donald trump launches a furious attack on the british describing him as pompous and very stupid for a leaked diplomatic memo create some rift between the 2 countries. a detroit music festival organized by members of the black community sparks controversy by charging white people double for tickets our guests give us their reaction. when you see that you're able to pay x. amount of dollars to see you. in the u.k. government challenge is a landmark court ruling arms exports to saudi arabia. live

from moscow thanks for joining us on our to international tonight i'm daniel hawkins. the u.s. president has lashed out at the british ambassador in washington calling him a pompous fall that's after a leaked memo in which the envoy gave a damning assessment of the trumpet ministration the feud has put a strain on the so-called special relationship between the 2 countries has more. because this all began when this message this message was leaked would show the you can bust of the describing the trumpet ministration in really harsh terms describing them as being inept and not seeing the situation improving any time soon and perhaps in typical donald trump fashion the us president took to twitter to express his feelings about it he didn't pull any punches and he described the

u.k. ambassador as being a very stupid guy the wacky ambassador that the u.k. forced it upon the united states is not someone we are thrilled with a very stupid guy he should speak to his country and prime minister may about their failed break that negotiation and not be upset with my criticism of how badly it was. now here in the u.k. of course we are watching as the 2 candidates go head to head to be the next conservative leader and boss the next prime minister there of course the former foreign secretary boris johnson in the current one jeremy hunt and the 2 men responding in very different ways jeremy hunt quick to respond to mr trump's tweet and as far as he was concerned mr trump was being very disrespectful and wrong donald trump friends speak frankly so i will these comments disrespectful and wrong to our prime minister my country you said the u.k. u.s. alliance was the greatest in history and i agree but i always need to treat each

other with respect as threes amaze always done with you as for mr johnson well he wasn't willing to take a combative approach to mr trump on the united states and as far as he was concerned well there was a spare is a special relationship which shouldn't be disturbed by this fall out i've got a good relationship with the white house and i've had no embarrassment in saying that the united states is has been will be for the foreseeable future our number one political military friend oh this is perhaps the biggest the most public falling out between the governments of the u.k. and the usa for many years how serious that will get and how much strain it will put on that so-called special relationship really depends on who wins that contest to be the next british prime minister as we've just seen there 2 very different responses to donald trump's approach and that will define exactly where this scandal goes from here. ok local affairs analyst patrick endings and says the

dispute could have an impact on the leadership contest for the u.k.'s ruling conservative party. certainly comes at an interesting time right in the sort of the midst of the conservative leadership contest britain is due to appoint a new prime minister very soon or at least the tory party i should say is going to appoint a new prime minister not britain there's 2 questions one is who benefits from this leak does anybody benefit from this leak certainly on the sort of the remainer side you could say that they might benefit from this does germy hunt benefit from this certainly boris johnson can't because he's the favorite in the leadership contest at the moment but then the other question is who leaked it and why and we don't know that yet. i'm using a festival in the us city of detroit has been forced to change its ticketing policy offer a backlash over charging white people twice as much as black people organizers said

the policy reflected the white community's wealth and privilege which disadvantages black people the move drew criticism online festival charging different prices bees don't race well done intersectional radicals you've become the very racist you claim to stand against so walk so very walk for a future fest equality means treating everyone the same also after a few to fest we're going to charge people different prices based on their race i wonder how often a future music festival will charge asians do it pay 15 dollars because we're non white but privileged. the festival has now canceled that pricing policy following widespread complaints and even threats against the organizers and their families there is now a suggested donation option for normal people of color half the proceeds would go to a program that support young black people in detroit the organizers though continue

to defend their initial ticketing terms. artists structure was built to ensure that the most marginalized communities people of color are provided with an equitable chance at enjoying events in their own community black detroit affording joint pleasure is unfortunately still a privilege in our society for people of color and we believe everyone should have access to receiving such now it wasn't only concert goers angered by all this one of the artists on the bill pulled out in protest. i was immediately enraged just because i am bi racial i have family members that would have under those circumstances been subjected to something that i would not ever want them to be in it's non-progressive and it's not solution focused in my eyes we heard from attorney and author re severson who supports the organizers while conservative social commentator anthony bryan logan says by any metric it's racism

. well i can't really tell was going on here it seems like a one hand they don't want white people to come but on the other hand they want to text him they want to charge do more money they let people for disease so you don't want to be here but you want to money i don't really understand what you have are people who are local to the detroit community who may have been under server economic minorities and they're seeing an influx of money and wealth into their community that they're not necessarily always able to participate in and so when you have this organizer seeking to put together and a vent to benefit these under-served communities what she's saying is this is for the native people of this community what if it were in hispanic event let's say it was it has been a music festival and they say hey any white actually spent you're able to pay x. amount of dollars if you're not hispanic including black folks you got to pay more so they can use a black person pay more to go to their van with the races yes or no so if they say

