allegations of russian meddling reach new levels britain's prime minister calls for unity against moscow and accusations fly from spain and even from a star trak actor. after washington on monday start to america to register as a foreign agent russia's parliament passed counter measures on western outlets working in russia. and the u.k. think tank claims volunteers helping refugees cross borders are being treated like criminals by brussels we hear from a former soldier who fell foul of the authorities.

here watching the weekly here in r.t. international live from our moscow studio with me in a day or two to dance our round up of our top stories of the last seven days and the latest up to date welcome to the program the u.k. prime minister pointed the finger at russia in a speech on monday accusing moscow of military aggression and election meddling but she offered very few details and apparently the stalled bragg's it talks a far less pressing 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 of the responsibility russia can russia does more. to secure the best possible brics it. the day after may's attack a group of researchers allies russia had set up hundreds of accounts to influence the drugs and vote our london correspondent looks at the facts behind the

allegations in recent weeks and days the british media has been heavily focused on the lack of progress the braggs it talks and the problems facing to raise their maze of 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 merely 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. i believe there is some of the books movies and i'm being very careful with my own. where there's smoke there's fire. for i should use. the idea about four hundred twitter people will affect. as it were mostly

mostly people who don't read anything on twitter is absolutely laughable the prime minister 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. to lose them. 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 done. 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 political crazies or to kill police at home and abroad too in this context they

don't lead evidence russia is seen as an easy target. meanwhile britain was far from alone in making anti russian claims this week spanish officials also allege russian meddling this time regarding catalonia separatist movement which. 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 the mainstream media seems convinced that russia may have destabilized the country however the spanish leader has said that he has no information about the russian government playing any role in this 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 and tame industry star trek

actor george takei was last week accused of behaving inappropriately with a male model in the early eighty's he denies the allegations in a now deleted tweet takei said russian bots were amplifying the allegations against him he attached a chart which claimed to show he was targeted by russian trolls however he didn't seem to win over the backing of social media. he should have said the cling on may have done it no he says rudd shouldn't 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 all according to you allegations made by someone else who benefits from this this absolutely specious idea that somebody is going to go through all of this work to make some sort of strange and some cryptic association with some has been star trek actor 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 all to america registered as a foreign agent in the us so as to be able to continue broadcasting the channel

will now have to abide by a law first set up to combat nazi propaganda before the second world war and it will have to regularly disclose full details of its broadcasts and stuffing to the us government plus it must maintain a transparent financial structure and be ready for a full inspection at any time his altie zinny so now we are. 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 till you speak too loud r.t. america was forced to register as a foreign agent wife forced because the other option was legal action and accounts 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 o.j.

is using a law from one thousand nine hundred thirty eight created to fight nazi propaganda against america but the law doesn't apply to any other foreign broadcasters kept 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 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 i say spying currency wars exorbitant military spending manmade interventions and soft coup 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 protests

police brutality and coverage without corporate censorship you are not a respected journalist if you win multiple prestigious awards an emmy nominations you are not a respected journalist if you only work for r.t. because it's one of the larger outlets that will actually let you say what no other network. 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 end i home right in the heart of america in a follow up the russian state duma responded to the treatment of all t. america voted in favor of making it possible to require u.s. funded media outlets to register as foreign agents the russian justice ministry subsequently released a list of the organizations that could be affected by the law when it comes into

force failure to register will lead to prosecution and the outlet could be banned and just like with all to america all output by the channels will have to be long to as a product release by foreign funded media we sign it up which is journalist neil clark former london mayor ken livingstone on the issue. i think the more more attempts over the years to come to try and suppress what the american people get here because if american 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 result of this is going to be more people now finding out are when he was on our t.v. and there be people out there never r.t. exist now that want to know what reform it was going or i would be told surprised to find foreign listeners of r.t. will be more in a few weeks' time than they are now when we heard last week that r.t. had until the following monday to register as a foreign agent in america there was silence from groups like amnesty and other

groups that are supposed to be defending free speech and free media and yet when russia very reasonably announces reciprocal measures in response to these measures from the us then all of a sudden these so-called impartial western pro human rights organizations come out and say this is outrageous this is terrible russia is clamping down on free speech so i think everybody can see now very clearly the hypocrisy that underpins so much of this western organizations. scotland's former first minister has just experienced some of the pressure that working for r.t. can put you under and examined us land in the press after signing up to host a show on this channel that had lines like these but he's confident he made the right decision. are you not afraid of been hosts in the rush of the program taking into consideration all the publications. came over to supported

the question i thought it might be from the sun the daily mail but a bit on the other side of the. through the. russia today broadcasting i counted fifteen liberal m.p.'s thirty eight tory m.p.'s forty seven liberals seem to do you'd be in the green. on russia today programs so you know. if it's good enough for john mcdonald jeremy corbin di and john redwood crispin blunt. for. black for vince cable and carl and lucas that i can probably. stand there the criticism that the they experienced as well. in his first show alec simon spoke exclusively to the as ted casablanca president who 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

speaking all r.t. praised along with all the regions referendum and day and related his vision of the future of catalonia you can watch the full programme on r.t. dot com you feel. now thousands of people took to the streets of paris on saturday to voice their anger at president micron social policies the crowd was blocked by police as it moved towards the columns official residence of the palace protesters vatican bank presidential palace and his labor reforms which he claims will spur growth and cut unemployment earlier one hundred members of micron's party announced that they were going to quit because of his betrayal of democracy these events were the latest in a string of protests across france against the president's decisions his charlotte do penske. well what we have are thousands of people who have decided to join this small rich. set up by the trade union some of the three biggest trade unions in prague's call them their members for a day of national action and this is one of

