we're in new territory and the place is called. the international the united states' national security adviser says washington will review its agreements that leave america exposed to international court i was after the u.n. . sanctions. the british prime minister attempts to dance off mounting pressure. from her own party members just moments before giving a speech. the king of saudi arabia that he wouldn't last two weeks without the u.s. military as the u.s. president continues to accuse. the price. protecting you you might not be there for two weeks without you have to pay for.

president. should take a look at the merits of find out who's responsible for the right. welcome to the program live from. the world news this hour one of our other headline stories to start with now donald trump has claimed that the saudi monarch wouldn't last two weeks if it wasn't for the u.s. military the u.s. president's fiery assessment came at a campaign rally in the state of mississippi but he didn't give any specifics about the conversation that he had with the saudi king which he was referencing. we project saudi arabia would you say the rich. and i love the king solomon. we're protecting you you might not be there for two weeks without us you have to pay for your village and well it seems like he's implicitly calling on saudi arabia

to pay its own defense expenses and this isn't even the first time he's done this he's asked the same of japan and south korea both of which are nato allies but between the arms deals and pulling out of it you rondo it's clear that the u.s. considers saudi arabia a major ally and if you remember trying to first foreign trip was to saudi arabia about a year ago but now trumps latest comments show that there could be some growing contention between the two on top of that trump's been trying to get saudi arabia one of the leading opec countries and the rest of opec to lower gas prices and terms no fan of opec and he made that pretty clear at the u.n. let's quickly check out what he had to say opec. and opec nations are as usual ripping off the rest of the world we defended many of these nations for nothing. and then they take advantage of us by giving us high oil prices not good but some have said that this is trump's way of securing his party's

control in congress rather than out of genuine concern over gas prices now his intentions have not been yet made clear but i wouldn't hold my breath or trouble for furring to the us big the largest supplier to saudi arabia with over sixty percent of all saudi weaponry from america washington also has sanctions in place against riyadh's regional rivals like iran the us leaders words also seem to be a part of his last thing the twitter campaign to opec including saudi arabia to lower oil prices by increasing production he made his frustrations public to leaders at the un general assembly last week. opec. and opec nations are as usual ripping off the rest of the world we defended many of these nations for nothing. and then they take advantage of us by giving us high oil prices not good. ok with us now i'm understanding why an international oil economist welcome to appreciate your thoughts on these developments today is there

a link between donald trump's comments on the saudi king and oil prices. of course first it is this graceful by the american president to speak about saudi arabia and opaque in this manner that's is not vietnam havior of a president furthermore there is an intrinsic connection between oil prices and the outbursts by a president from president on chrome is heading out it's a mid term elections in november and he wants low oil prices so as not to defuse or not to offset the effect of the tax cuts he made he doesn't care about the global economy hence his care and the elections however as long as he continues to be any it and sowed any

b.s. he is not going to get any good response from them and found that a more saudi arabia and opaque cannot to add more than the four hundred thousand but it's a day that saudi arabia has already added and saudi arabia claims to have a spare capacity of two medium buttons i think that is not true they hardly have any capacity what's all of that and any productions about it today. but there was a good we had a very nice meeting with the american president in helsinki if we had touched on the subject of oil price and influence i would have told him if you want to find the main culprit for the all price hike don't you just have to take a look in the mirror which it's true geopolitics do play a role in oil price hikes that's a fact. it was decided by do what to make of mr putin's assessment that mr trump

does have an effect on oil prices and self well mr putin is a very key and reader of geopolitics of the world and he is a clever politician and consequently what he told the president at all is little by shouting at topic and saudi president rob is not helping us in going down it's pushing their prices up especially after his withdrawal from the nuclear agreement with iran he is not helping him self and therefore he is not helping the united states or we're peaceful out of that. and i know it's kind of asking you to look into a crystal ball a bit here about but based on how things are currently the geopolitical situation right now and rising oil prices are good for those poor countries that have to rely on it like their south american countries it's not so good necessarily for consumers airlines and the like but where do you see oil prices had a is that right is going to continue. well based on the fundamentals of the global

