i haven't thought i . fear for her. france pushes ahead with further to saudi arabia despite facing a growing backlash over claims its weapons are being used by riyadh to target civilians in yemen. and you or you will do it with why do we continue to support countries the exhibit disrespect for international behavior and why do we continue to fuel the war and i have no problems with same these weapons are made to kill a leading art gallery in london covers of two paintings that provoke complaints

from muslim visitors and allegations of blasphemy we go reaction to it. if what we are going to do with life is part of that so the person who is most easily offended that she will never get to get anywhere at all if you go to your local coffee shop and you're offended by this and when you think something's wrong with you doing you have the right to say you know that's wrong. and russia marks the seventy fourth anniversary of nazi germany's capitulation with military parades and memorial ceremonies coming up we've got some of the highlights from thursday's commemorations. hello not am friday morning this is us international with me kevin however good morning from me than a thanks for watching us for this latest news update live from moscow. the french government has pledged to continue selling arms to saudi arabia despite mounting evidence its weapons are being used against yemeni civilians it comes amid

a growing backlash from human rights activists to who on thursday tried to block the latest shipment to riyadh shiela do bensky reports. it's a war that's left thousands dead and pushed some ten million people to the brink of starvation now it looks like more french weapons could be about to deepen the humanitarian disaster that is yemen when the state was concerned there would be imminent shipment of weapons to saudi arabia which is led coalition bombing in parts of yemen for more than four years. shut down. on the downfall to. don't design. the rival of the saudi called a ship in the port of love has opened up the french government to fresh criticism put this on here protesting against the arrival of a saudi ship that is coming to collect a delivery of forums at the port of. there's no doubt that france sells weapons

used to kill in yemen used by coalition led by saudi arabia i have no problems with saying that these weapons are made to kill. why do we continue to support countries that exhibit disrespect for international behavior and why do we continue to fuel the war the question should be put to the president of the republic and why is it only he can make such a decision he alone can commit friends to war he alone can so weapons to countries and every journalist and n.g.o.s share in their used on civilians an emergency procedure has already been filed to try and stop the sale of french arms to riyadh and its coalition partners the united arab emirates it was made by human rights organization off the evidence emerged showing french weapons were being used on the frontline and possibly use in war crimes in yemen we call for the suspension of arms transfers to the countries of the coalition led by saudi arabia and the united

arab emirates responsible for war crimes and even crimes against humanity in yemen the sense of urgency is driven by the worsening humanitarian situation in yemen or . poort by the united nations development program estimates the number of deaths at more than two hundred thirty thousand by the end of twenty nineteen including more than one hundred forty thousand children under five if the conflict continues to intensify despite a classified do your i am a military note with feeling french weapons are being used along the saudi border and that friendships are serving in the blockade of the in many ports exacerbating the suffering paris continues to deny its role. government has never deny day existence of french weapons in yemen and the fence minister florence pearlie said it and i'll say it again today there is no proof the dees weapons are being used against civilian populations so enraged was some french m.p.'s by about ten zero zero zero they walked out of the assembly session from the world's third biggest

exporter has so far resisted calls to hold weapon sales to riyadh it could also mean that france is in breach of the arms trade treaty that it signed the treaty aims to regulate the sale of conventional weapons to prevent them from being sold if the member state is aware of that used to target civilian populations given that the government has been warned how french weapons are allegedly being used in yemen so my claim it's turning a blind eye to the suffering while filling its pockets with saudi hatch. do not see paris. donald trump intends to nominate patrick shanahan as his next u.s. secretary of defense according to a white house statement released today the former deputy defense secretary if approved to replace james mattis who resigned last year over policy differences with the u.s. president who's been acting presidency for the post for months is welcome the

decision he's promised to continue the aggressive implementation of america's national defense strategy and to keep the military in fighting shape. so is yet another hawk cements his position the president's team this morning caleb maupin looks at how america is repeatedly abandoning its professed commitments to peace. it's a familiar pattern us presidents getting elected on an antiwar platform i just don't think it's the role of the united states to walk into a country say we do it this way so should you we've lost thousands of american lives spent nearly a trillion dollars alienated allies neglected emerging threats all in the cause of fighting a war for well over five years in a country that had absolutely nothing to do with the nine eleven attacks i will never send our finest into battle unless necessary and i mean absolutely necessary and will only do so if we have a plan for victory with

