straight days of prophets on their journey as they don't take any fricken risk what about people that are so smart. the russian military says it's repelled an anti and those who are excuse me and all those who are terrorist attack on syrian army positions need it live inside a deescalation it also alleges u.s. special forces polluted with the terrorists to stop the syrian army moving east of dns all. spanish police to arrest and loney is judea economy minister has the authority turned up the heat over the region's upcoming illegal independence referendum. donald

trump's noms iran and syria and north korea and his first speech at the un general assembly but its overall tone sounds remarkably similar to the speeches of his predecessors. in america we do not seek to impose our way of large on anyone i do not think that america can or should impose our system of government on. watching r.t. international with me making a breaking news story this hour the russian military has accused the us of colluding with al nusra or terrorists here in orange to syrian army positions inside the deescalation zone let's go straight to our guest to go to a few things syria for more on this now more i get to see what do we know so.

well the russian military says says that the rebel offensive that was launched a few days ago in northern. province just south of the province a huge offensive utilizing tanks armored personnel carriers thousands of job fighters as well as intensive tillery shelling they say that that was initiated by the united states. by the united states. or did they say the rebels are doing this attack in order to impede the syrian military in its fight against isis a rather successful fight i might take in the hundreds and thousands of square kilometers away from isis they liberated town to village off the town along the euphrates river a. day it has soared and the russian military says that this latest fence of by the rebels is an effort to stop that. one of the main aims of the terrorists was the

capture of a unit of russian military police carrying out its duties at an observation post which was created in the area to control and enforce the deescalation zone. and that was another objective that the russian military claims the rebels had one of their chief ones the capture of a detachment of russian military police court in the courts in the area the rebels penetrated twelve kilometers into government controlled territory that's the extent of how far they got in the process they will but surrounded a contingent of russian military police who many hours alone without heavy support heavy vehicles such as tanks in order to stay alive to keep the rebels away they managed to get out that thanks the support from the russian air force the syrian air force they managed to withdraw and now the syrian military is on the counter offensive they've retaken almost all of the territory seized by the rebels and some

statistics for you the russian military says that they've destroyed eight hundred fifty day job just fight this eleven for. help the areas but it's dozens and dozens of pickup trucks and they're going to replace it so it does look like they've managed to blunt this offensive. a target was a blow to live military police numbering twenty nine people was trapped for several hours forced to. disappoint being outnumbered. ok that was more audacity of their speaking to his life from syria on the breaking news story we're bringing you this hour that the russian military police have been attacked by our. in syria it's a move initiated by u.s. special forces we're going to be bringing you more details and analysis on our breaking news story throughout the next few hours so stay with us for that.

well thousands of protesters have gathered in barcelona to condemn police searches and arrests ahead of council loney as independence referendum madrid proclaims the upcoming vote illegal and sent to the civil guard to seize promotional materials including more than ten million ballots from several catalan ministries twelve officials were arrested including kurds and loney is junior economy minister to learn is leader has flunked the spanish authorities for imposing what he calls a defacto state of emergency and accuses madrid of violating the autonomous regions independence over that of the catalonian government has been subjected to coordinate aggression from the police force of the spanish interior ministry. well as part of madrid's drive to block the referendum thirty seven council on

matters who had voiced support for the upcoming vote have been issued court summons and a criminal probe on top of that more than seven hundred other members were threatened with arrest last week spain's prime minister was strongly attacked in parliament over the madrid sanctions live beagle. legal. yes miles seems to me that on us when we spoke to the mayor of a cots along municipality he says people also price by the actions of the author of teeth today the thousand and seven do you. see police forces going off the books. about. something very very strange is something. i think many people out of amaze reaction of the spanish started to use. surprise. the police the judge

is putting so much pressure this is not a movement only led by. politicians but someone that this is a movement by itself so free citizens that's what makes us a strong strong supporter. of the sea. want to stand out or at least they don't want to see this by the see these this reality. cousin only has right to independence has been obstructed by madrid for years. it would have you. you. know the in.

the whole trying to pass delivered his first address to the u.n. general assembly however much of his rhetoric seems remarkably reminiscent of what his predecessors used to say a new york correspondent caleb maupin looks at some of the new presidents or rather old for marx. opened up his debut in the green marble hall of the united nations with some of his signature rhetoric which many people argue got him elected as president of the united states i will own was put america first but from putting national interests first this speech quickly moved to a globalist agenda with a list of condemnations of other governments rogue regimes represented in this body not only support terrorists but threaten other nations and their own people with the most destructive weapons known to humanity trump lashed out at the syrian

government reiterating claims that damascus has used chemical weapons the actions of the criminal regime of bashar. including the use of chemical weapons against his own citizens even innocent children shock the conscience of every decent person trump threatened to destroy in north korea prompting a walkout from the country's ambassador the united states has great strength and patients but if it is forced to defend itself or its allies we will have no choice but to totally destroy north korea and then trump lashed out at iran branding the country a rogue state it is time for the entire world to join us in demanding the veterans government and its pursuit of death and destruction donald trump's speech ended up being a sort of call for countries around the world to confront those who quote threaten

us with chaos turmoil and terror namely three countries iran syria and north korea two of which were named as the axis of evil by previous us president george w. bush but we know their true nature. north korea is a regime arming with missiles and weapons of mass destruction. while starving its citizens. iran aggressively pursue seize weapons and exports terror. well an unelected few repressed the iranian people's hope for freedom so much for trump's election promises offering a new approach to world politics focusing on america's national interests and not being the policeman of the world cable map and r.t. new york and george w. bush is not the only president whose rhetoric was similar to trump's at times the new president even sounded like his party opponent and predecessor barack obama in

america we do not seek to impose our way of life on anyone i do not think that america can or should impose our system of government on other couples. in remote corners of the world citizens are demanding respect for the dignity of our people a future of dignity and peace for the people of this wonderful earth. we will fight together we must work together to sacrifice together i believe we must do better together and stand together for peace all of us can be coworkers with god the almighty god who made us all as our correspondent mentioned earlier trump lashed out at north korea syria and iran and in his address well two wrongs foreign minister has already reacted he branded trumps remarks shameless and ignorant where despite iran's compliance with the nuclear nonproliferation that was signed back in twenty fifteen washington has been

escalating tensions with the country trump administration views the dail as unfair and in july and now as the new sanctions against iran just a week later congress passed a bill to impose fresh functions against the country we're going to his ally president macron of france has nonetheless defended the deal from the very same podium where trump lashed out at around. i would like to defend the nuclear agreement with iran are a gauge went on nonproliferation allowed us to work out on the fourteenth of july two thousand and fifteen a solid robust and verifiable agreement that enables us to ensure that iran does not obtain nuclear weapons renouncing it would be a great era this could apply to north korea to immediately dialogue control and multilateralism these are the efficient weapons this is the only way forward. however u.s. secretary of state rex tillerson said washington needs its european allies to make

the case to iran that the deal has to be revisited or this is how a rainy and have reacted to trying to latest harsh remarks about their country well you know the un says iran is complying with the green light all european countries and russia see this saying the only country that claims otherwise is the us. people need to stand together giving in to america would achieve nothing it would make matters worse than they are now. we are not afraid and we have never been since the beginning and we have been under sanctions for four decades and the people of iran are certainly not afraid now in fact sanctions have made iran more independent in many fields. we discussed the potential consequences of washington's pressure on iran with former cia officer jack rice as well as to iran based political analyst is liable most of our cost gesture. unfortunately we have to realize that it's the

