they are signaling to the rest of the world that racism actually is ok as long as you pick the right race this was candice owens first statement to her followers after the ban twitter not only reinstated her account but actually apologized and said that it was a mistake for her to be banned now immediately there was a firestorm with people pointing to what they see as a double standard by the way as you go. tweets and replace the wants with blank i'm in tweets of bones the twelve hours double standard every time i see one of these i can't help substitute black for white candor so i will never understand the double standard why it's acceptable to so many now the wikipedia page of the new york times journalist is also in question now the page simply describes her as a journalist and has minimal content regarding the controversy surrounding her tweets it appears that there has now been added a small reference to it but these tweets the controversy surrounding them seems to

be quite a big issue we could pedia seems to make efforts to minimize that so it seems that many people are looking at this case and looking at the statements that sarah john has made regarding white people and saying that this is a double standard so a lot of debate yet another example of how in the united states when it comes to issues of race and free speech and americans just don't see eye to eye a following the news of how to dispense. it was confronted on the street by protests. yes by the time i was having breakfast with another conservative activist colleague one protesters gathered nearby at the demonstrators can be seen throwing drinks and shouting stop white supremacy as well as the racists police were quick to arrive on the scene. investigative journalist dave lindorff says twitter's attempts to ban

hate speech so actually backfired they didn't and one thing it banned another that was just the substitution of words and they look really stupid for doing it so . they made a hash of it since to try and solve the problem they've made it worse they really need to think this through and. jump in when there's a screaming match from one side or the other and they'll jump to try to stop it quickly with a stupid decision they need to really. think through policy and then operate according to a policy that is rational coherent and consistent and that hardly what they're doing right now. it's been one year now since we first reported on russian speaking children founded an orphanage in iraq off to the military operation against islamic state off the report was we launched

a campaign to find any relatives of those children several people came forward saying they recognized some of those kids and this led to the orphans being reunited with their families years after their parents had left russia to join i so a correspondent medina question of us spoke to those families to find out whether they've managed to move on after the harrowing experience. so. if. a year ago two small sisters high d's and fried t.-mo were brought back to their grandparents who at the time lost all hope of africa seeing them again they say they feel safe here in this house the sister salue can behave like any other child

of their age despite their traumatic experience their playground is now the two rooms upstairs that were once home for their parents their grandfather on of our hasn't changed a thing since they left and now the girls play surrounded by things that once belonged to that if a black couple doing well the oldest sister is open and active might seem as quite close to often seeking the confort of her grandfather. she doesn't let me go anywhere she says her dad also left in the morning and never came back in the evening she tells me how the gas station where he worked with. tells me how the plane has arrived and they have all been left. on bar often speaks about the day in august twenty seventeen when they discovered their beloved granddaughter source in my life one of them look at us and who's.

in may twenty fifteen both of fund our son secretly left russia to join i so his al distraught took his wife and two young daughters and never revealed his true intentions. that it's actually is what's about a week off today lou. i received a message from my son saying they are in turkey i replied what do you mean in turkey instantly i understood everything and felt terrible this sort of thing happened a lot of the time a lot of young people left some went to join militant groups others went to iraq or syria it's not. often called his father but the last time he got in touch was when the fierce fighting began in moscow a short time after he and his wife were killed in a drone strike leaving her. alone weeks later they turned up in an orphanage in

baghdad scared and traumatized they were among the group of children who could speak russian args he reported from that orphanage the story spread and the children were recognized. yes i remember when the film crew arrived and they showed me the footage i could not believe it i could not believe that it was possible that my ghose could come back home. despite the joy of the long awaited reunion this past year has been difficult for the family of our sas it's only now that some of the girls fear is being left behind i do you just keep their knees a remembers how difficult and dangerous it was to go to get water so when they arrived as they were always thirsty they drank like five liters of water a day only in these past two weeks has not stopped and they no longer wake up at night wanting to drink there are hundreds of families across russia's north

caucuses just like and ours searching for grandchildren mainly fear they will never see them again. if there is anything one message one sign that they are alive you have to grab it runaround say ask for help there are good people in the world. i do not question reporting from russia's republic of dagestan and that was the first in a series of reports on the fate of those russian citizens who left the country along with their families to join us all throughout this week we'll bring you more stories on how returnees are adapting to life back at home.

