if i have access to a gulag here in the state of missouri that i could that could be a credible threat mr peterson's ban comes as twitter brings it together a special research team to combat prejudice and promote what it defines as collective health and openness on its platform but the plan seems to be causing controversy with the assembled a team already being accused of a strong anti trump bias. dump you can trump john. something tells me you will certainly start seeing more republican seeing congress testing the waters and pushing magazines trump. terms twenty sixteen digital team in cambridge on this week to help the russians figure out how to tell a good mate he's campaigned on facebook. or

the team will work on algorithms that root out in civility and intolerance on twitter and assess the extent to which people engage with different viewpoints but often peterson claims the platform despite what it says is actually making a concerted effort to censor certain ideas and 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 so 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 at a threat to american democracy. the u.s. has announced sanctions against the two turkish officials over the detention of an american the details are coming up after a short break you are watching our commitment.

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this is what was before. people. interested always in the waters of our. friendship. welcome back you are watching r t international now turkey's foreign ministry has lambasted u.s. plans to sanction two turkish government ministers has called on washington to reverse its decision the punitive measures that came in response to the detention of an american pastor in turkey brunson is accused of being involved in the attempted coup there two years ago with more details in washington here is samir khan. well washington sanctions target two turkish officials number one the justice minister abdul hamid gul and the interior minister silliman solo the white house explained the decision saying that they did not find any evidence implicating

pastor brunson calling him a victim treated unfairly by the turkish government but what do the sanctions in tail exactly will sarah huckabee sanders explains any property or interest in property of those 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 sixteen under suspicions of having links to the movement who orchestrated the cool against air to one 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 a president who won 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

threats it is unacceptable for the united states to use a threatening language against to keep using an ongoing case as a pretext u.s. 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. maria butanol made headlines last month after being arrested in the u.s. on charges of acting as a russian agent now there are reports the u.s. senate has agreed to to release a transcript of witness testimony before the body in response to requests from the justice department and her attorney argue merican spoke to put in his lawyer about the case. well i think if you read the indictment 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 had filed a 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 it exists in any meaningful form in the interim it's very hard to see your client kind of dragged through the mud like this which is why i've been trying to push back on that. south africa's ruling african national congress committed on tuesday to amending the constitution to allow the state to seize land without paying compensation currently over two decades on from the end of apartheid or racial segregation white farmers still own the lion's share of the country's privately held land the a.n.c. had been buying up some of it for redistribution however opinion among lawmakers has shifted and the majority now support taking land without offering compensation but for that the constitution has to be changed that is the move president ramaphosa now wants to push ahead with he says the amendment will help drive economic growth. the a.n.c. to. its position that a comprehensive land reform program. that and neighborhood. and.

economic growth by bringing more land in south africa to fool you. and they were the productive participation of millions more south africans in the corner plan has been met with sharp criticism from white farmers who have called it catastrophic here's some of the backlash that has happened on mine. 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 protesters de gea and see explained to you that you won't be own in their land but to obey our antonym from them and won't be for free right benny van zeile a south african agricultural union leader told us confiscating land will scare off

investors. south africa do have a huge problem with 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 already a lot of countries already contact us as an organization and say is that will be the case we are not willing to invest in your country anymore i can give you a lot of examples of people really stopped investing in south africa and that's the starting point of economic growth until now it's a first that they make this promises to the bubbly because they need it 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. all right an investigation is underway into the deaths of three russian journalists in central african republic on tuesday journalists or organizations have called on the u.n.

to get involved in the investigation three reporters that were killed were killed in an ambush by an identified militia fighters near the town of subdued people in moscow have been paying tribute to the slain man laying flowers at the memorial or if emotional spoke earlier to jeff when vulgar about what we know so far. 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. the driver of that car a local man according to some reports he was recommended to the team by u.n. . 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 were heard that from journalists friends and colleagues that

they were filming a documentary about mercenaries in central african republic possibly with links to russia some would go further calling a group name known as wagner although these were all unconfirmed reports some media . news personalities. 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 send an illegal person out there and russia's foreign minister is 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 since ation 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 the. russia

officially and 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 place 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 is what 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 have to wait and see what the investigation finds out. the increasingly volatile atmosphere in one of. the deprived paris neighborhoods is forcing a migrant supporter group support group excuse me to end its work their volunteers say the situation. has become explosive and that they no longer feel safe there

over the past two years the group has distributed more than two hundred fifty thousand meals and supplies to needy people in the area he picks up the story for us. in paris is a gritty eighteenth hante small town hundreds of my clients clustered together on the streets they gather here as it's where food is distributed by a local follow to 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 all sorts 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 in the morning they kick them and use tear gas to move them so when they come to us they're stressed and 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 have 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 or so 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. that is all 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 here who sleep on the street and in the comfort drug addicts me this day nor the parish administration is doing its job. with the authorities not providing enough support the volunteers giving up

