inflicted wound on actually a conscious business model the media no longer has an interesting story news media today propagates ideology. headlines in r.t. amnesty international says e.u. countries bear much of the blame for the cruel treatment enjoyed by migrants in libya. we believe they know we have the complexity in the system of abuse and torture of refugees and my friend said if the action. plan does donald trump congratulate jewish people on one of their biggest holidays his recognition of jerusalem as israel's capital sparked yet more violence in the region and right now i'm thinking about what's going on and the love that's all over israel and all about jerusalem and frontiers to jay is an american boy's heart felt video about being bullied at school season that pouring of sympathy swiftly dry up after his mother is pictured with the racially propoxyphene confederate flag.

i welcome you watching r.t. international this wednesday afternoon march just gone one o'clock here in the russian capital now amnesty international is accusing you governments of condoning the attention and abuse of migrants trying to reach europe from libya. we believe the know we really complicity in a system of abuse and torture of refugees and migrants in. because they know exactly what is going on and they have tools and to support. the system of detention and abuse of my grounds without. placing any safeguards well earlier artie's mccarran gave me more details about those claims that report

was released yesterday and essentially calls out e.u. countries for actively supporting a system of exploitation and abuse of refugees and migrants by the libyan coast guard now since twenty sixteen even the states of implemented a series of measures aimed at cutting off that essential migration route to europe through libya and one of those measures includes enabling the libyan coast guard to intercept people at sea and they do this by providing their with training with vessels and other assistance and it's onboard these rescue ships which are aimed at essentially saving people's lives that it's claimed refugees and migrants are being subjected to abuse and they have video to back this claim as well one of the videos allegedly shows a refugee being thrown overboard and then being towed a long while other pictures came to show migrants being whipped with a rope and we're going to show you a video you might find upsetting that you are the only amateur and hear

her speak up for the i am are here for now is on one of these particular boats that we just saw in the video that amnesty says this was donated by italy back in april so long ago in fact there's a whole ceremony was handed over to the libyan coast. it was attended by the it's highly an interior minister now another way the report says e.u. countries are actively supporting supporting such abuses their support and assistance to the libyan department for combating illegal migration otherwise known as the d.c. i am now they were in detention centers so off to these migrants and refugees are rescued from see that they're taken to these detention centers where they're held an amnesty says it is in these centers that people are exposed to what it calls the

soul destroying cycle of exploitation we can now listen to one person who was actually held in one of those detention centers and also a researcher from honesty international other to cause for. thought up using reason to use us for business. q some people. who did a petition. for to. use going to be tossed out. because before so. it was sort of water to drink for limited to us and the. level of abuse. these people who live here. do these nor will we do provided that unless you can pay for it we've interviewed several people who. said that the way to reach the wider families where before when in order to extort money for the torture to stop and for them to be released. and this is just the old you know in the sentence

so in light of these findings amnesty international is calling on european governments to rethink their cooperation with the libyan government and they're saying that if the e.u. members continue to support them on this with the libyan authorities essentially trapping people in libya that then you are paying governments are really showing with their true priorities where their true priorities lie in that being the closure of the central mediterranean region stopping people from getting into europe rather than prioritizing these people's welfare. and here i am reporting there will meanwhile a report by the european commission on the block's programs in libya did stress the need to shut down smuggling and human trafficking in the country it went on to say that the u.s. efforts have a strong human rights component and are being conducted in cooperation with the un refugee agency. r.t. has asked several institutions to comment on the allegations against the government's we received this reply from the deputy spokesperson for the un

secretary general he expressed concern over the situation in libya and stressed the need for the proper resettlement of migrants a view shared by international relations professor larson. because you're getting a number of reports from credible sources including u.n. agencies that there are a systematic abuses there that is in there and i think it's clear that there are italy has to do in the european union has to say well we're not going to send these people back to libya and we're going to find some way to give them a cease haven whether they're whether or not they are economic migrants or if cities isn't is not right that countries in major powers. destabilize situation and then later on complain that. there are mass migration movements from war and other difficulties. now promoting pace that was the declared purpose when donald trump recognized jerusalem as the capital of israel but so far there's been

nonstop violence across the region. well trump's decision has been heavily criticized by european and arab officials but that doesn't seem to trouble the u.s. leader this kind of mopping expects. now that time of year in which israel celebrates hanukkah and this comes after donald trump's dramatic decision on jerusalem which may seem like a huge gift we wish you a very happy hanukkah. and i think this one will go down as especially special. and right now i'm thinking about what's

