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fact checking. on this friday thanks for joining us on r.t. international we have. russia is expelling sixty u.s. diplomats in the american consulate in st petersburg and the measures are in retaliation against similar actions by washington over the whole sort of poisoning case of the russian foreign minister sort of. responds to other states that have also deported to russian diplomats promised russia has responded tit for tat for every russian diplomats kicked out from the two dozen or so countries one of their diplomats will be kicked out of russia almost one of those countries by the way. the nato members hopeful's the united states though may have to charter

a jet sixty evidence diplomats have been ordered to leave russia the same number kicked out by washington though when the u.s. consulate in st petersburg is being closed down in response to the closure of russia's consulate in seattle and mirrors spawn's no more no less and again moscow has called on the united states to stop it is proposed to u.s. authorities inciting in fueling the smear campaign against our country to rethink and curb their reckless actions destroying bilateral relations the sum up russia which denies any role in this poisoning says never before have we witness such mockery of international law it is also convened a special meeting of the organization for the prohibition of chemical weapons would be c.w. has sent technical experts to examine the substance with which the former russian

double agent and his daughter were poisoned but their best the geisha will be technical. the o.p.c. w. explosive arrived in london to analyze the substance used in the alleged poisoning of surrogate and the group oh this will only allow them to distinguish the chemical formula of the substance the o.p.c. w. technical secret syria doesn't have the mandate to verify the u.k.'s allegations by the way the investigation into the case is still ongoing the u.k. and its allies insist that russia was behind this russia then eyes any such thing and says that this entire earth air is politically motivated tension between russia and britain has been escalating for weeks following the poisoning of double agent sort of basically powell and his daughter yulia and the city of salzburg u.k. the u.s. and their ally. it's

a very quick to pin the blame on russia where more than twenty countries have already expelled russian diplomats with the u.s. expelling the most russia's consulate in seattle is also being shut down and this was at the state department's reaction to russia's retaliates already measures we reserve the right for there to any russian retaliation against the united states and we are reading this we are reviewing it and will respond accordingly i want to remind you that there is no justification for the russian response and i'm not sure i understand you you guys throughout sixty of their people we don't see this as a diplomatic tit for tat the american diplomats who are being expelled are not. spies under diplomatic cover i am saying that they work for the u.s. state department they are colleagues who have served there with great distinction but you but you're saying that these that your your action was justified there is wasn't because these people aren't the equivalent legs i think we're forgetting

what got us to this place well now or dodge questions about whether the expelled u.s. diplomats were spies or not and then reporters pushed again to understand why the state department considers moscow's actions to be wrong and it seems that washington is forcing moscow to take responsibility and humbly accept punishment for a crime that there is no evidence for essentially you're asking russia to just admit that they did it and and take their punishment be the adult thing to do they're saying that they didn't you are in fact asking them to you know admit to something that they say that they don't you know what there's nothing wrong with admit it meeting wrong doing well now or went on to make some very incendiary comments to justify quote expressing solidarity with the u.k. calling the expelled diplomats russian spies saying that the u.s. is better off without russian spies when there's no evidence that they were spies either so some countries did not support the u.k. and refused to expel aggression to put about among them austria which also claimed

it was being pressured by britain the country's foreign minister says the u.k. repeatedly asked to vienna to take specific measures but the government stood its ground austria says it wants to keep channels open and bring people together at a time of need but we spoke to us several experts including former u.s. diplomat john graham and independent journalist joe lauria who say the escalation in the u.s. russian tensions is a very dangerous development. what i find most alarming both in terms of the politicians and his spokespeople and most noise in the whole of the media is the new easy to understand the danger of the steady steady steady is illusion. and that's the real danger. we're looking now at six months now of steady installations and deteriorating relations if you do in the us and russia this is

