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that morning here in moscow you are watching international a very warm welcome to. a u.s. congressional committee has journalists from reporting from capitol hill by revoking their accreditation inside america's new foreign agent status despite assurances from the state department that would in no way stand in the way of our reporting. that america received from congress. the executive committee of the congressional radio and television correspondents galleries exercises with or is he to withdraw the news credentials to feel it to a this action was taken in response to the registration of the o.t. network as

a foreign agent please return your credentials to the senate so much and while on capitol hill in the united states there are all kinds of panels as well as congressional hearings by both the house of representatives and the senate and in order to get into those panels and hearings and events in which the workings of the u.s. government takes place in order to get in you have to be accredited well now it looks like artie is going to be denied access to reporting on events on capitol hill now this comes after r.t. was pressured by the u.s. department of justice to register as a foreign agent now heather nauert the spokesperson for the u.s. state department insisted that having us register would not affect our work in any way this is what she said when the united states tells someone to register under a foreign agent requirement we don't see impacts or a fact the ability of them to report. news and information

we just have to register it's as simple as that but it does appear that it seems to be the opposite of what heather nauert said because as of the moment we've received this letter which is essentially telling us that our ability to operate as a news agency and function and report on events on capitol hill a vital place in the u.s. political system the legislative branch of the u.s. government that ability is now in question now at the moment we have this letter telling us that we need to turn over our credentials now this comes in the aftermath of r.t. being pressured and forced to register under the foreign agents registration act now this is a law that was passed in one nine hundred thirty eight to combat the influence of nazi germany and efforts and propaganda efforts by the nazi government back in the one nine hundred thirty s. now it follows months and months of pressure that have been placed on our see recently artie's status in the united states with you tube and their ability to do premium ads in the united states was taken away without any real notice twitter has

banned advertising by r.t. and there's been a series of hearings on capitol hill directed at r.t. which are g.'s a name has come up people are calling this atmosphere a witch hunt so this is yet another move another amount of pressure making it harder for reporters like myself to do our job in the united states our editor in chief margarita simonyan has also reacted to his vocals put by washington and in the way of all journalistic work to all the self-righteous defenders of freedom of speech who also ardently proclaimed that far registration places no restrictions whatsoever on azziz journalistic work in the u.s. withdrawal of congressional credentials speaks much louder than i am to plentitude . legal and media analyst lionel his question washington's so elective approach to giving access to drug lists. this b.b.c. get one of these does algis zero or c.c.t.v.

or whoever i mean do those individuals and if they don't get one why are they considered a foreign agent and the irony the irony of the i mitigated sick irony that a large he receives this letter basically say turning your back mr foreign agent we gone and also hear somebody from the state department say oh no no no that's that's ok here's the left hand here is the right hand and neither of them know how to speak to each other this is tragic. a form of croatian general who fought in bosnia has died after taking poison at a yugoslav war crimes tribunal at the hague as the verdict was being read out at an appeal hearing he unexpectedly produced a small bottle and drank from it right in front of the judge before the.

still police piece of don't. worry although. i have taken poison. on a slow but on was a former general of coalition forces and fought during the yugoslav wars he was convicted of the persecution and murder of muslims and over the siege on shelling of an ethnically mixed bosnian city you were sentenced to twenty years before the war was a theater and film director and writer it wasn't the first defendant to kill himself during the tribunals in former yugoslavia it was the first to commit suicide right in the courtroom and we spoke to political analyst john bosnich. when we talk about the whole war itself the united states government tried to force the croats and the

muslims to become allies of course they did not want to be allies they fought each other but whenever the muslims and the croats fought each other america sided with the muslims and you'll see that this croatian general is one of the victims of america's policy of muslims first everybody else later i'd like to point out that this man was primarily convicted for blowing up a bridge and that bridge has since been reconstructed and if you went to this site you'd never know the difference. since the tribunal was launched a total of one hundred sixty one people have been indicted on war crimes in the former yugoslavia despite the fact that atrocities were committed by old sides the majority of those defendants ninety four. others croats albanians and that bosniaks critics of the tribunals as balanced the trials have dragged on for years in some cases decades a key leaders including former president slobodan milosevic

