french president emanuel mcraney proposes military intervention in libya to combat human trafficking and rescue my good friend slaved in the country. reporters without borders tries to counselor press events critical of the controversial syrian rescue group the white helmets something slammed by the organizers as an attack on free speech very disappointed to see the joint is the solution asking for the gunderson source. north korean television releases the first images of the country's most advanced missile to date reportedly capable of reaching washington this is the u.s. ambassador warned young that its leadership could be white down to many war.

a very warm welcome you're watching r.t. international with me and karen 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 the military action. this is a country political transition well human trafficking is 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 about what they call is and more than slavery and no one argues that this problem should be for the french president and even mccall's proposal to try to solve with military really has come as

a surprise as 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 and it's to bomb a tripoli and france was considering its actions very successful in libya were a member of the up to the task believe here and leader moammar gadhafi then the president nicolas sarkozy proclaims officially the now leave is on the way to democracy. thank you. and i do think showing the world you would get rid of it and you would choose freedom 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 on the ground we

can say that the truth is for all these years has been a troubled region with a level of violence and just simple ization just be dramatic. the seas thousand eleven military operation in. ventura to dramatic disability and a rise in the level of violence throughout the country and this is why after madeleine mccann's proposal to try to want another military a ration to leave here many are questioning whether this time it will actually work to help bring balance back or it will not work they were space journalist martin jay believes mccracken's acting like the e.u.'s foreign policy chief and taking on

too much responsibility madness i think is the wackiest ideas come up with so far in six months in office i mean he's positioned himself to be a sort of a middle east peace broker some you can be very much on the international circuit and he's chosen the middle east 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. zone from policy for 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 is only in the recent few years since libya has imploded since the disastrous that decision but france and britain america to go ahead with the u.n. plan in two thousand and eleven that's made things a lot worse it's already been more than six years since the assassination of the former libyan leader muammar gadhafi and the western incursion into the country we

spoke about the current situation in libya with gadhafi is former top assistant the shares bashir was the former right hand man of moammar gadhafi he chairs the eight billion dollar libyan african investment portfolio and manage the gadhafi family's private phones we asked him whether it was fair now to call libya a failed state. for the hardest it's not right to see gadhafi better to say the libyan government the libyan government left about two hundred billion dollars in various banks abroad and the un has frozen the money in accordance with the security council resolution and when it comes to the money inside the country those who came to power after because after the plane there were one hundred sixty tons of gold billions of dollars in libyan dinars in the central bank when gadhafi moved from tripoli to search he took nothing with him and. an accomplice of the older than i was government official now it was how i dealt

with sarkozy as an official the french media pie another major outlets claimed that some people met with me and then there was a decision taken to be fifty million i said i have nothing to do with that. alone. nothing is known about that there are good afi statements and sarkozy statements now better believe because after all. a lot of i don't know this person and i never met him if he says he would recognize me if he sees me that's a lie if he has taken money from someone he should reveal from whom exactly but anyway that's a french problem not libya's. a controversial white helmets rescue group is again causing divisions as after reporters without borders urged this with press club to council a conference critical of the syrian activists their request was rejected by the

head of the organization as modern day censorship. you were a challenge in our support for this conference were 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 westpac the freedom of the speech and to show. he's previously conducted his own investigation into the white house 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 and whenever food aid was brought into the white helmets and rebels were taken after themselves to give us nothing not even bread and us what there were many people buried alive helmets would come to save them and if they found civilians killed and they might not oh 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. organisation they cannot admit they were wrong and yes they didn't even admit to hear people who are criticizing. it's it was a taboo to speak about them that's for a serious journalist or simply hardest person too. so it should be of your own but it's the first time in the twenty years of the existence of this response that we received such 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 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 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 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. for garry kasparov for mrs name server 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. a u.s. congressman. committee has barred r t journalists from capitol hill by revoking their accreditation is science r.t. america's new foreign agent status 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 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 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 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 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 we asked media

experts how congress is not actions timely with the principle of freedom of speech 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 trees operations in the u.s. why are they trying to do this because u.s. corporate media is routinely suppresses news critical moves particularly of us for . i'll see what a proud member of my republic i ask 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 oh oh oh oh no pharaoh foreign agent very different be gone our tea has been in the news in one way or another as this for a bit in fruit this outlaw road good news organization and you know what happens in this country when you tell americans you can't do something for when you were a kid your parents said don't listen to that music north korea releases the first images of its most sophisticated nuclear capable missile today which pyongyang claims puts any politics america within its reach but bring you all the details off the stroke break. what holds us do you suppose to. put themselves on the line. they did accept the

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e-mail. welcome back now a cold snap seems to me to blow inane over the special relationship between the u.k. and the u.s. with the country's low go ahead so have a president trump's recent tweaks with more joins me live from london hi you say good to see you now it seems the don't know what makes headlines most days over his tweets but his latest seem to have crossed even further over the line what can you tell us. yes this latest royal breaking out over the tweets at the donald trump actually retreated from the far right and the muslim group here in the u.k. called britain first and it was their deputy leader jaida france and he retreated a number of tweets purporting to show alleged attacks unverified attacks by muslims against non of them at least one of those have been shown to be fault it was

purportedly a migrant attacking dr person a number of dutch journalist have come out and shown that it was actually between two dutch citizens who were just having a fight and so already doubts cast apart upon the legitimacy of those tweets but it's really broken up because to reason made the british prime minister she's come out and really criticized mr trump for those tweets and also led him to respond to her and really criticize her response to those tweets or we can actually hear what she had to say it's wrong for the president to have done this british people it was well mainly reject the prejudiced rhetoric of the far right which is the antithesis of the values that this country represents decency tolerance and respect. now there have been a number of calls for treason may to cancel the invite to the president for a state visit here in the u.k.

