the. fact the tech giant itself previously admitted it found no violations when it investigated r t s popularity on you tube. and palestine has frozen ties with the u.s. after the palestine liberation organization is office in washington loses its license . you're watching r t international line from a mosque into the program the russian president vladimir putin has spoken over the phone with donald trump it was the leaders since president trump took office back in january. but we're going to cross live now. for more details do we know anything about what was said. from the statement on

the law to mark who brought up north korea some sort of communication between them have almost been completely thrusting the rush hour traffic on them and they were monitored bunch of coverage about what we're doing there but what the sites. has a long time relationship with the democratic party leadership which lost last year's presidential election in the us he was reportedly a donor and informal adviser to the a bomb a campaign later becoming an advisor to the obama administration according to documents revealed by wiki leaks schmidt also donated to the clinton foundation and he's believed to be the tech mastermind behind the campaign of defeated democratic presidential candidate hillary clinton he has not confirmed any of these allegations artie's editor in chief has slammed the remarks made by schmidt saying google's own congressional report found no evidence the channel had violated or manipulated its policies under pressure from u.s.

authorities google launched an investigation into alleged russian meddling but it found no evidence r.t. had manipulated you tube in any way to get its status of the most viewed news network despite that google dropped us from its you tube prime list in the u.s. without any notice or explanation it's only explained later after congress hearing where the firm was grilled on why it hadn't carried out the move before mr sell gado why did google get referred to russia today a russian propaganda arm on youtube. there was a period of time where russia today qualified really because of algorithms to participate in a an advertising program why didn't you revert artie's preferred status after the i.c.a. came out in january two thousand and seventeen it took you to september of two thousand and seventeen to do it the removal of r t from the program was actually

a result of the as as i understand it is a are is a result of some of the drop in viewership not as a result of any action otherwise so there was there was nothing about r.t.e. or is its content that. meant that it stayed in or stayed out of the media consultant nail wallace's certain google of actions against a politically motivated. i don't think it censorship you don't have to like the stories that russia today covers you don't have to want to read the material coming from sputnik but i really do not believe it is in any way except the ball that a bunch of politically correct. democratic party supporting people certainly in silicon valley should decide what i should or should not read i think it's the height of arrogance where does this start and where does it stop who

decides that google today will attack our tree but tomorrow the same sort of pressure made you may make and decide to attack the daily mail here in here in britain another political viewpoint they might not like this is suppression this is censorship i think that i am quite capable of watching r.t. reading sputnik and deciding what i do or do not want to take from it what i do or do not believe i think this is extremely sinister as i say meanwhile eric schmidt's remarks have been contradicted by a google representative who said no concrete plans to develop russian media including r.t. were in place and on the topic of google whistleblower julian aside as alleged on twitter that the firm gave the matter data of journalists working for wiki leaks two investigators into his case back in twenty fifteen. the

palestinian national authority is freezing ties with the u.s. after it refused to renew the license of the palestine liberation organization office in washington the palestinian presidential spokesman slammed the u.s. decision. this u.s. measure is unprecedented in the history of u.s. palestinian relations it could have serious consequences it's going to serve as a blow to peacemaking efforts and as a reward to israel. the palestine liberation organization was founded in one thousand nine hundred sixty four since then it's been recognized as the sole legitimate representative of the people of palestine by some one hundred states it also enjoys observer status at the u.n. we spoke to dimitri dillon a revolutionary council member who says the u.s. is backing israel's actions against palestine by not renewing the license. that is further assurance state of israel that the state of israel can continue to violate the human rights laws the international laws. and get away with it and on top of

that get even more support the united states is given a green light to israel to keep on committing the atrocities and the war crimes that it's been committing since the first day of occupation that was supposed to be ending after all small agreement in five years and that did not happen and one of the reason why didn't happen because the united states policies have been inconsistent with its own. set of expressed believes about equality and human rights it. has been unsettled we start to the week for germany after talks on forming a coalition government collapsed chancellor angela merkel attempted to seek advice from the country's president however you seem to differ as merkel's declared she is ready to head back to polls if necessary while the president urges the parties to reconsider their disagreements if it isn't for time and all parties elected to the

