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there's been a whole lot of criticism over washington's role in the kingdom's campaign and first some background ten thousand people have been killed since the start of the intervention back in two thousand and fifteen and a saudi imposed a blockade has left the country at the brink of famine which the u.n. has deemed the world's worst humanitarian crisis. there are letters. even though the public has condemned washington's role the u.s. has been supporting the campaign by arming the saudis amongst many other things but
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last year trump signed a record arms deal with saudi arabia worth about one hundred ten billion dollars one of the biggest in history and trump hopes to make more deals with the country but it's uncertain how that will turn out this political climate but some senators have voiced opposition to u.s. involvement and they've put forth the bill that i mentioned earlier that would end cooperations cooperation with the saudis which was actually voted down and they've even grilled us cent com over the use of american weapons but the pentagon didn't seem to have any answers let's take a quick look just snipped tom track the purpose of the nations that it is refueling what targets it strikes and the results of that mission senator we did not ok. and apparently russia will also be on the agenda when trump meets with the saudi prince. senior u.s.
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officials say president trump and mohamed bin solomon will look for ways to make russia pay a price for its aggressions. the kremlin has even responded expressing regret over the demonization of russia describing it as the maniacal desire to make russia pay for something but due to all these protests and the vote in the senate trumps meeting with the prince might not go as smoothly as planned. thanks for bringing us rather today the severe car reporting for us from washington d.c. . facebook users are questioning the credibility of the service following revelations over personal data harvesting auntie's and he said he has details on the tech giants data battle. deletes facebook it's the hashtag that's been trending on twitter the social network uses off fuel reus facebook played a part in getting donald trump into the white house from fifty million facebook
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users was harvested by a troubling analytic company and what appears to be the largest leak in the social networks history in two thousand and fifteen we learned that a psychology professor at the university of cambridge named dr alexander lying to us violated our platform policies by passing data from an app that was using facebook logon to s. you can which analytical firm that this political government and military work around the globe it all began with the cambridge university professor creating a personality up and passing the information acquired on to a third party cambridge analytic a one space but realized it violated their terms they wanted all data to be destroyed there has the potential to be a lengthy legal battle and the fuel to the fire is the fact cambridge on the list to say they were conducting separate work for the trumps presidential campaign surely the double trump campaign was the first opportunist in data gathering think back to a bomb his reelection campaign in two thousand and twelve is former media analytics
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director claims they managed to get a lot more personal information than their rivals if facebook users clicks on the democratic side it enabled campaigners to access a wealth of information all thanks the loopholes and facebook's privacy to facebook twenty five election we got people to opt in and the privacy policies of that time on facebook were that if they opted in they could tell us who all their friends were where this gets complicated is that freaks facebook out. so they shut off the feature so that is out there you can take it back to the democrats have this information and with this information gathered they would know which one of your friends would implement the most in making a favorable voting decision davidson also says facebook allowed the obama campaign . to do things they would have allowed others to do simply because they were on their sides and whatever information passed to the campaigns of trump and obama they have one thing in common victory another common thread was the involvement of
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facebook status and both of victories whether in directly or directly and 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 barman of defense and while you are reading articles on how to slate your date or facebook remember this a simple facebook mean claim to be posted by russia and thought to have caused chaos in the us elections perhaps trivial in the ground scheme of things as facebook looks into the nuts and bolts needed to prevent data leaking political campaign isn't their party's better tighten their belts. donald trump has congratulated gloomier putin on winning a fourth term as russia's president in sunday's election artie's rug has more.
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election's over putin won by a landslide the turnout was huge you'd think the press would be satisfied but no they worked themselves up into a frenzy over whether donald trump the president of america would call vladimir putin to congratulate him in fact earlier today russian press bugged putin's spokesperson about that and he sort of he shrugged and said they'll call of they won't don't read too much into it it wouldn't be an unfriendly thing to do not to call but it appears that trump did call and congratulated guided me a putin on his reelection they also discussed a number of issues apparently syria the situation in ukraine there's well is the what the donald trump called the developing arms race between russia and the united states where a very good call and i suspect there will probably be a meeting in the not too distant future to discuss the arms race which is getting
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out of control but we will never allow anybody to have anything even close to what we have russia's military spending has been falling for years putin yesterday said that it will continue to fall and america's only been rising but don't trouble also said they may meet in the near future to discuss the various issues that have that have come up ukraine syria as well as this potential arms race. and government raid on the austrian secret services headquarters and the suspension of its chief of course the political uproar in the country austria's new right wing government suspects the country's intelligence agency has the b.v.t. of holding data illegally it also accuses the agency's chief of corruption he's now been suspended and of the interior minister described as unavoidable. as you know we have taken legal action against several officials from the b.b.c.
