the song is much higher paid donations. go to say it all. over two years old you will go in the money even if you drove and who runs the blood business. reporters without borders try to cancel a press event critical of controversial syrian rescue group the white helmets something slammed by the organizers as an attack on free speech. very disappointed to see the join that is the association asking for the kind of censorship. a former croatian general who fought in both near joining the war in yugoslavia die after taking poison in court at the hague. rather erupting into a bigger role but. please don't.

north korean television releases the first images of its most advanced missile to date reportedly capable of reaching washington after the u.s. ambassador warns that pyongyang's leadership would be destroyed in a case of war. a very warm welcome you are watching r.t. international broadcasting to you live from the russian capital and they care and good to have you with us. now the controversial white helmets group is again causing divisions as off to reporters without borders urged this waste press club to cancel a conference critical of the syrian activists the request was rejected by the head

of the organization as modern day censorship. you were challenging our support for this conference with the name of our organization appearing on the list of media members return only dissociate 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 constitution more audacity of 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. 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 is civilians have to sit on 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 they might help and they might not 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 and indeed. they cannot admit they were wrong and yes they didn't even admit to here are 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 such abuse but it's the first time in the twenty years of the existence of this response that we. we've searched demons from

a journalist 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 activity and the journalist of the year is taunting syrian conscripts buried under rubble he says he wants them to taste a slow death a swiss press club has made a point not to judge for me cannot see myself in the mirror or if i am good big censorship or deciding you have the right to speak you have not

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 value to continue doing what they do irregardless of pressure also received many people criticizing russia. for gary kasparov for business is no saga recruit is criticizing russia so i am open to everybody even to do people who are supporting russia and not criticizing that's being do goal of the real person not the politically correct. association. of former croatian general who fought in bosnia has died after taking poison as a you can slog a war crimes tribunal at the hague as the verdict was being read out as an appeal

haring unexpectedly produced a small bottle and strength from its right in front of the judge. well i'm proud that we're out of internet ignorance of what we're going to stop police and police or don't. believe. something that look. we're all we've got. i have taken poison. was a general of croatian forces during the yugoslav wars he was convicted of war crimes and sentenced to twenty years before the war probably aqua's a theatre 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 bedsit 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 after his death in the one nine hundred eighty s. relations among the republics quickly deteriorated with each of them seeking their own independence is soon turned ugly old sites the nine hundred ninety five genocide in tripper needs it 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 bosnian serb army resulted in their commander ratko being jailed for life by the un special court in november twenty seventh. but atrocities happened on old sites in one thousand nine hundred three sixty nine serbian

civilians were killed by bosnia and herzegovina army forces and the scale on a massacre with an orthodox church in a cemetery done to the ground. overall despite much evidence of war crimes conducted similar tenuously by different forces the cia eventually declared seven minutes ends were responsible for ninety percent of the crimes including genocide. tonight and they took those into action against yugoslavia it is indeed tragic that diplomacy has failed and later 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 bosnian serb army. to this day the un special court is still investigating war crime cases from the comfort. since the tribe you know 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 the majority of those defendants a sixty percent in fact also those are both albanian and macedonian while in light of the unequal way things across different ethnic groups critics have slams the tribunals balanced some of the rulings of 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 death also the trials have dragged on for years in some cases even decades political analysts on both nature again doubts that anyone can get a fair sentence 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 for 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. some people took their lives into their own hands rather than become. puppet players you know play scripted directed and run from washington so they could cut this region up and colonize it. now a u.s. congressional committee has barred our journalists from reporting from capitol hill by revoking their accreditation it's like the r.t. america's new foreign agent status best despite early assurances from the state department that the status would not stand in the way of our reporting here's the letter r.t. 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 art you know at work as a foreign agent. when the united states tells someone to register under a foreign agent requirement we don't impacts or affect 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 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 artsy 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 jesus' 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. well let's discuss this now with gerry laurie an independent journalist author and former wall street journal correspondent good to have you on the program mr laurie now how does

this mean. on the part of congress correspond with the principle of free speech. well it's interesting new we'll have to see whether the state department pulls artie's press passes after what had the new it said either. prevents a journalist from doing their work or doesn't. the free speech issue of the united states government cannot because of the constitution openly censor a news organization so that going around the corners here they're doing it in a different way they started by pressuring you to register as a foreign agent and now we've seen the consequences of that that in fact your press passes were pulled on capitol hill so they are step this systematically step by step trying to shut down our t.'s operations in the u.s. why are they trying to do this because u.s. corporate media is routinely suppresses news critical news particularly of u.s. foreign policy and there's a number of examples we disorder sixty minutes the popular show in the u.s.