what governments do and they get when their diplomats are expelled they they expel in return and this is what newer to understand is what is going to happen in the situation united states did and dissipate this happening is a very serious matter here as you previously said that i've read that russia just doesn't want to have good relations with other countries i mean this is unbelievable in a serious matter like completely unnecessary they serious matter this did not have to get to this point except that that's what britain and the united states want and they dragged along several other allies but this is this is about not going through the process due process to investigate a crime and then wait to see what the results are and then mete out punishment if someone is found guilty there's nothing to do with this this is purely political obviously if you're a political play by the united states and the u.k. and it gets worse and worse and more dangerous and these silly remarks by the state department spokesman do not help at all at all in this matter. germany is unable to

deport sixty five thousand failed asylum seekers the problem is that they just don't have any identification documents. and he picks up the story. in the famous speech of his new chancellor ship angela merkel couldn't avoid all could be the most controversial me if that's ok for one million migrants into germany. yet she still chose to stick with her we can do this mantra despite promising deportations the kind people who have no right to protection will have to leave our country preferably voluntarily but if necessary by state deportations but that si easier said than done as it tends out safe the number of rejected asylum seekers that can be deported has jumped up by seventy one percent in one year away thousand according to reports by the german interior ministry seen by major chairman publishing house funky media this increases from thirty eight thousand in two

thousand and sixteen to sixty five thousand in two thousand and seventeen reasons behind it well a lack of travel documents and the lack of communication between general thora ts and countries of origin india processing requests for replacement passports is slow or nonexistent despite frequent visits to the embassy pakistan replacement passport procedures are being processed but there is a lack lebannon replies to requests very rare contact with the embassy is poor. thousands about the constraints even have a country they can be deported to is three thousand eight hundred up with national t is a mark house unclear in the worst case scenario the failure to deport a rejected asylum seeker can have tragic consequences the man behind the deadly christmas markets attack and ben in two thousand and sixteen was a check to the silent but he couldn't be deported because he didn't have the documents.

we spec two gets from ng member of parliament from a.f.p. a party which won seats in parliament partly on promises to deal with illegal immigration there are many many plans the new minister has sailed for tries to build up new centers for for speeding up the deportations. we are we are not sure if this will really solve the problem first of all we have to close and control our borders again and right now i think we have to enforce the

pressure to the people who have to leave our country it's really a big problem and i wonder if the new government will make it. well we did a contact the german interior ministry for clarification on the issue but they avoided commenting instead they just provided us with information on voluntary deportation. although palestinian health officials report the one about who's being killed and another injured in israeli artillery fire in southern gaza the israeli military says it ordered a tank so far against two suspects who approached a security fence the gaza border is bracing for possible violence as thousands gather for the annual land day rally an event typically maad by clashes with israeli forces we're showing you a live pictures right now backed by the hamas government in gaza palestinians intend to establish several the tent camps along the border housing thousands potentially for the next six weeks it's currently eleven minutes past eleven in the

morning in gaza and also has paula filed this report. tensions are running high as palestinians commemorate land day the preparations are massive and the numbers of people expected to turn out and demonstrate our huge. like that. but. we know that for example in gaza alone some one hundred thousand people are expected to attend the day plays along the israel gaza border fence and from there to hold protests and demonstrations the israelis are on high alert for any kind of potential violence now as far as the palestinians go they have set up tents in five different locations we are expecting that these protests and demonstrations will last some six weeks as they come on the palestinian calendar with other important dates that will be mocked and

commemorated. only and of goes the crowd of hundreds of thousands of people will gather he on friday good willing to stand for. return to the historic land of palestine for. our marches peaceful want to show the world that we are people not terrorists we want the right of return the israelis for they side have stationed more than one hundred sharp shooters and that's just for today friday alone the i.d.f. chief of staff says that there will be no way that palestinians will be allowed to cross any of the israeli border fences into israeli territory if the palestinians think they will organize a march and it will pass the border fence and they will march into our territory their room the israel gaza border has been heating up the particularly in recent days there have been a number of explosive devices that were detonated along the border fence and earlier this week three gazans who were armed crossed into israel on tuesday there

