iran's foreign minister describes donald trump's words as shameful for pledging america's continued partnership with saudi arabia as the u.s. leader shifts focus from the murder of the journalist jamal khashoggi to both countries fight against iran. france adopts

a controversial law aimed at fighting fake news in a bid to prevent. during election campaigns critics however view it as a threat to freedom of speech. and americans are losing their trust in social media with a poll showing more than half think platforms like facebook and twitter damage democracy and free speech. or broadcasting live direct from our studios in moscow this is. certainly glad to have you with us. or tehran has had back at the us president's statement of support for saudi arabia which appeared to exonerate riyadh for all responsibility in the murder of journalist jamal khashoggi the iranian foreign minister was outraged that

trump attempted to shift the spotlight from the cuz shoji case to a perceived threat posed by iran you look at iran just take a look at a red eye you look at what they're doing they are a terrorist day here right now 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 orica shoji was killed in the saudi consulate in istanbul back in october saudi arabia denies sanctioning the murder saying the country's crown prince had no prior knowledge of the assassination saudi prosecutors are seeking the death penalty for five suspects detained in the case political analysts say that mostafa says trump is trying to divert attention away from the scandal he's trying to kill two birds with one stone he's trying to bring the spotlight back on the iran to replace all the. which has been part and parcel of the u.s.

foreign policy in this region especially when it comes to iran and when it comes to oil the fact is that when you started talking about uranium the sanctions on iran. you know living there are not normal life. but he was saying the iranians have been crippled they are suffering their album the streets so ease in the habit of lying when it comes to iran to put iran on the spotlight trumps statement is called standing with saudi arabia but starts off with two paragraphs accusing iran of sponsoring terrorism the claims made in the document have drawn condemnation in american media who suggested the president has caved in to the saudis while ignoring his own intelligence agencies. 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 us resident and us journalist. trump also clarified that aside from countering iran and keeping oil prices in check america's economic interests come first and that major arms deals with the saudis cannot be lost to rivals. they're buying hundreds of billions of dollars worth of things from this gun if i say you don't want to take your business if i think we're going to get it on they will get the military equipment to know that they are broad. brush and then john it 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 promptly is first and foremost a weapons an arms dealer and leave. the controversial law to tackle fake news has been passed by the french parliament nearly a year after president mark wrong valve to clamp down on what he called destabilization efforts artie's show dubinsky as more. this law would be implemented in the three months before a national election here in france and it would mean that it would give greater scrutiny to what's published on things such as social media and also on t.v. channels that would allow social media uses to flag up items that they think are spreading false information if so those items would be removed and also it would allow people who are standing for election to take ideas of what they believe is a spread of false information to the courts here in france the judges then if they decide it is spreading false information that could result in foreign media

state controlled media channels being blocked in france doing that election period now this is a mark on has been championing for a long time. the regulators powers which will be profoundly redesigned during twenty teams will be increased to fight against any attempt at this debilitation by television controlled or influenced by foreign states. president mcconnell is also being pretty clear who he sees this being aimed at he's regularly accused. russian. of being propaganda. russia today and sputnik have not behaved as media outlets journalists but as organs of influence and false propaganda. well as a result of accusations by president. have regularly been denied access to a palace to be able to question the government about its policies we've also been denied

access to official vents where president is present now in regards to this law that was passed on tuesday they were many people who also spoke out against it saying it could actually be used to silence the press. aims to fight against the massive spread of false information we are talking about facts not opinions and it's not about making the spread of false information a crime it's about creating ways of fighting those who sponsor the spread of fake news. and i think this legislation is not the best way to combat. this i think that it so just be useless we have enough legislation on this ready which helps us enough in combating the manipulation of information and could even be dangerous because it provokes self-censorship. so that more against the spread of false information has been passed. and it's likely that the first time that we will

see it in action will be during the european elections in twenty nineteen. meanwhile anger has been growing in france over rising fuel costs driven in part by president. carbon tax hikes two people have died during three days of mass protests and civil disobedience across the country the demonstrations several of which have turned violent have been strongly condemned by president has described them as unacceptable. was . the to. the. demonstrators said tollbooths on fire on a highway in the southeast on tuesday night and elsewhere refineries and key roads

