a series of bomb threats against top political and media figures continues for a second day in the u.s. that us president can 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 inaccurate reporting in the mainstream media. is fake.

rome refuses to budge on its budget plan despite brussels demanding changes that he promised. he knows why the e.u. isn't happy. this is the first italian target the e.u. doesn't like no surprise this is the first italian budget written in rome and not in brussels. facebook's fine for breaching probably see rules in the u.k. that says apple's boss claims internet giants weaponize and personal information. i am here in moscow you are watching r t international live. thanks so much for joining us this hour on the latest bomb scare to hit the united states radio station in washington d.c. he was reportedly evacuated on thursday after a suspicious package was. and in the building in the past two days parcels

containing crude explosive devices have been sent to a number of leading democrats and also critics of the president in recall internet and barack obama were among those targeted along with the headquarters of c.n.n. the mayor of new york has described incidents which appear to be connected as domestic terror donald trump meanwhile has come under fire with critics saying he's been inciting violence earlier my colleague andrew farmer spoke to r.t. as he goes down off about the bomb threats. 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 said a civil turn 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 avon. 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 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 this is like get. started laughing. again and 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 it's a bit of a blessing for them in a twisted way that this thing happened especially when no one thankfully no nobody was killed or even injured so they are trying to spin it in such a way that donald trump is to blame 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 to draw closer this isn't going to change it's going to just get worse. for more republican member of the missouri senate told us he will use the democrats are to blame for the current atmosphere of course the lity in the united states. well it is disappointing that that we've had such a rush to judgment state but i think you hit on the real key point that the democrats were looking terrible because one hundred percent of the violence was coming from the left and even encouraged by many on the left so this certainly has changed the narrative or at least put that on second page and now we're all talking about whether somebody on the right is engaging in violence well i understand that it is part of the the left in america and the democratic party generally to segregate people and say there's a war on women there's

a war on minorities there's a war on immigrants they're the ones that are carving us up into us versus them they have no interest in unifying so when somebody like hillary has no interest in unifying calls for unity i'm sorry that that doesn't work hillary why don't you just slip away and go enjoy your retirement. meanwhile tensions are also on the rise in the united states over launch migrant caravan which is approaching the country's border with mexico and with midterm elections looming it's become a highly politicized issue. i've been watching for weeks as the caravan came up 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 the caravan. there has been

a sure illegal immigration recently 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 . kuow to 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 talk to rather security and prevent any sort of actually believe that this is a moral and humanitarian crisis we simply cannot allow people to poor 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 sort of all kinds of political friends. did president obama really poured more people than any other president in total president obama had deportees more than two point five million undocumented people by twenty fifteen. immigration be found a political issue when there is obviously. ultimately what were some ships going out on this topic mr particular event is being made on both sides and i think when we get you know a dozen days away from. such a vital election not too surprising. and i think the question is how what damage you know the kind of rhetoric from both the right now in the last half hour we're not just little people but for the next time that. rome has ruled out changes to

its twenty nineteen budget plan that's the spot at the e.u. commission giving three weeks to change it claiming revisions are needed in the interests of italy ati's donal kauto breaks down the dispute brussels is sharpening it's nice in preparation for a new battle with rome for the first time the e.u. has flat out rejected a member states budget demanding a resubmission for the first time as a commission is obliged to. a country that it was off the budget to the plan. but we seen all. these to do so it is still into the whole. the e.u. claims that italy's debt situation is out of control and that solving these government needs to tighten its purse strings and fulfill its obligations the euro skeptics say it doesn't have anything to do with money since there are other states

with bloated budgets that have never felt such a heavy hand from brussels this is the first time in budget the e.u. doesn't like no surprise this is the first italian budget written in rome and not in brussels. you tell me an economy is healthy and this is an economic move that will give italy to stability it needs we won't change one comma in this document to . be you know to go to. the. on. the future. spain belgium portugal and slovenia have all been in violation of the e.u. agreements in the past and for years france has broken the three percent deficit threshold imposed on it by the e.u. as for debt it's been in the red since two thousand and two and only this year the second largest european economy received

a carefully worded letter in response asking all very politely to reduce its debts . we thank you for sending the front twenty nineteen draft budget that we received on october fifteenth we would like to ask you for more details the commission's preliminary assessment also indicates that the growth rate for france does not respect the reference rates of bit reduction in twenty nineteen so italy refused to be taken to heel by this double standard.

except the e.u. commissioner in charge of budgets didn't seem to find the stunt very funny even connecting the italian shushan and against to a potential quick path to fascism the episode of the made in italy shoe is grotesque at first you smile and we trivialize it because it's ridiculous but then we start getting used to this kind of muted symbolic violence and one day we wake up with fascism stay alert democracy is a fragile treasure or the draft budget would have seen over five hundred million dollars worth of cuts to defense spending while putting more money towards social welfare and tax cuts not exactly a sound way to revive fascism and certainly not a good way to be a shoo in with the new donald quarter r.t. . in other news facebook has been fined by the u.k.'s information commission over the cambridge i think a scandal that commission said the company had failed to protect user data this

comes as apple's boss tim cook gave a damning speech at the european parliament it claimed personal information is being weaponized by tech. every day billions of dollars change hands and countless decisions are made on the basis of our likes and dislikes our friends and families our relationships and conversations our wishes and fear. our hopes and dreams these scraps of data each one harmless enough on its own are carefully assembled synthesised traded and sold our correspondents are necessary. on the turmoil surrounding the tech giant. 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 process the person information of uses by allowing application developers access to the information without sufficiently clear and informed consent and allowing access even if uses have not downloaded the app but was 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 when we respectfully disagree with some of the findings we have said before that we should have done more to investigate claims about cambridge analysts ago and taken action in two thousand and fifteen this amount to 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 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 minister. 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 unsettle us here many civilians are continuing to bear the brunt of the saudi led coalition's bombing campaign will have an update on its latest deadly astroid just after this short break.

