fifty. brands for a minister trumps words a shameful for pledging america's continued partnership with saudi arabia as the u.s. leadership's focus from the murder of journalists. to both countries fight against a rat. had to promise of a controversial law. in a bid to prevent this information during the election. itself as

a threat to freedom of speech and also ahead americans losing their trust in social media with a poll showing more than half think platforms like facebook and twitter damage democracy and free speech. live from the. states kevin go in with. this latest update thanks for your company helping stay with me to first and iran's reacted angrily to president. bashir with saudi arabia despite the brutal murder of dissident journalist in the saudi. bowl donald trump is no ten to try to shift the spotlight from who's to blame for the killing to the fight against a perceived iranian threat is how the foreign minister in terre 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 title standing with saudi arabia points out that the whole truth behind the shoji is killing might never be known and it goes on throughout that actions already been taken and that therefore saudi arabia remains a steadfast partner the very complex situation but it is what it is if you look at iran just take a look at iran and you look at what they're doing they are a terrorist they should right now we also need a counterbalance and is your only child also if we have band in saudi arabia would be a terrible mistake he is trying to kill two birds with one stone he is trying to bring best but lie back on iran and it will replace all the yesterday which is part and

parcel of foreign policy in this region especially when it comes to iran and right when it comes in the interest only and all those you know the fact is that when you started going to belt you reining in your sanctions on iran. you know of living there nor normal life. but he was saying. they are suffering their album in the streets so ease in the habit of lying when it comes to iran to put iran on the spotlight drugs claims have drawn condemnation in the american media who suggest the president's caved in to the saudis will ignore his own intelligence services. 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 us resident and us journalist saudi arabia denies science degree murder jamal khashoggi saying the country's crown prince had no knowledge of it being planned further 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 country iran and keeping all prices in check he also made it very clear that america's economic interests come first and that major arms deals with the saudis cannot be lost to rivals. they're buying hundreds of billions of dollars worth the big guns if i don't want to take your business if i think we're going to go to iraq they will get the military equipment or the thing from russia giant russia and china would be very very happy the u.s. 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 a controversial law to tackle fake news has been passed by french parliament nearly a year after president mccrone vowed to clamp down on what he called destabilization the stabilization efforts dubin ski has more. 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 channels. from. 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 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. propaganda. well as a result of accusations by president. staff 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 events 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 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 law against the spread of

false information has been passed here now in france and it's likely that the first time that we will see it in action will be doing the european elections in twenty nineteen. oh those heady days years but with social networks perced into our lives remember millions embrace them as a chance to give a global voice to anyone anywhere reputation as a platform for free speech and democracy at the time but things change in these days it seems the tide of trust is turning for users after a catalog 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. political sectors as well who feel. the danger by these new business models. the e.u. has already following some tech companies president trump's hinted he's up for door in that kind of whatever monopoly what about saying that he just didn't look into

it i have so many people saying that we are certainly looking at the 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 that'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 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 the power of social media can sometimes make or break a person's reputation anyone with a high profile online knows that these days doesn't take much cause to let the touch paper and start from a firestorm if you put a foot wrong but it seems even the people in charge of the social networks these days a just as vulnerable. i

jacky are you against brahmins why come into an unknown country and are 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 fraulein as and a device to save your skin and livable so twitter actively supports the brahman ical patriarchy. the wimps out but thirty 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 creature 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 are saying i think people should realize that no indian ticket saw the looks that i would use the hundreds of people is given without a class consideration is as bad as that however the boy still held up was just

a. smashed i mean exactly archy made me come and speak a bit about that yes the britons enjoyed a system of great privilege many many years ago sense of which was extremely cruel to the indians dominant is that we've had an extremely in one thousand shameless constitution and the country is 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 door and what happens on the ground it's exactly forty minutes past six moscow time thanks for watching much more to come this evening the two koreas are taking substantial steps towards closer cooperation on a permanent basis for pictures of them blowing up some stuff along the border there you want to see it don't miss it's coming up.

in a world big part of the law and conspiracy it's time to wake up to dig deeper to hit the stories that mainstream media refuses to tell more than ever we need to be smart we need to stop slamming the door. and shouting past each other it's time for critical thinking it's time to fight for the middle for truth the time is now for watching closely watching the hawks. amazon 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 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 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 any. i get new in sunshine want to be on could be the case for italy after eve's rejected the country's twenty nine thousand budget the european union's already moved to launch disciplinary procedures against rome whether that's the worst case scenario if italy fails to fall in line with his finances with the regrets of the daily confirms our assessment is that it elise that afterwards to the east in particularly serious noncompliance was a consulate accommodation of sorts these are doing. what they tell in government. stable we see that east of the country sleepwalking into instability we will respond politely as we always have but i will not back down the

a decision to warn italy comes after the european commission initially rejected its budget in october state of the country has taken a risk in backtracking on previous reforms relations between italy and the you have already suffered amid the ongoing migrant crossed of course with the italian coastline providing a hotspot for refugees coming in from north africa and the middle east we have shown that we know how to defend our borders and we will show that we can also block european budgets and actions as long as europe and some countries keep marking a tally of archies from the italian northern league party in a regional parliament member he's with us now hey there's to follow thanks for your time i was serious is the budget situation right now for rome and your country are you going to face even tougher times. washington homemaking. because the change of policy and. or. science or the science show not for you cause we have

