i. found this out. moscow says if you see further tightening of u.s. sanctions on russia as the start of an economic war washington says it's stepping up the restrictions over the poisoning of a former russian double agent with his daughter in the u.k. back in march. the u.s. democratic party wants facebook to share data on members who've fallen for fake news so it can write this is social media giants for accuse the censorship after banning controversial show host joe. israel and hamas

militants reach a tentative cease fire agreement after israel retaliates against dozens of rockets fired from the gaza strip. and coming up to another special report on the legacy of terror we hear from families in southern russia desperate to contact loved ones who've been persuaded to fight for islamic state instead. he'll hold that it will be ok that somehow it will all be ok i just feel so sorry for the children it's so difficult when you. children are. very good afternoon just. of the tenth of august when you were watching r.t. international. first that in the headlines in more detail further tightening of

u.s. sanctions on russia will be viewed as the start of an economic war that so the russian prime minister dmitri medvedev reacted to newly announced restrictions by the u.s. over the poisoning of former russian double agent sergei scriptural and his daughter in britain in march if it comes to banning banking activities or certain currency use we will be able to call it a declaration of economic war and this will require a reaction by implementing economic political or if necessary any other measures so the new sanctions will come into the first places limits on financing an export especially on a number of national security goods and the second wave is set to hit diplomatic relations as well as banking and imports and isha sesay takes up a story for you. when it comes to global disagreement sanctions that the u.s. weapon of choice as russia's number two at the u.n.

put it let's us welcome the united sanctions of america well russia it's been on the receiving end of plenty of them they stem from allegations of election meddling military aggression human rights abuses all cyber crimes take your pick and the latest well that's of the souls we're poisonings washington says it has to ten mins that russia used a military nerve agent to attack form a double agent sic a script paul and his daughter where are you getting the conclusion that russia is behind the screen poisoning i will leave it to others to characterize the current state of our understanding of the screen but others haven't given any evidence either just various grades of highly likely is highly likely that russia was responsible we do hold russia culpable culpable culpable culpable for the attempted murder and there's been uncertainty from specialists investigating the case. as analysis of the p.c.

w.'s repeat what i did to find the country. of origin of the agent used in this attack and we continue to see a sort of a series of corporate baggers here of insinuation that russia is involved which basically is a mood music which isn't feeding the population in the west with the idea yes it is the russians despite the averages the constant constant stream of these. people just accept oh yes it must be the russians then therefore that's ok you know most important more sanctions it's time that we did get all the evidence but my suspicion is that as the going to happen all the way that seems a valid till interest to washington which is found guilty slapped it with new sanctions and strangely given its ninety days to prove it wasn't involved or it will ratchet up the penalties to a whole new level with even talk of branding russia a state sponsor of terrorism that regardless of trump. wanting russia as a partner in his fight against terror and the torso doesn't seem to matter that the

u.s. itself has a long history of consorting with groups branded as terrorists for instance america's support for the girl and movement which techie label to terror groups organizing and attempted. sooner or later the united states will make a choice either to. either the. country walkers. or how about the american officials who backed their reign extremist group in which i have been a coke bombs the headquarters of the islamic republic party there is a viable opposition to the rule of the. noun opposition is centered in this room. and let's not forget how america stood alongside the afghan wish i had been in its battle against the soviet union only to see that group later form into al-qaeda the people we are fighting today we funded twenty years ago. does america dealing

with these five and groups amount to sponsoring terrorism while the state department has a good answer for that i will leave it to others to characterize the current state of our understanding. time for the further into the last piece in the special series of reports on the fate of children of islamic state fighters from russia we did a cochon of a travel to the south of the country to talk to people desperate for news of family members the pledged allegiance to that terror group. it's early morning but the office of those human rights group and brosnan is packed with women all desperate to find out any news about their loved ones many have come here from other regions of russia's north caucasus and almost all cases their relatives left russia to join eisel in syria often taking their young children with them these women are united in their quest to have one simple question answered are there

family members still alive there are over six hundred women and children reported missing at this human rights office and these are just some of the photos that their family members have left in a bid to locate them now avg free picture has the name date of some general information on the back this is a four year old so maya and this child left russia when he was less than they hear but there are so many more of them. that he said doesn't miss a single meeting held at the office she says she has already accepted that she will never see her only son again but she just hopes that her grandchildren are still alive she brought pictures of her son's wife mariam one taken before she went to syria and another when she was over there with her son that he said has never even

