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reporting. live from moscow. thanks for joining us. the controversial white helmets group is causing divisions that's off to reporters without borders the swiss press club. critical of the syrian activists their request was rejected by the head of the organization as. if you were challenging our support for this conference with the name of our organization appearing on the list of media members return only dissociated ourselves from the savant and do not wish to be associated with the conference we invite you to abandon this project which

will damage the image of this race 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 your letter and asking them to respect the freedom of disputes and disrespect. a correspondent 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 journalists 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 original nerdiest 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 at least hear from the people they say they're saving shows them helping the people but they only help the rebel fighters their realty is those close to them the last thing they cared about was civilians have to sit on whenever food aid was brought into the white helmets and rebels

would take it after themselves to give us nothing not even bread and he to us what there were many people buried alive would come to save them and if they found civilians they might still be 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. disguise i'm now having described. as an independent organisation they cannot admit they were wrong and yes they didn't even admit to here are people who are criticizing

the white term it's has it was a taboo to speak about them that's impossible for a serious journalist or simply hardest person to admit such. 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 activist and the journalist of the year he is taunting syrian conscripts buried under rubble he says he wants them to taste a slow death a swiss press club has made the point not to judge for me i cannot see

myself in the mirror or if i have the big censorship or deciding you have the right to speak you have not the right to speak because you are representing. 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. for garry kasparov for. this is named silva. criticizing russia so i am open to everybody even to do people who are supporting we're not going to be criticizing that's i think. the real prescribe not the politically correct. association. of former croatian

general who for him bosnia has died after taking poison at a yugoslav war crimes tribunal at the hague as the verdict was being read out of an appeal hearing the unexpectedly produced a small bottle and drank from it right in front of the judge. we're. still. don't. look at. all that. i have taken poison. slower than the project was a general of croatian forces during the yugoslav wars he was convicted of war crimes and sentenced to twenty years before the war was a theater and film director and writer political analyst john boston which is skeptical of the entire process. 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 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. a u.s. congressional committee has by journalists from reporting on capitol hill by revoking their accreditation and cites the america's new foreign agent status that's despite earlier assurances from the us state department the status would not

stand in the way of our reporting here's the letter that r.t. america received from congress. the executive committee of the congressional radio and television correspondents galleries exercised its authority to withdraw the news credentials of the network this action was taken in response to the registration of the unit work as a foreign agent. when the united states it 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 a simple as that 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 us 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 thousand 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 archie's status in the united states with youtube 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 the latest opticals put by washington in the way of og journalistic work to all the self-righteous defendants the 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 m. to plentitude. legal and media analyst lundell has questioned washington's a selective approach to giving access to drugs. while i a proud member of my republic i asked the question how does this look like to the world in the nation's capital the bastion of free speech the first amendment where scores hundreds thousands of people from every conceivable form of press that there is they get a badge but our chain

a zero zero zero no vero foreign agent very different be gone our tea has been in the new us in one way or another as this for britain fruit this outlaw roe good news organisation and you know what happens in this country when you tell americans you can't do something remember when you were a kid your parents said don't listen to that music. the bitcoin a crypto currency hit a record high on wednesday of eleven thousand dollars token it sunk steeply back down to ten thousand dollars later in the day but remains the strongest virtual currency out that a bit corn has skyrocketed since january one one one token was worth around one thousand dollars is a quick reminder of how the vote will currency actually works. for

. the controversial for some years now my colleague neil harvey discussed the risks on the appeal of investing in crypto currencies. an economics professor steve king . it's such

a huge right across encourage people looking at the ceiling i've got to be there the entry cost is so unless i'm buying a house and hoping the house might appreciate so people are dogging him because the process is 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 would be the right inflation right running about two percent per annum. corn is running at the moment at the service of today'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 there will be four times for three weeks i tomsic cetera et cetera it's like the old chessboard that simply concave on going and i disagree the people using it the 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 in 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 critics are in suits 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 all said to be the biggest 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 because it's not too 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 markets being

up ended by bit going you can buy high hand properties went bad point 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 idiot to buy those things now because if you wipe ten weeks you can botch wash as many or three times as many so it's a process to stabilize now my worry is when it stabilizes what will happen to the cross i don't think it's going to necessarily reach the stratosphere at one hundred thousand dollars and then stay there if you get to the stage where the only returns you're getting out of big coin mounting of the transactions that i think the process to fall 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 lode 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 just b.c. funding drug lords in mexico to the tune of billions of dollars we don't need those bad actors in society and big going 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 to coin to do it you can learn much more about the surge in popularity in bitcoin the latest additional boom bust out so i see you all day today or if you don't have time you can just jump through a website very quickly dot com and you can watch it that. would hope to do something to. put themselves on the line they did accept the reject. so when you. that would present injury of course i'm one of the brits.

consider like to be for us that's what would look for freedom or can't be good that i'd be interested always in the waters of our. first ship.

