no them to be told. just me to recruit. coming up on r t america the israeli prime minister criticizes the syrian cease fire agreement arranged by the united states russia and jordan. and secretary of state rex tillerson announces a ban on american citizens from traveling to north korea following the death of auto warm beer. and the f.b.i. issues and unprecedented warning to parents about the dangers of smart toys those stories and more coming right up. it's friday july twenty first four pm in washington d.c. i'm an election and you're watching our team there. israel's prime minister is

unhappy with the ceasefire in southern syria that the united states russia and jordan managed to achieve during the g twenty summit israeli prime minister minister benjamin netanyahu thinks it will jeopardize israel's national security and empower iran in the meantime moscow responded by saying it will take israel's concerns into account archies oleksiak jackie has that report during the g twenty summit two weeks ago when donald trump and vladimir putin met face to face for the first time a major shift in middle eastern politics to place the two presidents along with jordan agreed on a ceasefire in southern syria which has been seen by many analysts as a major move to make the much coveted deescalation zones work russia has often said that those would be the only way to bring the syrian crisis to a peaceful solution but the deescalation zones in that part of the country did not really work with u.s. coalition performing numerous airstrikes on pro-government militias in towns area in may and june from took to twitter later to underline the importance of the deal

saying it saved lives and indeed it represented the first time in months that the united states and russia agreed on something regarding syria but not everyone seems to be happy with this development israel's prime minister benjamin netanyahu first expressed skepticism at the idea but last sunday having met with french president mccrone in paris went even further and said tel aviv was utterly opposed to the deal israel's defense minister was even tougher on this saying israel reserve has complete freedom of action regardless of any understanding of developments and retaining exclusive responsibility for the security of israel citizens therefore of the freedom of action was absolute and israel would do everything that is needed and of quote netanyahu his office later issued a statement as well saying that he spoke to rex tillerson and sergey lavrov both told him that israel's demands would be taken into account something russia latest that also will be done and while israel generally welcomes the secession of the philippines in the country netanyahu said his land would strongly up. hold red

lines which are according to israeli leader would be keeping iran and hezbollah away from israel's goal on border preventing the establishment of an iranian military presence in syria as a whole and also blocking any attempt by has a dollar to acquire precision weapons given long standing animosities between israel and the mention parties such concerns could be understandable but former i.d.f. analyst general meyer argues that israel should be accepting this u.s. russia partnership in resolving the war in syria but simply because of the contested golan heights issue something which has been a thorn in tel aviv side and also the side of damascus for years he believes such a partnership would we have that state you are in a contingent in the heights and that would also serve as a solution to a serious issue bothering israel which is who would monitor the deescalation zone along the israeli syrian border all this adds to the already complicated situation in the region but moscow has responded to criticism from yahoo saying that it would

do everything it can to take tel aviv's concerns into account let's see russia reporting from washington d.c. and to discuss this we're being joined now by palate he's a former i.d.f. soldier and turned human rights activist and author of this book called the general's son nico good to have you live in person with me what is your reaction to netanyahu list of demands that include that iranian forces must be prevented from consolidating their position in syria and that and that russian troops shouldn't be allowed to police the safe zones that are near the israeli border. well israel has been a menace to the international international community and they've been an obstacle to peace for a long time in the region so now is rejection of any peace plan is the really shouldn't come as any surprise israel still holds the golan heights and should occupy it fifty years ago so it's understandable that they would not want any kind

of stability in the area because stable serious. i would bring back the issue of the fact that it was occupy the golan heights so i don't think there could have been a peace deal that israel would have accepted i don't think it's about the specific details i think it's the concept of a stable quiet peaceful syria that it's on you know does not want to see so you think no matter what the the the different factions inside syria right now whether it's the western allies or the syrian allies no matter what they present at all now it will always be something israel will reject absolutely israel will reject any any possibility of a peaceful stable syria there's no question about it that it doesn't benefit them because the chaos benefits israel as soon as there's quiet they're going to start demanding looking at israel and then they see that it's like i said it's been occupying the golan heights for fifty years and two million people in gaza starving and dying of thirst and no electricity in this terrible heat israel has got a whole pandora's box of issues that it wants the world not to you know to look

away from so basically it's a distraction and you know this and the u.s. and russia both rejected though netanyahu is demands obviously saying that as israel insists they're not allowed. they're not involved in the war in syria so they should have a say right there they have physically have no skin in the game israel but we now know that israel is involved particularly regarding supporting jihadi groups like al nusra israel was involved i think it has been involved in every every place where there's been conflict in the countries that surround israel we know that israeli planes have israeli air force has been involved in bombing targets in syria and there has been evidence of israeli collusion with all sorts of groups that create the that are part of the chaos in syria and israel doesn't need anybody to tell. you this israeli government is unable to tell them whether or not they have a right to say they say what they think and because they are strong and because