seen her grandchildren and pass on both of them were born in syria and communication was lost long ago so much so that she doesn't even know the name of her granddaughter. we all hope that it will be ok that somehow it will all be ok i just feel so sorry for the children it's so difficult when you don't know where exactly your children are. heard anything from my daughter in law in the last eight months and then i cry and i will turn fixes this year it is so difficult i don't think i can last much longer. that ina tries to spend almost all of her free time at this office coming here after work she listens to the women's stories fills out forms and registers the newcomers her own personal tragedy brought her here to this place three years ago her brother left home and never returned his phone was last tracked in turkey but not

a trace since almost three years of silence said. it is very difficult for me now it was so close since we were kids always together went to school together to university together work together he was always around i guess after he left i feel like part of me is gone i don't leave a normal life now i just exist. was arena still believes that one day she will see her brother a life she has dedicated her life to helping others find their families twenty one russian women are currently in prison there are all of them were sentenced to life behind bars but they're there in prison with their children so now we're trying to bring back these children it is going to be such a joy just one child for to us if i help these children maybe this might somehow

help me bring my brother back home. for her search has come to its conclusion but there was a no for a retail ending she found out that her older sister aida is among a group of russian women convicted and sentenced to life in prison in iraq for joining and supporting i so she is in jail with her twelve year old daughter so while you have got out knows she will probably never see her sister again she is doing everything possible to. get her a nice back home and give her the childhood she's so clearly lost. that she still can't fully come to terms with her sister's decision. i don't think she was looking for a better life they're building a house together our brothers gave us land we had so many plans we planted trees

there we went to do this so much we had so much plant growth a future and suddenly this happened. all these stories are tragically familiar had this that out of a who leads the search for missing people says that the real number of families in fact it is catastrophic she says their database comprises over two thousand people was for safety lisa i feel irritated when i hear people say you're saving terrorists i'm deeply disturbed by that was what is this child's fault what's the fault of these children only the fact that their parents took them there and they became victims of this war when you start to deal with this problem you understand these are human lives we're talking about and they are all our citizens it's easy to just ignore these people there are only two official employees working at this office the others are volunteers to help when there is time as there is not enough

manpower to deal with the vast amount of people affected and every second counts we can't afford to lose time every minute cost the lives of one or two children says our for its began to reunite families nine planes have a right back in russia carrying a little over one hundred people just a fraction of the thousands stranded and the war torn region. reporting from russia's rip. democrats are looking for a new tool to counter that fake news online this time they're asking facebook to share data on its users so that they could be fed with what they say is the right information that they had seize frequently accused russia of course of trying to influence voters back in the twenty sixteen presidential elections in the trunk of them takes a look at what's in this plan. it's ok not as great as we want who might you hear that from a teacher checking your rest say your gym coach boss or

a senior technology officer for the democrats talking about how well the likes of facebook are cooperating with their party as if catering to the d.n.c. was on the network's mission statement what would make mr krikorian happier we would love to do is give every campaign something like the weather report to tell every campaign what is being said on social media in the morning and how they can combat it i'll explain the dems won facebook to look for people who've been fed fakes or propaganda the network should then share that audience with the d.n.c. so that they could feed them what's accurate i.e. the right thing. the democrats are hungry for facebook data this could have been a great moment to remind you of the cambridge analytical data gate if one person if you joined the asp i would not just see your facebook profile i would see all of

the facebook profiles of everybody that you're friends with and people had no idea that it was being taken in this way you know that was one massive gate but i'll remind you of something else the a bomb it seemed had a solution in place a facebook application more than one million a bomb about because you signed up for the app gave the campaign permission to look at their facebook friends lists in an instant the campaign had to wait see the hidden young vote just a little democrat trick to get hold of some user data for political gain before the two thousand and twelve vote you never heard about it because pretty much no one cared those were the days no hash tag collusion media fallout news anchors didn't go on about a twenty four seven and some people in charge at facebook were just real fans of mr obama facebook was surprised to enable to psych out the whole social graph but. they didn't stop us once they realized that was what we were doing they allowed us to do things they wouldn't have allowed someone else to do because they were on our

