i. i i. had lunch at five pm from moscow iran's foreign minister described donald trump's words a shameful for pledging america's continued partnership with the arabian is the us leaders shift focus now for the murder. to both countries fight against pretty the

latest cations of that today also ahead as well from a controversial law aimed at fighting fake news in a bid to prevent this information during election campaigns critics though view it as a threat to freedom of speech. over which americans are losing their trust in social media with a poll showing more than hoff think platforms like facebook and twitter are damaged democracy and freedom of speech. this is out international. being with us this wednesday much appreciated as ever for me and the team starting with this then iran's reaction to president trouble reaffirming america's partnership with saudi arabia despite the brutal murder of dissident journalist. in istanbul donald trump is now attempted to try to shift the spotlight from who's to blame for the killing to the fight against

a perceived radiant threat is how the foreign minister and reacted. 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 title standing with the saudi arabia points out that the whole truth behind khashoggi is killing might never be known goes on to our actions already have been taken and that saudi arabia remains nonetheless a steadfast partner. very complex situation but it is what it is if you look at iran just take a look at a red and you look at what they're doing they are a terrorist they should right now we also need a counterbalance and israel the child also if we have banned in saudi arabia would be a terrible mistake he is trying to kill two birds with one stone he is trying to bring

best back on iran to replace all the. which is in part and parcel of the us foreign policy in this region especially when it comes to iran and when it comes to. the fact is that when he started talking about uranium the sanctions on iran iranians are you know living there nor normal life it was but he was saying the iranians have been crippled they are suffering their album industry so ease in the habit of lying when it comes to iran to put iran on the spotlight. claims of drone condemnation in the american media who suggest the president's caved in to the saudis will ignoring his own intelligence services however president trump today chose a different path something more along the lines of the world is a very dangerous place and because it is we should let murderers get away with it especially if the murderers are paying us lots of money now we're left to figure

out why the president is telling that lie why he's going so far out this way to cover for the country and specifically the ruler that carried out this killing of a u.s. resident and u.s. journalist. so the arabia denies sanctioning the murder of jamal khashoggi saying the country's crown prince had no knowledge of it 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 as for trump aside from countering iran and keeping oil prices in check he also made it clear that america's economic interests come first and that major deals with the saudis cannot be lost to rivals. they're buying hundreds of billions of dollars worth of damage done if i don't want to take your bill right there with you because they would get what they. were because of the thing from russia china russia china would be very very happy to us foreign policy is basically driven by the military industrial

complex which as he reports in this statement is due to receive one hundred ten billion dollars in weapons or orders from saudi arabia so that's what it's come down to the united states under president is first and foremost a weapons an arms dealer. controversial lot of talk of fake news has been passed by french parliament nearly a year after present mccrone vowed to clamp down on what he called the destabilization efforts to do penske's got the details 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 armed 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. results in foreign media state. during that election period now this is a corn has been championing for a long time. the regulators powers which will be profoundly redesigned during twenty teens will be increased to fight against any attempt at disability ation by television controlled or influenced by foreign states. president mcconnell's also been pretty clear who he. would like this being aimed at he's regularly accused. russian. 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 we've also been denied access to official vents where president is present now in regards to this law that was passed on tuesday they were many people who also spoke out against it saying it could actually be used to silence the press. aims to fight against the massive spread of false information we are talking about facts not opinions and it's not about making the spread of folks 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 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. remember those heady days when social networks pursed into our lives millions of us embrace them as a chance to give a global voice to anyone anywhere earning reputations platforms for free speech and democracy originally but these days it seems the tide of trust has quickly turned for users of a catalogue of concerns ranging from exploiting personal data to alleged censorship begin 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 big data games 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 force and 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. it 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. anime and political structures as well who feel they're there but the danger by these new business models these take miles the e.u. has already following some tech companies president trump's hinted he's up for door

in that kind of order monopoly what about saying you know look into i have so many people saying that we are certainly looking at data trust and interests use but even if they do get officially labeled as monopolies the tech giants are more than that they're in control of information it's become the new normal we often hear news of someone being banned suspended from social media platforms or 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 old line economic business is 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. now to talk to social media and it with high profile online knows that these days it doesn't take much to like the touch paper to start a firestorm even if you put

a small foot wrong but it seems even the people in charge of the social networks are just as follow bill. i jack you against brahmins why come into an unknown country and 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 polis is. said to see a lack of awareness and concern about castro issues and your tweet your fraulein as and a device to save your skin and a 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 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 control of 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 bad as that however the poster held up was just a smash. let me come speak a bit about that yes the brandons enjoyed a system of great privilege many many years ago which was extremely cruel to the us india stronger is that we had an extremely enlightened shameless also a constitution. and the countries the education level is only about now getting to about sixty five seventy percent so socially we still have a long way to go. which is why you see this you know this mismatch between the law and what happens on the ground is five forte moscow time coming out washington fires off a verbal warning shot to nations to go against the grain when it comes to syria and iran calev reaction coming up to that web come back just ninety seconds.

