you're not just going to get quality. french president emanuel mccrone proposes military intervention in libya to combat human trafficking and rescue migrants and slaves in the country. reporters without borders tries to cancel a press event critical of the controversial syrian rescue group the white helmets something flung by the organizers as an attack on free speech very disappointed to see the georgists the sushi is from our street for the guns of censorship. q a north korean television releases the first images of the country's most

advanced missile to date reportedly capable of reaching washington as the us ambassador want to pyongyang that its leadership will be wiped down in any form. a very warm welcome you are watching r.t. international broadcasting to you live from moscow on the care and good to have you with us. the french president's proposing military action against human traffickers in libya claiming it would help combat the migrant slave trade. we are proposing to hear from the police and military action we're not waging war but if this is a country political transition. to a correspondent maria for national to find out. what more can you tell us.

both human trafficking is indeed a huge problem for northern africa but it's not a new one for years numerous human rights and immigration organizations have been alarming the public they call is and more than slavery and no one argues that this problem before although the french president and even mccall's proposal to try to solve it militarily has come as a surprise you remember france already was part of a massive military operation in libya designed to resolve the crisis of two thousand and eleven france played then a very crucial role france was saying in its fighter jets to bomb a tree fully and france was considering its actions very successful in libya will remember that after the death of the libyan leader moammar gadhafi then the president nicolas sarkozy proclaimed officially the now leave is on the way to

democracy that's now remember. the world you would get rid of any and you would choose freedom relief thank you. really now do you think the united states is committed to the libyan people you have won your revolution we came we saw very few died. but if we'll look at the facts and what is really happening right now in libya on the ground we can say that the truth is for all the. years leave has been a troubled region with a level of violence and distance illustration just be dramatic.

so you think she's thousand and eleven military operation has ventured to dramatic just civilization and a rise in level of violence throughout the country and this is why off the proposal to try to another minute to a racially leverage many question whether this time it will actually work to help bring balance back or work back to us maria live from paris thanks but maria let's continue the discussion now and cross live to our guest to beirut facing ward winning british journalist mohsin jay message i get to see you now what's behind him across is an issue to have to tackle human trafficking in libya. madness i think is the wackiest ideas come up with so far and in six months in office i mean he's positioned

himself to be a sort of a middle east peace broker or something you can be very much on the international circuit and he's chosen the middle east and north africa to do that but i think his idea is is just insane i think is he's really trying to be he's actually really trying to take over the job of the e.u.'s own foreign policy for federica mother in law because that's really her role so i don't really understand why he's going ahead with his plan he seems to be under a certain amount of pressure to resolve the immigration crisis but some you know he along with e.u. leaders are not really looking at the real root cause of the problem they're just some just throwing money at this issue without actually understanding how it really can be solved the timing is very clear isn't that that this proposal only be made now when there's problems like that ate it. yeah it's been it's been with us for a long time but it's only in the recent few years since libya has imploded since the disastrous decision by france and britain america to go ahead with the u.n. plan in two thousand and eleven that's made things

a lot worse but also we need to look at some of these countries where these people are coming from you know central african republic and other other countries in that region which have the most appalling human rights records from the most cruelest most barbaric dictators ever and we give the money to the european union is pumping hundreds of millions of dollars into these countries to keep those people in power to to keep. how much money of the european union and the flag flying. and in return you know the e.u. is looking too closely at human rights records all of those countries so that's also part of it's partly because libya has fallen to pieces and has become a suitable platform for the crossings e.u. has done nothing about it but it's also because a lot of these countries are room and not having any sort of accountability on the aid coming from the european union or indeed france and of course one other question their people might be overlooking already is there you know would military