have been blocked causing major disruption over a quarter of a million people joined the so-called yellow vest to protest named after the high visibility jackets which motorists have to carry in their vehicles now the demonstrations have spread nationwide over five hundred people have been injured including dozens of police officers here's what some of the protesters have been telling us. we're a citizens because all people are equal there are no unions here it's not about politics rule equal and we're all here against the french government is clear to everybody this is mccrum became president prices have increased food fuel going up a dam on more poor people it's unacceptable that's why. we don't want this president and these governments to be useful anymore we don't want them anymore i want to change the system. because that's right and i spend the night here to show

that ruin 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. french publisher and journalist america gave us his thoughts on the unrest in the country. a lot of ordinary people cannot live properly because with michael they have seen their way of living completely diminished as a people are not. accustomed to political high political violence since the end of the war in france. a lot of casualties of all of the injured and maybe dead people the government would have to resign or government is a jeopardy is in jeopardy because it's a very spontaneous unprepared politically would do or wants to dialogue to enter in dialogue with the governments. sanctioning a one of its own it could be the case for italy hafter the e.u.

has rejected the country's two thousand one thousand budget the european union has already moved to launch disciplinary procedures against rome however that is the worst case scenario if italy fails to fall in line with its finances is that a great sort of daily confirms our assessment is that italy's afterwards. in particularly serious noncompliance was a consulate accommodation should be sent to life with. what they tell in government . of table we see the country sleepwalking into instability. we discussed this with the european commission president. as you know on saturday night i'm invited to dinner for what will be a constructive confrontation we have always been convinced about our draft is a draft that we thoroughly thought through and prepared we are convinced about the concrete ness of our political economic plan and so i'll be happy to evaluate the next that. the e.u.

decision to warn italy comes after the european commission initially rejected italy's budget in october stating the country was taking a risk and backtracking on previous reforms the relations between italy and the e.u. have already suffered amid the ongoing crisis with the italian coastline proving a hot spot for refugees coming from north africa and the middle east. we have shown that we know how to defend our borders and we will show that we can also block european budgets and actions as long as europe and some countries keep mocking attalia. and talian northern league party members to follow bargee says italy should the stay the course as policies aren't helping to fix the economic crisis. internally. follow these offices. your opinion for his policies or. for us is that it is too difficult to change

exchange the situation in who comes to these meetings or to change it is it is the . policies. that don't wish to escape from that a session of the last yes. when the. policy is unknown. apologies for the prizes for workers but. who are you. we must go on the ratio of the bottom at. dolce and gabbana has canceled the major fashion show in shanghai after a series of promotional videos designed to lure china into high end fashion left the iconic brand facing accusations of racism and sexism. i think that. only twenty of those who drop out he going to enjoy our. leisure.

reaction to its controversial media campaign only intensified after comments appeared online allegedly made by the brands ahead is to follow salting china however gabbana later put up this post calling the previous ones a hoax and claiming that he hadn't written the offensive messages over on social media people have started mocking the designer with pictures showing the d.m.g. range accompanied by the caption not me fashion house in turn has denied any responsibility saying that their accounts while they've been hacked. are instagram account has been hacked so is the accounts of stuff on the go by our legal offices urgently investigating we are very sorry for any distress caused by these unauthorized posts comments and direct messages we have nothing but respect for china and the people of china. the chinese entrepreneur who is based in italy told us that while the ads were perhaps inappropriate he doesn't believe the fashion

house intended to offend anyone. there's no need for concert i show. up to everything that's there at the beach that just because i don't like their marketing department but at the same time though it's your job and i should have made it look more and i'm sure that as more people back with us maybe they won't find this funny because i'm sure they weren't trying find any bodies in this one to make something for the younger generation in china maybe personally i wasn't offended because i thought it was kind of married to. the boss that with chopsticks i would thought about this i looked up to do it because i'm uncertain about that maybe it was a bit too much good music was a bit of that i knew something new sure somebody thought behind it so it wasn't that i would understand people being offended especially in china where like sarcasm doesn't translate very well i'm in shock now because. when social

networks burst into our lives millions embrace them and saw them as a vehicle for free speech and democracy but it now seems many users are losing faith as concerns grow over privacy censorship and spread of fake news. 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 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 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. it 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 are there but the danger by these new business models these take miles the e.u. has already following some tech companies president trumps hinted he's up for door in 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 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 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 like a perfect storm coming together. the power of social media can sometimes make or break a person's reputation anyone with a high profile online knows that these days an innocent mistake or a careless comment can trigger a storm and it seems even the people in charge of the social networks just are just as wrong.