oil by. man for oil and china's third a stronger or i think prices projected to go well below eighty five that is even possibly hitting two hundred dollars a share in next year however i hasted to add in a previous interview with out of key said if heard of price for oil is one hundred two hundred thirty that others that is good for the global economy because the biggest three chunks is the global economy namely the oil in the city the economy of the oil producing companies and the global investments all benefit from high oil prices and we have seen what the adverse damage the collapse of oil prices says twenty fourteen goes to the global economy i'm sure there's a hedging going on right now in your industry for another member some of the

international oil economists thanks here inside the safe. thing. u.s. national security advisor john bolton's announced that america is reviewing all international agreements that would expose it to the international court of justice let's get more on this now live to our washington correspondent american high that was causing washington to stop backing out of these agreements so hastily. well to simplify it a bit what the u.s. is withdrawing from exactly is an optional protocol on disputes to the vienna convention which will prevent countries like iran and palestine from suing the u.s. at the hague and national security adviser john bolton tried to justify the decision by perpetrating a provision as a of violations of u.s. sovereignty citing a case brought on by palestine contesting the decision to move the u.s. embassy from tel aviv to jerusalem in his statement to a ball it went out of his way to take a dig at palestine calling it. so called state of palestine he then went on to

announce that this administration would be reviewing all international agreements but leave the us dollar bill to things like accountability and international law saying that republican administrations of the past had left agreements like this one for this very reason but let's check out how bolton explained it we will commence a review of all international agreements that may still expose the united states to purported binding jurisdiction dispute resolution in the international court of justice the united states will not sit idly by as faceless folate its size claims are brought against us. earlier today pompei announced to the world the us was leaving a friendship treaty with iran that established diplomatic ties with the country back in one thousand nine hundred fifty five and it was apparently a response to the i.c.j. ruling that order washington to lift iranian sanctions on humanitarian goods which

pump a zero describes as iranian propaganda. or as attempt to interfere with the sovereign rights of the united states to take a lawful actions necessary to protect our national security and iran is abusing the i.c.j. for political and propaganda purposes of course this isn't the first time the us has showed a complete disregard for international law earlier this year the u.s. withdrew from the human rights council now seeing that this is happened it leaves one question how will the u.s. or any other western country for that matter be kept in check without an effective international governing body and it looks like of this move might just revive those discussions with the u.s. putting in south above a modest man but also those countries that probably don't feel they've got recourse to action now ok so maybe calm and washington thanks for that well ultimately video agency has been asking people in town what they think about the international court ruling on lifting some of the sanctions. they are not the world knows that the us

is while aided the war they don't have them all know their own words they signed the nuclear deal and now they've changed their mind even those problems with our country accepted that this act is illegal donald trump it's crazy really crazy what is is same when he doesn't understand what his same. officials and even civilians say we should stand up against america's excessive demands this ruling will not please mr trump and his friends and we will see their reaction but it will be futile on the card that in the us today against human rights the hague ruin is completely sound food medicine thirty dollars an old go towards people slowly hoods they should never have to leave the. political analysts say at my stuff because trash and believes that washington is too focused on itself and that affects a tattoo to international law and treaties the u.s. believes that it's an exceptional state as president obama stated and he believed in that president trump is a real manifestation of this wrong idea that the u.s.

