big it looks a little reject. so when you want to be president and you. want to. achieve your goals which you weren't before three of them or can't be. interested in the water. there should. be. iran's foreign minister describes donald trump's words as shameful for pledging america's continued partnership with saudi arabia as the u.s. need to shift focus from the merger of journalist jamal khashoggi to both countries fight against iran. france adopts a controversial law aimed in fighting fake news in a bid to prevent this information during election campaigns critics however view it

as a threat to freedom of speech. and americans are losing their trust in social media with a poll showing more than hall think platforms like facebook and twitter damage democracy and free speech. it's one o'clock here in moscow and you're watching international live from a studio with me in a day or two to welcome to the program. trying to hit back at the u.s. president's statement of support for saudi arabia which appeared to exonerate riyadh of all of the sponsibility in the murder of journalist jamal khashoggi the iranian foreign minister was outraged that trump attempted to shift the spotlight from the khashoggi case to a perceived threat posed by iran you look at

a rare just take a look at a rare when you look at what they're doing they are. terrorists 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 as how he was killed in the saudi consulate in istanbul back in october saudi arabia denies sanctioning the murder saying the country's crown prince had no prior knowledge of the assassination saudi prosecutors are seeking the death penalty for five suspects detained in the case political analysts say plus the fire cost chaz and says trump is trying to divert attention away from the scandal. he's trying to kill two birds with one stone he's trying to bring burst back on iran to replace all the euro. 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 you started talking about the iranian sanctions on iran. you know of living there not normal life. but you were saying the iranians have been crippled they are suffering their album that's true so in the habit of lying when it comes to iran to put the iran under the spotlight . some statement is called standing with saudi arabia but starts off with two paragraphs accusing iran of sponsoring terrorism the claims made in the document after all of a condemnation in the american media who suggest the president has caved into the subtleties 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 of this way to

cover for the country and specifically the ruler that carried out this killing of a u.s. resident and a u.s. journalist from poso clarified that aside from countering iran and keeping oil prices in check america's economic interests come first and that major arms deals with the saudis cannot be lost to arrivals. they're buying hundreds of billions of dollars worth the big from the. device they don't want to take your bit to buy they were pretty good on they would get what they. were 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 promptly is first and foremost

a weapons and arms dealer it. has cancelled a major fashion show in shanghai after a series of promotional videos designed to lower china into high end fashion last the iconic brand facing accusations of racism and sexism. i think. those who drop. your. reaction to his controversial media campaign only intensified after comments appeared online allegedly made by the brand's head stephano good banner insulting china however the banner later put up this post calling the previous ones a hoax and claiming he hadn't written the offensive messages over on social media people have started mocking the designer with pictures showing the dean range

accompanied by the caption not to me the fashion house in turn has denied any responsibility saying their accounts have been hacked or instagram account has been hacked so is the accounts of stuff on the go by our legal offices urgently investigating we are very sorry for any distress caused by these and authorised posts comments and direct messages we have nothing but respect for china and the people of china a chinese entrepreneur who's based in italy told us that while the ads were perhaps inappropriate he doesn't believe the fashion house intended to offend anyone. there is no need to cancel a show. after everything has already been that just because i don't like the marketing department but at the same time daughter bond i should have maybe look more and i'm sure there is more people there could maybe they want to buy this partly because i'm sure they weren't trying to find any bodies they just want to make something for the younger generation in china maybe personally i wasn't

offended because i thought it was kind of sarcastic. really fast and with chopsticks i was told about this i looked up to be there because i haven't heard about that maybe it was a bit too much like the music was a bit you know the traditional news on the news if you're somebody who thought behind it wasn't that bad i would understand people being offended specially china would like sarcasm doesn't translate very well i mean. when social networks burst into allies millions and base them as a chance to give a global voice to anyone anywhere any reputation as a platform to free speech and democracy but it seems the tide of trust is turning for you says after a catalogue of concerns ranging from exploiting personal data to alleged 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 but doubt against like the ones over the cambridge analytical and google plus breaches and the pre 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 four since instagram 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 structures as well who feel they are there but the danger by these new business models these tech models

the e.u. has already following some tech companies president trumps hinted he's up for door in that kind of order monopoly what about saying that i just didn't look into it i have so many people saying that we are certainly looking into actually 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 to old line economic businesses see it as a threat there's a tax system issue here there's a public opinion issue it's surely a perfect storm coming together the power social media can sometimes make or break

a person's reputation anyone with a high profile online knows that these days an innocent mistake or callous comment can trigger a storm and it seems in the people in charge of the social networks a justifiable. i jacked 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 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 twitter and his stock management i mean the legal advice which which is fairly

