with the advent of the trump presidency much has been said about america's cultural 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 and he says. the headlines this hour the media explodes into a frenzy after two russians accused of carrying out a nerve agent attack in the u.k. come forward and speak to artie's editor in chief denying any involvement in the keys and that they feed the photos and video of what was going through their minds and whether they were speaking the truth it's hard to see well it seems though 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 there in russia say 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 while the u.k. has branded alexander liars while the u.s. has proposed imposing a second round of sanctions on russia. and samir a can of been looking at the international reaction from both sides of the atlantic to resume a spokesperson has rubbish the accounts provided by alexander petrov a share of and they've used pretty strong language to do it take a listen the lies and blades and fabrications 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 ed 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 russia to account for what happened in salzburg in march today just as we've seen throughout they have responded with obfuscation and lauri's so i think to say that the british authorities aren't buying it is to say nothing at all really no one's going to be lining up to give them any acting

accolades certainly not here in the u.k. all the politicians have been rather skeptical to the member of parliament for soulsby john glenn said that soulsby welcomes tourists from around the world and it is very much open for business but the patrol of the sheriff's statements according to john glenn are not credible and don't match the widely accepted intelligence that the u.k. has on these individuals so you can see that this is a spat that's getting worse and we've got to the next stage of it now because we've had a response from the russian foreign ministry spokesperson that's maria's the horror of us so she's responded to the u.k.'s response to the interview and she has some questions for the british authorities there so the surely you've got i believe it's absolutely unacceptable to accuse people of telling lies forty minutes after they have spoken so i repeat my. question directly to the british side what is the legal

basis and framework for accused russian citizens of telling lies forty minutes after noon to view what was the reason for that what was so specifically non-credible in what they said when official authorities accuse someone of telling lies he must be responsible for those so again it looks like we're getting statements and counter statements but that doesn't appear to be any dialogue taking place between london and moscow right now the u.s. is getting ready to impose more sanctions on russia in november for allegedly poisoning the script halls and that's according to assistant secretary of state minissha saying check out what she had to say we plan to impose a very severe second round of sanctions under the c.b.w. the global community will not tolerate behavior such as we've seen from russia especially in poisoning and killing its own citizens we are absolutely prepared to fully implement the second round of sanctions says it will include banking

sanctions a prohibition on obtaining defense articles and aid money but back in august it was stated that the second round of sanctions could include cutting diplomatic ties with russia and ing all aeroflot travel and stopping all imports and exports but things said that the second round of sanctions would not be imposed if russia commits to on site inspections we have indicated to them that they can evade they can make themselves not subject to these sanctions if they allow the on site inspections as you've indicated if they give us a verifiable assurance that they will not use these nerve agents against their own people again they have not done so so far it should be noted that last october the u.n. verified the destruction of russia's chemical weapons and confirmed that all of russia's chemical weapons facilities were closed through on site inspections do you think they're going to admit their use goes in there when people. congressman at this

point it's not even a matter of russia admitting it we we know they did that are you know this all began when a former double agent and his daughter were poisoned back in march chuck was determined to be the agent used and everyone blamed russia because the agent was originally developed in the former u.s.s.r. but since ninety one it's been developed in several other countries russia has repeatedly denied involvement and has even offered to cooperate 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 same sins are indeed imposed. me moments ago does know that if london is interested in conducting an investigation on nix on the patrol. request would be considered in accordance with international rule previously though russia had proposed a joint probe with the u.k. however a suggestion most immediately turned. new pictures released

by the u.s. army 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 from do it is or where the u.s. is fighting what's left of islamic state terrorists in the area the image though was quickly deleted. as more details of what we know that the u.s. army released this photograph on wednesday to show it 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 military vehicle in the

background and 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 harvests 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 could dish forces on the ground as they fight against isis all 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 north east of syria within the framework of an inclusive and balanced governance to prevent any resurgence of i saw while seeking for political

salute. 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 over 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 to be there and they do not have permission from the syrian government to be that we also know that francis 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 that nobody has acknowledged previously perhaps france is raising an even bigger warning flag shall have been secured and i still ahead this hour facebook bans and then suddenly read mitch the account of a man who spoke to the controversial media platform info wars have the details of

