subscribe to rub people up you can judge for just twelve euros fifty pounds. was. a palestinian teenager is killed while dozens of other protestors are injured in a day of rage clashes with israeli soldiers in the west bank and gaza.

the italian government is forced into an embarrassing u. turn over its high spending budget plans in a bid to avoid ease sanctions although critics cry and double standards towards europe which rubber stamps similar french plans in the past. and the cost of both those to create an army the move angers not only serbia which doesn't recognize kosovo's independence but also the e.u. and nato fearing it may threaten regional stability the e.u. and nato fearing it may threaten regional stability. plus questions on freedom of speech on certain topics. it's midnight and you're watching on t.v. international live from moscow with mina. welcome to the program. tensions

continue to escalate between israel and palestine in a day of great rights in gaza and the west bank. was. was was. was. on its own. was. was. a palestinian teenager has been killed and dozens of protesters have been injured in clashes with israeli soldiers israel says its actions were in self-defense and to stop acts of terrorism the palestinian demonstrations follow

rallies by hardline jewish protesters in the west bank settlements a local reporter. said brings the details. today in the thirty eight friday in the great march of return we are here at shifa hospital the casualties have wrenched from live ammunition explosive bullets rubber bullets and gas suffocation as well as injuries by gas canisters that were fired on them this friday comes after today israeli soldiers were killed by an unknown palestinian who soon after the israeli forces in no stromal a city as a closed military zone prime minister netanyahu or did what he called accelerate to demolish an open homes for it those who israel considers as tourists in ya would legalize thousands of jewish settlement homes that were built without an israeli proof on palestinian homes in the occupied west bank. by

a speech on thursday the israeli prime minister also insisted that israel will respond to all attacks. to share our guiding principle is that whoever attacks us and who have a choice to attack us will pay with his life i really means know this and we will find them. the general secretary of the palestinian national initiative most of our barghouti claims nonviolent palestinian protests are always met with israeli aggression. how can further escalation of violence in ramallah be avoided in your opinion it can only be avoided if the israeli army gets out of our cities and if they remove the brigades barricades and if they stop the attacks of the settlers on our civilian population that's the first step but then the second step should be immediate initiation of a process of ending occupation there's been no apparent progress if we look at the last six months of the day of rage protests. is an idea to change strategy perhaps

the palestinians have changed the strategy the palestinians have adopted the nonviolent resistance and the marches that are taking place in peaceful nonviolent all forms of violence have been excluded and we have a good. strategy that commits to nonviolent resistance but when each peaceful demonstration is left with the israeli army shooting the people and killing them of course there will be palestinian reactions to that and in the form of resistance to occupation i don't think it would be a grave mistake to if we're to between the palestinians and israelis in this regard you have to remember that what we have here is palestinian civilian population in the west bank that is totally unarmed in confrontation with the israeli army and israeli settlers who are armed to their teeth. it's alan government has submitted

a revised budget proposal to the european commission in an effort to avoid the e.u. sanctions had previously voted with stick to its high spending plans which had been rejected by peter reports rome has made the decision to back down over the budget that they were trying to force through they've been trying to force it through the for quite a while now the plan initially was to run a two point four percent deficit they've now revised that. they will be running a two point zero four percent deficit for twenty nineteen it does mean that some of the marquis policies that just because they wanted to push through in the new year going to be hits to the tune of a few billion euros but seeing things like the universal basic income for the unemployed also plans to lower the retirement age are also coming in on the chopping block certainly not the plans themselves but the financing for those plans for twenty nineteen arguments for this being going on for

a while though it's at least decided to step down to back down i beg your pardon to avoid sanctions from brussels but there was some real heated arguments in the lead up to this decision but as a first time as a commission is obliged to request a country that it was that after budget reply this is the first time in budget the e.u. doesn't like no surprise this is the first italian budget written in rhyme and not in brussels the economy at that. time in economy is healthy and this is an economic move that will give italy distributing needs we want change one comma in this document there is the plan b. you know to go into that that we are not going boards that are both going on. working the future. it more than words as well when the e.u. issued a document rejecting the initial italian budget want to tally and then pay for

employed a little pun to mine to express his dissatisfaction. so it's a leaf found themselves firmly in the u.s financial naughty corner over their budget that they've now backed down on but just this week france's announced plans to appease the yellow vest protesters with a slew of social spending a manual macron well his government planning to run a budget budget deficit that could run from three percent to three point five percent the reaction from pierre moscovici the e.u.

