it's of thousands of children not in education but there is as you say for the second year running now the danger of a cholera epidemic breaking out as if this is got nothing to do with the fact that this war has been visited upon this people by saudi arabia and its allies but particularly of course what's missing from the western media coverage is that this war this assault on this country as you point out one of the poorest countries on earth and facing terrible predicament for its people that this assault on this country is enabled totally by britain america and france particular britain and america in supplying the weapons that are being used against the yemeni people and of course study after study from independent organizations from monitoring groups human rights groups as well as the u.n. itself have shown repeatedly that there has been almost no care taken to prevent civilian casualties we're talking about the humanitarian situation that has largely been caused by the blockade that is in place that is preventing medicines and food

to arriving as we speak even fighting going on of course the assault has been launched on the major held port by the saudis and. again with british and american and french not only material covered by providing the material it's the logistical support the intelligence the refueling and arming capabilities but the weapons themselves but also diplomats and propaganda that you're not sick and propaganda for example it was britain france and america that blocked the swedish if it's initiative a few days ago to actually call a ceasefire and that was actually virtually absent from u.k. and u.s. media coverage and one other aspect which is quickly mention what the catherine mention and to support what she said it's interesting about the iran angle as you mention always being brought up but in three years no actual hard evidence has been shown whatsoever even by those that claim that iran is back in the heat is to prove that i mean. charles i got

a job i'm going to jump in here and we have to remember that in december of last year the pentagon admitted it had troops on the ground we're going to go to a short break and after a short break that short break we'll continue our discussion on yemen stay with are today. i. suppose some of the. last time we chased. each one of them carrying twenty kilos of drugs.

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. join me every thursday on the alex i'm unsure and i'll be speaking to us from the world of politics. i'm showbusiness i'll see you then. welcome back to cross talk were all things considered i'm peter lavelle remind you we're discussing the tragedy known as yemen. ok let me go back to catherine on skype in brighton well as we've already pointed out on this program when you put it quite definitively in the first part of the program. the people of yemen do not want to be occupied they're proven over the last three years to be quite resistant to that even though the casualties are high

in every single way there has never been any doubt solid documentation that iran is helping militarily or any in any kind of meaningful material way so what is facing the saudis in the u.n. in the in the emirates i mean it doesn't. have a land invasion in occupy it i mean the people of yemen have shown didn't selves to be quite resilient to the onslaught that they've experienced over the last three and a half years go ahead catherine well yes i mean historically yemen was nothing they did intend that you know the ultimate in power actually you know gave up in a loud yemen to have a great degree of autonomy and it really goes to show that you know this i would say i'm not going to get a brushing up on the history bearing in mind that yemen is actually a neighbor when it comes to you know immediate to victory i don't think it's going to happen because no one that i mean eat the south of yemen might actually give up and actually open its already kind of done that already you know open up itself to you know the u.a.e. and saudi arabia a very much doubt that their north will give up because you know they all are very

different people together and for very obvious reason they understand about saudi arabia would mean an entire genocide for them because saudi arabia is very fair in its approach and has made sure that you know the law of the resistance movement in general and all of that and yet none globality has been label and you know the title and therefore should. the obliterated we tend to forget this you know this idea not just that you're getting victory what they're trying to do it's an idea to the entire people because if they're really just standing there with just belief and the tradition and you know forget to bits about this shit in casualty and on to found out they know collateral damage you know this how do you have to be a war to inflict maximum damage on civilians because he was the people to rise up against their resistance movement not understanding that the resistance movement in the self made out of the people that led to me think that a lot has given by the people of god like it's not being created at ups and

therefore a victory for this by definitive impossible that people will not allow it but in the meantime we're facing a catastrophe of people equal proportion because northern yemen is being based emitted for only one reason is that these people decided to be free in their own land in their own sovereignty so the real question is are we actually winning in western countries to defend a nation such as saudi arabia i'll actually get up and forfeit all on rights to all who own sovereignty and own democracy because they think that what we doing but allowing a country to look for to declare war on another in yemen exactly let me go back to mohammed in i mean considering the i mean we see some kind of peace overture process with north korea about nuclear weapons and then we got to go in the other side of the world we have around and considering the cast of characters that surround president trump i'm not hopeful at all and what's going to happen when it comes to iran i have

