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 off that what happened last time all the last times 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 eighth option erik prince mercenaries

and soldier of fortune extraordinaire the founder of blackwater yes v. blackwater the infamous private military company who is operations in iraq resulted in it being banned from the country only to reemerge and a new name. for the birth or. they were dead bodies everywhere in this argument going about it with two people inside among the dead bodies lying on the street that's which of course is the building of seven years old.

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 minutes and talks in washington no one's going to care about prince's shady past john bolton this year 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 while privatized it give your buddies a chance to make a quick buck off the rule isn't that what friends are for. what a gaseous reporting now it's been revealed that facebook is making changes move the bulk of its uses out of the huge legal reach weeks before the block plans to him for street view privacy rules nearly one point five billion accounts we switch from the platforms international h.q. in ireland to its main offices in california and that means they will come under u.s. regulations well the move affects some seventy percent of all facebook users from regions like africa asia and also latin america the transition will be completed before the new e.u. data protection laws take effect on the twenty fifth of may it imposes requirements on how users data is collected and also how it's handled and the fines can reach up

to four percent of a company's global revenue which for facebook could mean more than a billion dollars or the social media giant has played down the importance of the user data switch. with being clear that we are offering everyone who uses facebook the same previously protections controls and settings no matter where they live these updates do not change that well these developments to come as the website is still reeling from a massive data breach scandal involving the political research group cambridge analytical as a 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 mark zuckerberg notes from those hearings show he was advised to avoid saying the platform already complies with the new e.u. previously law and 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 the iceland pirate party thinks that uses

a still not informed enough about who's really handling their data. when mark zuckerberg says that you know the users can't control what they're doing it's 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 big that they're also forced to give government data and they also sell the data or actually know that and so the data to sell you your 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 the how these are written to work who feeds them what has been 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 zuckerberg and eric smith believe me about all the problems you know in the world are going to be solved by algorithms we are in a trial. that has been almost three decades since the worst ever disaster in british sporting history the hillsborough tragedy left ninety six little pool football fans dead after they were crushed during a game when the stand they were in became dangerously overcrowded with stan collymore has been speaking to the sister of one of the victims. hillsborough did just tied up rather it took my parents the books family. it wasn't just one thing. and it's not my dad's. house so

a little bit of crowd now while we were out. so i just. we ended up going to the boys' club. the only way i can describe the place is how. literally. every so often this place officer would stand on a chair and i everybody recognizes you recognize the strainers anybody recognize this of a moment oh well didn't want to look because he didn't want to pay your last one so you were to scared to look anyway i said roy this whole paper and the face of aids oh it's come along. it's only because mr brooks also has it down to look like anything you just remember him to look a much upset. people not you couldn't work out whether the buffet mylo mio there were unrecognizable i might markdowns go through that boat for

a time. did you feel when you when you know. it's not that it's not that. recent going to die. when you know. what was said about them was always we know it was said about them. that we drew they were to keep place on the phone in that again. and that's what we fought for for twenty six year that is metro it beside pride. and you can actually watch that interview in full in stunt show which will broadcast in about ten minutes time you're watching our international we'll be back with more news just after the break.

i played for many clubs over the years so i know the game inside guides. football isn't only about what happens on the pitch for the final school it's about the passion from the fans it's the age of the super money kill the narrowness and spending to get to the twenty million and one player. it's an experience like nothing else i want to because i want to share what i think of what i know about the beautiful guy

a great so one more chance with. and thinks it's going to. welcome back to r.t. now with the relations between russia and the us going through severe turbulence at present it does seem travel could be the latest sector caught in the wake the few remaining direct flights between the countries could be grounded after russian pilots are finding it increasingly difficult to get necessary visas will mr sethi joins us now with more details on this good afternoon isha so just how serious a situation is this well crewmembers from the russian airline aeroflot are facing increasing difficulties getting american visas to the extent where passengers may face difficulties getting direct flights to and from both countries the russian foreign ministry has said that the situation is getting dismal.

