subject to the political pressures that could be borne upon them from. the saudis so we're going to see a real test of this because. all of the. cars coming out of saudi arabia is making people feel. a florida resident is charged with sending a string of mail bombs to a number of senior democrats and could now face up to fifty eight years in prison. the european court of human rights. to defend defaming the prophet mohammed as freedom of speech on the program. we should have free speech and he goes as

far as saying. it was wrong. people to use and abuse to become greece is the. people and the president of the. course of the calling for the removal of a world war one memorial as it only depicts. saturday morning here in moscow and. this i was top stories welcome to. the u.s. the justice department has confirmed that a fifty six year old. is the man in custody in connection with a recent wave of mail bombs targeting senior political figures officials say they identified his fingerprints and d.n.a. from one of the envelopes he allegedly sent. he has been charged today with fired

federal crimes including interstate transportation many explosive illegal mailing explosives threats against former presidents and certain other persons threatening interstate communications and assaulting current and former federal officers so let's look at what we know about the suspect so york he's apparently a supporter for years living in a van covered in pro trump bumper stickers so yoko also already has a criminal record he was previously convicted of coffee if found guilty of the attempted possible bombings he could face up to fifty eight years in prison among the targets of his thirteen packages were barack obama hillary clinton and c.n.n. meantime donald trump has condemned the incident. we will prosecute them him her whoever it may be to the fullest extent of the law.

we must never allow political violence to take root in america cannot let it happen and i'm committed to doing everything in my power as president to stop it the attempted bombings highlight how polarized the u.s. has become socially ahead of midterm elections in just over a week and this is confirmed by a new survey which found that eighty percent of americans think the country is greatly divided but also found that almost forty percent of those polled believe the situation will worsen the poll also revealed that among the most contentious political issues presidency economic inequality and race relations well a lawyer and a political activist a christian man shared a told us that there needs to be a concerted effort to bring people together. both sides have to tone it down both the president and the media and other political sectors have to come together and understand that we cannot continue sending these inflammatory comments on t.v.

and on social media because there are people who take it personally and then they think that they have a way to respond and this is one example and now is the republican side that has this crazy follower and we also had this democratic extreme left follower a few a few months ago when he attacked congressman scott lee so i think that we have to be very careful because this is becoming a real problem. and while many in the u.s. feel the divisions will only worsen some in the mainstream media initially pointing the finger at russia as being behind a possible bombs i have this fear that it could be some russian operation to designed to do what's happening now however recent polls are showing that more people are starting to doubt the mainstream media's coverage of russia a multi tales now with caleb maupin. a while back it might be weeks between any russia related stories in mainstream media but times have changed and now it seems

that no matter what the topic mainstream media finds a way to bring russia into it russia harvested american rage to reshape u.s. politics how the russians are trying to turn the tragedy to their advantage to target almost every major american social movement russian bot still pushing divisive past tags apparently accounts on social media even now so with stories of big bad russia playing round the clock on their television screens you would think that people living in western countries would be in a state of anti russian hysteria except they aren't according to a poll conducted by the french institute for public opinion it turns out that nearly half of americans and europeans don't buy into the russian coverage in the mainstream press france takes the lead when it comes to being wary of mainstream media russia reporting however across the pond people are slightly more trusting yet forty three percent of the u.s.

public is wary of the russian coverage around the clock so why are people less trusting well lately the russian coverage has gotten a little bit weird russia is being blamed for the controversy around football players kneeling during the national anthem rush is being encouraged of having stars like emma watson used in memes in order to troll teenagers russia is even being blamed for criticism of the last jet a star wars movie and a great disturbance in the force says millions of voices suddenly cried. some this time so we decided to show these headlines to new yorkers let's see if they can spot the fake ones are russian selling weaves on instagram. maybe it could be true it's also it's own street the woods or the kremlin backed trolls you stars like emma watson to spread discord in the west. really it sounds. more real sound real the. russian bots promote guns after florida school shooting.