is exceptional all other nations should abide by their rules and regulations except for the united states therefore the u.s. is adamant to do all of the law it has proved to be an irresponsible actor and it's been you know this respecting international treaties rules as well as the remains under president donald trump the situation has been even worse in the meantime the sanctions play a pivotal role for the united states current policy against iran to intimidate and pressure iran into negotiations therefore i believe that donald trump and his administration with knocked abide by the law. and a historic move north and south korean soldiers have begun removing landmines from the dominican rhizome which separated the two nations for more than half a century the buffer. zone runs for two hundred forty eight kilometers and was

created when the cease fire was declared in this korean war in one nine hundred fifty three. now it's believe that these are some of the first pictures of the operation in action around two million mines are thought to be scattered between the border fences which are guarded by hundreds of thousands of troops the agreement to clear the mines and destroy guard posts was agreed last month after the two leaders met in pyongyang or during that summit north korea agreed to demolish its nuclear facilities and test sites and accepted international inspections both nations agreed to eliminate so-called war dangers and set up the pieces own on their shared border the leaders pledge to connect railways and roads between the two countries and help families divided by the korean war to meet once again also vowed to make a joint bid for the twenty thirty two summer olympics. first it was the presidential election and that alleged assault on american democracy will now russian trolls are up to something even more sinister they've had a galaxy not so far far away apparently targeting hollywood in the star wars franchise as explained. hey america they stole your election

hey britain they stole your dream of a united europe democracy will never be the same because of russian memes thralls boughts well surely there is something still sacred in western culture are off limits to the russians. oh no the kremlin folks even got their hands on star wars russian trolls weaponized style was criticism as an instrument for information warfare with the purpose of pushing for political change this was from a real study by a brave jet i call or i mean who claims there's been a force that was fighting to make the last jet i fail wow thirty seven pages

remember how the movie got booed at when those need fans couldn't forgive the director for spoiler alert killing luke skywalker and forgive him for going against all the tropes so dearly cherished by the fandom remember how the star wars lovers army even campaign to fund a remake well now you know who did it the sitz sorry the russians had a great disturbance in the force as if millions of voices suddenly cried out to suddenly decide to prove it the guy behind the research analyzed almost a thousand online messages for the director and his result was more than half of the hate tweets came from trolls some of them were russian. the director didn't just pay attention he shared the link to the study with his twitter followers. looking forward to reading it but what the top line describes

is consistent with my experience online well some vans got even more disgruntled when they said they found their own tweets in the research it was a bad movie highly unlikely that it was a dry run for bots to practice we hated this film too loved rogue one but were totally underwhelmed by the last gen don so much so that my oldest questioned if it is worth going to the cinema to see any more disney star was solid did nothing to make me change my mind. it wasn't disney not even the director it was the damn rusedski's. fighting fake news that's what we've heard from web search giant google right from the moment the first false report sneaked in they have to take the news problem very very seriously we have to think about what we can do there we have very clear

policies in place for just that some of our policies were moving really really fast with what we can control but now the spotlight is being turned on to google itself allegedly over a blunder of its own making an investigation by the u.k. times newspapers uncovered the search giant allowed fake websites to buy advertising space under terms like fake credit card the works of google offer the service for approximately one pound a click reportedly even came up with further suggestions offering to buy similar search terms to boost views many don't see it as a breach of the company's core values. we value honesty and fairness so we don't allow the promotion of products or services that are designed to enable dishonest behavior google was quick to respond on this though claiming that more than three billion so-called bad ads were blocked last year alone technology consultant bill muse says the greatest effort though is focused on the most profitable areas and that fact checking isn't top of the list i think it's notable that where we're looking at areas where they generate the most money for

their own services and that is in the targeting of they have put a lot of resources into making the algorithms far more sophisticated where they have lacked sophistication such as in the identification of insight for materials inappropriate materials and some of the fraudulent activity that we're looking at today those are areas which aren't actually front and center in terms of the right business and therefore there's been less results put into these areas in terms of making the algorithms more sophisticated what we need to see is google and facebook and others stepping up and actually improving those algorithms otherwise they're going to face some fairly draconian regulation. donald trump's arm twisting and it's possible influence on oil prices it's a topic president vladimir putin's been addressing this wednesday speaking at a major energy forum in moscow he suggested in no uncertain terms that the american

