on. was. washington and beijing hold their first talks since the world's two largest economies called a ninety day truce in their trade. plus. another year of more trouble paris is the seat of yet more violence as women hold their own yellow vest demonstration that ends in another weekend of clashes here for. the government's contingency plans for a no deal breaks it will further ridicule with lorry drivers running a staged traffic jam near the port of wasted time. for animal rights activist is anger among religious minorities in europe as belgium

bans the jewish and muslim ritual for slaughtering animals. muslims and jews all going to be given the perception that they are not full citizens and invade their draw it's in their own country i mean their own area has been on their mind. a welcome to us internationals world news update from moscow this monday night with me kevin first an american and chinese officials met in beijing monday with a future putting an end to their country's bitter trade war it comes after the two sides agreed last month to hold off on imposing a new terrace for ninety days as the dispute threatens to destabilize the global economy and create more loses and when is it the rich takes a closer look tonight. well the next round of the us china trade battle begins and both sides appear to be quite enthusiastic just had

a long and very good call would presume she of china deal is moving along very well if maybe it will be very comprehensive covering all subjects areas and points of dispute big progress being made us trade negotiators will optimistically and constructively communicate with the chinese delegation on the important agreements achieved by the two leaders during the meeting in argentina this is the first formal meeting since presidents donald trump and the xi jinping agreed a ninety day truce last month when washington hit the pause button on the shuttle to increase in tariffs and beijing vowed to buy more products from the u.s. and there's no doubt that for both countries this ongoing trade war has stirred up the financial markets and dampened their economic outlook so we saw a number of companies who have suffered financial losses and they are finger pointing towards the top political dogs for being responsible for a decline in their profits apple didn't hold back in airing its views or shortfall

is over one hundred percent from our thought that it's primarily china and what i believe to be the case is the trade between the united states and china put additional pressure on their economy they're going to be fine apple is a great company but that's not my look i have to worry about our country plus using the daughter of a chinese telecoms giant as a battering tool might not be the best tactic to persuade your opposition to work with you either the hallway saw their court huge diplomatic ways when the company's c.f.o. missed when one jew was arrested in canada trump even pledged to intervene when he thought it would help to secure a trade deal to benefit america beijing was furious we have made solemn representations to canada and the us demanding that both border. immediately clarify the reasons for their detention and immediately released a detainee to protect the person's legal rights pretty much the whole of twenty

eighteen passed by with china and the us at each other's throats with tit for tat sanctions and now with the american and chinese trading giants have all their fingers and toes crossed so that it can be business as usual sooner rather than later but who knows it's a very important meeting it's a very significant meeting but keep in mind the deadline that was set at the key to winning the meeting in buenos aires argentina between the u.s. side and chinese side was march first in terms of coming to some sort of agreement or some sort of resolution i dare say the early days of january two thousand and one team there is not sufficient pressure to cause either side to be resolved i don't think will be good to see reasonable approach merge until we get closer to the date that it's march first two thousand and nineteen that's where we are now and no one really has an idea of where this is all going to but one thing is for sure we're not going to be bored watching this next round china us trading you know

watch this space is the same now just a few hours before the talks started monday the u.s. rattled china by selling a destroyer past disputed islands in the south china sea the parasail islands are claimed not only by china but also by vietnam and taiwan which is a longstanding u.s. ally a spokeswoman for the u.s. pacific fleet said the move wasn't intended to be a political statement but china reacted with theory calling it a provocation and claiming the action was in violation of international law you're checking lou from the center of international business ethics in beijing told us too that he doesn't think the incident will undermine these trade talks though. so i think it's the pentagon's you know actual maneuverability the thought that the u.s. dominance in the maritime sea particularly. they are former. allies will not be challenged we believe that or china can really work out

it's ourselves east asian neighbors without the intervention. the pretext of freedom moment negotiation is really being far very much are stretched till the us interpretation but. that doesn't really correlate well as the go in the go show should name begin because those guys are there preoccupied or. resolving the trading best known american access issue so all i do not think is not really a concerted efforts start of a brand new year but some more of the same clashes erupted in paris from protesters and police as a women's yellow vest demonstration took shape in the french capital over the weekend. i was. i. the female only rally took place on sunday as the yellow verse marches