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an intelligence agent something accused by the prosecutor in this case i can tell you that effectively peter goodling suspended his b.v.t. director until further notice. but the opposition claims that the probes politically motivated the social democrats insist the government just wanted to seize compromising data on right wing extremists and then now threatening an inquiry into the actions of the ruling party it's ridiculous one 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 right is the signal that wimbledon. we put the opposition's concerns to johannes who'd know an m.p. for the main party in austria is ruling coalition. prosecution asked for this rate which was not actually a raid but it was there was a pending criminal investigation against some members of the b b t the b.b.c.
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is a very sensible institution in our police because it is the so-called bureau for to protect and of the constitution and to fight against terrorism that's what the abbreviations that stand 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. was such a sensible task can't be run by someone who is under criminal investigation himself . this search was done and as it was a sensible subject to sort of ask for a unit which has absolutely nothing to do with crime against the state this was yes 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 thing now. easily to sell is a big thing they were only to help the prosecution in case they met resistance or
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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 data that have to do with extremist investigation all the data remained in place if they took copies of the starter's i am not aware of i do not but the fact is that no file was written removed and in no way the investigation against certain persons was inhibits it or stopped or something like that so this is all the room or the maid around it to construct a big story as you have seen today in the parliament even had a special session dedicated to this matter this is of course something the social democratic party and the main opposition parties tries to exploit to now.
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tuesday mount fifteen years since the us invasion of iraq what started out as a promise to liberate a country from a dictator spiraled into a long and deadly conflict is a reminder of how it all unfolded. less than a teaspoon full of dry anthrax in an armful of shutdown the united states senate iraq declared eighty five hundred liters of anthrax the touch many iraqis can hear me tonight in a translated radio broadcast and i have a message for them the tyrant will soon be gone. the day of your liberation is near .
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kut. tonight i am announcing that the american combat mission in iraq has ended. it will take time to eradicate a cancer like i said we will conduct a systematic campaign of airstrikes against these terrorists. the touch
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. what's concerning his people who are popping off by those in the city people of mosul are the ones who get our humanitarian assistance. one of the darkest pages in the war was the exposure of the torture of iraqi detainees at abu ghraib prison. the jail was originally used by saddam hussein for political prisoners but after the u.s. invasion in two thousand and three it became a military prison for thousands of captured iraqis and there many of the iraqis suffered torture sexual abuse rape and humiliation the horrific images of soldiers posing next to tormented prisoners shocked the world when they were released ultimately led to the convictions of eleven american soldiers the story received a massive public outcry as well in the u.s. well r.t. spoken to former abu ghraib prison as they described to his their ordeal and i must
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warn you may find some of the images coming up next disturbing. when the americans arrived with their tanks we thought they would readers 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 turns 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 sensitive areas where they would use a broken broomstick causing internal bleeding prisoners would need surgery. 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 they hear the screams. and yet i still have nightmares and suffer physical and mental pain as if it all happened yesterday i
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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. that was going to be a look at the the time i spend in that prison helped like a lifetime an hour of that pain. and unchastity is stays with you forever. get us all from a for this a think a punch to bring you right up to date at the top of the. most expensive fish in the world each one is selling for tens of thousands of euros
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it continues to grow its entire life if it was thirty years old you might have a two ton fish out there and yet they don't get that big today because we're way too good at catching. it's only women themself a much larger mission was once there and that was much more widely distributed we have politicians that are in office for a few years they have to get reelected everything is very very short term our system is not suited and is not geared for long term survival and that's why we have the catastrophes that. global war hawks sell you on the idea that dropping bombs brings police to the chicken hawks forcing you to fight the battles that don't. produce ought to try to tell you that what we gossip to the public by itself of the most important. off the bad guys and tell me you are not cool enough to buy their products. are the hawks that we along with all