presidents no one but himself to blame for the recent spike in oil prices but if there was a good deal we had a very nice meeting with the american president in helsinki if we had touched on the subject of oil price and influence i would have told him if you want to find the main culprit for the oil price hike you just have to take a look in the mirror which it's true geopolitics do play a role in oil price hikes it's of that's a fact our president putin didn't leave any one second guessing his opinion on a few issues during a panel session earlier this wednesday now for more on what was said let's go live to our to correspond. option of a high the present tense been on the move today as we know short blunt also says well. well it's true of the russian president just held a one on one talks with the austrian chancellor here in st petersburg it was actually a forced a meeting in just a year now speaking at the press conference right after the negotiations and both

leaders said that energy cooperation remains one of the key areas for the both countries and indeed both leaders talked a lot about energy corp gas supplies between the two countries and of course about the development of the north the stream carjacked now just as you mentioned the russian president has indeed been on the move this one state right before coming here to st petersburg he attended an international energy forum in moscow where he was asked to comment not only on the energy issue so but he was asked to comment on the odd there are pressing matters as well now as the russian president made quite a strong remark on this crippled case now the president lambastes the former double agent as a trader and also added that the whole cheese has been blown out of proportion saying that the sooner the media around the media noise around the screwball case and the better. of

a systems regarding the script how case this spy scandal is being off sufficiently kindled is going but i've seen some media outlets go as far as calling mr script probably human rights activists in france he's just a spy a traitor actually good. he's scum that's all really is and the whole information campaign has been launched surrounding this case i think it will come to an end one day and i hope sorry and the sooner the better. well we've heard a lot of time line steve. coming from the russian president at this wednesday as indeed it was the very day. of phenomenon a caution about in some petersburg thanks for that. california silicon valley is home to progressive employers like tech giants apple facebook and google's pair of alphabet all now everyone in the u.s. state will have to keep in step after it was made a legal requirement for at least one woman to sit on the board of directors in every company and the law says it must happen by the end of twenty nineteen as well

with that number increasing to three in the coming years firms could also face fines of one hundred thousand dollars or more for not complying. long awaited for many the bill however provoked concern with the state's chamber of commerce saying it will prioritize gender aspects of diversity. creates discrimination now against other people in favor of women who might not even be qualified i mean you're talking about putting one woman in place there and now we're having to mandate that where there are many women in the workplace that have been working hard so rather than hoping for encouraging in the workplace there to be equal treatment of women who do a good job now we're just regulating than mandating it which is undoubtedly going to cause anarchy in the workplace is going to cause dissension among people perhaps amongst other women who have been working hard wondering why this woman got chosen just to meet a certain quota i think it's absolutely ridiculous to suggest that there is not a single woman qualified you know for the board of any public company in california

i think we all know them and loads of women who are super well qualified in the question should be why haven't they been appointed to those schools already why have we put up with this. white male boys' club for so so loam i think there are lots of people on boards in california and all over the world you want qualified and i'm afraid to say the vast majority of them all men it only causes tension to grow against women against the very party that they're trying to eliminate discrimination over and so that's going to undoubtedly cause backfiring a lot more animosity against women not just from other men in the workplace who have been working very hard but from other women in the workplace who might not be chosen to fit this one woman quota type thing for women who aren't going to be doing that and so you know it's causing dissension it's really going against it and it's going to continue to backfire against that until we change who we are intrinsically as americans in the workplace allowing equal rights because there are deserving of it and not because a lot mandates absolutely california should and will on the back of the success of

this legislation for the legislation that mandates that there be a person of color on board and then to put people of color and so on and so forth i think that's absolutely not confer. that shouldn't be the case that women and people of color who incidentally many women are also people of color but we shouldn't feel like there's a sort of diversity spot and we all have to fight for it we should feel like we're all part of a movement that's working towards better balance on boards and working towards a future which people companies like this belong to all of us not to a tiny you know pie on my island style corporate elite which unfortunately seems to be solved you know a cup which no one can break at the moment that's it for now i'll be back in half an hour to update you again on all the developing stories we're across at altie h.q. in moscow thanks for watching. don't

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