it's feels like a really really bad chemical burn but it goes through your skin in your muscles. there's no really. we're not sure this is just the. headline stories this hour are still friends no matter want. partnership with saudi arabia but admits friends may have. killed this is the journalist jamal khashoggi. americans are losing their trust in social media

with a poll showing more than half think forums like facebook and twitter are. free speech also ahead this hour. a second person has died down hundreds injured during days. of rising fuel prices. and the global police cooperation organization interpol to choose a russian official next president. amongst western. iran the clock across the world this is our team international from the team and myself you know neil welcome to the program. president trump sais the strategic

partnership between the u.s. and saudi arabia should be preserved despite the brutal murder of journalist jamal khashoggi in the saudi consulate in istanbul but also admitted that crown prince mohammed bin selman may well have been aware of the plan to kill khashoggi your sorties killing. 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 would be good a great ally they are ordering military equipment everybody in the world one of the border 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 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 with 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 orators argues that this brutal murder does not change the nature of the important economic and military relationship between the two countries well this is the view from riyadh saudi arabia officials deny sanctioning

the murder of jamal khashoggi saying they had no knowledge it was being planned they insist the saudi intelligence officer was acting alone so the rebias prosecutor's office earlier said it would seek the death penalty for five suspects detained over the murder political commentator lou rockwell sees president trump has basically given the saudis carte blanche to do whatever they deem necessary in exchange for money and 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 are willing to do what the us 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 it is a terrible thing president crumpler girl and it's really sickening and it's horrible. to die from france where a second person is no known to have died amid days of mosse protests which spread across the country the girl was caused by rising fuel prices spurred by president carbon tax hikes demonstrators set toll boots on fire on the highway in the south east on tuesday night elsewhere refineries key routes have been blocked causing major disruption over a quarter of a million people join the so-called yellow vests protest named after the high visibility jackets which motorists have to carry in their vehicles well the demonstrations have spread nationwide over five hundred people have been injured including dozens of police officers or fronts correspondent charlotte dubinsky no one takes a closer look at what the protesters are today. i'm here just on the outskirts of moore and 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 these are trying to blockade roads around parts 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 and 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. worth. the burning fires to keep themselves warm here you might be able to see there's a fire just in the background there and if we walk around this roundabout you're going to see that there's another point here this is also where they're trying to stop the traffic and then again 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 far corn hasn't brought in a magic formula let's have a listen to what the protesters themselves are saying we don't want this president and his government to be useful anymore we don't want them anymore 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 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 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 here say that they are going to stay this is now the fourth day of the protests and they have set up some sort of campaign that giving out food and drinks and they saying they 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 and we've also heard from the interior 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. meanwhile around one hundred nurses gathered outside the health ministry in paris on choose they to protest the government's planned health care reforms now they say their rules are being sidelined the importance of their work to be recognized there actually particularly on helping about two hundred million euro is being spent on the creation of four. medical assistant positions there since save the money would be better spent elsewhere there are also protests in other french cities including marci who ran.

a switching gears now when social networks burst into our lives millions embrace them as a chance to give a global voice to anyone anywhere earning a reputation really as platforms for free speech democracy but it seems the tide of trust is turning for users after a catalogue of concerns ranging from exploiting personal data to allege censorship and being in cahoots with governments. 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 analytical and google plus breaches and the priest smartphone era 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 fortune 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 zucker burke had to show up in congress you don't think you have a monopoly. certainly doesn't feel like that to me. 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 boom of course you know in the case of facebook. 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. to me and political sectors as well who feel that they were there but the danger by these new business models these type models the e.u. has already following some tech companies president trumps hinted he's up for door when that kind of whatever monopoly what about saying that you don't look into it i have so many people saying that we are certainly looking at data trust any trust use 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 war 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 to 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. we seem to be hearing more and more but don't we in recent years it's grown to become the world's cheap versatile alternative to other vegetable oil really an all rounder that's used in everything from food cosmetics even fuel but now more than a million people worldwide are petitioning against its production g two the environmental cost which is weighing heavy on countries where it is made like

indonesia. we need to press on with battery research for a plug in hybrid vehicle. expand the use of clean diesel be decent. 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. you know we'll lose. 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 biofuels 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 to be growing crops to go into cars has just had some. real damaging effect that nobody expected. western nations are making a last ditch effort to try and stop a russian from being appointed head of interpol not some other. right after the break.

