moscow says it views further tightening of u.s. sanctions on russia as the start of an economic war while washington says it's stepping up the restrictions over the poisoning of a former russian double agent and his daughter in the u.k. back in march. the us democratic party wants facebook to share data on members who have fallen for fake news so we can tell them what's right this us social media giants are accused of censorship after banning controversal show host alex jones. also this hour israel and hamas militants reached a tentative cease fire agreement after israel retaliates against dozens of rockets fired from the gaza strip. and the legacy of terror we hear from families in southern russia desperate for

news of loved ones who went to join the islamic state terror group many young children who are also missing. will hold that it will be ok it's true. i just feel so sort of for the children it's so difficult when you don't know right exactly children are. this is our team to national coming to you live from the russian capital where it's just turned two pm welcome to the program. for their tightening of u.s. sanctions on russia will be viewed as the start of an economic war that's how russian prime minister dmitry medvedev reacted to newly announced restrictions by the u.s. over the poisoning of former russian double agents are going to fall 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 either economic political or if necessary any other measures the new sanctions will come into rounds the first places limits on financing and export especially on a number of national security goods the second wave will help diplomatic relations as well as banking and imports and issues that they takes up the story. 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 us welcome the united sanctions of america well russia should 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 where poisonings washington says it has determined that russian 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 fresh is behind the screen poisoning i would 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 report 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 is feeding the population in the west with the idea yes it is the russians despite the evidence just a constant constant stream of these. people just accept oh yes it must be the

russians therefore that's ok we have asked him point more sanctions it's time that we did get all the evidence but my suspicion is that as i'm going to happen although that seems of little interest to washington which is found moscow guilty slapped it with new sanctions and strangely given it's 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 tool say it doesn't seem to matter that the us itself has a long history of consorting with groups branded as terrorists for instance america's support for the movement which techie label to terror groups organizing and attempted. sooner or later the united states will make a choice either to. either the bloody. walkers.

or how about the american officials who they are a nix trimix group then wish i had the. bombs the headquarters of the islamic republic party there is a viable opposition to the rule. and that 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 say that to fall into al-qaeda the people we are fighting today we funded twenty years ago. does america dealing with a spot 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 now for the third and the last piece in a series of reports on the fate of children of islamic state foreigners from russia medina course in iraq travel to the south of the country to talk to people

desperate for news of family members pledge allegiance to the terror. 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 other 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 birth and 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 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. so 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 and heard anything from my daughter in law in the bus eight months and

then i cry and i will turn thinks is this here it is so difficult i don't think i can last much longer. that ina tries to spend almost all 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 as 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. or 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 god 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 sas that she still canned food come to terms with her sister's decision. i don't think she was looking for a better life there were building a house together our brothers gave us land we had so many plans we planted trees there we wanted to do so much we had so much planned for the future and suddenly this happened. all these stories a tragically familiar had the set 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. that i feel irritated when i had

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 the parents took them 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 the 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. 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 average began to reunite families nine planes have arrived back in russia carrying a little over one hundred people just a fraction of the thousands stranded and the war torn region and of course there are reporting from russia's republic of chechnya. earlier this week where the first

two episodes in that series about two russian sisters founded an iraqi orphanage and a woman convicted to eight years in prison on terrorism charges after following her husband to syria in case you missed them they're now available on our you tube channel. democrats are looking for a new tool to counterfeit news online they're asking facebook to share data on its users so they can then be fed what they say is the right information the d.n.c. has frequently accused russia of trying to influence voters in the two thousand and sixteen presidential elections it takes a look at what's in the 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 of 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 seems have 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 the. 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 presidential candidate for the libertarian party are going bora think social media has deviated from its original purpose. the idea of freedom

of speech is a legal protection that says the government cannot restrict any freedom of speech it doesn't say whether or not private companies can and what facebook and twitter are doing are ok and legally morally it is absolutely reprehensible morally as leaders in communication twitter and facebook have a responsibility to encourage an open exchange of ideas not to give a huge bias to the established pros state pro status quo old ideas they need to give space to the ideas that challenge the status quo that's what has made these what made these these media useful in their early days but today these media are not speaking truth to their early promise instead they are turning out to be just another tool of the status quo and while the subject of social media is debated the problems that could cause are real during a college interview a seventeen year old student was asked not about his educational success but why he

falls alex jones on twitter a controversial show hosts recently banned by several social networks the simpler explained to my colleague neil harvey harvey exactly what happened. do you represent to the 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 but sure i'm happy to explain exactly what happened what was going on was it during the interview process the application 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 in four wars was suspended this week by several social media platforms they say that's because he spread hate speech and glorify violence broadly share again says 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 what 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. coming up in the program israel and hamas militants agreed to yet another cease fire after days of trading heavy fire that started more after the short break. please. please. please. please.

