going to use it as a weapon there is something russia pointed out in its official response again we have to state what was thought to be obvious despite our desire it's impossible to comment on statements made without any evidence and that are clearly created for public attention it's sad that a big international company that successfully worked for a long time in the russian market and has to be a part of the witch hunt now has invaded washington but microsoft insists the threat is there and oh how convenient already has a solution on stand by microsoft account god will be provided for free to come pains and candidates it will alert them of potential threats and educate how to keep the network secure so a threat of no threat microsoft has nothing to lose but this new product of theirs won't market itself. the syrian army appears to be gearing up for an offensive on the country's last major rebel stronghold it leaves the battle for the enclave that

would mark the final stage of the conflict if assad's forces manage to retake the or it will bring almost the entire country back under government control however ahead of the campaign many western media outlets have been doubling down on the narrative against damascus with some saying assad's forces are certain to inflict heavy civilian casualties on the same media though failed to mention that more than sixty percent of the enclave is theirs to me to be under the control of hardline islamist groups that have been accused of war crimes and he's really trying to take some calls from. these you augur a few of the syrian civil war has strong it's now pretty much about this part of the country the northwest basically here in and around it is where you'll find all the armed rebel groups the ones still putting up a real fight no wonder getting hold of this area would be the ultimate success for damascus five days after multiple air strikes hit this one. quiet neighborhood

prophets killing thousands of people shattering whatever illusion of safety that may have existed if you listen to this c.n.n. piece and get the impression if the province had been a peaceful oasis till showered by those bombs how about telling the viewers about the dicey melting pot it actually is the syrian army has been on a mission to win back land those rebels or even internationally recognized terrorists who stood in their way were given two options take out the white flag or get a one way ticket to it no kidding some were moved there on buses and that's when the real mess began instead of teaming up various groups and went to war with each other and let's not forget some of the mightiest organizations running the show their moderates. h. t. s. or high yet to. arguably the most powerful and hair raising the very same

people who used to be known as moose row or syria's al qaida branch and if that name doesn't ring a bell just picture nine eleven or any other bloody carnage that took responsibility for. this is quite a trio to those who've heard of nor aldin. likely associate them with the beheading of a palestinian boy on camera they've also been blamed for torturing journalists and aid workers jaish al islam paraded kate's hostages through the damascus suburbs they once controlled only to use them as human shields later this group along with . was firmly on the john kerry's terrorist list when he was in charge of the state department we've seen pictures we've heard testimony of shocking crimes committed

by our by book by joshua. by al-shabaab it seems even london a staunch ally of some rebel groups has lost patients britain won't send any more cash to fighters an adlib as it says in the times newspaper u.k. diplomats have admitted the remaining rebel areas are falling into the grip of the hottest t.v. giant sky news came up with a teaser for their exclusive report from ad lib province on twitter but online many warned by and the media is attempts to portray that place as just a rebel held clave so the question is if libya's mainly ruled by al qaida who gave sky news the exclusive access there are not rebels there. which rebels did you get access to perhaps they've seen this reporting tactic once

before during the siege of syria's economic hub aleppo activists say close to one hundred children have been killed in the beast in rebel held areas of aleppo. battle districts of rebel held east of the unable to convince moscow to stop bombing civilians all they talked about was how civilians and moderate opposition fighters were being slaughtered by assad. the russians there was no mention of the hottest though and there since something our reporter saw with their own eyes. we're in the al assad. and the rebels are pushing into aleppo again. just beyond that you're into the rebel held parts of aleppo that is the black flag of nusra. brainchild in the syrian civil war. it is though time after

time after time. a year ago we had to. what we had. always black and white legal regime again. that enjoyed killing. obviously a child who is the ocean of a complete reality. a more news after a short break watching our two international. seemed wrong but all we all just don't. get to see

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welcome back this is international now an american journalist has published a new investigation exposing washington's efforts to interfere with the internal affairs of countries around the world and undermine rival governments max blumenthal went to an event organized by the national endowment for democracy it's a nonprofit ngo that was founded in one thousand nine hundred eighty three and is supported by both the democratic and republican parties currently operates in more than ninety countries the national endowment for democracy says its work aims to help non-governmental groups promote democracy in those places and blumenthal couldn't help but notice some parallels. right i covered the ceremony because these organizations are doing exactly what congress accuses russia funded media outlets control farms of doing in the united states to interfere in other country's

politics and with foreign money. the only difference is they do it openly and in the name of spreading freedom. are two spoke to the journalist behind that report max blumenthal he told us more about his findings so once again. i'd like to express our sincere gratitude to bipartisan. support and also u.s. congress people as well and u.s. citizens french and me we are doing this work with the u.s. citizens tax americans have no idea that they're funding an organization that's explicitly dedicated to meddling in other countries affairs interfering in elections toppling often democratically elected leaders and spreading public relations campaigns to sow chaos against countries that resist washington's agenda but here you have kind of open acknowledgement from this korean activist who is

