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has that revealed any evidence as to the location of its production all the identity of its perpetrators hundreds of officers as you would expect continued to work around gathering evidence to identify those responsible we're not declaring a person of interest or a suspect at this time. how does committing a heinous act on foreign soil on the eve of a presidential election and months before the much discussed world cup knowing the diplomatic fallout benefit the kremlin you have to ask one thing if russia wanted to kill this man they could have killed him when he was a prisoner in russia why have they waited this long and why use a chemical weapon that makes it definitely is so russia is behind this very odd to think that the president of russia is sitting in his office deciding who to kill someone who is no threat in that basically now retired in britain i would guess that mr putin has got more important things to do than that but the reason maine
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says russia has been given a chance to disprove its guilt until proven innocent despite many unanswered questions the mass expulsion of diplomats the freeze on the high level talks tit for tat action approaching means the diplomatic damage has already been done and it's too late to undo. russia is being blamed for the alleged poisoning though the investigation is still ongoing let's take a brief look at the so-called evidence behind the accusations now. i'm afraid the evidence is overwhelming that it is russia and that's something by the way in the kind of smog sarcastic response that we've heard from the russians took to me indicates a fundamental. france britain's
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assessment that there is no other plausible explanation and reiterate its solidarity with its ally. this is not an isolated incident russia failed to ensure syria destroyed its chemical weapons program. good track and sore spirit has taken place against the backdrop of a reckless problem of russian behavior. over many years. next a smaller well known ukrainian pain is accusing top tier of officials of being involved in a shooting massacre that took place during the twenty fourteen minute an uprising events that of course led to the overthrow of the country's government at the time now after a. public with latest incendiary claims she was in turn then accused of plotting
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a terror attack on ukraine's parliament building so let's bring up a face you may remember is a former helicopter navigator who was sentenced to twenty three years in jail here in russia after being found complicit in the murder of two russian journalists in eastern ukraine at the time she was later pardoned and then exchanged for prisoners of war. furthermore then was initially hailed as a hero in ukraine when she first return from russia before then facing increasing criticism so the latest twists and turns covered with nicky aaron discussing it in the studio with. stories had so many twists and turns and this is yet another one yes. well basically ukraine's general prosecutor has asked and called for her immunity to be stripped in order to arrest and the reason for that is that they claim that she is behind organizing a terror plot her intentions apparently were to blow up parliament using grenades. now this call immunity happened after she spoke out at
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a press conference and she made some very bold accusations indeed according to her she's claiming that a number of m.p.'s ukrainian m.p.'s were responsible for organizing sniper fire at both sides of the crowds about means the authorities and the protesters at the twenty fourteen mass protests and those protests of course with the trigger of the government being overthrown so that's what she's saying a little bit of a situation let's have a listen to what she said. i said that i saw a van people with weapons were coming out of people who are in parliament people who give orders who committed crimes who are always look for a scapegoat the prosecutor general needed to become the prosecutor so that he's crimes against the ukrainian people are never investigated these are extraordinary accusations are very bold words indeed and a complete u. turn of course she's gone from hero to enemy of the state we can take
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me she's a hero and for ukrainians her release will only reinforce that. she was previously accused of being complicit in the killing of two russian journalists and served time there and she was also part of a prisoner of war swap and during that swap actually she was met by president partially has south. and she has enjoyed a very successful political career but she doesn't have that support now what is interesting is that her whole story has commanded the north for a lot of international media attention but will this new turn attract as much attention as she has had in the past. donald trump slow to speak to the military in the u.s. has stood the imagination of so far as we can report news announced a new frontier for america outer space the special space force to go with it but as i'm isha sesay explains next well somewhat of a field day with the jokes on the internet from others there was
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a warning of the dangers of space militarization the army navy and air forces aren't enough in the battle for world dominance it's time for new developments and donald trump isn't short of ideas space is a war fighting me just like the air and sea. we may even have a space force develop another one space force the air force one of the space corps we have the army the navy trans comments have captured the imagination of twisties as with many wondering whether help become the guardian of the galaxy or will he be training in all me of power ranges all storm trip is ready to file a says at any extraterrestrial threats. and even some of the president's general seem to be a list same page or planet there is no war in space just as there is no war in