i jack are you against brahmins why come into an unknown country and 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 spreading hate relating to your own posts is. sad to see a lack of awareness and concern about castro issues and your tweet your friend as and a device to save your skin and livable so twitter actively supports the brahman ical

patriarchy. the wimps out but that they ought to be ashamed. of course he has to apologize and let me tell you he still hasn't done so it's just quite ridiculous what's happening this comes from the c.e.o. of twitter and his stock management i mean the legal advice which which is fairly scary because then you realize that they're not even consider what they're saying i think even if you realize that north indian ticket saw the looks of art which is the house of people is given without a class consideration is as bad as that however the poster held up was just a smash. let me come speak a bit about that yes the brandons enjoyed the system a great privilege many many years ago which was extremely cruel to the lower class india is dominant is that we've had an extremely enlightened shameless constitution

. and the countries the education level is only about now getting to about sixty five seventy percent so socially and we still had a long way to go. which is why you see this you know this mismatch between the floor and what happens on the ground. 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 vegetable oils it is used in everything from food to cosmetics and even fuel but now there's concern about the massive environmental costs in 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 b i would 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. however the other one was because it was. legal.

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 why. waste product that's one thing but to be growing crops to go in the cars is just add some. real damaging effects that nobody expected. north korea has destroyed ten guard posts at its southern border as part of

a peace deal agreed earlier this year video released by south korea shows the posts being detonated in swift succession guard posts are positioned along the demilitarized zone which separates the two countries both agreed to demolish ten posts that leaves the north with one hundred fifty and once completed the south with fifty the agreement was made back in september as relations began to warm following decades of bitter rivalry. u.s. secretary of state might pump aoe is promising grave consequences to anyone shipping oil to syria and trying to prop up assad that's after the us treasury department on tuesday slapped sanctions on three oil companies and several people involved in selling iranian oil to syria united states today sanctions and international network that the iranian regime and russia are using to provide millions of barrels of oil to the assad regime this is in exchange for the movement

of hundreds of millions of dollars to the i.r.g.c. could force that money is then passed on to terrorist organizations like hezbollah and hamas. or a new round of sanctions targets one iranian company and two russia based or oil companies the six individuals targeted are from various countries including iran and russia moscow has condemned washington's latest move claiming it lends support to terrorists in syria. the effort to charge others with providing oil to syria which is battled terrorist aggression for seven years looks like a statement of support for terrorists and similar changes lee an effort to hamper the reconstruction of the water in country much of its population is deprived of electricity and heating does the us really want this beirut based political analyst on my national says the u.s. is effectively giving aid to the remnants of islamic state how ironic that the united states that claims claims to be fighting terrorism and is imposing sanctions

on those who defeated isis to those who participated and the war is still ongoing in syria. this is not completely dismantled yet there is more war effort by the syrian army with the help of the russian army with the help of the iranian forces in order to completely destroy these terrorist organizations. that are affiliated with that i think the whole world these sanctions are illegitimate they are illegitimate against syria they are illegitimate against illegitimate against hezbollah because they are baseless they are not based on decision made by the united nations or by some actions that are proven to be illegal actions or by direct support for any terrorist organizations. dozens or gather on kira's independence square on wednesday to mark five years since the beginning of ukraine's year made on protests and to remember those who

lost their lives in the unrest that ensued. the demonstrations began after the ukrainian government rejected an agreement that would have led to closer ties with the e.u. and instead represented a geo political pivot towards russia after a violent police crackdown at the end of november two thousand and thirteen the pro e.u. protests swelled setting in motion a chain of events that ultimately led to the ousting of president got a cold which over a three month period almost one hundred thirty people including eighteen police officers are known to have been killed in the clashes other commemorative events were also planned across ukraine on wednesday. and a dozen from we'll be back with headlines in thirty two minutes stay with us this is our international.

to bragg's it or not to break that that is the question teresa mayes plan to exit has been roundly criticised from virtually every corner 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. tanzim we're going underground as embattled u.k. pm drazen made today goes to brussels to iron out

a brics agreement that is set to be voted down in london coming up in the show we offer scottish nationalist m.p. and chair of the u.k. international trade select committee angus macneil if spain is just the first country to try and deal rail to raise amazing bricks and feel as the president of conservatives for a people's vote for my chair of parliament education select committee 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 the west bank with former who wolf it's been a steady old baker told us of all coming up in today's going underground at first well the u.k. chaotically tries to distance itself from the e.u. today marks five years since in other countries all protests in favor of getting closer to the e.u. those demonstrations would metamorphose into neo 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

the united states has supplied weapons and training to.