when. a florida resident is charged with sending a string of mail bombs to a number of senior u.s. 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 our program guests debate the issue we should have free speech and it

goes as far as saying in some instances the. people to use and abuse to become racist demonize a group of people. and the president of the student union. university because of the calling for the removal of one memorial as it depicts only white men. saturday morning here in moscow in the in time rounding up this hour's top stories welcome to. the u.s. justice department has confirmed that fifty six year old. is the man in custody in connection with the 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 the media stressed that the suspects

has ties donald trump. this is the face police have tied to the anonymous explosive devices mailed this week to prominent democrats and apparently mad bomber has been targeting president trump's favorite targets for his invective caesar say ark holding a sign that says c.n.n. sucks as well as a lot of other nonsense and there he is at a trump rally and the fifty six year old florida resident today was arrested and charged with sending a series of explosive devices so let's look at what we know about the suspect to say. as we've seen he's apparently a supporter living in his van for years that is covered in pro trumpet bumper stickers i say ok already has a criminal record he was previously convicted of. now 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 and 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 just ahead of midterm elections and barely over a week this is confirmed by a new survey which found that eighty percent of americans think the country is greatly divided it has also found almost forty percent of those believe the situation will worsen the poll also revealed that among the most contentious political issues donald trump's presidency economic inequality and race relations lawyer and political activist a christian a month said told us 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 have 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 out. and while many in the u.s. feel the divisions will only worsen some in the mainstream media and actually pointed the finger at russia as being behind these possible. i have this fear that it could be some russian operation to be designed to do what's happening now however recent polls are showing that more and more people are doubting the

mainstream media's coverage of russia as it investigates. 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 i star wars movie was a great disturbance in the force says millions of voices suddenly cried out into the sun the sun so we decided to show these headlines to new yorkers let's see if they can spot the fake one our russian. selling weaves on instagram. maybe i could be real it sounds great but what are the other kremlin backed trolls use stars like emma watson to spread discord in the west. real that sounds more

real than sound real the. russian bots promote guns after florida school shooting. yes that sounds to sound real. for the last jet i was actually spread by russian troll. fake i don't think 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 if you're trying to get a reaction out of the radio they're 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 mohammed folds outside the limits of acceptable speech like a sore 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 applicant statements and carefully balanced right to freedom of expression with the rights 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 held back in two thousand and nine in title the 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 a find of nearly five hundred euros or appeal on the grounds of free speech also

being rejected by the austrian courts so we got reaction to the story from journalist i 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 us 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 in 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 there. 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 will come of course or will come they're all stricken people who are all c m and they've been also since two thousand of the year nineteen zero that are six sided so none of them is already so what you want to say that they don't need you to work on them they belong to austria this is a language of exclusion this language of other than this is exactly what i'm talking about the reality is that we can sort of have sort of one set of rules and laws for one community another one for all of it. one of the u.k.'s top universities has found itself at the center of a controversy after the head of the student union called for the removal of

a hundred year old memorial honoring soldiers who fought in the first world war r.t. correspondent honest as he 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 a unit senator room even if i have to paint or it 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 is idiotic is 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 muro are 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 what 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 were writing. and you were writing is sorry you're literally blaming these people died for your country and they couldn't get the degree you have the pleasure to be together 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 was a right whatever but it's not you can only rewrite funds there are many different people for. me so dark times over your head if you like. to play with white men it was for. the point of writing well well i do hope that more people.

just days away one. job. not an acceptable. well i disagree because because this is truly what you do get in trouble if you are a white person who puts on the black yellow or black person who puts out a white face yeah we like that crack was 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 and i promise you i don't decide if it hurts or not. there has never been a time in that in her forty seven years that blackface has been acceptable. where is a man oh man. do you know of the girls what model out of black fulfillments you know. what they say is true in the words of the old me a spiritual i have gone flat. and i can't go back. some time and i call the whole lot over the sky and say what the hail born on up there

you are full of all the planning for the whole war duty. 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 is has been dented by their occasional forays into blackface except making kelly who was not liberal enough or got punished for exact that's the way n.b.c. and most american media does business liberalism first common sense way later and plenty more stories still to come here on our international and your saturday program including environmental activists in the u.k.

accusing the government of putting both nature and people in danger will lift the lid on that in just a mum. traum has been coming up with a lot of statements saying that the arab states of the gulf should take care of the middle east or other we're still committed to the middle east so there's there's a lot of incoherence is there but i think saudi arabia is hugely important to the united states and i think trump understands that and this is this is exactly what was driving his kind of commentary on the. killing i think that's at the end of the day it's not going to change the status quo of america's policy because if you go. with this manufactured consensus of public wealth. when the

ruling classes protect themselves. when the final merry go round lifts only the one percent. we can all middle of the room see. the real news is really. just one in twenty of you to join us with the conflict in syria now into what appears to be its final phase people in the war weary 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 peaceful steps or i should say steps with out of a peaceful resolution reporting from istanbul patrik. we've got the countries that

are trying to push for peace in syria through the so-called asten up process minus iran let's also not forget that turkey right now is on a self-imposed mission to sleaze out the last remaining nusra terrorists and other affiliated terrorists out of. on the other hand germany france and turkey are some of the most powerful nato players in europe and yes you can't help pointing out that donald trump won't be around and is stamboul on saturday well since this kind of stamboul event is so new it's rather difficult to predict how the format is going to shape out while i have a listen to what the lot of our spokesperson dmitri peskov said about that on friday fronts in germany had participated in discussing serious problems and are 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 kind while if this wasn't specific enough we can look at the things the turkish media are reporting on and according to them the things we're going to hear about today are the reconciliation in syria as a whole plus attempts to preserve the zone and besides this efforts to hold elections in syria that's of course a difficult task the return of displaced people and something else very important for on kharaj the presence of kurds in northern syria once again on saturday washington is missing out but according to other reports in the media the french president maduro macron had a phone conversation with donald trump a little earlier and they're saying that the things that were said are the united

