you. didn't know that. the white house announces its reinstating all u.s. sanctions against iran which were lifted under the twenty fifteen and nuclear deal . a flood of fakes make it on to facebook as an independent test of the site's new tool to curb misinformation discovers it's far from robust.

and south korea orders the japanese still make it to pay compensation for forced labor dating back to the second world war. it's one o'clock am in moscow and you're watching altie international live from our studio with me or two to welcome to the program. in a move being described as the toughest sanctions regime ever the trumpet ministration has announced the renewal of all sanctions against iran that due to come into force on monday. has the story. picture that trump tweeted after the statement on sanctions says it all really iran is entering a world of trouble in the mind of the us president so what will happen on monday everything that was achieved under the twenty fifteen iran nuclear deal will be no more piling on top of penalties imposed additionally by the trumpet ministration

there were nineteen rounds of those these new sanctions will accelerate the highly successful effects of our sanctions that have already occurred the maximum pressure we impose is cause the reality to drop dramatically ronnie's cabin is in disarray and the iranian people are raising their voices even louder against a corrupt and hypocritical regime a lot of diplomatic achievement has been torn down by this back in two thousand and fifteen the so-called p five plus one bloc of countries agreed to open global oil markets for iran's crude in exchange for to iran scrapping its nuclear program even though iran complied with all terms of the deal trump called a disastrous and pulled out unilaterally now with the final push the american leader has delivered while iran keeps abiding by all the demands of the twenty fifteen deal makes while still an edgy shipping finance banking you name it really the u.s. hopes to put

a damper on all keys sectors of iran's economy in total more than seven hundred entities including both individuals companies and even ships and aircraft will be banned from doing any business with iran bro if you exemptions here and there like food or from a suitable industries but the list is not very long to be frank speaking of exemptions by the way the u.s. also seemed very concerned with the economic well being of its allies we want to achieve maximum pressure but we don't want to harm friends and allies from this you might assume bolton is talking about europe after all it likes to think of itself as america's biggest ally but a. and leave it's just not the case and trumps advised there was referring to asian and middle eastern countries we do know that the total of eight states will be exempt from having to cut their businesses their business ties with iran and reportedly there's not a single european country on that list instead it's allegedly india iraq and other

nations from those parts of the world another concern washington wants to allay a collapse of oil markets amid fears that prices will just skyrocket if iran's oil pipe runs dry iran's oil exports have already fallen by some eight hundred thousand barrels per day while america has enjoyed a comparable increase in its crude exports so according to the us not to worry they're happy to fill in the gap putting out additional oil there in exchange for an extra buck. u.s. secretary of state mike pumpin claims sanctions have prompted the iranian people to speak out against that government we went to tehran to find out what local think i'm about as we seek you think sions decrease quality of life is people now can add up to the materials which they could before it's obvious that is the facts people and society is made up of people you cannot tax every year or every two to three years they see new sanctions will be imposed so people have gotten used to saying

that but that doesn't mean we accept them and it doesn't hurt it means we've had them so long they don't affect us anymore they harm the nation they have always been there for the past four decades and they've been arming the new reigning nation all along their inquisition that's why many of states that are under sanctions like russia like any of theirs they are all against this move especially because this new round of sanctions by washington it doesn't have the u.n. support it doesn't have the support of even the united states close allies like the europeans that have stated their opposition in defiance china turkey or russia and many others have defied the u.s. sanctions against iran and many are worried in washington that this could make these sharp tool or weapon blunts and make you know take it off the menu even for

future u.s. administrations if it goes ineffective unlike the u.s. team opinion says it will continue to abide by the ten to fifteen around you can't deal bustles has promised to support firms working with iran and and show that financial flows and not interrupted we remain committed to employment thing the g c p o a as a matter of respecting international agreements and of our shared international security and expect iran to play a constructive role in this regard. facebook is struggling to live up to its transparency pledge by continuing to approve. from fake sources the tech giant introduced a new tool last month to curb misinformation that holkins takes a closer look at present it's working. remember how the zucker vowed to protect your news feed from fakes all you believe the biggest problem of modern times we're going to take

a number of measures from building in deploying new ai tools that take down fake news to growing our security team to more than twenty thousand people to making it so that we verify every advertiser who's doing political an issue well the issues but again we can't prevent all governments from all interference but we can make it harder we can make it much harder and again based book is unveiling a new so-called war room facebook has created what it's calling the war room where teams of patrolling for fake news misinformation and meddling to multiple scandals in a big brainstorm but also it was finally found now will no shady sponsor can post political ads without proper vetting verification social media joy and even made this sleek video to make sure you appreciate their efforts there was never anything that delivered the same kind of visibility into who paid for paid political content on facebook until today ads really into politics have information about who paid for them with crucial u.s. midterm elections just around the corner surely no one would be allowed to get the

