this hour's top headlines here on r t a u.s. court of refused a russian citizen maria after charging the lobbyist with conspiracy to defraud the united states and claiming she offered sex in a bid to forge influential connections with america. over principles and undercover investigation reveals that facebook moderators have been ordered to leave. violates the company's guidelines if it indeed generates revenue also. the russian military each new generation arsenal featuring some of the most powerful weaponry in the world enters into. video released of lasers and the

hypersonic systems. all right thursday july nineteenth and it is now just after ten am here in moscow you're watching our future national a very warm welcome. a u.s. court has refused bail to a russian citizen maria after she pleaded not guilty to charges of conspiracy to act as a kremlin agent earlier prosecutors released court papers relating to her case of the documents claimed the bhutto was in contact with russian intelligence officials and even offered sex to others to forge influential connections. the twenty nine year old has appeared in federal court and entered a plea of not guilty contesting the charges against her and she's been denied bail so she will remain in federal custody pending trial documents presented by the

federal prosecutors have a lot of really unclear words in them for example it says appears to have ties to russian intelligence services they believe they said that was in contact with officials believed to be russian intelligence operatives furthermore they stated that they have a handwritten note that says how to respond to f.s.b. employment offers so this is what they have a lot of very unclear statements in the document and furthermore they went on to allege that she has been covertly offering people sex for favors and basically the charge is that she has been operating in pro-gun lobby groups and with the republican party and has been doing so on behalf of the russian government without registering herself as a foreign agent now a lot of the media reports are using words like spy and espionage but none of those charges have been filed she is not being accused of doing any military related work no classified information is involved in the case it's simply alleged misuse

lobbying and behaving as a lobbyist without registering as a lobbyist on behalf of the russian government the spokesperson for the russian ministry has come forward and said they are alarmed by the case and they are calling the charges groundless and politically motivated we've heard they are saying essentially the f.b.i. instead of dealing with its basic duties to combat crime is carrying out a plane political order her lawyers argued that she has been cooperating with federal officials in the united states for the last few months that she is not a flight risk but the judge didn't hear it and the judge said that she was denied any bail so she remains in federal custody awaiting trial on these charges of being an unregistered for. an agent lobbyist. facebook moderators have been instructed not to remove content that violates the company's guidelines if it generates enough revenue that's according to an undercover investigation by the u.k.'s channel four

t.v. station and the reporter attended a six week training session on facebook's content moderation policy but sure you're . ready to go all the route. for. one example is the page of a jailed far right activist tom robinson this was given the same kind of protected status normally reserved for government pages and big news organisations tom robinson used to lead the english defense league a street based social movement opposed to islamists and islamic extremism after leaving the league he became a freelance journalist and robinson who was recently sentenced to thirteen months for contempt of court after live streaming over facebook a report on an ongoing trial easy to early takes a closer look at facebook policy. so this channel four documentary dispatches sends

an undercover reporter to work for c l now they're a contract for facebook and they provide a number of services including moderating content for the social media giant and not undercover reporter he goes in and one of the things that he's instructed to do in his training is not to delete for example certain racist means or certain images also to do with child abuse the normal facebook rules state that should a page violate the rules or the terms of conditions five times or more than the entire page is to be brought down and not just the offending content but in the case of leaders like tommy robinson then that content wasn't brought down all those pages weren't brought down facebook they've apologized for the revelations which have come out of that dispatches documentary and the valve that they will investigate we take these mistakes incredibly seriously and are grateful to the

journalists who brought them to our attention we have been investigating exactly what happened so we can prevent these issues from happening again so it would appear that far right groups and leaders like tommy robinson it's not so much what they say or what they do which is important to facebook but how much money they can make for the social media in terms of deciding what is and isn't hateful and it's interesting that it comes as off wall of the social media giants not just facebook but twitter and others that they need to do more to police their sites better. the russian defense ministry has unveiled video of its new generation of weapons in action some of the world's most powerful armaments are now fully operational in the russian military but i guess dia takes a closer look at the new arsenal. when putin announced this new arsenal it came out of nowhere seemed like side five overkill to some but you know we now

