human rights activists blogged france's arms shipment to saudi arabia. 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 same these weapons are made to kill also ahead on the program this hour the u.s. president signs he wants his acting defense chief to permanently take on the top job at the pentagon. says he intends to modernize the american military and make it lethally efficient. north korea's latest missile test it's the second within a week or resists questions in washington over of pyongyang's interest in solving the crisis. to the world this is our international always a pleasure to have you along i mean and only our top story human rights activists have been attempting to prevent fronts from. ending any more arms to saudi arabia

by filing lawsuits arguing the transfers violate the u.n. arms trade treaty they say there is clear evidence the saudis have been using french weapons against civilians in yemen they claim this sales are therefore illegal and render the administration complicit in the saudi war crimes riyadh denies ever intentionally targeting noncombatants protesters gathered in normandy in northern france on thursday to voice their opposition after the government. put this on here 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 only he can make such a decision he alone can commit friends to war he alone can so weapons to countries and every journalist an ngo share in there used on civilians but it seems the ship never actually docked in france according to trucking data it's not clear why that is nor where this ship is heading or pressure has been increasing on the french government censor group of investigative journalist published a sensitive military intelligence report last month it details the devastating effects that french tanks and artillery have been having in yemen here's our correspondent charlotte devinsky. 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 an emergency procedure has already been filed to try and stop the sale of french arms to riyadh and its coalition partner the united arab emirates it was made by human rights organization off the evidence image showing french weapons were being used on the frontline 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 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 the d.'s weapons are being used against civilian populations so enraged was some french m.p.'s by that dinoire they walked out of the assembly session for. and the world's third biggest olympics exporter has so far resisted calls to halt 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 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 can ski off to see paris. getting reaction to this from within the country we spoke to french journalist i'm rick mall wiil hughes of the view that the arms transfer reflect not at all well only government felt. the factor that paris supports a politically do circuitry regime is already shocking you have to know that french is an older state. the french public opinion is not really aware of what is happening in africa with the nuclear nose and the french is waging a war decayed france abounds 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 to departments in protest and that's that's pretty new. all right let's move to another big story of the day the acting u.s. defense secretary is being lined up to keep the job donald trump's nominated patrik shanahan who has been in the role since james mattis quit last year after falling ice with the president over pulling troops from syria and afghanistan shanahan's welcomed his nomination the former boeing executive has been at the pentagon for the past four months he is promising to continue the quote aggressive implementation of america's national defense strategy to keep the military in top fighting shape so as yet another hawk cements his position in the president's team

l m i've been has been looking at how washington has repeatedly abandoned its professed commitments to peace. it's a familiar pattern u.s. presidents getting a lacked it on an antiwar platform 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 the rise 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 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 and criticize. 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 united states since one thousand nine hundred ninety has really developed a pattern for military action. which another story we have been closely following the rocky relations between the u.s. and north korea well said to be taking another dive president trump a harsh hittite appealing young the latest missile tests and cast dull it's over

it's one thing this to engage diplomatically. the relationship continues but we'll see what happens i know they want to negotiate they're talking about negotiating but i don't think they're ready to negotiate. well the recent tests on the korean peninsula saw the launch of two missiles they were apparently short range ballistic rockets fired from the north west they landed here into the sea of japan well the fresh drills come just a few days after north korea took everyone by surprise with a similar test last friday but launch broke a moratorium on tests which had lasted more than five hundred days north korea described the drills as regular and defensive but there's been plenty of reaction from its neighbors japan's claim pyongyang has violated un resolutions with its actions china has been calling for peace for quite some time on the peninsula. to move on with. we hope that all parties can continue working towards the resolution

of the issue through dialogue and making positive efforts to achieve the denuclearization of the peninsula but we heard from dr park senior politics lecturer at a top british university who believes the u.s. north korea hit a dead end in their bilateral negotiations. this is a new indication of a shift of the north korean government after one another half year of silence all parties has realized that each other's bottom line and despotic nine he no way could be reach a consensus in other words they find at the difference a soul even saw them to bowl and one hand north korea we class that you noticed to stop central and west on the other hand you noticed this continuum persists to our north korea to dismantle the nuclear and missile program both sides have to take

responsibility but i think now the situation has taught us one thing more crystal clear than before. sending a clear message to the world that now the situation has changed. it has been confirmed that the us secretary of state will meet the russian president on the foreign ministry during his visit to russian let's go live to correspond to ilya tranquilly this was mooted a few days ago and i suppose there's going to be plenty for them to their skulls. high union well the announcement on the state department's website has it two days two cities a conversation with the russian foreign minister a conversation with the russian president it is going to be a busy one for my pump ale in this country and i can tell you that there was a rather long pause in direct contacts between top american and russian

