opening up the possibility of direct confrontation so we asked middle east expert on where this might lead now the big elephant in the room is membered and that's why they invited states is still on the ground they do have troops and in that case if they do not withdraw the troops and advisers from this region then uncle or says and repeatedly the president here threatens that he's going to go ahead with this operation in member in case this happens i think there will be a kind of military standoff and that could lead to more tension if not a military standoff between the united states and iran korea that could lead to a major escalation to more wars in on the ground that would lead to a more alinea ating and more isolating of the united states. there have been protests across canada after a jury found a white farmer not guilty of murdering

a man from an indigenous community. colton bush he was shot dead after the car he was in with friends got a flat tire after which they went to the farmer's house to house to seek help but joe stanley thought that the group was trying to rob him he reportedly tried to remove the keys from the car and accidentally shot twenty two year old bushy stanley was arrested and charged with second degree murder but was recently acquitted indigenous community leaders say they're shocked and angry. we are frustrated. and shocked too or hurt we feel betrayed this isn't new to us

however and the not guilty verdict just highlighted when exposed to the ugliness in the justice system here in canada there's going to be some action. we're pushing for an eel pushing for justice to be served with question for the family to have to get what's coming for them what they're directing and requesting an appeal everybody has reason to be upset with this verdict a young man is dead. over. you know attempted break in or whatever was happening there from this incident and we have absolutely no justice for the family it shows the lack of faith and trust and representation in that in that justice system for indigenous people and just for the pure fact that this gentleman was fully quit of these charges without any sort of responsibility

for the fact that he had a loaded handgun near the end of a young gentleman who was not threatening him at that time left a lot of people wanting more and so there's a lot of pain in the community right now and a lot of zorro and that's also fomenting itself into anger and rage thank all the farmers acquittal has highlighted the problems and they don't as people facing canada the prime minister's offered his condolences to the family but a number of politicians and lawyers say that the country must do better for the minority group. i'm not going to comment on the process that led us to this point but i am going to say we have come to this point as a country far too many times and i know indigenous and non-indigenous canadians alike know that we have to do better. it's appropriate to show concern and support for the family of the victim but i think it is important that we remember that politicians don't decide these types of things. we need to let the many steps of an

independent judicial process unfold without political interference undermining the confidence of the judicial system by political leaders can never be condoned. facebook and google are at risk of losing one of the world's biggest advertisers if they fail to improve news transparency and tackle extremism on their platforms the consumer products giant unilever which makes some of the biggest brands in food and cleaning products made the threat at a tech conference on monday but the anglo dutch firm itself has been caught out in the past with its own misjudged marketing as daniel hawkins explained same news different day facebook is again in the firing line having faced pressure from governments and activists over failing to root out hate speech racism fake news divisive comments and whatnot this time it's global giant unilever leading the charge even threatening to reduce and withdraw advertising from the social media

platform if the things they don't improve. unilever will not invest in platforms or environments that do not protect our children or which create division in society consumers do care about fraudulent practice fake news and russians influencing the us election they do care when they see their brands being placed next to ads funding terror or exploiting children now the message is clear no more deception abuse and controversy and a new era of positivity unity and includes everybody but a closer look at unilever's own p.r. record reveals a contentious history from this infamous dove soap placed on facebook triggering a storm of accusations of racism to fair and lovely skin lightening products marketed across asia spawning allegations of perpetuating racist colonial stereotypes to control the seas with missile journey and sexism culminating in

a damning report on chauvinists that marketing. militarizing unilever has said it's now to change its ways it's released new adverts advocating inclusive ety it wants facebook to follow suit or else let's face it though you leave out probably won't drop one of its biggest advertising platforms money talks a story probably has generated some good p.r. the butyl uber as any company is primary responsibility is to make money or its shareholders to choose to turn a profit and sometimes g.r. initiatives like this are part of that there are just an effort to elevate your brand i think it would be difficult for them as a company that makes consumer products to avoid advertising and one of the most

prominent platforms today but what about the central back through the whole story. yes book the platform has shown commitment to the battle against fake news and abuse but the floodgates have now been truly opened on the pressure left right and center to moderate to censor to sanitize and seems to have buckled under the squeeze well it has made itself very vulnerable because it has made these promises and it's even done some things to try to filter misinformation out of its social network even though they have tried to do things it doesn't appear to be working we're going to see a lot of pressure increasing pressure on facebook at unilever things that could fix it by giving putting marketplace pressure on facebook i'm a little bit skeptical that that will actually work facebook is tackling an ever growing list of coles and ultimatums first from politicians and security services now it seems corporations that shipping into facebook spending to dumond's could