a died in detention before verdicts were reached and several leaders of the countries that formed yugoslavia have criticized some of the rulings most recently in the case of the former general of the bosnian serbs about the cold blooded go to life sentence for genocide and war crimes and in cases where people were acquitted there were allegations of political pressure and political analyst john bolton which again doubts that anyone can get a fair sentence at the hague general probably was convicted had no chance of winning his appeal nobody got a fair trial neither the serbs nor the croats nor the muslims. and some people took their lives into their own hands rather than become. puppet players in a play scripted directed and run from washington so they could cut this region up and colonize it. controversial white helmets group is again causing divisions that's off their reporters without borders to the swiss

press club to counsel a conference that was critical of the syrian activists request was rejected by the head of the organization as modern day censorship. we were challenging our support for this conference with the name of our organization appearing on the list of media members return only disassociate ourselves from this event and do not wish to be associated with the conference we invite you to abandon this project which will damage the image of this wrist press club it was very surprising and very disappointing to see the journalist association asking for the kind of censorship that was my first reaction and so i decided to reply writing and asking them to wrest back the freedom of the speech and disrespect the situation. because one of my guys who previously conducted his own investigation

into the white helmets on the ground in syria has more details on what caused the split between the journalist organizations. you can't talk about that imagine what will happen to your reputation said the journalist how far the profession has fallen when one of its biggest unions tries to censor a simple discussion we are accustomed to to get the pressures from everywhere in the world and mainly from dictatorial. dictatorial countries but what which was very surprising was due to gets such pressures from a dramatist association so it's the first time in the twenty years of the existence of this response that we received such demons from a journalists association which is supposed to support to to support the press freedom so far almost everything you've been told about the white helmets is stuff

from their press releases and video productions not from locals or civilians no know from white helmet sponsors and p.r. agents that's great and all but let's against here from the people they say they're saving shows them helping the people but they only help the rebel fighters they really to those close to them the last thing they cared about was civilians have to whenever food aid was brought into the white helmets and rebels were taken after themselves to give us nothing not even bread and here to us what there were many people buried alive helmets would come to save them and if they found civilians killed and they might not know that's a huge surprise what a shocker the white helmets aren't perfect who would have thought they were just regular people with their own shortcomings their own agenda just like everyone

else so why on earth would reporters without borders want to censor this absolutely obvious fact. calling it russian propaganda i think it was the topic which was this disturbing this disguise now having described. as an independent organisation big cannot admit they were wrong and yes they didn't even admit to here are the people who are criticizing the white tournaments has it was a taboo to speak about that that's impossible for a serious journalist or simply hardest person to admit such so it should be of your own for whatever reason it is taboo no one in the mainstream media or in western governments says anything remotely critical of the

white helmets you remember ever hearing anything unflattering. reporters without borders has all but taken sides let's not forget in two thousand and sixteen they named a syrian rebel activity and the journalist of the year he is taunting syrian conscripts buried under rubble he says he wants them to taste a slow death the swiss press club has made a point not to judge for me i cannot see myself in the mirror or if i am good big censorship or deciding you have the right to speak you have not the right to speak because you are representing the the supposed bad part and it is paid off they've received an outpouring of support internationally and they vow to continue doing what they do irregardless of pressure i also

received many people criticizing russia from gary kasparov for. this is no insult are who who are criticizing criticizing russia so i am open to everybody even to do people who are supporting russia and not going to be criticizing that's i think the goal of who we are not the politically correct. independent journalist of another billy took part in the white helmets panel of which i reporters without borders are trying to get canceled or is what she told us. propaganda that puts the white helmet up on to this extraordinary pedestal. is produced by their p.r. agencies by the countries that are funding them that are also fundamentalist organizations in syria. and try their own by their own proclamation of glory and humanity which is denali for the syrian people who have come into contact

with the white home it's described themselves as nonsectarian impartial apolitical organization they cannot make that claim when they are consistently lobbying both politically and for military escalation inside syria. following north korea's latest missile test the us ambassador to the united nations has warned that the leadership in pyongyang that it would quote be utterly destroyed in the case of or the threat came at an emergency session of the security council where countries were discussing solutions to the korean crisis. dictator of north korea made a choice yesterday that brings the world closer to war not farther from it and if four comes make no mistake the north korean regime will be utterly destroy those that would use to is difficult to move towards any settlement as long as