continued on for eight consecutive weeks several hundred making a stand they say against dropping living standards seems it was largely peaceful until later in the afternoon when scuffles broke up between protesters and police and it seems one police union though isn't enough of all of this is demanding a file list of violent protesters a shot to do been. well essentially this means the police could have more rights and the ability to perhaps put what they describe as violent protest is under surveillance it could also stop them the tension from being able to code to protests in the first place and that's one of the calls it's coming from the police even they've also said that they want tougher action against anybody who is found to have caused filing in protest we hear statements saying that we need to be tougher it's been two years since we demanded more firmness against those who assault the. police since the beginning of the yellow vest movement how many of those arrested for assaulting law enforcement officers have gone to prison well

that call comes after yet another weekend of violence here in paris as protests took place across france for the yellow vests movement around fifty thousand people was said to have been involved of course front and we saw violence from both sides of the crowd this wasn't just the protesters this was also from the police including some pretty shocking footage that some of the decorated police commander punching several protesters oh murther growth was. the only group that you know. oh. but one woman who's thirty five years old says she was also attacked by that commanding officer and she's now filed a complaint which is currently under investigation interesting really though there has not been any response about that particular incident caught on camera by

france's interior minister christopher kastner who has been quick to criticize violence from the protesters including one protester who is apparently a former champion boxer who was caught in a bout of fisticuffs with officers on the bridge in paris on saturday was. well the interior minister to talk to social media to describe that attack by this alleged former boxer as being a cowardly attack now he's also come on the door attack for something else that's happened this is something published on social media that appeared to be an official decree from the ministry of the interior. suggesting that the police would have the right to round up any legal arms that were owned by the protesters so this

is things such as perhaps hunting guns if they have a license knives or even battens now he's been quick to point out that that indeed is not true and he called it fake nice story fake news another original idea from those who dream of insurrection and who don't hesitate to spread false documents information is the best remedy for fake news to use without moderation some people may have been hoping that the gala best movement would have died down and should have pretty much left two thousand and nineteen alone it doesn't seem to be that way and already knowing is planned for this forthcoming saturday this is new in few tonight democrats in the state of alabama attempted to undermine the republican candidate in the twenty seventeen senate race by linking him to a bogus campaign to ban alcohol in the state's been revealed in the new york times with more on their report on the. used against roy moore let's cross to. the use of speed on this but what is this newly released report say

a bit more detail than take us through it. all the new york times is revealing that there was a democrat and progressive group that was pushing essentially false flag advertisements during the twenty seventeen senate special election in alabama they were trying to give the impression with these advertisements that roy moore the republican candidate who ultimately lost wanted to outlaw the drinking of alcohol let's take a listen to this false ad i pledge to abstain from alcohol and live a moral life as defined in the bible i will demand that all my staff follow my lead by abstaining from the devil's tonic i pledge to fight against the decay of our moral christian society and all that contributes to the decline of our values. now this ad was also on twitter in addition to the facebook campaign now it's important to point out that matt osborne who is a progressive activist who was involved with spreading these false advertisements

actually came forward and said he wanted these tactics to be banned he wanted them to be illegal but he said that because republicans were using them it was then necessary for democrats to use them as well and this is matt osborne it was involved in this operation if you don't do it you're fighting with one hand tied behind you you have a moral imperative to do this to do whatever it takes. now this is not the first time of the new york times has revealed that operations by the cyber security company known as new knowledge actually caused facebook to shut down the personal accounts of five individuals so as people look on the election in the twenty seven thousand special election in alabama even the victor of that election senator doug jones is at this point calling for an investigation into the use of dirty tricks on the internet throughout that campaign was a very close race people you know people look into it and say is it really possible

