europe and it looks like it's once again going to be one of the biggest platforms causing division in europe as we head to elections just in eight months time the question is which side is going to win not we spoke to writer and political commentator john bricmont who feels anti immigrant sentiment is becoming more and more popular within the week michael should be worried about genius far more popular than it did in the colonies in france and of course all banning hunger you see the mo i mean old opposed to that in the elections are that well expect a large block of. cheese to get it did you see in france. i mean the. republicans are already taking the opportunity of having a very. discourse which is between equals because the family friends is not really my fancy diddy with them but not fans and he's not he's a descendent of mine and that's

a different question that he's on my guns are not that many it's a few hundred years there but the right is going to jump on that and i expect them to make in their minds finally with the x. national front of me just now that i'm in the national gathering or something like that. and and then they will probably win against michael on the left is not going to win and that's what they expect. the last stronghold of rebel and the terror groups in syria the northern province of italy but surrounded by government forces with a decisive battle looming the russian foreign minister sergey lavrov has warned of that the us seems to prefer a regime change to ridding the area of terrorists. but especially in your story we have the impression that u.s. threats against damascus aimed at preventing terrorist from being expelled that is not the first time the us no matter which administration has prioritised the telescope changing dissident regimes above the common goals of eradicating

terrorism and extremism we believe these egotistical unilateral political games are counterproductive we believe all the conflict should be sold multilaterally with open contacts between countries including regional countries. all right as tensions mount in italy but the russian center for syrian reconciliation says it has received intelligence on the delivery of toxic substances to the province and claims the materials. have been brought in with the help of the white helmets rescue group for use in a false flag attack russia has previously warned of militants are preparing to stage a chemical attack. comment on the potential escalation of the situation in libya. the stage is set for a final and it looks like a bloody battle the battle for adlib tens of thousands of islamists rebels from all over syria and the world against the syrian army and its allies no wonder

then that the stakes here like never before i q's ations provocation and chemical scandal it's not an even fight the syrian army is stronger which means jihad ists need all the help they can get from abroad. following the alleged goot a chemical attack russia's warning that rebels will try to stage as similar incident in egypt to draw the u.s. france and britain in get them to hit asaad again russia says an incident is imminent especially after the u.s. and allies jointly stated that they would act if it looks like as'ad launched

another chemical attack that's almost an invitation to do so says moscow it would suggest that now when the u.s. is steering the situation around we want to know how can damascus have chemical weapons if the u.s. france and great britain destroyed them last year you know what the us answers we never said that from states that chemical weapons provocation which is being prepared is aimed at keeping al nasra they're counting on using it against the so-called regime as they call it it's do or dive for the jihad ists rebels nowhere left to run nothing left to lose and their spot. says the west the gulf which have pumped billions upon billions of dollars into a cause that's on its last legs the mascot's and moscow a trying to work out a deal to reduce perhaps avoid the bloodshed but the job for it syria

russia adamant this swamp of terror and zealotry has no future at the. group this year this is the last place for the terrorists say from all points of view this abscess should be removed of course what everybody's fearful of is escalation given the us russian military buildup in the region everyone has a gun pointed at each other and given that this is it the final act of the syrian war the urge to shoot might just be overwhelming with a decisive battle looming and civilians are fleeing the area through humanitarian corridors set up by the syrian government and russian.

and i asked them then why did they get militants were holding and since hans to chance them it was cold in our counting minds their intensity of course and some of this humanitarian courage to is not something. that any i am from if the conditions were dire there the militants don't let anyone go we have scaped with just the clothes on our backs. all right more news coming up after a short break you're watching international. you

know. getting along with the greatest ally friend russia you know play good for the kids and you know if you open it up but there's other things in there while we proceed here in the first half i'll just see what let go.

or welcome back this is our team international now a palestine solidarity activists from norway claims israeli soldiers have shot her twice with rubber bullets and just one week she caught one of the incidents on camera. you know if your point tonight. you were asked by an elderly man if we could accompany him to get his car back that the israelis had taken as an economic shield so they had it in front of them there's nothing happening at the moment so we decided to go with them and leave or approaching the i.d.f. mian and then with our hands in the air and the postilion man he walked a little bit faster than up so he reached down and we held back and i think you can

see very clearly from the show the that i got my hands in near filming and there's no one around me when they shot me. solution or they shot me on purpose another person from crawford quadroon he was hit and i had not so long ago and he lost sight in one eye and news also unable to close his jaw i've been to the protests five four or five on four or five previous occasions so i knew they would be firing rubber coated steel bullets and sequence which they had before but always stayed to the side or at the back of the demonstrations on there as an observer to to witness what is happening so of course there is a risk when attending anything that's where the i.d.f. is christian fast claims she was first hit in the stomach even though she had her hands raised later in the same week hit on the ankle while rubber coated steel

