don't make sense why because it's all about a range. of . people he comes in for just twelve euros fifty a month. trade . the u.k. deal with. the united arab emirates.

u.s. president. he is. also ahead for you on the program. all of us here a very warm welcome. and we start with breaking news continued live pictures now from the pakistani city of karachi policemen have been killed off the gunman stormed the chinese. police also reportedly claim to have eliminated three people who were involved in the attack. of the consulate and.

the building a bomb explosion was also reported. responsibility yet as we show you live pictures from just outside the chinese consulate in karachi and we'll keep you updated on this developing story. who was jailed for life by united arab emirates caught on spying charges has thanked the. intervening a song. five months of appealing to the government daniela says that london's an auction was caused by a fear of upsetting its trading partner. i was under the impression that they were putting their interests with a ball of british citizens. right for free to them in a hearing without a lawyer matthew hedges was sentenced to life in prison on wednesday accused of

spying for the u.k. he's already spent five months in solitary confinement use a ph d. student who went to the u.a.e. to research the twenty eleven hour spring uprising abu dhabi says it hopes to find a solution to the case and has denied all claims of unfair treatment of the case has prompted a wave of criticism calls for a reevaluation of britain's relationship with her all of which gulf. when hedgers was first incarcerated in abu dhabi the u.k. government was trying to ink new trade deals with the u.a.e. our correspondent and i see a truck and i picked up the story. accused of spying and jailed for life that's now the fate of a british academic researcher in the united arab emirates an ally and friend of the u.k. but how much trouble is this case likely to stir up between the two given what's at stake we are incredibly disappointed that the u.s. should do this we see no foundation in the charges that have been laid against him

there will be serious diplomatic consequences for a country that says that is a friend and ally of the united kingdom for months had just wife says her repeated requests for help have fallen on deaf ears at the foreign office and they just disregarded my request they said that it wasn't part of three job the british prime minister says the u.k. is on top of things and doing everything it can but we already see it with the i'm wrong tool storage is of the highest level my marginal friend the foreign secretary is seeking it cool with the foreign minister it is eyes. during his visit to the u.a.e. on november the twelfth he raised the issue with both crown prince mohammed bin zeid and the foreign minister incidentally also in the emirates last week a u.k. trade minister with fifteen british companies promoting economic ties between the two countries u.a.e. is the fifth largest trading partner for the u.k. outside europe coming after us a japan china and hong kong and bilateral trade is now growing in double digits in

october the u.a.e. ambassador to the u.k. said there is hope of bilateral trade reaching twenty five billion pounds by twenty twenty it is currently at over seventeen billion so could the price tag of this long term cooperation and being worth more than ruffling feathers over the fate of one citizen problem for treason government is that they're talking at the moment recently briggs's are taking back control reasserting so foreign to you and that puts them in a dilemma they don't want to be seen to be weak on an issue like this abroad but on the other hand they also need to be building economic bridges outside the e.u. maybe again the government of the emirates is thinking the british can't possibly push this too far because they're on a weak or economic work it the british could of course withdraw the military support and by extension the supply of military equipment and at the same time they could face the consequences of an emirati economic boycott of. german

chancellor angela merkel has defended a controversial un agreement on migration accusing its opponents of nationalism or this pact which was supposed to help facilitate legal migration and better manage the movement of people who've been rejected by a number of nations including the united states some have linked merkel's remarks to a recent statement by the american president who said that he considers himself to be a nationalist a preacher all of has more. in public the relationship between the white. europe's two leading powers is perfect because sometimes all could occasionally very awkward . ok. bullets as angular merkel begins her epilogue chancellor she's made what's being seen as a job not only of her populist opponents at home but also at the u.s. president emptied out men who are people who say they can solve everything

themselves and don't have to think about anyone else and that's nationalism in its purest form this is not a treaty is that echoes a similar sentiment from president mccrone but your patriotism is the exact opposite of nationalism nationalism is a betrayal of patriotism by pursuing our own interests first with no regard to august we raise the very thing that a nation holds most precious and that of course the polar opposite of the trump mantra america thirsts america for america first it's all about america first the cause for concern seems to revolve around france and germany having their own relationship with russia and china germany even going as far as to negotiate their own energy deals how dare they said the us president spoke to the united nations germany will become totally dependent on russian energy if it does not