north korea feels that its security is threatened in the current situation the urgent equal in all parties involved to stop escalating the tensions that accompany each new cycle of reactions in response measures we all need to pause and think carefully about the consequences of such steps. north korea claims its new intercontinental ballistic missile can hit targets anywhere on the u.s. mainland but according to both north korean claims and south korean estimates younglings latest missile reached an altitude of four and a half thousand. excuse me several yes four thousand kilometers several times ha the international space station experts say if they wrecked it differently the missile could reach both washington and europe and u.s. president donald trump denounced the north korean launch he later broke off a speech on tax reform to take a jab at kim jong un will be rocket fuel. of the by the little rocket man rocket fuel so the american

it would be is a sick. president troubles so tweeted that he had discussed the launch with china's president adding that quote major new sanctions will be imposed on north korea well gregory elect from the korea policy institute thinks that the more pressure is put on north korea of them all convince people going becomes of the necessity to have nuclear weapons. united states is truly concerned about north korea's nuclear program it would again dialogue that's the only way to resolve the problem and north korea has said many many times we repeat we are not willing to give up the nuclear program unless the united states dropped the policy i think like a reasonable request from me the more the united states wants to punish north korea the more they convince north korea that they need to develop their nuclear deterrent protect themselves so it has the opposite effect. if the united states

were truly interested in. ramping down tensions it would engage in dialogue with no reason not to engage in dialogue. the bitcoin crypto currency reached a record high of eleven thousand dollars per token on wednesday the start of the year one token it was worth a thousand dollars is a quick reminder of how the virtual currency works. for. for.

one hour but coin has been controversial for some years now my colleague neil harvey discussed the risks and the appeal of investing in crypto currency is with max kaiser. it's such a huge right across encourage people looking at the ceiling of go to be there the entry cost is certainly less than buying a house and hoping the house model appreciate so people are dogging in because the process rausing but that's one of the definitions of a bubble because it's not a bubble the u.s. dollars in a bubble they feel that currency world is in a bubble stocks and bonds you could argue are in a bubble something that's not a bubble would be a big coin you've got the dollar that is crashing in a hyperinflationary crash against bitcoin you're still is maintaining its value of the right inflation right running about two percent per annum corn is running at the moment it can serve as

a day's increase ten percent in one day now that is in one week that means it will double in two weeks if it keeps up little before times for three weeks i tom's eccentric cetera it's like the old chessboard that simply concave on going and i disagree that people are using it for a transaction of this this is the floor it's a brilliant why you can create increasing in value it's a store of value sure at the moment but you'd be a madman to use that transactions you'd be a fool to buy anything and i'm hearing people refer to the now as not crypto currencies but critz currencies because they intend holding them until they die that is not money it's already the number twenty five biggest reserve currency in the world it's heading into the top ten it'll soon be the biggest crypt reserve currency in the world you've got sovereign wealth funds like abu dhabi now buying bitcoins you've got russia and china now and japan actively buying bitcoin because they see that the fia bubble is bursting and again the u.s. dollar is collapsing against big point this is a paradigm shift isn't there

a really strong argument that it's being you speculatively is a store of value but actually where can you actually use it but going isn't to many places in the come on you can actually spend it and isn't there a danger when people realize that the pony can sell this story value it's being a it's a there are hundreds of thousands of transactions now a day hundred thousand merchants accepted. going to the real estate market being up ended by bit go on you can buy high end properties went big client but again the timeline here has to be considered the travel from being a store of value to a means of exchange is going to take another few years because even though you can boil those things with it you'd be an easy get to buy those things now because if you wipe ten weeks you can botch washer as many go through each obs as many so it's a process to stabilize now my worry is when it stabilizes what will happen to that process i don't think it's going to necessarily reach the stratosphere at a hundred thousand dollars and then stay there if you get to the stage where the only returns you're getting out of big coin manning of the transactions that i think the process to fold dramatically you have gold as

