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people. helping refugees across the border. morning here a. very warm welcome just in time for the week. britain's prime minister may have. relations with russia in a speech on tuesday after accusing moscow of military aggression. but all surprisingly details and apparently the key issue it seems. chief among those today of course is russia but it is russia's actions russia's illegal onix ation of crimea so i have

a very simple message for russia because we know there's a strong and prosperous russia russia has the reach and the responsibility russia can russia does not to secure the best possible brics it. another day after mays claims the times newspaper alleged russian interference in the breaks of vote one example was i suppose of the russian who's profile didn't fit a typical british political observer yet posted or read tweeted nearly one hundred posts mentioning brooks said that the political and media scare mongering may have actually had an effect as party boy can now reports in recent weeks and days the british media has been heavily focused on the lack of progress at the braggs it talks and the problems facing to reason may's government the russian interference story has drawn the fire away from all that and now media outlets can

pour over the question of how many trolls does it take to incite a revolution not many according to everyone we approached to discuss this story in london do you think four hundred twitter accounts from from russia was enough to change the outcome of the referendum here in the u.k. well i think it could i think it could sort of and the could be a lot more yeah so you think it's only the tip of the iceberg yes i think it's just the tip of the iceberg i believe there is some of the books movies and i'm being very careful with my own stuff but. where there's smoke there's fire usually for russia i did use. the idea that four hundred twitter people will affect the movements of millions as it were mostly mostly people who don't read anything on twitter is absolutely laughable the prime minister's spokesperson has said that downing street didn't have any evidence of successful interference in british

electoral systems and this was the way the foreign secretary put it on. the lips of that. but that doesn't matter because if you ask a member of the public care if russia did magill the answer is most likely to be. to these or me and other leaders are doing across the west is trying to divert attention from their own responsibility for for the enveloping crazies the political crazies are taking place at home and abroad too in this context they don't need evidence russia is seen as an easy target despite may contributing to the attacks on moscow she well later was forced to clarify her claims turns out she wasn't actually implying that russia meddled in proxy they

like to look at the speech i gave on monday that we see the examples i gave of russian interference when not in the united kingdom but britain was far from the only one to dig deeper on anti russian claims this week spanish officials also alleged moscow meddling this time in catalonia separatist movement. in many messages and many interventions that have occurred through social networks come from russian territory and they use the expression russian territory that does not necessarily mean that we have confirmed that it is the russian government so therefore we have to act through a lot of prudence here more than anyone could imagine. mainstream media insists russia may have destabilize the entire country or of a spanish leader mario not a whole he denies all the allegations saying he has no information about any of it . i have no data which can be used as evidence on the involvement of the russian

government nothing the blame russia card has also been played in the deepening scandal over sexual misconduct in the us entertainment industry now star trek actor george takei was this week accused of acting inappropriately with a male model in the early nineteen eighties he denies the allegations in an al deleted tweet takei said russian balts were to find the allegations against him even a charge which claimed to show how he was targeted by russian trolls however all of his hard work didn't seem to win over the backing of those on social media.

he should have said that cling on to may have done it no he says russian box so let me get this straight they're going to get back at you by repeating something which apparently may or may not be true they're not making this up they're not lying they're not crafting some story of you having been and all they're doing is repeating oh like courting the new allegations made by someone else who benefits from this there is absolutely specious idea that somebody is going to go through all of this work to make some some strange and some cryptic association with some has been star trek actor or what an accusation is forty years old i mean it doesn't make any sense but it's great commentary after months of growing

pressure from washington this week odyssey america was forced to register as a foreign agent in the u.s. so it could continue broadcasting but china will now have to abide by a law. only combat nazi propaganda during the second world war it will have to disclose its brawl costs and social media output to the u.s. government also it must have a transparent financial structure and be ready for a full inspection at any time here's a tease and he said i. let's talk about the first amendment more american than apple pie freedom fries and gun violence the first amendment is supposed to protect the freedom of speech right right it allows anyone to have a voice in til you speak too loud artsy america was forced to register as a foreign agent wife or just because the other option was legal action and it counts frozen so let's say you're an american journalist and you want to cover stories the mainstream media will never talk about and then all of

a sudden your employer is labeled a foreign agent that makes you a spy the d.o.j. is using a law from one thousand nine hundred thirty eight created to fight non-si propaganda against america but the law doesn't apply to any other foreign broadcasters caps are the u.k. france and many other countries can have their say as long as they don't say too much remember when al-jazeera was a t.v. that changed real quick as soon as they started walking washington's line they became respected journalists you are not a respected journalist if you cover imperialism nato expansion israeli occupation if you talk saudi arabia straight up if you go inside guantanamo to reveal human rights abuses and that's a spine currency wars exorbitant military spending manmade interventions and soft coups you are not a respected journalist if you go on live t.v.

