once hearing that it would become a ghost town but i never thought in a million years i would see that and it's how it's happened. a series of bomb threats against top political and media figures continues for us second day in the us as president trump on the american media all give us

a 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 of the mainstream media that i refer to as fake. rome refuses to budge on its budget plan despite brussels demanding changes deputy prime minister luigi demaio says he knows why the e.u. isn't ok. 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. and facebook's fine for breaching privacy rules in the u.k. passes out pulls in both claims internet giants a weaponized thing personal information. a very warm welcome you want. r.t.

international with me thank you erin the top story this hour in total ten 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. and others as well the mayor of new york has described the incidents which appear to be connected as domestic terror donald trump meanwhile has come under fire with critics saying he's been inciting violence and you farmer spoke with artie's done of about the bomb threat. 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 rare state found in the united states of america right now and with midterms 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 donald trump he's already talked a lot about this he's tweeted blaming the media for spearheading this he said that the 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 effort to bridge the divides and bring people together the media also has a responsibility just a civil tone to stop the hostility cards to negative often. false attacks and stories have to do. not want to see

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. 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 ivanka trump came under fire as she was attacked for supporting her father for this call for unity trump did also get his fair share of hate because many many journalists and pundits have blamed him for you know cultivating of this culture of hatred now heading gasoline to these flames unverified reports and images of one of the explosive devices found allegedly it

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 is laid claim again. and again it's unverified whether or not that catchphrase was on the r u. d. but if it was it doesn't take a genius to do two and two and get that character this comedians playing on stage is pretty much the most stereotypical image of a trump vote and so right now it looks like the democrats they have a it's a bit of a blessing for them in a bowl and twisted way that this thing happened especially when no one thankfully know nobody was killed or even injured so they are trying to spin it. such

a way the 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 midterms drew close and this isn't going to change it's going to just get us. a film of a republican member of the missouri senate told us he believes the democrats to blame for the current atmosphere of hostility in the u.s. 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 of 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 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 us of a large migrant caravan which is approaching the country's border with mexico and with midterm elections looming it's become a highly politicized issue. and 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 saw a little bit of a different picture he was talking about this caravan the caravan the caravan.

there has been a sure legal immigration recently caravan of immigrants was stopped by a group of flags waving protesters ministration official say they're working as efficiently and as effectively as possible the u.s. government doesn't give them any necessity 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. to topple over security and 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 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 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. see on the table there were some shifts going on this topic and this particular event is being used on both sides and i think when we get you know a dozen days away from such a vital election it's not too surprising. and i think the question is what damage

in this kind of rhetoric from both the right and the last have we're not just those people but for the next time that this couple. has ruled out changes to it twenty nineteen budget plan last despite the commission given three weeks to change it claiming their visions on needed quote in the interests of italy osses called quarter breaks down the dissipates. brussels is sharpening its knife 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 to do for the first time as a commission is obliged to a. country that it was off budget to be blunt. but we seen no alternative to. it all and to do so it is in. the interest of the whole. the e.u. claims that italy's debt situation is out of control and that salvini is 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 this to pretty neat we won't change one comma in this document to. be you know to go into the we are not. that. on. the future. it 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 debt 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 all 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. . facebook has been fined by the u.k.'s information commission over the cambridge

analytical scandal the commission said the company had failed to protect use the data it comes as apple's both tim cook gave a damning speech at the european parliament claiming personal information. being weaponized by tech giants. 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 feel. our hopes and dreams these scraps of data each one harmless enough on its own are carefully assembled synthesised traded and sold. well our correspondent i'm necessary now has more 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 analytic 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 users. by allowing up location to access to the information without sufficiently clear and informed consent and allowing access even if use is not

downloaded the app 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's new regulation now in place since may twenty eighth 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 misc. given the fact that facebook's annual revenue just in twenty seven

thousand was forty point seven billion dollars we shouldn't sugarcoat the consequences. 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. so it's a common yemeni civilians are continuing to bear the brunt of the sounded like coalition's devastating bombing campaign but have an update on its latest deadly asked right after this short break stay with us.

