many iraqis can hear me tonight in a translated radio broadcast and i have a message for them to the tyrant will soon be gone. the day of your liberation is near. live look look. look look look look look look look look look look look tonight i am announcing that the american combat mission in iraq has and. little touch it looks like. it will take time to eradicate cancer like i said we will conduct

a systematic campaign of airstrikes against these terrorists. look look look what's concerning his people the poppy crop halls fire those in that city people of mosul are the ones who get our humanitarian assistance. one of the dock is pages in the wall with the exposure of the torture of iraqi detainees at abu ghraib prison and the jail was originally used by saddam hussein for political prisoners but off of the u.s. invasion in two thousand and three it became

a military prison for thousands of captured iraqis many of the iraqis suffered torture sexual abuse and humiliation the horrific images of soldiers posing next to torment and prisoners shocked the world when they were released leading to the convictions of eleven american soldiers the story received a massive public outcry and america. has spoken to abu ghraib prison has described their ordeal i should warn you you may find the following images disturbing. we'll know in march when they americans arrived with their tanks we thought they would read us of the harsh regime everyone would have their own house and car just like in the wealthy arab countries or in the west but it turned out to be the opposite. they would hang a prisoner on the metal door of the cell and subject them to electrocution or you're a nation they would stick a rifle into a sense to various or they would use

a broken broomstick causing internal bleeding prisoners would need surgery and. after i was released whenever i saw americans on the street i would be terrified they would send me back to that place and torture me again it still keeps me up at night remembering the torture and they hear the screams. and yet i still have nightmares and suffer physical and mental pain as if it all happened yesterday i worked night and day to try to forget it what we went through and what happened to iraq was a terrible crime it broke us even now i can't get inside a bafta because it makes me think of waterboarding. the time i spend in that prison helped like a lifetime an hour of that pain humiliation and justice stays with you

forever. one iraqi m.p. told us they first welcomed the toppling of saddam hussein but then the invasion brought one catastrophe after another it's a mixture of feeling. feeling of happiness and joy. because that invasion removed saddam hussein from power. and the people. put it on the other hand. what followed after the removal of the regime as a disaster after disaster. because the american invasion immediately created. an absolute vacuum. and the security in the economy and in politics in iraq.

and. times for the country from absolute dictatorship to. freedom without limits. freedom without responsibilities. the u.k. is seeking a warrant to search the servers of data mining for cambridge analytical accused of helping donald trump to win the presidency the data of some fifty million facebook users was allegedly used to predict the choices of american voters facebook claims its information was used illegally what some are already calling the largest data leak in the social media giants history. think back to the last personality quiz you completed on facebook what if i told you that data was allegedly sold to help trump win the presidential election it may seem a bit farfetched but that's exactly why u.k.

data analytics company is in trouble with facebook in two thousand and fifteen we learned that a psychology professor at the university of cambridge named dr alexander kogan lied to us violated our platform policies by passing data from an app that was using facebook logon to s e o king which analytical the firm that does political government and military work around the globe facebook is now under scrutiny trying to explain how the data fifty million of its users was harvested by a trumped links analytics company and what appears to be the largest data leak in the social networks history and in fact one cambridge university professor created a facebook personality app and then simply passed all the info quiet from its users to the third party the third party is the cambridge analyst company which many in the media suspects played at least a part in trouble success once facebook realized it violated their terms they wanted all the data to be destroyed it led both companies to a data feud which of course has the potential to become

a lengthy legal battle but according to n.s.a. whistleblower edward snowden facebook is really a surveillance company in sheep's clothing businesses that make money by collecting and selling detail records of private lives but once plainly described as surveillance companies rebranding us social media is the most successful deception since the bombing of war became the defense according to twitter more and more users seem to be clued up on data terms and conditions found on social media platforms. for the love of god everyone talking about facebook can bridge before you come in please learn how targeting works and that it's come in place it looks like data might have been leaked but it looks a billion times worse if you don't understand how data targeting works i don't know about everyone else but the people i know don't blindly trust facebook with information their data was leaked and used against the whole nation you know they

continue to refuse to protect the data their time is limited if i understood this correctly facebook has access to loads of personal data gives third parties access to the states and where the states are is abuse the major problem is that these facts were leaked shooting the messenger does not solve the problem so it should be no surprise to learn that when you next complete a quiz all pollen facebook them might be an all terry motive behind it we have play ball headlines coming your way here on r.t. international the program continues in just about. what politicians do something to. put themselves on the line to get accepted or rejected. so you want to be president. for something wanted. to do and. it's like. three more people. interested.

