after. me as the french president warmly welcomed donald trump to paris for the centenary commemorations of the first world war. more divisions emerge in the u.s. this time over a video involving c.n.n. reporter jim acosta some claim the material was adopted in order to justify the bombing of the journalists from the white house. cry in saudi arabia poses a tweet in support of yemeni children where the u.n. warns tens of thousands die every year as a result of the bombing campaign. and the syrian army rescues over a dozen hostages from the grip of islamic state while a u.s.

report reveals american aid money is ending up in terrorist. eleven o'clock here in moscow and you're watching r t international with me welcome to the program. the french president has it warmly welcomed trump and paris ahead of celebrations commemorating the end of world war one appearing in front of the press emanuel micron tried to show through body language that the bromance between the two heads of state is still alive.

that was some tension leading up to the presidential tie to tape just hours before trying to lashed out on social media of a call and suggestion that europe should create its own all may holkins takes on the story. president's strong crown i've always been fond of emphasizing that close personal friendship was well as the importance of the transatlantic alliance that was very much emphasized during my visit to the united states back in twenty seventeen but since then things haven't gone so smoothly over seventy world leaders have gathered here in the french capital to commemorate the hundredth anniversary of the end of the first world war trump marks his arrival by taking to twitter to say he felt insulted by none other than his colleague and friend and former president micron of france has just suggested that europe to build its own military in order to protect itself from the us china and russia very insulting but perhaps europe should first pay its fair share of nato which the us subsidizes greatly the

troubles of course referring to the interview given by micron earlier in the week in which she expressed support for a joint european army a military force to defend the mainland from a range of threats one of which was perhaps a surprise on that list we need a europe which defends itself better alone without just depending on the united states in a more sovereign manner when trouble did arrive in paris their leaders tried to smooth things over saying there was no problem with even micron's office admitting the remarks might have caused just a little confusion since it only hurts to have the european security to be be assured of just lines the united states and we need a little bit of illusion if you would use any true cherie you know mind if he's been doing this we want to show your true employees do things through you think we have a way we can do it the best thing most efficient could be something that you both

want so as the u.s. president arrives in the french capital it was all smiles handshakes and thumbs up for the cameras but this misunderstanding by far isn't the only sticking point between the two leaders the iran nuclear deal. pulling out of that agreement by the united states was roundly criticized. france germany the u.k. issuing a statement of regret not to mention trade tariffs are going to start. pulling out of the paris club as. well commemoration is the official reason of the gathering here in paris today but keep crossing international issues to discuss behind the scenes the question is the progress being made on those issues. be created. president putin and german chancellor merkel are among the sixty high profile figures expected to attend commemorations had to take place throughout the weekend the main memorial event will be on. the day the shooting stopped at the to

triumph in the french capital micron of. nations were enemies in the conflict earlier how to harness together at the site where the armistice was signed on friday the british prime minister joined a man. honoring the fallen soldiers of the great war in which over fourteen million people were killed. that president has had his say over a c.n.n. journalist accused of inappropriate behavior at a white house press conference he defended a twitter post that apparently shows reporter jim acosta pushing the arm of the internet as he tries to watch the president follow up questions the u.s. is split over the issue with some claiming the video has been doctored in order to justify banning a coster from the white house the video was posted by traumas press secretary sara sanders and shows a close up version of events c.n.n. claims acosta never touched the in turn call the whole incident

a threat to democracy here's how the situation at the presser unfolded. one of the statements that you made in the killing of the campaign do we go honestly i think you should let me were. country you run c.n.n. all right and if you didn't well your ratings let me ask you that's an ask one of the other folks that stood out for me ma'am i miss resident that's enough was president the other folks that stood out for me ma'am you are a rude terrible person. was this an inappropriate action aggressive or was it simply an accident well the answer to that depends what side of the political spectrum that you're on liberals and defenders of c.n.n. say that acosta did nothing wrong jim acosta clearly never touched that white house intern that's just a lie and what i saw was a battery not by jim acosta but by that young white house aide if you can use a fake video use a fake video should go all the way do something like this. but

