prime minister to reason may says she's ready to establish a more productive relationship with russia despite describing the country as a global threats. full service our hosts a peace conference aimed at missing and seventy years long conflict in libya with the country's past or reserves acting as a magnet to those vying for a shout of the resources. israeli warplanes bombard gaza killing at least three palestinians in response to rocket fire.

from the russian capital we are watching r.t. international with me in isha sesay welcome to the program. the british prime minister to resign may has highlighted the alleged threats from russia during a speech in london speaking at the lord mayor's banquet hall she mentioned the poisoning a form of double agents a case cripple and his daughter in seoul spring of this year. we remain open to a different relationship one where russia desists from these attacks that undermine international treaties and international security and we hope that the russian state chooses to take this path if it does we will respond in kind the prime minister to resign may seem to be reaching out and offering an olive branch to russia indicating that she was open to a no a more positive relationship between the two countries but all of this comes

against the backdrop of degraded relationships between the two countries and particularly in the wake of the incident in solsbury in march where the former double agent script hol and his daughter yulia were poisoned allegedly with this nabi child nerve agents and of course the government of long accused russia of being responsible for that incident for the to attack something which russia has strenuously denied and has even offered to help with the investigation into what took place but in any case the reason may again repeating today that she held russia responsible for what happened we coordinated the largest ever collective expulsion of russian intelligence officers fundamentally degrading russian intelligence capability for years to come. under law enforcement agents it's through painstaking investigations and cooperation

a speech to the same of the lord mayor's buying quit consisting of some of the wealthiest and most powerful people in the u.k. to once again take aim at russia although this time the accusations were centered around allegations of russian meddling and hacking in a number of elections across the west has mounted a sustained campaign of cyber espionage and disruption. this is included meddling in elections and hacking the danish ministry of defense and put them to stark among many others it is seeking to weaponize information deploying state run media organizations to plant fake stories and photo shopped images in an attempt to sow discord in the west and undermine our institutions so could it be that this we try to reason may pave the way for better relations between the two countries in any case it seem to place all the onus on through russian shoulders if that relationship is to improve and to become more open no mention of russian concerns

around nato expansion of nato soldiers in places like poland and also what russia says is western meddling and destabilization in places like ukraine and told those concerns are addressed it remains to be seen exactly what this speech will lead to in terms of better relations. but to discuss this further we can cross a very live to chen list john why is john good to see you now if we think back to exactly a year ago to resume a made some very similar remarks in her speech she also highlighted this supposed threat from russia but do you think that this should be a top priority for the conservative government right now given all the challenges they're currently facing. or certainly on the level of foreign policy has to be the priority because relations could not be any wants to cheating the west including the u.k.

and russia and indeed one we've lost to say that if they go any worse than our no then it would be a form of military conflict given that there are need to troops deployed in the russians western border given that the sanctions of the prosecutor against russia become ever more dependent of a more direct and given the rule of the west and destabilizing the middle east with the the military air strikes he conducted by various western governments including yuki's if force in violation of city has national sovereignty and therefore in violation of international law have to say that to reserves that means tone in this speech was awful. her reaching out to russia was in the form of a mother there eating out a cow citron child then promising said channel that it will be forgiven if it was to change its ways this is not the way to affect not push more with any country much less the largest country and the most powerful mochi in europe and less

western governments not to see the world through russia's eyes and understand how russia sees things and starts to have some kind of sympathy with russia's point you'd at least understand and then there will be no meeting of minds and this will just go into the box marked into that well if we look at where else to reason may said in his speech he said that new case ready to establish a more productive relationship with russia days thing that happening it'll go in we might have lost connection i just try one more time to reason i said that you know of the tories and they said that the u.k. is right to establish and will productive relationship with russia do you see this happening. no an aesthetic changes or not unless it translates into meaningful action and that means that there west will have to meet russia half week and get involved in meaningful diplomatic initiatives when it comes to the destabilization

of your cream and it comes to syria and trying to restore stability there when it comes to lifting the sanctions and when it comes to accept and russia's role as an equal partner in the world in total to have an equal say western governments must start to learn sooner rather than later and that they must also listen as well or speak will thank you very much failed thoughts tennis john like thank you very much for joining us this evening. the italian city of powell america has hosted an international peace conference on libya the north african nation has been torn apart by conflict and instability since the overthrow of colonel gadhafi in twenty eleven the presidents of egypt. ceria as well as leaders of local tribes and militias from libya taking part as the heads of the libyan national army general khalifa haftar is expected to take center stage the

conference was initiated by prime minister. it's italy isn't the only european country with an interest france has also been trying to establish itself as a regional mediator but has more and explains there could be an ulterior motive to the peacemaking efforts seven years it's been seven long chaotic here is a country torn apart two governments countless warlords tribes gags duking it out for power and will. of course everyone is trying to help stop this italy which has been flirting with general who leads one of the two rival libyan government controls almost half the country fronts with its regular peace summit where. plays the matchmaker

