i don't know that but we are not. russian lawmakers vote in favor of requiring media to register as foreign agents similar to those made. in the united states. but in response to washington's actions the self-appointed guardians of global freedom stay on usually quiet on the treatment. channel. do not currently have evidence that conclusive evidence that they have been breached u.s. officials from using bestselling russian security software over an alleged espionage threat but conclude there is no evidence to suspicions against. the u.k. reveals the volunteers trying to help refugees are being considered as criminals by

. workers. just after six am in new orleans five pm in new delhi and three in the afternoon here in moscow this wednesday november the fifty welcome to the program our top story this hour russian lawmakers have voted in favor of requiring media glitz which are funded from abroad to register foreign agents it's in response to similar pressure placed on in the united states our correspondent talks us through the latest stuff first of all we wouldn't be hearing this news from the russian parliament if it wasn't for the american department of justice which forced r.t. america to register as a foreign agent in the us the russian. government promised to fight back and we can

see that it's happening but to make similar demands for foreign media in this country to register as foreign agents russia's own legislation required amendments and they have just been approved by the russian duma and now the draft bill will be moved on to the upper chamber of the russian parliament for a final vote the amendment has it that a media outlet may find itself on the list of foreign agents in russia if it receives money from foreign countries i.e. their governments international organizations or foreign organizations for an individuals as well as russian legal entities which are funded from any of the sources that i mentioned above if a media organisation becomes a foreign agent whatever it publishes has to come with a disclaimer plus it has to provide the russian authorities with regular reports on their finances something that was also discussed at the same duma session was

a recent buzz feed piece titled secret finding sixty russian payments to finance the election campaign of twenty sixteen but the first thing that comes up on your mind if you're reading this headline is that it's a groundbreaking investigative report on russian meddling in the us election the article tells you about citibank money transfers intended for russian embassies abroad wow the problem is though that russia had its own parliamentary election back in september two thousand and sixteen and there were polling stations opened at russian embassies around the world for the citizens that couldn't vote at home and of course that required some money russian officials did confirm that the cash and these money transfers were spent on that but to read about this in the original buzz feed article you really have to scroll down a lot so this bit of. quality investigative reporting by buzz feed or maybe not was

also brought up in the russian parliament earlier on wednesday when we took the chance to get in touch with a number of global press freedom organizations to get their reactions to r.t. america being coerced into declaring itself a foreign agent but it's been a strangely muted reaction rather because the of it's been looking into washington has had enough of. russia today a russian propaganda arm why have you not shut down our t.v. on you tube it's a propaganda machine mr walker r t push what we might call fake news it's can't just shut it down but making life miserable that it's caton by law america will now have to put this disclaimer on all of its work if we show you a video of a fireman in texas rescuing a kitten well that's rude to you by the russian government every twitter account of

america where it's correspondents has to have that disclaimer in its bio problemi is that it doesn't fit into the bio which means that america cons beyond twitter. will also have to send copies of everything that publishes to the us government reports videos and even tweets within forty eight hours everything must be ready for inspection at any time. so how is journalists reacting freedom of speech groups and all that well here is how outraged they are. i'm afraid i'm not we'll enough informed about this particular topic to report anything of substance to your viewers well that's surprising and here i thought it was all over the news for weeks ok next response the office of the

or a c. representative in freedom of the media has just received an official letter on this issue we cannot provide a comment for the time being not sure where the u.s.c. have been but they say they just got the letter obviously had no idea about what was going on vacation may be next as this is an issue in washington that it's not appropriate for us to comment on the details that explains it the national union of journalists only comment about things in the u.k. and china and the rock island syria canada russia iran israel turkey and so on. their response has been left one thing the president this sets is huge it's enormous but hey it doesn't concern them yet russia has been so effectively vilified by the press by the us government by the

u.k. government that organisations who should be speaking out for free speech who should be condemning these attacks against r.t. are either too afraid to do so or they see they are actually lined with the attacks and so i find that incredibly. disappointing i think people whether they like our t. or they don't like our t. should defend artie's right to exist to broadcast in the united states to say what it wants to say to interview or wants to interview i think the right to free speech the right to free inquiry is now greatly under attack in the united states in the land of the free you better watch what you say or i'll put you on a list. well not one of america's most popular news under a gating website says getting caught up in the campaign against r.t.