have videos of each. kindle or dagger and russian is a hypersonic missile and it's fast really fast and flies at three kilometers a second when deafening tries to shoot it down it dodges to maneuvering flying in an unpredictable trajectory world first by the way the u.s. plans to test its own analog next year. saddam out this is the overkill bought a new nuclear i.c.b.m. that carries get this twenty nuclear warheads the real a store with its range which is practically unlimited past nuclear missiles had to use the shortest flight path and fly through ed defenses this thing can literally

fly to the south pole and back up to hit that stargate from behind. if for whatever reason you don't feel like flying through and. there's adam god and it's designed to literally ram its way through enemy anti missile defenses with a speed first it's lifted into space then its engines turn on and it enters the atmosphere at knock twenty that's roughly seven kilometers a second. poseidon the greek god of this she may be gone but he's got a no less terrifying successor a nuclear powered paedo that travels to deep and so fast it's in theory undefeatable. brevets nick a new nuclear powered nuclear capable cruise missile it's literally powered by

a nuclear reactor on board inside the misselling meaning it's got indefinite range so long as the reactor has fuel it can stay airborne fluids around and around until the opportunity to strike. combat lasers i've always been a cool science fiction gimmick but they never really got doing the science and technical requirements were too great until now it seems it is yet named after a russian worry among the laser weapons system designed to deliver incredible amounts of energy in a small area so shoot down all melt down and incoming drew nor jet to shelve for example other than that not much known yet. now one might ask isn't all that is just begging for an arms race is russia each in

for a fight no says putin it's all about balance balance means peace before things were even russia in the us had nuclear parity mutually assured destruction then after the u.s.s.r. collapsed nato began to expand began to field new weapons that could destroy russian nukes what putin unveiled is russia's a return to military equality status quo a return to balance. a french court has rejected a case brought by survivors of the twenty fifteen but a clown terror attacks against the state over is handling of the tragedy but also looked at the actions of a group of soldiers ordered not to. intervened despite being posted outside the concert hall and paris as the assault unfolded as our paris court correspondent

charlotte do because she has details on. these claims were brought in front of the court just about a month ago and they were bought and relation to the victims and the families of those who didn't survive the battle plan attacks. so what they claim to basically is that the french state failed to assist in danger by not intervening and what was happening that night at the vatican because the soldiers were not only given orders not to go in to be in they were also given orders not to give their weapons to the police who actually wanted to go inside and to troy and assist those who were being injured in this century that slaughter that was taking place now the court documents that were put in also alleges that the terrorists were able to freely move within the european union because of the showing in area and the final major claim that was made is that the security

services actually let them slip through the net and that's because many of the perpetrators of this attack were actually known to the security services before that terrible night back in november two thousand and fifteen now the court rejected those principles saying that the state there was no evidence that the state could have known that the battle in particular would be targeted in this event now we've also heard from one of the lawyers of the victims today who saying that she just doesn't accept this ruling in november thirteen attacks are not inevitable everything was known degree of danger was known deceived really or to draw conclusions from previous attacks the leaders linked to the lack of surreal and and vigilance by the security services of their french state many of the questions that the families wanted answered still haven't been answered not by this case. today by the parliamentary inquiry which followed those attacks just

a year or so ago but we do know is there was remain this questions remain since they will be something that those families will continue to think about and wonder whether in their minds they could have been moved on to save their loved ones and help people survive there's a text back on the phone the thirteenth two thousand and fifteen all right so still to come here on the program on r t israel critics of its me from speaking school so that story in the mix if you had lines just. i've been saying the numbers mean something they matter the u.s. has over one trillion dollars in debt more than ten white collar crimes happen each

day. eighty five percent of global wealth he longs to be ultra rich eight point six percent market saw a thirty percent rise last year some with four hundred to five hundred trade per second per second and bitcoin rose to twenty thousand dollars. china is building two point one billion dollars a i industrial park but don't let the numbers overwhelm. the only number you need to remember is one the one business show you can't afford to miss the one and only boom box. quite a pastor in moscow the israeli parliament has passed a controversial law that bars any activists or human rights groups critical of the

israeli defense forces from entering schools. battens activists who actively promote illegal or international political actions to be taken outside israel the gate soldiers of the israel defense forces or against the state of israel anyone who wanders around the world attacking i.d.f. soldiers will not enter a school opponents of the new law fear that its vague language could stifle any criticism of the israeli state altogether and there are several organizations in particular that the law targets. explains. the buck stops with the education minister himself it's up to him to say which organizations and which individuals can address students in a school or in a university and he's already picked his targets the reality in which organizations that undermine the legitimacy of the state of israel and the i.d.f.