up behind the new controls except they did. big time facebook's not meeting that higher standard of transparency we received approval by political ads on facebook and claim they were paid for by major political figures in just about an hour they passed facebook's group a process that's a little awkward while a few posts slipping through the net could be understandable some of the haves were just obvious to journalists took means allegedly shared by russian trolls back in twenty sixteen like this one jesus arm wrestling satan published it on a page called ratatouille for senate and disclosed the funding as paid by islamic state you couldn't make it up this mean was published in mike pence his name the page ninja turtles p a c in fact the only time advertising was denied was when they posed this hillary clinton or mark zuckerberg himself when asked how this could

have happened facebook said well it isn't perfect but we'll try harder in four students isn't perfect and we weren't so poor people trying to game the system but we have made it much harder and we will continue to improve since then a near identical experiment took place with a similar result journalists managed to get approval for ads paid for by cambridge analytic or the notorious political consultancy banned from the site after dragging the company into a huge scandal earlier this year so there you have it two years of investigations congress hearings and political battles against all blind trolls and smart well funded adversities the result even more possibilities for ridiculous trolling what can't help but ask what is the problem with the state of american politics was that really in the dodgy ads this idea that it is now their responsibility and they're qualified to take on this responsibility to determine what is in isn't real news to

determine what is in is invalid political information to determine what is in is in free speach. each that's just ridiculous i mean it's absolutely ridiculous to to assume that this company should be in charge of that this idea that facebook is going to tell us what our real political ads quote unquote and what aren't and what is real news and what isn't and what should be free speech and what shouldn't be giving them this overreaching censorship power is absolutely ridiculous. and these relations between south korea and japan have suffered another blow tokyo with outrage at a court that awarded south korean stalock as of eighty eight thousand dollars in compensation for forced labor in second bottle and one of the men is still alive. i'm very sad and i'm crying a lot because i'm the only one left it could be pennies for a big company or

a whole country's budget but see tokyo is really going to happen at the trial went in favor of the only plane of who was still alive all the other south koreans eligible for compensation for being pretty much sent as slaves to japan during world war two have passed away and i wish the verdict had come earlier he should had my husband would have seen that it was a lifelong burden of his and it's really sad things to this. but the knighting sixty five agreement on wartime claims between the two countries and did that meaning all disputes are in the past boom it took the storm fifty three years to break out with the precedent the anti japan sentiment in korea has been brewing for a while to juneau japan's even lost to communist china in a favor ability poll taken by south koreans last month tokyo was meant to take part

in a naval event put on by so but the host said there was no way japanese ships would fly this flag associated with japan's military past so the sabur eyes navy cut loose and pulled out ever heard of k. pop now that's the kind of territory where you don't really expect to run into that kind of conflict. well after one of these girls sang the japanese anthem in front of the japanese military koreans want to shut her down on t.v. there's even a petition for that on the president's website back to the nine hundred sixty five treaty ironically just three years ago the two countries leaders celebrated its fiftieth anniversary just so you know this woman then president. as the daughter of someone who signed the agreement she's now in jail tides clearly changed.

mistrust that exists between the countries and these still. exists throughout korea both north and for the years of brutal occupation by japan which was from one thousand nine hundred forty five still linger and a there is not trust there is concern about a lot of past grievances and issues of an immediate boss have been accused of going to fall but thanks to some how do we know and will still to come in the press. given the way which too must terrorists attacks will be proclaimed structured using european logistics you can see there's

a certain desire to change the way of life change to society in for this. for chinese dominance going forward not only is a technology and venture capital but they've been buying gold by hundreds and hundreds of tons as is russia so they understand that only keep money and fee at that you're willing to lose the chinese government's message to the people as only keep money and fear that you're willing to lose chinese people that the chinese government tells her people the chinese elite are buying gold by the ton hundreds of tons hundreds of hundred tons but they know that the money inflationary spiral is a part of. join me every thursday on the alex salmond show and i'll be speaking to us from the world of politics or business i'm show business i'll see you then.

