you an increase in confrontation in the middle east should the united states be sent a similar signal that this is not the kind of behavior that. its european allies welcome on the international arena. leaders around the world including from our closest allies have condemned this decision and the very fact that europe has now shifted from negotiating with the united states to negotiating with iran is a strong rebuke to the decision that president trump made i would i describe president obama's leadership on sanctions with iran with russia with other countries a little bit differently from what you did i don't think it's a question about germany making a moral stand or a value judgment what i would say is that we were able to convince countries around the world that on a variety of problems we had a plan and a way forward and that if countries were willing to suffer a certain amount of economic dislocation in the short term we can solve real problems and so in the iran case we were able to convince the government of russia

china india as well as our closest allies to stick with us and we got to the g.c. . and some of russia's policies we were able to convince as you say germany and other european countries to suffer some real economic harm because they thought we had a plan i think the problem now is that the united states is proving that we cannot be trusted with this tool and so the chances of getting even our closest allies let alone a nontraditional partners like russia like china decide with us i think they're they're much much reduced i don't know if your heard this but chancellor merkel said the other day that you're of can no longer rely on the united states in order to protect itself and i would argue that the more pressing. question right now is whether your of can really take it for granted that the united states will not lash out at europe economically do you think this rat of secondary sanctions is real do you think the united states' good. full force against europe. if they decide to

continue trading with iran provided of course if iran is in compliance with the j.c.b. already so the threat of secondary sanctions is very rule real basically this idea that you know if you're a non us company you've got to choose do you want to do business with iran or do you want to do business with the united states and for most companies that's going to be an easy choice and for most companies the threat is sufficient the u.s. doesn't really have to do much in force mint in order to get a lot of big companies to say you know what this isn't worth the risk but european governments do have tools available to them to seek to counter the secondary sanctions threat and that's the question i think that's going to be on the table when europe negotiates with iran with russia with china with the remaining participants in the g c p a way to see if there's a way to salvage a sort of a rump version of the g. c.p.o. a and and if europe were to try to deploy those tools then you could be in a situation of some confrontation government to government confrontation between the u.s. and our allies but but we're still

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know a little bit of that what's the joke about. welcome back to worlds apart bit jarrett. former u.s. state department court the nadir for ironically implementations mr blank just before the break we talked about the european reaction to trump's decision and let me ask you a few questions about russia as you may imagine many people in moscow very very skeptical of all the speculations about trump supposed collusion with the kremlin but given where we are with the iranian nuclear issue trumps rebuke of both the american obligations and to your european allies don't you wish

moscow had some leverage sumber of poor with they said ministration well the issue . on the collision question i'll just say. we don't know whether or not laws what specific laws might have been violated in the united states we don't know what president trump himself knew what is out in the public so obviously demonstrates that the trump campaign colluded with russian actor is in a way that is deeply disturbing for for america i don't want to make you have this discussion about the russian collision but what is out in the public at this point of time is the indictment of thirteen russian nationals who tried to do something on social media who have horrible english whose posts have been viewed by you know in some cases zero people so i think you guys are blowing it out of proportion but anyway let's stick to the iran and the trump tower meeting and the payments to michael cohen's accounts i mean the question is not whether or not the efforts were successful i think the point is that the the public documentation shows the trump

campaign tried but as your question do i wish that russia had leverage over trump president shop i guess what i would say is this i remember a time not so long ago when i was working on afghanistan pakistan iran in the obama administration that we were able to compartmentalize our agreements and disagreements with russia so there were some areas where we had a very serious decision. joining us in the weekly on r.t. international sorry to interrupt that program just breaking out of that show to bring you some breaking news coming out of florida united states where police are responding to reports of a mass shooting now right now the reports we have is up to four people may have been killed there are other injuries of course as well the incident comes during a video game tournament inside and to tame a complex in jacksonville in that state we're going to bring you more on that

developing story of course as that comes in minute by minute so let's go back to our weekly stories now facebook's upping the ante in its crusade against fake news it's gone on another buying spree in a bid to stop about the phenomenon and thereby limit efforts to sway political opinion in a patrol has more. thanks for joining us millie but franco with your latest news in the world of social media facebook and twitter have gotten rid of suspicious accounts schooling fakes and propaganda from iran the troll factories not only after the minds of the americans but users all over the world it's claimed to be run by iran's government media. not us at the by. some of them through. facebook already enables users to check if they've been exposed to russian bots and trolls how many trolls does it take to incite i've evolution scores of