was also an incident in hebron where a three year old palestinian boy was arrested by israeli soldiers for allegedly trying to throw stones at them the i.d.f. see that the boy's actions were a provocation we are expecting that in the coming six weeks at least the tensions here on the ground will continue to escalate. tensions are expected the west we understand this news just in from garza that israeli forces have been firing tear gas at palestinian protesters you see the live pictures behind me right now it's expected that thousands of palestinians will gather along that garceau border for the next six weeks commemorating the. day issue we do expect tensions to rise paula slater were saying and we'll give you more details on this at our website r.t. dot com. now in the era of fake news a self-proclaimed fact checking web sites have been gaining popularity and in the

u.s. another such online project has been launched but this time it will check the checkers themselves as our correspondent. big news you are fake news that was my impression of a fake news police officer heard about any of those in the post truth era fact checkers the likes of snow political act fact check and many others are out there to make sure you digest facts only but fake news police are exceptional human super be. just like any folks sure these conservative guys today go on about political factor as left leaning republican and trump haters while for them in the liberal camp the likes of news busters are a joke conservative fact checkers really so there you have it conservative alternative fact versus

a liberal outpolls. this isn't happening. some people might try to tell you that it's about them to be so overly dramatic about it what it is saying it's a false side and they're giving sean spicer our press secretary gave alternative facts so with a bit of media police evolution we've got to the point where fact checkers began checking the fact checkers oh gosh so we've come full circle it began with the liberal media matters site comprehensively monitoring analyzing and correcting conservative misinformation in the us media conservative news busters caught on they'll check those failing to disclose their left wing bias the problem we have in the united states in particular is that the corporate media is advertiser driven we really do need truly independent fact checkers but unfortunately in this country we don't have it it's not that we need to one hundred

fact checkers we need one hundred million adults or however many there are in the united states to stop taking there is passive. engage their minds call out things that seem false and don't let these people who are spewing false garbage fake news get away with it your subscription stop watching the show and call these journalists out when they're wrong by the way when i said fake news police it was meant to be a joke but no kidding if you are in malaysia always taking aim at sake news according to her polls will submitted to parliament today people convicted of creating and distributing this information could face imprisonment i think i know a few important people who secretly love to use a bit of malaysian law making good of you to join us here on this friday on r.t.e. international still to come in this program a glossy magazine praising the crown prince of saudi arabia hitting shelves across america the timing is significant will lift the lid on that.

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alone. and i really. appreciate. the. latest edition. with us today wiki leaks founder julian assange has been cut off from the outside world since monday by the ecuadorian embassy in london where of course he's been holed up for almost six years sources close to the whistleblower have told me that ecuador and officials placed electronic jamas inside the embassy also not being allowed to receive visitors british fashion designer vivienne westwood a friend of the whistleblower expressed support for him outside the embassy she told us she's worried about his treatment. we're very concerned about the fact that

she can stop visitors at the moment and it's really important that he's got access to the world by all the exposure the t.v. manages to do he's a he's a war hero he exposed american war crimes they want to be concrete and you know this is just my friend a nice brilliant i'm a fashion just on the call the. see i'm quite regularly and supportive whenever i can the ecuadorian embassy is preventing us from communicating with the outside world because of his tweets concerning the catalan issue specifically that attention of the former catalan president in germany earlier this week was a has been told to delete his tweets in one nine hundred forty 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 carlos preached a moment at the request of spain to be extradited the embassy says had blocked his internet access because our songs fail to. not to comment on political issues relating to ecuador or any other countries but sources close to wiki leaks told us there is no such agreement now or songe took refuge inside the embassy in twenty twelve after being accused of rape in sweden a case that was later dropped he says he fears being extradited to america if you leave the embassy as he faces espionage charges the australian journalist john pilger says a lot more than is currently at stake. this is about war and treatment speech this man has. the most basic rights freedom of speech it's part of. why the war is against no no no russia is one of them

china is another but at the mood of the propaganda this is about the public's right to know and it's the public's right to know what both governments are doing the second war is about a real. get the whole trade war we've got the prospect of a real war and lose this propaganda or seeing through the attack on human years is so important because it does we're just should be. holding our took out. the saudi crown prince is on a two week tour of the united states he's already met with donald trump and the white house where some lucrative arms deals were on the table but he's also meeting with some other big names as well among them for example the space x. c.e.o. elon musk apple boss tim cook and microsoft co-founder bill gates in fact t.v.

