thank you well as you know first more than a. modern day slavery in libya triggers protests in several european capitals we look at what's led to such a dire humanitarian situation in the country. and brussels the protest against slavery descends into riots and looting with almost one hundred people arrested. also ahead this hour washington apparently promises to cut the weapon supplies to its kurdish allies fighting i saw in syria which is seen as a move to appease turkey the white house though is reluctant to give any details. and the number of deaths in an attack on a mosque in egypt rises to over three hundred with the government saying the gunmen

were carrying myself flag. you're watching out international law from moscow just gone up three am now in the russian capital thanks for joining us this hour on. demonstrators across europe have been venting their anger over modern day slavery in libya this comes in the wake of reports of migrants and refugees being captured and sold there for as little as four hundred dollars. i was doing was. this morning that the issues of exploitation slavery and human trafficking were

raised when the french president traveled to guinea earlier in the week he spoke to the press about all my corn condemns the illicit activities while guinea's president noted that libya lacks the resources to tackle such abuses on its own. or delighted to see what has been revealed 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 to france to has been immediately it is indisputable you know to look at pressures in european union cannot choose a developing country to ask their country to detain refugees when it doesn't even have the means to do so if the refugees are in terrible condition sorry european friends were not great ask libya to keep the migrants the european union as responsible for france has been highly critical of the actions of the u.n. backed libyan government in addressing the issue of slavery jacqueline very good 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 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 all 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 africa has 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. it's 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 inoperative thrown 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 a protest against slavery have also taken place in brussels where they descended into vandalism and looting almost one hundred people have been arrested that's according to the belgian interior minister the.

demonstrators the structure of the event and went on the rampage through the city's main shopping street it damaged property and police cars witnesses reported seeing police helicopters in the area and much of a station near where the unrest took place was also shut down for a couple of hours. and in other news the american president has apparently agreed to stop supplying weapons to the kurdish y p g who are currently battling islamic state in syria turkey's foreign minister says donald 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 way p.g. with arms and that this nonsense should have ended long ago. the white house though was less forthcoming about the conversation confirmed the call did take place but didn't mention the kurds it simply said trump and for murder one about upcoming adjustments to the military support being provided to america's partners on the

ground in syria however whether those adjustments will affect washington support for the kurds hasn't been made explicit now the u.s. of course has been sending various types of weapons to the kurdish fighters supporting the military operations with air strikes as well it's been a major sticking point between the u.s. and turkey which considers some kurdish forces to be terrorists and journalist and kurdish affairs analyst you were oarsmen believes we're seeing a repeat of what happened in iraq. the coalition that the united states has put together the purpose of it was just to end i saw and the kurds proved to be a very good fighting force in this they have finished with them then they can partner for them go the this is this has been the situation in iraq because it was exactly the same the kurds were an effective force on the ground in the fight against i so when i saw disappeared they were like hot potatoes the same situation in the air in this city in kurdistan will be repeated i believe.

egypt is hunting for the militants behind of what officials say was 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 others were injured so far no group has claimed responsibility or authorities say the attackers were seen carrying an islamic state flag it's believed between twenty five and thirty masked gunmen were involved in response egyptian warplanes have been conducting asterix on suspected terrorist positions.

from the scale and abject brutality of the assault many were also shocked by the choice of target it's said to be the first time worshippers have been attacked inside a mosque in egypt it's the country's coptic christians as well as security forces who usually bear the brunt of such violence it does appear though to follow a broader trend in the middle east the mosque where they attacked. took place was the birthplace of a revered sufi cleric is frequented by the followers of sufism that's the mystical dimension of islam they are considered to be heretics by islamic fundamentalists and as a result are often targeted by extremist groups and we spoke to middle east analyst martin j. about the attack he thinks there will now be a concerted effort by the egyptian government to deal with extremism in the region to prevent similar incidents in the future it's interesting and it's significant that mosques may well be no

a future trend in egypt or or in the in the sinai province i think this particular mosque in the sinai. which was known to be a supporter of sisi and susie's cc's crackdown on terrorism that probably put it in the florida line as an alternative strand of islam and i think there was another statement so a double whammy of four for eisel or i still feel or two groups and so i know we'll have to wait and see whether that program extends itself 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. u.s. regulators say their plans to revoke so-called net neutrality rules of widespread public backing the move could lead to a two tier internet where some sites pay to get their traffic prioritize the over

others it seems though not all 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 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 he noticed 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 we've asked the federal communications commission to comment on that investigation into those allegations of comments and foreign meddling we'll let you know as soon as they respond. how an experiment simulating a mission to the moon has just ended in russia half a dozen the crewmembers spent just over two weeks isolated in confined to a mock space craft project sirius was partly funded by the american space agency

