modern day slavery in libya triggers protests in two european capitals we look at what's led to such a die humanitarian situation in the country. also to come washington apparently promises to cut weapon supplies to its kurdish allies fighting isis in syria but the exact details aren't put forward by the white house and the death toll from the militant attack on a mosque in egypt rises to three hundred five with the government saying the gunmen were carrying an iso flack.

but i welcome you watching r.t. international this saturday afternoon where it's just turned four o'clock here in the russian capital. now demonstrators in paris and rome have been voicing their anger over modern day slavery in libya it comes in the wake of reports of migrants and refugees being caught and sold there for as little as four hundred dollars. was. the well the issues of exploitation slavery and human trafficking were raised when the french president traveled to guinea early in the week the leader of the west african country suggested that the e.u. was part of the problem and that libya clearly lacks the resources to tackle the problem. a lot of what has been revealed beyond everything we have to know

about the situation in libya definitely falls into the category of trafficking of human beings it is a crime against humanity so france denunciation has been immediate it is indisputable you know to russia as the european union cannot choose a developing country and ask that country to detain refugees when it doesn't even have the means to do so the refugees are in terrible conditions so our european friends were not great ask libya to keep the migrants the european union as responsible because well france for its part has been highly critical of the actions of the u.n. baxley been government in addressing the issue jacqueline then again i looked at the fact is that have given rise to the human rights crisis in libya. some of the harshest condemnation thrown at libya over the appalling treatment of african migrants is coming from france it is called an emergency meeting of the u.n. security council and has gone as far as to threaten libya with sanctions libyan authorities have decided to open an investigation into the facts we wanted to go

fast and if the libyan justice system cannot carry this procedure through then we should open international sanctions those threats are being leveled against the very government that the u.n. endorsed and helped form after the fall of gadhafi let's rewind back to two thousand and eleven. thank you. western leaders of libya was on course to democracy yet it turned out to be a rather gruesome process here's what came next this video purportedly shows libyan rebels torturing groups of black africans they've been locked in cages with their hands tied behind their backs and many of them appear to have the libyan flag stuffed in their mouths these men were said to have been targeted by rebels after rumors emerged that gadhafi had hired black mercenaries the national transitional council seems to confuse black people with mercenaries or black people or mercenaries for them they're killing people ordinary workers mistreating them so

huge section of the population was being singled out and mistreated or even killed and yet human rights groups noted at the time that the plight of those very migrants was being all but ignored unlike today you see. that they beat me with electric cable while my hands were cuffed behind my back and my feet were bound together with this suffered massively from slavery for about fourteen fifty fifty four hundred years between thirty eight million people forcibly left the continent it was stolen from africa and now the sea slavery again inside africa. yes absolutely disgusting abhorrent. the efforts by some of the european countries now the say they want to do something about it they have to recognize that they are part of the core of the problem itself there's still many would not be the kind of career going on in libya today you

could argue that not because. of the country in operate through into chaos by regime change the human rights abuses during the world outrage today a stark resemblance to what was happening in libya six years ago when western leaders focus was hailing about his demise and urging the country to pursue a democracy. now the u.s. president has apparently agreed to stop supplying weapons to kurdish fighters who are currently battling islamic state in syria turkey's foreign minister says trump made the pledge in a phone call to his country's leader. mr trump clearly stated that he given clear instructions not to provide the world p.g. with arms and that this nonsense should have ended long ago. but the white house was less forthcoming about that conversation it did confirm that the call did take place but didn't mention the kurds it simply said that donald trump informed

president about upcoming adjustments to the military support being provided to america's partners on the ground in syria however whether those adjustments would actually affect washington support for the kurds wasn't made explicit the u.s. has been sending various types of weapons to kurdish forces and supporting their military operations too with air strikes but it's been a major sticking point between america and key which considers some kurdish forces to be terrorists rick sterling from the syria solidarity movement thinks that washington is playing both sides. the only thing consistent here between washington and road is inconsistency washington of course has laid at dual role here so so we're going to have to see how it what is zero to be trailered that kurds are just going to do. this over is going to be. seen on and on washington.

and the course with earth on is is is basically he's just he's showing i'm still so to be very adept at the opportunistic opportunistically and been seen years interest however our you know it's not just the by the way it's not it's not a war it's that we get a cadence under the or it is the kurdish communities and really a war against the whole progress of community with it turkey. american tech giants are allegedly being asked to help out the country's immigration authorities it is reported they are planning to vet visa holders social media accounts details of that emerged after a tech conference where government officials did say they are searching for algorithms which could help them assess potential dangers with more haze kind of more pay. the information revolution and the boom of social media have put the world at our fingertips but they've also created some very convenient tools for the government so is the i.t.

