french raid weapons may have been used against civilians and to commit war crimes in yemen that's according to french intelligence leaks. power is badly damaging the iconic structure has worked for over nine hours to extinguish the blaze. and the global incidence of measles increases three fold according to the world health organization and with the spike in india being put down to misinformation on vaccinations on social media. with.

watching r.t. international live with me welcome to the program french made weapons may have been used during the saudi led coalition's incursion into yemen that's according to alleged french intelligence and leaks made public by investigative website disclose which also says the weapons may have been used both against civilians and to commit war crimes it demonstrates that hundreds of thousands of civilians live under the threat of these arms and provides information that's allows us to demonstrate that some of these weapons might have been used to commit war crimes the french government is today where of the risk of this. in light of the revelations amnesty international's called on france to suspend arms sales to saudi arabia president emanuel micron's government has a staunch defended the sales and downplayed their role in the conflict and picks up the story. france has long been criticized for supplying weapons to saudi arabia

human rights charity said time and time again told the government that those weapons are being used to bomb schools hospitals and other civilian targets exacerbating the crisis in yemen a war that's left thousands dead and pushed millions to the brink of starvation the u.n. has even called what's happening in yemen the world's worst humanitarian crisis. you get. the best. you can. leave. to

o.e. . but france has always hit back saying the weapons that it sells to saudi arabia only used offensively to defer attacks by the p.c.'s i'm not aware the french weapons of the news directly. except that now appears to be contradicted by a classified note by the french military intelligence service uncovered following an investigation by a media outlet called disclose it true feels french weapons sold to saudi arabia and the united arab emirates are being used in the war in yemen but when pressed again in light of this new evidence the government's once again offered denials to our knowledge the french weapons available to the members of the. coalition are mostly in

a defensive position outside yemeni tour tree or on call the rights of way but not on the front line and we are not aware of any civilian casualties resulting from their use in the yemeni theater france is not among the leading arms suppliers of countries in gauged in yemen but that's hard to swallow given that this classified note was apparently provided to the french government in october twenty eighth it showed forty eight caesar alltel or a guns were being used along the saudi yemen border that tanks sold to u.a.e. in action as to fight it jets while missile guiding technology may have been deployed.

in. france is a military agency note actually goes even further to frank ships are serving in the blockade of yemeni ports directly leading to food and medical shortages that means that women and children can't access the food that they need nor medicines if they've been attacked now last year president mccone dismissed. russia to halt arms sales to riyadh after it was implicated in the murder of journalist jim of. moshe

street it's pure demagoguery to say stop selling weapons they have nothing to do with mr g. to not confuse these things but it is interesting to hear those who before knowing the facts say we will not sell more weapons we already saw more than france through the joint ventures they have arms sales to saudi big business for france between two thousand and eight and two thousand and seventeen it was the second biggest purchaser of french arms with deals totaling more than eleven billion euros meanwhile mark warner has talked about the ongoing crisis in yemen his country even hosted a humanitarian court for us to discuss the issue but for many so far it's been all talk and little action as pockets continue to be lined all why the people of yemen face one of the world's most desperate plight. so it's even ski r.t.

harris we talked to the co-founder of the disclose investigative website which published the documents jeffrey told us that france supports the saudi led bombing campaign for coalition reasons. the french contracts now with saudi arabia and the united arab emirates generally for weapons made arms is sold to these countries and france keeps them operational so it's not just a question of arms sales to these countries but it can stop keeping these weapons operational in the yemeni conflict front supports the coalition through arms sales and disclosed today that its defense support is to fight terrorism and whether french weapons are county not used in yemen against al qaida but against yemenis themselves namely the hooty parts so clearly this is not a question of fighting terrorism why is the french government continuing to speak. thought the coalition it is certainly linked to economic interests these contracts

