in troops that liberated that area we immediately suggested to our partners that the o.p.c. w. commission go there it is a u.n. unit the organization for prohibition of chemical weapons but instead of waiting one or two days and allowing the commission to work on the site of a missile attack was launched on syria there tell me please is this the best way to ensure the objective of the of what happened there i do not think so i think it was an attempt to create conditions that would make it impossible to investigate thoroughly so that is what it was you. just said that there is proof the militants used chemical substances punish them have they received any punishment did the coalition an attack them immediately i did not see anything like that because. fresh protests are expected along gaza's border with israel this tuesday palestinians mark the fifty first anniversary of the six day war which they refer to as the day of the setback and demonstrations have fled and the scenes don't play

if since the end of march during that period israeli troops have killed at least one hundred twenty palestinians provoking a major outcry from much of the international community but israel's been able to count on the u.s. for support along the way most recently washington's ambassador in jerusalem. less than diplomatic advice to journalists covering the chaos. the. well the american ambassador to israel david friedman has attacked the media for what he says is failing to fairly cover the recent protests along the israel gaza border he said that when you have a situation of some forty thousand protesters storming the israel border and the cover of burning tires and with pistols a molotov cocktails that situation is unprecedented and he says that israel did the best it could and yet despite this ninety percent of media coverage was biased and

critical against the israeli defense forces the american ambassador did however concede that some criticism against israel is legitimate now israel's position has always been to blame her musts for the protests and the ensuing violence and this is a position that american officials have echoed a mosque terrorists backed by iran have incited attacks against israeli security forces and infrastructure and we understand that israel has a right to defend itself urged the members of the security council to exercise at least as much scrutiny of the actions of the hamas terrorist group as it does to israel's legitimate right of self-defense now despite the fact that american officials have come out in support of how the israeli army behaved in dealing with those gaza protests there has been unprecedented criticism in the international community particularly by human rights groups you have for example human rights

watch saying that the i.d.f. say hevia was a bloodbath you have the united nations saying that it was outrageous you have amnesty international saying to quote it was a horrifying use of a lot of ammunition against unarmed protesters now the latest figures we have from the gaza health ministry are that one hundred and nineteen people. killed in nine weeks lineman's the situation on the ground is still tense and unfortunately we're bracing ourselves for those figures to climb. a mystery international is accusing the u.s. led coalition of committing potential war crimes during last year's operation to liberate the syrian city of raka from islamic state the rights group says there's strong evidence that america and its partners used indiscriminate and disproportionate force and that the impact was catastrophic to get more details now from our correspondent on the situation and it's a tough read this and some very strong tough language in it to. indeed call in this amnesty international report dubbed war of annihilation devastating toll on

civilians rockets syria is a very critical analysis of the airstrikes carried out by the u.s. led coalition that included france and britain through the period of june to october twenty seventeen on rocca in syria in their fight against isis now this report does look at the situation that our grovelled decimated families and neighbors came as a result they talk about not have not enough having been done to protect civilians in the situation this report describes describes some of the attacks that happened as seen to be in violation of international humanitarian law and also calls some of what unraveled war crimes and according to them as a result hundreds of people died and thousands were injured despite the coalition saying they do all they can to minimize civilians in these scenarios. you know when you're fighting an enemy that uses noncombatants as collateral damage you know

it's very difficult when you when you fight an enemy like that you to completely avoid. any casualties of war like that but i can tell you we have a process that we go through it. is to minimize you know civilian casualties at all costs the coalition's claims that that's precision air campaigns allowed to bump islamic state out of frock while causing very few civilian casualties do not stand up to scrutiny on the ground in iraq who witnessed a level of destruction comparable to anything we've seen in decades of covering the impact of wars. well amnesty international interviewed one hundred twelve civilians in as many as forty two locations of airstrikes for this report and some of their focus was

specifically on four families who had lost very big numbers of family members in these airstrikes they look at one family that lost as many as eight members in one airstrike another lost sixteen another family lost and a fourth family that lost as many as thirty nine people in those airstrikes and of course while we know the coalition says that in this case as others they did all they can to minimize casualties and in these kinds of scenarios according to them this is inevitable according to amnesty international that is just not good enough and they have called for investigations and justice for the victims of those strikes read some of the testimony from those from those is just truly heartbreaking isn't it ok for now to search in london thanks for that. still to come this hour i'm glad merkel's under pressure for an action over an asylum corruption scandal unraveling in germany we'll have the details of that for you after a quick break. anything

he wants to say and you can't fire him you know it won't be another election until twenty twenty and he's gliding in twenty one even many

