patients they have problems with want to talk to some the brains are actually shrinking inside their skull gets taken in the brain still small. the pain is indescribable it feels like a really really bad chemical burn but it goes through your skin in your muscles down to the but. there's no relief. we're not to sure this is just over. headlining this hour rand's foreign minister describes donald trump's words as shameful for pledging america's continued partnership with saudi arabia is the u.s. leadership focus for the murder of journalists. to both countries fight against iran coming from not coming up for you also to promise adoption controversial law

aimed at fighting fake news bid to prevent this information during election campaigns critics though view that as a threat to freedom of speech and those who in the program americans it seems are losing bread trust in social media with polls showing that more than half think platforms like facebook and twitter actually damage democracy and freedom of speech . their life in the arts international news center of moscow this wednesday is kevin i am with you for the next half hour this latest news update welcome to you first that iran's threat to downgrade to president trump refer me america's partnership with saudi arabia despite the brutal murder of dissident journalist jamal khashoggi in the saudi consulate in istanbul donald trump is now attempted to try to shift the spotlight somewhat from who's to blame for the killing to the fight against a perceived iranian threat is the foreign minister and to run reacted to that. mr

trump bizarrely devotes the first paragraph of his shameful statement on saudi atrocities to accusing iran of every sort of malfeasance he can think of perhaps who are also responsible for the california fires because we didn't help break the forests just like the fins do trumps white house statement titled standing with saudi arabia points out that the whole truth behind khashoggi is killing might never be no goes on to other actions already been taken and that saudi arabia remains nonetheless a steadfast partner. for a very complex situation but. it is what it is if you look at a red just take a look at a red and you look at what they're doing they are a terrorist station right now we also need a counterbalance and israel the help also if we abandon saudi arabia would be a terrible mistake and i'm not going to tell a country that threatening hundreds of millions of dollars and help me do one thing

very importantly well right. so that they're not going to one hundred nine hundred . dollars a barrel right now well right great i'm not going to boycott the world economy and i'm not going to come to our country by big oil and. well that statement so condemnation in the american news media who suggest that trumps caving in to saudis and ignoring his own intelligence services. however president trump today chose a different path something more along the lines of the world a very dangerous place because it is we should let murderers get away with it especially if the murderers are paying us lots of money now to figure out why the president is telling that lie why he's going so far out of this way to cover for the country and specifically the ruler that carried out this killing of a u.s. resident and us journalist saudi arabia did nice in the murder of jamal khashoggi saying the country's crown prince had no knowledge of it was being planned for that

they insist it was a rogue intelligence operation the saudi prosecutor's office says it will seek the death penalty for five suspects detained over the murder let's bring in the political analyst chair should thank you for your time today really want to get the view from where you are about to say this statement was supposed to be about saudi arabia in this journalist's killing his face he was an american citizen except it did a whole turn and then turned to the threat posed by your country you surprised by that even shocked. hello thanks for having me on r.t. again and well as a matter of fact donald trump is not doing anything different from donald trump habits and model of policy actually he is trying to kill two birds with one stone he is trying to bring the spotlight back on iran to

replace all the arabia which is been part and parcel of the u.s. foreign policy in this region especially when it comes to iran and when it comes to its oil policy and the world as a matter of fact this is not the first time that donald trump is lying and trying to derail the public opinion this is one of his main tactics apparently experts and their experts have told them that if he goes online. iran or what he's desires then the public will eventually come to pick up the same line and believe what he says the fact is that when he started talking about the iranian sanctions on iran iranians are you know living there not normal life. but he was saying the iranians have been crippled they are suffering they're out in the streets so he's in the habit of lying when it comes to the mando the iran has made . the last one month you know he's talking about oily is this the connection is

this the connection to the u.s. trade saudi arabia between iran is it all a big spat over oil. you know for the last one month or so b. arabia has been under the spotlight for the shop to case. and iran has not been the main agenda of mainstream media in the west most of it is because of you know all. settling domestic accounts that they have different camps with donald trump back in the u.s. especially prior to the midterm election they have picked up this case in order to pressure him. donald trump is not doing anything different that who stayed at last year when he was in riyadh they did that as long is also the arabia and other countries in the region the company the u.s. and our good straight partners of our of washington the united states would no more

