elections which are coming up this november in the event that meddling is a proven sanctions would be imposed targeting sectors of strategic significance of these the likes of finance defense technology and transportation washington correspondents mira comes when taking a closer look at the order will authorize sanctions against entities charged with election meddling this applies to a company's organizations and even individuals the term entity means a partnership association trust a joint venture corporation group sub group or other organization now if they impose these sanctions will block assets limit access to the u.s. financial system and ban people from entering the country in the order trump admitted that no foreign power has ever successfully influence a us election but he signed the order anyway although there has been no evidence of a foreign power old to ring the outcome or vote be lation in any united states election foreign powers have historically sought to exploit america's free and open

political system now it's also important to note that the order did not specify any country in particular the term foreign government mins any national state provincial or other governing authority and any political party or any official of any governing authority or political party in each keys of a country other than the united states these sanctions will also be imposed on anyone accused of spreading propaganda and this information and the authority determine who's been meddling has been granted to the director of national intelligence the state department the treasury department homeland security and the justice department with forty five days to do so. legal and media analyst lionel believes the executive order is vague unlike previous documents of its kind. but a couple of things i want to bring up using the canons of of all american law way which i know a little bit about and whenever we look at any statute any statute law or regulation executive order p.t.d.

you name it anything that is written one of the tenets that we always look to is are the behaviors are the prohibited actions are those intended. activities spelled out accurately enough and with specificity enough so that you were able to read that particular executive order read the statute and comport accordingly meaning may i read this and say oh i know what to do now the next thing is sometimes you have terms void for vagueness vagueness ambiguity what is interference and i don't want to do this the air quotes but imagine i'm doing it what is interference what is propaganda what is one team to if fact have a good effect and i can come up with a lot of terms interpretations new ones if i tweak and leave the veritie veracity

what does this mean i don't even understand how you would even apply this because normally when you look at the statute say it is interference shall mean this it means it does not mean this the dissemination of an idea discussion debate what is that what when any country has any discussion i think there is an effect so it's very concerned if it concerns me for vagueness in ambiguity. a group of european lawmakers voicing their support for hungary after the european parliament voted to slap budapest with the blocks most severe disciplinary action for breaching the union's core values such populist leader get villagers called the decision a shame will be outspoken british m.e.p. not of raj board of an authoritarian grip but as peter all of the reports hungry isn't the only country on the use watch list. the european parliament has voted to put hungary on its official naughty list by starting article seven measures against

budapest will you let it happen that a government that violates the values upon which this union was built with out consequences or will you ensure that the values of this union are more than just which is this then you the elections this year were held in an atmosphere of aggression and intimidation and article seven of the lisbon treaty is the biggest stick member nations have with which to beat members of the club not upholding the call values if seeing through to its fullest and we are still some way away from that happening just yet it could result in a member nation having their voting rights the suspended in the e.u. institutions essentially taking away their right to have a say hungary is charged with breaking a wide array of e.u. laws but when you look at them as a group there are many member states that aren't in breach of some of the same things being levelled at budapest individuals into government and rich themselves

their family members staff rents from public funding from utopian taxpayers' money bulgaria is also down there at the wrong end of the table when it comes to corruption and conflicts of interest transparency international puts them bottom of the list when it comes to e.u. member states but also down there at the wrong end of the table a countries like rumania greece italy and croatia any piece reserved a real tongue lashing for the bonds government when it came to the rights for minorities the council of europe's commissioner for human rights indicated that he was concerned about the deterioration of the situation as regards racism and intolerance in hungary when it comes to discrimination against vulnerable groups let's say for example here muslim my. grants from north africa it's a far worse picture in the netherlands where almost half say they've been the

victim of discrimination italy and france don't fare well here either another area where hungry has crossed the line for e.u. parliament teria is arguably the biggest issue many had with viktor orban is the collision course the garion prime minister has been on with brussels over migrants we need more europe you know. i would like to raise the voice of the people all over in europe that they are full of fear we need more union in our refugee problem is not a european problem we need a fair and just distribution the problem is a german problem it is not a problem you create a new legal situation at the borders for you to be even more free than it was but now we're hearing similar messages coming out of italy really it's over we welcome those who deserve to be welcomed we see of lives saved women's men and children but italy will no longer be the european refugee camp hungary taked to many of the

