russia with all the formation and who the intended is the u.k. was supposed to deliver that information. do you keep failed to do that so now russia requested the executive council to provide all information the next step. is supposed to do right now is to. make sure that the executive council requests that the u.k. provides all the information about scruples issue because. the executive council is obliged to do that so why wouldn't the u.k. provide the world with the same information it's not clear this reason is much more coalitions to the cabinet or for me especially towards johnson in how the really established default of russian federation in. group us issue.

facebook has admitted that the scale of a data breach of its accounts that was used for political purposes turns out to be far larger than previously thought the tech giant says that the profiles of up to eighty seven million people could have been shared with data research cambridge analytic or early estimates said fifty million. in total we believe the phrasebook information of up to eighty seven million people mostly in the u.s. may have been improperly shared with cambridge and. cambridge analytical license data for no more than thirty million people the firm that has been using this information it's called cambridge and a little and essentially it does data collection and polling and analysis for political parties political campaigns and groups they use this information essential to craft their messaging craft their campaigning in a way that would be persuasive they kind of create a psychological profile of potential voters based on what they have collected from

facebook and social media they then use that information to craft their campaign advertising their messaging etc and now the data harvesting happened in a tacit agreement with facebook now facebook says they had no malicious intent. however this has really hurt their reputation the government of germany actually went as far as asking for a clarification from facebook for an explanation we also have seen the trend it delete facebook all over social media with people you know tweeting out you know delete facebook calling for people to stop using facebook in response to this perceived you know dissemination of people's personal information that we do know that facebook is now in the process of changing their apps so that certain apps are more protected that the privacy of their users is more protected but as we see you know this call for for facebook to be deleted for people not to be used to using

facebook is expanding so a lot of questions are being raised and it's certainly true that the reputation of this very widely used social media app is is severely tarnished wealth to international expert yank media analyst timothy coffee that you use on the facebook day to scandal. general generally the guys denying the figure they they claim that it is only thirty million but i don't think it makes a lot of for the from the very thirty million to late in the year and i think it is the principle behind it's the old story about what about the use of intimate robots as we call them boats. in order to meddle with the us elections now so that it will story seem now a little bit out of there a little bit ridiculous nobody is talking about it but it was very interesting to hear was designed to beg only a couple of weeks ago. almost apologizing for allowing them to leave the boxes today that it was them behind us doing election is the the story was about

influencing elections but by third parties. rather than to see news as they've done locally this is a company that roots so rapidly that the people who are managing facebook lost control of their creation and the whole business model of facebook is built on this idea that they they collect highly targeted data on their users and then sell that data to advertisers and others and i think there just wasn't enough oversight of that process basement to say that they can they can police themselves internally they can solve these problems with their own oversight that i think that you know there's a legitimate reason that that's not good enough we need to look at a new regulatory framework that will protect the privacy of users of social media not just facebook but people go on google and other popular platforms.

it seems the presence of american troops in syria has become a confusing issue even for washington now last week donald trump announced he wants it with a troll to happen very soon have a pause in the u.s. media say he's being advised not to pull the troops out at all so with an ever changing white house rhetoric trump is backpedaling promising that a decision on the massa should be taken soon. we're knocking the hell out of isis will become another syria like very soon let the other people take care of it now our primary mission in terms of that was getting rid of isis we've almost completed that task and will be making a decision very quickly to pull the troops out so i want to get out i want to bring our troops back home i want to start rebuilding our nation the question of america's withdrawal from syria was raised at a summit in ankara with the leaders of russia turkey and iran to iran expressed its

skepticism about washington's plans. for. the united states is one thing one day and then a completely different thing the next so we cannot trust their words or actions us it seems they want to benefit from syria as much as possible the main focus of the encore summit was to discuss a peace plan for war torn syria and despite some differences russian a rainy and turkish leaders found common ground as reports. the three guarantors have met here at ankara's presidential palace there's absolutely no doubt about the three countries commitment to what they're doing together though they're all here with their own different missions fibered on keep saying that his country won't tolerate any armed partition militias in northern syria so the so-called all fragile will continue no matter what the iranian leader hassan rouhani says that external powers although he did specifically mention the u.s.

