the. headlines in r.t. the media explodes into a frenzy after the russians accused of carrying out an agent attack in the u.k. come forward and speak to r.t. to editor in chief denying any involvement in the case but i do you work for the jury you work and you meet normal and you and i don't either. concerns are raised over the potential presence of french troops in syria after photos released by the us army to appear to show a french military vehicle in the background. people are

pretty upset so proud it's worth i've been a very long time hillary supporter it was a shock to to all of us the results of the election and in the leaks video there google's top executives reveal their true thoughts on donald trump's twenty sixteen election win raising questions over the little. fellow the well can you watching r.t. international this friday afternoon where it's just gone two o'clock here in the russian capital. is having a holiday from hell and makes the case against them even stronger just a taste of the reaction that's created the interview of the two russians accused of carrying out the nerve agent poisoning in the u.k. city of seoul spree the pair came forward on thursday and spoke to our team's editor in chief margarita simonyan. we. are the

new to me and i been to live one you called me on my cell phone and told me that you are a slumber shit and the looks on the patrol do you think that all of us are we if you really look like the pictures shown to us by the u.k. and the different. next year. when the sun why you we are those who were shown to you in the pictures with the slum bush era. and i was under petro of the russians there are those your real names national yes they are real names and i would suggest to them even now when you are talking about it to tell you the truth you look very nervous on them it. what would you look like when your life is turned upside down in a moment in just one day and changed our lives. why do you work for the g.r.u. and you me know and you and i don't either but no one accuses me of working for the gerry used but you are being accused of that your colleagues accuse us of that by

your colleagues you mean journalists you are being accused by u.k. authorities and yes that's the scariest thing where do you work you are adults you need to make a living if we tell you about our business people we work with will be affected tell me anything so that we believe you everyone has questions what do you do to cut a long story short we're in the fitness industry well arty's editor in chief there said she didn't give her view on purpose preferring to leave it to the viewers to decide whether to believe the men or not but here's what she had to say following the interview. i mean you know there were nervous and sweating a lot i had to turn up the air conditioning a lot higher than usual and still there were sweating and wiping their foreheads which obviously happens when people are nervous there could be a lot of reasons for it but i understand this was the first interview in their lives but they could have been nervous for other reasons as well that's also possible they refused to show their i.d.'s on camera because they didn't want to be

pursued and identified further but they showed them to me it's not that i did not run a polygraph on them as a journalist i believe what they see i saw those were the people i saw their i.d.'s and that they feed the photos and videos what was going through their minds and whether they were speaking the truth it's hard to see what it does seem the latest development in the story is only intensified the media's finger pointing at russia . look the russians say this is all been made up by the british but you know this alibi which is very flimsy indeed is not going to convince many people now they're in russia safe from extradition to many here in the u.k. tonight the t.v. message from moscow was clear they got away with it in terms of of whoever ordered them to go and carry out this mission it was not a great success it looked extremely uncomfortable they did not want to be there they clearly did not appear to be really properly briefed well the u.k.'s branded

alexander and to slander liars who are the u.s. is proposed to imposing a second round of sanctions on russia. and samir a can have been looking at the international reaction from both sides of the atlantic. deweese i'm a spokes person has rubbish the accounts provided by alexander patrol from the share of and they've used pretty strong language to do it take a listen and blades in for brooke asians in this interview given to a russian state sponsored t.v. station are and then sold to the public's intelligence well that same government statement goes on to say that an illegal chemical weapon was used on the streets of the country and that four people seriously ill in hospital and an innocent woman died and russia has responded with contempt now this is the second official statement that we've had from the government from downing street earlier on immediately after the interview was first there was

a statement from the government and it was similarly scathing take a listen the government is clear these men are offices of the russian military intelligence service the g.r.u. who used to devastatingly toxic illegal chemical weapons on the streets of our country we have repeatedly asked rushed to account in an investigation and the o.p.c. w. and porton down the british lab that analyzed the samples couldn't even identify the source or country of origin with all that being said all we can do right now is wait until november to see if the sanctions are indeed imposed. meanwhile moscow does note that if london is interested in conducting an investigation on alexander . boschert of their request could be considered in accordance with international law previously russia had proposed a joint probe with the u.k. however that suggestion was immediately turned down. no new pictures released by the us army do appear to inadvertently expose

a much larger french military role in syria than previously thought a french army vehicle can be seen in the background of a photo indeed it is the wall where the u.s. is fighting what's left of islamic state terrorists in the area the image though was quickly deleted charlotta bin ski with more details. well we know that the u.s. army released this photograph on wednesday to show its special operation joint task force on the ground in syria in this particular region. but what the egalite members of the public clearly spot is a french military vehicle in the background now people have said they're sure that it's a french military vehicle because this particular type of vehicle is only used by french and saudi arabian forces and saudi arabian forces are not on the ground in this particular region now what it showed is that a military vehicle in the background of what's really interesting about this is that the french government the french military has never acknowledged that it has