bundestag have a shared duty to serve their country i expect from all parties a willingness to make possible the formation of a government in the foreseeable future. if you elections come i should say that's not something i'm afraid of during the election campaign i thought for a four year mandate my point of view is that new elections would be the better path . with merkel now struggling to find a way out peter oliver breaks down the recent developments. the day after the bundestag election in september angela merkel said that she was confident that by christmas she would have a ruling coalition government in place or fast forward through weeks of torture a sit times negotiations with the green party and the pro-business free democrats while the wheels of that coalition health fell off well and truly with christie and of the free democrats delivering the killer blow we have the other one is that we

will not abandon our voters for a policy with which we are not convinced it is better not to govern than to govern badly ingrained differences between the parties on key issues such as climate change refugees and the budget saw the so-called jamaica coalition break down. just hours after coalition talks with the free democrats in the greens collapsed under merkel was turned down by another coalition suitor this time the social democrats martin schulze saying there would be no return to

a grand coalition if. on september the twenty fourth the grand coalition lost fourteen percent so it's clear we were shown the red card in. view of the election results we are not available to join a grand coalition without off the table one other option available to angola merkel would be to rule over a minority government most likely with the green party. but a minority government would be unstable at best and would certainly require horse trading on gargantuan proportions with the other four parties in parliament if the government was to well pass anything more than just time in the chamber it's also worth noting that this would be a first in modern german history and wouldn't exactly fit the profile of the german voters who do love stabilises so where does this leave us the other option would be we go back to the polls for fresh elections.

so back to the polls we go well step forward german president frank vaulted steinmeyer it's predominantly a ceremonial role but when it comes to installing a government that's where the german presidency has executive power it will be up to mr steinmeier whether he decides that he accepts angola merkel as the head of a minority government or whether he dissolves parliament triggering elections and for the long serving leader mrs merkel that could well prove to be a storm she doesn't whether it's keep that's really fun for somebody has got to be responsible for that the federal chancellor created this situation she's been in power for what feels like a hundred years and now she should be asking herself maybe i have something to do with this situation. mrs merkel has failed it's time for now to take a step back. that night but the end of the merkel era began europe's biggest

economy is heading into uncharted territory with current polling suggesting that a new ballot wouldn't return any results too different from what we had in september it does seem that there is no immediate solution to the current instability germany is facing and of course the implications that has for the why do european union peter all of a r.t. berlin. we discussed the issue with you bronson a member of the f.t. he says merkel's time at the hound is over with her migration policy having proved core values. abolishing subscription to nuclear power. abandoning the traditional schooling system she does all she can to stay in power it's not her lack of ability the it's not that she cannot compromise she has no principles the fault lies with the other parties who cannot agree on common grounds it is no surprise the idea of open borders no borders no nation everything free to everybody

for everyone and without any cost it's ridiculous well that was the last nail in the coffin people were absolutely against that you're looking at another one million one point five million people to come to this country the next year people are strongly opposed to that she got the worst result she had ever since she was in power and her party also suffered heavy heavy blows this is because she did not listen to what people really wanted to do or what are to be done now she's paying the price. the lebanese army is prepared to counter any possible act of israeli aggression that's according to an official statement by the army's chief it comes as our nations led by saudi arabia moved to crack down on lebanon's hezbollah militia the ongoing crisis began when the lebanese prime minister hariri announced his resignation in saudi arabia on his way back to lebanon he stopped in egypt for talks with egypt's president artie's picks up the story. this announcement by

joseph he's the head of the lebanese military telling the army to be in full readiness along the border with israel saying that israel their yearly commits violations of lebanon's sovereignty and so the country must be ready to face any aggression from the southern neighbor and of course it all comes in the background of these increasing. tensions in the region we've seen the head of the israeli defense force the chief of staff gul eyes in court saying very openly actually that he's ready to have complete cooperation with saudi arabia and to share intelligence with them on what they both see as their common foe iran and by extension iran's allies in the region groups like hezbollah course we've seen all of this coming in the wake of the arab league meeting over the weekend convened by saudi arabia to

