johnson under fire after foreign office deletes porton down tweet that we have just been talking about and certainly that changes the story and puts the pressure back on boris johnson and no longer questioning whether or not possibly britain has been moving slightly too quickly in this whole case and one question that arises there is whether the times of muslim fallen under pressure coming. from their own british colleagues here on. the sideline completely wrong there should be nothing has changed when it caves is vladimir putin a master bully to fire in the informational propaganda war. while the russian foreign minister in his latest comments on this whole saga has said that this whole situation really puts into question ethics and law let's take a listen to that. record in particular there were. we haven't seen such an open mockery of international law diplomatic ethics and basic manners in

a long time it's unacceptable to push unfounded accusations instead of an honest investigation which is in the famous book by lewis carroll the queen demands to first sentence the defendant and only after that listen to the jury's verdict to find out whether he's guilty or not it's about after all lewis carroll wrote using the genre of fairy tales which are talks of the hague demonstrates that self-respect in adults do not believe in fairy tales. well while russia is certainly still waiting around to see some evidence or facts or proof in this whole case let's keep in mind that it's already been a whole month since the poisoning of sir paul and his daughter when they were found on march fourth on a bench. and since then events have been unraveling very very quickly obviously accusations against russia started flying almost as soon as his name was revealed and his background of being a me and the agents at some point for both russia and then working for britain lots

of immediately very serious steps were taken by the british officials while russia was still asking for cooperation and for metion and some kind of revelations about where the certainty of russia's guilt comes from but what has unraveled instead of that so far is of course a major diplomatic row that it is probably the biggest we have seen between russia and the u.k. certainly in years that is yet to see some kind of tangible outcome as of course we're now seeing this gridlock and it's not clear how the situation will move forward until some proof is provided for cooperation with russia begins that it has been asking for this whole time. you know a whole lot of talking not a whole lot of this coming but the other way there for now though honestly to check in west london thanks for that update where you are. the international chemical weapons watch told the o.p.c. w. met on wednesday over the script russia proposed a joint investigation but i did it was rejected. we will not agree to russia's demands to conduct a joint investigation into the attack in salzburg because the u.k.

has assessed that it is highly likely that the russian state is responsible for this attack and that there is no plausible alternative explanation there's no requirement in the chemical weapons convention for a victim to engage the likely perpetrator in a joint investigation to do so would be perverse. unfortunately we didn't manage to get the needed two thirds of votes for the resolution to pass obviously the brits and americans voted against and then some e.u. member states and u.s. allies followed suit they fear the truth they fear to take responsibility for their words blatant accusations for provocative statements from the head of u.k. diplomacy. u.k.'s representative to the o p c w set out more claims against russia at that meeting linking this couple poisoning case to the chemical attack in the syrian town of contra kuhn last year that attack led the u.s. to take military actions against syrian government positions and claim that russia

had called wednesday's meeting in the hague to make a political point. chemistry professor dave called him says that the nerve agent believed to be used in cells brain is not the whole to produce the chemistry that was being claimed to be unique. i basically claimed it was not there really remarkably simple compounds and they're all very similar so they all have basically a phosphorus group with four groups attached they all have an oxygen and a fluorine which are invariant and so so the trick is to get the other two groups in and i would say that the ones that i've looked at which is at least a dozen of them they could be made in two or three steps by pretty much any organic chemist in my opinion which is why this notion that it's specialized russian technology i peg the needle on that and said now it's not you might die trying to make that my you would need special equipment to keep yourself from getting a dose of the stuff but there's. there's ways to do that for about twenty or thirty thousand dollars so there's nothing. bottom except for not killing yourself it's

a very simple modifications you could almost imagine making one by mistake which would be a catastrophic moment for that chemists but that but there you know i could give a problem a set in my first year grad course how would you make these and the students would all get it. you know the news facebook has admitted that the scale of a data breach of its accounts that was used for political purposes has turned out to be following two of them previously thought the tech giant says that the profiles of up to eighty seven million people could have been shared with the data research cambridge analytical under-estimate said it was 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 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 now we do know

that facebook is now in the process of changing their apps and so that certain apps are more protected and 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 that it's certainly true that the reputation of this very widely used social media app is is severely tarnished we also internet nor exploit yet cohen and media analyst timothy kafir that he's on the facebook take a scandal number generally the guys denying the figure they claim there 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 the old story about what about the use of intimate robots as we call them books. in order to meddle with the newest selections knows their bills there is a little bit out of there a little bit ridiculous nobody's talking about it but it was very interesting to

hear. a couple of weeks ago. almost apologizing for allowing them to leave the boxes today that it was then being used to influence election is the this story was about influencing election but by. rather than access the news as they've done locally this is a company that route so rapidly now 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. albums with their own oversight but i think 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 who own google and other popular platforms. it seems the presence of american troops in syria has become something of a confusing issue even for washington last week donald trump announced that he wants a withdrawal to happen very soon but reports 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 trumps backpedaling promising a decision on the matter 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 grid of isis we've almost completed that task and will be making a decision very quickly to pull the troops out say i want to get out i want to