paris once elections soon as possible one of the crucial elements is the organization of presidential and parliamentary elections on december tenth twenty eight it's a commitment on the basis of this process to fully and safely give their sovereignty back to the libyan people and allow them to express it on this date it's only for one doesn't want the elections. premature they think conditions are right they say and france france wants something else they fear my fear is that someone for economic motives and selfish national interest is putting the security of north africa at risk and result of europe as a whole i'm thinking of someone who waged a war that should have been waged someone who said election days without discussing it with allies with the united nations were indeed with the libyan people move over

mad cause you tried and your summits failed room is hosting its own get together for peace gen has dub controlled half the country much of the oil but he by international law can't sell it only the recognized government can he needs the capital tripoli must be liberated and will not remain in the wrong hands the armed forces will act after making proper assessments we will move on tripoli at the proper time make no mistake the libyans understand well what the europeans are up to and why they're backing different sides of course there is negative intervention from some countries which we've mentioned you in several meetings and international forums this needs to be taken into account and this should be it can sleep over the international position towards libya and the direction of libya so that we can overcome this crisis. is really as

strikes in gaza have killed at least three palestinians according to local health officials. during one of the raids the headquarters of the hass t.v. station was destroyed the moment of the strike was caught on camera israeli military says and over seventy. militant targets were hits the air raids when retaliation to cross border rocket fire israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu has held imagine see me saying on the latest escalation the army has sent reinforcements to the gaza border preparing for further operations. relatives of those killed in monday's ass strike have been gathering as to morgan garza twente densify the bodies we should warn you that there are disturbing images coming up according to officials the victims were all young men this happened today

after a cave israeli raid which killed eight palestinians including a local militants commander. thank you for the own. thank you dozens of rockets that have been fired on the israeli gaza border one of the rockets struck a bus a civilian bus in tel and it led to an injury of five one of them was a serious injury that is really media and the israeli forces a claim that these rockets have been fired by hamas which they consider as. terrorist military faction also we have dozens of rockets that fired from gaza

and air strikes of israeli air strikes that respond to these rockets at the same time this is kill ation or distribution of escalation that is happening in the gaza strip recently is due or a result of the operation the special military operation that happened yesterday by the special israeli forces there was an exchange of gunfire between the israeli forces and. members of hamas that led to the killing of seven members of hamas one of them was a senior leader in hamas and as well as a senior officer in the israeli forces and another was injured what happened later was airstrikes that covered the operation that was happening. which led to the killing of the seven. members of hamas. more news after show break.

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let you go right to be prosperous like the four three in the morning can't be good . i'm interested always in the waters in the. first six. welcome back to ati a student in the u.s. is suing her college after prevented from hunting out valentine's cards containing bible verses back in february polly olsen was stopped by security stuff while trying to hand out northeast west coast and technical college she then filed a lawsuit accusing soft of violating her right to free speech but in this week's

federal court hearing the college contested that claim is said olson was stopped because she was in the stall only area we can now cross live to media and legal on this line oh and david lindorff editor of this comedy happening dot net good to see you but it's a very interesting issue to discuss here and i know let's start with you first of all does this case like a violation of free speech to you. well here's a universal legal answer it depends if there are provisions where speech can be bad. that doesn't interfere with the comings and goings if she violated some rule as to is something which theoretically could be done elsewhere there might be an argument let me just cut to the chase if this were any other religion or any other situation nobody would have

any problem with this none that would be it would be understood it would be it would be tolerated there would be diversity it would be understood but if it's christianity if it's jesus on college campuses today no go guarantee dave we'll see all of you on that the women in this case polly says security stuff told me that these bible verses might be considered offensive but is anyone likely to be offended by such a thing will have you on this. i know that now that's kind of silly i mean you know when you when you talk to these college security people there most of them have very little education they're not even cops they're they're like rent a cops and they they don't know what they're doing they did they come up with an explanation that's not what you can't go by that and say that's what the university stowing when i looked at the case it looked like what it was what the complaint was

was that she was doing the distributing in a part of the student union building that was the general studies office and that that was not they said that was not a like public discussion area which i can understand having been a general study student at columbia for a while you know there are some offices for general studies that you have to do stuff you know you're doing administrative stuff if she was doing it in that place not just you know in the at large area of the student union i can see why they would have told her to leave. and the if she was in the open area there wouldn't have a case and i think that's what ed but it wasn't clear because i didn't get to read the other side report from the university just what was written from the complaint that she brought her attorneys brought. but that you know the other the other point though that mike or lion-el said is that you know this you know

christians and jews and muslims have a free pass or a rather muslims and jews and buddhists and stuff have a free pass and christians don't and that's just really not true i mean i my wife teaches at temple university in philadelphia and there are christians all over the campus handing stuff out all the time no problem there's bigger problems i think with with muslims because there's some harassment of the. by other students but you know in general i think in general it's live and let live with religious railing off on campuses and i don't what's your response to this you know you're not you know if you're not trying to jam it into somebody's head yeah really no i don't have not wanted to write you know now that i'm saying no no i know not