bullets are seen as non-lethal the injuries they inflict can be severe particularly when fired at close range and the forty three year old activist has been supporting palestinian protesters over their claims that the land which they argue is occupied by israel. israeli army told r.t. foss had been standing among rioters at the time who had been violent towards its soldiers it says it will investigate the incident. adult trump has accused a google of bias of the us president claimed only negative coverage about him has been promoted and he has vowed to take action as also warned that facebook and twitter are quote taking advantage of our people google search results for trump news shows are reviewing the reporting of fake news media in other words they have it rigged for me and others so that almost all stories and news is banned fake

c.n.n. is prominent republican conservative and fair media shuts out illegal ninety six percent of results on trump used for national leftwing media very dangerous google and others the suppressing voices of conservatives and hiding information in news that is good they are controlling what we can on cannot see this is a very serious situation will be addressed we asked the white house for comment but they have yet to give us a response but trump's tweets have still attracted plenty of media attention is not the first time the tech giant's search system has come under fire though much research and studies have shown google can alter search results for its users moreover google itself admitted automatic algorithms can sometimes have issues since they are created by inherently biased humans and google has addressed trumps accusations claiming there is no political agenda to its search engine and its results are not biased towards any political ideology legal and media analyst

lionel believes that the most crucial part in this case will be when the tech giants have to answer in court. there's different ways it's interesting the methodology it deal ranking shelving eye shadow banding algorithm. if i have a library and i put your book and a part of the library that nobody ever knows about in the basement that nobody has access to but i say well it's here in the library we have it nobody's ever seen it nobody has access to it you know we're getting into again a new world the law always lags behind technology nobody drafters of our constitution the bill of rights never imagined that we would have this but it was going to be interesting to see is how the courts deal with this and how the international community does this and or these organizations so great and so large and so rob the naggy and in their colossal size that that trade agreements or trade

considerations can be implemented it's going to be fascinating to see. the budget plans of a large u.s. government broadcasting agency have revealed washington wants to create fake cuban social media accounts to more effectively spread anti-government news these are the plans of the broadcasting board of governors which is an independent government agency that has access to markets in one hundred countries and reaches at least two hundred twenty six million people worldwide ortiz kill a mop and comments now on how the u.s. is doing exactly what it accuses others of doing. imagine a government utilizing social media to sow discontent and on rast in another country the us media would be outraged they would never stand for it the russian government exploited social media platforms paid social media users or trolls russian backed operatives continue to infiltrate and manipulate social media to

hijack the national conversation well according to the congressional budget request of the broadcasting board of governors a us government communications outlet apparently the us federal government is doing just that they are setting up a facebook account for porting to be native putin accounts they even openly admit that they're doing it in fiscal year twenty eighteen the u.s. office of cuba broadcasting is a stab wishing on oil and digital teams to create non-branded local facebook accounts to disseminate information native pages increase the chances of appearing on cuban facebook uses news feeds the same strategy will be replicated on other preferred social media networks so almost exactly what russia is being accused of doing is being openly done by the us government so where is the outrage of this is something that is unacceptable why is the u.s. government doing it openly without even much secrecy we can say that the u.s. has always had double standards its in its foreign policy the u.s.

has intervened in other people's elections in east a hundred other countries a foreign power finances political groups in the united states that are going to run in elections that is illegal in the united states yet the united states does that in one hundred of the countries in the world facebook has recently been on a crusade to close down accounts that are deemed to be inauthentic hundreds of russian and iranian accounts have been shut down we've removed six hundred fifty two pages groups and accounts for coordinated you know authentic behavior that originated in iran and targeted people across multiple internet services in the middle east late in america you. and the us we reached out to facebook to find out if they would apply the same treatment to networks owned by the b.b.c. gee we will let you know if they give us a response the broadcasting board of governors twenty eighteen to twenty twenty two strategic plan continues now on bush's roadmap to refine and expand the reach and impact of u.s. international media in support of american strategic interests so what exactly are

