subscribe to read people also get all lucky content for just twelve euros fifty per month. the mayor of new york brands a series of pastoral bombs targeting u.s. democrat politicians as an act of domestic terror while donald trump lashes out at the media for polarizing americans the media also has a responsibility just a civil tongue to stop the hostility a u.s. appeals court revives a lawsuit against major food producers appeasing them of supporting child slavery in the cocoa production industry and the syrian opposition delegation will meet

with the russian foreign minister on friday to discuss the last remaining militant stronghold of it leave the province we speak with the international committee of the red cross i was completely overwhelmed by the scope of destruction and what is now absolutely critical to ensure that these people can regain access to some basics are with this. fellow good afternoon welcome to three pm here in moscow you're watching r.t. international now after a string of intercepted parcel bombs sent to senior democrat figures in the u.s. police in new york are now at a restaurant owned by the actor robert de niro where another suspicious package has been found before that hillary clinton barack obama and other democrats who were targeted earlier as were the c.n.n. headquarters none of the packages detonated the mayor of new york described the

incidents which appear connected as domestic terror donald trump meanwhile has come under fire with critics saying his use of rhetoric has fueled hate though the president himself blames the media. ok let's get more details on this now he goes down a few joins us in the studio we heard there in new york saying this was an act of domestic terror. donald trump also speaking just tell us more about what he said well indeed strong words of being said in connection with what happened in the united states and don't trouble he's known as probably the least presidential person to be in that chair to be in the white house but still reacting to what happened he'd try to keep his cool and stay well presidential have a listen please times we have to unify we have to come together and send one very clear strong and mistake a ball message that there were threats of political violence of any kind have no

place in the united states of america. and what's been the reaction to that because he was calling for unity will see me for unity is a rare state one would argue to be found nowadays in the united states but well the midterms which are being right around the corner it's what like less than two weeks till the voting so they aren't helping either so both camps have tried to use this news peg. in their own purposes to achieve their own goals like donald trump has already blamed the media for the fallout saying that well he's called the media to keep its cool he said that while the should be held responsible they should keep certain tone that's what that's what he tweeted literally a few just a few minutes ago but eve of course so he was in one corner he was in the blue corner and in the red corner where everybody else. as far to the larger national effort to bridge the divides and bring people together the media also has

a responsibility to set a civil turn and to stop the hostility and constant negative and oftentimes false attacks and stories have to do with. i'm not one who sees equal blame spread all around our president cannot escape special scrutiny he is at the head of the hate parade and way too often clearly reading prepared remarks at a rally he seemed not to give a damn and it's not just the c.n.n. attacking trump but everybody ganged up on him and not just him and in fact he's doughty vanka trump came under fire for supporting fathers called for unity but trump did get his fair share of hate too and basically everybody kept saying that it is trump spearheading the hate train train as you've heard and interestingly enough there have been some unconfirmed reports which showed the pictures over as

of one of the explosive devices and apparently again it's unverified and apparently the flag there was this flag looking like an ice and flag but instead of the arab letters on it it had a catchphrase of a famous american comedian that's the catch phrase. this is. do work. with a fake southern accent so really again we can't verify this but if it's true it doesn't take a genius to to and to see this guy this character this guy is playing on stage to be a very stereotypical trump supporter so like everything is right now is being done to showcase to to point the finger trumpet that he is heading the hate while trump supporters for example in their own turf are pointing for example at

a new york times article that almost openly called for for violence against trump so really what we have here most importantly we have the midterms and with such a story you're right before the vote it's not going to die down any time soon a big political football you might call it thanks you go there was a. done. meanwhile tensions are also heating up at the us mexico border as a large migrant caravan approaches the frontier there and with the midterm elections looming as we said it's become central to political debate. i've been watching for weeks as the caravan came up i'm not letting them in and not coming here and they're not coming and. everyone in this room is an immigrant you know who are no white house and so a little bit of a different picture he was talking about this caravan the caravan the caravan.

