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 tool so 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 union movement which techie label to terror groups organizing an attempt to. sooner or later the united states will make a choice either to. either the. country walkers. or how about the american officials here they are a nix tree miscreant then wish i had the coke the headquarters of the republic party there is a viable opposition to the rule of the. and that opposition is centered in this room today. and let's not forget how america stood alongside the afghan wish i had

been in its battle against the soviet union only to say that group to form into al-qaeda the people we are fighting today we funded twenty years ago. does america dealing with 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 own standing. meanwhile president trump has doubled steel tariffs on turkey amid a diplomatic feud and the e.u. is also counting the cost of u.s. trade restrictions the german economy minister has voiced his alarm saying the u.s. tariffs are causing far reaching damage international relations professor peter shergold so believes the u.s. is using trade as a foreign policy tool. but he got mrs dyott off the trumpet ministration and expressed no appearances in public affairs the rationale behind something that he

is trying to wage economic war against even against us and by the doing this off. threatening them into a lawyer and loyalty just obedience and partnership dominated by the united states i think that trump understands military means to me safety do not solve problems anymore you have to do it indirectly by by economic political or financial means and this is what you get this county is playing out i think because this is a separate seat we have to get answers for and i don't see it's a moment apart from the public appearances of europeans no read and so a conscious strategy. dozens of families are in mourning in yemen after a saudi airstrike hit a school bus on thursday killing twenty nine children u.s. state department called on the coalition to investigate but underlined 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 and the data for targeting to the saudis so that. sorry no lie wrong is that wrong sorry of these ladies every hear 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 that the extent of the children's injuries and please be warned the video we're about to show you was upsetting the strike hit the north of the country which is under the control of rebels saudi arabia launched an intervention against them in two thousand and fifteen latest u.n. data says the majority of people killed in the conflict died as a result of strife that's over ten thousand for fatalities the red cross told r.t.

but the situation in yemen is catastrophic. we have received twenty nine identified these are children up to fourteen years old and forty to 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 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 we see civilian casualties we i mean. this is just horrific. saudi arabia says it will launch a probe into the incident and also defended its actions. 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. one man in southern russia has been sentenced to eight years in prison on terrorism charges after she followed her husband to syria or to his monday night question of i went to meet her.

the clock is taking 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 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 it was no bombing 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 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. 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 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 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 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 idea 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 repatriate the families of men who

went to fight with islam it 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 they will only meet them more harsh i believe it's wrong to put them behind bars for now that good at leaves with her mother in dagestan she has to report. to the police every month and can't leave the region and stiff over 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 sing. to go 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 climbing. and now he's sad because let's go to the merry go round let's go to the seaside now we go everywhere dumpty now we're going everywhere. mommy is hard and so my lovely home safe. was you. imagine a question of dagestan. there are two other episodes in that series and they are available for you on our you tube channel and they tell the story of russian sister sound in an iraqi orphanage and people desperate for news of family members of the

joint islamic state. israel and gaza are in the grip of a deadly wave of violence the israeli military carried out dozens of airstrikes over the past week in response to rocket fire from militants three palestinians were killed including a pregnant woman. in one of the israeli bombing raids a cultural center in gaza city hit leaving eighteen people injured. or are as he was.

quoting to the israeli military one hundred eighty rockets were fired from gaza into southern israel seven israeli civilians were injured in response israel bombed one hundred fifty militant targets in gaza. tensions are also boiling over at the border fence between israel and gaza after four months of weekly demonstrations. or. or.

or. social media giants have been in the spotlight over the last few days numerous accounts belonging to libertarian and conservative figures in the u.s. have been banned over allegations of 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 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 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 unfollowing your interests the man's profile is shut down or 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 bans to it's not about me it's not about the group of us who are 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 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 out of 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 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 be tracked down yep that covers just two of the twenty libertarian politician are the involved things social media has deviated from its original purpose. the idea of freedom of speech is a legal protection that says the government cannot restrict any freedom of speech it doesn't say whether or not private companies can and what facebook and twitter are doing are ok legally morally it is absolutely reprehensible morally as the leaders in communication twitter and facebook have a responsibility to encourage an open exchange of ideas not to give a huge buy 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 the what made these these media useful in their early days but today these media are not taking true to their early promise instead they are turning out to be just another tool of the status quo. large parts of china's guangdong province are under water after heavy downpours over the weekend according to local media two people have been killed in the floods and thousands have been forced to abandon their homes in massive operation is now underway to relocate them as you can see entire neighborhoods have been submerged and roads seemingly turned into rivers the flood has also affected several nearby provinces torrential rains are expected to continue until next wednesday on china's south east coast.

