russia views any further tightening of u.s. sanctions as the precursor of an economic war of washington announced in the week new penalties over the poisoning of russian double agents. and his daughter in the u.k. . another big story the last seven days. of u.s. sanctions against iran took effect the e.u. scrambled to protect european businesses working with. the saudi 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. in a special report we meet a russian woman who faces imprisonment for terrorism after she followed her husband to syria where he joined islamic state. i tell my husband that i want to go back

that i couldn't live there 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. by their one pm sunday afternoon in moscow when i was kevin oh in this is out international let me bring you the weekly around the ball the big stories of the last seven days just go on starting with this that washington announced it will impose new sanctions against russia over the poisoning of former russian double agent surrogates cripple and his daughter back in march moscow's strenuously denied any involvement in that incident in the wake russia's prime minister says further tightening of u.s. sanctions on russia would be viewed as the start of an economic war moscow would have to react economically and politically the restrictions are set to come in two rounds than the first places limits on. financing and their sport especially in

a number of national security goods and then the second wave in around three months time will hit diplomatic relations as well as banking on 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 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 we're poisoning washington says it has determined that russia used a military nerve agent to attack form a double agent say scott powell 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 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 isn't feeding the population in the west with the idea yes it is the russians despite the evidence just the constant constant stream of these. people just accept oh yes it must be the russians and then therefore that's ok we have less important more sanctions it's time that we get all the evidence but my suspicion is that as don't want to happen although that seems a valid til interest to washington which has found moscow. guilty slapped 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 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 is 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 workers. or how about the american officials here they are a in extremis grip then wish i had been. 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 say that group later form into al-qaeda the people we are fighting today we funded twenty years ago. america dealing with these violent 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. well so it is very much of the news meantime the e.u. stood up to those american sanctions on iran which washington reimposed off to 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 so what's on the cards them though the prohibition is meant to damage the rams economy on several levels it's bar for instance from.

by american dollars and also from trading metals including precious ones and there's more to it besides that it limits the overall flow over reigning in currency and targets the country's automobile industry washington tried to present a does something that's been widely supported by its western allies but to round quickly pointed out the contradictions there. we've got to behave like a 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 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 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 aren't 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 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. so this is recusing the government are 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 thirty others injured all of them under the age of fifty the u.s. state department now was calling on the coalition to investigate but underline to

at the time that so the 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 the tremendous amount of weaponry the end data for targeting to the then. sorry you know why wrong is that wrong sorry are these ladies every hear a 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. video of the aftermath of the attack shows the extent of the children's injuries please be one what's coming up here is upsetting to watch that strike the north of the country which is under the control of the rebels saudi arabia launched this intervention against them back in twenty fifteen it's been ongoing ever since the latest u.n. data says the majority of people killed in the conflict died as a result of coalition air strikes around ten and a half thousand casualties so far in the week we spoke to morello from the

international red cross committee called the situation in yemen catastrophic. they 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 overall top. this needs to be referred to the ministry of health and population of yemen humanitarian situation in the country is catastrophic it's a population 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 we really do think that more hostilities and you know the expansion of those hostilities with

will exacerbate an already dire humanitarian situation even more we see violations cross the country and it's nice 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 so the ribbon on the left offended the attack in the 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. united states is by far the largest supplier of weaponry to the saudis it also provides targeting assistance for strikes and military drills in fact 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 washington and london should be shouldering more responsibility 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 you know 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 before your series of special reports highlighting the fate and potential futures now of russians and their families who went to fight for islamic state in one episode medina concha never traveled 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 i did 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 it 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 top gun which at the times was under eisel is control than they moved to rocca and she spent every day living in phoenix.

