from r.t. this hour three people are killed and five injured in a shooting on a tram in the dutch city of contract police are hunting a thirty seven year old turkish border man in connection with the shootings plus. after widespread looting and violence the french government is to ban yellow vests protests in the areas worst hit by violence if there's a radical element to the demonstrations. and new zealand moves to toughen its gone pressuring social media to do more in its fight against extremism it comes after the mosque massacre that left fifty people killed on friday was streamed online with one man arrested for reportedly distributing the video.

news twenty four seven this is r.t. international i'm calling brain moscow with the news this hour we're going to start with the netherlands tragedy starting the week dr authorities now say that three people were killed in a shooting on a tram in the city of utrecht on monday morning they've also revised the number of wounded down to five having previously put it at nine with more details here local crime reporter rick. well we still don't know if there's any terrorist threat anymore or maybe we have to look for other reasons why this shooting took place oh this not much going on now at the moment near the tram seems to be quiet the police actions moved to other locations in sound we know a bit been rates in several homes we have some video footage from bystanders that

show one person being arrested on the street but police have not made anything clear about wrists at the moment as of right now we know that one the police have got one suspects. they are hunting right now. a man thirty seven year old from he's been living in holland and in a group where the shooting took place or out for quite a while the gunman is still at large and this is the suspect police are searching for the thirty seven year old man who's been named as gottman tannish police are warning people not to approach him terrorism expert dr louis harrington give us his thoughts on the shooting and the authorities response. though the there's few details to go on you know it started to fit a similar kind of profile a similar kind of trend where we're seeing. men that have got a lot of have

a history of engaging in salafi jihadists who have carried out what is presumed to be sort of lone act or mass shootings shootings knifings vehicle borne assaults and so it's the only thing it's the modus operandi of what we've seen in europe over the last seven eight years so i think that the dog should being cautious and naturally so i suspect what we'll see is that he'll be cornered we may end up with a hostage situation or he may die being apprehended. the french prime minister says yellow first protest will be banned in areas that have suffered the most damage as a result of the demonstrations if they contain a radical element or turn violent the measure follows the eighteenth consecutive weekend of anti-government rallies again they were marred by violence with fires being set luxury shops looted and clashes with police did a copy of a report from the charred and ravaged shaun's uneasy. one of the world's most glamorous avenues looks very different this monday

a burnt out kiosks shattered windows and graffiti on luxury stores that's the face of the iconic show selling say after the protest on saturday the french government has already admitted that not enough was done to prevent extreme rioting from taking place analysis of events shows that the measures taken proved to be insufficient in containing the violence and preventing the actions of the writer's protesters who are throwing rocks right into the windows of the shops they used molotov cocktails flares and pieces of piece meant to damage buildings but you see ten thousand people gathered here on saturday and among them seventeen hundred extremists identified two hundred and forty people were arrested and over eighty shops including some luxury boutiques were vandalize.

you. the french president was forced to cut short his skiing trip for an emergency meeting he said that what happened was no longer a demonstration it has become a national security threat what happened today on the show sillies they can no longer be called a demonstration these are people who want to destroy the republic even at the risk of killing everyone who was there was complicit in this yellow vests protest for the eighteenth we can so far it is unclear what may ease the tension and put an end to this violence by going to question r.t. reporting from paris france political commentator john brockman thinks that the ban won't get to the crux of the problem. there's not going to change an agenda the depth of the problem the depth of the problem. is that we have had forty years of social. service is deemed

a sleazy. and so people are fed up with. mccoy's not responsible course is to hold them in never mention anything about. the only concern of. damage this infuriates people even still it's. also going to this he when he knows that his is going to be in trouble everybody has announced it is the question also why didn't the police prevent that because it was in the newspaper. in the wake of friday's terror attack on two mosques in christ church new zealand government looking at ways of preventing similar atrocities in the future the prime minister's promising to make changes to the country's gun laws and also sharply criticized a number of social media sites she says the platforms need to do far more to tackle

extremist content hawkins joined in you know neal in the studio to break down the government's response. questions are being raised as to what exactly happened in the lead up on the aftermath of this terrible act of barbarity among some most questions social media the role it played this act of terror the shooting of fifty people was actually live streamed on facebook for around fifteen minutes before it was taken well specifically at the request of police in new zealand it was then a shared subsequently all other social media platforms as well as the police in new zealand have reminded their twitter followers certainly that distributing objects at all publications quoting here could mean a prison sentence if deemed injurious to public good one arrest already confirmed in new zealand over the sharing of these images very much and present a legal framework here the prime minister of new zealand has also confirmed the sheer challenge they face dealing with this and how exactly they could stand this out in the future i would call on our social media platforms of all variety to

