of course what's happened since that's been undermined is the british government is then going on to claim it has further not evidence of course but intelligence to suggest that this was russia for example coming up with the claim again so far completely unsubstantiated of course but nonetheless spread to the media and it's briefings and so on that there is intelligence to prove that russia has trained people on smearing novacek on door handles of course nothing has been produced to substantiate that but that is the kind of level that the british government is now seemingly reliant upon and it's of course the stuff that the special redtops love over in britain chose to bridge security analyst former u.k. army officer thanks very much for your thoughts now meantime. here's a turn up for the books you can can year west is a russian spy a secretly working for. according to a renowned strategic intelligence analyst anyway the connection well the accusations come off the west publicly revealed his warm support for donald trump the connection more heard of no looks at the ever growing army of kremlin each its

remember when being portrayed as a russian spy was funny. a bit of a joke. over. what he'd done in the dark when. just threw it out while ings russian spy assaulted here. who isn't funny now could be anyone in the oval office in the pentagon madison square garden. can years recent coordinations with trump along with his use of infamous or rhetoric and symbols confederate flag reek of products here just join up the dogs can year endorse trump publicly their friends. i'm not saying can you west is involved at all in the trump russia scandal but i am

saying he has russian ties and was there right after the twenty sixteen elections scott did walk in or perhaps work in a contributor for the us news channel m.s.n. b c and also founder of russia gate agrees there are just too many dogs not to connect them kanya west went to russia he went to russia he literally flew to moscow and walked around the jew see what he got up to i sure didn't get to be doing anything it's now so or vs why didn't we see it before we see it now and there are more of them clint eastwood openly backed trump and the russian connection is blatant clint eastwood speaks russian. pretense.

oh and robert de niro he hates trump or so he says but look at the fact he owns a chain of all true a luxurious restaurants in moscow and he's opening a new one soon you know who goes to his restaurants oligarchs we're not blind anymore there could be russian spies in my audience and i would know everyone is a suspect. are you a russian spy now. russian spies. ellen de generous knows what's up we need lists so i've put together a quick one to start things off this is a list of american stars who've recently been to russia they held cons and did business it's time to wake up russian agents everywhere the president the republicans hollywood your neighbor your

friends maybe probably even you. the great march of return protests along gaza's border with israel until the six week almost fifty palestinians have been killed since the until capacious rallies began including two journalists thousands of reportedly been injured with more on this friday's demonstrations his local journalist include every. a one hundred fifty meters away from the fence and says the morning there were ten palestinian protesters injured at the palestinian the protesters started burning the tires to blow the vision of the israeli snipers since the morning there israeli army is stated that they deployed to one that one hundred fifty new snipers this is an injury that which is shot it's a palestinian family take that was injured term the israeli snipers. israeli snipers targeted the pavement it. would be his alone and stanek with live

ammunition that the family dick is going into the holiday to the medical field going and that you see these are the snipers i take it think that is an intro to serious man that maybe it's an journalists they have been using a lot of tear gas since the morning like i say they didn't stop but it's rather fine because they were just trying to disperse all these the protesters and that you were getting effected by the tear gas that was getting that this is fired by the israelis like was. i really i'm trying but. if that's still a thing it's. interesting to look at the. last week the united nations castigated israel for its handling of the ongoing protests

come paining gaza it says the killings by israel's defense forces violate the fourth geneva convention which prevents the targeting of civilians. it's difficult to see how tire burning stone throwing. or even more of cocktails thrown from a significant distance of heavily protected security forces in defensive positions can be seen to constitute such threat. in the context of an occupation such as garza killings resulting from the uncle or for use of force may also constitute willful killings which are a grave breach of the fourth geneva convention israel's responded to the cry from the un and he rights groups the states attorneys claim the gaza protests in fact fall of the state of war category and that human rights laws therefore don't apply to the i.d.f. rules of engagement reserve colonel with the force is told is that in his view the israeli military's actions are being taken in self-defense any nation

america friends of course israel has a full right to defend them so we are not facing just a simple pacific mart of nice people who are facing people who want to invade our country and when someone wants to invade your country you have two possibilities once you let him go in and you dreadfully or you define yourself in war you have to put the abilities or you we or you lose you cannot let people kill you you know they are to react you have to act first because of the rule of the game in this terrorist military rule is to be the only setting not to be in the reactivity. to journalists have launched a legal battle in the u.s. to contest the possible inclusion on a classified government killed list one has drawn criticism for his controversial report from various flashpoints in the syrian conflict some accusing him of sympathizing with extremist groups the other carried out interviews with

