i know took any salsa on those it is just some really really came to an investigative documentary. ghost war on oxy. a series of bomb threats against top political and media figures continues for a second day in the united states that as president trump the american media argue over who's to blame for the state of disarray. a very big part of the anger we see today in our society is caused by the purposely false and in accurate reporting of the mainstream media that i referred to is fake. facebook's fine for breaching privacy rules in the u.k. that's apple's boss claims internet giants weaponize ing personal information.

a syrian opposition delegation will meet the russian foreign minister this friday the main focus of the talks will be the last remaining militant stronghold we hear later from the red cross i was completely overwhelmed by the scope of destruction what these now absolutely critical to ensure that these people can regain access to some basic services. they welcome to our to international law from moscow and daniel hawkins wherever you are tonight thanks for joining us this hour. i want total nine suspicious packages have been found by police across the u.s. all were addressed to major political and media figures along with cnn's new york h.q. as well as others now the mayor of new york describe the incidents which do appear

connected domestic terror donald trump meanwhile has come under fire with critics saying his use of rhetoric has fueled hate the president himself blames the media earlier my colleague andrew farmer spoke to our egos off. oh trump well he's known as probably the least presidential figure to be in office in a long time to hold the top job but reacting to what happened he tried to keep his cool in these times we have to unify we have to come together and send one very clear strong and mistake a ball message that acts or threats of political violence of any kind have no place in the united states of america. but that doesn't appear to have been the reaction well no unity one would argue is a red state found in the united states of america right now and. it's less than two weeks before the midterm vote so that isn't helping at all basically both camps the conservatives and the democrats they have been trying to spin the whole situation

in their own favor now we don't know trump he's already talked a lot about this he has tweeted blaming the media for spearheading the hades he said that they are hateful beyond description that was in tweed but that was not the only thing that he had to say as part of a larger national effort to bridge the divides and bring people together the media also has a responsibility just a civil tone and to stop the hostility and. 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 so trump in the red corner mainstream media in the blue corner so to speak and the c.n.n. by no means were the only ones ganging up on trump everybody jumped on him in fact not just him his daughter a van. trump came under fire she was attacked for supporting her father for this call for unity trump did also get his share of hate because many many journalists and pundits have blamed him for you know cultivating of this culture of hatred now adding gasoline to these flames are unverified reports and images of one of the explosive devices found allegedly showed a depiction of something that looked like an islamic state flag but instead of arabic letters there what it had that was a catchphrase of a very famous american comedian and here's the comedian it with his catchphrase it's like.

again it's verified whether or not that catchphrase was on the but if it was it doesn't take a genius do two and two and get that character this comedians playing on stage is pretty much the most stereotypical image of a trump voter so right now it looks like the democrats have a it's a bit of a blessing for them in a twisted way that this thing happened especially when no one thankfully know nobody was killed or even so they are trying to spin it in such a way that donald trump is to blame while donald trump and his camp are trying to spin it in a completely different way and well one thing to know for certain is that as mid-terms draw closer this isn't going to change it's going to just get worse a media and legal analyst society in the u.s.

has been polarized now for quite some time. hillary clinton others talk about you know rancorous you know the tenor of just what it's all over the place. it's everywhere there is also on another wave if you will rhetoric and that is various democratic leaders maxine waters in eric holder who are saying you know go out there and when you say you had trump supporter in our restaurant and have at a gas station north or somewhere you get in their face and when they go low we fight and this rhetoric granted not on the level of pipe bombs and white powder but this is what we've been talking about all over the place. meanwhile tension so also on the rise in the u.s. over law and smuggling caravan which is approaching the country's border with mexico with midterm elections looming it's become highly politicized issue. i've

been watching for weeks as the caravan came up i'm not letting them in and not coming in and they're not coming and. everyone in this room is an immigrant you know who in the white house and so a little bit of a different picture he was talking about this caravan the caravan the caravan caravan. there has been a sure illegal immigration recently caravan of immigrants was stopped by a group of flag waving protestors ministration official say they're working as efficiently and as effectively as possible the u.s. government doesn't give them and assess these when they dropped off the bus station . shows you the challenges 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 due to its high. the border security prevent people from actually believe that this is a moral and humanitarian crisis we simply cannot allow people to for 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 so we are a better country then one that shares families apart we turned it into a great political football and people are still all kinds of political. 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 becomes a political issue when there is obviously a policy on the table or some shifts going on this particular matter that is being

made on both sides and i think when we get you know a dozen days away it's. such a vital election to surprise me. and i think the question is what do you manage in the kind of rhetoric from both the right you know last half hour we're not just going to people go through the next time that. facebook has been fined by the u.k.'s information commission over the cambridge analytical scandal the commission said the company has failed to protect user data this comes as awful as boss tim cook gave very damning speech at the european parliament claiming possible information has been weaponized by tech giants. every day billions of dollars changed hands in countless decisions are made on the basis of our likes and dislikes our friends and families our relationships and conversations

our wishes. our hopes and dreams. each one and its own are carefully assembled. across one of the. turmoil surrounding. the i.o.c. here in the u.k. which is the independent data protection regulator have slapped facebook with a five hundred thousand pound fine for the role they played in the cambridge analytical scandal specifically failing to protect their users personal data when an app that was downloaded by just over three hundred thousand people ended up gathering information of eighty seven million people sharing some of that information with cambridge analytics that was later said to have been used for targeted political advertising in the time during the u.s. presidential election and the i.c.a.o.