american men won. the second ratio alagiri men. anyone can succeed in america who works hard so this is a whole group of people all generation in america that there is no melting pot we're not being assimilated there's no opportunities we can't live up so their response essentially is to go into conflict and this is a major. joining us here on our t.v. today a government raid on

a secret service headquarters on the suspension of its chief political uproar in austria austria's new right wing government suspects the country's intelligence agency of holding data illegally and alleges corruption by the group's chief interior minister but describes the intelligence chief suspension as unavoidable. as you know we have taken legal action the christians from. the prosecutor in this case i can tell you that effective immediately. suspended easy to direct. opposition social democrats claim that the probe is politically motivated and insists the government just wanted to seize data on quote right extremists and now threatening an inquiry into the ruling party's actions it's a hundred days to cause doubts among the austrian people over the security forces

your actions intimidated those officials who are supposed to foot the extreme rule it is the signal that the scene. we addressed the opposition's concerns to ruling party m.p. johan who had none. prosecution asked for this rate which was not actually a raid but it was a search there was a pending criminal investigation against some members of the b.b. t. the b.b.c. the very sensible institution and police because it is the so-called bureau for to protect the constitution and to fight against terrorism that's what the abbreviations that stands for if the head of this group of this bureau is under investigation it's clear that the minister has no other choice but to suspend him for the time being because such a bureau was such a sensible task be run by someone who is under criminal investigation himself.

this search was done and as it was a sensible subject to search for a unit which has absolutely nothing to do with crime against the state this was the g.s. that is the group for the fight against street crime and this group is headed by a man close to the freedom party which makes the saying now. easily to sell is a big thing they will only to help the prosecution in case they met resistance or the people did not cooperate so they actually didn't do the rate they were just asked by the investigators by the criminal investigators to assist. all information i got is absolutely untrue and unfounded so it was no raid to seize dot on the have to do with extremist investigation all the data remained in place if they took copies of these daughters i'm not aware of i don't know but the fact

is that no file was written removed and in no way investigation against certain persons was inhibits it or stopped or something like that so this is all the rumor that made around it to. construct a big story as you have seen today the problem and even had a special session dedicated to this matter this is of course something the social democratic party the main opposition parties tries to exploit. to france now that the probe into former president sarkozy's electoral finances has taken a dramatic twist the local media now reporting this sarkozy has been detained by police he's being interrogated over funds allegedly received from libya for french is two thousand and seven presidential races and suggested he got more than fifteen million dollars sarkozy won the campaign became president four years later he led the nato bombing of libya that brought to an end the regime of moammar gadhafi.

well a brother unflattering new to caricature of donald trump is said to be published on the front page of the new yorker magazine it's divided opinion with critics of the president claiming it sums up how the emperor has no clothes the as they put it but supporters fume that it's a highly inappropriate portrayal from the liberal media the covers created barry blitt defended his image quoting legendary musician bob dylan's line that quote even the president must sometimes stand naked or people on the streets of new york are somewhat divided about the caricature you know the one that they chose is very and. the freedom of speech is very important in the united states. the new yorker has the right to publish the. i don't think. i think the country has gone too far in making fun of everything in it actually distract from the issue.

