russian lawmakers voted in favor of giving moscow the power to classify media. similar to those made. in the united states. in response to washington's actions the self appointed global press freedom usually quiet on the treatment of parties. also had this r t u k thing reveals the volunteers attempting to help refugees crossing international borders are being treated as criminals. we hear from one humanitarian aid worker who felt. the money purely out of a humanitarian. help this little girl. you're

tuning in from right around the world this hour welcome to moscow onto r t international my names you know neil your company our top story lawmakers in russia's lower horse of parliament voted in favor of requiring media outlets which are funded from abroad to register as foreign agents it is in response to similar pressure placed on r. t. america in the united states with the details breaking that done. 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 also had its parliamentary election back in september twenty sixth and there were polling stations opened at russian embassies around the world for russian citizens who couldn't vote at home and that required some money. russian officials did confirm that the cash and these transfers was spent on that but to read about this in the original boss feet article you really have to scroll down and scroll down a lot so this bit of quality investigative journalism by buzz feed or maybe not was also brought up at the duma session earlier this wednesday and even

trying to well we got in touch with a number of global prist freedom organizations to get their reactions to r.t. america being coerced into declaring itself a foreign agent but the response has been strangely muted. explains. washington has had enough of. russia today a russian propaganda arm why have you not shut down r t 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 can't be on twitter. we'll 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 well 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 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 maybe next. asked 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 iraq and 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 doesn't concern them yet russia has been so effectively vilified by the press by the u.s.

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 aligned with the attacks and so i find that incredibly disappointing i think people whether they like r.t. or they don't like r t should defend artie's right to exist to broadcast in the united states to say what it wants to say to interview all 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. now one of america's most popular news aggregator web sites is 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 this journal the site's accuse the publishing links to quote russian propaganda even though it's only a tiny number of articles compared to what drudge links to from the washington post itself here so site boss might drudge 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 said brutal business not even a thank you instead you are a russian operative this was all faintly 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 the path will no go 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

but another matter of concern for u.s. officials has been over the russian computer security giant kaspersky lab. well you know multiple reports israeli spies tipped off the n.s.a. that russia was spying on them using antivirus software made by the russian company caspar ski lab 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's the rub after months of investigation no conclusive evidence has been following to support claims the antivirus developer has been involved in cyber spying. are you aware of any breach use to our national security that have

been by the cats 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 is. sufficient answer so it's not conclusive at this time you don't know whether or not systems have been breached by kids bruschi products you had we do not currently have evidence that conclusive evidence that they have been breached. well just some background to this two months ago homeland security ordered agencies under its umbrella to identify cast software on their computers and remove it on the grounds of alleged espionage threat for the moscow based company was accused of leaking classified information to the russian security services. denies the allegation stressing that he was never assisted any government with cyber espionage efforts defense and foreign affairs analyst gregory culpably

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 is syria rather than detail the evidence there's no question that the allegations were prompted by an anti russian is syria 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 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 be paying more attention to in the united states will say well in another twist to the claims against the computer security giant wiki leaks has revealed in the last week that the cia has created

a hostile program that imitates caspar skee software according to the whistle blowing group it uses computer viruses to send back information to the cia a. report from a u.k. based think tank claims the european union is effectively criminalising those helping refugees to cross international borders its eight laws in europe fail to this thing were to tween people trafficking which by definition is exploitative and smuggling which may not be well one of the volunteers mentioned in the document is a fifty year old former british soldier rob laurie he hit the headlines back in january twenty sixth when french authorities rounded on him for trying to help a four year old and her father and legally cross into the u.k. he find them living in a sewer pipe at the notorious cull a jungle camp and this is historic. years ago i went over to help

in in france in 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 thought of what we had i decided to try and get still 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 three judges in the car so all this for what it was they viewed it

as a stupid act by next soldier. or the act of benevolence could have landed him five years in prison before his punishment was reduced to a one thousand euro fine and called a crime of compassion by the media here's rob again on the french authorities. i could only presume that agenda would be that if they were to stop aid workers are 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 the refugees about which i've met these. you know these are escaping you know be you know real last let's look at what's happening with governments around the world at the moment let's take donald trump's america show it donald trump is trying to internalize america with it is sell coupled with the fact that

