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manage as an italian or greek problem it's a european problem and greece and italy have handled all the burden of this whole situation i think that the criticism is a bit unfair greece any to me are dealing with the refugee in my ground crisis with dignity while there are european member states that have resisted their a location that have resisted to abide by their. turkey agreement that have it is this to take on the refugees and migrants or to ask for the european commission for their response to the allegations from the dutch migration minister and we're waiting for them to get back to us. the man whose wedding in yemen that was hit by a saudi airstrike last month has described the horror of what happened last at least twenty family members and friends and is among the survivors who have been
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telling their stories to r.t. . the moment. the rocket landed and the whole world turned red and i felt that i was turning in the many were killed most from you know. so there was some victims who were tomb in homes others were injured in the stomach head neck hands all legs my cousin and other relatives were injured when. i came to see the wedding i was looking at people dancing and then. i was he's 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
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bombing we tried to flee but could not walk we had to wait until ambulances came and garces a dozen of the wounded are in a critical condition saudi arabia and its allies have been bombing yemen since march two thousand and fifteen supposedly to support the government against the shia rebels the saudis have repeatedly insisted that they do not have a target civilians and the coalition has carried out a number of its own investigations into airstrikes that have led to mass casualties as rights groups continue to call on saudi arabia to end the conflict. russia's foreign minister sergey lavrov has told israel that if it has evidence that iran violated the two thousand and fifteen nuclear deal it should to hand it over to the international atomic energy agency critics such documents should be immediately passed on to the international atomic energy agency but according to the comments from experts taking part in the negotiations it's very likely that
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such documents refer to previous activity which has already been taken into account by the international agencies inspections. if the u.s. will announce its exit from the around the you know the international community will of course lose one of the most important instruments promoting the new kid nonproliferation regime the source of which is on monday israeli prime minister binyamin netanyahu gave a dramatic presentation here cures iran of lying about a secret nuclear weapons program he claimed tehran continued its weapons research after the two thousand and fifteen deal was struck netanyahu revealed fifty five thousand pages of documents apparently seized from iran and a heist by israeli intelligence we cannot prove. the project. was a comprehensive program designed to look at what. we're also. very secretly sure broader tomake sure to use the talk of the troops
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to devote to what. we remain deeply concerned about iran's dangerous version of the us is role in the region iran's a vision to dominate middle east were a. united states is with israel in this fight and we strongly support israel's sovereign right to defend itself. our european leaders urged israel to submit all of the dated to the un's nuclear watchdog but along with the i.a.e.a. itself they suggested there is nothing new in the presentation and that there is no credible evidence that iran broke the agreement and the pact was struck in two thousand and fifteen it was brokered by the u.s. china britain russia france and germany after nine years of talks and hailed as a huge diplomatic success in exchange for some sanctions being lifted iran agreed to strict limits on its nuclear program and to open up its facilities to
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international experts the deal is currently in jeopardy though as the u.s. president who has been a vocal critic is deciding whether to walk away many analysts saw benyamin netanyahu is presentation as an attempt to convince donald trump that it should be abandoned and tie war on interest chris nineham told us he also thinks it paves the way for america to pull out. the only conclusion you can draw from that is that this was likely part of an operation to try and balance the us to try and give credibility to donald trump's efforts he's he's he's a parent to. a wife from the treaty with iran so it seems it seems a reasonable assumption to make that that is actually what was behind this effort by benjamin netanyahu the stakes really are very very high here and you know it is one of the few. to deal with iran was one of the few successes of. foreign
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policy in the region it was one of the things that was actually calling it. at least the hope that some of the problems in the region could be resolved if that's broken we're in very very dangerous territory. facebook is looking to regain its users trust in the wake of the data harvesting scandal involving cambridge analytical hard to jacqueline vogue takes a closer look 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 have your responsibility news is two things make sure people can get trustworthy news in our platform and 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 result of user surveys to determine what news publications will be popping up in your feed and which will be suppressed and the reagan outlook is based on two simple questions have you heard of them and how much do you trust them and that
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means what's to be believed is based on the opinions of the internet not necessarily facts even flat earth errors and bertha's 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 develop intends 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 and not break down polarization 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 i condemn a christian church 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
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credible or informative new source is it what fits mark zuckerberg political view is it what it's facebook's political view. in 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 for the boy scouts of america are about to undergo a rebranding after one hundred eight years the organization is dropping the word boy from its name and encouraging girls to join but and everyone supports the move .
