talk about and that's where we can be clever because taxation is the dumb way of trying to get the world back from the wealthy. a mockery of justice a un official slams saudi arabia over the handling of the murder investigation of the united states backtracked on promises to sanction the country over the killing . concerns over security and political correctness christmas. comedy show christians in brazil over the depiction of jesus we get reaction. out of our. 24th of december christmas eve because celebration holidays in your part of the world. with your world news 1st for you this hour u.n.

officials have denounced saudi arabia's punishment of those involved in the murder of journalist jamal khashoggi calling it a mockery of justice 5 people have been sentenced to death and 3 others to jail time the u.n. appointed rights investigator believes the people actually behind the journalists have been left untouched or a spokesperson for the u.n. secretary general also stressed the importance of a further probe. the secretary general continues to stress the need for an independent and impartial investigation into the murder to ensure a full examination of any can accountability for human rights violations committed in the case jamal khashoggi who was last seen entering the saudi consulate in istanbul in turkey in october 28th seen when he was then murdered a un report suggests his death was a state planned execution but the saudis insist it was the result of a rogue operation kind of open looks at how the death of the journalist who lived and worked in the united states affected washington's relations with its top arms customer. the assassination of jamal khashoggi shocked the world and drew massive

condemnation a saudi court recently sentenced 5 people to death and 3 more to jail over that killing however if you thought that this ruling would draw a line under the case think again this is what the washington post workers showed you work had to say the complete lack of transparency on the saudi government's refusal to cooperate with the independent investigate says suggests that this was merely a sham trial now immediately after the killing last october many pointed a finger directly at the saudi monarchy among them are u.s. senators austria the netherlands denmark and finland immediately banned the sales of weapons to the saudi monarchy however donald trump immediately ruled out any such ban in the united states and he made no secret about his reasons but as to whether or not we should stop $110000000000.00 from being spent in this country

knowing they have 4 or 5 alternatives to very good alternatives that would not be acceptable to pay for the past 2 years democrats and republicans have called for the u.s. flow of arms to saudi arabia to stop those same arms have been used to lay waste to yemen sense 2015. but now it seems the battle to stop those arms exports is over on friday donald

trump was presented with a congressional defense spending bill by the us congress and that bill contained no anti saudi measures some democrats are furious votes this would be a pool tonight that instead of seizing the opportunity to and illegal u.s. participation in the horrific saudi led bombings of yemen congress will continue to fund trump's unconstitutional will the blame game is now in full swing with congressman denying that they capitulated by letting the bill pass i wasn't caving i was fighting to the last conceivable minute the u.s. can talk all it wants about human rights and condemn the pointless slaughter of civilians abroad however when it comes to the u.s. relationship with saudi arabia the deep financial and military interests are just too important to sidestep and it's almost musing that the saudi regime thinks that it would be a good public relations move to send inspired low level participants to death in

a secretive process that just continues to make them look like a very backwards state where justice is not served in the house and senate have now repeatedly voted in multiple votes in amendments to end in bipartisan fashion to end the u.s. involvement in this horrific horrific war in yemen democrats could have very easily negotiate. harder and said if this provision was not in that they would have voted it down and they chose not to do that i think trumps covering for the saudi regime is starting to look very peculiar i think even to you number of his supporters some of his more very far right wing republican supporters in congress and have armed together with progressive democrats on this issue. from festive markets with regards to claims of sanitizing santa to avoid offense it seems that for some in western countries christmas just isn't quite the same anymore has outings peter all

of them. christmas in europe what a wonderful time of the year christmas markets in full swing perfect for those last minute gifts the smell of sweet treats teasing you nostrils and on an evening walking in a movie in the list streets perhaps not gold with a special someone to keep you from the wind to chill not a care in the world but goodwill to all thought in recent times that's also come with increased security travel warnings and with some traditions now deemed woke what could be called the whole whole whole marginalization of the christmas period the terrorists are very likely to try to carry out attacks in germany you should be vigilant and follow the advice of local authorities security is of course power amounts at all major of the send christmas markets on different terror a time next to the market in strands last year and here in berlin and 2016 still

