it's ukraine versus russia again a minor maritime incident on the current strait is said to be anything between a major international crisis to a cheap campaign trick as ukraine's interest and election cycle take your pick but one thing is for sure russia is deemed aggressive by the west even when defending its solver. headlining this hour on r.t. wiki leaks prepares to take the u.k.'s guardian newspaper to court saying it lied over an alleged meeting between julian assange on and from campaign chief paul manapul. as american car maker general motors announces the closure of several factories president trump faces a backlash over what people see as his broken promise to protect american workers.

ukrainian sailors are set to appear in a russian court after admitting they intentionally ignored orders to stop their ships follow sunday's clash between russian and ukrainian vessels in the code straight near crimea. there is wednesday the twenty eighth of november eight am here in moscow i'm calling welcome to the news from r.t. international first of all this morning julian assange is in the headlines once again with wiki leaks saying it's ready to sue britain's guardian newspaper is accused of fabricating a story of a song secretly meeting donald trump's former election campaign chairman paul manner for wiki leaks and already a lot of fun to support the legal action with the songs instructing lawyers on the case the notion of those secret talks is rapidly spread over the media and comes as paul manifolds also accused of lying to the f.b.i. in a russian collusion probe the former trump campaigner was jailed this year after being

found guilty of charges including bank and tax fraud and afford agreed to take part in the so-called mule a probe over russian meddling in the twenty sixteen u.s. election he denies cooperating with russia as well as meeting. of the scandal comes as the u.s. judge perspire the ruling on whether to reveal possible charges against the wiki leaks founder more on that from caleb morgan. as far as the u.s. government is concerned you in a songe co-founder of wiki leaks is no good time to call out wiki leaks for what it really is a non-state hostile intelligence service often abetted by state actors like russia being hostile to the united states and damaging its reputation that's not illegal however working with a foreign government to try and influence election results that might be illegal at this point the guardian newspaper in the u.k. is claiming that paul the man of war and julian assad work together during the twenty sixteen campaign they allege that there were secret meetings between paul

man of war crimes lawyer and julian assad oh man of forty three secret meetings with wiki leaks founder julian assange killing one hundred twenty sixteen around the time you became a trump campaign chairman he met three times with wiki leaks founder julian a son living in ecuador's london embassy hall man afford met with wiki leaks founder julian assange on john several occasions there was some sort of a coronation or collusion this would seem like there's more evidence pointing to that if it's true of course the implications are explicit right they only relied on an unnamed source allegedly from ecuador and they gave no explanation as to why the london metropolitan police who spent millions of dollars to monitor the ecuadorian embassy around the clock didn't detect such a meeting why is there no evidence why is there no evidence in the visitors logs that are supposedly complete and thorough and manifold it's not there and there are video cameras everywhere and police everywhere and there's no record we can

withhold judgment and remain skeptical but a possible explanation for the lack of evidence is that there isn't any evidence our channel has actually reached out to the london police to see if they can confirm that such a meeting ever took place now we've not yet received any response wiki leaks is saying they will pay big money to anyone with proof of such a meeting remember. this day when the guilty and committed to serial fabricates a to totally destroy the papers reputation wiki leaks is willing to bet the go indian a million dollars and he said it is that manifolds never matches so on the story is getting even more twisted it turns out the guardian has been editing their article in the aftermath of publishing it words like would have and apparent and hoax are being added it looks like they're starting to back away from some of the allegations they made about man a fourth has been revealed to the sun just possibly facing criminal charges in the us a court filing related to

a son was mistakenly made public the reporter's committee for the freedom of the press is demanding that any charges against you in a songe be made public they are taking this to court where the prosecution is arguing that the charges do not have to be made public if they exist. the first amendment does not require the government to confirm or deny the existence of criminal charges and the skis so if julian assad is arrested at that point we will then know what he's been arrested for now this is a little bit strange you would think that if the government is spending resources and money in order to try and apprehend a criminal that we ought to be privy to know what crime he has allegedly committed however at this point it's widely alleged that julian assange is working for a foreign government this is cut and dried wiki leaks is an outlet for foreign propaganda and julian a son she is an enemy of the american people he deserves to spend the rest of his life in an american prison but how do you prove that after all wiki leaks is an independent outlet now some suspect that julian assange could be charged under the

