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some surprises. being offended by everything that people. actually say. etiquette friday morning here in the russian capital and watching the international news team here a very warm welcome to. any attacks against russian media. warns that if washington continues with. china. will take similar measures. so. what we are seeing right now and what is happening around our media is incoming and much less powerful than argue with us and u.k. counterparts i don't even know what to call it they're flipping everything upside

down. we're going to near any action lead to it and we will take action fast as soon as we see any steps being taken to restrict their media outlets there which as the russian foreign ministry spokesperson describes it spiraled last month when the justice department demanded that america register under the cold war era foreign agents act russia says the move hinders our work in america and will have quote serious legal consequences and as the pressure grows has also been pulled from you tube premium advertising list in the u.s. with no notice in response moscow has now said it's not ruling out countermeasures against us media outlets working here in russia and with the foreign agent deadline now passed and r.t. america is still not registering washington's next move remains to be seen daniel hawkins has this report from the valdai for. putin was very clear that any move to restrict such press freedoms would result in very much negative media environment

this is all part of what he also described as a wave of anti russian new styria anti russian campaigning and rhetoric in the united states which really began in earnest towards the end of last year the start of this year when hillary clinton lost the presidential election to donald trump and has continued to this day with attempts by government officials by media to find any links to russia wherever possible in any controversial american issue evidence of russian hacking russian meddling interference operations by intelligence services etc he also added that u.s. actions against russian diplomats and russian diplomatic facilities across the united states was the result of a build up of problems issues between the two states. it's the us who put up with this some precedent in the russian campaign which was not provoked by anything someone lost the elections to mr trump and russia was going for this. russian hysteria and now anything will be connected to us it wasn't all negative however

putin did believe that such problems are resolved in the long run and its forums such as the valdai were here today that provided an opportunity to discuss debate and share ideas about how exactly to go forward in constructive dialogue to resolve these issues as opposed to engage in hostile rubbing up of rhetoric and threats on both sides we discuss the issue with a number of experts they believe that the campaign against russian media contradicts the very idea of democracy which the u.s. considers itself to be a beacon of. so doesn't that the american people are completely unable to think for themselves or that are to their company other media companies or some have somehow become the dominant media in america i mean that's just the first of all not true and it's also just not very likely our most fundamental principle is the freedom of press which says that as press you have the right to share information without explaining yourself to anybody and that is

a fundamental constitutional freedom on which this country was founded the idea of going against that in this kind of really petty bureaucratic way is absolutely something that we oppose during the first cold war the us would always claim complying that countries were jamming the voice of america right and they said that's not fair they should be able to hear the voice of america well then why can't we hear our tea are splitting it in a serious political social and really spiritual crisis in the united states right now the hatred of rushes in the d.n.a. of the american people so it's easy to blame them for trial for racism for police killings or whatever and the u.s. ambassador to the u.n. nikki haley appears to be following the trend of guest just mentioned and the envoy slammed russia for alleged meddling of the twenty sixteen election and i.q. station being made in america for almost a year now that's never been supported by any concrete evidence but haley went even

further alleging the kremlin was engaged in a war against a number of countries. one country can come interfere in another country's elections that is warfare it really is because you're making sure that the democracy shifts from what the people want to giving out that less information and we didn't just see here you can look at france and you can look at other countries they are doing this every word this is their new weapon of choice why are americans anti russian and why have we done the sanctions well don't interfere in our elections and we won't be anti russian. loaded foreign accusations at russia but one of the loudest critics being the very post who claims she lost the election due to russian meddling. in germany members of parliament have been hacked by russia.

and france. campaign when they have to have a massive cyber attack just before their presidential election. you know the evidence that russia has one hundred two e-mails no civil civil war that is not possible to so you've obviously a study to deal with the a criminal group it really can be anyone. the simplicity of the technical part can make us think is just a simple. who created it and so this person can be in any country with any kind of motivation. maybe you've even seen the ads and london underground one russian state funded propaganda distort bragging watch our t.v.

and find out who we are planning to. the fact is they're also opening a new scottish bureau. all she wants to do is continue to blame other people and continue to cast doubt and she choose russia causing discord in the united states but really in the speech that she gave recently she actually cast the most discord by saying that it's everybody else's fault and the government failed in its russia's fault that she lost and nobody is even claiming that russia cast votes for people and americans made the decisions that they made so i think with hillary clinton bringing up europe that was her attempt to say i'm not just blaming russia it's isn't just baseless they've done it elsewhere there are some voices of the american public that actually are saying they are sick of it they don't want to read it anymore they don't want to see anymore headlines of russia when they know there has to be other things going on in

the world. good to have you with us today for the program kodesh peshmerga forces re took their positions along the road on thursday the iraqi army has taken up positions are just slightly further south three days repelled the codes from coke and the strategic oil rich city had been under the control of kodesh forces since the fall of saddam hussein in two thousand and three the government operation in the city began after the codes independence referendum in september which was declared illegal by iraq's prime minister in iraq a government explained that the move was to quote impose security despite previous u.s. claims in support of the code's washington is now talking about a unified iraq with federal elections looming there in iraq. american explains the controversy ever since the invasion of iraq in the early two thousand internal politics of the country has been of great importance to us especially when it comes to the region and the u.s.

