as you mentioned in that sound bite for carrying out waterboarding ok thanks that was peter all over for us there in berlin. another news journalists have rounded on the ukrainian authorities for faking the assassination of a russian opposition reporter in kiev international media and security watchdogs of slander standers deplorable and regrettable the staged murder of journalists are crazy bugs and could buy the ukrainian security service is distressing well the reappearance of the reporter may be a great relief it is deeply regrettable the koreans authorities have played with the truth no matter what the motive relieved that currently blood sugar was alive or deplored the decision to spread false information on the life of a journalist it is the duty of the state to provide correct information to the public while earlier the ukrainian authorities had claimed that that found russian journalist

a card with gunshot wounds in his flat in the capital it was claimed that he died on his way to hospital however late it revealed that the murder had been staged apparently in order to fall an actual russian plot to kill the journalist or carted bob jenko is a prominent kremlin critic who has condemned russian activities in ukraine and syria is a contributor to for major u.k. news outlets like the guardian and also the b.b.c. artist on quarter reports now on the fall acts of the controversial case. when a russian journalist was pronounced murdered in the ukrainian capital it didn't take long for the ceremonial finger pointing at russia to begin he was only working on things that were critical and investigative of russia and of the russian government as well he said there was nothing that was critical of ukrainians of course that network and its boss placing the blame on the kremlin and on russia journalist known political leanings have led some to point the finger in one direction it was

a calculated deliberate international terrorist crime committed on the direct instruction of the russian authorities he figured it's who can blame them when the story has all the perfect ingredients the russian totalitarian machine putin's regime going after the kremlin critic except the guy turned up alive and well imagine everyone's confusion what on earth is showing on fred all these developments in just the last hour or so i know that's absolutely gobsmacked what is second so what the heck actually have been here russia said it was relieved that are alive but also fiore us and understandably so after being falsely accused of murder questions of life and death in ukraine as well as the international community's trust in its politics are nothing more than a bargaining chip for the kids regime to stir up on t.v. russian hysteria fellow journalists were outraged too when a state says a prominent journalist who had received threats was murdered i think the media have

to report it but with the fake news in ukraine have reduced all of our credibility trump would be proud had learned not to trust ukrainian authorities on don't best warrant but assuming something like this fishel confirmation was solid apologies it's on wikipedia is most notable fake death so what gives while the murder was staged by the ukrainian secret service to foil an alleged kremlin plot they say they did it secretly not even his wife knew imagine what the poor woman went through. but one ukrainian lawmaker thinks this is ok because sherlock holmes successfully used the method of staging his own death to effectively investigate difficult and complicated crimes well if it happened and fiction must be good in real life till whether ukraine will produce evidence that there was ever a russian plot in the first place remains to be seen but after a stunt like this it's hard to imagine many will take anything he says at face

value the taming is key i think just before we start the world cup in russia which is a shock east event for any country that will cut their or sort of cut and suddenly we're getting the story switches does that which are designed i would speculate to discredit russia and discredit russia and the eyes of the world just as a supposed to host the world cup and so this is a very elemental campaign it's been targeting russia because it's no interfering in areas in which all nations in the past understood that they are off limits when it comes to using them for propaganda purposes such as trying to use the world cup to undermine the host nation that does no good to anyone especially at a time when we need to try and form an understanding. that syria's president bashar assad says more u.s. strikes targeting syrian government are possible i was doing an exclusive interview he gave to ati's not against the f.

assad also explained why he thinks it is wrong to call the conflict in his country a syrian civil war is some of what he said. the timing of this league strike was after the victory of the syrian troops in gold . let alone the fact that we don't have chemical weapons in your way and let the other folks that we're not going to use it against old people because the better new theory was about winning the heart of the civilians this is the main button and we want it so how can you use chemical weapons against civilians that you want them to have to be supportive to the first second if you go to that area it was very clear and by armies by factions in by civilians we never use such armaments or weapons in that area are going to harm everyone something that

didn't happen and if you go to that area and you ask this if there was no chemical attack me or anyone. the words of it all is not according to what we have actually from the very beginning mercenaries syrians and foreigners being paid by the with in order to topple the government this is the reality of the myriad view that the very stark reality everything else is just masks to cover the real intentions talking about the political differences moderate peaceful administration we don't have a civil war in syria if we had civil war so for seven years we should have been divided by now. even as a sunni myself i have a long distant relative who. came to syria to fight against you to resist you because he was told that you would target you with killing sunni's why is it that