representatives support. this year. more of the world's news for you now germany's refugee agency is being investigated for corruption it's accused of offering asylum for bribes chancellor merkel's now also been dragged into the scandal with claims that she was aware of the problems but did nothing to reform the organization of correspondent reports from. the cash for asylum investigation into the german federal office for migration and refugees all. speede public focus has turned to the german chancellor angela merkel and what she knew about the agency's problems its former head frank here didn't fly skaven interview to a leading tabloid which he said he held a face to face meetings with the chancellor and made it explicitly clear that his

agency couldn't cope with the pressures being put on it by a refugee policy. there was no structure or organized development in the form of specific tasks set of priorities or occult collation of personality acquirements since no instructions were available everyone could work as they saw feet in response to those claims a spokesperson for angle merkle had this to say it's not religion and of course there was an ongoing intense process of changing the work of the german federal office of migration and refugees when the refugee crisis broke out i'm just trying to make clear that this device is repeated reported on these changes in the prove to the how the federal states the blunder struck the cabinets he spoke at press conferences and again and again to the public and major league the chancellor was informed of the reforms in the measures taken in this agency. the investigation began after it was alleged that an employee at the un fought for us in bremen

wrongfully granted asylum to twelve hundred people on the list though security services say were to islamic extremists one of whom they describe as an actual terror threat while forty four others belonged to islamist groups prosecutors allege that the female employee took both money and gifts to grant asylum wrongfully between twenty thirteen and twenty sixteen as the investigation continues she did nice those charges against her politicians both from the opposition and from within and glimmer of course on coalition partners saying they want answers. it is not about accusations it is not about vindication of a conspiracy theory but rather about a sober investigation. we have to investigate the accusations as negligence and corruption and we have to do it quickly and everyone who is involved should give testimony in the form refugee card and the interior ministry there is work to be

done in this investigation last month the country's largest opposition party alternative for germany launched a loss. suit against anglo merkel's refugee policy they say that the chancellor's decision to welcome around one of the half a million refugees to the country should have gone through a vote in the stock and the fact that it didn't is unconstitutional and so we put the legal course in front of the court to question whether there there is a legal. explanation or a legal reason to open our borders hopefully we'll have a special committee to go into that abscond well the point we're making is probably the scandal is not something about the fifth one one office environment and has to do with political responsibility and we have to look who is responsible for everything what has happened there before now the big question remains if the chancellor knew that the migration and refugee agency was struggling why was

nothing done to relieve the pressure betrayal of r.t. . but it's nine days and counting until football showpiece tournament kicks off right here in moscow thirty two nations are going to battle it out together on the world cup trophy but earlier we got a close up look at the biggest prize in football. i'm really proud to tell you that there is more than just a special reason for me to be wearing this golden top because here in this studio right now we're going to show you a very special shiny gold can we please have a look. is this the actual trophy world cup winners get their hands on after the final the winning team will lift this exact trophy above their heads and this is the one that they keep only for a short while. before the ultimate possession they get

a film called the so-called winner's trophy which it looks like exactly this one but only made of bronze and it's a gold plated bronze so even lionel messi seen as the best footballer today can't touch it indeed this is the one in on li made of eighteen karat solid gold. official before world cup trophy and only heads of state and people world cup winners can touch this magnificent full don't price how far has the trophy traveled on its tour trough it traveled from coming right to light of a stalled literally a massive geography we estimated that around forty million people live in the nearest proximity to the cities where the traffic visited any special moments in russia including russia for instance a young guy made a marriage marriage proposal to his to his girl and that was really really touching and almost you know i almost had tears in my eyes and

a lot of newlyweds coming to see this trophy after their wedding there was a. longtime fan of football it was around sixty years of age and the guy was crying and i haven't seen you know a sixty year old guy crying at the side of the trophy. next of us federal prosecutors working on the trump russia probe of accused president trump's former campaign manager pressuring witnesses to give false evidence ahead of a trial is said to have failed to register as a foreign agent when he lobbied for ukraine in twenty twelve but. explains when it comes to meddling the u.s. is a past master they matched meddling in the two thousand and sixteen u.s. presidential election still dominates headlines stateside russian meddling into the twenty sixteen election russian interference and russia is again trying to disrupt our elections russia did meddle in the two thousand and sixteen election but he

didn't need a history lesson to understand that foreign meddling is a global game one that the u.s. plays very well. through our history when we tried to manipulate or influence elections or even overturn to governments it was done with the best interests of the people of that country in mind given the traditional reverence for human rights according to studies between nine hundred forty six and their two thousand great powers intervened one hundred seventeen times in foreign affairs with the us making up a large chunk of those statistics. part design in the cold interventions and i do it situations when great powers that intervene in elections in other countries in an attempt to determine the election result the united states intervened in elections of. elections in this manner in forty seven countries for this purpose between one thousand nine hundred eighty six and two thousand here's a few examples the say i publicly admitted it was behind the notorious nine hundred

