little. league. got to go to. the. point it wouldn't hurt the good the first year this is what the decision. a split in washington over the u.s. stance toward saudi arabia with the senate calling for ending aid to the gulf kingdom's war effort in yemen something the white house adamantly opposes. me as

being ok. i'm trying to lower. a sexual abuse survivor in the u.k. calls for a change in the to the man who has given access to his son born as a result of the assault. too little too late the french president's attempt to quell more than a week of protest against a fuel tax increase with opinion polls showing sixty six percent of french support of the best. international money comes to you here's your news this hour the u.s. senate the white house america's support for saudi arabia senators have passed a resolution calling for the government to end military aid. to the saudi led will

effort in yemen here's how the secretary of state reacted to the move just poorly timed this is what the decision is all about on the floor of the united states senate passing a resolution this point it would encourage the who these were encouraged to reign in we will no longer be part of their destructive military adventurism and hopefully get a cease fire in yemen something that we have diplomatically been striving for for months and we think we're right on the cusp of that we were fuelling the bombers that the saudis sent in to yemen a vote comes amid the ongoing debate over the killing of jamal khashoggi the dissident journalist murdered last month inside the saudi continent in istanbul kind of open house more on washington's current divisions when the vote was sixty three to thirty seven with support on both sides of the aisle the resolution called for the united states to end any cooperation with the saudi led attack on yemen now

one of the voices speaking in favor of the resolution was us senator bernie sanders of vermont we have been providing the bombs that the saudi led coalition is using we have been refueling their planes before they drop those bombs this is a vote. that says to the world we are going to end. her rip the humanitarian. that is killing tens and tens of thousands of defenseless children in yemen there was opposition to this resolution from the white house very strong we heard that there was a closed door session in congress mike pompei o the secretary of state addressed members of the u.s. senate and urged them not to pass this resolution this arguing that somehow this resolution would actually hurt the conditions of those living in yemen the suffering in yemen grieves me but if the united states of america was not involved in yemen it would be a hell of

a it's been widely reported that the united states prevented a resolution in the united nations that would have condemned the saudi attacks on yemen the resolution had support from the united kingdom among others and essential he would have called on saudi arabia to cease its activities that harm civilians however the united states works behind the scenes to prevent it from becoming a resolution now there has been widespread opposition and condemnation to saudi arabia's activities in yemen we've heard statements from charities that have come forward humanitarian organizations and said that essentially saudi activities put fourteen million people at risk of malnutrition however the united states continues to align with saudi arabia now it's important to point out that this is not the first time there have been votes on capitol hill regarding this issue and back in march the u.s. senate was presented with the opportunity to vote on this resolution and failed to do so they did not pass this resolution however today as we have seen they did actually come forward and condemn saudi arabia's activities in yemen not much has

changed in yemen a sense march however what has changed is there has been widespread outrage about the killing of journalist jamal khashoggi secretary of defense james mattis came forward and essentially argued that while he was concerned about the plight of civilians in yemen this resolution was the wrong move security interests cannot be . dismissed even count ability for president trump describes is the unacceptable and horrible crime of. the saudi bombing has been responsible for the majority of the death and destruction. and has led to this. largest outbreak of cholera in modern history that seemed to. officials in this country enough to do anything about it and it was the. journalist. who was known to people in the elite circles in washington d.c.

that really led to the kind of vote that we're seeing there's a strong what i call a pro war lobby which is made up of the weapons industry. the american people do in the media didn't show us the results of. the starving children congress was happy to go along enough do anything about it. already described as one of the worst humanitarian crises on the planet the situation continues to deteriorate every day in yemen just a warning that some of the following images we're about to show you are upsetting to watch.