conservatives are rounding in on a cost accusing him of being violent practically shoving a woman who is just trying to do her job it just is it crosses a line you don't put your hands i don't want him a cost to sort of wrestling this young white house intern the video was posted originally by paul joseph watson who is the editor in chief of the right wing news outlet known as info wars now paul joseph watson defended himself and said that he simply zoomed in and that the quality of the video had gone down due to the re uploading it isn't don't say that it isn't sped up it isn't slowed down all i did was to me look at it again is this an example of symbol don't clip to change its meaning no it's virtually identical is it won't hundred percent identical no video compression is going to result in it looking marginally different so where is the truth americans are probably reminded of the famous dress controversy in the

photograph of one looked at it one way it was black and blue and another way it was white and gold depending on the eye of the holder or now we have a polarizing video clip people look at it they see the same seconds of visual recording but interpret it completely. differently it seems that as the political crisis escalates that americans literally no longer see things i there's probably never been a better example of. how the american public is divided we're all looking at the same exact video but we're seeing what we want to see democrats are looking at that video and seeing jim acosta absolutely not coming not touching this in turn republicans are looking at it and saying he touched her he laid hands on her and i don't really think that's how we should be looking at it we should try to put our politics aside and just try to see what happened this is a press the press corps that's a very hungry they don't get very many face to face chances to meet with the president as they did so they're all competing with each other the room is big you

know all their bosses want them to get a question and so it's not surprising that there's a scrum here. fighting continues in the key yemeni ports of her day as the saudi led coalition attempts to wrest control of the city from the. u.n. says thousands of people are trapped in the. intense fighting comes despite warnings from a. humanitarian catastrophe that we are denies any deliberate targeting of civilians . the warning that children in the area i read imminent risk of death. whole day to day very much. on the film lines of a brutal war a brutal war against children children have already suffered three men this need continue doing so so any escalation of the conflict that affects things all day

will have brutal consequences not only for the hundreds of thousands of children here in the whole day who may be caught in the middle of the conflict but it will have consequences for the millions of children throughout yemen who are counting on the supplies coming in through who day to help them to survive. the un also states that thirty thousand children die every year in the country from malnutrition describing the conflict as a living hell saudi arabia which is being leading the deadly campaign against. twenty fifteen say they're trying to reduce civilian deaths the kingdom's foreign ministry posted on twitter that they stand for the children of yemen but the message has backfired as. reports just so you know children in yemen some of whom have never seen peace in their life are not alone says who saudi

diplomats on twitter but something seems to be wrong with that photo that tweet probably because the reality for most children there looks war like this. or this there's more let's go back to what was under the photo it says your children are children is this really how you treat your children. these were the pictures now to some of the things that have been said by the u.n.

children's fund experts in yemen every ten minutes a child dies from a disease that can easily be prevented yemen is one of the worst places to be as china right now because he's the or the number of children minorities two million and the number of two that and don't have access to one to the same access to. the u.n. says since march twenty fifth being saudi led coalition air strikes have killed around thirteen hundred yemeni children and injured roughly the same number as unlikely as it sounds saudi arabia is actually yemen's biggest humanitarian donor with hundreds of millions of dollars worth of aid this year alone just like an abusive partner who picks up the medical bills no wonder folks online didn't really by the way saudi diplomats are standing with yemen are these the children you plan to drop bombs on next should that not read we stand on yemen. just imagine the

tweet of the nazi foreign ministry on september nineteenth thirty nine saying we stand with poland that's crazy there may be people within saudi arabia who certainly feel for the plight of yemenis at the moment and the best way that could be shown in real terms rather than with posters is if the bombing campaign on yemeni families stopped if we saw that then i would find it much easier to believe that there is sincere concern for the safety and lives of women and children there is no question that there are significant contributions to the humanitarian plan made by saudi arabia and the u.a.e. this year have been well received by the humanitarian community without that money we wouldn't have been able to call it together with other funds from other countries and reach people with eight however this is not a you break it you buy it sort of arrangement that money doesn't come close to

absolving the saudi led coalition of the of responsibility for the number of deaths being caused the illness and the long term damage being done to yemen as a country. the syrian army says it has rescued over a dozen hostages from islamic state during a military operation in the city of palmira the captives have been held for over three months but have now returned home. because. the was. was was was the. or the terror group also present in the war torn country and some of them even have access to foreign funding a recent report has revealed that u.s.