has now found itself in a tight spot over its alliance with the kurds but the kurds were once a top u.s. ally i think we need to arm and train and equip their pressure. the kurdish government. and their strong and starch allies we should be using we should be arming the kurdish region to be the biggest matters really proving to be the most. standards. for the kurds were the fish were on the front fighting us and now us trying to government troops are clashing with kurdish forces in kirkuk and the pentagon is trying to downplay the conflict this all comes at a pivotal time for iraqi kurds right after september independence referendum which the u.s. has shown no sign of supporting we hope for a unified iraq to annihilate isis and certainly a unified iraq to push back on iran the state department has named. ron as the

second greatest threat after i saw so countering iran could very well be the driving force behind the us abandoning its support kurds i don't want to use the word betrayal but we definitely feel the united states has been negligent iraq's upcoming election set for april two thousand eighteen may become a make or break moment for the us and could possibly affect its objectives in the region april's election is a choice between the vice president and the leaking often described as suddenly into the u.s. and iran and the current president the body is that odds with what you have here the moment you have a prime minister in iraq who is supported by the americans the previous prime minister who is waiting in the wings which is the extreme part which is very close to the rain ians and the united states made it clear to the kurdish leadership before they're a friend last. september that they wished to delay the refer to the middle east after iraqi election in next spring so if the u.s.

seeks to resolve these problems of kurdish resistance washington will be forced to choose between two allies it's apparently not the kurds samir khan washington d.c. . students at cambridge university are being warned over the plays of shakespeare in case of potential distress some of the works contain scenes of sexual assault and violence. takes a look at why the bar is now causing concern. ok me from their worse than killing last and tumble me into some loathsome pit whenever my hands i may behold my body do this and be a charitable murderer so should i rolled my sweet sons of their fee no let them satisfy their lost on the that's a snippet from shakespeare is a first tragedy titus andronicus the play features graphic violence gang rape and fourteen murders and now certain english lecturers at cambridge university

are putting special warnings on their time tables when they're going to be covering potentially distressing topics like these they're going to have to have a lot of disclaimers with the works of shakespeare though some of his plays can be very gory they feature things like incest rape murder and suicide they also happen to have kept people talking about thorny issues like claws relations race relations and anti semitism for centuries i want to know what the people visiting the famous shakespeare globe theatre in london have to say about the warnings i think. demis down the students oh you're not mature enough for smart enough to be able to handle this without a warning. being good enough

for them. if you're reading literature you should expect to have some surprises you expect to be shocked to see or simulate that particular student i think the problem with the world these days is that there's just so much focus on being offended by everything that people are just so scared of what they can actually say or do cambridge university has told me that any warnings that they put out are the initiative of individual professes and that it's not a policy adopted by the english department design. by the way when the gloop series is staged tied to some johnny three years ago several people fainted from the graphic violence including one of the theories said critics reviewing the show that very same critics still gave the production an exceptional review art isn't always comfortable the most challenging arts can be anything bots and now there are growing concerns not just in academic circles that modern students are being too

morally called old if they can handle the content in classic literature how are they going to cope with life in general the university has been criticized for the warnings the artistic director of the cambridge shakespeare festival says students shouldn't study literature if they're not aware his works patro you violence the same morning it seems could be applied to not just shakespeare's works as well. sikes batters nancy to death and have bet the corpse is so deformed that the person who identifies a body is so scared by the experience that they're led away in a straight jacket. on.

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by so joining us today friday morning here in moscow at the u.s. branch reprieve has lost an investigation into what the organization describes as drone assassination program the activists are concerned that it could weaken constraints on the use of lethal weapons by the previous administration leave them the way to a greater number of civilian casualties the program reportedly expands the list of possible targets to include quote foot soldiers jihad ists with no special skills old leadership roles and also allegedly allows the military to utilize drones outside conventional war zones which previously included yemen somalia afghanistan pakistan and libya the authorization process for the use of drones and cia covert operations has also been simplified paving the way for quicker and more frequent drone use by the pentagon. now according to the report compiled by columbia law

school's human rights institute in june the number of u.s. drone strikes increased four fold during president trumps six months in office but data also revealed the white house has only acknowledged twenty percent of its total reported driving strikes and one expert told us u.s. drones execute people without trial it appears that are true rules are changed to expand dramatically the numbers of people who will be under surveillance and who will be attacked by american drones pretending accounting military against civilians was always a way part of the u.s. . sanitizing what they were doing both saying you know we have information justifies our killing people unfortunately these other people died in fact no one who was there. ever for us grows ever been inside

a courtroom and so there's really no way to make the. u.k. lawmakers are once again at odds over the country's role in syria in a debate at the house of lords questions were raised over funding of the syrian opposition and what exactly taxpayers' money is being used to pay for. if the government gave two hundred million to opposition groups and only fourteen or forty i didn't quite catch which it was was for political support what on earth was the rush for the fourteen million or specifically in terms of political support other examples for example thirty nine million has been spent on roads i will of course look right to the noble lord in terms of specific breakdown but it's very much about the system the coalition the syrian opposition to actually stand on its feet and why does her majesty's government not recognize that asset is not going anywhere does my noble friend really think that british taxpayers want fourteen

