a saudi air force member opens fire at a u.s. naval base in florida killing 3 the f.b.i. has reportedly opened a terror related investigation. a member of the populist alternative for germany party says extremists have threatened to assassinate her even left across with the predicted time. also little is a larger as a character made new star wars disney series baby yoga is proving more popular than any of the us 2020 democratic hopefuls trending online.

and broadcasting live from our studios in moscow this is our international i'm sean thomas certainly glad to have you with us. and the f.b.i. is investigating a shooting at a u.s. naval base in the state of florida where a saudi national has left 3 people dead reports say that they are looking into whether the incident is terror related here is. 3 people are dead and 8 others have been injured when a shooting took place at the u.s. military base at pensacola in florida now the perpetrator has been identified as a saudi air force officer who was receiving training at this base he opened fire in one of the classrooms and he was then shot dead himself from what we understand the f.b.i. is on the scene and investigation between the u.s. military and the f.b.i. has been opened we are working with local law enforcement and with the f.b.i. in our actions afterwards as i said the basis for them will be shut down until further notice until we can really understand the situation. has tweeted out that

the saudi king gave them a personal phone call to express condolences for the victims of the shooting furthermore we now have heard that the governor of florida has been speaking up saying that essentially the kingdom needs to do better for the victims i think there's obviously going to be a lot of questions about you know this individual being a foreign national being a part of the saudi air force and then to be here training on our soil had to do this in the f.b.i. is working with d.o.d. they're working with the o.e. they're working with the skin to be a county sheriff's to answer those questions and one of the things that i talked to the president about is given that this was a foreign national in the employ of a foreign service is you know be time to do this but obviously the government of saudi arabia needs to to make make things better for these victims now the military base in pensacola where soldiers and military personnel from around the world

receive training these 16000 military personnel on that base remain under lockdown this is actually the 2nd incident that took place on a u.s. military base this week earlier on wednesday there was a u.s. sailor who shot 2 of his coworkers at the u.s. base in hawaii at pearl harbor. the shooter was a foreign student at the base and a member of the saudi air force he had come to the base to study aviation he was shot and killed at the scene by a responding officers u.s. naval air station pensacola is located on the florida coast their base has 16000 military and over 7000 civilian personnel the facility hosts many international students who are required to undergo background checks just before training just foreign policy executive director eric sperling told us saudi arabia has no obvious reason to attack its closest ally we don't know whether it's

a lone wolf attack or whether it's something as part of a broader plot certainly the saudi arabia in government has no incentive to try to eliminate the united states without u.s. support saudi arabia would be a much weaker position in the region trump will try to downplay the saudi role in this it's correct to say that if there was another country that president had not does not have such close ties with he would be strongly denouncing this as something he may even you could imagine trump seeking to cut off ties with the country. a member of the anti mass migration alternative for germany party has said extremists have threatened to to assassinate her because of her political beliefs christine bomb urged the media and other political parties to stop in her words their hate campaign against her party reporting from berlin here's evangelise the press. if the politician christina has posted

a picture on social media of a cross with number of insults written on it but also a very serious threat towards her the cross was discovered by the if there politician near her office where she works as a dentist on wednesday evening the police do not know who the perpetrators are but since this is a threat towards a local politician they have passed on the investigation to the domestic intelligence services office the alternative for germany party has quick to condemn the attack and urged the media and political parties to stop spreading their hatred against the ai if the. threat to just the tip of the iceberg attacks on i have to officials are becoming more and more common that 1st officers and events of the were attacked and now it's apparently against the law the health of all politicians while many politicians have come out to condemn this threat towards christie not

the greens who have seen a fair share of threats towards in the past say that these types of incidents should not be tolerated but a social democrat politician has called out kristina as being a liar and all this comes as pressure has been a mounted on a if the politicians by the c.d.u. and see as hugh calling to boycott them and impose a blanket ban of anybody cooperated with them they even went as far as saying that even having a cup of tea or coffee with them should be prohibited we have made it clear again that we reject any form of corporation with the a.f.d. even if it is just a coffee but if we go back a little bit from the beginning of this year there's been a number of threats and attacks towards politicians from many sides of the political spectrum.