bring in huge amounts of money to france which is the world's number three all forms. permanent european politicians have expressed their discontent with america's israel policy in a letter to a british newspaper the guardian they say the e.u. must recognize jerusalem as a capital both of israel and an independent palestinian state peeta all of reports . donald trump's decision to go his own way when it comes to finding a solution to the israeli palestinian situation coupled with no real response to this decision from any major leaders but that's prompted a group of former european leaders to pen an open letter in condemnation of the u.s. policy of europe's reactions putting their signature to this letter include the former foreign secretary of the united kingdom david miliband the nato secretary general

mr salado the former foreign minister of germany. and before italian foreign minister franco for italy we are very concerned. europe is completely silent while america strong is and now wants to put forward a unilateral peace plan these is the reason why i think we need a week up call for euro to be again trying to be in the game not really fully sidelined i mean as european story call is your approach e.u. leaders have heard very little to say about donald trump's very visible and very vocal support for israel in fact it's been pretty much the same as when the golan heights were recognized by the united states when the u.s.

moved its embassy to jerusalem with the latest idea from the president that israeli citizens should be immune from prosecution in the international criminal court since the creation of the i.c.c. the united states has consistently declined to join the court because of its broad unaccountable prosecutorial powers any attempt to target american israeli or our right personnel through prosecution will be met with the swift and big. response. this idea that the united states and their friends are somehow above international law something that is called out by the former european leaders in their open letter unfortunately the current us administration has departed from longstanding u.s. policy and this insists now from established international legal norms it has so far recognized only one side screams to jerusalem and demonstrated to disturb an indifference to israel a settlement expansion one of the lynchpins of the e.u.

is a project is multiple nations coming together to find a peaceful resolution now the situation when it comes to israel in palestine is already difficult and becomes even tougher when you see the unilateral approach being taken by the united states those who've been involved in and seen close to plough mysie at its highest levels say the european union needs to be more vocal and also needs to bring more countries into the process it is not only america it is europe adat are other players russia is one of the players that can be had to find a balance. if you still america remains a key player if you want to succeed but europe has been always and will be in the future and another key player it is usually to try to get

a lasting peace we doubt rely. on european legal efforts but this is our point we see europe silent we see europe not in gauge it talk at these is the time to do it with the european union and trump already butting heads over trade and defense spending there isn't any particular way you leader that stands out as the one who would. stand up and challenge the united states is you know the true approach towards the israeli palestinian situation peter all of a faulty bill that. a massive fire has swept through the not traditional cathedral in paris destroying the spire and most of the ring investigators suspect the blaze started during restoration work president emmanuel mccall has pledged to restore the building. erwin.

the a. little says there are two fronts which is going to reduce the sewer water front certifiers that's a part of what should we all do sic tonight and that's very sad dempsey says the dam is the heart of the area's it's grand your it's monumental it's horrible to see everything we have learned to go we know up in smoke centuries of our heritage the whole structure this is the first it's very sad it's one of the great monuments of friends i'll leave that far away it was devastating that a monument like this is burning for the most economically don't know sunny feel devastated it's

a national disaster can't express how sad it makes them in the middle of the twisted and then most well. i say this to you. we will rebuild this great. we will appeal to the greatest talents to help restore not to them because this is what the french people expect this is what our history deserves it is our destiny. that cathedral is one of the most popular tourist attractions in europe pulling in . thirteen million visitors every year at the fire as cause serious damage the spire and roof have collapsed the famous twenty. throws wind was saved as was the fourth century crown of thorns and the fate of hundreds of gargoyles decorating the building is a no. the world is sharing in france's shock the russian orthodox church call the fire a tragedy for the whole christian world leaders of numerous countries have also expressed their condolences to the french nation. so horrible towards the massive

fire at the not tradin cathedral in paris perhaps flying water tankers could be used to put out my stack quickly i'm following the not to them for minute by minute not too long the parry belongs to all humanity what a spectacle what horror i share the emotion of the french nation which is ours as well my thoughts are with the people of france tonight and with the emergency services who are fighting the terrible blizzard nortons on phaedra. anthropology professor charles liu and nine eleven first responder philip charles gave us their views on the damage and the firefighting operation. it certainly is a potential for pull together to help rebuild and i think the rebuilding also helps you know the people of france and give them something. to rally around i think you've got. to stay with the original architecture but