intervention proposed by the by the crown be lethal. yes that's one very good question one many people would say it isn't because when or how you can get the mandate for that is on a completely original idea fredricka mother remit it use policy foreign policy chief a couple of years ago floated the same idea she tried to get a e.u. un mandates in new york which would involve don't laugh british warships patrolling the coast and firing randomly the shells anybody they thought we were traffickers to didn't manage to do that because there was no legal basis for it and i think it's going to run into the similar problems what is the legal basis to just go ahead and be very french i mean seem to have this incredibly anachronistic colonial almost nineteenth century joseph conrad view of africa you know ease not all up to speed on the modern world he believes that france could just brush aside the international protocols and send its officers there to point guns at problem people

now of course the problem with pointing guns at people is sooner or later you have to shoot them if they're doing not what you want and then what happens after that you start to incur don't i think what we need to do is we need we need much more honesty from france and from the european union they need to look at the aid flowing into those countries in keeping those spots in power we need to have a sort of new system whereby human rights accountability is linked to the kind of money that's going to those countries if you look at a country like central african republic for example a couple of years ago the e.u. gave it two billion dollars that's two billion that's almost i mean when you consider that the entire e.u. annual budget is only a hundred fifty people gave it two billion dollars just to restore it's of after a civil war you know the e.u. these leaders in these countries are basically making a mockery of the aid coming in to them what we need to do to resolve the problem is to look at the governance the level of governance in those countries and link human rights accountability to it based award winning british journalist thank you for

your time. a u.s. congressional committee has barred r.t. journalists from capitol hill by revoking their credit taishan has lied to r.t. america's new foreign agent status that's despite early assurances from the state department that no such restrictions would be imposed 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 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 impact 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 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 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. let's go to the now with the former america london ken livingstone that mr levin thinker to have you on the program now how does this latest move correspond with the principle of free speech. well it clearly doesn't but there's been a sustained campaign against our team now across much of the west it here in britain as well denouncing r.t. is biased i'm pro russian and there's two basic tracks here and country i don't know any me here around the world stage which i'm denouncing is own government but why i find out i tend to switch between watching b.b.c.

news here and then going to the r t channel to get a different take on the news and it's quite interesting on our british television this endless stuff about the war in syria linking it to russia but aiming putin and so on for supporting asset but then the a mention of the fact that britain is supplying arms to sound the arabia which is using them to bomb innocent civilians in the amman has put a blockade which is leading to hundreds of thousands of children starving to death and barely a mention of that because that's seen as a pro western deal between britain and the saudis to curtail the yemenis who are trying to assert their own freedom do you think that this could just be the beginning of a broader effect to prevent alternative media from doing their jobs. well i think it is because that as america declines and some point in the

not too distant future it will become the second largest economy to china i mean americans today they grew up in a world with a totally dominated the world we were told a lot about the cold war was a clash between two equals but it never really was but that american power is now declining and that's why i think you get the more and more erratic policies from trump that america should be looking for a fair deal with russia and china in how we collaborate in ensuring peace around the world rather than supporting different sides in civil wars like you were just talking about in libya what do you think will be next for r.t. america do you think america is going to face more hurdles more incidents like this i think when the syrian house t.v. monitoring standards agency in britain is often criticized r.t.

i put don't think i've ever seen anyone on r t telling a lie i.e. what they don't like is that they're telling us things that the british and american governments don't want us to know about but but that's been happening or mine i find it and i grew up in the world and we were told that the war in vietnam was because the north viet nam attacked an american ship and that's what unleashed a big wave. of american troops going in. fifteen years later we knew that was completely untrue but no attempt at all so there's always lies coming out of governments i.e. but the idea that you know america tells the truth and russia just lies is complete nonsense telling stand from the north london thank you for your time. thank you. controversial white helmets rescue group is again causing divisions about off to reporters without borders urged the swiss 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. we 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 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 your letter and asking them to respect the freedom of the speech constitution. mark gasnier has previously conducted his own investigation into the white house which 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 review productions not from locals or civilians no no no 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 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 the 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 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 disguise now having described. as an. organisation can look at it they were awarded and yes they didn't even admit to here the people who are criticizing the why tournaments it was a taboo to speak about them that's for serious drama or simply hardest person. to admit such a such abuse of your own it's the first time in the twenty years of the existence of the swiss press that we received such demons from a journalist association which is supposed to support two 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 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 from 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 vow to continue doing what they do irregardless of pressure i also received many people criticizing russia from these forums and gary kasparov for business who criticize criticizing russia so i am open to everybody even to the people who are supporting russia and not criticizing that's the goal of the real person and not the politically correct. association will 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 something probably going to other ways which always think it's. because he doesn't have a right it's a responsibility to protect its citizens and what have we to determine but what we say and actions as you were taken in the country are impacted on all countries in the caribbean. what politicians do. they put themselves on the line to get accepted or rejected. so when you want to express an injury. or some want to be rich. but you'd like to be first that's what before korean people are. interested always in the water out. there should.

