italy's combative interior minister forms an alliance of right wing nationalist parties saying here to shake up the e.u. after next month's election. fighting rages for control of the libyan capital tripoli the un announced the united states are pulling troops and urging sides to cease military action. a general election looms in israel and incumbent leader benjamin netanyahu faces a close race look at how much his relations with the u.s. play a role in the coming vote. a very warm welcome to you you're watching r.t.

international with me making airing our top story this hour a new euro skeptic alliance is uniting within the e.u. zone borders with italian interior minister met teo sell the uni vowing to create a european spring this comes just a month before europe's parliamentary elections there will a little bit on whether sure we are working towards building a new european dream which for me has become a nightmare. into focus family unity environmental protection and the future of young people will do it as an alternative movement many people are hoping they will gain. additional any peace in the european parliament and not one of them to have some sort of our house that we haven't seen from euro skeptic parties in the past. as he was launching this cross party this euro skeptic party across europe today was talking about working towards common ideologies which is in

their sense the defense of europe something they believe that the european parliament hasn't done very well in the past and the polls are showing that they all are likely to increase the number of seats they hold next month's european elections let's take a listen now to what else mathias salvini had to say today. our veterans at this. hour in brussels today she stated we're going to need to build a new future this is the path of to save europe because i. dream about going to be bankers. government so who are the key play is in this particular bloc well today it was of course. with the league in italy but also the finns party were taking part alternative for germany and the danish people's party and we already know from last week that the pen's national rally here in france is also on board with this new idea salvini has also been traversing

of course you're trying to get the politicians to join in as well reaching out to hungry. and also to politicians in spain in the netherlands and elsewhere across europe so the vision he's put forward is that potentially they could get at least ten parties to join forces potentially up to twenty off the elections and they're hoping that they can. again nothing me peace to make a group of about a hundred and fifty any peace all from parties it against multiculturalism immigration and against the e.u. as it currently stands. it is the technocrats and russians driving europe into a ditch and we will declare war on the. elite as a political forces in the brussels bubble and the christian coalition for the not so secretive reason that if the masses of other classes drive back christianity then along christianity. to eliminate individual nations the language you use is

the language of division is that what france wants you to not is our minds friends is the masses of migrants so we know what joins them together what they call money interests all but what are the problems that they face going ahead well many of these parties don't agree on all issues and as such in previous european parliament that's meant that they haven't been able to join together to create one large group in fact if small formed smaller groups which perhaps. like to have their own issues such as russia which has defied them for example we know that salvini from the party has praised president putin very often he's called the end of sanctions on russia but that's not the view from the governing people's party in poland let's also take a listen to what alternative the germany said some of the issues that they face. we

are dealing with very different parties they all have identical or similar positions on migration policy but a very different in other areas we must find a common platform if we don't find it it will be ineffective we need to cooperate on key issues to strongly enforce our policy which is not possible with individual parties well if the polls all right and we all. we're going to see a rise in the number of nationalist and populist parties from the right who are going to get seats in the european election and they can form this essential supergroup in the europe european parliament century this is going to entirely shake up politics in the parliament as we know it. to libya now where at least forty six militants have been killed and scores more injured in fighting near the capital the violence has been intensifying since thursday when forces loyal to general khalifa haftar launched an offensive aimed at seizing tripoli from the un

backed government that the united nations earlier called for a short ceasefire to allow for civilians to be evacuated but clashes continued despite that the organization say is two thousand eight hundred people have fled the area libya's prime minister has accused the rebel general who backs a rival government in the eastern city of tal broke of attempting a coup both sides have targeted each other with air strikes or libya has been divided since two thousand and eleven and since the death of leader moammar gadhafi the country is now split between the u.n. backed government in tripoli in the west and the rival government over in tobruk in the east adding to all this there are also other militant groups active there including ice the well the international community is deeply concerned over the recent escalation some including the united states have temporarily withdraw more forces from the ground they say the situation is too dangerous and too

unpredictable washington's urged the rebels to immediately halt the military action against the tripoli government insisting that the crisis can only be solved through diplomacy and market shift in the white house's position eight years ago. margaret i think has lost legitimacy to lead and he must leave. we came we saw that he died there. showing the world you would get rid of a dictator i do you would choose freedom. thank god. i was senior correspondent my down c.f. takes up the story fully. the un e.u. backed regime in libya the government of national accord g n a is fighting

for its very life all but surrounded now by the army of their rival government in red here led by general hafta disapprobation is aimed against all groups considered by the international community to be terrorists we have security council resolutions according to which these organizations are classified as terrorist groups where this military escalation game is a complete surprise to us double it began with warmongering rhetoric from hafter which was a throwback to the days of dictatorship and total to rule general have to up and his libyan national army on a roll storming toward the capital tripoli in the desperate g.m.a. have ordered their armies meaning the various islamist and militia groups that supported the counterattack on all fronts they've given this last stand the name the volcano of rage it's chaos worse both sides