fifty three k. of iran's democratically elected prime minister he insisted on oil should be nationalized which perhaps wasn't in the best interest of iranians or washington so it seems so he was overthrown in the shell small installed for the next twenty six years to safeguard the west all ambitions in the country and so that all ended and the west an islamic revolution. the one who is an enemy is america is not based on prejudice or pessimistic point of view but rather it stems from experience you know from a crippling real understanding of the actual realities of the word from a wrong to chile two decades on and the cia is supporting a bloody military coup in south america the pinochet government prisoned torches and killed some forty thousand and also political enemies including us citizens and the f.b.i. surveillance like cesar peering into the colonies from distant rome nixon said the

choice of government by the chileans wasn't acceptable to the president of the united states but the attitude in the white. how seemed to be if in the wake of vietnam i can no longer stand in the marines then i will send in the cia with this in mind is alleging russian meddling in the us election a little hypocritical the reelection campaign a former russian president boris yeltsin was secretly managed by three american political consultants they spilled the beans to a us magazine about their collaboration with the clinton white house to bump up his approval ratings although the americans spoke no russian and worked through translators they began secretly laying out an american style campaign to counter the public sentiment running against yeltsin the plot was thrilling so much so showtime made a movie about it based on a true story told the russians how deeply you did not your government whether they

wanted. to look for hope today apparently stalin. it seems as though outside intervention in domestic politics is as old as politics itself and when it comes to us meddling it's all change your country for the best whether you want it why not. you fifty six mission to the international space station is said to blast off on wednesday from the baikonur launch site in kazakhstan on board are an international crew of three are expected to then take two days to reach the orbiting laboratory artie's jackley who goes up there on site. we rode into the baikonur cosmodrome as the sun was rising in order to catch the first glimpses of the craft as it left a subway platform to slowly surely and ever so cautiously make its way to the launch pad.

the so you system is actually made up of two parts the rocket and the spacecraft itself first one of the gate was the rocket which contains the most i catch it aspect the first piece of boosters which pressure around twenty metres long it will burn for only one hundred eighteen seconds before falling away at which point the second the third stage rockets take over the top half is the actual spacecraft and it can also be broken down into three sections at the very top of the of the module with little said for take up. currently the site you system is the only one in the world used to get crewmembers back and forth to the international space station behind me you can see the rocket taking its final position on the platform before takeoff. to the final in place here at launch pad one also known as the garden start named

in honor of your car in the first man ever launched in the space back in one nine hundred sixty one and that was just a few years after the first artificial satellite was also launched right from here and on wednesday i'm going to get a chance to witness my very own liftoff. not long to wait either about twenty two hours until that takes off we'll be watching live either on t.v. or online so you can watch it with us every step of the way that's it for now i'll be back with you next aussie world news in just over half now say that.

hat. in july twenty second team on an attempt a freelance journalist working with on t.v. a militant shelling in syria. to only his second fight scotti has established a hundred all sorts of memorials they will recognize will reporters who often risked their lives with the sake of the truth comes through that these you can submit to your published works in a video form britain format until june the twelfth go to a vote on t.v. dot com.

this is boom bust broadcasting around the world from washington d.c. i'm bart chilton thank you for watching coming up today will the whole back of some financial regulation help the economy or risk another big bank bailout financial policy advocate bartlett nailer from public citizen and mcdonald's has increased the use of automated he os rather than hiring more workers is this part of a way of a robot replacements our team is actually. banks takes a look and there's more reaction and positioning on the trade front as a coalition of finance ministers from europe and canada issue this warning to u.s. treasury secretary stephen was newton with the united states parties as well hyla that has the latest from toronto and before we go i'll tell you about a study which shows how the game companies intend and help our brains all that directly ahead but first let's get to

a few has won the global economy is slowing down that's the verdict of a number of recent reports including the global purchasing manufacturer's index from analyst at i.h.s. market and j.p. morgan the end x. fell to a nine month low of fifty three point one in may down from fifty four point eight just two months ago furthermore the baltic dry index a shipping cost tracker has fallen twenty two percent in the past month indicating a slacking in global demand while no sudden drop by our quick economic slowdown is indicated other metrics such as low but low government bond yields and world events including trade tensions strikes and political turmoil in europe may impact and result in a more rocky economic road for the remainder of the year. social giant media facebook made written agreements with at least sixty device makers to allow them to access personal information of its users including religion relationships event

plans and political beliefs according to the new york times device makers with agreements with facebook reportedly include apple amazon blackberry microsoft and samsung among others the agreements with facebook also allow the device makers to obtain personal information about the facebook friends of people who use their devices the times reports that most of the agreements are still in effect although facebook did end some starting in april the month after the cambridge analytic a scandal. the agreements may violate facebook's two thousand and eleven consent to create with the federal trade commission which was meant to protect users a facebook vice president defended the agreement says consistent with the consent decree and facebook's own stated policies that same representative also said device makers unlike app makers are considered service providers and therefore they're not subject to the limits of the two thousand and eleven consent decree. u.s.

