french made weapons may have been used against civilians to commit war crimes in yemen. and french intelligence and. power is badly damaging the iconic structure. worked for over nine hours to extinguish the blaze. and the global incidence of measles increases three fold according to the world health organization with the spike in india being put down to misinformation on the vaccinations on social media. prominent european politicians not to follow the us as an example when it comes to

the middle east. it's nine o'clock here in moscow and you're watching altie international live from our studio with me welcome to the program french made weapons have been used during the coalition's incursion into yemen that's according to the latest french intelligence leaks made public by investigative website disclosed 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 allows us to demonstrate that some of these weapons may 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 cold all france to suspend all the sales side present of money ally khan's government

has a staunch defender of the sales and downplayed their role in the conflict to penske picks up the story. france has long been criticised 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 un has even called what's happening in yemen the world's worst humanitarian crisis . you're.

right 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 that french weapons are being used directly in yemen 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 to appeals french rep. and sold to saudi arabia and the united arab emirates are being used in the war in yemen but one 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 territory 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 sees our artillery guns were being used along the saudi yemen border that tanks sold to u.a.e. are in action as to fight it jets while missile guiding technology may have been deployed. and.

france's military agency note actually goes even further to friendships 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 pressure to halt arms sales to riyadh after it was a. implicated in the murder of journalist jim of the. much of st it's pure demagoguery to say stop selling weapons they have nothing to do with mr g.'s to not confuse these things but it is interesting to hear those who before knowing the facts say we will not sell more weapons which we already sell 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 maccarone 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 party carries until to the co-founder of the disclose investigative website which published the documents jeffrey told us that france support society led bombing campaign for. the french contracts now with saudi arabia and the united arab emirates generally for weapons made arms are 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 aid answered disclosed today that its defense support is to fight terrorism wherever french weapons are county not used in yemen against al qaida but against yemenis themselves namely the who teapots so clearly this is not a question of fighting terrorism why is the french government continuing to support the coalition it is certainly linked to economic interests these contracts. huge amounts of money to france which is the world's number three all forms. prominent european politicians have expressed their discontent with america's israel policy in a letter to british newspaper the guardian they say the must recognize true islam as a capital both of israel and an independent palestinian state peter oliver 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 well 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 the former 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 can delete lee sideline i mean as you look for him all is your approach e.u. leaders have had 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 for prosecution will be met with a 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 agonized 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 it becomes even tougher when you see the unilateral approach being taken by the united states those who've been involved in and seen close diplomacy 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 or other players rush a's one of the players that can be helped 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 police courts but this is our point we see europe silent we see europe not seen gauge it talk at these is the time to deal 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's unilateral approach towards the israeli palestinian situation peter all over. a massive fire has swept through the not trent dam cathedral in paris destroying the spire and most of the roof investigators suspect the blaze started during restoration work president emanuel micron has pledged to restore the building. urry. unity zero to france which is going to reduce or hurt or france certifiers that's

part of what we'll lose it tonight and that's very subtle dempsey's not turned down is the heart of paris is grand your it's monumental it's horrible to see everything we have learned going up in smoke centuries of our heritage the whole structure is that. it's very sad it's one of the great monuments of france i leave that far away so it's devastating that a monument like this is burning for the most economic break on a sunday people feel devastated it's a national disaster i can't express how sad it makes me think i'm even. going to to sit and then most of what. i say this to use all of this we will rebuild this great cathedral together we will appeal to the greatest talents to

help restore not true them because this is what the french people expect and this is what our history deserves it is our destiny. because he truly is one of the most popular tourist attractions in europe pulling in thirteen million visitors every year but the fires caused serious damage the spire and the roof of collapsed the famous to envelop towers and north through his window both of which were built in twelfth century was saved as was the fourth century crown of thorns but the fate of hundreds of god was decorating the building is on. the world a sharing in france to 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 anthropology professor charles you and nine eleven first responder philip chance gave us their views on the damage and the fire fighting operation. it certainly has that potential for pull

together to help rebuild and i think the rebuilding will also help you know the people of france and give them something. to rally around 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 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 has eight hundred plus years old the timbers a dry and once they catch fire it spreads rapidly but that they're trying to preserve not only destruction but the priceless all 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 our fire 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 stood on believably his store called the fares fire department in a bid to tackle the issue of border security and donald trump suggested that only legal immigrants should be shipped to what he calls sanctuary cities or details after this break. soon a state actor will begin mining big point for strategic reserve purposes in the hash wars we've played out on a state level and that'll take us to new all time highs as we get closer to the predicts remade on this show back in two thousand and eleven that when the price

