good call existence to do something to. put themselves on the lawn. they get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be president or injury. or somehow want to preserve. it's a right to be cross with what before three in the morning can't be good that i'm interested always in the waters of my. question. international reporters without borders. by the organizer. with.

a very warm welcome to you from all of us here at. the controversial white group again causing divisions reporters without borders

the swiss press club. critical of the syrian activists their request was rejected by the head of the organization as. you were a challenge in our support for this conference with the name of our organization appearing on the list of media members return only dissociated 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 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 the speech and disrespect to shun auti correspondent but i guess dia who previously conducted his own investigation into the white helmets on the ground in syria as more details on

what caused the split between the journalist organizations. 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 they really to 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 us what there were many people buried alive helmets would come to save them and if they found civilians they might help 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 describe. as an independent organisation cannot admit they were wrong and yes they didn't even admit to hear people who are criticizing the why tournaments has it was a taboo to speak about them that's impossible for a serious journalist or simply hardest person to admit such

such abuse but it's the first time in the twenty years of the existence of this response that we are. she of such demons from her journalists association which is supposed to support to to support the press freedom 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 the swiss press club has made the point not to judge for me i cannot see myself in the mirror or if i am big censorship or

deciding you have the right to speak you have not the right to speak because you are representing the bab the supposed bad part and it is paid off they've received an outpouring of support internationally and they vowed to continue doing what they do irregardless of pressure i also received many people criticizing russia. for garry kasparov for businesses named sarah who criticize criticizing russia so i am open to everybody even people who are supporting russia and not criticizing that's the goal of the real person and not the politically correct. association. of former croatian general who fought in bosnia as

a general of coalition 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. the yugoslav was the bloodiest conflicts in european history since the second world war tensions between a complex mix of nationalities forming the state of yugoslavia erupted into a bit civil war originate yugoslavia included six republics with different nationalities and religious groups. the communist revolutionary and statesman tito who established the federal republic of yugoslavia managed to suppress nationalism but help to his death in the one nine hundred eighty s. relations among the republics quickly deteriorated with each of them seeking their own independence as soon turned ugly old sights the nine hundred ninety five

genocide in tripper need is one of the bloodiest pages in yugoslav history the massacre of more than eight thousand muslim both the acts perpetrated by units of the bulls. resulted in that come on the iraq thing jailed for life by the u.n. special court in november twenty seventh take. but atrocities happened on old sites in one thousand nine hundred three sixty nine so being civilians were killed by bosnia and herzegovina army forces in the scale and a massacre in the doc's church in a cemetery the ground. overall despite much evidence of war crimes conducted similar tenuously by different forces the cia eventually declared seven minutes since we're responsible for ninety percent of the crimes including genocide. tonight they took those into action against yugoslavia it is indeed tragic that diplomacy has failed and nato is now intervening in that war in

a sovereign country. and eventually nato air campaign conducted a number of operations to undermine the military capability of the boss and so. to this day the un special court is still investigating what crime cases from the comfort. now since the tribunal was launched a total of one hundred sixty one people have been indicted for war crimes in the former yugoslavia despite the fact that atrocities were committed by all sides majority of those defendants over sixty percent of those are croat bosnia albania and macedonia and now in light of the unequal weightings across the different ethnic groups critics have slammed the tribunal as. in fact some of the rulings with the tribunals have been criticized as politically motivated on top of that several people died while being on trial with questions raised over the circumstances of the deaths also the trials dragging on it for years in some cases

for decades and political analyst john vause new to again he actually doubts that anyone can get a fair trial at the hague 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 in the croats fight 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. north korean television has released the first images of its

most advanced missile to date reportedly capable of reaching any target in the united states. according to both north and south korea pyongyang's latest missile reached an altitude ten times higher than that of the international space station experts say if directed differently the missile could reach both washington and europe following the missile test the u.s. ambassador to the united nations warned the leadership in pyongyang that it would be quote utterly destroyed in the case of a war the threat came and emergency session of the security council where countries were huddled together discussing so lucian's the korean crisis. dictator of north korea made a choice yesterday that brings the world closer to war if not farther from it and if for comes make no mistake the north korean regime will be utterly destroy

those that would use that it's difficult to move towards any such 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 all need to pause and think carefully about the consequences of such steps u.s. president donald trump denounced the north korean launch and he later broke off a speech on tax reform to take a job but. of the. little rocket man rocket fuel for the american economy. he is a sick puppy besides 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

