well. syria accusing israel of aiding terrorists after the i.d.f. bomb syrian troops for the second time in two days as damascus soldiers battle with jihadists. arrest and make violent clashes between police and anti brutality protesters in london. c.n.n. reported li imposes new strict rules on its russian coverage after the network had retract. my very good morning just nine am here this monday morning in moscow. international

the conflict in syria has taken a dangerous new with the israeli military bombing syrian government troops for the second time this many days so a lot this weekend these middle east correspondent paula reports from tel aviv. well the syrian army has issued a statement in which it has accused the israelis of targeting syrian army positions on the side of the golan heights now the syrian army is currently fighting the terrorist group. and they say that the israeli attacks are only hoping almost where they have been to such israeli attacks since saturday as for the israeli side the israeli air force has acknowledged conducting those strikes it says that it is in response to projectiles that landed on the israeli side of the golan heights of course the golan heights is disputed territory but the israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu saying quite clearly at the start of the weekly cabinet meeting that they would be a price to pay even if such projectiles went and are not targeting israel but land

on israeli territory by mistake. walk up policy is clear we will not tolerate any spillover or trickle whatsoever neither morse's nor rockets from any front we will respond strongly to any attack on our territory our citizens. now talking to some people on the ground here what is being expressed is the view that the syrian army needs to pay the price for whatever happens in the golan heights even if the syrian army is fighting terrorists israel still continues to hit their positions for us to promote your just to establish the timing of the israeli strikes on the syrian military is suspicious and things. it's one thing for the israelis to say that they will protect their border that's leave because side the question what the status of the golan is the bigger question is this is there is there something more behind this then just the israelis responding to what they

admit is an errant lending of syrian missiles on their side of the border the anti-government forces in syria are on the ropes that the the basques government is making great gains that there has concerned these terrorist forces by as we know saudi arabia qatar and these other countries with the silent backing of israel and of course the participation of the united states are are in big trouble and for these really what that means is and they are quite clear about this that they don't want to see forces allied with iran on their border particularly hizbollah and i think that's the real concern that they're expressing through this action whether it will grow into something major i don't know meanwhile the u.s. government's agenda or in syria is coming under increasing scrutiny on capitol hill democratic lawmaker. is pushing a controversial bill through congress that would pressure washington to stop arming syrian rebels but also visited syria on a fact finding mission earlier this year. only had the support of fourteen other

u.s. lawmakers. we must stop this madness we must stop arming terrorists i'm introducing the stop arming terrorist act today to prohibit taxpayer dollars for being used to support terrorists oh it's he caught up with the u.s. congresswoman conference in new york. and many others are working hard to continue to build support for this legislation with the goal of getting it passed and ending this policy i think that there has been a concerted effort to both on the part of some in the media as well as many in politics and many in our foreign policy establishment who have been advocating for a continuance of these regime change wars really ignoring the fact of what has been the consequence of these wars in countries like iraq and libya and syria where each time we have these wars it has resulted in the strengthening of terrorist groups

like al qaeda or the creation of isis and it has resulted in a tremendous amount of suffering and death from the people of these countries. so this morning seems c.n.n. reportedly cracking down on how the channel covers russia related stories and into the lead from the executive editor of c.n.n. money says stuff no have to get such material cleared by him or the network's vice president first it's up to the chairman was forced to retract one of its articles and we've seen reports what's the perfect formula for a c.n.n. headline story for trump there at russia to the mix and top it off with bankers and money bad there's a scandal that would get everybody talking over the weekend sounds good until they realized they got it all wrong c.n.n. deleted the article just one day after it was published and posted an editor's note apologizing to trump's campaign adviser anthony's car in which she who c.n.n. accused of meeting with demetrius who has to russian direct investment fund or our

d.i.'s. in the original article c.n.n. cited unnamed sources surprise surprise claim it as she and dimitri have discussed a possible lifting of russia's sanctions in davos but after an r d i o f spokesperson pointed out the report's factual errors article was retracted a decision scaramucci approved in a tweet saying everybody makes mistakes and that he accepts cnn's apology but this is far from the only example of c.n.n. and mainstream media outlets jumping on the bandwagon of anti russia hysteria breaking news now c.n.n. has learned new information about that ongoing investigation into those allegations raised in the collection of memos created by a former british intelligence agency the report included unsubstantiated claims that russian intelligence compiled a dossier on mr trump during visits to moscow in january c.n.n.