the drudge report which links to hundreds of news sites is under fire from the washington post for showing stories from r.t. the sites accuse the publishing links to russian propaganda even though it's only a tiny fraction compared to what drudge links to from the washington post itself here's how the site boss mark reacted i've linked to washington post over ten thousand times in twenty five years of doing drudge report i can only give them thirty seven percent of their referral traffic he's a brutal business not even a thank you instead you were russian operative this was all think amusing and ridiculous for a time but it's now heading into a dark place it's a dark and dangerous path and we don't know how far that path will know. it is branding of journalists as agents and that is very dangerous of course for the

safety of journalists in many hotspots and difficult parts of the world. george galloway well there is more reaction picking apart the story on today's crosstalk picking up on the repercussions of the intense political pressure against our to the american people realize that the establishment media is essentially a loss leader in other words when a guy like jeff bezos at amazon dot com and owner of the washington. and the owner of the washington post go that's right years. and a six hundred million dollars let's do the math right six hundred million dollars deal with the cia buys the washington post for two hundred million dollars which looks pretty good deal pretty good pretty good deal and you know but you know you washington post will never talk about that ok that talk about transparency you want to be able to say you know whoever larry king jesse ventura peter whatever right they want to be able to say who is required to file as

a foreign agent said blah blah blah oh ok they want to be able to use that little free. let me go let me get let me go to rocky that's exactly it it's the name and shame approach here they're they want to be they can't fight our arguments they can't fight our arguments because they know they don't have anything in their arsenal and i would say that they've gotten so used to lying to the public and getting away with it and then we just we hold fire to their feet and that's what they don't like and that's why they a target each and every one of us to destroy our names ok because they can't destroy the truth. but another matter of concern for u.s. officials has been over the russian computer security giant kaspersky lab quoting the multiple reports israeli spies tipped off the end i think that russia was spying on them using antivirus software made by the russian company casper ski laugh the f.b.i. is investigating the company's potential ties to the kremlin worried that its

software could be used to spy on americans so the software that scanning his computer looking for sensitive files sends a message to russia saying hey here's a sensitive file and since they have some sort of a backdoor they can access it well this is there's a sequence here that we're still not entirely sure of it essentially yes this is the idea but here is the rub after months of investigation no conclusive evidence has been following to support claims of the antivirus developer has been involved in cyber spying. are you aware of any breach use to our national security that have been through so they cast brewski products so we are still working through the process to identify i've heard that phrase several times a day working through the process. so efficient are going to answer so it's not conclusive at this time you don't know whether or not systems have been briefed by products you had we do not currently have evidence that conclusive evidence that

they have been breached will some background to this two months ago homeland security ordered agencies under its umbrella to identify cuss perske software on their computers and remove it on the grounds of espionage threat well that is after the moscow based company was accused of leaking classified information to the russian security services kaspersky lab denies the allegations stressing about it house never assisted any government with cyber espionage efforts defense on foreign affairs analyst gregory copley told us the allegations against the likely had no grounds to begin with. they're making these judgments and taking these actions based on more or less histeria rather than on detail the evidence there's no question that the allegations were prompted by an anti russian styria in the us media and in the left wing circles of the us political machinery

there's. almost a rabid it's a logical view within the media and leftist circles in the united states that russia must be to blame for something so they'll keep making these allegations so they'll keep making this because it does distract from other issues which which they should perhaps be paying more attention to in the united states political scene or in another twist to the claims against the computer security giant wiki leaks has revealed in the past week that the cia has created a hostile program that imitates perske software according to the whistle blowing group it uses computer viruses to send back information to the cia. the lebanese president is accusing saudi arabia of a hostile act it concerns the lebanese prime minister who flew to the saudi capital under properly resigned there on saturday. nothing just defies that hariri did not