now for his part donald trump has said that the reason may is better off focusing less on his tweets and more on the fighting terrorism in the u.k. and of course there have been a number of terrorist attacks here in the u.k. but today on the road the home secretary she was batting for the government while tourism is on her middle east and tour and saying that's essential he invite donald trump for that state visit has been extended and it's been accepted but from the answers she was giving she too stressing that she was disappointed at the very least with these tweets by donald trump now of course there is that very famous scene in the film love actually where the british prime minister really rails against the u.s. president but it doesn't look like to reason me is going to take that kind of step just yet in criticizing donald trump but definitely the strains in that relationship becoming obvious ok thanks for that as these are from london. it

may be north korean television show in the first images of the country's most advanced missile to date reportedly capable of hitting any part of the u.s. . thank you according to both north and south korea plan young's latest miss are reached an alter to ten times higher than the orbit of the international space station experts say it's directed differently the missile could reach both washington and europe following the test the u.s. ambassador to the u.n. warned pyongyang's leadership would be utterly destroyed in the case of war this threat came at an emergency session at the security council. 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 destroyed the wood yes that gets difficult to move towards any subtle moment as long as north

korea fears that its security is threatened in a current situation we urge and call on all parties involved to stop escalating the tensions that accompany each new cycle of reactions in response bashers we only to pause and think carefully about the consequences of such steps. meanwhile has denounced the north korean launch and i broke off a speech on tax reform to take a jab at. well be rocket fuel. i . little rocket man rocket fuel for the american because if. he is a sick puppy. besides that president trump tweeted he discussed the launch with china's president and said major new sanctions will be imposed on north korea but

the russian foreign minister sergey lavrov has questioned whether there's a hidden agenda. because of those issues the americans should start with explaining their intentions to see if they are really looking for an excuse to destroy north korea as the u.s. envoy to the u.n. said it's 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 the united states are truly concerned about north korea's nuclear program it would again dialogue that's the only way to resolve the problem and north korea said many many many people are not willing to give up a nuclear program unless the united states but. i think like a reasonable request. 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 effect if the united states were truly interested in . ramping down tensions it would engage in dialogue with no reason not to engage in

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a deflection from the consequences to discuss that i'm now joined by roosevelt's carrot prime minister of dominique and they shine in the eastern caribbean that was all but decimated last september by hurricane mariya prime minister is going to talk to thank you very much for your time and your hospitality as you were able to do person's work nature usually doesn't care about fairness but i think the on the on the human level the fate of your countries deeply unsettling because dominic actually tried to be and byron mentally contras more than sixty percent of your territory used to be covered by a protected rain forest you invested in the renewables you focused on eco terrorism and yet despite all your efforts to be good you were hit the hardest how do you process that well it's so difficult to experience the reality of global warming is real reality of climate huge and what we've been saying to international community is i would contribute

a significant. proportions to be. grasses covered gases. but we really was affected we're on the frontline of climate change and the effects of climate change and you've been saying as the international community but i wonder what is the international community responding to i think people accepted people accept that the caribbean adamic intuited is on the front when the global will cool. we will warm in the effects of climate change. but if indeed there we have it with discussions and conversations about climate change and not to can sufficient practical action. to minimize the impact of such disasters unconsciously dominate thinking about practical action from what i heard herrick in my area claimed more than two hundred percent of your own g.d.p. almost overnight when you lose so much so quickly where do you even start in trying

to. it's a monumental task everybody's lives life has been impacted the economy has been dramatically impacted to twenty twenty six percent of g.d.p. it's a question initiated it has reversed all of the gains we've made a generation. so the task really is to seek to rebuild the lives of the people but to go but unity to to create the world's first climate resilient nation and ensure that what we can do for self by ourselves to mitigate against such of terrorists as. dramatic conditions and. does so we're going to be pushing i know that you've got a bachelor's degree in psychology and i assumed that kind of experience with come in handy especially given how traumatized and anxious i suppose your people are. from what i've seen them in a concern they're resilient but i know that sustaining resilience over

a long period of time especially when one hundred percent of your people are affected is very difficult have you given any thought on a personal level what kind of leadership there. be expecting from you well you know time is a lot as a country as a citizenry so we have to act very quickly in a number of areas and provide shelter for four citizens and sure enough the most vulnerable are provided with adequate means of food and then all of basic supplies . can tickle the families so what is it going to do is to ensure that people's lives get back to normal squeakiest possible but that will also be hampered by access to resources the country hasn't been in in any significant revenue says the hurricane but or costs of responding to the relief and recovery is great every single day it's important here and i think that's the drive many psychologists with care for in the station of trauma you just have to keep busy and then you know attending to your daily life and they elected it is bred. it's also very hard for

me to believe that. at least for a second you are not paralyzed by fear of that ferocious force return to have you look at that fear in the eye is the reality that us live with. but we have no control over the patterns what we seeking to see to the developed countries as well as minimizing your emissions gas emissions so that we can get the oceans to be a bit cooler a lot warmer as it is known and get on well but that is a very monumental tell task i mean that that would take decades if not more to change and we have to start with to start somewhere and i think i think it is not only for us as leaders going to parr's and a negotiated agreement signing off and a host into our selves into the world that we have reached an agreement in paris but we can see the operationalization the disagreement and what you see into.