in the public they call is any more than slavery and no one argues that this problem should be for the french president and the proposal to try to sold with militarily 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 francois played then a very crucial role france was saying you need. to bomb a tripoli and france was considering its actions very successful in libya were remember that after the death of believe me or in leader moammar gadhafi then the president nicolas sarkozy proclaims officially the now leave is on the way to democracy. thank you. do you know how do you think you're the world you would get rid of it 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 we leave it on the grunwick and say that the truth is for all these years has troubled the region with a level of violence and just a police station just being dramatic. scenes thousand and eleven military operation has ventured to dramatic just a police station and a rise in the level of violence throughout the country and this is why the proposal to try to another minute to a ration in many asta. question whether this time it will actually work

to help bring balance back or it will not work beirut based journalist martin j. believes micron'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 to be a sort of these peace person very much on the international circuit of these shows in the middle east do but i think this 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 federica marina because that's really her role so i don't really understand why he's going ahead with this plan he seems to be under a certain amount of pressure to resolve the immigration crisis but you know he along with e.u. leaders are not really looking at the real root cause of the problem it's only in the recent few years since libya has imploded since disastrous that 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 it's been more than sixty years since the former libyan leader moammar gadhafi was deposed and killed following the western incursion into the country we spoke about the current situation in libya with gadhafi its former top assistant but shares followed by share chair of the eight billion dollars libyan african investment portfolio and manage the gadhafi family's private funds this is what he told us. for the heart of how it's not right to see gadhafi better to see the libyan government the libyan government left about two hundred billion dollars in various banks abroad and the u.n. has frozen the money in accordance with the security council resolution and when it comes to the money inside the country after because after he claimed 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 and other media outlets claim that some people met with me and there was a decision taken to be fifty million i said i have nothing to do with that. a lot. of 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's taken money from someone he should reveal from whom exactly but anyway that's a french problem not libya's not. a cold front seems to have blown over the special relationship between the u.k. and the u.s. but the countries that longer head over president trump tweeting it's al explains

what caused the spat. so this whole issue is started over mr trump tweeting a number of or retreating a number of tweets from the controversial anti muslim group britain first. those three tweets that he retreated purporting to show muslims attacking non muslims and one of them proven to be a fake by dutch journalists and so he's come in for criticism for retreating those and that's created a political stand here in the u.k. with many m.p.'s calling on the government to criticize mr trump for doing so and in fact that is what downing street and the prime minister did in a statement through one of their spokespeople it's run for the president to have done this british people overwhelmingly reject the prejudiced rhetoric of the far right which is the antithesis of the values that this country represents decency tolerance and respect president trump criticizing to resume

a actually and saying that the focus should be more on militants and terrorist groups who are attacking the u.k. and not on what he is tweeting but of course this. special relationship between the two sides goes back many years the relationship between america and britain will remain strong our relationship is very special special relationship that exists between our two nations our people forge friendships together that is what makes this relationship special i hope to have a good relationship with them as it has been a special relationship but it would appear that that special relationship is under some strain with mr trump and mrs may looking decidedly or quit on their first meeting together in washington there have been many calls today in parliament for the u.k. to take back their invitation to donald trump for a state visit the home secretary amber right here repeatedly saying that the invitation has been extended and accepted but

a date hasn't been set but there are. i've also been reports that that state visit has been postponed artificially somewhat indefinitely by mr trump himself who says that he only wants to come to the u.k. if he has a warm welcome while in this latest it's unlikely that the road to the reception here will get any warmer for the u.s. president. the international federation of journalists has slammed the stripping of r.t. america's press credentials on capitol hill the decision was taken on wednesday by a congressional committee that started the channel's new foreign agent status that's despite earlier 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 arts 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 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 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 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. for more on this we're joined live by virginia senator richard block now senator do you think this condemnation coming from the international federation of journalists will have any effect possibly swaying washington over its decision at all. well i think it is it's going to have some effect but. you know the american news

media have long been centrally controlled. while we talk about having a free press it actually is quite heavily controlled particularly in the area of foreign policy. what this decision does is it number one is it tightens the media's censorship over information that reaches the american public and second way it cuts competition by our t.v. news to a.b.c. c.b.s. n.b.c. and fox news. i don't think it's any secret that r.t. news has had sort of an explosion of popularity with the american public because they feel that they can obtain news there that is censored from the mainstream media so. hopefully our t.