well backfire. u.s. homeland security department has pushed back against the network t.v. news report on russia's alleged role in the twenty sixteen presidential election calling it misleading the pot the pump and said that contrary to the impression given on n.b.c. there is no evidence russian hackers were able to alter any votes in washington his american. department of homeland security has discredited a n.b.c. news report claiming that russians hacked into voter registration rolls a prior to the election well in the statement she slammed n.b.c. for their irresponsible reporting saying that it undermines the ability of homeland security to do their jobs but man for also offered an assurance that the department of homeland security along with its state and local partners will continue to secure the nation's election systems but obviously this isn't the first instance of fake news regarding russia there have been rumors floating around that russia influenced the phrase it though and the u.s. has been accusing the kremlin of interfering in the twenty sixteen presidential

election for over a year and a half now now the british government's been busy trying to link russia to the braggs it folk but even you tube has gone on record saying that there's been no proof of that sort and across the pond the u.s. has been searching relentlessly for anything to pin hillary's loss on russia so this is just yet another russian interference and it successfully debunked but the u.s. establishment refuses to let go of this idea that russia supposedly hacked the election so i have to ask how many more times will this have to happen until they finally admit that there was no you know magical russian meddling we talked to us radio talk show host and political commentator dave perkins who says it's more evidence of a concerted media campaign against the president. what people fail to understand in the rest of the world i think even americans are just now beginning to fully understand it is that the media here are no longer about broadcasting or journalism or even making money the media's sole purpose as they play out every day on

television is to get rid of donald trump and what their problem has been with this russia collusion story so far is because obviously it isn't true there's no evidence for it and here this da just homeland security lady has said something that sounded like evidence of like testimony by an official that the russians did in fact interfere with the elections so what happened was in d.c. you have misquoted the wrong public official she had a spine and she stood up for herself and said that's not what i said so eighteen months and counting the russia trump investigation continues to be presented as a serious matter even though there's absolutely no evidence for it and in in my world when there's no evidence for something it means it didn't happen. democratic lawmakers cold for emergency meetings on alleged russian meddling that's on top of the three major investigations already underway in the united states. thinks the current administration is not doing enough to address the threat which is equivalent to quote bombs and bullets we want to protect us this is

a very severe threat and this is as much an attack on the united states as if there were bombs and bullets is an attack on our our essential governing structure i made the continuing out a geisha of trump russia ties one of the investigators on the senate intelligence committee has found himself embroiled in controversy as the details. in case you haven't noticed the democratic party is very worried about big bad russia russia organized the hacking of democratic political sites and state election systems were able to identify with a very high degree of confidence a group that we have attributed back to the russian government russian state actors broke into the d.n.c. stole these emails there is a watergate comparison here albeit this being perpetrated by a foreign government and the top democrat on the senate's russian investigation mark warner is no exception to the rule i'm concerned. but the president still does

not recognize the severity of the threat but apparently warner does and he will do anything necessary to battle moscow's reach based on leaked text messages between the senator and a second party it looks like when it comes to the russian threat the ends justifies any means and clued in attempting to carry out some collusion of your own several of the messages show warner trying to arrange a secret meet up with christopher steele the former spy behind the now infamous trump dossier we want to do this right private in london don't want to send a letter yet because if we can't get agreement would rather not have paper trail so who was warner depending on the set up the clandestine meeting with steele that would be one mr adam walton a lobbyist best known for acting on behalf of the russian tycoon did it and according to the tax wallman is also connected to julian asuncion another person accused of being a kremlin puppet now this is all way under the table warner repeatedly refused to make the invitation to speak to seal officially in writing while at the same time telling woman that the paris efforts would be helping america and apparently in his

mind the way to do that is to be in coos with the confidence of one of the richest men in russia and according to republican senator marco rubio the whole senate intelligence committee has known about the contacts for months so if neither the democrats nor the republicans care about warner's conduct is it just that collusion is a problem reserved for only one party or is the reality here that russia is just being used in a political game of chess political analyst steve malzberg says the revelations about war in his messages raise doubts over the impartiality of the trump russian investigation. warner said it one point we have to be careful of paraphrasing here i don't want a paper trail now if what he was doing was fine and dandy and innocuous and no big deal then why would he care if there was a paper trail he certainly should have or his staff should have known who he was communicating with who this lobbyist represented if you're going to talk to a lobbyist about getting

a one on one face to face with christopher steele then you should know who you're dealing with in trying to arrange that meeting the fix was in the ties are between the democrats and russia more so than anything trump ever had to do with russia but it just shows what hypocrites they are and the american media just ignores these things. an advisor to the polish president has come under fire for was some a calling anti israeli comment and he was defending a new law that prohibits statements about poland being responsible for the crimes of the nazi regime against the jews and supposed sentiments in israel comes from the feeling of shame and the passivity of the jews. the new law also makes it illegal to refer to nazi death camp situated in the country as a polish ones those violating that nor could face up to three years in jail and the presidential advisor went even further in defending the legislation. the religion