site should we assume that dems are still on facebook's friend list you know they've been told to sort the russian fakes out and so be has been taken measures they've just gotten rid of pages followed by hundreds of thousands of people because they're linked to russia i mean facebook's not so sure about that bit we're still in the very early stages of our investigation and don't have all the facts including him maybe behind this but remember for the democrats it's ok not as great as we want and so i'd love to know what type of audiences were these hundreds of thousands of people because we want to talk to them or work with them come on it's just a bit of audience data well meantime while the subject to social media is being debated the problems it can cause are very real case in point next while being interviewed in a college a seventeen year old student was asked not about his educational success but why he

follows alex jones on twitter they chose course controversial show host recently banned by several social networks and students lawyer explained to a colleague neil harvey a bit more about what happened do you represented a college student who wasn't admitted to university because they followed alex jones on twitter is that true and if so can you tell us more about that. sure i'm happy to explain exactly what happened what was going on it was it during the interview process the applicant was question about the fact that he was following mr jones on twitter and the fact that he was looking his stuff up and that was something that was a challenge during the during the actual interview process and subsequently the parents of the student reached out to me and then i reached out to the the mission's director of the university and made sure that the situation was resolved in the student satisfaction so the problem here was that the fact that the

interviewer was actually questioning why this young person was following mr jones in the other types of internet activities that he was partaking in alex jones the man behind the alternative news channel info was was suspended this week by several social media platforms they say because the he spread hate speech and glorified violence is how they to share again the same people need to be more educated on how social networks use information i'm a big fan of increasing people's personal privacy and i'm a big fan of not only personal privacy but freedom of speech and the problem here is the fact that a lot of people just don't understand how invasive a lot of these companies are and how invasive a lot of pride institutions are using their technology turn figure out exactly what your rate is what your religion is what your political viewpoints are and they're taking this information and they're using it against you so that's why i think

people need to better understand these these issues and defend themselves against that and they only way they can do that is they become more educated about what is actually happening in the world today this is not international coming up israel and hamas militants agree yet another cease fire after days of trading heavy question is a longer going to last we're trying to gauge it coming out. i've been saying the numbers mean something they matter to us as over one trillion dollars in debt more than ten white collar crimes happen each day. eighty five

percent of global wealth you longs to be all for the rich eight point six percent market saw a thirty percent rise last year some with four hundred to five hundred three per second per second and bitcoin rose to twenty thousand dollars. china's building two point one billion dollars a i industrial park but don't let the numbers overwhelm. the only number you need to remember is one one business shows you can't afford to miss the one and only boom but. again so as for santa for the break israel and hamas militants have reached a ceasefire agreement following two days of trading heavy fire.

in one of the latest blow me right a cultural center in gaza city was destroyed partly israeli defense forces launched that operation after hamas militants fired dozens of rockets into southern israel. on wednesday no i did i.d.f. strike killed at least three people including a pregnant woman as well as are eighteen month old child us according to the gaza health ministry local journalist was at a funeral there. we are attending the funeral of we ness and beyond us and began work killed yesterday

during that abstracts launch from gaza strip and that is a twenty three year old mother that was pregnant with a nine month baby i am expecting him at any minute but yet is the one year and a half old baby as you see thousands of palestinians are already dissipating and you know all you see is features i think that the airstrike came from this side the smell is very bad where blood is filling the place as you see the place is completely destroyed after talking to people in the same neighborhood they said that they found. the mother and the baby shot heard with pieces of their body on the journey ran to the mosque to find out if the explosion was there or in the house ambulances came in the voices of people screaming were heard inside the house we started knocking on the door no one answered we went to the other door a small child opened it he was frightened he ran away from the woman's body blown

apart baby was to the ambulances took the victims to hospital the husband was injured in the leg stomach and head and strikes were launched. till dawn the israeli forces kept on singing and strikes where the palestinian resistance also fired rockets into israel policy that they would confront bloodless and strikes with strikes the palestinian factions are calling for the palestinians to participate in but there ain't much of return. where this sort of this the idea says the military action was a response to rockets fired from gaza into israel since wednesday several israeli citizens are said to been injured. that is a threat and an aggression that the i.d.f. cannot and will not tolerate and in response we have returned with striking one hundred forty military targets belonging to hamas inside the gaza strip the i.d.f.

