live. breaking news donald trump signs his approval of a new sanctions bill against russia despite claiming that it is significantly flawed and contains clearly unconstitutional provisions. the u.s. can down the sanctions and threatening economic retaliation against washington fearing europe's economic interests will be. destroyed north korea's program and north korea told me to my face. meanwhile the u.s. is preparing for war with north korea that's according to a senator it comes amid rising tensions between washington and pyongyang.

netflix t.v. series. for methods of suicide we speak to a father who says his teenage daughter life after watching the show. i think that there are ways that it can be done in a positive note but never in a way that richard is it is such a dark and desperate situation my daughter should be. i should be able to hold her in my arms he should be able to care for her. very good evening to you. r.t. international. we will start this hour with breaking news president donald trump has signed a new sanctions bill against russia if it comes in response to alleged meddling by

moscow in the u.s. presidential election. has details. president trump has rather reluctantly signed this bill into law police a statement saying that while he favors tough measures to deter aggressive behavior by foreign powers the bill is seriously flawed and he only signed it for the sake of national unity the president noted that he expressed concerns from the beginning about a number of points within the legislation but congress included a number of quote clearly unconstitutional provisions and it's haste to pass the bill but due to the landslide votes that came out of both the house and the senate last week the president didn't really have a choice but to sign off on the same sions on tuesday secretary of state rex tillerson also commented on his and the president's dislike of the new measures but seemed hopeful that russia and the u.s. could move forward despite them so they're actually bothered by the congress to put these sanctions in place in the way they do so now the president nor are very happy

about that we were clear that we didn't think it was going to be helpful to our efforts but that's the decision they made that made it very overwhelming it was a. service that. these new measures hit russia's energy and defense sector and also affect iran and north korea russia has already reacted imposing counter segued and reducing america's diplomatic presence in russia by over seven hundred fifty members and seizing two diplomatic properties today a statement from trump ended with the president noting that he can make far better deals with foreign countries than congress but if measures such as these continue to be enacted he may be prevented from doing just that. it's being done for all she's director of grassroots political consulting good to speak. donald trump called the spill significantly flawed obviously doesn't like it was he signed it. he had the opportunity to reject this bill and have his legal team challenge the

unconstitutional provisions that would strip away his presidential authority from being able to not enact some of these sanctions that thirty and sixty day hold that congress illegally put in in their oversight role but the larger part behind this is this is a continuation of a geo political desire from syria ukraine sanctions since two thousand and eleven the united states to take a more war posture toward russia in order to have a conflict over and destabilize russia from having leverage toward the future of natural reserves this is part of a much bigger picture the neo cons in congress and throughout the administration whether it was hillary or donald trump winning we're going to be emboldened and unfortunately this president has had internal chaos has very little political

capital very small focus and in addition to that has given autonomy to this state department and the pentagon to be able to do pretty much whatever the is they want to do so no matter how against the sanctions he was all of these factors combined he forced his hand to sign this bill which had the overwhelming support of congress i just disagree i think he should have challenge this under the constitutional provisions as well as potentially reaching out to mccrone and to merkel and let them discuss and have full dialogue in front of the american people as to the illegality under international law that these sanctions have on the energy sector between europe and the european union and russia as well in creating the direct. pipeline capacity between russia and the which we also were

intent on disrupting so i think a lot could have been done by this administration to paint a clearer picture to the american public as to why the sanctions should have been rejected what we've seen of donald trump while he's been in office and indeed prior to that he is not someone he likes admitting. the national press but in mount holly new jersey has issued a severe thunderstorm warning for southwestern hundred counties in northwestern new jersey but western bucks county in southeast pennsylvania until two forty five pm at two o four pm a severe thunderstorm was located over there or twelve mile south of easton moving east that ten miles per hour hazard sixty miles per hour wind gusts

