part of the united states probably because president donald trump is trying to improve his p.r. with domestic democrats on the issue of russian collusion which has been disproven time and time again but i think this this goes back to president trump wanting to beef up his anti russia bona fides without merit and it's an unnecessary and dangerous escalation of foreign policy tensions the expulsion of russian diplomats not just from the u.s. from the u.k. also. have taken action moscow has said it's going to employ a mirror image is this a good lover of said do you think that we'll see a response then against states coming shortly well yes. absolutely sir i mean this is a dangerous unnecessary escalation on the part of the u.s. of existing foreign policy tensions and really we have no credibility to do this i mean the f.b.i. for example in the last year has been implicated in the assassination of artes

founder and creator the the cold war parallels that exist here are palpable but they're not entirely the same for example in the past we could without doubt say that america had the moral credibility and the u.k. had the moral credibility to make these kinds of assertions in today's post nine eleven world those types of those types of claims no longer have the same weight or merit so i would suggest that we deescalate as soon as possible. what do you make of the way the script cases be handled for officers foreign ministers said that the way the u.k. and the allies came to this conclusion that russia was was responsible made a mockery of international law russia wanted to be in some way involved or at least informed of any evidence that hasn't happened what's your take. well we haven't seen a recall of an basters this large since the cuban missile crisis and it's really

dangerous at a time when the only two major nuclear powers in the world have had conflicts near hot conflicts in syria for example it's a it's an extremely dangerous approach to be engaging in this kind of tit for tat ratcheting up of tensions we should be looking at ways to deescalate and we certainly shouldn't be taking on the foreign policy gas of the united kingdom just because they're our ally could speak to john appreciate it tom i guess john griffin political media analyst almost has called the expulsion of russian diplomats a baseless sanction judging by what the u.k. is so far off it is evidence the allegations were based not on proof but on what was deemed highly likely assumption.

founder of wiki leaks is on his internet cut since the start of the week and is not being allowed visits to the ecuadorian embassy in london but online the hash tag we connect to songs is already trending now sources close to the whistleblower group

of told r.t. why an ecuadorian officials took those decisions from outside the embassy and reports. according to sources close to wiki leaks we have learned that the ecuadorian government had police teluk tronic jammers inside the ecuadorian embassy right behind me where julian assange has been holed up for five and a half years now and the idea of this was to block him from being able to tweet as well as communicate with the outside world hold telephone conversations or have access to the internet generally speaking we also understand that he's bet he's been banned from having visitors inside the embassy and apparently all of this comes following a publication in the equipe dorrian press about julian assange just tweets concerning the catalan issue specifically the detention of catalan independence leader a carlist which demands in germany earlier this week and our understanding according to this source close to wiki leaks is that julian assange would have to has to his team have been informed of having to delete

a certain tweet that he had posted among others concerning the catalan issue in one thousand nine hundred eighty the elected president of catalonia louis compan a swiss captured by the gestapo at the request of spain delivered to them and executed today german police have arrested the elected president of catalonia karla's preached a moment at the request of spain to be extradited now julian assange did not delete this tweet and it's our understanding again according to these sources that are close to julian assange and wiki leaks is that the dorian government has informed him and his team about their discomfort with his expressing his opinions about the catalan issue and following that information they did put those alec tronic jammers in place to have him stop communicating with the outside world and curiously all of this comes following a statement from a top official here in the u.k. describing julian assange as quote a miserable little worm let's take

a look to speak is of great regret the judas on remains in the ecuador embassy it is beautiful even deeper regret that even. last night he was against her majesty's government for their conduct in replying to the attack in salzburg it's about time that this miserable little worm walked out of the embassy and gave himself up to british justice well earlier we know that claims were made by the ecuadorian government who said that julian assange had signed some kind of agreement saying that he wouldn't weed or say anything about politics of ecuador as well as other countries but again according to this source close to wiki leaks those claims have been false. the british fashion designer vivienne westwood is a friend of julian assange and she gave him her support outside the embassy on thursday and told us she's worried about the way he's being treated we're very concerned about the fact that she can't are visitors the moment and it's really important that he's got access to the world by all the exposure that he manages

to do he's a he's a war hero he exposed american war crimes they want to be concrete and you know is this is just my friend and he's brilliant an arm a fashion designer called live you. see him quite regularly and support him whenever i can. or songe took refuge inside the embassy in two thousand and twelve after being accused of rape in sweden a case later dropped by stockholm or for a tax whistleblower fears leaving the embassy and being extradited to the united states where he faces charges of espionage colvin of the. courage foundation told us his remarks on the cattle on referendum oh proven too much for a quid or. it seems to be an escalation we're talking about a few tweets about the cattle an election which for

