oh this. was. b.b.c. reporter says. another journalist in france to establish any links between the kremlin and the. united states.

with the. unintended consequences on canada we worried about that. in the crossfire of washington and beijing. as prime minister justin trudeau expressed his concern over the arrest of. detention of a top chinese woman at the request of the u.s. . in effect to counter the potentially bad influence of. so says russia's president reacting to the space of concert by authorities across the country. and also to come the. keys to prices and the selling figurines the clips we put the issue of. how can such a big days when such a big get it completely wrong when you let people determine what. you're looking for censorship looking for the. i think it's great t.v.

. cannot sing at international it's just gone two pm here in moscow now the hunt for russian metal is continuously to messages sent by b.b.c. correspondent who is looking at possible connections between moscow and the l.f.s. movement in france have angered russia's foreign ministry and one of the correspondents messages she said her editors were quote out for blood well maybe some russian businesses capitalizing greatly on the protests maybe the protesters eating cutlass some mass maybe the far right to ring leaders that i'm looking for angles yes the editors demand some blood while the late messages were published by russia's re novice to news agency it comes just a week after a number of media outlets allege that russian bots or automated accounts were fueling outrage over the protests the french authorities have launched an

investigation into this for the b.b.c. has told r.t. it was reasonable for its news thing to look into a potential connection in light of the french government's own statement on this possibility as the french foreign ministry had spoken publicly about media reports of a possible russian influence in the protests it was perfectly reasonable for a correspondent to raise the subject however in the end her reports made no mention of a possible connection with russia at all we stand by our impartial independent journalism . well we did ask the russian if they are still looking for connections between moscow and the french protests and whether the correspondent was under pressure to pursue that particular angle though they have declined to comment the russian foreign ministry meanwhile has criticised the b.b.c. using it of acting in a cynical manner. the cynicism of journalists is amazing we're talking about a company that has propagated all its life and bias and independent approach and its professionalism as the pitted me of the media world i have

a question for this very british regulators of the media space and the public how do they evaluate this kind of compilation of facts that employees of their television and radio companies are doing when we went to the streets of paris to ask people if they did think that russians are somehow interfering. everything's possible nowadays. yard jam can't tell. them how to find out i know of course they are not behind on our man they say their actions are behind their us presidency as well so you know. of course not about but ok well we sent out a request for comments to a number of terrorist groups as well and we'll let you know when we get a response from them meanwhile let's talk to john white he's a u.k. kenneth john good to have you on again look at the shield head the russian foreign ministry says the b.b.c. was acting cynically the b.b.c. says it was following up

a legitimate angle given the concerns of the french government wedgy stand on this . no injuries are seeing goes whom the gods wish to destroy the force make mad and this russians under the bed hysteria that is now engulfed the western political and media establishment has crossed the line from their eyes that he too dangerous the idea that russia is behind everything that's going wrong across the west and clearly there are multiple crises that haven't go for the west is preposterous and it's also an insult to the masses of the people who are cured who are expressing their anger and their resistance to this theater with a severe form of sporting for breaks and twenty sixteen or two for donald trump as u.s. president and twenty sixteen or the thousands of people who've been coming onto the streets of paris and all over france is usually the yellow vests in recent weeks to deny people the agencies to deny them dignity and if they want to understand why those are the people being congregating in paterson over france so they have to do

is examine their own culpability with policies that have left over eight million people in france living in poverty and twenty nine percent unemployment cuts to patients cut their welfare benefits and tax cuts for the rich cronies derisively call the president of the rich and francesco nothing to do with russia these people do not live in russia. you're dealing with the real world consequences of their own government's policies that is creating unremitting despair and these policies are being met are great across the west in the u.k. fourteen million people imported in the u.s. it said this stalker for million of balloons of people that is why people are angry and that is why there's so much to square and what the of diffusing to do is confront a system that is causing our own their feet and it clearly sure is that these people continue to exist in a bubble of unreality and pair vs to the consequences of the system that has been designed and fashioned and their interests what do you make generally junks i know you've covered this story extensively today what you make generally of the media