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america was never great was founded on the right in the murder of. nothing changed so we said in. response to these situations that we do in the ways. people get sad every day she is just sad people kill each other blood for killing children. how many still is just no way that people are going to just sit back and allow children to be shot down by 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 a reason. hello

and welcome to cross where all things are considered funeral of all across the western world a so-called melting pot is melting down immigration legal and illegal is probably the most contentious and divisive issue energizing voters in italy for example the right and left have united on the issue in germany the government may collapse and trump has made this his signature cause can the status quo be sustained. cross talking immigration i'm joined by my guest john laughlin in paris he's a historian and specialist in international affairs we have roland benedict or he is the co-director of the center for advanced studies eurex research and in her god

that we have niemeyer he is a german journalist and author all right gentlemen cross talk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want and i always appreciated and i got to john first in paris and i just kind of kicked this whole discussion off by an observation i've had over the last few weeks and months particularly with the events going on in the united states it appears that virtue signaling his replaced policy and debate because all we're supposed to do is to think emotionally about this and not use our heads and i think this is what the establishment media and establishment parties want us to think that way to address this issue and if we stop birches signaling maybe we could come up with some solutions your thoughts john. well there's a lot of propaganda involved isn't there i mean we've just seen in the events on the mexican border these very propaganda. pictures of children a supposedly being separated from their parents i'm sure your viewers will remember

the picture of the poor little kurdish boy on a turkish beach the dead body of a little boy he was a victim of the migration crisis and the broadcast of his photo was used to elicit sympathy for the plight of migrants and it worked very well but when boy of the same age was killed in a terrorist attack in barcelona the policy was not to show his dead body out of respect for him and for his family so we can see that these images are being used to drive a political agenda and that is the problem the problem is that this immigration is being driven by a political agenda it is being driven by a political agenda of european states who are demographically weak the demographic pyramid is inverted there are more old people the young people and for many years and decades now economists and policymakers have decided that in order to rectify this demographic problem in europe we need immigration we need to bring in people

from outside in order to pay our pensions and that is the immigration is. and as long as that ideology remains in place as long as the ideology is believed by these people as it is most notably in germany then i'm afraid the problem will continue ok roland you know the thing is is that this this is approach with open borders but if you believe that there are open borders then there are no borders to defend i think that's the paradox of what's happening in the western world you want to have open borders let people come in but then you can't defend your border when it's necessary go ahead roland. well. look there is no such thing like a political entity or a community without borders never in history and the unique borders lie because you have to define the limits of what we did see a few laws and that is what the lefties hulet frankfurt school you're going to have

them are says what their system series says so borders that something good they're not something better when we had the in europe. city kids once very strongly left their story into it political correctness really believed in present politics on new phoenician of identity and for example descending group that ended the excelled of the european consortium on political research areas and in brussels would say today is that we need to define our identity as europeans much more in our european way right and in a less exaggerated cosmopolitan way because we can't live without borders because if you have no borders you have no rule of law and order finish and you know where you lost the valley and we are not ok let me go to you i mean ok we have a lot of consensus here the media is for open borders the political class is for open borders but you know what the voters are for open borders and we're seeing it

in election after election i mean isn't it time that democracy be recognized again in the european union i mean we have the austrians we have the italians we have also a new car i could use term fifth column in germany right now that it's waking up to what voters want to and they're running on these issues go ahead ralph. yes of course it is true that bordeaux myth i must say of medicine i am calling myself a best sign is at stake because it has not worked out and be left behind those people who already live in our country and we did not take care of our job refugees had nothing to do with the fact do passions them up good enough anymore as was due to privatization of the pension scheme or that of age or som of good enough or that the rent is too high for apartments those are not due to the refugee crisis but it

came up with people are realizing that ever left behind and they said hang on a minute part of us i am as well so this is but a leftist made a key mistake in the recent years and especially given two thousand and fifteen happened mrs merkel once and called it a decision said be a shock to us to manage it down and people said why don't we manage with ourselves first of course there is a right wing and nationalistic. parties are coming up because they take voter sentiment serious leftists to do that and especially to germany baptists have failed completely and that they stood amount of border as like. there were no borders and no states which is of course not true there are states and beneath states of course and otherwise we have a mickey no one wants to live in imo you must think those of us also brainstormed america government because she lost cultural journey you know the the interesting

thing is that with these waves of migrants or asylum seekers who are never term you want because it seems to me most of them that's majority of for economic immigrants here but you know they don't really come in on the layer jets do they to germany they don't mean they don't fly into airports they kind of walk through the continent you know that's what makes me feel really bad for the. the italians ok i mean if germany wants those people fine with it's not being done the right way even according to e.u. law that's ok so i mean if the germany cannot be that the decision maker of immigration in europe that is intensely and i democratic and against the rules of the european union go ahead john you know there's no doubt that the rules are being broken because indeed germany by saying that a million refugees are welcome and then by trying to offload them onto other members of the european union worlds indeed breaking refugee law and breaking the

european union's own rules that's for sure i'm in strong agreement with what roland said about borders and the need to protect them but i have a different conclusion i disagree that this is a european problem and indeed i think that the well that this can be solved with european measures and i think that the the reflex position of european leaders which is to say that we need to european solution to this problem is precisely wrong it is precisely the fact that we have a european union with a borderless internal space the showing an area which has caused the migration problem in the first place i first visited the song at camp near cali in the late one nine hundred ninety s. the migration crisis that we're talking about now didn't start in two thousand and fifteen it started in the one nine hundred ninety s. when italy joined the schengen zone and from that moment onwards the borders of the

mediterranean were on the english channel here and there is a direct relation of cause and effect and what we saw in two thousand and sixteen after hungary and and the other countries built fences to close off the balkan route is that national solutions are the ones that solve this problem not european ones and we are now i hope seeing the same result. with the italians who are taking matters into their own hands nationally defending their national territory and it's only by doing that with because they have that the navy they have the ability to do it that this solution will end prior to the imposition of national solutions the habits walls and it's a very bad structural problem in the e.u. it was that countries would simply let the migrants in like greece and italy and then send them north to germany in other words there were there were bigger the neighbor policies which is a structural problem in the you so i think we need to finish with this idea that the solution is european the problem european is.