absolutely. i do like the one you. got. with the phone about the computer with the plane. would come to the police story you'd have to see. the. movie. a gunman kills four people and injured several more at a french christmas market officials are calling it an act of terrorism. the british

prime minister meets with european leaders and a bid to save her brags the plan after failing to get the support of the u.k. parliament. and israeli troops raided palestinian news outlet in the west bank allegedly firing tear gas and confiscating surveillance footage we speak to the agency's english. are broadcasting live direct from our studios moscow this is our chief international and sean thomas certainly glad to have you with us. now four people have been confirmed dead and several injured after a shooting at a christmas market in the french city of strasbourg police are investigating the incident as an act of terrorism president has just concluded an emergency meeting at the interior ministry. he has yet to give an official statement on the incident

and video of the shooting apparently filmed by witnesses has been posted online. the attack has been called they said it's going to be investigated as a terrorist incident by prosecutors at the scene the gunman who opened fire on those people remains at large i say good man because authorities have released some details about the main suspect that they are currently hunting down in the city of stroudsburg they say he's a twenty nine year old man from the city of stroudsburg who was on a terror watch list there are some media reports it is house it actually being raided earlier on choose day and he wasn't at home police have been searching for him throughout the day what else we know from this is this said it's being

considered a terrorist attack the interior minister of france as the sea reporting back to president. we are hearing reports that there was an exchange of fire taking place in an area in the south of the city a major operation that is going on we can only presume it has something to do with that it's the attack itself took place near to the iconic christmas market in the city of strauss book two million people every year visit that christmas market the one of the busiest times of the year for tourism in the city it's also an incredibly busy time right now in the city of strasburg because the parliament is sitting in session there in fact the plenary hearing plenary session was taking part place at the time of the of the shooting the european parliament was put on lockdown some members of the european parliament some of their staff as well were amongst the first people to be tweeting out. reaction from the scene as they were in the cafes bars. restaurants or even the christmas market itself in the case of

one m.p. from the northern irishman fane party and fact it's not the first time at a christmas market has been the target for what we are calling now a terrorist attack that's what police prosecutors are investigating it as the two years ago here in berlin we became the target of a fatal truck attack that targeted a christmas market. the strasbourg christmas market is a major tourist attraction drawing in hundreds of thousands of visitors each year it is a unesco world heritage site and dates back to the sixteenth century we heard from a journalist who was in the city center at the time of the attack it was ok at this moment i was. sort of twenty or.

seen people running from for. show doing. they had children in their arms. and. the police. from from all of the parts of the city. but nobody knew exactly what was going on. should. there have been some shoots shooting shooting. and shooting in strasbourg is the latest in a series of terrorist incidents across france. thank . you.

the british prime minister is on a tour of europe seeking to rescue her brags a deal on monday theresa may inferior it into her own parliament by posting a crucial brigs it and vote at the eleventh hour our correspondent kelly has more. no it looks like it's going to be a really tough few days for the prime minister as she kicks off a european wildwind saw in the hague in the netherlands today meeting with the dutch mogs rights and then from there she had it off to meet with i'm going to call

in live in and then from that she went on to meet with european leaders in brussels and it would appear that all of those leaders seem to be reading off the same hymn sheet but they are if the prime minister herself is to be believed willing to make some small concessions reassurances for example on whether the backstop on the border between northern ireland the republic whether that backstop agreement will run indefinitely or not the prime minister saying of course she wants reassurances that the u.k. will be able to leave that backstop if it wishes to. point and as far as trees a may is concerned she says that there is an understanding between the u.k. and european leaders that what i've been doing here in europe of the past day is actually doing what i promised comments i would do which is to speak to other leaders in europe about the concerns parliament raised about the backstop and most has been shown to me from those meetings is that there is