welcome back north korean television showing the first images of the country's most advanced missile today's reports are they capable of hitting any poss of the u.s. . according to both the north and south korea pyongyang's latest missile reached an alter to ten times higher than the orbit of the international space station experts say if directed differently the missile could reach both washington and europe following the tests the us ambassador to the u.n. warned young's leadership would be utterly destroyed in the case of war the threat came at an emergency session of the security council 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 gets difficult to move towards any such as long as north korea fears that its security is threatened in the current situation we urge and call on all parties involved to stop escalating the tensions that accompany each new cycle of reactions in response beijing we all eat to pause and think carefully about the consequences of such steps. donald trump meanwhile has denounced the north korean launch and he broke off a speech on tax reform to take a jab at kim jong. will be rocket fuel. supplies. little rocket man rocket fuel for the american economy iraq. is a sick puppy. the bitcoin crypto currency hits

a record high on wednesday of eleven thousand dollars the token it sunk back down to ten thousand dollars late in the day but remains the strongest of virtual currency out that the value of bitcoin house skyrocketed since january when one tycoon was worth around a thousand dollars to well they claim has been controversial for some years now my colleague neil harvey discussed the risks and the appeal of investing in crypto currency without any financial guru max keiser an economics professor steve king it's such a huge right across encourage people looking at the saying i've got 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 you're still is maintaining its value of

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 con keep on going and i disagree the people using it for a transaction of this this is the floor it's a brilliant why you can green crossing a value it's a store of value sure at the moment but you'd be a madman to use the 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 bitcoin 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 used speculatively as 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 emergence accepted going to the real estate market being up ended by bit going you can buy high end properties went bitcoin 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 or three charms as many so it's a process to stabilise 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 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 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 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 stay. money out of account 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 do it. interesting stuff you can learn

more about the surge in popularity of big oil in the latest boom bust episode here and i'll see international that's coming up right after this break or you can watch it now on our website dot com with the latest headlines on the back at the top of the hour. the village of collect she has been nicknamed sleepy hollow because for some unknown reason its local residents have formed victim to sleep but to make. sure. it was just daniel to choose. the one you should you choose how you did i don't care if you. want to know what kind of son that's it but also ensuring the sort of but i also go along with the course in your story don't you still believe

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d.c. coming up a bit point continues making record breaking games couldn't reach the forty thousand dollar mark by the end of next year and we'll hear a former dallas fed advisor take on janet yellen final testimony to congress and what she expects from the next chairman now let's check the stories topping today's headlines. in a rare move the trump administration has officially launched an investigation regarding imports from china the commerce department made the move on tuesday which includes over six hundred million dollars worth of aluminum sheet commerce secretary wilbur ross said the agency has evidence that proves chinese producers are selling it in the u.s. at illegally low prices he argued that the chinese government is providing unfair subsidies to producers and that u.s. producers of aluminum sheet are suffering from injuries caused by the imports in an interview with c.n.n. b c wilber said president trump said he would have vigorously enforce our trade

laws and be more in force and minded than our predecessors today's act.