russia views any further tightening of u.s. sanctions as the precursor of an economic war after washington dances new penalties over the poisoning of russian double agent surrogate script paul and his daughter and the u.k. . the timing of their lunch in the week is a new batch of u.s. sanctions against the rand took effect the e.u. scrambled to protect european businesses working with iran. so the air strike on a school bus in war torn yemen killed twenty nine children and injured dozens more washington reaffirmed its strategic military partnership with the saudis. and coming up to a special report we 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 and i

couldn't live there and the moment i started talking about it we had rights he told me if you want to leave me but i will not let you take the kids away. either a good morning telling them sunday morning here in moscow my name is kevin zero in this is the weekly here in our to round up of some of the biggest stories that shaped the last seven days first the washington announced it would impose new sanctions against russia over the poisoning of former russian double agents served a script of his daughter back in march moscow strenuously denied any involvement in the incident russia's prime minister says further tightening of u.s. sanctions on russia would be viewed as the start of an economic war and moscow would have to react both economically and politically destructions are said to come in two rounds than the first places limits on financing an export especially on

a number of national security goods and then the second wave in around three months time will hit diplomatic relations as well as banking and imports and he. 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 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 sole spree poisonings washington says it has determined that russia used a military nerve agent to attack form a double agent say gasquet 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 to the poles russia kopel culpable culpable culpable for the attempted murder and there's been uncertainty from specialists investigating the case. as she says. 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 i see the quote here of insinuation that russia is involved which basically is a music which is in 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 therefore that's ok you know most important more sanctions it's time that we didn't get all the evidence but my suspicion is that as the going to happen all the way 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 u.s. itself has a long history of consorting with groups branded as terrorists for instance america's support for the girl in movement which techie label to terror group organizing an attempted k o u sooner or later the united states will make a choice either to. either the. country markers. or how about the american officials here back to their reign extremist group in which i had been a coward who 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. america dealing with these biden 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 in standing sanctions sanctions sanctions again in the headlines so many times last week the e.u. stood up to american sanctions on iran which washington reimposed after donald trump unilaterally withdrew from the twenty fifty nuclear deal in a statement brussels said it was determined to protect european businesses legitimately working with to rome so the prohibition is meant to damage iran's economy on several levels let's check out what they are first off barred from

buying american dollars and also from trading metals including precious ones furthermore besides that it limits the overall flow of iranian currency and is trying to target the country's automobile automobile industry and the west has got a lot of fingers in that part washington tried to present it as widely supported by its western allies but to run quickly pointed out those contradictions. we've got to be a good normal country that's the our 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 date 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 will trump and been so manner isolated not to run 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 this is it's 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 as that 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 the 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 is calling on the coalition to investigate but also on the line to

that saudi arabia is a key regional partner for the united states. 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 then the data for targeting to the saudis so that. sorry no lie wrong is that wrong sorry of these ladies over here laughing. but on 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. video of the aftermath of the attack shows the extent of the children's injuries these people and what we're about to show you here is upsetting to watch strike in the north of the country which is under the control of the rebels saudi arabia launched that intervention way back against the known 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 thus far. from the international red cross committee called the situation in yemen catastrophic. we have received twenty nine identified these are children up to fourteen years old and forty forty eight injured among them thirty children but for the. tall. this needs to be referred to the ministry of health and population of yemen humanitarian situation in the country is catastrophic it's a book relation that has been brought to the brink of collapse the health system is decimated the movement of population is growing because of. conflicts and hostilities going on so really do things. more hostilities and you know the expansion of those hostilities with will

exacerbate an already humanitarian situation even more we see violations cross the country. to. issue or speak about civilian casualties in a matter of less than a week so for us this is painful and whenever restricted in casualties we i mean. this is just horrific. saudi arabia nonetheless defended the attack in a statement blaming the insurgents. 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 the united states is by far the largest supplier of weaponry to the saudis has also provided targeting

assistance from 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 shouldering 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 market place 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 bonds 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 last week we brought you a series of special reports highlighting the fate potential futures now of russians and their families who went off to fight for islamic state in this episode we're going to wear now we did a caution of a 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 zagat uts 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 i did that was living in syria and pregnant with her child she said as 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. even my girl knew she was only eight years old but she could tell the difference what was coming and american hercules plane a fighter jet drone she could tell by the sound of it. what are 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 good had 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 at 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. and you know he

was able to do that he had that sort of character and i was afraid later on when they were living in iraq and her husband was killed in a drone strike leaving zagi dad 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'm very grateful to everyone who helped launch this complaint to save many women and children. but while they were lucky to escape from the war in syria to put a rival 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

every month can't leave the region it's difficult for both her and her brother to find 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 get out sounds she is just happy to see her children. 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 says that congress next call to the merry go round ward let's go to the seaside now we go and the only way i don't get it now we're going everywhere. money is hard and so my lovely hussein. r.t. dagestan. turned seventeen year moscow no story that came in a few hours ago from overnight ten people have been injured we're hearing in

a shooting incident in manchester in the north west of england came in from greater manchester police dealing with that authorities say the injuries do not appear to be life threatening but indeed that some of the injuries are serious quite a few people in hospital over this caribbean carnival it seems been taking place in the area the night before that finished several hours before the attack if we're the more it will keep you up to speed coming up after the break here battling access censoring posts social media platforms purge members content and viewpoints it was one of the big stories in the week we'll tell you more about that after this break.