a pounding each other with airstrikes and the u.n. is panicking. if. and if the heart. i still hope would be possible it's bloody station in and out on tripoli it's entirely possible that things will spiral out of all control the united states for one is already preparing for just that we will continue to monitor conditions on the ground and assess the freeze ability for renewed u.s. military presence i was appropriate it appears they have a plan and they have the aces u.s. military presence is an x. hanging over libya at the drop of a had they can intervene. again trouble is the last time they had a plan it ended in disaster turned libya into

a failed state so here we are one nation two governments and countless fiefdoms gatherings militias and sects a ground battle royale with a prize worth fighting for the winner gets one of the biggest oil reserves in the world all fun story and jerrold one believes this situation is a direct consequence of nato actions in two thousand and eleven in a row house probably ignore the call for a negotiated political settlement and you may expect a bloodbath to unfold in tripoli which is quite tragic and quite unfortunate but i'm afraid to say is the inevitable outcome of the ill advised attack the north atlantic treaty organization speaking of nato led by the united states as a result of the two thousand and eleven overthrow of mr could go off in tripoli

this is to libya becoming a gateway for migration across the mediterranean from africa generally leading to many people dying in the choppy seas of the mediterranean sea current regime in libya is not very popular it is dependent on our militias oftentimes act like gangsters looting and plundering their fellow libyans. in less than twenty four hours israelis will head to the polls for a general election the main rivals for the prime minister's office are incumbent leader benjamin netanyahu and former chief of staff of the israeli military benny gantz netanyahu who leads the right wing likud party supports free market capitalism a liberal agenda and is opposed to palestinian statehood but is rivals from the blue and white political alliance want dialogue with the palestinians they also

want to limit how long the prime minister stays in the job to a maximum of three terms international relations also prove to be key for israel's electorate artie's hellebore peter explains how the trump alliance might influence future elections. donald trump and benjamin netanyahu seem to be scratching each other's backs quite a bit lately it's a mutually beneficial relationship in ways that may not be completely obvious whatever political gifts that trump has given to israel lately is not small first move the u.s. embassy to jerusalem for many years we failed to acknowledge the obvious the plain reality that israel's capital is jerusalem then the usa quit the un human rights council citing an alleged anti israeli bias such a council in fact damages the cause of human rights and then of course there is the matter of the chronic bias against israel since its creation the council was

adopted more resolutions condemning israel against the rest of the world combined then just before the israeli elections donald trump the recognized israel's claim over the occupied golan heights captured from syria almost five decades ago i will sign a presidential proclamation recognizing israel's. over the golan heights. folks will recall that obama refused to meet with netanyahu prior to elections citing it as improper meddling as a matter of longstanding practice in principle would not see has the states or candidates in close proximity to their elections as to avoid the appearance of influence in a democratic election in a foreign country however trump does not share obama's reservations so what is in it for the donald is he just an enthusiastic israel supporter well donald trump has

gotten election coming up too and he needs to secure votes in twenty twenty israel is a good way to win support from american jews who are not his biggest fans according to a number of polls but most especially the christian evangelicals the jukes of this movement encourages jewish people to leave the democratic policy total disarray. spect republicans are waiting with open arms remember jerusalem u.s. embassy and the horrible iran nuclear deal mike pence an evangelical himself seems to pretty well articulate this trend in how american christians feel about the middle east in the story of the jews we've. always seen the story of america my country's very first settlers also saw themselves as pilgrims sent by providence to build a new promised land now political criticism of trump and b.b.'s political bromance seems to have been muted however a few voices have chimed in for example bernie sanders president trumps extremely

on why is the solution to recognize drew slum as the capital of israel why recognizing only its importance to israel president trump has severely on the mind the peace process i am very concerned about the policy of the trump administration regarding the two state solution and a few noted intellectuals we see in israeli private investigations for going after the person reputations of people behind the iran do there are new array of actors here that the american public didn't know about and this is all going to figure in the next election. israeli intervention in u.s. elections fosli overwhelms anything the russians may have done a common trope among donald trump's critics is to accuse him of being a hateful populist brewing an atmosphere similar to one nine hundred thirty s. germany and it seems that the white house has determined that the best way to counter that narrative is to scream we love israel at the top of their lungs u.s.