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the walking. well you know the pirates they were kind of adopted because we were called pirates for so long. i mean they're in this small boat sniffs in a hard pool of ships and it's standing. on top and. the little self did big told fish already ninety percent of the dots need to fall in the conference. concept fifteen scoops seventy five tons two and they do it several times a day with the big fleets of power you get an idea of why the ocean is full of shit . we have to understand we could not stay still and just. be witness of the deal going through the hours. i'm doing this because i
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want the future world to the future can generations to have and enjoy the ocean we have. because this is the cause a report oh my gosh so much to commerce a little time oscar writing to max this guy remember him do you know that's jimmy mcmillan remember his party he were ran for governor in the great
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state of new york with the rent is too damn high party i remember clearly one of the character where they were from some famous clips of him on stage in debate andrew cuomo and he was like i read today i hear that hungry mother out here i can't do his voice but he was very funny anyway you know he's kind of considered old school now because he went the legit route you know he tried to campaign to get rent control and reduced prices on rent and rent stabilization and went the the political route he campaigned in activism and that sort of thing to get politicians to help with the whole rent situation that we're seeing across many cities in america over the past decade certainly sense the financial collapse and here's the headline that is showing that there's a new wave of millennia old on the scene and they are not happy but they're not
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taking it to the stage like jimmy mcmillan they're taking it to the streets a new generation of anti gentrification radicals are on the march in los angeles and around the country so this is yahoo finance and they go out into the streets of los angeles they talk to defend boyle heights and their sister group the boyle heights alliance against our our washington displacement but head boyle heights for those who don't know is in east los angeles is to. of downtown l.a. which use of course the skid row very impoverished very dangerous when i lived in los angeles it was very scary down there but now it's hipster ville very expensive new apartments there it's. changed beyond all recognition but now these boyle heights activists are seeing the signs of gentrification coming to
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their neighborhood and they are fighting back. more in a malcolm x. kind of way if jimmy mcmillan is you know martin luther king jr these guys are malcolm x. and they are taking it to the streets they're basically forcing out art galleries and hipster coffee shops because they link those two to gentrification and increasing rent the shock troops of gentrification are hipster coffee shops and art galleries and once they appear this group unlike the minded are pushing them out in the doing so aggressive way right there like committing vandalism basically they're committing lawbreaking activity to push out in a in a hostile way in an aggressive way the gentrification as a way to stop this rolling tie of of high priced. change cavuto so many people talk about that but what we're seeing in america in
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the past ten years especially is remember when we were children it was de population from the city center and people were afraid that the danger and the violence of the move to the suburbs the white flight and then now it's the opposite is all the millennial children of you know upper middle class mostly white families are moving into the cities driving up rents rents are very expensive for these families of the latino and mexican and black families are being driven out by the high rents but i'll tell you how radical it is from what they themselves these defend boyle heights put on their blog when they were organizing a february seventh protest in mary actually square which is over there boyle heights east los angeles and they said gentrification is not your next documentary topic gentrification is not a trend for the wool wide web or for the detached subculture of the left to consume
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it is a vicious pro-choice. acted attack on poor and working class people and we are again in class warfare that leaves our friends families and neighbors homeless devastated deported or dead so get with down friends and make crack so this is them inviting people out to the february seventh event and they were basically marching on an art gallery and demanding they go and so that the real estate agents wouldn't come in and basically runs you know saw the article and i read through the article so they're making the distinction between this particular campaign and previous ones where the been more genteel in those campaigns are they well placards they do marches and they try to get awareness and we don't want judges for geisha and this group and others are saying that that doesn't work we're getting more militarized you know getting more aggressive or getting more militant or getting more class more like i mean the so they're they're engaging in vandalism and violence i mean
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that's the bottom line to push the money yet they're making it basically so that it's not basically they're making it very impolite they're very they're putting graffiti on these buildings so there was like an experiment to our proper group that was supposed to be marching through the streets of boyle heights and this was in order to attract hipsters and bring in the gentrifiers but they they took their own trombones and other horn instruments and started by drowning them out so they follow them wherever they go there is this one woman who is opening an art gallery in boyle heights and she also has an art gallery in new york city and i think brooklyn in fact with all the hipsters live there and she herself lives in the upper east or west side of manhattan and they surround her they travel across the u.s. and a hash tag who'd solidarity to war and they go to brooklyn in surround her art galleries there and drown her out like they taunt her wherever she is so she stays