fresh in the memory. you can run the most this festively as you like but these the bar is there to try and stop christmas markets becoming a target again. this also should be to a number of questions raised over the inclusive or to have some christmas traditions with one person being publicly shamed for the sake of the christmas instead of sunset. i've just been shamed on a facebook group for using the name father christmas and told that santa is now seen as gender neutral it's a common trope in the press to say christmas is being done away with this year it does seem quite difficult to do christmas without upsetting someone

a good chunk of people polled say they boxed a gender neutral santa christianity is pretty central to the christmas celebration christ after all is in the name the one school in the u.k. decided to change the words to the carol away in a manger from little lord jesus to baby boy jesus prompting a pro from parents and national newspapers alike saying this was inclusive it's gone too far in france there's a ban on the tiffany scenes under their religious imagery laws the mayor of bessie is rebels and faced backlash once the go to seasonal salutation only really in north america happy holidays is the right way to wish people well we're told with merry christmas deemed inappropriate by some even if you avoid the causing offense

minefield you can still fall down on the environmental impact of christmas 57 percent of those polled here in germany said they would i the limit that you solve all abundant entirely christmas lights over environmental concerns if you prefer a real christmas tree good luck finding one in some parts of the usa where over the last 5 years christmas tree shortages have been reporters with changes in temperature and rainfall cited among the reasons there's even been advice published over how to correctly argue with your climate change denying relatives over the christmas period what do people in europe those think of christmas 29 teens. do and don't see. the family getting i want to table and eating each other so often just a spirit of christmas the question is whether tradition is not the same as why it wouldn't tradition be. right and i think santa should just be what he's always been

and that's a big man with a big. think that would be wonderful just to have a female presence as a father christmas i'm big on tradition so i think santa has always been santa i don't think there's any real issue with it for some population christmas means something religious. will continue with a merry christmas for me i think happy holidays is fine i think everybody should celebrate his own hole of. friends relatives for what was their own and wishing you all very happy holidays in the hope that gender neutral sun brings you a sense of security over. france's largest telecoms company and its former c.e.o. were being found guilty of moral heris month following a series of staff suicides during the 2000 france telecom which has since been rebranded as orange had been recently privatized and restructured at the time that

process caused thousands of job cuts thousands more employees were placed in different roles which were often described as degrading as a result of the stress caused by the overhaul 19 workers took their own lives of course now ordered orange to pay a 75000 euro fine and sentenced the former c.e.o. and 2 other former executives to time in prison we heard from some of the victims' relatives and successful we are satisfied and happy 1st and foremost because according to the extracts from the letter that were read out to us by the court what happened has been recognized as wrong as a reprehensible error. i'm glad that this guilty verdict has been delivered it was a decision we expected it was very important for the victims to be heard i'm very grateful to my lawyers and to everyone who supported it is highly significant up until now more harassment has not be recognised as a crime and punished at the judicial level. friday's ruling was significant in that

it was the 1st time that a french court found a corporation guilty of institutional heris mint but a lawyer for the company's former chief executive says he intends to appeal. says the draft said mark we're talking about interpersonal harris meant by a boss in relation to any employee i believe this decision is completely and reasonable it has no legal basis. for. the climate debate in the headlines for most of the year it seems that christmas is not off the hook either activists are now at odds with a favorite seasonal pastime ice skating more specifically the ice rinks which pop up at this time of year as charlotte dubin to explain. with the festive season in full swing what could be more typical of a winter wonderland than an ice skating rink across the world to thousands of temporary ones are wrecked it every year and for many skittering across the ice is a magical experience but it seems not everyone is in all and the future of rinks

could be on thin ice as the traditional ice rink has become the latest battleground for climate change french city wren has canceled its one citing concerns over the carbon footprint needed to maintain it in a few years it is not certain that there will still be snow at christmas but it is certain that there will no longer be an open air ice rink this is good news for the planet's meanwhile in bordeaux rising costs financially and environmentally mean the outdoor skating rink was cancelled for the 3rd year running the outdoor skating rink is absolutely not in she with the times keeping an outdoor ice rink cold consumes a lot of electricity open for a little over a month the city hall skating rink cost $70000.00 euros france's 1st indoor ice skating rink opened in paris an $876.00 it was an immediate hit and the idea has remained popular ever since but now with concerns about climate change is it time