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i say. no you're right we wanted to land on something that evokes the bass 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 the young men and young women. girl scouts is a premiere leadership development organisation for girls we are and will remain the first choice for girls and parents. let's be honest the boy scouts as we knew it is now effectively dead goals are not supposed to be a part of the boy scouts they have their own organization called go scout 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
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present to be boys the boy scouts raping the dualistic girls jews are losing membership and money feminists and loving the boy scouts move not realizing it may destroy the women run kind of scouts. we asked our guests for their views on the boy scouts name change. 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 way 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. our what is right our file that's not what this is about and you know if 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
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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 right 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 fight and be super of tip super rough and super violent with each other i think but 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 worst sophistication of just boys and girls and how we are
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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 most people think that this is absurd kids are not allowed to be kids. the more you look at the kind of science of it where do 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 that boys like to do boys' stuff and the girls like to do girl stuff it's not a backward mistake it's true. facebook is facing criticism over its of filtering of news sources which some activists are calling
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a form of censorship an organization called us conservative leaders claims the suppression of right wing news on social media has reached crisis point they say outlets from all sides of the political spectrum should be respected and given equal weight online but with recent gains in major elections across the globe we asked new yorkers what exactly they know about of 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 its prevailed polls in germany predict that a far right party will enter parliament 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 is far right mean here but we let that be like a nazi stream. capitalist these it's probably a more militant version of right wing. media
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a little more inner. an artistic view on the world. but just is probably a more extreme viewpoint of far right 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 or 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 and he's right of center dave 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. call fundamentalist leaders are far right to the end and. i think he's right yeah maybe puton but like i don't know you you want i'm not sure. he's considered far right
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dick durban may be. prime minister of austria perhaps. no i don't know there might be a few others seems that in politics words can be rather hard to define caleb mop and artsy new york former u.s. diplomat jim john just believes social media giants are trying to sideline certain political views. i think there's a real concern that 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 banning where there are there are ways to downgrade content if it's politically not correct so that it has fewer viewers
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that they try to deem 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. with less than six weeks to go before the football world cup they russian president has paid a visit to one of the host cities so a change to report was joined by the head of fifa jonny in front you know. look at the kitchen going to preparations for the football world cup which a country is hosting if you know only it's complete but aggressor is ready for the two in this edition professionalise and i have seen india danny's nation of this world cup he's unique i say it because i seen it because i've witnessed it because i've heard it so much as one of eleven cities that will be he's hosting the world cup matches will be held at the fisht stadium built for the winter olympics four
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years ago ne ne hawkins went to the venue. the sun the sea and this beautiful mountain view is likely to make salty one of the most beautiful host cities for this summer's world cup here in russia president putin arrived today to make checks on the final preparations he was met by before president john infantile though both of them got their hands on their fan i.d.'s something every visitor will need to see the games. that. the school.
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and all the action will be taking place just behind me at the fish stadium very close to the shoreline in fact. the messages the preparation the feedback from all our when experts are extremely positive what is done. for the security and for the fans is absolutely unique and this shows that russia is absolutely ready to holst the world to celebrate a summer of festivities here in this beautiful country safety concerns were a big issue for many before coming to russia that's why security has been made
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a top priority more than two thousand. you put on things plus a thousand volunteers and extra security to make much they safe and enjoyable fall out in this heat in this weather it seems the most fun stuff to worry about is remembering the sun cream. and that is it for mail be back in just under thirty one minutes you're watching international stay with us. well here won't be special prosecutor robert muller floats the idea of subpoenaing president trump what's the likelihood of that we're going to take a look at that on this edition.