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welcome back to the program the world health organization reports the cases of measles worldwide are three times higher than in twenty nine thousand of the last year the united nations children's fund unicef says one third of deaths from measles occur in india pointing to the spread of misinformation over whatsapp regarding vaccinations. yes a phenomenon which is emerging is the use of social media and the use of mass media to spread rumors regarding. and that are to be read selected hesitancy. preemptive steps to be really. were only media during the visual media and. positive stories. right information and. messaging in the public space some schools in india have reportedly prevented health officials from vaccinating students while in new delhi parents are opposing

facts nations to spread through whatsapp and facebook some of the false messages claim vaccines are linked to 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 in india unicef says it's another highly contagious disease rubella causes tens of thousands of country every year social media lawyer cullen explains how misinformation is being spread. in india it is estimated it did they 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's up was in order to gather more in moral data about people like for example the 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 on the vaccinations appearing on facebook is about the interaction between the different apps did facebook cause which is facebook itself what's an instagram so the results system here. facebook is good the power. to stop at least to an extent because one platform. and he is not alone in falling victim to fake news about vaccinations this year the u.s. registered one of the biggest outbreaks of measles in almost two decades that something is being put down to misinformation posted on various social media platforms facebook for its part is already valid to reduce the ranking of groups and pages spreading anti vaccine messages privacy activist and technology expert bill new

told us regulating platforms like whatsapp is going to prove a tall order. i think it's very difficult to have some cultural regulation that covers all sorts of chord types of content that might be harmful that 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 some platforms the one to many facebook or twitter would come to more and you have others that are more one to one the sort of individual communication that we see is more private there are ethical dilemmas in terms of the extent to which we're going to truth the extent to which we get our moral authority and on top of that many of the platforms the focus on one communication all the very platforms that are in incorporating some form of group sure that the. encryption is going to make it absolutely impossible for i think there are

technical and legal issues here that are going to be very difficult to break. the subject of illegal immigration sort of firing off on twitter once again piling pressure on his democratic rivals and get at their failure to back is border security plans on friday the president suggested all illegal immigrants should be shipped to so-called sanctuary 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 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 chambre also sarcastically agreed with pop star and left wing socialite to share in that state today lay 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 had previously been a vocal defender of illegal immigrants all dreamers she even playing she was ready to take some home to protect them but share isn't the only democrats who objects to transfer postal. i say he's trying to put americans against each other and make us less safe he is 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 spoke to illegal media analyst lionel he believes 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 all that 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 would who are going to take i don't know they love the bumper sticker the heat 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 to getting what they believe asking for unlimited i mean that you're on a conditional this masses of humanity. of dreamers

be careful what you ask for. and you had the 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 military coup topple a long time lead to share abdel fattah who is now effectively in charge is a veteran soldier he's a former chief of the country's prime forces according to reports he have us all sending troops to yemen as part of the society led coalition saudi 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 lives and prosperity and stands by the sudanese people and hopes that this will achieve security and stability for brotherly saddam according to local and yemeni media sudan has at least three thousand ground troops and several fighter jets fighting in yemen as part of a society led alliance dozens of sudanese soldiers have been killed on coastal

battlefront we spoke with as u.k. way ahead a turn of the powerful news wire he thinks sudan plays a central role in the yemeni. well clearly. the intervention of the soldiers from. this has been a key component of this war which in fact is coordinated by the pentagon against the people of yemen this is purely designed to prevent the answer a lot of these so-called huth the 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 up

ports and other massive infrastructure in yemen that is an outrageous situation that has to end as soon as possible. that's nice i'll be back in around thirty minutes time with more updates but in the meantime to stay with us for watching the whole of next here on the international. my body told me that i belong with the board but my thoughts my mind would find that i belong with the girls. under the surgery starts to be a very popular. football person dr. i was born a male had a sex change when i was thirty years old. i've now been living as a woman for twenty eight years and i fully regret this. my problem should have gone

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ignore middle of the room sick. i mean real news group who. came here where did you work before you came here when you live. in many us states capital punishment is still practiced convicted prisoners can spend years waiting for execution and most of the time the victims' families they are very much in favor the death penalty there are some people because of what they did have given up their rights as live among us somebody even proven innocent after years on death row and how many more exonerations is it going to take before we as a society realize that this is not working and we actually do something about. what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy loon foundation let it be an arms race and it is often spearing dramatic development

only closely and going to exist i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical time to sit down and. greetings and salutations. accountability and justice took a heavy blow this week auk watchers as the international criminal court despite twenty thousand pages of evidence and information declined to investigate and prosecute war crimes and crimes against humanity committed by the various groups involved in the afghanistan war including the cia and members of the us armed forces.