russia views any further tightening of u.s. sanctions as the precursor of an economic war after washington announces new penalties over the poisoning of russian double agents sergei st paul and his daughter in the u.k. . meanwhile as a new batch of u.s. sanctions against iran take a fact the e.u. scrambles to protect european businesses working with tara. also this hour a saudi airstrike on a school bus in war torn yemen killed twenty nine children and injured dozens more the washington reaffirms its strategic military partnership with the saudis. and we meet 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

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. you're watching the weekly here on r t international a recap of the biggest stories from the past seven days thanks for joining us. washington announced it will impose new sanctions against russia over the poisoning of former russian double agent sergei skateball and his daughter back in march moscow has strenuously denied any involvement in the instant russia's prime minister says the further tightening of u.s. sanctions on russia will be viewed as the start of an economic war and moscow will have to react economically and politically the u.s. measures will come into in two rounds the first places limits on financing an

export especially on a 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 of 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 there for the souls where 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 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 it's 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 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 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. either the bloody. walkers. or how about the american officials they arraign extremist groups then wish i had the. the headquarters of the islamic republic party there is a viable opposition to the rule of the. 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 i don't need to say that to fall into al-qaeda the people we are fighting today we funded twenty years ago. america dealing with these five and groups amount to sponsoring terrorism while the state department has a good answer for that i would leave it to others to characterize the current state of our standing meanwhile the e.u. has stood up to american sanctions on iran which washington reimposed after donald trump unilaterally withdrew from the two thousand and fifteen nuclear deal and the statement brussels said it's determined to protect european business legitimately working with taro the prohibition is meant to damage economy on several levels it's barred from buying american dollars and also from trading medals including precious ones besides that it limits the overall flow of iranian currency and targets the

country's auto industry washington tried to present it as a widely supported by its western allies but iran pointed out the contradictions. 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 deep 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 to run its interest in 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 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 aren't so heavily involved themselves so the e.u. understand this is an attack on them this is a ramping up of beggar thy neighbor policies of the type that we saw in the thirty's or 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 the 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 has twenty one 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 underlined at the same time 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. 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 video of the aftermath of the attack shows the extent of the children's injuries please be warned that what we're about to show you is upsetting to watch the strike hit the north of the country which is under the control of the rebels saudi arabia launched an intervention against them in two thousand and fifteen the latest un 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 the red cross told r.t. that the situation in yemen is catastrophic. to have received twenty nine identified the bodies of children up to fourteen years old and forty eight

injured among them thirty children but for the over the 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 book relation that has been brought to the brink of collapse the system is decimate to the movement of population is growing because of. conflicts and hostilities going on so really do think that 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 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 we see civilian casualties we did i mean. this is just horrific. saudi arabia nonetheless defended the attack in a statement blaming the insurgents instead the targeting 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 weapons to the saudis it also provides targeting assistance for riyadh 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 the u.k. is also a major supplier of weapons to the coalition and to arms trade activist sam walton

told us that both 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 when i talk to people in yemen they are absolutely livid 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 bombs and planes dropped by saudi arabia u.a.e. so we really have to ask yourself some questions and start putting pressure to stop this war on saudi arabia. throughout the last week we brought you a series of special reports highlighting the fate and potential future is now a russians and their families who want to fight for islamic state in this episode medina cochon of our travels to southern russia to talk to a woman sentenced to eight years in prison on terrorism charges after she felt 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 there was no bombing he said no war but the reality turned out to be fall morris than anything on t.v. they lived for two years in the city of top gun which at the times was under eisel 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 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 i took them out into the hole and we laid on the floor so that any shrapnel wouldn't hit us zagat 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 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 leavings and he died 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 am 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 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 and 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 is a good and sounds she's just happy to see her children safe little girl 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. and now he's as an economist let's go to the merry go round would let's go to the seaside now we go after you where dumb daddy now we go everywhere. mommy is hard and so my lovely home safe. dagestan. still to come barreling access and censoring post social media platforms purge members content about story and much more after a quick break. put

themselves. they get accepted or rejected. sold one of the first entry. or something. that you'd like to be that's what the four three people are. interested in the waters are. there should they. join me every thursday on the alec simon show and i'll be speaking to guest on the world of politics score doesn't this i'm show business i'll see you then.

welcome back to the program social media and how it operates has been in the spotlight again over the last few days numerous accounts belonging to libertarian and conservative figures in the united states have been banned accusing them of spreading hate speech 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 usually 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 in two thousand and eighteen you'll be told to hold up if twitter decides there are sparts 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 on asli 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 got 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 his 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 the 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. 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 to the 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 there a 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 the 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 or terry and 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 be tracked down yeah that covers just two of the twenty we've got reaction from oregon bokhara who's hoping to be the us libertarian party's next presidential candidate 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 so 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 pro stay 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 sticking true to their early promise instead they are turning out to be just another tool of the status quo. violence spiked throughout the week in the israeli palestinian conflict both sides exchange heavy fire and at least three people were killed and quoting a pregnant palestinian woman and her eighteen month old child a strike on a cultural center in gaza city also injured a further eighteen people far stronger the. israeli defense forces reported that around one hundred eighty rockets had been

fired from gaza the i.d.f. added that its retaliatory shelling targeted over one hundred fifty terrorist sites most of the palestinian strikes hit open spaces but at least two landed in an israeli town injuring seven people and damaging property. now there's also been violence on the israeli gaza border and ongoing demonstrations against the occupation of palestinian territory. at least. i don't know much that. was. not there was.

a probe designed to take humanity closer to the sun than ever before has been launched by nasa from cape canaveral in florida blast off was originally planned for saturday but that was aborted due to a last minute alarm. three two one zero you lift off. the parker solar probe is set to be the fastest object ever constructed by humankind speeds predicted to reach more than seven hundred thousand kilometers per hour it will also have to withstand temperatures outside the spacecraft of dealer one thousand four hundred degrees celsius the probe seven year mission will hopefully see its orbit the sun twenty four times it will travel through the sun's

atmosphere closer to the surface than any spacecraft before the first data is expected to be sent back to earth in december. that's a snapshot of just some of the stories that help shape the world around us these last seven days thanks for watching the weekly here on r.t. . when lawmakers manufacture consent instinctive public wealth. when the ruling classes protect themselves. when the final merry go round lifts only the one percent. nor middle of the room signal. room i mean real news is.

you know world of big partisan movies 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 bath 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 watching closely watching the hawks.

there's a ladder we found. in the desert when when somebody jumped over the the wall and then we. we flew from these waters but jugs out there and these racist groups slice them open with knives it's really sad and we find shotgun shells people shooting at the at the migrants. twenty years ago i started going out to the desert like we're doing right now to bring water to people that are crossing because the people that are across you know across the rio all the way they can't they cannot get visas there's no visas for these people so they risk their lives crossing in the desert or the mountains or

the ocean where other cities by sandy able to one out there's a wall where there's no cities there's no wall and that's where people cross and that's where people die so every summer more people die because of the wall that exists right now then the entire history of the berlin wall. and you can see this is part of operation gatekeeper one nine hundred ninety four and as we walk in a walk to the end right here just at the bottom of this little hill that's the the a wall that george bush did and if you look further down there's no wall now is not a doubt most of the people here that.