russia views the tightening of u.s. sanctions as the precursor of an economic war after washington announces new penalties over the poisoning of russian double agents a gay script and his daughter in the u.k. . every time there's a new batch of u.s. sanctions against iran take effect the e.u. scrambles to protect european business is working with. a saudi airstrike on a school bus in war torn yemen kills twenty nine children and injured dozens more while washington with firms its strategic military partnership with the saudis. would meet a russian woman who faces imprisonment for terrorism after following her husband to syria where he joined islamic state i told my husband that i want to go back to

live at the moment they start talking about the rights he told me if you want to leave me and i will not let you take the kids away. for good morning eight am sunday here in moscow my name is kevin zero in this is the weekly or an r t a roundup or some of the biggest stories that shape the week just gone first in washington announced it will impose new sanctions against russia over the poisoning of former russian double agent so good script of his daughter back in march moscow strenuously denied any involvement in that incident russia's prime minister though said this further tightening of u.s. sanctions on russia will be viewed as the start of an economic war moscow will have to react economically and politically the restrictions will come in two rounds the first places limits on financing an export especially the number of national security goods the second wave in around three months time will hit diplomatic

relations as well as banking and imports and. 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's us welcome the united sanctions of america well russia is being 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 sole spree poisonings washington says it has to ten mins the 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 for she's 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 the two poles russia culpable culpable culpable culpable for the

attempted murder and this being 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 music which isn't feeding the population in the west with the idea yes it is the russian despite the evidence just a constant constant stream of these. people just the same 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 well there that seems of little 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 us itself has a long history of consulting 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 do that either the. walkers. or how about the american officials here they are a nix tree miscreant then wish i had the coke who bombs the headquarters of the islamic republic party there is a viable opposition to the rule of the. 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 group to form 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 also for that i will leave it to others to characterize the current state of our standing. it was sanctions on sanctions meantime the e.u. stood up to american sanctions on iran which washington reimposed of the donald trump unilaterally withdrew from the twenty fifty nuclear deal in a statement brussels said it's determined to protect european businesses legitimately working with to run it's an awkward situation and for america and the e.u. the prohibition is meant to damage iran's economy on several levels for instance it's bar them from buying american dollars also from trading metals including precious ones on top of that it limits the overall flow to rein in currency and

targets the country's automobile industry has got a big hand in some of that washington tried to present it as widely supported by its western allies but around pointed out the contradictions. we've got to be a good normal country that's the ask is pretty simple we think that most other countries everyone with whom i spoke understand that they need to behave normally and they understand that this is a country that threatens them to do the entire world has shown it disagrees with the u.s. policies against iran talk to anyone anywhere in the world and they will tell you that netanyahu trump and been so manner isolated not iran it's interesting europe hasn't fallen in line behind the u.s. on this and i think that's a reflection of the fact that the e.u. realizes this is a war against them as well they're the ones invested in iran they're the ones who are losing billions and billions of dollars of investment if this is for its french oil companies like to tile and so on french aircraft makers and so on who are

losing these multibillion dollar investments as a result of these sanctions not the u.s. companies and so heavily involved themselves so the e.u. understand this is an attack on then this is a ramping up of beggar thy neighbor policies of the type that we saw in the thirty's or in the run up to power blocs actually going to war militarily and we're now seeing this the early stages of this manifesting on the economic battleground which at the moment is in iran but this is a battle between the u.s. and e.u. . u.s. senators are accusing their government of contributing to the deadly saudi led coalition strike that hit a school bus in yemen on thursday the red cross says twenty nine children were killed and thirty others injured all under the age of fifteen the u.s. state department calling on the coalition to investigate but underline too that saudi arabia is a key regional partner for the united states we can the saudi led coalition to conduct a thorough and transparent investigation into the incident you also supply

a tremendous amount of weaponry in the dead of targeting to the well then. sorry you know why wrong is that wrong sorry these ladies every here are laughing. and that i would refer you to the department of defense that is involved in that but you as you know saudi arabia is an important strategic partner in the region to the united states well here of the aftermath of the attack shows the extent of the children's injuries please be warned next we're going to show you is upsetting to watch. the strike in the north of the country which is under the control of hoofy rebels saudi arabia launched its intervention against them back in twenty fifteen it's been going on ever since the latest u.n. data says that the majority of people killed in the conflict died as a result of coalition air strikes that's around ten and a half thousand casualties in an official statement the saudis defended the attack though blaming the insurgents. that the 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. 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 which it claimed was to reduce civilian casualties and the arms trade activist sam walton told us that washington and london should be shoulder more responsibility here what's happened is a massacre and it can never be legitimate to kill children it's that simple questions must be asked we've seen over the course of this war on cells from washington and london to saudi arabia go up and up and up when i talk to people in yemen they are absolutely livid yes so angry with our governments for arming.