soldiers gets to school children has today breaking the silence crossed the line a long time ago of legitimate dialogue when they chose to sloan by the state of israel in the international arena breaking the silence is an israeli non-governmental organization of army veterans who collect and publish testimonies of soldiers who served in the west bank east jerusalem and gaza they tell their personal stories and eye witness accounts of abuses to palestinians. for the first time in the. sense of the law called the castle does the job of the. become the norm. and now the target of the new law is the best eleven human rights group.

during the discussion of the new legislation one of the lawmakers surely your form of each chord the initiators of the law cowards for trying to keep students away from different opinions and particularly n.g.o.s they don't like breaking the silence is not against i.d.f. soldiers breaking the silence are i.d.f. soldiers i.d.f. soldiers who return from the territories and tell us the reality of. the proponents of the law say they did it for good cause and the only intention is to cherish its weighty values israel's very kishen system does not only aspire towards his students coalesced to get cheap mints and greet but rather is also responsible by virtue of the law for the values it instills that breaking the silence into

a more alarming picture it's their greatest restriction on freedom of expression for political grounds or on political grounds for political reasons very explicit israeli law this is the end of a great exercise in i've been open society and it's all being done for one reason for silent criticism of the occupation in effect they've been grassroots protests from some schools and the principal of the school in north tel aviv to one it says that the new law will not stop him from telling his students both sides of the israeli palestinian story as a principal as an educator it is my duty to stand up and say no more these laws meant to harm democracy i should not be part of it i do not agree with it and i should object to it it runs against freedom it has not been challenged in the high court yet because the legislation is fresh the ngo law

is another dark step in the road towards the end of democracy in israel israel is standing on the verge of because this is only one piece of legislation in a long list. which intends to curtail freedoms of speech and other freedoms and put across a very narrow world view of israel and its neighbors as well as the world. over six decades worth of exports by the us have been revealed in a new project mapping the flow to. all major recipients using information from an arms transfer database well gary created a flow of map of u.s. weapons across the globe spanning from one thousand nine hundred fifty tell last year and tracks a shift in recipients from europe japan and canada to more recent years when saudi

arabia and australia have become top buyers of american weaponry we spoke with antiwar campaigner jonathan shafi who told us it's crucial the public finds out about these phenomenal expenditures research like this is very important because so much of what goes on when it comes to the arms trade is undisclosed is not in the public demean and it's very important and in the public interest that everyone knows about what's going on if you look at the extent to which the american economy is reliant on these arms sales then you start to get a picture of why it's so important for us power to continue to sail arms to the skeins of people it does obama was kneedeep in terms of how a the arms and history was progressing trunks is great even follow this isn't sustainable and it's not producing. common goods in the way that we

tamely less need to be doing. ever more white farmers in south africa are considering emigrating as cases of violence against them rise at home and some see russia as a suitable place to resettle and start over. our descendants of dutch speaking saddle errors at the eastern cape frontier in south africa and much of the one thousand century. people moved inland in the nineteenth century they tried to act in the way they were surveyed their joy to negotiate negotiate officially they tried to avoid conflict the land in this area for example was never taken of the taken by whites from the legs with violence all

in an unjust lead. the expropriation of land or. settlers over the sixteenth century without compensation is in visits to one of the measures that we will use to exhilarate redistribution of land to black south africa. i recently visited russia with my family to explore possibilities of recycling in the area i know that the growth in agricultural production is immense in russia so i think it's the right time to buy in to agriculture russia and i think there is a lot of to ensure. the reason outcomes considering immigration is honestly because i see

a dark cloud. over a future that the reality is that we do fear for our lives and the reality is that a white farmer is a deck to every day and so that. my grandfather. was murdered on this form the government has said they're responsible for creating the . and tegan is ward's what. we already have a plan for a settlement of roughly five hundred families with their own cattle near stubborn. when i think of sharing some of your time with us here at r.t. international got plenty of news stories coming your way if you can join us in about twenty five minutes.

