closely watching the hawks. iran's foreign minister describes trump on a shameful pledging america's continued partnership with saudi arabia as the u.s. leader a shift focus from the murder of journalist jamal khashoggi to fighting a perceived they're really in threat. also ahead on the program americans are

losing their thrust in social media with a poll showing more than. forms like facebook on twitter democracy and free speech also. a second person dies on hundreds more injured during today's protests across france against rising fuel prices on. twenty four seven news live from the russian capital welcome to our to international unit o'neil with you this hour our top story around the house reacted angrily to president trump reaffirming america's partnership. with saudi arabia the

spite the brutal murder of this than journalist jamal khashoggi in the saudi consulate in istanbul donald trump has now attempted to shift the spotlight from who's the blame for the killing to the fight against the perceived iranian threat here's how the foreign minister in tehran reacted 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 fires because we didn't help break the forests just like the fins do well let's get into some of our own statements by trump what's a call standing with saudi arabia points out that the whole truth behind killing might never be known that's first of all also adds that action has already been taken on the saudi arabia remains a steadfast part and this is some of his comments are very complex situation but it

is what it is if you look at iran just take a look at a red eye you look at what they're doing they are a terrorist station right now we also need a counterbalance and israel the child also if we abandon saudi arabia it would be a terrible mistake and i'm not going to tell a country that seven hundred billion dollars that is now doing one thing very importantly the world right down so that they're not going to one hundred nine hundred fifty dollars a barrel right now well right great i'm not going to boycott the world economy and i'm not going to put the economy or our country by big oil is what they were a very statements not sentiment drawn condemnation in the american news media has suggest trump is 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 of

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. riyadh's response will be in officials deny sanctioning the murder of jamal khashoggi saying they had no knowledge it was being planned he insists the saudi intelligence officer was acting alone and also the prosecutor's office of saudi arabia earlier said it would seek the death penalty for five suspects detained over the murder unless for trump aside from country or ramming keeping all prices in check as he was being same thing there he also made it clear that america's economic interests come first and also major arms deals with the saudis cannot be lost to rivals. they're buying hundreds of millions of

dollars worth of things from this gun if i say you don't want to take your bit to buy things with you because all they will get the military equipment that other things are brought here john russia and china would be very very happy the u.s. foreign policy is basically driven by the military industrial complex which as he reports in this statement is due to receive one hundred ten billion dollars in weapons or orders from saudi arabia so that's what it's come down to the united states under president is first and foremost a weapons an arms dealer. to another story we're closely following today a second person is now a known to have made days of mass protests in france the anger was caused by rising fuel prices spurred by president micron's carbon tax demonstrators set tollbooths

on fire on the highway in the scythe east on choose the night elsewhere refineries key road all blocked causing major disruption over a quarter of a million people join the so-called yellow vest protest named after the high visibility jackets which motorists huff to carry in their vehicles well the demonstrations have now spread nationwide over five hundred people have been injured including dozens of police officers are fronts correspondent charted 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 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 road surrounded by it's 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 they tackled a lot when these protests started back on saturday four days ago they were actually trying to block the roads but that's caused them problems with the police so the idea here now is to bring the traffic to a snail 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.

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 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 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 anymore we don't want them anymore we want to change the system. responds with new laws every year every

month 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 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 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 and we've also heard from the interior minister christophe just today who said that he believes that the demands of the protesters are 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 france as. the health ministry and choose to protest the government's planned health care reforms. are being sidelined the importance of their work to recognize their particular. role is being spent on the creation of four thousand new medical assistance. you will be better. also protests in other french cities throughout the last number of days mar say ren the on among them. ok switching gears a little now when social networks burst into our lives millions and brace them as a chance really to give a global face to anyone anywhere earning a reputation as platforms for free speech chrissy 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 government. 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 but doubt against like the ones over the cambridge analytical 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 four since instagram 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 how 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. anime and political sectors as well who feel they were there but the danger by these new business models these to. the e.u. has already fallen some tech companies president trump's hinted he's up for do when that kind of whatever monopoly what about saying that i just don't look into it i have so many people saying that we are certainly looking at data trust and each of us use but even if they do get officially labeled as monopolies the tech giants are more than that they're in control of information it'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 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. and something else picking up pace more than a million people worldwide have joined a petition against palm oil production which in recent years has become a cheap versatile alternative to other festival it's used in everything relief foods fuel as well cosmetics but now there's concern about the must have environmental costing countries which produce it such as indonesia.

you need to press on with battery research for a plug in hybrid he could. expand the use of clean diesel be diesel fuel and the technology. these were hope will 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 effects that nobody expected. claims of

behind the scenes maneuvering as interpol chooses a new president rejecting the widely tipped russian counter that it's among our stories right.