so many people in all these different countries in america in russia these sunni's these muslims they believe that you are oppressing because the first thought of when you thought i had interned internationally mainly in the with of course their plan was to create this rift within the society that we make things easier for them when you have such a civil war kind of civil war between thanks or if this city and they feel now the keep using the theme narrative at least to encourage some thread of the x. in different places in the world to come and defend their brothers. with regards to the united states relation to would you president trump has called you quote animal asat do have a nickname for the u.s. president. this is not my language so i cannot through similar language the. you to

prevent him from the bill of the very. no in principle but what you see is what you are three want to to prevent or to believe in but. where you can watch the full interview with syrian president throughout the day here on out it's also available on our website and you can look at that at r.t. dot com now also ahead this hour americans being sued by iran that's among the stories just after the break. europe must be much stronger and makings of decision at twenty eight can we around the table agree on tougher measures on these are china always the us and then the unfortunately easy answer to that so far is not the really europe is being too weak

and that's why we have being beaten on the head sometimes by the chinese sometimes by the american and dutch got to stuff. what politicians do something to. put themselves on the line to get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be president or injury. or somehow want to be rich. it's a going to be for us to see what will befall us three of them or ten people that i'm interested in always in the waters of our. first sit. oh again now if a new artificial intelligence tool created by the university of southern california

could potentially predict if a protest is going to turn violent by analyzing social media activity the program analyzed eighteen million twitter posts for marlise language during the twenty fifteen protests against police brutality in the us to fulton or it turns out there was a correlation to between the number of arrests and the use of this kind of language moralize tweets doubles just prior to violent protests the ai to detect phrases evoking moral notions such as care fairness and loyalty is an example of it in action. why does their position speak only bad luck on black crime as a rebuttal to police brutality or murder all crime matters right. regardless of how anyone feels pressed to the police force in the family. in another study scientists polled around two hundred people on whether they condone the use of violence during. in the twenty seventeen crashes in the us it is

charlottesville over the removal of confederate monuments and they found that people were more likely to condone the use of violence if others actually shared their view it's. futurist gray scott police violence our protest is just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to what artificial intelligence will eventually be able to predict. i think we're going to see more of this sort of predictive analytic behavior from ai in the future as a develops so for example there is a new study that came out in front two years in human neuro science that shows that ai can predict behavior and traits just by looking at people dilation and eye movements so what's happening is that date we have more data points from social media but also from just the fact that we're quantifying ourselves in quantifying our society we have more data points and so that will be able to use that that set

of data those data points to predict their behaviors and that's really the key in this story is is will the machines of the future be able to predict our behaviors before we even know what we're thinking and i think the answer is yes now opec member iran is seeking support from the organization in getting the latest u.s. sanctions lifted but that's not the only way to protect itself it's also sitting washington for its involvement in terrorist attacks in iran last year citing donald trump as a key witness and more pain as more. now the crimes of the i still terrorists have four or five people all over the world many people want justice to be served currently the islamic republic of iran is preparing a legal case but against washington it's based on allegations that the usa was involved in the terrorist attacks in tehran and twenty seventeen which i still claimed responsibility for.

that lawsuit might seem a little farfetched but they've got some pretty solid testimony here's the president of the united states on national t.v. isis is honoring. president obama he is the founder of isis he's the founder of eyes i think will give hillary clinton the you know if you're a sports team most valuable player and v.p. you get the m.v.p. award i says will hand her the most valuable player award her only competition is barack obama now perhaps this was just a figure of speech maybe he meant that washington's irresponsible foreign policy

decisions had resulted in the terrorist group emerging is said the president was the founder of isis i know what you meant you meant that he created the vacuum he lost the p.r. but he's the founder of isis i do and there could be some more high level witnesses and a potential washington versus tehran case this is senator rand paul from kentucky had the president had his way or had hillary clinton had her way we may well have had isis in charge in damascus now because they've been arming and creating a safe haven for them as it is i think isis is more of a threat to us now because of the arming of the islamic rebels in syria iran is the lawsuit may actually come across as a counter claim that it was the u.s. that originally took iran to court for alleged involvement in the nine eleven attacks the coos decision is unacceptable and we reject it is not a new mockery of the system of international law but also more clear to the american people especially the victims of the september eleventh attacks and the families now the nine eleven commission found no evidence of any iranian

involvement in the attacks the report simply states that the hijackers had traveled to iran without having their passport stamped it's a pretty tough sell but the u.s. courts bought it now as for iran's case we'll have to see if trump's word is actually a guarantee for success to be fair if donald trump's word is enough there's certainly a lot of criminal cases that need to be reopened remember what he said about ted cruz's father his father was with lee harvey oswald prior to ours where he was being. you know shot at so with all these. strong word of the allegations that donald trump likes to make maybe is about time to get a disguise a fake name and hide out in the witness protection program. r.t. new york. and i bring it up to date with what's happening in the world this hour we'll be back with more news in thirty five.