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trying to money report we're talking about what donald trump is doing with the trade war dan is over there in china so he's seeing from the front lines on the other side of the war what's happening and here in the united states you know we've been having a financial war for the last decade at least it started a little bit before that i reckon but certainly in two thousand and eight when the financial crisis happened then we brought in this great hope the great savior of the of our economy and our culture and our politics is barack obama and he was supposed to hopefully do something about these banks and we had occupy wall street and all that sort of stuff and what did he do we've pointed larry summers and although some to me they are and all those sort of people into his administration and nothing ever happened because he said we have to look forward we can't look back well something shocking as happened in the past week or two and nobody of course is paying attention to the certainly not likes of m s n b c but villanova man gets fourteen years for predatory payday lending feds so this is villanova

pennsylvania and apparently they're proud of their home grown man villanova man reputed lee known as the godfather of payday lending will spend more than a decade behind bars for scheming to collect millions an unlawful debt obtained from high interest loans according to federal authorities u.s. attorney william and mcsweeney said charles howland then seventy seven of the nobel was sentenced to fourteen years and federal prison and ordered to pay a two point five million dollars fine he was found guilty on seventeen counts of. criminal conduct the government charged him in this indictment under the rico act two counts of conspiracy to violate the rico act one count of conspiracy to commit mail fraud wire fraud and money laundering two counts of mail fraud and aiding in betting three counts of wire fraud and aiding abetting so it's a pretty deep go it's one of the guys who basically is credited with

engineering and innovating the payday lending market and predatory lending wow this is a feel good story yeah so this guy who's involved in this whole aisha's payday lending racket it's going to jail it reminds ray that we were back in the u.k. and when we were doing stuff for the russell brand you know we highlighted one of the payday lenders in the u.k. and they in fact closed up shop and it was very effective it's it's one of the most pernicious and ugliest and underhanded way to destroy a society is by letting payday lenders you know exploit the fact that they can get away with two thousand three thousand fourteen thousand dollars thirty percent a year interest on these small you started in one thousand nine hundred seven under bill clinton and continued up and told twenty seventeen when he was charged by the trumpet ministration the u.s. attorney charged with predatory lending he was apparently an inspiration to many other payday lenders and they followed on the things he got to so as states

introduced predatory lending laws he circumvented them and found innovative ways to get around it but i also bring this up this is either good news or bad news because obama treasury secretary linked to accused predatory lender looks like timothy geithner timothy geithner who you grew up in the same town they're over in larchmont that's right he we both played of flint park in larchmont i played on the baseball team the green demons i believe he was on the el submarines right actually i know you were in the yellow sun i was actually also. it's a great i like to admit they were the better team with us but when they're eight years old these things matter nevertheless i think ok this could be good news because maybe we will finally get some justice occupy wall street will finally get some justice because of course timothy geitner was at the new york fed overseeing the bailouts of all of these banks and helping out all his buddies and then became treasury secretary and got away with all his failure to disclose the i.r.s.

all his stuff when he was working at one of those world bank or i.m.f. sort of things but it could be that like maybe we're going to get some justice it might be another twenty years or it could be bad news because like maybe this he's he's like a mafia sort of guy like edging out all the competition getting their competition arrested thrown in prison but according to the daily beast article here timothy geithner who served as treasury secretary during the obama administration is now president of a private equity fund that manages a company that has been accused of predatory lending practices according to the washington post the newspaper reports that mariner finance which is owned and managed by new york firm warburg pincus offers poor americans high interest loans by sending them texts in the mail customers who can't repay the loans have sued for the money they owe plus interest processing fees and legal fees sometimes within months of the checks being cast.