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of politicking on larry king it's happened before once to president nixon and then to president bill clinton talking about a court order of the sitting chief executives to comply with a subpoena from investigators it's going to happen again this time to donald trump for his testimony in the ongoing russian probe led by special counsel robert muller is it going to happen one of the legal and political consequences for the administration should the president since we're an interview with muller's team. let's talk about that with bob driscoll of the dead. general appointed during the george w. bush administration currently practicing law he joins us from washington once the costs are lower the involved of the subpoena of trump. it's hard to say at this point because i think that the president is reluctant to sit down but by the santo can be reluctant to receive a subpoena because that if the special counsel issued
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a subpoena that would be challenged by the president's lawyers there are some open legal questions that would have to be resolved about the scope of executive privilege and other things and it would probably be i would say a minimum a year to year and a half of litigation likely going all the way to the supreme court and so on the one hand he could put off the day of testimony by a long time he would also have this cloud continue to hang for another year and a half so i think that if he would probably prefer to negotiate some type of resolution where he doesn't need a subpoena and can sit down his lawyers did that nixon and clinton do that well they both they both litigated and ended up going to the supreme court you know obviously different facts and different cases in the clinton case there was it was a civil. civil action that there was you know discussed about the paula jones case and some other things and so you know it's pretty clear that you know probably some
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testimony could be taken but what's always difficult is the scope of these kind of things and how far the executive privilege goes for example you know things that happened before trump was president are going to be less protected then things that happened while he was president in conversations they have with senior advisers while you as president there are certainly glaciers that we need you need to be sorted out what serious action to the leaking of the questions that mole of plans to ask well i mean. i'm not a big fan of leaking and any context but having read the questions i mean i think the questions are fairly broad and those questions are really just a skeletal outline each one of those questions is pretty open ended and would could probably have ten or twelve follow up questions to me if i read that outline of questions that looks like a day and a half of two or two days of questioning and if i were the president's lawyers i'd be trying to narrow down the subject matter a little bit but it looks like all the i mean which struck me is that did not seem
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to be topics in there that we hadn't heard about already there was you know a lot about the firing of comey about the flynn investigation and then some about what kind of contacts are war with russia so i think that those issues that we've seen appear to be the issues he's looking at but it would be a lengthy and pretty detailed interview what do you think of the plans of some republican lawmakers to try to impeach rod rosenstein i disagree with that i don't understand i understand people are frustrated as they want this to move along i don't understand what anyone be it to the president or republicans in congress thinks would be accomplished by removing rod rosenstein or anyone else from the department of justice or muller himself for that matter because someone else will just be appointed and someone else will have to make those decisions and so it really i think that ends up dragging it out i don't think it's wise for teacher clee i also don't think there's a real legal basis to remove him now the president doesn't need
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a legal basis to do it he can remove executive branch appointees kind of at his will but obviously be political consequences for doing so but i don't think would solve the problem people are trying to solve which is get the investigation over with since the president is so off the wall and everyone would agree that that would be a danger to have him sit down. with anyone for two to three hour interview. yeah i mean that i have read that that lawyers have a rate of alcoholism and substance abuse three times the average population and i think clients like donald trump are one of the reasons why. because you know if he is the things that very things that make him successful his spontaneity his lack of caution they have been very successful making can give you heartburn in an interview sometimes he says things about thinking it through and i think that's that's difficult and the big fear is you know it's bad enough if your client did