social media and tech giants civil tain is the band alex jones a well known broadcaster and conspiracy theorist on the same day facebook you tube apple and spotify all blogs show also taking down his info was videos and podcasts where he's still going strong on twitter and periscope facebook gave this statement explaining why they chose to ban the activist. we have taken you down for glory find violence and using dehumanizing language to describe people who are transgender muslims and immigrants which violates our hate speech policies. laws and info wars in the late nine hundred ninety s. since then he's become notorious for his conspiracy theories he called on eleven an inside job by the american government he also claimed the twenty twelve sandy hook school massacre was a hoax staged by gun control activists his views on muslims and transgender people of the draw like his ations of hate speech despite the controversies though many

people actually oppose the ballot i don't support alex jones or what in four wars produces he's not a conservative however banning him in his outlet is wrong it's not just a slippery slope it's a dangerous cliff now that facebook has banned in four wars it will be were interesting to see the conservative news outlets and commentators speak out and which ones remain complicit in the silence in forwards so it has been banned by facebook for unspecified hate speech regardless of the facts in this case the ability of facebook to censor rival publishers is a global antitrust problem and political commentator gina loudon believes the decision could prove damaging for social media giants. whether or not you agree with alex jones i would be just the same amount of adamant that i think it's bad policy to ban people no matter what i mean it really no matter what i mean in the united states we have a concept of free speech that we love very much it means

a lot to us now these are private companies they can do what they want to do i'm not saying they shouldn't be able to do this and i'm certainly not saying that government should regulate whether or not private companies can make decisions like this but i am saying i think it's a bad decision and i think that in the long run it will not pay off for these companies it is it extremely slippery slope i do believe ultimately that probably some conservative into tea will come up with competitive platforms for the ones that are doing the banning and the censoring and ultimately they will have stiff competition that may even relegate them to relative obscurity because of things like this especially if they remain so one sided. the two people have been killed and sixty more wounded in a major explosion near bologna airport in italy the moment of the blast was captured by an eyewitness.

this took place when i got crushed on a busy motorway then burst into flames a number of vehicles were caught up in the last part of a flow over what was also destroyed. by the city of niger once prospered as a transit city for those heading to europe and migration deal with the e.u. that has now radical change the situation.

you're going to need to i'm going to agadez this economy was a found time stronger before the migrants came in large numbers put a lot of things in the city they were paying taxes even vehicles now they didn't even from tribute ten percent of what used to the economy. that is frankly a negative as we don't understand the e.u. the whole of the agadez population doesn't understand the politics of the european union new border of the european union is not on the side of the mediterranean in libya no it's right here at the gates of agathis this is the new border at the european union. tell you. all and. they tarried i see this is an own point. you can in the back.

burner in the days before the introduction of the long migration was a money making activity not only for territorial jurisdictions but also for transit cities now with a look at the migrant flow if we compare the number of people passing through agadez to cross into libya we see a reduction. of british man who worked as an inspector at an american military base in germany is suing the us army david patterson says he and his colleagues were exposed to a highly toxic substance in twenty seventeen wall overseeing the cleaning of all the equipment. a couple of minutes from head to should i was covered in this white powdery substance but like talking over a very fine variable and not laws we actually started cleaning these boxes with. any training information. ily any knowledge of the

danger or what we're actually doing with those boxes what's what. and the us army issued a warning letter a year too late saying skin and our contact should be avoided it also recommended wearing special protective gear while standing near the contaminated boxes cadmium is a highly toxic substance known to cause cancer it affects the central nervous system and can also cause kidney failure inhalation can even be fatal on receiving the warning letter david patterson contacted the us army the a reaction was one of the they are treating it as lot was a just not. dangerous just the day before the inspector arrived from the german authorities they ripped out every case of the fifty cases then what they did they actually got all these fifty cases and in the pittman one era often to the sun

the wind the rain and was only three metres from a drainage system and unions in germany have reportedly already raised the alarm over the working conditions at the us military base urging the authorities to take action the army though says the equipment was mishandled in june some equipment was cleaned incorrectly this was done by eight employees in one department we get the boxes billions we work on the boxes we clean the quitman. get the believe that we are responsible for everything why the boxes not want dangerous i've been there no or was there working for the same company sixteen months until i almost asked until i demanded that we have some type of action on the spot since i was sanctioned global resources and i am taking them to court for a legal sakhi and gross misconduct then we shall stalk about your arrest. and the

money we have requested a comment from the us army and other firms involved in the contract and are waiting to hear their response. and the government of bangladesh is considering imposing capital punishment for drivers because road deaths this comes amid mass unrest over an incident in dhaka. the. protests have been raging the past week since a school bus crashed into a group of children killing two of them the vehicle was apparently racing with a rival bus to reach a crowd of passengers are stopped critics accuse the government of failing to tackle the national traffic safety problem with around twelve thousand people killed in the country's road each year riot police were deployed in dhaka as the demonstrations escalated out of control. over. that so from

a team of myself here for the south join us at five am moscow time for the latest global news headlines. on this edition of crossfire we discuss whether detente is possible even desirable why isn't it a good idea to get along with russia and much much more. became its national camera. roughly once the show and some leave for the. uncool videos and so on with the broken strings and. down more on