boxes too many times when it came to breaches of the e.u. core values and that is why any piece of voted to start article seven but what it may also serve as a reminder and a wake up call to some of those nations who also find themselves not exactly whiter than white that they could well be next peter all of them. hungary and government denounced the vote as a fraud and cold of the revenge of pro migrant politicians journalists luger of a told us that certain political forces believe it's their last chance to stop populism advancing in europe. leftists furious israeli aggressive to an incredible point as well as the liberals the globalists because they know it is their last chance to obtain that populist sop punished somehow the list grows longer you have the austrians you have the italians it didn't work it won't work and all day do is fit to mind old man or brown will be reelected certainly one time

comes with a big majority because he's a victim of europe the worst that europe can produce we heard yesterday and today today it was less important vote happened and that was it but the report produced by mrs sargent was a green party activists from all and is is really a piece of work and it's really incredibly aggressive in its content and she didn't even go to hungary to make this report this bullying will go nowhere you know article seven will never be applied italy austria poland will refuse of course that this be applied at council level if not at the parliament level so they are afraid of the next parliament after the may elections that's the thing. russia's largest military exercise in decades rumbles on in the country's far east hundreds of thousands of troops and combat vehicles are being put through rigorous testing but the games are also proving to be rather irritating for the west with the pentagon

saying it's all watching very closely also watching from the thick of the action is more against if. we found ourselves in russia's far east witnesses to a pitched battle if simulated on the one hand you have detachments of russian and the feds fending off a simulated if determined and advanced enemy which is being represented on the battlefield by dummy missiles and they're throwing everything they've got at the russians cruise missiles jets as well as. the russians offending them off.

and defense is a complicated business because lots of cooperation between various units because everything is happening so quickly projectile to travel in the kilometers a second so everything has to happen quick. and in this day and age of rapidly evolving technology the technical requirements are severe you need different types of ray dogs to detect different targets whose results that are you round would get and they could be operating over different frequencies or would different ranges in different weather conditions what's difficult is to get the move to work together both spoke two thousand and eighteen will gain for the biggest press test of the russian military in decades and decades this is about fifty one of the various detachments of the russian military navy

yagni the air force to work together because it's one thing having an. knowing how to use all these expensive toys it's entirely another actually using them. you know with an alleged staged chemical attack in syria with video of it being spread online the details when we come. to said it was taken up with obama's. came out and it was a. course. like oh yeah you know medicare for all be great but we're just. going to ask the something. progressing.

to put themselves on the line. get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be president. the two going to be close it's like. three of them or can't be good. i'm interested in the waters and. welcome back the russian military claims that extremists in syria's it led province of stage from filmed a chemical attack which they intend to blame on president assad's forces moscow says the fighters will send some of the footage to the united nations and so i can

let the rest online. following that filming on the evening of the same day at a joint meeting between representatives of the white helmets and terrorists from. out of the nine videos on the two were proved to be sent to the us and the o.p.c. w. the rest of the material was suggested for social media because of low quality according to the russian reconciliation center the preparations were made near the syrian town of qom shaikh own where an alleged chemical attack took place on the fourth of april last year it's claim the filming took place in a nearby village where there's also a chemical stockpile washington's ignored warnings from russia that the self-styled syrian rescue group the white helmet directly involved in staging the attack saying there's no evidence to support that claim and as the battle for it province looms the u.s. is pouring troops into syria saying that if there is a chemical attack there will be a much stronger response than before jacqueline bouvier looks into how washington's approach in syria as evolved over the recent years the deeper the u.s.