that he doesn't like the president like a child who would look like that but some see the allusion to trump's weight as insulting especially as just two months ago the magazine itself said it was wrong to fat shame the president a political cartoonist and columnist ted rall things this misses the point. what's going on here is sort of a clash between the way most people look at editorial illustrations and cartoons and the sort of old fashioned approach of the new yorker which is kind of using old chestnuts and cliches that most readers might not be able to relate to anymore in this case the cover illustration has to be very soon should be very simple easy to understand i think the way he drew put trump as sort of overweight and bloated is not probably a comment intentional comment on trump's fizzy poor his physicality or the fact that he's overweight or trying to body shame him i think probably what they were

just trying to go for something very simple which is just the emperor has no clothes trump is the emperor look at him it's kind of different when it's the president of the united states you know they say that satirist should only punch up not down well when you punch the president of the united states you're printing you're punching up no matter who you are so i think he's certainly fair game there's no question about that it's been a pleasure having you with us for the program on this tuesday here want to see international my colleague andrew fama here in half an hour's time with more a few worldwide headlines. for a world cup twenty eight team coverage and we've signed one of the greatest gilkey visible to us but there was one more question by the way was going to be our coach . guys i know you are nervous he's

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this is boom bust broadcasting around the world from washington d c i'm bart chilton and coming up the pentagon wants to tap silicon valley to assist with artificial intelligence ai will discuss with todd shipley a virus software plus today just recently u.s. president donald trump announced that there are new sanctions against venezuela's pledging petro crypto currency which was envisioned to assist and stabilize the economy of the latin american nation we have a future and currency experts raji horner what it means as we look at global oil and before we go the german delivery service d.h.l. is set to make a major move in same day delivery in the united states will they do

a delivery right all that coming up but first let's get some headlines. russian president vladimir putin has won an impressive reelection victory to his fourth six year term with over seventy percent of the boat while the russian economy has not been as strong as in previous years mr putin is credited with increasing living standards for russians during his eighteen years in office the victory comes as mr putin is facing increased tensions with western leaders. and breck's at news the european union and the u.k. have reached a conditional agreement on a twenty one month transition period after great britain and britain officially withdraws from the process during that phase the u.k. will have to follow all e.u. laws but will lose any role in policy and legislation negotiators also reach terms on the rights of four million e.u. citizens currently living in the group in great britain but resolution has not been reached on some of the toughest issues including the status of the border with northern ireland negotiators are anxious to find

a solution to brics it does not require the creation of a hard border between the republic of ireland and northern ireland which still officially is part of the u.k. removal of checkpoints on that border were a important part of the good friday peace agreement from one nine hundred ninety eight. and last time we met here at the headlines we reported on the proposed european union digital tax on technology firms like google facebook apple yahoo and some others well the u.s. . treasury steve i'm a new chin says the tax which would prominently punish u.s. companies is in retaliation to the trumpet ministrations plan to impose a twenty five percent tariff on steel and a ten percent tariff on aluminum the e.u. is also listed nearly two hundred u.s. products representing roughly two point eight billion dollars of u.s. exports that would be candidates for increased e.u. duties should the e.u. fail to secure an exemption from those u.s.

steel and aluminum tariffs for those who could tell that there is no trade war this news proves otherwise. finance ministers and central bankers from the g. twenty group of nations kicked off a meeting today in buenos aires argentina the leaders will race through an agenda full of tough issues including those issues related to those tariffs we just spoke about german chancellor angela merkel and chinese president xi jinping reported but planned to use the summit to push a multilateral response to level out global overproduction of steel germany is also working with host nation argentina on a resolution that reaffirms the importance of quote the rules based international trading system while not directly criticizing mr trump the issue of crypto currency is why also be discussed by the policy makers ahead of the meeting the brazilian central bank told forbes that quote all of us are in favor of the technologies however as in the past the g twenty is expected to take a leadership role in establishing general parameters for financial reforms and may

do so with regard to crypto currency. the former south african president jacob zuma is now facing some seven hundred eighty counts of corruption fraud racketeering and money laundering just weeks after he's resigned some of the charges date back to as long as two thousand and five the arms deal involving b.a. systems based in the u.k. and sub based in switzerland mr zuma has denied any wrongdoing. i. can hear discussed sanctions that the president has placed on argentina and he's what he's done is he has actually put a ban on the petro the petro is the crypto currency used for several things it's including gold oil and diamonds and it's based it was supposedly going to help the argentinean economy grow out of the sanctions of the u.k. u.s.