and israel keep trying to use terrorists on the ground to reach some of their own goals for tehran a strong foothold in syria is a strong message to tel aviv and some of its other regional adverse rees lot of our putin proudly speaks of russia's evacuation efforts and he's which have paid off although perhaps the most important point from the russian president here and was that moscow is in possession of some intelligence that points. to peace with a chemical attack. on joint strategic goal is to eliminate the terrorists who keep trying to destabilize the situation on the ground and sabotage the peace process but they are doing this in every way possible we have obtained undeniable evidence of planned provocation by the militants with the use of chemical agents there were no questions planned but then suddenly type aired on and encouraged the audience to

ask some things and then the first question came in it was about the price that there is to pay for storing syria and a lot of my putin said that all three countries feel it's their duty to spend money on that and help syria recover but he also encouraged everyone else the entire international community to get involved in actually turn words into actions. now people in the u.s. state of michigan take on food joint nestlé of the use of ground water for both laying. off this break stay with us. for a world cup twenty eight team coverage we've signed one of the greatest goalkeepers of all time but there was one more question and by the way he's going to be our coach. guys i know you are nervous he's

a huge star among us and the huge amount of pressure come out you have to go meet the center of the beach we're told we're with you and you go through all the great game the greatest good you are the rock at the back nobody gets past you we need you to get the ball going let's go. alone and doesn't want to you know and i'm really happy to join the team for the two thousand and three and world cup in russia meet the special one i was also appreciated me to just say the review theology team's latest edition to make up a bigger. book. join me every thursday on the alex simon chill and i'll be speaking to guest of the world of politics sports business i'm showbusiness i'll see you then.

my. welcome back now students at a florida school where our mass shooting took place have spoken out against new security measures there a teenage shooter killed seventeen people at parkland high school in february where one of the survivors who joins the anti gun lobby expressed her frustration with the see through backpack which is one of the school's new safety measures students say they want well thought out changes not useless quick fixes samir khan reports. it's been almost two months since the survivors of the deadly school shooting in parkland called on the government to take action what's more important is actual action and pertinent action that results in saving thousands of children's lives but some of the initiatives taken to curtail gun violence haven't been so popular like these clear backpacks made mandatory at marjorie stoneman douglas high and by the editor of bad intentions my new backpack is almost as transparent as the end i

raise agenda i feel so safe now starting over the last quarter of senior year wright was a good old violation of privacy now i can't lie about not having gum moving on to another state and another brilliant and mission if a middle school teacher in georgia asked to dance to write a letter to congress demanding a stricter gun control yes i'm an enraged parents who complained that it was unethical to bring the issue into the school's curriculum pennsylvania has its own rather unique solution if an armed intruder attempts to gain at princeton the work class terms they will face a classroom full of students armed with rocks and they will be stoned but apparently this is plan b. the district superintendent said that the rocks were his own suggestion after scrapping plan a which was great for golf balls so it looks like those in charge of fixing the issue of gun violence seem to be using the debate to score political points and one of the best examples of this is senator marco rubio i respect their

view and recognize that many americans support certain gun bans however many other americans do not support a gun ban statements like this in makeshift solutions are perhaps not what the shooting survivors had in mind when they called for action samir khan r. t. washington d.c. . well as the david and goliath battle playing out in the u.s. state of michigan despite widespread public opposition food giant nestlé is being allowed to extract smoke drinking water from the state's groundwater table it can now extract one thousand five. hundred liters per minute which is five hundred more than previously allowed well it has sparked huge concerns about the environmental consequences eighty two thousand people voted against the corporation getting a permit to pump the water versus just seventy five years thought it was a good idea in full transparency of the majority of the public comments were in the

position of the permit but most of them related to issues of public policy which are not and should not be part of an administrative problem and decision opposition goes back to two thousand and one when nestlé was first sued for potential damage to lakes rivers and streams and as a result the company had to limit its water extraction people in michigan are once again voicing their concerns. he says when we moved here you can see that there is no or no growth either side nestle has a reputation worldwide. going to perp or rural communities are free markets of economic benefit to the community that never really materialized. and taking as much water as they can get in the stream runs dry they believe the nestlé contractor who receives the permits says it will carefully review the agreement and will comply with all its requirements michigan environmental council says the water

extraction is going to be highly monitored. if they do pump and the level of the water goes down this is something that groups like our own could take nestle to court and have the courts and force the permit we make sure that no nobody takes too much water out of the river so that it so that it runs dry or everything so that's why they're going to monitor the flow and make sure that that slope maintains a healthy low and in cases where if the stream flow starts to drop then they're required to turn back their wells and turn them down so it's going to be very closely monitored withdrawal and if we do see that impact happening then we'll be asking state officials to to avoid the permit and make west make nestle turn the wells off. thank you for choosing r.t. international theophanous day morning headlines and we'll be back in about thanks to minutes but the latest thing event.

