striders financial survival. when customers go by yourself. will reduce a lot of. that's undercutting but what's good for market is not good for the global economy. russia one see the survival of a key cold war treaty says security advisor says america's top diplomat issues a sixty day ultimatum to moscow. french protesters voiced that anger over what they call wrongs offered by their government and to

keep rolling on the streets for a full week. and political artist in germany campaign to name and shame far right protesters joining anti migrant riot. it's one o'clock am in moscow and you're watching all see international live from a studio with me in a day or two to welcome to the program. trumps national security advisor says that washington is going to kill off a key cold war era treaty with russia no matter how important it is to moscow. we've made it clear for example we're going to get out of the. intermediate range nuclear forces treaty and that's important to the russians and they're not going to see that treaty well interestingly when we were hearing from the these special security advisor john bolton in his remarks he admitted that russia would like to

preserve the i.n.f. treaty he also admitted that european allies are quite concerned about seeing the treaty go however he said that the usa does want to pull out of the treaty and he gave interesting reasons let's listen to his words one country in the world is bound by the i.n.f. treaty us china is not bound by our estimates are between a third and a half of their existing ballistic missile capability would violate the treaty if they were and iran has an extensive b.-m. capability they just tested one this past weekend but we have global responsibilities in asia in the middle east we have to be responsive there to so essential the united states would like to build more weapons bigger rockets and they don't want to be restrained by this treaty that would halt them from doing so now we've heard similar sentiments expressed by mike pompei oh the secretary of state this is some of the comments that he has made our mission is to reassert our

sovereignty reform the liberal international order we aspire to make big international order serving our citizens not to control them. american tends to leave now and always so essentially the vision is for a new order in the international community with the united states at the top now mike pompei o specifically referred to the ultimatum that was given to russia regarding the i.m.f. treating the united states today declares it has been russia in material breach of the treaty and will suspend our obligations as a remedy effective in sixty days unless russia returns to full and verifiable compliance now russia has responded to these allegations from u.s. leaders this is some of what we've heard from russia's president first the american side says it wants to leave the treaty then they start looking for reasons why the main reason given is that we are violating something but at the same time no

evidence of this is presented. now russia has its own grievances for example russia has pointed out that this missile system set up in europe supposedly to protect european countries from iran and north korea could very easily be used against russia now the i.n.f. treaty was signed over thirty years ago it was very key in ending the cold war and it basically bans a medium range and short range nuclear weapons it bans both the production of those weapons as well as flight tests and other other vehicles for developing such weapons that now at this point we're seeing the sixty day also made and that has been given to russia and if moscow and washington are not able to resolve this disagreement in the next sixty days the world could be facing a new reality long after the cold war ended. became polman the french prime minister has again expanded government climbdown of

a fuel tax rises in the face something yellow fest protests. if the state is to remain strong and firm it is first and foremost a guarantor of public order as i said no tax deserves to endanger the unity of the nation. anti-government protests are set to be held for a fourth consecutive weekend in france because protesters are not satisfied by the government's six month suspension of attacks they say it's nothing more than a delay are to charlotte depends. this is one of the main battlegrounds all the weeks of protests over the fuel tax rise that symbol of the country. i want to thank our police security forces fire fighters. with. these people are victims of incredible violence whose

aim was to injure and even kill i express my deep gratitude to them for staying cool under pressure of cars and buildings burned shops marched in and some of the most iconic monuments same paris trashed. the number of injured. rice say. you would have to be deaf not to hear the wrath of the french people said the prime minister and it seems the government has heard the cries of the yellow vests to some degree this is yours with the prison we decided to suspend the fuel tax hike this is not a trick is to generate a debate with the unions with you and above all with citizens to find the fairest and most efficient solution president was adamant that he wouldn't capitulate to the voice of the street. i distinguish between fellow citizens and their demands

and thugs i will not. concede anything to those who want destruction and disorder but now the government has given in to some of the demands of the protesters the yellow vests have tasted blood and are now hungry for more. we won't. get the protests of commerce a time when mcewan's popularity has been so i ding down a slippery slope and hitting new all time low we're not going to send in office eighteen months ago he promised massive reforms from the pension system to the working code and that he wouldn't relent from getting the job done no matter how unpopular it proved to be my reform agenda is to modernize the country and we will pursue this modernization agenda and any chance that you will back down no chance

