i mean blow down his seventieth birthday candles nato to expand his presence in regions on russia's doorstep to calls on russia to withdraw its military advisors from venezuela. social media giant twitter lifts its ban on a french government advertising campaign after it had blocked it as part of his fight against fake news. the iranian rights activist slams western visitors to the country who done a good job saying that they undermined the 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 come in when they come into your country to

justice. inside iran there's a rule and there is a law and. unless you change the whole system. great to have your company this hour this is. nato has marked its 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 blogs expansion in russia's borders because that's what that said to be what russia's sovereign neighbors want mixed with calls for moscow to leave venezuela because seemingly what washington wants. so we are not paying off our efforts. we just agreed to the huge and we just agreed the package would more surveillance sections sources on old two shoes which we.

strongly believe or religion for the black sea region on of course of the working with over forty years george on 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 withdraw its military advisors 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 a done deal. 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. doubt by the united states for its lack of defense spending and we understand that most 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 was once again painted as a major global threat the nato secretary general got an enthusiastic response in the u.s. congress lined countermeasures against russia ahead of the nato birthday bash into trying to explain. he might not even have had it in mind when he was doing it but the greatest businessmen 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 a dollar meet the two percent god on the spending two percent of g.d.p. on defense can there be a better gift than any 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 though since to soviet union collapsed almost three decades ago even within the alliance 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 notice 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 spokesman 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 qaeda 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 said they don't is obsolete it covers a soviet union which is no longer in existence and nato has to either be rejiggered reaching your 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 garlands from his military industrial complex i said it was

obsolete it's no longer absolutely happy birthday nato and we see a pattern behavior consistent cyber attacks on nato allies and partners targeting everything from parliament to poverty attempts to interfere in democracy 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. try and. needs to find itself and what its relevancy is and it needs to remain as

a military alliance. absent the part absent politics absent economic considerations because it's not the job of nato nato is 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. or us foreign ministry says it is open to dialogue with nato but claims that 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. ahead 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. due to does not know how to do this at this time and has therefore decided to have a completely extreme pausing causing any supposedly 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 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 on planned 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 for twitter that it's now going to stop and none saying how many uses it keeps using twitter may have appeased the french government for now but all

the goods circling overhead charlotte dubin ski r.t. paris political journalist and commentator elizabeth new tell you believed it would 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're excited not to take the risk to do you to be hard to regulate fake news because it's a difficult subject it's got to be tackled because the debate has become much more trident and violent with the social media taking up so much space and the cost the need of the debate is pushing everybody to all the extremism or just something which basically has got to be framed 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 knew of the reasons in which you could be mistakes and that when was certainly a mistake it was you know 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 and as an administration more than a special specific political party they didn't say you should vote for so and so. western women who wear the hijab when they visit iran are insulting the nation that's according to a prominent a rainy and right thanks to this she says that regarding the head job as part of the country's culture it goes against the hard work of activists like a self who are trying to abolish rules on the head covering. they say that this is a cultural issue we're very it out of respect to the culture of iran calling it discriminatory law as part of our culture this is an insult to a nation. all around mandatory job law requires all women to wear it in public the activists condemnation of western women has stirred mixed reaction on mine. while women in the middle is to fight for their freedom from this religious tyranny westerners think your job is a cultural good to. know they wear it because the told if they don't they can't get

in a 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 in iran it's more than painful to me when i hear people say a compulsory he job is our culture it is not just look at the picture of the rand before deny nine hundred seventy nine islamic revolution. we put the show up for debates with journalists about himself and made from the council of x. 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 hijab part of women's freedom people who are standing against this only in order to i think promote the mass media. image of women as objects as sex objects

is disgusting. 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 vul you have real value when you go when you are not forced to yes yes there was lots of proof but you're not going to take into account any 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 have not just about development point is they have the right to your example and. they have no right to yell outside of iran. if you are on cue that 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 ayatollahs it islamic it was an artless revamp was there 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 wimmin to come in when they come into your country to justice and way you can't do that not only for women from you know my our countries they then start you. using that as a stick to beat them with they say to them look at these non muslim women 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 a people choose and majority of the people choose to be governed by islamic law one of them is to wear the her job and the his job does not demean women it actually

makes them become human beings and i'm not meaning know now unavailable in a ceremony how is that what you men than women who are veiled i'm not saying that this is another issue but inside iran there is a role and there is a law and of course that is a result unless you change the whole system. the president of brazil has caused widespread outrage during a visit to a holocaust museum in israel jr both sonora suggested that the nazi atrocities may have been done to socialism. even though. there is no. socialist party was else if not it was the national socialist party of germany. both in our own has earned the nickname trump of the tropics and his counterpart in the us also uses every available opportunity to denounce socialism donald trump valve that the us will never be a socialist country and last year he called on the whole world to fight against the left all notions of the world should resist socialism. and the

misery that would bring us to everyone. else get some insight on the story now from martin who is from germany left wing the linker party could if u.t. martin let's just start by getting things historically accurate so both the narrow describe the nazis as leftists which as i understand those remarks from his own foreign minister surely the exact opposite story. yes it's really like this i think it's just a pro case of procreation and it's an offense against all the victims of our season of the nazi pushes and germany more than six million jewish people twenty million russian people who fought for shiz and all the left wing the communist socialist social democrat the trade unionists in germany who are victims of this.