a distinct worry that they're going to use this humanitarian crisis given the way the media works is going to say this is a ranch fault because of iran's involvement and that's just another of the box that is checked in this an agenda looking at regime change in iran punishing around more sanctions eccentrics cetera and this is when they'll pull out the pictures this is when they're going to have the crying mothers and the skinny babies that's when they're going to start showing those pictures they have them all saved up in archive and that's when they're going to use it that's my supposition ok go ahead mom. i think it's quite obvious that what is a different in this part of the world is the saudi israeli alliance and their relationship with the white house and the united states political regime in general . in the case for example just. recently we saw another airstrike on book camel in the east of syria where either the americans or the israelis bombed iraq he and syrian forces that were fighting isis

so but this is something that the western media won't touch why because it's in the interests of the israeli regime is the interests of in the interest of the americans to keep syria unstable and to strengthen israel that is the criteria through which everything is judged and in the case of yemen we see the exact same thing because yemen is so opposed to saudi arabia the people of yemen are supposed . to saudi arabia they don't want to legitimize this resistance so they have to find a scapegoat and that scapegoat is of course iran whether it's in gaza whether it's in syria whether it's in iraq everything is iran and it's i think it's very racist the way in which western countries ignore and west the western media ignore what's happening in yemen which is the greatest catastrophe so far in this century and the . but on the other hand i think what's important is that the saudis are losing the

war in spite of the problem propaganda in a holiday there the saudis have been unable to capture the city they've been unable to capture their port they've been they face serious casualties we have from according to the resistance and yemen the americans have a command post and border and maha in support of the attacks we know for example that al qaeda in yemen as the head of al qaeda said last year that they are fighting alongside the sole would be the. u.a.e. backed forces which is not strange because that's exactly what happened in libya there was use overthrow as up and look at look at libya today just the fighting right now that's been taking place over the last few days or what or what we saw in syria and of course in syria the western media likes to say that president assad

has killed hundreds of thousands of its own people in reality it was obama and his allies that are responsible for these deaths and in yemen if you notice they always say it's for three and a half years now they've been saying ten thousand people have died and when reality hundreds of thousands of people have died but they try to downplay the casualties in yemen to try to hide them even though hundreds of thousands of people have died from cholera from starvation and other sicknesses preventable sickness since and whereas in iran and syria they were trying to inflate it despite the fact that they were in reality the side that was responsible more than anyone else let me go to charles in london we ought to point out also that a lot of a number of international aid groups are leaving yemen because of the humanitarian crisis being there to help but it's getting to such a critical point that they can't even protect their own people or if they were charles in london be i looked at how the pentagon has reacted to all this they say that they are solely targeting al qaeda on the on the arabian. does that cut me

does that does that make any sense to you i mean i think they say but it seems to me that if they're giving logistical support than i guess all these al qaeda people are in wedding procession is all the time ok i mean it doesn't make any sense to me at all go ahead charles. you know america and britain often they're playing a double game they will say one thing in public and in private they're doing something else for example i would say that they urge restraint on israel that they urge restraint on saudi arabia and then behind the scenes it's clear they're saying that's all you're going to hear from us here is the next check for the next weapons load that you're going to use to carry out these humanitarian atrocities in the night in yemen it's absolutely clear that the one of the main reasons why al qaeda in iraq is still a problem for the west is because it instability in that country in the same way that isis came out of the instability created by the west or at least largely fostered by the west in iraq and syria and now of course also as was pointed out in

