i i i i. human rights activists attempt to block. those. using the weapons. why do we continue to school countries that exhibit disrespect for international behavior why do we continue to fuel the war i have no problems with saying that these weapons are made to kill. in the program the u.s. president decides he wants his defense chief to permanently take. the pentagon

patrick shanahan himself says he intends to modernize the american military and make it. official. marks the seventy fourth. germany's capitulation with military parades. we'll bring you some of the highlights from thursday's commemoration. one minute seventy seven pm and two in the afternoon right here in moscow this friday may tenth welcome to our to international our top story human rights activists are attempting to. sending any more arms to saudi arabia by filing lawsuits arguing the transfers viola. the u.n.

arms trade treaty they say there is clear evidence that it has been using french weapons against civilians in yemen and that the seals are there for a legal render the administration complicit in war crimes protesters gathered in normandy on thursday to voice their opposition to the latest shipment which is scheduled to leave for the weekend. we are protesting against the arrival of a saudi ship that is coming to collect a delivery of warrants at the port of. there is no doubt that france sells weapons used to kill in yemen and 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 that only he can make such a decision he alone can commit france to war he alone can so weapons to countries

and every journalist an ngo share in there used on civilians the pressure has been increasing on the french government since a group of investigative journalists published this sensitive military intelligence report last month now it details the devastating effects that french tanks and artillery have been having in yemen are to charlotte reports. it's a wall 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 wednesday it was confirmed there would be a minute shipment of weapons to saudi arabia which is led coalition bombing in parts of yemen for more than four years. the arms delivery according to a commercial agreement which was made a few years ago. the arrival of the saudi called a ship in the port of love as opened up the french government to fresh criticism an

emergency procedure has already been filed to try and stop the sale of french oems to riyadh and its coalition partner the united arab emirates it was made by human rights organization of the evidence emerged showing french weapons were being used on the front line and possibly use in war crimes in yemen we called 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 a report by the united nations development program estimates the number of deaths at more than two hundred thirty thousand by the end of twenty nine thousand including more than one hundred forty thousand children under five if the conflict continues to intensify despite a classified and do your m a military note with feeling french weapons are being used along the saudi yemen border and that friendships are serving in the book

a good many ports exacerbating the suffering paris continues to deny its role look the government has never deny day existence of french weapons in yemen and the finance minister florence pearlie said it and i'll say it again today there is no proof the d.'s weapons are being used against civilian populations. so enraged was some french m.p.'s by that denial they walked out of the assembly session front the world's third biggest olympics exporter has so far resisted calls to hold twenty one 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 some might claim it's turning

a blind eye to the suffering while filling its pockets with saudi hatch show that deep in ski see paris. well journalist emerick real told us he believes the arms transfers reflect not at all well on the french government. the factor that paris supports a politically do circuitry regime is already shocking you have to know that trench is an older state where the french public opinion is not really aware of what is happening in africa with the nuclear know isn't the french's are waging a war to kids france abounds the endless stream of weapons of mission and software that would be kinda miss constance acquiring and what is new is that these arms delivery comes to intrude controversy on tuesday are all a left wing lawmakers expects it's a party months in protest and that's that's pretty new. or i'm moving

on donald trump intends to nominate patrick shelly as his next u.s. secretary of defense according to a white house statement released on thursday the former deputy defense secretary if approved will replace james mattis who resigned last year over policy differences with the u.s. leader who's been acting pentagon chief for the past four months as welcome the decision he's promised to continue the quote aggressive implementation of america's national defense strategy and to keep the military in top fighting shape. so as yet another hawk cements his position in the president's team killam open has been looking at how washington has repeatedly abundant its professed commitments to peace. it's a familiar pattern u.s. presidents getting a lacked it 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 is 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 is of course the united states you know 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 all over the world in places that a very very far away venezuela is not very far away and the people are suffering and they're 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 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 and. or this just bush for the actions in iraq because it was then later revealed that the intelligence did not exist obama 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 the united states since one thousand nine hundred ninety has really developed a pattern for military action. and moving on now authorities in a full in northern israel are a partly making good on their promise to quote preserve the city's jewish caracter in a highly controversial step they've decided to ban nonresidents from visiting their local park in the world primarily affect are observed from nearby villages who use

the area as a meeting place you're starting policy or. 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 of nearby villages that's just to use them as for keeping arabs out and. the park is a place of enjoyment not a place only for jews it's for everyone and not only for residents of afula. and increases 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. quit sit ins here 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. it insists that the 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 or they would like the people all the jews come here one arabs come here they just cause problems. and this power 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 that interest but i'm not a resident and i'm here this matter will now fall into the lap of the interior ministry to decide later this month r t a for northern israel. russia mark the seventy fourth nazi germany surrender on thursday the end of the war in the eastern front here's a look back now at the commemorations. you're

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i see this i just don't understand when the flow of the crowd is going to stop it's endless. yeah really an astonishing day from morning to night and yesterday and in the run up to victory day we brought you many stories of some of those who lived through the war among them was out of the ninety four year old on the eve of the who joined the resistance straight after leaving school becoming a front line scott her husband died a few years ago and she has no remaining relatives and asked people to send her letters and postcards to mark the tradition on the response it seems has been overwhelming.