for us to rethink some of our traditions we asked people here in paris has this popular activity weighs up against the cost to the environment since i disown them it's a tradition to have an open air skating ring like this it's magical it brings christmas spirit and there's not much snow it's good to have the rain at the national depends when it's cold enough and it's possible. but when it's not cold enough it doesn't have to be. you know we've seen many changes in the climate so i think it's very good very good of some parts a citizen of france to do that but i agree the thais rings are not good for global warming but this is only for winter it's not true that bad fear not they isn't on so that could keep everyone happy and it's in the most unlikely of places mexico in

a bid to keep a winter feel to the holidays an eco friendly artificial ice rink has been installed that and with options like that it seems that there is no longer a reason to skate around the issue charlotte ski. paris money ahead america's brand new military space force has got china alarmed sati report among our stories to have. is your media a reflection of reality. in a world transformed. what will make you feel safe. isolation community. are you going the right way or are you being.

what is true what's his face. in the world corrupted you need to descend. to join us in the death. or inmate in the shallows. twas the night before christmas and all over the world people or my seeking individual sovereignty palm i just wrote anything. again a new brazilian t.v. comedy has outraged christians in the country after putting a satirical and apparently offensive twist on the story of jesus's life the netflix

film depicts christ as a gay man who like to party. no one chooses him. over $2000000.00 have now signed an online petition calling for the show to be pulled from netflix they also want an apology from the producers over the offense it's caused but the brazilian you tube comedy group behind the production is not backing down. as the petition against his picks up steam we celebrate the success of yet another one of god's creations our christmas special the 1st temptation of christ remains ever more powerful or we've got the views of radio and t.v. host karen turk and media analyst lionel. i don't know what this brazilian comedy troupe is spanking with offending the audience that they're going after it's just

wrong it's just scary saying christmas is a major religion for a fact and it's just making a joke out of a really sacred holiday for many catholics and many christians around the world 1st and foremost what this is the greatest marketing ploy to take some 2nd rate 2 bit comedy and now elevate it internationally look if you don't like something don't watch it people can talk turn off the t.v. but it's another thing that the people are speaking through of this petition and they feel that it's wrong and they don't want to air and on netflix and you know what let netflix polit since the beginning of time since galileo there have been people who have dared to take on certain things which proved to be most problematic and not mad here to defend the idea when it is to defend the idea of expression and that's it and i can sit there and i can write down why this is blasphemous and it's true whatever you think it's terrific but we not only going to have a sharlee go again do we learn from this i'm all for letting people see

this so long as netflix and the makers of this particular tour de force can look me in the on and say they will consider making a joke about muhammad or abraham or any other religion i think that really what needs to happen is we need to start to have respect for religions but the reality is that the people have spoken and they want this thing taken down the best way to kill and quell than just dilute any kind of negative idea that you don't like is to be indifferent to it i think that they should have had a little more tact and putting this thing out about christmas now so it should have the respect for the religion for the people that have spoken in this country and a respect for tradition you know it's christmas. united states newly formed space forces causing concern in china wood says it sees the new military units as

a direct threat to peace. move on to the relevant us actions are serious while ation of the international consensus on the peaceful use of outer space undermined global strategic balance instability and pose a direct threat to outer space peace and security we are deeply concerned about it and resolutely opposed to it the outerspace security that the us seeks is this curious for itself only things. that are things happening in space. grow space is the world's newest worth fighting this space force will help us deter aggression and control the ultimate high ground of the space forces the 1st new military service in the u.s. in 7 decades it will be made up of around $16000.00 air force and civilian personnel and the full funding is around $40000000.00 but that figure is expected to grow to several 1000000000 in the future its mission is to protect u.s. assets such as satellites used for communication and surveillance but sara flounders from the antiwar international action center says it's more about

washington weaponized space here isn't really a star wars on steroids you could say that's being proposed by. president trump in this new legislation the part of the largest u.s. military budget and when you look at trump statements it's not only to replace weapons in space in is to dominate. this is a direct threat and so dangerous act there is an escalation and deliberate intentional as culmination of a threat against china a new enemy has created a new throughout when you could compare the nation's space 800 u.s. bases around the world no one country has been to the aircraft carrier. no one of our country has. and now the place.