his tenure as president has already seen one point spread protests but until now he has largely ignored them refusing to change course the concessions being offered to the yellow vests show that he's willing to drop his uncompromising stance when it seems the violence spirals out of control so that you can ski ot see paris. professor of french politics in the case we're a university of a day that micron can no longer ignore the protests. i think there is a question for the administration about the extent to which it can continue to ignore the demands of the yellow vests and comes in part from the high level of popularity that the protests enjoy among the wider population so before the violence last week you know we had levels of popularity between sort of seventy and eighty percent of the population supporting the movement so in circumstances like

that it's no longer possible to rely on the police to enforce public order in the way that one might otherwise do so i think this has also to do with the extent to which the police can be relied upon i mean yes i mean michael has been forced to listen and to compromise and i think this is only the first of several compromises that we're going to see. you know of as protesters have already been appearing in court in strangers exchange with police live on social media is appealing his guilty verdict he says the video clearly shows he did not commit the crimes he's accused of. know. what. we're supposed to. presume is saying i should be detained they ordered me to turn around so i did i

didn't think they would beat me i thought they would just push me against the wall now you can see the placement here he's beating me i was hit twice in my ribs why i explained i was just filming nothing else and was there for just about fifteen minutes one placement had his knees in my back the other one held my legs down and the third put my head to the ground with his knee. they didn't really let me just speak they gave me a lawyer parachute to me was like i was already a criminal just stool i tried to explain everything but they preferred to trust their colleagues and norse or regular citizens like me certainly is accused of throwing rocks at police and remaining in the crowd despite two orders to leave his argument that he couldn't have thrown the stones as he was busy filming was dismissed as the court ruled the facebook video contained no verifiable date.

with. political artists in the gym and the city of hemming calling on the public to name and shame those who took part in anti my current rights early this year pictures of some seven thousand protesters have already been uploaded but they aren't rapes office has now been shut down by police. reports from. hunting season is over thirteen for the cold problem germans people who attended fall right on to the migrant demonstrations in cabinets following two migrants being charged for the fatal stopping of a jim. one man in the city were the hunt is being organized by an collective who pushing their message haunt. me once and a signal we've seen you and it wasn't a mistake it's not ok with us what you've done to our town or our country it's an

offer to the general public to deal with offenders and also know if it's a management to recognize the supporters of right wing violence the room ploy to in their own companies and to take action against them the group called the center for political beauty isn't messing about with their name and shame campaign on their website there's a section called the mentally ill catalog that contains seven thousand images of people who follow rice on tea migrant demonstrations the picture at pay is alongside a barometer denoting how far right they are deemed to be from soldier to hitler and greece at the public also encouraged to upload their own pictures and in fact have been offered cash rewards for identifying those on the gallery that don't already have a name and employers have also been asked to check the list to see if anybody they employ is that police have said that the project could fall foul of germany's

strict privacy laws as well as copyright infringement while the data protection commissioner has said that he will be looking in to the campaign while activists have said that this actually diminishes understanding of the real dangers posed by the extreme right i asked people in berlin if they agreed with the campaign to inform or if they thought this whole thing was well a little bit secret police. tricky one you have to ask if people give their consent if not the shouldn't be posted on the other hand and the people are going to have some restraint and they're also doing it like publicly so it's quite common that city would be. i recognize there is a new money goes up to something odd probably have a quiet word of them myself rather than. naming shaming them all germans are quite . they're quite sensitive on account of personal data especially when it comes to

determine history whatever your opinion about far right radicals this idea isn't good to identify people like this isn't the correct way to handle the problem it is a for that there were people from the extreme right came the demos some were giving straight arm salutes a symbol that is bound by law here in germany however it does seem though that people aren't too happy with this group taking on a job that really should be worn for more in force and peter all of a party berlin. professor van i pad sales of germany's technical university of presidents says this is the wrong way to attack political after opponents this is doing serious things in a very serious way. attacking political opponents is fine this action we'll feed right in populists who are now with some right can claim

