and i am now in berlin and nobody who my spoke in those two days in berkeley in. supports those accusations i think this is just a kind of. participation of some german officials in this. global into russian complain which started in the united states then went to britain france and so on accusing russia about trying to subvert the political process in western countries there are those accusations of some of the stupid look in britain we were accused of trying to meddle into british elections but russia has no possibility to do this then what is russia to gain from this meddling and by the way it was dropped immediately after the elections there was no meddling to resume has partially lost the elections because she was the elections not because

it was a russian meddling and now we don't hear this nonsense from london anymore so i think it's just a kind of political fashion to accuse russia of a possible meddling it has no proofs nobody has been implicated in this. no can sequences mr micron has won in spite of because asians that russia is meddling into something so i think that this is sheer nonsense and i think it's it's an attempt to speak too late of the so-called russian threat which has become very fashionable in the west but which to my mind serves no positive purposes and just very recently germany has criticized the u.s. senate's bill that could sanction new companies for doing business with russia are you surprised by berlin's reaction to this. well i think that i'm not surprised because of the. project of law the bill which was

passed by the u.s. senate. he started getting not only russia but he started you know all also european companies that are operating in the energy field and this bill actually prescribes to german austrian and other companies. dealing with gas and oil to buy gas from the united states and i think the german reaction was quite reasonable quite predictable why the united states should with this threat of sanctions prescribe german companies to buy gas from the u.s. the u.s. shell gas is much more expensive than the russian gas which which comes to germany and this is. this this bill is kind of instrument to influence the economic decisions of germany. of political blackmailing and i think it goes contrary to all interests of the european states it's actually

a direct meddling into european affairs and mr gabriele the head of the foreign minister of germany was absolutely right to say that this is a break of international law and i hope that the german side will stick to this position until the bill is changed in the united states now it is in the congress the reason for mation that. it may be changed or reviewed there may be some. corrections to this bill let's see what are those corrections if they don't target the european companies then i think this difference between the united states' position and the european position will disappear but if the u.s. side insists on. blackmailing and targeting european companies it will be yet another important difference in the positions of european states and united states

of america i now want to move on to the diplomatic impasse in the middle east and there seems to be no solution in sight to the crisis around in qatar saudi arabia and other gulf states who accuse doha supporting terrorism what do you think these are accusations are based on. i think there's a curious since they're based on the fact that qatar is suspected of suspected of having financed the organization of the muslim brotherhood. which may be partially true but it surprises me that it comes from countries that are. a largely seen as financing themselves radical islamist organizations and this what makes this argument extremely weak it's one seeing if this accusation comes from a country which has been. consistently fighting terrorism but when it comes from a country that is suspected to support the movements all over the world and is

suspected of supporting terrorist organizations in syria also organizations who have been a bomb being the russian embassy in damascus then it's kind of strange that this argument is used against carter so i think this conflict has. not so much to do with the terrorist support of terrorist organizations but mostly with the cuts or special position on iran or considers iran as a possible partner in the middle east and the terrorist critic critics consider iran is that enemy that's number one and the second i think it's a fight for preponderance for of for power and influence in the arab world inside the arab world and this argument to use to to weaken carter and to establish certain dominance of saudi arabia and the countries that themselves was so dear it

so as it happens very often rhetorical just to use as an instrument they don't reflect the real reasons of the confrontation well thank you so much anger insight on all of these are some of the what the most pressing international affairs that was alexei pushkov head of russia's communications policy committee thanks very times there. are more stories coming your way after a short break. here's what people have been saying about rejected a night with the sixty's full on ourselves i was the only show i go out of my way to launch you know a lot of the really packs a punch oh just leave it yeah it is the john oliver of marty americans do the same we are apparently better than blue nothing is bad and some see people you've never heard of love redacted tonight i'm president of the world bank so patzers i'm going