just a stone's throw away from haiti is an area known locally as crack hill that's also make things worse for those working to help the migrants felipe says that some of the drug addicts are also coming for food handouts and causing problems. the drug addicts were 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're recording the into the need to think distribution point to take individual approach us all move you guys on our boat media which saves your life and i didn't hear i was really glad you did and i'm in our margin up so basically we're being moved at the moment to some of the people of the streets are very uncomfortable with it like filming that we're not filming it he says but they just aren't comfortable with the cameras

in. the venue to people see this it's just. that i. think. more people are coming nothing's 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 it puts is in real danger. by shutting up shop. know that they are cutting off a vital lifeline for fun ripple nicodemus but as well as doing it out of concern for their fallen tears they hope to move to prompt the authorities to stop ignoring the plight of my clients and force them to take action even ski altie paris. are that does it for me i'll be back of the hour with more news you are watching r.t. international. on

this edition of crossfire we consider one question is donald trump's america first policy in contradiction to the washington consensus idea of american exceptionalism the answer this question will likely define trump's presidency and change the world . you know world is a big part of the new lot and conspiracy it's time to wake up to dig deeper to hit the stories that mainstream media refuses to tell more than ever we need to be smarter we need to stop slamming the door on the bad and shouting past each other it's time for critical thinking it's time to fight for the middle for the truth the time is now for washington closely watching the hawks.

this is boom bust broadcasting around the world from washington d.c. i'm bart chilton and welcome aboard coming up today gary left the c.e.o. of view from the wing is here to talk about the prospect of turbulence in the airline industry over fuel prices and airplane manufacturers plus facial recognition technology seems to have a racial bias and even get this members of the u.s. house and senate are not immune artie's actually banks has the details on the continuing controversy and who's going to profit from artificial intelligence and how are hackers being stopped from killing the golden goose shipley the c.e.o. of fare a software gives us his expert insight and finally from paris france artie's charlie dubinsky looks at allegations that there's something rotten about competition and

prices with french supermarkets we've got our motors running and before we had out of the policy highlight let's get some headlines. the eurozone has seen the weakest growth rate in two years according to europe's that gross domestic product for the second quarter of the year expanded by only point three percent that's even. down a tenth of a percent from the lackluster first quarter and out four tenths of a percent from q four of twenty seventeen that was at four point seven percent higher oil prices and growing trade tensions within the united states were to blame according to some analysts and you're also released unemployment data which shows the unemployment rate in the e.u. stood at eight point three percent in june the same level as in may that's the lowest level since december of two thousand and eight both the g.d.p. and the employment data will go into the european central bank officials consideration as they remain on course to end their bond buying program known as

quantitive easing or q.e. by the end of the year. and while we talk about high oil prices all prices have dropped in recent days even though they're relatively still high higher than normal in recent months that is west texas intermediate w t i traded at the new york mercantile exchange nymex job two percent yesterday just below sixty nine dollars per barrel and trading was even lower today at sixty seven and a half dollars per barrel in mid day trading and light of generally higher prices airlines are looking to boost revenues from ancillary revenue streams some sources are pretty unconventional but is there a limit to what can be done here to discuss airlines and the air industry generally is gary left the c.e.o. of you from the wing dot com gary welcome back we sure appreciate you being with us hop right to it united continental holdings the number three airline in the u.s.

has reported continued profits despite those five few fuel cost the airline is adding more flights and connecting more cities than i guess they have i'm in denver chicago and houston how are they doing compared with the other airlines gary. well united's been adding more capacity than the other airlines but they had also cut a lot more over the last several years as their main hubs have become relatively uncompetitive compared to the other large airlines in the country and they've been adding mostly flights to small cities cities that don't have competition from low cost carriers so those that revenue even though it's connecting revenue that they're mostly picking up is going to be better than the nonstop revenue that they have been flying so it's generally good for them the markets haven't liked the rate at which they've grown as quickly because it means more growth in the airline industry writ large and therefore more competition and lower fares but for united that's actually been fairly good they've been reporting stronger stronger results

than american airlines as and they've also been cutting back slightly on their growth projections so the market seems to like that as well it seems to me gary that a lot of these sort of smaller mid-market locations you know they get maybe a direct flight into it for you know six months or a year then somebody else saying they could make another carrier think they can make some money then the first one maybe bails from it it seems like they're always moving around it's sort of one of the shell games isn't it sort of like that. well there's certainly a lot of experimentation there work with a tremendous amount of data but at the same time you know when you try a new route either will or won't make sense for an airline and if it doesn't you know they'll try something else with a very expensive proposition of flying with a you know with a capital investment in aircraft i will certainly suggest that you know overall united's been growing their small city flying but even that's in the face of higher fuel prices with higher fuel prices some of those more marginal flights or