a number of protests taking place across france. and nice some of the damage to the shops that we're seeing along the street where this protest is going on this is that a transfer western union shop and this is one of a number of shops that we've seen a small group of individuals taking part in this protest trying to break and smash what they're using around them is not just rocks on the street but it's when you take a look down here these are the great they're pulling up from around the trees and they've actually been trying to use those to ram into the shops to cool some of this damage. it was seemed to be very targeted very angry stopping the crowds and in fact when they saw that we were trying to film that she blocked our camera and frightened us and said you know you know also allowed to film us doing this because they concerned about

the police being able to work out what their identity is well apart from that we've been speaking to some of the protesters about what this protest was really about because it will get at this all the things that the way mccomb possible by executive order is an attack a democracy one that this could happen where very angry because this law is not for employees they simply lose all of their rights apply not quite like a blip up here even to you that i visit micro month to liberalize optimize and destroy all the security of workers he wants labor costs to be at a minimum and we're here to denounce this policy which is not in the interests of workers with you they also want to school measure the people here are hopeful that the fact that the code to survive and the fact that although much has signed this and given his approval it still needs to be debated by the parliament here in france and they're hoping that by holding protests like this by showing how many people are unhappy and concerned about these changes that they might be able to get

parliamentarians in france to change their mind. the is being accused of criminalizing people who try to help migrants cross borders that story and more still to come. hey everybody i'm stephen paul. hollywood guy you expect. proud american first of all i'm just george bush and r.v. this is my buddy max famous financial guru well it's a little bit different. going to the inner windows up with all the drama happening in our country and i'm sure to have some fun meet every day americans. and hopefully start to bridge the gap this is the great american.

cryptocurrency doesn't really need to replace the u.s. dollar replays the euro it just needs to survive while those behemoths collapse under their own way and that's when the top and it's going to go . welcome back to the weekly a u.k. think tank claims the criminalising people who help refugees cross borders it says fail to distinguish between people traffickers who exploit migrants and activists who might be acting in the interests of refugees one person mentioned in the document is former british soldier rob lowry he made headlines last year when

french authorities rounded on him for trying to help a four year old girl in come to the u.k. he found living in than a tourist jungle camp here's his story. but years ago i went over to help him again 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 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 would 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 quite will

be she had a purely did it out of a humanitarian. desire to help this little girl the french government i don't think the other three judges in the cos saw this for what it was they viewed it as a stupid act by an ex soldier. the fallen but his soldier faced five years in prison before his punishment was reduced to a thousand euro fine and his actions were called a crime of compassion by the media his rob again on the french authorities i could only presume their 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 refugees watch these. you know these are escaping you know

be you know real was lax look at what's happening with governments around the world at the moment but 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 of his depth with any kind of knowledge of refugees around the world except that governments think by restricting humanitarian aid workers other volunteers are charities to help on the ground there kind of kid him selves in that kind of trying to sweep you know the issues under the under the can be so to speak situation is going to grow while we realize that you know something has to be done. now but his schoolteacher has been suspended for praising his students joshua sutcliffe congratulated his math class by saying well done killed but that upset one teenager people who are now identifies as male the teacher

insists he apologized immediately the student in question. came in did very well and i said well done girls you 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 missed 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 have been sat in the in an office not being able to teach my math lessons. joshua 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 has provoked debate over whether school is overreacting. it was not intentional he hadn't meant to cause a phone 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 solve recognize and then get his assurance that it won't happen again i think that is the end of the matter transgender agenda is 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 i don't see there is doing anything wrong actual and the majority of people in the u.k. i'm sure will agree with me. kurdish forces have struck a deal with moscow to allow dozens of russian speaking children to return from syria the children have been taken there by their parents who joined islamic state artie's broadcaster visited the kids as they prepared for their journey home. with isis now on its last legs flights like this becoming a regular thing russian citizens looting the wives and children of isis fighters being collected wherever they're found whether they've surrendered or been captured and taken back to russia to rejoin their families it isn't often that

a high ranking syrian could visits the russian air base in syria but this is a special exception nineteen russian speaking woman along with twenty six children were being held by the y.p. they came from all around from rocka theirs or. it took time to confirm their identities and to secure their release that it was dangerous to flee directly for three or four months we try to find a way out of syria. for the movie still to. turkey and all mothers went to the beach and then our fathers told us we were going to visit someone who got into a black car that took us to syria the children obvious signs of trauma stunted speech and the development excessive nervousness and other symptoms brought about by what they saw war and carnage. when we first tried to

flee eisen militants caught and imprisoned us were put in prison on three separate occasions the last time they didn't release my father and later this he had died when all is said and done there is some responsibility to be taken here that these women came to syria voluntarily and that they may yet have to answer for it but. at the then you need to be honest just for the thrill. only. i didn't have a husband version less ideas but the family got there they took all close. money watches rings ever since they could sell out which of them i was thinking ok. let's move up after we divorced i came to tell my husband i was going to leave the country in the fall when day he took my son and told me i would never see him again almost had family relatives who were more than willing to help a joke which we should. i want to go home to my grandma.

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