it almost seems as though something had gone on behind the scenes and that this would this was an attempt to suppress my speech during a critical election and it is quite ironic because my response was a was a picture of joseph stalin which was meant to be humorous saying off the gulag and then of course they mass reported me as if i have access to a gulag here in the state of missouri that i could that could be a credible threat when mr peterson's bond comes out twitter brings together a special research team to come back prejudice and promote what it defines as collective health and openness on its platform but the plan seems to be causing controversy with the assemble team already being accused of a strong antti trump bias. why do we need interim jonna. something tells me a little suddenly started seeing more republicans in congress testing new wonders

and pushing back. trumps twenty sixteen digital team and cambridge analysts and he's campaigned on facebook. so what we know is that the team will work on algorithms that route incivility on intolerance on twitter and on the sest the extent to which people engage with different viewpoints austin peterson though he's of the view that platform despite what it say is actually making a concerted effort to censor certain ideas on talking points. we don't have free speech in the united states in order to be able to discuss the whether we have free speech in united states that we can discuss very controversial things i don't mind if a social media network has a bias i assume a bias but what i prefer is transparency about that bias twitter suppresses conservative and libertarian voices from being able to get their message out

because they have a bias and it's deeply disturbing and a threat to american democracy. the u.s. is to slap sanctions on two turkish government ministers over the detention of an american pastor in turkey untrue brunson is accused of being involved in the attempted coup there two years ago with more details from washington d.c. here some a recount. well washington sanctions target two turkish officials number one the justice minister of bill hamid gul and the interior minister silliman solo the white house explained the decision saying that they did not find any evidence implicating pastor france in calling him a victim treated unfairly by the turkish government but what do the sanctions entail exactly will sarah huckabee sanders explains any property or interest in property of both ministers within u.s. jurisdiction is blocked and u.s. persons are generally prohibited from engaging in transactions with them for some

background on bronson he's an american pastor who was detained in twenty six fifteen under suspicions of having links to the movement who orchestrated the cool against aired on he was held for twenty one months in prison until he was placed under house arrest amid u.s. pressure now the two sides didn't mince their words the u.s. threatened turkey with sanctions and turkey responded saying that they wouldn't bow down to any threats and the president are the one and the turkish government i have a message on behalf of the president of the united states of america release pastor andrew bronson now or be prepared to face the consequences we will move down to any threat it is unacceptable for the united states to use a threatening language against to keep using an ongoing case as a pretext for us turkish relations haven't been so strong lately over the syria conflict turkey's a weapons deals or missile defense deal with russia as well as iranian sanctions so

we'll just have to see if turkey does indeed retaliate. the increasingly volatile atmosphere in one deprive parlous neighborhood is forcing a migrant support group to end its work their volunteers say the situation in la chapelle has become explosive they no longer feel safe over the past two years the group has distributed more than two hundred fifty thousand meals and supplies to needy people in the area charlotte dubin ski picks up the story. in paris is a gritty eighteenth hante small town hundreds of migrants clustered together on the streets they gather here as it's where food is distributed by a local volunteer group but after twenty months solid data to me call wilson looks set to close its doors saying they just can't take it anymore the thoughts of it's

become more tense we're serving around seven hundred breakfasts every day to migrants who live in terrible conditions they have nothing not even tends to sleep on the ground and sometimes woken up by the police early in the morning they kick them and use tear gas to move them so when they come to us they're stressed or nervous twice last week we had to stop serving food to let the tension calm down this is something new for us so yes we're stopping. migrants of been expelled by police in this area many times philip tells me that despite this they come back and every time they do this situation becomes even more desperate from the beginning our mission was to serve hot drinks and bread and we've done this for twenty months every day during the last month we started questioning our mission as we day one i volunteered to be put in danger. who is to blame for this situation for not giving enough help to the migrants on the streets is this the mayor of paris is this the government of france. for us is both the state is responsible for people on the

streets for taking in migrants at the same time the authorities in paris are restricting access to water taps in the summer is irresponsible they also have a responsibility towards the miners their miners who sleep on the street and in the camp of drug addicts me the state nor the parish administration is doing its job. with the authorities not providing enough support the volunteers are giving up just a stone's throw away from here is an area known locally as crack hill that's also made things worse for those working to help the migrants felipe says that some of the drug addicts also coming for food handouts and causing problems. the drug addicts are evacuated recently but nothing was done to help them and they came back to now come for a break for this too it creates additional tension they're aggressive including towards the volunteers so this is an explosive situation. while we are recording

the into the meat the think distribution point to take individual approach us all move you guys all about media which serves your reality and i was here i was the only. so basically we keep in mind that some of the people of st mary and. tell me we're not filming that scene but they just aren't comfortable with the cameras. be letting people see this is the. more people are coming nothing is being done about it and there are the drug addicts as you saw it's impossible to film people here it's becoming more difficult than before we think the situation is explosive and a person is in real danger by shutting up shop. know that they are cutting off a vital lifeline for the ripple nicholas but as well as doing it out of concern for

their volunteers they hope to move to prompt the authorities to stop ignoring the plight of migrants and force them to take action show that deviant ski r.t. paris. maria buthe made headlines last month after being arrested in the u.s. on charges of acting as a russian agent in addition to allegedly working on behalf of the kremlin to interfere in u.s. politics it's also being claimed she was trying to lure american money here to russia or to america spoken to a lawyer about the case. well i think if you read the indictment of the case is alleged to be an agent over russia who failed to register with the attorney general and so essentially that means is they haven't charged with espionage and if you read the allegations against or know the allegations or anything spy like about it the sense of the government is conceding that even under their own theory if she'd fall the piece of paper with the attorney general's