bring the troops back home i want to start rebuilding our nation the question of america's withdrawal from syria was raised at a summit between russia turkey and iran tehran expressed its skepticism of washington's plans. the united states is one thing one day and then a completely different thing the next so we cannot trust the words around actionis it seems they want to benefit from syria as much as possible the main focus of that ankara summit was to discuss a peace plan for syria and despite some differences the russian iranian a turkish leaders found some common ground as they get to trying to 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 five buried on keep saying that his country won't tolerate any armed kurdish militias in northern syria so the so-called branch continues 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 is strong foothold in syria is a strong message to tel aviv and some of its other regional adverse reese. prouty speaks of russia's evacuation efforts in east 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 plans by some radicals to destroy the road 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 top aired on and encouraged the audience to ask some things and then the first question came it was about the price that there is to pay for doring 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 this is all to the people of the u.s. state of michigan to taking on the food giant nestlé of the use of their ground water. story after the break.

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there's a david and goliath battle playing out in the u.s. state of michigan right now and despite widespread public opposition the food giant nestlé is being allowed to extract more drinking water from the state groundwater table it can now extract around fifteen hundred liters per minute that's around five hundred more than was previously allowed now that has sparked huge concerns about the environmental consequences for all this a poll shows this quite clearly nearly eighty one thousand people didn't want to extract more of the water versus around the seventy five who said it was ok but that was ignored with the authorities saying the poll was irrelevant and didn't apply to their policies include transparency the majority of the public comments were in the position of the permit but most of them related to public policy which

are not and should not be part of an administrative permit decision. opposition to this goes back to two thousand and one when nestlé was first sued for potential damage to lakes rivers and streams as a result the company had to limit water extraction. once again voicing their concerns. this is when we moved here you can see that there is no no growth on either side leslie has a reputation worldwide of going to her poor rural communities are offering the kinds of economic benefits to the community that never really materialized. and taking as much water as they can get and when a stream runs dry they leave the nestlé contract to receive the permit says it will carefully review the agreement and will comply with all of its requirements but you can environmental council says the water extraction is going to be monitored if they do pump in that but one 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 flow maintains a healthy well and in cases where 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 talk boyd to curb it and make us make nestle turn the wells off. students of the florida school west seventeen people were killed by a teenager in february are speaking out against new security measures that one survivor who joined the anti gun lobby expressed her frustration at a 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 correct. hayle gun violence haven't been so popular like these clear backpacks made mandatory at marjorie stoneman douglas high idea that people are 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 i have seen a year right with 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 students 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 any of

our classrooms they will face a classroom full of students armed with rocks and they will be stoned but apparently this is plan b. b. 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 views 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. and that's the way i look so far the softening thanks very much for watching on caller brought back with thirty five minutes for your next global update from off to you.

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edition to make up a bigger. look. they've been waiting. for a long time because it talking about the knowledge that this world reserve currency countries are tired of funding america's wars because ever there's got to be trainer in dollars including oil to buy oil got to buy dollars first that means america gets a commission to ease that money a wage wars all over the world. greetings and salutations privacy is dead or watchers i wish i was speaking metaphorically since the rise of the security industrial complex in the aftermath of nine eleven

really seen our constitutionally protected rights to privacy evaporate like pints after the latest football match tragically some folks are perfectly comfortable with this batting. and i when the n.s.a. scoops up their metadata phone calls all for the sake of national security see those folks prefer safety over privacy but would you feel just as comfortable and safe if a foreign government rather than your own was listening in on your private calls and reading your texts and subsistence living here in washington d.c. are now asking themselves after u.s. authorities have acknowledged that authorize cell phone spying devices are potentially being used on the good folks living here in the nation's capital and a letter to u.s. senator ron wyden the democrat out of oregon the department of homeland security revealed that the d.h.s.s. national protection programs directorate has observed anomalous activity in the

national capital region that appears to be consistent with international mobile subscriber identity captures what all that godly group means is yes foreign or criminally operated sting rays have descended upon washington d.c. and quite frankly i wish i was talking about the cartilage and especially now i'm talking sting rays and devices like them you may remember simulate cell towers in order to capture mobile device signals and the devices these sting rays depending on their sophistication can do everything from eavesdrop on your calls to plant malware on your phone now if that upsets you make sure you're sitting down because the united states government as of now isn't planning to do anything about it let's find out why as we start watching the hawks.