of the holy ghost has become a symbolic shield for their country which is used by israel to create for itself a special position in many places in the world many jews in gauged in denunciation collaboration during the war i think israel has still not worked through. more than three million jewish people lived in poland before the second world war most of them were killed during the conflict the auschwitz birkenau camp which was built in poland during the nazi occupation saw around one million jews lose their lives there newsweek magazine columnist mark shulman thinks the new law will influence poland's relations with some other e.u. member states the problem with the law is not so much the fact it says you can't say polish death camps but the fact the law says you cannot diminish the role of the nazis which means that if you say that the poles had some part of it you are violating the war and by all accounts while the nazis were the ones who were ninety percent responsible for the holocaust and what happened in poland clearly there were poles who were involved and really there are cases where the poles were part

of the part of the problem and so it's a real problem of course the question of freedom of speech as well freedom of people to study the holocaust to talk about the holocaust and not to mention the fact that thousands and thousands of israelis go every year to visit many of them high schoolers and the question is when their guides go to poland do they have to be afraid to speak their truth and speak of what went on in poland i think this will have an effect on poles relations with the western europe at this point it's part of a series of actions that the polish government has taken their member of the e.u. and yet they're testing the e.u. and its ability to accept a much more nationalistic government in poland. the labor party in the u.k. is facing claims of discrimination the party says that straight white men will not be allowed to attend the conference for equality which will be held next month for women people with disabilities and members of the l g b t community we have a social activist and campaign fundraiser for their thoughts. it's quite ironic

that a conference that's focusing on discriminated groups. has now the focus has now become about people who are. who are in a dominant position is that a lot of what has your males not only frustration you know why is it for males have got the lowest most underperforming in compulsory education and of the least represented in higher education but not only that it's more that they need for to hear what these people are facing and hear what the solutions to the problem are going to be so that they can help contribute themselves there's obviously a feeling amongst those with the lived experience that they need a space where they can discuss things that pertain to them and their demographic and then share with the world about how to make the world a better place the reason that discriminated groups are recognized as needing a space is because there is an imbalance there's an imbalance in politics if you look it's not representative the representative for your group should be voted for

by by your group white males should not be included in the. voting for example but it's about the discussions and all the things that are going to go on around the conference i think it's really important everybody to be included in and for everybody to be able to for. the league's editor julian assange and may find out soon whether his arrest warrant for breaching bail in the u.k. is to be cancelled the courts are expected to rule on the second part of his appeal later on tuesday hearing a week ago held up that warrant he's been holed up in the ecuadorian embassy in london for over five years after seeking asylum there and the suture looks at his fight for freedom. when one door closes another door opens but not for julian a songe holed up inside the ecuadorian embassy in london for years on end he has heard all after hurdle to overcome to walk a free man without being forced to look over his shoulder but the seemingly endless international saga could be about to turn a new page as

a judge in london continues to consider whether the arrest warrant against the weak you leaks founder could be dropped last week amidst a media frenzy it was decided that the suspension of an investigation into alleged crimes in sweden that first led to his arrest was not sufficient reason to drop the warrant but his sons and his defense team believe his freedom is long overdue new judgment on whether to lift the u.k. warrant for my arrest two issues one cover up by the u.k. government of its collusion to keep me to taint to already served over three times the max theoretical sentence even before seeking asylum the cover up of sondre first two is based on newly released confidential e-mails between prosecutors in sweden and the u.k. seen and reported on by the u.k.'s guardian newspaper swedish investigators who ended their inquiries into sexual assault allegations against the weak you leaks founder last year reportedly wanted to do so much earlier only to be told by the

british side to hold on as costs shouldn't be an issue and that the case should not be treated as just another extradition the latter has always been a songes biggest fear he believes the united states want him for scaring the us revelations weiqi leaks published about their activities around the world this case isn't has always been about the risk of extradition chain united states and that risk remains real he needs an issuance and he will not be extra to the united states to face prosecution and those are assurances that won't come from inside a courtroom what happens there is significant in terms of potentially opening legal doors one by one but the end game is much trickier than that because it's why. happens even if a songe walks out these doors that's going to decide his future in the long run and if that's what you're going to r.t. . this all stems back to twenty ten of course when sweden launched a sexual assault case against julian assange in june twenty twelve the wiki leaks editor and to the ecuadorian embassy and asked for asylum a day later the u.k.