travel between our countries may even be stopped they are flawed the only airline with regular flies between russia and the united states might be forced to cancel them since the crews are experiencing growing problems with getting u.s. visas. this is all because the visa application process has been lengthened the waiting period for an interview with the u.s. consulate in russia has been extended it's been lengthened from eighty five days to two hundred fifty days so that's the official waiting time eight months and it's not just crew members that this is affected but in response the u.s. consulate in russia has said that the issuing of the marriage and pieces can't be guaranteed because of a lot of stuff but it's also affected leading ballerina all smitten over her daunce partner they were meant to perform in new york but this was denied out the last minutes because the u.s. authorities said they didn't have time to arrange the documents now these are top

dances from moscow's bolshoi theater and it's also affected russian restless as well and the u.s. embassy in moscow didn't schedule that interviews for members of the freestyle wrestling team in time because of this this meant that they missed out on an international competition but i'm looking ahead to the world cup now russia is of course preparing for the fee for world cup tournament in june and over one million tickets have been sold say far but interestingly enough the u.s. hold the largest number of ticket sales outside of russia that's eighty thousand fans that are going to be coming hopefully to russia for the world cup so great number of people are looking forward to celebrating the tournament and want an obstacle like this to get in their way ahead of the sporting twins but if there are regular flights then yes of course this could be a problem but only last month the u.s. airline delta stopped direct flights to and from moscow leaving aeroflot as the leading carrier with regular flights to and from both countries the russian foreign

ministry though has said in a statement that these these obstacles were regrettable and that they're happy to welcome americans and happy to welcome international spectators to russia ahead of the world cup. ok thanks. michelle i was finished in moscow. now the u.k. government is setting up a special russia task force comprising of several senior employees that will counter perceived threats from moscow it does come amid the current diplomatic spat between the two countries over the poisoning of a former double agent and his daughter let's get the details on this one now from deraa today and she joins us from our u.k. studios good afternoon again india so just tell us what exactly is this task force trying to achieve well this committee consists of very high profile politicians a group of them and at the helm of that committee is the chairman of the foreign affairs committee his name is tom a toucan heart he's not minced his words about the president of russia he's

claiming that the u.k. should target everyone who supports flood emir putin all and all his gangster regime so it's clear that he's not a fan of putin but he has also during the interview stated here he is a fan of we could have a quick listen i hope of who that is would be great to be pm yeah it would be great to be foreign secretary fantastic would be great to be defense secretary wonderful would it be great to be a minister and yes. ok so what you heard there was actually his aspirations of his career path which he also talked about during that interview and it looks like he was willing to put his hand on any job so the person i was talking about that he was interested in and did say that he was praising was the saudi prince mohammed bin and he was praising for being innovative and transforming saudi

arabia so let's look at a more serious note the tensions between the u.k. and russia have been exacerbated by the script poisoning. london is insisting that u.k. is behind the attack and that moscow is denying any involvement and they're asking the u.k. for proof of firm proof that before continue with the accusations now the task force it looks like now it's been specifically set up to combat the russian threat it looks like those diplomatic relations will only be going downhill from now on. through ok thanks and to do that was artie's and. in the. now it's not just these kind of poisoning that moscow has been accused off western powers have been saying claims russia's support that allowed the syrian president to use chemical weapons on civilians will his the russian foreign minister described the situation. for you because we've presented our evidence

continually it's based on facts with illustrations pictures interviews of particular people in turn our counterparts just state that they possess evidence no matter if it's the alleged doom incident this solves we case and many others so put the facts out and then we'll be able to have a professional conversation otherwise it will just end up in a collector's edition named highly likely and that would be all so. now finally this hour they might be relics of the space race but they are still of huge interest to the generation a group of which risked arrest by breaking into the baikonur cosmodrome in kazakhstan to take a closer look at the past. you

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on the first day of the by. little coldplay not sing in forest in an f. i quote semifinal. nine six football fans dog. to die in the ways brooks is brought under. a pseudonym a profound tells us her story all i do like to be joined by a woman that. just twenty nine years now i wish it wasn't under these circumstances and i wish we'd have met in a new the law is very similar we both like to yack about what we recently more twenty years since the hillsborough disaster your brother and the dog who was.