a number of high profile terrorists kellam opens got more. now the issue in tuesday's court hearing was whether or not the united states could take unilateral action against american citizens suspected of being terrorists now the two journalists deny that they have any links to terrorism but they say that they're on a kill list people who could be hit with u.s. drones or air strikes for being terrorists now the two individuals in question one of them is bill little dual kareem now the little dual karim has been widely criticized for the fact that his reporting on terrorist groups like al qaeda and al nasra seems to be rather uncritically seems to almost glorify that people have said he's an extremist propagandist we do know that top al qaeda clerics have said he's there he's they've actually referred to him as our media man furthermore we've seen him reporting with potential suicide bombers are showing off the equipment the suicide belts or vests that they wear despite all of this criticism it's important

to note that the little of jewel karim has been featured in mainstream american media you know on the scenes. i'm. not going to spend some. time on this stuff to go through with. you on how sometimes you will hear someone say that they are part of al qaida but what is their real affiliation to al qaeda other than some romantic notion to be honest with you the other person who filed in the lawsuit is aka mad because they don who is the bureau chief of al jazeera in the city of his lama bad now he's done interviews with top al qaeda leaders and he's also faced similar scrutiny and allegations the two journalists say that they have no links to terror they deny their links their official complaint says that the methodology is employed to have or actually resulted in

unjustified killing of innocent people they call this an arbitrary and and capricious. action by the agency and they say that the united states constitution and international law is being violated it refers to a program a computer program called sky annette and apparently this computer program uses algorithms it follows a person's location in the communications that they're having and uses a computer algorithm to determine whether or not they are a terrorist now it's not known exactly what is all that is included but it is possible it's alleged that this computer program essentially would determine whether or not the person to be killed in a drone strike this is this program skynet is being widely criticized as violating human rights violating the rights of journalists and it seems to point to a big problem of artificial intelligence when you have a computer program determining whether or not someone is a terrorist or not and whether or not they could be killed in a drone strike. the u.s.

is reportedly freezing its from going controversial syrian emergency response organization the white helmets the moves being met with major disappointment by the group's leaders who say it is going to impact on their ability to save lives the u.s. has been funding was to the tune of more than thirty two million dollars but the group says it's also being bankrolled by several other nations too although the u.s. is no fool to be cutting its funding the state department recently praised the wood helmets efforts in syria we recognize and appreciate are very grateful for all the work that the white house and its continues to do on behalf of the people of their country and on behalf of the u.s. government on all the coalition coalition forces they're doing incredible work in rescuing in some state and some cases in other cases it's recovery efforts they're an incredible group of individuals. despite the group being widely criticized too for some of its actions in syria by some parties its members of appeared a number of times in videos of killings published by the illness retire

a group the white helmets of also posted videos which they say show them conducting rescue operations to save the lives of civilians some of which have seen medical experts later criticize their actions as unprofessional patrick henningsen from twenty first century why news website told me that what elements don't need money right now because they're becoming redundant he says they're running out of room to operate in syria as the syrian arab army and its allies clear up and liberate areas like he's been reserved for instance like duma like. last year. that's where the white helmet operates so they'll use this as a fundraising opportunity to raise money saying oh we need the money but there's nothing because they're running out of place to operate in iraq the kurds don't want them so where are they going to go this is basically a video production unit it's an information operation that's used to underpin regime change and essentially these feeble eyes syria. it's been

confirmed that american soldiers are directly helping saudi arabia protect its border with yemen the pentagon news briefing on thursday admitted that troops were now in active roles the statements in contradiction with previous comments in which officials said the u.s. is only helping the saudis with the aircraft refueling logistics and general intelligence sharing. in the involved relationship between the u.s. and saudi arabia. here you're hoping the security for. that is her mission. but do support the saudi led coalition with intelligence hearing military advice and logistical support a priority is the fight against al qaeda in the arabian peninsula and isis in yemen the extent of our support is refueling and sharing intel. so what's really going on is carlotta washington i correspond this american hi there where does washington

