well. the headlines this hour the death toll from a collapsed tower block in the russian city of magnitogorsk rises to thirty eight devastated locals mourn their loss also to come. french police arrest a key figure in the yellow vest movement antigovernment protests have been raging in france since mid november some of the worst rising there in half a century and taiwan accuses china of interfering after president g. warns he will use all necessary means to ensure relief occasion plus looking back at last year's mainstream media coverage we look at why twenty eighteen might be considered.

so welcome just on four pm here in moscow are you watching r.t. international now the number of people who are now known to have died in the tower block collapse in the russian city of magnitogorsk has risen to thirty eight an official day of mourning has been held by residents still coming to terms with what happened is thought a gas explosion is to blame for the disaster rescuers believe there is still more bodies under the rubble. as more. the official day of mourning has really underlined how the city came together faced with the tragedy a makeshift sporadic memorial grew by the hour and it seemed as an endless stream of people came to stay in silence and commemorate all those affected by the tragedy but first of course came those who lost their loved ones in the blast the national crossing it goes into but you will about. it should little easier to shoot.

you know cuomo it can be seen if you can find it you are you get it when you're going to look no sneak back to go. to church go to show. them just as. soon picked up the phone to instill levitch not. feeling. we'll let you commit those if you're just closure with. this the likelihood of a forcible slipping but really all sorts of people flock from all parts of town touched and moved by the grief others. like you. say it's got a bad supply chain gangs my boss' boss said i'm not pushing for those who have been moved by the grief of people collected donated more than seven million roubles to those who lost something in this tragedy the search and rescue operation is still

ongoing of course as you can clearly see behind me rescuers in fact working the conditions got a threatening their own lives and in fact the only couple of times they had to make a poor choice and take a break is when that threat would become too grave for them so the first dismantle some of the structures that will literally about to fall on their head but the search and rescue operation is said to go on at least until every missing person is accounted for or despite the grief there have been incredible stories of survival to a ten month old boy was found alive under the rubble on tuesday morning is his story .

but. you know. one of the rescuers heard a child crying we stopped all the machinery to listen in we were saying to keep quiet and the baby was reacting campsite with your people we started asking where are you and there was a noise we started working but there was a risk of further collapse we were afraid the child was crying for how. probable so if i could have shown them immediately where my son probably was but we weren't allowed at the site i managed to get there and show the rescuers the place i got acquainted with one rescuer who later called me to say that they'd found my son. here in the

film it's part. of the richest section for the. kids. is the first. missing. look at other news now in place in france and arrested a key figure at the protest movement officials say they charged eric through a with organizing an undeclared protest and carrying a weapon. was. decides his arrest of disciplines but detained two for identity checks one month ago the french prosecutor's office launched an investigation into through a who called on people to enter the lease a palace one of the co-founders though of the l.f.s.

says the rest of the is on the side i get to keep it to the fact that we've always fought for fundamental rights in our country we've always fought and today we're realizing that our fundamental rights are being trampled on right in front of the plaster la concorde or just remind vest movement began his local process against high fuel prices but turned into a nationwide uprising against a monument crones president say issuing riots with the most violent france to seen in half a century with thousands of people blocking roads and clashing with police across the country now correspondent charlotte pinsky was in the thick of the unrest. play . outside the streets of the entrance of at least a bird's eye you can see it's a guest speaker by the police that's how the protesters were trying to enter into that street to get close that seriously at least a cut lip. i

. i i i i could difficult getting my eyes right down that's because we've just been in the midst of all of this to you guys as you can see it basically eyes red it is really hard to win them and at the moment they are just a good thing uncontrollable. playing live please coming to. the stop the streets. if you absolutely have. to be crazy on the streets of. live.