to briggs it or not to bring that is the question. has been roundly criticised from virtually every corner and with a looming deadline the u.k. could face a hard briggs's without an agreement even early elections how did he get to this point. he has a significant portion of all u.s. commerce something approaching twenty percent i guess their goal is to get fifty percent of all commerce in america it would be amazon commerce and they need artificial intelligence to do that an artificial intelligence needs data to run effectively so jeff bezos but the call out to all these cities and they said we may come to your town just give us all the data all the people living in your town and will dump it into our computers and our ai systems and by the way you don't get.

some relief 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's also the deadliest the u.s. states ever suffered with eighty four people. known to have died. the schools control the sea with several of his statements on the wildfires and fear 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 you it. should have been always thought about the 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.

climate change climate change in climate change climate change and the changing climate change you all the force 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 and 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 die so much damage was done so 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 privately. it's. sort of sixty percent of the forest is controlled by the federal government and it seems that the federal government is complaining about me. ok not dates on a story we've been following all day interpol the global police cooperation organization has elected a new president on its site korea's men jonghyun but before the vote a russian official was one of the most likely to get the job the odds on favorite fact which did not sit well with people in washington a group of u.s. senators had been pressuring international partners to kieran can talk us through it. in suppose

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 their joint statement urging for members to oppose the candidacy of alexandre procket 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 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 accessory to 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. right 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 a 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 thus despite procket

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 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. 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 themselves are just the sellable.

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 will his team allow him to hold it up why is that any different you people are spreading hate relating to your own posts is.

you offering us under the bus to save your skin unbelievable. we are back watching the hawks in moments and then do join me immediately after that for more of the stories making headlines. when lawmakers manufacture consent to instant of public wealth. when the ruling classes protect themselves. with the financial merry go round of lives only the one percent of. the time we can all middle of the room signals. the real new.

world. i've been saying the numbers mean something they matter to us is over one trillion dollars in debt more than ten thousand dollars fine stamping each dish. eighty five percent of global wealth he longs to the ultra rich eight point six percent market saw a thirty percent rise last year some with four hundred to five hundred trees per second per second and that coin rose to twenty thousand dollars. china's building two point one billion dollars ai industrial park but don't let the numbers overwhelm. the only numbers you need to remember is one one distance shows you can afford to

miss the one and only boom bust. cranking game americans a lot of 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 and truck so i chose to drive truck people rush to a small town in north dakota was an unemployment rate of zero percent like gold rush is very very similar to a gold rush but this beautiful story ended with pollution and devastation a lot of people have left here i don't know too many people here and just slow down so much they lost their jobs that laid off the american dream is changing that's not what it used to be. and that's a tough reality to deal. with

. gratings and salutation is the beginning of this week on monday november nineteenth we saw the celebration of international men's day yes the one day of the year dedicated to all things men all around the world. international men's did and while many men here in the united states if they even knew there was a day dedicated to them were i'm sure looking forward to twenty four hours dedicated to carburetors ten malam hard hitting competitive sports tragically what they got instead was a steady influx of news reports showing us just how dangerous and violent unchecked toxic masculinity can be starting with reports of a former ohio state judge senator and state representative who was arrested this past weekend in the stabbing got the biz wife just outside of cleveland and the

kicker is this former politician was actually just recently released from prison after serving only nine months on a two year stretch and bet she can't guess what he went in for violently assaulting his now murdered wife in front of their children but that wasn't the only bad news on international men's day we also had the chicago mercy hospital shooting that left three dead because according to witnesses the gunman who also died in the shooting was upset that one of the victims dr tomorrow neal broke off their engagement and he allegedly wanted his ring back and just when you think the new was on international men's they couldn't get any worse insteps a male gunman from st louis who handed toxic masculinity his beer and then walked into a religious supply store sexually assaulted one woman shot another woman in the head and then escaped into the suburban wilderness.