yes that sounds to sound real hate for the last jet i was actually spread by russian troll. fake i don't think that was real i think this. is not a real headline trick question there all the headlines are all real and what you make of. it that's crazy you tricked me i can't believe the real headlines that doesn't mean they're real out of control. the media is a little hysterical want to talk about this stuff yes i think so clearly according to those headlines i think so trying to get a reaction out of. there just trying to you know stir up some sort of. breeze some americans buy it but a lot of others don't skepticism is everywhere it seems that rather than forming an anti russian mob a lot of americans have decided to question more cable mopp and r.t. new york. the european court of human rights has ruled that defaming the prophet

mohammad folds outside the limits of acceptable speech ok so a panel of judges reject an appeal from an austrian woman who'd been seeking to overturn a conviction for insulting islam. but the domestic courts comprehensively assess the wider context of the african statements and carefully balanced her right to freedom of expression with the right of others to have their religious feelings protected by consent of the legitimate aim of preserving religious peace in austria . the woman identified only as it held two seminars back in two thousand and nine in titled basic information on islam she allegedly used the classes to characterize the prophet as a paedophile that led to a conviction in twenty eleven for defaming religious doctrines and the find of nearly five hundred euros or appealed on the grounds of free speech had earlier also been rejected by the austrian courts so here we go to the reaction to the story from a journalist and that must say from the islamic human rights commission. this is

about faith of course muslims don't like that their prophet mohammed is being criticized but it should be in this instance you know we should have free speech i'm sorry as a muslim who will come to any sort of dialogue or discussion with any critic of islam as long as it is of all of you sit down and be taught but if somebody actually turns around the abuse and becomes abusive then that's a different kettle of fish it's a cultural discussions it happens in our societies so islam must be ready also to be tackled to be questioned about certain things that are not acceptable that are also legislations now against islamophobia why one people should be free to be islamophobia as some people are anti christian for anti-christian for example so it should be free we should have free speech and it goes as far as saying in some

instances that perfect mohammad was very wrong you know we cannot allow people to use the concept of freedom of speech which i actually i think is a very important. thing to have but we cannot allow people to use and abuse that to become racist demonize a group of people and then make him into others and there's no cure in this value and then we promote fascism come on come on anti semitism is racism clearly but islamophobia is against a religion and i can moderate it sorry not sort of even that is no no you didn't look you are you're you're really you're really hiding behind the fact of the mother is i don't want fascism to come back in the streets of europe there is no violence on the part of europeans to would still what's muslims they are welcome in europe but they must remain end of private sphere look muslims will come in europe

that is the. a racist thing to say you know these are people who are part and parcel of what the europeans say look what you mean no you're you're you're just saying we'll come off course there will come they're all streatham people who are all see them and they've been all season since two thousand of. the muslim minority so they don't need to say that they don't need you to will come they'd be long to australia this is of exclusion this language of otherness is exactly what i'm talking about the reality is that the concept of how sort of one set of rules on those for one community i don't have one fall into. the conflict in syria now into what appears to be its final phase people in the war we are a country still have a long way to go before finding reconciliation that's why leaders from turkey france germany and russia are gathering today in istanbul to outline steps for

a peaceful resolution that's cross live there right now our correspondent in the trying to standing by for us really a good to see you expectations for today's summit. rory good morning well we see all kinds of syria gatherings in the past but one like this never before and this is really something special out of the ordinary think about it on the one hand we've got the countries that are trying to push for peace in syria through the astronaut process minus iran and let's not forget that right now turkey is pretty much in charge there on a self-imposed mission of squeezing out the last remaining nusra and other affiliated terrorists out of it lead on the other hand germany france and turkey are the most powerful nato players in europe and yes you just can't help one thing

this allan donald. won't be around and stamboul on saturday now sis since this kind of event is just so new it is rather difficult to predict how the format is going to shape out but here's what the press secretary of latimer who told the media about it on friday. fronts in germany had participated in discussing serious problems and do it different from the issue of the days to reconcile different formats in order to synchronize which is negotiate and to attempt to identify common topics it is hard to say right away what subjects will be touched upon it will be the first discussion of this coming. well if that's not specific enough we can look at what the turkish media are saying about it and according to journalists here the things we're going to hear about on saturday are syria reconsideration reconciliation sorry the preservation of the demilitarized