donald trump is completely out to be steps with any kind of knowledge of refugees around the world so if the governments think by restricting humanitarian aid workers the volunteers are charities to help on the ground that kind of kid and cells and that kind of trying to sweep you know the issues under the under the capital so to speak the situation is going to grow where we realize that you know something has to be done or are to global news right after this. i played for many clubs over the years so i know the game and so i got. the ball isn't only about what happens on the pitch to the final school it's about the passion from the families it's the age of the super mommy killian

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with r t international and the lebanese president is accusing saudi arabia of a hostile act it concerns the lebanese prime minister who threw to the saudi capital and abruptly resigned his position on saturday. nothing just defies that hariri did not return after twelve days we consider it to be custody and detention of violating the vienna convention and the convention of human rights and a hard look at how look i'm free in saudi arabia if i wanted to leave tomorrow i would leave tomorrow all lebanese people need to know that i did resign i know it's not an ordinary way of resigning but any prime minister i know that but i did it because i wanted to send them into shock positive shock so lebanese people would realize that our country is in danger it's a deeply peculiar story and beirut based journalist martin j. told me the latest on. it's reading more and more every day like

a really bad hollywood movie scripts where nobody really knows the ending we received a statement in beirut which i could got a certain amount of tension that the president here michel own is losing some patience with the situation with the standoff but he suggested that he can only accept the resignation of his diary if kerry comes back to beirut and presents himself in person with that of course and i'm back to sunday where the nation here was grip's by early 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 in 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 redress and renegotiate us the power balance in the region both in lebanon and outside lebanon critical to this deal with the haass the crux of this entire to buckler is yemen now become if he comes back to lebanon

and most people suspects he will next few days he would have a lot more leverage on his side to negotiate a deal hezbollah. the racial divide in the united states is being seized upon by a group of activists who've been trolling school campuses with posters declaring it's ok to be white a move that's offending both pupils and teachers. an identified bunch of people have been plastering signs and stickers like these in neighborhoods and campuses across america claiming it's ok to be white wow one of the vice of comparing the nation is in shambles really shocked that someone like had the guts to do this because it's like we try to promote diversity so much but see in the melting pot that is america everyone is always proud of their heritage you have the african heritage studies you have the hispanic black jewish heritage months cultural

appropriation movements and so on but these people who want to publicly state that there is nothing to be ashamed of being white are hiding their faces so much for diversity harvard law school will not let that happen here we live work teach in learn together in a community that is stronger better and deeper because of our diversity we are taking this seriously and are investigating this incident this may be part of a concerted national campaign to form a racial and political tension in our school and community but who would even come up with this crazy idea the ford chair and chat room the so-called troll kingdom these guys have been responsible for spreading trends and movements whose purpose was one thing only trolling and about two weeks ago they again initiated just that they asked their followers to spread this poster with very carefully crafted guidelines such as

a no way coming in contact with the left keeping of polite not aggressive font and no vandalism among a few other pointers amazing now isn't it four chan created in another obvious trolling competing with the purpose of exposing many people's sensitivities making them act a little crazy towards a flyer. put it out there publicly to say hey we're going to told use people and see how they react the media knows it but these two react anyway because they think that this act is so reprehensible before five letters on a regular sheet of paper is just going to destroy the whole world well separately a writer in the new york times is questioning whether it's right for his children to be friends with white people here's a political commentator on for me brian logan again he blames the media for exaggerating the racial conflict in the country where i think the racial problem is overblown and often is really that many racial problems in the united states many of the problems they people think that we face are just pitch weighted by people in

the media like the guy who wrote the article in a new york times and many others most people pretty much get along there is some separation of people but they just basically along cultural lines that could be within races as well so it was not so much about this big racial division there is some racial tension but i think the media who wants to have that be the normal thing they push in some people unfortunately fall into it. america is pulling the plug on funding a program to clear wartime munitions in cambodia the country is still littered with mines and other explosives after the u.s. dropped more than two million bombs there during the war with neighboring vietnam officials in phnom penh say the move comes as a surprise and insists washington has a moral duty to help clear the remnants which still have severe consequences for the population.