so-called russian bots took over twitter and facebook well this facebook slash twitter online police rate is an actual news story this week yeah you can take plenty of the earlier reports replace the word russia with iran and get pretty much identical stuff all right speaking of facebook this time it banned six hundred twenty five pages traced to iran and then unknown number of pages linked to russia it just wouldn't work if russia didn't get mentioned and the reason for this verdict is we removed multiple pages groups and accounts for coordinated in authentic behavior on facebook and instagram what kind of sin is this in authentic behavior let's hear from zuck speak will they use similar tactics by creating networks of accounts to mislead others about who they were and what they were doing we ban this kind of behavior because we want people to be able to trust

the connections they make on facebook the issue of trusting what pops out at you from the internet it's almost as old as i am. ask her where we should meet. it seems like you're chatting with somebody just like yourself not only even if they show a picture of themselves it may not really be who they say they are it could be somebody dangerous i'm not trying to say criminals who take advantage of online platforms shouldn't be banned or prosecuted but dear facebook the way the internet and social networks have worked for years is that users can be who they want to be online who said they must stick to what someone thinks is authentic behavior what if i want to be an elf or santa or a real news hound and my now going to be blamed for an authentic behavior and get a red card sooner or later i. universe

i come to the us for all the things they can do i say because of all the things they can well it looks like online platforms will force us to adjust to a new reality where a step away from your genuine behavior may lead to a ban or some distinguished fact checkers will tell you who you should or shouldn't trust so next time when he choose to complain about a post online think twice what if the fact checkers disagree in fact whatever you do they're better think twice. i mean while there's also concern over facebook's latest tool to tackle fake news which will involve evaluating users based on how trustworthy they are online it's in addition to the site's existing efforts to stem the spread of misinformation now the idea is to protect users from those who

indiscriminately flag up fake news reel and vice versa the system will be used even to predict which articles need fact checking based on a user's history of posting stories despite facebook boosting efforts to get rid of fake news there are still a few big questions about this latest method like which uses or which countries will be part of the new fake news initiative it's also not known how the evaluations will affect individual users on the site or how the process will be monitored it's put facebook in the media firing line though the social media giant insists it's not as bad as it sounds we developed a process to protect against people indiscriminately flagging news is fake and attempting to game the system the reason we do this is to make sure that our fight against misinformation is as effective as possible now the c.e.o. of online privacy company crypto hippi outlined the ethical implications of

facebook's policies i think it's political pressure i think it really comes down to that they are putting themselves in the position of mediating human relationships which is first of all a very unhealthy thing to do and it's something that they really are grossly. incompetent to do the users primarily will not know what is being done to them and they will be manipulated in all sorts of ways we don't know what kind of ways. talk of donald trump's possible impeachment took center stage in the u.s. media this week amid a scandal over two of his former associates. going to be impeached with this i think the beginning has to be set and mark right now and wolf we're in a watergate moment but there is i think a lot for the president to fear well it's been discussed rather the discussions about peace when it comes off the trumps x.

campaign chairman paul manifold was found guilty of numerous fraud charges his ex lawyer michael cohen also pleaded guilty to presidential campaign finance violations he allegedly paid hush money to trump's mistresses is a lot of the president in hot water has implicated to him as the orchestrator of the whole scheme but president the democrats are desperately keen to rake up as much muck as possible in the midterm elections or there's muck. all that muck you can and as much as possible so the general public will be influenced by this in the run up through the november elections. the special counsel probe was initially launched to investigate alleged collusion with russia so far it's exposed on fraud and election campaign violations take the right here in which we got our big company where is the closure you know they're still looking for closure where is the closure finds

a coalition the fact that they haven't come up with anything that proves there is no russian collusion or they've wasted two years to find fairly pedestrian violations sure if you went into any of the campaigns including hillary clinton's and spent two years with an investigation team in the grand juries i'm sure you'd find a lot more than miss filings in maybe some violations of campaign finance laws. back to michael cohen now legal fees equal big costs the former lawyer has asked for donations to cover his defense is paying off too he's raised more than a hundred fifty thousand dollars in three days as credible reports it's not always bad business to be dismissed by the president and donald trump was a host on the reality t.v. show the apprentice he really took the show's iconic catchphrase to heart. by. now that donald trump is the president getting fired by him isn't exactly