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for common ground. but again welcome back now the impartiality of google has once again been called into question after a leaked video showed the company's executives expressing disappointment back in two thousand sixteen donald trump's election when the quarter 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 brin 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 a moment i really felt like we were going to lose and it was really doing 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 to 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 no.

and you tube's move to hip popular users before conservative users especially press is draining the time it is that was going to be it bottles 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 that desperately needs to be told that 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 r.t. . the founder of the walk away campaign brendan found himself banned from facebook this way you can come up to he announced an interview with the controversial info wars media platform the ban however was lifted. shortly afterwards walk away is a viral campaign on facebook encouraging liberal americans to leave the democratic party the movement involves over one hundred ninety thousand members and instructor told r.t. the suspension devastated his ability to reach his audience to lose my platform that way is devastating and essentially 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 info 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 info was a site run by the controversial radio host alex jones did rack 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 had previously expressed support for alex jones yet very various social networks banned him and his media for violating their policies twitter recently announced the recently announced he was being banned permanently. i think that based book is using its policies completely inconsistently because these bans and 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 and to push for freedom of speech i mean this is what this is really about with their suppressing free speech well r.t. has requested a comment from facebook about why brandon track his account was banned want to know what they say when they get back to us. the u.s. state department has praised saudi arabia's actions three g. use violence in yemen saying that riyadh is doing what it can to minimize civilian casualties there. 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 with the comments that came after the u.s. secretary of state certified to congress that the side the lead coalition is undertaking demonstrable actions that civic a or islamic state in syria

and iraq to permit more killing of civilians. 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. of reporting you're watching our say thanks for the company this afternoon don't forget that we've got plenty of stories to you at our website at art and.

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a genocide knows where to put your kind of business models here with my american corporations jadhav was incomplete is sold on good mental disease as l.b. use c. controls the i know was mcconnell seen. the solution. eyes up in a situation. i know two can he saw small dogs it is just really amazing to me to date an investigative documentary. ghost war on oxy. greetings and salutation it's so on wednesday this week united states president donald trump put pen to paper and signed in an act of the new executive order looking to combat the dreaded foreign meddling in u.s.

elections in a statement president trump declared as i have made clear the united states will not tolerate any form of foreign meddling in our election the order comes with just under two months to go before the twenty eight thousand mid-term elections here in the u.s. and according to a.b.c. news calls for sanctions sanctioning any individual company or country that interferes with campaign infrastructure such as voting registration databases voting machines and equipment used for tabulating or transmitting results the order also includes sanctions against any agent or person working on behalf of any country deemed by the intelligence community to be engaging in covert fraudulent or deceptive activities such as distributing information or propaganda to influence or undermine confidence in u.s. elections. now i'm no lawyer but given the

bag mists of bad language couldn't couldn't that mean that of let's say france twenty four didn't on the ground here in the us on the gerrymandering up birds of democrats and republicans to control who gets elected and what district that the us could then accuse the french government and france twenty four reporters of attempting to undermine the confidence in us elections or if voter fraud investigator and crusader greg last was interviewed by the b.b.c. about his documentary the best democracy money can buy does does this executive order now mean that the b.b.c. and greg pilaster undermining medline and. in our elections i think these are important questions and i think we need to call this latest effort to rein in criticism of the u.s. government and the democrats and republicans exactly what it truly is it is the us voters are stupid executive order now let's start watching the hawks.

that's like. it's like the last piece of the plot of. the day like you that i got. with that we. would. be. welcome aboard to watch the heart. and that's happened a lot this. is not just them saying voters are stupid at the end of the day like they can't do figure out the difference between like good and bad information or like you know me or.