always stood on the coal always stood on the car and it was oh so let's say the football pitch in front of us not. to the rowing exactly where. i'm on the save a the answer is where all the question wasn't like when did you get the first inkling that something wasn't right well marked out kind from work. but outside come out oreo said this trouble and i said what. i didn't read. that's how i. was in any trouble we're mid-afternoon it's playing out on television . like so the difference between then and now i would again as a football fan as the all would have been. without brady in coming where i'm from just on the road it would have been all in the televisions and radio television. is that you're aware of something well that is happening well everybody you know. i

mean we have mobile phones in. london was ringing off the hook but i think i answered the phone and one brother went with super this statement john and then with another. call pay. and she went oh yeah she said. jones just phoned and said. countries think i was texas after texas midnight run but it's pandemonium and texaco gets. it have asked me to pass a message or so is that people relate. funder's walked in the lines told my mom and we all all day children adults say thank the lord for the ten minutes like the phone rang again i. have to answer the phone again. with joan and he said oh you know. he said texas may see

a new one. i said you just tell me he's with you she went he's missed and we can't go into but don't worry. because it could be someone he could been shot walking the straight. so i go back into the. crowd at night when you're. sober i just go. oh so the look i'm with them without strikes with. an already played that when i went in and told him not. i think what i was obviously wrong then is my doubts. and then for this best friend one of the president said to five.

and then we like and we left from the script i have to come sometime just africa found him and we drive up to sheffield. grove to go to sheffield which. i would draw a vote imagine. if we got there ten o'clock and we went to patches. and we said you know where to meet. and i said oh you know. where the northern general. discovered such a long covered so i got scenarios typos to paper and i asked just gave. out identification and describe. another. trial i think alan scherr all the boys club we ended up going to the boys club. the only

way i can just plight is how. literally. they were the people in. much just about. every so often these police officers would stand on a chair and got everybody recognizes. a shrine is anybody recognize this a moment we'll get him one look because he didn't want to pay your loved ones are getting scared to look anyway. my dad went. when he. gave andreas now and description and. they said roy given this. paper dollar and a place of its own way to go along the. same because i can assure you mr brooks also isn't going to look like anything you just remembered him to look

tight. they went through the bold print going down. to the ends of the bolts when. he's not and metatron nice so that when i said no. go back. and go so i were. went back again. nothing there is no that. just give it one more time go back to guy i might upset. people i'm not bored you couldn't work with the buffet my lol my oh they were in rec you know it's a bow. so they were about their time still no stain and then about. six steps wide there was a desk in a corner and i was into the placement. and this police officer don't vary the board with when six foot steps to this guy oh yeah it was ok.

to be left alone i made my dads go through. that board three times. and she was one of the most photographed people. every bit of every photo how did you feel when you when you're still looking it's not that it's not that. going to die. when untrue thought it was untrue. chris. do you think it's really great you know you get rescued some oil was lying down for a while. and i don't mean. i can't survive. untraceable .

what did this define the ninety six all do to come together while i and what was the i mean well we know. what was said about them was lowry's we know what was said about them but. that we drove there were to keep place and there were faults in that kick down a guy well the guy was. dying anyway but what was that twenty six twenty seven year period like for you and the other families was it just we've got to go forever long. and what's the what is the endgame what is the how we always said we would have to give you know we were never given no rain and i didn't. accidentally when. the truth wasn't.

a wait just. a. of just about the hillsborough families don't forget where ninety six different families from all different backgrounds and not just. you know know these people from all over the plight well that's just why it's clear. to the knowing to six to eight forty one of we're not from liverpool and we're not from mercy so it will spread east a national disaster. there's no social media. to move to liverpool to be part of become pain you could live in tiny unless it was on the national. you didn't know nothing about what was going to know how much of a difference was the social milieu right social media's made

a big difference and i'll tell you another thing that's well it was for would never happen again i wish social media. didn't just type. it took my parents the books family. it wasn't just unfair. it's ruining so many people. and i can. get across the paper. but. this is about. you know. because andrea was a very fat person a very only. very lower body you know. i have to do it for. all lawfully killed and that's what we thought for that's what we all fought for for twenty six years shows.