arming saudi arabia and for providing the planes the bombs the missiles military training and diplomatic cover for the bombardment which they are living under yes it killed children but it happened in a civilian marketplace as well which is another big question why were they targeting a civilian marketplace the weapons that we are selling to saudi arabia are bombing schools they're bombing hospitals we're seeing the world's largest ever cholera outbreak in yemen and that cholera outbreak is happening because the sewage the sanitation systems have been systematically targeted by british and american bombs and planes dropped by saudi arabia in u.a.e. so we really have to ask yourself some questions and start putting pressure to stop this war on saudi arabia. for the week we showed several reports on the fate of russians and their families who went to fight for islamic state there's

a special series of reports in this episode are about to rear again now we did a college never travels to southern russia to talk to a woman sentenced to eight years in prison on terrorism charges after she followed her husband to syria. the clock is ticking on its current life sentenced to eight years behind bars for being part of an illegal armed group she won't actually go to jail until her youngest child turns fourteen and she's only one right now less than twelve months ago her life was old very different i was twenty nine when i left i went to turkey first with my husband i never thought i would end up there. within seven months as a kid that was living in syria and pregnant with her third child she says her husband had been drawn to islam and a better life. he told me it was safe to go there he said it wasn't how it was

being shown that was snowball me he said no war but the reality turned out to be far more spin anything on t.v. they lived for two years in the city of topic which at the times was under isolates control than they moved to rocca and she spent every day living in feet. so even my girl knew she was only eight years old but she could tell the difference what was coming and american her kids explain a fighter jet drone she could tell by the sound of it. where they hiding yes well they either went downstairs or just simply stayed at home it took them out into the hole and we laid on the floor so that any shrapnel wouldn't hit us that could add struggles to share her story she tries to stay emotionally distant from the past speaks quietly rarely looking into the camera she says she wanted to return home

right from the start i told my husband that i want to go back but i couldn't live but the moment i started talking about it we had fights he told me if you want to leave leave but i will not let you take the kids away. i knew he was able to do that he had that sort of character and i was afraid later on when they were living and rock her husband was killed in a drone strike leaving it all alone with three children i started looking for ways to get out but it's not that easy you can't just leave that place it all has to be done in secret there are people that can throw you out trick i only talk to those who i knew well and one day i was told that there was this wrote that there was a way out. that claims she had no way dia the life she was leading would leave her on the wrong side of russia's anti terror laws. i stayed at home all the time i had my children i had no time for anything else i was at home taking care of my kids.

she was one of the seven women and fourteen children brought back to russia in the autumn twenty seventeen as part of a companion organized by chechen officials to repaginate the families of men who went to fight with islam make terrorists. i am very grateful to everyone who helped launch this campaign to save many women and children. but while they were lucky to escape from the war in syria upon arrival in grozny she was detained by police three months later she was convicted and sentenced for being part of an illegal armed group. and while the law she broke is designed to help thwarted terror attacks some people argue that family members of radicalized individuals should not be targeted. these people need rehabilitation they need to be close to their

family members under the care of their mothers they're under huge dress and prison will not help them it will only meet the more harsh i believe it's wrong to put them behind bars for now is that good at leaves with her mother in dagestan she has to report. to the police months and can't leave the region it's difficult for both her and her brother to find her work as they're on the official police list it means they all have to get by on their mother a small salary as a post office worker despite all this they could add sas she is just happy to see her children say. i was literally suffering there because i was unable to provide food for my children he told me constantly mom we are hungry they were crying and now he's absent cause let's go to the merry go round let's go to the seaside now we go and nowhere don't do it now we go everywhere. the money is hard and so my lovely home safe. dagestan.

the dynamics of life after isis thanks for watching this morning a lot more coming clothing battling excess censoring post social media platforms purge members content and viewpoints is one of the stories a. good

politicians to do something to. put themselves on the line to get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be president. some want to. get it right for us it's like a book for. people. interested always in the logs. good morning welcome to the weekly so social media and how it operates was in the headlines in the week wasn't it numerous accounts following to libertarian and conservative figures were banned by twitter accusing them of spreading hate speech

facebook's also suspected of having closer ties to washington the previously thought it's emerged that the platform is relying on experts funded by branches of the u.s. government to nato when it comes to tracking foreign influence. that story. how's that for a mark zuckerberg nightmare he or his team in front of a horde of suits go and sort these russian bots out sort out the fakes sort them out or did i just paint a good picture of the reality web giants of been facing lately in the past election you. we seen how foreign actors are abusing social media platforms those images that can be attributed or associated with the russian company lack of resources a lack of commitment and a lack of genuine effort the likes of zogby could have proudly said we're just