court issued an arrest warrant for breaching bail conditions last year though so we can drop the case against him so the u.k. to west warrant is the least is the last legal challenge that prevents a song from leaving the embassy when i would happens we'll let you know about it that's the way the world looks this hour thanks for watching i'll be back to update you in half an hour r.t. dot coms got you covered over. lexington in the central east of the united states it is within this city with a population of three hundred thousand at the university of kentucky can be found. it is barely nine in the morning david and brandon two first year students are in

the middle of a video game. jewel as a warm up before the first match of the season for their universities american football team the wildcats are going to drink a beer before you can start the race so you're waiting to hear cheers or one of. these students have found themselves a great way of supporting their team since breakfast is into. a large supply of strawberry banana flavored vodka david and brandon down four shots in less than two minutes on empty stomachs. because good. for these students university sports events are a great chance to get away from the pressure of their studies but also a particularly good opportunity to party and drink. more than your grandson isn't twenty one years old yet the legal age for drinking alcohol in the

usa. but on campus circumventing the law has become a national sport. rather on the way to the stadium they get the ski again. competition has started. in the streets of lexington the behavior of these young men doesn't seem to shock anyone you go there. and these students even walk along with a bottle of vodka and there had however as is the case on many other american campuses alcohol is legal here the cops don't care that is there was a default down for you to hear a gold digger as you want as long as you can spare. the gold rush or somebody on university man. stays anything goes or almost anything. just outside the stadium the traditional parade has started. led

by kerry their leader the cheerleaders galvanized the crowd. heave a triumphant parade announces the arrival of the uncontested stars of the campus. around fifty students football players accompanied by their team of staff. all eyes are on this group of players good enough to play for the big professional team. in the usa the love of university schools goes much further than the campus borders. in the stadium parking lot many supporters tents have been set up. fans of all ages from all over kentucky support the wildcats. to feel the. beginning of what we will bring. to. the fans are very loyal and also very generous. tickets sales related merchandise supported donations last year the football team voted more than thirty

million dollars for the university a cash machine which contributes to its fate. inside the stadium the great event of the sports business has begun. the brass band on the cheerleaders provided a great show. for the play it's a rifle. that cheered on by a crowd of sixty thousand supporters. twenty two year old frenchman tom giambi has a front row seat. but it's a touchdown mr almost a tester. tom. a top level tennis player recruited by the university to defend their colors. while. it was being. done. the frenchman was awarded

a sports scholarship which allows him to study for free today's his moment of glory . another attainable treat for the majority of students because behind all the show and bitter american universities hired a reality that is very different. columbia dartmouth new york university american universities are among the best in the world renowned for their teaching their sports establishment but also for campus life. and party. studying here can cost up to eighty thousand dollars a year so when students don't receive scholarships like tom they take on a debt in order to finance their studies. thirty two thousand. two hundred

twenty seven. to get by financially some female students like it don't hesitate to look for support. first two hundred dollars. a site openly matches of generous donors with indebted students and so the controversy breaks out. if you are a prostitute and you are a mit educated person. on campus the pressure to succeed is so high that american students overindulge binge drinking to let their hair down. but also taking amphetamine derivatives to boost their academic results there's a real trafficking of substances going on. the fraternities are symbol of prestige in american universities they attract students who want to be part of the elite. to join these influential and secret societies some are willing to be put through all sorts of humiliation we would get points for vomiting on each other.

diving into the heart of american campuses where the obsession to success justifies all manner of extremes. lexington is the second largest city in the state of kentucky. over the last three years tom giambi has become one of the local tennis teams mainstays and thanks to this he lives in this residence with the swimming pool free of charge so some of the locals who. argue. the lexington campus holds more than twenty eight thousand students cost of studies up to twenty thousand dollars per year. but even so the tennis player doesn't pay a penny it gets better in order to enable him to succeed on the tennis court the university adapts to his sport schedule. while here you interrupt your active directory the password for thomas and his final year of communication studies

now with the many matches he has scheduled for the season he will often be absent with such students the university asked that the teachers are flexible. enough just because they're. all right it's for the spirit official university sponsored event yet that's not a problem so teachers have to be accommodating was students like tom yeah we have to be able to work with work with them in their schedule we can do that. because at lexington the campus lends itself to sport and the olympic size swimming for a climbing wall of running track the city is also home to the largest basketball. in america. to attract the best athletes the university lays out its bad copy it. almost twelve million dollars of scholarship money is shared out every year. but the schedules of the school students are not restful in the slightest. most

students are still sleeping with thomas back at the changing. of. the world. with a new university term new supplies await him in his. business. georgia to. those who to retrieve my. gifts bearing the acronym of a big sports equipment brand the university's official sponsor. more than is. going to argue for the for your. doing this it is. tom and his eleven team members trained on average for food.