it. was. guild friends donald trump looks to maintain america's partnership with saudi arabia despite accepting that it's crown prince that may have known about plans to kill dissident journalist jamal khashoggi back in october.

mass protests over the friendship president tax reforms on fuel leave one person dead and five hundred others injured including dozens of police officers. 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 two decades of pioneering research we go behind the scenes and take a look at its achievements both in orbit and on earth. broadcasting live direct from our studios most of this is our team international and sean thomas certainly glad to have you with us. right now the white house appears to have given saudi arabia the benefit of the down has washington looks to

preserve its strategic partnership with the gulf state and that is despite a statement saying crown prince mohammed bin solomon could have been aware of a plan to brutally murder journalist jamal khashoggi he went missing after injuring the saudi consulate in istanbul back in october a tease but as more. well this statement was very long awaited people were anticipating to see what president would say the title of the statement is actually standing with saudi arabia the document essentially argues that despite the fact that it's very clear that saudi forces killed jamal khashoggi the journalist the u.s. alliance with saudi arabia both economic and military will continue just. so you understand about make america great again it's about america first we're going to say it was saudi arabia 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 kerry would be has been a great ally they are ordering military equipment everybody in the world one of that order we got it and we don't 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 are created 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 the document blames iran 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 mr trump is only devoted to the first paragraph of his shameful statement on saudi atrocities to accusing iran of every sort of malfeasance you can

think of the house who are responsible for the kind of food and fire it is because we didn't break the forests just like the finns do 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 on argues that it would not be in the interest of the country for those contracts and deals mainly with defense contractors to be broken right now we have oil prices in great shape i'm not going to destroy the world economy and i'm not going to destroy the economy or our country by being foolish with saudi arabia so i think the statement was pretty obvious what. it's about america. the document ends with the phrase america first with an exclamation point and essentially argues argues that this brutal murder does not change the nature of the important economic and military relationship between the two countries. investigative journalist rick sterling told us that despite in terms

claims washington's financial ties to riyadh don't benefit the american people. 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 a president is first and foremost a weapons an 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 policy of just 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 a man you're micron's tax hike on fuel people have been blocking roads and burning tires as well as clashing with police demonstrators also said toll booths on fire on the highway. in france's south east on tuesday night the boots as well as gates and lines were heavily damaged with the highway currently blocked dubinsky has taken a closer look at what the protesters are doing. i'm hey just on the outskirts of we're in well as you can see behind me there are a group of around one hundred yellow vests waris these are the usual asia and 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 these are trying to blockade roads and roundabouts like this this is one of the main or trees 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 alteration a scald go the idea is bringing. the traffic to us 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 a full 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. for her.

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 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. take 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 all in this together and that we're going to meet. it to the end we're going to make it but 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 mike wrong keeps clowning around with his pal and pimp and powder as he likes to say well and will 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. 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

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 to protest of the government's planned health care reforms they say they feel neglected and want 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 and we're also protests in other french cities including. 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. who is

a leading candidate for the presidency will use the organization to target the kremlin's political opponents taking a look at the concern and controversy here's our tease nick you're. interpol 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 ted could be a russian and the response has been predictable a wolf at the door of fox in charge of the hen house chilling warnings that some courtesy of u.s. thermoses who issued bed joint statement urging for members to oppose the candidacy of alexander procket check 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 claims that russia has been trying to use in supposed to arrest him since

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 mirza 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 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 spirits and goals of that organization a russian being placed in charge of a major international organization yeah. yes totally absurd and last despite chuck's own brother being a ukraine representative for an e.u. security organization all that aside if russia isn't the right fit for him to post 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 in supposed voting independently could actually work out ok almost two hundred nations each with one foot. officials in afghanistan say that more than fifty people were killed and at least eighty more wounded in a suicide bombing in kabul on tuesday the attack targeted a wedding hall where hundreds of islamic scholars had gathered to commemorate the

prophet's birth no group has claimed responsibility as of yet although the taliban says it was not involved with more details here is local journalist be a while. this was a religious gathering by a 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 there so we went out to get water for the guests while we were walking down the stairs we had the sound of an explosion from inside the hole when we went inside there was smoke and dust everywhere there were dead bodies all around. i heard the explosion and managed to get my cousin who seriously wounded out of there when i got here i realized that it had been injured too we have confirmation from one senior afghan counterterrorism official that poured in explosives were used but the tragedy of this country i think lies and the fact 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 so 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 expected 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 fall of on at the end of the day they're afghans so the impact of all of these coffins and debts on the afghan society is simply catastrophic.

european foreign and defense ministers have agreed on seventeen new projects for developing in the e.u. army and despite the fact that the u.k. is getting ready to leave the european union it seems london is still very interested in its affairs including defense. has more. 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 wellbore to say he didn't take well to the idea of a european army either gavin williamson similarly forceful in his words saying he said he told u.k. newspaper that an army certainly won't be happening on his watch take a listen it is an absolutely crazy idea 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 tool in any future. 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 angler merkel and emanuel macron 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 euro zone tax system

for the digital sector our investment policy in invasion in order to show intelligence common decency and security of course through which we have lead to sound nations for months our moods and. where one has to say that either we manage together to find solutions step by step sometimes too slowly we don't have to also consigns the question of the defense of europe and the question of long term and codifying european. 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. 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 as strong as 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 repeated like a mantra that there is growing russian military activity and they need to be able

to counter it we spoke to political analyst chris bambery and he told us the government doesn't want to be the world the u.k. rather to be left out in the cold by the u.s. . britain is once 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 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 weight on like 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 afros know 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 that the americans and nato have renege 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 nato expansion i say has the stabilize the situation in europe and no we have this other idea that i did to this issue or another european army. twenty years ago russia launched in the first module of the international space station into orbit the isis. sas rather is the third bright just object in the night sky and largest manned object in space first 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 need to speak of. that silly presumably if course must. have a smidgen of. space is cool the i assess is arguably the most expensive and one of the most complex structures ever built as artie's you know neil explains as only he can. 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 day the station is the five it into two major parts one is effectively russian the other american however there is 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 the soyuz m.s.o.

nine which recently talked about the module the ship experienced an early which luckily was fixed by the crew another docking port is occupied by the cargo ship progress zero nine which is station. 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 well 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 two minutes even a kitchen table in short it's the russian living room. other modules of course are equally important but. most of them serve a storage room and so on also a life for space walks on docking and there it is

a short looks into the russian segment however the s.s. 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 unite as one which so far hasn't been possible to do back here on earth in space we are all allies. living in close quarters in zero gravity means some pretty clever designs for the modules that make up the i assess it goes it is done of the has it been 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 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 over 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 us says this part of expedition one was this man sergei krikalev jr bush when you got the moment when we docked the first two modules was one of the most memorable in my career sorry i was just floating around in space while 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. but 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 the soyuz during the journey to and from the international space station this is the module where crews spent hours of that 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 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 markings but the most crucial the buttons that attend the most crucial commands they're actually hidden behind small covers like this. to be lifted so that they are not touched or pressed by accident or in the book that's just. a monkey's bottoms is one that might seem strange i think commands depressurize the cabin to

let all of the air out even while the ships in orbit make it so that the crew can put out a fire because this button is extremely important it has additional protection this small screw when the rocket detects malfunctions or messes lies 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 and the alarm goes off. for twenty years this station has been home away from home for adventurous visionaries overachievers risk takers people of action it's instilled a passion for discovering the unknown in our generation so that when its life cycle ends mankind's business is way beyond that first step into earth's orbit. don of artsy. i love the space program see watch night international back with headlines about thirty minutes there with.

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