a particular reason seems to be particularly sensitive to ecuador and their international relations it goes to show that although we could have done an amazing service and are doing an amazing service in protecting julian assange and the issue of the catalan election i think which you know may not be obvious to many people in the the catalan referendum rather it may not be obvious to many people in the world is in the spanish speaking world an extremely controversial issue it think that's. the situation is in korea is increasingly difficult for him and quite frankly you know there is no. day was an investigation going on in sweden there is no longer any investigation there's no good reason for him to be threatened with arrest in twenty sixteen the embassy also suspended assam's internet access after we kill leaks released e-mails of the democratic national committee and of hillary clinton's campaign manager john podesta that last year ecuador issued yet another warning over his remarks on the catalan independence vote but despite not being

outside for more than two thousand days now he still made some powerful and some slightly less powerful friends.

online entertainment joined netflix may pay dearly for a high profile new appointment customers are threatening to cancel their subscriptions after president obama's national security advisor susan rice joined the board of directors to strengthen the explains why the move is facing a backlash. susan rice is a big name in washington she served under presidents clinton and obama and was a u.n. ambassador slowly but surely working her way up the white house ladder and during barack obama's second term in office it looked like rice would likely become his secretary of state until she was forced to withdraw her name following the ongoing controversy related to the attack on the u.s. consulate in benghazi rice had made inaccurate public claims that the attack wasn't premeditated what our assessment is as of the present is in fact what began spontaneously in benghazi spun from there into something much much more violent rice was later forced to eat her words and admit they were in fact planned causing

a massive backlash against her so she stepped back settling instead for national security adviser a tale as old as time really well if you're not slick fail secretary of state that's what i want that's all i wanted that's what i was promised and here i am and now it looks like rice is ready to netflix and chill with the streaming giant who announced that rice is coming on board on wednesday netflix co-founder and c.e.o. reed hastings put out a statement welcoming rice to the team saying that the company will benefit from her years of tackling complex global issues now netflix is the world's leading entertainment service and according to their site they have around one hundred seventeen million users and over one hundred ninety countries are continuing to expand their reach which with rice's help could have a more political spin to it and while it's not yet clear what a lifetime politician will bring to a media company the naysaying has begun already with many users calling for a boycott of the service he netflix i've been a customer since day one that's just changed you must be absolutely insane to think

that americans would you adding susan rice as a board member who price you bonus into liberals can keep you in business. if anybody wants to boycott something because of an individual's actions i suggest boycotting netflix if a crew from netflix is filming and comes under attack what is she going to blame it on a film just cancelled my netflix membership reason susan rice they can have her but not me this is where our family takes a hard bass we're canceling netflix altogether our kid will be better off instead of watching in chilling he'll be read about for have a break from politics to entertainment we've already seen her former boss appear as a guest on a netflix show and rumors have been running rampant that the obama's may be in talks to produce a series starring the dynamic duo raising concerns over where the company is headed . police say speak now to political cartoonist ted rall and i'm sure that there's

a political cartoon begging to be done on this for you so that's coming up shortly why on earth first question does netflix make some great entertaining shows need a politician with a very checkered past on board. well they don't really i mean what they really need is a bunch of people with expertise and experience in you know television entertainment metrics big data and they already have those people this is what we're really looking at here is a scenario that is that we see over and over again where people are brought on to corporate boards really because of their political and corporate star power it seems to me like this is more about building bridges about having access to her rolodex not just the obama's but other people netflix needs to operate within the world of regular elation in the inside the beltway there's still a lot of people in washington who are loyal to the democrats and to the obama

administration they probably feel like they need a better vet going into twenty twenty to think that the democrats might win so they're probably thinking that this is a person who might be able to get them the kind of access they might need if there were a regulatory push that might challenge them i mean this is not about making good televisions you know it's no different really than when former secretaries of state henry kissinger and george schultze were appointed to the board of. silicon valley internet company that turned out to be a big scam parent that equally you know it's it's about star power political star power it's about rolodex it's about influence it's not about you know corporate leadership when former you mentioned some cases where former politicians get appointed lucrative positions on big boards very little the man on the street can do usually in this situation they can people lots of them canceling their