gets sucked into the syrian conflict the more the continuity of time seems to change when it comes to decision making in washington back in two thousand and thirteen when allegations of chemical attacks arose barack obama was still in the hot seat and time still seemed linear we intend to investigate thoroughly exactly what happened. obviously in syria right now you've got a war zone we have to make sure that we know exactly what happened what was the nature of the incident what can we document what can we prove. our commonsense review the evidence and attack if justified later the idea that investigations require time those were the good old days but two thousand and seventeen came and times changed syrian dictator bashar. launched a horrible chemical weapons attack. on innocent civilians less than seventy two

hours later the u.s. fired fifty nine cruise missiles at the airbase they suspected chemical weapons were launched from before any investigation took place. only months later did a un report come out placing the blame at the feet of the syrian government something they still deny the when the controversial white how much group released a video claiming to be proof of a chemical attack in april this year trump was able to pinpoint the culprit in hours many dead including women and children in mindless chemical attack in syria area atrocities in lockdown and encircled by syrian army making it completely inaccessible to outside world president putin russia and iran are responsible for backing animal assad big price. so the area's inaccessible and yet those responsible have been found out already no ifs ands or buts how does the guy do it

the u.k. and france also joined the ranks of the striking government sites in syria after an investigation you ask well three months later the o.p.c. w did put out a report saying chlorine may have been found but on nerve agents and the case is still open so all proof of the last attack hasn't been found the us is again using its crystal ball to determine what no one else can and is ready to act at least according to wall street journal sources bruises and bashar al assad of syria has approved the use of chlorine gas in an offensive against the country's last major rebel stronghold u.s. officials said so if and when a chemical attack takes place during ellipse liberation the guilty party is already known if there are chemical weapons that are used we know exactly who's going to use them that russia is warning of stage attacks is irrelevant that it would lead to exactly what the terrorists want also irrelevant but why look at every scenario when you have everyone else and time on your side. there's been

a breakthrough in the search for a missing internet privacy activist who's a close associate of wiki leaks julian assange police say the belongings of all your income folks have been found in the sea off the norwegian coast. nordland was notified by a local recreational fisher that he had found some belongings floating in the sea near the shoreline the belongings are confirmed by the police to belong to the missing person are you in compass so the location of these items appears to be fairly close to the town where i encountered first was staying and where he was last seen on the twentieth of august when he checked out of the hotel there in the town of bodo he was a dutch citizen and he was in norway on holiday as i said and he was meant to leave the hotel and take a train to another town ten hours south of the town where he was staying in order to get a flight from there but he never got on that flight and that's when friends and family started getting worried and started expressing their concerns about his

whereabouts there are now dutch investigators in norway helping with the investigation and i think his disappearance is getting more media attention because of his close association to julian assange camp he has worked closely with wiki leaks in the past his online accounts said he was a free software advocate he was an i.t. security advisor and he'd also written a book about investigative journalism as well he did media appearances as an i.t. expert i think you'd see pictures of him talking to r.t. on your screens as well but still a total mystery really what happened to him police say they're still trying to work out if there was an element of criminality involved they're not sure about that yet but of course the internet being the internet there's already wild speculation especially from the wiki leaks supporters about what may have happened to some at

the moment pretty baseless and wild theories that perhaps that he knew too much that he may have been taken out by some secret service for his links to julian assange to others. say maybe this is all a warning to julian assange some speculation that maybe all this is just a deep cover assignment for weeks but for now though police are still combing that area of sea off the coast of norway trying to establish what happened to him. finally for this hour russia is at it again this time the media is pointing the finger following a spate of mysterious incidents that the united states says has damaged the health of some of its diplomats in cuba china. intelligence agency is investigating attacks on u.s. diplomats in cuba and china now strongly suspect that russia is to blame that there is some place of blame or at least. looking seriously at russia saying is reports

that u.s. officials consider russia the prime suspect in their investigation into mysterious attacks on u.s. diplomats in cuba there's a new trend and it's been a buzz since march the american medical association published its findings about twenty one workers that the u.s. embassy in cuba will fall victim to mysterious symptoms they experienced headaches vertigo had trouble sleeping and apparently suffered from auditory hallucinations the head of the team that compiled the report later said the likely culprit was a microwave weapon now multiple reports suggest that the u.s. intelligence suspects russia orchestrating the attack but apparently journalists got their hands on new details before the state department there is no known cause no known individual or group believed to be responsible at this time we are looking into it our position has not changed the investigation is ongoing we have not