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allow this is the first stage of the experiments and next year participants will spend about four months in simulated space the following in their salacious will double to eight months on the final stage is expected to last for about a year it's hoped the results will pave the way for anyone to travel into space in the not too distant future. 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 cause much training. but you go off monies from nasa as human research program you spoke to us harnessing some of the benefits of corporation with russia so nasa has a long standing collaboration with the research arena biomedical research with the 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 in this area both sides have been conducting this type of research studies as well as spaceflight studies on. the international space station for many years so it was only natural for us to join forces and the lab would take basically leverage each other's

abilities and it's only in the ne makes sense to increase or efficiency in joining our forces and going further together. six of the most protesters are killed nearly two hundred injured when riot police broke up a demonstration over election rights in pakistan we'll have that story and more after this break. i would not be surprised if ideal 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 of. global 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 on some of the u.s. . government guarantee you made freddie mac. all the people who borrowing money on those games say they've got chinese landmarks that's a lot more coming. to . americans by the. oem fortune is the. support of some. contrary in the. making and c.q. . welcome back to the program american tech giants are being asked to help the country's immigration authorities reports about planning to vet the social media accounts of people who want visas with more on the story here's kelly morgan. 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 they double you as secret region is a key component of the intel communities multi fabric cloud strategy and 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 russian 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 we spoke to us journalist erik bros he

says people. should be more aware of what can be done with your social media details it's worth noting and understanding that when you search and 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. a lot of putin has signed a new piece of legislation that will require some media outlets to register as foreign agents in russia it comes in response to similar moves against doughty america in the united states is. the russian law is similar to the american foreign agents registration act or found and requires the outlets to disclose the details about their activity and financial information and this is all in response to the

united states in the acting their law against america who was forced to register as a foreign agent in the united states just last week answer months of pressure from washington now our channel was accused of serving as a tool off alleged russian influence during the twenty sixteen presidential race however no evidence of that has been provided under the new law in russia and the media outlets funded by and for in state operating here may be designated a foreign agent by the justice ministry and they will have to put a disclaimer on all of this publications including online that it comes indeed from a foreign agent refused to do that their activity in russia will be stopped now earlier russia's ministry of justice warned us on that outlets the voice of america and radio liberty of the possibility of them having to register as foreign agents here in russia. in other news the pakistani government has ordered the army to be

deployed to the country's capital islamabad starts off to six people were reportedly killed in clashes there the violence erupted when people forcibly dispersed a group of is the missed approach just as the activists had been blocking key roads in the city for nearly three weeks. i was. was. was. was was i was was. i. was was thousands of police officers took part in the operation to disperse the demonstrators the hard line islamists were opposed to

a legal move that would have allowed non muslim candidates to stand in elections they were also demanding that the current justice minister step down. you know you may think you've come across some pretty interesting military innovations but how about the soviet battle most certainly got the media in finland fired up although some basic fact checking might have saved them the war. at the bank the hour. thanks to our.

thanks to our. about. was published in the russian magazine popular mechanics with the man behind the author. profile graphic of the photos used in this article a partially real 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 move. a museum has been opened in fill in this year which is dedicated to the winter war and there is a hole there featuring the combat moves i was really taken aback because there is a line 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. but haven't a moving story there to end the run down it will be back with half an hour with more news rather in half an hour to stay tuned here on r.t. international. was. that the. news.

in the culture is good out of the big picture but it's it's a girl for real business which we need to maintain we need to but it's not the fact of the profit so the more go forth with the dross with the automotive g.p.s. driven tractors other machines will have less and less people employed so the fact that we easily get this feel business just so. the rest of the wall does get a little bit. with the ego. you seen years ago i traveled across the united states exploring america's deadly love affair with a gun if a bad guy tried to get to one of my family members he would have better a lot better and i think they are inheriting one of my my babies says my book was published in the year two thousand more than hoffa million americans have been

killed by phone to the us and we had a thought to me as i did this this is a middle school we go through drills and we put ourselves some real scenarios it was interesting to see who actually got hit by the gun i just saw i did to return to the subject to track down each gun owner who i'd met and photographed those years ago i don't know that but we are not. hello america riser this is the cause a report we're going to be talking about very exciting topics this morning in the afternoon the saving depending on when you watch so you max i hope everybody's

thanksgiving was really good and you had lots of turkey and lots of gobble gobble gobble gobble and also it's a family and your it will be another year before you have to talk to your family or i won't you know i remember a thanksgiving show you said your favor thanksgiving meal was a leftover turkey cranberry gravy sandwich i made a song for you there in the refrigerator from a. well of course this is the weekend of the year in which many americans will begin shopping shopping shopping buying all their consumer goods for christmas presents and whatnot and all the special deals of course most of those are made and asia products are made in asia so i want to turn back to the week before thanksgiving when trump went on a five country tour of asia it was actually the most comprehensive tour by a u.s. president in twenty five years so he went there and here are some of the headlines looking back on last week because we also have a guest from china in the second half and we're going to look at deeper into what

has happened but there's been a major major major shift. in the focus on this relationship trump in asia or rebalance toward trade yes so what has changed it is worth noting that the trumpet ministrations engagement with asia at the presidential and cabinet levels has matched that of its immediate predecessor the obama administration and provides continuity to america's long rebalance or pivot to the region what has changed are the priorities of engagement elevating kirsch all issues to the same or higher priority than security issues with allies and partners if there is a trumpet ministration legacy on the asia pacific it might well be a rebalance to the commercial in the u.s. asia relations well that's always been you know foster good trade and more secure.