sector still what the users want us immigration and customs enforcement has asked tech companies microsoft included to help them screen the social media of people holding or applying for american visas in order to make that happen the government is asking them to develop special algorithms we have millions and millions and millions of people coming every year and subsequently departing so we have to be smart about it and i'm sure there are tools out there that can help for microsoft this won't be the first experience they've had working with u.s. authorities last month microsoft released a program called as your government a cloud service of classified information customers with secret requirements can expect to gain access to technologies that scale including services such as cognitive capabilities artificial intelligence and predictive analytics amazon walsall be helping to stock the government's tool box last week they released a cloud computing region there will be helping the cia and other intel seriously retaliate a convent alley is a wing of the u.s.

government kaleb mop and artsy new york and u.s. journalist eric warns that people should be careful when using the services of tech giants it's worth noting and understanding that when you search and you use google when you use social media tools like facebook and these other softwares and these other types of apps that they often are very forthcoming with your information they're willing to give your information over to the u.s. government without much of a fight some of them do put up a fight occasionally but for the most part they work with them very regularly and that's something you should take into consideration and perhaps pursue alternatives google is not the only search engine that exists there's better alternatives there's better alternatives to facebook there's better alternatives to all these different companies and at some point people should say if you want to support the u.s. government's. surveillance and the u.s. government's push towards a police state that i'm not going to buy your product anymore i'm not going to use your product anymore it really will and could be problematic especially with the social media monitoring of immigrants and really the social media monitoring of all

americans and in foreigners and people abroad it has implications beyond you know just whether or not the u.s. and these private industries are working together they're definitely working together whether it's for profit over something more nefarious we don't know at this point but i would say this is something more people should be paying attention to there's always been private industry working for governments that's kind of a standard practice but i do think that what we're seeing is this relationship between big business corporate america and the u.s. government it's getting further and further and meshed in till they're becoming just one single entity. egypt is hunting for the militants behind what officials there do call the deadliest ever terror attack in the country at least three hundred five people were killed on friday at a mosque in the north sinai region more than one hundred others were injured so far no group has claimed responsibility for the attack the authorities say between twenty five and thirty masked gunmen took part in the assault warplanes have been

conducting retaliatory air strikes on terrorist positions and vehicles years. now u.s. regulators say that their plans to revoke so-called net neutrality rules have widespread public backing the move could lead to a two speed internet where some sites to some sites pay to get their traffic prioritized over others but it does seem that not all of the public feedback was

actually genuine. seeing this is pretty annoying and if net neutrality is rolled back in the us people will be seeing a lot more of it is how it works at the moment internet providers have to treat all online traffic equally that means that they can't block or slow anything down but all thora cheese will matter and they think the private sector will invest trillions of dollars into web services if their plan goes ahead they even asked the country what it thought of the move people to submit comments and twenty two million replied the majority in favor of repealing the net neutrality problem is some users starting to complain that they didn't write the comments then approved by the new york attorney general revealed some feedback to the f.c.c. plan was actually fake hundreds of thousands of americans were likely impersonated to drown out the views of real people and businesses this was a can to identity theft on a massive scale. but the scale won't be even bigger than that one data scientist

claims he's found at least one point three million fake pro repeal comments he noticed repetitive language looking as if it was generated by computer programming meanwhile the national tracking poll shows that the majority of americans actually support net neutrality as to who is definitely against it the telecom corporations who stands and huge profits by charging more for faster connections and by the way the current head of the f.c.c. used to work for the biggest telecom operators in the u.s. well as to who might be behind the feedback pushing for net neutrality to be scrapped a few media were very quick to point russian hackers chiles or tell private investor and writer says that it is yet another attempt to deflect attention away from internal problems. the notion that russia may have rigged yet a dog or debate over a topic does that begin to sound a little repetitive to you as often happens over here now in the states is when one

gets close to the heart of the issue fake issues emerge and this fake issue of bots possibly connected to the russian federation i think is a fake issue very difficult to actually pinpoint where these plots may have arisen after all they are indeed called bots and it's certainly possible that people over here could you know attribute could create a bot and falsely attribute it planted in a way to make it seem as if it's russian but we did the f.c.c. to comment on the investigation into fake net neutrality comments and also alleged for meddling we'll let you know when they respond. still ahead this hour a russian joke proved to be a bit too realistic for the media in finland we'll tell you why after the break. i would not be surprised if a deal is made selling fannie mae and freddie mac.

people's bank of china so that essentially china becomes america's biggest landlord and keeping prices down and up to the name. lobel harmony and this is i think what we're can expect in the next few years because the u.s. is the world's biggest debtor china is the world's biggest creditor so you put those two together you have the biggest creditor taking the u.s. debt that's like government guaranteed and you may freddie mac's all the people to borrowing money on those games and they've got chinese landmarks that's a global economy. was it to. americans by the israelis i'm fortunate the my financial support of some. countries in asia for making them and see you.