espionage act of one thousand nine hundred seventeen that's an obscure law that goes all the way back to world war one makes it illegal to publish government secrets that could damage national security if indeed a songes charged under the espionage act that would be the first time a publisher has been prosecuted and many civil liberties advocates fear that this could have a chilling effect making the press afraid to publish information given to it by some. at this point we know that there may or may not be criminal charges filed against you and assad and that we have no right to know what those charges are if they actually exist so much for transparency. r.t. new york. guardian has now officially comment since on the accusations from wiki leaks former i want five officers and imagine things that the u.s. will go to any lengths to fix charges against its own it's been an open secret for many years that there's been a secret grand jury convened in virginia trying to find a charge any charge helical the make up a new law just to prosecute julian assange venture the fact that he's shown

a very bright license and very murky and dark details of what the american state was doing it's very very useful for the american establishment and the democrats particularly to conflate everything with one big mass pool manifold to move. donald trump we can leaks is all part of big sort of russia gate type thing whereas a few unpicked the details none of the highest together whatsoever and i think julian is now becoming a bit of a pawn in a very high stakes game that in american politics washington politics. american can make a general motors says it's closing five factories and shedding around fourteen thousand workers moved from president trump and the firing line to remember of course that one of his big campaign platforms i can twenty sixteen was a pledge to protect american jobs the president reacting by tweeting his clear disappointment with the decision he also threatened to cut government subsidies for the company the new bush will pick up the story those jobs of left ohio.

they're all coming back don't sell your house so we're going to get those values up we're going to get those jobs coming back at the end of the tunnel pledged to general motors workers by donald trump but for from coming over plants now getting closed along with four others in north america over fourteen thousand. and work is tipped to get the boot but don't worry you now can't feed your family the c.e.o. says it's all good layoffs or in roth built swing states that put trump in power the donald says he's not happy with like i was. doing. you know. you better get back. talk is cheap republican led congress has done a lot for g.m. management policy involves tax cuts worth millions congressman g.m. pocketing that windfall then stabbing employees in the back calling it greed at its

worst and more it's insulting aaron and i tell you what he did not lift one finger we sent the president's letter president letters to try to get him in gauged in helping us figure out what the future of this facility is so it's a bronze warning of jim cheese pilfering government help taxpayers have heard it before when barack obama build out the bankrupt firm in zero nine the government watchdog notes his administration was happy so approve of that cash going on excessive bonuses for its management obama added he'd buy their coal once he quits the white house right that did inside a brand new chevy volt fresh out of line even though secret service would let me drive it was when i said i'm five years from now when i'm not president anymore. well jim just pulled the plug on that model and five others by the way that news release about axing story optimizing workers on allocating plants just before the festive season but

a cool motto zero crushes zero emissions zero congestion at the moment its one executive tax break five plants shot and fourteen thousand sacked trump and jim exacts you're fired. twelve ukrainian sailors are due in a russian court on wednesday following sunday's clash in the code straight off the coast of crimea the incident brought russia and ukraine close to a full blown conflict so it is a charge with a league. crossing the russian border and could face up to six years in prison twelve other sailors have already been ordered to be held in prieto contention for two months after russian security services seized three ukrainian ships that they say violated an agreement regulating the safe passage of vessels in that area the showdown took place in the narrow body of water between the russian mainland and the crimean peninsula ukraine says it ships were intercepted after they'd already left russian territorial waters it claims it notified moscow about the vessels route and condemned the caesar of ships as an act of aggression russia's says kiev

ships ignored orders to stop and prepare their weapons to be ready to fire moscow also says the ukrainian crew's actions were ordered by the ukrainian government. and the incident quickly drew attention across the west with many countries expressing their full support for ukraine the british parliament even held an emergency meeting to discuss the issue of police reports. well it wasn't in the plan but politicians demanded an urgent debate on the situation in the sea or was over and they got it except i would say that it wasn't much of a debate because the condemnation of russia's actions was pretty much unanimous for president putin's actions have redrawn barstools the borders of the european nation for the first time since second will rule we must never forget or normalize the united kingdom will certainly continue to be committed to the cranes independence sovereignty and territorial integrity of the putin's approach is very similar to the idea of heating a frog in water that he keeps on pushing things and keeps on pushing that he will

