well you. know. the country of france is in shock after the iconic. cathedral and paris is engulfed in flames badly damaging the iconic structure and the roof and the spire. it's french heritage it's part of the with that. we find comfort in the fact that there are no victims french historical heritage they could have been faster was helicopters and water and. many world leaders expressed their condolences to the country of france saying no she is not just a part of french identity but of world heritage. and

also this hour european politicians urged the european union not to fall the united states example when it comes to their policy in the middle east. you're watching international bringing you your live news update from our studio here in moscow where it's just turned three pm welcome to the program and thank you for joining us this hour. first we start in france as a massive fire has swept through. the cathedral in paris destroying the spire

and most of the roof investigators suspect the blaze started during restoration work which has been ongoing president emanuel has pledged to restore the building saying that that's what the country deserves. r.t. if you has been reporting from the fight. the fire was brought under control just after half past three this morning local time in france five hundred firefighters around trying to bring up blaze under control what's happening is people are going inside and trying to do the first checks checking to make sure that there are no more places started because that is the concern over the next few days that anything that was missed one small ember could to reignite another fire at not just you know we do understand that two firefighters received some injuries while they were trying to tackle that blaze last night you know president michel last night described this as being a national tragedy and there was an outpouring from the leaders of the world so

horrible towards the massive fire at the north tradin cathedral in paris perhaps flying water tankers could be used to put out my stack quickly i'm following the not true for a minute by minute not too long the perry 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 frightened the terrible blizzard not undone cathedral here in paris the reaction was pretty much the same it thousands came out to the streets and some remained there all night just watching and witnessing this blaze of this iconic building of some eight hundred and fifty odd years old many people said they were just heartbreak and they couldn't believe what was happening before their eyes seeing the literal heart of paris going up in flames.

he's french heritage it's part of our third burns where there were menage to preserve it for eight hundred years and today unfortunately it went up in flames i think it touches every. we won it's poignant it's heartbreaking the firemen did all they could but there are some things will never get back. to. shocking we find comfort in the fact that there are no victims but it's our french historical heritage and we all share memories of when we visited but now it's fragile and other buildings like this one are fragile there's a whore how is all this possible was there not enough safety equipment not have intervened faster it really troubled me they could have been faster was helicopters and was water and sand falling from the sky into the fire they have this very useful measures in other countries well not stood at the heart of paris for over eight hundred and fifty years being built between the twelfth and thirteenth

centuries we know that that iconic spire and the roof collapse last night as a result of those places but the firefighters were able to save the iconic twin bell towers the north and the south made famous possibly most by victor hugo's the hunchback of north something that when that was published in one thousand thirty one really brought back to the attention of people of course when it was built it was built to show that paris was the economic the political and the cultural heart and powerhouse of france and that's a symbol that's pretty much remained for french people ever since and for visitors who come to paris it's the most visited this site here in the city with some twelve million people putting it at the top for the near the top of their list of things that they want to see in terms of the damage we understand that's going to take weeks before we get a better view as to what exactly has happened but we know that already hundreds of

millions of years have been pledged to restore this building and that's something that president mark warner has also pledged to do but let's take a look. look at how that fire which literally ripped through the hearts of people here in paris last night unfold it. was.

you know caesar out of france which is burning really says his or her two friends this is a lot of paris. was live. a live live live. it's very sad it's one of the great monuments of france our we've had far away so it's devastating but a monument like this is burning. and in motion. i say this to you solemnly honestly think we will rebuild this great

cathedral together we will appeal to the greatest talents to help restore not treat them because this is what the french people expect and this is what our history deserves it is. dissin the. prominent european politicians have expressed their discontent with america's israel policy in a letter to british newspaper the guardian they say the e.u. must recognize jerusalem as a capital of both israel and an independent palestinian state which are all for 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 and of europe's reactions well those 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. we are very concerned when europe is completely silent while america strong is and now wants to put forward a unilateral. plan ease 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 the lee side live i mean as you look for a policy approach the 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 and 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 i personnel for prosecution will be met with a swift and vigorous response. to 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 aside from an 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 and there are other players russia is why don't the players that can be helped to find a balanced approach if you still america remains keep 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 also on european legal efforts but this is our point we see europe silent we see europe not engaged in talks and these is the time to deal with the european union and trump are already butting heads over trade and defense spending there isn't any particularly you leader that stands out as the one who would stand up and challenge the united states's unilateral approach to. it's the israeli palestinian situation these are all over. the world health organization reports that cases of measles or worldwide are three times higher than last year the united nations children's fund unicef says one third of dust from measles occur in india noting that misinformation regarding vaccinations is spread via one of the most popular messengers in india whatsapp. you have seen a phenomenal average of emerging is the use of social media and the use of mass

media to spread rumors regarding. and that are going to lead selected another to see we're going to preemptive steps working really closely with government we're all going to media houses including that individual radio and. on to do stories now to do with the right information and. with the right messaging in the public space dozens of schools in the indian city of mumbai have reportedly prevented doctors from vaccinating students in new delhi two parents are opposing vaccinations due to rumors that vaccines lead to mental health diseases like autism this false information is being spread mainly through social media apps like what's up and facebook. every year more than one hundred thousand people die from measles around the globe another highly contagious disease rubella causes tens of thousands of birth defects in india every year social media lawyer here cohen explains how

misinformation is being spread. in india it is estimated that there are about three hundred million what's up uses so the influence of the media is absolutely incredible he's becoming one of the most common sources of communication in the country now the reason why facebook acquired wats up was in order to gather more in moral data about people like for example a situation where a person is being saint and the vaccination propaganda the person is very likely later on in the day to see more material a bond of explanations appearing on facebook about the interaction between different apps did facebook oh and if you choose facebook itself what's up in instagram so the results system here. facebook is good the power.