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out of boyle heights now because this boyle heights group has. and so successful they their methods are spreading across the united states the other expensive cities as the article points out as a result like minded groups in other cities chicago austin new york have adopted the same hardline tactics their ranks are small and their methods are controversial even within the communities they purport to defend but their members are drawn from the most politically radical economically anxious generational cohort in recent memory young millennial is of color and their cause has the makings of a national movement a new more militant war on gentrification so where are these millennialists are as article points out graduating if they are able to go to university graduating with massive debts unlike the boomer generation before them or the generation x. they have these get economy jobs precarious jobs their incomes are lower seventy
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five percent of those living in boyle heights at the moment rent so they can afford to own and now these gentrification class is moving and able to buy these properties drive up rents drive these people out and put him there a hipster coffee's dollar so this belies two key american myths one is the melting pot and the second is the radio alagiri a myth of bootstrapping anyone can succeed in america who works hard so this is a whole group of people a whole generation in america who's saying that there is no melting pot we're not being assimilated there's no opportunities and we can't so their response especially is to go into conflict and this is a major conflict this is conflict across the country with a whole generation in a way that is becoming. the response to this can can only be as forceful as this as as the as the hostility that we're seeing on the street right. well j.f.k. jr said it. came south said it you know if you if you
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don't allow a way for these people to be heard then they turn to the streets basically violence and revolution becomes the only option for certain people so the article does point out that inequality in two thousand and sixteen the top one percent made eighty seven times more than the bottom fifty percent of workers from a twenty seven to one ratio in one nine hundred eighty the c.e.o.'s made to introduce seventy one times more on average than the typical employee a nine hundred thirty percent increase since one nine hundred seventy eight so the trend has been worse and worse for them and this is now after decades of polite conversation and attempts for polite activism and going on stage as jimmy mcmillan did in trying to debate andrew cuomo about the rent being too high and he was became a national let me comedy everybody's laughing about it but the concern is very real for these people and regarding this woman for example with this gallery in boyle heights they talk to one of the women who she runs the boyle heights alliance again
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art washing and displacement bad art washing the new one well i guess it's our washing so when you see the gallery come in dear neighborhood. pirtle high high and art from on known artists it's a sign of the neighborhood isn't becoming transformed in a way that's on affordable you know the terms white washing or green washing well blue washing there also white washing is basically providing like the u.k. does that all the time they have an inquiry an inquiry is official and it's lords and ladies who run these inquiries and they present a report that white washes the crime that happened by saying well some terrible things up and people feel really bad about it but so that's white washing our washing is using artists. to wash the community to gentrify the community so
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artists are being used to get rid of all these latino and black faces from the communities is what they feel so we guarding that woman that i talked about the art gallery owner who has a place in brooklyn and she has this place in book boyle heights and they're shutting down these are galleries so yahoo finance is following these group of activists from boyle heights and one of the guys that they talk to he's asked why they're stopping why they're actually going after art galleries that seem so barbaric right well he said three five six mission there really smart in the past they used to do black events people of color events empowering workshops and trans people so that identity i don't give a if someone is black or brown or disabled if they're gentrifiers they deserve to die so pretty harsh language there and pretty extreme but this is the sort of militancy their determination to stop art galleries and all the
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amenities that the real estate agents then use to promote their expensive luxury eight thousand dollars a month apartments in this new complex. to make up the crunch. what about cheerios. the cereal cafe in other words in the east end of london one of the signs of really terminal gentrification with the parents of the cereal cafe so hipsters are paying five six bucks or pounds for a little bowl of captain crunch cereal to you know have the feelings that they had as children to feel good again and so if you see a cereal cafe show up in any of these neighborhoods you know that that is a sure sign on the road to hell well perhaps in london but i think americans are kind of beyond that because we grew up with that this is you know
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