a capital v. they criticize the wars of those who came before them and they win votes for doing it. the clinton gore administration has failed to instill trust in congress and the american people when it comes to our military and deployment of troops overseas governor bush views it as a legislative overreach on powers of the presidency so what's missing in our debate about iraq this war distracts us from every threat that we face and so many opportunities we could seize. this war diminishes our security our standing in the world our military our economy and the resources that we need to confront the challenges of the twenty first century was against the war in iraq because i said it's going to totally destabilize the middle east but once they get elected they can't help but start new ones barack obama turned george w. bush's two wars into eight and trump has kept those wars ticking along while

threatening new ones in new regions of the world as of course in those days in a limited military action in libya in support of an international effort to protect libyan civilians i have decided that the united states should take military action against syrian regime targets we have troops over the world this place is a very very far away venezuela is not very far away and the people are suffering and dying we have many options for of it as well as including a possible military option if necessary sending lethal weapons to ukraine escalating threats against iran and venezuela trump was elected sounding like a dove but he's governing like a hawk he dropped the mother of all bombs on afghanistan and sent cruise missiles to syria but it's a long tradition in one thousand nine hundred sixty four lyndon johnson ran for president on a platform of not escalating the vietnam war and after he won guess what he did in

one nine hundred sixteen woodrow wilson's campaign slogan for reelection was actually he kept us out of war and after he won the vote he got us into a new one presidents tend to win on antiwar platforms because americans don't like war however once they're in the oval office they just can't resist the temptation so next time you hear a candidate promising peace look at a map and ask where next often times the blame game is that not enough was done again it depended upon who is in power obama came in austin it's a blue beak and. or the scientist bush for the actions in iraq because it was then later revealed that the intelligence did not exist or bomber was less in to regime change trump in venezuela i haven't heard any plan on not only how to conduct there but where they're going to do want to see achieve power if the achieve power in the near future i do not see

a change in this pattern it would have been nice to see the yet united states since the one nine hundred ninety s. really developed a pattern for military action. london's fame such a gallery is taken the decision to cover up to provoke could have pieces of art after they listed an angry response from muslim visitors titled rainbow seems the controversial exhibition was created by a contemporary london based artist the works that proved controversial featured the islamic declaration of faith juxtaposed with images of nude women in the u.s. flag both the gallery and the artist have defended the decision to cover up the paintings instead of removing them. it seemed a respectful solution that enables a debate about freedom of expression versus the perceived right not to be offended the gallery also recognizes the sincerity of the complaints made against this works and supported the artist decision to cover them until the end of the exhibition political commentator andrew walker

a muslim rights campaigner someone but went head to head at r t u k over this clashing of the implications of the case. well i think this has been blown out of proportion a bit i mean the most charitable interpretation i can get is. the gallery made bit of a blunder they were looking to kind of one time and in sort of end and in on some people live ten of the girl and gallery complained and they came to some kind of compromise what we know about this situation bluntly is that they're not putting covering these things up because they're worried about offending people freedom of speech they're concerned that you are just as likely to be killed for infringing islamic blasphemy laws in britain as you are in saudi arabia and i think that is frankly shameful we should have a right to freedom of speech in this country we should have a right to freedom of expression in this country and this is an important part of the issue problem using the language invercargill of blasphemy in a very distinctly in consensually european notion of christian europe in motion it

brings to the minds of simple people the ok this is this is talking about what we know the maybe brutal history of kind of europe under the church and so on and so it proves that if you wish to insult one more of the religion that base as they claim the right to stop you but it's always lowest level to not is a dirty word you don't mean think rock if you think that if you think about it if what we are going to do with life is pundits or the person who is most easily offended then actually we're never going to get anywhere at all i think that it's dangerous to go back to if you go to your local coffee shop and you're offended by this and where you think something's wrong that they're doing you have the right to say you know that's wrong we should live in a world like that we should crack down hard on that if you're offended i don't care you know precisely doing what you're complaining they're doing you're saying we should crack count down x. was not this is they are going to go are going to go holiday please let some of this a group of people said we think you should take this down another group of people