of funding for the space force was confirmed on friday when president trump signed off the $738000000000.00 annual u.s. military budget the days watching the hawks are largely follows the money trail. we spend more than the next 7 countries come and that includes trying to rush of north korea all of them that's that's an insane amount of defense spending when you really think about it in the global scale. i mean why do you think we've gone so nuts in terms of just funneling money into the military without any kind of check and balance just circling back to that i think one of the other challenges with this amount of money is it's basically intangible to the average american citizen on the $1.00 hand it's the end of the year it's the holidays people are paying close attention to these spending bills in the specifics that are in them but also when you put that number out there again it's $738000000000.00 the average person can't grasp just how much money that really is that is such an astronomical amount

and i think if we perhaps had some some more conversations about just how much money that really is and get people to understand more then maybe they would demand more accountability of our members of congress and the department of defense in terms of how we allocate that money and how it's spent. israel's ambassador to the united nations as well as to scathing attack on the international criminal court they accuse it of diplomatic tera it's up to the organizations chief prosecutor announced plans to investigate alleged war crimes in the palestinian territories. i am satisfied that there is a reasonable basis to proceed with an investigation into the situation in palestine what crimes have been being committed in the west bank including east jerusalem and the gaza strip the i.c.c. prosecutor's decision has turned the international criminal court into

a political tool to do legitimize the state of israel this is a dark day for truth and justice bad out of my eyes and i lost a few years of hard work in full and also providing all the necessary information about the crimes committed by the occupying forces against the palestinian people the okee point palestinian territories the decision was finally made today this is a great day for us we have achieved what we wanted. the i.c.c. has the authority to hear cases relating to war crimes genocide and other crimes against humanity israeli officials insist though that it has no jurisdiction to investigate alleged crimes committed in the palestinian territories because palestine is not universally recognized as a sovereign state courts top prosecutor signalled her intent to look into the alleged war crimes carried out by both hamas and the israeli defense forces since 2014.

the director of a ramallah based human rights organization told us that all crimes committed in the territories should be investigated. they don't allow for instance for the special robot wars to get them to investigate they do to allow for the commission of you know the u.n. commissions of inquiry has to come to investigate this is the case you know this is how the israel is dealing and treating places see it doesn't work only in one way and the palestinians all of them they accept. that if there is crimes you know committed by palestinians literally i.c.c. decides about. go after the palestinians criminals or something like that

but why the israelis the concern from the if they know well that palestinians committed crimes this is the i.c.c. go after them. but i think they don't want for this mechanism and for this tool and for this or for 80 to function your christmas eve cards are reports on the white house stand by for max and stacey i'll be back in a little over 30 minutes to update you on all the stories we're across here at our taters choose day december the 24th. brothers soon will i do the room light of themselves a little. more limited role more than i was for it is to die in prison by the explosion love my life. take

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max kaiser this is the kaiser report twas the night before christmas and all over the world people were mining back on seeking individual sovereignty a new poem i just wrote what you think stacey is not made that oh that's lovely i said merry christmas in spanish i know that from jose feliciano i see you're still wearing your colombian necktie. now you know i sort i could think about 2 different ways really hopefully i won't be a colombian backed by you know the show that would be quite bloody yes exactly but where in argentina we're going to be heading to rio de janeiro those will be our next episodes from there as you see we're in the southern hemisphere where we all it took us decades of my life to learn that it's warm down here during the cold christmas up north so from now on i am going to be where it's warm christmas much better than that cold sand it's nice and warm down here so we're going to look back at 2019 and you know what were the big themes of what we got right what we got

wrong we didn't get anything wrong so. we definitely got right heading down to the southern hemisphere for christmas but the big themes i've been we've been looking at over the past few over the past decade it was this a few decades it feels like we've been doing this show for decades but it's just been 10 years this autumn we've got right diesel bliz ation indeed dollars ation those are the 2 big themes and they are really really really reaching across the headlines around the world and it's undeniable to anybody now we were called conspiracy theorists when we 1st pointed at the south but now everybody recognizes that dollars ation and d. globalization are going hand in hand i want to add a 3rd d. with the d. degree levels asia dollars asian population the popular.