why is that deve politically incorrect in the west. headline stories this human rights activists attempt to block france's latest arms shipment. the weapons are being used against yemeni civilians. 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 these weapons are made to kill. us president decides he wants. to permanently take. the pentagon. himself says he intends to modernize

the american military and make it efficient. marks the seventy fourth. capitulation with a military parade. as we bring you some of the highlights from thursday's commemoration. twenty four seven news live from the russian capital this is our international welcome to the program i mean and only our top story human rights activists are attempting to prevent france from sending any more arms to saudi arabia by filing lawsuits arguing the transfers violate the u.n. arms trade treaty they say there's clear evidence that been using french weapons against civilians in yemen they claim the. sales are there for illegal and render

their ministration complicit in the war crimes for its part denies ever intentionally targeting noncombatant protesters gathered in normandy on thursday to voice their opposition to the latest shipment. at this point we are protesting against the arrival of a saudi ship that is coming to collect a delivery of warrants at the port of africa 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 sharing their used on civilians or pressure has been increasing on the french government since

a group of investigative journalists published this sensitive military intelligence report last month it details the devastating effects that french tanks and artillery have been having in yemen artie's 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 to keep. 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 do your i am 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 world.

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 that these 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 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 they 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 cash show but do

you. see paris and we've been governor reaction reeling from psalm this story we spoke to a journalist. for a wall told us he believes the arms transfers reflect not at all well on the government in part. the factor that paris supports a politically this circuitry regime is already shocking you have to know that french is an older state. the french public opinion is not so really aware of what is happening in africa with the new colonialism the french is waging a war to kate's prancer bones the endless stream of weapons of mission and software that would be kinda miss constance leo acquiring and what is new is that these arms delivery comes to intrude controversy on tuesday are all a left wing lawmakers expects it departments in protest and that's that's pretty new and. ok to another headline stories this hour the acting u.s.

defense secretary is being lined up to keep the job donald trump's nominated patrick shanahan who's been in the role since james dogmatic squid last year after falling ice with the president over pulling troops from syria and afghanistan a charlatan has welcomed the nomination the former boeing e.v.f. an executive has been at the pentagon for the past four months promising to continue their quote i greste serve implementation of america's national defense strategy to keep the military in top fighting shape. and yet another hawk cements his position in the president's team killam open looks at how washington has repeatedly abandon its professed commitments to pace. 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 sez 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 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 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 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 would be in. or the sized 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 that 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 one thousand nine hundred ninety has really developed a pattern for military action. in a northern israeli city or a partly making good on a promise to quote preserve the city's jewish caracter in a controversial step they have decided to nonresidents in afula from visiting their local park the move will primarily effect our roads from nearby villages who use the area as

a meeting place here's our middle east correspondent 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. an increase of 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 enter some ways it is 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 be like the people all the jews come here one arabs come here they just cause problems. they listen to our belongs to the city and it's just 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 visit in town i'm here this matter when i'll fall into the lap of the interior ministry to decide later this month our team for northern israel. russia mark the seventy fourth anniversary of nazi germany surrender on thursday on the end of the war in the eastern front. be commemorated.

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time i see this i just don't understand when the flow of the crowd is going to stop its endless. celebrations on commemorations all wrapped up into one night in the run up to that day victory day we brought to the stories of some of those who lived through the war among them was not of ninety four year old. who joined the resistance straight after leaving school becoming a front line scarred her husband died a number of years ago and she's got no remaining relatives on the us people to send her letters and postcards to mark victory day and the response has been overwhelming.

bush are three different. occasions throughout the week to the ears of the other at the rumor that the agency would fear that we. needed to see this regime. for the middle east that is the future there's a huge literature and he said if you believe even if you. care to share three piece band music pushing here then the earth before she could remember people if they really didn't want. to choose to do it their business or that. they were working.

with. her that was you had a big thanks from us indeed to all those who sent cards and gifts to now a leading art gallery in london covers all but two paintings provoke complaints from muslim visitors and allegations of bluffs for me we go throughout story after this. one else seemed wrong why don't we all just don't all. get to shape out just because that's

a can. and in the game equals betrayal. when so many find themselves worlds apart. just to look for common ground. it's a two tier economy there's two tutor for the world that exist in america so if i go into a big bank that bank of america citibank wells fargo bank and i say i want to borrow hundred thousand dollars and i want you to charge me is there a percentage restraint on that and then i want to posit that on a thousand dollars that you're back and i want you to pay me five percent and i want to therefore. get a tax free ok can i do that now but it back to do that. just

approaching twenty minutes into the program welcome back london's famed such a gallery taken to the city to cover up two pieces of art after they elicited on the angry response from muslim visitors titled rainbow scenes the 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 the us both the gallery the artist have 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 decision to call them until the end of the exhibition not everybody agreeing with. political commentator and three walker and muslim rights

campaigner simon both went head to head in our two u.k. clashing over the implications of the. 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 this 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 at the tackle but you know i mean that's part of the problem using the language in vogue cover 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 the maybe brutal history of kind of europe under the church and so on and so it proves that if you wish to insult more of the religion that they say they claim the right to stop you but it's always lowest level to not as i just the words you don't mean think for work 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 precisely doing what you're complaining they're doing your thing we should crack on down x. was not this is they are going to go are going to go holiday please let 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 be noted that 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 by your heart you know what i mean by your time 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 your case as well but the the gallery had to make a grown up decision

a cover story not. right that is almost our lot but before we go i want to tip you off by the huge name back with us again for a great program we're airing in about an hour's time from. well english football is feeling on top of the world right now or at least europe after causing two major upsets this week in the champions league dutch giant killers i.x. fell to london stop them while liverpool staged an incredible comeback to send mighty barcelona packing former manchester united supreme joe saemon a new talks us through the tournaments the latest amazing twists and turns in 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 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 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 neck massage. because they didn't touch the ball in the second all 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 these 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 surprise me you will gun didn't surprise me

the relation between the team and the crew of the stadium and the players that empathy nothing of that surprised me how. can be civil to 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 they were not there to second the 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. func stickley well it's not. easy but it is not. important that was not there the first two guys of the first post.

i really don't know what happened this far and all these goals in favor of the people that say. that no player is more important than the team the final liverpool against spurs he was caught the hitch.

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 should think should why is that deve politically incorrect in the west foundational religion. is this is a stick of water bottle found in the stomach of the 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 they're the bad ones they're the litter bugs are throwing us away industry should be blamed for all this why. yes the company has promised to reuse the plastic.

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a century of progress and health and that unless the world acts urgently microbial resistance will have a disastrous impact within a generation and when they say within the generation my friends they are not playing around the report estimates that if we as in all of us humankind everybody do not make radical changes and focus on fighting this threat these drug resistant diseases could kill roughly ten million people a year by two thousand and fifty a year. that's only thirty thirty one years from now and just like mom jeans and the dynasty reboot what was once old has now come back to haunt us again because it seems that what's true in pop culture is true in superbugs as well tuberculosis yes tuberculosis is in back khalid.