a couple of weeks could do a piece on yemen and they never mention the u.s. is role in that i've had trouble getting stories into newspapers that for differ example a pentagon document that showed the u.s. was supporting sala fists in eastern syria it would become the islamic state that story would undermine the u.s. narrative on the war on terror it was never published in any corporate media so what does a western journalist like me do i come on r.t. so i can get this news out and this is what they want to stop right now they say if the first they suppress it in their own media and they want it when it's comes out on our t.v. or in sputnik it's then attacked as propaganda so we're seeing a systematic effort to shut down our tea doing a job as presenting a different voice this is another thing corporate media does they want to shut out voices of iranians palestinians north koreans russians. american people cannot understand a complex world without getting various voices and these are shut down routinely

and also dehumanizing people in those countries makes it easier to go to war if you have to when american people don't understand the point of view of other countries this is what i think is at the heart of this issue what's particularly interesting though is how the state department when r.t. was forced to register as a foreign agent a couple of weeks that i should the channel that is news operations would not be handed so why did you fail to warn not see that this might happen well i don't know whether there's any communication tree capitol hill in the state department on this issue i don't know where have the newark got this idea so they were lawyers in both congress and the state department that should understand the fire a law and whether or not it applies but this is a kind of unprecedented situation except from the time of the nazis as your reporter mentioned the idea of journalists registering as foreign agents they don't consider you journalists anymore but but real lobbyist basically for the russian government so if you are a lobbyist for a government yes you cannot go and cover a news event as

a journalist so they're saying you're not journalists and this is this is a very serious matter and i was i explained i think this is why they're doing it they don't want critical voices of u.s. policy to get to an american audience so they stop it in their own media and now they're trying to stop it from r.t. ok loria independent journalist author and former wall street journal correspondent thank you for your time. we'll be back after this short break stay with us. but we have the caribbean who are we respect the environment who protect the environment who respect the rule of law being punished for it because the one doing . so no problem going to other ways which always think. i will say in a country doesn't have a right it's a responsibility to protect its citizens and what have we can determine but what we say and the actions that you are taken in the country are impacted on all countries

in the caribbean negatively. but politicians do something to. put themselves on the line to get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be president i'm sure. you somehow want to be rich. but you're going to be pressed this is what before three of the more people. interested always in the water out. there should. welcome back north korean television has released the first images of its most advanced missile today it's reportedly capable of reaching any target in the u.s.

. according to both north and south korea pyongyang's latest missile reached an all to shoot ten times higher than the orbits of the international space station experts say if directed the differently the missile could reach both washington and europe following the missile test the u.s. ambassador to the united nations warns the leadership in pyongyang that it would be quote utterly destroyed in case of war the threat came as an emergency session of the security council where countries were discussing some lucian's 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 war comes make no mistake the north korean regime will be utterly destroyed that would use to get stiff to move towards any such a moment as long as north korea fears that its security is threatened in

a current situation we urge. parties involved to stop escalating the tensions that accompany each new cycle of reactions in response bashers 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 jab at kim jong. will be rocky feel. a little rocket man rocket fuel for the american because. he is a sick puppy. besides that president trump tweeted that he had discussed the launch with china's president adding that 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. because those are. the americans should start with explaining their intentions to see if they are really looking for an excuse to destroying north korea as the u.s. envoy to the u.n. said it is security council meeting let them spell it out clearly and let the u.s. leadership confirm it then we will decide how to react if it's really concerned about north korea's nuclear program it wouldn't go into dialogue but the only way to resolve the problem and north korea said many many times repeatedly if they're not willing to give up a nuclear program unless united states rough tough policy i think 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 nuclear terror and protect themselves so has the opposite of. 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 hits a record high on wednesday i mean eleven thousand dollars per token is sunk back down to ten thousand dollars later in the day but remains the strongest a virtual currency out there because of how skyrocketed since january when one token was worth around one thousand dollars here's a quick reminder of how the virtual currency works.

or big point has been controversial for some years now my colleague near la brea discussed the risks and the appeal of investing in crypto currencies without his financial guru likes kaiser and economics professor steve keen. 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 having the house model appreciate so people are dogging in 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 but you are still is maintaining its value of the right inflation right running about two percent per annum. corn is

running at the moment it had to do conserve 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 a 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 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 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 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 bit 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 pick 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 immediate to buy those things now because if you wipe ten weeks you can botch washes many all three times 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 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 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 to quit to do it. well you can learn more about the surging popularity of bitcoin in the late his boom bust episode here on

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