i. i. i. well it seems that the political landscape in germany has been changing with a decrease of popularity form the c.d.u. and the speed to the increase of popularity for the if they especially in the eastern states of this country while these attacks are becoming more dominant in politics in germany critics are hoping that this will not turn into a disturbing trend. earlier we got reaction from alternative for germany m.e.p. gun are back he blames the coverage given to the a.f.p. for making it an easy target. there's little doubt that my party is the

principal victim of this political violence what's triggered it whether it's a combination of relentless media portrayal of aa party as a as a middle aged rightwing or perhaps even freshest organization in fact none of the policies would have shocked c.d.u. voters about 50 years ago it's important to bear in mind that germany in many respects is not the as society that it is patrolled as many people are dissatisfied with the extreme consensus politics people are now beginning to realize that despite the fact that mrs merkel is telling them that they've never had it so good living standards for well over 2 thirds of the population have not risen in the last 25 years. there's been

a rocky start for some u.s. presidential election campaigns with several contenders are already stumbling out the 1st hurdle and dropping out but seems the baby out of character from a star wars spin off could be quite successful if it through its name into the 2020 presidential race but of course starwars is cool so that makes sense or according to a recent poll baby yoda is out trending all democratic hopefuls on social media including front runners joe biden and bernie sanders but it's going to stop those 2 and the many others who are still up for consideration striving to be called a perfect candidate he's made a comment. in this imperfect world of ours the who really grail is finding something perfect it is of course impossible but goodness do they really try every 4 years in america elections the eternal search for the perfect candidate

a smallish chink in there who we are than that our armor is enough to sink him or her and i really mean the smallest chink for example pete booted judge currently ranked 4th in the democrat candidate polls he's a darling a mayor a family guy openly gay and he even has a disabled dog i mean what an angel but then i see he went too far he helped the homeless participated in salvation army charity events and that's a christian organization which is sometimes accused of homophobia you know hard core christians and all apparently race issues aren't the only thing. is slow to grasp what is his excuse for not realizing the salvation army is homophobic hard to imagine a more succinct visual metaphor for i will gleefully work for the active destruction

of my people if it makes me seem in a yacht or more electable than boots adige shorter within a seriously antique with salvation army these activists are literally accusing an openly gay man of supporting homophobia just just let it sink in as a dropped out of the race yet unlike camelot harris and one of her crimes as a half black half tamil indian woman was that she just wasn't black enough skin pigmentation seems to really really matter for a presidential candidate. then you have bernie sanders who spent his life trying to power the poor and for his troubles had the d.n.c. election rigged against him last time around but bernie just doesn't get it america doesn't want someone who cares so much for the poor sanders just does not

understand that a $15.00 minimum wage will hurt the job market and there's no way we can afford to make education free for everyone and on top of bernie's you know principles and decency he's just ancient. get on and much like former vice president and controller see magnet joe biden ease neck deep in just the weirdest stuff even getting really close and taking the nice sniff of people's hair now embroiled in ukraine gate he got his little boy a nice cushy job that pays a standing amounts in ukraine the poorest nation in europe and modern civil war to boot are sure he can remember all that stuff them ages getting the better of him to his memory isn't what it was then we have elizabeth warren who hasn't quite yet

figured out who she is in case you missed it she tried to pass a self off as part native american which was an exaggeration by which i mean it was entirely made up bashing. no what it seems is good enough homosexual whole move up a black woman who isn't black enough an old man that's obsessed with helping the people that need help biden and his has to figure seriously what the hell then again perhaps people wouldn't need pick so much if you know they had something else to talk about if these people had a plan beyond beating trump he a plan for america and americans but hey maybe not i mean seriously asked sniffing stuff. as a us presidential hopefuls look to divide and conquer the polls ahead of the 2020

election made public policy survey has a real insight into how americans view division in society more than 90 percent of those who responded to the poll said the division should be a key policy issue for presidential candidates on the campaign trail describing it as a huge problem staggeringly nearly one in 5 americans thought that the issue wasn't a big problem going into the vote in 2020 are involved vice chair of the libertarian national committee believes that the democrats are exacerbating tensions in us society. politics is about different ideas competing ideas here's where i draw the line if you start using non political means to reach to achieve a political goal you've crossed the line of the d.n.c. has pushed the idea that your political views are now part of your fundamental identity instead of seeing the other side of someone that that you disagree with

