modern day slavery in libya triggers protests in two european capitals we look at what's led to such a diet humanitarian situation in the country. also this washington apparently promises to cuts weapons supplies to its kurdish allies fighting i saw in syria but the exact details are put forward by the white house and the death toll from a militant attack on a mosque in egypt rises to three hundred five with the government saying that the gunman were carrying and i still fly. low they're coming to you live from moscow you're watching r.t.

international our top story this hour 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 captured and sold there for as little as four hundred dollars. i i. thought well the issues of exploitation slavery and human trafficking were raised when the french president travel to guinea in the week the leader of the west african country suggested the he was actually part of the problem and that libya clearly lacks the resources to tackle such abuses. what has been revealed beyond everything we have said to know about the situation in libya definitely falls into the category of trafficking of human beings it is

a crime against humanity so for us denunciation has been immediate it is indisputable you know to look at russia as it is european union cannot choose a developing country and ask their country to detain refugees when it doesn't even have the means to do so if the refugees are in terrible conditions sorry european friends were not great ask libya to keep the migrants the european union as responsible for france though has been highly critical of the actions of the u.n. backs libyan government in addressing pressing the issue. now looks at some of the causes of the human rights crisis in libya some of the harshest condemnation thrown at libya over the appalling treatment of african migrants coming from france and it's 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 fact 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 a lot. thank you judy. western leaders said 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 mouth 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 black people are mercenaries for them they're killing people. 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. 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 that was stolen from africa and now deceased slavery again inside africa is absolutely disgusting abhorrent and i think the efforts by some of the european countries now to say they want to do something about it they have to recognize that they were part of the cause of the problem itself there's still many would not be the kind of slavery going on in libya today if gadhafi had not been assassinated and the country enough with the chaos

by regime change and human rights abuses stirring the world outrage today a stark resemblance to what was happening in libya six years ago when western leaders focus was hailing that off 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 to foreign minister says that trump made the pledge in a phone call to his country's leader. mr trump clearly stated that he had given clear instructions not to provide the p.g. with arms and that this nonsense should have ended long ago. however the white house was less forthcoming about the 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 will

actually affect washington support for the kurds wasn't made explicit the us has been sending various types of weapons to kurdish forces and supporting their military operations too with air strikes and it's been a major sticking point between america and key which considers some kurdish forces to be terrorists sterling from the serious solidarity movement things washington is trying to play both sides but the only thing you're between washington and inconsistency washington of course has. a role here so we're going to have to see how it what is it that would be critical of the kurds it is going to do. this over the years going. on in washington. and of course earlier on is is is basically it's is pretty in favor of repealing

net neutrality problem is some users started 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 might be even bigger than that one data scientist claims he's found at least one point three million fake pro repeal comments in. it's just repetitive language looking as if it was generated by a computer program 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 for who might be behind the feedback pushing for net neutrality to be

scrapped a few media were very quick to point at russian hackers the writer charles autos says it's yet another example of an attempt to deck deflect attention away from internal problems. the notion that russia may have rigged yet another 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 think issues emerge and this fake issue of bytes possibly connected to the russian federation i think is a fake issue it is very difficult to actually pinpoint where these parts 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 have asked the f.c.c. to comment on the investigation into those allegations of fake comments and for meddling to you i will let you know when they respond. in other news tonight the

police in the pakistani capital have forcibly dispersed a group of islam this activists who've been blocking key roads there in the lead three weeks almost two hundred people have been and one police officer was killed according to local media a word of warning though the following video does contain distressing images. i was. i. was i was. really. was i was i was. i. was thousands of police officers took part in that operation to disperse supporters

of the hardline islamist political passing they are opposed to a legal move that will allow non muslim candidates to run for election next year. sisters were also demanding the current justice minister steps down after he removed a reference to the prophet mohammed in a recent bill. american tech giants are being asked to help the country's immigration authority it is being reported they are planning to vet the social media accounts of people who want these is with more on this is. 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 from 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 will also be helping to stock the government's tool box last week they released a cloud computing region that will be helping the cia and other intelligence agencies the a.w.l.'s secret region is a key component of the intel communities multi fabric cloud strategy u.s. senator mitch mcconnell has blatantly stated that the i.t. sector should be working to serve us foreign policy goals and of course he

mentioned the russians what we ought to do with regard to the russians is retaliate seriously retaliate against the russians and the. tech firms could be helpful and having us give us a way to to do that the tech sector is private it's supposed to only serve its users and its shareholders but recently more and more it's starting to look like silicon valley is a wing of the u.s. government caleb mop and artsy new york and u.s. journalist erik primaries warns that people should be careful when using this is this is all the tech giant's. odeon 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. still to come here or not say egypt has suffered its deadliest ever attack that left three hundred five people dead in the time on the mosque we'll get some reaction to this but i. don't want to talk still of you on the idea that dropping bombs brings police to the chicken hawks forcing you to fight the battle but don't. produce offspring to tell you the celebrity gossip the tabloids but i felt a little one day. off the bad guys and tell me you are not cool enough and wants to buy their products. all the hawks that we along with all on walking.

