iran's foreign minister describes donald trump's words as shameful pledging america's continued to polish it with saudi arabia as the u.s. need to shift the focus from the murder. countries fight against iran.

problems adopting a controversial way. in a bid to prevent this information during election campaign predicts however. as a threat to freedom of speech. and americans and trust in social media with a. facebook and twitter democracy and free speech. international live from all studio with me. welcome to the program. the president's statement of support for saudi arabia which appeared to exonerate riyadh all responsibility in the murder of janice jamal khashoggi the iranian foreign minister was outraged that attempted to shift the spotlight. it from the

khashoggi case to a perceived threat posed by iran. you look at iran just take a look at a rare and you look at what they're doing they are a terrorist they shoot right now 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 shall she was killed in the saudi consulate in istanbul back in october saudi arabia denies shank's sanctioning the murder saying the country's crown prince had no knowledge it was be being planned saudi prosecutors are seeking the death penalty for five suspects detained in a case political analysts say or do with the question says trump is trying to shift the world on to everyone. here you are trying to kill two birds with one stone he is trying to bring the spotlight back on the iran story of close 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 oil policy the fact is that when he started talking about the iranian sanctions on iran iranians are you know of living there not normal life. but he was saying the iranians have been crippled they are suffering their album this true so he's in the habit of lying when it comes to iran to put the iran under the spotlight. time statement is called standing with saudi arabia and begins with the words the world is a very dangerous place the claims made in the document have drawn condemnation in american media who suggest the president has caved in to the saudis while ignoring his own intelligence agencies. however president today chose a different path something more along the lines of the world is 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 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. clarifying that aside from countering iran and keeping all prices in check america's economic interests come first and that made with the saudis cannot be lost to rivals. they're buying hundreds of billions of dollars worth the big number. if i say you don't want to make your bid to buy there would be good on they would get the. work because of that they were brought here 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 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 culture of war to mercial or to tackle fake news has been passed by french parliament nearly a year after president micron vowed to clamp down on what he called destabilization athens aussie's charlotte benson gets 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 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 disability ation 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. 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. staff have regularly been denied

access to a palace to be able to question the government about its policies who've also been denied access to official events 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. and it's likely that the first time that we will see it in action will be during the european elections in twenty nineteen. sanctioning one of it could be the case for italy after the e.u. has rejected the country's twenty nine thousand budget the european union has already moved to launch disciplinary procedures however that is the worst case scenario if it's lee fails to fall in line with its finances. so today we confirm our assessment is that italy's. in particularly serious noncompliance with the consulate accommodation. what they tell the government. of table we see there is a country sleepwalking into instability. we discussed this with european commission president jiang. as you know on saturday night i'm invited to dinner for what will

be a constructive confrontation we have always been convinced about our draft is a draft that we thoroughly thought through and prepared we are convinced about the concrete ness of our political economic plan and so i'll be happy to evaluate the next steps. decision to warn after the european commission initially rejected italy's budget in october stating the country was taking a risk trapping tacking on previous reforms relations between an. already suffered and ongoing crisis with the italian coastline proving a hot spot for refugees coming 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 and tell him not only party members to follow party says it's me should stay the course policies aren't helping to fix the economic crisis. entirely.

fall these offices. european forces politicians or. for us is that too difficult to change in exchange the new countries be able to change it is the. only these policies of the norms that don't distinguish we need to escape from that a section of the last yes. we need. policies and them. policies for the prices for workers but very new world. we might as well on the relation of their government. that is taking a substantial steps towards closer cooperation and opponent pace want a house on the stories i will after this break.

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 we'll jump into our computers and our ai systems and by the way you don't get any. welcome back to the program when social networks burst into our lives millions embrace them as a chance to give a global voice to anyone anywhere and in reputations platforms to free speech and democracy but it seems the tide of trust is turning for uses off a catalogue of concerns ranging from exploiting data to a lot of censorship and being 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 up 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 in the 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 they've been able to successfully generate a lot of opposition. from those sectors of the economy and political sectors as

well who feel that they are there but the danger by these new business models these tech models the e.u. has already fallen and some tech companies president tribes handed he's up for. dohrn 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 and that you 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 the old line economic business is see it as a threat there's a tax is the issue here this is a public opinion issue it's sure like