demonstrate the kind of responsibility that both lead to these have been and that includes stars who perpetuate their messages in the aftermath there's a lot of work that needs to be down done this attack was only live stream for a full fifteen minutes it was also assured multiple times a kind to a kind people were saying they had no problem finding about leads to a lot of questions as you were saying with the social media platforms how they responded to criticism the big three giants facebook twitter and you tube do face questions over whether they really did handle that sort of area that situation with these pictures being channeled across the whole world in the first twenty four hour was that removed one point five million views of the attack globally of which over one point two million were blocked and a clue would we continue to work around the clock to remove violating content using a combination of technology and people. we are working vigilantly to remove any

violent footage of course i don't think anybody is under the illusion is here that simply removing. these streams any quicker would have of course saved the lives of these innocent people but there are questions raised us to where these sorts of horrific videos can be streamed online is the threat being taken seriously enough all these preventative methods working the moderators the algorithms that trust how exactly this can be stopped from happening again. but the lines are being drawn a in washington as congress and the white house find themselves at odds over america's role in yemen we'll have that story and more in a few moments. but

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again the u.s. secretary of state has defended washington's backing of the saudi led coalition's bombing campaign in yemen that follows a senate vote last week to withdraw support my compost says its continuation is the way to ensure just peace and to alleviate suffering in the war torn country. the senators who voted say they want to end the bombing in yemen and support human rights. but were really to think about who schumann writes. if you truly care about your many lives you'd support the saudi led effort to prevent yemen from turning into a puppet state of the corrupt british islamic republic of iran the way to alleviate the many people's suffering isn't to prolong the conflict by handicapping our partners in the fight but by giving the saudi led coalition the support needed to defeat arabian back rebels and ensure just peace donald trump's arms deals with saudi arabia are expected to total around three hundred fifty billion dollars over

a decade and apart from arms supplies and military equipment washington also provides riyadh with logistics and intelligence all senior correspondent want to look deeper into the u.s. secretary of state's comments. the united states makes no secret of what it stands for freedom justice democracy and saudi arabia the white house stands on that even if the senate is having second thoughts voting to end u.s. support for riyadh's endless war in yemen saudi arabia's bloody war in yemen world's worst humanitarian disaster the horrific wall in yemen saudi led quagmire we are helping saudi arabia drop bombs on churches and weddings we all want this conflict to end if you truly care about your many lives you'd support the saudi led effort to prevent yemen from turning into

a puppet state of the corrupt british islamic republic of iran as opposed to becoming a puppet of the free and saudi arabia but what do we know the saudis have waged a four year war against who with the rebels who they call terrorists that has turned yemen into a humanitarian catastrophe was even the. syria four and five yemeni civilians twenty four out of twenty eight million need aid to survive three in five or twenty million either on the brink or already starving that is to pump a zero has a solution the united states has given more than two billion dollars to help the many people since the start of the conflict. and saudi arabia has given over five hundred million dollars in two thousand and eighteen alone and as pledged an additional five hundred million dollars this year we've got to about two dollars

per hungry civilian per month from washington but that's for the cameras you know where the real money is guns oh yes guns very very you know five hundred thirty three million dollars five hundred twenty five million dollars the screeners view. peanuts he says twelve point five billion dollars in that the u.s. is selling saudi arabia is peanuts what does that make the aid then but mr pompei zero is adamant if a little bit rabid in his support for saudi arabia and gun sales which really care about saudi lives you'd want to stop or run back to these from launching missiles into riyadh amazing how you can twist and turn reality on its head rather than protecting you many civilians from saudi arabia he's protecting saudi

arabia from starving many civilians brilliant speaking of protecting saudi lives there is at least one life that washington didn't seem so concerned about mr hersh shoji was the victim of a brutal and premeditated killing planned and perpetrated by fishelson of the state of saudi arabia riyadh has brushed off ickes ations that the rule family had anything to do with it saying it was a rule operation and that seems washington was all too happy to support this explanation. that relationship. really really dollars profit us oil company. the banks the military corporations the trump government and usually notice the chunk of the administrations in washington democrat and republican serve the interests of those big banks and corporations and

so many net relationship and all that it means for profit power empire the interest of empire now is the priority not the lives of people young men or the people in saudi arabia or the people of venezuela or for that matter people states. football dobby in greece between the so-called internal rivals part of the ny costs and olympiacos was marred by clashes between fans and police on sunday by thin and outside the stadium in athens. the game was interrupted just six minutes in when dozens of masked puppet i called fans attempted to manipulate the patrons at a time visit to substitute bench the referee eventually abandon the fixture in the