certainly as you build it back you can be built so this doesn't happen again. with materials that are less flammable and things like that you know but i think you have to stick with the original framework and then i will have looked even if you've never been there you you you you feel the loss and you know maybe it's off your bucket list no i don't know the system that they had in place but i do know that a building that is eight hundred plus years old the timbers and dry and once they catch fire it spreads rapidly they want to keep the aesthetics of the building but while keeping fire safety is number one it's a real tough balance firefighters in paris they they went all out for this this is an iconic structure as we know has been standing in paris for over eight hundred years when this fire fell you know it takes everyone's breath away but that they're

trying to preserve not only destruction but the price of salt works that are within the building i'd say they did a tremendous job just to save the other two towers is an amazing accomplishment firefighter safety is number one because we have to make sure that we can back out lights tomorrow as well and that's tough to balance when you're dealing with emotionally charged incidents when you have circumstances where civilian lives are being threatened and in a case like this where you're dealing with property or you know happy that has value what you consider normal property so just missed it i'm believably historic call the fares fire department i'm sure that's a sentiment that is shared worldwide that we want to see this fire be extinguished we want to see the property her serve as much as it can be and we want to see all those firefighters go off safe. and completely completely shocked because this is not just one church but it is. afterwards and peterson the vatican the second most

important symbol of christian europe so it is like all the christian europe being in the higher probability of is extremely difficult because. it has a master p. as a free graphic acetates and graphic stonemasons which. had a methodology which is very difficult to to be. understood and reconstruct it was more of a modern means still on the other hand it's a symbol of errors and i think we need we have the mission to rebuild it as good as possible. in a bid to tackle the issue of border security towel chance suggesting that all illegal immigrants should be shipped to what he calls sanctuary cities or details after this break.

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all come back to the program the world health organization reports the cases of measles worldwide all three times higher than in twenty nineteen thousand last year the united nations children's fund unicef says one third of best from me in india pointing to the spread of misinformation over whatsapp regarding vaccinations. we're seeing a phenomenon which is emerging is the use of social media and the use of mass media to spread rumors regarding. and that are going to lead selecting hesitancy. preemptive steps one can really go live in goma where only media including the

visual media and. positive stories. right information and. messaging in the public space some schools in india have reportedly prevented health officials from facts while in new delhi parents are opposing vaccinations to to respond meaning through whatsapp and facebook some of the false messages can fax autism and other disorders. every year more than one hundred thousand people die from measles across the globe and a third of the cases happen unicef says another highly contagious disease republicans tens of files. in the country every year social media lawyer. explains how misinformation is being spread. in india it is estimated it did there are about three hundred million what's up uses so the influence of the media is

absolutely incredible each piece becoming one of the most common sources of communication in the country now the reason why facebook acquired what up was in order to gather more immoral data about people like for example a situation where a person is being saint and the vaccination propaganda that person is very likely later on in the day to see more material about monday vaccinations appearing on facebook is about the interaction between the different apps did facebook on the beaches of facebook itself what's up an instagram so the result system here. facebook is good the power. to stop at least to an extent because one platform. in years not alone enforcing victim to fake news about vaccinations this year the

u.s. registered one of the biggest outbreaks of measles in almost two decades something is being put down to misinformation posted on various social media platforms facebook for its part has already vowed to reduce the ranking of groups and pages spreading vaccine messages privacy activist and technology expert told us regulating platforms like whatsapp is going to prove a tall order. i think it's very difficult to have some casual regulation that covers all sorts of chord types of content that might be harmful actually caters for all the different nuances between different cultures and all the different sort of messaging platforms and communications media obviously you have some communications to make some platforms the one to many facebook or twitter would come to more and you have others that are more want or want the sort of individual communication that we see as formal private there are ethical dilemmas in terms of

