the capacity to hold america risk with a nuclear weapon. it is difficult to imagine a stable syria that still has assad in power he is a puppet of the iranians and therefore it seems an unlikely situation where assad will be sitting on the throne of america's interest will be well served this is the same man who made a secret trip to north korea to pave the way for trump's historic meeting with kim jong il but bringing peace to the korean peninsula has become a top foreign policy priority for the u.s. administration but judging by the hawkish track records of those surrounding the president you might have to wonder what their real intentions are samir khan r t washington d.c. . after a series of foreign trips my pompei i will spend the next several weeks in washington looking to pick up where rex tillerson left off however because nick a new care studies director faces u.s. foreign policy my take on a more hostile approach on the pompei. donald trump in announcing that tillerson

was going to be leaving office said that he disagreed with tillerson about iran policy so that was a key factor is not going to disagree with pompei o and that's why the europeans are so frightened it's why one hundred foreign policy experts including fifty retired military officials said to trump wrote a letter saying we should not break this deal with iran it's in the united states interest it's a good deal and iran has been following it clearly pompei o is among the real hawks when it comes to iran policy he's going to reinforce donald trump's worst tendencies along with john bolton the same thing with north korea so north korea right now looks very very positive but we know that between now and the time when this deal is concluded there's a hundred ways that it could blow up every day if pompei o wants to be

a moderating force a north korea that's great i hope he will also be a moderating force when it comes to iran but i doubt it. exclusive video from yemen now as r.t. has spoken to the groom who survived a sound he led air strike that hit his wedding party at the end of april the attack left over a dozen of his friends and family dead. there's a sort of at the moment of the bomb the rocket landed and the whole world turned red and i thought i was turning in the many were killed most shrapnel. so there was some victims who were in homes others were injured in the stomach. hands or legs my cousin and other relatives were injured in the.

war. i came to see the wedding i was looking at people dance and and then. i was he was my like the shrapnel from the rocket. we went to the wedding and suddenly during the celebration the strike came we didn't have anything there no weapons no nothing i lost a foot the same happened to my brother my other brother died because of the bombing we tried to flee but could not walk we had to wait until ambulances came and got us a dozen of the wounded are in a critical condition we have asked the started out coalition for comment on their investigation into the strike so far they've chosen not to respond the saudi led coalition launched its military intervention in yemen back in twenty fifteen in order to fight the rebels who overran large swathes of territory in the north of the country however riyadh says it does not target civilians since the start of its air campaign the coalition has won a number of its own investigations into where strikes that led to massive

casualties as human rights groups continue to call on saudi arabia to end the conflicts. facebook is looking to restore some damaged reputation after the data breach scandal involving cambridge analytic or the social media giant will introduce a number of changes to the platform including a personalized news filter artist auckland very good now has been taking a closer look at what the changes have to offer. facebook is working hard to revamp its public profile in the wake of the privacy scandal and the platforms move to eliminate fake news from your feed is one such example i've your responsibility news is two things make sure people get trustworthy news and platform and then we're doing our job to help build a sense of common ground in society now who's to decide what news organizations are worthy the company's two billion users the social network has already started using the results of the user surveys to determine what news publications will be popping

up in your feed and which will be suppressed and the range of outlet is based on two simple questions have you heard of them and how much do you trust them and that means what's to be believed is based on the opinions of the internet not necessarily facts even flat earth there isn't burgers may have cast their votes. we put that data into the system and insights and is a booster of suppression and we're going to dial up the intense to that over time we feel that we have a responsibility to further break down polarization and find common ground some rather wafted goals given that the internet isn't exactly known for bringing out the best in people there's also surely a risk that such a system will only cause people to further dig in their heels not break down polarization or break hopes a result that was seen with one of facebook's previous attempts at tackling fake news last year the company pulled the plug on its initiative which had third party fact checkers red flagging disputed articles as it didn't have the desired effect academic research and correcting misinformation has shown that putting

a strong image like a red flag next to an article may actually entrenched deeply held beliefs the opposite to fact to what we intended the big issue here is what. they mean is this credible or informative new source is it what fits mark zuckerberg political view is it what it's facebook's political view. in the terms of unbiased independent journalism i don't see a big success at all i don't see anything which puts a private corporation like facebook who has shown to be not the most trusting of sources of light i don't see anything that putting them in charge of this kind of responsibility could turn out to be successful in a way shape or form for independent journalism so here we are again watching and waiting to see how facebook's latest attempt at social responsibility pans out and that's not the only new feature facebook's been working on the platform is also busy getting ready to enter the online dating sphere though not everyone is sold on

the idea. no this is going to be there's going to be building real long term relationships are not just talk.

