the french president calls for military action against human traffickers in libya that's despite the disastrous legacy of the last french intervention in the country against the former gadhafi regime. the special relationship between the u.k. and us turns frosty over donald trump's retreats. and reporters without borders tries to cancel a president critical of the controversial syrian rescue and rescue group the white helmets something slammed by the organizers as an attack on free speech. very disappointing to see the joy of. asking for kind of censorship.

a very warm welcome to the program this is our to international coming to you live from moscow with me thanks for joining this hour. the french president is proposing military action against human traffickers and 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 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 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 to 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 that 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 and the president nicolas sarkozy proclaims officially that 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 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 we leave it 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 a police station just be dramatic. seas thousand and eleven military operation has ventured to dramatic disability they said and a rising level of violence throughout the country and this is why authors. pozole to try to one to another made it through a racially levy or maybe asa question of whether this time will actually work to help bring balance back or it will not work beirut based journalist martin j. believes mccrone is playing europe'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 something you very much on the international circuit used shows in the middle east as i do that but i think this is just insane i think he's really trying to be he's actually really trying to take over the job of the e.u. zone from policy for fredricka 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 some you know he along with e.u. leaders are not really looking at the real root cause of the problems it's only in the recent few years since libya has imploded since disastrous 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 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 is former top assistant

bashir salo bashir 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 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 out 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 but. an accomplice of the older than i was government official not was how i dealt with sarkozy as an official with the french media pie another meter out this 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.

a lot. nothing is known about the character few statements and sarkozy statements not better believe that of the book of the over. 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 taking money from someone he should reveal from whom exactly but anyway that's a friendship problem not only. a cold front things are blown over the special relationship between the u.k. and the u.s. but the country's at loggerheads over president trump tweeting it al explains what caused the bat. so this whole issue 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 reason may 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 be

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 has over the years been a special relationship but it would appear that the special relationship is under the thumb strain with mr trump 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 have 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 raw it's unlikely that the road that the

reception here will get any warmer for the u.s. president. the international federation of journalists has slammed the stripping of our to america's press credentials on capitol hill the decision was made on wednesday by a congressional committee that side of 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 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 archies status in the united states with you tube and their ability to do

premium ads in the united states was taken away without any real notice twitter has banned advertising by r.t. and there's been a series of hearings on capitol hill directed at r.t. which are g.'s a name has come up people are calling this atmosphere a witch hunt so this is yet another move another amount of pressure making it harder for reporters like myself to do our job in the united states we asked media expert how congress of action tally with the principle of freedom of speach. well it's monstrous really the are closing down free speech in the name of free speech they're closing down freedom whilst posing as the champions of freedom it's monstrous because it was a pack of lies when the four started to register as a foreign agent and then said the would not affect the r.t.m. ploy is doing their job as reporters only know to make it impossible so it's part

of this witch hunt while i a proud member of my republic i asked the question how does this look like to the world in the nation's capital the bastion of free speech the first amendment where scores hundreds of thousands of people from every conceivable form of press that there is they get a badge but archie oh oh oh no they're all foreign agent very different be gone r t has been in the nude in one way or another as this for been fruit this outlaw roe good news organization and you know what happens in this country when you tell americans you can't do something when the when you were a kid your parents said don't listen to that music. the controversy

a white helmets rescue group is again causing divisions that have to reporters without borders urged the swiss press club to cancel a conference critical of the syrian activists their request was rejected by the head of the organization as modern day censorship. if you were challenging our support for this conference with the name of our organization appearing on the list of media members we turn to lee 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 disappointed 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. my

god to have his previously conducted his own investigation into the white helmet as more details on what caused the split between the journalist organizations so far almost everything you've been told about the white helmets is stuff from their press releases and review 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 those close to them the last thing they cared about is civilians. 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 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 know everything described. organisation it. and yes they didn't even admit to here the people who are criticizing the why tournaments it was a taboo. that's for serious drama simply hardest person to admit. 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 good big censorship or deciding you have the right to speak you have not to speak because you are representing the 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 from these forums garry kasparov for businesses 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 i think the goal of the real prescribe and not the politically correct. association. that coin hit

a record high on wednesday in the belly of the crypto currency have skyrocketed since january when one unit was worth around one thousand dollars here's a quick reminder of how the virtual currency works. for. for. my colleague neil harvey discuss the risks and the appeal of investing in crypto

currency is with our financial guru max kaiser an economics professor steve. it's such a huge right across encourage people looking at the ceiling i've got to be there the entry cost is so unless i'm buying a house and hoping the house model appreciates so people are dogging him 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 great inflation right running about two percent per annum. corn is running at the moment at. which the 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 tom's eccentric cetera it's like the old chessboard that

simply concave 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 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 all said to 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 bitcoins because they see that the fee up 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 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 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 an idiot to buy those things now because if you wipe ten weeks you can botch washes many or three charms as many so it's a process to stabilize now my worry is when it stabilizes what will happen to that process i don't think it's going to surely 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 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 but if

you have 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 and the latest episode of boom bust which you can watch right now on our website r.t. dot com. north korean television has shown the first images of the country's most advanced missile to date reportedly capable of hitting any part of the u.s. . according to both

north and south korea pyongyang's latest missile ration altitude 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 test the u.s. ambassador to the u.n. warned be on young's leadership it would be utterly destroyed in the case of war the threat came out an emergency session of the security council. the 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 jambos would you just gets difficult to move towards any such as long as north korea fears was that it was secure to be destructive in the current situation we. just don't it's going to tensions that accompany each new cycle of reactions in

response but as yours pools and has really been about the consequences all the songs are just sort of their pursuit of a dull child meanwhile has denounced the north korean launch and he broke off a speech on tax reform to take a job at the north korean leader will be rocket fuel. little rocket man rocket fuel for the american because. he is a sick puppy. besides that president trump tweeted he discussed the launch with china's president and said major say new sanctions will be imposed on north korea but the russian foreign minister sergei lavrov has question whether there's a hidden agenda. because of those with. the american. explaining their intentions to say i'm really looking for an excuse to destroy korea as the u.s. envoy to the u.n. said it's a security council meeting let them spend it clearly and let the u.s.

leadership. then we will decide how to react to 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 under their program unless the united states rough tough policy i think like a reasonable request from 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 it 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 dialogue that's a wrap up wrap up of the news this hour but don't forget you can find the details on all the stories and more at our team dot com i'll be back in about thirty minutes.

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