p five plus one everybody agreed not just the brits and the french the russians the chinese the americans if we pull out of this it's the entire world will be looking at the united states i agree that there are limitations and problems in fact you could expand upon this and it needs to be but to walk away from this deal in itself would be a huge error at this point we're on has many components of power including its nuclear industry missile power and regional prisons and military clout and influence in the region what they mean in washington is to wear off these components of power once they do so iran would be a very easy target like iraq at the time of saddam hussein and that would mean. fundamental violation of the nuclear deal and iranian officials including the rayney and supremely there are they have all warned that iran would give them

a very tough response when we back off this short break stay with us. when else should seem wrong. just don't. get to see. this day come at it. and if. it was betrayed. when something you find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground . what politicians do you should. put themselves on the line to get accepted or

rejected. so when you want to be president. or something want. to do right. this is what. three of the people. interested. welcome back internet companies on providers are criticizing us bill designed to tackle online sex trafficking if approved it would allow legal action against platforms and services that host in this that content or tech firms want to step towards undermining free speech online but critics point out the corporations seem to have no such concerns when it comes to deleting fake news and hate speech r.t. smerconish explains silicon valley and congress are now clashing over the issue of

online human trafficking u.s. lawmakers have proposed a new bill that would make websites liable for prosecution if they fail to combat the problem internet giants such as google facebook and twitter have opposed the bill saying it would undermine free speech the bill also jeopardizes bedrock principles of a free nope an internet with serious economy can speech implications well beyond its intended school the mother of a deceased victim of human trafficking sees this issue quite differently my name is yvonne ambrose. the mother of the lights. i'm asking you but you want to senate change section two thirty and support the bipartisan legislation to stop enabling sex traffickers act not only for my baby but for the protection of yours and others yvonne ambrose says her sixteen year old daughter was killed after she was advertised for sex on back page an online

classified ad service ambrose wants to hold the website responsible but back page denies this saying they did not advertise their child for years however the company has been accused of allowing its users to post classified ads of prostitutes some even under age according to the national center for missing and exploited children the majority of its child sex trafficking cases involve back page so why not just close the site well under u.s. law internet providers are not liable for user content provider or user of an interactive computer service shall be treated as the publisher or speak of any information provided by another information content provider now tech giants still want to change the law and don't. hundreds of people around the world to be able to go look into those claims and

follow the guidelines to take down the content. that we still as hate speech or according to those policies last year facebook twitter microsoft and you tube announced a code of conduct pledging to remove online hate speech within twenty four hours google and facebook launched a fact checking algorithm that labels news as fake if it fails to pass an independent audit and in august you to be candy monetizing videos that they deem extremist it seems as if these i.t. giants have no problem restricting user content themselves but quickly draw a line when the government tries to do so now is this a pick and choose approach or are tech giants correct in trying to prevent government censorship even if they're guilty of censoring content themselves samir khan r. t. washington d.c. tech giants claims the broad language of the bill would make it counterproductive and lead to the suppression of free speech but political satirist on the horowitz believes that if it is a purely motivated by concerns about profits. the group think among all these high

tech companies and there are certain political ideologies mainstream ideologies which which are for a bit and almost sometimes on their website they're trying to make sure that their political perspective is the one that's dominant on their platforms and that other ideologies other ideas other thoughts are really trying to be shunted to the side and it's quite scary what that means to our democracy this is all about liability this is all about being protected from lawsuits these big i.t. companies don't want some old creepy guy name ronnie you know going about his dirty business and then being sued because of it because the apps to post something on facebook or you tube would have you but this whole argument all about money and avoid being sued so that's really what is the heart of this issue here. is just four days left to germany goes to the polls in this general election the big parties are doing all they can to win over any last minute support but will the

main rivals grapple the headlines as a whole raft of small parties passing by almost unnoticed among them all the vacant party the alliance for basic income m c a been hip hop policy piece on the high school. it's fair to say that the race for the chancellor's job hasn't had the excitement that say the u.s. or french elections of hard over the last twelve months but here in germany one party has been committed to giving us a bit of a giggle. simply meaning the party of the german satire party and they've become known for their blissfully absurd on a fast oprah pose depart times supports the implementation of all encompassing universal total justice at least twice as much as the s.p.d. any complaints about suppose that injustices will be suppressed with the utmost force then there's their posts to campaigns when the anti immigration alternative to germany party put these up saying they prefer the king over burkas. they

said they preferred what i think we can see what they prefer and. there are also some new rules now hate speech towards islam must now be delivered facing mecca there will also be a minimum refugee quota of eighteen percent for this and other groups criticism of gender madness must always be gender neutral apartheid stand no chance of making it

to the police that this time around that. is on the board is a member of the ripping apart of it things will get back in twenty four thing to parties leadership told us where they stand on the major issues facing the world today. we would advise that people should have a license to tweet for that if they have to pass a test similar to getting a driving license they will have to prove that they have enough sense should you not meet their standards you would be denied access to any social media forever when you put it like that they don't sound too bad to me you've got to hand it to the you're the joke is for adding a little for volatile to the federal election these are all of a party. let's not have a look at the latest polls what looks like the current ruling party will be staying put and the americans christian democrats maintain a commanding lead or the social democrats look set to be the next across the line but it's a bit of a closer run for third place in the run up to the vote r.t.

has been speaking to people across the political spectrum and here's the finest president of the free democrats wolfgang. that's a knowledge is your warning and you know we've got our intellect and we're calling for a continuous constructive dialogue instead of saber rattling we want to sit down at the negotiating table and listen to the different parties positions listen to russia's position and in turn explain our doubts fears should be minimized not fanned his hands a detroit game show once why he said as long as people are talking they are shooting each other this should be our goal a dialogue and teamwork europe and germany need russia and vice versa we should conduct dialogue rather than fuel fear. i.

two hundred and seventeen people are confirmed dead after a massive earthquake hit central mexico they are present as a seven point one quake was in the state to bless them eighteen miles southeast of mexico city tremors all leading to tragedies some distance away from the epicenter twenty children died in the capital when a primary school collapsed survivors and a merge and see workers on joining forces to try and save people trapped under rubble.

meanwhile hurricane maria has made landfall in puerto rico with thousands of evacuated to shelters but category four storm felled trees and power lines the risk of deadly floods remains on the area is the third major hurricane to hit the caribbean in the last couple of weeks it's following a similar path to hurricane before it which also devastated southern parts of the u.s. florida is now florida is now bracing for another hit as merino portnoy explains. according to the national hurricane center's five pm advisory maria remains a category five packing sustained winds of one hundred sixty five miles per hour president trump declared a state of emergency for puerto rico which authorizes the department of homeland security and to coordinate all disaster relief efforts now three people died when when hurricane earl mother passed above puerto rico two weeks ago this hurricane

maria is expected to pass directly through the u.s. territory so obviously a lot of people you know hoping for the best bracing for the worst reminded now of our breaking news the russian military. terrorists launched an attack on syrian army positions near it live inside a deescalation zone the defense ministry says the was initiated by u.s. special forces to stop the syrian army moving east as well as a result of a type of italian of russian military police was blockaded and for the terrorists for several hours we'll bring you more details in just a few minutes with my colleague neil harvey there too and.