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intensifying fears that people will lose their privacy amid mass surveillance the proposals we discussed at a meeting next month the but also comes from a western alliance known as the five ice formed back in the forty's it conducts intelligence activities by collecting and sharing data working with u.s. national security agency mass surveillance programs and the u.s. justice department is now seeking new ways to end corruption as the transit to fight the practice goes global artie's came up and explains. arnhem sprints include forty one point five million dollars to enhance the f.b.i. cyber efforts and twenty two million dollars to address this going dark problem which i think is our most significant law enforcement challenge going dark refers to law enforcement increasing inability to lawfully access collect and intercept real time communications and stored data. now this all sounds really complicated like the kind of thing that can only be of concern to tech savvy teenagers and geeks well that couldn't be further from the truth the deputy u.s.

attorney general wants to spend millions of dollars to fight against encryption so what is encrypt inclusion is the purposes of including no message and so you want to do the right parties can access it all the major messengers whatsapp telegram you name it our encrypted chat this prevents the messages you send and receive from being intercepted by others so why is the department of justice seeking to meddle in a thing that works so well terrorism turns out that isis has been using encrypted messages and planning and carrying out their attacks and to spread their propaganda knowing that the information won't get into the hands of those who want to stop them so cracking down on encryption is not just a us thing. at the moment much of this traffic is difficult for security agencies to decrypt the privacy of a terrorist can be more important than public safety. later this month five star officials from the u.s. the u.k.

australia new zealand and canada will be gathering to share their perspective on why tech firms should be obligated to share their data with policing agencies the prime minister of the united kingdom included this is a plank in her election manifesto and also insisted that the government have a role in controlling the internet france and germany also voiced agreement with the idea. in many cases we dealing with end to an encryption which means that we need to end at the end or the beginning of a conversation rather than intercept in between that is obviously much more complicated but needs to be made possible. we are in a situation with our government where when they know everything about us and we know nothing about what the government is doing they have the right to privacy and secrecy but the individual does not anymore terrorist and other criminals will always use all kinds of technologies to enable their activities i mean terrorists to use drones terrorist use g.p.s. receivers were we supposed to do about that should we stop selling cheap e s we

have to accept it when we deploy a technology that stood a better benefit of all of society that some bad people are going to use it. looks like all of us will be obligated to give up some of our own private space no matter how much we feel that our personal business should be kept strictly personal but what remains to be seen is how effective this will be in the fight against terror able to mop and artsy new york. a confrontation has erupted between a christian and cademy at a local school board and alberta canada the scandal concerns a passage in the bible about the battle river school division considers offensive the verse is interpreted as indicating that homosexuality is a sin. the cornerstone christian academy has been told that it may not teach bible scripture which vilifies someone's sexual orientation officials at the school have fought back accusing the board of clamping down on freedom of religion or the only

ass canadian video blogger lauren southern and radio host cameron to give their views on the controversy. among religious gay men who's who is muslim and when i hear things about people taking things away from the from any type of holy text it does kind of bother me in a way but at the same time there's there's the talk about you know we want to teach our kids how to be inclusive and how to teach your kids to respect different types of races cultures sexualities and in order to do that to take to take that away it sounds like sounds like a step forward but at the same time you're taking away the freedoms of religious speech and the such what would be more responsible is that if you were to teach the text the way that it is and then talk about different perspectives and how to work around it as as humans. well this is always thing it's for the children it's for

the children but if you do that too much we've raised a generation of children that are unable to cope with ideas that we've coddled them from and later on these kids are going to have to struggle with these ideas if you tell the children throughout their entire high school experience that the bible says nothing about homosexuality what if a child is homosexual and grows up being told that their whole life they're going to have to face that reality of finding out those verses do exist later on and either going to have to work on their sexuality or change their religion and it would have been great if people were just honest with them in the first place and luckily i think it will be the case that this speech will be protected although the school has conceded on some points and taken out some verses because it is something that is protected by the supreme court in the charter of rights and freedoms the government has to say stay neutral on this they are allowed to get involved it is this school board that is being particularly vitriolic and going after these verses. representatives of the battle river school board have said that both sides are currently in contact with one another and hope to reach