experimental flights just aren't going to work in the way that they will when costs are lower and some of those experimental flights as you're talking about you know maybe they work at certain times of the year right but maybe go into fort lauderdale in the spring is a big deal but not so much in august well certainly there are routes that are introduced as seasonal or that might become seasonal because of competitive position situations where certainly passengers will want to go to were whether destinations in the winter or you know that's mostly true of leisure destinations that tend to be more seasonal than business travel destinations so that's that's an effect that we see year in year out where capacity grows with demand because airlines are certainly able to move around aircraft pretty much at will with the only constraints being air traffic in available gates which is you know the the modern world that we live in we're early into the ones making those decisions

versus a pretty regulation where that was entirely up to the government yeah very very interesting let's switch kerry to a plane manufacturers air bus just recently announced a five point five billion dollars contract for sixty of these new eight to twenty jetliners which is sort of increased the competition in that small jet market where boeing had been wanting to get in to tell us about the eight hundred twenty i don't know much about it what's the deal with it what's the deal with this contract. well so the twenty is the new name for the. series joel out of canada has entered into an arrangement where airbus has taken a strong stake in their program and has taken over marketing it and is it be able to do a much more effective job at that then was it was an interesting play when there were trade disputes between the u.s. and canada over canadian subsidies over the project boeing certainly objected

although the ultimate decision was that there really wasn't a competitive product that boeing was offering in that small jet space compared to what's now the a two twenty and we are seeing a significant airline uptake already when it was a bump already a product delta had been a major customer but we're seeing uptake as well even from dave neeleman new temporarily name moxie carrier that expects to take sixty of these jets as he builds up a new airline in the u.s. very interesting and before we run out of time i want to ask you about another thing about super fast jets you know some of us remember the concorde number that horrible crash but you know concorde wasn't a money making deal to begin with sure it got you to the e.u. or or back to the states and about half the time but not a money maker is i say but now it looks like there is some companies like boeing lockheed martin and a company i've also never heard of boom technology are starting to look at demonstrations of super fast jets again what you know about that. well you know

concorde was is fifty year old technology and certainly now we ought to be able to have engines in aircraft that go as fast or faster with better economics than were developed at the time what's really delayed things has been the regulation both in terms of what's possible for testing the technology and then ultimately for what kinds of flying you're able to do with it we really only got over water flying with the concorde because of these sonic booms the noise that was generated by these engines on these aircraft so you could really serve over land nations now the or it are still technological challenges but the regulatory environment is more open boom has raised a lot of money and made a lot of noise in this space and some of the more traditional players are you know as a result competitive pressure opening up their own programs aggressively because there is an expectation that we will see faster flight in you know the future whether it's five years ten years or fifteen years and you know better technology should

yield better economics although it's not yet clear how much of a premium customers would be willing to pay to shave time off of longer journeys there is so interesting thank you very much gary left the c.e.o. of view from the wing dot com thanks again gary. thank you. and the second quarter is usually weaker a weaker earnings report for apple but the company has just reported their highest generating q two ever based upon continued i phone sales and record sales of applications the i phone sales in particular are notable given the contract ing sales of smartphones globally sales typically slow in the early and mid part of the year based upon consumers waiting for the newer models in the third quarter of the year and last time we spoke about how samsung smartphone sales were down on an overall flat q two for the south korean company apple c.e.o. tim cook said sales of their smartphones are also geared towards emerging markets

and apple shares over the past year have risen twenty eight percent and were boosted by the earnings report of three point seven percent to above one hundred ninety seven dollars per share yesterday in trading. and in other earnings news sony has reported another strong quarter of two point zero four billion dollars driven by electronic hardware and playstation four video sales about a quarter of sony profits are from video games all areas of the company were profitable except smartphone sales which we just discussed they lag particularly in europe and in the home nation of japan and the sony movie business incidentally nintendo the other japanese game maker also reported strong profit growth yesterday based upon ramped up sales of the nintendo switch machine. and british petroleum quarterly profits were up a lot about three times that of last year's q two report at two point eight billion dollars and while higher oil prices are negatively impacting the airlines that we just spoke about with gary a moment ago for b.p.

profits were boosted big time by higher prices as a comparison during q two last year boyle averaged fifty dollars per barrel and this year during q two average seventy five dollars per barrel in total oil prices this year are up by about ten percent b.p. also increased their oil production by three percent during the quarter and last week the company announced a ten billion dollar plus acquisition of high value assets that's the largest such acquisition in company history b.p. c.e.o. bob dudley said he can't remember when things look this good for the company and of course as with everything bt b.p. its relative deepwater horizon and now we move to facial recognition where our teams actually banks looks at racial bias of some software which even includes members of the u.s. house and senate as supposing criminals i know a lot of a.