these strategic interests well take a look at these latest headlines from t.v. mart see an outlet owned by the broadcasting board of governors. expert calls out failing or a girl ations of the cuban private sector. for activist groups unite in miami to protest against the latin american dictatorships remember how russia is accused of selling discontent for american society by pushing controversial issues that's what the usa is doing to the small island the problem is very few cubans have regular access to the internet so now the state department is creating a task force for the purpose of expanding cubans access to information i.e. the information that washington wants cubans to hear but we want people to have broad access to information and cuba is no exception to that cuba has a low internet penetration rate is certainly not

a secret while they have opened up a little bit not to the level that they should have it is preposterous to claim that studying an issue such as internet access is an open and transparent manner the cuban government has called this to be a subversive act we disagree with that we think that that is ridiculous that there's a new level of u.s. intervention to try to try and undermine the cuban revolution and overthrow the cuban government and it's this social penetration and fake media so social media and penetrating cuba's the internet that's the same thing that the united states is doing all around the world in russia. in eastern europe and latin america africa the middle east. and asia usa has been working to topple governments opposed to tractors and support its allies for well over a century meddling is nothing new for washington d.c. hey look mop and hard see new york so far the organization has not responded for comment to watching our two international.

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really. cranking gave americans a lot of new job opportunities i needed to come up here to make some money i could make twenty five thousand dollars as a teacher or i could make fifty thousand dollars a year girl in trucks so i chose to drive trucks people who rush to a small town in north dakota was an unemployment rate of zero percent like the gold rush is very very similar to a gold rush but this beautiful story ended with pollution and devastation a lot of people have left here i don't know too many people here and just slow down so much they lost their jobs that laid off the american dream is changing that's not what it used to be. and that's a tough reality to deal with. this

is bull bus broadcasting around the world from washington d.c. i'm far chilton thank you for joining coming up today u.s. student loan debt as streets of new high one point five billion dollars at the top official in the u.s. government charged with protecting student loan borrowers quits saying the trump administration has charted. back on young people and their financial future will be joined by the council on civil justice and consumer rights person from public citizen remington a great end job on garcia's back to the president of the united states student association plus russian president vladimir putin raises the retirement age for seniors who have a special report probably i shuffle below but in moscow and as we consider a deal or no deal with the us mexico and maybe or maybe not canada regarding the trade negotiations we'll get to the c.e.o.

of straw martin reported which will join us for an important discussion plus we take a look at south africa as the nations struggle economically and faced with increasing violence in agricultural areas r.t. correspondent ashley banks gives us the disquieting details a busy broadcast as usual let's get some headlines to start us off. legislators in the state of california home of the world's fifth largest economy have sent a bill to require that the state go one hundred percent carbon free by twenty forty five to the desk of governor jerry brown senate bill one hundred approved by legislators on a forty four to thirty three vote in the assembly also strengthen their medium term energy reform goals for twenty thirty increasing the mandate from fifty to sixty percent energy from sources that do not add to greenhouse gas content in the atmosphere governor brown who will host a and serve as a co-chair for a climate summit a global climate summit next month is expected to sign the legislation historic

wildfire conditions in extreme drought in the state are major reasons the legislation was seen to be approved so rapidly according to the measures sponsor assemblyman kevin daly on why is the only other state to have set a date for going carbon free experts say thirty five percent of california's energy from carbon free sources a twenty sixteen and that advances in energy storage are needed for wind and solar to achieve all season twenty four hour reliability to go. why with the new legislations man. facebook is also making a smart move to brand itself as a climate cautious company the social media site announced that yesterday that it had a goal for their powering their data centers with at least fifty percent renewable by a full year ahead of time the company says that they are now on track to reach one hundred percent on that metric by twenty twenty after they have a concert contract of more than three gigawatts of energy sent setting their goals and twenty fifteen with twenty five hundred megawatts secured in twenty eight team

the progress what run praise from garry cook of green place was said quote if we are to stay within the one point five degree threshold that scientists say is crucial to avoid catastrophic climate change we need many more companies stepping up to adopt aggressive renewable energy and greenhouse gas reduction goals. and the crisis of affordable education in the united states has reached a spiriting new milestone as the leader of the government agency that's supposed to support student borrowers said that his bosses looking out for lenders not families and the u.s. federal reserve has reported that the level of outstanding u.s. student debt reach one point five trillion dollars this year with more than forty four million americans with an average of a thirty seven hundred dollars in educational debt standing out there the number is increased by twenty thousand over the past thirteen years the total burden of education related indebtedness in the us was just six hundred million in twenty and