immediately change course we are committed to maintaining our independence from the encroachment of expansion is foreign powers. and the united states is increasingly unhappy with france's backing of the e.u. arming those feelings coach both ways the recent poll of germans found that they feel to get knighted states is a bigger risk to world security than terrorism while eight out of ten french people polled didn't pull any punches at all referring to the u.s. commander in chief as a dangerous incompetent racist quite it's understandable that the u.s. wouldn't be entirely thrilled that you are trying to stand up for its own interests but is a little push back from france and germany to the united states ultimately a bad thing peter all of a. well a c.d.u. party defense spokesman believes the negative attitude of some european countries

towards washington stems from before trump's time in office. germany. president. german chancellor angela merkel likely. beginning of suppose it and. she is linked to the obama clinton mccain this is seen was as are your neighbors we have. to. create a first between president. and you will be in conflict as who are linked to the united states not only by needle but by a lot of friends. which. some see as a goal. donald trump suggested that the war old should perhaps be accountable for the motor of journalist shoji he also insisted that despite media reports to the

contrary u.s. intelligence had not officially concluded the saudi crown prince had ordered the killing of the us president was asked by reporters on thursday who should be held responsible. maybe the world should be held accountable because there were issues close world is a very very vicious place no until this happened there are a lot of people saying a lot of great things about the crown prince so he strongly denies it he vehemently denies that the statement indicates a change in trump's rhetoric regarding the case when the news about the missing journalist first broke a harsh response and even threatened to sanction saudi arabia and while the u.s. did sanction a few saudi nationals so far that's been washington's only punitive measure to trump claims he does not want to risk thousands of jobs because of this incident. they're vehemently denying. and we have hundreds of thousands of jobs just two

people really want me to give up hundreds of thousands of jobs and frankly if we went by their standard we wouldn't be able to have anybody who's in now because look at what happens all over the world for journalists jamal khashoggi was killed in saudi arabia as it stamboul consulate in october of riyadh has denied any awareness of the planned killing and has launched an investigation charging eleven officials a middle east analyst ziad at nasa told us the trump is simply protecting u.s. interests but trouble saying here is what is actually said behind closed doors every single time i don't think it's sitting well with a lot of. only the truth of the delusions all it took we all knew an enemy and since iran and so really our arts and iran and israel those are our it's the u.s. is going to go into this area get it will try and present tom smart. you know on one hand that you may be actually trying to protect u.s.

interests on the other hand if he sees this ultimate outcome it's going to move people who are trying to absolve himself from blame where you can point to everything you said since says i didn't want to do that but all of you who made this happen so don't blame it on me. tourists in the catalan capital barcelona are no longer safe that's the message on leaflets being handed out by local police amid a spike in the city's crime rate over the last year some three thousand leaflets have been given to tourists in seven languages including english french and italian and the leaflets include tips on how to avoid becoming a victim of crime currently there are some sixteen thousand five hundred officers in the area but the force says it needs around two thousand more police personnel and their supporters took to the streets back in october protesting against the catalan interior minister. i am.

officials claimed the crime rate has launched nineteen percent compared with last year a level barcelona hasn't seen since the mid eighty's however tourists and local residents say the situation isn't that bad. when i came this was one factor that this new england may hand that if i am not secure leg that is why i'm getting such a big bag instead of normal comfort sideband change to other parts of the world and it feels pretty safe to say all the police in the well jeanne if you're going to get rid of the gifts and crime just tell people to. be can't. keep them fables in their pockets as if you know i haven't come across anything that should meet me

feet uncomfortable around me and see if. i feel super secure obviously i take care of my personal belongings it's quite city safe he can walk at night i don't feel like something bad will happen to me. i let's go back to live pictures for you right now we return to our breaking news from the pakistani city of karachi where two policemen have been killed off the gunman stormed the chinese consulate let's go straight now live to journalist. who is based in the capital and joins us here on r.t. international thanks for coming on the program so quickly can you bring us the update what we know so. well you're pushing. it well but nonetheless some of the presence of the producing the security forces very much do it in the meadow and the chinese consulate moved there were morgan. are terrorist targets going. and good marriage. as a result of this good was