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greetings and salutation well well well talk watchers it appears they're right when we thought that the conveyor morgan's trans mountain canadian pipeline was finally put to rest dead in the barrel one might say in swoops canada's very you know in the biz and the prince himself prime minister just i'm sure doe to say big oil's dying pipeline yes after british columbia politicians environmentalist indigenous groups fought tooth and nail through protest and political action and legal action to slow the development of the pipeline down to the point where even kinda morgan c.e.o. steve kane conceded back in early april that quote it is difficult to conceive of

any scenario in which we would proceed with the project well prime minister toured dos living with a shocking r k o out of nowhere on the opponents of the pipeline announcing that the canadian government well now by the pipeline outright just to complete the controversial project it is being reported the traditions government is looking to spend four point five billion canadian dollars or three point four billion u.s. dollars to purchase kimber morgan's pipeline naturally this move. has left opponents of the pipeline shocked and dismayed and outright angry clayton thomas muller a campaigner with three fifty dot org stated despite tens of thousands of people opposing it he just used taxpayer money to bail out a project the communities don't want that would break his own climate commitments and then indigenous peoples are fighting from the front lines to the courtrooms as not alone so p. harrison the climate activist in canada tweeted this one this moment will go down

in canadian history as a desperate last gasp of an industry that cooked our planet and for the immense moral cowardice of justin trudeau government in the face of the climate crisis whom so just how is tiger beat trudeau going to charm is way out of this one let's find out as we start watching the hawks. you know what you get the. real thing it would be. as if you were the butt of so if you. like you know that i got. three. weeks. rather watching the hawks i rolled down capital while it and joining us today to discuss prime minister trudeau

and they can eighty and government stunning move to get the trans mountain pipeline alive as r.t. correspondent alex my comments welcome thank you so alex look environmentalists progressives are there you know heads are exploding in anger all over this move by trudeau i mean even that naomi klein tweeting out that like you know basically that's how justin trudeau knows that this decision is going to haunt him everywhere he goes and she even said his days of getting out of canada to bask in the pouring selfies are over so i got to ask why is making this controversial move i know it was for the pipeline but it goes dead in the water how does this benefit him creating this many enemies. well you know i think he has a very difficult time picking or girl does is sometimes he's moving in do when he's in india sometimes he's i don't know what when he's in another country and this time around it looks like am i in oil bearing with a stetson hat or am i an environmentalist nobody knows anymore he's all over the

place and what he's trying to do here really is appease everybody but he's not appeasing anybody alberta is the big question here it's the province with the tar sands with the oil and alberta has been a little bit ticked off since trudeau's been saying he doesn't want the pipeline to be as sending three times more oil to the pristine coast of british columbia where there be more tankers and stuff so he's like you know what i'll take care of the albertans here and at the same time the left will love me because i'm going to nationalize this thing well guess what he's just made a lot of enemies across the board with this kind of thinking i'm not sure that socializing oil was really what what all all of us progressives were asking for and it's sort of interesting because he was this hero of the laughed at and all of this but what it makes me wonder is with all the court cases going on with everything already happening that this pipeline and you wonder how the purchase will affect all those pending court cases and the building of the pipeline the sense those carcases are what essentially stopped at the first place so what is canada's plan

after purchasing this pipeline great question look there in this is the place this is a very plant it was not your thinking. and so getting five billion from can do more good for them to build a pipeline canada just invested three point five billion to three point four billion to buy this sixty year old leaky pipeline ok do you have some swampland that you want to buy mr joe because this is exactly what's going to happen a year or so and this is just the beginning of a because the fact is once you buy the pipeline tkinter morgan's going to work on it until about august till the deal is done and then canada has to take over the building of the extension of the pipeline they want to eventually have. it three times more oil flow to the b.c. coast so once that happens mr trudeau the liberals say this is a really good part somewhere down the road you know we're going to sell this back to a private company and we're going to make tons of cash here and this is just like

a preliminary measure that we're doing right now yeah we've seen this happen time again with infrastructure products were projects i should say where something is done by a government or taken over by a government and it usually doesn't sell for more at the end so the looks like the taxpayer is going to be hit anyway that you turn this good idea bad idea what is true don't think some people are saying this is the for the going for the long game and that there's actually no plan to sell this thing at all it's all about nationalize ation but nationalization of what and industry that's ten percent of our g.d.p. which is the energy sector which the tar sands make up a certain part of which the tar sands are the hardest in the dirtiest oil to get out and extract on the face of the planet which every country that has oil beats us at so yeah it's a brilliant move and from the left to the right nobody is liking this yeah i mean what is a pipeline is like they're like they're like cars where the moment you drive them off the lot they're already depreciating i mean yeah you know alex what was that's