they have. and very powerful influence here in the united states in the form of the israeli lobby and similar lobbies in europe they get a seat at the table every time now netanyahu has come out and condemned bashar al assad on on several moral grounds i have a feeling i know what you're going to say but don't you find it kind of funny like the pot calling the kettle black well you took the words out of my mouth that's exactly the it's exactly what i was going to say the accusation by netanyahu that anybody else is a terrorist you know if it wasn't so tragic then it would be funny you know thousands of political prisoners held by israel again two million people in this horrifying heat without water electricity in the gaza strip. chaos in jerusalem where where where freedom of religion is being denied to hundreds of thousands millions of muslims who want to go and pray. and on and on and on so it's for an already israeli prime minister to accuse anybody else of terrorism is really

ridiculous it's just that the israeli terrorism comes in the form of an army that is a regular army and what uniforms and generals and they're not scrappy like some other terrorist organizations but it is a terrorist organization just very well funded and israel has also been in the news lately for ongoing clashes right now especially like you were just talking about palestinians in jerusalem in the west bank that's in yahoo also said that that the european union was quote crazy for not accepting israel's policies including the occupation and the settlements what does this mean for the prospects of a one state solution and given the current. now six months in u.s. presidency president trump will trump in a way as emboldened the the extreme most elements within the you know regime which is very interesting because now it's interesting when you call it the netanyahu regime because you don't you know here's too many people will end soon five years

of a very long time and he's got a group of people around him that are. or that or you know the characteristic of his and his policies. and they and they have been emboldened in a way that now they don't longer talk about peace they no longer but talk about two state solution they say it's all israel it's to the west bank it in some area forcing the conversation to be not about peace with israel but about a single state which will either be an apartheid state as i believe it already is or a real democracy and that is a conversation that needs to be had the talks about the two states in the peace with israel has always been as lead to nothing and so in a way trumps you know. you know the truth of that ministrations of the policy towards israel or lack there of a lack of policy towards towards israel palestine has emboldened them and is forcing i think a very important conversation whether we are accepting an apartheid regime in all of palestine or we are going to strive for democracy doesn't sound like we're going to the u.s. is going to be reigning in your own anytime soon. i thank you so much for sharing

your insights with us. israeli peace activist and author of the general. a seventeen year old boy has reportedly been killed in the fresh clashes that erupted between israeli police and muslim protesters on a so-called day of rage. the palestinian spiritual leader had warned the israeli government of the potential for an explosive situation our middle east correspondent policy clear has the latest on what's happening right now on the ground in jerusalem it comes as a week of protests over the israeli increased security measures around taking place if you remember last friday there were two israeli security officers who were killed and israel responded by closing all many of the entrances to iraq so today they stopped main until the age of fifty from entering to pray they also stopped

buses that were making their way from across israel with the israeli arabs who were hoping to go to and show their defiance not wasn't just a day of prayer today friday it was also the main day of rage it was called for by the spiritual leader of the al aqsa mosque and he said that it should be a day of hate and protest that people should abandon their regular mosques and come and pray at the al aqsa mosque but not actually go into the mosques instead stand outside with a metal detectors that israel has put into place in the last few days to try and beef up security prison and he said to quote otherwise the situation would explode i was caught in some of those clashes and they were on neighborhoods in east jerusalem mecca look almost like a loser and you have israeli security officers charging forward with rubber bullets and tear gas and also a machine that sprays liquid duty liquid on people the protesters surge in the opposite direction and they have huge rocks and stones that they've been throwing at the security forces now all of this comes as the israeli cabinet held an

emergency meeting and they decided to keep these metal detectors in place they believe it's for security but of course the muslim wished. believe that it is a way for israel to change the status quo of the temple mount which is a huge the volatile and important religious site that come in he has custodianship provide jordan the clashes are ongoing and we do expect the situation to remain extremely tense secretary of state rex tillerson has decided to impose a geographical travel restriction on north korea the ban prohibits travel to the country without a special validation passport for humanitarian or certain limited other purposes travel organizations estimate the ban will affect somewhere between eight hundred to one thousand americans who travel to north korea annually the band will take effect in late august it comes in reaction to the death of twenty two year old otto warm beer just last month the trumpet ministration believes the move will help to

further isolate north korea from the global community united states has so far been unable to halt north korea's missile tests. and a former texas senator kay bailey hutchison has been nominated to become the u.s. ambassador to nato her senate hearings are underway senator hutchison's nomination is a big swing in the opposite direction from then candidate trump's remarks about nato being obsolete hutchison is quite the conservative and has a very strong stance against russia so to discuss this and nato and a lot more i'm sure i'm being joined by former cia analyst ray mcgovern great thanks to you being here with us again today on friday with me like you're you're here with me every friday i love it how do you think the appointment of such a right wing conservative to this position will affect our relationship around the world with our our nato allies well it will depend on whether mr trump was able to