the one word that aptly describes american politics today is divisions the line that divides liberals from conservatives is deep and even worrisome to make things worse there are some of the same dividing lines within the major political parties can these breaches the mend. german interests european interests are really deeply into trying to with each other i

think through the world. thinking of. having the interests are truly opposed to those of over. those two words would be able to say with mr moos. really exactly the world through it isn't relevant to the. there's a strategy betting all the market. yes them are betting strategy that's like if you have to let will you bet on red you lose the bet on red again and you bet on red again and you better until you went awfully don't run out of money before you when it's famously used on wall street by firms like goldman sachs who make bad bets but since they have an open cash window at the fed fund limited funds at zero percent borrowing rates they never run out of money that's why from like all the sachs and

j.p. morgan can report thirty sixty ninety one hundred twenty straight days of profits on their trading portfolio as they don't take any fricken risk what about people that are not so smart. here's what people have been saying about rejected in the us actually just the long awesome the only show i go out of my way to launch you know we want it to really packs a punch oh yeah mr john oliver of hearty americans do the same we are apparently better than two thousand and six and see people you never heard of love redacted tonight was the president of the world bank though he was running a seriously send us an e-mail. welcome back let's return to our breaking news story this hour which is that the russian military has accused the united states of colluding with our nose or

terrorists who launched an attack on syrian army positions in the insider deescalation zone our correspondent rug as the it is in syria. well the russian military says that the rebel offensive that was launched a few days ago in northern. province just south of the province a huge offensive utilizing tanks armored personnel carriers thousands of jihad the fighters as well as intensive artillery shelling they see that that was initiated by the united states according to the latest information this offensive was initiated by u.s. special forces in order to stop the successful advance of government troops eastwood's of datasource rebels penetrated twelve kilometers into government controlled territory that's the extent of how far they got in the process they will but surrounded a contingent of russian military police who for many hours alone without heavy

support heavy vehicles such as tanks in order to stay alive to keep the rebels away as a result of the bandits attack a platoon of military police numbering twenty nine people was trapped for several hours and most forced to repel enemy attacks despite being outnumbered they managed to get out that thanks the support from the russian air force the syrian air force they managed to withdraw and now the syrian military is on a counter offensive they've retaken almost all of the territory seized by the rebels and some statistics for you the russian military says that they've destroyed eight hundred fifty day job just fighters eleven. personnel carriers as well as dozens and dozens of pickup trucks and their artillery pieces so it does look like they've managed to blunt this offensive. thousands of protesters have gathered in barcelona to condemn police searches and arrests ahead

of catalonia independence referendum on the day displaying the upcoming vote illegal to send civil guard to things promotional materials. a ten million ballot papers from several catalan ministries twelve officials were arrested including catalonians junior economy minister let alone his leader a slum the spanish authorities for imposing what he calls a defacto state of emergency and accuses madrid of violating the autonomous regions independence. we're going to look at the lure the catalonian government has been subjected to coordinate aggression from the police force of the spanish interior ministry i. was part of madrid strive to block the referendum thirty seven a catalan mare's who had voiced support for the upcoming vote had been issued court summons in a criminal probe on top of that more than seven hundred other matters were

threatened with arrest last week by his prime minister was strongly attacked in parliament over madrid's actions. the they will see for lay people. to set the scene since yes minus the last seems to me that analysts we spoke to the mayor of a council on municipality says that people are surprised by the actions of the authorities today thousand and seven do you see police forces going after votes. after ballot papers something very very strange is something. i think many people out of amaze about the reaction of the spanish but if you use. the follies the judge is putting so much pressure this is not

a movement only led by some politicians but someone that this is a movement by itself. free citizens that's what makes the strong these strong support. i want to stand out or at least they don't want to see this the seabees this reality. and this is nothing new with cata looneys road to independence having been obstructed by madrid for years. one thing was it was. you know and it was.

his first address to the u.n. general assembly but much of his rhetoric seemed remarkably reminiscent of what his predecessor as he used to say new york correspondent kelly mopin looks at some of the new president's rather old remarks opened up his debut in the green marble hall of the united nations with some of his signature rhetoric which many people argue got him elected as president of the united states i will own was put america first but from putting national interests first this speech quickly moved to a globalist agenda with a list of condemnations of other governments rogue regimes represented in this body not only support terrorists but threaten other nations and their own people with the most destructive weapons known to humanity trump lashed out at the syrian government reiterating claims that damascus has used chemical weapons the actions

of the criminal regime of bashar al assad including the use of chemical weapons against his own citizens even innocent children shock the conscience of every decent person trump threatened to destroy in north korea prompting a walkout from the country's ambassador the united states has great strength and patients but if it is forced to defer. and if so for its allies we will have no choice but to totally destroy north korea and then trouble lashed out at iran branding the country a rogue state it is time for the entire world to join us in demanding the veterans government and its pursuit of death and destruction donald trump speech ended up being a sort of call for countries around the world to confront those who quote threaten us with chaos turmoil and terror namely three countries iran syria and north korea

two of which were named as the axis of evil by previous us president george w. bush but we know their true nature. north korea is a regime arming with missiles and weapons of mass destruction while starving its citizens. iran aggressively pursue these weapons in exports terror while an unelected few repressed the iranian people scope for freedom so much for trumps election promises offering a new approach to world politics america's national interests and not being the policeman of the world cable mopp and artsy new york. george w. bush the only president whose rhetoric was similar to trump's at times the new president even sounded like his party opponent and pretty decisive barack obama. in america we do not seek to impose our way of life on anyone i do not think that

america can or should impose our system of government on other couples. in remote corners of the world citizens are demanding respect for the dignity of all people a future of dignity and peace for the people of this wonderful earth. we will fight together we must work together to sacrifice together i believe we must do better together and stand together for peace all of us can be coworkers with god the almighty god who made us law was our correspondent mentioned earlier trump lashed out north korea syria and iran in his address to iran's foreign minister has already reacted branding trumps remarks shameless and ignorant despite iran's compliance with the nuclear nonproliferation deal signed in twenty fifteen washington's been escalating tensions with the country at the top of ministration views that deal is unfair and in july the noun's new sanctions against tehran just

a week later congress passed the bill to impose fresh sanctions against the country or president macron of france's nonetheless defended the deal from the same podium lashed out at iran. i would like to defend the nuclear agreement with iran our engagement on nonproliferation allowed us to work out on the fourteenth of july two thousand and fifteen a solid robust and verifiable agreement that enables us to ensure that iran does not obtain nuclear weapons renouncing it would be a great era this could apply to north korea to immediately dialogue control and multilateralism these are the efficient weapons this is the only way forward. thousands i however u.s. secretary of state rex tillerson said that washington needs its european allies to make the case to iran that the deal has to be quote revisited this is how rainy and several acted to trump's latest harsh remarks about their country the u.n.

says iran is complying with the green light all european countries and russia see this saying the only country that claims otherwise is the u.s. our people need to stand together giving in to america would achieve nothing it would make matters worse than they are now. we're not afraid and we have never been since the beginning and we have been under sanctions for four decades and the people of iran are certainly not afraid now in fact sanctions have made iran more independent in many fields we discussed the potential consequences of washington's pressure on iran with former cia officer jack rice as well as tehran based political analysts so it must have a question. unfortunately we have to realize that it's the p five plus one everybody agreed not just the brits and the french the russians the chinese the americans if we pull out of this it's the entire world will be looking at the united states i agree that there are limitations and problems in fact you could expand upon this and it needs to be but to walk away from this deal in itself would

be a huge error at this point. has many components of power including its nuclear and missile power and regional prisons and military clout and influence in the region what they mean in washington is to wear off these components of power once they do so iran would be a very easy target like iraq at the time of saddam hussein and would mean. fundamental violation of the nuclear deal and iranian officials including the rainy and supremely leader they have all warned that iran would give them a very tough response will have updates on the recent terrorist attack in london after a short break. the one word that aptly describes american politics today is divisions the line that

divides liberals from conservatives is deep and even worrisome to make things worse there are some of the same dividing lines within the major political parties can these breaches the mend. clinton bombed on a. commercial and. islamic states claims it was behind the manchester terror attack by the militants front so kill the priest every time a terrorist attack happens all these people are out there screaming to go ice is so bad someone needs to do something against them and for me was like yeah why don't you do something. given. all of those numbers. in the. opposite of the cases. you challenge them to check if these emails chinese hafiz name. is got to.