a platform where independent and sorting out what you call fakes is none of our business but when wall street alarm bells are ringing you know how it can happen with the stocks it could be better to zip it and focus on an intense year. see if we stick to be the tough year began with it we've of it's news feed algorithm the trick was to boost posts with let's say pics of your friends cat and sideline all that politics related media stuff haha they say this lead to less views likes and comments under donald trump's posts move it on facebook has evolved from policing offensive content to policing news views ideas it can be anything apart from your friend's cat if people flag them as a potential hoaxes we send those to fact checkers and if those fuckers say that the law is provably false then we will significantly reduce the distribution of that

content to what if you want to just say get off our platform will look as a horn to some of this content can be i do think that it gets down to this principle of giving people a voice eventually though the get off our platform way to sort things out still prevailed ok. and now it's time to meet the fact checkers journalists have found them in a tiny room at these guys' h.q. got it at the end of the day facebook's not so happy with that online policeman's hat so zuck in co are outsourcing the digital share locks i'm being serious that's what they call themselves who are let me check where they come from. a link to nato with their help thirty two suspicious pages have already been sorted out the big ship was not turned around overnight. but i think that the. now give them some opportunity to work with them and i hope that in the months when we have at least

three other platforms in that we will see. a willingness to collaborate with others to come up with a solution bravo and it's not just facebook or do one just as great one question though since already most americans head to social media to get their news when will freedom of speech ring a bell. meantime one controversial figure the fire line to alex jones the host of info wars he was banned by a major platforms including facebook you tube and spotify twitter is one of the few where he's still available and he had criticism this time for being too tolerant and spawns to it as c.e.o. said that jones hadn't violated any of the rules presidential candidate for the libertarian party of involved told us he thinks 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 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 challenges that that's what has made these what made these these media useful in their early days but today these media are not taking true to their early promise instead they are turning out to be just another tool of the status quo. meantime of the week that was donald trump so so full of it to the senses certainly his place on hollywood's walk of fame.

the city council or the council can ask for anything they want they have no jurisdiction it's the hollywood chamber of commerce and they're the ones who decide how we would have self is failed failed and stories that people have been convicted of crimes and murder when mayhem and abuse and they've said no this becomes a part of history if they really wanted seriously to make a statement about donald trump do that but that involves reading and

understanding issue you know this is easy it goes to show you there trump doraine syndrome has come lately critical mass and they have all gone completely off the rails. elsewhere eighteen were injured on thursday when a cultural center in gaza city was hit in the exchange of fire between israel and palestine according to palestinian sources. i. know any military carried a series of strikes on the gaza strip the night before it was in response to palestinian missiles being fired into israel. or are at zero zero zero zero zero zero zero zero zero zero zero zero zero zero zero zero zero zero zero zero zero zero zero zero zero zero zero. one of the i.d.f. strikes killed at least three people including

a young pregnant woman as well as are eighteen month old child local journalist was at the funeral. we are now in. the middle of the gaza city where we are attending the funeral of a nazi. were killed yesterday during that abstracts launch from gaza strip and that's a twenty three year old mother that was pregnant with a nine month baby i'm expecting here at the minute but yet is still one year and a half old baby as you see what. they think. that that's. the baby oh you see speeches 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 were they were not in a complete body jean and the jury 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 and. hit on israeli forces kept on going and strikes where the palestinian resistance also fired rockets into israel the israeli defense forces reported that around one hundred eighty rockets have been fired from the gaza strip the idea how did that it's retaliatory shelling targeted over a hundred fifty terrorist sites most of the palestinian strikes hit open spaces but

at least two landed in an israeli town injuring seven and property. also on thursday a short lived ceasefire between hamas militants in israel came into effect but then on friday fresh protests erupted at the gaza border and continuing protests against israeli occupation of palestinian territory three palestinians were killed there over two hundred wounded the israeli military says its soldiers opened fire in self-defense acting in accordance with standard procedures as they termed it. at work of tunnels built by militants under the syrian city of eastern go to and i found a new peaceful purpose that i once used to connect the jihadist bases and hospitals but now local artists of color of the walls with scenes of battle and bravery in tribute to the syrian people.

and that's just a snapshot of some of the stories that help shape the world around us these last seven days thanks to watch the weekly here and out international with me kevin are in have a great weekend. the way to the united states is dangerous for most of the illegal immigrants. crossing their fingers to the simple they want to become us and i want to ask some just about what if many of them look for refuge in the so-called sentry sides of the

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