having blowdown to seven tooth birthday candles nato pledges to expand the alliances presence in regions on russia's doorstep but washington calls on russia to withdraw its military advisers from venezuela. which will be joined twitter lift its ban on the french government advertising campaign after the block to its part of its fight against fake news. from the iranian rights activist slums western visitors to the country who donna who jumped saying that they undermine efforts to abolish the law requiring women to wear the head covering we debate the issue i think it's i think it's ridiculous i think asking women to comics when they come into your country to justice and way inside iran there is a rule and there's

a good. unless you change the whole system. or you can even feed this is r.t. international. nato has marked it seventieth birthday with a lavish bash in washington however it didn't take long for the anniversary celebrations to turn into a discussion of the blocs expansion near russia's borders because that's said to be what russia sovereign neighbors want mixed with calls for moscow to leave venezuela because that seemingly what washington wants. so we are stepping up our efforts. to see we just agreed to the huge and we just agreed the package would more it's a very unsexy sources on old two shoes which we. strongly believe or real live in

georgia and ukraine they need to they need to leave. and we talked about that we talked about that in the context of russian efforts all around the world now the inconsistency of the usa demanding that russia would draw its really terrible visors from venezuela at the same time the united states is escalating its presence in the black sea didn't seem to be emphasized or really understood furthermore just prior to the meeting we had mike pence saying that turkey had to choose between being a nato member country and engaging what he referred to as a reckless decision that would be buying russia's military hardware however stoltenberg seemed to not be as critical of the arms deal as the united states is secretary-general do you see any resolution to the dispute with to keep on its plans to buy a russian missile defense system or ease nato going to have to do with what the turkish foreign minister says is that. it is

a national decision. for you. to decide on determined capabilities however still member did emphasize that the purchase was indeed a challenge within nato but that nato would facilitate dialogue to resolve that disagreement and the hosts of the seventieth anniversary gathering seem to emphasize the unity of nato countries let's take a listen in the good news is we're in a good position a position of strength today or structures designed to empower each own not to subjugate it we maintain an outstanding degree of unity now germany in particular was called out by the united states for its lack of defense spending and we understand that my. recently germany has increased its spending on military defense however it's only risen to one point twenty five percent still shy of the two percent threshold expected from nato countries so it was a seventieth anniversary birthday celebration for the north atlantic treaty organization quite a few issues discussed there

a rather dark and pessimistic tone for a birthday party. so moscow is once again painted as a major global threat the nato secretary general got an enthusiastic response in the u.s. congress is the outline countermeasures against pressure ahead of the nato birthday bash him for trying to explain. he might not even have had it in mind when he was doing it but the great business men of all presidents made sure everyone in the club open their wallets for nato's seventieth anniversary the clear message from prison term. help is having a real impact we see that many more than meet the two percent god on the spending two percent of g.d.p. on defense can there be a better gift than money oh yeah but let's keep in mind if you will that vladimir putin is the greatest gift to nato since the end of the cold war and it has provided a new reason for living if you will for nato that's right there needs to be an

excuse for the existence of the gigantic cash devouring juggernaut and for keeping on getting new members on board weapon making firms need customers the biggest ones happen to be from where this man is in charge if you know what i mean vince there were some doubts about why nato still needs to be out there in research sponsored by the bloc you may have found stuff like this if they too was created in order to act as a deterrent to soviet imperialism and to counter communism and the perceived nuclear threat and what is its relevance today there was a point when a former nato spokes man gave lectures on how the alliance was struggling to find itself when the cold war was over even russia's nukes were no longer taken as a big deal for the first time in almost fifty years the us stands on the verge of attaining nuclear promise e. when mitt romney called russia out while he was running for the white house he was

trolled by barack obama after all you don't call russia our number one enemy. not all. either russia. unless you're still start going to cold war mind war. those were the days if you think of it nato was big failures like afghanistan or libya kind of outweigh whatever the block would try to boast as its success anyway we even got to a point where someone from nato was daddy america the president i mean systems and nato has to either be rejiggered reaching a changed for the better it didn't take long for mr trump to be reminded of russia i mean the scary version and that more folks other than saudi arabia will have to buy guidance from his military industrial complex i said it was obsolete it's no longer absolutely happy birthday nato and we see a path behaviors consistent cyber attacks on late all over goods

sophisticated this information campaigns and attempts to interfere in the more closely itself. oh you'll be all right for a very long time reexamination is cold or for the existence of nato so is the. union in nineteen only one made has been wondering around without a purpose it's been looking for a purpose in the us it's gone out of the year or it's gone the try and. needs to find itself and what its relevancy is and it needs to remain as a military alliance. absent absent politics absent economic considerations because it's not the job of nato nato a strictly military the united states is trying to drum up the notion that moscow