second half as police used tear gas to disperse angry supporters to match officials said the stadium was not safe as toxic gas forced fans to move closer to the pitch no serious injuries arrests have been reported so far. united states has made its largest deployment of strategic bombers to the u.k. in more than a decade the b. fifty two strategic bombers which are capable of carrying nuclear weapons to take part in nato drills in georgia close to russia's southern border that touched down just days after the pentagon mentioned the words nuclear strike and russia has artie's kind of more than. no limits on american military power even when it comes to new that seems to be the prevailing sentiment among certain forces earlier this year two u.s. senators put forward a new law to prohibit the first strike use of nuclear weapons by the united states they made it pretty simple the entire text of the law was one sentence it is the policy of the united states not to use nuclear weapons first now that's also the

policy of the russian president but top u.s. military brass say that it's unacceptable and i wouldn't recommend any change to simplify and. decision making calculus but also can envision several circumstances where we would not want to remove that option from the president there are some circumstances apparently where nuking somebody who hasn't already knew you first might be a good idea we decided to talk to new yorkers and see what circumstances they think it might be can you think of any situation where we had nukes and. you had first. no actually i like. i don't think that's right i don't know what the circumstances would be i mean like syria i mean that makes sense to me that he knew spotlight with syria what was going on hopefully lin's over there not here so in some circumstances nuking somebody first might be a valid decision but what exactly constitutes aggression take it from the acting

secretary of defense or competitors of not being complacent china's defense spending china's organized approach to steal foreign technology russia for its part continues to compete asymmetrically with the united states now he made that statement while explaining why the us military budget despite being higher than every other country in the world by billions of dollars was actually going up so russia is doing it and we have to keep up but let's look at what russia is actually doing total combined military budget for nato countries in the year of twenty nineteen is roughly one thousand three hundred ninety five billion euros meanwhile russia is spending thirty nine billion euros so how exactly is the usa catching up china and russia in particular the capabilities developed over the last few years to limit our ability to operate freely in space cyber space land sea and air in the capabilities that we have identified in this year's budget really designed to allow us to project power when it were necessary to ensure interest in the context that an emerging threat for china and russia so at this point us military policy has two

major premises number one first strikes with nuclear weapons are a ok and number two russia and china two major nuclear powers are bad and must be opposed anyone think of a greater recipe for disaster. r.t. new york a pentagon isn't the only one talking tough some as u.s. senator and presidential hopeful. am i a tough boss sometimes yes i am tough i push people that is true. i would trade you for a bottle of water. she was known to throw officer objects in frustration including binders and firms employees were asked to perform duties they described as the meat or sugar dishes for other three.

negative reports of how you've treated some of your staff in the past what's too hard when you're out there on the world stage and dealing with people like black america yeah you want someone who is tough. but it is an celebrations are taking place across the crimean peninsula right now as the region marks five years since its reunification with russia our correspondent there for us. well the celebrations have gone into the night really and there was something of a nature's a gift here the weather was absolutely beautiful a warm sunny day nothing really stopping people from coming out here and marking the days out in the open in the streets in this square and really that's what they

did so i mean i haven't seen the official figures yet but with the naked eye i can safely say thousands of people have turned up and really five years is a bit of a long time so i took we took to some of the crimean ends and ask them how their life's changed in this half a decade yet that interested seeing as a resident of the city al say that it happened for the better. and over the past five years trusted changes have occurred in everything even in the general impression of the peninsula. problems have always existed so who owns it all depends on the people when we agreed to reunite with russia things went calmly people enjoyed life and then there's those against it i have friends here who are unhappy about it but very few over time they'll be satisfied because they saw the chaos before when you could do whatever you wanted now we have the rule of law now patriotic songs on the stage behind me were briefly interrupted by the address of

the russian president vladimir putin has visited the region and he spoke about the including so of the decision he had made five years ago effectively giving the peninsula a chance to become part of russia yet again i was really speaking of the problems faced by the region hopefully at least one of them has been fixed once and for all and that is elect electrical supply see crimea as being very dependent on ukraine on its well previous owner so to speak we've had very well we've had very basic infrastructure very basic old infrastructure so we drew most of its electricity most of its electrical supply from ukraine and often here would be either. incapable. of course him being ignored willing to provide enough energy so people's homes would go dark repeatedly the whole of the peninsula would go dark today vladimir putin launched two power plants into the full capacity in fact there is so

powerful that not only crimea is self-sufficient now but also it could export some of that power to other regions and so really the celebrations our own going on so this is and this is a big day for crimea and for russian for all the people who flock to the streets to celebrate. crimea that's for this hour next to the world's leading thinker explains how the planets wealth and power came to be under the control of a select few. join me every thursday on the elec simon chill and i'll be speaking to guest of the world of politics sports business i'm showbusiness i'll see you then. you know world of big partisan movies lot and conspiracy it's time to wake up

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