behind the transitional justice working group which is responsible for a lot of what congress states and knows about north korea's suppose it human rights violations so basically the united states is paying for its own findings to ramp up sanctions and hostility against north korea and what's really interesting about this event that i attended in capitol hill is that it was timed to coincide with the trump him summit and it was essentially a u.s. government backed event undermining a u.s. government initiative to foster peace between north and south korea and that to me seems like almost and then a form of internal interference you think that the national endowment for democracy . if there is a peace treaty that they should cease funding civil society groups that seek a transition or. change you know i think i don't know that that's what they do but i do know that they promote human rights wherever they and and i mean for example

if russia were funding civil society groups inside the us i'm not going into the high percentage i should put to work they do i think it's pretty obvious i mean two things are going on there first of all you have. these activists and organizations that are funded by the national endowment for democracy the us regime change arm in south korea who are dedicated to regime change in north korea really worried that the money is going to stop rolling in from washington if there is a peace treaty so basically conflict is an entire industry and it's part of this fake human rights and democracy promotion industry so pelosi wanted to duck that issue and then the other issue she wants to duck is the sheer hypocrisy of supporting an organization that funds civil society groups and opposition media to topple governments and so chaos and sovereign countries while complaining that for example this network r t does that in the united states and that's exactly what nancy

pelosi and her colleagues in congress do every day when confronted with the issue there's nothing they can do but deflect and run away as palosi did. a lot of what we do today was done covertly twenty five years ago by the cia it's even more the case since the color revolution model has been introduced. and what the ne d. does is what the cia might have done to salvador allende in she lay but they do so overtly and therefore avoid a lot of the scrutiny from congress it looks like they're funding democracy and legitimate protests but they're directing their resources exclusively against countries that resist washington's economic and political agenda it's an extension of the cia but it seems like it's pushing human rights and things that americans can get behind and that's why they receive so little scrutiny from the public it's very clever actually. around two hundred fifty protesters at the university of

north carolina at chapel hill pulls down a controversial confederate statue on monday night one hundred five year old monument known as silent sam had long been seen as a symbol of white supremacy. record nine hundred thirteen it commemorated those who died fighting for the slave holding confederate states in the american civil war the monument had polarized opinion on campus for decades and had been vandalized in the past although many saw it as racist and offensive others argued it was part of the south's heritage and should therefore have been preserved. on the university for its part condemning the toppling of the statue as unlawful and dangerous but did acknowledge the monuments of nature at least one person was reportedly arrested during the demonstration and police are investigating the act of vandalism incident forms part of a growing backlash against confederate symbols across the country.

political activist anthony at rogers right and conservative radio host david perkins joined us to talk about the implications of the move and how society should deal with the vestiges of the confederation period. they're abandoning the historical context they're forgetting why those statues stand there who it was that put them there what the thinking was at the time and what the statues represent the history that led up to this or that person being remembered in a statute these statues are a continuation of that history of white supremacy that quite frankly this nation was stolen on slashdot or we're talking about symbols that we're seeing couldn't place really to fight for an oppressive system there was chattel slavery that regulated black people as an human as property what was the history of that coin is

that statue blue peter it wasn't just a simple we love him he's racist he's a southerner he's a general in the civil war he's a k.k.k. guy he was racist they put that statue up because they were racism he was racist and they wanted to remember him in the context of everyone being racist together that's hyper simplified and stupid and ignorant of history why don't we cure and work evil on the right talking about the slavery that's happening right here so to say that we found that far along i don't think that you can say that you have a president who has incited violence against people of color whose dog whistles at racism have become. warrants which have led to people like our sister on heather being killed in charlottesville last year on why don't we see conservatives talking about that hate why don't we see conservatives going up against a president who has literally under you talk about prudence when you're more concerned with a statue then you are n.f.l. players having the rights it's need to stand up to reece's the white supremacy that

run this country everything that happens here in the public square in public view is political those young people believe it or not do not come up with this plan on their own it isn't a spontaneous organic demonstration it's a political plan involving street activity designed yet. to divide us because there is an election coming up in just a couple of months of the term election year where all congressmen and one third of senators are up for reelection it's not divisible at all to the top of your presser bob what this is is forcing people to look at something to have two or three symbols but white supremacy when they're going to school black and brown women so on their currency to see white men who say machinery against their insistence who say she kind of each that to me it's a visit and not talking about it is that this is a. there are concerns that