that you can really take over the ability to exclude people if they say it is say it is you can't come at all because you blake would be racist is that he is i mean i'm trying to figure out yes or no i wouldn't iraqis definition. so you say yes ok that would be raised that way. now if a black person did it to a white person how would it be would it be races well if it were white people in the shoe was on the other foot then it doesn't really make sense because we know in our house that if you spend your energy minutes later when black people actually have that type of control again it's discriminatory it's a it's a practice where you are setting a bad about andrea barrier but is it preventing someone from receiving an economic benefit no but if it were the other way around if it were a white only if it was a coach music festival in a.z. anyway it is not why you go to pay double to take your brace what would the reaction be your aces you neo nazi you k.k.k. are is a name what we're looking at right now is a young lady looking through the lens of history and deciding that it's important

for us as a people to began to fix the issue from the lens of equity versus equality. the u.s. state department's given the green light to a major weapons deal with taiwan despite criticism from china the pentagon and taiwanese officials have defended the move this proposed sale will support the foreign policy and national security of the us by helping to improve the security and defensive capability of the recipient and important force for political stability move to rebalance an economic progress in the region taiwan will speed up investment on defense and continued to deepen security ties with the united states and countries with similar ideas. american lawmakers now have 30 days to make a final decision on the deal if approved taiwan will receive over $100.00 modernised tanks and $250.00 air defense missiles that along with other weapons

takes the total bill to $2200000000.00 the island of taiwan has been ruled independently since the chinese civil war ended in $49.00. well it's only recognized as a state by 18 countries though none of them are major global powers china claims sovereignty over the territory and therefore beijing sees in the national interference as a domestic threat. the sale of weapons by the united states to taiwan seriously violates the one china principle grossly interferes in china's internal affairs and undermines china's sovereignty and security interests china urges the u.s. to immediately canceled a planned arms seo and stop military relations with taipei to avoid damaging sino u.s. relations and harming peace and stability in the taiwan strait and china analyst and relying says the move is part of a wider u.s. strategy to contain beijing. from the all of the all the united states while it's not just i want all

a chess board all. the security the other states you know seeing as being at the moment and being challenge but i was in china but as far as the laws. there is the relations act which are the legalizers and so the idea is to create. a kind of unsinkable area. as a kind of. a fortress. to contain china so i think that the arms sales must be seen that context as well as united states. leading us democratic presidential candidate joe biden has defended himself after coming under a barrage of friendly fire from his own party and they claim he's been too sympathetic towards racial segregation in the past the she was raised late last month during the very 1st democratic party debate ahead of next year's presidential

election biden hailed bay's gone by saying back then he was able to reach a consensus even with his biggest rivals like a congressman throwing the debate party die hards criticized him for even having dialogue with such people after apologizing for his remarks biden said the words were taken out of context. did you see the questions about your past positions from the perspective of race being as relevant as they are no no i think the role of them to be taken out of context and so easy to go back and go back 304050 years and take a context and take it completely out of context and on the last throughout american history the democrats haven't always been a pro integration a lot more pain explains. joe biden the current front runner in the democratic presidential race has come forward to a. gys about statements he made about working with advocates of racial segregation

i regret it. and i'm sorry for any of the pain or misconception i may have caused him but. i don't think you have to be touting personal relations with people who will very brutal segregationist it was hurtful. to hear you talk about the reputations of 2 united states senators who built their reputations and career on the segregation of race in this country now joe biden is still in the lead despite the scandal however it seems to have unearthed a strange reality in american politics the democratic party the party that brought us the 1st african-american president has a rather strange record when it comes to the issue of racism when senator robert byrd of west virginia died barack obama gave him a stirring eulogy he was a senate icon he was a party leader he was an elder statesman and he was my friend. that's all remember

him prior to becoming a u.s. senator robert byrd had been a high ranking member of the ku klux klan afterwards he reputed the views of the hate group but prior to that he had some strong views when it came to the issue of race of a fight in the armed forces with a negro bomb i saw i'd rather i should die a 1000 times and see old glory trampled in the dirt never to rise again than to see this beloved london vase become degraded by race mongrels and through parts of the blocky specimen from the wilds bill clinton who was wildly popular among african-americans gave a eulogy when he was president for j. william fulbright another democrat we come to celebrated. for the remarkable wife of j. william fulbright. a life that changed our country. and our world for ever and for the better well the glowing words left out the fact that fulbright was

a big advocate of keeping black and white children in separate schools back in the 1960 s. when john f. kennedy and the northern democratic party organizations located in urban areas were pushing for racial integration the biggest pushback didn't come from republicans it came from the dix occur. as a splinter group within their own party in 1968 george wallace the democratic governor of alabama was so outraged to see anti racism become the dominant view within his own party that he ran as a 3rd party candidate then you ought to come on down to alabama we did teach you some low down no no no. but now it would seem that a democrat having such an agenda would be almost unbelievable in fact m s n b c mislabeled george wallace as a republican check it out governor george wallace stood outside the university of alabama personally blocking 2 black students from unrolling their.