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 the country be able to escape its bloody cycle. and.

welcome back the un's he wanted tarion aid agency has confirmed the deaths of twenty one people in a saudi coalition air strike close to the yemeni port city of data a warning you may find the following images upsetting the attack hit a fruit and vegetable market hospital chief say all the victims all civilians and children are among the dead first it shows the bodies lying on the ground in the aftermath of the tragedy this is how one witness described what happened. you know the one i mean. we were washington packaging the yorker and the plane came and hit us from above as we were working. the u.n. calls the yemeni civil war the worst manmade humanitarian crisis in the world with

twenty two million people in dire need of assistance up to fourteen million people are at risk of starvation the country has been in conflict since twenty fifteen when i coalition of arab states launched a military operation to defeat the rebels and restore the ousted yemeni government riad has repeatedly denied attacking areas where civilians were present. what we heard from writer and author abdel bari atwan who thinks that the international community should stand up against the military attacks on yemen. well i believe that the national community now is concentrating on that of the journalist. this actually. the crime itself should. make the international community concentrate on the bigger one the bigger mustard which is taking place more than three years and a half until now it is it is absolutely. unbearable it is hypocrisy of the international

community why they are silent is it because saudi is rich is 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 than a strong stand against this intervention in yemen to put an end. when time takes to the telephone and russia and china listen and learn as the headline grabbing story by the new york times citing anonymous officials the article claims chinese and russian spies apparently turn up at all times i thought which he still uses to chat to old friends they have to obtain information to use a gainst him but all those named in the story have mocks the allegations as we did our culture never explains. 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 refuses to give up his phone 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 while also at 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 you should bomb first the new york times should understand that by publishing this kind of reports it's creating new made a good news second 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 this is another example of our absurd skeered an absolute world behind the looking glass the newspapers didn't show any concrete sources during your official information and your talks about from 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 to form as you can see average one the mentioned in this article sends to disagree with that but what they do agree on is that it simply is not true. now a quarter of all children in some of the poorest countries are trapped in child labor according to unicef with the cocoa industry becoming an area of growing concern.

in the. world. a u.s. federal appeals court on tuesday reinstated a lawsuit against food producers nestlé and cargill a number a group of former child slaves from them from mali accuse the companies of supporting forth child labor by purchasing cocoa from the 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 denies wrongdoing regrettably in bringing such lawsuits the

plaintiffs class action lawyers are 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 published its first report on its progress in a limited eighteen child labor and its supply chain it detailed the main areas the company had been focusing on but human rights lawyer down cavalli believes consumer pressure has the best way to bring change. companies that can get away with forced labor child labor will. will use it because they want to maximize their profits simples that and i think companies have found in code to do or 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 they force its 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. one hundred r.t. we have to take your thoughts on all of our stories though do get in touch by following us on social media and even going to comment that don't have a count of the top of the hour for the latest. the priest who raped me when i was fourteen years of age was known to be a sexual abuser open he was ordained a priest the church knew about his offending behavior and they were going to continue to abuse from these ordination right through his entire career as a priest.

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thanks for being part of it. today coming up world trade organization is meeting in ottawa canada and absent are some key members namely the u.s. and china will go to canada for the latest and there are more earnings reports out john grace the c.e.o. of investors advantage joins us to take a look at some of the key names and bet almost a decade here isn't it point and change burst on to the we consider from whence they came and where they are going with christiane counterparts and there are growing pains that a t. and t. and netflix metra media consultant the host of the big picture right here in our here america holland could join us to discuss all that directly head but first let's get some headlines let's go. to the world's largest international cargo airline a flag carrier of hong kong cathay pacific airways ltd has disclosed hackers have breached the accounts of up to nine point four million cathay customers information

at risk reportedly includes e-mail addresses and passport numbers my guys passport numbers company officials also reportedly admitted some customer credit card information was stolen albeit without those three digit security codes airline management system hackers did not obtain any passwords the incident of the sequel to that hack we told you about before with british airways which they disclosed last month airlines are a prime target precisely because they handle it whole so much critical consumer information cathay says they flagged suspicious network traffic in march of this year and confirmed the hacking in may cathay did not and through a media question of why they waited so long to disclose the breach. they stock fell at the hang seng in hong kong of course on the news. the italian competition authority has fined tech giants apple and samsung five million euro's and five point six million dollars that's five point six billion dollars and five billion euros over to closures that software updates to their phone slowdown or disable the

devices especially expectable.