a real problem problem. in the real economic and in the real life for the worker or for the poor and then we. find poor and. increases this year and when in actual change and this isn't the only thing yeah but the problem is it's easy to promise is difficult to deliver in this problem i live in italy sometimes myself there's probably going on for a long time the problem got bigger unemployment the us has got bigger there's a a lot of problems but you know you've gotta have the money behind you to make these promises and brussels is worried that you just haven't got the money in your wallet to do everything you say you going to do. and. i. tell you to escape

from that a session of the last yes when and polish. and. polish is for surprises for work but for craig and you work and you work for the for our students and get rid. of unemployment. follow the deal the thirty three percent. but you're part of the you're part of the european club you've got to abide by the european rules they say. to. who go out from the is especially on we must go on the ration. of the government the action the current for the next hour show on the economic policies

and create new jobs for. the condition for korea's investment and there's a lot of quick final question is the italian government unanimous over this budget and following european procedures or not are you really going to buck the trend here and. tell brussels to go away. entirely. for all these offices. european or for his policies or. for us is that. too difficult to change in exchange the. counties. around him and the. war on this road so far no good will come of the conversation here on the same get a bit more thoughts about where this is going to go in the spot probably were brussels so fun about she from the italian or the league party and the regional

parliament member we appreciate your time or best. more than a million people worldwide to join her petition against palm oil production which in recent years has become cheap versatile alternative to other vegetable oils it she's in everything from food to cosmetics and even fuel but now there's concern 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 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. 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 fire mass from waste product that's one thing but growing crops to go into cars is just had some. real damaging effects that nobody expected. in the korean peninsula next north korea destroyed ten god post of its southern border as part of that peace deal agreed earlier this year check this video it's been released by south korea showing those pows being detonated the go in swift succession god posts

a position along the demilitarized zone which separates the two countries both agreed to demolish ten posts that now leave town to get all of the north of the hundred fifty wants complete the south with fifty but agreement was made back in september as relations began to warm following decades of bitter rivalry those good serve more action pictures like that more great features of course on our site r.t. dot com and all the latest breaking news as well especially for download our ups free of charge go straight to mobile device check it out if you know done already there are moscow that says look in so far this wednesday thank you for watching out international with me kevin. the russian military deteriorated terribly over the soviet union and russia was

always going to rebuild its military the question is how can we the united states and russia construct a relationship where we are both confident of the intention for more confident of the intentions of the other so that we're not worried it's not that we shouldn't. but it we should make sure that our counterparts understand why we have it and when and where we would use the. dollars. dollars. dollars. dollar dollar is what i wasn't being. but we got carried over here we care the music with us. we are here we were dragged here. by you looking to get rid of those who

are not go away we will not die quiet. real the hard work we do is the truth. what politicians do. they put themselves on the line. to get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be president i'm sure. some want to be rich. but you'd like to be close to see what looks like three of them or can people that. i'm interested in all those in the waters of our.

small seem wrong when old rules just don't all. get to shape out just to come as a kid and engagement equals betrayal. when so many find themselves worlds apart. just to look for common ground. up. i go to places like camp sundown camp for people that camera. and they're like so vampire camp is like a safe house i guess they don't have to talk about what they go through with us because we understand our daughter katie was first diagnosed with a very rare sun sensitive condition if i get sunburned i heal she does or she'll patients when they have problems with the walking talking here are some of the brains of her actually shrinking inside there the still gets thicker in the brain

still small. the pain is indescribable it's feels like a really really bad chemical burn but it goes through your skin in your muscle all the way down to the bone and there's no really. close up we're just not to sure this is let's just go. cracking gave americans a lot of new job opportunities i needed to come up here to make some money i could make twenty five thousand dollars as a teacher or i could make fifty thousand dollars a year truck so i chose to drive truck people rush to a small town in north dakota was among the employment rate of zero percent like the gold rush is very very similar to a gold rush but this beautiful story ended with pollution and devastation

a lot of people have left here i don't know too many people here and just slow down so much they lost their jobs got laid off and the american dream is changing that's not what it used to be. and that's a tough reality to deal. hello and welcome to cross top for all things considered i'm peter lavelle to bragg's it or not to briggs that that is the question remains plan to exit the e.u. has been roundly criticised from virtually every quarter and with a looming deadline the u.k. could face a hard break that without an agreement even early elections how do they get to this

point. talking bragg's that i'm joined by my guests in london marcus papadopoulos he's the editor of politics first magazine we also have alexander mcqueen he's a writer on legal affairs as well as editor in chief of the duran dot com and we have donald he is an associate director of the academy of ideas all right gentlemen crosstalk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want and i always appreciate marcus let me go to you first i'm titling this program broken brags it is that an appropriate title for this program do you think go ahead well allow me to say this i do not like the european union and i never have lights. but at the same time i don't like the press and i don't like the remaining why because both camps are two sides of the same coin.