make his policies through. it's sort of like go team of rivals sort of thing. when obama came in he appointed hellary clinton bobby gates and all those people you know he thought that he could control them trump seems to be in the same midst misapprehension that he can kind of let these people be selected and many of them have a record of opposing what he wants to put through so whether or not he still thinks nato is obsolete which of course it is. she's going to do it she's told the interesting thing is that her predecessor doug luci the general right at the white house right so he said that he took the line and this was the vines at the time before there was a summit that. two thousand and fourteen started a new era in relationship to from the u.s. and russia and that was in late february early march because that's

when russia she screamed and made it part of russia he conveniently forgot that on the twenty second of february the west mounted a coup in kiev that was what started it was he is dead wrong in saying it started with crimea it started with the coup so. my gann was never part of the conversation was no so yeah and there wasn't any actually there wasn't a scintilla of evidence that poutine of any of his associates had any idea of annexing crimea before the two in kiev so he's got his could ology wrong so twisted as to whether whether trump who has said some interesting things about crimea. and ukraine whether he will. follow through on this rapprochement was with russia and whether he would be allowed to frankly that's the question now

given that that this is a nato. position. for for us at the seat at the table with nato shouldn't this position be a political why why select somebody as you said who has seemingly it in her years in the senate. gone in the other direction than what president trump is currently espousing and well you know it's really difficult to know how much control trump has over these things i mean he reached out and ukraine we want to just sort of get the. minsk record specked in order and the guy you picked to do that or a conservative court broker he was actually the best suited nato now. it's really hard to figure out what. what trump has in mind but i think that kay bailey hutchinson could be a lot worse i mean she's been under fire from the tea party for not getting

conservative enough so i think she's going to do what she's told the question is whether the trump will see ukraine and other problems that have really risen with respect to nato in a new light and if he does should follow instructions on like vicky haley at the u.n. who doesn't seem to be having any instruction here he does seem to be going a little bit rogue i think from the administration's stance on a lot of things it's almost as if she is you know almost like acting as as secretary of state where it's conflicting with what rex tillerson is trying to do but but getting back to hutchison here like you said she has a history of being pretty conservative maybe not as extreme as what the tea party might want to she she has a history of being quite hawkish specifically as it pertains to russian relations how do you think that background will play into the expansion of nato because we've

already added the twenty ninth member well you know she's a republican senator from texas you know ok now does she have any experience in foreign affairs zippo the closer she came to military affairs was she sat on the veterans affairs committee and. senator ok so she's got a military she's got no foreign affairs experience and it's not a policy making role you know she sits there in brussels together with the ambassador we have in brussels together all kinds of people it's a military alliance what she's doing there is you know kind of behind you have another woman a post like that you know and so should follow the structure the question is really whether trump is going to be allowed to follow policies that have been new nato and whether western europe and eastern europe now will. how they will react to

that because there is the beginning of a rapport schmoe now with moscow whoa imagine the stop those moderate rebels in syria that's bait imagine that will he be able to follow through on these things will the ceasefire hold all those things are very much up in the year but if this stuff does continue i don't think kay bailey hutchison is going to pose much for a problem for drinking i will see if she has any effect on his foreign policy or world view as it pertains to nato ray mcgovern thank you so much for sharing your expertise with us on the most welcoming them. and the f.b.i. is warning parents to be aware of smart toys that may be putting children safety at risk toys that connect to the internet are vulnerable to hacking also therefore giving toys access to a child's g.p.s. coordinates their voice or face parents are being asked to think twice artie's

project a sample of the story today from los angeles bridgette at tell us why why are children's toys so vulnerable to these safety breaches. monella parents buy these toys thinking that they're safe simply because they're on the market but what they don't realize is that safety precautions are often overlooked when it comes to these toys in order to get them on shelves as quickly as possible and to make sure that they're incredibly easy to use now this is a really big deal because modern toys as you know a lot of them have things like microphones cameras g.p.s. locators and oftentimes they connect to the internet without requiring any sort of password in terms of why fi or bluetooth which does make them vulnerable to any outside actors who might want to hack these toys and cause harm now some of the worst things that can happen take a listen i've got the founder of a leading advisory firm for online safety take a listen we're connecting our children to these toys which are connected to the internet in essence who are exposing them to anyone around the world and it's quite