a shared to the nation to deal with this issue and address this problem now as far as the d u p who are of course the party which to reason may's tories are in partnership with in a confidence and supply agreement in government well they don't want reinsure reassurances on the backstop they want the backstop agreement removed all together and of course their votes would be crucial if the prime minister's draft withdrawal agreement is to get through the house of commons in the parliament now as far as european leaders are concerned when it comes to the real meat and bones issues of that draft he drawled agreement that there is no room for renegotiation to deal. we have achieved is the best you push it gets to early. and so he looks. like you'll be. fully

negotiate well if we're to believe mr young that there is no room for renegotiation then it really remains to be seen how exactly to reason is going to come back and face those m.p.'s who let's face it she was very likely according to many commentators to lose that vote and to have her deal rejected and if the e.u. aren't willing to make any significant concessions that could win those people around then it's very difficult to see exactly where the prime minister goes from there and that i get in the house perhaps best summed up by the leader of the opposition jeremy corbyn the european commission size it will not agree negotiate with her and the prime minister concedes she is not negotiating. so what is she doing travelling from capital to capital in europe it can't be christmas shopping i'm sure that's not the case so what on earth is she doing in europe but we're still not mr speaker it shows once again she is simply not listening now of

course it's not just the opposition parties who tourism a needs to convince there are many m.p.'s within her own party who are deeply unhappy with this deal and it's thought that up to forty eight m.p.'s are willing to hand in a letter expressing their lack of confidence in the prime minister now according to internal conservative party rules if that number of forty eight is reached that would spark a vote of no confidence and potentially a leadership challenge within the conservative party and that's another battle that for to reason made to win now we understand that the vote the perspiring vote will take place at some point before january the twenty first so again it's unclear whether to resume a really truly believe she will get some type of renegotiation not well let her win that vote whether she simply delaying the inevitable and kicking the can down the road. well as i said mentioned a threesome a met with angela merkel and of the visit got off to

a shaky start the prime minister's car door got stuck and it took two of her assistants to open it for some may also appears to have left berlin empty handed as chancellor merkel is said to have rejected the idea of renegotiating the terms of brags that the british premier is now in brussels where she has met with the president of the european council donald tusk among other top officials. political analyst q chrisman moratti believes theresa may is unlikely to make any breakthrough on her brakes and plan. but we've noticed throughout these last two years that the e.u. has been very concrete or very stable in what it's been expected it's what it's expected from the u.k. and what its own expectations are an avenue of that really too much on what they hope to achieve from this britain on the other side has been wavering back and forth trying to find the best you know trying to find the best way forward because internally in parliament there's been such deep divisions where one deal cannot

please or so if she does return which she will i don't think we'll see any major changes or any even little changes to the deal as a stance if you look back to what the initial question was did anyone specifically outlined what breaks it actually meant that is the resulting no on all sides so now when she tries to execute something which wasn't for formed in a concrete way in the first place very difficult to execute on such weak measures in the first place so this these uncertainties are very natural israeli forces have raided a palestinian news agency that story and more still to come this is our two international .

join me every thursday on the alex salmond show and i'll be speaking to guest of the world of politics sports business i'm showbusiness i'll see you then. u.s. secretary of state mike pompei always declared i'll take a lateral of some international affairs a failure what is needed according to him is a new liberal order led by the united states such an order calls into question some important issues does this mean the universe was ation of american law and limited sovereignty to the rest of the world.

international now french students have been taking to the streets to voice their anger over president emanuel micron's education reforms as follows a month of civil unrest over high taxes and rising fuel prices are too. was that today's march in the french capital. well hundreds if not to more than a thousand students have turned out for this protest today not happy yet again thanks to the admission process is due to change here in france they say that that would become discriminatory from students from poorer backgrounds this protest comes just hours after president michel gave a speech to the nation last night outlining his proposals trying to aim of the protests we've seen who wants to particularly the protests by the yellow prices

