the pain is indescribable it's feels like a really really bad chemical burn but it goes through your skin in your most of the but. there's no relief. we're not sure this is just. still friends no matter what donald trump values to maintain america's strategic partnership with saudi arabia but it. may have no plans to kill dissident journalist jamal. it's coming out the global police cooperation

organization interpol looks set to choose a russian official as its next president causing a major cry among western rivals. americans are losing their trust in social media with a poll showing more than huff think facebook on twitter and. also ahead. a second person has died down hundreds have been injured during days of. rising fuel prices on tax hikes. for every year tuning in from right around the world welcome to moscow and to r.t. international. my name's in an o'neill our top story president trump sees the

strategic partnership between the u.s. and saudi arabia should be preserved the spike the brutal murder of journalist jamal khashoggi in the saudi consulate in istanbul but trump also admitted that crown prince mohammed bin salmond may well have been aware of the plan to kill the shoji here's artie's kill of my pen. well this statement was very long awaited people were anticipating to see what president trump would say the title of the statement is actually standing with saudi arabia for the document essentially argues that despite the fact that it's very clear that saudi forces killed jamal khashoggi the journalist the us 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 that 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 going to 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 to true bizarrely devoted to the first paragraph of his shameful statement on saudi atrocities to accusing iran of every sort of malfeasance you can think of perhaps 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 the. 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 was saudi arabia so i think the statement was pretty obvious what i said it's about america first. 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. will saudi arabia officials deny any sanction in the murder of jamal khashoggi saying they had no knowledge it was being planned they insist the saudi intelligence officer was acting alone so he ribby as prosecutors officer earlier said it would seek the death penalty for five suspects detained over the murder political commentator lou rockwell president trump has basically given the saudis carte blanche to do whatever they deem necessary in exchange for money on loyalty. the question the morality of course are are entirely absent as they usually are from u.s. government policy. as long as the saudis are willing to bribe enough americans as willing as long as they're willing to do what the u.s. government wants in terms of oil as long as it's willing to give big contracts to trump refers to with all the great american companies that are causing so much havoc around the world because nothing they could do that would hurt them and i'm

sure they're going to continue to kill people this is a this is a terrible thing president crumpler girl and it's really sickening and it's horrible. for interpol the global police cooperation organization will elect a new president later this wednesday it's usually a standard procedure but this time it's ruffling feathers among western members because a russian official is in line to get the job our group of u.s. senators are putting pressure on international partners to elect him. reports. 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 sapulpa 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 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 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. yes totally absurd and last despite 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 foot. some good news at last on america's west coast there is much needed rain on the way to california which is suffering its longest wildfire season in fifteen years it is also the deadliest the u.s. states ever suffered with eighty four people no known to have died. the schools control the sea with several of the statements on the wildfires and the visited the town of paradise california calling up pleasure a couple of times each thing that comes out of his mouth he is easily the most flammable president us.

should have been doorway catapulting argument you wouldn't have the fire was breaking the waves i think i saw this in a south park episode it would like him to stop with this raking stop. a climate change climate change in a climate change climate change and the changing climate change all the forests in every weekend does not stop climate change and those who deny that are definitely contributing to the tragedies there were no witnessing and will continue to witness . direct to them a jew weapons are real only governments have them and they're setting fires in california all government has turned against its people isn t. for setting the california wildfires.

i don't think the political bickering is hindering anybody that is out there on the front line trying to put this fire out what is ever cared for this kind of tragedy and the fact that so many people died and so much damage was done says well it should have been more prepared but they're putting out a fire it's really hard to spend time and money on preparation if you're putting fires out they just don't have enough resources to deal with the fire the big thirty percent is a private you know. so sixty percent of the forest is controlled by the federal government and it seems that the federal government is complaining about me. from europe a second person. died amid days of protests in front so for rising fuel prices in the country spurred by president carbon tax hikes or five hundred

people have been injured over a quarter of a million people join the so-called that yellow vest protest named after the high visibility jacket which motorists have to carry in their vehicles demonstrator said toll booths on fire on a highway in the south east choose the night elsewhere refineries the roads have been blocked causing major disruption or france correspondent charles takes a closer look at 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 one hundred yellow vests these are the 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 is they're trying to block a druid's or 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 brought some of the traffic to a relative cool some people have described it as alteration. 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. 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 you sure.

have. 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 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 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 these governments to be useful in you or 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 dumb sheep we have no

choice. exacting that's right and i spend the night here to show that we're all in this together and that we're going to make it to the end that 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 the protesters he 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. is it mark or has said that he's prepared for dialogue he hasn't said with whom and we've also heard from the interior minister christophe today who said that he believes that the demands of the protesters 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 and the capital city was an immune to rallies either around a hundred nurses gathered outside the health ministry in parlous on tuesday to protest the government's planned health care reforms they say their roles are being sidelined the importance of their work to be recognized the are particularly unhappy about two hundred million euro is being spent on the creation of four thousand new medical assistance positions nurses say the money would be better spent the old. salt protests in other french cities including mar say ran. in recent years palm oil has grown to become the world's cheap versatile alternative to other vegetable oils an all rounder that's used in everything from food to cosmetics and even fuel but the environmental cost is weighing heavy on

countries which produce it like indonesia. we need to press on with battery research for plug in hybrid vehicles and expand the use of clean diesel to diesel fuel and these technologies will help us be better stewards of the environment and they will help us to confront the serious challenge of global climate change.