assigned any blame and we continue to look into this i want to be very clear about this in fact the initial scare over weaponized energy in cuba is being waved out of the window the f.b.i. investigated the mystery but found no trace of a malicious applaud both the u.s. and then u.s.s.r. are known to have pursued the type of weapon described in the initial report but as of now though by kuwait device capable of deep frying the brain is known to exist for many scientists actually talk like this is akin to flat earth theories kind of distinct. from the embassy. it's only conjecture. not just measure. the embassy has far as i know and the only suggestion that this might be due to microwaves involves a low level sound effect which people speculate might be due to microwaves that it's just purely speculation that there is anything at all gotten my who is in this

case i can't conceive of the right way of weapon as it's been thought about in this case and it's not clear that the symptoms are real i'm familiar with one paper that was published by a group that examined these subjects and the results were very inconclusive. but who cares for scientific evidence right not this republican senator for sure cory gardner he's so scared by this fantasy weapon i urge the senate to pass my legislation requiring the state department to consider the designation of russia as a state sponsor of terrorism while mr gardiner if you are still in fear i've heard this helps. few people can rocket look at your world news for this hour thanks for watching at the r.t. app and you can keep on top of developments twenty four seventh's and call it right back with your next update after the alec simon show.

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only. welcome to the alex salmond show on to us thought and final program and i'll see these on britain's railways last week with luke to the case fought against a chance to i'm sorry the still a white cross sectional support despite mounting concern of cost overruns and delays this week we've been out to the boat looking at the fate of some of the communities in london who are getting in the way of the high speed revolution and many think have been just passed the site is there but the shape of things to come

before steers tells me no emails and your messages now are c.d.'s on bill we send it just to have been very timely indeed with the i newspaper last week losing on what they call the u.k. rail revolution they say master lease and timetable chaos of persuading the prime minister to. overhaul the whole system apparently danny she fears corben can win power with three nationalisation plans we haven't had lots of tweets in a sponsor last week sure the first from someone who calls themselves i'm sixty two says fantastic points made by alex salmond both who have just released their concept car which is a driverless vehicle that doubles as a bedroom and an office it'll make real utterly obsolete by twenty thirty three it's madness to continue with ages to d.c. scott says but like and six it will stop at carlisle lynn says fascinating series it's great the sure gets both points of view personally i would like the trains nationalized keep up the good work thanks lynn trav says it will be the biggest

waste of taxpayers' money ever and not happy choppy there and finally jim says almost made chess too interesting worth a look and there's a reminder that you can watch all of our shows on r.t. dot com and also on alex's you tube channel. high speed rail has had our fair political wind at its back but the developers have not tapping all of their own way i do the triple north we're going to have no business case no environmental case and no money to pay for it the protest is afoot in lively campaign alex is picking through the chant of stop it just to penny again asking if it's too late to put a spoke in the fast real real. welcome to the examiner show would you say to people who was a loop you frances got fast real japan's got fast while the u.k. of class trail as well what people in france and germany and so on of finding is that they tell you their backs on high speed well they're saying we've spent too much money and too much time on these fast don't see lines we need to start looking

at local transport which is being neglected with all this this concentration on the fastest and the glitziest more clamorous trains of this is a big problem of overcrowding see rome love this big problem over even even the leader of the opposition can't get a seat in the trip so how can you possibly career move people onto these overcrowded lanes unless you build a totally new all singing all dancing for us real to the question that they are some selves or should we build a high speed rail they run away line they didn't look at all the different options of local infrastructure and local local lines they said right we're going to build a high speed rail way and that every other decision made came from that if you've got a high speed rail line you can't have too many stations so they're not building lots of stations close to london which you would think that want to do if they wanted a london based the whole way that to get commuters in it should be if the fast train less on one side makes a lot easier to run the ones of charging

a boat because the not get in the road of the express train part of the justification for it involves cancelling existing trains so it's not a case of having more trains it's having fewer trains on the existing lines that's in the in that their economic plans for that freight just to so.