possible for a exploitation type to get into that toy and listen and and the child can imagine a child in a normal setting saying oh to their teddy bear that's connected all mommy's not home she went to the grocery store is you and me buddy we're going to hang out and make some dinner and things like that and they're playing in their toys all of us in the hacker knows a child is alone at the house and with a g.p.s. connected to it they know exactly where that child is alone or is that a babysitter or they're going on vacation and where they're going to go so the house is going to be alone. this is very terrifying and it's terrifying not because of the possibility but because we've already seen hacks with toys like the kayla doll and also with some cloud pets products as well so these products are potentially putting children's physical safety at risk and also putting their identities at risk for things like fraud and identity theft monella oh absolutely

so what what brigitta can parents do to make sure that these smart toys are just a little bit safer. this is a great question because ultimately it is going to fall on the parents that responsibility here and the f.b.i. knows that and so they have advise parents to do their homework stating quote consumers should examine toy company user agreement disclosures and privacy practices and should know where their family's personal data is sent and stored including whether it's sent to third party services the f.b.i. has also given some tips telling parents to avoid toys that don't require passwords make sure that data is encrypted between the toy wife i access points and internet servers only connect to the internet using trusted secure wife to turn toys off when they're not in use and to regularly update software to patch up any known vulnerabilities they're also asking parents to check in on those products occasionally and make sure that there haven't been any data breaches with their

specific toys because if there are some breaches there than their information has likely been hacked as well manila absolutely interesting and necessary information for parents to to learn about today thank you so much for that verjee to santos in our los angeles studio. and tune into on contact this saturday chris hedges is being joined by activist and author eugene per year for a discussion on how combat in racism also requires facing the consequences of capitalism. so let's talk about capitalism because so many on the laugh especially when they talk about building a post racial america don't go there this you know absolutely and i think that a lot of it is people are looking for something that can sort of assuage their guilt and their frustration about the system that oftentimes can be benefiting them and i think a lot of especially upper middle class liberal officialdom they may know racism is wrong they may dislike it they may think mass incarceration is

a terrible idea but they still want to try to view it as basically neutral so we don't have to look at the depth of the system the role of the system the fact that really institutions of social control over black labor have been really essential to the building up of capitalism in america there's no way to separate the genocide of native americans but from slavery from jim crow and i think mass incarceration fits in a similar vein although i think as opposed to previous forms of social control which were all about sort of captive black labor and the slave system freezing them in the south a sort of permanent serves now it's really more about the fact that we've gone to this globalized supply chain the sort of race to the bottom at wages and living standards all around the world and it's really instead of keeping people working in a particular context containing the social contradictions capitalism has created with people on mass not working particularly the black well if you. area that is very different after one of the stories we just covered what do you to

that come forward america check out the website actually dot com for its last america follow me on twitter at manila and there it is i will see you back at five remember question one. you're watching art the american. way more. michael smerconish has a show on c.n.n. called smerconish he just did a segment with a banner that read international intervention has the u.s. meddled in other countries elections with a question mark as in smerconish doesn't know whether or not the u.s. has meddled and the answer could be no but no the answer is yes yes we have meddled in the segment interviews dr levin

a post doctoral fellow at the institute for politics and strategy at carnegie melon so dr levin is a very smart guy and he did this extensive research about whether or not the u.s. has ever melt in any other country's elections and through his research this very smart dr levin determined that the u.s. has interfered with elections a no fewer than forty seven countries eighty one election from the years of nine hundred forty six to two thousand and we're not talking about interfering with other countries' politics or economics through wars or whatever that number would be much larger we're only talking about actual proof of direct meddling in election and the us has done that over eighty times and she lay argentina israel japan brazil czechoslovakia ukraine russia south vietnam philippines iran you get the picture the forty seven countries and we haven't always even been covert about it more often than not we've done it overtly for the world to see so dr levin is

telling smerconish this and smerconish is like blown away by these figures and he actually says wow i don't want anyone to take away the message that election hacking is ok because we've done it so he asks dr levin to clarify that we've always done it for the right reasons and dr levin well it kind of varies and smerconish just kind of writes it off as well sometimes we have to choose between the lesser of evils i guess it's more congress. just can't read his head around the idea that maybe some might see the u.s. as meddling as the bad thing to do now smerconish is a smart guy he's been in politics and news for almost forty years starting out back in the eighty's when he ran for the pennsylvania state legislature he worked for bush when he was reagan's v.p. and he also backed obama in two thousand and eight so he's smart enough even to see past the part of the idiocy but he still was shocked to hear that his own country has meddled in so many election like somehow after working in politics in the media

for so long this is news to him that's pretty surprising to me and telling because if smerconish doesn't know the extent of his own country's meddling then how is the rest of america supposed to know. they're going to walk sell you on the idea that dropping bombs brings to the chicken or forcing you to fight the battle. to stop the credit tell you that every gossip the public. off the bad guys and tell you you are not cool enough to buy their product. the right along the border will walk.

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