remains that threat in order to justify not only the continued existence of nato but actually to increase spending of their tours to france which is foreign ministry says it's open to dialogue with nato but claims the alliance hasn't shown willingness moscow also says it's ready to deescalate tensions between russia and bloc members. france is leading the fight against fake news adopting a law to battle misinformation however it seems some social media giants are confused over just how to implement it explains the head of the e.u. elections the french government information service or g.i.'s launched a campaign aimed at boosting voter registration but twitter found that the we thought campaign is in violation of france's own anti fake news law and through acts it and the storm broke twitter his actions were called out of

date. does not know how to do this at this time and has therefore decided to have a completely extreme paul was sick causing and is supposedly a political campaign they were. illegal i thought it was an april fool's joke to do blocks public company for voter registration so as not to respect the un to fake news transparency rules appalling and illegal too it is priority should be to fight content glorifying terrorism not campaigns to register on electoral rolls of a democratic republic. after a lot of pressure twitter quickly relented it after numerous discussions we have decided to allow an encouraging electoral put suspicion but such burns don't always end on a high note the social media platform is known for banning and suspending accounts often without reason including those it considers russian bought. even

movie accounts have been suspended for no obvious reason take the pro-life film and plant off to raking in six million dollars at the box office on opening weekend it found its twitter account was banned though it was later reinstated mysteriously around one hundred fifty thousand followers were dropped and it doesn't stop from the left to the right of politics twitter often acts as the judge and the jury so enraged to users that many are leaving the platform altogether the problems become so embarrassing to twitter that it's now going to stop and nan saying how many uses it keeps using twitter may have appeased the french government for now but all the birds circling overhead charlotte dubin ski r.t. paris. school journalist and commentator elizabeth believes that it will be

a huge task for the government to find fake news. the danger in many ways is both of them for breaking the law and for the government also for breaking the law and they decided not to take the risk to be hard to regulate fake news because i didn't and violent with the social media taking up so much space and the cost in it of the debate is pushing everybody told extremism and it just something which basically has got to be a frame get into into a sort of more rational discourse so i think that it's perfectly understandable that it's not easy to do to decide no the reasons in which you could be mistakes and that will was certainly a mistake it was it was a complaint a good vote and just the fact that it was initiated by the government it was the government in its rule as an abyss as an administration more than a special specific political party they didn't say you should vote for so and so. are some women who wear the huge jump when they visit iran are insulting the nation according to a proper goes against the hard work of activists like herself who are trying to

abolish rules on the head covering they say that this is a cultural issue we're very it's out of respect to the culture of iran calling it discriminatory law as part of our culture this is an insult to a nation runs mandatory here job lot requires all women to wear it in public that to his condemnation of western women as third mixed reaction online while women in the middle east are fighting for their freedom from this religious tyranny westerners think you job is a cultural odd good to. know they wear it because they're told if they don't they can't get in our state they're just being polite but everyone knows it's mandatory they know they have to otherwise they may never return as a woman fighting against a compulsory he job is our culture it is not just look at the picture of the rand before denying nine hundred seventy nine islamic revolution we put the issue up for

debate with journalist madam saleh thirty harmeet from the council of ex muslims of britain. well why do i have to respect laws when i go to another country and when for example even as a veiled person i insulted i am stopped at airports just because i am a muslim woman because i choose to wear the his job and this is something that is not mandatory for me this is something that i choose and this is part of women's freedom people who are standing against this only in order to i think promote the moderates is just. not for one moment she even considered the women thrown into prison. tortured raped by prison guards for choosing to remove you don't ever speak up for them you're not full you have value when you go when you are many of those women's voices because it doesn't fit your narrative you refusing to you're just lying about the about you know

being made to take off your veil it's not an issue of lying look i don't know if i have the chance to talk to talk right now but you as a person you are insulting at least half a billion veiled women not inside iran outside iran as well it's not just about the veiled woman point is they have the right to your example and they have no right outside of iran. and you are on a secure that you are removing there is no law and they have the freedom what i do know is that iran after the one nine hundred seventy nine revolution everybody knows that it was a people's revolution the it's all yours it islamic jihad that it was an artless revamp was that a lot of it wasn't as. pollution but it was a people's revolution i think it's i think it's ridiculous i think asking women do not only die for women from you know my our countries they then start using as