libya and so and then of course notice how in syria the existence of isis on the ground even though that is waning largely as a result of being crushed by forces such as hezbollah the iranian militia sudden the russian air force and so on that the presence of isis is then used by the united states and britain as a justification for having troops and a presence on the ground and that's there's probably some element of that in why the americans are still active in yemen but the main reason is to support the saudi onslaught the saudis have proved again and again that regardless of the massive amounts of military capability they have that in terms of actually putting that to use they are not actually that competent heatedly and therefore they're largely reliant on western logistical intelligence and other support but let's put something as well throw something into the mix here for example three within the last three years britain's arms exports to saudi arabia they quick equate to something like ten billion dollars. half of all britain's arms exports go to one

country saudi arabia and that's on top of the massive saudi and incidentally also qatari influence that these countries have on the city of london in terms of of ownership. stocks and shares companies and also real estate and let's not forget as well the massive flotation that's coming up of the large part of the saudi sovereign wealth fund the oil fund that is going to come up in the next few months for which london and new york are absolutely falling to to achieve the flotation on their markets and so support saudi arabia for britain or at least the elites running britain and america as well when you look at political donations to the ruling elites running these countries the role of saudi arabia like israel is absolutely vital and the sad thing is that they put on one side the massive lucrative gains that are to be had from continued this relationship is toxic relationship a country like saudi arabia on the other side is the suffering and the deaths of

the creation of a humanitarian catastrophe which is largely not being reported in the west and certainly isn't being reported as anything in which britain and america are complicit. in this a lot are part of what you said charles it's just it's just shameful it is utterly shameful and having the media cover because of stock prices oh my goodness catherine there are reports that the pentagon is hesitating a little bit with the last major port who day. because they know if they cut shut that if they allow the their merits to capture it and shut it down then the humanitarian crisis just gets excel aerated somebody somebody in the pentagon is a little worried about this that's just reports i read last forty seconds of the program go to you catherine go ahead. i don't know if they really worried about the humanitarian catastrophe i think they're actually worried that they're going to use you know these bottles that this tape would have printed out because i don't think

the resistance movement allow it to and they would throw everything that they've got against it so i think it's more to do you know having to do is very publicly very geo strategic you know a seaport in northern yemen rather than be carrying full for humanitarian crisis because this crisis has gone on for three years and millions of people have already suffered and all in it continue to suffer so i don't think that washington is very appropriate pied you know by civilian suffering and casualties i think it has more to do with a new thing very publicly a very important battle for yemen because you know put it out doesn't fool do. more than just the wall they have been saying in their meeting catherine i have to jump in here we've run out of time many thanks to my guest in london brighton. and thanks to our viewers for watching us here at r.t. see you next time and remember crosstalk.

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believe. twitter is accused of double standard softer banning an activist for offensive comments against black people even though identical tweets against whites went unchallenged. in full was one of the most popular in schools russia will sign it if news websites has been banned by leading social media platforms what they describe as hate speech had a visit by the international. watchdog to the english town of amesbury next week the media continues to speculate on the poisoning case u.k.

russia to extradite suspects. thanks for joining us here not international i'm daniel hawkins wherever you are welcome to the program. and service of activists in the u.s. has fallen foul of twitter's god lines on racism she was in fact conducting an experiment using old tweets about white people and substituting the word white for black or jewish and has more on the story. candace owens she's from turning points usa conservative organization in the usa what she did was she took tweets from new york times journalist sarah job and simply replaced the words white with the words black or the word jewish the response of twitter was to shut down her account candace owens says that twitter was right to take down her posts and ban her for

making hateful comments regarding black and jewish people she says however the outrage is that sarah jiang was not banned for making these comments about white people on the surface i actually agree with twitter's assessment i believe that what i said what i tweeted was wrong you should not be able to tweet about any race or any group that you want them canceled that they should live underground i don't know why suddenly people think that white people are excluded from that scenario that people can't be racist towards white people when in fact they often are the problem with the new york times essentially saying shinning her behavior is that 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 one of the words you go cooper. tweet and replace the points with blank i'm in tweets of. i was double standard every time i see one of these i can't help substitute black for white can't is so stupid 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 sarah john there are these tweets the controversy surrounding them seems to be quite a big issue we get pedia seems to make efforts to minimize that a lot of debate yet another example of how in the united states when it comes to issues of race and free speech americans just don't see eye to eye the new york times issued