however russian foreign minister sergei lavrov has suggested the u.s. could have a hidden agenda. it was with. the americans should start with explaining their intentions to us all if they are really looking for an excuse to destroy north korea as the u.s. envoy to the u.n. said it a security council meeting let them spell it out clearly and let the u.s. leadership confirm it then we will decide how to react. chris ogden a lecturer in asian security at the university of st andrews now joining us live here on r.t. international thanks so much for coming on the program today just now if you were listening to sort of a laugh it off according to the russian foreign minister mr lavrov the u.s. seems to be provoking pyongyang on to a war footing what are your thoughts on that. i'm not sure they're directly doing that but certainly their rhetoric isn't helping. their diplomatic stance is that help and it's quite unclear what the americans actually want fundamentally but that's got a lot to do with trump's unpredictability will trump in effect says talk is cheap

but it has even tried i mean have we actually seen any u.s. delegation sitting down in pyongyang to to try and have some constructive dialogue . we haven't seen in recent years trump has wanted to add to that he said he'd like to sit down with the north korean leader but this is the same leader and said it wanted to wipe out north korea the next day so the lack of consistency i think is part of the problem but it's quite clear that some diplomacy needs to take place sanctions aren't working the rhetoric is not working capabilities are increasing the risk are still there the stakes are still very high also russia and china all the way along have been calling on the sides to negotiate their differences i mean is there a chance that diplomacy well it could actually still happen. there's a good chance that diplomacy can happen but i think that in particular the western mindset about what they want to achieve needs to change so i think fundamentally it's clear that the north koreans will not give up their nuclear weapons because

it's clear from the american point of view that they would like to try and move all of them out at some point so i think the american thinking needs to change that the north koreans won't give up their capability and to work from that point onwards rather than insisting on giving up their weapons now whether that can happen in the short term i think it's quite unlikely but i think as this trundles along just keeps coming back i think that that change of mindset is quite necessary now with previous administrations in the united states so whether we're going back to clinton or george w. bush for example every year or so there be a carrot stick maneuver you would have some fiery rhetoric out of pyongyang and then washington would say well here's some aid here's twenty thousand tons of wheat or barley here's a bit of cash and then kim jong un at the time would settle back into his kingdom and that would be the end of it why isn't something like that that has worked in the past why is that not being used now. difference is that the current sort of the american president as he intrinsically wants to win intrinsically thinks he can be beaten by opponents in particular very small opponents so it's

actually the americans have increased the rhetoric increase the levels of unpredictability and i think that's combined with a certain kind of naivety and ignorance of certain key facets of american policy towards north korea at least in the very earliest days of the trump presidency now chris i'm running very very low on time here forgive me for that but one quick question some analysts i've spoken to some analysts say that this has very little to do with north korea but rather the further containment of china your thoughts on that. home to some particular degree but this is a had a fox that everybody nobody wants a conflict and i want a nuclear conflict. if that's the strategy that i think it's very. security at the university thanks so much for joining us here on r.t. international today thank you thank you very much. and thank you for joining us as well journalists from the capitol hill press pool will explain why after the break

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i think. the. thanks for joining us the bitcoin crypto currency hit a record high on wednesday. back down to ten thousand dollars later in the day but it does remain the strongest virtual currency a bit coin has skyrocketed since january one one token was worth around one thousand dollars is a quick reminder of how the virtual currency works. bitcoin

has been controversial for some years now and my colleague neil harvey discussed the risks on the appeals of investing in crypto with. an economics professor steve keen. it's such a huge right across encourage people looking at the ceiling i've got to be there the entry cost is certainly less than 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 the 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 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 for transactions as 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 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'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 a big gold isn't 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 end 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 washes many or three charms 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 modding of the transactions then 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 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 you know 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 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 to coin to do it you can learn much more about the soldier in popularity of bitcoin in the latest additional boom bust that is on air today old day otherwise what you did your own convenience online dot com . a u.s. a congressional committee has bought journalists from reporting from capitol hill by revoking their accreditation insights on see america as a new foreign agent status despite earlier assurances from the u.s. state department that the status would in no way get in the way of our reporting here is the letter that all of the america received from congress. the executive committee of the congressional radio and television correspondents galleries exercised its authority to withdraw all the news credentials of the r.t.

network this action was taken in response to the registration of the r.t. network as a foreign agent. when the united states it tells someone to register under a foreign agent requirement we don't see impacts or affect the ability of them to report. news and information we just have to register it's as 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 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 legal and media analyst lionel has a question washington's selective approach to giving access to so a journalist we're going to sessions. 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 are change oh oh oh oh no vero foreign agent very different be gone our tea has been in the nude 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. i'm joining us here on r.t. international today we are back and half an hour.

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