like you know that i got. well the watching the hawks i am a robot and i'm top of the list and where probably being listened to right now i would imagine i get this feeling that i got like thousands upon thousands of people watching and listening to me right now why would that be i have no idea anyway but wow do you see sting rays all over the place a perfectly well without them couldn't entirely shop i mean it isn't as if this is a farm town so it's a good point that's a very good point is a very good point yeah i mean one of the bigger things when you look at it is you know this this is a city that is full. of soldiers active duty military you know we've got the

pentagon the n.s.a. the cia the f.b.i. and pretty much all of the contractors from within that apparatus and all the pieces of it so it's not that odd to understand that there are a ton of people in in this city that are very tech savvy that are savvy of their own privacy even if they don't think about a large scale so they probably do have two phones or they do have certain things but for the rest of d.c. they're sort of unsuspecting masses. who knows and we don't know that this is just spying on some sort of foreign policy issue like you say you know embassies we don't know that it's it's just as this is criminal organizations to and who knows when suddenly your credit card or whatever is an intercepted yeah you know and there can be fact and if you're talking to the banker on your phone and you're giving up your of the social security number that you're at the something's someone's recording it boops guess what they will have the and they said that you are you know they said we were talking about earlier today that a lot of these things they can't pinpoint who's doing it or where but they can say

that you know most likely it would be you know at an embassy so they could monitor calls and people walking up to the embassy or something like that i would be actually reasonable depends invasive but you could you could make an argument for it but what's really interesting is you know why isn't the united states taking action why are we seeing an outrage over this you know why are we seeing people say why homeland security i'm covered that there's you know these sting rays they're scooping up some of your potentially cell phone towers all over town well they're not shutting down the stigma raising devices like them because one it's a very expensive process for the major wireless network providers to upgrade their systems in order to combat this problem and so the phones don't do all the thinking that you know listening devices the cell tower. yes there are business doesn't like the cost so much the other big pushback comes from our own law enforcement intelligence agencies because they use the same technology here is stateside and if suddenly the so-called towers and all those industries upgrade to where they

susceptible to. the law enforcement loses their ability to spot so it's ok to soccer players are privacy to foreign governments as long as we keep the ability to spy on you as well. as the logic of place. and there's the idea that it's you know he said when it comes to your to your security what will you give up you know what will we give up and this in the idea of security so now here you're sitting you know looking at these options and as you said it's why does everyone else get to do this. or i can you know put a bunch of cameras up and protect myself in a way that i want to but they're allowed to and shady corporations and possibly shady governments that have embassies all of this stuff well according to a.p. lawmakers they've been inquiring about the use of these to graze for quite some time in washington d.c. i think we've even talked about it on this show over the years of them doing because security company researchers

a security company researchers back in twenty fourteen had conducted these sweeps and found an authorized devices these on authorized sting rays and they weren't just anywhere it wasn't just a it was around the corner from my house it was around the corner from the white house like it was literally near the white house the print court commerce department of the pentagon. so there was a twenty fourteen if you remember the federal communications commission started the task force into the illicit use of sting rays nothing has come from that they're a fan no reports there's no memos there's nothing maybe someday it'll go to what the task force. boy that is some does taskmaster good work guys four years later well we got nothing but anyway you know who he didn't know but with with a. great job sixty create jobs. there's no guarantee of a successful prosperous career quite like a four year or better yet graduate college education that was the an arguable premise of college boosting programs like the g.i.

bill and is the foundation of both modern college prep school curriculums and the stunningly profitable college test prep industry and now not only has college enrollment ballooned to historic levels and the most basic office assistant positions on linked in requiring a bachelor's degree at minimum we have allowed an entire generation of americans to shackle themselves to an ever growing college loan bubble now totaling over a trillion dollars but we're pushing young students more and more forcefully into the college this system and enticing them with a loan package is worth more than your average home mortgage are we forgetting about their much more basic survival needs it appears so as a recent study finds that thirty six percent of u.s. college students struggle to even afford food while thirty six percent can't afford a place to live or face the constant risk of having to sleep on the streets with but is the question watchers is a college education really worth putting a third of generations eat on the brink of homelessness and hunger who know no more

what but it's a college education so you give those bootstraps. if you have to don't star. a certain sort of star and be homeless because you can't pay to read just so you can go to school there's something inherently wrong with that it's supposed to be out there something wrong with a system that and we've talked about a couple days now in a row or so you're talking about teachers not getting paid why would you grade teacher is why would you not pay to have a good teacher is that silly why would you do that and now here we are the next day going and they don't know if you're going to education mcanany the third. no it overturned first serve as well now and that's really you know this is the third that's that's that's a big slice of the poem i don't know if you know this but you need food to make your brain works so you need sleeves to make your brain works the can learn i mean crazy ideas. are at risk of not having a place to live what you're going to school what they want you to live out of your car well that's illegal the old california believe it right if you got it live out

of about your car there anymore it is really incredible yes and then when you look at it wasn't just the sort of ambiguous because i know a lot of times with these reports we've talked about these studies where the number is like all this thing at risk and it's really not it's pretty ambiguous no no they went down to the tiniest portion of this and they didn't just qualify quantify just the idea of risk they showed that reports that ninety percent nine percent of u.s. college students found themselves homeless and the past year that's almost ten percent of college kids and that's six percent were first forced to go at least one whole day without food now if you're going to set or a got while you can go a day without food you do it goes through your whole day don't have any food then go to work and then come home and get up and do it again and see how long the idea of the you have these are young adults their brains are growing this is where you're supposed to be learning and it's at its big parts because it's expensive you

have a choice do i pay my two.