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cyberspace there is only war and war can extend into any demain not a new idea has been proposed many times in the past and it's always been rejected by the do something that people have been promoting again recently i think i would be a very negative move actually because it would create a constituency whose natural interest then it is used to further the weaponization of space and create a greater danger of actual war in space but not all the way both the us defense and as for secretaries have labeled the space plan as a necessary prayer critic and costly and the house in fact spin a space command's for if they say yes is part of the u.s. air force and carries out intelligence operations and make sure space isn't militarized then there's also the nine hundred sixty seven outer space treaty no small obstacle to any american ambitions to put weapons in orbit it was created to stop the set of military bases and out of space and address other cosmic concerns
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well they're the u.s. has previously blocked or abstained from the un effets to regulate space weapons. since at least the past twenty years of not young the united states has had no interest in any discussion of space arms control so although it's hard to tell how sincere trump is at this point one thing is for sure chung feels the force is with him. she was the u.s. central command has admitted it doesn't know how resources it gives to the saudi led coalition of being then or would used in the conflict with yemen. does sit com track the purpose of the missions that it is refueling what targets it strikes and
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the results of that mission senator we do not ok reuters recently reported on a saudi coalition air strike in late february that killed five civilians is said can able to tell whether a u.s. fuel or u.s. munitions were used as part of that strike. center and i don't believe we are ok some more on this last month a group of u.s. senators introduced a joint resolution on yemen it aims to limit the president's power basically to wage war without north reservation from congress and to cut america's support for saudi arabia disentangling it from the saudi involvement in the yemeni civil war now the vote on the resolution is yet to be held in twenty seventeen the u.s. and saudi arabia sounded arms deal with almost one hundred ten billion dollars it's been described as one of the largest arms sales in american history meantime check out these pictures of the aftermath of the saudi led coalition's latest airstrikes
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this is you can see was in an airport a dozen air raids have been carried out against this airport destroying most of the planes that's just a tiny snapshot what's going on the war broke out in yemen three years ago with the saudi led coalition bombing campaign against bootheel rebels that has claimed thousands of civilian lives and caused untold destruction the u.s. describes the situation in fact as the worst manmade humanitarian crisis in modern history as caroms director of veritas center for strategic studies he shared with me his thoughts on the matter. doesn't know where the arms go that's a little funny if they're saying there were really don't know. beyond lying from your teeth if there was any moral it in this war this war would have ended about two and a half years ago. but there is no moral responsibility everything is about the dollar the people who profit the most from this are going. to
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cover this up and let it happen. and try you know and try to sell a different story to the rest of the world but the actual reality is that this is the largest manmade disaster in the world. just two days left till the russian presidential election those candidates still trying to win over voters at the last minute and they're doing the rounds of course as you'd expect on nationwide t.v. debates and one such discussion wednesday made all the headlines for all the wrong reasons it descended into a pretty much ill tempered slugging match. i would have put in them and you bought it from annoy yeah by disputing your nitish to make it work but i am. absolutely and i think that says me every chance to feel like they're actually in this you tube so much you're just
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yeah it was even my does it feel like i mean you are usually in the actually yeah i was really going to give you the do you. feel you were getting you know you. got a short you. know the color of the same exact you know you have so. much money because your chances. pretty rushes of you know the old well it's just a snapshot of it as well as the candidates were also meeting voters from across russia as well and that's come a couple of days including getting to the pub. please
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. get the feel of my body give them a fair treatment which will give it to me at least some of you get on with some of what's the. name should be mainly it is i'm walking near the wall for you try to keep me in the me just as from a lobbyist even looking up the law as you know the law school those were just such excitement i was there for the. whole yeah you're just what i was. i the only mostly deal with you if you really are still
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terrible it's up to the field our police service to get them there's nobody doing the dragons to work with us but this feeder some muslims in the muslims or the purple scotch or the specifics of how to put it quite see if it actually scared us cuz afraid so probably emphasize about the loose interest of the so i had to go until. i got all cynical and i would have the stories in the news that mean you must feel so good last present that what looked awesome but i started seeing precious things that concluded in some. way would be should know how for some it will come up with no motion for the world on the other it's easy to assume it's a good one stood at the outside just missed the mouse just enough the silk. the other look from the bottom of the spur from useful is what i'm not but it's the most honest people to have put on the solution of my style and now. the runs ahead of us are still a little. higher by the spill from the. most
