rioters that were trying to break through the border fence with more on the developments here is local journalist he and. the since the morning they israeli snipers have been calling and warning the israeli if the palestinian protesters to stay away the palestinian protesters started burning the tires to blur the vision of the israeli snipers since the morning the israeli army is stated that they deployed to one that one hundred fifty new snipers israeli snipers targeted a paramedic will not man with his alone as that make with live ammunition that the family there is going into the holiday to the medical field going and as you see there's already snipers are targeting that is even protest serious and that maybe it's an journalists they have been using a lot of tear gas since the morning like i am they didn't stop it to a crowd of fighting tear gas because they were just trying to disperse all these

the protesters and that you were getting effected by the tear gas that is getting that is if it is fired by those or it is like was. i really i'm trying but. if that's still a thing it's. interesting to look at the. sense of thirtieth of march of the israeli soldiers have been injuring more than seven thousand palestinian protesters and at least forty five palestinians were killed this is the one of the medical points each area melaka its gaza strip and this is a medical point was targeted to directly target by the israelis by tear gas bammer they stated that the israelis were using a new type of of tear gas against the protesters that caused that could very very severe effects and those all the critical injuries today are from this tear gas.

last week the united nations slammed israel for its handling of the long running protest in gaza in which at least forty five people were killed and the organization says the israeli military is violating the fourth geneva convention which prohibits the targeting of civilians it's difficult to see how tire burning or stone throwing. or even more true 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 un to full use of force may also constitute willful killings which are a great breach of the fourth geneva convention. israel has responded to the outcry from the un and human rights groups government attorneys claim the gaza protests fall into the state of war category and that human rights laws do not apply in this

situation a reserve colonel with the i.d.f. told us the military's actions are justified any soaring nation america friends of course israel has a full right to defend them so we are not facing just the theme. 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 just leave. it in war you have to put the beauties or you we or you lose you cannot let people kill you you know they are to react you have to act first because the rule of the game in this terrorist military rule is to be the only thing not to be in the reactivity. human rights lawyer curtis doebbler told us israel's use of deadly force against the gaza protesters is unlawful. it could well be sometimes an

internal armed conflict but i think what is important is that an internal armed conflict human rights continue to apply i think israel is their own security concerns i think are something that will be viewed very botched from their own subjective perspective but do matter what those concerns are there are limitations that the law imposes on actions that they can take and when they're taking actions into gaza they're taking actions into what the international community sees as occupied territory and those actions must be in conformity with the law flying to occupied territory and in this case that includes not only international humanitarian law but also international human rights laws that protect individuals from inhumane treatment degrading treatment from attacks on their lifes. pentagon has admitted that u.s. soldiers are directly helping saudi arabia protect its border with yemen and that

is in spite of previous comments in which officials said the u.s. is only helping the saudis with aircraft refueling logistics and intelligence sharing. it's. a security scare. but do support the saudi led coalition with intelligence sharing military advice and logistical support a priority is the fight against al qaeda in the arabian peninsula and isis in yemen extend our support is refueling and sharing and so american reports on the pentagon's mixed messages concerning its role in the conflict in yemen. this latest development contradicts the pentagon statements that indicated that u.s. military assistance to the saudis in yemen was limited to intelligence logistics

and aircraft feeling but so far what we do know is that a team of a few green berets apparently arrived on the south of the u. many border sometime last year and according to the pentagon they've only been there to protect the border however reports suggest that they've been helping them destroy people with sick 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 quelling the who's 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 and there's been some domestic backlash here in the u.s. and american politicians have been pushing to and u.s. support to 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 seemed 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 and that includes american politicians who were questioning washington's indirect role in the conflict even though there was no direct military support so it'll be interesting to see how they react to this foreign policy analyst robert naiman told us the u.s. position on the yemen conflict is contradictory. to say that you support ending war while you are doing everything in your power to help one side and prosecute the war is a contradiction the saudis and united arab emirates could not continue the war and now us weapons we know u.s. intelligence is targeting and ridiculing and u.s. diplomatic support of united nations so they're alone no one when they say they want and they are the united states government is participating directly crucially you can work under international law the u.s. is directly related and u.s.

is legally liable for every saudi war. two journalists have launched a legal battle in the u.s. over there are alleged to inclusion on a government kill list came up and has 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 did not i that they have any links to terrorism but they say that they're on a kill list of 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 abdulla kareem now the little of 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 them people have said he's an extremist propagandist we do know that top al qaeda clerics have said he's

there 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 a little of dual kareem has been featured in mainstream american media ya know. just some of them. i'm. not going to spend some. time on the stuff that goes with. me on how sometimes you will hear someone say that they are part of al qaeda 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 as a don who is the bureau chief of al-jazeera in the city of his lama bad now he has done interviews with top al-qaeda leaders 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 capricious action by the agency and they say that the united states constitution and international law is being violated and it refers to a program a computer program called skynet and apparently this computer program uses algorithms it follows a person's location and 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. international criminal lawyer jennifer breeden told us it will be difficult for the journalists to prove that they were targeted by u.s. government. we don't really know what's going on even in this case it would seem that the whole case is being predicated on this thing skynet or or these things that this kill list so to speak that they have raised that they actually cannot prove if this is true there are some problematic issues this does raise not just the fact that may or may not exist but how this case would proceed in u.s. courts with such confidential information and then trying to prove or at least be able to prove that the evidence points to us wanting to target them if skynet is real and that is what it does this points to a much bigger parliament and u.s. policy officials going back of course of the obama administration where they not only don't understand the threat of terrorism or don't understand the roots of modern day terrorism because they have to use computer algorithms rather than