a large number of child slaves trafficked from vietnam and china could be working on cannabis farms in london this comes as the figures disclosed under a freedom of information requests showed the scale of the illegal drugs cultivation . the high number of cannabis farms across london and trafficking of vietnamese children to work in them is extremely worrying potentially thousands of children and young people are being trafficked from vietnam and exploited by ruthless criminal gangs. hundreds of cannabis farms have been discovered in the british capital in recent years and specifically that number is said to be at three hundred fourteen that's one farm every two days from january twenty sixth in until april this year and of course what makes these matters worse is certainly concerns about who it is that's being to work at these farms or factories as they're described we do know that experts from campaign groups have been raising red flags about this

issue for at least a decade now with headlines circulating in the british press on and off throughout recent years trying to raise attention to this issue however experts are continuing to say that large numbers of children and teens from countries like vietnam and other places are trafficked to work out of these kinds of farms and indeed this is being described as extremely worrying it's being said that over two thousand suspected trafficking victims were referred to officials just last year and that's a number that's being described as the highest on record and one of the concerns that containers have on this issue is that oftentimes these people when discovered working at these farms could be treated as criminals as opposed to victims and this is certainly seen as a very serious issue and we have sent out requests to the home office to the metropolitan police and anti trafficking groups such as anti-slavery international so we will be certainly updating this report once we hear back from them on this

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uncool videos and so on with the roughly stirring up and. down more on string. t.v. . a water tank delivers drinking water to this village once a week. but it's rations only. some for seven days that's meant to cut back household needs as well. there are no other source is open water anywhere nearby. clear.

that there are not i'm not overhead on that what's it was that my house was down to really if i was out on it i need to find out what. the layout of other determined but out of nothing to go on it was i want to leave it up to let the matter to be begin to get at it to tell you about the long look at coming home either you want to get a restaurant or not that is definitely now down i got it i got the funniest song at the bernabeu niggly is a minute later find out if you're get it about it that he be here you're not about it want to hear it i got out and you get outside and make it understood that i knew it was new it was so funny but that's all it was the work i had that a new company did out of the war does disability the suddenly under does not mean one with a joy to be doing it with it was a bad compared. to this is one of

thousands of indian villages where we want to use the most precious commodity. according to scientists in just fifteen is our planet will suffer a global crisis the most devastating one humankind has ever faced everyone will be affected. but. that. was a. good thing. she is carrying a week's supply of water on her head this is her chef from the tanker.

up. on. i lay out in that room alone the muscle and i was on the lawn when you loomed up before i finally was the no so great and got up early now but i let on that one kid got a point about. the result of that one and we added i think winner of the family. the real good i mean the goody yeah but i believe the bradley family of the fundraiser would have to be abit gather data savvy i don't get that. but even the best part is that he really would have previously given any of that part and found that out in longer any. people living in india's hearts and average regions figured out a way of collecting monsoon waters in specially created pools they use them until

the next rainy season but the monsoon has been late for the past two years and only water was used up a long time ago. by the. way you know the. they used to be a pond here but the local farmers have built mounds around their fields to keep the water for themselves rather than let it run into the common reservoir. and so the reservoir which is used to serve the village all year round is now only harmful by the time the hot in spring months arrive it's already dried out. she doesn't have anyone to look after her baby at home so she takes him to work with her. with other women she's working on deepening the pond. to link more to it

once it's finally right in this. one hundred twenty rupees a day. they need this money to buy water. the villages have been waiting for over a months for the big rains to come and for free water to start flowing from the skies but only in very. bad. nobody's. looking at you at least. i think it's kind of heatstroke just like. it's. really over the east coast the weather will be a little out of the water with circulars you can get on

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it is just a little giggle don't know what do you lost. your purse. your teeth. couldn't. find. such earlier there's a new that cyclists i'll tell you that the sunday. you can find out like i. don't i know the saga of the logo i. gots first wife was spending far too much time getting water and she didn't have any energy left to take care of the kids so he decided to take

a second wife he reasoned that his first wife would be able to mind the children and keep house while the second would be free to fetch water. but his second wife turned out to be a sickly woman unfit for water duty so his plan failed this is how the third wife appeared on the scene. every morning the three wives set out on a water fishing trip and it's a lengthy business the line is long and it's best to be among the first to show up . these days. as quick as they used to be so they have some queuing to do that with. dad though i. gather oh well oh i thought. so. unfeeling felt

so awful awful i'm numb but i never. did. see it you know when you did something so. far that what i did i. was working i. was not. going to run and if i miss it a little time to go it is about it that makes them less comics i'm fulfilled without the smoke i mean there's a poor old boy who does not the plan there to mind about i don't know what that they. believe is going to. come.