not to sure says. just. around. his continued partnership with saudi arabia the u.s. leadership focus from the murder of journalist jamal khashoggi.

americans are losing their trust in social media with a bold showing more than. forms like. democracy. also ahead. a hundred. days of mass protests across from rising fuel prices. midday here in moscow this where twenty first day of november welcome to our international i mean and only our top story. reacted angrily to president trump reaffirming america's partnership with saudi arabia the spite the brutal murder of dissident journalist jamal khashoggi in the saudi consulate in istanbul some weeks

ago donald trump has no attempt to shift the spotlight from who's to blame for the killing to the fight against a perceived. threat let's take a look at how the foreign minister in tehran reacted to the. mr trump bizarrely devotes the first paragraph of his shameful statement on saudi atrocities to accusing iran of every sort of malfeasance he can think of perhaps who are also responsible for the california fire is because we didn't help break the forests just like the finns do or trump white house statement titled standing with saudi arabia points out that the whole truth behind killing may never be known adding that actions already been taken man that's remains a steadfast partner the very complex situation but it is what it is if you look at or read just take a look at

a red eye you look at what they're doing they are a terrorist they should right now we also need a counterbalance and israel the tell paul so if we abandon saudi arabia it would be a terrible mistake and i'm not going to tell a country that threatening hundreds of billions of dollars that is now do one thing very important thing the world right down so that they're not going to one hundred nine hundred. dollars a barrel right now right great i'm not going to boycott the world economy and i'm not going to put it down to work our country by big oil and the other a very well that statement indeed the sentiment behind it has drawn condemnation in the american news media who suggest trump's caving in to the saudis and ignoring his own intelligence services however president trump today chose a different path something more along the lines of the world is a very dangerous place and because it is we should let murderers get away with it

especially if the murderers are paying us lots of money now we're left to figure out why the president is telling that lie why he's going so far out of this way to cover for the country and specifically the ruler that carried out this killing of a u.s. resident and u.s. journalist. well aside from country iran and keeping oil prices in check trump also made it clear that america's economic interests come first and that major all means deals with the saudi cannot be lost to rivals. they're buying hundreds of billions of dollars worth of things from this. device they don't want to take your bit of i think we're going to get it all they will get what the dirty work but the other thing the bright guy and russia and china would be very very happy so what does riyadh say saudi arabia officials they're denying sanctioning the murder of jamal khashoggi saying they had no knowledge it was being planned they insist the

sunday 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 while political commentator lou rockwall say 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're 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 was a terrible thing president troubles girl and it's really sickening and it's horrible. like turning attention to france where

a second person's knowledge known to days of protests in the country they. really was caused by rising fuel prices spurred by president mccraw carbon tax hikes demonstrator set toll booths on fire on a highway in the southeast and choose the nights elsewhere refineries on key roads have been blocked causing major disruption over a quarter of a million people join the so-called yellow vest protests named after the high visibility jackets which motorists have to carry in their vehicles. in the demonstrations have spread nationwide over five hundred people have been injured including dozens of police officers or friends corresponded charla dubin ski takes 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 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 is a trying to blockade roads around about slike 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 they 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 cool 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.

a. perfect. 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 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 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 used 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 sheep we have no choice. that's right i spent the night here to show that rule 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 protest is here 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 has said that he is prepared for dialogue but 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 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 call for a reduction in the price of fuel and a reduction in the price of living here in france and here's what's happening in the capital city. health ministry and choose to protest the government's planned health care reforms. are being sidelined on want the importance of their work to be recognized they are particularly unhappy about two hundred million euro is being spent on the creation of four thousand new medical assistant positions nurses say the money would be better spent elsewhere. the were all. witnessing protests in other french cities maher say ren leone all saw similar scenes. when social networks burst into our lives millions and brace them as

a chance to give a global voice to anyone anywhere earning a reputation as platforms for free speech and democracy but it seems the tide of trust is turning for users of three cups a log of concerns ranging from exploding personal data to alleged censorship and indeed 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 bagdad against like the ones over the cambridge analytic up and google plus breaches and the pre 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 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 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 leave been able to successfully generate a lot of opposition. from those sectors of the. anomie and political sectors as well who feel they were there but the danger by these new business models. the e.u. has already following some tech companies president trump's hinted he's up for do when that kind of whatever monopoly what about saying that he didn't you know look into i have so many people saying that we are certainly looking at data trust and interests 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 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. more than a million people world wide have joined up petition against palm oil production which in recent years has become a cheap versatile alternative to other vegetable oils now it's used in everything just looking at the list here you've got food cosmetics even fuel but there's concern about the must have environmental cost in countries which produce a it's like indonesia.

we need to press on with battery research for plug in hybrids we could. expand the use of clean diesel be diesel fuel and they check now. as usual 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. 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 five from waste product that's one thing but to be growing crops to go into cars has just had some. real damaging effects that nobody expected. claims all of behind the scenes maneuvering now as interpol chooses a new president rejected the widely tipped russian count. that's. ahead. when lawmakers manufacture consent to student of public wealth. when the ruling classes protect themselves. with the crime of.