not believe what you see it's the reaction there was talk of russia being a pariah state ignoring the international rule based system also talking about showing russia the consequences of its actions and debates on how to show ukraine practical support there were a few questions about making sure that president poroshenko of ukraine doesn't abuse this martial law that he's going to be putting in place making sure that he sticks to the elections that are scheduled for early next year perhaps the brightest note struck from that debate was from the foreign minister saying that the u.k. really wants to have a good relationship with russia if only moscow would behave better now a similar attitude coming from across the poland the u.s. state department announced today that it condemns russia's aggressive actions as well canada issued a similar statement saying siding with ukraine calling for russia to release the

captured vessels and we heard from the russian foreign minister as well today he was actually in paris meeting with his french counterpart to join even a drea and according to the russian foreign minister sergey lavrov this was all a provocation but not from the russian side from the ukraine. inside take a listen you're using your credit i don't see any need in mediate if the ukrainian side and his partners in europe are interested in not having such incidents those ukrainian allies should send kiev strong signals so that such provocations never happen again on a practical level local border authorities on both sides could have discussed any technicalities if the ukrainian so i didn't understand something although they use the existing procedures back in september. well sir as is the case with the recent history you've got the international community saying one thing and russia standing firm and saying that's not how we say it. journalist martin some a says much media

coverage of the incident fails to note that the ukrainian ships were not abiding by the agreement covering the strait. whatever you do you're going to be rolled so if you let the ships through what you've done is you've created a precedent where they will think that they can come back the next star without going through the procedure and they will so you can't really do that but if you stop them then you then you are made to look like the bad guys because you're stopping people most people don't know that there's an agreement about how to use the straight so are they don't know that the ukrainians always up to now will fulfill that egregious so as far as they're concerned the russians are seizing ships well that's the russian seizing ships it's an example of their of their bad behavior but of course they don't know the background of course nobody's going to explain the background to the me that quite sure that most of the parliamentarian's british paul would have no idea what the agreement. straight says or doesn't bother to look. when you live on opposite sides of

a contested border it's difficult to know what's really going on across the divide but young locals in gaza and israel are trying to give each other the world glimpses into what their lives really like. the gaza the world sees in the news is mostly about numbers numbers. numbers homeless numbers is this thing in gaza is that. you can help us find an amplifier our voices to share our stories with the world. some of the pictures we post and some other videos we make or instagram effect the side of the story that is normally depicted by mr and libya stories regular people

the farmer the shoemaker's downstairs everyday people the ones we don't normally hear about in the forgotten ones the ones behind the numbers the skins. god was destroyed by these ready bombardment of the nearby fields and some of the children went to the kindergarten and found it destroyed but they played with their toys despite the destruction. how long will the children live in the border here on a daily basis the sounds of loss how long the entire family has been days and nights in bomb shelters where selling stories from a sixteen year old's point of view not from the police point to feel that we don't

have any political stance we just want our lives to return to normal and be able to return to our homes peacefully we want only the brothers to sleep in peace and not to worry about this situation we want plants who want to live normally we didn't do anything to the. effect that advises facebook is offering its help to saudi arabia in the handling the fallout caused by the murder of journalist jamal khashoggi an article from the atlantic council advises crown prince mohammed bin salman to refocus western thinking by redoubling his efforts to reform saudi society or the atlantic council describes the murder of brutal foolish and irresponsible but it goes on to argue

that severing u.s. ties with the saudis would strengthen china and russia investigative journalist max blumenfeld. that's a common theme for us think tanks this is completely in keeping with the atlantic council's behavior what's shocking is that facebook is now paying them upwards of five hundred thousand dollars to vet political content and maintain the integrity of their web site while they're defending a centrally defending the killing of a journalist there's no question that there is an intersection between kind of pay for play policy papers and op eds and punditry and the thinking of those who the atlantic council chooses to hire and that you know can have a powerful effect in washington particularly in our media which doesn't to tend to solicit opinions from working journalists investigative journalists or academics and often relies on think tank fellows so you basically when you turn on