a career setback take the case of michael cohen this is michael collins lawyer urging people to support michael cohen with an online fundraiser for hoping that he will get some help from the american people so we can continue to be the audience is that they don't appear ready to donate some people might be laughing but the cash is flowing and then there's peter struck the disgraced former f.b.i. agent who sent to trump messages to his mistress now he's raising money online he's already raised four hundred forty three thousand dollars half a million dollars on a go fund me just for hating donald trump those cancer patients on that side that are like hey we hate him too can you pay for my treatments like no you really hate him we could tell and then there's andrew mackay the f.b.i. director who was fired without benefits now mccain has already managed to raise five hundred thirty nine thousand dollars this issue of him raising some money in

order to pursue this you know that's one issue it's an ethnic zero issue it's it's something that you know doesn't reflect good character and if you want to get more creative than crowdfunding you can always write a book i'm a rose i'm an adult newman's new book on hinged tells stories from inside the white house thirty four thousand copies were sold within the first ten days and before on the rose it was james komi the fired f.b.i. director now he wrote a. book about donald trump and within the first week six hundred thousand copies flew off the shelf writing books about donald trump is a smart move this year every single title on the new york times nonfiction best seller list has been about donald trump so if donald trump yells his natori is catchphrase that you don't sweat it it could be a ticket to making more money than he paid you to begin with what people have to realize one of the about a donald trump has been more. a source of jobs for more

people who have done nothing more than become or exist as a disgruntled either former trump fan or employer associate i mean right now it is a cottage industry to see how much you can hate donald trump be trade donald trump and cash in in the mean time i have never seen any thing like this and obsession a fixation and obsessive compulsive disorder a focus to big way should i can think of no other way no no psychological construct that can best describe this unnatural and unhealthy. focused rage and not just. that well let me clarify not over a particular policy program platform vision idea no it's

just him. well let's just return now to that breaking news story coming out of the us they to florida where police are responding to a mass shooting incident police reporting multiple fatalities and injuries at this stage early media reports that have been verified of course yet. they claim four people have been killed at the incident occurred during a video game tournament inside and the tame and complex in jacksonville shortly after the first reports of its i can merge to use as posted a video online of the moment of the shooting. that is all be hard for sure is that it's not a time out. thank . you.

for the news we're getting in right now from jacksonville's police this appears to be an official statement at this point saying that the shooter has died at the scene of the incident area still on lockdown the police have said it's not safe they've made every effort to ensure people stay locked all the marketplace but the news so far at least from the police is that the shooter has been neutralized we'll have more information of course as that comes in over the next few minutes. also on sunday russia's defense ministry has warned of an imminent imminent provocation being prepared in syria allegedly one that will see terrorists stage a chemical attack and lay the blame on the assad government a strike on k. frazetta using poison lead missiles is planned within the next forty eight hours that some players outside the region are preparing yet more provocations on syrian soil involving chemical weapons with the aim of destabilizing the situation there

and undermining the positive dynamics of the ongoing peace process artie's don quarter has been across the story he's got more information. well the latest report comes from residents from the province in syria and they say that a group of civilians is being trained in a nearby area called to carry out the aftermath of a chemical attack to be blamed on the assad government now eight barrels of chlorine have already been apparently delivered there and the white helmets are ready to perform a fake rescue basically as the ministry says they want to send footage to arab in english speaking media outlets and we asked the white house once for their comment on this on their involvement in the situation but they have yet to respond now muska has raised concerns not just about the possible actions of those on the ground has that yeah absolutely just a few days ago quite out of the blue actually john bolton said that washington would be willing to respond very strongly if it thinks that the assad government

potentially used chemical weapons let's hear what he had to say we now see plans for the syrian regime to resume offensive military activities. obviously. event the possibility that it may use chemical weapons again if the syrian regime used chemical weapons we will respond very strongly now interestingly enough around the same time as john bolton statement the u.s.s. the solomons was deployed to the persian gulf and according to the russian defense ministry this is a destroyer class ship armed with cruise missiles and the ministry also claims that the u.s. the u.k. and france might be prepared for a strike there now it providence what is the situation that at the moment who controls well it's the last terrorist stronghold in syria after the syrian government's victory in and around damascus they cut

a peace deal where saving thousands of civilian lives but the tradeoff was safe passage for the remaining terrorists in the area they were sent in buses to adlib now for terrorist groups now control that area the most. powerful being. formally known as ties to al-qaeda and the others are jaish al islam and. now they're not exactly unified they started warring putting thousands of civilians in danger there's already reports regularly coming out of the area of beheadings caging people and even using people as human shields and other reports are suggesting that some of these groups are gathering for a final push against government areas hoping to stage both a chemical attack and to gain support from the west now the situation is made even more fragile because this this specific area was deemed a deescalation zone after negotiations between russia turkey and iran so with these reports pointing to western intervention the reorganization of terrorist groups