going on and the love that's all over israel and all about jerusalem a love that's all over israel trump one as far as actually praising himself for the all but controversial move his point his predecessors only made promises where he actually delivered. jerusalem is still the capital of israel and most remain unknown divided city accessible questions that take us as i would begin the process of moving the united states ambassador to the city israel shows. i continued to say that. jerusalem will be the capital of israel so why is trump so gleeful about his decision as the international community praised him for it nope they do interest decision we do know and agree clearly disagree these decisions are helpful from the european union member states sites this move would not come so is it what the

american people want well not according to this poll taken ahead of trump's decision sixty three percent of americans say that they oppose the move but it's popular in israel right well not with all israelis they think of only friends of cleaving years and they. are in much greater risk than they were with i think it will because of. people day and. violence i think it was a reckless this season and it takes less time to announce it is like a man who was playing in a coma defeated or in. india. thanks the freedom so he's taking us through storm suddenly in this shooting oh my friends don't need it today he announced that they're pretty much scared to to go but the drizzling because they don't know how it's going to be underscored to leave the houses so just who is happy with the move well there's the american israel lobby there's christian evangelicals and there's

the guys over at that albright website breitbart now that's not the biggest group of loyal trump east but trump did win over some of his harsh critics in the democratic camp. jerusalem is the capital of the state of israel something the united states congress has reaffirmed in the fact of history that cannot be tonight . i support the decision to recognize jerusalem as the eternal capital of israel and to move the u.s. embassy that this decision is long overdue and help correct a decades long indignity there may be benefits for him personally he may be. tipping his hat to his base and saying you know this is a campaign promise that i made it's the same as what he's going to a lot of areas he's pushed much much further than where the public wants to go or what is in the interest of the united states and that's that's the hallmark of the trump. you know. i think that's the real reason he sees it more

important for his personal legacy for his supporters to do this regardless of its effect on world opinion regardless of its effect on the united states and the world opinion and regardless of its effect on the palestinian. people the world is not happy with the move america is not happy with the move but donald trump thinks it's terrific a year ago at his inauguration donald trump said that from here forward it would be america first well it's starting to look like maybe it's trump first. r.t. new york well and he stumble right now turkey is hosting an emergency session of the organization of islamic cooperation over the teresa machine president called the meeting and his address leaders of the muslim world with a strongly worded statement calling israel a terrorist state we can go live now to jerusalem and our correspondent there shall

it be. listening when hearing the leaders have repeated their condemnation of trumps move but i'm what else is being said. what we had some incredibly strong statements from the turkeys president. the one who in the last few days his men made accusations against the state of israel and the. usa since that announcement by some but let's start with some of his comments from today at that extraordinary meeting of fifty seven members of muslim countries across continents meeting in istanbul today to discuss that decision by i don't know trump president he said jerusalem is occupied so the decision by i don't trump doesn't have any legitimacy a tool he described israel as being a terrorist state a state where soldiers kill ten year old children he also brought out a map of palestine and showed how the palestinian territories have decreased since nine hundred forty seven and israel's borders have increased in the time and he

said this decision by don't trump does one thing incredibly badly homs any peace negotiations between the palestinians and the israelis and he called on all nations to rise up against this decision and to recognize jerusalem as being the capital of the palestinian occupied territories and not israel let's take a listen to what president had to say. this decision. displacement. you know way of land and. violence israel is being in a way awarded for all the actions that they have commissioned and this process is being alluded to israel by president. what we also heard at that meeting it was addressed by the palestinian leader mahmoud abbas

who has said he does not want the u.s. to take part in peace processes in the future the u.s. has been one of the main negotiators of the peace process between israel and palestine for many many decades now mahmoud abbas saying he doesn't want to do that in fact we also know in the last few days that he said that he didn't want. the u.s. vice president mike pence to visit the region in the wake of that declaration by recognizing jerusalem as being the capital of israel and he said and he warned that extremists could use this decision by donald trump to turn what is a political struggle in his words into a religious one take a listen to what more had to say what. steps the united states has chosen to lose its competency as mediator and disqualifies itself from the peace process we should not accept any role for the u.s. in the peace process well donald trump is often called