please. most people think just stand out in this business you need to be the first one on top of the story or the person with the loudest voice of the biggest raid in truth to stand down the losers and you just the dance the right questions and demand the right answer. questions. this is our to international welcome back to the program u.s. senators are accusing the government of contributing to the deadly saudi led coalition strike that hit a school bus in yemen on thursday twenty nine children were killed and thirty

injured all under the age of fifteen that's according to the red cross well u.s. state department spokesperson has called for the coalition to conduct an internal investigation and outlined that saudi arabia is a key partner for america in the region we call on the saudi led coalition to conduct a thorough and transparent investigation into the incident you also supply the tremendous amount of weaponry in the data for targeting to the saudis so that. sorry no lie wrong is that wrong sorry these ladies every hear laughing. on that i would refer you to the department of defense that is involved in that but you know as you know saudi arabia is an important strategic partner in the region to the united states the strike hit the north of the country which is under the control of hoofy rebels saudi arabia launched an intervention against them back in two thousand and fifteen in an official statement riad defended that if the attack accusing the rebels of using children as human shields. talking today is

a legitimate military action conducted in conformity with the international humanitarian law to get the militants responsible for planning and targeting civilians which resulted in killing and injuring them the united states is by far the largest supplier of weaponry to the saudis it 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 it claimed to reduce civilian casualties political commentator lou rockwell thinks the u.s. bears responsibility for the atrocities in yemen and that the state department will never admit it. i notice that you seem tongue tied about it they 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. is selling the weapons we know the u.s. is providing targeting data so it's it's horrendous and i would say the u.s.

because 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 us. israel and hamas militants have reached a ceasefire agreement following two days of trading heavy fire. in one of the latest bombing raids a cultural center in gaza city was destroyed israeli defense forces launched the operation after hamas militants fired dozens of rockets into southern israel. bar.

on wednesday night an i.d.f. strike killed at least three people including a pregnant woman as well as her eighteen month old child that's according to the gaza health ministry a local journalist was at their funeral. we are attending the funeral of we ness and beyond us and by god were killed yesterday during the air strikes launched on 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 still one year and a half old baby as you see thousands of palestinians are participating in the euro all you see is features i think 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 run to the most 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 and how they died till dawn the israeli forces kept on singing and strikes where the palestinian resistance also fired rockets into israel policy that they would confront blood with blood and strikes with their strikes the palestinian factions are calling for the palestinians to participate in the great march of return the i.d.f. says the military action was

a response to rockets fired from gaza into israel since wednesday several israeli citizens are said to have been injured. that is a threat and an aggression that the i.d.f. cannot and will not tolerate and in response we have retaliated with striking one hundred forty minute third targets belonging to hamas inside the gaza strip. the idea of has committed to defend the state of israel it's a vivien's and its sovereignty and we are ready and prepared for different scenarios to come that's our global news update for this hour but i'll be back in just over thirty minutes with more thanks for tuning in.

china slaps new tariffs on u.s. goods as the trade war between the two nations escalates will it impact in the mid turns taking a look at that on this edition of. the politicking on larry king later in the program former republican governor of new jersey christine todd whitman joins me for a one on one conversation about harsh criticisms of donald trump and her calls for the president to step down stick around for that later but first on wednesday china

announced a new round of tariffs in the tally ation fight for terrorists that the troubled ministration has slapped on chinese goods entering the u.s. what's the impact of this latest escalation in the trade war between the united states and china and will the president pay a political price for this negative impact of the terror battle has placed on some of his most ardent supporters we'll talk about that and more with bob livingston former republican member of congress from louisiana a state that will be heavily hit by china's tariffs he's in new orleans and in washington chris lew he served as white house cabinet secretary and deputy secretary of labor during the obama administration he's now a senior fellow at the vigil. miller center so we you bob on china announced plans twenty five percent. thinking agriculture or oil and gas

is going to have a huge knevitt negative effect on your state what do you make of this. well i'm hoping there's going to be a short term where we can't really tell it we won't know for another couple of months but trump's goal has been ressa prosody he wants the chinese to treat us like we've been treating the chinese the problem is in the last many years we've been easy on their trade but they've been pretty tough on ours and they won't allow our stuff in and or at least they put high tariffs on it and so i think his concern is absolutely on target. implementation of any trade. exchange or wars or otherwise is is tenuous i'd personally like most of the trump. accomplishments over these less to three years and this

is the one question mark i have but i have to tell you i think reciprocity is the right goal i think that the president is absolutely on target they've been stealing our information from people who are hacking our systems they've been. relying on us to not be tough on their trade while they have been tough on ours and so the goal of having them treat us just like we treat them and vice versa is probably exactly right when you argue that as has the system in unfair. absolutely you know we have legitimate complaints with china not only in terms of intellectual property theft in terms of currency manipulation but this isn't the way to go and if you're going to engage in a trade battle with china you'd rather do it with your european allies with canada and mexico on your side we are fighting a trade war on all fronts right now and that's going to have a.