to stop at least to an extent because one platform. now india is not alone in falling victim to fake news about vaccinations this year the u.s. registered one of the biggest outbreaks of measles and almost two decades something that's being put down to misinformation posted on various social media platforms facebook for its part has already valid to reduce the rankings of groups and pages spreading anting about seen messages. privacy activist and technology expert bill new tell us regulating platforms like whatsapp is going to prove a rather tall order. i think it's very difficult to have some casual regulation that covers all sorts of card 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 and facebook or twitter

would come to mind 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 truly don't know the extent to which we get our moments or it's on top of that many of the platforms the focus of one to one communication all the very platforms that are in incorporating some form an encrypted at this time and 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 breach still to come in the program in a bid to tackle the issue of border security president donald trump suggested that all illegal migrants should be shipped to so-called sanctuary cities more details on that after this short break.

what holds if you should. put themselves on the line to get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be president and she. want to be rich. but you're going to be the first that's what before three of them can't be good. i'm interested always in the water. so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy foundation let it be an arms race is also a spearing dramatic development the only closely i'm going to resist i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical time time to sit down and talk.

if you're watching are to international welcome back to the program the subject of your legal immigration saw donald trump firing off on twitter once again putting pressure on his democratic rivals angered at their failure to back his border security plans on friday the president suggested all undocumented people 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 this sanctuary 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 trump also sarcastically agree with pop star and left wing social activists

share their stated l.a. couldn't take more illegals as it has to care for its own citizens first including homeless ones her sounds came as a surprise to many people as she previously been a vocal defender of immigrants she even claimed ones that she was ready to take home some to protect them but cher isn't the only democrat who objects to trump's proposal i say he's trying to put americans against each other 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 earlier we spoke to legal and 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 the 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 bring these people in 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 they're getting what they've been asking for unlimited unfettered on.

conditional disk masses of humanity. of dreamers be careful what you ask for. a new head of 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 longtime leader amar bashir abdel fatah i'll burn who is now effectively in charge is a veteran soldier he's a former chief of the country's ground forces as well according to reports he oversaw sending troops to yemen as part of the saudi led coalition saudi arabia meanwhile has declared its support for the transitional military council how did by the new chief. the kingdom declares his support for the steps announced by the council in preserving lives and property and stands by the sudanese people and hopes that this will achieve security and stability for brother they said.

according to local and yemeni media sudan. as at least three thousand ground troops and several fighter jets are fighting in yemen as part of the saudi led alliance dozens of sudanese soldiers have been killed on coastal battlefront we spoke with me as a kiwi editor at the pan african news wire he thinks sudan plays a central role in the yemeni war. well clearly. the intervention of the soldiers from. this is been a key component of this war which in fact is coordinated about the kind of guy 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 up ports and other massive infrastructure in yemen that is an outrageous situation that has to end as soon as possible. that's a wrap up of the day's top news for now but don't forget you can always find us on many of your favorite social media platforms like twitter and facebook for up to the minute reports. when gold make its manufacture can be sentenced to public wealth. when the ruling classes protect themselves. with the final merry go round be the one percent.

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called woman because she was taken down from a. you know world of big parts of the lot and conspiracy it's time to wake up to dig deeper to hit the stories that mainstream media refuses to tell more than ever we need to be smarter we need to stop slamming the door on the bats and shouting past each other it's taught for critical thinking it's time to fight for the middle for the truth the time is now we're watching closely watching the hawks.

this judge where her cocaine was were four bucks with the under thirty it's the judge everybody used cocaine and cocaine you can smoke it this is worth fifty thirty. twenty. score came to this is about a fifteen dollar big people smoke this one got bigger second sweetie you can find these drugs in any city in the united states that you walk along as you or want to get it but i do. i make money. and that's what i did every day.

basically a lot of drugs come in from south america and mexico for any other country to see that they can funnel them in the throat and every time it's sold it stepped on or cut or it gets less and less and less powerful so by the time it gets to the street level and certain towns it's nowhere near as potent as it was when it was certainly you know just brought in the trafficking goes on all the time and there are so many different ways people putting it in there an s. and a condom putting it in that wooden figure that might be a souvenir you can cut it half hollowed out fill it with a baggie of cocaine or whatever and then seal it back up varnish it as a souvenir from wherever you went to people having it run for them by the. what's called a meal so you have somebody running it in so the person who's buying it as somebody who's basically going to get in trouble for trafficking it in on a plane or whatever so

a lot of this brought in that way and again it gets stepped on more and more and more as as it goes but the thing is you can't stop it as long as people want it i mean now people in america are taking tide. laundry detergent in back in the one nine hundred fifty s. they started glu i mean they still do that but anything that changes your perception and it's such a problem all the time and it isn't always just the drugs are going to mess you up it's that it's all the dangerous things that go on around. the violence because this is money it's business and if you mess with it you can get in the.

marijuana is probably the least offensive it's going to affect people different ways some people get paranoid like the guy was stopped six times at one stop sign some people get just getting giggly and happy and hungry. cocaine gives you a great burst of energy and you just you just feel powerful and you can do anything in your confidence goes up and all of that i could understand why people would take cocaine but other people take downers like i used to buy quail is cancer medication to stop pain so people take way lubes. you just. you go on and you just you just tired you just zone out heroin has that same effect and i always wondered about heroin why do why would you take something that takes you so far out but i knew somebody took heroin.