well it's not just the white helmets videos that are raising questions the group's also come under fire from the pink floyd co-founder roger waters for trying to lobby his supporters in the syrian conflict some time ago the so-called syria campaign which is linked to the white helmets sent the musician an e-mail inviting him to a fund raising dinner the same message he was also encouraged to watch a documentary about the group however mr waters had his doubts i was quite suspicious ofter i was invited to that white helmets dinner now my worst suspicions have been confirmed in the face of it it felt horrible that the white helmets were just good people doing good things but now we know they're trying to encourage the west to drop bombs and missiles illegally in syria just last week a day before he was due to give a show in barcelona waters was contacted by a french journalist allegedly working for the white helmets the reporter asked for a few moments on stage to deliver

a message to the children of syria as to what has declined that request as well and instead hit out at the white helmets during his concert. korean propaganda you heard this. week with this to the propaganda of the point the mets and others we would be encouraged to encourage our governments to go and start dropping. syria. we contacted the white helmets for comment in the meantime we've spoken to john list on r.t. contributor max blumenthal he's another one roger waters handed his e-mails to. i've known roger waters for several several years he said that he had just grown so frustrated watching the white helmets footage and duma being cited by the us government in the u.k. government pretty much as their only source as their only source of intelligence to justify bombing a sovereign country that he decided to criticize this organization publicly to warn

against its all teary or sectarian agenda this should be the stuff of a national scandal in the us the united states government has provided at least twenty three million dollars to the state department to the white helmets while the white helmets work hand in glove with jab it allness row which is the syrian affiliate of the organization that attacked the united states on nine eleven al qaeda and that is considered a conspiracy in the united states although it's well established so you know i hope that this is that rogers broken the ice here but western media appears to be completely closed off to the facts about the white helmets a joint strike on syria led by the u.s. came not long off the president promised me promising rather to pull american troops out of the country however there are now reports of a new force being assembled in the event of a u.s. withdrawal but i guess different points to leave with the state

it's a tough one. i want to get out i want to bring our troops back home i want to start rebuilding our nation we are in syria fight isis that is our mission and the mission isn't over and we're going to complete that mission america says it wants out of syria but not before its goals are accomplished which could take a while and get real dirty what do you do well that's what friends are for we have asked our partners to take greater responsibility for securing their home region saudi arabia it seems has volunteered for the difficult task of sending troops to sit on oil fields in eastern syria apparently saudi arabia has been volunteering pretty hard and pretty long we're in discussions with the us and have been since the beginning of the syrian crisis about sending forces into

syria now here's the thing those arab troops would have to be trained the u.s. could do it but no not after what happened last time all the last times the iraqi forces just showed no will to fight. they were not outnumbered by in fact they vastly outnumbered the opposing force and yet they failed to fight they withdrew from the site we have an issue with the will of the iraqis to fight i saw and defend themselves so if the pentagon doesn't want to get involved there's conveniently a third option erik prince mercenaries and soldier of fortune extraordinaire the founder of blackwater yes the blackwater the infamous private military company who is operations in iraq resulted in it being banned from

the country only to really. and a new name but i never even heard that. they were dead bodies everywhere and this is the knowledge but it's going to be with you people and it's not among the dead bodies lying on the street that's. the middle of next seven years knowing that.

prince was out of sight for a while before resurfacing on the trump whom he donated a quarter of a million dollars to prince says officials in the middle east have already contacted him about assembling a force for syria and with john bolton as the new national security adviser one of the most radically militant talks in washington no one's going to care about prince's shady past john bolton is here we just had a big. it's a win win if you are unwilling to occupy a hostile desert and a country that doesn't want you there well privatized it give your buddies a chance to make a quick buck after all isn't that what friends are for we discussed the issue with brian becker from the antiwar coalition. the american government is

telling the american people look we're going to go to war in syria it's imperative that we do so it's imperative that we occupy or our proxies under our guidance occupy these other countries but don't worry americans won't do any leading the suffering the bleeding will be done by others the real function of us troops in northern and eastern syria or if they are replaced by a nato arabs of military force the saudis so to speak organized by erik prince they will be nothing other than a trip wire allowing the us to buy either through bombs or missiles against any force including the sovereign syrian arab army that seemed to interfere with the american zone of influence in the northern and eastern part of syria. almost three decades have passed since the worst of a disaster in british sporting history the hillsborough tragedy left ninety six liverpool football fans dead after they were crushed to death during

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twenty foster in moscow it's been revealed that facebook's making changes to move the bulk of its users out of the e.u. is legal reach weeks before the block plans to enforce strict new privacy rules nearly one point five billion accounts will be switched from the platforms international headquarters in ireland to its main offices in california that means they will come under u.s. regulations but the move affects some seventy percent of all facebook users from regions like africa asia and latin america the transition will be completed before the new e.u. data protection all takes effect on the twenty fifth of may it imposes requirements on how users data is collected and how it's handled the fines can reach up to four percent of the company's global revenue which for facebook could mean more than a billion dollars a social media giant though has played down the importance of the user data which

we've been clear that we are offering everyone who uses facebook the same previously protections controls incensing no matter where they live these updates do not change that the developments come as the website is still reeling from a massive data breach scandal involving the political research group cambridge analytic as the result eighty seven million facebook users had their personal information compromised and the company's c.e.o. was called to testify in front of congress and the bugs notes from those hearings show he was advised to avoid saying the platform already complies with the new e.u. previously law they also didn't include any mention of the company expanding those protections worldwide but we discussed facebook's privacy policy with the co-founder of iceland's pirate party but i get to john's daughter she things users are still not informed enough about who's really unwilling that data. when mark sokolich says that you know the users can control what they're doing is completely

a lie because people don't know about it as we have user agreements that are you know figure than the bible when you have companies that are forced and there are so pick that they're also forced to give government data and they also sell the data or actually know the dance of the data to sell you you are the product you are not aware of how these things work and they're so big that they are not even in control over that it themselves then you have big problems nobody knows what's how these algorithms work who feeds them what is being put into them and i think that we need to actually instead of focusing on this current narrative of you know new cold war we should be focusing on how do we learn to be in this space because we are going to be in this space and how we're going to be protected and i think we need to start to break these huge corporate sectors apart because they play such

a crucial role in our democracies and when you have people like mark second and eric smith believing that all the problems you know in the world are going to be solved by algorithms we are in the trouble it's not just facebook struggling with confidentiality issues and you opportunity to make other bitcoin digital currency more stable could mean a tradeoff over user privacy and the process id argo has details one of bitcoins most valuable traits is its anonymity sure there is a ledger of transactions but you can't determine who they belong to but now tech giant amazon could be taking it all away courtesy a brand new amazon patent the idea is to create what's called a data marketplace who will take.