call out the country that funds your network but keep your job you are not a respected journalist if you risk your life to cover proxy wars violent protest police brutality and coverage without corporate censorship you are not a respected journalist if you win the multiple prestigious awards the emmy nominations you are not a respected journalist if you only work for our team because it's one of the larger outlets that will actually let you say what you know mother. will and touch topics you would be fired for anywhere else you are a spy a foreign agent it's official the u.s. government now decides what is journalism and what is not but this is just the beginning it starts with russia and it will and after home right in the heart of america meanwhile the russian state duma responded to the treatment of oxy america voted in favor of requiring media outlets funded from abroad to register for agents

of the russian justice ministry subsequently released a list of the organizations that could be affected by the law and failure to register will lead to prosecution in the outlets could be. just like with the america old output by the channels will have to be mocked as a product released by foreign funded media for london mayor ken livingstone believes the current wrangling will actually drive people towards the media. i think there's more of attempt over the years to come to try and suppress what the american people get here because if people could see the truth about a lot of what's happening around the world they would be questioning what their government is doing behind all of that and so on the idea that there is a free press is nonsense any. here in britain and certainly in america so many of the newspapers are owned by billionaires who don't pay their taxes locally loaned them out the off shore the result of this is going to be more people now finding

out on here what's on our t.v. i mean there be people out there now. now that want to know. what's going on i would be a total surprise to find foreign listeners avanti will be more in a few weeks time than they are now. are returning to catalonia now where on saturday rival crowds marched in barcelona and the deep divisions over the region's independence movement thousands took part in a march under the banner catalonia is pain is just the latest in a series of pro unity rally since last month's referendum which was of course branded illegal by the spanish government meanwhile a group of pro independence activists gathered denouncing madrid's crackdown on their movement. now in his new show here on our sea the former scottish first minister alex salmond spoke exclusively to the ousted president calls put him on was sacked in october and is now facing charges of sedition and rebellion spain

issued an international arrest warrant after he fled to belgium where he is currently on bail on friday a belgian court delayed till next month his decision on whether to extradite him want to madrid speaking to od see he recalled the region's referendum day and told alex salmond how he sees the future of catalonia. let me take you to that the that extraordinary day in the first of october and tell me what your emotions were that the in the one hand there was the celebration of the whole millions of your fellow country people coming out to exercise or vote for self-determination on the other hand it was the the violence that we all saw on television screens from that the state police or what will the conflicting emotions that you felt as president of catalonia on that famous day there was a day of the victory of catalonia and the other hand of course there was a day of the extremely violent. i couldn't imagine the direction like

that from the democratic state european union it was a tragic day today because i see directly the violent face school in my hometown there are a lot of injuries i was of injuries by the start of the next week the spanish judicial system or rolled into actual and took away the constitutional prize that catalonia had gained well this mistake in fact start a new era in the end of his era that will start a catalan rapidly because in these conditions is not possible it is not possible there is no future at all and to remain in spain in these conditions what is your message to the people of catalonia we must to be confident resilient because we will. we will succeed

finally democracy will permit. a u.k. think tank claims the e.u. is criminalizing people who help refugees cross borders it says laws fail to distinguish between people traffickers who exploit migrants and smugglers who may act in the interests of the refugees and one person mentioned in the document is british former soldier robert lori he made headlines last year when french authorities around on him for trying to help a four year old illegally cross into the u.k. he found her living in the notorious kalai jungle camp here's his story. years ago i went over to help him again in front 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 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 thought of what we did i decided to try and get still have found 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 probably she had a purely did it out of a humanitarian. desire to help this little girl the french government the three judges in the cos so all this for what it was they viewed it as a stupid act by an ex soldier. he faced five years in prison before his punishment was reduced to a thousand euro fine his actions were cold a crime of compassion by the media has rubbed 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 you know real was lax look at what's happening with governments around the world at the moment let's take donald trump's america show donald trump is trying to internalize america with itself coupled with the fact that donald trump is completely out of his depth 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 kid in cells and that kind of trying to sweep you know the issues under the under the cappy so to speak the situation is going to grow when we realize that you know something has to be done or saudi arabia has finally agreed on reopening some air and sea ports in yemen to allow in vital aid supplies and more on that after the break. everybody i'm stephen both. hollywood guy suspects every proud american first of all i'm just george bush and honored to say this is my buddy max famous financial guru just a little bit different i'm not. going to. your windows up with all the drama happening in our country i'm shooting the brood have some fun every day americans.