which are being violent to the last summer weekends and this is what the president had to say to the nation. because of this crisis i want to reconcile with you salaries will increase by one hundred euros in twenty nineteen at no extra cost to employers over time will not be taxed and i will ask all employers to pay an end of year by onerous this will not be taxed and there will be no social payments for pensioners receiving less than two thousand euros the tax increase will be cancelled as we had planned the total cost of all the measures is likely to be between eight billion and ten billion euros we are in the process of fine tuning to see how to finance that i've been speaking to many of the protesters at least snorts today and they say there are unhappy that macro speech didn't really touch on the things that they have been protesting about who don't last year or so he talks about education reform but they say wasn't enough because he didn't say

anything to them when i asked them about what we know for two yellow best reasons this idea of increasing the minimum wage giving people earning the minimum wage a hundred years plus a month for giving concessions chip pensioners they said it's not enough it's not good enough and is too difficult tonight this is what some people have been telling us it was because you would need a city school system you could go across words are mostly useless namely the proposal to raise the. i'm a wage by one hundred euros but he did not specify that it would be one hundred gross so it's not that big a deal it's just crumbs this is nothing in relation to the rage of the people he simply does not care. secure today only prioritise students have access to universities often across reforms much more scandalous is that young people have be mobilizing for two weeks and there was no sign that mccrone had accepted any of our demands mccrum has not listened to the young and the youth is here today to be good

to mobilize because in the cities would sit at clueless like it almost and there have been college student protests for two and a half months and there's been nothing in the media nothing at all we see the yellow vests are violent they break things they burn cars and we're peaceful which is why i didn't create a buzz so that's the reaction you know from people on the streets here in paris he still seems to be a huge emerging intention towards the president many people saying what he also dos night was too little too late but what about political reaction this is what's been happening so far. i believe that brown five of the revolution in our country next saturday will be a great moment of mobilization but of course i think it's up to those who are in the protest movement. mccrone has become dangerous for france under the guise of measures he chooses not to change his policy and continues to rule against the people if a man your micron is so sure of himself he should have the courage to have his

measures backed by referendum so far it seems there to be all a staunch offered by president mack or isn't enough to quell the disquiet. here in france many people still cooling phase resignation saying what he offered last night was too little too late and he needs to offer more than for the moment it looks like the process is set to continue with his you lose your own set to have another protest on saturday this weekend which will make it the fifth weekend in a row shall i didn't sleep fourteen paris well that was just six weeks ago that one man called on protesters to take up the yellow vest as a symbol and that video went viral receiving millions of views. well it was such an issue that we all have these yellow vests for the whole week starting from the seventeenth of november put on your yellow vest to show that you are with us with our movement. we spoke to that man you just saw he told us that he is not satisfied

with our brands of proposed solutions. so let's assume that these measures will affect only a small part of the population not all of the people would benefit from what restaurant announced not all of the people are paid minimum wage there are people with a slightly higher wattage and he targeted a small majority unfortunately this is not the whole population and these measures are really small it's if you do a lot more he should have reduced the salaries of the rich because they have disproportionate salaries. these are rich in ways benefits this is not that the poor pay more debt this year rich with zero tax this is disproportionate this is the beginning of pay as we should for measures to resolve this we are on the streets in the wind in the cold not for our pleasure good for the french of the phone because they could not stand to say this is the last fifty years if not only mark proud of all those here did nothing to save the situation is the same people

are on the streets not giving in on this because they are determined. french a political analyst or joy in russia it is the promises being made by man your macron are contradictory. mannion mckown say yesterday's a t didn't want to do too makes a reach or so it says this anyway we are afraid in france because apparently doesn't want to make the rich be more you say that he wanted to prove to increases the look less people salary. about one hundred rule but so at the beginning that that announcement was very grateful as a look that's people but a journalist did their work then they ne that one and what was planed. in the. economic you know so people are not so a p. because many in my call light to them again and the ears definitively

last measure its use of population israeli soldiers have raided the office of the palestinian news agency wafa in the west bank this according to the agency soldiers fired tear gas and seized the footage from surveillance cameras while searching the building. journalist. number one in five. of these pictures were released by the rated news agency some people were seen praying while israeli soldiers search through the building israel gave no reason