live. i believe last week there were about five thousand six hundred police officers here this weekend eight thousand in price alone a good mood city gas that being deployed is precisely to try and clear the much of the street where they would cause any damage around the just took a look at this piece to gas going everywhere. rubber bullets being deployed each. very close to. his streaming down my face again this results tear gas i can't tell you how many times that we've been gassed in previous protests the police have generally tried to hold back from deploying to you gas and even when they had all jacks pelted up

them by the protesters they've held back until they feel it's too much today when one of cheating sipping from that they have been responding immediately and it's not just tear gas it's whether bullets it's our will to cannons and of course we have all made vehicles on the streets of paris the first time since two thousand and five so this is a rubber bullet that's going to put my hands and say perhaps my cameraman alex can get a nice close up look at it for you it's pretty big it's a little bit spongy at the top the point is the the navy's quite large the idea it's not meant to have secrets for you like a normal bullet but if this hits you believe me this is good. well it's pretty scary having these things flying around you. feel. that you are. taiwan has expressed anger after china's

president warned all necessary means would be used to ensure reunification and reserve the right to to use force tensions have been raising arising since the election of a pro independence candidate as president of taiwan in twenty six states. do you actually chinese do chinese we are willing to strive for the prospect of peaceful reunification with the utmost sincerity and the greatest efforts because peaceful reunification is in the best interests of the comparator it's across the street and the chinese nation but we may no promise to renounce the use of force or taiwan will definitely not accept one country two systems china has to respect the twenty three million taiwanese peoples persistence and freedom and democracy instead of interfering with taiwan's choice of democracy where polarizing taiwan society and lure in talents. or tensions between china and taiwan have existed since the people's republic of china was founded back in one nine hundred forty nine in one

thousand nine hundred two though both sides did agree on the so-called one thousand consensus it gives taiwan the right to have its own government while its territory is considered to be part of china however both china and taiwan have different interpretations of that agreement and also the concept itself now on the some of the thirty first president trump signed the asia reassurance initiative act which allocates bomb point five billion dollars for increased u.s. engagement across the indian aciphex region the act is also aimed at improving political economic and security ties between taiwan and america and that includes additional u.s. arms sales to the island meant to counter a potential threat from mainland china. we follow this trail of weapons by the united states to taiwan is a serious violation of international law and the basic principles of international relations which songs of the relevant x. seriously violates the one china principle and grossly interference in china's

internal affairs chinese strongly dissatisfied and opposed to the us insisting on signing used into law and we have made some complaints with the u.s. well asia pacific policy expert thinks that taiwan would be more open to working with china if it wasn't receiving hefty military assistance. china would ideally like that the u.s. does not sell arms to taiwan law or the level of diplomatic support because it believes in that in those circumstances that the taiwanese would be more forthcoming in taking a more constructive attitude in in deepening relations with beijing the threat that the u.s. sees is primarily in the maritime theater as the chinese navy becomes more modernized enters. to push the u.s. navy back and create an an empty access are bubble in spirit

free. now with twenty eighteen all wrapped up we have been looking back at the mainstream media's coverage for highlights but is it a prank or found out that coverage looked pretty much the same throughout the year . i know way too much about your news watching experience last year how come easy you don't need superpowers for that look. this president could be impeached i do not think the president will serve out his term resignation resignation a huge incentive for president trump to resign it would be the beginning of the end of the term presidency of the beginning of the end the nice a exactly the same thing last year. walls closing in the walls closing you know this is going to be the achilles heel dykeman's could lead to trump's impeachment is still there may get america great

again prompts impeachment. on this. this which is scurrilous i'll try to put a hex on president literally multiple times donald trump has plenty to be scared. and so he is running scared yeah right probably another beginning of the end or speech been. about it some point a friend called you and they were like. no no. no bro but i have a look now. don't trump is cool control the sea with several of these statements on the wildfire as the president confuses their the number of missing people he visited the town of paradise california pleasure a couple of times they put those tweets at the worst possible time when people's lives are being compromised he was playing politics and elected officials say he