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you're watching a weekly on out international thanks for with us exactly twenty minutes past ten in the morning in moscow social media and how it operates has been in the spotlight over the last few days numerous accounts belonging to the libertarian conservative thinkers have been banned by twitter accusing them of spreading hate. what matters are all of the stories we hear from all of you about the impact your connections have had on your lives you can choose from an infinite range of topics that interest you and then easily follow that topic in the news countries and cultures that got together like yesterday. that was the online world as we used to know it all flim it's to any of those pesky folks trying to set limits in two thousand and eighteen you'll be told to hold up if twitter decides there are spots of your world that shouldn't be discovered what

if you're keen to know what someone has to say let it be former u.s. diplomat peter van buren you might as well unfold your interests the man's profile is shut down for good because he jokingly wish someone had eaten the face of his opponent in a twitter rant honestly that's by far not the most offensive thing you can find online but what's abusive about showing mr van buren some support to users who did so god bands too it's not about me it's not about the group of us who have band together i think it's a bigger issue and it's an issue that's that's raised its head this week people like us who are not part of the legacy media we're not new york times shapers of opinion we're also allowed to have our say so if someone from the new york times or the washington post put something up that we know is false we can refute it almost in real time that's very threatening i think for the powers that be this tendency to want to shut people down if they disagree with you is very dangerous it's going

down a very slippery slippery slope toward totalitarianism there's a word for that see and ask. well someone saw it coming when even perhaps the most controversial online talking head alex jones was told get outta here by all major platforms we remove hate speech to keep. people safe after all they all have to stick to their own rules and keep people safe from hate speech but then even those anti-left who come to hate jones went on alert could be because they thought someone would click on their profiles and see a hold up pop up alex jones a bad guy but the problem is that once you start saying that hate speech is a rationale for banning people from social media you get in some very very big territory. i'm no fan of jones so among other things he has a habit of repeatedly slandering my dad by falsely and absurdly accusing him of killing j.f.k.

but who the hell made facebook the arbiter of political speech free speech includes views you disagree with but there's no turning back when it comes to the online censorship evolution so i'm not sure it works like that anymore mr cruz plus people on the left are ecstatic bring it on is their call and if it is even a crucial step forward in the fight against fake news and fringe extremism. info wars is the tip of a giant iceberg of hate and lies the uses sites like facebook can use you to tear a nation of poets these companies must do more than take down one website the survival of our democracy depends on it the world is getting older and a bit more author a tarion only lately a top u.s. intelligence committee democrat has come up with twenty legislative proposals for keeping online platforms under a close watch brace yourself as you might soon have to say goodbye to things like

anonymous posts or accounts that can't be tracked down yep that covers just two of the twenty and the presidential kind of libertarian party of a voter of things social media three 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 say what facebook and twitter are doing are ok legally morally it is absolutely reprehensible morally as the 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 pro state pro status quo old ideas they need to give space to the ideas that challenge that that's what has made these what made these these media useful in their early days but today these media are not sticking

true to their early promise instead they are turning out to be just another tool of the status quo. also noteworthy to recap the stories of the week just gone violence spiked throughout the week in the israeli palestinian conflict the sides exchange heavy fire three were killed including a pregnant woman and a young child eighteen were also injured when a cultural center in gaza city was hit on wednesday night car as it was at the. israeli defense forces reported around one hundred eighty rockets have been fired from the gaza strip the i.d.f. added that it's retaliatory shelling targeted over one hundred fifty terrorist sites most of the palestinian strikes in open spaces but at least two apparently landed in the israeli town injuring seven and property. there was a short of ceasefire on thursday but then

a day later fresh protests erupted at the gaza border and continuing demonstrations against israeli occupation of palestinian territory three palestinians were killed over two hundred wounded the israeli military says its soldiers opened fire in self-defense acting in accordance with standard procedures. ten twenty six sunday morning thanks for watching this is not shot just some of the stories that help shape the world around us for the last seven days my name is kevin o. and have a cup and. welcome to max kaiser i will die. looking forward to your.

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