said no you shouldn't take it down they came to some what they believe is the calling of compromise you may disagree. the fact of the matter is if you believe these people have human status you don't have to believe that ok i don't agree with you with your condemnation but you have the right to say. that only those ads if you don't like that picture you can enjoy it not going to the gallery what they've actually said is we don't like this picture there for you can't look at it either now mind you are you know what i mean or by you to type by the way i mean a stock advisor told they say oh we don't like the picture therefore nobody can see it is not a compromise a compromise is i don't like the picture i'm not going to go and see it myself i just look at it as the customers are saying we paid to come to this and we think you should do this if you disagree you can make a case as well but the the gallery had to make a grown up decision a cover story about. russia bunker simply fourth anniversary of nazi germany

surrender on thursday and the end of the war on the eastern front here's a look back at the commemorations. it's very difficult to describe the atmosphere here it's it's charged electric is intense but yet there's so much excitement up excitement just released during the parade itself. you know. the whole the. you run out of beer for sure rio are. you here now or do you see i see where you can see the school saying the gloves

suited me and the. poor through milling. stood out on the mule you should name is implicit you said his so he is you know doing. nothing unites this country more then the more it's all right jim it marge every time i see this i just don't understand when the flow of the crowd is going to stop it's endless it always it can never stop surprising those who say that this victory parade is just saber rattling displays of affection much intimidation they need to be here and come and have a look at this crowd of people is just absolutely endless names just in comparable to anything one has ever seen is the biggest to my knowledge remember it's events in russia in the world nothing quite like it all does so we'll.

exactly sixty most of the morning or moscow international smalling this friday still to come for the red cross over israel's treatment of its out of population just one of the stories we've got lined up for you right after this break. most people think to stand out in this business you need to be the first one on top of the story or the person with the loudest voice of the biggest raid in truth to stand out of the news business you just need as the right questions and demand the

right answers. question. it's a church or economy there is teacher for the world that exists in america so if i go into a big bank at bank of america citi bank was fargo bank and i say i want to borrow hundred thousand dollars and i want you to charter a zero percent interest rate on that and then i want the cause of that hundred thousand dollars that your bank and i want you to pay me five percent and i want to therefore collect all that they. get a tax free ok can i do that now but it back to do that.

again good morning authorities in a food or in northern israel apparently making good on a promise to quote preserve the city's character in a highly controversial step they decided to buy and arabs from visiting the local part of his paula sleeping substory. this is the northern israeli town of afula home to around fifty thousand people most of whom are jewish the town and particularly this park women used recently because of if it's by citizens to maintain what they call the character of the place and the way to do this according to the town's mayor is to shut out so-called minority members that say arab citizens off nearby villages that's just a euphemism for keeping arabs and. the book is a police open to women as if it's not the police only for jews it is for everyone only for residents of. an increase is discrimination they do not directly say does

against arabs but not a lot of arabs leave enough food and who feel like it is forbidden for us to. disagree they say that people who don't live in the town should not be allowed into the park the official word from the municipality is that. we must safeguard asked for it in says be closure of the park to nonresidents has nothing to do with jews and arabs but rather it's a way of exposing the town's residents to a host of activities that they can participate in with the people all the jews come here one arabs come here they just cause problems. belongs to the city and it is in the interest of their residents to look after the place people from the outside don't have any interest but i'm not a visit in town i'm here this matter one hour fall into the lap of the interior ministry to decide later this month. our team for northern israel. sweden state prosecutor is set to announce early next week whether or not an

investigation into a rape allegation against wiki leaks founder julian assange will be reopened the case was dropped in twenty seventeen is the whistleblowers taking refuge in the ecuadorian embassy in london recent arrest by british police means that the inquiry can now be reopened a charge is currently serving fifty weeks in prison for skipping bail in the u.k. back in twenty twelve the sentence the un as said is very troubled by. the working group on arbitrary detention is deeply concerned about the disproportionate sentence imposed on mr a sandwich it is of the view that violating bail is a minor violation the working group is further concerned that mr sanjay has been detained since eleventh april twenty ninth seen in belmarsh prison a high security prison as if he were convicted for a serious criminal offense. was sentenced by a british court at the beginning of may that with his punishment is falling just short of the maximum twelve months that can be handed down to skipping bell that was after exclusive pictures muslims were dragged out of the ecuadorian embassy for

british police bringing a dramatic air it was time to show that we could expand is also facing the possibility of extradition to america washington accuses the whistleblower of conspiring to hack a government computer a charge which could land in fire. years in prison that the u.s. alleges to in this sunday's activities and the national security as a recap here are some of his revelations over the years. look. look. i'm i. look. up the to cut.