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certain things for that. great story not all right a living art gallery in london covers up to paintings that provoke complaints from muslim visitors geishas of blasphemy we'll talk you through that and more after this. seemed wrong. wrong just don't call. me. yet to say proud disdain become educated and engagement equals betrayal.

when something find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground. most people think just 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 race in truth to stand losing business you just need as the right questions and demand the right answers. question.

back with are to international london's famed such a gallery has taken the decision to cover up two pieces of art after they elicited an response from muslim visitors titled rainbow seen as the exhibition was created by a contemporary london based artist the works that proved controversial featured the declaration of faith based shahada juxtaposed with images of nude women in the u.s. flag both the gallery the artist tough defended the decision to cover up the paintings. 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's decision to cover them until the end of the exhibition. while political comments are under walker and muslim rights campaigner solomon bert's went head to head at r t u k clashing over the implications of the. well i

think this has been blown out of proportion and 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 so 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 this country we should have a right to freedom of expression in this country and this is at the tackle but you know i mean that's part of the problem using the language and blasphemy in a very distinctly and 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 they say they claim the right to stop you but it's always lowest level because i just the words you don't mean think frog if you think that if you think about it if what we are going to do with life is pounded to 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 precisely doing what you're complaining they're doing your thing we should crack count down x. was not this is they are going to go are going to go how directly is that some of 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 but the fact of the matter is if you believe these people have human status you don't have to believe ok i don't agree with you with your condemnation but you have the right to say we notice that something i've said if you don't like that picture you can enjoy it not going to the gallery what they've actually said we don't like this picture therefore you can't look at it either now you are you know how to type by the way by the way this isn't a compromise 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 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. our rights switching gears now english football's feeling on top of the world right now or at least in europe after causing two major upsets

this week in the champions league dutch giant killers i.x. fell to london's tottenham hotspur while liverpool stage a quite incredible comeback to send mighty barcelona packing right throughout the day here on r t former manchester united supreme josee marine you'll talks us through the tournaments latest amazing twists and turns in our show on the touchline. one of them the first that he gets is the biggest one the biggest one of all so one of them will get that the pope would have to be hears and will have you in his hand i have more of this sad sinking that one of them is going to lose means more

than the else more than anybody else more than the players more than the phones more than the all knows more than everybody else haddix and says sokol after the game they need a necklace such. because they didn't touch the ball in the second half and they were just looking at the wall ok let's go against our principles let's organise our philosophy but this is the way we have to hurt them i am surprised. that. they did nothing for all the screwy thieves. and 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 you were gung didn't surprise me the relation between the team and the crowd the stadium and the players that empathy nothing of that surprised me how can barcelona 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 wall and two peat there were not that took second wall and mentally even physically. collapse the ball boys in a good structure can also play a part i was a ball boy of the kid knew what he was going to do then alex on the hour not. you read the situation. funtastic me well it's not easy looks easy book is not easy and if that was not there the first two guys of the first post do or not i really don't know what happened in all these goes in favor of the people that saying that no player is more important than the team

the final little pool against. whose cut the hits. and you can find out the answer to that question on group new air show will run in full in a couple of hours time don't miss it but know here on our to international reebok politicking. what is it calling his magic internet the new type of digital currency the centralized digital scarcity chancellor i'm bringing a second bailout for bankers called the genesis blog for reason to calling it civil

disobedience a source of optimism because i can control my own financial death any it's just a new way of coming to consensus is a game changer in the human history this is columbus discovering the new world this paradigm shifting technology that transforms economics and finance in a heartbeat the apollo eleven landing on to the max and stacey. a recent report from the u.k.'s foreign office highlights in detail the persecution of christians around the world in the middle east the cradle appreciate to be christians face extinction why is it deep politically incorrect in the west foundational religion. is this is

a stick from the water bottle found in the stomach of fish the brand is part of the coca-cola company which sells millions of bottles of soda every day the idea was that let's tell consumers there are the bad ones there the litter bugs are throwing this away industry should be blamed for all this waste the company has long promised to reuse the plastic. that suits their class to. stay on your phones at a special kind of takes the fun to me tell the difference and be on the i'm your best bet is the end of it for the team but for now the mountains of waste only grow higher. donald trump invokes executive privilege over the mullah report this as attorney general barr faces contempt of congress for not releasing that report in full 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. the 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 mo 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

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