yes i did make sure. they. are your. top stories here with a florida resident is charged with sending a string of mail bombs to a number of us could now face up to fifty years in prison. the european court of human rights throws out an appeal that had sought to defend defaming the prophet muhammad freedom of speech and the program all guests debate the issue. we should have free speech and he goes as far as saying in some

instances the perfect fit here all would become of people to use and abuse to become racist demonized a group of people believe. germany russia. to throw a solution to the syria crisis with the war now entering its final say. on the president bush student union of southampton university because of the calling for the removal of a world war one memorial as it depicts the only. welcome to the program here on r.t. international for this stuff that i was just off the one pm now here in moscow. the u.s. justice department has fifty six year old. is the man in custody in connect. and

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 to the media has been stressing all the while the suspects strong support for the whole trial. 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 cesar say cold ng sign this is c.n.n. socks 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 on it so look at what we know so far about the suspect say so to say ok he already has a criminal record in fact he was previously convicted eight times including for coffee if found guilty of the attempted possible bombings he could face up to fifty eight years in prison among the targets of his protein packages barack obama

hillary clinton on 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 us has become particularly ahead of mid-term elections in just over a week this is confirmed by a new survey which found that eighty percent of americans think their country is greatly divided but also found that almost forty percent of those believe the situation will worsen the poll also revealed that among the most contentious political issues are donald trump's presidency economic inequality and race relations lawyer and a political activist

a christian and sarah 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 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 us feel that the divisions will only worsen some in the mainstream media initially pointing the finger at russia as being behind the 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

people lost talking to the mainstream media's coverage of russia a correspondent. 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 us politics how the russians are trying to turn the tragedy to their advantage to target almost every major american social movement there's russian bots 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 ice star wars movie the great disturbance in the force of millions of voices suddenly cried. such as signs so we decided to show these headlines to new yorkers let's see if they can spot the fake one our. a russian selling weaves on instagram. maybe i

could be real it sounds so it sounds great but let's hear the other kremlin backed trolls use stars like emma watson to spread discord in the west. real that sounds more real that sound real to the russian bots promote guns after florida school shooting. yeah true that sounds really does sound real hate for the last jet i was actually spread by russian trolls fake i don't think now is real i think the last is not a true headline trick question there all the headlines are all real and what you make of it. that's crazy you tricked me i could believe the real headlines that doesn't mean they're real out of control i think 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. the left they're just trying to you know stir up some sort of craze sure 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 it is often international the european court of human rights has ruled that defaming the prophet mohammed falls outside the limits of acceptable speech the case sora panel of judges reject an appeal from an austrian woman who had been seeking to overturn a conviction for insulting islam but the domestic courts comprehensively assess the wider context of the epic can statements and carefully balanced right to freedom of expression with the rights of others to have their religious feelings protect and serve the legitimate aim of preserving religious peace in austria. the woman identified only as e s held two seminars back in two thousand and nine intitled to basic information on islam she allegedly used the classes to characterize the prophet as a paedophile that led to a conviction in twenty eleven of defaming religious doctrines and

a fine of nearly five hundred euros or appealed on the grounds of free speech earlier also being rejected by the austrian courts so here on r.t. we've got reaction on this story from journalist and must show today from the islamic human rights commission. this is about a 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 i as a muslim will work on any sort of dialogue or discussion with any critic of islam as long as it is of all of you sit down and we talk but if somebody actually turns around the abuse and becomes abusive then that's a different kettle of fish it's 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 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 common. come on anti semitism is racism clearly but islamophobia is against a religion and i'm called moderate so you know that's sort of been that's 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 fight on some part of europeans to what's to what's muslims they are welcome in europe but they must remain and a private sphere look muslims will come in europe that is 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 there are also people who are all syrian and they've been all syrian since two thousand of. them as you know already so one don't need to say that they don't need you to welcome them they belong to australia this is a language of exclusion this language of otherness 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 and i'll give one for i'll do it. 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 gathering today in istanbul to outline steps for a peaceful resolution and reporting from istanbul. we've got the countries that are trying to push for peace in syria through these so-called ason uprose says minus iran let's also not forget that turkey right now is on a self-imposed mission to squeeze out the last remaining 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 as 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 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 under a 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 to militarize 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 emanuel 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 friends share the same security humanitarian and political objectives in syria so will mr macron 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 expecting the arrivals of the leaders that's happening very soon to. course will be covering that here on the internet. for the meantime your program returns in just a. what