a strong reaction by fox and security forces most of that there was which is probably people flew they have been killed and there were also reports suggesting the globalists some of the members of the security forces have also been killed in exchange of fire all the members of the johnny gosch there's twenty one members they are all safe baka songs were aggressive said that those who have been focused on and trying to bring to your own efforts to basically sixty two billion dollars economic projects and barkus are built to belong to the. they have not named any anyone but in the past marcus songs are officials in the bed don't discussion with the germans they've been telling that it is it is fog of our lungs of the u.s. and india which is august mega economic projects linking progress on that while the port to the chinese east of the china that kind of communication in the past pakistani officials have blamed they are doing are trying to destabilize baucus on

what ad this particular point of time the government of pakistan has not named any country of being behind discovers to attack but it is like understandable given the fact that the mood in eleven thousand chinese are already there and in pockets on dead looking on different economic projects. india and the u.s. have in the past have publicly of course this the one good one bridge project which is also possible to focus on our local john lesser around now joining us live from islamabad. the capital of pakistan thanks for that thank you are still ahead many more stories on our national after more than one hundred twenty years in the british museum britain's anxious bronze statue is to nigeria but apparently that's just on loan i will give you details in just a. statistics

from a couple excel came out that show the wealth and income gap around the world in different countries and then there's there's the u.s. there's there's france and then there's the u.k. it's like why. don't all spread between this concentration and then you've got the loyalists or people there in the tory party who support the queen whose whole point of brakes it was to support the clean ok so they just aired a list and a moron of policy because trouble poverty brags it's all about supporting the queen

and getting rid of the world tax. good to have you with us today for the program the british museum has agreed to give back a collection of bronzes to nigeria but only on loan boycott looks at how museums are threat of losing collections as the number of disputed truck shows keeps on growing. it may be called the british museum but many of the precious artifacts inside here are from far far away a quiet some might even say looted during the times that the british empire ruled far and wide and now an increasing number of persons former colonies all outright victims of theft all saying that they want their precious treasures to be returned home now in response to the british museum has all the courteously said that it's

willing to lend out some items rather than return them the latest loan will be to nigeria a collection of bronze statues the bin mean bronzes as the known were originally taken from africa by british troops in eight hundred ninety seven and all the nations are submitting their requests to you have to take it keeping you two hundred in peace to use your skills so months and we can hope that was the governor of easter island begging the british museum for its precious statue earlier this week and the list of disputed museum treasures keeps on growing.

so should the spoils of the empire be were to and i want to know what those resisting the museum those feasting their eyes on the foreign artifacts have to say about it there's a lot of dispute actually over some of the foreign artifacts the british museum got in the times of empire should they just return everything. well that would be nice even if there are what a great question of the world would just be talking about this think it's been very very scrupulous. so you would but i still think you should go for their little stuff you been lost but kept it in your heart. for other countries that have to shoot up to assure that we we we feel like we've won it but we're a monstrous. should be given back confidence is that a bit rich as well say will lend you back the things that we stole from you possibly. see your lot in the in from the different could use and stuff is just

swallow but would never get it to those who couldn't see it would we know what i mean yes you have a few of the stolen things oh yeah you think yes you should go back to mother otherwise i think we should keep it to remind ourselves of our history and why this stuff is here in the first base their risk of the museum being empty if if it were and gets everything back up. well off the lot would be better but as for the british museum itself well it told us that it welcomes debate and transparency regarding the history of its collections but that in many cases allowing them to stay in the museum gives them wider public access we are very much in favor of more transparency around the provenance of objects and museum collections we still believe however that there is a very strong public benefit from museums like the british museum housing objects from across the world under one roof while the issue of foreign artifacts has been made all the more thought any thanks to a more laissez faire attitude across the channel the french president emanuel

macron appears to be more willing to send france's colonial acquisitions back to their rightful owners and that's putting museum directors here at risk of losing large swathes of their collections in a bit of an awkward position. in a legal first for united states a judge in the city of detroit has declared america's law banning the practice of circumcision known as female genital mutilation to be on call. situational judge said the power to outlaw f. g.m. was down to individual states not congress as he dismissed some of the charges against eight people including two doctors for conducting the procedure on two seven year old girls. female genital mutilation is a widely band practice found in africa asia and the middle east it can have serious health consequences in some cases even death and estimated two hundred million