a statement defending its decision to hire. it said that she simply used the same language as trolls who were racially insulting her on twitter and her marks were satirical in nature following the news of her twitter suspension or activist kindness owens was harassed on the street by anti fascist protesters. at the time was having breakfast with another conservative activist colleague and they were confronted demonstrators could be seen shouting abuse as they crowded around police were quick to attend the scene. twitter's war on offensive speech doesn't end there the social media giant has suspended several libertarians from its platform for using improper language or even retreating inappropriate messages then you look at them is for one executive director of the ron paul institute has been suspended from the platform that's off to he retreated

a message from scott horton editor of antiwar dot com criticizing a journalist horton's account has also been suspended we heard from a twenty twenty presidential candidate for the libertarian party believes twitter is showing a clear political bias. twitter's a private company has the right to do this that does not mean that they should do this they're setting a horrific example by turning their platform into a pro-state left wing ideologues operation rather then as an open market place for ideas they're not blocking hard core left wing activists they're blocking hard core libertarian activists they're not blocking the people who think it's ok to use the state to rob people of their money and spend it on nonsense they're blocking the people are saying that the state should stop robbing us we're they're not blocking everyone equally they're just blocking the people who want to oppose the state to me this is a clear sign that quitter that twitter has become part of just another piece of the

mainstream media that is supporting the status quo that is supporting the military industrial complex and that it really needs to be treated by the american people as an ideological enemy and one of the most popular online alternative news channels in for was us in a major crackdown facebook you tube apple and spotify of all blocked it's accounts and taken down its content all on the same day is how facebook explain the move we've taken it down for glorifying violence and using dehumanizing language to describe people who are transgender muslims and immigrants which violates our hate speech policies and win four wars was launched by alex jones in the late one nine hundred ninety s. if you videos have been watched more than one point six billion times many have deemed him a peddler of conspiracy theories in twenty fifteen donald trump appeared on the channel he praised his work people on social media have clashed over the bat. i don't support alex jones or what in four was produces he's not

a conservative however banning him in his outlets is wrong it's not just a slippery slope it's a dangerous cliff apple removing alex jones him in for worse isn't some terrible form of censorship against conservatives he said sandy hook wasn't real he's seeing parents from the school he said the holocaust wasn't real his not just a conservative is a conspiracy theorist hurts people been for war says it has been banned by facebook for and specified hate speech regardless of the facts in this case their billet so facebook to censor rival publishers is a global anti trust problem. a political commentator as you know loud and believes the decision could prove damaging for social media droids. 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 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 it t. 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. european companies which trade with iran according to crossfire between brussels and washington and i'll face punishment if they comply with u.s. sanctions or if they refuse to go along with the orders is new companies guard

guy u.s. second research actions they will in turn be sanctioned by the european union iran sanctions have officially been cast these are the most biting sanctions ever imposed and in november they ratchet up to yet another level anyone doing business with iran will not be doing business with the united states i'm asking for world peace nothing less the u.s. government really impose sanctions on iran after pulling out of an international nuclear deal the first round of sanctions restricts to iran's trade in u.s. dollars and precious metals it also punishes countries that use the rain in rio when trading with a country financial analyst should be aroused he says the new sanctions pose a dilemma for major corporations. the situation that's developing is that on the one hand companies would be penalized by usa for doing business in iran and at the same time if they're follow their diktats from washington the potential of those

companies being penalized in the european union so it puts these companies in a very difficult situation but this i think is only applicable to the very large multinational corporation is that have exposure to different regions perhaps the as a me sector the slump is a small to medium enterprises that are operating in the european union didn't want to do trade with iran and because they have no exposure possibly with their u.s. market therefore they'd be able to stand up and continue doing business with iran. gang warfare took over the streets of chicago this weekend with numerous spies than us caught up in the crossfire twelve people were killed and sixty six more injured including several children police say armed gangsters in the city simply don't fear the law.