a rape victim in the u.k. is demanding a change in the law or after the man who assaulted her was told he could be granted access to her son that was born as a result of her ordeal. the story is about myself my son the man i mean to me and i'm not going to and it's not my meat is to be enough to roast him counsel to apply to day and train till it's an unusual case getting quite a bit of traction here in the u.k. a victim of child sexual exploitation has waived her on an image and come forward demanding a change in legislation following revelations that a man who had raped her as a teenager as a result of which she became pregnant and had a child was approached by

a local council to basically see if this man wanted to be part of the child's life but man in question was put behind bars two years ago which is serve a thirty five year sentence for multiple sexual offenses against nine girls in the area including that's woman sammy woodhouse who'd rather him council invited him to potentially seek visits with the child the man did not go for this offer and did not seek such an application however this still triggered a push for a change in legislation and this is what local m.p. had to say on the matter. puling example of the law being set up either to favor the puppetry or to actively walk against the rights of abuse survivors and the consideration they should be afforded the ministry of justice is currently investigating whether this took place due to an error or whether there is potentially a wider problem behind this we have also heard from the council who said that they

were basically just following guidelines so there's are lots of questions to be addressed in this area yet again with this story now coming to the forefront well we spoke to some of the people in the room in the north of england where the grooming scandal continues to hold my town to be. absolutely disgusting and it's so horrible i think it is this. just disgusting discussed in the police should be frightened to do anything in the past understood now incredulous the fact that they can you think it's acceptable to approach a convicted rapist and ask if he will be going to access to a child or according to an independent inquiry fourteen hundred children were sexually abused in the area over a fifteen year period the children had already been in the spotlight of social services because of child protection issues and the neglect the report described most perpetrators as asian british activist sarah off meds told us that some parts

of the local community still protect offenders. safeguarding is now more important but in the ninety's and in the northeast the youth workers that were working at the time they were just a drain on public funds we do need prosecutions we do need parents to speak up and say yes our daughter was a victim in the english community the english families they will go and they will seek prosecution and but within the asian community where it does happen and it's still rife there groomers are protected by the own community because they are chained by our no. stigma so that's why there prosecutions are there lessons have been learned but they are not being acted upon. in france the so-called yellow vests protesters have announced their plans for another series of rallies against president across fuel tax increase he's doubled down on the plan but says more needs to be done to address citizens' complaints from. what i've taken from these

last few days is that we shouldn't change course because this is the right one and it's necessary but we do need to change how we work because a number of our citizens feel this policy course is being imposed on them from above. or according to an opinion poll published on wednesday two in three people backed the yellow vests protest nearly eighty percent of french people oppose the planned fuel tax hike the yellow vest movement regionally kicked off with facebook groups calling on people to set up road blocks protests of grow and spread across the country with rallies each saturday on the shores of these eight in paris since november.

we spoke to alexander languor who's from the french police union who says that their superiors don't always understand the conditions that officers are subjected to. but said i started on what he said in diversity the police that overseen from the operation room at the headquarters they give orders saying do that go there the situation on the ground might be very different but according to the information we have here everything is correct and the problems happen when management does not understand the risks we are taking on location because they're sitting in their office. i was told an interesting story one location workers were laying paving slabs and no one from management and told us to close off the area to prevent the protesters from pulling up those slabs and using them. those protesters are hooligans and criminals they are people who don't want to

abide by the law they incite conflict they are ready to commit crimes on the question of who they really are i would say they are against society they used in the protest movement is a pretext. for president putin's accuse to ukraine's leadership of orchestrating the recent clash in the coach straight to drum up anti russian sentiment and boost their own ratings. if the current kiev authorities successfully so anti russian sentiment because they have nothing else to so there's a feeling that whatever they do they will get away with it if they demand new borns for breakfast they will get babies so what they'll say the government wants to eat . but ima put in was referring to the clash between russian and ukrainian vessels last sunday in which three ukrainian ships were seized he said camp was deliberately created a stand off mic as a pretext to introduce martial law ahead of the twenty nine thousand elections due to be our senior correspondent but i guess the ed has been following the

international reaction already. central european powers france germany in particular seem to be less than enthusiastic about america's latest calls for more sanctions against russia germany in particular saying that it is still supporting the north stream to gas pipeline from russia to central europe to critique the government has of course taken note of the criticism of the north stream to east first and foremost an economic project that's what we've always said but at the same time we've repeatedly indicated that it has however a political dimension to this follows on from various u.s. officials calls to enforce and to strengthen sanctions against russia we certainly encourage all european allies tsu a card what additional sanctions could be implemented absent at this point there's not something germany and france have said they're considering but these things i think can develop over time the u.s.