thanks for joining us here on our today following north korea's latest missile test the u.s. ambassador to the u.n. warned the leadership in pyongyang that it would be quote utterly destroyed in the case of a war threat came at an emergency session of the security council where countries were discussing solutions to the korean crisis the dictator of north korea made a choice yesterday that brings the world closer to war not farther from it and if for comes make no mistake the north korean regime will be utterly destroy those that would us that gets difficult to move towards any such a woman as long as north korea fears that its security is threatened in the current situation we urge them to call on all parties involved to stop escalating the tensions that accompany each new cycle of reactions in response measures we only 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 according to both north korean claims and south korean estimates pyongyang . latest missile reached an altitude of four and a half thousand kilometers that's ten times higher than the international space station experts say if directed differently the missile could reach both washington and europe and u.s. president donald trump denounced the north the north korean launch he later broke off from a speech on tax reform to take a job but kim jong un will be rocky. was the rocket man rocket fuel so the joey thank you says the. president tweeted that he had discussed the launch

with china's president adding that quote major new sanctions will be imposed on north korea gregory elect from the korea policy institute thinks the more pressure is put on north korea the more convinced john yang becomes of the necessity of having nuclear weapons the united states are truly concerned about north korea's nuclear program it would engage in dialogue that's the only way to resolve the problem and north korea said many many times repeated they're not willing to give up a nuclear program unless the united states roughs its policy it seems like a reasonable request to me the more the united states wants to punish north korea the more they convince north korea that they need to develop their nuclear terror and protect themselves so 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 u.s.

supreme court has voiced concern over the government's surveillance powers it's reviewing a case in which a criminal was convicted using cell phone data obtained without a warrant now the case in question involves a band called the ten with the car and he is appealing though he was convicted on multiple counts of armed robbery and is now serving a one hundred sixteen years in prison in court the f.b.i. used cell phone location data as evidence the agency had gathered at this data over a four month period but all did it without a warrant and some are worried this kind of surveillance violates the fourth amendment which protects against unreasonable searches and seizures a lawyer douglas mcnabb says the f.b.i. is tracking for four months was excessive. 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 to 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 and the next well rather than obtain a warrant the f.b.i. requested the cell data under the one thousand eight hundred six stored communications act you can use this to force third party service providers to give out customer information well it has to do is claim that the information in question is relevant to a case and former f.b.i.

agent coleen rowley she says the government thinks it has a right to snow. 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 lot about the expectation of privacy thanks for joining us here and also you to national your thoughts day well what headlines continue every step.

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both of. them are. are. welcome the special cent. of the alex salmond show to scotland's national day we travel to edinburgh when i interviewed scotland's greatest living historian tom divine who answers the key question whether scotland i also caught up with former labor m.p. denis kind of them who wants to see an even bigger celebration of this especially as they will hear from them both shortly and. discuss his design and lindsay black blob of talk who have picked up my eyes white cotton is the new black and

joining me in the studio will be kenny macaskill former scottish cabinet sect of justice the man at the center of the most controversial decision by the scottish government the freeing of two thousand and nine of the only man convicted of the lockerbie bombing but for the tweets messages and e-mails let's have a look at a few of them before at random at five seven what. they have to say it was pretty good coming a range of subjects outside of politics and to be with jack is jewish and dimension was really interesting yeah we've had a huge reaction rand to the powerful comments on these subjects for example says the salmon show is a breath of fresh air hitting some. he was astonishing there is no limit to your aspirations and then that sporty bill says just caught up with the expert and the site for examined in the. book to bill or according to the right wing media it was

about a man wearing a horrible shot sport to go there is nothing wrong with my shots don't leave the right wing media an e-mail from michael to car says the it alec please issue a correction on your make show at the end of your show you to fair to gabriel as an archangel the old testament makes clear the only archangel is michael well i'm not so sure michael the both the jewish and the did the muslim tradition have gabriel as an archangel because that is an archangel or just an angel even gabriel will have huge difficulty in making a success of the blacks at negotiations and finally change sixty four meister nor truth from the rumor that alexander is going to appear in love island but change my eyes that it's a rumor i've been trying to encourage let's put it this way there's a lot more chance of me going on love island than of me going into the jungle. the same tundras the people so into many countries including russia ukraine and greece

i want to scotland which is adopted the theft of from november as our national day it is celebrated or over the world enthusiastically by explanative scots under friends if you're watching the show in hong kong or singapore today and you bump into some jolly tartan clad man apparently wearing skirts and the chances are they're on the way till some tundras day event in scotland national dress the kilt . i'm not i'm not someone who's determined to see this day as a full scale national holiday and scotland from a member of the westminster and scottish parliament is dennis kind of an states his case. scotland is one of the few countries in the world that doesn't have a national holiday just one t. in the year when we can celebrate national identity the french have got by stealing the irish i've got st patrick's day united states of america good to know.