string i don't roughly don't t.v. . this is boom bust broadcasting around the world from washington d.c. i'm bart chilton thank you for joining coming up today on the program as a mission standards are being proposed to be relaxed in the united states what should we expect in our automakers dealing with the various legal matters related to the use by some of those so called the devices to fake compliance with the missions west price and slocum of public citizens energy program and the car coach lauren fix and with the second quarter profits in for mcdonald's the toughest week takes a look at the hamburger giant's major moves and lets us know what is taking the biggest bite on their profits and as promised we take

a deeper dive into the july jobs report we do so with the able exist of steve malzberg all that on tap but first let's get you to the european union is effort to avoid e.u. businesses from being impacted by u.s. economic sanctions against iran as today the u.s. has asserted its plan to impose maximum pressure on to. iran by vigorously imposing such sanctions at midnight the bell will tall the e.u. effort known as the blocking statute is fashioned to guard against e.u. companies from u.s. sanctions and keep a lie they deal planned to limit iranian government's nuclear ambitions european businesses have been instructed that they should not observe demands from the trump administration for them to curtail all commerce with iran those companies which choose to pull out because of u.s. sanctions will need to be approved by the european commission or face potential lawsuits by member states a joint statement by the foreign ministers of the e.u.

twenty eight members show their resolve saying quote we are determined to protect european economic operators and gauge and legitimate business with iran will have more on how iran is hedging their bets on the sanctions coming up a little bit later in the broadcast and breaking news today as facebook is asking banks to share their users personal financial information with the social media site so that facebook can send them new products no think you the wall street journal broke the story earlier today the journal says facebook executives have been talk with banks including wells fargo j.p. morgan and citibank over creating features such as displaying their account balances to facebook users or fraud alerts banks are reportedly wary of partnering with facebook especially after the cambridge analytical scandal and a steady drumbeat of corporate data breaches heightened concerns over online privacy but on the other side of the ledger big banks may also feel pressure to make a deal from the follow from fear of missing out on the ground floor of the of the

merger of social media and finance a merger with the norm is potential profits we'll keep an eye on this and other related stories as they develop. the global heat wave is taking a toll in japan where nearly one hundred people have perished nationwide including at least fifty deaths in tokyo alone last month. the new record for the hottest temperature ever recorded japan was set it forty one point one degrees celsius at one hundred six degrees fahrenheit on july twenty third and many of the deaths were older people who didn't have or weren't using their air conditioning a spike in demand for electricity to power those ac units as push prices japan to record highs and even have spurred the reactivation of some older carbon producing power platforms when the impact of torrential rains and landslides in early july is added over three hundred people in japan were killed by weather related events last month and meanwhile canada's heat wave took the lives of an estimated seventy

people in the province of quebec in july and production livestock is also taking a heavy toll on producers as producers struggle to keep animals alive with limited water or feel our feet in the province of british columbia the power company b.c. hydro set a new hourly power demand record of seventy eight hundred megawatts on monday and the u.k. is experience the driest summer in fifty seven years while in spain soaring temperatures are said to be the cause of death of at least three people while temperatures of portugal of one hundred fifteen degrees fahrenheit or forty six degrees celsius have reached near record levels. we spoke about corporate average fuel economy standards a bit on the broadcast last week those are the cafe standards that the trumpet ministration is relaxing and as promised we are going to talk about this a little bit more and we'll get into these devices used by some car companies to fake compliance with such a mission steps to help us out now we turn to tyson slocum the director of public

citizen's energy program and lauren fix the car coach and president of the north american car truck and utility vehicle of the ward of the word thanks so much for being here guys thanks to both laurent so we've talked about these standards in the past but these defense devices that have been being used all over the world by i don't know what is it three or four different car companies now we've got. who v.w. audi who else is out there nissan well that's volkswagen group to get a volkswagen group is is audi and volkswagen it's also porsche so under that group they were using defeat devices because they over promised and under delivered their bosses essentially by us and we could make these vehicles fuel efficient as well as not have to carry blue which is the rio they put in the exhaust so that it actually lowers the emissions coming out the tell pipe well they couldn't do that so they cheated the system and did it and put it in test mode whenever the vehicle idled in certain factors occurred so they got caught and then sure that does happen pretty much any time other manufacturers have been fined the only ones we know