zone in efforts to hold elections in the war torn country and also the return of displaced people and something that's very important for and is the presence of kurds in northern syria now also it's been hinted in the media that on over twenty fifth donald trump held a phone conversation with emanuel macron and according to the media the united states and france share the same security humanitarian and political objectives in syria that is something that was said so of course will be watching whether perhaps emanuel macron will be the one who will be trying to push the u.s. to denver through here and stamboul well again i can tell you that of course we don't know what the format is going to look like because the presidents have not

met like that when they want to to talk. about syria just yet so we'll be watching for you and also of course don't miss the arrivals that will be happening very soon as well all right alex easier trying to live in istanbul going to be an interesting summit today thanks very much. just on a quarter past the hour here in moscow we are back in just a moment. but

politicians do something to. put themselves on the line to get accepted or rejected . so when you want to be president. or somehow want to. get it right to be close this is like the full three in the morning can't be good. i'm interested always in the waters of our. city. good to have you with us today one of the u.k.'s top universities has found itself at the center of a controversy after the head of its student union cold for the removal of

a hundred year old memorial ordering soldiers who fought in the first world war correspondent anastasio checking up picks up the story. here at the university of southampton a student union president has caused a lot of outrage after she demanded a world war one memorial new movie scrapped the reason it features only white men mark my words we had taken downs a mural white man in the eunice senator room even if i have to paint or eat myself the problem is it's not just a random white man on the mural the image was painted in one thousand sixteen and is known to students who fought and died in the first world war without being able to complete their degrees so this remark to get rid of the mural drew a lot of criticism including from a descendant of the artist the sentiment behind the painting is wonderful it's awful to see women like this browsing off on twitter about something as idiotic as that this means that real issues then don't get discussed. i hope she will reflect

on what she has said and realize it has been conducted in poor taste those who know the history of our island are fully aware of and appreciate the involvement of black and asian soldiers against tyranny. the university told us this the comments made by the students union president regarding the rothstein mural and not shared by the university of southampton we have very proud to display the miro which serves as a memorial to all members of british universities who served in the great war this is far from the first time you can universities have been rocked with similar scandals or who would i. i i. despite an apology from the woman at the center of the controversy a petition to remove her from the post of student union president has been quickly

gathering supporters let's find out exactly what students at the university make of it all and we disagree with. all of our opinions there are people who are very enraged because it's like you're touching because you're something i narrated you're writing if you want and you are writing a story you're literally blaming these people died for your country and they couldn't get the degree you have the pleasure to. think they couldn't something real real and that's real i think history is something we kind of have to accept it rewriting it's not the right way that's denying i history like you can accept that it's happened and maybe it wasn't right ever but it's you know you can only write for. many different people for just what many. times over your history if that is what is supposed to white men it is for. the point every right i do hope that more people. on campus will be discussing it in greater depth.

just days away. without a job after a televised discussion about what is and what is not an acceptable. well it is racist because because of the situation but you do get in trouble if you are a white person who puts on the halloween or a black person who puts out a white face yeah we like that a black rat is a kid that was ok as long as you were dressing up like a character and. i defended the idea saying as long as it was as it was respectful and part of the hollowing costume it seemed ok well i was wrong and i am sorry. to not know historical significance of that she said something stupid she said

something indefensible she owes a bigger apology to the folks of color around the country people don't get to decide what's racist if i punch you i don't decide if it hurts or not you know there has never been a time in that in her forty seven years that blackface has been acceptable. where is a man oh man. i know of would be a murderer and guess what not a lot of black fulfillments you. think when they say is true in the words of the old spiritual i have gone black. and i can't go back. some time and i told will look over the sky and say what the hell born on earth

there were for live on other planets foreign whole r.t.t. . well if you already are a pro-forma liberal with left wing views there's no reason to fire you they didn't have something that they wanted to get rid of for say jimmy fallon or jimmy kimmel the late night comedy talk show host who both in the last ten years have been seen on television dressed as black people famous black people including black makeup on their faces nobody in the american entertainment business has been dented by their occasional forays into blackface except making kelly who was not liberal enough and got punished for exact that's the way n.b.c. and most american media does business liberalism first common sense way later. video has emerged of a truck driver and a. racist abuse that i caught out of

a sikh political candidate it depicts who is running for the city council. in southern australia. sunday saying as i thought he two year old businessman who has lived in australia for ten years and he owns a taxi company australian officials have slammed the calling saying a quote well known liked and respected member of the community he also welcomed his bid for office well we spoke to mr saying he described his disappointment about the actions of the truckin. i was quite shocked when i saw this video and i'm french really bad just odd and then i settled down a little bit because it wasn't personally on me but it was attack on all the would

