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controversial law. in a bid to try to prevent this information is it during election campaigns. the whole thing is a threat to freedom of speech. americans are losing trust in social media with polls. democracy and free speech. and with you for the next thirty minutes or so with this latest update. stay with me for the whole thing to first the neurons reacted angrily to president. of the saudi arabia despite the brutal murder of dissident journalist. donald trump is no attempt to try to shift the spotlight from who's to blame for the killing to

the fight against a perceived threat of a foreign minister into. 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 trump white house statement title standing with saudi arabia point so that the whole truth behind the khashoggi killing might never be known goes on to add to that actions already been taken and that therefore saudi arabia remains a steadfast partner a 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 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 but lie back on iran it is a little close all the day which is and art and parcel of foreign policy in this region especially when it comes to iran and right when it comes to music and all else you know the fact is that when you start a very serious talking about. sanctions on iran. you know of living there nor in normal life. what he was saying. they are suffering their album the street so ease in the habit of lying when it comes to iran to put iran on the spotlight troubles claims of drone condemnation in the american media suggest the president caved in to the saudis while ignoring 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 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 denies sanctioning the murder jamal khashoggi saying the country's chrome prince had no knowledge of it being planned for that they insist it was a rogue intelligence operation in the saudi prosecutor's office says it's going to seek the death penalty for five suspects detained over the murder as for trial now the aside from countries around keeping all prices in check he also made it very clear that america's economic interests come first and that major deals with the saudis cannot be lost to rivals. barring hundred million dollars worth of something done if i wanted to give it if i stick with it because they would get what they were because of the thing from russia china russia china would be very very happy the 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. 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 efforts to do by the ski has the details. this 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 it would love social media uses to flag up items that they think are spreading false information if so those items would be removed i'm told so 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 control room media channels being blocked going to mean france during 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 teens will be increased to fight against any attempt at this to bill is a should buy television controlled or influenced by foreign states. president barack obama is also being pretty clear who he sees a who would like this being aimed at he's regularly accused. russian let called sputnik 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. and it stars 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 there 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 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 here in france and it's likely that the first time that we will see it in action will be during the european elections in twenty ninety. still in europe sanctioning one of its own could be the case for italy after each use reject the country twenty nine thousand budget the european union's already moved disciplinary procedures against row over that's the worst case scenario if italy fails eventually to finally fall in line with its finances. was it a great subtle daily confirms our assessment is that it elise that afterwards. in particularly serious noncompliance was a consulate accommodation of certain something like. what they tell in government. of the able we see of the country sleepwalking into instability we will respond

politely as we always have but i will not back down the decision to warn italy comes after the european commission had initially rejected is a nice budget that was back in october at the time it was stating the country was taking a risk and backtracking on previous reforms. because of the. relations. relations between italy and the e.u. vaal reddy suffered amid the ongoing migrant crisis with the italian coastline proving a hot spot for refugees coming from north africa or in 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 mocking attalia nse just last hour i spoke to stephen about xi from the italian northern league party and regional party member parliament member of parliament as he is as well he told me it's like should stay the course is e.u.

policies on helping to fix the economic crisis. for all of these offices. european forces politicians all. for i ask is that. too difficult to a changing exchange the situation you can't be able to change it is it is the. policies. that don't. escape from that assertion of the last yes. we need. policies and them. policies for the prices for workers but. who are. we. going to show off a lot of them and. among the stories i don't feel let me come but the two koreas it taking substantial steps towards closer cooperation and permanent peace.