women around the world are thought to have undergone the procedure which the u.n. and the world health organization consider a violation of human rights we put the issue up for debate with anthropologist and a women's rights activist for mumbai do a media commentator gina luton is absolutely misleading to suggest that female circumcision i'm talking about off three forms is intended to actually just suppress female sexuality well i'm a doctor of human development and i can tell you that this flies in the face of everything that i've ever studied regarding women's rights what we are contesting is that we have these separate policies for girls and for boys and that has to do with the cultural acceptance of male circumcision and religious acceptance of male circumcision in the united states my counterpart here is is comparing apples and oranges she's talking about the difference between women who make a conscious decision as an adult to have to undergo some sort of cosmetic or other

sort of procedure no one has a problem with that here and that's not what our conversation is about we're talking about seven year old children almost babies having these decisions to make them essentially a sexual and to risk their lives doing it i reject the term i reject the term mutilation as sexist and racist you do not refer to boys as mutilated so you don't refer to our bodies as mutilated so how far do we let those values impose themselves up on american values which are based on constitutional and individual freedoms and certainly genitally mutilating a child without their ability to even consider it as an adult is not an american value. london is currently hosting the twenty eighteen world chess championship with grandmasters fabiano caruana and magnus carlsen battling it out for their cherished title we spoke to start of

a russian grandmaster who gave us his predictions for the clash. i think magnus carlsen has more chances in the speeches he is a stronger and faster player he plays with intuition where is fed be an know kero on a prefers to think and contemplate for longer from this point of view cancer is the top pick there is still four games to go before the end of the championship they're currently titled everything is possible one mistake can ruin the game a constant has to be careful if we end up with a time it will be in his favor because he will have more chances in the tie break many people think that chess players are nerds than i mocked at school but i can prove that they are fun people with a lot of hobbies but all what we have seen how a robot was playing against a person who was even speaking and joking it was funny and interesting however it was more like a show than a real game and. i that is the program for this hour here on r t international

there are many more of your friday stories still to come if you can join us at the top of the hour. but he could see coming that false confessions would be that in this place before the conviction. had any interrogation out there what you'll see is threat promise threat. this threat lie a lie a lie the process of interrogation is designed to put people in just that frame of mind to make the most culpable make them want to get out and don't take no for an

answer and don't accept their denials she said therefore would. sound a statement that i would be all about that the next day there's a culture on accountability and police officers know that they can engage in misconduct that has nothing to do with all their crime. i've been saying the numbers mean something they matter the us has over one trillion dollars in debt more than ten white collar crime tamping each day. eighty five percent of global wealth you loan to the ultra rich eight point six percent market saw thirty percent rise last year some with four hundred to five hundred three per second per second and bitcoin rose to twenty thousand dollars. china is building a two point one billion dollar a i industrial park but don't let the numbers overwhelm. the only number you need

to remember is one one business show you can't afford to miss the one and only. while the two thousand any financial crash drives america into recession and unemployment will descend a small town in north dakota experiences a genuine black gold rush. thanks to a drug tracking techniques oil is discovered in this tiny town in fact it turns out the williston is sitting atop one of the largest shale oil fields in the nation companies rest to exploit this new energy resource period using two miles below the earth's surface oil soon flows freely and news spreads the wildfire for the ones left behind by the crisis of two thousand and eight relisted seems like there. last chance for you in life with an unemployment rate of zero percent and wages it three or four times more than the national average the promise of prosperity and desperate times is too great to ignore children by

a common hope thousands of men and women throw themselves once again into a desperate rush towards the mythical american tree and at any cost. history repeats itself in the midst of his new album no doubt the most impressive in u.s. history. they need there's more work out here than they got able to do it. i don't believe. i still believe there's a dream oh yes i can still believe. it's like the gold rush is very very similar to a gold rush. ponderous fresh out of cincinnati in two thousand and twelve after being unemployed for

months he hears about the boom happening in williston. think. at first he works for an oil company but soon his desire for independence takes over and he sets up his own service company. bought the company and we had a sweeper truck and the situation williston went from a manageable situation where i only get like some sleep at night and i could like keep up with like daily activities like taking showers every day to like an all out sprint trying to like keep up with so much work it was amazing go from one job to the next to the next to the next to the next as it is now i have not right now i have not taken a full day off in over nine months and i'm very thankful i'm here i'm not complaining one bit very thankful for the money an opportunity here.