welcome back to the program with just months to go before the european union's parliamentary elections polls are making easy reading for the blogs reading parties photo preference seems to be varying towards more radical quarters and more could lead to an unprecedented shake up in european politics europe's political establishment is set up for a meeting in may during the e.u. parliamentary elections and with support to windowing for both the center right and the center left the big winners euro skeptic an anti migrant parties the feeding is that there's a kind of the extortion among voters because they feel that the traditional galaxies have nothing new to say they feel contempt from those cultures that it's not exactly always making them go to populist but it's making making voters do to anybody who looks you french president emanuel macron took it upon himself to warn

europe of a nationalistic menace comparing it to leprosy europe faces a risk that of being broken up by nationalist leprosy and of being pushed around by foreign powers and thereby losing its sovereignty but it seems like the french don't see eye to eye with mark ron right now a majority of people in france apparently would prefer an unelected technocratic government while over forty percent even say they would rather support and off for a tarion political power so this could be a wake up call for micron as his approval ratings hit record lows to move away from traditions and embrace public opinion so just a minute in the coal he did come from those filters but he had created his attitude and he was a change of face in the shape of generation. now that he's become president he's got a slightly different style but in terms of what policies as you in it sounds more

and more like the policies that everyone is as you age and. they do not know how to express their discontent except have by. with mainstream parties and leaders who championed modern liberal values losing popularity we could have an electoral power vacuum but that won't stay empty for long. now and by and munich football has apologised after dressing up as a suicide bomber for halloween if india is seen on the right of the picture showed up at a tea party on wednesday in a traditional arab robe and dark classes carrying a box with the word danger bavarian club publicly condemned his behavior and the brazilian defendant later tweeted that he did not want to hurt anyone's feelings and in the u.k. a media boss came up with a costume that was arguably more shocking i t.v. commissioning editor asif zubairy showed up at a fancy dress to dressed as the merger of saudi journalist jamal khashoggi carrying

a mock severed and turkey accuses society hicks ward of murdering the journalist of the saudi consulate a month ago in a case that has triggered international outrage asif zubairy has since apologized i'm a private individual who attended a private party i realize my how in cost you may have offended some people for which i apologize well let's bring in and rest but our professor of urban studies at queens college and also jean alluded media commentator thanks both for coming in now it's caused a lot of controversy these two reactions of these two costumes andres let's start with you. these guys that they have received broad coverage and drawn accusations of racism and insensitivity how offensive do you think these costumes were. i think they're terribly offensive to me. you know one of the big issues with

costumes and other forms of cultural expression that people don't understand and kind of tried to hide under the rug with words like political correctness that have lost their value is that these cultural expressions represent a lot of the values and the ethics the standards and the norms that any given community or culture has right and this is across any kind of ideology of political spectrum nobody just kind of allows a free for all in terms of what's acceptable this is very independent from matters of free speech or hate speech which is where the law comes in this is kind of more about what institutions what the what civil society thinks is ok for institutions and for citizens to portray and in a political environment like the one that we have now that is very violent it is it is characteristic characterized by tragedies by violence by racism seen a phobia and

a lot of anxiety around these issues i think that what we are seeing in this outrage is that people find it unacceptable and are demanding a higher standard for how we should come together and represent ourselves as a culture because that has implications about who we are and who what who we strive to be as people jena accusations of racism and insensitivity why do you think these costumes of course such a backlash. i'm trying to figure it out i really think that yeah i see costumes that offend me but something that offends me quite a bit more is for example kathy griffin holding the head of the bloodied head of my president on national television i saw costumes you know replica representing the president or representing hillary clinton or other people that i don't think should be. portrayed that way i just choose to be offended by actual actions by

things that actually matter things that actually do hurt people where there's real violence or real threat i think if we were going to spend our time productively as maybe some of us did this halloween for example i didn't even celebrate with my own children because i was out fighting for the elections this midterms and that's what i hope all involved citizens will do put their put their time and their efforts and their energies perhaps into either constructive conversation civil discourse like we're having here or we can come together on these ideas or go out and do something that's going to effect positive change and i disagree i think we live in the best brightest happiest most prosperous economic times in all of world history history where the safest where the healthiest the environmental is environmental the cleanest these are good times to be alive i see the hate in all the morbidity that your other guest happens to see and i'm not saying that it doesn't exist out there in pockets certainly it does and certainly we should fight that but let's do it

effectively and not worry about how people dress up when the line the jena you know one of the costumes was depicting the journalists to just been dismembered unmuted quite violently don't you think that's enough of a reason to kill those. i think it's. i think it's disgusting i think if people want to be offended and spend their time that way that's fine i would personally rather be working politically on the actual injustices in our society and i see a lot of really big and assists is that go on and i as a society i see identity politics as something that is has grossly divided us and i think that it's really sad and i just try to spend as much time as i can talking to people that disagree with me politically hoping that we can find things we agree on and fight for those things together to me that's just more productive than complaining all the time. just

a little complaint a that's what gene is saying about that particular costume do you think that's a justified comment maybe people should spend less time. complaining about things that are so that control it was a bit of it was meant to be a bit of fun. no i don't think so i mean i think that we have to understand that politics comes in a range of forms it comes in elections and voting obviously comes in through the economy and who holds power to sions and it certainly comes in the culture as well and culture as we know is represented through language through media through arts and through the various forms that we set the standards and the ethics for our values values like honor and respect and dignity and culture plays a tremendous role in shaping the ideologies the believes and the actions that then play out politically on more formal concrete ways i definitely disagree that we are living in some kind of utopia that is the best we've ever seen i mean surely there