coverage because the french government for example you might expect them to say well we believe there could be some russian interference here but the media could then say oh come on you must be joking it must be the economy blah blah blah but that line doesn't seem to that i don't seem to run with that so much it's all about russia. well a lot of the vitriol as has been directed at our t.v. because artie's actually been covering these these protests in france from the very beginning in a way that other news organizations western news organizations have not been covering them even given the people on these demonstrations a voice to below them a low in them to express their anger in the reasons of why they're out on the streets of paris and so you can't blame a news organization for do what a news organization should really do which is to cover the news and again we have a western media establishment that is so aware and up with its own hole the force of a data to politics that when you have an issue of class i don't issues of economic inequality and in this situation then they are

a loss to explain that phenomenon because for them to stick to school works perfectly well they do very well at the school but for movies of people overthrow the west it is not it is not fit for purpose and it's change and they are refusing to come to terms with the fact that things have changed all is changed and changed utterly in terms of reaction to this story that we are running today russia's foreign ministry obviously very angry it says it intends to register a complaint with the s.c. over this do you think that organization will respond in any way although be much backlash at all. no one respond not not based on what we've seen up to know it is the lowest teacher russophobia is the acceptable form of racism among the western liberal establishment if any other nationality or any other religious group or ethnicity or any other demographic was being vilified in a way that russian russians are by extension then there would be a richness created couper regarding the page of this and bigotry these can lead to

hate crimes this level of the cio is being directed that russia and it really is beyond belief that we have such our parlous media establishment and political class and to think that these people are the beneficiaries of some of the most expensive universities and schools in the world there really is quest ownership and just finally john wayne in the b.b.c.'s defense they say it was an angle they thought he'd but they haven't actually published it they haven't said oh yes we found all these connections they were just issuing perhaps the concerns of the french government it is not a fair point this should be holding the french government to account for coming up with such a preposterous idea that russia could be behind these protests and as i see this is not a media establishment this holding governments to account it is an echo chamber of their own governments it is part of the problem not part of the solution as a an independent and self respecting news organisation or news culture should be

sort of the idea that if we go along with the french government coming up with a fictional or suggestion that if those are the people who are becoming known to the streets of paris and other small town to city and cities across france over these past weekends or do so as part of some. militias a lot that's been engineered by the a few tin and some spooky castle and say didier the hell out of the bournville and this should be laughing at that such allegations and he should be directing their focus on their the french government would make such a preposterous allegation that's not a leader that's fantasy that's a fairy tale this is a very dangerous one john good to talk to an affidavit that was a u.k. based journalist john white thank you. prime minister justin trudeau has expressed concern over two canadians detained in china last week saying his government is taking the situation very seriously he says the arrests are politically motivated resulting from canada being caught up in the ongoing trade war between beijing and

washington. where the largest economies of the world china and the united states start picking a fight with each other the escalating trade war between them is going to have all sorts of unintended consequences on canada potentially on the entire global economy so we're very worried about that but the arrested canadians are michael core vag a former diplomatic used to breaking china's ngo law michael spark an entrepreneur with senior contacts in north korea including kim jong un. china arrested them citing alleged activities harmful to national security that was right after the c.f.o. of a chinese smartphone maker huawei was detained in canada at america's request just think picks up a story take on the high flying chinese think that could if arrest her income is a outrage her home nation claim it's at the request of the u.s. grant her an eye watering bail throw in a threat of extradition see china and then arrest two canadians in retaliation and

all the while with potentially the biggest trade deal the world at the scene is being hammered out by two of the vested parties washington and beijing complicated isn't it well let's try and break it down starting with those two canadian nationals german canadian citizens marco coverage and michael's paiva a suspect it's often gaijin in activities that endangered the national security of the people's republic of china china has warned of the coming retaliation with beijing following grave consequences that come into if the wall way c.f.i. was not released but as count as big brother has rushed to its defense the i'm off of the tension of two canadian citizens is unacceptable they ought to be returned the united states has stood for that whether they're our citizens or citizens of other countries why does washington fit in the picture mang one show was arrested not because of something she did personally but because the u.s. thinks the company was trying to evade the american embargo against iran and her