news will be able to bypass this because the information that's received from our key news is absolutely bydel to an informed public being able to make decisions now i would add is important to note that it's if you look at the letterhead on that letter from congress normal way you'll see a list of congressman on the side who are members of the committee this is a very unusual committee because the radio and television correspondents gal raised is an organization which has no congressional representation and it is essentially controlled by a.b.c. c.b.s. n.b.c. and fox news so they're able to exclude competitors by saying all while. you're no longer admitted to the to the gallery. the

international federation of journalists has called this move a covert censorship do you agree with that and we were talking about the freedom of press there's also the idea of freedom of speech how does revoking artist access coincide with that it is absolutely. censorship and i think censorship is the primary objective i think knocking out competition is a secondary objective but just before i came more and you had a actual one report on libya. that information will not be shown on the mainstream media in the united states because it it goes counter to the media narrative that somehow we rescued libya from from a tyrant the fact is that we we destroyed. a secular

nonbelligerent country we launched an aggressive war against them and we left the nation in absolute shambles and it's not surprising to see that. france wants to attack libya again because right now they risk losing their control over it to the tribes of libya who represent the people of libya so so that's a report that's just an example of the type of thing that would be censored from the us media and our two news fortunately has given americans a peek into the truth. and something that i think both interesting and important to remember is that when our to america was forced to register as a foreign agent the state department gave assurances that its operations would not be affected so why the sudden change now. well i'm not sure that the press spokesman realized what was going on behind the scenes the attorneys for the

mainstream media understand the implications and this is been a step by step process where first the department of justice took action secondly our team news was was found to be a born a giant and then as a result of that you have the situation where now they're doing credentialed i doubt that the press spokesman recognized that but i will guarantee you that the attorneys for the mainstream media who lobbied the department of justice they knew exactly what they were doing and they had a three step process at the same time we see efforts by you tube and by twitter to censor our team news and the fact is that the truth that is being revealed by r.t.

news to the american public is undermining the ability of the military industrial complex to wage these these wars in foreign countries public support just continues to dip lower and lower for waging war all over the world which is what we're doing right now if i could just go back to freedom of press again for a second i think it's fair to say that in america media is quite the topic of conversation right now for example present trump was while while we criticize for refusing to give a question to a c.n.n. reporter a few months ago and yet we have no one blinking an eye at what's happening with r.t. america why the double standard there. well it's it's simply you have to understand that while we we proclaim freedom of the press in

america we do not have freedom of the press and america there are i think are probably many countries that have greater freedom of the press. but we have a we have a very subtle a controlled press. and i think you know i wish that president trump were surrounded by advisors who who shared his views because i think if he were to be informed about this he'd say no way we're not going to we're not going to do this but the problem is he's surrounded by by war hawks like mcmasters and and some of the others and they they screen this information from him so he's not aware of of some of these things going on but it really it is so vital that the american public receive the information from our team news they can believe it or they can disregard it but

that's what a free press is supposed to be it's supposed to present varying points of view and the did monolithic press that we have in a noun and states today has as its design the presentation of a singular view without any distracting information that would reveal the truth to the american people and that is a very grave problem to the american constitutional system virginia senator richard black thank you so much for your time and your insight tonight senator. thank you very much. the controversial white helmets rescue group is again causing divisions that's after 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 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 was 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 wrest back the freedom of the speech and constitution. whose previously conducted his own investigation into the white helmet 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 the 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 help 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. disguise now having described. as an. organisation can look at it there were a war and yes they didn't even admit to hear people who are criticizing. it's it was a taboo to speak. up that's for serious drama simply hardest person to add minutes. 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 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 i cannot see myself in the mirror or if i am too 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 mrs name server who criticize criticizing russia so i am open to everybody even to the people who are supporting russia and not only criticising that's the goal of the real person not the politically correct. association. the bitcoin crypto current. they hit a record high on wednesday of eleven thousand dollars per token it sunk back down to ten thousand dollars later in the day but remains the strongest virtual currency out there the value of bitcoin has skyrocketed since january when one token was worth only around one thousand dollars here's a quick reminder of how the virtual currency works.

i. know. that coin has been controversial for some years now also my colleague neil harvey discussed the risks and the appeal of investing in crypto currency us with our financial guru max keiser 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 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 know still is maintaining its value of the right inflation right running about two percent per annum big corn is running at the moment it conserves or die is increased 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 com keep 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 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 market being up

ended by bit going you can buy high end properties with 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 an idiot to buy those things now because if you wipe ten weeks you can botch washes many or 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 necessary 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 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 two point zero the motherlode 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 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 more about the surging popularity of bitcoin in the latest boom bust episode which you can watch right now on our website r t v dot com you can also find the details on all of today's top stories and more there i'll be back at the top of the hour.

alone of all controls apart if you look at the registry of global concerns climate change is definitely at the top of the list there is no shortage of conferences reports of documentaries at all points. and dramatic shift in global weather patterns but as politicians and scientists still wrangle over the extent of human input then christine number of nations are left largely alone in the pathways of more frequent and more ferocious hurricanes has the debate over the causes become a deflection from the consequences to discuss that i'm now joined by roosevelt's

carrot prime minister of dominique and they shot in the eastern caribbean that was all but decimated last september by hurricane maria prime minister is great to talk to thank you very much for your time and your hospitality as you were able to do it was work nature usually doesn't care about fairness but i see.