in his words saying he

said he's told the u.k. newspaper that and we 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 or troll on any. new 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 the muckle and emanuel 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. look we need to show that europe is moving forward on social economic issues reinforcing the eurozone tax system for the additional six or our investment policy in invasion in order to show intelligence for the common defense and security of course through which we have laid the foundations. was. one has to say that either we managed together to find local solutions step by step sometimes too slowly we don't get it also consign . the question of the defense of europe and the question of long term and co to find 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 gavin 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 cooperation with nato that is strengthening i would be pleased to welcome to go to general stoltenberg 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 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 all right we spoke to political analyst chris bambery and he told us that govern williamson doesn't want the u.k. to be left out in the cold by of us. britain is once to keep nato as the sole game in tone because of its links the united states that's why the united states wants to keep natal and they 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 nato as i say would 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 the worries in more school about this process of the feeling that the americans and nato have renee go on promises made at the time of the when the soviet union collapsed to meet gorbachev and it's strange that you know the nature of the need to expand sesay has these stabilize the situation in europe and know we have this other idea that i did to this issue another european army. twenty years ago russia launched the first module of the international space station into orbit the i s s is the third brightest object in the one sky and the largest manned object in space here is 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. you don't usually speak of the looked silly presumably if course most it. was you would open a smidgen of. stunned sea. full disclosure i'm a geek for the stuff and space is cool the i assess is arguably the most expensive and one of the most complex structures ever built as art as you know neil explains

. it's both a green hosts and an aquarium and witnesses more than a dozen sunsets every day the international space station is one of mankind's greatest achievements in our modern world but how much do we really know about it let's take a closer look in three to the station is the fight it into two major parts one is effectively russian the other american however there's also japanese and european scientific modules so you can see details 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 and flight control systems also we can find the living quarters for three crewmembers a conditioner to maintain the correct and even a kitchen table in short it's the russians living room. other modules of course are

equally important but. most of them serve as storage rooms and also a life for space walks and docking and there it is a short trips 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 back here on earth in space we are all allies. but it doesn't for me again space is cool hubby back with you in about thirty three minutes with more news there was. this manufacture consent to the public will. when the ruling

classes protect them so. when the final merry go round lifts only the one percent of. the time we can all middle of the room six news. groups. to bragg's it or not to break that that is the question teresa mayes plan to exit the e.u. has been roundly criticised from virtually every corner and with a looming deadline the u.k. could face a hard brings it without an agreement even early elections how did it get to this point. tracking 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 rushed 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 so much they lost their jobs that laid off the american dream is changing that's not what it used to be. and it's a tough reality to deal with. at the time a local television reporter from detroit is following the case closely bill proctor is well aware of the methods used by local police to close certain cases as quickly as possible way. they did this

all the time. they had people make statements whether in writing or they did the writing they had somebody in with the suggestion that hears this and you can go home i've heard that doesn't. sell us dozens of them and it wouldn't surprise me at all the three number doesn't run into the hundreds or thousands because the same cadre of bad detectives that probably were two dozen of them were in place for over thirty five years. the mark on her read. with no evidence or witness statements against him on the seventh of march nine hundred ninety seven lamar monson is sentenced to fifty years of.