twenty two thousand and eight and only topped one trillion back in two thousand and twelve meanwhile there is little prospect for major reform or even slight improvement on these issues as the top official responsible for student loans at the consumer financial protection board the c f p b has resigned doing so in a scathing letter to acting cia director mick mulvaney we've spoken about him before that a party officials frontman wrote to mr rove venti quote under your leadership the bureau has a. bandon the very consumers that is passed by congress with protecting i have seen how the current actions being taken by bureau leadership are hurting families for more on this we are joined by counsel for civil justice and consumer rights at public citizen reminiscing a greg remington thank you so much for being with us who can be fun i look for to talk fun given this disappointing and disquieting news right of course so look i mean this is a big deal this guy is in charge of protecting not just students but former

borrowers and they're go there go their families seems like a big deal right it is a big deal to see if he has returned seven hundred fifty million dollars to students since it was stood up and was stood up after the financial crash the great recession and part of the reforms in dodd frank were to create a student someone to look over to be an advocate for student bars and over the last few years they have done that said fred and has done that rohit chopra when he was in the role has done it but now we have seen in this scathing letter that his resignation letter we have seen him say look they're not doing it anymore and you know this is a concern in general with p.b. about looking out for the interest of you know more in the financial sector as opposed to consumers but let me ask you i mean with regard to student loans specifically what is the. buds meant thinks it was so wrong what are the policies and practices at c.f.p.

be they were problematic leading to his resignation well there are a few things i mean mick mulvaney isn't a dumb man he knows that he can't just shut off the lights of the c.f.p. so what he's doing is trying to roll things back piece by piece put on the brakes delay and deter when he can so they've done a few things piece by piece to do that so for example they've taken the student loan office and they have put it into a new office that's just about into. nation education so it really defends the enforcement with a totally it's i know this i mean it's set up by statute you're going to have somebody that's dealing with student loans so they've taken that position and they said you're going to share office with those other people so it's still i guess officially meets the mandate of the law but it's sort of practice it's not doing the job exactly because dodd frank says you have to have been so they can't get rid of it but they can put him in the office and say you share cubicle with someone else another example is the navvy and litigation so the c.f.p.

be sued now which is one of the largest service loan providers but now that was a that was a good thing i was going after a bad actor but that didn't start under this administration did exactly it started on the obama administration and other states are also suing now the end but we're getting word that mick mulvaney will support a brick put the brakes on that so we are concerned about that and then there's the defense role coming out of the part of education to the part of parents or what's that so that is that if you're cheated by a school that the school goes under it goes bankrupt and and you have all this debt but no diploma you can apply to get those student loans expired get some relief for exactly and so they are buying ministration put these rules in place to update them and this is betty devolves trying to roll them back and so in his resignation letter he said look you are not allowing us as a student loan and others see it could be to talk out against these these bad things that are part of education is doing so it's piece by piece but but slowly

but surely you can see them trying to put the brakes on wherever they can and before we go let me just get your opinion on cathy cranage or she is the nominee to replace the acting director of the. what's your take on her she going to change anything there if she got through she has zero zilch experience in consumer law she's an acolyte of mick mulvaney i suspect that he's just going to text her from across the street and tell her exactly what they should be doing at the agency so we unfortunately can expect we can expect more of the same right now but more of the same is not helping students it's not helping consumers it's helping payday lenders and doesn't look like she's going to get through the senate and if so when . it doesn't it depends i think that if we make our case that she has no experience possibly but there is no vote currently on the on the senate calendar we thank you so much remington for being here really appreciate an excellent job in explaining things for thank you you thank.

and we continue a conversation with another expert the president the united states stood association and garcia who joins us again great to have you back with us we sure appreciate it that was a big number this one point five trillion dollars what do you make of it well one of those good afternoon thank you for having me on that is a big number and when i think about this number i think for different parts the first one is what does that mean for education what does that mean for this country and what does that mean for an individual person for education education's a right anyone no matter what your identity or what your financial background is should be able to access and drive in your education and you know what we're seeing right now is that it's becoming a commodity and especially with that one trillion dollars right there the second thing in regards to a country. this is about economic justice this is also about the progress of this

country when people are taking out loans you know that is an investment that people are doing on their future however what we're seeing is that people are not able to make investments in their life they're not able to buy cars unable to buy homes are not able to start businesses and this is important for our economic success be our economy as a country so it is very alarming when we think of that the other presidents to the country is that education is supposed to be this equalizer right however what we're suit we're seen for the student loan crisis is that it impacts some of the most marginalized communities in this country that includes black and brown folks that includes pell grant recipients that includes areas and a portion is that is the debt disproportionately in one minorities in the country well what happens is that they're the ones who are most at risk and they're the ones who are usually the people who are getting. these predatory loan programs.