a case study gold is used takes a lot of energy to produce gold gold is used as a means of exchange as well as a store of value it's been around for quite some time because it is gold to point out the mother load it's still taking over the global finance in this way it's putting feet of money out of business and the bankers on wall street are running scared jamie diamond is literally you know peeing in his pants at this point because he knows he's going to be out of a job in five years we don't need the jamie diamond of the world ripping us off we don't need wells fargo stealing money out of accounts we don't really h.s.b.c. funding drug lords in mexico to the tune of billions of dollars we don't need those bad actors in society and because it gets rid of all those financial terrorists and it's about time somebody stood up and did battle because the government's not doing it the academics are doing it so we have big going to do it if you want to know more about the rising popularity and explosiveness of bitcoin you can just catch the latest episode of boom bust here one aussie international this those days you'll check it out right now on our website. a majority

of the u.s. supreme court has voiced concerns over the government's ability to track citizens using their cell phones the justices will decide the future of the government surveillance power by taking over a case in which law enforcement court of criminal by accessing local location data on his phone without a warrant now the case in question involves timothy carpenter who is appealing he was convicted of armed robberies of electronic stores and now faces life in prison he was arrested because the f.b.i. collected information from cell towers and mashed it with the location of the robberies also the agency was able to gather information not only relating to the days the robberies took place but also for a four month period now this is seen by some as a violation of constitutional rights which for us citizens are protected under the fourth amendment and this protects against unreasonable searches and seizures lawyer douglas mcnabb things the government stooped more than it was entitled to

incompetence case. issue in this particular case is that it was data generated over one hundred twenty seven days of a very long time and so mr carpenter is arguing that because of that extended period of time that the government should have had a warrant mr carpenter proposed that the government could access the data could get that data from the cell carrier without having to have a warrant for up to twenty four hours but beyond that then they would be required to get a warrant rather than just saying that the government can act to get the information without a warrant. over any period of time that they want if it's one hundred twenty seven days in this case what would prevent it from being two hundred seventy five days in the next one or two and a half years in the next case rather than obtain

a warrant the f.b.i. requested the cell site data under the one thousand nine hundred six stored communications act and this allows it to fullest third party service providers to give out customer information right now there is a low barrier for the government when it comes to accessing private information it can simply state that the evidence is relevant to a case a former f.b.i. agent coleen rowley says the government thinks it has a right to snoop. this is been going on for some number of years where the f.b.i. and the government thought that they were allowed to track cell phones without showing probable cause the so-called war on terror has allowed under executive you know commander in chief powers in war time the government then has decided that they can obtain a lot of these records under that basis if they'd say that it is constitutional to track cell phones it will open the door wider and it will open the door also to

even changing the whole law about the expectation of privacy. french president a manual mccrone has been accused of being racist and paternalistic during his african to a. phone the president of broken a fossils roof we love the room and at that point you say oh he's going to fix the air conditioning some people thought that that was almost racist well those people are being paternalistic because they think you can make a joke when talking to an african would have done the same things with argo mirko i would have joked with anger merkel with any national leader micron's presented himself as a new generation leader distancing himself from france as a colonial past president said that he wasn't going to lecture african countries on what they should do but his remarks didn't go down too well.

please. please. let them call you an unbelievable traffic it's africans my friends they are african it's still ask yourselves the question some of it's not the french you want traffic is it sleeps africa it's his global climate. to. look at may have a grandmother that you came to fight to help fronts when it was attacked in one

nine hundred fourteen to eighteen one thousand nine hundred thirty nine one hundred forty five greets a look at this shared history but don't talk to me like that about the french soldiers who don't know the french soldiers anything but this applaud them. secure so they can talk a little i still had to live a little but i don't want to deal with electricity but you know as much as you know this is a. class with the president going to his let's fix the condition. issues.

by the international olympic committee for alleged doping rules violations and the move comes less than three months before the start of the winter games in south korea. twenty two russians who have been sanctioned by the i.o.c. this month now all twenty two. on the basis of the report which alleges that over one thousand russians were involved in a state sponsored doping program. so. heavily on individual allegations on december the fifth the committee will report on whether to allow russian

athletes to compete in next year's winter olympics in. which several international sporting organisations have already voiced their support for saying it should be allowed to compete among them is the international federation which has called for old leaves to be allowed to participate in the games in south korea. the unfairness of a potential blanket. from the us canadian swedish finnish czech and swiss hockey federations backing russia's participation in the hockey tournament. showing their support for russian athletes too by organizing. we want to go to the olympics. thank you thank you thank you to q. uo was.