a compromise on this issue. more stories coming your way after a short break don't go away. the fact that trump could get elected with a series of maist and distortions is a reflection of fact that the voting public could be convinced by that and what we really need to do when one of the reasons as a scientist i'm interested in this is we really need to get people to apply the same standards of politics that applied to science skeptical inquiry empirical testing and demand evidence for what your politicians tell you. when the whole make this manufacture come sentenced to public wells. when the room in closest to protect themselves. when the financial merry

go round lifts only the one percent. of the time we can all middle of the room sick. tomorrow morning real news real world. social environment. right. chemical discoveries over the last century made every day life easier but at what cost this is cereal is exceptionally sick. no wonder it's confidential. exists as the years old industrial giants reap the benefit ignoring the cools by chemical production. you know as if these people aren't just experimental animals decades later the toxic environment continues to poison lives and we found these astronomically high levels of dioxin

levels that my staff think maybe some of the highest. levels everything in the united states for almost thirty years this very serious problem had not actually been addressed what will that investigation into the chemical industry secrets revealed. dismiss. the earth there's. a train station in the belgian city of no more has been cordoned off after a suspicious package was found police tweeted that neutralized station of a suspicious package is underway at the station by a special bomb disposal unit meanwhile new details are emerging on the background of the brussels attacker who detonated an explosive device at the central station in the capital on tuesday do bensky has more details. well it just emerged through the prosecutor's office in belgium has confirmed that the man who carried out that

attempted attack at brussels central station on tuesday evening was a rock a national he was known to police but was not suspected of any terrorism offenses we also understand that he was carrying a rucksack that had nails inside it and gas bottles and that's what caused that explosion when he apparently ran at soldiers crying out akbar which is the arabic term for god is great now we also have been told that he was living in the mall and back district of brussels this is an area very poor and also notorious for its high concentration of ice and sympathizers including a very high number of jihadi phone fight is that have gone to syria and iraq and then come back to europe and carried out some significant major terror incidents here on the mainland including one cell that was linked to eisele which was behind the attacks here in paris in november two thousand and fifteen that killed one hundred and thirty people now four months later another cell that was linked to

that cell then carried out a series of coordinated attacks in brussels in which thirty two civilians were killed here's a reminder of those attacks in belgium just over a year ago. that attack on tuesday evening in brussels came just a day off but yet another attempted attack here in the heart of paris on the show a man in a van that was full of petrol and also contained on. bombs was rammed into a police vehicle on one of the busiest streets in the heart of paris now that

caused another explosion and again the suspect was neutralized at the scene though more details have been emerging about that man he is apparently a thirty one year old called adam desirea he was known to police and not only was he known to police he was actually on a wanted watch list now despite being on that wanted watch list it turns out that the thirty one year old actually had a gun permit and questions and now being raised about how he was able to have a gun permit and to be on that wanted watch list at the same time. the scandal over london tower fire is escalating after britain's opposition labor party raised concern that survivors are not being helped and some are forced to sleep rough artie's laura smith has the details. but news is coming out every day not just about the number of victims of this terrible fire but also about the way that it's being handled on the ground and the newly elected opposition m.p.

for the local area north kensington has been talking to the media in very strong terms about her concerns that survivors aren't being taken care of properly they're not getting the help they need and she says that in some cases they're actually sleeping rough that's what she had to say people have been sleeping in cars and in parks because they don't know where to go and they aren't being looked after the grand final response team which is now really coordinating the help that these people are getting on the ground say that they're not aware that any victims were off but of course the political reaction to this is very much ongoing as is the disaster management prime minister theresa may has ordered a thorough inquiry into the tragedy and she's pledged five million pounds to be available to help these victims but jeremy colin says it doesn't really matter it's not going to be enough anyway given the scale of the tragedy and the terrible fire has a call still to know the blow to the prime minister's failing popularity it came very

