north dakota was an unemployment 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 that laid off the american dream is changing that's not what it used to be. it's a tough reality to deal with. iran's foreign minister describes donald trump's words as shameful for pledging america's continued partnership with saudi arabia as the u.s. leader shifts focus from the murder of journalist to jamal khashoggi to both countries fight against iran. france adopts

a controversial law aimed at fighting fake news and 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 half think platforms like facebook and twitter damage democracy and free speech. are broadcasting live direct for our studios in moscow this is r t international i'm sean thomas certainly glad to have you with us. now tehran has hit back at the us president's statement of support for saudi arabia which appeared to exonerate riyadh for all responsibility in the murder of journalist jamal khashoggi the iranian foreign minister was outraged that trump attempted to shift the spotlight from the chase to a perceived threat posed by iran you look at iran just take

a look at iran and you look at what they're doing they are a terrorist they hear right now mr bizarrely devotes the first paragraph of his shameful statement on saudi atrocities to accusing iran of every sort of malfeasance he can think of because shoji 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 analyst saeed mostafa. says trump is trying to divert attention away from the scandal but he's trying to kill two birds with one stone he is trying to bring the spotlight back on the iran to replace 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 living there nor normal life. but he was saying the iranians have been crippled they are suffering their album the street so he is in the habit of lying when it comes to iran to put iran on the spotlight. chump's statement is called standing with saudi arabia but starts off with two paragraphs accusing iran of sponsoring terrorism the claims made in the document have drawn condemnation in american media who suggested the president has caved in to the saudis while ignoring his own intelligence agencies 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 of this way to cover for the country and specifically the ruler that carried out this killing of

a us resident and us journalist trumbo also 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 two rivals. they're buying hundreds of billions of dollars worth of things from this. if i say you don't want to take your business if i think we're going to get it wrong they will get. military equipment there that they are bright guy and 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 promptly is first and foremost

a weapons and arms dealer at. the controversial law to tackle fake news has been passed by the french parliament in nearly a year after president vowed to clamp down on what he called destabilization efforts are to show difference he 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 it will 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 actually being blocked in 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 teams will be increased to fight against any attempt at this debilitation by television controlled or influenced by foreign states. president mcconnell is also being pretty clear who he sees 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 information we're 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 just be useless we have enough legislation on this ready which helps us enough in combating the manipulation of information and 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 ninety. meanwhile

anger has been growing in france over rising fuel costs driven in part by president carbon tax hikes two people have died during days of mass protests and civil disobedience across the country several of the demonstrations that have turned violent. was was. was. demonstrators tollbooths on fire on a highway in the south east on tuesday night elsewhere fineries and key roads have been blocked causing major disruption over a quarter of a million people joined a so-called yellow bus protest named after the high visibility jackets which

motorists have to carry in their vehicles. and the demonstrations have spread nationwide more than 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 and we don't want them anymore and we want to change the system. because that's right i spent the night here to show that we're all in this together and that we're going to make it to the end we're going to make it we're going to make it we are going to make it we were in let's 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. french publisher and a journalist to emera c'mon wiil 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 political coup political violence since the end of the war in in france if they are some are a lot of casualties of of the injured and maybe dead people the government would have to resign government is a jeopardy is in jeopardy because it's a very. unprepared politically would don't want to dialogue to enter in dialogue with the governments. sanctioning or one of its own it could be the case for italy after the e.u. has rejected the country's two thousand one thousand budget the european union has already moved to launch disciplinary procedures against rome however that is the worst case scenario if italy fails to fall in line with its finances. was that

a great subtle daily confirmed assessment is that it elise. in particularly serious noncompliance was a consulate accommodation of such things or to live with what they tell in government. of table we see that east of the country sleepwalking into instability . we discussed this with the european commission president. 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 draw it 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 the e.u. decision to warn italy comes after the european commission initially rejected italy's budget in october stating the country was taking a risk and backtracking on previous reforms relations between italy and the e.u.