french troops on the ground in this particular area of syria now we do know that this area is where the u.s. backed fighters have been battling against the hardest and we also know that france has been part of a u.s. led coalition which has been cut ducting operations over syrian airspace over the last three years but in particular it's been aiding forces on the ground as they fight against by some forces now we know that france has pledged in the past full support to syrian kurds on the ground the president should the syrian democratic forces and the french support in particular for the stabilization of the security zone in the northeast of syria within the framework of an inclusive and balanced governance to prevent any resurgence of i saw while seeking for a political solution to the syrian conflict well that support from the french

military has been vegas to water actually means and what the context of that support actually is and there is actually a question of the legality of the french and the u.s. troops being in syria to all of course they do not turn off a u.n. mandate and they do not have permission from the syrian government. to be that we also know that frances repeatedly warned that if it believes a chemical attack has taken place it will seek retribution and retaliation for such an attack on the syrian ground so now with their troops seemingly absolutely on the ground in this area nobody has acknowledged previously perhaps france is raising an even bigger warning flag. mental activists fighting to protect an ancient woodland in germany have clashed with police after authorities attempts to clear their treehouse camp but you've got the site for years as part of a bid to block the building of

a coal mine that. this is one of the old dos and richest mixed forests in central europe this being the first day because arguably read once a minute here. in this forest we see many of the country struggles intersect the way that r.w. extraction costs the climate change from early infects people off the globe or so. before there were some grand structures to compete in towns college fireplaces and

a storage platform they had permission to clear the barricades in garmisch only but they weren't we beyond got it completely destroyed shelters and took everything we could try and most want to containers bicycles tools and good. you know we cleared the barricades in vacated the treehouses we got people down from the trees all in all we're pleased up until now with how the operation is going because it's been practically free of violence. i think it's their police discriminately resistance. security service with finally center for. atmospheric.

so to come the southeast but bans and then suddenly read miss the account of a man who spoke to the controversial media platform inside wallace we'll have a look at that just off the bridge. please please.

most people think just stand out in this business you need to be the first one on top of the story or the person with the loudest voice of the biggest race in truth to stand out of the news business you just need as the right questions and demand the right answer. question. welcome back now the impartiality of google is once again being code into question after a leaked video did show the company's executives expressing disappointment back in twenty sixteen donald trump's election win. picks up the story. google's always tried to maintain a political front but recently tells a very different story and if true it outlines google's executives pick for

president in the twenty sixteen presidential elections most people here are. pretty upset pretty sad for. you because of the election i certainly find the selection deeply offensive and i know many of you do too this is none other than surrogate brynn google's co-founder and if his assumption that every worker in the video was a clinton voter was upsetting it gets worse. that was the first moment i really felt like we were going to lose and it was really being all it did feel like a ton of bricks dropped on my chest and that right there is the chief financial officer of google's parent company alphabet ruth poor at holding back tears at the thought of their election defeat but whose defeat exactly last time i checked google wasn't a wing of the democratic party nevertheless they seem to have

a mutual understanding on why trump won zina phobia hatred and a desire for answers that mean it may not be there here we have senior vice president for global affairs tend to walker looks like despite google's claim to objectivity walker's got some pretty partisan views on american politics but google maintains those are personal views ones that don't affect their product. to the rise of fascism and also the communist revolution i think it's worth be very vigilant in thinking about all these issues what can we do to to lead. maybe a better quality of governance decision making and so forth solid explanation of ideologies that shaped the twenty first century survey but fair enough google is looking for ways to make the world better but that hasn't stopped the flow of accusations that their strategy is politically biased like that time google removed a pro-life singers music video on you tube they said.

i had known. and you tube's move to hit popular users before conservative users especially president is draining the swamp dime it is going to be both enough to make it a movie. but there are some at google who don't agree with the company's liberal leanings james to moore a conservative engineer wrote a memo just a memo to highlight potential bias in google's policy and he was fired for it google has several biases a new discussion about these biases is being silenced by the dominant ideology what follows is by no means the complete story but it's a perspective the desperately needs to be told google google has always claimed its hands were cold lean when it came to political bias hate speech or other

inappropriate content the company always claimed it had its reasons but with insight into what the top brass at google is apparently thinking perhaps it's time for a better understanding of what bias really means quarter artie. the founder of the walk away campaign brand and himself banned from facebook this week came after he announced an interview with the controversial info was media platform the ban however was then lifted short. afterwards but walk away is a campaign on facebook encouraging liberal americans to leave the democratic party the movement involves over one hundred eighty members to brandon told r.t. this is spent devastated his ability to reach his audience. to lose my platform that way is devastating and essential e i think that what they are trying to do is

to sabotage the walkway march on washington using this info wars word as the catalyst to do it why should i be banned from using my social media platform for using the word in four wars i wasn't even state i wasn't stating an opinion i wasn't being controversial i wasn't being provocative i was literally alerting the members of my group that i was about to do an interview on a website. a limb for was is a site run by the controversial radio host alex jones that racked up more than one and a half million views on you tube however the platform was repeatedly criticized for promoting conspiracy theories and especially using hate rhetoric donald trump has previously expressed support for alex jones yet various social networks banned him and his media outlet for violating their policies twitter recently announced he was being banned permanently. i think that bass work is using its policies completely inconsistently because these. blocks and suppression only seem to affect people on