host and media mogul oprah winfrey is also getting a face time with mohamed bin salomon as are the clintons and barack obama but it's not just the democratic party elite former president george w. bush will also be meeting with the royal as well so as well as a schmoozing with american celebrities and politicians the saudi crown prince was also blessed a number of u.s. media outlets and editorial boards with his presence as well in fact these include the new york times at the wall street journal the washington post the atlantic as well as time in vanity fair and to coincide with the crown prince his visit a special ninety seven page ad free magazine dedicated to praising the saudi kingdom has hit the shelves of american stores artie's caleb maupin got his hands on a copy. it's slick glossy and a certain government in the arabian peninsula says it has nothing to do with it on newsstands across america you can get copies of the new kingdom it's

a magazine all about saudi arabia and how it's a happy place that's open for business american media incorporated the print conglomerate the published this has a c.e.o. who says that he's actually a personal friend of donald trump now the saudi kingdom says that they had no role in financing it apparently american media inc just feels very passionate about global politics we decided to have a chat with legal and media analyst lionel to see what he thinks of the sudden appearance of this pro saudi glossy cell interesting publication we've got here the new kingdom now it talks about how saudi arabia is a key ally of the united states in the fight against terrorism leaves out the fact that they have been supporting extremist groups in syria what you make of that this is not a an encyclopedia of of saudi arabia it's brilliant and most americans will read this and say this is fantastic very frankly i don't think you're going to be

seeing too many aspects of a pro saudi arabian glossy talking about the darker sides of of the area well sure i mean it talks about their romantic landscapes it talks about talks about their beautiful traditional ceremonies doesn't really get into the public beheadings that go on still do you think there's any chance of that i mean i understand that not only the treatment of women go go through that you know we we've been having lately the comments of saudi arabia with nine eleven you're not going to see this but remember the only way this would ever work is when you have a country as of ours where people know is it a coincidence you think that the crown prince is currently on his two week tour of the united states at the same time this hits the show absolutely not of course. not there's no such thing as a coincidence it's a brilliant but look at what's happening look at how he's being presented thirty

two year old he's almost like the prince harry young hipper meeting with people apparently we're america loves a rock star if you're trying to win america over this is a way to do it because remember we don't know anything we don't really need the we don't know anything about history but just give us a rock star and we're in now the saudis so they have nothing to do with this coming out there's no nothing to do with it. i know what you're saying you're saying somehow the national enquirer somebody benefited maybe in the back and i don't know who am i to say no i think though that for somebody to on their own for no particular reason come up with this extremely expensive look at the quality of this to get the colors that are on their own grid to what is lee just to do it i think that's less than likely this is a very very expensive proposition meantime human rights watch has mocked saudi arabia's p.r.

blitz pointing to riyadh's record of rights abuses. your news continues and and huff. it's.

this is a sure. to say the prophet muhammad's grandson. when security is stepped up in pakistan because of the heightened risk of terrorist attacks. themselves with. even with. hundreds of us. fathers teach the princes to sons and so the tradition is passed from generation to generation.

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arabian seas coast which is why smugglers a constantly plying their trade here. in the early two thousand a gang broke out and battles were fought in the streets and even the police avoided the area. again what about this ash. i don't. want to give you. that again that cinema. would. i don't. want that. get you out of pocket it would be nice. everyone around here knows you know scum ronnie he was the first of karachi is twenty million strong population to start teaching girls as well as boys how to box you know so often organizes competitions and always invites schoolchildren to one.