a stick to beat them with they say to them look at these. i mean they're coming into your country and wearing his job when you're in your country you have to be more pious and them taking away their choices those are the women we never ever talk about one the people choose and majority of the people choose to be governed by islamic law one of them is to wear the hijab and the has not does not demean women it actually makes them become human beings and i'm not me saying no now unavailable in a ceremony now is human and women who are veiled i'm not saying that this is another issue but inside iran there is a role and there is a lot of good. unless you change the whole system. britain's armed forces minister is facing a backlash after some thought that he implied only a single civilian death was caused by seventeen hundred you care strikes in syria and iraq because the rush to clarify his position claiming he was misunderstood it

was not our position that there has only been a single civilian casualty as a result of our military action what we are saying is that we only have evidence of what we believe to have been a single civilian casualty according to the british defense ministry of royal air force strikes conducted since two thousand and fourteen have killed more than four thousand islamic state fighters human rights organization amnesty international relief a damning report earlier in march accusing the u.k. of being in denial of civilian casualties in mosul and iraq are the u.k.'s claiming to have carried out massive aerial bombing of densely populated cities with virtually zero civilian casualties this biggest relief and shows just how deeply in denial the movie actually is over its role in the mass bombing of mosul and record peace campaigner russell whiting says it's impossible to distinguish an eyesore fighter from a civilian after an airstrike. let's not forget the ministry of defense actually

only claimed one civilian had been killed after months and months of claiming numb the idea that you can know whether someone is an arsenal fighter or a civilian after a bomb has been dropped on them the idea that you don't have enough boots on the ground for one category of people to be identified but you do for another one i'm afraid this just absolutely stinks of propaganda from our government i don't think the figures would change i don't think anything that we've been given about our involvement in syria or afghanistan iraq libya have been accurate because we just don't know we keep rushing into these interventions with no idea about who retired getting the best thing to do would be to leave the people of syria to have their own destiny in their own hands and for british troops and british planes to come back to britain. the number of people killed in a flash floods in the southwest of iran has risen to sixty eighty a deluge which started two weeks ago has swept away key infrastructure local aid

organizations say that sanctions are preventing vital help from getting free. through the helicopters we try to move people from the. area to the safe areas actually be set up the camps and we distribute the tents for the for temporary sheltering of the people and as well as a distribution of the relief items well actually it is a living basically attempts were affected if they run their course on society they have their partner one hundred ninety one national society that our partner and somehow we receive some candle answers from them and in some cases like jemera we are going to receive relief bullets from jarrett ross and talk us christian talk to us and send their relief items and that we have some some others if it's just for you that there's that they announced their readiness to dispatch their relief items we have not received any one any any in in our accounts you to the sanctions

against and so there are a lot of people in our brought that wants to help us and want to donate their money especially iranian people who are living abroad but they cannot use our foreign currency at. the iranian foreign ministry confirmed that sanctions were hampering relief efforts since all the accounts of iran red crescent have been frozen by u.s. sanctions no one can send the financial aid from overseas. by the iranian foreign minister came on monday the u.s. government though says around only has itself to blame chris failure to cope with the flooding i rather than helping its company drafting new sanctions.

these floods once again showed the level of the iranian regime miss main's outside entities when in fact it is their mismanagement this led to this disaster they even environmentalists for attempting to help iran prepare for these very issues.

washington's latest attempts to ramp up pressure on venezuela are raising concerns in some european countries that are it has slammed the decision to allow u.s. citizens to sue foreign firms working in cuba nation which is third by venezuela's leader nicholas materia spain's foreign minister outlined his objections in a meeting with u.s. officials. spain read to rights its firm rejection as a matter of principle to the extraterritorial application of national sanction boards considering it contrary to international law. well the u.s. secretary of state has since announced the law change won't now come into effect until may first it had been expected in mid april no reason was given for the change the u.s. decision to allow the lawsuits relates to cuba's confiscation of american property

following the one nine hundred fifty nine revolution it's all part of donald trump's pressure campaign on her valor over its decision to back madeira. controlled by the cuban military and protected by a private army of children so. well and. thank you that's what. reader of spanish history at the university of newcastle alexander kid augur thinks there's a high chance the u.s. will worsen it's going to be probably cultures that if you actually have. an i think situation with you know. who are and then another i think situation and. international law because the foreign policy you know it's been wrapped in the last hour and last year's at the shooting found a way to really seriously whether it's war. action and risk.

a commercial war a war without. union. the u.s. is developing a rescue plan for venezuela's economy designed to put cash into the country through banks smart phones and apps but even though the trump administration isn't rushing to reveal details the plan does have one key condition. the timeline is to get rid of the girl. i have no idea when that's going to be that would begin immediately it's a question of. getting hold of the what i call the machinery of government. meanwhile venezuelans have been organizing themselves against the possible u.s. backed military intervention the redfish investigative project has released a new documentary on the country's peoples militia is a preview. o'neill

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