cable news in the u.s. you get more senior fellows than a retired persons association because they simply rely on these pay for play think tanks to tell people what to think. you wrote for the washington post was killed at the beginning of october here's a quick reminder of what happened. president

trump found himself at the center of yet another media storm this time it's over incidents in the us mexico border authorities reportedly responded with tear gas when a group of migrants who were trying to cross into the u.s. allegedly became violent. resident chapa is defending the use of what he calls safety or gas to stop migrants trying to rush into the u.s. sunday american authorities used tear gas on hundreds of migrants u.s. border patrol agents deployed tear gas on central american seeking asylum this doesn't include women and children to a phylum thinkers that tried to rush into the u.s. near san diego were sprayed with tear gas and u.s. agents reportedly responding with tear gas the u.s. has deployed to gas on a number of cations across the country. willing

to speak. with. the use of such measures has grabbed headlines in previous years although not on the same scale according to data from the u.s. homeland security department tear gas was deployed more than once a month in the latter years of the obama presidency border authorities also frequently used pepper spray with a record number of one hundred fifty one incidences recorded in twenty thirteen also under the obama administration we spoke to edward hall who's a co-founder of the occupy movement he says the media is wading into the political debate rather than reporting the facts. this i think is part of a much deeper problem that the united states has in terms of looking at its history and looking at how. the. caucasian angle of people would rather

undermine international law then to look at the heart and soul of somebody who's across a manmade border and embarrassingly. i didn't i wasn't aware that obama had used tear gas on the border this is totally new for me so i'm not surprised. i think that is telling that our media is playing into political conflicts instead of trying to find the truth no matter what the situation. seems to be inflaming emotions instead of helping people understand this challenging time we live in. navigating information. for everybody to benefit from . now all monday it was touch and go for a while but masses inside the did touch down safely on the red planet now you may be thinking the mission's about exploration but some of the space agency raising

questions about that narrative. what's likely my solution it's still not ok to move his mountain because it leaves his history for months to show yeah i'm not an. exploration of a red planet exploration exploring the moon and mars. i got to make water and grow food on

a place where nothing grows i am the greatest botanist on this planet. to use that word means you're already starting on the i'm full of language is all folks in french. completely mad i don't use a martian much i'm going to come far from home might. be trusted to be in balance with mars if we refuse to be in balance. i think we need to clean up our mess when we start making a new mess i'm where else. back here on terra firma that you're all to update for this out thanks for watching up next meet the american veterans going the extra mile to convince the government to end its walls for peace is next.

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a member of the john birch society he was very opposed to the new deal labor unions catholics jews i thought. he was actually not that unusual and my dad for those attitudes to prevail. because i was a good athlete good in school and good in my church and a good voice in my time i was really proud of. in one thousand sixty-six as the u.s. military began ramping up its forces in vietnam brian wilson was drafted. i enlisted in the air force for a four year program to go into the army as an induction. and then i got my orders to become an air force sure ranger officer. any unit of forty minute.

and so soon i found myself in vietnam my duty was to go and assess the success or failure bombing missions. and in one week. we went visited five targets. problems. all the targets were inhabited fishing and. second they were all i defended. fishing. these villages were bombed at two hundred fifty to three hundred feet five hundred pound bomb suspension ashraf and napalm. so everybody needs filesystems either dead or just about dead and they were all blocked it is burned from that if. i watch as far as i could walk before the bodies were show thick i

could walk any further and look down at my feet. and i saw a young bean means woman holding three children in her arms her eyes are opened her eyes are just staring up i was looking at my sister. i looked into his eyes and it was all bodies or it was a lie and i suspect that everything i had ever been taught was a lie. my life completely radically changed. i do not know why i am here. i was in somebody else's village nine thousand miles from my farming village in upstate new york. oh i don't mean there. are we doing there.