welcome back now police in the pakistani capital her forcibly dispersed a group of islamist activists who've been blocking key roads there in a really three weeks almost two hundred people have been injured and one police officer has been killed according to local media but word of warning though the following video does contain distressing images. of. the. outer i. was the i. i. i i

was a police officer took part in the operation to disperse supporters of the hardline islamist political party they are opposed to a legal move that will allow norm muslim candidates to run for election next year protestors were also demanding the current justice minister steps down after he removed a reference to the prophet mohammed in a recent build. an experiment simulating a mission to the moon has just ended in russia six crew members spent just over two weeks isolated and confined to a mock space craft project serious as it's known has been partly funded by the american space agency nasa.

you. well this is the third stage of the experiments and next shift disciplines will spend about four months in simulated space and then in twenty nineteen the isolation will last for about eight months at the final stage is expected to last for a year it is hoped the results will help pave the way for anybody to travel into space

in the not too distant future of soon normal citizens will be able to spend time in space it's going to be something that not just astronauts and not just highly trained personnel can go to so it's a very important that we take normal citizens or normals scientists that don't have an astronaut background we see how they're going to work on these environments there are a lot of qualities that people generally have that could be used very efficiently in space exploration so i think that it's a good thing to have these sorts of programs of space collaboration and exploration that do not require people to go through this kind of formal you know nasa or russian astronaut and cosmonaut training. you kauffman from masses human research program highlighted to us some of the benefits of the cooperation with russia so nasa has

a long standing collaboration with the research reno biomedical research where russian space industry particularly with i.b.m. p. institute for biomedical problems in russia we have been doing that for years. we bring a great deal of experience both sides. a lot of experience and in this area both sides have been conducting this type of research studies as well as spaceflight studies up on. the international space station for many years so it was only natural for us to join forces and. allow to take basically leverage each other's abilities and. only it only makes sense to increase or efficiency in joining our forces and going further together.

finally if you think that navy seals do you stand face and how about this soviet battle me you said where they've certainly got the media in finland fired up although a little basic fact checking might have saved them the worry. that

initial article that was published in the russian magazine popular mechanics and here is the man behind the graphic of the photos used in this article partially rio the photo of the moose was taken by a friend of mine at a moose farm one of the red army soldiers is me i'm standing with my back towards the camera on the right having taken this photo we later combined it with a photo of the moves a museum has been opened in failing this year which is dedicated to the winds of war and there is a hole there featuring the combat moose i was really taken aback of because there is a line at the end of our article saying this is a joke and the story was disseminated on the internet with no mention of this this is not even about fake news this is just an april fools day joke. you're watching r

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a special dedicated to travel and retail we'll talk to view from the wings gary left about changing seating charts on airlines and will examine how online commerce is disrupting the retail industry. first while american united and delta all offer basic economy southwest does not in fact the airline c.e.o. calls a second class others call it third class or steerage to get his take we sat down with gary left founder of you from the wing dot com lindsey first asked him why some of the biggest airlines in the u.s. are doing this here's what he had to say. what the airlines have done the three large largest airlines have done is they're offering fewer of the normal benefits the you expect as part of your travel on their cheapest fares you're not going to be able to change a ticket at all you're not going to get a seat assignment before you check in and in the case of american united you're not

even going to be able to bring on your normal full size carry on bag if you're buying one of these fares the idea is to make the travel experience more difficult with these fares in hopes that you'll spend more money for the things that used to get included in your ticket. the basic economy fares from all accounts you know were essentially created to compete with these budget airlines spirit frontier things of that nature they're offered a rapidly growing number of people use them especially young fliers i've noticed when i'm on them anyway no frills carriers they basically call themselves if you look at the prices spirit airlines cost of fare per cent per mile is six frontier airlines up to nine express jet. about seven sky west it goes on up delta. american united those are some of the highest so do you think they're actually going to be caught out by customers in trying to do this

due to the add on prices because they're not really a budget carrier. well what they're basically have been doing is they've been matching the lowest fares offered by their competitors and in the past when they did that they were offering a better value product than those competitors offered what they wanted to do is say ok we're going to offer those lowest fares but we're going to offer as unpleasant a product as you would get on a spirit a frontier or an allegiant when we do so that you spend more what they're not doing is offering lower fares than before they're taking the existing lower fares and trying to make those less desirable as a way of effectively offering a fare increase for those who are willing and able to pay more the younger travelers people who are more price sensitive are simply going to stick with those lowest fares and get less than they did before alternately you know and the reason that united was losing money when they started doing this is simply because other

airlines weren't doing it also so when they matched the price of american airlines or a southwest american and southwest offered a better value product american hadn't begun their base your economy initiative yet so they're bet is that now that american is offering the economy fares also they will be losing money but consumers do have a chair doesn't offer these fares neither does jet blue or alaska so when one of those.