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welcome to alex salmond who having completed our chile tea on the future of islands and europe we now turn our sights on the two other celtic nations in these islands scotland and wales in the last half century scottish politics has been transformed starting with the victory of that very special lady when a friend margaret ewing and i by legs. and how milton and one nine hundred sixty seven from having no parliament and little distinctive scottish voice the united kingdom scotland has moved democratically to the very brink of independence i was the special guest this week has been active in politics right that period and not from only one vantage point but from that of three different political parties none s.n.p. member of the scottish parliament alex's interview with alex new demonstrates that he's lost none of his ability to rebel from the party line as he charged three forward for scotland but first let's have a look at your tweets your messages and your emails gillie says alex i'm unsure

with political perspectives is very important in order to analyze in a critical way very serious issues we then heard from honey harper who says watch my first show this week and i'm not likely to miss one in the future please to hear that heidi but a couple of e-mails first from david sharp who says i love the show alex it's good that you've got a good diversity of people who appear all the based and finally from in bruce hi alex i'm really enjoying the show how about an interview with david taman apart from being a great actor he's been an avid supporter of independence for many years and is also the kind of spit aid which is you know as a well run charity doing good work in scotland and across the globe keep up the good work well in i'm delighted to say that very soon alex will be interviewing david taman on the show now the part of the scottish parliament are still in the news these are the scenes from just two weeks ago when campaign is rally to protect the twenty years old institution from a brics it inspired park grab by westminster. but this is

a story which in terms of major political developments stretches back half a century closely involved for all of that pedia to even longer than alex salmond himself has been alex neil one time key member of scottish labor sometimes break with party organizer scottish government secretary and the s.n.p. backbencher in the scottish parliament alex caught up with them in scotland's capital city of at him for a. ballot deal with a member of scottish parliament form a government minister in scotland you cut your political teef and they are sure one of the hotbeds of of socialism in scotland and originally a member of the labor party so growing up in that tradition you came to prominence pretty early moved enough had to handle writing a labor party manifesto whereby well one thousand nine hundred six was the first elation i was ever involved in it was fourteen years of age and i was very inspired

by your hero hartle wilson and i actually met them for the first time when he came to eleven thousand nine hundred sixty six to address the nellie rally and i was also that year the labor candidate for dole melling to the high school mark l.h. and i won it late because i was brought up and i'm aiming community and if you are interested in politics assured are militant. you wouldn't have too much troubles away because of the. problem that you lose the main community if you're interested in politics in those days then it was a labor party those nor the party you could join and of course i joined the labor party young social as i was the chief of the labor club at university i was the first chief of the scottish and then the national organizationally bassoons then the first research officer for the labor party in scotland this was the first ever fool time research officer of the labor party in scotland so it was the scottish of

the labor party as it was. kind of very limited they will of course because of the s.n.p. success of the favorites and before the election and subsequently some different than the rule of my job in the role of the scottish labor party became much more important and for once we were listened to in london and devolution was forced on this course labor party well they wanted or not the labor party were persuaded of scotland to go for devolution against their will which is a fascinating irony absolutely held the s.n.p. more or less at bay and told them before and you of the research officer had a hand in achieving that result is underwriting the manifesto promise a powerhouse problem and but that year or two that you had decided that that wasn't going to happen and you were off to pastures new what happened well there were two things first of all the way in which the labor party ottilie really done its promise to the skin scottish people because the keel it misstated of the first

white paper on the scottish same plea was whether it would have control of the scottish development agency described in our manifesto as the media for the regeneration the scottish economy that was issue number one in scotland brazil regeneration of the economy the assembly wasn't going to get with powers and that was a major betrayal as far as i was concerned there were other betrayals but that was a major one and this was the first muted scottish assembly as it was there in modern times in the one nine hundred seventy s. being considered by the labor government because of the upsurge in support for the scottish national absolutely and the second issue was just a general wilson government under healy's chancellorship basically i think saul the jail season a lot of the promises that had been made was there the i.m.f. to the i.m.f. and the it didn't need to because the figures were false treasury and presented them what would be made even worse as a habit of the treasury absolutely which still goes on today. so that laid me along

with themselves and john roberts in the then lee but m.p. for peacefully to decide that the time had come was the labor party member for sofia a john roberts in for paisley and you were the research officer of the labor party so you're actually employed by the labor party here while you were plotting i. would describe a breakaway no i resigned immediately for never be decided to do it i resigned within a day or two from the labor party if possible one of all of them to do well we were plotting anything until the white people came out which was the let must pass that the litmus tests and therefore it was very quick i mean we met in jim's host with mobile phone who you knew who was the p.r. advisor to the labor party in scotland at the time very highly respected journalist in scotland and they resigned from the labor party but well two things happened one of the wasn't a general election. and secondly your party drifted into some tub