subscriptions and you think they're right to be so angry. well i mean i don't really identify with that personally i mean i don't think susan rice is a particularly controversial figure but certainly you know boycott politics have been around in america at least as long as the you know anti letter strikes in the one nine hundred seventy s. and far beyond that. people have every right to cancel their netflix membership if they don't want to watch you know they don't watch the shows that they offer it's their business they can do that and certainly there's power they're. just another example of division democrats republicans is this the republicans coming out on masson and opposing the appointment of a democrat i think it is it's a little hysterical because susan rice isn't exactly a wild eyed liberal really but you know it's it is that and i think it's more of a symptom of what's wrong with america really. but i have to say that if i own

stock in netflix i would be pleased at seeing good corporate cash and salaries being wasted on this sort of thing and you think people power could make a difference here is this going to really affect netflix well it all depends i mean look certainly there's been examples in the past of these kind of campaigns having an effect but my instinct tells me that there just aren't going to be enough people who really care about this ted appreciate your time as always look forward to seeing your cartoon on this political cartoonist my guest. in other news the suburban city of kemah has entered a third day of mourning after a shopping center fire killed sixty four people including forty one children with more facts about the blaze surfacing including allegations of criminal negligence stories of incredible courage also innit.

i might and i were putting together pairs of shoes or just plain i smelled smoke heard them a walkie talkie someone saying that people are running out of the saw people rushing down just terrorists are there is an alarm which we still do to viju a people are employees of first of the day walk is the tours of the exit but i don't quite remember how i got out unless soon as i got outside i saw a man jumping out of a window from the third floor yes. man i am. mad. all our coworkers had already stated when we looked at the escalator that it was full of people they started helping people to get out of there we have a baggage or at the end of the storage room was still just calling people to come to us when there were disease and help to buy the our guys lived out there will cheers and help them to go downstairs and everything i'm glad the clouds of smoke surrounding it we breathed heavily but why is it so the ends just host to save

someone else do some people run upstairs into panics did you feel panic deep inside too of course we did there was no way to escape i don't know what would have happened to me if not them i'm a father a son and a brother through so i can understand those people i wish one son would grow up the same be useful to humankind we don't consider ourselves rescue as we are old married people if you were in our place you would have done the same we had the loss of men who were burnt to death then you say heroes you know my mother was worried about me sure it's a hospital and she says it was terrifying. we go to the mosque every day and leave flowers and placed candles. in the meantime the investigate. into what caused the fire is progressing to two main versions at this point of the malfunction of the fire safety system and also

arson five people have been arrested among them two directors at the shopping center and the maker of the fire safety system the blaze in camera is one of the deadliest in russia for decades took firefighters more than seventeen hours to extinguish it on section of the complex was completely gutted and large sections of the roof collapsed the sixty four people who died almost two thirds of them were children with the school holidays having just begun. around six thousand people have been out on to the streets of the russian city of vollard columb skin in moscow to protest against a large commercial landfill located nearby protesters demanded local authorities announce a state of emergency and declare the site an ecological catastrophe. i

when the gathering started several hours ago outside the city administration center people were yelling come out and promising to stay there until the decision was made the percentage of the authorities finally emerged confirming a state of emergency in the city last week around fifty children needed medical treatment due to symptoms of mild poisoning. presidents believe that the cause of the illness is pollution coming from the landfill site. if you only wendy's night emissions happen my child coughs as if he's suffocating he can't sleep he cries he has a sore throat that it isn't just an ordinary called the pretty good quality of sports when we put the kids to sleep we seal the doors and windows with wet towels so that they won't breathe the sin well. that's unbearable the smell is awful we adults suffer but our children suffer more we're always nervous sometimes we don't even know whether they will wake up in the morning because many suffer from. places

chaining in this evening watching r t international about with the very latest news headlines updates on our top stories and often. oh i max kaiser this is the kaiser report you know it's amazing somebody came up to me at the crypto conference here in puerto rico. this guy created to pay me to pay cash and handed me a key chain and said thanks so much max for supporting the economy and it's a very rare pep a pep a. token and there's going to be more about this coming up in new york in a few short weeks and very excited by this stay tuned for that but meanwhile let's stick to puerto rico for a second stacey what's happening what's your name weaponized thing all names are

weaponized and the battle of the mind as brought tears told me we are constantly fighting the demons in our mind that we are the heroes of our time i think there's a famous song the famous song that brock likes to play.