lives only the one percent. nor middle of the room six. million relieved. to bragg's it or not to break that that is the question teresa mayes find to exit the e.u. has been roundly criticised from virtually every quarter 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. some good news of last for america's west coast much needed rain is 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 now known to have died. trying to schools control the sea with several of these 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's easily the most flammable president you it. should have been of all right ken what about the argument you wouldn't have the fine was raking leaves 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 as you all the forests in every weekend does not stop climate change and those who deny that are definitely contributing to the tragedies that we're now 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 of government has turned against its people isn t. for setting the california wildfires. i don't think the political bickering is hindering anybody that's out there on the front line trying to put this fire out what he's ever prepared for this kind of tragedy and the fact that so many people died and so much damage was done says well

he 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 in private hands and so sixty percent of the forest is controlled by the federal government and it seems that the federal government is complaining about maintenance. the global police cooperation organization interpol has elected a new president side korea's men jong young but before the vote a russian official was widely tipped to get the job which didn't sit well. people in washington let's get into the with our correspondent maria phenomena homer far as i'm aware it's usually a standard procedure this isn't it it gets a little attention who the next president is but no there's a russian nominee or there was at least it got a lot of noise and different something tells me actually that the vote results have

become a true relief for the russian candidate it had been hard time for him in the last two weeks and for russia once a british newspaper reported that alexander prokop to quill highly likely become interpol's new chief all my god what happened everybody started discussing what will this mean for him to paul and actually how bad will it be for him to pull and basically for everybody russia has been repeatedly and openly accused of abusing the global law enforcement agency in order to taste its political opponents and alexander who is fifty six year old veteran of russia's interior minister ministry major general and one of interpol's vice presidents since two thousand and sixteen has been bass with no mercy and called like abuser in chief for example this is a quote wolf into paul's door. crazy group of u.s. senators both republicans and democrats. for very strongly and to russia views

went as far as publishing an open letter to donald trump's administration urgent to use its influence in order to make sure that the russian candidate does not become into polls new next had to create the wild so lots of claims. word evidence has death being offered particular as you were just seeing these routinely abuses that are being leveled against russia for its own purposes kind of thing has any word on the up this is the most important thing we didn't hear any evidence i mean about these allegations of course clear russia has been very much concerned about these accusations and we heard from vladimir putin spokesperson who called the meddling let's take a listen. there is probably some kind of meddling in the electoral process in an election to an international organization how it's going to be seen this is

a clear manifestation of meddling well it would be fair to mention that extradition cases that russia sent to interpol could hardly be described as politically motivated let's take the most recent one william browder already charged in russia in absentia for nine years in prison over tax for all it's accused of creating a transnational criminal network in order to launder money. basil mint and possibly behind the murder of his associates or may have had a cough skin other well known name exiled russian businessman charged over involvement in murder again and spent a total of ten years in prison on charges of tax evasion and embezzle and all anatoly watching because suspected mastermind behind siberian criminal network and again accused of being involved in arms trafficking and murder he has been already extradited by the way and it would be no surprise to know that mr browder

mr. have been vocal critics of russian candidate as the head of interpol let's take a look. i am seriously worried that if mr broke up too because elected this president of interpol he would be ready to take absolutely and the action of the kremlin because reputation is not something he was worried about 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 bring us right up to date on the very latest on the thank you. all right up to the minute developments as always remember can be found on our twitter page some more great program starting in moments i'm here with all your global news updates this

is twenty four seven r.t. international. he has a significant portion of all u.s. commerce something approaching twenty percent i guess our goal is to get fifty percent of all commerce in america it would be amazon commerce and they need artificial intelligence to do that in artificial intelligence data to run effectively so jeff bezos but the call out to all the cities and they said we may come to your town just give us all the data all the people living in your town and we'll jump into our computers and our ai systems and by the way you don't get any.

worse. we're going underground as embattled u.k. pm drazen made today goes to brussels and out of breaks of agreement that is set to be voted down in london coming up in the show. is just the first country to try and do you really. feel the president of conservatives for a people's vote. neil call michael says we know there was russian interference

in the brics approach plus we cover the week's top stories from westminster to. with former who will has been a student baker told us of all coming up in today's going on the ground but first while the u.k. chaotically tries to distance itself from the e.u. today marks five years since in other countries or protests in favor of getting closer to the e.u. those demonstrations would metamorphose into new nazis in ukraine funded by barack obama reported here by late. chills the omnibus spending bill includes a clause banning the sale of arms to the neo nazi link but valiant this comes after united states are supplied weapons and training to the your cranium militia this off to barack obama's diplomat victoria nuland was court looking like the us organize a coup in europe's largest country even while swearing at the european union that would be great i think to help blew this thing and have the u.n. help glue it and you know be you as to what happens in nuland he or she is named

christopher steele the former m i six agent these claims are being investigated by u.s. special counsel robert mueller into trump's ties to moscow during the ukraine crisis in two thousand and fourteen and fifteen chris still had a number of commercial clients who were asking him for reports on what was going on in russia what was going on in ukraine what was going on between them chris had a friend at the state department any offered us that reporting free so that we could also benefit from it it was one of you know hundreds of sources what else did this british spy offer what one does the dossier he passed two to four pages of short points of what he was finding and our immediate reaction to that was this is not in our purview this needs to go to the f.b.i. if there is any concern here that one candidate or the election as a whole might be influenced by the russian federation there you have it in

a bowl they're a diplomat who has been caught on tape being against you democracy and for us back . change in europe pushing information from a discredited british spy to the f.b.i. but election interference not from washington but moscow this well u.s. i politico dot com alleges evidence of ukrainian government involvement in seeking to discredit donald trump ahead of elections that brought him to power but while the mainstream media here in the u.k. claims that theresa may has now escaped her arguable coup she travels to brussels today followed by threats from spain and the northern irish party keeping her in power to destroy the deal for leaving the european union but how many more countries may follow i'm joined now by scottish national party member of parliament and chair of the international trade select committee angus macneil thanks so much and just going on just put it all in motion just before we get to break that save the children a report saying eighty five thousand dead children in the yemen starving should the u.k. be selling weapons to saudi arabia in a word no.