the u.k. commision let me show you. the local blogs selling you on the idea that dropping bombs brings police to the chicken hawks forcing you to fight the battles they're going. to do socks for the tell you that every gossip the tabloids but most reporters. of advertising tell you on the cool enough to buy their product. all the hawks that we along with all. want.

two more people have been arrested in connection with friday's attack on the london underground station of pass and screen five are now in custody in relation to the incident with the search is being conducted and it comes out a report on tuesday clever online jadis propaganda gets more clicks in the u.k. than any other country in europe only four places turkey the us saudi arabia and iraq had more political commentator john white says that brits expect the authorities to do more. the most worrying an obvious conclusion to be drawn from the revelations published in the report. that is because of the market you queue for this type of material than anywhere else due to a group rather cull is ation of a section of the muslim community in the u.k. in this conclusion tends to be supported by the fire that we've had for jihadi

inspired terrorist attacks in the u.k. and twenty seventeen so this is going to be a more and more important front in the struggle and so this will be increasingly an important front in the struggle and the authorities clearly will have to up their game because whatever they're doing to combat this level it's clearly not reaping the kind of those opes that people would like to see and expect to see. british broadcasters being flagged for an embarrassing mistake in its illustration of all the sensitive story of these arms to see a chicken or more russian embassy here in the u.k. had some questions for the b.b.c. following an article that seemed to lump together online jihad is propaganda and what appeared to be the russian flag specifically in an article they published on their website the b.b.c. had used an image depicting the same colors as the russian flag which is white blue and red and to this the russian embassy in the u.k. had tweeted saying hey b.b.c. what does the russian flag have to do with online jihad is propaganda in u.k.

change your graphic designer or your photo bag now the official twitter account of the b.b.c. did not react to this tweet however they did change the picture on in the article which now depicts isis militants and isis flags but it has to be said that this is far from the first time when the russian embassy twitter account sort of chases the british press specifically one example comes to mind when they had commented on a times article that talked about quote cyrillic language which probably meant cyrillic alphabet and another example we've seen a case where the mirror had used images from a traditional russian pancake festival in what they presented to be an exclusive investigation into russian football hooligans and so certainly this is not to the first time and it probably won't be the last. we did reach out to the b.b.c. for comment the organization told us that it used the stock image of computer coding which was later changed to ensure better reflection of the story. in other

news internet companies and providers are criticizing a us bill designed to tackle on line six trafficking if approved it would allow legal action against platforms and services that host illicit content tech firms wall it's a step towards undermining free speech online but critics point out the corporations seem to have no such concerns when it comes to deleting fake news and hate speech or to smear a card explains silicon valley and congress are now clashing over the issue of online human trafficking u.s. lawmakers have proposed a new bill that would make all websites liable for prosecution if they fail to combat the problem internet giants such as google facebook and twitter have opposed the bill saying it would undermine free speech the bill also jeopardizes bedrock principles of a free nope an internet with serious you can make and speech implications well beyond its intended school the mother of a deceased victim of human trafficking sees this issue quite differently my name is

yvonne ambrose. the mother of two plates there's a. i'm asking you but you want to change section to thirty and support the bipartisan legislation to stop enabling sex traffickers act not only for my baby but for the protection of yours and others yvonne ambrose says her sixteen year old daughter was killed after she was advertised for sex on back page an online classified ad service ambrose wants to hold the website responsible but back page denies this saying they did not advertise her child for years however the company has been accused of allowing its users to post classified ads of prostitutes some even under age according to the national center for missing and exploited children the majority of its child sex trafficking cases involve on back page so why not just close the site well under u.s. law internet providers are not liable for user content no provider or user of an

interactive computer service shall be treated as the publisher or speak of any information provided by another information content provider now tech giants still want to change the law and don't want to take responsibility either but when it comes to limiting speech however they are more than ready to take responsibility our system relies on people in the community being able to reach out and tell us what they think is offensive and then we stuff teams of people hundreds of people around the world to be able to go look into those claims and follow the guidelines to take down the content. that we still is hate speech or according to those policies last year facebook twitter microsoft and you tube announced a code of conduct pledging to remove online hate speech within twenty four hours google and facebook launch a fact checking algorithm that labels news as fake if it fails to pass an independent audit and in august you to be candy monetizing videos that they deem extremist it seems as if these i.t.

giants have no problem restricting user content themselves but quickly draw a line when the government tries to do so now is this a picket. choose approach or are tech giants correct in trying to prevent government censorship even if they're guilty of censoring content themselves samir khan r. t. washington d.c. . tech giants claimed the broad language of the bill would make it counterproductive and lead to the suppression of free speech political satirist army horowitz believes that their fear is motivated through concerns about profits there's a group think among all these high tech companies and there are certain political ideologies mainstream ideologies which which are for a bit and almost sometimes are on their website and they're trying to make sure that their political perspective is the one that's down on their platforms and that other ideologies other ideas other thoughts are really trying to be shunted to the side and it's quite scary what that means to our democracy this is all about

liability this is all about being protected from lawsuits these big i.t. companies don't want some old creepy guy name ronnie you know going about his dirty business and then being sued because of it because the apps to post something on facebook or you tube what have you but this whole argument is all about money and avoid being sued so that's really what at the heart of this issue. two hundred seventeen people have been confirmed dead after a massive earthquake hit central mexico the epicenter of the seven point one quake was in the state of puebla some eighty miles southeast of mexico city term as a leading to trying to be some distance away from the epicenter twenty children died in the capital and a primary school collapsed survivors and emergency workers are joining forces to try and save people who are trapped under rubble.

i i. meanwhile hurricane maria has made landfall in puerto rico where thousands of been evacuated to shelters the category four storm felled trees and power lines the risk of deadly floods remains high reviews the third major hurricane to hit the caribbean in just the last couple of weeks it's following a similar path to hurricane before it was also devastated southern parts of the united states florida is now bracing for yet another hit of course for the marine important as more. according to the national hurricane center's five pm advisory maria remains a category five packing sustained winds of one hundred sixty five miles per hour president trying to clear the state of emergency for puerto rico which authorizes the department of homeland security and fema to coordinate all disaster relief efforts now three people died when when hurricane earl mark passed. puerto rico two

weeks ago this hurricane is expected to pass directly through the u.s. territory so obviously a lot of people you know hoping for the best bracing for the worst. let's bring you a reminder now of our breaking news story this hour the russian military says that al nusra terrorists launched an attack on syrian army positions near live inside a deescalation zone and the defense ministry says that the attack was initiated by u.s. special forces in a bid to stop the syrian army moving east of resort as a result of blues tune of russian military police was blockaded and fought to get into the terrace for several hours and the more details on the story to come in we'll bring you at the top of the hour. there's a strategy in betting called the market. just the martindale betting strategy