try to impose american lifestyle on them that means that they would be free to deal with their human rights activists civil workers and so on and so forth now the message that donald trump is giving out is very lethal and very detrimental to all this of the nz of seoul the arabia across the world because there will be there wouldn't be any. anymore as long as the arabia remains the partner of the united states not been doing anything different that they've been tossed by the united states so we can have a whole conversation on this to get the go on for an hour or more i'm sorry going to cut you short there for now we've got some other news to cover but political on this side mustapha thanks ever so much being with us. a controversial law to tackle fake news has been passed in the french parliament

nearly a year after president mccrone voted clamp down on what he called a destabilization efforts. this law would be implemented in the three months before a national election here in france and it would mean that it would give greater scrutiny to what's published on things such as social media and also on t.v. channels that would allow social media uses to flag up items that they think are spreading false information if so those items would be removed and also it would allow people who are standing for election to take ideas of what they believe is a spread of false information to the courts here in france the judges then if they decide it is spreading false information that could result in foreign media state controlled media. being blocked from doing that election period now this is a law that much corn has been championing for a long time. the regulators powers which will be profoundly redesigned during

twenty teams will be increased to fight against any attempt at destabilisation by television controlled or influenced by foreign states. president mcconnell is also being pretty clear who he sees a rule like this being aimed at he's regularly accused of nothing russian let cool of being propaganda. russia today and sputnik have not behaved as media outlets and journalists but as organs of influence and false propaganda. well as a result of accusations by president. have regularly been denied access to a palace to be able to question the government about its policies they've also been denied access to official vents where president is present now in regards to this law that was passed on tuesday there were many people who also spoke out against it

saying it could actually be used to silence the press which aims to fight against the massive spread of information we're talking about facts not opinions and it's not about making the spread of false information a crime it's about creating ways of fighting those who sponsor the spread of fake news. i think this legislation is not the best way to combat. this i think that it's so to speak useless we have enough legislation on this ready which helps us enough in combating the manipulation of information and it could even be dangerous because it provokes self-censorship. so that more against the spread of false information has been passed. and it's likely that the first time that we will see it in action will be during the european elections in twenty nineteen. now in los heady days when social networks burst into our lives first millions embrace them there's a chance to give

a global voice to anyone anywhere only reputation as platforms for free speech and democracy but it seems the tide of trust is slowly turning more quickly i actually use it for a catalogue of concerns ranging from exploiting personal data to allege censorship and being in cahoots with governments. more than half of americans think social media is bad for democracy and free speech last year it was only forty three percent so that makes me wonder how bad it could get in the years to come who knows what scandals could follow baghdad against like the ones over the cambridge analytical and google plus breaches and the priest smartphone era we couldn't even imagine protests against online media. in theory what social media wants to be is their owners business after all they are competing private companies if you've got issues with one of them just switch to something else but facebook twitter you tube pinterest and instagram make up more

than ninety seven percent of all social media web traffic in the u.s. by the way make it the big fortune since to graham belongs to facebook they've pretty much mana plies the web and let's be honest they're not really competing since the formats are actually very different so it all came to the point mr zucker burke had to show up in congress you don't think you have a monopoly. certainly doesn't feel like that to me. or as the google man puts it you can switch to another engine with literally one click well some critics say the tech giants are not even good when it comes to jobs wages and the health of new startups there's just a few companies that dominate the market boom of course you know in the case of facebook. you know some of the others they certainly have a significant amount of political and economic influence and it's causing

a lot of havoc with traditional politics and traditional. economic business models so leave been able to successfully generate a lot of opposition. from those sectors of the. to me and political sectors as well who feel they are there but the endangered by these new business models these type models the e.u. has already following some tech companies president trumps handed he's up for door when that kind of whatever monopoly what about saying that i just don't look into it i have so many people saying that we are certainly looking at the data trust and interest use but even if they do get officially labeled as monopolies the tech giants are more than that they're in control of information that's become the new normal we often hear news of someone being banned suspended from social media platforms war some other kind of crackdown so that poll i showed you we should have

seen it coming this growing opposition to tech companies you can see it everywhere it's beginning to occur political elites see it as a threat to the old line economic businesses see it as a threat there's a tax system issue here there's a public opinion issue it's sure like a perfect storm coming together this is not international life and spain with us and head into paul elects its new chief today amid claims of behind the scenes maneuvering as the front runner for the position. it was on but on the rest the stories when we come back.