condemn iran and of course again there are allies like hezbollah like the who sees and other groups which are fighting in resisting against saudi arabia in yemen as well so all of that coming together in that sense that meeting didn't go exactly to plan there were several arab countries which didn't vote for saudis motion against iran and that date we're expected to see the return of the lebanese prime minister saad hariri it follows his resignation live on when he was still in saudi arabia his resignation as prime minister he then over the weekend went to paris and will return later today in time for lebanon's independence day celebrations but it remains to be seen exactly what will happen he is expected to meet with lebanese president michel old whole country quite tense actually that's the atmosphere here as they all wait to see what will happen not just in the domestic politics of lebanon but also regionally. promised

a million dollars of taxpayers' money has been paid out and harassment settlements by the u.s. congress this year as the highest figure in a decade a report released by the office of compliance reveals complaints range from sexual harassment to racial discrimination artie's kelly has moved to tells. for almost a month now the us public has been facing an avalanche of allegations of sexual harassment leveled against men in the public eye on an almost daily basis well it turns out that members of congress are no exception a person basically offered me. an opportunity to flirt with him in order to x. to excel in my career this member asked a staffer to bring them over some materials to the residents. and the young staffers a young woman went there and was greeted with a member in a towel and this talk it sort of happened over and over and over and finally one day i said you know it knock it off this is just not appropriate it's not right and

it's not cool now there's actually a special body on capitol hill set up to deal with the allegations but you might be surprised to learn that some people think this body is actually part of the problem we have a system in place that allows for the harasser to go unchecked doesn't pay for the settlement himself and is never identified so the office of compliance to which a victim must apply or complain is a place that has really been and then they able are of sexual harassment it's the american taxpayers who end up footing the bill it's already cost them over seventeen million dollars in awards and settlements since the office of compliance was established in the one nine hundred ninety s. on top of that the u.s. public doesn't even know what they're paying something the person behind this scheme has admitted needs to change is the taxpayer basically being charged for the activities of someone stuff person or a member of congress it should be made available to the public so how does this

scheme sit with the people who end up paying for it i don't want to pay for it i think that the that the that the set whoever the perpetrator is should be paying not the taxpayer. to pay for their own defense really i don't think the economy taxpayer should pay for that they should pay their own way. so who says we have to pay i don't think they should be sued i think they should be prosecuted congress is attempting to rectify this situation with a bipartisan bill so in the future when taxpayers have to cough up the bill they'll at least know who's transgressions it is that they're funding kaleb mop and r. t. washington d.c. . a controversial measure expected to be unveiled doing tomorrow as you can but it has. angered many in the british capital human rights associations and have come out against the plan to run out of benefits that could plunge over four hundred thousand honorable citizens into poverty they've delivered tons of food bank

donations outside downing street as a symbolic gesture. explains why this is a pretty rare sight we're in the heart of white wall behind me you can see downing street and if we just turn the other way you can see that tons of food has been delivered to whitehall and it's all piled up and it's part of an national day of action again by the people's assembly run by them to highlight the fact that the rollout of a new benefit system will force thousands more people to rely on food banks this winter i spoke to him from the people's assembly and he told me what it was all about he has. this because we feel that the government's policy driving people into poverty. meaning thousands and thousands of people actually. relying on food banks on a regular basis the role of things like universal credit has already been widely criticized. by campaigners politicians in areas. they've seen

a thirty percent increase already in food bank usage which just about. looks like food thank yous are going to be a lot higher and we think in one of the richest countries in the planet it's a disgrace that people are having to be forced to use the food to have to use food banks to feed their families that this protest is being organized on the day before the budget is to highlight several things first of all it mentions the danger of universal credit which is a system that aims to roll the benefits into one it needs to make the system simpler but the reality of it is that there's often a six week delay for families can claim any money and that's why they need to bridge that gap by using food. that thirty percent increase in the use of food banks this winter is the figure that comes from the trussell trust hold this food will be delivered once this demonstration it's finished but this is calling for the tories to use the budget to scrap universal credit either that the people's

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