is committed to defend the state of israel it's a vivien's and it's over unthinkable and we are ready and prepared for different scenarios to come. saudi led coalition air strikes killed forty three civilians in yemen most of them children according to the who see controlled health ministry more than sixty one others were reportedly wounded the strike hit a school bus on a marketplace a warning the pictures coming up here are upsetting according to the red cross twenty nine children were killed and thirty injured all under the age of fifteen the strike hit the north of the country which is under the control of who think rebels saudi arabia launched an intervention against them back in twenty fifteen it's been long drawn out in an official statement ria defended the attack accusing the rebels of using children as human shields. targeting today is a legitimate military action conducted in conformity with the international humanitarian law to target the militants responsible for planning and targeting

civilians which resulted in killing and injuring them. the school bus bombings be met with outrage in the u.s. senator chris murphy tweeting that the united states bears responsibility for the deaths he pointed out that the u.s. supplies weapons to saudi arabia along with military intelligence the united states is by far and far the largest supplier of weaponry to the saudis the u.s. also provides targeting assistance for air strikes and military drills last year saudi arabia spent seven hundred fifty million dollars on training by american specialists to reduce civilian casualties and earlier this week the state department defended saudi arabia's actions in yemen. we should ask another country to stop attacking other nations and to stop fomenting terror that's one of the things that the united states government does how do you square that with the stance of saudi arabia and the u.a.e. and well i do you don't see i'm sorry what do you mean by you're saying that you don't have a problem telling the country how to get this foreign policy yet but you're you're

siding with saudi and yet. we have concerns about what the who the rebels have been doing for quite some time that is well documented they have been terrible and conducted many many attacks against their own sins against the people of yemen saudi arabia certainly has a right to try to and to take out some of those bad actors that something does something that they have a right to do and we support that kept and i have to wrap it up i notice that you seem tongue tied about it though you would state department spokesman she didn't she didn't like the fact that the questioner was asking her about what was going on in yemen we know the u.s. the selling the weapons we know the u.s. is providing targeting data so it's it's horrendous and it was so the u.s. bears absolutely direct responsibility for this it's telling the saudis what to do it's telling the probably the u.a.e. what to do certainly the saudis it's a horrible bloody business and it's it's

a war that's gotten virtually no attention in the u.s. all on the so much more twenty four seven want another up for all of the use a straight to mobile device for now here moscow is kevin know him saying thanks for watching this moment and. this is my love hate relationship with the united kingdom. and the love it because it's shambolic and fraudulent. and i buy the cow to hate it because thousands tens of thousands of people have the lives destroyed by r.b.s. .

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around war. this is bull. bus broadcasting around the world from washington d.c. i'm bart shelton and thank you for being on board today bartlett nailer of public citizen is back and we look at the case surrounding congressman chris collins who as we reported yesterday it was charged by federal prosecutors with insider trading down wind to the federal bureau of investigation plus there's a new opponent to president trump's nominee to head the consumer financial protection bureau and it might surprise you wes bartlett about that and in a bizarre twist to a story we've been covering for months the sinclair and tribune media groups have

terminated their multibillion dollar mergers and they are headed to court post the big picture holland cook weighs in on the source who it is turning to them and archie's trying the charges was reported on top the company's poorest in the past take a look at coffee crops and the apartments a posse to various economies plus there's tons of crypto currency in use including allegations of market manipulation kristie i is back in the studio to help us understand the details all that's coming up but first we start with this it's another day and we're not to another blow in the ongoing trade war this time china in the united states are added again exchanging fire with a new round of tariffs on tuesday night the u.s. set in motion a twenty five percent tariff on sixteen billion dollars worth of chinese imports that will take effect on august twenty third on wednesday china took reciprocal action levying the same percentage duty on the same value of u.s. imports to china also taking effect on the twenty third and china will impact

a number of u.s. action by china will impact the number of u.s. companies that deal in chemicals and heavy manufacturing items including those strategically targeted motorcycles that we've mentioned previously the famed harley davidson company has a large plant the state of wisconsin which president trump carried in two thousand and sixteen and the company has notably opposed the trump tariffs while behind the scenes discussions are reportedly to resolving the tariff tangle the political risk are for mr trump maybe increasing business insider. noted that census bureau figures show that china is the largest trading partner of twenty three u.s. states mr trump incidentally kerry fifteen of those states. and yesterday we reported on current congressman chris collins a republican from new york who was arrested and charged by federal prosecutors with insider trading and lying to the f.b.i. the congressman allegedly conveyed nonpublic information that's a legal term of art nonpublic information about innate immune.