they just decide to come to see me. i have no work to say. very disappointed this season's. moral obligation where did drop a lot of bombs in cambodia kilmeny cupboard in people's destroyed minis come bored in. school many facility in cambodia. 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 burn all the bamboos that was the second place during the third phase when all of the people fled they drop bigger bombs such as b. fifty two.

we thought she was just born with that condition as we know now it was from those chemical weapons in the past we only drank water from the smallpox. or even the skull was not really developed in the arm didn't develop. before i didn't really get until the u.s. embassy announced that it was because of the take us then i called my aunt. there is a people in the southern african country of zimbabwe where the military sees power under taina long time president robert mugabe early on wednesday there were reports of heavy gunfire and explosions being heard. in the capital tanks being stationed at key points across horary after the military took over the state broadcaster the move has prompted speculation of a possible coups but the military says it is targeting corrupt individuals or run

this and bob when president the army also said that mugabe who had been in power for most forty years is safe. sure news for i'll see you again in thirty minutes time here on r.t. international more programs try to.

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after time and we're going underground as the death toll continues to rise from sunday night's iran iraq of quake centered near the city of a lab job where in the one nine hundred eighty s. and on the same deployed u.s. chemical weapons on thousands of kurdish civilians coming up in a show. i can't breathe we speak to award winning journalist and author matt taibbi about police brutality journalistic racism and the killing that started an international black lives matter movement and to the world's biggest threats to free speech really come from governments or from private u.s. multibillion dollar tech giants we speak to internet browser pioneer yawn von tetzchner blast from this week's political penalty shootout the offside fallen minister crying fake of

a russian interference while his own prime minister cries foul ball is the more coming up in today's going underground but first for you gave me the most pressing issue today is the near total global power of a lot of near putin while arguably it's really caught twenty three and bricks it thousands upon thousands meanwhile were killed or injured in the earthquake centered on the iraqi city of lovejoy on sunday night and while iraq was notoriously invaded by labor party ordered british troops in twenty three and neighboring iran has been destabilized by british governments for decades the name a ledger is synonymous with something else the largest chemical attack on civilians since the first world war the massacre which through tragic irony was used by mainstream t.v. networks to galvanize nato nations support for yet more bombing of iraq forty five minutes saddam hussein's planes bombarded a larger with some of the most toxic agents known to science nerve gases. an old

fashioned mustard gas when i arrived there was still dead people everywhere as you'd expect the b.b.c. in twenty or three didn't find time to report on something even the u.s. new york times had to concede ten years later during the one nine hundred eighty saddam hussein developed robust chemical weapons programs with extensive foreign support rockets tootled nerve agent were provided by egypt and italy tens of thousands of artillery shells shipped to iraq from europe to be filled with mustard agent and western built production lines were of american design. as mr hussein's chemical munitions stockpile grew his forces use these weapons repeatedly including against iranian troops and iraqi civilians yes when it comes to the use of chemical weapons in the middle east it was mrs thatcher's conservative government and ronald reagan's republicans that catalyzed w m d slaughter amidst the debut of sunday's earthquake it may be of little consolation to survive is that far more people have

been killed because of british labor and conservative governments than the weekend's geophysical traumas of continental plates well one of journalism's fiercest critics of u.s. policy on iraq has been award winning rolling stone magazine writer matt taibbi but in his new must appease icon to breathe the killing that started the movement he charts a war that began with the killing of father of six eric garner in new york city had led to a worldwide movement that campaigns from toronto canada to ferguson usa to london england to melbourne australia matt taibbi joins me now from new jersey thanks so much for coming back on the show so why gone is story arguably so emblematic of what's wrong in the usa right now i think it's a perfect example of everything that's wrong with modern american policing because it was. particularly pointed example of what goes wrong when you use the statistics based approach that most americans are.