he jumped in having read the second and there was open seas it. they're this is open season in this country especially on college campuses he can go through the litany of complaints regarding christianity now i'm not speaking up behind of somebody who was overtly christian i personally am religious it doesn't matter one way or the other what i'm telling you is that there it is anathema it is considered not in any way tolerate a bowl it is not diverse i promise you if somebody dared hand out anything any type of it now granted you might have said this is not the proper place to do what to solicit to proselytize to whatever but it is open season on this on christianity and especially fala says and if it ever gets to that point now we can pretend that it doesn't exist we can say the temple is different than

columbia columbia's ever than this but in this country right now it is absolutely verboten there are two sets of standards one of the i like it or not it's not legal but that's the way it is culturally christians are over here and everybody else is over here it's that oh atheists agnostics no problem we understand tolerate well let's move ahead and resume here on your own let's add a fact that's ok i'm not going to says well i'm going to have to i'm going to have to dispute that i'm going to dispute that look if you go to just i'm going to take temple because i know it well since i go there a lot to pick up my wife and i hang out there sometimes to use the library the campus is crawling with people including with megaphones who are promoting every kind of weird extremist religious. dogma and handing out stuff as people pass by everything from here to you know job as

witnesses to to to we're and we're on african christian. you know let's say you say we're you know african centered stuff that they're pushing i'm telling you and you know muslims who are promoting their their agenda. it's everybody's there including you know jewish groups everybody include where you're wrong as christians are in there too as you know all promoting their stuff as you know and i know you're going to hollywood and ok let's look at another case as well so as according to heroes temple you don't want to becoming one of the new out why don't you come visit you know according to a new guide published at simmons college temple university they published merry christmas happy easter god bless you but would be seen as micro aggressions against muslim people or vice versa or if people were saying. happy deval means some case

as could not be considered a violation of speech how would the legs of course and by the way goodbye which is just one case leave god be with you he is also is also a microaggression and a trigger work this is the insanity today at all places not temple mind you but the rest of the world this is par for the course every week in something like this is ridiculous supposed to be college this is a positive you are see the is the marketplace of free i was the is and you've got a bunch of snowflakes and a bunch of little babies i'm worried about oh my god you're going to see jesus you were here it's we day killis this is the future just take in world war two this is veterans day that is running man that is really going to get into heaven more reasons and today we're worried about somebody saying jesus almighty god oh we're sunk as a culture we're abt you know no good thing is. they will still response to this

thing people are becoming will send i bring this name flakes. no that's really you know it's a huge exaggeration and it's it's being used to promote this notion that everybody is becoming intolerant and you know it really isn't but i will tell you that as someone who is a leftist that i experience that kind of intolerance not for religion but for politics i can't get on the news shows that mainstream news shows anymore when i used to and i'll also tell you something else that there was to see i wonder why done by georgetown university at their free speech project at their free speech project which looked at sixty cases in the last forty three years in the united across the united states all sixty cases of. people being having speeches cancelled and two thirds of them were leftists the other study i looked at

that was done by jeffrey sachs of columbia found that in terms of profess oriel dismissals for statements that they had made or things they had written two thirds of the ones who were dismissed were left this professors and one that was lip service of let's let's get these long trying it's now and one of those should have happened let's look at these ongoing trends now as well because lionel in another case a student exactly at u.c. berkeley college in california is being asked to resign for refusing to vote on a motion accusing accusing domo trump of violating. this some ongoing trend in america now is this what we're saying. what happened was she said she got a letter on the platform that she was going to maintain christian values and they were going to we're going to vote in opposition to this lunacy today that gender is. anything you wanted to be so she said i'm going to abstain from that

person to the promise that i made to my of the people who voted for me and so she did she said i'm going to abstain from this one now they want her to resign because she's not getting into the idea that or she doesn't count as the idea that somehow gender i can just make up my mind like that out right now if they got their city today i'm i'm swedish and i'm a i'm a zebra and whatever just so she decided to abstain or now in berkeley all the bastion of free speech i remember that a member of the sixty's free speech epicenter now they want her to resign to get out to step down because she dared to follow through with a campaign promise she made to her constituents who voted her in the snowflakes again i know good for her though she hasn't resigned but this is sure you have to resign i mean say that you're taking words to say listen i was she was presenting the views of community me she was. she was being wait

a minute this woman was on this panel was being asked to resign pressured to resign she wasn't fired from it and said that's that's free speech too if people want to say you should resign because you're doing this ok you can object to them all they have a right to say it she doesn't have to resign and she can do more power to or she doesn't have very no which has led in the days that there is pressure is not yet no big deal is right thank you very much space the line a legal analyst and media commentator and a friend a founder of news site this comedy happening thank you very much for the debate this was great thank. you now today without the labels news i'll be back at the top of the out to see them.

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