extradition to the us is on the menu mung and others are alleged to have put financial institutions at risk of criminal and civil liability in the united states by deceiving those institutions as to the nature and extent of while he's business in iran but it is the snag many major financial companies including america's own j.p. morgan have had to pay hefty fines for violating u.s. sanctions in the past yet tweet. never seen their execs being thrown into custody making case a wild card but it's trying to seem to suggest the rule of law can be put to the site when it comes to make money. if i think it's good for what will be certainly the largest trade deal ever made i would certainly intervene if i thought it was necessary but it seems the man in the oval office is getting the concessions he wanted because beijing has now announced the suspension of tariff hikes on the u.s.

the rest of the two canadians are definitely tied to the arrest mangwana jew there's no doubt about that the timing of the arrest was would have been extremely suspicious otherwise because right now the chinese and the americans are involved in very delicate trade negotiations they have done nothing to the u.s. right now they continue to talk so it will make the example. of this situation warning other countries who maybe may be tempted to follow. american extradition demands i think the chinese reaction will be slow. well thought out when it comes to the united states. is not the way to tackling potentially bad influence of lyrics us what vladimir putin has said reacting to a recent spate of hip hop gigs being shut down by the authorities in russia trying

. life rap music is generating debate. question what's going on in this video. this guy's called husky his gig got canceled he got on top of the car and started rapping his rhymes out no mike needed the fans were loving it ok have a guess what happened next. he was grabbed by the cops spend a few days behind bars but charges of starting an unsanctioned gathering of people were eventually dropped welcome to the world of russian showbiz and late twenty eight ing the young hip hoppers corner of it soon. because there.

was. some of these videos get more clicks on you tube than the number of people in this country gigs have been cancelled in places from here all the way to here reasons in one case a watchdog suddenly realized the venue's hygiene inc condition wasn't good enough or any of your local officials said the rejected rappers songs may deal it probable blow to the moral and ethical values of the more than society and perm a band was reportedly told to vanish from the city all together and it all got to the point when even the busy man who's got more than ninety nine problems said that a gig ain't one explosive package with. these artists is the least effective way

one can come up. with to address certain issues such methods would only produce the opposite effect drug screens the most concern naturally since they are the surest way to a nation's to trying. don't millions of teens listen to this kind of music probably quite a few million and drugs and all that dirty language won't be music to the ears of their parents so adults only or eighteen plus tags should be mandatory for most of these gigs but bangalore altogether come on the smartphone generation will always find a way to hear the rhymes they want to hear plus check out some of the carmine's under huskies videos never listen to her ski before but if the russian prosecution service insists i will start doing it now franks never thought husky was so cool thank you police for sharing info on such a talented artist and i guess when it comes to hip hop as we know it winds on drugs

will probably never find themselves out of tune with the rappers. not only in fashion house prada has pulled a range of accessories featuring monkey like figurines over allegations of racism. they put online called out the fashion house for not seeing a strong resemblance to racist caricature was of black people prada has since apologized saying any offense was unintentional the problem ali are fantasy charms they're imaginary creatures not intending to have any reference to the real world and certainly not blackface prada group never had the intention of offending anyone and we have who are all forms of racism embraces imagery well with fashion giants getting embroiled in ever more scandals as people accuse them of being tone deaf to diversity racism and body image we put the issues up for debate. faint

proud to call it completely wrong there. it's quite healthy as to may that to. put art with a black face and big red lips it's pretty obvious looking back for any any person of ethnic origin to especially a black person to see that i think prada has made it perfectly clear that they had no intention of presenting this says is any kind of racist message or or blackface says it's come to be commonly called when i first saw the image of myself i didn't think straight away to the minstrel show so i think how can you how can such a big brand nowadays when divesting such a big get it completely wrong to save or to think that a company of that size and that reputation would purposely go out and make these little figurines that would purposely a fan or mock

a race of people you'd have to be out of your mind to believe in freedom of speech and freedom of creativity and have a should be done taking into consideration people's feelings that when you let people determine what's offensive to the masses you're looking for censorship you're looking for the stifling of creativity they go hand hand in. now there are new reports of intensifies in the yemeni port and port city of had despite a recent cease fire deal we'll have a look at that plus other stories to you just off the brighton. join me every first week on the alex simon shore and i'll be speaking to guest of the world of politics sports business i'm show business i'll see you then.

