was an unemployment rate of zero percent like the gold rush is very very similar to . this beautiful story ended with pollution and devastation a lot of people have left here i don't know too many people here and 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 awards as shameful for pledging america's continued partnership with saudi arabia as the u.s. leader shifts focus from the murder of journalists jamal khashoggi to both countries fight against iraq. france adopts

a controversial law aimed at fighting fake news in a bid to prevent this information during election campaigns that 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 to damage democracy and free speech. by broadcasting live direct from our studios in moscow this is r t international i'm sean thomas certainly glad to have you with us. right 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 shoji case 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 day here 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. it 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 that most stuff i question says trump is trying to divert attention away from the scandal. trying to kill two birds with one stone he is trying to bring the spotlight back on iran to replace all the. 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 the fact is that when you started talking about iranian sanctions on iran. you know living there nor normal life. but he was saying the iranians have been crippled they are suffering their album industry so ease in the habit of lying when it comes to iran to put iran on the spotlight. trump's statement is called standing with saudi arabia but starts off with two paragraphs accusing iran of sponsoring terrorism 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 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 u.s. resident and u.s. journalist trump also clarified that a sign 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 rivals. they're buying hundreds of billions of dollars worth of things from this gun if i say you don't want to take your business if i think we're going to get it on they will get the military equipment to know that they are broad. brush and then john it 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 an arms dealer readily. controversial law to tackle fake news has been passed by the french parliament nearly a year after president micron valid to clamp down on what he called destabilization efforts are to show dubinsky as 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 being blocked from doing that alexion 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 a rule 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 my. 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. and 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 prevents self-censorship. so that law against the spirit of full sinful nation has been passed. and it's likely that the first time that we

will see it in action will be doing the lections twenty nineteen. meanwhile anger has been growing in france over rising fuel costs driven in part by president micron's carbon tax hikes two people have died during three days of mass protests and civil disobedience across the country several of the demonstrations have turned violent. was a god. i. demonstrators said tollbooths on fire on a highway in the southeast of on tuesday night elsewhere refineries and key roads have been blocked causing major disruption over a quarter of a million people join the so-called yellow vest protests named after the high visibility jackets which motorists have 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 are citizens because all people are equal. there are new unions here it's not about politics rule equal and we're all here against the french government is clear to everybody this is mccrum became president prices have increased food fuel going up a dam on more poor people it's unacceptable that's why. we don't want this president and these governments to be useful anymore we don't want them anymore we want to change the system. exactly that's right and i spend the night here to show that grew in this together and that we're going to make it to the end that we're going to make it but 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. french a publisher and journalist american maulvi 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 way of living completely diminished as a people are not. accustomed to political cool high political violence since the end of the war in france if they are some 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 spontaneous unprepared politically would do or wants to dialogue to enter in

dialogue with the governments. sanctioning a one of its own could be the case for italy after the e.u. has rejected the country's two thousand nine hundred 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 of that sort of daily confirms our assessment is that italy's. in particularly serious noncompliance was a consulate accommodation of sort these are to live with what they tell in government. of the able 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 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. well the e.u. decision to warn elite comes after the european commission finally 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 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. italian northern league party members to follow bargee says italy should stay the course as the e.u. 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 change exchange the situation in who currently is be able to change it is the. policy is all for a loop in the east of that they don't. need to escape from that a section of the last yes. when our policy is unknown and apologies for the prizes for war cares but for praise and who will. we must go on the liberation of a lot of. fashion houses obama has sparked outrage with an ad campaign that has been widely labeled as racist and a sexist will have vasser for you in just a few moments with us are to international.

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always in the water. and welcome back this is our team international now don cherry and gabbana has cancelled a major fashion show in shanghai after a series of promotional videos designed to lure china into a high end fashion left to the iconic brand facing accusations of racism and sexism . not required that. those who drop geodesy going to enjoy our. pleasure. well reaction to

its controversial media campaign only intensified after comments appeared online allegedly made by the brands head stephano gabala insulting china however leader put up this post of calling the previous ones a hoax and claiming that he hadn't written the offensive messages now over on social media people have started marking the designer with pictures showing. a range accompanied by the caption not me or 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 unauthorized posts comments and direct messages we have nothing but respect for china and the people of china. the chinese entrepreneur who is based in italy told us that while the ads were perhaps in appropriate 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 don't like their 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 back with us maybe they want to find this funny because i'm sure they weren't trying both 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. the boss that with chopsticks i would thought about this i looked up to do it because i haven't heard about that maybe it was a bit too much good music was a bit of the new sounding music sure somebody who thought behind it wasn't that would understand people being offended especially in china was like sarcasm doesn't translate very well i mean. so in social networks burst

into our lives millions embrace them and saw them as a vehicle for free speech and democracy but it now seems many users are losing face as concerns grow over privacy censorship and a spread of fake news. 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 bagdad 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 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 sectors as well who feel they're there but the danger by these new business models these to. the e.u. has already following some tech companies president trumps hinted he's up for door in that kind of whatever monopoly what about saying that i just didn't look into it i have so many people saying that we are certainly looking at 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 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 knows that these days an innocent mistake or a 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 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 your tweet your fraulein as under the advice to save your skin and livable so twitter actively supports the drama nicol patriarchy. the wimps out but that they ought to be ashamed.

of course he has to apologize and let me tell you any 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 people should realize that no indian ticket saw the looks that 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 it will stand up which was extremely cruel to the little guys india's dominant is that you had an extremely in lightened shameless also a constitution and a country is the education level is only about now getting to work 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. u.s. secretary of state mike pompei o 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 slapped sanctions on three oil 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 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 and two russia based oil companies and 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 battled terrorist aggression for seven years looks like a statement of support for terrorists and similar taney slee 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 says the us is effectively giving aid to the remnants of the 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. 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 these terrorist organizations. that are affiliated with that are threatening the whole 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 organizations. dozens gathered on kiev's independence square on wednesday to mark five years since the beginning of ukraine's euro maidana protests and to remember those whose lost their lives in the unrest that ensued. the demonstrations have began after the government rejected an agreement that would have led to closer ties with you and instead represented a geo political pivot towards russia after a violent police crackdown at the end of november two thousand and thirteen the pro

e.u. protest swelled setting in motion a chain of events that ultimately led to the ousting of president. over a three month period almost one hundred thirty people including eighteen police officers are known to have been killed in the clashes over commemorative events were also planned across ukraine. does it for me i will be back with him. about let's say thirty three minutes of the full look at your news you are watching our international glad everyone's. to bragg's it or not to break that that is the question teresa mayes find to exit the e.u. has been roundly criticized from virtually every corner and with a looming deadline the u.k. could face a hard briggs's 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 rushed to a small town in north dakota was an unemployment rate of zero percent like gold rush is very very similar to gold 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. and that's a tough reality to deal with. nobody could see coming that false confessions would be that in the spot the fall for

conviction if you look at any interrogation out there what you'll see is threat promise threat promise threat lie a lie a lie the process of interrogation is designed to put people in just that frame of mind make the most comfortable makes them want to get out and don't take no for an answer don't accept their denials she said therefore it's. sad the statement that i will be home by the next day. there's a culture of all accountability that police officers know that they can engage in misconduct that has nothing to do with all the crowd.

was. the united states is home to over three million native americans who have suffered some of the worst state sponsored abuse oppression and violence in the history of the world and since the day european colonisers stepped foot on this land the native population has been struggling to survive through genocide war and extreme poverty they have stayed strong but one of those who don't have the energy to fight the system because the system is crushing them where they stand today we'll show you what happens when a community out of options chooses stand together against the storm rather than

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