i. think for the moment. we should be held accountable. maybe the world should be because the world is a vicious place when asked who should be held accountable for the murder of the prominent. president donald trump said that perhaps it's the world that should take the blame. off the five month. criticism of putting trade above one man's

life the u.k. promises to deal with the case of a british academic jailed for life by the united arab emirates. challenging. the british museum has agreed to give back a collection of bronzes to nigeria but only. here we look at how museums are a threat of losing collections as the number. treasures keeps on growing. mid-morning here in moscow on this friday welcome to the program when oxy insanity . has suggested that the world should perhaps be held accountable for the murder of journalist. 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. the u.s.

president was asked by reporters on thursday who should be held responsible. that. maybe the world should be held accountable because there were close world is a very very vicious place now until this happened there are a lot of people saying a lot of good things about the crown prince so he strongly denies it he vehemently denies that but of the statement indicates a change in trump's rhetoric regarding behind the case when the news about the missing journalist first broke trump vowed a harsh response and even threatened to sanction saudi arabia and while the u.s. state sanctioned several saudi nationals that so far being washington's only punitive measure 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 journalist jamal khashoggi was killed in saudi arabia's istanbul consulate in october of riyadh has denied any awareness of the planned killing and is launched an investigation charging eleven officials a middle east analyst as iyad nasa told us the trump is simply protecting u.s. interests but the trouble is 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. other truth of the relationship all intercollegiate we all need an enemy and since you aren't so ready are at odds in iran and israel that are at odds with the us is going to go into this iraq can do it it will trump president tom smart. you know on one hand he may be actually trying to protect u.s. interests on the other hand if he sees this ultimate outcome it's going to be maybe politically trying to absolve himself from blame where you can point to everything

you said since says i don't want to do that but all of you who made this happen so don't blame it on me. two policemen have been killed after gunmen stormed the chinese consulate in the pakistani city of karachi police say the situation is now under control here is it just a journalist based in the pakistani capital islamabad with more on what happened. they are doing well but nonetheless some of the presence of pollution is going to force is very much to do it in the now down to chinese consulate there were more of them. are terrorist be chinese going. first used good maids. there as it is very obvious there was a strong reaction by fox and the security forces most of the federal reserve which is probably pretty to where they have been and are all sort of suggesting that probably some of the members of the security forces have also been killed the next year you're flying all over members of the johnny gosch of their lives even members

they are all three of. the wife of a british academic who was jailed for life by united arab emirates caught on spying charges has thanked the u.k. for finally intervening as after five months of appealing to the government. says london's inaction was caused by a fear of upsetting its trading partner i was under the impression that they were putting their interests. of british citizens. right feel free to them and hearing without a lawyer matthew hedges was sentenced to life in prison on wednesday accused of spying for the u.k. he has already spent five months in solitary confinement he has a ph d. student who went to the u.a.e. to research the twenty unleavened arab spring uprising. abu dhabi says it hopes to find a solution to the case and has denied old claims of unfair treatment but the case has prompted a wave of criticism of coals for

a reevaluation of britain's relationship with her or oil rich gulf allies and when hedges was first incarcerated in abu dhabi the u.k. government was trying to get new trade deals with the u.a.e. our correspondent and i start here picks 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 it is a friend and ally of the united kingdom for months ahead 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 we are raising it with the emerald storage is of the highest level my marginal friend the foreign secretary is urgently seeking a call with the foreign minister abdullah it is doing his visit to the u.a.e. on november the twelfth he raised the issue with both crown prince mohammed bin ziad 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 trees are going to talking at the moment bridges are taking back control reasserting so foreign to you and puts them in a dollar 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. the maybe again the government of the emirates is thinking the british can't possibly push this too far because they're on a weekly economic wicket the british could of course withdraw all the military support and by extension the supply bit of military equipment and at the same time they could face the consequences of an m.r.i. economic boycott of. the british museum has agreed to give back a collection of bronzes to nigeria but only on loan upon a boycott looks at how museums are a threat of losing collections as the number of disputed treasures keeps on growing . it may be called the british museum but many of the precious artifacts inside