their say or are treated unfairly by their opponents and fearful or at least whole initiative will end up getting the opposite of what they were looking for. the afghan government says it's ready for talks with the taliban without any preconditions a couple aren't even ready to discuss changes to the constitution and nato foreign ministers have just agreed to back those negotiations but in a caution about has more. we've heard the statement coming from a high ranking government official right after the conference on the peace negotiations in afghanistan that took place here in moscow it was a voice that afghanistan will not see any preconditions for direct talks with the taliban including drafting a new constitution which previously used to be quite a stumbling block in our days we go month to console there are no

prerequisites for the launch of the talks high peace council or b.c. is the charge of peace talks with the taliban it was back in twenty and previously a kabul demanded to start any peace negotiations the taliban should first lay down its arms and respect the constitution but it does seem that things have changed and now afghanistan at the moment is calling for all international players including russia and the u.s. to support the ongoing peace negotiations now the taliban has long rejected afghanistan's coals for any talks they didn't even attend the two day conference that was held in afghanistan in geneva and was co-hosted by the afghan government and the united nations however the taliban did send representatives to meet with the avg on government officials in moscow in early november and of that to mark the first time the taliban had publicly appeared on the international arena since two

thousand and one does seem that that particular meeting did help to allay ground for future dialogue between the two sides however would still need to wait for the official reaction official position on that coming from the taliban but still there is a lot of diplomatic activity going on in and around afghanistan at the moment now the next a meeting on the situation in the country is scheduled to take place very soon and the coming friday here. in moscow between be your russian and the you asked representatives. meanwhile the nominee to lead us central command is in charge of afghanistan operations has revealed to the senate that afghan army losses are unsustainable that talent general kenneth mckenzie said mission comes even though the u.s. has been training its army for seventeen years now their losses have been very high they're fighting hard with their losses are not going to be sustainable unless we

correct this problem. there are currently more than thirteen thousand u.s. military personnel in the country that's around six times less than the estimated number of taliban fighters more than two thousand u.s. soldiers and thirteen thousand taliban fighters have already been killed in the war and in the last four years alone almost thirty thousand afghan troops have lost their lives. the u.s. has now spent over a billion dollars on the war reaching a peak at the start of the decade during mackenzie's confirmation hearing lawmakers lashed out at the lack of progress despite all the money thrown at the conflict we've been married for seventeen years seventeen years is a long time what are we doing differently when it comes to the afghan security forces that we haven't done for seven years while being focused on this we spoke to political analyst a mushtaq to write him he says there are several factors for the rise in violence

in the country. since two thousand and fourteen the war has intensified in afghanistan we had a surge of international forces which was drawn down in two thousand and fourteen and the international forces seized out at the transit to be responsibility of combat and security maintenance to afghan forces so significant decrease in number of forces fighting was one reason in addition to that of course the international forces took the responsibility of training the afghan forces only so that was the reason that cost increases in the human losses. but his prime minister tries a maze facing the toughest a week of her political career the second day running she's been trying to turn a powerful tide against her brags that dale facing a grilling from an peas in parliament. that was dusty reports written. after her

nightmare day yesterday it seems like the prime minister still hasn't woke up from that nightmare every day in parliament seems to be very difficult for the prime minister and her government but never before in recent political history has the government been found in contempt of parliament what that means is that the government today was forced to produce the full legal text on bricks and now that we see it it's clear to see why it may have been dependently withheld now it states that the whole of britain could remain within the customs union for an indefinite amount of time until another arrangement supersedes it that's to prevent a hard border between ireland and north and the now that's something that many m.p.'s and parties of alike have said they would simply not vote for now is over the last few weeks documents have been trickling out of parliament about exactly what this final deal and it's day two of that crunch breck's it debates in parliament in the run up to the meaningful vote on december the eleventh and some

m.p.'s have gone so far to say that teresa mayes behavior is tantamount to misleading parliament the prime minister talking from brussels with the prime minister has been. inadvertently or otherwise child poverty is rising in congress because rajiv should rise to power so do rising in the world a prime minister. why are you she prepared to take from our children and grandchildren the ability to travel really for you and why she do you know we which is a very good moment to look to root the next week and we'll all be voting meaningfully on that final deal whether or not the prime minister will make it through is something that's still yet to be seen but given the fact that teresa mayes conservative government does not represent overall majority in parliament and many