have already suffered amid the ongoing migrant 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 mocking attalia nz and thai and northern league party members to find a bargain says italy should stay the course as the new policies aren't helping to fix the economic crisis. entirely my. fault these offices. your rubinar fault is always an order. for us is that it is too difficult to a changing exchange the situation in who comes to these big names or to change it is it is the. policies of the new lease of good that don't wish to escape from that assertion of the last yes when

obama says that i'm now not. apologist for less and the crisis for more casts but for praise and who will lay still who first we must go on the liberation of a lot of. fashion house adultery and gabbana has sparked outrage with an ad campaign that has been widely labeled as racist and sexist we'll have the story for you in just a few months of us. 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 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.

more welcome back this is r t international now it has cancelled a major fashion show in shanghai after a series of promotional videos designed to lure china into a high end fashion left the iconic brand facing accusations of racism and sexism. not equal is a specialty. of those who drop out she going to enjoy our. leisure hi donna my. reaction to its controversial media campaign only intensified after comments appeared online allegedly made by the brand's head final go by insulting china however gabbana later put up this post calling of the previous ones a hoax and claiming that he hadn't written the offensive messages now over on social media people have started mocking the designer with pictures showing of adultery and gabbana range accompanied by the caption not 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 anna our legal office is urgently investigating we are very sorry for any distress caused by these unauthorized posts comments and direct messages we have nothing but respect for china and the people of china it chinese entrepreneur who is based in italy told us that while the ads were perhaps inappropriate he doesn't believe the fashion house intended to offend anyone. there's no need to concert i show. up to everything that's there at the beach that just because i like the marketing department but at the same time though it's your job and i should have made to look more and i'm sure that as more people there could have said maybe they want to buy this body because i'm sure they weren't trying find any bodies they just wanted to make something for the younger generation in china maybe personally i wasn't

offended because i thought it was kind of sarcastic to. foster with chopsticks i was thought about this i looked up to do it because i haven't heard about that maybe it was a bit too much like the music was a bit you know is it true that i knew something music sure somebody thought behind it so it wasn't that by i would understand people being offended especially in china where like sarcasm doesn't translate very well i'm in shock now because. when social networks burst into our lives millions embraced them as a chance to give a global voice to anyone anywhere earning a reputation as platforms for free speech and democracy but it seems the tide of trust is turning for users after a catalog of concerns ranging from exploiting a 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 analytic up 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 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. 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 are there but the endangered 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 whatever monopoly what about saying that you know look into i have so many people saying that we are certainly looking and 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 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. the power of social media can sometimes make or break a person's reputation anyone with a high profile online account knows that these days an innocent mistake or careless comment can trigger a storm and it seems that even the people in charge of the social networks are just as vulnerable. i jack are 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 an 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 in your tweet your for all innocence and advice to save your skin and live above. 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 creature and his stock management i mean the legal advice which which is fairly scary because then you realize that they're not even control what they're saying i think even if you realize that no 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 as smashed i mean exactly i mean come and speak a bit about that yes the brandons enjoyed the system a great privilege many many years ago which was extremely good to the us india is dominant is that it had an extremely enlightened chainless constitution. and countries their education level is only about now getting to work sixty five seventy percent or so socially and we still have a little need to go. which is why you see this you know this mismatch between the dirt and what happens on the ground. u.s. secretary of state my pompei i was 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 slapped sanctions on three oil companies and several people involved in selling iranian oil to syria 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 one iranian company had to russia or based oil companies the six individuals targeted are 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 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. beirut based political analyst. the us is effectively 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 to those who participated and the war is still ongoing in eastern syria. isis is not completely dismantled yet there is more 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 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 been a cheap versatile alternative to other vegetable oils it's used 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 did since i was diesel 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 i want to live in the here and that's something on the. little blue.

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 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 to be growing crops to go into cars has just had some. real damaging effects that nobody expected. or that as a female back about thirty two minutes with a full look she knew stay with us and this is our t. international.

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