the opposing political side is seen as an absolute evil what we're seeing over here is somebody who's they are people who are saying that they want less divisiveness but a lot of times especially professional politics that's just code for if you don't agree with me don't speak i think when your entire policy is based on opposing somebody else. after a very short period of time you start to look like you don't have any ideas of your own you have no vision of your own except for that bad guys bad. hong kong police have approved of the 1st large scale protests since last month's elections but warned they will not tolerate more violence that story and much more after a break this is our international. you know world of big partners through a lot of things and conspiracy it's time to wake up to dig deeper to hit the

stories that mainstream media refuses to tell more than ever we need to be smart we need to stop slamming the door on the bath shouting past each other it's time for critical thinking it's time to fight for the middle for the truth the time is now for watching closely watching the hawks. nato the defensive alliance that has shaken several countries it's a union of the supposedly like minded the country do you and what the main threats of it's the appear to me of military might that said to be both in great shape and brain dead at the same time as the organization celebrates its 70th anniversary is it finally signed for it just think about what some of.

this is are to international now authorities in hong kong have given the go ahead to what could be the 1st major rally in the chinese territory since its pro democracy camp scored a landslide victory in last month's. elections police have warned however that they will not tolerate any violence from demonstrators saying that they will intervene if necessary in an illustration of the dangers officers have faced in recent months the city's bomb disposal squad released this video on friday. shows the police carrying out controlled explosions on the homemade devices seized during the 6 months of unrest that have rocked of the territory they say that as little as one that gram of the compounds known as t.t.p. which is used in the crude bombs can cause life changing injuries it's already

saved they have seen them regularly during used during the protests. when history rewrites this. but there's a review of. my watch the officers day after day night after night month after month 'd going i holding the light. finally some of the you talk. sits. on hold the line for more self-control the face of it right it will boil. last month the police claimed to have discovered around $4000.00 molotov cocktails in the hong kong polytechnic university which have become a focal point of the unrest a further $1000.00 explosive devices were found as well as hundreds of other weapons hong kong as a protest campaign began in response to a proposed extradition law and gradually morphed into a movement calling for election reforms demonstrators have also been demanding an

inquiry into allegations of police brutality political commentator andre check believes that by the violence officers have been exercising restraint. police. didn't like it much that overweight because. protests recovery riots call that are becoming life threatening some people died already and i don't really believe one of the police brutality in what we called i'm talking to you from so go to the bomb 2 hours ago we learned through bolivia's. violence. that homegrown police is actually receiving this sort of you sick experience violence this is all getting played it's basically the west is trying to harm china just well civil. authorities are very cautious because they know that all this is done in order to provoke the ones they have provoked once they interfere that there

will be enormous backlash from the united states from the european union. but at this political game these protests are basically going to be you know ejected to go and supported the congo by the west's. not so festive christmas card joke has been heavily criticised in britain for mocking people with alzheimer's a leading charity called it damaging and utterly inappropriate for the more than half a 1000000 people in the u.k. who have the disease now the card the content of this card is misinformed utterly inappropriate and actively damaging to the wider representation of people living with dementia the card has been removed from all but one website and it depicts a grandfather who has the disease being removed from christmas dinner accused of committing an obscene act linking it to his illness online shopping giant amazon

was one of the 1st to stop selling it after serious concerns were put forward by the all timers society charity in the u.k. . we have experienced a slight overreaction i think what we need to understand is that this is a card which is by modern toss and if you know about modern toss the cartoonists they specialize in using crass and distorted expectations of what is expected of a particular situation i'm caricaturing them my father had families before he died . and i didn't find it funny ever there were amusing things that he was able to share and. if only we if we had a cure for alzheimer's i suspect we might all relax a little but even funny taking it off for sale fails to recognize that people are complicated case there may well be people who are living without simon or her family suffering without simon's out there who are fans of modern toss and will