are. advances however. the. most healthy is less violent you painted that picture right and right now we're in a situation where a you know we have a group of refugees and asylum seekers walk into this country and our president is saying to treat rocks as if they were rifles and not discounting the possibility that our own military will open fire on people we have. mass shootings we yearly all the time happening and it has become normalized we have a war in yemen that isn't talked about very much that is causing starvation all kinds of things we have climate change which is which is threatening to create more mass migration more instability and ultimately threatening our way of life all together so you know we have made big strides we don't have formal american chattel

slavery anymore like we used to we have made progress in terms of women's rights and things like that but oppression and destruction manifests itself in many different ways so coming back to this. topic around costumes and other cultural expressions i mean i think it's important to have these conversations to decide you know when teachers in idaho for example dress up as a border wall and treat that as a joke what message is that saying to children what message is that saying to children that may be hispanic that may have undocumented parents or that come from these cultures in these heritage's and these backgrounds about their own self-worth and who they are if we're serious about bullying if we're serious about having spiritual values whether you're christian or jewish or catholic or just a secular humanist or an agnostic whatever you are if we are serious about these things then we need to see that culture and language and arts and the media has

a role to play in these things and so i think it's important to have these conversations to say no it's not ok to dress up in blackface given the history of lynchings and the history of using black faces as a way to humiliate and to press those who are first and slaves and then terrorized to jim crow it is not ok to make jokes about rape given the. prevalence. i do not think it's worth discussing i think that's an important thing to know maybe that's what we can agree i do agree that it's absolutely something we should . engage in civil discourse over the problem with public policies we can scream and yell and be offended about everything you can be offended one of my best friends is is happens to be a true descendant of pocahontas and she dressed as an indian and she was told that was offensive as an american indian well that's her culture she didn't mean it offensively i think that we've taken it a bit too far in some cases and i think that we can spend our time more

constructively on things that that really do matter you know we have a jobs report out today that is the best ever we have unparalleled equality in our culture for the first time ever with the lowest unemployment for black people asian people women hispanics and all the rest these are great times to be alive so i wish we could focus on what we're doing well together and do that together and give accolades where it's appropriate and then i wish that we could work on those things that do feel wrong to us but especially when they're cultural what are you going to do are you going to pass a law that bans hollow wein i mean that's fine with me i think it's a pretty worthless holiday anyway honestly let me put this question to you never going to take this the let me put this question to. obviously the been worse costumes worn of private parties but the brazilian football and t.v. both public figures so should they not be aware of the extra attention that they were going to get and should they don't take some sort of responsibility you know

it's all very well saying ignore and concentrate on other things but should high profile people take responsibility when it comes to dressing up. of course i think i think especially if you if you hold a position of some sort of power or position where people are going to look up to you whether it's hollywood or sports or even politics i think that you should absolutely hold a higher standard i think in the case of a private entity such as a sporting team that should be handled by the people that own the team and if they don't like it they should fire the players and i would have no problem with them doing that i believe in free markets and i believe in their right to do that so i am not saying that it should never be mentioned if someone wears something that you know is hurtful or insensitive but what i'm what i'm concerned about is first of all the hypocrisy between those probably your guest who would think it was just

fine with kathy griffin did with our president's head my president's head. and that really bothers me and then also second to the hypocrisy is sort of the idea that you know we should pass some sort of sweeping laws that say if you offend someone you should i don't know what what fill in the brain blank be put in jail i just calling for in calling for sleeping with that no i don't know but i'm asking you what should you know but still implicitly meaningless it's not about punishing what is it doesn't want to be misunderstandings we're trying to make. it's not about punishment we're trying to i mean if you work for a company and they don't want the people that represent them to say racist things then they will probably fire them and as consumers we obviously have the right to i say i mean what's being called complaining is actually not actually pullet ical discourse and political practice you know and that's what we're doing and so i mean

i think it's really telling to kind of continue to paint this picture as the united states right now being this place where we're doing the best we ever have been and what not i mean what that jobs report has been that has just issued out is not showing that is what the vast majority of people in this country are feeling is that all of those jobs are very low paying jobs very unstable jobs and the cost of living the cost of health care the amount of debt that students have all of these things are continuing to squeeze the american people and our president is taking advantage of that in order to raise their anxiety and raise people's fears and blame a scapegoat which is something that has happened time and time again over history i don't always believe that i am going to tell you i am the i am me i think it's important i'm sorry i'm going to have to pull you back and it's going to get in a way way off subject and we've run out of time so i'm going to end it they. didn't .