tech giant google has moved to preempt a growing rebellion among their own workers by not renewing project maven the project was an alliance with the u.s. department of defense to apply artificial intelligence or ai to images for better targeting of drone strikes the maven contract envisioned a payout as large as fifteen million dollars but an internal google e-mail intice of pay to grow into as much as two hundred fifty million dollars per year and serving as the first of many similar weapons projects the head of google's cloud computing division which managed project maven revealed the change in a weekly employee meeting using ai for war and weapons development picture the terminator movies is highly controversial with many experts absolutely opposed to such applications other tech titans notably amazon and microsoft have a number of pentagon contracts but have not seen this kind of internal pushback that impacted google in this case a number of employees cited google's motto don't be evil to argue for google to

quit project maven. and the federal reserve has proposed a change to the so-called volcker rule the provision named after a former federal reserve chairman paul volcker was crafted in the wake of the great recession and included as part of the wall street reform and consumer protection act of two thousand and ten more commonly known as dodd frank five. different financial regulatory agencies devised the final regulations based upon the law specifically the volcker rule made it unlawful for banks to speculate using their house accounts that is it made it illegal to use investors or bank money for purely speculative purposes they could still speculate but only as a legitimate business hedge the reason being big bank speculation on things like mortgages related to credit default swaps those c.d.'s as were part and parcel to the economic calamity and led to

a big bank bailout using taxpayer money to the tune of seven hundred billion dollars well now the fed is proposing to scale back the volcker rule some like me who had a hand in writing and voting for the original volcker rule are extremely concerned that if adopted the new fed weakening rule will once again open the big banks floodgates to increase an unbridled speculation but that's just my take here whether this is another person who worked on the original volcker rule and has been following this proposal closely bartlet naylor the financial policy advocate at public citizen thank you again for being here this is such a interesting issue and troublesome in my view that it's coming just when i felt like maybe a lot around the world were taking what was done in the u.s. and saying ok this is how we protect markets what's your take on the circumstance yes it's troubling that the federal reserve and the other agencies are falling in line to weaken this rule you mention hedging that's one of the clear problems now

these bats can be taken and be called a hedge and the bank won't have to explain what's being heads there's another rule that neither provision that says if you're trading less than ten in a book is less than ten billion dollars they're largely unregulated if you're less than one billion dollars book trading assets that are basically are not regulated at all made major rollback i mean ten billion dollars seems like real money to people like you and i and i suppose. there's a lot of the boom busters out there watching so it's pretty much a a a hands off for less than a billion you're saying and for ten billion of your book your trading book at a big bank it's reduced regulation that's right and and what they say is that if you're hedging you need not explain what you're hedging which means that if you make a bet you can call it a hedge and not explain what you're you know hedging against so it's opening the gates to to more speculation so let's explain for our viewers how this works so

say i'm a bank customer and you're the bank and i want to buy you know a bunch of crude oil futures well then you say well i'm going to buy the crude oil futures for bart but since on the other side the bank is the other side of this you want to offset that risk so you place an appropriate hedging bet by buying future is another way or maybe going short on the futures that's a legitimate use of this right and that's part of the market making and ideally we want a robust liquid market for the exchange of such commodities and futures that you don't want it on the other side where the banks just say hey we've got some either funny money that is maybe bartz money overnight and he's not using it overnight or it may just be bank profits that they have in a pool and they want to go out and speculate on that to make money on that that's what this is really all about they can't do that that's right and again imagine how

much money you get paid on your checking account it's pretty much zero because of f.d.i.c insurance a huge amount of money is made available to the banks abundant and cheaply take p. morgan has one point three trillion dollars in deposits for which is paying essentially no interest it's got about eight hundred billion of that deployed in two loans the rest of it's the hair as funny money now some of it is it's needed to be liquid in case there's a news will demand for. return of those deposits but a lot of that money unfortunately is in speculation the volcker rule says you can't it does say you can make markets and it's in that market making exemption that a lot of the mischief is taking place there's still many things about this that are interesting bartlet one is that one of the reasons when i was commissioner that i fought so hard leap for this rule was that there were a couple large banks and we were talking earlier sort of beat the heck out of them bunch i want to mention.