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liberal sit down. mr. little this little. over the coming hours next couple of days we'll continue profiling all the presidential election candidates who are not international and just a quick plug as well from saturday night because special election coverage going to the three days around may call in nikki and we'll all be that down there of a lot of coverage for you given all the election results and more reaction to it as well. internet giant google's landed a major blow against because we can reveal after it was announced adverts for the cryptocurrency will be removed from its platforms because valuation hit a low for march on thursday trading at under eight thousand dollars for an eleven percent drop in twenty four hours well here's how google explain this band now that we don't have a crystal ball to know where the future is going to go with cryptic currencies
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who's seen enough consumer harm or potential for consumer harm they did scenario they want to approach with extreme caution google's plan will come into effect in june and it follows a similar move indeed by facebook early this year the social media platform still allow some financial base adverts but trip to currencies are strictly off limits bitcoin now faces being cut off from two of the world's biggest advertising sellers then but whether that's going to hold crypto mania is up for debate as stories like these keep reeling in new investors. chris saying still thousand dollars into bitcoin in twenty thirteen years now turned it into twenty million dollars i turned three hundred fifty dollars into twelve thousand he says that twelve thousand turned a six figures in a year he became a millionaire at twenty four but be ware as ever there's a flip side to these things the crypto currency has been implicated in scams and that's perhaps why google and facebook are concerned earlier i spoke to financial
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commentator charlie boy and he says the real reason for opposition to big corn though is that it threatens the financial status quo i think it's a bit of a p.r. exercise going on. you know a lot of financial services companies are across the world and point sales particular on credit cards so. so there may well be a bit of pressure from the u.s. government because pick corn of course is a real threat to the existing financial system conversation that hasn't really been how the government regulatory level which is regulation and education big corners here to stay in cryptocurrency are here to stay big banks are saying it's a bubble but the same time they're investing in some of them. not because and in particular so we need to find a way of cryptocurrency fitting into the existing payment system for fear of currencies and also to educate the public bitcoin is not a speculative currency it's supposed to be a replacement for the existing payment system so you can't be in it for the short
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term because of these bubbles and also the speculators are adding to the bubble but once the regulators around the world realize that it is here to stay and one way or another has to fit into the existing system that sort of thing is going to continue and it's like the internet it's it's very difficult to stop especially across borders so we have to find a solution and we have to educate people a conundrum and thanks for watching this program on who's kevin over here in moscow without international saying goodbye overnight back in the same times tomorrow depending where you're watching around the world shown here in r.t. international you've got your own programs in america right after this break. on. the a.
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new model not new google in. the firing of the. excel or senate the state department surprised you tillerson was often described as bland and on numerous occasions out of step with his boss donald trump the nomination of my comp a.o. to replace him is anything but planned. combination of. very artful policy. where he's established with great relationship with food and they and american mistakes i think in dealing with russia and with this relationship between russia and china to become quite quite a lot can be quite thick and would be quite difficult to undermine.
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because a report to show that goes where no show as ever gone before where exactly that is we are still trying to figure that out station hi max so you know you do a double header with michael hudson dr michael hudson that was in our last episode and he's in the second episode second half of this episode today so i have the privilege of actually seeing what he has to say and it's very fascinating you really have to tune in for the second half with dr michael hudson because he's looking at finance capitalism and international free trade so-called free trade and it's quite interesting because he talks about the high cost of living and the low
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wages and that's certainly something we see in america as more and more people and in the u.k. which is even more and france and spain this notion of the precariat a precarious jobs and the indignados you know all these sort of sort of temporary temporary sort of stable jobs so you're a good worker at the gig economy you know or things like that but. another way out of their ghetto of these good jobs is to become a you tube star so i have this interesting story about you tube success on you tube still means a life of poverty you can have a million views a month and still not be able to make rent new research out of germany billed as among the first to review the chances of making it in the new hollywood shows a vanishingly small number will ever break through just like in the old hollywood in fact ninety six point five percent of all of those trying to become you tubers
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won't make enough money off of advertising to crack the u.s. poverty line according to research by matt bartle a professor at often berg university of applies sciences and often berg even to get to the top one percent of the you tube stars the top three percent sorry you need one point two or four million views per month on your tubes but you're still making less than the minimum wage less than poverty wages in america you know back in the nineteen seventy's early early one nine hundred sixty s. used to visit with my family times square you know we'd go into new york and go into new york to go to times square for example in at that time you could see the dancing chicken so you put the five cent piece into the machine there and out comes a dancing chicken a chicken that's on a plate an electric plate that's