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pupil who now identifies as male the teacher insists he apologized immediately the student in question. came in did very well and i said well then girls started really well and i was met with a fierce rebuttal. and i sincerely apologize. i then found out six weeks later that i was going to be under investigation for a mis gendering within the community and initially for one day that transpired to be two days and then three days and then it's now been six days where i've been sat in a in an office not being able to teach my math lessons or daughter were told us that amidst all the fallout over the years sure he believes he's being singled out over his religious beliefs i think i've been bullied really for you know for

who i am within the school setting up a bible club and then it being shut down with an iron fist really having so many people coming along to the bible club and being interested in the bible i feel like i've been discriminated against within the community and i think that's a trend. nationwide is that christians are unable to. live out their faith in a professional setting the incident as a provoked debate over whether the school is rightly handling a sensitive issue or overreacting this particular teacher accidentally missed gendered by calling a trans boy pupil a girl it was not intentional he hadn't meant to cause a phone it's so i think that his suspension is disproportionate i think that the school should obviously point out to him that he made a mistake which of course he doesn't recognize and then get his assurance that it

won't happen again i think that is the end of the matter is absolutely stupid he called the girls girls because he thought it was a class of girls made an honest mistake. up. paula just that should have been the end of the matter this whole transgender agenda he's getting much much too much influence in the british media and embrace society there are very small minority i feel sorry for anyone who thinks they are trapped in the wrong body they should be treated with respect and tolerance but where is the tolerance for this man he's a christian but of course you're not allowed to be a christian anymore are you in modern britain don't say that he's done anything wrong actual and the majority of people in the u.k. i'm sure will agree with me. after a week long blockade of saudi arabia has bowed to pressure from the un saying it will begin reopening some air and sea ports in yemen humanitarian groups have long

been demanding life saving supplies to be allowed in. the civil war the riyadh's and cochon which stretch back to two thousand and

fifteen have now made yemen the poorest country in the arab world where supplies of food medicine and fuel vital now a saudi arabia's man ally is questioning the country's continued role in the yemen conflict and on binding resolution the u.s. house of representatives said it should back out of supporting the saudis now it acknowledges washington's goal is to defeat al qaida and supporting riyadh in yemen ultimately contradicts that target congress also colin donald trump to pull out any armed forces the u.s. house and yemen this horror and i'm a story it's hard to see is caused in part by our decision to facilitate a bombing campaign that is murdering children. now since the start of the war in twenty fifteen the u.s. has provided saudi arabia and its allies in yemen with intelligence and wide scale

military equipment including missiles and warplanes and all sorts of other armaments and as i mentioned americans of all involvement was originally intended to fight terrorist organizations however huth the opposition fighters remain the main target of saudi attacks it's a group not recognised as terrorists and that would go against washington's own terms of authorization for military force and investigative journalist dave lindorff says u.s. officials are now beginning to change their mind on the situation or seeing that may be the the images coming out in maybe the world opinion that's starting to shift on yemen is leading these people in the in the congress to in the senate to look at this and say do we really want to get dragged into another . war it's a shift that there is a she has been used abused since it was passed practically which goes all the way

back to two thousand and one if they're waking up to the idea that they can't just keep stretching the boundaries of this two thousand and one station for use of military force. you know they say they should do that but they may you know come up with new acts to do the same thing. like a plane crashed in eastern russia on wednesday killing six people but amid the tragedy there is one miraculous story. we're. and the same deal as the committee to shoulder the

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long welcome to world a part of the truth of this may be unconventional in many ways but like most its recent predecessors it also wants to try to count at mediating palestinian conflict the u.s. delegation allowed by the president's advisor and son in law. is expected in the region this week stops in a number of arab capitals including cairo is the current us administration well equipped to take on the challenge like this especially given the divisions at home to discuss that i'm now joined by foreign minister of egypt so michel great

minister it's great to see in moscow thank you the last time we had a chance to talk to you was in spring of two thousand and sixteen in the final years of the obama administration when the wall the ready since like a pretty messy place judging from your vantage point in cairo how has the situation in the wall changed. well we. continue to strive to various challenges regionally and the national the change in the administration to the states of course is a new portion juncture that will. play. they said we seek to cooperate both with the united states with the russian federation with our partners in europe to create the necessary stability to regain and especially not part of the world the stability that has been moved by the events of two thousand and eleven the situation conditions in iraq in yemen in syria have all had very negative impact on the area.