actually stand at this point is it boots on the ground or something different or what. well up until now most believe that u.s. military assistance to the saudis in yemen was limited to intelligence logistics and aircraft are feeling and that's according to official pentagon statements but this latest development contradicts that so far what we do know is that a team of a few green berets apparently arrived on the saudi yemeni border sometime last year and according to the pentagon they've only been there to protect the border but reports suggest that they've been actively involved in the southeast and even helping them destroy the ballistic missile launch sites and it's worth mentioning that even though this war has been going on for a few years saudi arabia hasn't been successful in calling the who the resistance so it's fair to say that maybe u.s. involvement will help the saudis do just that but thanks to the saudi onslaught the conflict in yemen has morphed into the world's worst humanitarian crisis according

to the u.n. and there's been some domestic backlash here in the u.s. and now american politicians are pushing to end u.s. support for the saudis but this latest development might lead to a messy legal battle given that there was no public debate on whether the u.s. should get involved because it seems as if it was consciously kept from the public so i honestly wonder how americans will feel knowing that their government could be indirectly fueling the world's worst humanitarian crisis. next tonight a special day in the russian calendar is fast approaching high there on the ninth of may a victory day will be celebrated across the country and ahead of the event marking the end of the second world war in europe has been checking out their hershel's from moscow and he will train parade his ego got off. my.

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a nuber. this a.p.c. is designed to absorb explosive damage from landmines and it will deflect even using ground now it's not the only vehicle to be making the first show at this rate so let me give you. these unmanned soon we'll be showing you the public officials who would have those time. at the parade they were initially being designed as a purely recognizance aircraft but now they can carry bombs to. and finally how about this german aces on the red square no this is not a ploy over you hollywood blockbuster rather this tank support unit it will also be for the first time featured at a parade on the red square so now this is of course is just to me it taste of what

to expect the actual parade so do you choose the name on the ninth of may and have a look yourself what these guys are prepared. yeah that's all to come i mean tell the hardware what color thing aside it's reporting your time as well time to look back at the second world war affected countless families so of course love so many loved ones and just for i say goodbye for this update we wanted to show you too how on a personal level so many of us here at r.t. are also joining in the commemoration of the celebration of heroic veterans. the end. it with the end.

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well welcome to sophie and sophie shevardnadze spaces endless was the myriads of stars out there and chances are that we're not the only ones alive and it's a vast expanse but even if that's true should humans really be actively searching for extraterrestrial life. well a bit downfall of our civilization or the opening of a new writer will talk about that today with dr douglas the president of messy messaging extraterrestrial intelligence organization. surrounded by dust and radiation earth looks slowly hung up in the middle of lifeless space yet with dozens of billions of earth like planets potentially out there humans are determined to find extraterrestrial life. how likely are we to garner a response to messages would be to space aliens to get our signals who's to say

they will be a danger to earth and good first contact with the opening of a new era for the planet or the beginning of a. dr douglas vaca come to the show great to have you own our program so your organization mattie's focused on sending out signals aimed specifically at aliens and you say that extra terrestrials need to know where ready to communicate but are we really ready to communicate i mean look at us we can hardly communicate with each other. it's true communication is one of the big challenges but it is also a defining feature of our species that we are the intelligent creatures who love to talk with one another so our work in many is a natural extension of that desire to communicate but instead of talking with other human beings we're reaching out to life in the universe your colleague from they

search for extraterrestrial intelligence is huge sas shostak predicts that we will find intelligent alien life within the next twenty years you said that it will happen by approximately twenty thirty five watts in this next twenty years exactly well one of the things that we see in our research is the need for computing power we gather tremendous amounts of data from space and we sift through all of that cosmic static looking for radio signals that stand out as distinctly artificial and that requires tremendous computing in the great advantage that we're having right now is increases of technology so as we look at the advances of computing power you know you can get a personal computer that's twice as powerful as the one you bought a year and a half ago for the same price when that accelerates over the course of year after year after year that gives us a huge advantage today as searches are over

a trillion times more powerful than the first search conducted in one nine hundred sixty and we can continue to see that acceleration so within the next twenty years we will have looked at maybe a million stars that's a reasonable number to look at in order to actually find a signal if they're out there trying to make contact could be that we still haven't found any aliens up because technology holding us back but simply that other life forms don't want their presence to be known i mean we've been looking at the possibility of not being alone in the universe for a long time why have fun allianz in time i mean if they're out there we could have found them already know. you are raising the question that the tally and physicist in rico for me asked in one thousand nine hundred fifty when he said where are they and so it's become known as the fermi paradox well one possibility as you say is that other civilizations are out there but they're not talking so maybe everyone is