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something and ends up prosecuted but you don't want as a client that really didn't violate the law to get himself hung up on a false statement by making some type of post or some other statement during the interview which ends up not being true and ends up causing a lot of problems so i think there's a i mean clearly if this were a regular white collar case and he was a regular defendant i don't think any lawyer in the world would put trump. in with the special counsel. to have a voluntary interview i think that's clear but because he is present in ited states there are other factors at play and i think those all have to balance which makes it a more challenging decision here you are to the department of justice. had to you assess sessions heise and rosenstein. i am a big fan of both of them i think jeff sessions as a rule of law type of attorney general i think he respects the institution greatly and i think the same deputy attorney general rosenstein i believe both of them are
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in a very tough position because they think the president. you know wants this over with and he doesn't understand you know he thinks this is my justice department why don't they do what i want and they're upholding institutional norms of some degree of insulation of just partment and trying to make decisions based on the law on the facts and i think that's very hard because the president feels like he's being unjustly accused like the media is running roughshod over him because of all these accusations and he wants somebody would just take care of it but the reality is neither sessions nor rosenstein are his lawyer they're the lawyer for the united states and that puts them in kind of a difficult position i think that both handled it well i thought sessions would do a good job at it and i think he's in an awkward position he's taken a massive beating from the president but i think he's been doing a great job on the president's campaign promises aside from this issue i think he's managed as well as can be from the diskos always thanks for your time today thanks
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for having me turning now to our political panel let's continue the conversation jen kearns is a g.o.p. strategist former spokesperson for the california republican party she joins us from new york and atlanta democratic strategist robin by row former obama campaign regional field director and retired on the ranges robin we'll start with you legal consequences of trump agreeing to an interview with malala one of the political consequences. there are so many pitfalls to this larry it's the mind is staggering to this you know i half expect for him on asli to on and answer some of these questions publicly i would almost i wouldn't put it past him to call into fox and friends and basically give give him some of these which really would would be. interesting because it could implicate him in some other things but you know i know that he's all about telling people himself so i wouldn't expect it but there are so
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many pitfalls to this it'll be interesting interesting to see how this plays out larry jen yeah my read is similar to robin's you know look this russia collusion investigations been going on for really about two years now and to date it has turned up nothing even rod rosenstein reportedly told trump as recently as a week ago that he was not the target of the investigation so you have to wonder and we republicans are wondering what exactly is miller trying to get to with a sit down meeting with donald trump i think trump's lawyers are very right here to be very cautious in allowing the president to sit down for what legal experts today are saying is not a two to three hour interview but could be up to a twelve hour interview spanning the course of about two days i think that's very dangerous i think what should happen here i think rudy giuliani i've heard behind the scenes is negotiating some sort of back and forth written questioning that
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trump could then answer on paper and then he could tell the american people look i have satisfied the special counsel's inquiry here by answering some forty questions and that should put the matter to rest so i agree i think i do like though larry i do like the strategy of upping the ante and bringing in the clinton impeachment lawyer you know donald trump is a smart businessman if nothing else he is taking out this insurance policy of having one of these that washington creatures who. knows the impeachment process well and probably even more importantly knows congress very well at to do some maneuvering there i think that's a very smart strategy and a great insurance policy. which most analysts believe the democrats will take back the house maybe even the senate there is however a split in your party between the progressives that much might be called the mainstream democrats will that affect the elections it very well could
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look at what happened with bernie sanders and hillary clinton and we're still working to bridge that divide to be perfectly honest i'm still the political director here in the city of atlanta for the democratic party and we're still trying to heal some of those wounds so you know we've got some soul searching to do the where the party really needs to concentrate is on a coherent message larry in my opinion we've spent so much time with the resistance but with not offered enough about what the democratic party can actually do and that's that's not going to resonate with the voters going into the midterms we have to have a more solid plan and a better alternative to them than resistance that's not going to ring at the polls jan and then interviewed tuesday nancy pelosi said the democrats will win the midterms and that she will run for the speaker the conservatives love to hate nancy pelosi and hillary clinton hillary has been audible hasn't held.
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