said that as many as one million of those people were in the u.k. and the i.c.a.o. says that this information was allowed to be gathered 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 their information without sufficiently clear and informed consent and allowing access even if users have not downloaded the app but were simply friends with people who had well a facebook have said they're reviewing this latest find that was announced but should have done more at the time while we respectfully disagree with some of their 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 this amount of five hundred thousand pounds we have to be clear that it is the biggest possible fine given the existing regulation that was used that had to be used on this case

despite the fact that there is new regulation now in place since may twenty eighth he and that would have actually increased that number too much much larger amount which would have been seventeen million or a four percent of facebook's global. turnover which is obviously a very different number however critics are saying that still these these numbers are minuscule given the fact that facebook's annual revenue just in twenty seventeen was forty point seven billion dollars we shouldn't sugarcoat the consequence of. this is surveillance. and these stockpiles of personal data serve only to enrich the companies that collect. this should make us very uncomfortable it should serve a loss. a quarter of all children and some of the poorest countries in the world

are trapped in charlotte that's according to unicef with the cocoa industry becoming an area of growing concern. over the. where u.s. federal appeals court on tuesday reinstated a lawsuit against food producers nestlé and cargill a group of former child slaves from mali accuse the companies of supporting forced child labor or purchasing cocoa from ivory coast the former child slaves 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 the company's provided financial and technical support to ivory coast farmers in order to guarantee the cheapest cocoa nestlé has so far denies any wrongdoing. 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 twenty seventeen nestlé published its first report on its progress in eliminating child labor and its supply chain in detail the main areas the company had been focusing on human rights lawyer dan kovalchuk believes consumer pressure is the best way to bring about change. companies that can get away with forced labor child labor will. well use it because they want to maximize their profits simples that and i think companies if they're owned in code will do for the space to be able to use force child labor and so that's why so they're using it that's why these lawsuits are important because it forces companies hopefully to amend their action 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. back with more news just after this short break. join me every first week on the alex salmond show and i'll be speaking to guests of the world of politics or. i'm showbusiness i'll see you then.

they put themselves on the line to get accepted or rejected. so you want to be present. to the right to be approached this is like them before. the more people. interested in the why. they should. trump takes to the telephone russia and china listen and learn that's the headline grabbing story by the new york times sizing anonymous officials the article claims

chinese and russian spies apparently top donald trump's i phone which he still uses the shots old friends they hope to obtain information to use against him but all those named in the story have knocked the allegations medina question over explains . the new york times has published an article that has been raising plenty of eyebrows but the article says that the u.s. president's aides have repeated warned the president that his cell phone calls are not secure but still donald trump refuses to give up his phones while of the u.s. president donald trump decided to comment on this article as he usually does using his twitter he wrote that the article was so in caracas and he also added that he uses only government phones well also at a daily briefing at the chinese foreign ministry spokeswoman said that jordan a list of behind this particular article were trying to win an academy award for

best screenplay and she also added that that was another piece of avodah that the new york times is making fake news new issued bomb first the new york times should understand that by publishing this kind of reports it's creating new. figure news. for those who fear my phones are being hacked hallway mobile phones can. we let you do that here in moscow we decided to ask russia's foreign ministry spokeswoman marty has a hard about to also comment on this article and this is another example of our absurd conspirator absolute and absolute world behind the looking in the newspapers didn't show any concrete sources during your starfish or information and your talks about throwing talk to the president of the united states the united states of america was brazenly talking for example the german chancellor and this information

was confirmed as you can see average one the mentioned in this article seems to disagree with it but what they do agree on is that it simply is not true. the border between croatia has witnessed yet more violence between moderates and police as hundreds attempted to cross into the european union. migrants demanding to enter croatia could be seen getting aggressive with police who in turn responded with tear gas and buttons the despised crowds several people were left injured in the scuffles has become one of europe's main entry points for migrants hoping to reach wealthy countries such as france or germany or is reluctant to accept e.u. migrant quotas created a stumbling block in troops to resolve the crisis. in other headlines at least two people have reportedly been killed and one other missing has major