commission commissioner for economic affairs was quite different have a listen to what he had to say the eventually overrun of the three percent must not extent over two consecutive years nor exceed three point five percent over the one year there is no indulgence these are rules and nothing but our rules for the italian side on happy they say this is a double standard from muscovy ci in the e.u. commission site they say that two slightly different scenarios for the french case this is a one off budget deficit that they are going to allow them to push them through and it must not exceed three point five percent in the italian case they were saying well this is going to be a series of budget deficits that will continue for the future as they put forward their plans and that was something the e.u. commission couldn't couldn't accept it hasn't however stopped those in rome from looking over the border over up into northern europe towards france and thinking we

wouldn't have got away with that why do you. thirteen political analyst paolo rest . is just acting in the interests of his leading powers. the french request to have a hard year deficit between three and five percent. is a sort of an exceptional measure to this debate france without putting into question at all the fundamentals on which the entire economic and monetary system is things to europe. that's a verse of the italian quest was tackling the fundamentals of the system saying that the. accent should be put on the roads which in safety ceded originally in the treaties but it does never really implemented at european level you're trying to save france because france is essential in the continent to maintain. the approach that the commission has been implementing for the past ten years

basically they don't want to feel you can only focus they want to go on as a tease interest of the two major. countries which are france and germany. one giant hurdle after another for the embattled british premier to resume his two day since surviving a confidence from our own party is now back in the line of brussels desperately looking for anything they can take back from a meeting of ministers which might win over a skeptical parliament to have brags that plan and as they say it has the details. what a week for theresa may it really was the best of times it was the worst of times you know on one hand she managed to plough through that vote of no confidence that would triggered by her own party here in westminster but on the other hand she continues to be stuck in this massive deadlock when it comes to the biggest job she now has to get done which is bracks said and all of this while sort of jumping like

a tennis ball from one court to another going from westminster to the e.u. back to westminster to the e.u. and despite all this moving around not a lot of results seem to be getting produced tangible ones with lots and lots of roadblocks getting in her way you've had a trying week. what's been worse. that something this week. one of the reports. you should believe everything you reason what was it was it was difficult was it in the malcontents at home or was it been the you both bullies over here negotiations like this are always tough the risk difficult times and as you get close to the very end then you get even more difficult what what drives me to can carry on doing this and making sure we deliver is that this is what's right for the british people well though that latest hurdle was in fact in brussels bound but also back at home it seems that for to resubmit

a everybody is on happy with something at this point you know for some people are saying not her deal let's now move on to the heart bracks it others are saying you know let's remain because things are going so badly at this stage others are saying let's have a second referendum because things are going so badly you know we've seen earlier today progress of protesters trying to block a bridge in westminster so the british people that to recently is trying to do her best who are seem to have a lot so lots of mixed feeling on this issue and that in its own right seems to be the biggest problem that brussels now has with all of this because they've. in saying to theresa may we need you to stop being so vague we need you to go back and get specifics from the house of parliament i was following. the second bush. to the edge of commons. that there was a deep mistrust in those when it comes to the huge.

issues for future relations. we have to bring don't do time which this question of whether theresa may is too vague or not ended up being part of an exchange between her and the president of the european commission and ended up grabbing quite a bit of attention in the media. he looks very angry when you respond to shankar earlier today what did you say to him and did he admit that he had called you mentalists well first of all i had a robust discussion with him because i think that's the sort of discussion you're able to have when you've developed a working relationship and you work well together when you use that particular phrase even talking about the general level of debate well whether these are robust discussions as theresa may has described them are actually going to end up leading somewhere remains to be seen whether they're going to end up being able to reach

some kind of solutions or whether the u.k. is going to be launched towards a new deal bracks it's something that's increasingly being talked about remains to be seen and there's really not very much time left to see which one it's going to end up being. classified as parliament has voted to form its own army with the president has seen punching hailing the move. the creation of the course of our army is the best gift for the end of the year season. the vote aims to turn kosovo security force into a regular army it is expected to have five thousand on duty personnel and three thousand reservists however it may take at least ten years to bring the legislation fully into force earlier this month serbia stress that it might even consider military intervention in kosovo when through with this move. i am hoping we would never have to use the army but this is certainly one of the options on the table as we do not want to watch the ethnic cleansing kosovo declared independence in two