manufacture consent to public wealth. when the ruling class is protect themselves. with the final. say. comes 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 they call out all the cities and they said we may come to your town just give us all the data all the people living in your town and we'll jump into our computers and our ai systems and by the way you don't get any. us secretary state might pompei was promising grave consequences to anyone shipping oil to syria and trying to prop up assad as he put it itself to the us treasury department on tuesday set up sanctions on three oil companies selling a raid in oil to syria and a number of associated individuals as well you know it states today sanctions and international network that the iranian regime and russia are using to provide millions of barrels of oil to the assad regime this is in exchange for the movement of hundreds of millions of dollars to the i.r.g.c. could force that money is then passed on to terrorist organizations like hezbollah

and hamas the new round of sanctions targets to russia based on oil companies with one reigning in the six individuals talk to from various countries including iran and russia moscow has condemned washington's latest move saying it lends support to terrorists in syria. the effort to charge others with providing oil to syria which is battled terrorist aggression for seven years looks like a statement of support for terrorists and similar cheney asli an effort to hamper the reconstruction of the water in country much of its population is deprived of electricity and heating does the us really want this meantime amnesty international says thousands of online activists will be enlisted to more quickly investigate the u.s. led campaign in iraq the coalition's airstrikes managed to drive islamic state out of itself star capital but left that syrian city in ruins civilian deaths in the four month campaign that ended in october twenty seventeen lead to the coalition carrying out its own investigation it acknowledged that one hundred four civilians

were killed and said it would review any new evidence at least two thousand five hundred bodies have been recovered from the rubble so far but this sanctions story little and listening to the shop is joining us now live from beirut there nice to see you thanks for your time is it an overstatement to say that you know maybe the war in syria largely over now has taken a new turn now it's sanctions that are the weapon. yes yes yes and how ironic that the united states that claims claims to be fighting terrorism and is imposing sanctions on those who defeated isis to those who participated and the war is still ongoing in eastern syria. isis is not completely dismantled yet there is more of a war effort by the syrian army with the help of the russian army with the help of the iranian forces in order to completely destroy this terrorist organization and these terrorist organizations that are affiliated with that are

threatening the whole world so how ironic that with the pompei or chooses and chooses to press the sanctions against syria and iran at a time when the war on terror is ongoing and how ironic that he uses terms also that the assad regime whereas the lid. government in syria today is the regime where there is a president of the syrian republic president assad who was been elected by his people now this is a legitimate government because it's represented in the united nations with mr schaffel he was the ambassador of syria for the international community recognizes syrian government led by i said as the legitimate government so i i wonder how come you know mr pompei will use the term assad regime as if it was an illegitimate government whereas you know converse lead the illegitimate action of these sanctions these sanctions are illegitimate they are illegitimate they consider they are illegitimate against iran they are illegitimate against hezbollah because they are baseless they are not based on the decision made by the united nations over by

some actions that are proven to be illegal actions or by direct support for any terrorist organizations this could be allegations against you know some western forces coincidence or not to these sanctions all companies are russian to rainy and just try to work the russian foreign ministry is doing this the russian foreign minister has claimed that sanctioning companies for providing oil to syria is tantamount to support for terrorists can you see the russian point of view here and how they work in that. yes i think you know the oil the oil is much needed today and it's much needed in the war effort against terrorists it's much needed for the people the timing where these sanctions are being stressed is the timing this is the beginning of winter the people need the actually. the oil to actually create heating for their homes their heating for hospitals this is important for transportation this is important for the building

of the country you know i think that this is an american move and the speech of mr pompei or it's only you know making things worse in syria and taking us back to a time when things were you know impossible to manage and this is only going to make. things worse and you know it's unfortunate that the united states has been saying and claiming that it is the leading power against terrorism is now encouraging more and more terrorists to appear in syria and reflect on the stability of this country and its political analyst and in its own a shovel we're going to continue this conversation on the scenes to get all of us a bit more insight bring it later to them but for now for me thank you for joining us live. for the million people worldwide to join a petition against palm oil production which in recent years has become a cheap versatile alternative to other vegetable oils it's used in everything from food to cosmetics to fuel even now there's concern about the massive environmental cost in countries which produce it like indonesia.