aid money is actually lining the terrorists' own pockets. picks up the story american taxpayer money cash that is almost wholly in the u.s. mindset inviolable money but has seen politicians jailed for the slightest misuse is ending up in the hands of al qaeda in syria now that's a sick twisted if anything a new report has found that millions millions of dollars in aid to syria has been funneled to terrorists since late twenty seventeen u.s. agency for international development office of the inspector general investigation have uncovered numerous instances of possible or confirmed diversions to armed groups in government in northwestern syria including time of year al sharm a designated foreign terrorist organization.

h.t.s. nusra front they have many names in short as wing in syria facts of the matter that they were benefiting from u.s. taxpayer money is no surprise everyone n.g.o.s aid organizations civilians traveling through northern syria have to pay to pass checkpoints beat and money in goods this is been a fact for years it's business one of the terrorists' main sources of funding worst of all it is assumed that these jihad ists have been able to infiltrate put their people in n.g.o.s humanitarian organizations from which they siphon money and aid to further their malign cause one investigation found that in n.g.o.s employees

knowingly diverted found. so of us aid funded food kits with millions of dollars to eligible beneficiaries including. fighters the report itself is light on names and numbers perhaps for political reasons the fallout here could seriously damage and geo operations all we know is that millions of dollars in cash in aid have been funneled to al qaeda in syria and that's just what they've admitted they found that funding has now been terminated but it's very interesting in this report is that the u.s. aid watchdog does not name the n.g.'s now of course one of those primary n.g.o.s will be the white house probably one of the most primitive. and i can i and these are n.g.o.s and he's working on the ground in syria basically providing the posting counter in the corporation of the regime change current policy surely

the u.s. should first of all be left on economic sanctions and it should be if it's necessary be collaborating with the syrian government to provide aid to the areas where it's most needed because i don't expect this to happen it regardless it's a sick and a sad joke on the american taxpayer trillions of their hard money spent on the war on terror originally on defeating al qaida and all the while they've been paying to feed and finance those very same jihad ists. as we look at the deadly wildfires a devastating california and the coasts of being able to edit any with a p.d.f. page after this break.

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welcome back to the program massive wildfires in california have claimed the lives of at least eleven people and been part of the most devastating in the u.s. state's history can see the live pictures on your screen right now fire between the mountains and more than two hundred fifty thousand people have been forced to flee their homes as the fast moving graze rages through the area reports say the fire has destroyed an entire city and burned thousands of houses to the ground firefighters are working around the clock to contain the wildfires but they say they're concerned with intense winds and low humidity can feel them you can see the work going on for them try to. control of. the online

encyclopedia we could be there may be the go to resource to end your cruise night disputes but just how much of the content is actually correct because of has more on the sites in a workings. we keep pedia is a free encyclopedia based on a model of openly editable contant the largest and most popular general reference work on the world wide web this is the definition of we keep pedia on wikipedia wiki p.t. is very different from something like blogs or trying to be an encyclopedia trying to be a really solid stable kind of place ironically the founder of wikipedia is one of the few people who sees the encyclopedic value of his creation the openly editable bases of wikipedia is turning out to be more of a curse than a blessing according to a new study by m.i.t. in a third of article disputes editors can't agree with each other major issues include

poorly articulated initial arguments excessive bickering during discussions and simple lack of interest from third party editors because topics may be too easy for instance some users who are very passionate about corn apparently have been fighting over this article for at least a decade which is hardly a surprise because forget anything as complicated as corn the world still can't agree on the simplest simplest things like what date it is and come on america the whole month day here thing makes zero sense let me just get it out there on behalf of the rest of the world and you're welcome but silly disputes are far from the biggest problem we could pedia is facing over it's open at its ability there are firms that will help you get your story out there for a modest fee like this company with