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russian military claims that al nusra a terrorist. syrian army positions. by u.s. special forces. over the region's upcoming independence referendum. in america we do not seek to impose our way of life on anyone i do not think that

america can or should impose our system of government. thanks for joining us this evening on our. breaking news the russian military has accused the united states of colluding with terrorists in attack on syrian army positions inside a deescalation. supported by tanks. personnel carriers and joined by hundreds and hundreds of jihad this fight is in violation of ceasefire and deescalation deals.

says. the united states. in its fight against isis which is very successfully in the vicinity of. liberated dozens and dozens of towns and villages take it hundreds of thousands of square. according to the latest information. special forces in order to stop the successful advance of government troops. a few details of the rebel offensive. russian military says. the. russian military police monitoring the deescalation. tentative cease fire in the area apparently it devolved into a ferocious fighting the group of the group of russian military police just twenty

nine people were rounded and out nevertheless they held their own as a result of the attack. police numbering twenty nine people was trapped for several hours forced to repel enemy attacks despite being outnumbered the russian military police unit is said to have withdrawn without casualties the syrian military is going on the counterattack supported by the russian air force as well as the syrian air force they say they've killed more than eight hundred fifty hardest fighters destroyed eleven tanks for personnel carriers as well as dozens and dozens of pickup trucks. all in all. rebel offensive. to syria and bahrain very good evening to you peter it's a serious claim of evidence to back it up yet but it's certainly not the first time

the russian defense ministry has accused the supporting terrorists in syria what kind of response if any would you anticipate from washington. well it will be interesting to see what if any proof. brought forward but what just happened in italy suggests that the al qaeda affiliate group there. is following an american agenda that can be little doubt that the americans are frustrated by the death of the syrian. army in there or and are trying to advance their pawns in the game their proxy the. kurdish and arab tribal fighters who are also moving towards the east they've been the americans have been frustrated in this because the mercenaries

were. attacked a few days ago by syrian and russian planes according to reports so what's happening now in libya could be read the american count to move they have. engineered a move by. and they have been recent reports of how being supplied over the years by the americans through various in intermediaries they have been prompted to make this attack in libya in order to force the syrian army in the east to divert forsooth back in the direction of it lip what would be the point of the in a maneuver like that what's the significance of this race to the. well the east is important for two main reasons one is

a boil. the largest ferry an oil fields are in the area that you've yet to be captured from isis. and secondly the americans appear intent on doing anything to prevent what they claim would be a land bridge for iran. from terror around through iraq across. eastern syria to the mediterranean fantasyland of course but this is unsure part of the american. intentions and why they are frustrated because with the syrian army that has begun to move east the euphrates the americans claim that this is in contravention of an alleged the confliction zone again the three spent two three land never been agreed. it certainly makes

a bit more sense when you explain you know the items of the locations of value that lie at that now do you think attacks such as the one that was seen in this latest move are they likely to have any effect can they be successful in delaying the syrian army. i think not because the. attacks from the air by the russian air force in particular on the advancing kurdish sure most neris signaled very serious intent on the part of russia. it signaled that russia will not back down on this even if it means risking confrontation with america america and there because credibility is not as much on the line as russia's russia. it seems to me deliberately painted itself into a corner here. and in this game of bluff and counter bluff i think

the russians are in fact giving a master class in game sciri and they will prevail i'm sure in what some have called the wild the east of syria the americans think they're playing in they know the wild west the their own but the different the wild the east peter much appreciate your analysis shedding a lot of light on this story today peter ford i guess for me you can bust that is syria and bahrain thank you now asked the pentagon to comment on the russian military claim that the attack was instigated by american special forces will bring you that response as soon as it comes in. in other news today thousands of protesters have gathered in barcelona to condemn police searches and the rest made out of catalona is independence referendum good as became the upcoming vote illegal in the senate a civil gant to see nice promotional materials that includes more than ten million

ballots from several cattle ministries twelve officials were arrested and included catalonians junior economy minister to the news leader slammed the spanish authorities for imposing what he calls a different state of emergency and accuses madrid of violating your autonomous regions independence. i got a look at the lure the catalonian government has been subjected to coordinate aggression from the police force of the spanish interior ministry i. i. and as part of the grid strive to block the referendum thirty seven catalan mez who had voiced support for the upcoming vote have been issued with court summons in a criminal probe on top of that more than seven hundred other members were threatened with arrest last week spain's prime minister was strongly attacked in parliament over madrid's actions. the evil see for lay people

elect sequel. to set the scene since yes minus the last seems to be the only thing that and the killing in a guess now i hope i'm pronouncing your name correctly and rick falls from the catalan solidarity for independence party joins me on the line very good evening to you do you think and rick this is an appropriate use of force raising cattle only ministries and arresting top officials. years now with betty black situation in the lunar especially for the serial rides and for the human rights. now it's not a question of. what they should of years or not it's a question of the serial. civil rights we just bonded on our country. these seem quite aggressive actions do you expect the protestors to respond we're likely to see violence breaking out. i think

it will not be. because. it's a bad time pacific people and we will have this is. what is the point of all this because we have seen one of these referendums before we know that materie is not going to accept the result whatever it is why should people bother turning up and voting. but the question now is not the they will not accept whichever of their result. now it's telling just that we could not bald. that we have not bright. and they for preventing. all the possibility is that we could ball and we can affect the vote then simply take out the bullets for bolting the publicity enter in.

for the rest of the. taking out there for the. two they most heavy action enter government all sides and. to take the people are asked the people and the responsibles. there is not a question to work say yes or not it's a question of democracy do they. need to go to a spouse the red line which is the difference between the democracy and dictatorship. do you think because this seems like both sides are going to reach an impasse here can you foresee a compromise that would satisfy both catalonia and madrid in the warm that would be legal as well. the world with several times during seven past years with. simply the government of mother it was

a boy thing to talk about peace. they simply say no every time they don't want to talk about the necessities of catalonia if need. infrastructures need need some more administration they simply refuse to talk. also all of the law which comes from from the parliament of catalonia from the site of a spain it was blocking decided that. it. below or prevented by the low and then we have no possibility to alter what we're made. rick appreciate you coming on to talk about this with my guest from the council on solidarity of independence party. thank you very much for your service for the next time if you did the thank you council and his road to independence has been obstructed by madrid for several years to

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donald trump has delivered his first address to the u.n. general assembly but much of his rhetoric seems remarkably reminiscent to what is pretty disses used to say when your correspondent killam open takes a look at some of the new president's for all the old remarks. opened up his debut in the green marble hall of the united nations with some of his signature rhetoric which many people argue got him elected as president of the united states i will always put america first but from putting national interests first this speech quickly moved to a globalist agenda with a list of condemnations of other governments rogue regimes represented in this body not only support terrorists but threaten other nations and their own people with the most destructive weapons known to humanity trump lashed out at the syrian government reiterating claims that damascus has used chemical weapons the actions

of the criminal regime of bashar. including the use of chemical weapons against his own citizens even innocent children shock the conscience of every decent person trying to threaten to destroy north korea prompting a walkout from the country's ambassador the united states has great strength and patients but if it is forced to defend itself or its our lives we will have no choice but to totally destroy north korea and then trump lashed out at iran branding the country a rogue state it is time for the entire world to join us in demanding the veterans government and its pursuit of death and destruction donald trump's speech ended up being a sort of call for countries around the world to confront those who quote threaten us with chaos turn. boylan terror namely three countries iran syria and north korea

