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twenty four hour news from the russian capital this is my name's union only a welcome to the program our top story lawmakers in russia's. 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 it. 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 for an organization's foreign individuals as well as russian legal entities which are funded from any of the sources that i mentioned above if a media organization 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 staying 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 well we

got 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 the response has been strangely muted as the 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. see 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 a journalist's 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 less room this is she 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 that the national union of journalists only comment about things in the u.k. and china and iraq allah and syria canada russia iran israel turkey and so on you know 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 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 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 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. no one of america's most popular news i'm brigade ing websites 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 channel the site's accused of 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's how the 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 were russian operative this was all think amusing and ridiculous for a time but it's now heading into a dark place it's 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. and while meddling fever still grips america it seems to have also spread over seas hungary is now accusing washington of interfering in ince upcoming elections the hungarian foreign ministry has summoned america's envoy over us plans to fund local media the ministry of foreign affairs and trade some of the us shows or defer asking for an explanation and told him we consider this a political intervention by the u.s. department of state ahead of the elections. just breaking it done the u.s. state department said on monday it would devote seven hundred thousand dollars to fund rural media outlets in hungary it says the goal is to increase access to object of information in the country it will offer technical and financial support to local media as well as a platform for hungary and journalists don't even make albums executive director of

the wrong paul institute believes it's clear a case of meddling. well it is absolutely blatant political intervention the united states is going to go to the hunger in countryside it's going to prop up certain newspapers that it considers to be pro-democracy which is pro washington and this is in advance of national elections coming up next year the state department has been opposed to viktor orbán his feet as party from the very beginning and this is absolutely a politically biased political motivated attempt to change the media in the home here in countryside and break up the popularity of the doorbell to just government i would think it's hypocrisy on one part because without any evidence the u.s. accuses russia of intervening in its a turtle affairs in an election and then the u.s. blatantly overtly intervenes and interferes in hungary an election you don't go and you know prop up certain newspapers in the countryside and it just in advance of an

election and call not meddling and that if the russians were were subsidizing american media that was in favor of the russian favorite candidate the entire america would have a panic attack they've had a panic attack with no evidence so now it's absolutely a popular city on the part of washington. living on a report from a u.k. based think tank claims the european union is effectively criminalising those helping refugees to cross international borders it says laws in europe fail to distinguish between people trafficking which by definition is exploitative and smuggling which may not be well one of the volunteers mentioned in the document it's a fifty year old former british soldier bribe laurie he had the headlines back in january twenty sixth when french authorities rounded on him for trying to help a four year old and her father illegally cross into the u.k. now he find them living in a sewer pipe at the notorious cali jungle camp and this is the story. 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 their 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 had i decided to try and get still her family is 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 of this for what it was they viewed it as a stupid act by next soldier. a lot of benevolence kind of on him five years in prison before his punishment was reduced to a thousand euro fine called a crime of compassion by the media here shrub 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 and then 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 wast blacks 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 itself 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 and the volunteers are charities to help on the ground that kind of couldn't cells in the kind of trying to sweep you know the issues under the under the captives so to speak the situation is going to grow when we realize that you know something has to be done in zimbabwe armed forces put the country's president under heiser rest and take over the state broadcaster will bring you all the details and more news right after this.

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minutes into the program welcome back the lebanese president is accusing saudi arabia of a hostile act it concerns the lebanese prime minister who flew to the saudi capital on abruptly resigned in riyadh. 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 and a hard look how look i'm free in thirty 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 by 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 bringing me up to speed earlier on

a multi-faceted story beirut based journalist martin j. 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 go to sort of attention to the present here michel own is losing some patience with the situation with the standoff but he suggested that he can only accept the resignation of mr if comes back to beirut and presents himself in person without a course in mind 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 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 man to redress and we negotiate 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 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 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 peoples taters been 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 i was like 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 now 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 a polite not aggressive font and no vandalism among the few other pointers amazing that was in it for chan created another obvious trolling complain 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 hold use people and see how they react the media knows it is to react anyway because they think that this act is so reprehensible well before five letters on a regular sheet of paper is just going to destroy the whole world 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 political commentator anthony bryan logan again he blames the media for exaggerating the racial conflict in the country. well

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 some people unfortunately fall into it. well staying stateside now america is pulling the plug on funding a program to clear wartime in cambodia the country is still littered with mines and other explosives after the u.s. dropped more than two million bottoms there during the war with neighboring vietnam officials and pentagon pens say the move comes as a surprise in washington as

a moral duty to help clear the remnants which still of severe consequences for the population. they just decide to come to see my. soul. i have no work to save. very disappointed decisions. they have no obligation where they drop a lot of bombs in cambodia kill many people's destroying mini's come bored in. school many facility in cambodia. during the first phase that 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 into the u.s. embassy announced it was because of the take us then i got mine. there is are people in the southern african country of zimbabwe where the military

seize power under tain long time president robert mugabe early on wednesday there were reports of heavy gun. fire and explosions being heard in the capital tanks being stationed at key points across horary after the military took over the state broadcaster that has prompted speculation of a possible coups but the military say's it's targeting corrupt individuals or run this i'm bob when president the army also said that mugabe who has been in power for almost four decades is safe well that is your r t news are up for. developing stories that are dot com or on the social network all of choice under former is here in thirty with your next world update and i'll see you soon.

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something gossip and public by file for the most important news today. from off advertising telling you on the cool enough to buy their products. on the hawks that we along with our loved ones. according to the department of justice r t the channel you're watching now is an agent of a foreign even hostile power all the while the d.o.j. refuses to explain why this is the case critics warn r.t. is a test case for a campaign of media suppression. eleven pm in the french quarters police station. the policemen using sydney's application are starting their shift. i guess franklin has already been working all day as

a city police officer. but at night he chooses to extend his work day in the unit that uses sydney's application. my regular shift was two twenty five to eleven o'clock pm and when i go from start twelve am to six and walk a long day but it's worth it in the end. that is overtime is paid for by the millionaire. before leading police officers of the task force collect their equipment. those tablets with the app. and the small electric cars. once the app is turned on they head to the french quarter. sidney torres is having dinner there with his son. but he's always connected to his from. drug dealing decatur and that's been

a right here. for you. and i do his that people have reported the presence of a drug dealer in front of this bar. it's a drug deal that they said was happening and that's you know i'm looking on the g.p.s. right now to see what the machine is because the machine should be on its way right now. less than three minutes after the warning car isn't already on site. and the drug dealers just left. back at the station what are you. joey is in charge of dispatching the police you're ok calling suzhou. he has just received a picture that raises his concern. was the problem with the get area yet he's probably carrying it should in this patch carry guns and f.h. .