russian lawmakers those in favor of giving moscow the power to classify media outlets as foreign agents in a move similar to those made against r.t. in the united states. response to washington's actions the self-appointed guardians of the globe and press freedom stayed quiet on the treatment of us channel. a u.k. think tank reveals that volunteers attempting to help refugees across international borders are being treated as criminals by the new we hear from one humanitarian aid worker who fell foul of the authorities it's quite obvious that you don't do it for money purely be out of a humanitarian desire to help this little girl. hello

welcome to r.t. this wednesday evening where it's just turned eight o'clock here in moscow our top story this hour lawmakers in russia's lower house of parliament voted in favor of forcing 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 his. 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 u.s. 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 is all legislation required amendments and they have just been a. 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 in these transfers was spent on that but to read about this in the original buzz feed 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. when we also got in touch with the global press freedom and i say she has to get their

reaction to see america being coerced into clarion itself a foreign agent but the response has been strange you need to do is move it gets the it 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.

will also have to send copies of everything it 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 o.e.c.d. representative in freedom of media has just received an official less room this issued 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 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 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 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. now one of america's most popular news websites is getting caught up in the campaign against r.t. to you the drudge report which does link to hundreds of news sites is under fire from the washington post for showing stories from this channel the site is accused

of publishing links to quote russian propaganda well that's only a small number of articles compared to the washington post articles that drudge also links to here's how the web site's boss reacted i've linked to washington post over ten thousand times in twenty five years of doing drudge report i currently give them thirty seven percent of their referral traffic he's a brutal business not even a thank you instead you are a russian operative this was all thing 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 it will now go it is branding of journalists. and that is very dangerous of course for the safety of journalists in many hotspots and difficult parts of the world now as meddling fever still grips america it seems to have also spread overseas to hungary is now

accusing washington of interfering in its upcoming elections hungary and foreign ministry has summoned america's envoy over u.s. plans to fund local media. the ministry of foreign affairs and trade some of the us shows you 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 while the u.s. state department did say on monday would devote seven hundred thousand dollars to fund rural media outlets in hungary it says the goal is to increase access to objective information in the country it will offer technical and financial support to local media as well as a platform for hungary in journalist daniel academy's executive director of the ron paul institute believes it is a clear case of meddling. well it is absolutely blatant political intervention the united states is going to go to the hungarian countryside it's going to prop up certain newspapers that it considers to be pro-democracy which is pro washington in

this is in advance of national elections coming up next year the state department has been opposed to viktor orbán in his feed us 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 in interferes in hungary an election you don't go into you know prop up certain newspapers in the countryside and it just in advance of an election and call it not meddling and version of the russians we're we're 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 park received on the part of

washington. now a report from the u.k. based think tank claims the european union is effectively criminalising those helping refugees to cross international borders says they're always in europe they fail to distinguish between people trafficking which by definition is exploitative and also smuggling which may not be one of the volunteers mentioned in the document is fifty year old former british soldier robert lowry here he hit the headlines back in january twenty sixth eighteen when french authorities rounded on him for trying to help a four year old and her father illegally cross into the u.k. he found them living in a sewer pipe in the tourist kalai jungle camp here's his 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 her father and she used to help me for many weeks and you know amongst 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 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 like that it was quite will be she had a purely did it out of a humanitarian the 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. well that act of benevolence could have landed him five years in prison before his punishment was reduced to a one thousand euro

a fine and also a court a crime of compassion by the media his propaganda 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 to 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. donald trump is trying to return allies america with itself and cope 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 are charities to help on the ground that kind of kidded him selves in the kind of trying to sweep you know the issues under the young to the cappy so to speak the situation is going to grow while we realize that you know something has to be done just coming up to quarter past eight here and also still ahead this hour lebanon has a key saudi arabia of holding its former prime minister hostage deepening the growing rift between the two countries we'll have the latest after the break. the war hard sell you on the idea that dropping bombs brings police to the chicken hawks forcing you to fight the battles. that you thought to try to tell you that every gossip the public profiles of. mother doesn't tell you

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hello again the lebanese president is accusing saudi arabia of a hostile acts it comes sorry it concerns the lebanese prime minister who flew into the saudi capital and abruptly resigned in riyadh 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 and a hundred of them look 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 from beirut journalist martin jay has the latest. it's reading more and more every day like a really bad hollywood movie scripts were nobody really knows the ending we received a statement in beirut which i could get a certain amount of attention 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 mr if comes back to very rude and presents himself in person like 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 the 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 block for is how you come 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 they've been trolling school campuses with post this eclair ing it is ok to be white and move though that's offending both people and teachers . and identified bunch of people have been plastering signs in 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 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 and this shaded just that they ask their followers to spread this poster with a 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 a 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 told use people and see how they react the media knows it but these do 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 well separately a writer in the new york times is questioning whether it's right for his children to be friends with white people is anthony brown no you can 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 that people think that we face are just about people in the media like the guy who wrote the article in new york and many others most people pretty much get along there is some separation of people but there is

basically a long cultural lion's den could be within races as well so is not so much about this big racial division there is some racial tension but i think the media who wants to be the normal thing they push in some people unfortunately fall into it. now america is pulling the plug on funding a program to clear a wartime munitions in cambodia the country is still littered with mines and other explosives to you 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 that washington has a moral to help clear the remnants which still have severe consequences for the population. they just decide to come to see my. soul. i have no work to say about

this very disappointed this is a. moral obligation where did drop a lot of bombs in cambodia kilmeny comporting people's destroyed mini's come aboard in. this school many facility and. let me think that during the first phase of the us drug 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 between two to.

light that 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 small ponds. or even the skull was not true in the arm didn't develop outer before i didn't really get mad until the u.s. embassy announced that it was because of the take us then i got my. another new saving this upheaval in the southern that's how the news looks so far tonight here not a. great. i think the public sector as well as in the private sector that information would have to be can be made properly and that actually puts pressure on the parliament more on this. off the public.

corning to the department of justice r t the channel you're watching now is an agent of before and 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 wider campaign of media suppression. greetings and salutations ears from now when fingers are pressed to keep pads historians writing the real version of history not the not the lie 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 were truth justice and the

american way or were they have frankenstein monster of sorts created out of the ashes of the united states imperial invasion and toppling of the country of iraq soon together and giving given 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. that doesn't covered some rather startling admissions coming out of the war torn syrian city of raka according to the b.b.c. they've uncovered details of a secret deal that led hundreds of islamic state fighters and their families escape from iraq 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 have brokered

a deal that arranged for some two hundred fifty isis fighters and more than three thousand of their family members to 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 along next islamic states vehicles and despite promises to the contrary this caravan of subgroups 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. you. would think you treat it looks like the real that would be the last to leave the politics if you look. like you know what i got. to do with.

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