return after twelve days we consider it to be custody and detention violating the vienna convention and the convention of human rights. based journalist martin g. joins us more to shed some light hopefully on this story and it does need some light being shed on it doesn't it martin it just seems so so dense from the outset what is the latest on this diplomatic right bring us up to date. it's reading more and more every day like a really bad hollywood movie scripts were nobody really knows the ending certainly least of all the saudis today we received a statement in beirut which i could got them out of attention that the president here michel own is losing some patience with the situation with the standoff with mr hariri now in some sort of detention or i'm afraid to use the word kidnapping but he certainly seems to be being held in saudi arabia against his will this

impatience for mr jones built up over a number of days he's offered he suggested that he can only accept the resignation of mr if comes back to beirut and presents himself in person that hasn't happened yet you haven't received any word back from the saudis so this explains to some extent the statement today but also you could of course remind back to sunday where the nation here was gripped by a live television interview which mr hariri gave whereby he said to the presenter that he expected to be back in beirut in a number of days now most of the media here assumed to be in the next two or three days from sunday so that's why there seems to be a certain fuse blowing here in beirut because many people thought today he may will come back the background to the story if i can just summarize is that for the last year while mr hariri has been prime minister in lebanon there was a great deal of pressure and expectation on him from the saudis in particular new

crown prince mohammed bin salman to re. dress and we negotiate us the power balance in the region both in lebanon and outside lebanon and it's just emerged in the last twenty four hours that crude critical to this deal with the haass the crux of this entire to buchla is yemen the saudis believe that there's been a shift of hezbollah forces from lebanon to yemen in the last few months and the rocket attacks on the saudi capital riyadh which we've seen in the last couple of weeks have been responsible have been have been linked to hezbollah forces being in yemen so we now have something on the table that we can the go see it and wrangle with and there's a certain amount of pressure on her riri now to get back to lebanon and to negotiate a deal with hezbollah where by possibly those forces could be removed from yemen as a token gesture you could remember looking back in the last five years saudi arabia has lost so much political power it's lost in yemen it's lost in syria it's made

a bit of a full of itself in qatar and it placed so much hope to harry reid sue negotiate some sort of contingent token gift from hezbollah and iran to give it some to redeem some self-respect and dignity and that hasn't happened so when those rockets were fired from yemen into the red capital a major fuse blew if you like in the new government forming the new kingdom the new king which we expect to be take office in next few weeks have been some months that enough was enough and he put his foot down he couldn't possibly have expected the result which is played out there the irony is quite so extraordinary in the mr hariri in lebanon has gained so much support in the last eleven days even from his opponents that actually places this whole story into a completely new dimension now now become if he comes back to lebanon and most people suspect he will next few days he would have

a lot more leverage on his side to negotiate. it's a deal with hezbollah b.s. quite an extraordinary story thanks for shedding some light to all must first be roots based journalist martin j. . well you may think that rescuing a small child from living in a sewer would be seen as commendable but if it's a refugee being help the e.u. regards not criminal we look into about story in about ninety seconds time. here's what people have been saying about rejected in. the show i go out of my way to. the really packed a punch in the john oliver of r t america is doing the same. apparently better than. you see people you've never heard of love or death for the night. of the world bank. seriously send us an email.

what politicians do you should. put themselves on the line. to get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be president. some want to. have to go to the press to see what before you can't be good. interested in the water. for shit. you're back with r t international a report from a u.k. based think tank claims the european union is effectively making criminals all of those volunteering to help refugees by classifying their humanitarian actions as

trafficking or smuggling well one of the volunteers mentioned in the reports is a fifty year old former british soldier rob laurie well he hit the headlines back in january twenty sixth seen when french authorities rounded on him for trying to help a four year old girl and her father and legally cross into the u.k. now they were living in a sewer pipe of the notorious jungle camp when they were discovered by mr laurie he told us his story. two years ago i went over to help in in france the notorious jungle and i was building shelters there. and i befriended a young afghan girl and her father and she used to help me for many weeks and you know months building shelters until one day i found out she had a family who lived literally two miles from myself and i decided to you know with