the right they seem to only affect conservatives they never seem to have any impact on liberals or people on the left i never see them getting banned or suppressed it's time for action is to push for freedom of speech i mean this is what this is really about with their suppressing free speech well arcee has requested a comment from facebook about why brendan struck his account was banned you know what they say if and when we get a response. the u.s. state department has praised saudi arabia's actions to reduce violence in yemen saying riyadh is doing what it can to minimize civilian casualties there we see them taking steps is it perfect no absolutely not do we see them doing what they can to mitigate civilian casualties absolutely we deal well comments there did come after the u.s. secretary of state might compost certify to congress the sad led coalition is

undertaking actions certification does allow washington to continue providing aid to riyadh in its war against rebels and al qaida terrorists in yemen the saudi led bombing campaign against the rebels which they terrorist started back in twenty fifteen with substantial support from the u.s. government militant groups like al qaida which washington has been fighting against for nearly two decades now have taken advantage of the crisis though capturing areas in the south of yemen r.t.g. goes you've done of looks now into how the u.s. approach in fighting al qaida differs depending on the region or the motive. qaida a whole generation of americans grew up with these two words engraved in their minds since preschool years two words that have seen hundreds of thousands of u.s. troops fanned out all over the globe with an uncompromising objective to defeat terror.

for the past few years one battleground yemen some four thousand troops in the country even now and that's enough for the u.s. to turn a blind eye to schools hospitals and homes flattened by saudi bombs the administration's policy is to focus on ending the war and avoiding a regional conflict countering the threat from the islamic state of iraq in syria in yemen and al qaeda in the arabian peninsula but yemen is just the latest in a sequel which started back in two thousand and one in afghanistan where a force of between two and five thousand dollars to fight has ignited the now infamous war on terror on my orders the united states military has begun strikes against al qaeda terrorist training camps and military installations of the taliban

regime in afghanistan today we focus on afghanistan but the battle is broader at that point obviously it was a way to rally the country to to create you know a much larger military for the united states at that point between about two thousand and twenty eleven the united states spent about one point three trillion on its wars in iraq and afghanistan but al qaeda is biggest lead is not in yemen it's not in afghanistan it's in syria's northern province. libya is a province just the largest al qaeda safe haven since nine eleven and it live now is a huge problem it is an al qaeda safe haven right on the border of turkey the u.n. estimates al qaida is fortress manned by at least ten thousand offshoot fighters that's at least twice as many as in afghanistan back at the dawn of the war on

terror yet washington is no merely as trigger happy as one would expect while we had three meetings in the security council on syria to sternness warnings came down from most members of the security council telling them that not just chemical weapons would be addressed by the united states and our allies but any offensive on the civilian people and lead was going to be dealt with when russia and the assad regime say they want to counterterrorism they actually mean they want to bomb schools hospitals and homes the obama administration had already loosened rules of engagement in the war against islamic state in syria and iraq to permit more killing of civilians in in the bombing campaign that the u.s. conducted they they expended over one hundred thousand bombs and missiles to

destroy cities like rocka and mosul president trump has reportedly loosened the rules of engagement further america's humanitarian concern for syria is remarkable especially in the sense that it's seemingly peripheral elsewhere except the terrorists don't exactly share washington's geographical discernment. you're gonna proposing that that's how things are looking say foster day here or not say with that with more and often. with the advent of the trump presidency much has been said about america's culture wars even a new civil war the country is clearly divided but trump didn't do this on his own there are two americas now can call it sits. so wrong. but all roads just don't all.

get to shape out just to educate and gain from it because betrayal. when so many find themselves worlds apart. just to look for common ground. mitch mcconnell's sound zero on the head of the midterms on g.o.p. control of the senate what's behind his concerns we'll take a look on this edition. of politicking on larry king on tuesday senate majority leader mitch mcconnell acknowledged the difficulty republicans will facing in a handful of competitive races the outcomes of which decides whether the senate

remains under g.o.p. or democratic control mcconnell even lie given some of these close races to a knife fight in an alley how likely are the democrats to flip those republican seats and what is was hollow have up his sleeve to prevent that from happening. i was stunned that with our panel they are chris wilson in washington d.c. he was director of research of digital strategies the ted cruzes twenty six president. and brian joyce host of the brian joy's show on talk radio w g o w have him bryan joins us from chattanooga all right chris what was your reaction to mitch mcconnell's tom and so about of concern of the g.o.p. keep the good drole well i think mitch mcconnell is doing his job is job is to be the chief fundraiser to make sure that republicans have enough money to be able to defend their seats but if you look at these seats one by one as you mentioned i

worked for senator cruz in the sixteen campaign working for his in his eighteen real act there are four seats on the democrat side there are more likely to go republican until you get to the first republican seat likely to get go democrat and those are in north dakota heidi heitkamp is likely to lose to kevin kramer in montana jon tester is likely to you lose to matt rosendale.