iran's foreign minister describes donald trump a shameful for pledging america's continued partnership with saudi arabia the u.s. leader for the murder of journalist jamal khashoggi fighting to perceive the radian threat. americans are losing the trust in social media it seems the polls show

think platforms like facebook like twitter damage democracy and free speech plus. a second person starred in hundreds have been injured during taser mass protests across france against rising fuel prices and tax hikes. international news this wednesday is kevin with you for the next half hour this latest news update welcome to you first that iran's reacted angrily to president trump reaffirming america's partnership with saudi arabia despite the brutal murder of distant journalist in the saudi consulate in istanbul donald trump is now tempted to shift the spotlight from who's to blame for the killing to fight against a perceived threat here's how the foreign minister in toronto 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 you 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. trucks white house statement titled standing with saudi arabia point so that the whole truth behind khashoggi is killing might never be known goes on so that actions already been taken and that so the arabia remains steadfast partner. very complex situation but it is what it is if you look at a wreck just take a look at a red and you look at what they're doing they are a terrorist they should right now we also need a counterbalance and israel the help also if we abandon saudi arabia it would be a terrible mistake and i'm not going to tell a country that bending hundreds of billions of dollars and is now the 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 really gonna work our don't bite the bullet or the really very well that say when so in condemnation of 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 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 saudi officials to noise sanctioning the murder of jamal khashoggi saying that they had no knowledge that it was being planned further they insist the

saudi intelligence officer was acting alone saudi arabia's prosecutor's office earlier said it would seek the death penalty for five suspects detained over the motive as for trump aside from countering iran and keeping all prices in check he also made it clear that america's economic interests come first and that major 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 i don't want to take your business if i think we're going to get it on they will get. military equipment and other things from russia china 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 and arms deal elsewhere in the world today second person is now known to have died amid days of mass protests in france the result of the rising cost of fuel which is being partly blamed on president lacross carbon tax hikes sever the protests and blockades and turn violent. oh i was there are no more. use your morrow. demonstrate to set fire to tollbooths on a higher ground southeast tuesday night elsewhere refineries and key roads were blocked causing major disruption over a quarter of a million people join the so-called yellow vest protest named after the hive his jackets which motorists have to carry in their vehicles their friends those demonstrations are spread nationwide now over five hundred people have been injured

including dozens of police offices here's what some of the protesters have been telling us we don't dispraise in and these governments to be useful in any way we don't want them anymore and we want to change the system by. the state response to the new laws and. year every month laws that are worthless we have to cease top we are not dumb sheep we have no choice. because 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 meantime around one hundred nurses gathered outside the health ministry in paris on choose day to protest the government's planned health care reforms they say their roles are being sidelined or they want the importance of their work to be recognized that particularly unhappy that two hundred million euro is being spent on the creation of four thousand new medical assistant positions

nurses say the money better spent elsewhere there also protests another friend cities and. in those social networks pursed into our lives she has but millions embrace them as a chance to give a global voice to anyone anywhere they're going reputation as a platform for free speech and democracy initially but it seems that tide of trust is turning for users after a catalogue of concerns ranging from exploiting personal data to alleged 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 baghdad against like the ones over the cambridge analytic up 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 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 a bit endangered by these new business models these technologies the e.u. has already following some tech companies president trump's hinted he's up for door and that kind of whatever monopoly what about saying that he just didn'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 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 the old line economic business is 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 worldwide to join a petition against palm oil production which in recent years has become a cheap versatile alternative to other vegetable oils it's used in everything from food to cosmetics even few but now there's big concern about the massive environmental cost in countries which produce it like in that easy.