a divisive figure ever since he was elected u.s. president a year ago however it does appear that he succeeded in doing one thing and that is uniting our nations against him by making this decision. ok thanks charlotte though charlotte dubinsky for us there in jerusalem. it's been exactly a month since r.t. america had to register as a foreign agent in the u.s. after being pressured by the authorities at the time the state department to the sure it wouldn't affect artie's ability to cover the news but a couple of weeks later we did we had our press credentials revoked by the us congress asked the state department to clarify the situation when art he was forced to register as a foreign agent and you said that it would inhibit our ability to report. when the united states tells someone to register under a foreign agent requirement we don't see impacts or

a fact the ability. to. report news and information we just have the register it's as simple as that just a couple weeks ago our press credentials were revoked so doesn't this contradict your earlier statement i think i think press credentials may have been revoked by congress and not necessarily the members of congress but rather the association of reporters that handles who gets to come in and cover congress after basically directing my question to congress she played the russian card a representative of the russian government in fact the fact that you are here as a representative of the russian government is a perfect example of how we do not not restrict any type of freedom of the press this all comes after r.t. america was forced to register as a foreign agent dead stripped of their capitol hill press credentials only after russia was accused of meddling in the us presidential election after washington's

measures russia actually designated several media outlets funded by the us government as foreign agents but it seems after this whole exchange that the state department is unwilling to keep its word and is now trying to just shift blame it to avoid taking responsibility so america will media and legal analyst lionel things that he was targeted as part of a blame game against russia. me well it wasn't necessarily revoked by congress or members of congress but the association selected by the members of congress to determine who covers congress why does this is double speak you know exactly what the question was why did you revoke our press credentials why that was the question russia t.v. our t.v. was yanked because it's russian whether you're russian own eighty percent of their russian media it's that teach you a lesson it's part of this nonsense that started when people were trying to figure

out a way to explain away that hillary clinton lost the election i won they didn't have anybody to blame they picked russia so it just kept building and everything that's why should you know foreign agent if this is an espionage statute from thirty eight whatever what is this if you want to write it is trenchcoat where the newspaper with holes in it like a spy oh come on this is embarrassing you're watching our chief national thanks for company the softening still ahead for you to sound a tearful boys video play against his school bullies has turned into an internet backlash against his mother we'll tell you why after the break. but hopes it's to do something to. put themselves on the line. they did accept or reject. so when you want to be president. some want to be rich.

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an american mother has learned about internet fame the hard way to sharing a video of her eleven year old son tearfully talking about being bullied at school that clip went viral and did see celebrities to rally to support him but the tell you quickly turned when photos of his mother emerged. as the story they found about . copping out but. your letter different don't criticize. this heart wrenching video of an eleven year old boy from tennessee speaking out about being bullied by his classmates took the internet by storm keeping story got a millions of views and it up trending on twitter under its own hash tag of support a fund raising campaign was set up in keaton's name going almost sixty thousand dollars in just two days he became

a center of attention with actors athletes and showbiz stars wishing out to teach in the bullies one when i'm with you. well those punks at school are deciding what kind of people they want to be in this world how would you and your mom like to come to the avengers premiere in l.a. next year this boy is incredibly brave and they do really go to me before he knew it keaton himself had turned into a celebrity something he hadn't expected in the least. but. good. making a difference in the world gave them a voice. but as more attention was focused on keaton the once inspiring story turned sour as his mother kimberly was shifted into the spotlight as people sifted through her facebook profile they uncovered photos featuring confederate flags and unsympathetic prince and just as quickly as support had initially flooded in backlash against kimberly hit accusations of racism and possibly using her son's pain for profit became the center of the story i feel pretty stupid or enough

people i was pretty moved by keaton jones's video so every show is mom and she just wants money she just wants me to share her go fund me account responding to the outrage kimberly tried to shift the focus back to the issue of bullying by saying that the photo of the confederate flag was meant to be ironic it was ironic it was funny nobody to do was no racist and no no absolutely not abs i've said i spent most of my life being. and and judged because i wasn't racist but that didn't seem to work social media right now is mostly buzzing about how she's using her son to get cash as her the account created to support keating it's not clear whether he'll get the money or not it's frozen at the moment so in the course of a few days the internet went from supporting a victim of bulling to condemning his allegedly racist mother oh how quickly the tables have turned. to take action to stop the construction of a russian gas pipeline according to u.s.