to. join me every thursday on the alex salmond show and i'll be speaking to guest of the world of politics sports business i'm show business i'll see you then. 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 the call out to 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 will dump it into our computers and our ai systems and by the way you don't get any . international i'm kevin and that's one of the plot but remember those heady days when social networks burst into our lives millions embrace them as a chance to give a global voice to anyone anywhere earning reputation at the top as platforms for free speech and democracy the things that changed the tide of trust is turning for you just quite quickly too it seems for a couple of concerns ranging from exploiting personal data to alleged censorship and big 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 analytic 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 how 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. anime and political sectors as well

who feel. they are there but danger by these new business models these tech models the e.u. has already following some tech companies president trump's hinted he's up for do in that kind of whatever monopoly what about saying that he did not you don't look into i have so many people saying that we are certainly looking at that you trust any trust us 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 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. well talking of social media the perfect storm the power of social media can sometimes make or break a person's reputation as has been well documented over the years anyone with a high profile online knows that these days don't take much to like the touch paper and start a firestorm if you put a foot wrong and it seems even the people in charge of social networks are just as vulnerable as you're about to say.

hi jack are you against brahmins why come into an unknown country and get used as a proxy by vested interests. tomorrow if jack is given a poster with an anti-semitic messages in a meeting where 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 in your tweet here from innes and a device to save your skin and livable so twitter actively supports the brahman ical patriarchy. the wimps out the 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

that when you give us what's happening this comes from the sea. all of twitter and his dog management i mean the legal advice which is just a really scary because then you realize that they're not even going to look at what they are saying i think the material is ignored indian ticket saw the looks that i would use the hundreds of people is given without a glass consideration is as bad as that however the boy still held out was just a smash gammon exactly arche let me come and speak a bit about that yes the brandons enjoy this system a great privilege many many years it will stand up which was extremely cruel to the little guys india's dominant is that we had an extremely enlightened seamless also a constitution and the country's 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 lore

and what happens on the ground. u.s. secretary of state might pompei i was promised a grave consequences to anyone shipping oil to syria and trying to prop up a sad itself to the u.s. treasury department on tuesday slap sanctions on three year old companies selling a rainy an oil to syria and also a number of associated individuals to united states today sanctioned 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 all companies who want to rein in the six individuals targeted or from various countries including iran and russia 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 has battled terrorist aggression for seven years looks like

a statement of support for terrorists and similar taney asli an effort to hamper the reconstruction of the war torn country much of its population is deprived of electricity and heating does the us really want this. political analyst over the shabby told me the u.s. sanctions are simply illegitimate. 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 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 to it that are threatening the whole world so how ironic that mr pompei or chooses and chooses to

or to to stress 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 illegitimate government in syria today is the regime where there is a president of the city under a public president. who has 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 committee recognize a sitting government led by i said as the legitimate government so i i wonder how come you know mr pompei uses the term assad regime as if it was an illegitimate god government whereas you know converse lead the illegitimate action of these sanctions these sanctions are illegitimate they are illegitimate against syria they are illegitimate against iran they are illegitimate against hezbollah because they are baseless they are not based on a decision made by the united nations or by some actions that are proven to be illegal actions or by direct support for any terrorist organization. more than

a million people worldwide to join a petition against palm oil production which recent years has become a cheap versatile alternative to other vegetable oils it's huge in everything from food to cosmetics to fuel but now there's big 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 fine. fuel for an interesting experiment i don't think they've proven to be the value that they are if you're talking about. waste product that's one thing but growing crops to go into cars has just had some . real damaging effects that nobody expected. pictures don't see very often north korea's destroyed ten guard post in its southern border as part of the peace deal agreed earlier this year those pictures video released by south korea shows the pows being detonated they go in quick succession guard posts the positions along that whole de-militarized which separates the two countries both agreed to demolish ten posts that leaves the north with one hundred fifty once completed the

south with fifty degree but was made back in september as relations began to warm following decades of bits of. and what is it twenty four and a half minutes past seven o'clock moscow time that's how the news is looking so far i'll say goodbye for now dear chewed us along throughout the evening of all the latest breaking headlines as always so much more free of course on our main site dot com for now for a good evening. why. i .

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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 rushed to a small town in north dakota was an unemployment rate of zero percent like gold rush is very very similar. 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 the american dream is changing that's not what it used to be. and it's a tough reality and. the russian military deteriorated terribly at the end of the soviet union and russia was always going to rebuild its military the question is how can we the united states and russia construct

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