sure joe biden has come forward and apologized for his statements on racial matters but it seems like the country has forgotten that not so long ago his entire party had the same issue after the civil war was the democratic party that was the races it was the republican party that was different the republicans ran the slavery. lincoln was republican and had the slavery it. the dixiecrat after segregation after the civil war they were there races everything was a mess we've had presidents supreme court justices who are members of that class and some of them had to do that to join the ku klux klan for political reasons i don't understand why this now with biden this is an inside baseball inside the

bubble issue. with relations between caravan moscow under enormous strain ukraine's new president rather me as a lenski has said he wants to hold face to face meeting with vladimir putin but an indication of just how fraught the situation is ukrainian authorities are accusing the country's news one channel of treason over a proposed link up show with the russian state watercourse the which is by and in ukraine the program which news one dropped after saying it's journalists had received a barrage of threats was called we need to talk and channel says the intention was to provide a platform for ordinary people from ukraine and russia to discuss the challenges facing their countries on the war in eastern ukraine and also pointed to a recent survey indicating that 75 percent of ukrainians would support such talks but the plans for the show still outraged many including the president. and on solemnly duly missed the teleconference is just a cheap but dangerous p.r.

move before the elections the google which is to divide us again into 2 camps. the show's announcements also triggered protests outside new news ones h.q. demonstrators set off flares and shouted at russian slogans a russian t.v. presenter he was supposed to be helping host the link up says the aim was to improve bilateral relations. let's say when i agreed to work on this teleconference i wanted to show what we had been reading listening watching wearing and eating during the 5 years when we didn't communicate with each other. a martyr mccauley who is a historian and russia expert suspects the authorities in kiev are anxious about ukraine's upcoming parliamentary elections. it sounds very strange because treason is betraying your country and giving away secrets. from involving your country to another country which your country feels is to

a disadvantage very difficult understand the word extreme word to use because this journalist was in fact trying to put forward and try to work on an exchange between moscow and here i think it has to do with the upcoming election is. going to be a challenge to the president is very nervous because he was the majority in parliament. he may not get it therefore he wants to get as many votes as possible and it doesn't want an exchange if you have an exchange between moscow and kiev. in russian they may in fact influence the election because various questions will come up how do you see the situation. how do you see the situation in. british government challenging a landmark legal ruling suspending new arms sales to saudi arabia a court found last month that ministers had failed to assess whether the weapons

may be used to commit war crimes in yemen despite having promised to review the licensing process following that judgment london now seems eager to get its exports flowing once again the u.k. lost its almost 5000000000 pounds worth of arms sales to the saudis since they launched their devastating intervention in the yemen civil war in 2015 figure makes britain the 2nd largest weapons exporter to the gulf after the us with more on the story here's a partridge. the u.k.'s government is fighting the court of appeal ruling that arms sales to saudi arabia are norful in the latest challenge in the long running legal battle over weapons used in the yemen war ministers are trying to stay the judgment which means they could carry on licensing arms sales to the saudis until the outcome of its appeal. last month the court said the u.k. export licensing process was wrong in law in one significant respect the government made no concluded assessments on whether the saudi led coalition had committed violations of international community area law in the past during the yemen

conflict and may not to do so trade secretary liam fox was forced to hold an immediate review of almost 5000000000 pounds worth of weapons deals while this latest appeal seems to contradict fox's assurances to m.p.'s that saudi arms sales would be halted handing a review as i said earlier we disagree with the judgment and will seek permission to appeal alongside this we are carefully considering the implications of the judgment for decision making while we do this we will not grant any new licenses for export to saudi arabia and its coalition partners which might be used in the conflict in yemen opposition leader jeremy corbyn says the latest efforts to halt the ruling ridicule the government's position that human rights take priority over profit despite clear legal warnings that the sale of arms to saudi arabia has contributed to the worst humanitarian catastrophe in the world the conservatives are determined to allow sales to carry on regardless this makes

a mockery of their own commitment to hold all new sales while the review takes place into civilian casualties human rights watch has documented the use of u.k. made weapons in apparently are lawful airstrikes foreign secretary jeremy hunt says suspending british exports would diminish the ukase influence over the course of the conflict but the campaign against arms trade argues the sales have meant british bombs have been used to kill civilians what the government has applied for is estee which would mean that if it is granted that their arms exports can continue under the present under the present process and this is the same process which the court of appeal has phoned was illegal and if that happens for now. means that there will be more arms sales and that means for good what atrocities committed because for 4 years no you can meet fate or jets u.k. made bombs and you came with missiles have plated devastating role in creating the

worst humanitarian crisis in the world and yemen is no surprise the government is appealing this paradox because it will do everything it can to maximize arm sales to the stadium region because for decades and decades to stage a dictatorship has been very largest buyer in the world of u.k. weapons the saudi led coalition says it wasn't deliberately targeting civilians but thousands have been killed the united nations says 3300000 yemenis are displaced and at least 2 thirds of the population need help in the long running lethal battle is no end in sight kate partridge r.t. . the documentary channels coming up next coming up to 5 30 am here in moscow we're going to be back in 30 minutes time with the latest global headlines. join me every. time i'm sure.

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