two of which were named as the axis of evil by previous u.s. president george w. bush but we know their true nature. north korea is a regime arming with missiles and weapons of mass destruction. while starving its citizens. iran aggressively pursue these weapons and exports terror while an unelected few repressed the iranian people's hope for freedom so much for trump's election promises offering a new approach to world politics focusing on america's national interests and not being the policeman of the world cable r.t. new york. george w. bush is not the only president whose rhetoric was similar to trump's at times the new president even sounded like his policy opponents in previous us and barack obama in america we do not seek to impose our way of life on anyone i do not think that america can or should impose our system of government on other couples. in remote corners of the world citizens are demanding respect for the

dignity of all people a future of dignity and peace for the people of this wonderful earth. we will fight together we must work together to sacrifice together i believe we must do better to get up and stand together for peace all of us can be coworkers with god the almighty god who made us all. well as our correspondent mentioned a little earlier trump lashed out at north korea syria and iran in his address to iran's foreign minister has already reacted branding trump's remarks shameless and ignorant despite brown's compliance with the nuclear nonproliferation deal that was signed in twenty fifteen washington has been escalating tensions with the country the trump of ministration views the deal is unfair and in july announced new sanctions against tehran just a week later congress passed a bill to impose fresh sanctions against the country this is how rainy and reacted

to trump's latest harsh remarks about their country. the u.n. says iran is complying with the green light all european countries in russia see this saying the only country that claims otherwise is the u.s. our people need to stand together giving in to america would achieve nothing it would make matters worse than they are now. we are not afraid and we have never been since the beginning. we have been under sanctions for four decades and the people of iran are certainly not afraid now in fact sanctions have made iran more independent in many fields we discussed the potential consequences of washington's pressure on iran with former cia officer jack rice as well as tehran based political analyst side mustapha question. unfortunately we have to realize that it's the p five plus one everybody agreed not just the brits and the french the russians the chinese the americans if we pull out of this it's the entire world

will be looking at the united states i agree that there are limitations and problems in fact you could expand upon this and it needs to be but to walk away from this deal in itself would be a huge error at this point. has many components of power including its nuclear industry missile power and regional prisons and military clout and influence in the region what they mean in washington is to wear off these components of power once they do so iran would be a very easy target like iraq at the time of saddam hussein and would mean. fundamental violation of the nuclear deal and iranian officials including the reigning supreme leader they have all warned that iran would give them a very tough response. internet companies and providers are criticizing a u.s. bill is designed to tackle online sex trafficking if approved it would allow legal

action against platforms and service is the host illicit content take firms war it's a step towards undermining free speech online critics point out that the corporations seem to have no such concerns when it comes to deleting fake news and hate speech samir khan explains. silicon valley and congress are now clashing over the issue of online human trafficking u.s. lawmakers have proposed a new bill that would make websites liable for prosecution if they fail to combat the problem internet giants such as google facebook and twitter have opposed the bill saying it would undermine a free speech the below also jeopardizes bedrock principles of a free nope an internet with serious economy can speech implications well beyond its intended scope the mother of a deceased victim of human trafficking sees this issue quite differently my name is yvonne ambrose. the mother of the late. i'm asking you but you want to change section to thirty and support the bipartisan

legislation to stop enabling sex traffickers act not only for my baby but for the protection of yours and others yvonne ambrose says her sixteen year old daughter was killed after she was advertised for sex on back page an online classified ad service ambrose wants to hold the website responsible but back page denies this saying they did not advertise her child for years however the company has been accused of allowing its users to post classified ads of prostitutes some even under age according to the national center for missing and exploited children the majority of its child sex trafficking cases involve on back page so why not just close the site well under u.s. law internet providers are not liable for user content no provider or user of an interactive computer service shall be treated as the publisher or speak of any information provided by another information content provider now tech giants don't

want to change the law and don't want to take responsibility either but when it comes to limiting speech however they are more than ready to take responsibility our system relies on people in the community being able to reach out and tell us what they think is offensive and then we stuff teams of people hundreds of people around the world to be able to go look into those claims and follow the guidelines to take down the content. that we saw as hate speech earlier cordons of those policies last year facebook twitter microsoft and you tube announced a code of conduct pledging to remove online hate speech within twenty four hours google and facebook launch a fact checking algorithm that labels news as fake if it fails to pass an independent audit and in august you tube a candy monetizing videos that they deem extremist it seems as if these i.t. giants have no problem restricting user content themselves but quickly draw a line when the government tries to do so now is this a picket. choose approach or are tech giants correct in trying to prevent

government censorship even if they're guilty of censoring content themselves samir khan r. t. washington d.c. . tech giants of claim that the broad language of the bill would make it counterproductive and would lead to the suppression of free speech but political satirist on the horowitz believes that if it is a motivated through concerns over profits there's a group think among all these high tech companies and there are certain political ideologies mainstream ideologies which which are for a bit and almost sometimes on their website they're trying to make sure that their political perspective is the one that's dominant on their platforms and that other ideologies other ideas other thoughts are really trying to be shunted to the side and it's quite scary what that means to our democracy this is all about liability this is all about being protected from lawsuits these big i.t. companies don't want some old creepy guy name ronnie you know going about his dirty

business and then being sued because of it because they happen to post something on facebook or you tube what have you but this whole argument all about money and avoid being sued so that's really what at the heart of this issue here. ok that is it you all right today don't forget you can get extra new stories that we have on our website simply had to.

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time lindsay francis is broadcasting around the world from washington d.c. tonight the united nations general assembly is underway we take you there with reactions to the ceiling words from president donald trump aimed right at north korea and french president emanuel macron is in hot water as he pushes forward massive reform to france's labor laws to the protests also my guest former u.s.

attorney commissioner bart chilton breaks down what we might expect from the federal reserve's open market committee meeting and what its pronouncements mean for you and from the standby starts right now. the united states is running the highest trade deficit in more than eight years according to the commerce department it's up eight point five percent jumping to one hundred twenty three point one billion dollars that's up from a first quarter result of one hundred thirteen and a half billion it was the biggest deficit since the fourth quarter of two thousand and eight this is the broadest measure of u.s. trade and reflects in parts

a drop in fines and penalties paid by foreign companies included in this metric is goods and services investment flows and other payments between the united states and the world though exports are getting a lift from a pick up in global growth and a drop in the value of the u.s. dollar against other currencies weaker dollar makes american products more competitive on foreign markets. and over to new york now where president trump made the debut on the united stations world stage during his speech he blasted the north korea government and called out other countries by name are to trinity chavez breaks down some of the biggest moments of the speech. today was a very big moment at the u.n. general assembly especially for president donald trump he took his turn on the world stage for the very first time he spoke a little over forty minutes and while the theme of the speech was patriotism and national sovereignty he used this opportunity to send a very powerful message to north korea and its leader kim jong own who he calls

rocket man the united states has great strength and patients but if it is forced to defend itself words. we will have no choice but to totally destroy north korean rocket. is on a suicide mission for him so and for his regime the united states is ready willing and able but hopefully this will not be notices that's what the united nations is all about. that's what the united nations is for let's see how they do trump who has previously warned of quote fire and fury if young and does not back down claim that quote no one has shown more contempt for other nations and for the well being of their own people and the depression for team in north korea he said it is time for north korea to realize that the