the side of the government we just heard and what i guess their plans are but alex what is the next step for the opponents of this pipeline and you know you said no one on the right and left is happy about canadian citizens what's their reaction to all of this craziness goals like what you're saying there is opponents to this pipeline that's why tkinter borgen love so how are you going to sell it the second time around you think the opponents are going to go away they're not the native groups are still there the native groups didn't get what they wanted to get they wanted to get first of all can you ask for permission to go through our land that will be a point a and point b. can you not do pipelines because pipelines sometimes leak in the dirty of the most pristine force not in canada but on the face of the planet and the people in british columbia that live on the coast and most canadians are i should say a lot of canadians because some people do like pipelines but most canadians wink wink would agree. with them and say you know what we don't want this kind of tanker traffic in the pacific ocean off the coast of british columbia because the risk obviously goes up so you have that part of the argument then you even have the conservative part of the argument which is just do you just spend

a lot of money on something that you didn't need to spend any money on so they're even against this so where's this going to go there's just going to be more and more opposition and somewhere down the line when they want to sell it which i don't know if it's ever going to but there's going to be opposition to whoever is going to come and buy those they and they're going to go through the exact same thing is kinda more good and then what i do out amazing amazing well that was just like us on the roller coaster ride of this it was amazing alex will of it's always a pleasure but you so much thank you. one of the biggest tragedies of twenty seventeen was the devastation of puerto rico and many other caribbean and gulf of mexico cities states and countries during last year's epic hurricane season and with the hurricanes came the controversy as many felt that the official response to the cleanup and rebuilding of puerto rico was just as devastating as the storms and now with this year's new hurricane season set to begin on june first and new study out of harvard is eliminated just how costly in human life the storm and the

official failures following the storms may have been are to correspondent natasha sweet has more. it's been eight months since hurricane maria devastated the island of puerto rico there's no question the category four storm the nation but now some experts believe that the lives lost were vastly underestimated by the thousands. there the seafood very difficult imagine her food the electric bed the section machine therapies it has been very difficult eight months following hurricane maria's rast how we're still isn't fully restored norman medina is one of the many residents doing without electricity and still taking care of her elderly mother for something. patients with medical needs power is essential for survival and now a new study published by harvard university in the new england journal of medicine contends that more deaths than normal occurred on the island months after the category four hurricane or some point to issues surrounding patients not getting

the medicines or medical care they need researchers surveyed thirty three hundred random homes in puerto rico they found a mortality rate of forty point three deaths per one thousand residents a whopping sixty two percent increase in deaths compared to twenty sixteen so the authors suggest four thousand six hundred forty five people died as a result of maria compared to the official death toll of sixty four researchers said the official count was a substantial underestimate of the true burden of mortality after hurricane maria because i could have director of puerto rico federal affairs administration said the island welcomes a study releasing this statement tuesday as a world knows the magnitude of this tragic disaster caused by hurricane rita resulted in many of these we have always expected the number to be higher than what was previously reported the report released tuesday is the latest studies analyze how many people died during or after the category four storm hit the u.s. territory in september of two thousand and seventeen officials estimate hurricane

maria to have a ninety to one hundred billion dollars in damages is reported as the third most expensive tropical cyclone in the u.s. since one thousand nine hundred more than seventy thousand homes were destroyed three hundred thousand homes were damaged as still power has not been fully restored this as some sixteen thousand people still remain without electricity the more than eight month lockout is the longest in u.s. history the army corps of engineers ended their work on the island earlier this month restoration of thousands of downed power lines are now in the hands of the u.s. territories bankrupt public utility the puerto rico authority professor donald berry at the university of texas as at least one expert questioning the study by harvard however i. and if issues are embracing the new reports and more investigations will be made in los angeles and sweeps. who but you know we have billions to spend on defense we are we dishonor mr burns but not enough to help

puerto rico and while when you see the official estimate sixty four compared to what over four thousand that's just ridiculous i mean to think that only sixty four people asked their lives during that is ludicrous i mean first of all there's this thing that i just don't understand this is the money if you're talking about defense defense and the u.s. you know our military even says that climate change and weather these things whatever is causing it is the biggest threat to our safety and to me it's not as if hurricane season is a surprise it happens every year you know you know when these things are coming you can watch why are we surprised why is there ever a moment when feedback every year should just be ready you are you know somehow if these things happen there should be a plan well i'm not i don't think that's a lot to ask for people know and that's the thing it's like we are priorities of what we choose to spend money on as a government what our congress dictates what our president calls for is absolutely would be.