doesn't really understand what's causing the fire what america lost two very dear and important people for the nation here's some of what you must have heard on the news president truck is not invited trump is facing backlash for his tweet on senator mccain. president who had repeatedly mocked and diminished mccain during his life was initially unable to offer up a single kind word descendent really while this is no night for name calling it's been well established that donald trump is no friend of the bushes president opposite to attend the state funeral for president george h.w. bush on wednesday but does the forty fifth president feel like he's really part of the president's. ok that's really what you want to talk about. so it's been a year of all kind of scoops from news on trump to news on trump well at least there are other shows on the box. the beginning i honestly want to do this again from nightmare no problem with the president switching on about

a month old everything's falling apart sometimes i wish i had never been president . who are you would never president. i think we can arrange that. are you kidding me so me tell me. you. got it j b yes why didn't i get my book. can you explain to me why one for holidays going on i seriously did you do you know actually i wouldn't be surprised if one of you out there have been trumpet ties to buy a dream of being sucked into the matrix of trump t.v. . you are glowing. now with. no you can talk about.

a very warm welcome back to all our viewers time for a quick recap of our top stories today. veteran porn star describes donald try. janet taylor in great detail. having a total of two thousand four hundred thirty calories worth of food for dinner makes trump feel a old president. and newly discovered ten centimeter long shot i need blind a worm species is named the deer more faires donald trump after the u.s. leader. be sure to stay with us for some of your favorite donald trump classics that's coming up next. season. down the hall and.

the man for cosmopolitan and donald trump you just don't get more new york. you're fired you're fired you're all fired. you should have put more stress so much. ready to try and get. over the last twelve months and disney classics were also criticised resenting bad role models but is it pays. to take a look yourself in the press.

span different fantastic all the episodes drill down into twenty nineteen predictions also tonight jane will be celebrating ten years of the kaiser report. from.

hello again i wait for the next few days we are looking back at some of the stories we brought you in twenty eight. the copywriting of a catch phrase in the disney classic last year did lead to accusations of imperialism and also cultural appropriation. was probably. phrased tasso was made famous by the nine hundred ninety four film the line king new version of which is being released this year but it's in an activist has launched a petition to remove the trademark from disney he claims the phrase belongs to african culture and cannot be owned by any company the petition was launched in

late december and almost one hundred eighty thousand people have now signed it well i'm a tacit comes from the swahili language and means no worries trademarks by disney though in two thousand and three for use in clothing and also footwear disney has never denied the origin of the phrase the company however still hasn't commented on the petition we're back in december we discussed the issue with our guests. so i we're seeing so much pushback from people on it they see this as another as you alluded to manifestation of cultural appropriation and it continues a capitalism entrepreneur africa and specifically africa a continent representing everything that capitalist wants everything capitalist need but everything capitalists don't want to pay for that's used to be looked at and i don't necessarily anti-capitalist stand i mean i don't want to find out in sydney that you're driving a jeep cherokee let me just leave it at that obviously i think it's unnecessary pressure as i mentioned earlier we live in an error of only outreach people are

just looking for a reason to be offended i don't think this is a case about offending people right i mean everyone will find a way to get up to be offended i think what we're seeing here is the commodification of culture and we have to go beyond sharing the one thing that disney did do is maybe an investment in the lion king franchise which is created a lot of jobs did he's made a lot of money and let me tell you something disney has donated to africa and causes in africa last year two thousand and seventeen they donated over three hundred forty million dollars not everything is meant to be commodified and culture is one of those thing that specially when the culture does not belong to the corporation that is trying to appropriate and make money off of it at the end of the day disney is a global company so it's not to say that they can't appropriate or use phrases from other cultures let me say something right now where are we going to go with this next is taco bell going to be under attack is the tilted kill pub franchise i think it's a faulty parallelism to compare

a franchise like taco bell to language like recruitment tata this isn't a also tried this with dia de los went though so they also tried some copyright the day of the dead which is also something that is quarterly sacre to people specifically in mexico you make money the way that you want to make money and that's fine but this is like cultural appropriation. that we might be passed. new year celebrations but there is the one there is one thing the internet can't seem to let go at the moment the u.s. central command's tweet about its take on new york's famous drop the ball celebration. times square tradition rings in the new year by dropping the big bull if ever needed we are ready to drop something much much bigger.