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give him greater strength in the white house plus get rid of all this tweeting and internal chaos if he's able to turn some of these things around and have strength in the white house we'll have a much better three years however if this continues the way it is and he continues to try to appease as well in the midst of these ridiculous bogus investigations on supposedly allegedly meddling in the election then he will have to continue to sign bills like this in order to take further pressure off of himself so the only way to have a better three years again is to have a streamlined focus for him to focus on strong policy and stop all of the distractions and find a way to get america on a path of three percent or greater growth next year leading into the twenty eight thousand election that will be the only thing that changes the picture of the next three years talking specifically about the sanctions who do you think they're going

to the most would be russia it would be iran china would be the 1930's bearing in mind that the e.u. is a very happy may take action against the u.s. you know. i feel will be hurt this neo-con geo political posturing of trying to create a cold war posture with russia is economically damaging geo politically damaging for us to be able to cooperate together on places throughout the middle east south america there are so many places where weakening our hand in working jointly with russia that we're harming or so we're harming import export markets and as you clearly pointed out as well if you create this hostile environment with the european union which is now growing stronger than the american economy and especially with germany and france and disrupting the pipeline and all of the business around it through these greater sanctions. ourselves more than will hurt

iran north korea or russia in the long term picture as well as in the short term from an economic standpoint and from hostility in not being able to solve multiple international crises in a cooperative environment and i know a great deal falls thanks for coming on done for on she's my guest director of grassroots political consulting. well let's carry on with the final point made in that interview because the e.u. has been voicing its disapproval with washington's new anti russia sanctions claiming that they can harm the block's economic interests let's bring in our correspondent based in berlin and peter all of a piece at what exactly are european officials saying about this. well these were never going to be popular sanctions with europeans and they've certainly proved to be not because if you target rushes energy sector and target those businesses that do business with it where you target e.u.

companies and we heard in the lead up to this bill being signed that european leaders senior european leaders promising repercussions should they their businesses be impacted upon we would defend ourselves against an america first industrial policy. the national weather service in mount holly new jersey has issued a severe thunderstorm warning for northwest montgomery county in southeastern pennsylvania southeastern lake county in eastern pennsylvania west central county in southeastern pennsylvania until three pm to eight pm a severe thunderstorm was located around twenty one miles east of reading moving northeast at five miles per

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let's hear a bit more about this from european business leaders and officials who've been voicing serious disapproval with what's perceived as washington ignoring europe's economic interests it's not excluded that they also follow that they also follow their economic interests. we don't complain about that unless it does not affect our own interests but right now it really affects our own interest negatively impact of the planet so interesting though is a very negative form. especially for the energy sector because under sanctions under the threat of strings and especially energy pipelines exports from russia. meanwhile the united states has carried out another successful test of an intercontinental ballistic missile in the pacific it's the second in less than a week and it comes amid rising tensions with north korea but while the secretary

of state says that washington wants dialogue there are signs that a military option could be in the offing. we do not seek an excuse to send our military north of the thirty eighth parallel we're trying to convey to the north koreans we are not are not your friend i mean military expert says there is no military there. to destroy the program. he's going to. the ability of this madman to have a missile to hit america if there's going to be awarded stop and it will be over there. they're going to die over there and they're going to die here and he told me that. that may be provocative but i really don't judge politicians by what they say judge them by what they do and by all appearances donald trump is ready for war he's seen the pentagon's plans for north korea and the likelihood

they've already selected a battle plan is are in motion and what senator lindsey graham has said only goes to reinforce that if millions have to die then so be it are you saying it's ok to use a military option that immediately endangers the lives of millions of people in that region. north korea changes if you have any doubts that the u.s. is preparing for war take a look at what's happening on the ground on the korean peninsula u.s. troops ships jets forces are arriving there in a ceaseless stream and see me sell shields up blanketing the airspace there are endless simulations war games exercises this isn't about scaring north korea no this is about putting all the pieces in place so when the final go order comes they're ready to move trump the rule promised to deal with north korea he

just didn't say how. well handled here we're going to be able to handle it will be it will be handled we handle everything. they aren't barbarians they won't rush into a war where potentially millions of people are going to die in the first few days alone. you have rex tillerson the secretary of state running around talking about diplomacy negotiations talks and sanctions a diplomatic effort to dissuade north korea and to stop its nuclear program who was unclear whether he himself believes that it's possible breakthrough now when it hasn't happened in decades but donald trump is on the different path and the white house is much more blunt and they're happy to tell you nothing the president obviously has been very outspoken about how he feels about north korea weighing all