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hello again there are reports of fierce fighting and strikes in the yemeni port city of had despite the warring sides recently reaching a cease fire agreement the un has again drawn attention to the dike humanitarian situation in the region calling it the world's worst avoidable crisis a terrible tragedy is unfolding in yemen and it's getting worse millions of people are starving sick desperate they have one message for the world this war needs to stop. well a ceasefire agreement was reached after a u.n. sponsored peace talks in sweden earlier this month meanwhile a recent report by the armed conflict location and event data project claims that the number of yemenis killed by violence since twenty sixteen has reached nearly sixty thousand that is far higher than the latest un figure which puts the combined total of dead and injured at seventeen thousand minimum and only one of the

research is behind the report feels the crisis in yemen has gone largely under reported despite its colossal scale. from what we could see in reporting at least there has been a very kind of a generally naisi attitude in using for instance that ten thousand figure provided by the u.n. the soul of fisher figure since twenty sixteen instilled many newspapers and media outlets are still using that has you know if figure which significantly downplay the devastation collecting fatality numbers is usually the single most difficult piece of information you can get from. because of course there are reporting by years that because there is limited access to the bottom of. or behind those figures are the personal tragedies of individual families r.t. arabic brings us one of the stories.

you can hope it's him it was my dogs oh never forget my troops. who was suffering from diarrhea which is poor we didn't have the money to afford to transportation and treatments we couldn't even afford to have to have a trip you see we say. i have no money that's why my daughter starve to death and i pray to god that all of the children survive. more than five thousand people came to the streets of the belgian capital and some play off the belgian signed up to a un migration deal. was

it. the protesters that tried to enter key buildings but police to respond with water cannon and take gas to push them back more than one hundred sixty un member states including belgium signed a migration pact to the summit amount of cash last monday that i use to find a common global approach to migration but critics do say it will limit the ability of countries to shape their own migration policy. on the intelligence agencies are designed to protect the country from potential threats a newly declassified cia documents has shown that a project's from the one nine hundred sixty s.

was willing to explore some fairly off the wall if not. its. the specific game over the research program was to examine the possibility of controlling the behavior of a dog in an open field by means of remotely triggering electrical stimulation of the brain.

the electrodes preparation itself and some special problems with the dog that in order for the narrowly faced with a rat as an experimental subjects such as infection of the electrodes site due to a failure of the surgical wounds to heal. if it. came. time to. becoming the softening the back again with more news in the headlines in just.

my son doing drugs my nephew was still in drugs my sister just with doing drugs it was like an epidemic of drug abuse america's public enemy number one in the united states is drug abuse which is sort of going after the users in the prison population who are we started treating sick people people who are addicted to these drugs like criminals while i was on the hill. with the war on drugs. there are countless numbers of people who are in prison for. a long sentence in this for whom minor minor offenders in the drug trade it's a lot watching your children grow up and miss you in waves and say by daddy as

you're walking out of the business it's just it doesn't get easier. you know world a big part of the law and conspiracy it's time to wake up to dig deeper to hit the stories that made stream media refuses to tell more than ever we need to be smart we need to stop slamming the door on the bad and shouting past each other it's time for critical thinking it's time to fight for the middle for the truth the time is now for watching closely watching the hawks.

some action or tides are we going underground as we enter the shed you hold for. in a week of tory brick sit chaos of the coming on the show we go to the birthplace of jesus as israeli settlements about to cut off the biblical city from jerusalem to speak to the mayor of bethlehem was a scene you negotiate with the siege of the church of the nativity and as the u.n. security council debates because civilian casualties of nature's war in afghanistan we speak to controversial award winning one academy artist michael sandal about drawing tony blair naked on the doorstep of ten downing street all of them all coming up in today's going underground but first a week before christmas eve we're going to bethany have in palestine to speak to its man. thanks so much for joining us us media celebrating we have not only israeli but the site of record tourism this.