here are from far far away acquired some might even say looted during the times that the british empire ruled far and wide and now an increasing number of persons former ptolemy's or 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 that been mean bronzes as they're known were originally taken from africa by british troops in eight hundred ninety seven and other nations are submitting their requests to you have to take it keeping him one hundred fifty years just give us some 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 we're to and i want to know what those visiting 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 received there. but what a great question that the world would just be talking about it's big it's been very very spiritual to soothe what i feel so you should go for the little stuff has been lost but kept it in your heart to do stuff for other countries set up to shoot so

should we we briefly about we want to fight when we go on strike those 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 from the sea all up in the in from the different could you send stuff is just to all who would never get it to those who wouldn't be to see it would we do it i mean yes you have a few of the stolen things you know yeah you think yes it should go back another 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 if one gets everything back up. well for a lot of people who did it 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 wind up

public access we are very much in favor of more transparency around the problem of objects and museum collections we still believe however the best is a very strong public benefit for museums like the british museum housing objects from across the walled under one roof while the issue of foreign artifacts. it has been made all the more thorny 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 right full owners and not putting the z.m. directors here at risk of losing large swathes of their collections in the face of an awkward position. in a legal first for the us a judge in the city of detroit has declared america's law banning the practice of circumcision known as female genital mutilation to be unconstitutional the 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 under-age girls female genital mutilation is a widely been a practice found in africa asia and the middle east it can have serious health consequences and in some cases even death and estimated to one 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 so we put the issue up for debate with anthropologist and a women's rights activist to form by amadu and media commentator gina luton. it is absolutely misleading to suggest that female circumcision i'm talking about all three forms is intended to actually 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 so i want to make it clear that i am not pro mutilation i would never support the mutilation there are

a set of practices that supporters like myself refer to as female circumcision and there are many different forms usually what happens with this terminology female genital mutilation or s.t.m. is that the most extreme form which is very actually quite rare is what gets gets conflated with all the other practices 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 are 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 consent as an adult is not an american value most of the women from my knowledge from my twenty five years of research as well as from my experience do not. consider themselves as mutilated and don't experience themselves as new ladies. in the. safe. being handed out by local police 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 the leaflets include tips on how to avoid

becoming a victim of. currently there are some sixteen thousand five hundred offices in the area of the force says it needs around two thousand mall police personnel and their supporters took to the streets back in october protesting against the interior minister. thank god. i. officials claim the crime rate has skyrocketed nineteen percent compared with last year so level has not seen since the mid eighty's however tourists on local residents say the situation isn't about when i came this was one factor that this

new england may hate that if i'm not secure that is why i'm getting such a big magnet know my comfort. other parts of the world and it feels pretty sight all the place in the well gene if again every day in your present time i just tell people to. be careful to keep their bibles in their pockets as if you know i haven't come across anything the should make me feed on comfort. i feel super secure obviously i take care of my personal belongings but it's a crowded city safe you can walk at night i don't feel like something bad will happen to me or still to come here on the program on c. who defends a un migration pot and rejects quote nationalism in its purest form just.

a statistic from a couple excel came out that showed 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 does stuff with incredible spread between this concentration and then you've got the royalist there are people there in the tory party who support the queen whose whole point of bragg's it was to support the queen ok so they just aired a list and a moron a policy because incredible poverty brags it's all about supporting the queen and getting rid of their world contacts. most people think just stand out in this business you need to be the first one on top of the story or the person with the loudest voice so the biggest read in truth

to stand down to lose business is just the right questions and demand the right answer the. question. your friday stories here on r.t. a german chancellor angela merkel has defended a controversial un agreement on migration accusing its opponents of nationalism this pact which was supposed to help facilitate legal migration and better manage the movement of people has been rejected by a number of nations including america some have linked merkel's remarks to of recent statement by the american president who said that he considers himself to be a nationalist a preacher all of his more. in public the relationship between the white house and europe's two leading powers is perfect of course sometimes all could occasionally