politicians do something to. put themselves on the line they get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be present. for something i want to be. actually going to be right this is what the four three of the people. i'm

interested always in the why. question. thanks for joining us for the program 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 called for the removal of a hundred year old memorial honoring soldiers who fought in the first world war correspondent and i see a truck and 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 but mark my words we had taken down some you were a little white man in a unit senator even if i have to paint 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 unknown to students who fought in. died in the first world war without being

able to complete their degrees so this remark to get rid of that 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 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 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 is sorry 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 i can accept that it's happened and maybe it was a right whatever but it's you know you can only write for. many different people for just what many. times over your history if. the supposed white man who is. the point every right i do hope that more people. so with halloween just days away. after a televised discussion about what is and what is not an acceptable. well it is racist because because the situation that 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 fulfillment. things one may say is true

in the words of the old spiritual i have gone black. and i can go back. some time and i told the whole look over the sky and say what the hell born on earth there were for live on other planet 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 or 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 in australia. today out of a sikh political candidate it depicts sonny saying who is running for the city council. that's in southern australia. thirty two year old businessman who has lived in australia for ten years and owns a taxi company australian officials have slammed the calling saying quote well like

in a respected member of the community he also welcomed his bid for office so he spoke to describe his disappointment about the truckers actions. i was quite shocked when i saw this video and really bad. and then i settled down a little bit because it wasn't personally on me but it was a tackle and although. i really want to educate him that god stakes and. what is the difference and what what sort of looks we do for the community and i will i will tell him if he come into problems like come in front of camera and apologize to my cities then i live to port augusta people because we have upset them and and tell people to not make this sort of news in the future sikhs are a growing minority in australia though they have been around in the region since the eighteenth thirty's and most came to the country from the punjab region on the

indian sub continent one of a hundred thousand sikhs i thought to be living in australia today and sunny saying also told us that facebook with a video first emerged should people have monitored by police for racist content but in my case the local politicians have done a good job and they have come straight away and they have contacted me straight away but i'm not sure what's have what's happening on the higher level but i would love to see some of the facebook pages. get shut down all i can get tracked properly by police told by someone who can't approve their videos or post before they put out. it's been a pleasure having you with us for the saturday program here on our international my colleague andrew fama here in about what twenty five minutes from now with more of your weekend headlines.

pranking gave americans a lot of new job opportunities i needed to come up here to make some money like me twenty five thousand dollars as a teacher or i could make fifty thousand dollars a year in trucks or chose to truck people rushed to a small town in north dakota was among the employment rate of zero percent was like the 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 just slow down too much they lost their 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. i will prefer to

say this to the human space is must become into prana terry wish me instead so we have a living in the solar system. and for sure we show that spans on other on other all this of the solar system i see this as a way all bring in and developing more technologists new technology so that's becoming eve learn. increase in the end improve the quality of life for no. trial has been coming up with a lot of statements. the arab states of the gulf to 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 companies stance that and this is this is exactly what was driving his kind of commentary on the emotional genie killing i think that's at

the end of the day it's not going to change the status quo of america's policy of use of even though. they purify. libya you could see two sides you know people i saw many pretty good. hansei coup switching but up the arse you want to mayo's he was as was he. you know who said i want to do bottom on those you seize it. is keep us. safe i don't know if we do but also must. keep base he has some q.b. amount of. time on it exact coolies echo i think julia really teach

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general electric a triumph for patrick crone who will distribute four billion euros between three days later the company pleads guilty in american courts it recognizes all charges of corruption of which it stands accused this is the conclusion to several months of political scandal and the end to a years of judicial pressure on one side defeat masquerading as a victory three quarters of the group is sold and on the other a confession and admission to a decade of corruption as if the applause of one day was a condition for reaching a legal compromise on the. did the sale influence patrick runs impunity along with other senior group executives why did no arrests follow. if general electric had made the largest acquisition in its history and if patrick crone managed to rid himself of all his problems before retiring waterfronts. added industry

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