thousand and eight only of serbia doesn't recognize serbia says the formation of such an army violates the agreements which brought the cost of war to an end russia has expressed alarm over kosovo's plans calling the province a pocket of instability the foreign ministry accuse the european union of failing to support dialogue between serbia and kosovo and the as secretary general of nato also criticized the move saying the alliance might and we consider its cooperation with kosovo. while the transition of the course of a security force is in principle and matter for kosovo to decide we have made clear this move is ill timed nato supports the development of the kosovo security force under its current mandate with a change of mandate the north atlantic council will now have to reexamine the level of nato as engagement with the course of a security force. meanwhile the united states has backed cost of those moves

america's ambassador to the region has tweeted that kosovo must engage with its minority community and nato allies in his transition period he also placed american support throughout. international affairs commentator marco gassing told us why he thinks the us and nato reacted differently to kosovo's. stoltenberg is trying to really keep a kind of middle ground without saying anything to anyone that's very controversial therefore presenting this as official nato policy but the real nato policy is the one that the us decides because nato is a vehicle for the us to get its way in europe as it's doing in essence the u.s. is supporting itself in the heart of europe as it supported itself nearly twenty years ago when it did the original aggression by which it carved this causes state from the rest of serbia so the us is using kosovo as a strategic interests oriel base of operations is built the largest military base since vietnam it doesn't have to ask anybody's permission to keep it there forever

that's what the u.s. likes about the course of leadership they know their place they're a colony and that's the way the u.s. likes it. america's national security advisor has criticized the activities of russia and china in africa john bolton was unveiling a new u.s. policy for the continent. across the continent russia advances its political and economic relationships with little regard to the rule of law or are accountable and transparent governance. it continues to sell arms and energy in exchange for votes at the united nations china uses broad opaque agreements and the strategic use of debt to hold states in africa captive to beijing's wishes and demands america very critical of russia and china but has no and gas to support the policies that led us in africa how. about. this regarding that it reads

more like a declaration of war than a strategy this plan is for the good of the africa promises john bolton this coming from a guy whose boss trump infamously referred to several african nations as something that i can't mention on their the predatory practices pursued by china and russia stunt economic growth in africa threaten the financial independence of african nations and pose a significant threat to u.s. national security interests its interest in logic so when china or russia or someone else you don't like lends an african nation money that's dead colonialism almost financial slavery when america does it it's investment for africa's own good well if mentioning is that russia's trade with the continent pales into insignificance when compared to the us or china look at this realize this

highway hydro power station all built with chinese investment beijing is raising entire cities with more to come china is willing to provide another sixty billion dollars in support of africa to government assistance investment and financing the financial institutions and into prizes the phrase actions speak louder than words is entirely a political here the chinese leader xi jinping has visited africa nine top. i'm steering his tenure tromp one sent his wife but what the united states might lack in tact its more than makes up with guns american troops stationed in fifty out of fifty four african nations it has thirty four military sites thousands and thousands of soldiers across the entire continent and a long history of military interventions china has one base in djibouti russia

has none american troops are there for africans own good washington would say speaking of which remember the whole chinese and russian money bad american money good thing well it turns out not so much our new foreign assistance strategy will ensure that all us foreign aid in every corner of the globe vance's u.s. interest countries that repeatedly vote against the united states in international forums or take actions counter to u.s. interest should not receive generous american foreign aid john bolton they tease and gentleman man who unveiled america's new africa plodded so much for financial independence africans good luck we need to move it to consider what really africa needs it's not really want china maize want a russian aid or us need everyone china russia or all of france as often as they

can really count to number one the infrastructure of development and also to gave technology to grow their agricultural their method actor and bass that's something that command a moral high malice simply an album and the other all of this continent it doesn't really know how this people to grow their industry to earn better life just fingerpointing to russia. to china for us. some of the you know allegedly bad behavior that doesn't really help them. so it is all to the. holy war. u.s. congress has voted in support of a bill that seeks to impose a visa ban on any chinese officials who prevented americans from visiting tibet the legislation requires details to be made to congress on how many u.s.