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the un's humanitarian aid agency has confirmed the deaths of twenty one people in a saudi coalition air strike close to the yemeni port city of hadera warning to viewers you may find the following images distressing attack fruit and vegetable markets hospital chiefs said all the victims are civilians and children are also among the dead photos shows the bodies lying on the ground in the aftermath of the tragedy this is how one witness described what happened. you know at the library i mean. we were washington packaging the yorker and the plane came and hit us from above as we were working. with the u.n. calls the yemeni civil war the worst manmade when it erin crisis in the world twenty two million people are in dire need of assistance with up to fourteen million risk of starvation the country's been in conflict since twenty fifteen when a coalition of arab states launched a military operation to defeat rebels and restore the ousted you have any government has repeatedly denied attacking areas where civilians were present and

we heard from writer and author. who thinks that the international community should stand up against the military attacks on yemen. when i believe that there is no community now is concentrating on that journalist. this actually. a crime in itself should. make the international community concentrate on the bigger one bigger muscle which is taking place in yemen in more than three years and up until now it is absolutely. unbelievable it is hypocrisy of the international community why they are silent is it because saudi is rich is it because they can't make money by sending weapons especially you know european countries and united states i don't believe this kind of hypocrisy is should continue there should be as stand as strong stand against this intervention in yemen to put down the. border between bosnia and croatia has

witnessed yet more violence between migrants and police as hundreds attempted to cross into the. margaret's the morning to enter croatia could be seen getting aggressive with police who responded with tear gas bottles to disperse crowds several people have to injured in the scuffles has become one of the europe's main entry points for markets hoping to reach wealthiest states like germany. was reluctant to accept e.q. margaret quote it's clear that a stumbling block in talks to resolve the crisis. when trump takes to the telephone russia and china listen that's the headline grabbing story by the new york times. officials the article claims chinese and russian spies apparently top donald trump so i phone which he still uses to chat to old friends

they hope to obtain information to use against him all those names in the story have more allegations but a question of experience. while the new york times has published an article that has been raising plenty of eyebrows 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 proof uses 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 the article was incorrect and he also added that he uses only government loans well also at daily briefing at the chinese foreign ministry spokeswoman said that jordan was behind this particular article we're trying to win an academy award for best screenplay and she also added that that was

another piece of that the new york times is making fake. bomb for. the new york times should understand that by publishing this kind of reports it's creating new that it made big news second for those who fear my phones are being hacked hallway mobile phones can be a good alternative we'll let you do that i here in moscow we decided to ask russia's foreign ministry spokeswoman marty has a hard about to also comment on this article but this is another example of our absurd disappeared or an absolute world behind the looking glass the newspapers didn't show any concrete sources during your official information and your talks about phone talking to the president of the united states the united states of america was brazenly tapping for example the german chancellor and this information was confirmed for me as you can see average when the men sent in this article it

seems to disagree with it but what they do agree on is that it simply is not true. at least two people have reportedly been killed and one of the missing has major flooding effects the south of russia the region's been swamped since wednesday this week hundreds of people have been evacuated from the area roads bridges buildings said to have been swept away with villagers also left without power local transport in the region has also been suspended for cost as predicting more heavy rain is likely to hit the area and cause landslides. from myself or the team here at r t micky our of my colleague will be here with you throughout the night to take you through the latest global headlines.

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after seventeen years of war in afghanistan the country is stuck in a vicious circle of violence elections assassinations and reconciliation talks with the world around afghanistan changing will the country be able to escape its bloody cycle. welcome to the alex savage to today's i'm a does not have her problems to seek both in support for her bricks and strategy in the house of commons last week he explained why the unsolved irish border problem has left her with its majority melech to chamber for anything resembling her checkers plan today we examine

whether dining street's position is about its recall because it further by legal challenge from scotland and from that to dish no any of bricks it in the house of lords but first your tweets are. yes just and your e-mails we hear from yearly who says alec summit 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 there 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 makes says a prank such as a super 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 assize for wanting a second draft arrange them but a course of conservatives want to second vote on brics it clearly a hot topic this week james says the holding us all to ransom john says this is the best political program by my own thank you very much jordan sean goes on to say

labor don't have a clue what they want and finally says says or only a general election can solve the situation. at the end of last month there was a potentially crucial development in the brics it drama the court of session in edinburgh 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. is asked 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 fighting the keys to europe the scottish judges opens up the possibility that m.p.'s may by law have a new choice on breaks it to revoke 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 joanna chatty of the s.n.p. the sole m.p. supporting the case reminded her of it last week thank you mr speaker it's reported today that the prime minister wants the meaningful bullshit take place on the train to 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 fifteen can be 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 to meet you can. thirty three on the latest making assumption about the data meaningful version 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 result is that this government will not be revoking article fifty we're going to think hard to fix it 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 that a file 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 fit in both of these counts is a form of scottish justice secretary kenny macaskill alex spoke to him from edinburgh kenny welcome back to the alexander i'm sure oh thank you pleasure by this case that it's been to the court a session and there's 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 retired cases that have been sent by the scottish court to luxembourg for clarification 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 judas section and that's something.