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a lecture and so the chicken is being slowly electrocuted to death it was a real chicken yes indeed. i don't know that so it's like a big glass box in times square and you went and put a quarter in and they forced a chicken out on to the kitchen comes out on an electric gets electrocuted essentially. now this is you tube. you have millions of want to. the dancing chickens come out. hopefully they'll get a like early tweet but they're socially they're narcissistically narcissus narcissism living in themselves to death it's death by narcissism well according to this article breaking into the top three percent of most few channels could bring in advertising revenue of about sixteen thousand eight hundred dollars a year bartle found in an analysis for bloomberg news that's a bit more than the us federal poverty line of twelve thousand one hundred forty
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for a single person that guideline for a two person household is sixteen thousand four hundred sixty the top three percent of video creators of all time and bartle sample attracted more than one point four million views per month now the problem with this is that a lot of people are setting their basically hopes out of the gig economy gadow on becoming one of these new hollywood celebrities so one in three british children age six to seventeen told pollsters last year that they wanted to become a full time you tube where there's three times as many as those who wanted to become a doctor or a nurse so one in three british children wants to become a you tube star over this is a total breakdown in the institutions that would make a normally functioning society where you have doctors and lawyers and theologians and other professions in careers that make up in dynamic ecosystem of culture
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we have that all been eviscerated by the financialization of the economy starting back under the reagan factor years where everything was commodified secure and traded and backed and secured and goldman sachs five and fan pyar squid have fide and now we have a whole generation that's just looking to expose themselves to death they want to be out there as exhibitionists as a freak show they. be the long haired lady or the snake swallowing boy or any number of freaks remember the movie free they have the famous line in there one of us one of us one of us which is a great. the great siren song of u two is they want you to become a freak they want to get your inner freak out freak the next spring so they can of course take all that money to the bank well the other problem is of course the
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monopolization by you tube of online video content viewing so they control the market and they feed people more and more into the top one percent of of you tube stars so that basically they guide people where they go and you see that in the charts that the article shows is that over the years the number of big stars any any content creator making more than a million views a month that's actually declining because it's being monopolized by fewer and fewer content creators and the other thing of course is that you tube is now basically because of because hillary lost to a reality t.v. star and it's as humiliating as any circus freak show in p.t. barnum's going to advance and she lost. she did and because of that she's
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a woman scorned and the whole the entire edifice of our society and infrastructure of our economy around us must be destroyed and you tube is withdrawing ads from not only our at the for example but from a lot of alternative media yes the likes of alex jones but also the likes of truthdig and alternative progressive media a lot of them are being. monetized so we've seen that with the with the more free and sort of characters say like luke rick ouzinkie even though they get one hundred thousands of views they they were deemed monetized for while nobody cared. listened and now they're coming for the bigger bigger names and soon you'll only be able to watch one dance and second what we saw the same thing with the network television network and the public airwaves and the spectrum of elbel
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telecommunications that were available to all kinds of commercial enterprises and the public and we had public access television and we had all kinds of shows that were in the public interest and news was done in the public interest on the commercial interest and then you had this gradually transform into a purely public vehicle where the news was essentially squeezed out in favor of of kind of rabid foaming at the mouth polemicists like rachel maddow and you have no actual kind of news as that word is to be understood now the same thing then in the you tube was launched and you had a democratization of media and people kind out there they did their own shows it was quite rich and quite diverse and quite interesting but of course as the numbers got huge then you google's that went down the same path as network television as they were going to squeeze out all the independents we want to just promote a set number that we we make the money on because even though the internet is something that was publicly built it came out of the darpa came out of the military
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came out of taxes without taxes without the u.s. government without the military there would be no you tube there would be no internet and yet there payback for this free ride this rent seeking is to squeeze out all the diversity and give us dancing chickens which lead to a dancing chicken president so don't look at overseas as the problem to your dancing chicken president look at you tube you get the media consolidation look at les moonves at c.b.s. there's your dancing chicken president don't blame foreigners for your loss you for it and it is it's so not only did little max keiser get to see these dancing chickens in times square but you also got to see ugly george who was an important character on public access television yes george was and the robin bird was also another public access hit these were i made my own t.v. show in the one nine hundred seventy s. called the king kaiser show you can see portions of that on the you tube we have yet to release the full catalog of the king kaiser show.
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