shortly after with after she fails to gain a majority in an election that she herself calls and her ratings have been suffering severe jaw drops since december in fact a recent hugo of poll shows that less than half of people are happy with her as premier and there is no let up today in the u.k. you'll be seeing pictures from us coming in all day because it's the day of. the queen is going to open up parliament she's going to tell us what the agenda for the new government will be and protesters are using that to shut down london is what they say they want to do shut down london take down what they're calling a rotten government now the grenfell tower victims. have come out through various channels and said that they want the demonstrators to keep this peaceful tempus of running very high so it's anybody's guess what's going to happen in london later today. u.s.

military advisers in afghanistan are finding themselves increasingly under fire from the people they've been training into recent incidents alone three u.s. soldiers were killed and seven more injures are gas you have reports. that camp shaheen joint afghan and nato military base it's here there's a taliban infiltrator turned his gun on coalition troops injuring seven american soldiers everyone who knew him or was friends with him is now under investigation being questioned though the base itself is still operational and training continues what we can safely say is that from now on after this latest incident american troops will be looking at their afghan allies with just that little bit more suspicion. green on blue attacks when afghan forces either infiltrators or defectors purposefully fire on coalition troops it's been

a taliban tactic for years this is an achievement for the mujahideen who have managed to create mistrust among the enemy forces such attacks peaked jaring a bomb as troop surge it got so bad that they rewrote the book on security. oh. no not that our first american soldiers training afghans were assigned body gods then all coalition troops were ordered to have their weapons loaded at all times afghan recruits were made to go through an eight step vetting process while an inquisition like body purge to anyone it deemed radical yet here we are. some breaking news out of afghanistan three u.s. service members are dead a fourth wounded after

a shooting reportedly carried out by a member of the afghan military seven u.s. army soldiers that have been wounded in northern afghanistan now this comes a week after three u.s. army soldiers were killed in a similar incident to a deadly attack on american soldiers two attacks in the span of a week three soldiers killed seven wounded sure it's nothing like two thousand and twelve when green on blue violence killed or injured more than one hundred troops but the situation was different then there were fifteen times as many americans in afghanistan and the taliban was losing not so now i understand it's my responsibility we're not winning in afghanistan right now the taliban is resurgent taking over vast swaths of afghanistan islamic state is also spreading across the country the afghan army the coalition a beset by challenges time for another troop surge. some

additional forces from the united states who come to afghanistan to take part in training and advising our national forces if one hundred and forty thousand troops couldn't win this war what difference will four thousand make would be thousand troops americans cannot defeat the taliban in afghanistan they just want the fighting to continue so they can achieve their goals. with more american troops in afghanistan people will get more frustrated and insecurity will increase afghans a pessimistic they've heard it all before the public says of security victory at the end of the day how do you win a war when you can't even tell which of your allies is going to shoot you in the back more i guess death. from kabul afghanistan my colleague a partridge was back in just

a few minutes with more stories for me now it's good bye thank you for watching r.t. international. is the u.k. in crisis after a series of deadly terrorist attacks a hung parliament and the horrific human tragedy of the towers as well as the

burning issue a break so many are asking if the ruling elite of. the environment. right. chemical discoveries over the last century made everyday life easier but at what cost this is syria has it's. no wonder it's confidential. says the years old industrial giants reaps the benefit. by chemical production. as if these people are just experimental animals. the toxic environment continues to poison lives and we found these astronomically high levels of dioxin levels that my staff think maybe some of the highest levels in the united states for almost thirty years this very serious problem have not actually been addressed

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foreign minister demands an explanation from the u.s. over the recent shooting down of a syrian fighter jet as concerns grow over whether washington has its own agenda in syria. details emerge of the brussels attack as background with saying he's of moroccan origin and was carrying nails and gas bottles. on the scandal in the u.k. after an opposition m.p. claimed survivors of the ground felt tower fire being forced to sleep rough as a day of rage in london plans to bring down the government.