scary because then you realize that they're not even going to know what they are saying i think even if you realize that north indian ticket saw the looks of art which is the house of people is given without a class consideration is as bad as that however the ball still 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 shameless constitution. and countries the education level is only about now getting to go 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. here secretary of state by campaigners promising grave consequences to anyone shipping oil to syria and trying to prop up assad

sophs the us treasury department on cheers day slap sanctions on three companies and several people involved in selling iranian oil to syria noted 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 g.c. could force that money is then passed on to terrorist organizations like hezbollah and hamas a new round of sanctions targets one area company into russia based or companies the six individuals targeted from various countries including iran and russia moscow has condemned washington's latest move claiming 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 train usually 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 and shall be says the u.s. is affectively giving aid to the remnants of islamic state. how ironic 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. this is not completely dismantled yet more reward efforts 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. organizations that are affiliated with that are in 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're 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 organizations. on a million people worldwide have joined a petition against palm oil production which in recent years has become a cheap and versatile alternative to other vegetables is used in everything from food to cosmetics and even feel that now there's concern about the massive environmental costs in countries which produce it like indonesia. we need to press on with battery research for plug in hybrids. 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. in the long. run that's something to do a. little blue you.

know 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 biofuels 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 has just had some. real damaging effect nobody expected. north korea has destroyed ten. 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 got a position to. the two countries both agreed to demolish ten posts that leaves the north of the hundred fifty and once completed the south with fifty was made back in september as relations began to warm following decades of. rivalry. could be the case for italy after the e.u. has rejected the country's twenty nineteen budget. has already moved to launch disciplinary procedures against. that is the worst case scenario if it fails to fall in line with its finances. today we confirm assessment is that it will release . in. non-compliance with accommodation should be. held in government because. we see the

country. instability. discuss this with european commission president. as you know on saturday night i'm invited to dinner what will be a constructive confrontation we have always been convinced about our draft is a draft that we thought through and. we are convinced about the concrete of our political economic plan and so be happy to evaluate the next. decision to warn the european commission and. rejected italy's budget in october stating the country it was taking a risk and backtracking on previous reforms. relations between italy and the e.u. already suffered and with the ongoing my current 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 ns. telling northern league party members to follow. should stay the course says policies aren't helping to fix the economic crisis. for all of us. bob. for us. to. be able to change. policies. from the initiation the last years.

of the involvement of the. controversial law to tackle fake news has been passed by the french parliament nearly a year after present to clamp down on what he called destabilization efforts are to charlotte to penske has 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 can truly media channels actually being blocked in france doing. election period now this is a mall that matt 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 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 who'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 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. and i think this legislation is not the best way to combat. this i think that it just be 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. has been growing in france over rising fuel costs in part by president carbon tax hikes to people have died during days of mass protests and civil disobedience across the country several of the demonstrations have turned violent. that was a god. god you sure. there are scientists said tollbooths on fire a highway in the southeast on tuesday night elsewhere refineries and key votes have been blocked causing a major disruption over a quarter of a million people joining the so-called yellow fest protests named after the high

visibility jackets which waitress hope to carry in their vehicles. the demonstrations have spread nationwide over five hundred people have been injured including dozens of police officers here's what some of the protesters have been telling us. we don't want this president and these governments to be useful anymore we don't want them anymore i want to change the system. because that's right i spent the night here to show that we're in this together and that we're going to make it to the end that we're going to make it we're going to make it we are going to make it we won't let go i'm here all night again. government officials have responded to the protests by criticizing both the demonstrators tactics and goals. today we're seeing a radicalization of this movement with demands that are now incoherent and all over the place they have the right to protest but not to block roads and harm others.

trying to publish and journalist and then take nonviable gave us his thoughts on the unrest in the country. a lot of ordinary people cannot live properly because with macro they have seen their their way of living completely diminished as a people are not. accustomed to politics who highly political violence since the end of the jury in the war in france is the also a lot of casualties of all of the injured and maybe dead people the governments would have to resign government is a jeopardy is in jeopardy because it's a very responsibly as well and. we don't want sue dialogue to enter in dialogue with the governments. and don't forget that you can find us on our website that started out called john thomas will take over the top for the first on r.t. international it's crosstalk.

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. cranking 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 rushed to a small town in north dakota was an unemployment rate of zero percent like 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 the american dream is changing that's not what it used to be. and it's a tough reality to deal. with this manufactured consent to instant of public wealth. when the ruling classes protect themselves. when the financial merry go round lifts only the one percent. we can all middle of the room signals. room i mean real news is really.

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