broke the news that russia had compromising personal information on trump based on this year compiled by a former british spy was the channel never published in full but one must be decided to release the thirty five page document they committed it was flawed and the flawed goes here obviously did not put a stop to their explosive headlines how about that time when c.n.n. used screen grabs but with computing in their coverage of alleged russia hacking president elect just last night continued to dismiss those involved and the importance of the hacking yet this is in fact a screen grab from the popular post apocalyptic roleplaying game for four where players are asked to hack computer terminals looks like this is what c.n.n. thinks russia has codes local like speaking of hacking remember when the washington post cited a named officials claiming russian hackers access from electrical grid except the disclaimer clarified there is no evidence of that whatsoever i don't cares nowadays

all that's required to run an anti russia story is unconfirmed statements from unnamed sources political commentator john boston it told us the us media is tied with political power brokers. the mainstream media has brought journalism today down to the lowest level in history there is nothing about this particular story that requires the keeping of the source secret so one doesn't even know if a source exists or whether the story was auto generated by c.n.n. the owners of the political leaders in the west the people who finance their campaigns and the owners of the major media like c.n.n. are one and the same so with the same owner the media and the politicians work together as a team and that's the real problem here it's not a question of professional standards it's a question of ownership by democratic forces.

the new director of the cia has devoted a few minutes of his first interview on a national t.v. network in america to a familiar story is that russia meddled in the us presidential elections he believes it was part of a decades long effort in fact to undermine american democracy russia's always denied any interference can't talk about the details of the intelligence but we have the intelligence committee has said that this election was meddled with by the russians in a way that is frankly not particular original they've been doing this for an awfully long time and we are decades into the russians trying to undermine american democracy but if cia chief himself is tired of accusing the kremlin seems more and more americans are a newly released poll suggests that more than half of the people surveyed would like to see congress at the media focus on other issues such as health care for example we've got expert opinion only allegations against russia from joel microfiche sees the guy that created the first commercial antivirus software and

work for nasa he says the u.s. elections were most likely by a teen. i feel that russia has been seriously abused by america and certainly our american pop government and politicians over the false accusations of russia tried to hack our election i know for a fact that russia did not hack the the d.n.c. source absolutely not yet all of our politicians all of them are going crazy about us the russians tried to hack us they tried to control us we had a report from homeland security here in america that actually included the malware the software that was used for the hack well myself and hundreds of other researchers have looked at that and discovered that it's a very common piece of malware called p a s web shell it was it was

collected from a website that only asked for donations and it was six versions old and even the newest version only sells for fifty dollars now i ask you please people do you believe that the russian government cannot afford to pay even fifty dollars if they wanted to buy software that they would go to a donated site where you didn't have to pay anything it was it was some teenager a random teenager somewhere in the world that did this meantime in related news cyber security companies symantec has refused to russia access to its source code for its security products russia wanted to use it to protect itself from hackers inside be a specific breast benard the company cited security concerns but joe mccarthy again believes there is something else behind the move to man tech did this for purely political reasons i know this for a fact but i would have done it not for political reasons but for but for actual

good sense for the company all of our politicians all of them are going crazy about yes the russians try. the hackers they try to control us and so so mantric not wanting to to offend our government is doing this to make them look like the good guys but that's foolish. six police officers have been injured in london after a protest against police brutality turned violent four were arrested. protesters held stones at police and rubbish bins of lights the anger was over the death of the twenty five year old black man after a should have been a standard traffic stop in london demonstrators claimed though he was brutally beaten by police who died six days later in hospital marches carried banners