utilizing experts and people with knowledge. united nations has sent a special envoy to the u.k. to look into reports of a surge in hate crime in the wake of the two thousand and sixteen brags that referendum but the move has been met with anger by euro skeptic politicians these visits are completely pointless that politically motivated they're inspired by the extreme left and the idea is to kick the u.k. this visit is completely unnecessary and is nothing but a stitch up by pro you can painters who seek to bring the seventeen point four million who voted to leave the you as racist the un special rapporteur to fact finding mission will last until may be eleven. will then compile a report on racism intolerance and discrimination in the u.k. for the un human rights council we asked an anti-racism activist and

a conservative commentator for their views on the case. we've seen hate crimes rise we've seen religious hate crimes rise we've seen greater incidences of intolerance we've communities on british streets well i certainly think that there is the knesset stew brand the bricks. is a is a rhesus one generally i don't think that there has been still a significant rise in the sort of behavior that links to the bricks that they object to evidence points in the opposite direction the figures show a clear spike in religious and rice attacks post the brics it referendum i think the united nations will be horrified to discover that racism in britain is certainly become worse since her last inspection over four years ago that the through or around the bricks votes has largely been

create sit by the establishment and remain a press and leave campaign is a bindon in denial they failed to challenge the racism and xenophobia elements within their campaign they just been no attempt to clean their campaign as it were from those elements who do hold these very obnoxious and extreme views supranational concessions like the un light organizations like the european union there are of the sle not happy about the brics they don't line people of the king their own nationality and running around their own sciex. the international olympic committee is launching an appeal at a tribunal in switzerland to maintain doping bans on dozens of russian athletes you see is challenging a february ruling from the court of arbitration for sports back then c.a.'s

overturned a decision to ban twenty eight russian athletes. for life for alleged doping of violations during winter olympic games in sochi now the court deemed the evidence against them insufficient and reinstated the athletes medals law professor. believes the i see those challenges purely symbolic. do you see you the goal of the international olympic committee is more political than legal in nature it wants to send a message make it clear that it stands against these classrooms we should use sanctions against russia now fleet's now wants to fight to the end to see these rulings in a lot of committee knows perfectly well that it has very little chance of success for the cast verdicts which is now being disputed it will more or less favorable to thirty nine russian athletes they're extremely detailed up to one hundred sixty pages long and when you read them you can see that they're puffy reasoned and thirty documented it would be very difficult to find any legal arguments against

them so i think that the i.o.c. is actions the most in bulletin legal proof. the u.s. is considering whether to halt funding for a controversial syrian rescue group called the white helmets the organization's leader leaders claimed that the move would impact their ability to save lives and the u.s. state department told r.t. that is actively reviewing assistance programs its spokes person added that washington expects the white helmets to continue their work with the help of multilateral donations the u.s. has so far provided the white helmets with more than thirty two million dollars but the group says it is also being bankrolled by several other nations the state department recently praised the first responders efforts in syria we recognize and appreciate are very grateful for all the work that the white house let's continue still on behalf of the people of their country and on behalf of the u.s. government and all the coalition coalition forces there doing incredible work. well

the u.k. though has reaffirmed its commitment to the white helmet and the work that they do in syria and is despite the group being widely criticized for some of its actions in the country its members have appeared a number of times in videos of killings published by the all news for a terror group of white helmets have also posted videos which they say show them conducting rescue operations to save the lives of wounded civilians some of which have seen medical experts later criticize their actions as unprofessional patrick henningsen from the twenty first century wire news website believes the white helmets are becoming irrelevant increasingly irrelevant. they're running out of room to operate in syria as the syrian arab army and its allied forces clear up and liberate areas like for instance like duma like. last year. that's where the white helmets operate so they'll use this as a fund raising off the community totally raise money saying that oh we need the money but there's nothing there 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 routine change and essentially these stabilize syria. russia is gearing up for its annual victory day celebrations and ahead of the may ninth events our team went to check out rehearsals in moscow. looks to be a little awkward at the show. but we have been trying to make. these speed why this yes minutes to be great is nothing like any of that before the summer harry. or the john and we are going to write one of.

practice makes perfect they say seemingly simple maneuvers like this one still being told that simple one there are dozens of vehicles involved and they all have to be in sync that's why most schools main streets have been told for these big. to refine them anew because. this a.p.c. is designed to absorb explosive damage from landmines and it's hollow will deflect even piercing rounds now it's not the only vehicle to be making the first show at this year's parade so let me give you a tour. these unmanned drones will be shown to the

public officially for the first time at the parade there were initially being designed as the purely recon as craft 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 holywood blockbuster but 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 at the actual parade so do q and then on the ninth of may and have a look yourself what these guys have prepared for you. know the second world war affected countless families who lost loved ones just before i say goodbye for this update we want to show you two how on a personal level so many of us here at our team are also joining in the

commemoration and celebration of heroic veterans. from. the top.

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

messy extraterrestrial intelligence organization. surrounded by dust gas and radiation earth look slowly hung up in the middle of lifeless space 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 it's still. dr douglas come to the show great to have you own our program so your organization matches focus 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 mattie 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 alliums 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 renowned. physicist stephen hawking has warned us about meeting ellie and comparing it to christopher columbus meeting 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 as 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 we're 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 al in say that an initiating contact isn't science but rather diplomacy to using good 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 said the 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 we're 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 has 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 rather than a challenge when 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 here you are saying that our radio.