flooding affects the south of russia the region's been swamped since wednesday hundreds of people have been evacuated from the area roads bridges and buildings are said to have been swept away as well around nine villages have also been left without power local transportation in the region has also been suspended with forecasters predicting more heavy rain is likely to hit the area and cause potential landslides. a delegation of syrian opposition forces is set to meet the russian foreign minister in moscow on friday the situation in syria is a province will top the agenda of course the launch of a so-called constitution committee for syria is also on the books this is seen as a key step towards finding a political solution to the crisis after seven years of war it 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 united nations

a deadline for militants to pull out of a buffer zone imposed deescalation deal brokered by turkey and russia was recently extended about three million civilians live in it and many of them are fleeing the region. 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 here is barely any shelter in winter and in summer you would suffer from the heat that was our life. dominick still hot is the director of operations at the red cross he has just returned from the former militant stronghold of eastern ghouta which was retaken by the syrian government. 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 in the place where i was the nearly ninety percent of the infrastructure is completely destroyed you see entire neighborhoods are at the steroid houses that have become completely unlivable what is now absolutely critical is to ensure that these people can regain access to some basic services such as water sanitation pails. particularly consarned about the possibility of escalation. of violence in that there are up to three million people living in this province. in there would simply result in a humanitarian disaster. we have all known for

a very long time that this is and continues to be the wars 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 will now see the end of this conflict so that humanitarian aid can finally reach all the people of syria who are sole desperately longing for peace if anything needs are just going to grow in the coming months and years and really. continue our effort at the same level as in the past few years because now people are also getting more accessible and therefore we can do more and we absolutely need to make sure that we can maintain the humanitarian effort at the levels of the previous years and that's it for this hour from the team of myself here at r.t.

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sign. i. welcome into the alex savage you to these are majors not tougher problems to seek building support for bricks and strategy in the house of commons last week we explained why the unsolved irish border problem has left her with eye to majority elect a chamber for anything resembling her checkers plan today we examine whether dining streets position is about it's become a catered further by a legal challenge from scotland and from that to dish no any of bricks it in the house of lords but first your tweets your messages and your e-mails we hear from

healy he says i'll examine interviews and analysis are the more serious political objective insights in the brics process thank you ali michael says the tories threatened to scotland voted yes on independence that would be a hard border between scotland and england yet they're fighting desperately to have no border between northern islands and republic of ireland make says a peg the chairs are so confident that the u.k. population is behind them why are they so afraid of a second referendum on e.u. membership interesting question mick jones says i find it quite humorous that we scotland are just size for wanting a second draft random but a course of conservatives want to second vote on bricks that clearly a hot topic this week james says the d.d.p. are holding us all to ransom john says this is the best political program by hand by a thank you very much george sean goes on to say labor don't have a clue what they want and finally says says only a general election can solve the situation not. at the end of last month there was

a potentially crucial development in the brics it drama the court of session in edge of russia was no less than the lord president presiding the first to case an article fifty to the european court of justice and luxembourg this case was brought by a cross party group of any peace m s p's and one m.p. to ask for a ruling on whether the infamous article fifty by which the u.k. government signalled its withdrawal from the european union last year could be reversed. by the flooding the key is to europe the scottish judges opens up the possibility that m.p.'s me by law have a new choice on breaks it to evoke article fifty and go back to square one this ruling arrived in the middle of the party conference season and it is fair to say was little reported in london news outlets however its potential significance is far reaching and just in case a prime minister was in any doubt she ran a charity of the s.n.p. the so m.p. support in the case reminded her of it last week thanks mr speaker it's reported

today that the prime minister wants the meaningful bullets to take place on the trente seventh of november the twenty seventh of november is the same day as the european court of justice will hear the scottish court's referral on the question of whether article fifty can be used to latch early revoked my question for the prime minister is is she afraid of m.p.'s knowing the answer to that question before we have the meeting. thirty three on the latest making assumption about the data meaningful vote and of course mr the negotiations and secondly no because the point about the article fifty of whether a lot of cool fifty can be withdrawn revote is that this government will not be revoking article fifty we're going to keep our defense but the prime minister may not have been as complacent about the court of session ruling i ship in the commons a mere three days later the government lodged a last minute appeal to try and stop the deferral to the european court of justice

the government clean confidence that is of the view of many political and legal observers one person with a foot in both of these counts is a form of scottish justice secretary kenny macaskill alex spoke to him from edinburgh tony welcome back to the alexander i'm sure oh thank you pleasure bike but this case that has been to the court the session i was no been saying to the luxembourg court of justice this could be a really big deal could you explain it to us. well it's almost unprecedented with the cases that have been sent by the scottish court to luxembourg for classification minimum unit pricing on alcohol was one and there's been other things but i write my brains i can't think of anything that wasn't restricted to the scottish to destruction in that something where scotland's going to be pivotal for the whole of the u.k. so it's a procedure that will clarify the law and scott.