states and for. sure the same security humanitarian and political objectives in syria so will mr mack become so to say america's bassett or for this event here in a stamboul we'll find out very very soon and also surely where it's spent doing the arrivals of the leaders that's happening very soon to. the u.k. now the government is throwing its weight behind fracking industry though it's causing outrage among environmental activists they claim the gas extraction method poses a great deal of danger to both nature and people living near the drilling sites this comes against a backdrop of multiple fracking induced earth tremors as pony boy reports energy company calls it a night crew seismic event but others might just call it a tremor or even a tiny quake and it took place on friday morning around quadrillions fracking site in lancashire as

a result of the drilling taking place the companies are used to statement explaining what happened they said it took place at around eleven thirty in the morning it was measured to be no point seven six on the richter scale and came up as a red light incident on the sort of dangerous scale of fracking that anyone fracking in the u.k. has to adhere to and anything over north point five constitutes a red light incident and as a result i had to pause operations but only for eighteen hours the statement that they released said that they expect to start fracking again on saturday morning and it also goes on to kind of play down the incident microsoft's big event such as these results in tiny movements that are way below anything that would be filled at surface much less cause any harm or damage without the sophisticated monitoring in place it could drill and they would not be detected so no big deal according to the

company do. there fracking although that's not what environmental campaigners or locals in lancashire near that fracking site would have to say there has been a lot of opposition to the commencement of drilling in the u.k. it's been incredibly contentious that in fact three anti fracking protesters were imprisoned earlier this year and their thought to be the first environmental protesters to be imprisoned in the u.k. since nineteen thirty two although they have since been released after a judgement by the court of appeal here in britain but the seismic incident this morning is by no means the first time there's been a tremor as a result of exploratory drilling for shale gas there are twelve tremors this week alone and bear in mind there's only been a week of drilling so far so not the best start to the government's shale gas revolution here in the u.k. but ministers are determined to crack on with it so much so it's been revealed by the guardian that the government's energy minister clare perry held

a private meeting with the energy firms earlier this month which she failed to record on the government's transparency register and thanks to a freedom of information request the guardian found out that at that meeting she said that the government hopes to create a u.k. model for shale gas extraction which can be exported all around the world but given this latest seismic incident in lancashire one might argue that that model needs a bit of are improving. we asked the u.k. government for comment on the minister's meeting it told us that it was a presentation to industry groups at an event and for not disclosed as a ministerial meeting it goes on to stress that the u.k.'s energy minister has always been clear about the need to maintain a high regulatory standards. for a king campaign team louise rather retold us that she's not convinced by the government's assurances what clip kerry will have been discussing i would imagine with industry was how smooth she could make all of them if she eases planning

restrictions you know weird kind of point with the size of this point by and she was talking about raising that level so that they could cause a lot. of having to shut down you know we are this is an industry that's got off to a very bad start seven years ago and has yet to redeem itself and when they talk about exporting our expertise what. it would take decades to get expertise we said we don't have it now is the proved in these industry this industry is not what it sells itself as government is i think. or somehow in collusion that's the program for this hour here on r t international the hope you can join us at the top of the next hour for a few more stories here on r.t. and somehow.

the thing about saudi arabia is they use the oil as a weapon you know if they get too close to investigating what's going on over there they push the price of oil up now on the last ten years because of fracking in america america position to sophos energy independence 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 these a litany of hard. coming out of saudi arabia is making people feel. the brunt of the blow the best out of the jewels of. the concepts is paying to perform i actually prepare myself to. heed what you know sorry trust me. as most of. you.

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gone after her time to you what you're going on the ground thirty two years to the day of the big bang in the city of london paving the way for one of britain's greatest have a financial crises coming up in the show one of the world's greatest political cartoonists called off look to form where the tomorrow will mean his country heading back in time to the days of nature a nation backed dictatorship and death squads you come up with interesting questions which was from a different angle from the. queen guitarist and astrophysicist brian may on the cold war was the feel good. based race plus could to nude selling of weapons to saudi arabia is fine according to u.k. pm tourism a pm cues all this and more coming up in today's show but first to the week's headlines joining me now to go through some of the week's papers is broke after a vulnerable democrat member of parliament member to pick them but scottish women in solidarity today in glasgow that's a trade union is amazing march an entire island disappearing in the pacific you want to talk about some bearded guy from soho the bearded guy and so let's look at

this from the guardian reports the socialists are coming white house sounds alarm at rise of the left it's the run up to the midterm elections of course archon and he's finally running because engels often said he should well know i'm not sure he's running i think it's the dangers of if he did have launched from the white house diatribe about the dangers of socialism apparently there's a lasting specter from karl marx the bearded man himself or bernie saunders not from soho and working mothers in sweden all in the same story and there's a new or logical thing about the white house council of economic advisers report oh yes two hundredth anniversary to eight hundred nine hundred twenty eighteen it's all in the still that's not the main figure out this is the main figure it's claimed that if medicare for all were financed through higher taxes g.d.p. would fall by nine percent seven thousand dollars per year this report is on trump's desk.