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in the long. run that's something. legal. 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. 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 file mass from waste product that's one thing but growing crops to go into cars is just had some. real damaging effect that nobody expected. pictures for next north korea is destroyed ten guard posts at its southern border as part of the peace still agreed earlier this year come those pictures video released by south korea shows those pows being detonated in succession god posa position the long the de-militarized which separates those two countries both agreed to demolish ten posts that leaves the north now with hundred fifty one to the south with fifty because it was made back in september as relations began to warm following decades of fits of rivalry many more stories many more great features and pictures like that. for now that i was looking so far this wednesday i'm kevin owen thank you for watching r.t.

international. you know world big. lot and conspiracy it's time. to dig deeper to hit the stories that mainstream media refuses to tell more than ever we need to be smarter we need to stop slamming the door on the shouting past each other it's time for critical thinking it's time to fight for the middle for the truth the time is now for watching closely watching the hawks. to briggs that are 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 eve. early elections how did he get to this point. pranking gave americans a lot of job opportunities i needed to come up here to make some money like me twenty five thousand dollars as a teacher or i could make fifty thousand dollars a year truck so i chose to drive a truck people rush to a small town in north dakota was an unemployment rate of zero percent like gold rush is very very similar to gold but this beautiful story ended with pollution and devastation a lot of people have left here i don't know too many people here in the slowdown so much they lost their jobs got laid off the american dream is changing that's not what it used to be. and that's a tough reality to deal. not

mention or tense and we're going underground as embattled u.k. pm drazen made today goes to brussels drying out a bricks agreement that is set to be voted down in london coming up in the show we offer scottish nationalist m.p. and chair of the u.k. international trade select committee angus macneil if spain is just the first country to try and deal rail to raise a maze bricks of steel and the president of conservatives for a people's vote pullman chair of parliament education select committee neil call michael says we know there was russian interference in the brics approach plus we cover the week's top stories from westminster to the west bank with former who was its minister golden baker told us of all coming up in today's going on the ground first while the u.k. chaotically tries to distance itself from the e.u. today marks five years since in other countries all protests in favor of getting

closer to. the e.u. those demonstrations would metamorphose into new nazis in ukraine funded by barack obama reported here by late. chills the omnibus spending bill includes a clause banning the sale of arms to the neo nazi link but valiant this comes after united states are supplied weapons and training to the a cranium militia this hour after barack obama's diplomat victoria nuland was court looking like the us organize a coup in europe's largest country even while swearing at the european union that would be great i think to help blew this thing and have the u.n. help glue it and you know be you know what happens in you and he or she is named christopher steele the former m i six agent these claims are being investigated by u.s. special counsel robert mueller into trump's ties to moscow during the ukraine crisis in two thousand and fourteen and fifteen chris still had a number of commercial clients who were asking him for reports on what was going on

in russia what was going on in ukraine what was going on between them chris had a friend at the state department any offered us that reporting free so that we could also benefit from it it was one of you know hundreds of sources what else did this british spy offer what one does the dossier he passed two to four pages of short points of what he was finding and our immediate reaction to that was this is not in our purview this needs to go to the f.b.i. if there is any concern here that one candidate or the election as a whole might be influenced by the russian federation there you have an obama era diplomat who has been caught on tape being against you democracy and for u.s. backed regime change in your pushing information from a discredited british spy to the f.b.i. by the election it appears not from washington but more screw this well u.s. politico dot com alleges evidence of ukrainian government involvement in seeking to

this going to donald trump the head of elect. that brought him to power but while the mainstream media here in the u.k. claims that tourism is now escaped her arguable coup she travels to brussels today followed by threats from spain and the northern irish body keeping her in power to destroy the deal for leaving the european union but how many more countries may follow i'm joined now by scottish national party member of parliament and chair of the international trade select committee angus with me oh thanks so much and it's going on just put it all in motion just before we get to break the save the children report saying eighty five thousand dead children in yemen starving should the u.k. be selling weapons to saudi arabia in a word no the dutch to administer a secret colleague few weeks ago who met a point of scene of the lunch the unit the dutch do not sell arms to saudi arabia for the very reason of their intervention in yemen so the world is no ok well what do you think tourism is doing in brussels today looking for lifeboats life jackets life belts anything at all that can throw a lifeline. in a difficult position.