options keeping all options on the table and as we've said many times before we're not going to broadcast what we're going to do and tell that happens. former u.s. congressman ron paul believes that the only option the u.s. should consider is leaving north and south korea to deal with their own problem beyond our ships over there and we have these military exercises and all they have to do is have one american ship and soccer something and then it would be all out war and never ask question who did what but there are some people who would you know literally do that in order to provoke this type of activity the options on the table is just threaten intimidation when we went into korea and i consider illegally because it wasn't a declared war and we kill a lot of people killed koreans kill a lot of americans killed but we stayed there so the option that we ought to put on the table is what we just get out of there let the koreans deal with it we're

hearing the same type of war propaganda and that feeds into the people who make a lot of money. war not only the people who sell weapons but also the people who gather up the oil and the natural resources so it's a very dangerous but i think we could have a foreign policy if it were designed more for non intervention that we could contribute to a more peaceful world. ukrainian journalist who's been a vocal critic of the countries or has been arrested on charges of treason terrorism slammed the move claiming that it's part of an effort by of to silence opposition media. reports ukrainian journalist or of its you has been arrested and detained and being investigated for treason by the security services for articles and blogs that he's posted between two thousand and fourteen and two thousand and sixteen and these articles and blogs are apparently critical ukrainian government and after searching his flat the ukrainian security services claim that

they found evidence of this has been paid by so-called russian administrators to publish such material at the same time or a visit is being investigated for terrorism but really more of this case is far from the first example of what some would call the ukraine's continued crackdown on anti-government journalists this website called me about cigarettes which is translated as peacekeeper this was launched back in two thousand and fourteen well last year they cost global outrage when they published a list of four thousand journalists and media staff accused him of being enemies of ukraine and collaborating with terrorists for their reporting on eastern ukraine critics have this. as a witch hunt website but going back to more of this case well a lot of journalists around the world as well as human rights organizations have raised concerns over his case as well as the issue of press freedom in ukraine. to discuss this story now without him gary who is editor of the news media platform

. terrorism treason what do you make of the. well it's ridiculous it's false and it's appalling but it's not surprising this ukrainian regime does all of the things but western governments tend to criticize sometimes frequently frankly without evidence in many other places let's just look at the list they have used chemical weapons on civilian populations and this has been well documented though very underreported they've banned political parties they've banned certain congregations of the russian orthodox church and illegally seized its property violating all sorts of international and european protocols this of course is a police state that aspires to be part of the european union it's a country where there's violence and intimidation against peaceful opposition leaders and and advocates these this is a country where politicians have been beaten up in broad daylight thrown in

dumpsters and all this other sort of stuff it's a country whose regime is totally out of control it's unrepresentative of the country's borders even subtracting the donetsk and lugansk republics whose self-determination is being crushed by an aggressive war the target civilians and so when we see journalists arrested for charges that are totally outlandish and violate every convention of european international law it really ought to embarrass the politicians in the european union who want to drag this neal fascist regime into brussels except that they don't because they can't afford the bill because for getting the war crimes the getting the crimes against journalists the getting the total lack of free speech it's a country that cannot even pay to keep its own lights on and the e.u. doesn't want that millstone around its neck do you do you think we will see much in the way of international reaction. it depends what you mean by international we'll

certainly see a reaction from the wider world starting with russia but certainly not limited to russia we'll see it from various peace activists free speech activists throughout the entire world but i don't think we'll see it from the united states who are contemplating giving more weapons to this aggressive regime and i don't think we'll see it from the european either because the european union is complicit in fomenting bakuba in two thousand and fourteen which brought this criminal regime to power and some of them are run repentant about it and the others are simply embarrassed what do you make of moscow's claim that this case is basically a clamp down on opposition media oh it absolutely is that and it's been going on for a long time there have been journalists that have been murdered under mysterious circumstances and we can only guess who the people or who did it we know for a fact who wanted them dead these are the people who not only support the regime