president donald trump himself asked and whether he's going to condemn russia's actions in the u.s. well he spoke more critically of russia than he has in a long while but he said that he's going to wait for a full report from his advisors before condemning any russian action that will be very determinative maybe i won't have the meeting maybe i won't even have. the meeting i don't like that aggression i don't want that aggression at all absolutely and by the way europe shouldn't like that aggression and germany shouldn't like that aggression he's referring there of course to the pre-agreed meeting with vladimir putin on the sidelines of the g twenty summit in argentina but we were also heard a lot of criticism in the press corps and questions to donald trump and other leaders and why they aren't condemning russia hard enough but let's. have the president trump issued an extremely mild rebuke to russia for firing on

and seizing three ukrainian ships other storage supporters of ukraine be it nations that great britain canada for example have condemned russia or third parties such as think tanks the atlantic council one of their one of the pundits has been calling on nato to send warships to the see through the street crossing perhaps unaware that such a move would be illegal as the season tunnel borders of russia and ukraine and requires the permission of both the third party which ships to enter the as a seat the russians have offered their own version of what happened in the on sunday in the strait of kutch they say the the tech did the ukrainian vessels they had new choice but to use weapons that sees these vessels as they were behaving dangerously radically they hadn't followed any notification s.b.u. counter-espionage agents were on board they also say that this is

a provocation. meanwhile claims that it warned russia about the presence of its vessels in the area and it called the seizure of it ships an act of aggression ukraine's demanding the immediate release of twenty four crew members who are currently in custody and russian security analyst a child troubridge says canfield's that's been given carte blanche by its western backus. you've got a country such as ukraine which is. sure it's a challenging it's much more powerful neighbor and it's steering not because it's been given leeway to do so by form for most of the united states and of course but by the u.k. and others in the west and so for example you've seen provocative behavior being rewarded recently the united states for example announced that it would supply tank weapons and other weapons to ukraine instead of trying to diffuse the situation. so-called islamic state hasn't only brought a war of terror against people of other religions but also against the basic

education now they've got their own view of what children should be taught and how to teach them these arabic channel got a glimpse of life in a former eisel facility in iraq. one would say he'd seize twenty three weapons as trophies from infidels while another with the heat seized only seventeen weapons how many weapons did they seize in total. where the line of the caliphate where the soldiers. as. he calls a. red lion cubs of the caliphate where.

the orders of the aim of this policy was to create a new generation of militants to strengthen the terrorist group i'm still afraid of i say because they killed and tortured us. over the years artie's been repeatedly branded by critics in america and elsewhere as fake news but now a former undersecretary for u.s. homeland security says r.t. does tell the truth not that it was an entirely allegation free review mind you. r.t. russia today has a weekly program called america's lawyer. the relenting theme of which to quote one of the openings is america's justice system is corrupt and broken i

don't think there's anything in there that is a law i but it is i'm relenting only one sided view if you knew how to look at the other side you would see that russia least is weighing in on both sides they're not on your side they're not on the other side they're on their own side it is too weak . and all those comments represent a notable change of tune for u.s. officials who have consistently labeled russian media and r.t. in particular as sources of propaganda and false information the russian government also created and spread fake news and conspiracies across the vast social media landscape big news that's being spread by russia fake news has dominated the true had lines fake news spread by russia and of course or two which is a heavily supported. funded by the russian the russian government fake news kremlin spread misleading or otherwise fake news media and legal analyst