in the long. run that's something. little. no government wants to cripple an industry that's probably providing a lot of revenue. and you know if they are truly acting in a negative way toward their own people then shame on them and and i think they need

to reconsider what they're doing these fine. io fuels were an interesting experiment i don't think they've proven to be the value that they are if you're talking about file mass from waste product that's one thing but growing crops to go into cars is just had some. real damaging effects that nobody expected. when social networks burst into our lives millions embrace them as a chance to give a global voice to anyone anywhere earning a reputation as platforms for free speech democracy but it seems the tide of trust is turning for users after a catalogue of concerns from exploiting personal data to allege censorship and being in cahoots with governments. explains. more than half of americans think social media is bad for democracy and free speech last year it was

only forty three percent so that makes me wonder how bad it could get in the years to come who knows what scandals could follow data games like the ones over the cambridge analytic and google plus breaches and the pre smartphone we couldn't even imagine protests against online media. in theory what social media wants to be is their owners business after all they are competing private companies if you've got issues with one of them just switch to something else but facebook twitter you tube pinterest and instagram make up more than ninety seven percent of all social media web traffic in the u.s. by the way make it the big force and since to graham belongs to facebook they've pretty much mana plies the web and let's be honest they're not really competing since the formats are actually very different so it all came to the point mr zuckerberg how to show up in congress you don't need to have

a monopoly. on it certainly doesn't feel like that to. ok. or as the google man puts it you can switch to another engine with literally one click well some critics say the tech giants are not even good when it comes to jobs wages and the health of new startups there's just a few companies that dominate the market in the course you know in the case of facebook and you know some of the others they certainly have a significant amount of political and economic influence and it's causing a lot of havoc with traditional politics and traditional. economic business models so they've been able to successfully generate a lot of opposition from those sectors of the economy and political sectors as well who feel that they are there a bit endangered by these new business models these tech models the e.u.

has already following some tech companies president trump's head it he's up for do in that kind of whatever monopoly what about saying that i just didn't look into it i have so many people saying that we are certainly looking at that you trust and interest us but even if they do get officially labeled as monopolies the tech giants are more than that they're in control of information that's become the new normal we often hear news of someone being banned suspended from social media platforms or some other kind of crackdown so that poll i showed you we should have seen it coming this growing opposition to tech companies you can see it everywhere it's beginning to occur political elites see it as a threat the old line economic businesses see it as a threat there's a tax system issue here there's a public opinion issue it's sure like a perfect storm coming together. speaking of donald trump he has been forced to

defend his daughter ivanka after it was revealed she used a private e-mail account for a white house business furious democrats are on the warpath and demanding an investigation also whipped up a lot of the american mainstream media but it's been pointed out they leapt to the defense of hillary clinton when she was accused of doing the same. all are you kidding me right where we don't even know what to say the hillary e-mailed story was something that it was a mistake to do it the way she did it but it was way overblown every single republican the whole scored state and hillary clinton made her testify for eleven and a half hours. now why i demand to hear from the bank of trump on this subject. just

punted on secretary clinton she's mostly responsible but she had a boss who was the president in a state where the people you know top diplomats in other countries receiving these e-mails from you know if you're seeing a yahoo dot com or something like that saying wait a minute this can't possibly be an official missive from the secretary of state of the united states she's admitted that she's made a mistake. in my trump used a private e-mail to discuss garment business. breaking the trump used a personal e-mail account a son hundreds of e-mails business last year that stunned the banker resigned you make this stuff. up with a guaranteed to love her up against hillary but to still be years still wanted to become this building is both a little just legit. i'm lucy and. treated

more harshly because democrats the media is controlled by democrats hillary mishandled classified information whereas the vodka wasn't on the job and transmitted some information using her personal e-mail she's claiming through lawyers that she did not transmit any classified material using her. personal e-mail in contrast by february of two thousand and sixteen we know in the f.b.i. vault because hillary had the f.b.i. knew she had hillary clinton had transferred to over two thousand e-mails that were caught mark classified while she was secretary of state two very different cases. a lot of debate breaking out on this next story israel looks set to take on travel accommodation giant urbin be after the company removed home listings located in the contested west bank from its website or b. and b. ses the move was done 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 will be affected with a decision set to take effect in the coming days the move was welcomed by the palestinian administration which previously asked the company to end its relationship with israeli settlements israel condemned 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 so we asked the general secretary of the palestinian national initiative and a former israeli army colonel for their views on b.

and b.'s 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 can stick and 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 addresses 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 certain so their turn to be as a result of being cowards or pleasure being made by islamic jihad always i don't know what but if you look for

a backward to the history of ultra semitism or the history of a glowing the right of the jews to their homeland the 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. or anyone with a high profile online knows that these days it doesn't take much to like the touch paper and start a fire storm if you put a foot wrong but it seems even the people in charge of the social networks are just as fallible.

hijacked are you against brahmins why come into an unknown country and get used as a proxy by vested interests to morrow if jack is given a poster with anti-semitic messages in a meeting with his team allow him to hold it up why is that any different you people are spreading hate really think your own posts is. your problem as under the bus to see the askew unbelievable. car i'll be going through their big mid week stories in around half an hour is time

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