a hundred percent for sure because they were found guilty as volkswagen and of course two c.e.o.'s went to prison for that. and the c.e.o. of audi right out yeah they came at them in the middle of the night like they were real criminals i mean i guess that's all relative and depends upon what you think a criminal is but they certainly didn't murder anybody but i thought it was a bit aggressive tyson sorry we got you back now at the audio sorry about that give us a little bit of history on these cafe standards they've been around for a long time but really been pushed to the forefront by the obama administration when whence they came and what are they doing now right so they were first established in one nine hundred seventy five as a centerpiece of american policy response to the arab oil embargo of the early one nine hundred seventy s. and from one nine hundred seventy five up until now fuel economy standards are the most efficient way for not only the united states but nations all over the world to

control. gasoline consumption and so they have been wildly successful as a policy tool to not only prompt innovation in the automobile sector but deliver savings and safety standards for american consumers and global consumers and so the fuel economy step. had lagged for a bit during the one nine hundred ninety s. and then there was bipartisan legislation signed into law by president george w. bush in two thousand and seven that vastly expanded opportunities to increase fuel economy standards and that's exactly what president barack obama did first in two thousand and twelve and then in his last month of his presidency extended these fuel economy standards forward into the future so right now the united states the combined fuel economy standards of light trucks and automobiles is about thirty two

miles a gallon and under the obama proposal they were going to go from thirty two miles a gallon up to forty five miles a gallon by two thousand and twenty five what the trumpet ministration proposal would do would be to wipe out most of those games you would only see the fuel economy standards increase from the current thirty two miles a gallon up to thirty seven miles a gallon and this would be probably the most significant regulatory rollback by the trump administration in terms of its impact on increasing oil demand in the united states the estimates would be increasing demand by as much as eight hundred thousand barrels of oil per day by twenty thirty five it also would significantly increase greenhouse gas emissions because the more efficient that an automobile is in its use of gasoline the less it consumes per mile driven and so you would see a decrease in greenhouse gas emissions by getting rid of the increase the

trumpet ministration we're going to see increase in greenhouse gas emissions equal to the state more than seventy countries in the world so this is going to have a big impact also on consumer wallets about two hundred billion dollars in increased fuel expenses by two thousand and thirty five more in what you're taken can the do you think the automakers can comply with. the standards of the exists now not the ones that are proposed. well let's start off with currently is thirty four point five miles to the gallon is the corporate average fuel economy and right now manufacturers are coming in around the little under that can they meet that fifty five miles a gallon no only for goal lector vehicles we make cars lighter which makes them on safe and you've got to remember what are people buying right now just look at the numbers the car sales have dropped almost five percent just in one month people buy

s.u.v.s and trucks in order to make those electric you're talking about large batteries that are powered by cobalt neodymium cadmium lithium these are all rare earth minerals and who owns all these mines china owns all these mines so we're now going to shift our ally from saudi arabia to china that's not a wise idea based on today's situation with tariffs and so forth even if that gets washed you still have a problem with what are we going to do with these batteries down the road and how are they going to affect the environment because there's no there's no way to recycle them they can only be you so long and then all these very dangerous rare earth minerals are going to be stuck somewhere stepped up like that our solar panels all around the world so one of the things that the trumpet ministration had said is this is actually a relief to manufacturers yes they project out five years ten years in advance to produce products the only reason they're producing electric vehicles is because they're forced to produce electric vehicles sales of them are less than two percent the vehicles are lighter and more expensive and consumers aren't buying new cars

they're not keeping cars longer over the last four years the average car length of keeping a vehicle used to be ten years now it's fourteen years because people just of all buy new cars every year even though we're selling a lot of vehicles and look at the big picture if people buy less cars they're less likely to go to electric vehicles the sales aren't there the investment is not there and the cost of insurance is higher on these vehicles consumers cannot take that burden so it makes sense why they did this this is actually helping consumers even though tyson doesn't think so i understand his position but i also a. and that consumers especially in the bulk of the country don't have places to charge and they really don't want to go out and buy new vehicles every three years like some people do it we're going to have to leave it there just because of time i'm sorry we don't have more we could have gone on this for a longer time that's lauren fix the car coach and president of the north american car trucking utility vehicle award your year of the war your award and tyson slocum the director of public citizens energy program thanks to both of you thank you

thank you. and the largest restaurant chain in the world by revenues is mcdonald's of course and the company's second quarter earnings report is out our two correspondent title suite took the time to look at it and now give us an update on what's been going on and which mickey d's and devers are taking the biggest bite from profits competition in the practice sector along with higher price menu options are just some of the reasons behind the drop in revenue for mcdonald's executives say some just because the bite coming out of their profits has to do with mcdonald's changing the structure of its business model the hamburger giant said selling company owned stores to franchisees her profits as a result their second quarter earnings fell twelve percent from a year earlier the company said it already recorded a pretax if ninety two million dollars for severance to the management they were tremaine along with costs involved for closing field offices but the overall picture is to provide.