state department officials at a congress hearing they described the north stream pipeline as a political project saying he he goes. hence the block's interests it's not in europe's interests it's not in our interests it's also a political rather than a commercial undertaking there is an existing framework in place for the e.u. to take more aggressive action on north stream two and similar projects if it wished to do so politically but hearing there came the same day as europe narrowly avoided an energy crisis after a huge explosion at a major gas hub in austria essential ways through energy markets too with fuel prices spiking at a four year high gas flows have resumed but the incident was still enough to prompt italy to declare a state of emergency about garton gas plant in austria it distributes natural gas from russia norway all over europe including germany france and hungary the blast there is said to have been caused by a technical fault killing one and injuring more than a dozen others

a day earlier hairline crack shut down a keen north sea pipeline network economist keith boy phil thinks that by calling for restrictions on russian gas part the supply is the u.s. is only trying to seize a larger share of the european gas market. u.s. producers are looking to their own bottom line and that they would like to you know export. l.n.g. liquefied natural gas to europe because they see a commercial opportunity there so you could argue that their strategic. sort of view about the future for gas supply in europe are also have a certain commercial incentive as well but they're certainly look looking to increase their exports of liquefied natural gas and looking at their fracking capacity and so they're looking across the world including europe to export that gas that

they're producing in the states. now just to let you know that many screen at the bottom of your t.v. set is just showing russian troops returning from syria after president putin declared the anti terror operation there to be complete and the total defeat of ice all those pictures their life now that we're looking at now in other news. donald trump will unveil his first national security strategy next monday in russia is likely to be listed as a top threat according to the president's national security adviser we are facing a threat from russia that involves so-called new generation will for there's a very sophisticated campaigns of subversion and this information and propaganda. or separately a former u.s. vice president has published an article accusing russia of supporting separatist movements in a number of european countries joe biden who served under barack obama specifically

mentions russia backing italy's populist and euro skeptic five star movement next year as next year election looms but party deputy an m.p. manlio the foreigner who says it's easier for rivals to blame russia than face the facts. i think that it's just a way to change argument in the public discussion that russia is that will win situation you can always say it's russia so they will use this argument but the reality is that once you get eleven million votes it's not possible that they are just. many by some foreign power so people are understanding is understand in the this is a big big theater where everybody is acting a part so when they lose they lose cause they are not good and that's all.

there is a lot of discussion around the idea of populism arising in europe and they called us for example we are the only party that living in a torah program you can already find it on our website so we are the opposite of what double it should be so we have ideas we are doing what we say we don't want to destroy anything we just want to get to read of the bad things that we we had up to now. there is a lot of rage against the system and if you don't tab it democratical party like the first time momentum in thirty you. try to find the best you can have so incite in such country and that's why sparty we have to investigate why people are. choosing these people this part is probably because you are a prisoner doing what they supposed to do but just by their time talking about

banks and financial institutions. so that brings you up tonight thanks being with the soft name will be back with more news at the top and. when else should seem wrong. but all wrong just don't call. me. yet to say proud disdain becomes active. engagement equals betrayal. when so many find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground. apply to many clubs over the years so i know the game and so i got. the ball isn't only about what happens on the pitch to the final school it's about the passion

from the fans it's the age of the super manager killian erroneous and spending two to twenty million on one player. it's an experience like nothing else not to because i want to share what i think what i know about the beautiful game great so well paul chimes with. the thinks it's going to take. hello and welcome to cross talk where all things considered i'm peter lavelle trust in the mainstream media is an all time low but no one should be surprised in the media has itself to blame for this sad state of affairs is

a self-inflicted wound and actually a conscious business model the media no longer has an interest in reporting news media today propagates ideology. crosstalk in the state of the media i'm joined by my guest eric alterman in new york he is a sunni distinguished professor of english and journalism at brooklyn college as well as the liberal media columnist for the nation also in new york we have lionel he's a legal analyst and a news decoder at lionel media dot com and implement we cross to patrick and he is a journalist writer and founder of the news website twenty first century wired dot com all right gentlemen crosstalk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want and i always appreciate it let me go to lionel first in new york i'm not going to list all of the mistakes the mainstream media has made over the last few months because that would take up the entire program and then some suffice

to say lionel i think it's.