reading black lives matter in the chanted slogans against racism in police ranks the police say they're investigating groups of. staying in the u.k. the u.k. prime minister trees of may is due to present the detail on offer for the rights of e.u. citizens living in britain later today however some in europe are already dissatisfied with what's already been put on the table. my first impression is that the u.k. self is below expectations. that its risks worsening the situation. but before when they go to ally steel for line by line well should receive paper and threats of walking away from the deal already coming from top bricks it negotiated david davis. this started with suggestions that will be a punishment deal you know that we would have to do worse outside we don't believe will do work and i believe will in court will take

a couple years will do significantly better with the global markets but we cannot have a certain size of the other sizes are going to punish you so if that happens then there's a walkway and we have to plan for that mr davis also really reiterated his eagerness to establish beneficial economic agreements such as free trade and the customs treaty despite some conditions still remain more uncertain than ever though it's among the issues which former european commission president jose manuel barroso has been discussed with sophie shevardnadze full interview on the air and later today if you not see it already breaks it is a important issue it was a problem or you was not happy with it but to be honest. britain great we did was always some kind of exceptional case in your opinion britain did not want to be a member of the euro did not want to be a member of shingle there was what sometimes you called the british exceptionalism so it's true that it is a problem for us it seems like there is a wedge between their western history and because of the migrant quota situation

and to us it also seems like work said in large part happened because of the migrants ration jeannot feel like the migrant situation not graduates of division is a real problem. first of all for the migrants and for the refugees that's a real treasure that when europeans i mean let's put things in context when some of my colleagues in europe say that we have a good big problem i say look our problem is nothing called bear with the problem of those people that are suffering and they are dying in the military the disease so we have to help these people so let's be straight as a problem for a year of sheedy's it is an issue that we have to settle but by the way it's now better than two years ago how how do you perceive it and how do you see it while they use rich countries continuously have to bail out the poor know their differences differences among the member states until now it was possible to. to

find solutions sometimes very difficult lot of pain and sacrifice. but once again the more pessimists were wrong and the cynics were wrong i was present of the commission when most people were telling me that this was going to be you know the market sentiment at the time from new york to london was greece is going to leave they were wrong reasons to remember and they believe it will remain i was just knowing athens. good morning this is our international i'm kevin know a lot more to come including news just in but encrypted messaging apps back in the spotlight over the use now by terrorists investigators made a key find in the sim petersburg metro bombing probe we'll tell you about that. here's what people have been saying about rejected a night with you i was actually just full on awesome i was the only show i go out

of my way to launch you know what it was that really packs a punch. yeah it is the john oliver of r t america is doing the same we are apparently better than blue. sea people you've never heard of love redacted and. president of the world bank so you're going to write me seriously send us an e-mail .

again since his twenty sixteen presidential campaign donald trump's been promising to bring the nation together. i say it is time for us to come together as one united people we may have our differences we are strongest when we are unified however the divisions appear to have deepened since last year's election pitting not only political opponents but even us states against each other and reports liberal california is unhappy with some of its conservative sister states its ban state sponsored travel to texas alabama south dakota and kentucky with north carolina mississippi kansas and tennessee already on the list these sanctions of sorts are bringing up some interesting historical memory.

california says that it's taking this action in response to what it says is discrimination against lesbian gay bisexual and transgender people each of those states in the recent weeks have been acted legislation that may deprive some of the individuals of those states and individuals who visit those states of their constitutional rights there are consequences to discrimination restricting state sponsored travel is a consequence i think they're just trying to cause infighting in the u.s. i think be all to make of liberals in some kind of civil war and that's where that's their goal at least but the lone star state is fighting back texas to long with twelve other states is threatening to sue california for its climate change initiative which discloses companies investments in fossil fuels now the governor of california has announced that he's ready to fight against the republicans in d.c. . and other states and other provinces throughout the world will step up there's

already been talk of a calyx or this liberal state behemoth breaking away from the rest of the country seem to be escalating right now in a war of words between the conservative forces in california california to the left of the truck with the. so right now california is one of the most progressive states in this country and not to be outdone a few texans are now raising the idea of secession and raising the lone star flag once again we are advocating for texas leaving the union we've been doing this now for well over a day and we've come you know in this last legislative session we came closer and we've never come before there are going to be states that are going to be leaving the union and it's going to happen sooner rather than later if you pay attention to american politics it's pretty clear that folks don't see eye to eye but are we really getting back to civil war levels where we all can't be one country some folks certainly think so and the gap between the liberal and conservative states is