denuclearization is the only acceptable future he also saying china and russia for joining the bow to impose new sanctions on north korea another big moment was when trump said the iranian government is that quote economically depleted rogue state whose chief export is violence the arena government masks and corrupt dictatorship behind the false guise of a democracy it has turned a wealthy country with a rich history and culture into an economically depleted rogue state whose chief exports are vile bloodshed and chaos the longest suffering victims of iran's leaders are in fact its own people trump said the world can't allow the quote murderous regime to continue its destabilizing activities and that its government must quote stop supporting terrorists begin serving its own people and respect the sovereign rights of its neighbors at one point he also

knocked the twenty fifteen nuclear deal with iran by calling it an embarrassment meanwhile trump also used this time to call out other countries including venezuela the venezuelan people are starving and their country is collapsing their democratic institutions are being destroyed this situation is completely unacceptable and we cannot stand by and watch as a responsible neighbor and friend we. have a go. that goal is to help them regain their freedom recover their country. or their democracy the president added that the u.s. is prepared to take further action at the dentist walen government first this reporting in new york trinity chavez r.t. . trinity chavez joins us now live from new york trying to be on top of these

threats trump has also talked about adding muscle to the military tell us more about that. that's right lindsey the u.s. senate passed its version of a seven hundred billion dollar defense policy bill on monday backing the president's call for a bigger stronger military and said today at the u.n. that soon our military will be the strongest it's ever been the twelve hundred page bill also includes a wide range of provisions that include a two percent military pay raise and eight point five billion dollars to strengthen the missile defense as north korea conducts nuclear ballistic missile tests. thank you very much tony of each of us for us at their new york thank you. well the federal reserve's open markets committee is meeting today and tomorrow so what do we expect when they make policy pronouncements morrow let's bring in former u.s. treasury questioner part shelton barr to help us break it down for us look at the future what do we think what do we think of these analysts they suggest there will

not be any interest rate hike increase tomorrow but might they take some sort of action we can expect. i think what they're probably going to do is announce some sort of getting rid of their big portfolio of four point five trillion dollars in u.s. securities these are securities that they bought in the wake of two thousand and eight after they had reduced interest rates in order to provide liquidity and some stimulus trying to fuel inject the economy which it did the recession could have even been worse but now they've got to get rid of those so they have to be careful in how they do it but we could probably expect them to at least lay out how they're going to go about that and hopefully it will take place without any big impact the market moves all right let's talk about those market moves given things like the record stock in recent days and other positive metrics we see which key data points

well they these members actually be looking at. now and in the future to make their policy determinations. well you're right they will be looking at markets and as you've covered me we keep seeing record highs today we saw the dow jones industrial average hit the forty first record high of the year and markets are up twelve plus percentage point on the year we also saw a high close the s. and p. five hundred today a high close for nasdaq so markets are looking pretty powerful but i think they'll also look at g.d.p. growth you know it was slacking in the first quarter at one point two percent the second quarter up positive at three percent but whether or not that will continue as the president and his economic advisers say will remains to be seen particularly in light of the hurricanes some smaller things that i think they'll look at lindsay

have a look at housing and new housing numbers just came out today second month in a row where housing starts are down but optimistically housing permits are up particularly for multifamily housing up nineteen point six percent also look at autos which have taken a beating in the last eight months those are down we saw that that comes off of a high by the way up to the last eight months is high before that so it's not all that bad although the automakers by and large are taking a hit particularly feel chrysler who was down nine percent in august and then they just had an announcement today a recall of a bunch of ram trucks because they might catch on fire good thing to get those vehicles back in and i think those are the sort of key things they'll be looking at and but by and large the economy is you report all the time lindsay pretty positive

and things are going well i don't see any major melt. downs occurring and i don't think the monetary policy the fed embarks upon whatever they announce tomorrow should impact the economy ok let's turn to geopolitics now in a seemingly more and more uncertain world we've seen president trump at the u.n. this week amid increased tensions with north korea increased military budget and he is using to back up those threats how are those things considered by the f a o i'm say. well they do look at them but you know like a lot of these things lindsey that. tweet to the president tree tweets it's tough to get a handle on really where he is i mean is he you know teleprompter trump or is he unbridled off the cuff the guy with is a thumbs on the tweeting buttons so it remains to be seen how they'll look at it but by and large i think they take what he's been clued in the comments that you

were just covering about rocket man on a suicide mission and totally destroyed north korea i think they look at those things or take those things with not just a grain but perhaps a shovel full of salt all right let's talk about domestic policy is now trump has joined the democrats i know you called for this by the way to have our government shutdown pass an extension of the debt ceiling provide the hurricane disaster assistance everyone was waiting for now there's another potential table democrats undock of the children who have arrived in the u.s. with their parents is this also possibly increased cooperation on capitol hill part of the f.o. emcees calculus. i think so lindsey they will look at that and particularly with regard to whether or not the debt ceiling needs political attention which it will sometime at the beginning of the year you know they passed an essentially an open ended checkbook on the debt ceiling and whatever the debt ceiling is whatever that level is nineteen point whatever trillion it will be on december eighth which is

when the bill runs out they'll have that cap. but then the treasury will have a couple of months to figure out how they're going to pay for it before they come to congress on the other hand the continuing resolution that's the funding the government that remains to be seen whether or not there is going to be some shenanigans at the end of the road when whether or not the government will actually shut down again after december eight right waiting for december eighth so with all of this what should we expect tomorrow and going forward. so on the on the fed i think we're going to go ahead and see no rate increases maybe in december unless they shut the december shut the government down in december eighth the meeting is on the i think twelfth and thirteenth the fed meeting and i do think there will be some tapering getting rid of this portfolio all these trillions of dollars in government bonds etc. and former u.s. trading commission are thank you so much for joining us on this. thanks lindsay.

time now for a quick break stick around though because when we get back the opioid crisis is causing financial panic in small town america the race is on to get it in front of the addiction epidemic and save lives on a tight budget also economist steve keen gives us a look at what french president emanuel mccaughan faces as he pushes for labor law changes as we go to break feel the numbers doesn't. make this manufactured consent to public will. when the right wing closest to protect themselves. in the final.

weekend all middle of the room sit. room. german interests european interests are really deeply intertwined with each other i think the the world. interests should be opposed to those of. one side goes to would be able to sort of smooth that's really exactly the world. it isn't relevant to the.

it's a clampdown by state and federal authorities after credit monitoring giant equifax suffered a cyber attack compromising about one hundred forty three million americans and around four hundred thousand u.k. residents it has since traced the security breach toy software flaw that could have been fix well before the burglary occurred in letters to executives at fellow credit monitoring companies experian and trans union new york attorney general eric schneiderman expressed both his disdain and asked the companies to explain what cybersecurity they have in place and whether fees will be weighed on possible consumer credit freeze this because of this breach equifax has announced that it is

bulking up call centers and waiving fees for credit freezes its chief information officer and chief security officer are out of the company equifax faces lawsuits filed by state attorneys general and a multitude of class action suits which are sure to pile up in short order. just last month president trump called america's opioid crisis and national emergency however he has yet to officially declare it as one technically which would give states more funding to deal with it based on the latest figures a former a formal emergency declaration might eventually be necessary though for more on this we're joined now by for cheney. one how much has the opioid crisis actually cost this country while at the national level it's expected to be about eighty billion dollars but when you break it down region by region it gets