with you know a little bit of thoughts of what we are i decided to try and get to her family it was quite obvious that you know i didn't do it for money it was quite obvious i didn't do it for you know any political gain or anything not that it was quite will be she had a purely did it out of a humanitarian. desire to help this little girl the french government the you know three judges in the car so all of this for what it was they viewed it as a stupid act by an ex soldier or that act of benevolence could have landed him five years in prison before his punishment was addressed to a thousand euro fine on called a crime of compassion by the media here trouble are again. i could only presume that agenda would be that if they were to stop aid workers and humanitarians going

to hell then that would force refugees either back off awesome away unless you've actually lived among refugees and heard some of the stories you can't really understand why they would want to come over you know two european shows refugees about these. you know these are escaping you know the severe you know real was let's look at what's happening with governments around the world at the moment but take donald comes america actually donald trump is trying to internalize america with itself coupled with the fact that donald trump is completely out to be that with any kind of knowledge of refugees around the world so if the governments think by restricting humanitarian aid workers other volunteers or charities to help on the ground that kind of kid in cells and it kind of trying to sweep you know the

issues under the under the capital so to speak the situation is going to grow but we realize that you know something has to be done. the u.s. is pulling the plug on funding a program to clear all exploded munitions in cambodia the country is one of the most littered with mines and other explosives some of which are the result of the war in neighboring vietnam when the u.s. dropped more than two million bombs on cambodia locals say washington has a moral duty to help clear the remnants which still have severe consequences for the population. they just decide to come back to see matt. frei have no work to. you know. very disappointed to see this as a. moral obligation

where did drop a lot of bombs and come what are you killing many people's destroying these come boardin. school many facilities. let me do that during the first phase of the us dropped bombs people were evacuated from this village the second time they drop small bombs the blue and white plastic covered bombs which burned all the time blues it was the second during the third phase when all of the people plaids they drop bombs such as beating. that she was just born with that condition as we know now it was from those chemical weapons in the past we only drink water from the smell.

was not. in the arm didn't for deep down. before i didn't really get mad until the u.s. embassy announced that it was because of the take us then i called my. living on there is a people in the southern african country of zimbabwe where the military has seized power undertaking a long time president robert mugabe early on when there were reports of heavy gunfire and explosions being heard in the capital tanks have been stationed at key points across iraq after the military took over the state broadcaster the move has prompted speculation of a possible coup but the military says it is targeting corrupt individuals to run the zimbabwe and president the army also said that robert mugabe who has been in power for almost forty years is safe. well if you would like to know more and not

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greetings and salutation many years from now when fingers are pressed to keep pads historians writing the real version of history not the not the live agreed upon version historians will have an interesting time hammering out just what was the relationship between the united states and isis was isis the ultimate muslim terrorist bad guys to the united states valiant fighters for truth justice and the american way or were they a frankenstein monster of sorts created out of the ashes of the united states imperial invasion and toppling of the country of iraq so now to gather and giving give and regular lightning bolts of money and guns by deep state mad doctors in the pentagon and intelligence communities well the waters just got a whole lot murkier for those authors of future history books thanks to a new investigation by the b.b.c.

it doesn't covered some rather startling admission is coming out of the war torn syrian city of raka according to the b.b.c. they have uncovered details of a secret deal that led hundreds of islamic state biters and their family. as a scape from rock under the gaze of the u.s. and british led coalition and kurdish led forces who control the city under the auspices of ending the battle for iraq and saving civilian and coalition fighter fighters lives local officials are reported to a brokered a deal that arranged for some two hundred fifty isis fighters and more than three thousand of their family members the leave rock in a massive convoy that some estimate to have been six to seven kilometers long using fifty trucks thirteen buses and more than one hundred of the a la mixed islamic states vehicles and despite promises to the contrary this caravan of saddam included foreign born isis fighters you know the kind with that high probability to return to their homelands and potentially commit acts of

terrorism. so let's dive into the murky waters of tomorrow's history of isis today as we start watching the hawks. with the. with. the bottom. like you that i got. with. this. week. well we're going to watching the hawks i am i robot dads happened a lot less so here we are looking at the situation once again from a very different perspective that what we've seen the idea is of course you know we're going over there to fight isis and we've been told.