says that shedding light on america's problems may be bad for the government but not for the people the truth hurts the truth can be problematic don't be so truthful r t don't be so truthful or could you be a little bit more positive in the truth this is a dramatic difference from fake imaginary on real untrue fictional fictive synthetic that was the old story now it's. could you be a little less truthful could you could you could you perhaps baby spread the truth around a drug matic improvement in my humble opinion it can not harm the united states but it can devastate the government it can devastate aspects agencies law enforcement judicial system politicians presidents to congress all of

the truth kid be horrible their truth especially if it exposes corruption oh absolutely but does it hurt america america can use never. the former head of britain's armed forces says the country needs to rediscover the mentality that helped to win the cold war and deal effectively with emerging threats like russia and iran we have people on the streets of london what they thought of the. certainly all changed that question and more takes that also i'm not sure thanks for saying it in your home or any mentality like that us and upset things are going to let him even though i wouldn't pass rushers the hopes of meeting one i mean i know some from the things our courts are now. hard to favor of one party may have obscure question what is angle is a presume this in this regard to pushing for an additional military spending of former army chief remarks came after a report by

a london based think tank which suggests that a new unit should be created to assess anime capabilities also looking at the british military ability to respond will be similar to a u.s. structure that existed in the one nine hundred seventy s. of the very height of the cold war journalist john white thinks these remarks are all their version tactic this is redolent of up there to political establishment that is in deep and unremitting crisis over the keyless it has wrought. breaks it. but more importantly all those social pressures that are sure where its implementation overstated to you over the last three years since the north and to test waste of british taxpayers' money time is a statement so many people are the first of the entire hopefully should suffer the group over thirty and their own up to christmas this is a ruling class that is holding onto the past like a journeyman or two away from us because that is all the power of in order to

sustain their position they're always enemies to be vanquished and countries too recently in russia is a traditional enemy of the british ruling class that it is by no means the traditional enemy of the british people did it to be at the very people who are telling them that russia should be their enemy. a feminist journalist in canada has been permanently banned from twitter for hateful conduct she'd tweet. the trans women can't be identified as women or join the feminist movement mike murphy was first locked out of her account in august she deleted her tweets and regained access but is now banned for her controversial post she accuses twitter of centering basic facts and silencing people. twitter was working out to try to suspend my account permanently and then finally i received notification from twitter that my account had been permanently suspended on account of their new mis

gendering rule which i was not aware existed and nobody noted the users and the media weren't aware of that rule and tell friday so it was a new rule and they went back and found a tweet that i had posted before i was aware of this rule and suspended my account because i had said yeah it's him referring to a man as he said it she and apparently this individual now identifies as a woman a twit as new policy prohibits the mis gendering of transgender people you should refer to a trans woman by her male birth name known as dead naming. so meghan murphy got kicked off twitter under the new transfer to be a policy and had a total meltdown i'm breaking my vacation silence to celebrate that megan mafias tweet account has been suspended so this week meghan murphy has lost her politike been suspended from twitter twice get to see some support for trance people at last here. while many trans women were happy to see murphy banned she defended her

position explaining that her concern is about free speech and democracy. you know a man should be allowed to wear a dress if he wants you and behave in stereotypical thurmon and ways and not be discriminated against and not feel threatened but stepping out of the gender wars and pushing back against gender stereotypes does not make a person literally change saxe we're being forced to adopt a new language and there's new ideology those of us who do speak up who are simply just trying to have a conversation a public debate are sneered were threatened were harassed i think everyone should be really concerned because this is about free speech and democracy we're talking about policy and legislation that impacts people lives particularly women. it seems there's a new player in politics cat our furry friends are seemingly being increasingly

used by populist politicians to soften their image and make their policies same well more cuddly.

update for this hour thanks for watching. american veterans going the extra mile to convince the government to end its wars paying the price.

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