russia views any further tightening of you are saying sions as the precursor to economic war after washington announces new penalties over the poisoning of russian double agent said gay screwball and his daughter in the u.k. . meanwhile as a new batch of us think sins against iran take effect scrambles to protect european businesses working with tehran. also this hour a saudi airstrike on a school bus in war torn yemen kills twenty nine children and injures dozens more while washington reaffirms its strategic military partnership with the saudis. and we need 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 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. a very warm welcome to the weekly here on r t international we bring you the top stories from the past week. washington announced it will impose new sanctions against russia over the poisoning of former russian double agents and gay screwball and his daughter back in march moscow has strenuously denied any involvement in the incident and 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 runs the first places limits on financing and 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 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 has 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 poisonings washington says it has determined that russia 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 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 we do hold russia culpable culpable culpable culpable for the attempted murder and there's been uncertainty from specialists investigating the case. as analysis of the p.c. w.'s report i did to find the country. of origin of the agent used in this attack and we continue to see a sort of a series of corporate baggers here of insinuation that russia is involved which basically is a mood music which is feeding the population in the west with the idea yes it is the russians despite the evidence just a constant constant stream of these. people just accept oh yes it must be the russians therefore that's ok we have asked him point more sanctions it's time that we did get all the evidence but my suspicion is that as the going to happen although that seems of little interest to washington which is found moscow 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 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 able to terror groups organizing and attempted case. 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 headquarters of the republic party there is a viable opposition to the. position 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 need to say that group for. the people we are fighting today we funded twenty years ago. america dealing with a spot 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 a statement in brussels says it's determined to protect european businesses with gentlemanly working with taro the prohibition is meant to damage iran's economy on several levels it's barred from buying american dollars and also from trading metals including precious ones besides that it limits the overall flow of iranian currency and targets the country's auto industry washington trying 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 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 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 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 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 the e.u. . some senators in the u.s. have accused their government of contributing to another deadly study 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 called on the coalition to investigate but unaligned at the same time that saudi arabia is a key regional partner. 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 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 borne 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 launching 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 corelation air strikes that's around ten and a half thousand casualties red cross told r.t. that the situation in yemen is catastrophic. they have received twenty nine identified these are children up to fourteen years old and 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 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 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 we see civilian casualties we are i mean. this is just horrific. saudi arabia says it will launch a program to excuse me into the incident but also it defended its actions 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 and 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 an anti 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 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. the last week we brought you a series of special reports highlighting the fate and potential future is now russians and their families who went to fight for islamic state in this episode medina court in our 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 eighty 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 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 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 and 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 it 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 appoint 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 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 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 that's there 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 safe to go to movies 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 lying. and now he says that congress let's go to the merry go round would let's go to the seaside now we go after you where i don't eat now we go everywhere . mommy is hard and so my lovely home safe. was you. r.t. dagestan. more news after this short break. what holds a shuttle to. put themselves on

a lot. to get accepted or rejected. sold one of the first. or something. that should like to be first to see what the forty three people that. are still in the waters are. there should. chose seemed wrong. but old rules just don't call. me old it is yet to shake out these days because the educated and indeed trained equals betrayal . when so many find themselves worlds apart. just to look for common ground.

welcome back social media and how it operates has been in the spotlight again this week numerous accounts belonging to libertarian and conservative figures in the u.s. 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 usually follow that topic in the news countries and cultures are brought together like everything. 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 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 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. it 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. 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 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 joe and 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 i spoke of hate and lies the uses sites like facebook can use you to tear a nation the posts 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 be tracked down yeah that covers just two of the twenty we've got reaction from arvind bora 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 and what facebook and twitter are doing are ok and legally morally it is absolutely reprehensible morally as leaders in communication twitter and facebook have a responsibility to encourage an open exchange of ideas not to give a huge bias to the established pros state pro status quo old ideas they need to give space to the ideas that challenge the status quo that's what has made these

what made these the media useful in their early days but today these media are not speaking truth to their early promise instead they are turning out to be just another tool of the status quo. violence spiked this week in the israeli palestinian conflict both sides exchange heavy fire and at least three people were killed including a pregnant palestinian woman and her eighteen month old child a strike on a cultural center in gaza city also injured further eighteen people. these really military carried out a series of strikes on the gaza strip the night before that was in response to palestinian missiles being fired into israel.

is really defense forces reported that around one hundred eighty rockets had been fired from gaza the i.d.f. added that it's were talent or 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. covering both europe and asia nations bordering the caspian sea have signed a historic agreement after more than two decades of talks russia azerbaijan iran kazakhstan and turkmenistan the five countries surrounding the world's largest body of landlocked water have reached a diplomatic breakthrough on trade security and environmental issues president putin called the summit a milestone event adding that the accord limits military presence in the caspian sea to zones close to the shore at the end of the summit the leaders released baby sturgeon into the water as a mark of friendship and solidarity. that's

a recap of just some of the stories that shaped this past week and that's all for me as well but if you're not my colleague you know neil will be here at the top the hour. when lawmakers manufactured them sentenced to public wealth. when the ruling classes protect themselves. with the famous merry go round. the one percent. we can all middle of the roots to. the real news is

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