her. a little. cut does the n.s.a. collects any data from millions of those who are low cut wiki leaks walks like a hostile intelligence sort of talks like a hostile takeover of the server. now a member of the u.n. working group on arbitrary detention told us he believes the son just sentence is it odds of legal norms. here what can group has. just said tests

has some or that he don't element because first the sentence was not just the friday there is only about a relation his actions are but more importantly if one rebuilt in europe the working group properly the center should never have or curve because they want to group has already to say that that is the attention of mr sanjay was a big rally in routine where he was on b b n what can group also took into account the fact that the street dish prosecutor had to turn an end to the case in st than mean mr sunday was on don't be so that he could be transferred to st and for investigation and that investigation has been close the big was related to a situation in sudan which has does that here why you are against centers here to fifteen weeks of jail in dozy constancies that's where you working group that it

was disproportionate. and the story goes on it's coming up to nine twenty four moscow time here this friday morning face of watching us my name is kevin o. it before ago want to tip you off but a huge lie about with us again on a great program that will be shown in various times today it is football's really on top of the world right now or at least europe after causing two major upsets this week in the continent's most prestigious tournament dutch giant killers i.x. father london's tottenham hotspur while liverpool stage an incredible comeback to send mighty fast learner packing so throughout the dead on r.t. for manchester united supreme joe simmering a talk to say the game's later spectacular twists and turns it is latest on the touchline. one of them the first trophy that he gets is the biggest one the biggest one of all

so one of them will get that the cope with the two big hears and this will have been in his hand i have more of this sad sinking that one of them is going to lose means more than the us more than anybody else more than the players more than the fans more than the all knows more than everybody else haddix and says sokol after the game they need a neck massage. because they didn't touch the ball in the second of and they were just looking at the wall ok let's go against our principles let's go against our philosophy but this is the way we have to hurt them i am surprised. that. they did nothing for all the screw up it gives it gives and value from minute one until minute ninety five they play only with their philosophy and then football is

not possible didn't surprise me and field didn't surprise me your gun didn't surprise me the relation between the team and the crowd of the stadium and the players that empathy nothing of that surprised me how. canvasser on the be surprised they were not also the team that sings we are better than them we have better players we are going there we are going to win the game we are going to score a goal and to kill it there were not that two second wall and mentally even physically. collapse the ball boys in a good structure can also play a part i was a ball boy stop the kid knew what he was going to do then alex on the hour not. you read the situation. funked us to do well is not to use it all looks easy but it is not easy and important that the song was not there the first two guys of

the first post do or not i really don't know what happened this fire and all these goes in favor of the people that sings that no player is more important than the team the final little pool against spurs who's caught the hitch. auntie's khaled a hot tempered international memorial towards twenty nine c. the now open for entries the media professionals are eligible whether you're a freelance journalist work through terms of media or part of a global news conference talk to some names sunday show published works in video rich and. go to a war don't auntie dot com and then to now. one

thing. donald trump invokes executive privilege over the mother report this as attorney general barr faces contempt of congress for not releasing that report in fall where does the standoff go from here and what impact will this fight ultimately have in the two thousand and twenty white house race. we're taking a look on this edition of politicking. to

politicking i'm amy holmes in for larry king on wednesday president trump asserted executive privilege over redacted portions of robert miller's final report on whether the trump campaign colluded with the russian government during the two thousand and sixteen white house race and the president's actions while the investigation was underway this as the democratic controlled house judiciary committee has attempted to see those hidden portions of the report including secret grand jury testimony so where does this standoff go from here and how will the fight for the full and unredacted report play out in the elections of two thousand and twenty let's begin the conversation with richard painter he's a professor of law at the university of minnesota and the former chief white house ethics lawyer during the george w. bush administration he joins me from minneapolis mr painter welcome thank you so much or thank you for having me i mean great so president trump has invoked

executive privilege at the request of the attorney general to block house democrats access to robert muller's redacted report what does this mean. the law of executive privilege is very much on saddam old president nixon tried the executive privilege argument to keep the. white house tapes away from the prosecutor the special prosecutor in the supreme court rejected that argument i doubt that the argument was succeed here executive privilege in this context is a made up legal doctrine that is presume by the trump ministration to allow the president to withhold evidence with respect to an investigation of the president's own alleged crimes and that's an unacceptable interpretation of.