the. modern day slavery in libya triggers protests in several european capitals look at what's led to such a humanitarian situation in the country. and in brussels the protest against slavery descends into riots and looting with almost one hundred people arrested. also ahead this hour new promises to cut weapons supplies through its kurdish allies fighting eisel in syria and what's seen as a move to appease the white house though is reluctant to give any details. on 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 like.

they're welcome saltines in ash to live from moscow. welcome to the program. demonstrators across europe 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 was. warned that the issues of exploitation slavery and human trafficking were raised when the french president travelled to guinea earlier in the week speaking to the press about all my chronic condemned the us that cities while guinea's president noted

that libya lacked the resources to tackle such abuses on it so. 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 to france denounce the ation has been immediately it is indisputable you know to look at question see the 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 conditions sorry european friends were not great ask will be to keep the migrants the european union as responsible for france has been highly critical of the actions of the un backed libyan government in addressing the issue of slavery 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. how did. 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. 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 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 are part of the cause of the problem itself this would not be the kind of slavery going on in libya today if gadhafi had not been assassinated and the country and operate 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. demonstrators disrupted the event and went on the rampage through the city's main shopping street damaged property and police cars witnesses reported seeing police helicopters in the area with

a local metro station near the place of unrest shutting down for a couple of hours. now the american president has apparently agreed to stop supplying weapons to the kurdish fighters 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 recipe. this ain't it mr trump clearly stated that he had given clear instructions not to provide the white p.g. with arms and that this nonsense should have ended long ago. and the white house was less forthcoming about the conversation it confirmed the call did take place but didn't mention the kurds it simply said trumpet informed out of 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 wasn't made explicit now the us has of course been sending various weapons to kurdish forces and also supporting their military operations

with air strikes it's been a major sticking point though between the u.s. and turkey which considers some kurdish forces to be terrorists journalist and kurdish affairs analyst he was a man believes we're seeing a repeat of what happened in iraq because this should there be no it is this is put together the purpose of it was just to and 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 with the this is this has been the situation in iraq because it was exactly the same there kurds were an effective force on the ground in the fight against i so when i saw disappeared they were thrown up like hot potatoes the same situation in the in this city in kurdistan will be repeated i believe. hunting for the militants behind 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 thirty's though do you say the attackers were seen carrying an islamic state flag it's believed between twenty five and thirty mosques gunmen were involved in the attack in response of gyptian warplanes have been conducting air strikes on suspected terrorist positions. well apart from the scale and object of the assault many were also shot while the

choice of target is said to be the first time worshippers have been attacked inside a mosque in egypt is the country's coptic christians as well as security forces usually bear the brunt of such violence it does appear though that it follows a broader trend in the middle east the mosque where the attack took place was the birthplace of a revered soofi cleric is frequented by the followers of sufism which is the in a mystical dimension of islam they considered to be heretics by islamic fundamentalists and as a result are often targeted by extremist groups 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 sinai region to prevent similar attacks happening again. 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 i think this particular mosque in the sinai which was known to be a supporter of c.c.

and susie's and ceases crackdown on terrorism that probably put it in the firing line as an alternative strand of islam and i think that was another statement so a double whammy of four four eisel or i still feel it 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 injection 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. now u.s. regulators say their plans to revoke so-called net neutrality rules had that 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 we

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 thirty's 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 us and we have asked the federal communications commission for comment on that of us the gay shit into the allegations of comments and foreign meddling as well we'll let you know as soon as they do respond to our request. now in other news an experiment simulating a mission to the moon has just concluded in russia half a dozen crewmembers spent just over two weeks isolated and confined to a mock space craft project sirius was partly funded by the american space agency nasa.

and that's just the first phase of the experiments next year participants will spend about four months in simulated space and the following year the isolation

will last twice as long fright months the final stage is expected to last for around a year let's hope the results will help pave the way for anyone 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 cause much training. you know kaufman is from nasa human research program and he spoke to all t.