it's hard to see how any. deescalation would happen any time soon. after escaping islamic state imprisonment fleeing to germany a girl from iraq's. as she came face to face with a. rapist not once but twice in the european country we spoke to us who told us she still lives in fear. we were standing seven girls captured by fighters in taken to syria the worst time in my life was moment when i still separated me from my family they took us away from our mothers fathers brothers they even of adopted eight year old girls they tortured raped sold us into slavery we were looking for gasland anything sharp knife scissors when we couldn't find anything to kill ourselves with . one of thousands of girls and slaves. across the middle east. i.

had them in america that they're going to. chill on monday. without an invaluable bush but i. passed on by the can add though that you want it bad. you know now is not. the love out of my lower level in the outer world bank of someone. is now nineteen years old she was captured by eisel four years ago after several months so she managed to escape and flee to germany once there though she claimed she again but had told mental pakistan much of what germany was willing to take in

one thousand women who had excused from i went there to forget what i'd been through i saw a boo as i was going home after school i couldn't believe my torture could have found out where i lived the next time i saw him was two years later a car pulled up beside me he asked me if i was and i said i didn't know him or schlock how is it possible that my rapist is living here and has the same rights as me my boss called the police and told them what he looked like and they scratched his face and it looked the same i told them there'd be no other witnesses i told them i'd never imagine the possible for an idle fighter to be in germany however the police were unable to trace his name. german prosecutors say the information provided by a schlock wasn't sufficient to identify the suspect fearing for his safety in germany should decide to move back home to iraq. i think i told my dad that the person who raped me was in germany that i didn't want to leave there no matter what my dignity is more important than being in germany i put my life in danger to keep

from myself to retain my dignity and you want me to stain germany you know when the one who was responsible for my misery is free in that country all i wanted was to be somewhere safe but after meeting him i was afraid the whole time that he heard me again so i couldn't stay there any more. muslim couple has been refused swiss citizenship all because of refusing. they did not shake hands with people of the opposite sex religious practice does not fall outside the law the constitution and equality between men and women prevails over bigotry of a couple was said to have shown a lack of respect for gender equality laws site also failed to prove their readiness to integrate into society however they have thirty days to launch an appeal back in twenty sixth in a similar case took place in sweden that was what a twenty four year old muslim woman refused to shake a male interviewers hand when she had gone for a job their meeting was abruptly terminated however far i heard one thousands in

compensation when sweden's labor court ruled it amounted to discrimination the incident split so sial media i've warned about this for years they immigrate into our countries and refuse to integrate and then use our laws against us to impose their religious laws they shouldn't come to a country and expect everything there to change according to what they want or don't want to do if you come to a country you should respect their culture it is racist it's common sense. this isn't a law this is just a customary procedure she's not obliged to follow a custom that's against her we just believe you don't have an argument good you can't force anyone to touch someone if they don't want to she wasn't rude the employer was rude. with the story gaining so much public attention we put the issue up the debates with independent journalist luke revi and vienna regional parliament member omar all right we. you see if you're an employer in sweden like the guy who

wanted to recruit a young interpreter and at interview this girl refuses to shake hands just difficulties to talk to him because he's a man because of our culture that doesn't work this guy doesn't fire her does not hire her and because of that isa blanche to pay four thousand euro to that girl one the swedes here that they say none of that here has a head that the lady in sweden smiled and made this question if someone is not shaking the hand but on the other side showing me that he's respecting me he's smiling in my face piece he's making i guess child like me it's not like you so everyone so all we also take the tension of this discussion away and try to find a way how we could deal respectfully with each other except think each other while they should stop talking about what specked when they come to europe they have

respect they have had respect for all the time but they should stop trying to influence society to attain what their bigotry insists is absolutely necessary there are some values these values that are space that have the freedom of speech the freedom of changing their faith the freedom to talk to have my own decision how i live but also the freedom of believing and the freedom of faith so these are values that are in europe we should be proud of it and we should fight to keep them this issue with this young woman refusing to shake hands with a man this is so very much happening everywhere and it's not emotional the way europeans react this cannot continue like that either they adapt and the accept the way we live and they live with us and shake hands like everybody else or else they can go back to that country and the problem is look at saying do i.