placed on earlier and away to join us now the currency and futures expert from simpler trading is rajeev horner well she thanks for joining us what do you make of the late breaking news on the sanctions thanks for having me on to be here these very way then as well and petros cryptocurrency story is an interesting one because it was it it's a fascinating way that mature us trying to backdoor the cross border transactions that he knows would not be allowed under the current sanctions but it opens the door up to what russia and iran might do in response. right now you know they've also talked about doing crypto currency but does this say something about crypto currencies i guess i know you're really an oil person so i don't want to get too far afield but i mean the president has not done anything else with regard to cryptocurrency is but this twenty felt like he needed to do does that mean that he

thinks that perhaps the existing u.s. sanctions that this cryptocurrency was going to be a way around them. this is the first time these acts to banda crypt so i think in that regard it's probably more interesting than other crypto news at the moment especially because i'm sitting down underneath you know eighty five hundred so i believe this is really an attempt to do a couple things a lot of people are already expecting venezuelan oil to be off production anywhere and in iran for that matter to which is going to impact the monthly supply of about one to one half million barrels per day so the impact is pretty significant and the crypto story works into this because you know as well it was actually able to raise approximately seven hundred fifty million dollars and their ambitions were for a full six billion and this is going to derail that completely if the u.s. isn't on board it's really going to sweep the legs out from under my door with this move great response and i'm and i'm told i said argentina earlier but you help

correct me you know one thing that strikes me is the script those less critical questions promise the script those really do seem to be looking for something that's based upon something real you can touch and feel whether or not it's the petrol whether or not it's with regard to gold and diamonds or oil or or anything else wheat or sugar generally seen as a move that way but let's stick with your forte and my super interest in many around the people run the world who pay for gas and oil and that oil so what do you make of the recent circumstance i wrote an opinion editorial not too long ago that i said there was a lot of optimism about oil and i cited the international energy agency figures and some of the u.s. energy information agency figures which talk about supply and demand perhaps being rebalance what do you make of that and do we see prices you see prices going higher given the data. absolutely you're one hundred percent on track i mean if you

look at the seasonal tendencies where between mid february to june or july we have the typical climate for the driving season that's already well underway with another sixty to ninety days behind that but i thought always look at new news versus old news true news so if you have true and new news and that is right now what we're getting with the demand story and the production supply so the venezuelan story is absolutely part of the narrative you're out you know to tie that in is so a political because at the moment we have a lot of potential you know millions of barrels per month coming off line and you look at the way they're the opec markets between iran and saudis the opec cartel is going to be duking it out as to where the fairway for crude should be all of this injects a lot of uncertainty that's going to be the volatility that's going to be the higher prices and i absolutely agree where we're looking at the i think what will be a next leg up in crude oil the trick will be who's going to want to limit prices below

seventy and that's likely to be iran. where i want to get into that but i you said something that made me curious we talked about the volatility some of the uncertainty and there's a graph i don't know if you can see it if you've looked at it earlier but it was released with the opec monthly oil report and what it what it shows that in the last two quarters of twenty seventeen they really missed the mark the production estimates were off by a decent amount predicting pretty low numbers for the first two quarters of twenty eight to eighteen also and then jumping up at the end of the year based on the current cuts that are in place these are the production cuts that opec and and russian a few other nations have put into place do you think that they're going to meet the estimated projections for that for the fall. i think this is where and i like to use i.p.o. shenanigans for this particular description because who does it serve to have these cuts in place and that's going to be the saudis they push that aramco i.p.o.

out to twenty nineteen and i think they need to see crude oil stay above sixty five dollars a barrel they just finished their tour of their round co i.p.o. to frigid response so they're pushing out a year and i think when we start to see these production drops it's going to serve the saudis and i think that's really a lot of what's behind that right now but if you think a bit what would be a great strategy for them is to have prices stay you know around seventy bucks and then when they go to the i.p.o. then have really an increase in oil prices along with the i.p.o. but given that we have you know the says that we the u.s. going to produce ten point six million barrels of oil per day this year about the same as saudi arabia and we may even overtake russia by two thousand and twenty three do you think that any cuts will ultimately just be out produced by the u.s. absolutely number one.