officials and this trip probably is a sign that the two sides are realizing that there is a lot of catching up to be done and in fact they have already begun doing it last week vladimir putin and donald trump war. on the phone for about an hour and a half on monday this week the russian foreign minister sergei lavrov had a quick meeting with secretary of state mike pump ale in finland but perhaps that was just a rehearsal before a much more serious much more lengthy round of diplomacy and if you watch the news in the last few weeks for you it won't be a problem at all to realize to a guess what is probably going to be up for discussion to ron's decision to stop playing by some of the rules of the so-called iran nuclear deal venezuela needs to

be sorted out ukraine's god and new president and north korea's kim jong whom has been to russia to meet. nuclear tests on the korean peninsula and so on as surrogate said in finland on monday it is time to get busy with real politics sounds like it's going to be a busy couple of days from my company who are trying to bring this right off the dates on the news thing. thursday so russia marked the seventy fourth on a verse three of nazi germany surrender the end of the second world war on the eastern front in the run up to factory day we brought you the story of ninety four year olds. and join the resistance trade after leaving school becoming a front line scotch her husband died to number of years ago she has no remaining relatives and asked people to send her letters and postcards to mark victory day

the response i'm happy to say was pretty overwhelming. bush refused to do. the footwork that he just threw a bit to the ears of the other at the rumor of the community at the. meetings its disappearance regime. with the middle east is to be sure there's good news if you believe even. the characters the phish fans. pushing six years in the earth before she said. look we get people who are barely getting by you want. to choose to quit their birth order to see.

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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 appreciative the christians facially think should why is that deve politically incorrect people in the west foundational religion. it's a church our economy theirs to tutor for the world. just in america if i go into a big bank bank of america citi bank wells fargo bank and i say i want to borrow hundred thousand dollars and i want you to charge me is 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. get a tax free ok can i do that now but it back to do that.

just approaching twenty minutes past five pm this friday here in moscow welcome back we start back in the northern israeli city where authorities are up partly making good on a promise to quote preserve the city's jewish character in a highly controversial step they decided to bomb nonresidents in a fool from visiting the local park now the move will primarily affect our obstruct nearby villages who use the area as a meeting place here's our middle east correspondent paula. 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 all of the arabs and even other who are loud 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. it in says 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 when they do the right 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 the 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 and i'll forward into the lap of the interior ministry to decide later this month r t a for northern israel. where the american a riot police are being called into action in the colombian capital. clashes erupted there a student rally against planned education and pension cuts. students could be seen. molotov cocktails and other projectiles out the authorities near a main university the streets surrounding the area being closed off as police look to regain control of the situation the country's president even. faced criticism over his national development plan which is set really to prioritize security

spending but also give a green light to fracking in colombia for the first time. right we are crossing tour debate program cross talk in moment but first i want to bring you a snippet of a show running throughout the day here in r.t. international english football's feeling pretty much 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 ax fell to london's tottenham hotspur while liverpool staged an incredible comeback to send mighty barcelona packing former manchester united supremacy. talks us through the tournaments 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 go be good to be hears and we'll 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 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 we have to hurt them i am surprised. that. they did nothing for all these screwy thieves. and bad acts from minute one until

minute ninety five they play only with our philosophy and in football is not possible didn't surprise me and feel to do them surprise me your 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 the 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. funtastic well it's not easy looks easy book is not easy

and that was not there the first two guys of the first post. i really don't know what happened. these goes in favor of the people saying that no player is more important than the team the final little pool against. whose cut the ditch.

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hello and welcome to cross talk we're all things are considered i'm peter lavelle a research report from the u.k.'s foreign office highlights in detail the persecution of christians around the world in the middle east the cradle of christianity christians facial extinction why is it deemed politically incorrect to defend the west foundational religion. crosstalk in the state of christianity i'm joined by my guest in round home in copenhagen she's a theologian political commentator as well as founder of the you tube channel her own home talks in belfast we have david vance he's a political commentator as well as the editor of news media. net and in london we

cross to peter tatchell he is a human rights activists all right cross talk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want and i always appreciate it ok let me go to evan first in copenhagen. it really took me aback after the fire at notre dame the way they talked about the catastrophe in terms of turkey is them architecture but the fact that it was a place of worship for christians was very rarely mentioned also after sri lanka two luminaries that bill clinton and and i'm sorry brock obama and hillary clinton referred to easter worshippers well i don't know what that is no one worships easter but they were obviously avoiding the using the word christian in christians why is that go ahead. that's a very good questions because nobody has been able to and.