a little more complicated than that. the tolls of overdose and death resulting from the opioid crisis have soared over the past two decades on top of that being one of the worst health crises of our time it's also turning into a massive financial burden that many american communities are grappling with an analysis by reuters takes a look at ross county ohio which saw steady increase in opiate addiction since two thousand and nine on top of the costs associated with that rate hike the county's budget is being pressured by other resulting circumstances nearly seventy five percent of the two hundred kids that were placed into state care or had parents suffering from addiction that means specialist counseling longer stays in state care and therapy as a result the county's child services budget jumped from one point three million to two point four million dollars for a region that has a total budget of twenty three million dollars that kind of increase leads lawmakers to wonder what they can cut to make it work and that's just one example

there are plenty of other small towns across the us that are struggling with the exact same problem between having enough medical personnel on call to prosecuting opioid related crimes it's become nearly impossible to cover in mercer county west virginia an area with a twelve million dollars budget opioid related jail expenses jumped by one hundred thousand dollars since two thousand and fifteen indiana county pennsylvania autopsy and toxicology costs jumped one hundred sixty five thousand dollars in two thousand and sixteen nearly double the rate in two thousand and ten and in montgomery county ohio the coroner's office had to look to funeral homes to rent space for bodies so it's not a problem unique to one region of the us but if the rate of addiction continues to rise it will be the small towns with small budgets that have the hardest time affording to fight it. i'm without that emergency declaration how do they get that federal funding a lot of blame hasn't placed on doctors and on pharmaceutical. companies but

insurance companies are in the spotlight to what can you tell us about that right so when the opiate crisis really started increasing wildly and taking off it was a local and state governments that started filing lawsuits against pharma companies for their perceived role in the crisis we also saw blame on doctors for overprescribing first insurance companies are really only getting flak for not providing enough coverage for rehab or maybe the outpatient rehab that you might want to participate in after you're inpatient or something like that but in new york the attorney general is investigating why some insurance companies are covering opioids but they're not covering safer alternatives that are less addictive and that's because they're more expensive so since the new york attorney general is now looking into this we could see other state attorney generals or even just regular state lawmakers also launch their own investigations similar to the one in new york like we saw with the lawsuits against pharmaceutical companies at the state and local level they all kind of happened one after the other and

encourage them to all start investigating ok quickly before we go the impact of the crisis on the u.s. economy as a whole so about eighty billion dollars seventy eight point five to be exact but it's a pretty conservative estimate because of the way it disregards a lot of. things that contribute to the spence is exactly it doesn't really look at how it affects family finances which then has a very direct impact on the u.s. economy so it's expected to be eighty billion dollars but it's most likely way more than that especially you talk about grandparents the bills their footing just to raise things their grandchildren it's been talked about a lot thank you so much for. the words heard across france and around the world spoken by french president emmanuel macron i am fully determined and i won't see any ground not to slackers

nor cynics nor hardliners. in early september the french government announced changes to its labor code it essentially switches bargaining protections and payout power workers to employers and kicked off protests and more are expected joining us now for more please welcome from london professor steve keen economist and author of can we avoid another financial crisis look unemployment is high growth is low you call a classic neo liberal politician charismatic campaigner a pedestrian and often as you say economic plan is to basically turn france into an economics textbook one hundred one but it's not the real world of governance explain this. you know this is this is what's so frustrating seeing people like mcallen who was so convinced that they correct because the model of the economy that they have in their heads which they learned at university. kills them

the unemployment the causes wages is too high and the reason that for influence on france is because the rigidity of the life of a system so if your liberal laws are inverted commas you end up with the low wages and therefore high employment and everything is ok it is total nonsense it's applying a marker economic perspectives to a macro economic issue and if you cut wages for everybody there expenditure folds and if the expenditure pulls g.d.p. fals piper saucily is much. so it's it's a recipe for disaster and it's identifying the wrong factor as the cause of the process in france and you have talked about the france personal debt crisis and the usa in two thousand and seven a jump in both countries you can address this effectively one percent up to nearly ten percent we're saying in that country. yeah no we come because here is the europe the only way you that this can be addressed is by national government the

saudis to use the central central banks capability to create money to put that money into people's personal and what have you managed to do with corporate bank accounts and use that's reduced profit dead the basically an accounting operation. converting what is currently credit biased money into see it bag by its money but of course concede that france does not have a central bank but be dumb so he's on a hiding to nothing to make the french economy worse. and then to weigh the consequences ok will be you and the euro. feeding feeding into france and france feeding into that it's the third largest economy there are people in the e.u. who seem happy about a possible invigoration by these words how strong is the sway there. because he i mean he is the shining hope of the european union unity ticket and of

course if you look at what's being done by follows charismatic characters like junk i pod mispronounces and i'm probably. the somebody who. wants to bring about a you know a united states of europe with a central treasury in brussels run by the european union bureaucrats and you know he said no matter what that's what he wants to achieve similar surely surely he wants to discipline all the other members as if that literally he's on wood. yanis varoufakis is in the room just supplying the other countries in the same way that germany is disciplined by the school rigidity. that's nobody is happy about that in that mccrone comes along as a charismatic young man saw it's a whole new political party wins in a landslide and he's now the guys actually got power to do something about that the need to join can all. have and they hope that he can lead they can lead them to the

promised land of a lot of sights of europe it's not going to happen well let's talk about the youth which has plenty of charisma what do you think about john luke mellish head of the left wing france the party as of late april running for president he was showing ninety percent of the vote in the french presidential election campaign he's calling for a september twenty third march because my crohn's changes social coup d'etat parties members number in over half a million mostly young kid he effectively mobilized this and possibly cause a change. i mean i don't know enough about him but comparisons i can draw comparisons to grill are in italy and rely on has managed to. build a popular movement but also get three of the four opposition parties they do agree to the concept of bringing in a parallel currency if they become the government now i don't know how much this is gone was about the economics and where the result of those sorts of andi's.

certainly he was going to be the main beneficiary of the anger that people are feeling towards mccrone which is only going to ross. well let's talk about the employers' unions they're pushing for this they pushed for this for quite some time for years in fact. maybe some surprise on their part and the strongest unions are pushing hard for this how strong is their voice in france right now. you know. the employers always push for this sort of thing this is what's being done in the west. meaning by the west the anglo-saxon countries they have basically crushed the unions there was no union consulted no no no union power to the man for wise rosses all the workers rights in any of the major you and countries and in that situation the work that you have the employers have won so to speak but what they've done is they've managed to reduce the power the amount of money and power they give to the workers and it's being match more than matched by an increase in

the power of the bankers over them and of course now they're trying to cause inflation in those countries and the inflation because of this workers are getting wage rises that exceed by reproductivity and now they disappearing. draws employment in america so i climb. frenzel end up in the same trap and it's ending up in the same trap without its own currency which is even worse professor steve keen economist and author of can we avoid another financial crisis thank you for your time. usually when we say flush with cash we mean someone has a lot of extra money while in geneva it's taken on a whole new meaning it started a few months ago when the european central bank announced plans to stop printing five hundred euro notes shortly thereafter a massive amounts of five hundred euro notes were found stuffed in toilets days later more a five hundred euro bank notes were found softer more toilets ironically costing

thousands of swiss francs to fix so what prompted this sudden desire to literally pour money down the drain well no one really knows for sure however it's important to note that the e.c.b. is reason to quit printing five hundred was a combat crime thanks for watching. here's what people have been saying about rejected in the us is a full on. the only show i go out of my way to find you know what it is that really packs a punch oh yeah it is the john oliver of our three americans doing the same. apparently better than. i see people you've never heard of lo jack tonight. president of the world bank so very. seriously send us an email prescribe medication is widespread on the us market and a frequent cause of death at that point in my life. like everything was ashes my

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