we have become a nation run by ninth graders oh my god i'm not rocket scientists but it's not hard to be just down you know on the planet. the strategic command sports person navy captain broke the wall told c.n.n. that the post is potable recap of commands priorities and is all about reassuring the american people that the us military is ready at all times even on new year's eve. our previous new year's eve tweet was in poor taste and does not reflect our values we apologize. jason's got nothing on us.

it is just coming up to half past four here in moscow you watch not international have more news in the headlines in just. one else choate's seemed wrong. when all the world's just all. the world get to shape out just to become educated and in gaining strength because betrayal. when so many find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground.

country's gone into a nihilistic fever i think and we got to hit the road and get out the traveling across america to find what makes america take the charlatans the geniuses this is the quintessential american hero this is it we found the point around which hollywood is going to send we always are on the current system but this. culture is really importing the america. we're starting last with is going to headed east into the swamp we're going into the belly of the bees and i think i want to leave now doesn't get any more of downtown than this maybe completely different prime minister. nobody could see coming that false confessions would be that profile in the spot the waste the problems will converge. and any interrogation out there what you'll see is

threat promise threat promise threat lie a lie a lie the process of interrogation is designed to put people in just that frame of mind make the most comfortable make them want to get out and don't take no for an answer don't accept their denials she said their forwards are already set on a statement that i will be home by the next day there's a culture of on accountability and police officers know that they can engage in misconduct that has nothing to do with all their crime. this is us broadcasting around the world and covering the world of business and

finance and the impact upon all of us i'm barred children in washington we are sure glad you. are with us and on board first of all i want to thank the boom bust team especially daniel britto nathan elliott and cory rippers for helping out while i took a few days off i'm excited to be back in the saddle again it's going to be an exciting twenty nineteen and we look forward to sharing it with all of you coming up this time we kick off the new year talking to professor emeritus at university of massachusetts amherst richard wolffe looking at global and personal debt not going to believe some of these numbers plus will bear markets warrender the new year for a more in-depth look will turn the admission of adam mesh trading group and later we'll look at bitcoin the bumpy road with taylor letterman of simpler trading and whether twenty nineteen could be a boom or a bust year all that directly ahead but first we have some headlines let's go. more signs of a slowdown in china lead our global report today as the chinese manufacturing

sector shrinks adding to the list of downward trending indicators for china and the global economy on the first for the first full global trading day of twenty nineteen the latest figures for the key purchasing managers index or p m i showing fall of forty nine point four percent from a flat fifty the chinese p.m.i. has not been above fifty the line between expansion and contraction since july of twenty eight teams and the latest reading is the lowest since february of twenty sixteen when the p.m.i. fell to forty nine the fall in the p.m.i. also defied was lower than most surveys and analysts had forecasted a broader composite p.m.i. that adds the service sector activity to the equation showed a smaller december drop of fifty two point six from fifty two point eight in november the key chinese markets in shanghai shen zen and the hang seng in hong kong all fell on the news. and just days after u.s.

president donald trump said things were going well with the u.s. trying to trade. to go shay sions the transpacific trade tussle took another combo with news reports today u.s. trade representative robert light hisor a reputed a hard liner on china policy is saying the troubled ministration may lead to more tariffs against china and is warning that he will not accept empty promises from the other side of the table the ambassador has designated has been designated as a u.s. lead negotiator in talks aimed at resettling the us china trade negotiations by march first sectors of the global economy are taking downward dips to ring in the new year one area has managed to make gains and even hit record highs precious metals on wednesday gold hit its highest peak since june fifteenth of last year hovering at around one thousand two hundred eighty five dollars per ounce today this follows a slide in.