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six fifteen moscow sorry for fifteen moscow time hi good afternoon right next anyone with a high profile online knows that these days it doesn't take much to light the touch paper and start a big ol firestorm if you put a foot wrong but it seems even the people in charge of the social networks are just as far as you're about to see. i jack are you against brahmins why come into an unknown country and get used as

a proxy by vested interests. to morrow if jack is given a poster with anti-semitic messages in a meeting well his team allow him to hold it up why is that any different you people are spreading hate think your own posts is. sad to see a lack of awareness and concern about castro issues and your tweet your friend as and a device to save your skin and the livable so twitter actively supports the drama nicol patriarchate. the wimps out but that they ought to be ashamed. of course he has to apologize and let me tell you he still hasn't done so it's just quite ridiculous what's happening this comes from the c.e.o.

of twitter and his stock management i mean the legal advice which which is fairly scary because then you realize that they're not even consider what they're saying i think even if you realize that north indian ticket for the looks of art which is the house of people is given without a class consideration is as that is that however the poster held up was just a smashed i mean exactly let me come and speak a bit about that yes the brandons enjoyed a system of great privilege many many years ago which was extremely cruel to the lower class india's dominant is that we had an extremely enlightened chainless of our constitution. and countries the education level is only about now getting to about sixty five seventy percent so socially and we still have a long way to go. which is why you see this you know this mismatch between the floor and what happens on the ground. more than

a million people worldwide have joined a petition against palm oil production which in recent years has become a cheap versatile alternative to other vegetable oils its use in everything from food to cosmetics even fuel but now there's concern big said about the massive environmental cost in countries which produce it like indonesia. we need to press on with battery research for plug in hybrid vehicles and expand the use of clean diesel to i would diesel fuel and these technologies will help us be better stewards of the environment and they will help us to confront the serious challenge of global climate change.

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no government wants to cripple an industry that's probably providing a lot of revenue. and you know if they are truly acting in a negative way toward their own people then shame on them and and i think they need to reconsider what they're doing these by. io fuels were an interesting experiment i don't think they've proven to be the value that they are if you're talking about biomass from waste product that's one thing but growing crops to go into cars is just had some. real damaging effect that nobody expected. to develop as they to prefer pong the global the global police corporation organization interpol has elected a new president south korea's men jonghyun but before the vote a russian official was very widely tipped to get the job it didn't seem to sit well with people in washington the wall some called it the front runner it was little surprise didn't get the job though with west immediately bashing is kind of the see

ahead of the vote you know neal i'm riffing on just bit earlier discussed why the possibility of a russian at the head of interpol provoked such heated reaction as it seemed to. russia was accused of abusing interpol in order to chase its political opponents while mr procope chupa fifty six year old major general interior ministry veteran and one of the current interpol's vice presidents since two thousand and sixteen was referred to as for example abuser in chief and wolf interpol store a group of u.s. interest went as far as publishing an open letter to don trump said ministration urging to use all their power to make sure their russian is not elected which they described would be like a putin fox in charge of a hand how's the russian president's spokesperson soit as madelyne there is probably some kind of meddling in the electoral process in an election to an