there has been assured of the illegal immigration recently a caravan of immigrants was stopped by a group of flag waving protesters ministration official say they're working as efficiently and as effectively as possible the u.s. government doesn't give them any necessities when they dropped off the bus station . that shows you the challenge the trouble ministration had in dealing with the crisis they inherited from the obama administration who got a free pass from the media on causing this crisis what happened to the democratic party as one said bill clinton president obama understood that border security helps define a country you. better secure and prevent some of them straight this is a moral and humanitarian crisis we simply cannot allow people to pour into the united states undetected undocumented this is what we just got from president obama he writes immigration can be

a controversial topic my administration acted to lift the shadow of deportation from these young people and we are a better country than one that shares families apart we turned it into a great political football and people are still all kinds of political friends. did president obama really. did president obama really poured more people than any other president in total president obama had deportee more than two point five million undocumented people by twenty fifteen. immigration beach house look a little too when there is obviously a policy or material there are some ships going out i'm. not particularly better. on both sides and i think when we get you know a dozen days away from. such a vital ally action to surprising. and i think the question is how what do you

manage in the kind of rhetoric from the right you know last half hour we're not just a lot of people going through that next time that. now in the world's poorest countries around one in four story children are engaged in child labor that's according to unicef the un's child aid fund in particular cases of child slavery in the cocoa production industry have in recent years become more prominent. able to do better than the slowest while. what the u.s. federal appeals court on tuesday revived a lawsuit against food producers nestlé and cargill company a group of former child slaves from mali accused the companies of supporting forced child labor by purchasing cocoa from ivory coast. the former child sleeve so waited to long for justice in this case in some the allegations being

a picture of overseas slave labor the defendants perpetuated from headquarters in the united states the plaintiffs said that the company's provided financial and technical support see why every case farmers in order to guarantee the cheapest source of cocoa however nestlé has recently issued a statement denying all of the allegations. regrettably bringing such lawsuits the plaintiffs class action lawyers targeting the very organizations trying to fight forced labor force child labor is unacceptable and has no place in our supply chain we have explicit policies against it and are working with other stakeholders to combat this global social problem in twenty seventeen nestlé came out with its first report on progress to eliminate charge labor in its supply chain this outlined the main areas that the company had been focusing on well r.t. spoke to down colicky is a human and labor rights lawyer he thinks though that sic consumer pressure on

companies is the best way to change things. companies that can get away with forced labor child labor will use it because they want to maximize their profit it's simple as that and i think companies have found in cote d'ivoire the space to be able to use force child labor so they're using it you know that's why these lawsuits are important because they force these companies hopefully to amend their actions i think in the case of a nestle for example i think consumer pressure boycotts can work absolutely they have in the past including against nestle itself which has been frankly a bad actor or in very different ways over the years. now the case information commission has fined facebook for failing to protect its users data in connection with the cambridge analytical scandal on the day the fine was announced apple c.e.o. tim cook gave

a damning speech at the european parliament in which he said that personal information is being weaponized by tech giants. every day billions of dollars change hands in countless decisions are made on the basis of our likes and dislikes our friends and families our relationships and conversations our wishes infielder. our hopes and dreams. these scraps of data each one harmless enough on its own are carefully assembled synthesised traded and sold. ok let's get more information after one situation if she joins us from our london bureau good afternoon and see if we were listening to tim cook's words there you'd think that would hit a wrong with wouldn't you at facebook. well indeed cook didn't really name any names there but of course facebook is one of those tech giants whose integrity has

been coming into the spotlight repeatedly and in this latest incident that we're seeing on ravel we know that the u.k. has information commissioner's office the i.c.a.o. which is. the country's independent data regulator day data protection watchdog rather has fined facebook with five hundred thousand pounds or six hundred forty four thousand dollars for the role that facebook played in the cambridge analytical scandal specifically failing to protect its users from their data being gathered when if you remember an app that just over three hundred thousand people had downloaded ended up gathering data of eighty seven million users some of that information was. said to have been passed to cambridge analytical that leader use that information to target politically people ahead of the u.s. presidential election in the i c o said one million of those people were in the