well the culture is good out of the big picture but it's it's a real business which we need to maintain we need to but it's no the fact of the prospects of the more go forward with the draw with the automotive g.p.s. driven tractors of the machines will have less and less people so the fact that we easily get this year business just shows how the rest of the waters get rid of those bits. with a go. back to the now egypt is hunting for the militants behind what appears to have been the country's deadliest ever terror attack at least three hundred five people including twenty seven children were killed on friday at a mosque in the north sinai region over one hundred twenty others were injured so

far no group has claimed responsibility but authorities do say the attackers were seen carrying an islamic state flag it is believed between twenty five and thirty miles gunman took part in the assault and response of more planes have been conducting air strikes on alleged terrorist positions. well apart from the scale and extreme brutality of the atrocity many were also shocked by the choice of target attacks on mosques in egypt. and it is usually the country's coptic christians and security forces who bear the brunt of attacks but

it does appear to follow a broader trend in the middle east the mosque where the attack took place was the birthplace of the revered sifi cleric it is frequented by the followers as sooth ism which is the inner mystical die mention of islam they are considered to be heretics though by islamic fundamentalists and are as a result often targeted by extreme critics let's get some thoughts now from martin j. he's a middle east analyst good evening to you martin firstly what's what are your thoughts on the fact that it was a mosque that was targeted. well i think it's it's interesting and it's significant that mosques may well be know a future trend in egypt or or in the in the sinai province if we look at the bigger picture of the middle east you just touched on it. most have been the target for i saw affiliated groups in afghanistan for a number of months last year of their targeted number of shia mosques in

a number of cities across the country that was very much sure which works on a number of levels but principally that i saw doesn't tolerate any alternative strand of islam of tall i think this particular mosque in the sinai which was known to be a supporter of. susie's cc's crackdown on terrorism that probably put it in the following line but as you touched on earlier that is some is an alternative strand of islam and i think there was another statement so a double whammy of four for i saw or i still feel or two groups and so i know we'll have to wait and see whether that program extends itself but we did see of course earlier before the the coptic christian atos well so it's not a good sign is a no is it fair to assume it was i saw the authorities say they saw and i saw the flag but nobody's claimed responsibility yet have they. no i mean it it may well we can't say for sure if it was ice but those groups that operate in that area of are quite well aligned if not

a hand in glove with the ideology so we can't actually pin it on ice so yet we have normally any statements from them to confirm it one way or the other that may will just be a public relations failure we'll have to wait and soon sure and in terms of the response we've seen from the authorities is there anything more they can do should we just expect them to target more terrorist locations. well i think they will be doing a lot more i mean sisi has said that he's going to up the campaign and i think he's of all the regions leaders who has a real axe to grind to grind against these extremist groups in this particular example in the sinai egypt really i mean egypt's president really does want to have . an unprecedented crackdown he took delivery of ten apache helicopters in two thousand and fourteen just for this job alone i think in the coming days and weeks you'll see various signals to washington that we need more military to combat this

but you know there are some other issues going on i think he's he's taking quite an intelligent approach to this what we didn't see in syria or iraq were countries and governments recognizing the importance of poverty and how poverty drives terrorism and many of these people who join up with these groups are extremely poor a literally battling every day just to eat and what sisi is probably going to do the next few days is push forward a campaign that he's talked about before about bringing development and money and supports into this signing area so a lot of these groups these bedwyn groups which are targeted by these extremists you know to have an alternative and rather than just join up i saw and other extremist groups they go they can look forward to being part of the egyptian economy which is always their complaint when you go right back to two thousand and eleven when they really started the violent campaign when sisi was intelligence chief and later in two thousand and thirteen we had the morsy overthrow the argument then was these people are forgotten they've been abandoned and so we can't

really expect much more from them so we we we will see a much more intelligent a more focused campaign to deal with this terrorism of the root cause and also i think the interruption government are working very closely with israel and they'll put a lot of pressure on hamas now to not have anything to do with this group there are still a few tunnels in operation in terms of transporting of arms and hamas will also be on the radar right ok martin always good to get your thoughts we'll have to leave it there for now that was middle. east analyst martin j. thank you. another nice to have president putin has signed amendments to a bill that will require some media outlets to register as foreign agents in russia it does come in response to similar news again starting america in the u.s. in the one custody joins us now with a few more details that i just fill it in then what this means well a similar moves and a similar law that allowed the russian law is similar to that of the united states the american foreign agents for just ration or farah and basically it requires the

outlets to disclose the details of their activity and also financial information now this is in response to washington's spends all their law against it see america who were forced to register as a foreign agent just last week after months of pressure from washington our channel was accused of serving as. russian influence in the presidential race when c sixteen however no evidence of that has been provided now under the new law here in russia any media outlet funded by and for in state operating in russia may be designated a foreign agent and will have to register as such within the justice ministry it will have so regularly disclosed its activity and put a disclaimer on all of its publications those including online as well comes from a foreign agent if they refuse to do that they'll have to stop all of their

activity here in the country now earlier russia's justice ministry warned us funded outlets the voice of america and italy radio radio liberty of the possibility of them having to register as foreign agents here in russia ok oh man thanks for that update that was a roman cost that. not 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 spacecraft the project called city is has been partly funded by the american space agency nasa. i.

mean. it is. well that there was the first stage of the experiments the next ship that disciplines will spend about four months in simulated space and then in twenty nineteen the isolation well lost for eight months in the final stages expected to last for a bank seeing 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 normal 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 cosmos. training fascinating stuff you watching out say mornings at the top of the animal. i was i.

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