to briggs it or not to briggs it that is the question. has been roundly criticised from virtually every corner and with a looming deadline the u.k. could face a hard break without an agreement even early elections how did it get to this point . fifteen minutes past one pm here in moscow welcome back 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 are known to have died. the 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 is easily the most flammable president you and i should have been all right then 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 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 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 private. you know no. percent of the forest is controlled by the federal government it seems the government is complaining about me. moving on a global police cooperation organization interpol has elected a new president so korea's men jonghyun but before the vote a russian official was widely tipped to get the job which didn't sit well with people in washington let's find out why he was with. me in this you can see you're going to hear this is usually correct me if i'm wrong but it's usually a standard procedure is it not that gets little attention so why this time around there seems to be regarding the the russian nominee yes it was very special this time because there was a russian candidate it all started with an article in one english newspaper that claimed that according to their sources alexander procope took will highly likely

be elected as into polls next and after that everybody started discussing what will face mean for him to polls future or rather how bad will it be for the global law enforcement agency and the rest of the world in fact russia was accused of abusing interpol in order to chase its political opponents while mr procope chook fifty six year old major general interior ministry veteran and one of the current interpol's vice presidents since two thousand and sixteen so the men in power within him to paul was referred to as for example abuser in chief or and wolf interpol store a group of us senator is both republicans and democrats with a strongly and to russia views went as far as publishing an open letter to don trump's administration urging to use all their power to make sure their russian is not elected which they described would be like putin and fox in charge of

a hen house and the russian president's spokesperson soit as madelyne how his name 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 so here we have really another wave of anti russian accusations what's brought the other by this time this is the most interesting thing no evidence whatsoever was provided to prove these accusations i have to say that the head of the vote at interpol of the critics of russia have been very active very vocal and the recent feeling that the american senate is could possibly base their claims on the statements of these personalities the loudest of them were mr herder coffs russian businessman and mr browder u.k. businessman let's take a listen. 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's command because reputation is not something he has worried about it turned out that in putin's russia there are no good guys no empathy and no morals 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 this is being said by the two businessmen whose extradition in russia requested throw into paul why william browder he was charged here in russia in absentia for nine years in prison for tax fraud and he's currently accused of creating a transnational criminal network in order to launder money large scale embezzlement and could possibly be behind the murder of he's associates only held that a cough skee the next business and charged over involvement in murder and spent

a total of ten years in prison on charges of tax evasion and battlements and these cases could hardly be described as politically want to paint it as critics of russia say but even if we don't talk about these controversial figures controversial cases we can remember that russia for example requested the extradition of who russia believed were chechen terrorists and in fact was denied so i can say that the accusations that russia is abusing into paul for its own purposes to chase his political opponents have little grounds here thanks for taking us through all. of this to do this solver. anyone with a high profile online knows that these days it doesn't take very much to light the touch paper and start a fire storm if you put a fuck wrong but it seems even the people in charge of the social networks

themselves well they're just this fall of the. i jack 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 well his team allow him to hold it up why is that any different you people are spreading hate think your own posts is.

sad to see a lack of awareness and concern about castro issues in your tweet your frankness and a device to save your skin and a livable. twitter actively supports the brahman ical patriarchy. wimps out the thirty they ought to be ashamed. all rights people who have guests have got braces on their minds and next that's crosstalk in moments then do join kevin right after that for in-depth coverage of the day's big stories this is.

when else chose seemed wrong. by the old rules just don't call. me you get to shape out just they become educated and in detroit equals betrayal. when so many find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground. amazon already 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 the cities and they said we may come to your town just give us all the data on all the people living in your town

and will dump it into our computers and our ai systems and by the way you get a. tracking gave 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 trucks or chose to drive truck people rushed to a small town in north dakota was an unemployment rate of zero percent just like the gold rush is very very similar to. this beautiful story ended with pollution and the bus station a lot of people have left here i don't know too many people here and just slow down too much they lost jobs got laid off the american dream is changing that's not what it used to be. and it's a tough reality to deal with. hello

and welcome across top for all things considered i'm peter laveau to briggs it or not to brag that that is the question crystal maze plan to exit the e.u. has been roundly criticized from virtually every quarter and with a looming deadline the u.k. could face a hard break without an agreement. even early elections how did they get to this point. talking brags that i'm joined by my guest in london marcus papadopoulos he's the editor of politics first magazine we also have alexander me he's a writer on legal affairs as well as editor in chief of the duran dot com and we

have alex or donna.