only getting bigger. new york. it's about you united we stand divided. what about what you got out of. respect. for. the democrats. one of the reasons i won the election there are very. new investigators looking into this in petersburg metro bought me in april say as a compass is used to controversial encrypted messaging service to plan and carry out the atrocity it can tell us about this across. these kind of concerns we raised before but let's talk about what the federal security service is as come up

a lot of they said this morning well kevin first of all telegraph it is a messaging app that boasts outstanding levels of privacy and is of course what they're encryption secret chats if we go back to the terrorist attack in st petersburg that happened almost three months. to go back then the suicide bomber killed fifteen people in the st petersburg metro system and the investigation now got to a point when the russian federation security services are saying that all stages of the operation about attack the suicide bomber and also any other perpetrators any other people who assisted him both in russia and abroad or using a telegram to do that what the f.s.b. are also saying is that with all its encryption features is the most widely used messaging by terrorist organizations in russia great if not up to anything but if you can you can see the concern but it's so this is not the first time there's been

concerns about. terrorism abusing them it's been a concern in the u.k. as well as. this issue has been grabbing attention all across the world in the past year to research organizations have put together at least one hundred reports of ground being used by jihadi organizations around the world you were mentioning the u.k. of course you know there are other apps that have been operating there encryption capabilities like watson after the u.k. terrorist attacks developers got under fire for these kind of things in particular by some of the high profile officials in britain take a listen we want companies to develop tools to identify and remove harmful materials automatically i want to see them reports this content. and block the uses to spread it there should be no place for terrorists to hide we need to make sure all the organizations like whatsapp and there are plenty of others like that don't

provide a secret place for terrorists to communicate with each other we need to make sure that our intelligence services have the ability to get into situations like encrypted whatsapp. but the threat of more terrorist attacks all across the world is out there so definitely we're balanced to hear more debate the usual thing privacy versus security with all these messages. and studies by the early this morning thank you thing with us too twenty four minutes past one of the morning moscow time i hope the day's going good if you just about to start satori maybe just go to bed rather you won't shake let me tell you about the programs coming up next on r.t. international around the world going on the ground looking to britain's i was in crisis if you want to get in the morning to you can stay with us off the break for renegade inc.

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i'm after a taxi and this is going underground on the day to raise i'm a uses the bricks that bargaining chip of the fate of millions of e.u. citizens living in the u.k. coming up in today's show the former vice chair of britain's ruling conservative party on whether to raise a dead or just wounded as an opinion poll shows jeremy corbyn is the first labor leader in ten years to be britain's number one choice for prime minister and one of call been shadow cabinet forward over the minister barry gardiner on bringing

a party previously paramilitaries into the british government and from v. for vendetta to the mosque in the flag we investigate the power of street protest to shake the world ahead of this week's not one day more march against the british government in the last from jerry lewis to jerry seinfeld we speak to the man who brought the biggest names in comedy together with a new film dying laughing about using stand up to stand against political elites all this and more coming up in today's going underground but first today's the u.n. international day in support of victims of torture it celebrates the coming into force of the convention against torture and other cruel inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment thirty years ago today but torture allegations have been rife in recent years here is britain's bricks and negotiator david davis unsatisfied with responses given by david miliband then corbin new labor foreign secretary. david miliband today to come to the house of commons make

a statement we've heard no sign of doing so i'll ask again tomorrow he ought to explain to the house of commons firstly what the situation is hope that the government is not complicit in torture and when torture allegations against the british government are raised some cases just end in failure with the judiciary citing potential damage to british interests the man who's. says he was sent by britain to libya to be tortured with his wife speaking for the first time on t.v. about what happened to her they are angry at today's decision that no one will face criminal charges but of course there were torture cases before the u.k. invaded afghanistan iraq libya and syria u.k. government mandated torture that acted as a recruiting sergeant for the ira. helicopters took them away fourteen men out of hundreds of nationals who were interned they were singled out for special to.