of her m.p.'s have also come out to. say that they don't agree with what their leader is doing she really should be bracing for a defeat on vote having said that she says the deal is good but she could be the only one i believe that the deal we have negotiated is a good deal we will not revoke article fifty the british people voted to leave the european union and we will be leaving the only way to ensure that there is not a no deal scenario is to accept. how deal has been endorsed by the e.u. should give her some sort of backing that having said that the government faced three losses in parliament yesterday that has been catastrophic for her reputation and indeed many are saying that her deal ignores the will of the people we're hearing a renewed drive for a second referendum we're also hearing from many saying they'd like to reverse the whole thing altogether now ever since to resume may's deals conception and he's backing her have really been dropping like flies we've seen

a whole summer of cabinet reshuffle so it's likely that there will be a defeat on her deal on december the eleventh and it could also mean the end of her premiership so we see at the moment a prime minister under siege but battling on in office but is she in power. germany's economy minister has been forced to respond to a new investigation which claims one of the country's top arms manufacturers is still selling weapons to sardinia arabia despite exports to the gulf kingdom. readers and i just want to explain how we do so with our arms control companies located in our territory which is also subject to the german exports controlled. kompany is located in the state territory for example in south africa it is subject to the local conditions this is no different from the new one which are grecians and environmental standards of the arms control this is also. defense companies.

that buy stern magazine and broadcast a found that the rhine metal corporation still sold its weapons through subsidiaries in italy and south africa a representative for the firm insisted berlin's ban doesn't cover foreign subsidiaries of german firms he also available that they continue to sell over one hundred million euro worth of arms to riyadh angela merkel slapped the ban on weapons exports to the kingdom after the brutal murder of a journalist in october. there is an urgent need to clarify what happened where far from this haven't been cleared up those responsible are held to account as far as arms exports are concerned they can't take place in the current circumstances sally reported. genome for articles critical of riyadh disappeared on a visit to the saudi consulate in istanbul it was later confirmed that he was

killed inside the compound the international community strongly condemned the crime germany has suspended all arms sales until the circumstances of his death have been fully established martin adults are an m.p. in the hamburg parliament told us however that he believes the german government is acting in a dishonest self-serving way. so the arabia is one of the most autocratic dictatorships in the area and the government of saudi arabia is providing the islamic state with weapons the only thing a war against yemen and no there was the killing of the journalists in the. in the stumble this are problems which are there since long term but germany exports weapons. to saudi arabia from two cells and want to roll about three billion. euros so there is a lack in political will in the movement to stop this really stop those exports and

all truly. are nice and literally also the new york and so south africa are to explore their weapons through there is a ban on exporting so that's a bit similar to one. global warming puts the very future of civilization at risk that stone protection was heard at the twenty fourth annual climate change conference it pits government officials scientists and green activists together in a pair to the planet but the location of this year's gathering in a coal mining and still making stronghold of poland has raised more than a few questions. why am i attending c. or b. twenty four in cahoots. with the

governor last example. the use of one's own and natural resources imposes case on coal and basically energy security on them is not is conflict with the climate protection and with progress in climate protection. see the p twenty four leaders gathering in cancer research the will be unwelcome from coal miners brass and marking the opening of the biggest climate change event in years i'm a big front of the eastern european sense of humor but guys this is not time for jokes and writing a p.t.t. for greeted by my bad.

that's a long ways from now and daniel holkins will take over the top of the hour but first. international it's cross talk. who. would. say.

it was the protesters in france are saying their purchasing power has diminished because all this money printing that's going on and you mention they can't tell a fact that money printing in rich as the people on average in paris and shows a liz a in paris and those people who are working and doing blue collar jobs their personal power is eroded and so they the party in pamela anderson figured out that this is a structural leave while i'm system that they need to address with

a quid pro quo violence or violence. hello and welcome to cross talk where all things considered i'm peter lavelle yemen and the politics of denial and to see the trump administration's continued support of the saudi led war is morally indefensible and strategically counterproductive blaming iran for the humanitarian crisis in yemen only insurer's more suffering this time to and this senseless complex.

talking yemen i'm joined by my guest giorgio he is the c.e.o. of gulf state and.