u.k. and the i.c.a.o. said that facebook had done this without clear consent. between two thousand and seven and two thousand and fourteen facebook processed the personal information of users by allowing application developers access to the information without sufficiently clear and informed consent and allowing access even if uses not downloaded the app but was simply friends with people who have. well facebook have said that they're reviewing this decision but should have done more at the time. when we respectfully disagree with some of the findings we have said before that we should have done more to investigate claims about cambridge analytical and taken action in two thousand and fifteen. well and to be clear this five hundred thousand . pound fine is the maximum possible a political fine applied under previous regulation which had to be used in this

particular case but it's being said that this fine could have been much higher given the new regulation that has been in place since me twenty and eighteen which would have meant a seventeen million pound fine or four percent of facebook's global turnover and indeed this number could also could have also been much higher given the fact that just in twenty seventeen facebook's annual revenue was forty point seven billion dollars. a lot of money ok thanks sassy that was. for us in london thank you. you're watching out international still ahead a delegation of syrian opposition forces is set to meet with the russian foreign minister here in moscow within the next twenty four hours or so we'll have the details on that plus of the stories just after the break.

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welcome back with r.t. now a delegation of syrian opposition forces is set to meet with the russian foreign minister sergey lavrov in moscow on friday the situation in series italy province more top the agenda the city sides were also discussed the launch of a so-called constitution committee for syria this is seen as a key step towards finding a political solution to the crisis in the country well after seven years of war italy province is now the only remaining militant stronghold in the country there are an estimated thirty thousand there including ten thousand terrorists that's according to the u.n. a deadline for militants to pull out of a buffer zone around the province imposed under

a turkey russia brokered deescalation deal was recently extended roughly three million civilians live in a delayed many of them fleeing the region. i. figured we were living in a camp life was difficult there was no aid no bread no water everything was scarce the situation was terribly bad well after the second there is barely any shelter in winter and in summer you would suffer from the heat that was our life. where dominick still hot is the director of operations at the international committee of the red cross and has just returned from eastern guta it is a former militant stronghold in this recently regained by the syrian government. just returned from eastern court yesterday. i have to say i was

completely overwhelmed by the scope of destruction in the eastern i think i have never seen anything like this in my twenty seven years of career based international committee of the red cross the scale of the needs starts to emerge it's starting to emerge and definitely there will be a need for huge support for all the people who are living there in these areas affected by conflict as well as for those who are returning east. of. moscow. approximately three even more than three million people used to live there and now it's only three hundred fifty thousand and in the place where i was nearly ninety percent of the infrastructure is completely destroyed you see entire neighborhoods that are at the steroid houses that are become have become completely

unbelievable. is what i was talking about the people who are back and people who are living there they can fend for themselves some of the basic needs we are distributing food on a daily basis together with the syrian arab red crescent what is now absolutely critical is to ensure that these people can regain access to some basic services such as water sanitation hales and here there is still a lot to do and again together with the syrian arab red crescent see he's making a very serious contribution. well. particularly concerned about the possibility of escalation. of violence in that there are up to three million people living in this province.

would simply result in a humanitarian disaster so i very grateful for all the efforts that have taken place in the past few months and hopefully we'll continue to avoid escalation. leap because as i said this would result in a very very serious humanitarian disaster. the whole ward has been watching the syria conflict for a force for seventy years and we have all known for a very long time that this is and continues to be the war conflict that we see very very long and yet there doesn't appear to be sufficient political convergence to bring this conflict to an end so i truly hope that we see

the end of that we will now see the end of this conflict so that humanitarian aid can finally reach all the people of syria who are sold desperately longing for peace and need to be supported for a long time to come. definitely do all we can to convince. all those who are supporting the humanitarian effort been syria to continue supporting the people of syria as i said if anything needs are just going to grow all in the coming months and years and really. the i.c.r.c. use consarned to continue our efforts at the same level as in the past few years because now people are also are all also getting more accessible and therefore we can do more and we absolutely need to make sure that we can maintain the