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 i 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 rabbinate 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 leave 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. do that you 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 zacky 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 sell 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 alive 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 conveying 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 stress 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 thank you that leaves with her mother in dagestan she has to report to the police and. three months and can't leave the region and stiff acoa 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 could add sas she's just happy to see her children say the little girl i was literally suffering that because i was unable to provide food for my children he told me constantly mom we are hungry they were climbing and now he says that congress next call to the merry go round would let's go to the seaside now we go after you where dumb to now we go everywhere. mommy's heart and so my lovely who say fuck it was you. r.t. dagestan. stories from international talking to which covered up very shortly twenty four hours late eighty nine million miles to go but it least it's on its way build this man's closest brush with the sun the probe expects report but by year and with essential info will show you the moment to take off we

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again this is about international live from moscow so social media and i would operated was in the spotlight over the last few days numerous accounts belonging to libertarian and conservative figures were banned by twitter accusing them of spreading hate speach. 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 are brought together like yesterday. that was the online world as we used to know it all fluids to any of those pesky folks trying to set limits and 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 unfollowing 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 to 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 had alex jones was told get out of here by all major platforms we remove hate speach. 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 some 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 was is the tip of a giant iceberg of hate and lies the uses sites like facebook can use you to tear

on nation oppose 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. also violent spikes week in the israeli palestinian conflict the sides exchange heavy fire and at least three were killed including a pregnant understanding woman and her eighteen month old child eighteen people are also injured in the strike on a cultural center in gaza city bar there are the.

israeli defense forces reported around one hundred eighty rockets have been fired from the gaza strip the i.d.f. added that its retaliatory shelling targeted over one hundred fifty terrorist sites back most of the palestinian strikes hit open spaces but it seems at least two landed in an israeli town injuring seven and damaging property and there's also violence on the israeli gaza border an ongoing demonstrations against the occupation of palestinian territory to. oh like.

i said though i'd like to know what a success a probe designed to take humanity closer to the sun than ever before was launched by nasa from a cape canaveral in florida earlier on just what went off as planned takeoff originally planned for yesterday was aborted at the last minute because an alarm but eventually. three two one zero. zero zero ft off. the park a solar probe is said to be the fastest object ever constructed by humankind with

speeds predicted to reach more than seven hundred thousand kilometers now it's jus to travel a full eighty nine million miles and withstand temperatures outside of nearly forty hundred degrees that by putting four half inches a carpet on the front of it the probe seventy emission will hopefully see it orbit the sun twenty four times travel through the sun's atmosphere closer to the surface than any other spacecraft with four fingers crossed hoping that first data will be back to earth by year a. nice way to end for me that's it for now this is not a shot of some of the stories that helped shape the world around these last seven days around thanks for much watching the weekly in arctic international kevin owen saying have a great weekend. join me every first week on the alex simon shore and i'll be speaking to us from the world of politics sports business i'm sure business i'll see you there.

america was never great was founded on the rape and murder. nothing changed so we said all response to these situations that we do in the ways. people get shot every day she is just people killing each other blood for the killing children. so it was just no way that people are going to just sit back and allow children to be shot down law enforcement. this country doesn't work for us it doesn't function for us. this this can't be happening in america we call from the streets we've got to deal with why this is the reason i

have to ride like this is the reason. you know world's big partners through things a lot and conspiracy it's time to wake up to dig deeper to hit the stories that mainstream media refuses to tell more than ever we need to be smarter we need to stop slamming the door on the back and shouting past each other it's time for critical thinking it's time to fight for the middle for the truth the time is now for washington closely watching the hawks. good politicians to do something to. put themselves on the line to get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be president. or somehow want to listen.

to going to be press this is like the before three in the morning can't be good that i'm interested always in the lives of our. guests. welcome to worlds apart as a popular american song goes there is no justice in the world and the palestinians

may know it better than anyone else expelled from the land bad with empty statehood promises for seventy years and now shot at and killed and mass for the sake of providing security for israel is that likely to prompt any international response beyond this condemnations well to discuss that i'm now joined by saber erica the secretary general of the palestine liberation organization mr erica it's good to talk to you at this critical moment thank you very much for your time and a pleasure now first of all let me express our deep condolences just as deeply felt rage a mass killing on the gaza border is there anything at this point that you can do to stop it from the full i appreciate your kindness and. your understanding of the situation and your condolences to the palestinian people we have witnessed the. massacre sixty four people work and the.