very awkward. i think it. was. ok. but it's as anglo merkel begins her epilogue of german chancellor she's made what's being seen as a job not only of her populist opponents at home but also at the us president to lead our minds are people who say they can solve everything themselves and don't have to think about anyone else 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 third america for america first of 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 of 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 eighth 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. foremost c.d.u. party defense spokesman believes the negative attitude of some european countries towards washington stems from before trumps. germany. president tom. so the german chancellor angela merkel has made it very clear and. the other beginning of supplies that in c.e.o. of plum she is leaning to the obama clinton mccain this is seen was as are your neighbors we have. to. create a first between president. that you will be in can't lose who are linked to

the united states not only by need all by a lot of friends through which. some hundreds of years ago all. london is currently hosting the twenty eighteen world chess championships with grandmasters fabiana and magnus carlsen battling it out for the cherished title and we spoke to a sort of. a russian grandmaster who gave us his prediction. i think magnus carlsen has more chances in the speeches he is a stronger and faster player. he plays with intuition whereas fabby are no khurana prefers to think and contemplate for longer from this point of view cancer is the topic 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 council has to be careful if we end up with the tide 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 and all work we've 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. the programmers give you some updates now on the breaking news coming from the pakistani city of karachi reports now saying twenty five people killed and dozens injured as a gunman tried to storm the chinese consulate there police also reportedly claim to have eliminated three people involved in the attack it is thought three or four men tried to enter the consulate and opened fire on the guard standing outside a bomb blast was also heard when we got the developments here on this breaking news stories will get them to you as well. all right that's a program for this hour we are back in about half an hour with more of your top friday have.

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real the hard work we do is the true. future historians may look back at donald trump's handling of the murder of jamal to show the as a case study of the lock of leadership and outright folly his reasons for giving the saudis or rather the crown prince a free pass simply don't make sense why because it's all about iran. bumpus response to the california wildfires and a growing battle about who will be the next speaker of the house willie brown the

outspoken former mayor of san francisco is here to talk about those topics and more on this edition of. welcome to the politicking i'm larry king willie brown is the always candid and often entertaining former democratic mayor of san francisco he also served as a speaker of the california state assembly and now he delivers a wildly popular weekly column for the san francisco chronicle it's always a pleasure to welcome him who we know each other a long time he joins us from. really how goes it it's gone extremely well larry although the smoke from the far up in the butte county is creating a problem for us here we're all out we're in mask right it's killed it's the

deadliest in california history so she it impresses the seventy six deaths thirteen hundred missing the president has said this was poor management of the forests what do you make of that well at shows you how uninformed this particular president happens to be after all larry some sixty to seventy percent of the land involved is under the control of the federal government and only the state when it asked permissions can do something about that particular land certainly obviously there are some things that should and could have been done and should in the future be done but it is not just mismanagement it is allow nature to take its course period . in your column in the chronicle you took a little swipe at the lock of help from hollywood use you wrote that have you notice the celebrities silence about the fire victims no telephones no benefit

concerts no nothing why do you think that well i suspect because there's just not the same connection when we had a fire here a year or more ago up in the napa valley when sonoma and when napa santa rosa and all of those places went up in smoke many of them were second homes larry of people who live here in san francisco of people from los angeles of people in the artistic world many of them were wineries with investments but by multiple people from all over the nation so people had a real connection in a real relationship and they had been there recently and therefore it was easy for them to instantly garner support and attention and an opportunity to help people restore what they had lost their in the process of in fact the one that restored a trailer up in up in part one of those areas in california that has been struck in

the camp fire is just not the same paradise is a mist ascription of that area of california. in the new house we switch to other areas the democratic side will be younger more female more diverse g.o.p. side will be older white and more male. what does this mean for the prospects of getting anything done in the next two years well i think one thing is for certain mr trump will not have the incredible force that he had in the first two years of his administration you will now have nancy pelosi and the democrats in a position to keep him legislatively speaking for moving in the direction that he was trying to move this nation they no longer will need to pray for somebody like the late senator mccain of arizona who stepped in.