million pounds spent on supporting so-called opposition surely that would be better spent on fuel poverty limited government changed their priorities from providing that massive financial support to opposition groups which are not moderates and make every effort to achieve the lifting of sanctions by caroline cox raised the issue of the u.k. spending in syria in the british parliament calling for greater transparency to travel to the country herself to get a better understanding of the conflict there but says the british government isn't too keen on getting that side of the story and we've got some amazing figures something like two hundred million a year and the government said it's going to moderate opposition but our concern is that there really is not believed to be any moderate opposition and to or so be very concerned it's actually going to islamist related groups and that it may be prolonging the war be putting down more questions asked the government to give more

explicit and detailed information precisely how much is going where it's going and i would rather british government was doing more to take would positive proposals to help the syrian people and particularly the lifting of sanctions i. i got a lot of aggression after a visit to syria we did meet president has said i do not in any way condone some of the very serious things he has done but i went to listen to the syrian people the british government was not pleased with me because they tried to prevent me from going they tried to tell me how dangerous it was well i spent a lot of my life working with people who are suffering from war and depression and persecution and tie used my vote in the house of lords to try to be a voice for these voices are not heard and i won top you use human rights official also found himself in the line of fire after visiting syria and was forced to resign in the wake of the trip earlier this year. joined russian lawmakers during

a visit to damascus where he met with president bashar al assad e.u. officials however took issue with the rendezvous you since quit europe's main human rights watch dog though he says he doesn't regret taking the controversial trip. i thought this process of him was to up when i saw him the way i saw a lot over a short period of time i only spent twenty four hours there but i noticed a strong russian influence on the country i saw that russia was very serious about fighting international terrorism and i saw other countries including turkey and those in the us led the international coalition are also making a considerable efforts to put an end of what's causing the majority of europe's problems terrorism the influx of refugees and migration most of which are rooted in syria seeing that i realize that much closer cooperation between the countries combating terrorism is needed or as i've said before some parliaments would prefer to return to the cold and there were times have changed and i've always considered russia to be a european country in that europe is inconceivable without russia and vice versa

although some didn't like it i did what i wanted and if i had a chance to go back in time i would have done everything just the same as i including it would have even travel to syria in other island of course. more than twenty five thousand students from all around the globe have gathered in the russian resort of sochi where the world festival of youth and students is now underway a previous festival that russia was held in one thousand nine hundred eighty five and many of the volunteers there were involved in it back then and now eager to experience all the joy well for a second time. the soul good people ignore the u.s. . in so.

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it's a little late you. will see. the prisoners who. eat. donald trump wants to read all the u.s. tax code but first congress has got to agree on a budget resolution will either happen this year we're taking a look on this edition of. welcome to politicking on larry king president trump eager for a legislative victory ten months into his administration is touting his framework

for reforming the u.s. tax code and another many details in the president's plan but it does call for a substantial reduction in the corporate tax rate and changes to individual tax brackets as well but no reform is going to happen until congress agrees on a budget resolution which could be held up by fiscal hawks within his own party like senator rand paul not to mention opposition by the democrats will take a look at where the budget plan stands and how likely tax reform is to happen as outlined by the president but first a look at the proposed tax plan through the eyes of financial expert he's neil gross when managing partner and chief. when officer of t.k. n.j. capital frequent commentator on business and the markets he joins me here in studio in new york before discuss the tax plan the dow is up about forty five percent since trump took office he takes credit as he does

a good well he certainly get the blame if it wasn't i think you deserve some of the credit i think the general economic background was improving as he came into office and unemployment rate was falling earnings have been going up and non-u.s. economies were also starting to grow so there's an element of a positive framework which you can't ignore but was the curve happening well i think some of it was starting and i think you do have to give him the benefit of the doubt on things like reducing some of the regulatory issues. and you know trying to move toward some of these other proposals he certainly has motivated business people to be more good to be more optimistic the further we go on without getting anything done i think will bring this more more into question. the secretary stephen munchen said tuesday the runner up is largely the run up is largely based on expectations of congress passing a major tax relief bill and failure to do so well have significant consequences is

that right i think it will have major consequences how far it goes i don't know but i think the fact is that there is a lot of expectations on the corporate of individual side. to get some fiscal stimulus in this economy your financial expertise so. how can you have an opinion on something when no formal plan is proposed well i think you have enough of the basic frameworks out there to have some idea number one reducing corporate tax rate if you're going to reduce the corporate tax rate by five or ten percent that should provide money to corporations to invest to hire more people to pay people more so more salary and or other forms of compensation that trickle down well depends on how you do it was generally known to be something that would isaac not not well it hasn't worked as well as anyone would have thought i mean we've been in a fairly long period of relatively good economic productivity leaving aside the crisis i mean starting the mid eighty's you had a very long period forty.