that waters the problem was two fold number one obviously come along and therefore the wasn't election and by the time the election came the same piece incredibility had condoned we suffered from lot and also the international markets had by then infiltrated the s. and p. and b. sickly as an organization that losses of effectiveness and the seventy nine election which of course margaret thatcher triumphed and yet the labor party were defeated the assembly legislation which had gone through the commons albeit fairly heavily butcher and then had a had a majority vote in favor of the one nine hundred seventy nine referendum and settlement but that was just not to be in a large enough majority because of an amendment put forward by george coming i'm a liberal m.p. as we were subsequently found dreamt up by robin cook

a very famous labor. m.p. was a blocking mechanism and margaret thatcher's government decided that they could they could afford politically to the effect of the vast of us on the end of ironic these days where we're told that fifty one or fifty two percent referendum a satirist yet it wasn't so and ninety seven i know it was totally wrecked the rules were reg to mean forty percent included people who were tagged because it was such a high threshold the way the electoral register was done in those days that effectively dead people voted against the same plea that was the native fate of this is because they were ordinal register and in fact the winter of discontent added to that those who had to be removed from that i had exactly and people would be registered twice to get there not the it wasn't a not the postal vote register them so on and so forth there's a lot of people who couldn't vote for perfectly legitimate reasons either because they were registered in the wrong place didn't get a post of all or as you say were dead well that effect of the counted as being

against those i absolutely i mean a these days if you had done the late talk commission and there was these new we that would have passed the only two commissions taste of a field where or whatever some people are going to jail under the circumstances that we saw there you know in the aftermath of the one nine hundred seventy nine election you're basically looking at what resembled a political desert the result and that is to say that there simply a loss to some protested being cut back to two m.p.'s so as a lost his seat and so fierce the s.l.p. was a factor with the front yard to margaret thatcher was into the commons of a healthy majority leader and no sign of progress towards scottish government so what it all it will do then yeah you can refile before i actually joined the number of years before i joined the same people because i actually through a stage of losing interest in politics and certainly losing interest in active politics and also at that time there was us there so there. space of the same piece

didn't appeal to me i think it's been transformed from easiest one to your own leadership and therefore it took me longer before i joined i also had moved job and it was actually difficult for me job wise to become a member of the s.n.p. certainly transparently a member of the s.n.p. but eventually i did join the s.n.p. not just joined but by ninety eight i your demands an s.n.p. candidate a byelection lascaux the glasgow same troll byelection and that was an experience i'd never for inhalation in glasgow before the marshall audience should of all the glasgow but thirty or forty miles apart but what is a part of costs often bought in the same political that actually up and vote left of center that doesn't mean the same place does or not talk glasgow politics is unique to glasgow and so the time of the ninety ninety two election you were

playing quite an instrumental role in the s. and p's co you'd promoted me to be in charge of the party's publicity whether you know it i don't know what a difficult session of. that it was it was a very interesting campaign always because it was a campaign one thousand eight hundred two which promised much delivered much less not promised a lot still the campaign never been able to find in history with a political party managed to put on fifty percent of the resort absolutely but lost the seat exactly absolutely to be fear the one of the seats where most with the seat who of course hadn't stood or won the election as an ace in p.n.p. but obviously the last government push was a big loss psychologically and the success of the election in increasing a seat of the vote from the previous fourteen percent to twenty two percent of course was lost in the media but that form the basis and the platform for building

up you know. the party organization and by the time we moved into the late ninety's we were now much stronger position and then looking back i think we would be used the phrase that i did in the we are dead and when the free by ninety three everybody to afford the authorship of the three but if i if we is president under an illicit us phrase absolute was actually one meal is not alexai it's absolutely and the context of that was in answer to a question about the single market single european market because my view as an economist was that if scotland didn't get a palm and at the very least it was very strong and free to forward so an economic policy going into the single market with those tools at our disposal would present real challenges the scottish economy so we might roll on to the one thousand one thousand nine elections where the s.n.p. mounted this fuss probably substantial absolutely schilens to the labor party in

a general election this case a scottish general election one to ninety nine and your rival in the in the scottish parliament as a list member for the wessel school for central scotland what was it like to arrive as one of that group of i think about thirty seven s.n.p. m.p. well it was thirty five but it was fantastic because this was the fust ever democratically elected scottish parliament and to be a member of it i think is something that well you've got only one of one hundred twenty nine so it's a very unique club to be n. and of course of no say of the nearly eighteen year olds in the scottish parliament so you're one of the original members there's a tenuous membership from the. well let's choose the. the winner using phrase census reconvening yes in one thousand nine hundred ninety and yourself continuously.