dictatorship of the liver schizm so it's a really like an anti historic position. even the it like it is the the nazis the net national so-called national socialists were right wing movement which was unto you minister and which was. prejudiced sort of groups against jewish and occurrence all left wing so maybe it was in our walls to cover up or wants to distract from his own and there had been a lot of chasing off in the genius people that had been murdered against leftist opposition politicians and there is a climate of hatred against every minority especially people of color and so maybe just want to hype this or you want to provoke but it's a clear offense and it's an acceptable wanted to us as you just from that to be

saying this when visiting the holocaust museum in israel and many would call it at the very minimum insensitive does it say a lot about both in our style of leadership how would you describe. yes it says everything about what he's doing since he was in his electoral campaign as well he was abusing minorities he was abusing women he was abusing people of color he was abusing the indigenous groups he was abusing trade unionists and he creates an atmosphere in brazil not was fear of hate and poor there is ation in between the different society groups and it's very dangerous i think this politics this kind of some kind of precious to eat and so he tries to turn around history i think he's aware of the fact that the nazis walls were right wing movement and that their position is not it's not the same but it's not too far away from his own position

and so he just want to distract and to provoke and this is a style of politics we don't need because we're in the situation of a crisis worldwide and to put our eyes the world like he does and color i society and criminalize left wing politicians and even be corrupt to the roots because. there is some reports already involved corruption of the government of course and there was the son of bulls and merrill and yes well that he is involved in some kind of murder before he was elected presidents there is some reports about that as well so it is concluded with his style of politics yes it's like that so both trump calling for the the faint of socialism the two often compared as well politically where this intense dislike for socialism come from. yes so i think it served him let's say normal hunty

kommunist attempt to touch it shoot which. or create it or which has assists historical fundament and the nine hundred twenty nine hundred thirty seven worldwide these socialist and communist movement was strong and the right we were pushed by some circles of the capitol list who said that we don't want the left wing movement let it be socialist a left wing social democrats a communist to grow up would like they prefer not to pamper troops support the rightwing movements who were totally unto human list. to get. some for us some relevant force against the growing working class and from it and this is us now of the continuum of continuities until today and like

you can see in all south america we have a turnaround from. let's say leftist governments which had been growing from the beginning of the millenium him some country so we had different ways of coups like in honduras a real coup you had a constitution or a few who know and minister to christ to you who together with the government of the usa against the left wing. mentor a self determined. devil document in south america and in this too on we can see the target very dangerous for larry zation and an enemy pictures or what trouble just look also now are doing they try to dilute it to meet every leftwing attempt and they try to denounce socialism or communism as being. but in reality for sure

isn't as in human and the way of new liberal copy the us and the fascist capitalism and brazil he says are the real threats towards human and not meant. to what is there a problem with the word it itself for example in germany the word socialist has no problem with it in the us though voters seem to recall from that particular label to think socialism's not really understood in the west. here s. that depends i think the scientists understand it political exists the socialists all understand it and trump as well i think he knows what socialism means but he's creating an enemy picture because for him and for let's say some part of the capitalist activist the left wing socialist movement which tries

to pull anything but have an equal and only world today and then to dignity of man and into an international whole is in the center of the devil document of the moment in the movement for them it hinders a maximum of profit maximization and that's the moment of enlargement of the old problem so this is a contradiction of course socialism is an idea of society where everyone has equal rights where everyone can live in dignity and salute the new leader of the mission of capitalism he is the formation of a coming to loosen where the inequality is at one of the highest state of the soul and even conceived in brazil as some kind of post fascist or even fascist to eat of formation of society already so off course for people like this for activists for pollutions like goebbels are all those socialism or communism communism as

a contradiction of their i.q. of society and i think the and this is what it means but they try to provoke all of it try to change the discourse of the paradigm what ruins mean to follow their own aims but that has nothing to do with a clear scientific basis or a clear. idea of what meanings socialism what means communism what it means new liberal formation of societies. martin appreciate your time images will who knows you. and to the news now the number of people killed in flash floods in the southwest of iran has risen to sixty two the deluge that started two weeks ago swept away key infrastructure local aid organizations say that sanctions are preventing vital help from getting free. through the helicopter as we try to almost people from.

area safe areas actually be set up at camps and we distribute that the tents for the four temporarily sheltering of the people and as well as a distribution of their relief items well actually it is a living basically i think that they run their course and certainly they have their partner one hundred ninety one national society that our partner and the somehow we receive some candle answers from them and in some cases like jemera those three are going to receive relief well it's from generous loss and half some some others just feel that there's that they announced their readiness to dispatch they're really fighting we have not received any one any any in in our accounts you to decide actions against and so there are a lot of brought that wants to help us and wants to donate their money especially iranian people who are living abroad. to use our effort in getting. the iranian

foreign minister 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. well a statement by the iranian foreign ministry came on monday the u.s. government though says iran is itself to blame for its failure to cope with the flooding rather than hoping its currently drafting new sanctions. these floods once again show the level of the iranian regime mismanagement in urban

planning and emergency preparedness the regime blames the jail 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 madrid has slammed the decision to allow u.s. citizens to sue foreign firms working in cuba a nation which just stood by venezuela's leader nicolas maduro 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 your secretary status since announced the law change won't come into effect until the first of may 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 saw part of donald trump's pressure campaign on have on or over its decision to back madeira.