han i think some of the benefits of cooperation with russia so nasa has a longstanding. collaboration with the research reno 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 have 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 that allowed to take basically leverage each other's abilities and it's only eleven makes sense to increase or efficiency in joining our forces and

going further together now the u.s. government could soon start scrutinizing your social media accounts if you apply for a visa. you just after this short break. you should. put themselves on the line to get acceptable reject. so when you want to be present. when someone wanted. to go to the press this is what. three of the more people. interested always in the water. i played for many clubs over the years so i know the game and so i got. the ball

isn't only about what happens on the pitch to the final school it's about the passion from the fans it's the age of the shaper money kill the narrowness and spending to do the twenty million on one player. it's an experience like nothing else not to because i want to share what i think what i know about the beautiful game great so one more chance for. the base this minute. thank welcome back to the program american tech giants are being asked to help the country's immigration authorities reports on their planning to vet the social media accounts of people who want visas with more on what's proposed his kind i'm open. 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 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 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 asked 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 kaleb mop and r.t. new york u.s. journalist derrick rose says that people should be more aware of what commute done with your details. it's worth noting in 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. in 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. and running a person has signed a new legislation that will require some media outlets to register as foreign agents in russia it comes in response to some of the moves against r.t. america and the u.s. here's our mancow sort of with more details the russian law is similar to the american foreign agents registration act or faroe and requires the outlets to disclose the details about their activity and financial information and this is all in response to the united states and the acting their law against r.t. america who was forced to. 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 any media outlet 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 warns us pointed out that the voice of america and radio liberty of the possibility of them having to register as foreign agents here in russia. and canada police detained forty four people in a right wing protest. in quebec on saturday the protest was met by

a counter-demonstration riot police had to use tear gas to keep the two sides apart and the four hundred members of far right organizations marched to a convention center where a meeting of the governing quebec liberal party was taking place almost two hundred fifty the racism and anti capitalist activists staged a rival protest at the same location but police say they made arrests in order to prevent clashes in addition disguises clubs of slingshot and bottles with unknown liquids were confiscated from the protesters. i could get more or less story and others all the law and of course all social media as well that's all for me for this hour i'll be back at five am moscow time with more headlines to see that.

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to get their degree which will get them their dream job young americans no longer hesitate to put their health at stake is the first day of term on the columbia campus one of the most prestigious universities in the world more than eighty nobel prize winners have either study. here just as in many other ivy league american schools some students take drugs to boost their academic results. mean divots if they can study through the night without showing any signs of tiredness if you do my friend say do what's right for you to be and there are. to.

be. in the united states these study drugs have become a public health issue more than a third of american students take the regularly. go to columbia thanks to an exam she took under the influence of infection. to avoid a disciplinary action she will hide her identity i didn't have any expectations of getting in the essay i wrote was an autobiography five pages i ended up taking a v.h.d. medicine it just it puts you. in a mental space where you can focus entirely why not take a pill if everyone else is doing it to give you a competitive match. the helping hand that she got told off very easily. a friend of mine prescription for a concert and he gave it to us for free probably down like a dozen times or so. and you will see how these pills are almost sold us over the

counter drugs on campus. we walk through the streets around new york university with a hidden camera. after twenty minutes of searching become across this student we'll call him joe. seriously hurt. you know it. just doesn't seem to be shocked we ask him if he consulted sounds like. friends. like warner people like. the student got to three scription from a fairly unobservant doctor. many millionaires using. an elite league. group so josh deals the twenty five milligrams that he doesn't use of cell phone use after

a few minutes of negotiation he lets us buy one of his pills ten dollars for thirty milligrams of amphetamines you know go and so they do here you lose. your little release. ten percent of students who take drugs become addicted. lunch fats is very familiar with this phenomena of journalists at the new york times he was one of the first people to raise the alarm. but i have to succeed i have to get an a i have to get into the best law school i have to be in the in the cream of the problem if average is no longer acceptable we're all in very big trouble among the most fragile students these pills can cause violence pollution nations and suicidal thoughts. despite the risks a real traffic of these trucks has developed over the internet. this classified ad site well known by americans has dozens of office full study trucks. to attract

students these miracle pills have even been renamed study. in order to get hold of them a simple phone call will do. what. the police have been looking at these new internet dealers for quite some time oktober two thousand and twelve operation dot com led to the arrest of twenty one new yorkers who were operating on this site. among them a student at n.y.u. . the aim of the authorities is to break up any traffic where doctors may be involved. on campus the addresses of these specialists are being exchanged illicitly we went to interview one of them. and it was like this is. what is going to you know before i take a test or something and i pretend.