nonetheless get the joke and find it funny and i think by taking out the sail by and with the outside society pretending that everyone who has an interaction with outside this thinks the same way i think we're slightly underestimating people's capacity to find humor in even the most black and dark situations do we make jokes about the holocaust should we i mean on the basis of what i just heard about justified then the whole of course who rape or this list the number of things that could be if you were using this logic work for me. i must say that i am lucky the question is where the site of the human lies now the subjects that you just listed have been used as stock topics for comedy but comedians have to be very careful as to where they situate their humor it would not be funny to make a joke merely the expense of the victims of the holocaust or victims of rape but there are ways you can craft jokes in order to situate the humor away from people's

vulnerability in my case it was my father but when your your your wife who you or your husband. have a condition like what time is what you're dealing with is very very difficult and it's not worthy of a joke. floating the launch platform for a spacecraft is to be redeployed from american waters to russia's far east after the move was given the green light by the u.s. state department argues eagles fan of has more. the space race pitted to moscow against washington for decades but now it's bringing more than just 2 countries closer it's a relationship that's proving a catalyst for learning to gather as russia breathes new life into a cutting edge launch site in the middle of the ocean.

because. it's made in mission was in 1999 since then 36 launches 32 of them successful rockets flown from sea launch were produced in ukraine and equipped with a russian made engine after 2014 launches from the pad were indefinitely candy as relations between the countries hit rock bottom 7 space the company that starts the itself with reviving the platform plans on bringing it to the shores of russia's far east next year and it will take another 12 months to get it operational it is

expected see launch will continue to fly ukraine made rockets until 2023 when it is shed yule to make a switch to so use fife a russian rocket still in development everything from the pacific ocean the man steering a 7 space is no stranger to orbital exploration his military background makes him ambitious so much so he's been dubbed the russian elan musk but for this love feel love says there's a key difference but you must he's a talented guy but mr mosque is always trying to sell the few. well here in russia we're living in our current economic reality and sell exactly what we have now. there's tough competition before 7 space to become number one in the industry but russia's government has already said it will aid its cause blood is left is a big space enthusiasts it is in his blood i hope the project will last for

a long time i will offer to cooperate fully with him we are interested in supporting private russian companies and we are ready to share risks now it's too early to say with confidence if space x. has reason to worry but there's a new team with a big vision. for news of top they are bizarre to internationals. in this community there are people who believe that it's ok. it's really hard there are no jobs and you see that i've got kids. and as

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and this is the bus broadcasting around the globe and covering the world of business and finance and the impact on us all i've been swamped and i'm bridgeboro in washington here's what we have on the show today we're taking a look at the auto markets as we move more towards the electric vehicle economy who is winning big and who is laying off tens of thousands of workers lauren fix the car coach will join us to break it down plus it's been a bad week for 2 of the biggest ride sharing companies there's reports of sexual assaults are hitting both and a live heart we have team coverage of the accusations and how the companies are responding and we're also taking a look at the markets around the world who's up who's down this week and why the u.s. china trade talks continue to impact so many economies it's

a packed show so let's get started. and we begin today with an actual concrete step in the u.s. china trade talks because every day both sides say that they are close but then nothing really happens friday something happened as china has agreed to waive tariffs on some u.s. soybeans and pork as what they call a goodwill gesture those tariff waivers were reportedly based on applications by individual firms for u.s. soybeans and pork imports according to china's finance ministry keep in mind china had impose tariffs in response to the tariffs launched by washington over allegations of china's stealing and forcing the transfer of american intellectual property now speaking of tariffs december 15th that is the deadline for phase one of the u.s. china trade talks to advance otherwise a new round of you have to us tariffs will kick in those tariffs will cover about $156000000000.00 in chinese imports china's move to issue these waivers on key agricultural products may be a signal to washington its commitment to get

a deal done. and certainly before the deadline. germany's industrial sector is struggling facing the steepest decline since 2009 put in the euro zone's largest economy fell by 5.3 percent year over year for the month of october according to the federal statistics office analysts expect issues with the german industrial sector will affect the overall growth of the eurozone economy in the 4th quarter of this year german manufacturing in october also fell by 1.7 percent with production of capital goods buildings vehicles machinery and equipment dropping by 4.4 percent the auto industry alone which employs more than 80800000 people in the country and actually affects nearly 2000000 people's jobs has watched as vehicle production fell 14.4 percent year over year.