but some of these people think and it's it's quite preposterous that somehow the regime isn't quite extreme enough and so while russia is absolutely correct in condemning this total flagrant misuse and abuse of civil rights legislation and terrorist legislation at that i don't think that anyone else in the western world is going to say anything about it and how would you rate press freedom in ukraine at the moment it's incredibly low i would say that it's probably slightly higher than north korea slightly lower than somalia adam thanks for your views on him gary is my guest editor of the duran news website. out of the news a new study has found online searches for methods of suicide have risen sharply particularly following the release of the netflix series called thirteen reasons why now the controversial show tells the story of

a girl who takes her own life and then points the finger at who's to blame but it is generated huge concern among parents and psychologists new zealand the show was slapped with an eighteen significant making it for adults only while in austria two school girls tried to kill themselves the teachers managed to stop them at the last minute report suggests that the suicide attempts were inspired by thirteen reasons why. they attacked. campaign. settling because i'm about to tell you the story of my life. my specifically why my life ended. and if you're listening to this tape. you're one of the reasons why the united states to families blame the series for driving their children to suicide we spoke to the father of a girl who hanged herself just before her sixteenth birthday he says that his daughter suffered from depression and the netflix show pushed her over the edge the

show acted. like there's a word in psychology it's called a trigger that means that you react. byrom it and it triggers a response that left my daughter. feeling worse than she had before this is not the way it's supposed to be my daughter should be alive today i should be able to hold her in my arms should be able to care for her i should be able to hear her laugh but now i can't she's just gone she's gone from me forever. our correspondent kelly morgan gauged reaction in new york to the impact of the netflix series. nineteen days after the program was released google searches for suicide related topics increased by more than twenty percent that means roughly nine hundred thousand to one point five million more than usual from phrases like

suicide hotline or teen suicide or more worrying phrases like how to kill yourself all of them are on the rise i've seen multiple psychiatric admission knows that it detailed the presenting problem of why the teen is is there being one a couple of times them saying that they wanted to kill themselves in the way that the girl from thirteen reasons why did suicide prevention experts are warning that the show is kind of romanticizing suicide and unhealthy relationships all of which could lead to copycat behavior among teenagers or teenagers who in general are still developing the ability to regulate their emotions and their desires for those teens and especially those who have already perhaps contemplated suicide a series like thirteen reasons why can be problematic let's ask people how concerned they are are you a parent yeah i am a part now how would you allow your son or daughter to watch this this new program

with a company of apartments where you know if you put something to somebody's head and they already had that thought it might be encouraging but you can't control what people are going to do they might hear it on the street they might hear it in school you know that you never know i mean just because they hear from you doesn't mean it's your fault if you were a parent would you allow your child your children to watch that show louie i would absolutely because i want them to experience well life is all about the ups the downs the ugly the good all records should show the record that people should be able to. those have the space to be honest ok are you a parent. now if you were a parent do you think you would allow your son or daughter to watch that show or have a different view if i was a parent the producers of these shows need to be socially and ethically responsible for what they're putting out and. bare minimum that means that for if it's netflix for example before and after each episode in the series they need to put in places for where they can get help such as the suicide prevention lifeline they need to be

doing that at a bare minimum so that if a child vulnerable child gets triggered during the episode that they know where they can go to turn for help now netflix says they welcome more research as they prepare the next season but parents are asking themselves is there really enough of a reason that we wouldn't want our children to be exposed to such shows. r.t. new york. is clearly meant to netflix responded to is about the study's findings it also told us that the show was intended to promote discussion of what is a difficult subject and one of the father that we spoke to told us there are other ways to highlight this sensitive issue i think that there are ways to show it i think that there are ways that that it can be done in a positive note but never in a way that was that like this never in a way that retreated in such a dark and desperate situation the fact is that netflix does not care what the

medical profession has to say they don't care what educators have to say they don't even care what parents have to say on netflix cares about is making money from this show is not acceptable and this needs to stop we still have a voice as consumers or just as citizens we have a voice and we do have power to make change. thanks for joining me this evening here on international i'll be back with the latest news headlines in thirty minutes . you can see the border from the. steel fence. like this so this is this is. and this is.