of facebook's also facing criticism over its filtering of news sources that some activists are calling a form of censorship one organization called the us conservative leaders claims the suppression of right wing news on social media has reached crisis point they say outlets from both sides of the political spectrum should be respected and given equal waiting on line but with recent gains in major elections across the globe we also new yorkers what exactly they knew about the term right wing. sunday's elections in austria where the latest example of a shift to the right in europe's politics this this shows that the far right wing has won which prevailed polls in germany predict that a far right party will inter-parliamentary the term right wing is being used pretty liberally these days we decided to ask americans what does far right or right wing actually mean let's see what kind of answers we get what does far right mean you're

away with that be like a nazi stream we capitalist is probably a more militant version of right wing. maybe a little more inner. anarchistic view on the world's. largest is probably a more extreme viewpoint a far it far right means very far right. what does that mean. on the right side very far ok donald trump is far right. i think he's trying to come to the center because he has to administer right and he was more far right before he became the president i think he's all over the place to tell you the truth i don't know that he has an ideology other than donald trump no not necessarily the he's right of center definitely yes but i mean the fact is he's a former democrat he's not that far right any world leaders that you would consider to be far right. right fundamentalist leaders

are far right. and. i think he's right yeah maybe putin but like i don't know you you want i'm not sure. he's considered far right victor may be. prime minister of austria perhaps. i don't know there might be a few others it seems that in politics words can be rather hard to define caleb mop and art see new york former u.s. diplomats jim john trust believes there's a multifaceted effort by social media platforms to sideline views that don't fit with the company's political agenda i think there's a real concerns that the conservative voices are being discriminated against in social media not only facebook but twitter which i use quite a bit and google and the the idea would be to marginalize or stigmatize conservative voices as somehow being beyond the limits of legitimate discussion and

we also have practices what they call shadow banding where there are there are ways to downgrade content if it's politically not correct so that it has fewer viewers that they try to d. monetize conservative voices so that they can't actually support their platforms in the way that voices on the left are able to do it which evidently is more acceptable in the circles that in which the managers of these platforms operate. the boy scouts of america are set for a name change after more than one hundred years the word boy will be dropped from the iconic open isolation in twenty nineteen as it prepares to allow both to join. we wanted to land on something that evokes the past but also conveys the inclusive nature of the program going forward we're trying to find the right way to say we're here for both young men and young women the scout movement was founded in the early

twentieth century in the u.s. two groups aim to teach boys and girls separately to develop life skills and character however the girl scouts have firmly set they won't be changing their day girl scouts is a premier leadership development organisation for girls we are and will remain the first choice for girls and parents in a letter to the boy scouts of america last year the girl scouts accused me mentor of performing a covert campaign to recruit girls away from them meanwhile the debate has taken to twitter with plenty of people criticizing the name change let's be honest the boy scouts as we knew it is now effectively dead girls are not supposed to be a part of boy scouts they have their own organization called go scouts as a form of boy scouts i say this is a terrible idea boys need to be with other boys at times without girls being

present to be boys most girls would not want to do what the boys do and it is wrong to change the boys counts in this way the boy scouts are opening the doors to girls due to losing membership and money feminists are loving the boy scouts move not realizing it may destroy the women run going to scouts. well we heard both sides of the argument from political activist kate sloth weight and legal and media analyst lionel. there isn't a great deal of evidence to suggest that only boys want to do traditionally male activities and only girls want to do traditionally female activities there is very very obviously there are a lot of the old dr like climbing trees and there are lots of there is like baking cakes and to try to say to young people you have to only do this what we should of course do is give them a range of activities on sunday letting them actually encourage them to try new stuff because that's what. it is now what it is or i'll file it that's not what this is about and you know it there was an absolute determined effort to destroy

whatever was left of this thing called the jones or it's now considered almost like races or inappropriate to do anything to distinguish boys from girls we're playing it so safe we've got a helmet there was a time when if you were a red blooded american male that's not how they're always learned to have kids you know his writing round and cried i read here and there i mean fine and there was nothing wrong with it i'm kind of concerned with the idea that it's somehow great to encourage boys to to be supervised tip super rough and super violent with each other i think that this is two thousand and eighteen and the idea that it's somehow good for young men to be thrown into some sort of boxing ring i think that we should offer young people boys and girls a whole range of activities and there are definitely arguments in favor of allowing them to do some of those activities and violent marriage definitely arguments in favor of allowing them to do at least some of those activities environment what

you're seeing is the would sophistication of just boys and girls and how we are just turning their men to just these these i don't know these hominids or these kids who don't play who don't enjoy doing things like i did like we did being a boy and roughhousing those people think that this is absurd kids are not allowed to be kids. the more if you look at the kind of science of it where a young people do best it turns out perhaps surprisingly perhaps unsurprisingly that goals seem to thrive better in single sex environments for things like that but boys actually seem to thrive better in mixed environments it seems like having some girls join in maybe takes away some of the sort of culture if you like people are afraid that there are genders and there.