that a few advertisements about alcohol could have impacted the race but the reality seems to be that in politics in the united states at this time it seems pretty clear that there is a lot of information on the internet but it's not always clear where it's coming from yes it was so clear that frankly update there from new york city caleb maupin our correspondent now. see it is a victory by animal rights activists belgium has joined a handful of other european countries now in banning the muslim and jewish methods for slaughtering animals e.u. law states that animals be stunned before slaughter so that they're incapable of feeling pain jewish kosher and muslim rituals however require the animals to be sound in good health and crucially fully conscious some european countries do a exceptions on religious grounds but the move now in the belgian region of flanders which could lead to a nationwide ban has caused outrage among minority communities that use the practices. today is the last day in which kosher meat and poultry can be prepared in belgium the jewish communities of brussels this is

a sad day for the jews of europe a sad day for religious freedom in europe opponents of the muslim and jewish traditional traditions here though have called the a humane development is the other side of the argument they want to keep living in the middle ages and continue to slaughter without stunning and they did mean didn't get to exist back then without having to answer to the law belgium and joining sweden norway iceland denmark and slovenia in providing no exceptions for hillel and kosher meat i heard directly from the chair of the islamic human rights commission and also a belgian based journalist on the possible implications no. i don't think it is against any religion at all fifty percent of muslims in belgium believe that indeed animals could be or should be stunned before being killed following the ritual i don't see where the problem is it's so much more humane the reality is when you see is starved there you're talking about electric shock or in the case of cows in the

middle rod being fired into the brain really that is no more humane. kosher way this is the sort of all the evidence points out to muslims and jews are going to be given the perception that they are not full citizens and indeed their rights in their own country and in their own area is being undermined while in europe i mean in belgium for example it's more than one hundred fifty years ago that it was decided for humane reasons to stun the animals before killing them we simply respect our laws i have seen myself oxen and cows being killed it is pure cruelty for three four minutes this is unacceptable frankly people could see this whether muslim soul christians or whatever they really don't understand. that the animals suffer and acceptably that's all the jews community

members and the muslim community members are belgium too we can have a situation that we should love majority exposing and putting pressure on minorities for no reason if you listen to north oratory of islam or of the great basque in paris he says that to him the stunning is acceptable if the animal could come back to its senses after the stunning scientifically proven there is no extra hardship is brought on though more when it is not accurately according to islam that is true that is true does much more true than you highlighting one i will buckle from friends. as your reason for who we forward the reality is that all saw you're not going to starve you're living in the global european community indeed those slaughtering which is no is not going to be done in belgium is going to be

done in france and elsewhere so the reality is that all you're doing you're actually excluding your muslim and jewish community from being part of the bill joe. truck in this story is next to u.k. government staged traffic jam has been branded a waste of time and to little to late as westminster puts on a road in the port city of dover just in case of a brick said no deal or you can correspondent police boy has got the story for you this is a department for transport trial it was called operation brock and it's all about stress testing the u.k. road and haulage systemic to see if it would be able to handle the potential disruption euphemistically speaking perhaps in the event of a no deal brags that now under the government's contingency plans they used disused ports about. thirty ish miles away from that and it's sort of meant to be used as

a parking facility for up to six thousand lorries if there is disruption as a result of the no deal breakers it so to test this plan the department for transport hired a number of lorries and got them to drive from this disused death toll vajra number of roads to the port of dave but this is a pretty big but only eighty nine lorries took part in this stress test contingency planning you can take a look at what operation looked like now. there was a bit of criticism first and foremost from the all for a key on roads and trucks that is the road haulage association the organization

that represents hawley is and they said that the whole endeavor was quite frankly a waste of time take a lesson this plumbing should have been done many months ago on preferably on a bigger scale it should have been continuous stress tested i don't know many truck drivers will be impressed by this what we need is a deal through police the transition deal business is simply not ready for this briggs it and the local m.p. there as well called it a wild goose chase and the journalists following this story had a bit of fun as well some saw operation broke as sort of reflective of the entire bragg's that planning process take a listen to what some of those on line had to say louise kunis a traffic. using eighty seven norreys to try and see what five thousand plus who do is so perfectly on brown bricks it is like preparing for a famine by skipping lunch rather than using a load of lorries to create