. i really want to educate. that stakes and. what is the difference and. what sort of looks we do for the community and i will i will tell him if he come in the bronze like come in front of camera and apologize to my cities when i leave to vote against the people because we have all said. and and tell people to make this sort of news in the future sikhs are a growing minority in australia they have been in the region since the eighteenth he's a most came to the country from the punjab region on the indian sub continent one of a hundred thousand sikhs so i thought right now i'll be living in australia a mr sunny singh also told us that facebook where the video first emerged should be better monitored by police for racist content but in my case the local politicians have done the job and they have book come straight away and they have contacted me

straight away but i'm not sure what's sad what's happening on the high level but i would love to see some of the facebook pages. get shut down oh i can get sacked by police told by someone who got the flu if you'll go full speed for that but. i thought the programme for this hour an aussie international thank you for sharing some of your saturday with us here in moscow we are back soon with. join me every first day on the alex simon chill and i'll be speaking to guests of the world of politics sports business i'm show business i'll see you then.

think about saudi arabia is they is the oil as a weapon and if they get too close to investigating what's going on there they push the price of oil up now on the last ten years because of fracking in america america position to stop us energy independent and no longer subject to the political pressures that can be borne upon them from opec and the saudis so we're going to see a real test of this because. all of the litany of horrors coming out of saudi arabia is making people feel. fracking gave americans a lot of job opportunities i needed to come up here to make some money like me twenty five thousand dollars as a teacher or i could meet fifty thousand dollars a year trucks or chose to drive trucks people who rush to a small town in north dakota was among the employment rate of zero percent like

gold rush is very very similar to a gold rush but this beautiful story ended with pollution and the bus station a lot of people have left here i don't know too many people here anymore slow down too much they lost jobs got laid off the american dream is changing that's not what it used to be. and it's a tough reality to deal with. hamas . this is boom for us broadcasting all around the world and covering the world of business and finance the impact on all of us i'm part children washington thank you for joining us we're glad you're with us coming up today former united nations investor bill richardson joins us to talk about saudi arabia and unilateralism of

pulling out of environmental and trade agreements and more plus rocky horner of simpler trading is back to talk commodities and oil and we also have my interview with raul guy i am the chief technology officer of guy a motor works in india they make the coolest electronic vehicles around you don't want to see this and we'll have our weekly global markup round up all that ahead let's go and i swear bush in this has told authorities of a card tell related to the fixing of beer prices in india two years ago when a b. in bob bought s a b. miller p.l.c. for one hundred billion dollars a part of the purchase was for indian operations well officials noticed the cartel like activity and reported it to authorities last year the others reportedly complicit in the cartel are allegedly denmark's carlsberg and india's united breweries which is partially owned by heineken earlier this month indian authorities at the competition commission raided the office of the three breweries

that have reportedly found evil evidence of the complicity amongst the cartel members the three brewers comprise roughly ninety percent of all beer sales in india which is about seven billion dollars annually it remains to be seen what will become of the investigation at this point much less any sanction or fines placed upon those found guilty of violations of indian competition law. and we are now joined by former ambassador united nations bill richardson former governor and sort of world policy expert on many things. vaster thank you for joining us thank you nice to be with you ok so my former colleague the late and great edge schultz in may of last year when president trump made his first foreign for eight in saudi arabia you it's sort of said at that time you thought it was a basic zero sum tradeoff between national security and human rights and it was

sort of a false choice but given your record and your expertise mr ambassador i have to ask you a question i'm sure everybody wants to know what do you make of the killing of jamal because shogi at the saudi consulate in bull and what does it mean for our future relations with saudi arabia well i don't want to sound like a politician but but i will the saudi american relationship is very important militarily energy wise diplomatically investment wise but the saudis committed a horrendous act with impunity you know all the facts are not in but it's pretty clear there was complicity at the top so what do we do one we have to preserve the relationship you don't break the relationship but we have to take certain steps one i think these sanctions are fine but they're basically a slap on the wrist secondly i think we need to tell the assad.