humanitarian effort that the levels of the previous years. the border between bosnia and croatia has seen yet more violence between migrants and police is hundreds attempted to cross into the. migrants demanding to. be seen getting. yes it did police who responded by firing tear gas to. disperse the crowds several people were left injured in the scuffles gracious become one of europe's main entry points for migrants hoping to reach wealthier countries such as france and germany but croatia is reluctant to accept the migrant quotes is creating a stumbling block in talks to resolve the migrant crisis. now today does see the start of nato as largest wargame since the end of the cold

war tens of thousands of troops as well as warships and planes arrived for the drills in norway which shares a border with russia but this is an important day because trenching sure is neutrals and biggest exercise since the end all the cold war. does annoy you it is fictitious but the lessons we learn will be real or the russian defense minister has expressed his concern about nato has increased military activity near russia's borders he said that it's reached

a level not seen for nearly thirty years. well the. need to use military activity at the borders of russia has reached an unprecedented post cold war level the scope of operational military training at our borders is expanding and becoming more intense bloc countries are engaged in offensive drills the aim of this is increased capacity to swiftly deploy troops across europe. has been aggressive towards many countries as in wars with a number of countries right now has military in about one hundred seventy two countries has about twenty times the number of foreign military bases as all other countries combined and i see these new war games close to russia as a further incident aggression in this case towards russia the united states made a promise after the fall of the soviet union that it would not go into knots in nato into the warsaw pact countries or the former soviet countries and

today it's in thirteen of those countries so it it never abided by that this is clearly an aggressive move on the part of the united states and nato in my opinion . and that's how things and i can say fast that i hear not a more news in the headlines in just over often. after world war two we ruled the world we had the last call we had the soundest currency we had low interest rates and we were american century ready to go. like the lottery winner. here we are twenty eight

having kind of. prosecution will need to become almost. a fall from design. where you push. the threat of fines. by the number one perceived to i mean yeah i'm yasmeen doubt political pressure on the only moon controlled you know through security jenison knows what opponents bundled up business models he was my american corporations jadhav was sold on could be mental disease has a new album use the controls on the scene and the solution. is up in a situation where people don't. notice when he saw small dogs it is just really really came to an investigative documentary. ghost war on oxy. to

seventeen years of war in afghanistan the country is stuck in a vicious cycle of violence elections assassinations and reconciliation told with the world around afghanistan changing will the country be able to escape its bloody cycle. later. this is pulling bus broadcasting around the world and covering the world of business and finance i'm part shelton of washington we're glad you're on board thanks for being here coming up today we look at some kompany is including boeing u.p.s. ford and microsoft which are just releasing earnings will be joined by adam mesh of the atom trading group was standing by and will take

a look at oil prices and get an update on that humongous oil spill in the gulf of mexico with our team have injure plus as mcdonald's has also reported earnings we take a long look at the international business from a good bad and ugly perspective here we ford which an eligible highly joined us and later series the iconic retailer is not only going down but going down hard steve mall for a helpless look at the last bit of life in the fabled company as today sears stock was delisted from nasdaq all that directly ahead but first we had some headlines let's go. tim cook the chief executive of apple the world's largest tech company is calling for legislators to pass a federal privacy law in the keynote address to the fortieth international conference of data protection and privacy. commissioners and brush mr cook

referenced recent privacy and data scandals before warning that consumer data is being quote weaponized against us with military efficiency in order to build what he called a data industrial complex making his point clear mr cook said all of this should quote unsubtle us it does i believe him mr cook's position his company as a leader on privacy and through some shade it rivals by noting that desire to put profits over privacy is nothing new the solution according to the apple c.e.o. our privacy laws to protect consumer rights to limit data collection to know which data is being collected to access and correct what is held that may be not correct and to secure the use of people's personal data. while saudi arabia's royal family is trying to soothe and.