people is terrified there's just no mood to present and then we hear even many of the families want the death penalty to be abolished the reason we have to get pelley here is because that's what murder victims' families what that's going to give them peace it's going to give them justice and we come in and say. not quite enough we've been through this this isn't the way. i'm going to. see the survival of a king cold war on the streets he says trump security adviser as america's top diplomat issues a sixty day ultimatum to moscow. also this hour french protesters voiced their anger over what they call crumbs offered

by their governments involved to keep writing on the streets for a fourth consecutive week. and political artists in germany campaigned to name and shame for protesters joining to margaret bryant's. joining us for an hour to international law from moscow just coming up to two thirty here. donald trump's national security advisor says washington's going to kick off a key cold war 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 doesn't 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 a d.n.i. did 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's 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 lead 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.n.f. treaty the united states today declares it is bound russia in material breach of the treaty and will suspend our obligations as a remedy effective in sixty days unless russia returns to full. 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 fust 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 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 former u.k. all the officer charles schubert's told us the media are unfairly accusing russia

of triggering triggering a new cold war. what we've got is a situation from the headlines today at least where you've got the u.s. has announced that it is threatening to pull out of this i.n.f. treaty and deploy medium range weapons russia has said if that happens we also will be developing and deploy knows weapons and then the media says it's russia that's launching a new arms race whereas of course logically speaking it would be actually the u.s. that has done that by putting out the i.m.f. in the first place when you look at some of the u.s. and u.k. media headlines at the moment that they are indicating that it's russia that is on the verge of launching a new cold war the actual real basis for the american objections here is i think elsewhere in the world that they want to be up to build these weapon systems to compete with other countries such as china. speaking in parliament the french prime

minister has again explained the government climbed out over a fuel tax rise in the face of the yellow vest protests. before if the state is to remain strong and it is first and foremost a guarantor of public order as a tax does it has to endangered the unity of the nation. antigovernment protests are set to be held for a fourth consecutive weekend in france because protesters are not satisfied by the government six month suspension of the tax they say it's nothing more than at the lay parties charlotte has this report from the french capital. 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 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 in paris crashed. the number of injured keeps rising. 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 as with the prison we decide 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 just structure and disorder but now the government has given to some of the demands of the protesters the yellow vests have tasted blood and are now hungry from. we won't settle for grownups we will get the protests of commerce a time when mcewan's popularity has been so i ding down a slippery slope and hitting a 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 auty paris professor of french politics of the u.k.'s warrick university all of a davis feels 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 and 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 a yellow vest protesters have already been appearing in court one man who streamed his exchange with police officers live on social media is appealing his guilty verdict is the video clearly shows he didn't commit the crimes he's been accused of . know. what. we're. saying i should be detained they ordered me to turn around so i did i didn't think

they would beat me and 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 and 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 lend me to speak although they gave me a lawyer parachute to me was like i was already a criminal just tool to try to explain everything that they prefer to trust their colleagues and norse a regular citizen 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 first video contained no verifiable date.

with. a political activists in the german city of chemists are calling on the public to name and shame those who took part in anti migrant right sided this year pictures of around seven thousand protesters have already been uploaded the group's office has now been shut down by police peta all of it has this report from. hunting season is open for the cold problem germans people who attended fall right on to migrant demonstrations in chemists following two migrants being charged for the fatal stabbing of a german man in the city were the hunt has been organized by an collective pushing their message haunt. you months 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 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 were at fall right on t. migrant demonstrations the picture at pei is alongside a barometer denoting how far right they are deemed to be from soldier to hitler and greta now the public also encouraged to upload their own pictures and in fact is being 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 commission 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 see could. police. is tricky one and you have to ask if people give their consent if not the shouldn't be posted on the other hand the people are going to have someone straight and they're also doing it like publicly so it's quite common to do would be recognized there is a new money goes up to something odd probably have a quiet word of them ourself rather than. name and shame you know. they're quite sensitive and accounts 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 fire that there were people from the extreme right came with 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. professor parts out of germany's technical university of dress them says this is the wrong way to attack political opponents this is doing serious things in a very serious way. attacking political opponents is fine this action will seat right in populists who are now with some right can claim

their say or are treated unfairly by their opponents and here for the show initiative will end up getting the opposite of what they were looking for . they have got government says it's ready for talks with the taliban and wouldn't consider making changes to the afghan constitution. developments just after this short break. seems wrong. to shape our. education and engagement equals betrayal. when so many find themselves worlds apart. to look for common ground.

what politicians do. put themselves on the line to get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be president. want to be. to the right to be pro-choice that's what i'm up for three of them or can't be good. i'm interested in the why. question. welcome back to the program the afghan government says it's ready for talks with

the taliban without any preconditions kabul adds it's also ready to discuss changes to the constitution and nato foreign ministers have just agreed to back these negotiations but even caution of a has more. 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. console there are no prerequisites for the launch of the talks high peace council or age three 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 that marked 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 will 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 a russian and the you asked representatives. and meanwhile the nominee to lead u.s. central command in charge of afghanistan operations has revealed to the senate afghan army losses are unsustainable defendant general kenneth mackenzie's admission comes even though the u.s. has been training at solving now for seventeen years 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 reached the peak at the start of the decade during mackenzie's confirmation hearing has lashed out at the lack of progress despite all the money thrown at the conflict we've been at it 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 seventeen years while being focused on this we spoke to political analyst he says there are several factors for the rising 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 and 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 to responsibility of training the afghan forces only so that was the reason that caused increases in the human losses. british prime minister to resign may is facing the toughest week of her political career the second day running she's been trying to turn a powerful tide against her bricks and deal while facing a grilling from m.p.'s in parliament it was dusty reports from the. 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 to raise a maze 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 was rising should rising household rising when will the prime minister. rule. why you should

have to take care of our children and grandchildren the ability to travel freely for you and why she do you know we were just illiterate the next week 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 tourism is conservative government does not represent overall majority in parliament and many of the 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 or not 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 the deal scenario and.

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 of a new drive for a second referendum we're also here hearing from many saying that they 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 when you investigation which claims one of the country's top almost manufacturers is still selling weapons to

saudi arabia. exported to the gulf kingdom. it is and i just want to explain how it goes with our arms exports control the companies located in our territory it is also subject to the german arms exports controlled regulations companies located in the state territory for example in south africa it is subject to the local conditions this is no different from union which your goal is sions and environmental standards then for arms control this is also the case with subsidiaries of defense companies. and the probe by stern of magazine and broadcast the file at the ryman metal corp still sold weapons through subsidiaries in italy and south africa representative for the firm insisted doesn't cover foreign subsidiaries of german firms it also revealed that they continued to sell over one hundred million euros worth of arms to riyadh. the banner weapons exports to the kingdom after the brutal murder of

a journalist in october. the ring in there is an urgent need to clarify what happened where far from this haven't been cleared up and those responsible are held to account as far as arms are experts are concerned they can't take place in the current circumstances also the reporter jamal khashoggi who's known 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 international community strongly condemned the crime germany has suspended all sales until the circumstances of his death have been fully established modern. regional parliament told us 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 the government of saudi arabia is providing the islamic

state with weapons they are leading a war against yemen and now there was the killing of the journalists in the. in istanbul this are problems which are there since long term but germany exports weapons. to saudi arabia from two thousand and one to two day around about three billion. you ruin us some there is a lack in political will in the movement to stop this really stop this export and now through the companies in italy on such and so south africa to export their weapons through there is a ban on exporting that's a bit cynic to my mind that's it for the team and myself for salim back at the top of the hour they would more fast here are the international it's a documentary cry of a. moved

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