diplomats journalists and tourists weren't granted access to the region it also says that those chinese individuals responsible for the policy will be banned from entering the u.s. if barriers are not lifted china has slammed the move as interference in its affairs. we will see you through been billed passed by the u.s. congress is disregarded the facts interfered in china central affairs grossly and violated the basic norms of international relations china strong would pose this and has already been requested me go she since with the us i must point out that tibet the furnace appeal to china since journals and cannot be interfered in by any other country the director of the center for international business ethics in beijing. believes china is right to see the bill as intervention. it is chinese domestic issue that is now there to be exposed to extra no

intervention now donald trump is accusing china although without sufficient proof on meddling into their mid-term election now well you know they come to the finger to go to china over its own domestic issue so that's not really rested on answer on legal basis and the moment to keep the bit to provide the opportunities to grow cross. already so therefore china is not there to tolerate the meddling of another party into it's all domestic. british comedian bob to appear before students was shocked to find he'd been sent a behavioral equivalent to sign ahead of the cake in order to quote avoid the problems constantine a case in was among five comedians shadow to perform at the event being held to raise money for the children's charity unicef they were all sent to have an

agreement by the university's unicef on campus society which forbids any jokes on racism sexism homophobia and amongst others they stressed the topics can be raised but only in a respectful way. the university's union though says that it did not require external speakers to sign any form of contract before speaking at events and that the organizer unicef on campus had been overzealous later on the campus itself came out with an apology. given that unicef is a children's charity we wanted to make sure it was an appropriate event tool because we would never wish to impose that guests would have to agree to anything that they do not believe in we apologize for the misunderstanding the u.k.'s national union of students says it has no evidence of so student union rules in twenty fourteen comic laughs was banned from performing at cardiff university after seven hundred people signed a petition complaining that his show trivialize rape unprotected sex and

dehumanizing of women the following year campaigners threatened to picket activists kate's birth weights performance because of her views on decriminalizing sex work and the case is not the only country raising concerns over free speech in universities a study finds nine in ten us higher education facilities district freedom of speech with a third of them imposing substantial restrictions earlier case birthweight the activist and comedian threatened with picketing by a u.k. university debated the issue with legal analyst and media commentator lionel. absolutely trivial for me to sign this document and to be honest if you have to stop and go what you know what they're asking me not to be sexist how could they then maybe it's about time that you sort of thought about the fact that it's twenty eighteen and checked out what your material is i find it weird that we're presenting this as though somebody is paying sense of the fact is that by agreeing to come on your show i've agreed not to swear on it and if i didn't want to do that

i could have not come on your show when you know your other guests are bound by the same thing if every time you see a cup of coffee you shout i hate coffee it's disgusting or you won't be working in a coffee shop next week now let me explain what the problem is imagine if i came on our own my colleague here in comes i don't usually do not talk about this subject do not mention the word pull the kremlin united states trump would say whoa whoa wait a minute hold it. we wouldn't say well those are the rules it's like yelling fire in a crowded theater or coffee in a coffee shop we would say wait a minute you're let me what i'm saying you can make your own decision about what is and isn't ok and there are absolutely things i'm sure that you wouldn't allow me to say on and i know there are you know in line all the same and so by coming on air of course we've agreed not to say those things are not you know it's not down to every comedian to decide what kind of stuff they want to do and if that means that

they don't want to play you know there are shows that i know where the comedians perform to children and of course when you perform a show for children there are kinds of subjects that you don't go near because it's a children's show and personally i don't do those shows because i don't write the kind of material that suits those events and so i don't put myself forward we're not talking is not a question you can't define races you can't define our unit so what he did say is a dictionary we love no we can't no no yeah you know i have many you don't want me to. and the rest absolutely all maybe you can please stop it you know we're talking about your you're being so dandy good priggish above the rules and looking it up in the dictionary that's not the issue the bigger issue is that instead of us saying wait a minute what rules wait a minute why kid they speak no we're saying excuse me why aren't you abiding by the rules look at how we're giving in our first of all don't break the rules instead of

saying wait a minute he's a comic is this over eighteen what kind of a club is this i'm sorry but life's tough but i do think that the answer is that everybody is entitled to you know here's my radical opinion i think we're entitled to free speech i think they're entitled to say this is what we think the rules should be and i think everybody else who's involved in that should be entitled to agree to disagree to say well actually i would like a change to this was something you haven't mentioned that i find to be quite problematic i think that you know we know that there are always going to be. limits in society about what is and isn't ok to be said in certain forms and certain platforms and that's absolutely fine what's the matter with us we're used to be tough we're becoming a bunch of little snowflake trigger trigger warning then then heard and b it's listen to what we're talking about a comedian that by the way if there was no rules or what the heck was he being asked to sign we are losing our sense of humor we're losing our guts and our spine

we're losing who we are we're losing our personality so keep it up comics keep it up you'll be out of a job in six months. around the news file be back around thirty minutes with more headlines but do stay tuned for cross talk. if president trump indeed has as he's way of communicating but you have to hand it to him but sometimes it's better to try and shake up the established way of doing things in order to come to a different conclusion i think what's worrying is this focus on on the.