office at the beginning of her trip to america everything she did was legal and so my point is this is more a registration type crime than a crime and yet the media and the government some extent are treating it like an espionage crime. well i mean i think that allegation was particularly damaging to maria because it makes it more like a spy novel and frankly easier for the public to digest and so editors and producers like those kind of allegations because it seems like this is more like the red sparrow and that was an allegation that was set forth in a proffer by the government meaning they did not produce evidence to back up that allegation at the time we're still waiting to see that and we're not sure it exists or exists in any meaningful form in the interim it's very hard to see your clock on dragged through the mud like this which is why and try to push back on that. so

it's africa's ruling african national congress committed on tuesday to and mending the constitution to allow the state to seize a land without paying compensation currently over two decades on from the end of apartheid or racial segregation white farmers still on the line share of the country's privately held law and the n.c. had been buying up some of it for redistribution however opinion among lawmakers has shifted and the majority now support taking on without offering compensation but for the the constitution had to be changed that's the move president from opposing and i wants to push ahead with he sees the amendment will help drive economic growth in the a.n.c. to. its position that a comprehensive land reform program that and neighborhoods equitable access to lead and. economic growth by bringing more land in south

africa to fool you. and mabel the productive participation of millions more south africans in the economy. perhaps unsurprisingly the plan has been met with sharp criticism from white farmers who've called it catastrophic here some of the bok lush there has been online and we are going to live happily ever after south africa doesn't have a line problem it has a political problem this is disgraceful what an appalling situation in south africa where are all those protestors d.d. a n c explain to you that you won't be all in the land let's move to renton it's from them won't it be for free well i got reaction earlier from a soft african i grew cultural union leader who told me the change will simply scare off investors. but i do have the huge problem of poverty and unemployment and so as this is

a pity that they make these choices because no one will invest in this economy and we need growth to actually address the realities of south africa so we have great concern about this approach we're already a lot of countries already contact us as an organization and say is that will be the case we are not willing doing these to your gun free anymore i can give you a lot of examples of people really stuck in these the needs of every good and that's the starting point of economic growth until now it's a first and that they make this promises to the bubbly because they needed for the election i think the if he's busy challenging the do much on the other try to save himself and that is what's going on now. staying in africa an investigation is underway into the deaths of three russian journalists in the central african republic on choose they they were killed in an ambush by all my dental fide militia fighters near the town of subdued people in moscow been paying tribute to the slain

men laying flowers a real. spoke earlier to check on this. and what more do we know at this point well definitely a tragic incident and certainly a great loss for all journalistic community first of all what we know so far officially is that they're dead bodies were discovered by u.n. peacekeeping person now some twenty five kilometers north of the central city of seabird. on the road and abandoned car was also discovered at the same with multiple gunshots yes it looks like the crew was attacked by a large group of gunmen we do not know right now who they were and we also know that the driver of that car a local man according to some reports he was recommended to the team by u.n. office in central african republic so by this incident we know that. he's currently called in with investigators we also hear that the crew didn't

have press accreditation. officially they did have the right to work in central african republic as a journalist and we also hear from the russian embassy that they were not notified about their arrival and we hear from the russian officials that their buddies expected to return to their homeland to russia this saturday has there been any indication as to why they were killed they don't discuss who is behind the killing of three russian journalists but more interested in what their assignment on the ground was shortly after the news about the death came we started receiving unconfirmed reports we're heard that from the killed journalists friends and colleagues they were filming a documentary about mercenaries in central african republic possibly with links to russia some would go further calling in a group name known as wagner although these were all unconfirmed reports from media news personality. started using this information as if it was the matter of fact

and it created kind of like hysteria but not about the killing the terrible incident that happened in central african republic but about the russia's involvement in the conflict there and illegal personnel there and russia's foreign minister as a reaction to these claims i read in here all of this nonsense about an investigation into russian mercenaries in the central african republic there is nothing sensational about the presence of russia's military instructors in the country no one covers this based on the location of the bodies the russian journalists were not heading to an area where the instructors work this march russia officially to send five military and one hundred seventy civilian instructors to central african republic apart from being one of the poorest countries on earth. definitely on the african continent it is very unstable play is divided between different groups so

it's like a very dangerous place and this was the reason behind the invitation of russian experts to the republic and i think this was a russian ministry is trying to say that this is not the news that's quite fair because the news is the killing of the three russian journalists and we we have to wait and see what the investigation finds out. the state capitol of texas may have to rethink its name a report by the equity office in austin suggests taking a closer look because the city's named after a supporter of slavery it is long been a sensitive issue in a city that's considered to be among the most liberal in the united states.

so this is what we know austin's equity office refute old public property to see whether it has any ties to the confederacy is most controversial period and they came up with a list of street names monuments that should perhaps be changed or removed although renaming the city is not likely to happen any time soon the issue is being assigned medium priority well the controversy lies with the city's namesake steven austin the father of texas well secretary of state all of the new republic in the

nineteenth century but he was a prominent slavery advocate even infamously said that a month's a painted slaves would turn into a menace he had slaves the mystic servants as well but back to today naming the city after the state fundraise common sense media relations consultant on austin resident john griffin. we've got this push in texas to try to you know be careful not to withstand anybody but texas is offensive because liberty's events it but the fact that texas is named that capital city is named for the person that started the colony in texas that became the state that's common instead the city council here in austin has made a few a few very bad decisions like banning yogurt so the city council would rather waste taxpayer money on frivolous ideas like this then actually doing real work while i felt or any of the stories this half hour for your interest why not delve

a little bit deeper n r t dot com but stay with us no more great programs right ahead. join me every thursday on the alex simon show and i'll be speaking to guests of the world of politics small business i'm show business i'll see of an. old maid just manufacture consent to public wealth. when the ruling classes protect themselves. with the flame and merry go round this is only the one percent. time we can all middle of the room sick.

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