for the raid but it is believed to be linked to a shooting on sunday in which seven israelis were wounded in the raid prompting clashes between israeli soldiers and civilians in the area palestinian red crescent reports that dozens been wounded including shoot people struck by life and. earlier we spoke to a journalist from the agency was there as a time of the raid you described and some from. the army entered an ordained pastor from and. in that and in the morning actually they were searching buildings along the way sort of looking and taking pictures because we are a news agency we have for the gentlest air and so they decided to come up also to our building i was there myself and i did live through that ordeal i do you guys i was in the building where we work and it was really difficult to stay inside. one point even as you were taken some pictures from the balcony of the our

floor they fired stun grenades at us which exploded in the balcony and then they looked for footage of security cameras that were in the building of the streets and they took. tapes according to court. of these security cameras they could have asked. us that they want to put it could have done that and put it would have been delivered to them. i think that in a problem there was no need at all for what happened there was no need to enter the building and to take them by force they used intimidation and force and scared the jitters there and forced them to open the doors and enter the rooms where the servers were and took their footage without any. approval from from their from the administration on the floor for for the. russian government has

hit back at the us secretary of state over his remarks on two russian military aircraft centered to venezuela to take part in exercises might bump a accused at the two countries of squandering of public funds comments which the kremlin described as completely inappropriate and instant you can use this is a very undiplomatic step from the u.s. secretary of state it's a serious accusation pointed at the russian government and we believe it is not an appropriate statement talking about public spending we do not agree with this more on that this is an inappropriate statement from a country which could feed the whole of africa with half its military budget we continue to seek dialogue with our colleagues and hope for washington's readiness sooner rather than later. this response came off to the u.s. secretary of state mike compare had claimed that sending russian military aircraft across the atlantic was a waste of money and these are his words russia's government has sent bombers

halfway around the world to venezuela the russian and venezuelan people should see this for what it is to corrupt governments squandering public funds and squelch and liberty and freedom while that people suffer the suburban exchange following to deploy mine told to russian strategic bombers here in venice to well what earlier on monday as part of a brokered military cooperation between moscow and caracas we missed the arrival of two russian white swans he's my report here in today's one of the two russian tupolev one is sixty's joint. capable of ours was just that. you know. that you have a company. doctor and. you know. right. from the base in russia has no.

cross have covered the distance no more than ten thousand kilometers and they flew over that blinded before they let it here it is well it. was sixty supersonic strategic bomber like. this if occasion no one in russia has. it is designed to deliver nuclear and conventional weapons and strike strategic targets they may carry out wow that ones that keep such flights are useful to

us within russia we can conduct long distance nonstop flights but not one like this the aircraft cross the ocean different latitudes which is useful for training and demonstrating aircraft reliability. this is it is part of a very close military cooperation between the two countries russia is venezuela's army number one provider with its helicopters. looking complexes that other weaponry being inactive. by the country's armed forces four years old already under mao civilian contract the country's defense minister has come to the airfield to personally great the russian pilots. our armed forces have improved the combat readiness we are constantly working to raise again and show that we have a more than military capable of defending the country russia and venezuela have already conducted numerous joint military drills and later this week on wednesday these t.

wice ones are expected to leave to the air as part of yet another russian venezuelan military training. and that as a female back of the hour with more news you're watching our two international. what politicians do something. they put themselves on the line they get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be president. or somehow want to. have to go right to be close it's like when the full story of the morning can't be good. i'm interested always in the waters in the. city. in a world of big partisan new things lot and conspiracy it's time to wake up to

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hello and welcome to cross talk we're all things are considered i'm peter lavelle. u.s. secretary of state mike pompei always declared multi-lateralism in international affairs a failure what is needed according to him is a new liberal order led by the united states such an order calls into question some important issues does this mean the universal is ation of american law and limited sovereignty for the rest of the world. cross talking pax americana i'm joined by my guest james chatteris in washington he's a former u.s. diplomat and former advisor to the u.s. senate republican leadership in new york we have daniel was our he's an author and freelance journalist who writes frequently about the middle east eastern europe and the you.