the extent to which we're going to. the extent to which we're going to monitor it and on top of that many of the platforms the focus on communication all the very platforms that are in incorporating some form of corruption that the. encryption is going to make it absolutely impossible and therefore i think there are technical and legal issues here that are going to be very difficult to broach. the subject of illegal immigration sort of firing off on twitter once again is piling pressure on his democratic rivals anger at their failure to back his border security plans on friday the president suggested all illegal mining immigrants should be shipped to so-called cities if the democrats don't back down. we could fix that and so fast if the democrats would agree but if they don't agree we might as well do what they always say they want they want more people in there saying sure cities well we'll give them more people we can give more a lot we can give them an unlimited supply and let's see if they're so happy they

say we have open arms or always say they have open arms let's see if they have open arms trump also sarcastically agreed with the pop star on the left wing social activists share who stated they couldn't take more illegals as it has to care for its own citizens including homeless ones her stance came as a surprise to many as she previously been a vocal defender of illegal immigrants or dreamers she even time she was ready to take some home to protect them but sure isn't any democrat who objects to trump's proposal. i say he's trying to put americans against each other because last season he was injecting fear into our country notion that is unworthy of the presidency of the united states and disrespectful of the challenges that we face as a country as a people to address who we are a nation of immigrants the idea of using these human beings as a kind of pestilence to spread around the country like

a form of plague that you want to impose on your enemies is really grotesque we spoke to a legal and media analyst lionel heath the democratic party has lost touch with reality. what trump has been saying and others rational people is we have immigration yes we have in our harbor the statue of liberty bring those you're tired in your emma lazarus but we've got to have some kind of an order here the left as we call them hollywood's it doesn't matter your i hate monger so he says you know what i'm going to do i'm going to give you a neighborhood that all of us out whoa whoa wait a minute hold it hold it the democratic party they love to talk about things like free education free health care free stuff you want it you got it right or how we're going to pay for it during these people who are going to take i don't know they love the bumper sticker they hate the fine print they hate the well how do we

do this they love to talk about everything from collusion to grab to corruption here getting what they believe asking for unlimited said or. conditional this masses of humanity. of dreamers be careful what you ask for. and you had to of these sudanese military council has been named just a day after its previous chief stepped down it comes amid a major political upheaval in the country which has seen a miniature coup toppled longtime leader omar al bashir abdel fatah al gore who is now effectively in challenge is a veteran soldier he's a former chief of the country's prime forces according to reports here of a source spending troops to yemen as part of the saudi led coalition side the arabia meanwhile has declared its support for the transitional military council

headed by the new chief. the kingdom declares its support for the steps announced by the council in preserving minds and prosperity and stands by the sudanese people and hopes that this will achieve security and stability for brotherly saddam a corner. local and yemeni media sudan has at least three thousand ground troops and several fighter jets fighting in yemen as part of the saudi led alliance dozens of sudanese soldiers have been killed and coastal battlefronts the war in yemen which has been ongoing since twenty fifteen has led to the world's worst humanitarian crisis according to the u.n. decided coalition which is blamed for killing and injuring more than seventeen thousand civilians says it only targets militants. we spoke with me as a kiwi editor of the pan african newswire he thinks sudan plays a central role in the yemeni war. well clearly. the intervention of the soldiers from. this has been

a key component of this war which in fact is coordinated about the pentagon against the people of yemen this is purely designed to prevent the answer a lot of the so-called movement from gaining total consolidation of the political framework in yemen thousands of people have died hundreds of thousands have been displaced we have the largest humanitarian crisis known today in the world of the largest outbreak of cholera is a direct result of this war they have bombed housing complexes hospitals schools ports and other massive infrastructure in yemen that is an outrageous situation that has to end as soon as possible. i'll be back in around thirty minutes time with more updates but for a long time is time the big bust. on. this

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