a straight forward name we keep our investigative journalist helen by nist he says it manages hundreds of sock puppet accounts which quietly edit pages to favor the firms thousands of clients sock puppets are basically fake accounts that are. run by one person but pretend to be multiple people so if there's a disagreement you want to have other people can come in and take your side because it's in that way it's there is some sort of democratic element to it but the wiki p.r. skinner was mostly because they were very openly advertising their services on this website but private firms are not the only entities with a story to sell the us government cares in a big way about what people on the internet right about it especially on wikipedia in two thousand and seven for example the cia and f.b.i. work used to sing articles about the u.s. invasion of iraq guantanamo bay and the page on one former cia chief the cia by the

way didn't confirm the claims but kind of didn't deny them either and it's pretty easy to do that as far as outsourcing the third party it is pig they were just being so obvious about it when they thought all is anonymous anybody can do it let's just edit it from our work computers and wherever that's like really bad upset the we one thing if it was just considered a biased source just sort of trash the bathroom wall of the internet i like to call it. but it's not it's considered this sort of holy oracle of truth and it's really anything but and the reason why everyone wants to have their say and we compete is obvious it is indeed a universal reference to regardless of its actual reliability apples and amazons voice assistant siri and alexa draw information from there for their results to do some research is lazy journalists and students with a term paper due overnight and whoever through is more dollars into the furnace effectively has we competed in their pocket and by transitivity anyone who blindly

trusts it. as if i saw there is unfolding on the streets of britain at least according to one think tank the second russian in the u.k. is working a surveillance operative polly put goes on her own investigative mission for the show in case you missed it. the british capital is teeming with by war as the neo conservative think tank the henry jackson society calls them russians. the explosive putin sees and his it all report estimates they could be as many as seventy five thousand so-called informants routinely helping. the sez i by spy spies by spies by of course this tour de force which is based on anonymous sources taking wild guesses isn't aimed at creating cheap headlines or fear mongering at all it

simply aims to make clear that every other russian is probably a spy they could also be moscow raising as normal people like us. little people to. are you a russian spy it's like. you do i look like yeah but you know what that is the real to be truthful really but of the russian marketing site using their noses russian shock you know the russians feel good so using the russian spies are in there i. mean you know everyone out of a. round up of the news for now if you want to have a closer look at any of our stories check out our website that's all the back of the top of the hour with more but first is the kinds of reports.

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street had talked about where the heck our share buybacks in this rotten market so everybody keeps on saying the markets are going to come back once the you know the blackout period for when. companies are allowed to buy their share buybacks happen well that's not happening like the markets are continuing to decline and where the share buybacks are they going to help us i think the rest of the markets are going to save investor as well hasn't happened but so far over the first ten months companies bought back about three hundred fifty billion dollars of their own shares an average of thirty five billion dollars a month but the really important thing here is he looks at i.b.m. in particular and what i.b.m. has done to the fortunes of their company through share buybacks that share buybacks are pushed on to these companies as investors want them buy shares bought back do it do it do it do it's going to help us well in fact let's take a gander at international business machines i.b.m. one of the biggest share buyback queens since two thousand it blew one hundred

forty six billion dollars on share buybacks the chart below shows the cumulative amount since two thousand and thirteen that i.b.m. wasted on share buybacks forty three billion in six years so as you see it's going up so you had thought that would be good for i.b.m. that they're buying back so many shares because this is what you hear on c n b c and bloomberg that it's. really great for investors if they're buying back their shares well in fact wall street gurus keep hyping their share buybacks shareholder value or return cash to shareholders or some other such thing but here is where i.b.m. share buybacks did to shareholder value as measured by the stock down forty six percent since two thousand and thirteen so in fact it has not helped investors really long term investors it's helped insiders at the company with their stock options and is.