international organization how it's going to be seen this is a clear manifestation of meddling so here we have really another wave of accusations what's brought this time this is the most interesting thing no evidence whatsoever was provided to prove these accusations i have to say that the head of the interpol of the critics of russia has been very active very vocal and the recent feeling that the american sentiment is could possibly base their claims on the statements of these personalities. i am seriously worried that if mr broke up too because the work to dispose didn't of him to paul he would be ready to take absolutely and the action of the kremlin's command because reputation is not something he was worried about it turned out that in putin's russia there are no good guys no empathy and no morals threaten me with death they threaten me with kidnapping the russians will do anything they can get away with or even stuff they can't get away with and this is being said by the two businessmen whose extradition

russia requested through interpol why william browder he was charged in russia in absentia for nine years in prison for tax fraud and he's currently accused of creating a transnational criminal network in order to wonder money a large scale embezzlement and could possibly be behind the murder of his associates only hell had a cough ski the next base in the center over involvement in murder and spent a total of ten years in prison on charges of tax evasion and bassam and even if we don't talk about these controversial figures controversial cases we can remember that russia for example requested the extradition of who russia believed were chechen terrorists and in fact was denied so i can say that the accusations that russia is abusing into paul for its own purposes to chase his political opponents have little grounds pictures here next north korea destroyed. his southern border

as part of the peace deal agreed earlier this year a video released by south korea shows those posed big detonators with succession posts of positions along with which separates the two countries the north still has a hundred fifty while the south is disposed of sixty two countries have agreed to remove his relations warm following decades of bitter rivalry. the growing problems of asian nations on the world stage of the region's current hurdles are in focus right now. an annual conference this time in malaysia is organized by the moscow based think tank the valdai club one of the biggest regional issues is the territorial dispute ongoing in the south china sea which is seen beijing face off with washington which wants to curtail chinese influence there are still fears that that could lead somewhere down the line to a direct confrontation is the worry trade war some for section is more also up for discussion of the conference which includes key business people academics macross

the region including japan china south korea india and pakistan the president c.e.o. of a regional integration of security foundations there to stressing the importance of dialogue especially in times of uncertainty like this. from a political perspective especially right now of course the word is facing a lot of uncertainties a lot of disruption. and i re seeing from. certain positions being taken away they relate that stayed sound of one hand. decrease to trade protectionists and so on and on the other hand of course china is looming ever bigger player in the world affairs and so in with respect to the question of what kain you know off. what kind of free china security architecture and we would like to see. in the air yes of course where russia interests. them there is much benefit to be had

from dialogue on the spirit of strategic issues for instance. that this is a very important and. we share my scenario that states can benefit from a good bit of inside the club we're proud to be here where are the international the station the questions more from moscow that so it looks so far this wednesday my name is kevin know it always so much more for you to don't forget at r.t. dot com. to briggs it turn not to break that that is the question teresa mayes plan to exit the e.u. has been roundly criticised from virtually every corner and with a looming deadline the u.k. could face a hard briggs's without an agreement even early elections how did it get to this

point. dollars. dollars. dollars i mean the dollar dollar is what i would be. we got garrett over here we care the music with us. we are a year we were dragged here. by your love going to get rid of those who are not go away who will not die quiet. real the hard work we do is the.

thames on already has a significant portion of all u.s. commerce something approaching twenty percent i guess their goal is to get fifty percent of all commerce in america it would be amazon commerce and they need artificial intelligence to do that an artificial intelligence needs data to run effectively so jeff bezos but the call out to all the cities and they said we may come to your town just give us all the data on all the people living in your town and will dump it into our computers and our ai systems and by the way you don't get anything. this is boom bust broadcasting around the world and covering the world of business and finance that the impact upon all of us i'm bart chilton coming to you again

from our miami studios we're really pleased you're on board welcome coming up this time markets have taken two days of terrible terrible tumbles and we asked the c.e.o. of euro pacific capital peter schiff is this the crash the correction the bear tour of touring he's been predicting plus last time we told you about that sad and sorry story of the nissan c.e.o. who was arrested for financial crimes he was arrested well there's more news and we'll get an insider's examination from somebody who knows him lauren fix the car coach plus all i asked her about that wall mark and ford deal for driverless delivery of groceries and later there's more krypto news and market movement big time we are super psyched to have back with us kristie i still expert and co-founder of counterpart all that ahead but first.