waiting for the other civilization to take the initiative and that's why mattie sends intentional messages just in case other worlds there are scientists searching for signals but they're waiting for someone else to say hello. you know they were a renowned. physicist stephen hawking has warned us about mating allianz and comparing it to christopher columbus meeting the native americans which as we know didn't turn out so well why don't you believe him and why should we ignore professor hawking's views what we shouldn't ignore his views whenever anyone is brilliant as stephen hawking says watch out be careful you have to take it seriously but what he really has not taken into account is that the aliens that were afraid of the ones that can travel between the stars could already pick up our t.v. and radio signals that we have been sending out the past seventy or eighty years so there is no increased danger of an alien invasion by sending intentional signals to

let the extra terrestrials know that we want to make contact now seti scientists who actually don't like you sending signals to ellen say that an initiating contact isn't science but rather diplomacy do you think you're doing it is what they majority of people actually want. well i think that in fact sending signals to other worlds and listening for response is a much more traditional type of science than simply observing astronomers are in an unusual position among scientists because they can do experiments usually you go to your laboratory you make some changes you see what happens but astronomers and seti scientists have to passively wait for signals to come in see if they detect them we're actually doing what's called a true experiment where we send a signal and then wait for a response back now it's true that there are seventy scientists who have said this

is a very long term project most seti scientists want to focus on a search that could pay off tonight but in addition to those seti strategies which our organization also does we also have observatories in panama in the united states that were looking for signals from extraterrestrial but in addition to this potentially short term payoff of detecting the signal we're also making a long term investment by sending the signal and then waiting for a reply that could come in many years from now for instance nasa says voyager it with just recently fired up its thrusters for the first time in thirty seven years floating outside the solar system with a bunch of cultural messages it brought to extra terrestrials is what you were doing more dangerous than that. no it really isn't more dangerous but the voyager recording is an excellent example of how we want to make contact with another civilization so this golden record has greetings in fifty five languages it has

music from around the world and it has a scientific tutorial along with over one hundred pictures of life on earth so it's an attempt to give a snapshot of earth to another world there's one big problem though of the voyager recording that it travels so slowly so that it's going to be seventy thousand years before the spacecraft comes even close to another star but by sending radio signals the travel at the speed of light we can reach the nearest star in just over four years so there is a tremendous time advantage of sending in electromagnetic signals whether they be radio signals or laser pulses as opposed to trying to make contact by a spacecraft so how do you make sure that extra terrestrials will interpret our signals as an invitation to communicate for other than a challenge. well the most important thing about sending the message out is simply being clear and any civilization that has been through this process know that

there's going to be some ambiguity so we can expect a certain amount of reservation on the part of the extraterrestrial that they will see what patterns we're sending and try to make sense of them and so that's why we start our messages the first messages we've sent by a focus on simple mathematical and scientific principles to make it as unambiguous as possible that we're talking about what we and the extra terrestrials have in common an understanding of our physical universe all right so he's you are saying that our radio into signals are ready in space could there be like ellie is watching jerry springer reruns out there somewhere right now awake light years away i mean if they base their understanding of us on our t.v. man i mean we're in deep trouble. exactly i couldn't agree with you more that in fact we do expect if there is a civilization just a tiny bit more advanced than we are that they can already pick up jerry springer

or any other sit coms interview shows the nightly news they see what we're doing to our planet you know it isn't really a very pretty picture and so in addition to sending in this chaotic messages that we use to communicate with one another we want to send a clear signal to the extraterrestrial that there's also some rationality on our world so flaky have sat. this speech with which to signal us are sent out is very slow i said the closest was sun to about eight layer light years away so there's a reply it will come in what sixteen years so we're looking at decades if any aliens are out there so. is your whole word just sending messages in a bottle i mean hoping that future generations will get an answer because our civilization will be completely different by that time will they even remember your role. excellent point and that i think has been the greatest obstacle within the

seti community to send an intentional signal because some of said we're not ready for something that requires that long term perspective our position it may be is that we need to get ready for a long term perspective as a species in fact a lot of the problems that we encounter in our world today is because we're always looking for immediate gratification we want results by the end of the week or if we're really thinking long term the end of the next quarter but some good things take time so you're absolutely right that when we're sending our messages in a bottle we're sending many of them to many stars and it's critical that we keep track of where we've sent those and what the messages were so that if we do get a reply back we will know what the reply was in response to how do you figure out what the aliens well understand what they won't i mean do you think human culture has something that transcends this boundary now.