need to press on with battery research or plug in hybrid vehicle. expand the use of clean diesel be 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. we'll. know 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 or a big stores across today the global police corporation organization interpol is elected a new president it is south korea's min yang but before the vote a russian official was widely tipped to get the job which didn't sit well with people in washington it seems you know neil discussed developments earlier with maria fanaa. it all started with an article in one english newspaper that claimed that according to their sources alexander procope chick will highly likely be elected as interpol's next chief and after that everybody started discussing what will face mean for interpol's future or rather how bad will it be for the global law enforcement agency russia was accused of abusing into pole 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 was referred to as for example abuser in chief. into cold storage a group of us that in turn 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 a putin fox in charge of a hand how's the russian president's spokesperson soit as madelyne 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 accusations what's brought 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 being to pull 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 holder called ski exiled russian businessmen and mr brough the 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 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 and this is being said by the two businessmen whose extradition russia requested throw into paul why william browder he was charged han russia in absentia for ninety isn't phrase and for tax fraud and he's currently accused of creating

a transnational criminal network in order to launder money a large scale embezzlement and could possibly be behind the murder of he's associates only hell has a cough skate the next business and charged over involvement in murder and spent a total of ten years in prison on charges of tax evasion and bassam and 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 russians have been using him to call for its own purposes to chase his political opponents have little grounds for his horse he was wednesday coming up north korea is destroyed a number of god posts in the explosive display will tell you about that among the stories when we come back.

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it to the right person this is what. people are. interested in the why. question. hi again so controversial lot of talk of fake news now has been passed in the french parliament new year after president vowed to clamp down on what he called destabilization efforts let's get latest on this go to paris our correspondent michelle a few friends a show that was prompted this law once again to cover them. what it means is in the three months before a national election here in france there will be even greater scrutiny on social media and t.v. channels what live broadcasting about the election about the candidates itself it means social media users will be able to flag up stories that they think are spreading false information and those sites could therefore see that removed or

could be blocked and that means in terms of foreign state controlled. media if a judge deems that they are spreading false information that those t.v. channels themselves could be fully blocked in france as a result of that judgement now this is something the president has long championed take a listen to what he said. the regulators powers will be profoundly redesigned during twenty will be increased to fight against any attempt at this debilitation by television controlled or influenced by foreign states. and president michael has been incredibly clear who he wants to. deal with loss the law and the law he will try to get back to a little bit later we got the gist of it i think ok now the good news re not normally good news unless a cause surely a huge drop in the lot fire is going on so we can tell you there is much needed rain on the way to california which is suffering its longest wildfire season in

fifteen years it's been terrific there is no it's also the deadliest the u.s. states ever suffered eighty four people now known to have died. the schools control the sea with several of his statements on the wildfires and be 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 doorway catapulting argument you wouldn't have the fire was raking leaves 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 as you all the forests in every weekend does not stop climate change and

those who deny that are definitely contributing to the tragedies there we're now witnessing and move 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 prepared 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 and so sixty percent of the forest is controlled by the federal government and it seems that the federal government is complaining about me and. north korea has destroyed ten guard posts at its southern border as part of the peace deal agreed earlier this year video released by south korea shows the post big detonators swiss succession guard posts a position to longer hold a militarized zone which separates the two countries still the north has one hundred fifty while the south is disposed of sixty two countries had agreed to remove them in september as relations warm following decades of bitter rivalry. growing prominence of asian nations on the world stage and the region's current hurdles are in focus right now at a conference in malaysia organized by the moscow based think tank the valdai club

one of the biggest regional issues is the territorial dispute in the south china sea right now that seems beijing face off with washington which wants to curtail chinese influence and there are still fears that that could lead to a direct confrontation somewhere down the line also trade wars and protectionism are up for discussion at the conference which includes key business people and academics from across the region including japan china south korea india and pakistan of all that discussion club program director explain to us just why he thinks these conferences like this make a difference and are important. some of which there probably was the biggest problem russia features when it comes to asia is that it lacks information about russia's economy and foreign policy about what russia is pursuing and events like this mile day conference in malaysia give us a great opportunity to familiarize our asian partners with those this morning we had a very important conversation on regional security with russian and asian experts

what came out of it was the realisation that america's behavior towards china india and russia is beginning to worry even those traditionally seen as washington's ally . in asia and a universal understanding is emerging between russia the a c. and countries china and india that we need to do something about this american problem well back here in moscow this wednesday that's how things look in so far thanks for your company always so much more few of course in our main site. is kevin owen saying have a great day. join

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