a fake traffic jam surely they should have used red buses with we're out of ideas emblazoned on the side well the tweets may be funny some of them but they are beginning to reflect this sort of quiet painfully constant hysteria that's beginning to surround or continues to so hound the issue of bragg's it here in the u.k. embrase it is of course still a massive cliffhanger for us here this week the u.k. parliament is set to debate the u.k.'s withdrawal from the e.u. ahead of to reason may's crucial and delayed to vote on withdrawal next week in parliament and the parliamentary mark for the prime minister it's not looking good her team say they've got a week to convince the doubters and those that are dead set against the deal but there is an awful lot of people in parliament who are against it so it's pretty optimistic thinking that they can all be won over and if the deal isn't approved by

parliament well then the u.k. could be staring down the barrel of a no deal bragg's it where contingency planning like the sort we saw today from the department for transport it's not going to look so funny anymore i know less than three months to go next the us appears to be spreading its military focus into latin america and the largest country in the region brazil just days after a visit by the u.s. secretary of state the newly elected brazilian president is no nos he's not ruling out an american base being established in his country. would that include the possibility of having an american base in brazil and the physical the physical issue of it would be symbolic nowadays the american shoney's and russian military powers can reach any part of the world independently of their bases but still pending on what might happen in the world who knows if we have to talk about a us base in the future president was sworn in on new year's day it was immediately

contract gracia late on twitter by donald trump didn't take long for the new brazilian president to respond mentioning the benefits of cooperation between the two countries and it appears the u.s. is set for closer ties with brazil to. we believe that the opportunity between present president paul snow and our two teams creates a truly transformative opportunity for our two nations for two peoples who will not live along with whatever happened to them of your own but because we want to work with. for its part the us department of defense is yet to give a response on the prospect of a military base in brazil but human rights lawyer don koblick thinks the trumpet also narrow are united by a common hostility towards left wing governments in latin america it's very clear that a pulse in our at the president is in lockstep with the trump administration in wanting to militarize latin america and wanting in particular regime change in

countries like venezuela nicaraguan tube it's a very concerning situation both in our early and trump share you know a right wing at the ology they share antipathy towards the left wing governments of latin america so clearly balls on our own we work very close with trump he will try to do his best to partner with the united states but i think the u.s. has more bases throughout the world than any country should i mean they just don't need a military in terms of national security so i don't see why the u.s. should have a base they are i think it could only be viewed as an aggressive stance again towards countries it doesn't like like venezuela. it's russian christmas day here in russia so for him some good news from the russian capital this for you doctors here say that baby boy remember him who was pulled from the rubble of an apartment block in the city of might need to go to school new year's eve as regain consciousness he's only ten months old vanya he spent almost thirty six hours in freezing temperatures then to run what was about mana twenty five that night

following a huge explosion and then the collapse of the building he was in that overall claimed thirty nine lives. keep. please. keep. your new film it's. new cool just so simple. much good stuff. lifts must. be.

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the landmark event and vladivostok is nine months away moscow is sending out invitations in advance in a phone conversation flat america potent told prime minister modi that he wants him to be the number one guest at the forum and september and guess who that number one guest was last year chinese leader xi jinping indeed when it comes to setting records and scoring economic points beijing and new delhi are competitors in asia but russia is not trying to take sides as you can see in this case the only thing that moscow wants to do is to show that it's looking forward to doing business with all the top players in asia so this year it will be mr modi stern and just to remind you and twenty eight russia and india have set

a trading turnout target of thirty billion u.s. dollars of the two countries want to achieve that goal by two thousand and twenty five. a series of illness health incidents in the u.s. embassy in cuba have been jeopardizing ties between the two countries move to the un but now after a number of probes on an f.b.i. investigation seems new research has revealed that the incidents fitted to be a new row between the cold war could have fucked of a totally natural origin. there have been medically. as having been affected by incidents.

it was officials consider russia the prime suspect and their investigation into mysterious attacks on u.s. diplomats in cuba more and more evidence they say three u.s. officials tell us pointing to russia russia is to blame there is some place of blame or at least. looking seriously at russia. and they couldn't cricket coach rather than the sun it could not go all the technological device is responsible for the south of the released recordings. based on investigators and medical findings we do not believe this trauma was caused by a naturally occurring phenomenon. so maybe just maybe mystery so that's why things are looking for more on this live

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