a perfect storm coming together the power a social media can sometimes make or break a person's reputation anyone with a high profile online these days and innocent mistake or callous comments can trigger a storm and it seems even the people in charge of the social networks of justice and. i jack 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 yet with your friend as sander the vice 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 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 are saying i think people should realize that north indian ticket saudi looks at i would use the hundreds of people is given to us consideration is as bad as that however the boy still held up. was just a smash don't mean exactly archy let me come and speak a bit about that yes the brandons enjoyed a system of great privilege many many years ago all center of which was extremely cruel to the lower class india's dominant is that we had an extremely in lightened three millisieverts our constitution and a country's education level is only about now getting to work 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 lore and what happens on the ground. u.s.

secretary of state mike pompei is promising grave consequences to anyone shipping oil to syria and trying to prop up assad that's after the u.s. treasury department on tuesday slap sanctions on three or all companies and several people involved in selling iranian oil to syria. united 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 g.c. could force that money is then passed on to terrorist organizations like hezbollah and hamas the new round of sanctions targets and one iranian company into russia based oil companies the six individuals targeted are from various countries including iran and russia moscow has condemned washington's latest me saying it lends support to terrorists in syria. the effort to charge others with providing oil to syria which is battle 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. based political analyst says the us is a fact of a giving aid to the remnants of islamic state who ironically that the united states that claims claims to be fighting terrorism and is imposing sanctions on those who defeated isis those who participated and the war is still ongoing in eastern syria . isis is not completely dismantled the. more reward effort by the syrian army with the help of the russian army with the help of the iranian forces in order to completely destroy these terrorist organizations and these terrorist organizations that are affiliated with that are threatening the world 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 have joined a petition against palm oil production which in recent years has become a cheap versatile alternative to other vegetable oils is used in everything from food to cosmetics and even fuel but now there's concern about the massive environmental costs in countries which produce it like indonesia.

need to press on with battery research for plug in hybrid vehicles and expand the use of clean diesel be 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. that's something.

that. 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 from waste product that's one thing but growing crops to go into cars has just had some. real damaging effect that nobody expected.

korea has destroyed ten posts at its southern border as part of the peace deal agreed earlier this year video released by south korea shows the post being detonated in swift succession of positioned along the demilitarized zone which separates the two countries both agreed to demolish ten posts the north for the hundred fifty and once completed its with fifty if women was made back in september relations began to rule it's only to write. the needed rain on the way to california which is suffering its longest wildfire season in fifteen years it's also the deadliest the u.s. states deficit with eighty four people to have died.

trying to schools control the sea with several of these statements on the wildfires and visited the town of paradise california calling a pleasure a couple of times each thing that comes out of his mouth he is easily the most flammable president us. should have been all right what about the argument you wouldn't have the fly was raking leaves i think i saw this in the south park episode again would like him to stop with this raking stop. the climate change climate change in climate change climate change and the changing climate. in every weekend there's no clue a change. and those who deny that are definitely contributing to the tragedies that we're now witnessing and will continue to witness.

direct to them a jew weapons are real only governments have them and they're setting fires in california and all government has turned against its people is empty for setting the california wildfires. i don't think the political bickering is hindering anybody that is out there on the front line trying to put this fire out but he's ever prepared for this kind of tragedy and the fact that so many people died and so much damage was done says well he should have been more prepared but they're putting out a fire it's really hard to spend time and money on preparation if you're putting fires out they just don't have enough resources to deal with the fire that big thirty percent is in private hands and so sixty percent of the forest is controlled by the federal government and it seems that the federal government is complaining about maintenance. you can find us on the social media and our

website that's called i'll be back at the top of the hour with more but first you know the international it's been bust. what politicians do. put themselves on the line to get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be president. or some want to be. the two going to be press this is what before three in the morning can't be good. i'm interested in the waters of the house as. they sit. to briggs it or not to break that that is the question trista maze find 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 brings it without an agreement even early elections how did it get to this point. tracking 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 them plum and rate of zero percent is like a gold rush it 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 anymore just slow down so much they lost their jobs that laid off the american dream is changing that's not what it used to be. and it's a tough reality to deal with. this

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