and israel have always had a special relationship and a very strong relationship probably the strongest relationship of any united states ally is with israel so the fact that americans see benjamin it and you know as as a important figure and they see the israel relationship or as important that might influence some voters to vote for president trump at the same time israelis view america in the highest the seam and the highest regard and they very much rely on the united states and president trump is very popular so the fact that president trump has visited here the fact that president trump has moved the embassy to jerusalem the fact that president trump has canceled the iranian nuclear agreement the fact that president trump has recognized the golan heights and just the fact that president trump likes to tweet positive support for israel and for that and you know can be significant in people deciding who they're going to vote for in

israel. still to come this hour the world's big powers are in disagreement over what to do with returning i still find says that's among the stories coming up after the break. what holds us do something to. put themselves on the line. they get accepted or rejected. so you want to be president and should. want to be rich. but you'd like to be close to what the four three of the four people. interested in the why. there should. seem wrong why don't we all just don't all. get to shape

out just to. educate and in detroit because the trail. when so many find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground. with. welcome back how to handle foreign fighters returning home for after joining islamic state has stumped the g seven gathering in france the group of the world's most advanced countries felt to hammer out a joint position on the issue and while the united states is calling on european countries to take back their citizens some states including france have a different view. people who went to the zones in order to fight must be sentenced

over there and other issues children and it's true that five children have been brought back to france they are all friends or abandoned will be studying the situation of children on a case by case basis the e.u. commission claim some five thousand europeans joined deisel between two thousand and eleven and two thousand and sixteen the u.k. france and germany and belgium are among the most affected countries and with i still largely defeated many of those who swore loyalty to the caliphate are now regret saying that actions artie's rep leave video agency talk to two former militants born in germany they both converted to islam in their teens because glass joined islamic state terrorists in aleppo well martin lehmkuhl works in an iso hospital in rocca here's what they had to say.

when we first arrived to islamic states everything was very new for us adapting to an arabic country with its houses apartments cars food weather bombings dead people dead children we saw everything during this time it was difficult to get used to it and that time one didn't understand much a month from the first life in morocco was very normal but during this time i began to see things things that i asked did that i wasn't convinced were permitted on the islam blowing yourself up so that you can take your enemies with you into death killing civilians who live in france or america. some mission it's like a but i want to after approximately three months of working at the police station in iraq i separated from this after this i tried again and again to flee territory but it never worked out for various reasons. trying to get out of dry ash several times that was why i was twice in

a prison many executions took place you just couldn't believe how many were arrested and killed they told us that our wives would be great that we would be killed that we would be beaten we wouldn't get any food that will be sold to the iraqi government or to the syrian regime. and seditionist what if germany doesn't accept me then i would try to work here and to help in terms of fantasy terror organizations my three children were taken to france for me personally it would of course be better if they lived in germany with my mother i am of course one hundred percent against the islamic state and as i said it might be the biggest mistake of my life that we emigrated. from by the mistake that we made absolutely cannot be undone unfortunately we will. be punished for the mistake that we made we deserved to be punished.

as facebook continues its crusade against fake news web security research has revealed the social media giant has failed to contain cyber crime on its platform they claim dozens of so-called cyber criminal flea markets operate openly trading stolen credit card data hacking tolls and spam lists donald quarter investigates. zuckerberg is certainly trying hard to repair his image after a year of facebook cyber scandals recently the company has once again proudly announced it's trashed thousands of pages connected to countries like iran and russia and all the while other activities often criminal have flown right under facebook's radar take this latest report by cyber security firm cisco tallow it claims to have uncovered seventy four groups in which over three hundred eighty thousand people have been trading stolen bank and credit information the firm calls these groups criminal flea markets not only that but many of them said scam and

hacker write in the name the researchers say these groups avoid detection because facebook apparently expects them to police themselves so far facebook has apparently relied on these communities to police themselves as a consequence of this a substantial number of cyber scammers have continued to proliferate and profit from illegal activities so how does such a blatant violations of facebook's policies continue to go undetected well they say they just need to be a bit more vigilant these groups violated our policies against spam and financial fraud and we removed them we know we need to be more vigilant and we're investing heavily to fight this type of activity vigilance is certainly needed especially when facebook has failed to stop actual abuses of its platform last november a south sudanese girl was bought through facebook posts for ten thousand dollars several cars and a few hundred cows admins took down the posts when they found out about them but

that was after she was already sold so you'd think it's zuckerberg would get the hint that forced marriages might be a problem on his platform but new cases have surfaced as to nigerian girls were sold again with facebook as the medium of transaction so facebook has been having a hard time stopping forced marriages but they show. sure have done a good job curbing what they call fake news and the news that turns out to be fake mostly happens to challenge mainstream narratives of world events instead of child slavery and online scams it's iran venezuela and of course russian bots the picture becomes a lot clearer when priorities are understood facebook is facing a perfect storm or it's under pressure from all sides spoke of following we understood that self moderation and self regulation hasn't worked the regulation is required from the industry and the governments need to start to step up to take

a role in defining what those regulations are going to be it has a number of human monitors that are seeking to moderate the platform and a lot of its content but they're never going to be able to cope with the sheer volume of content that we see on not only facebook many of the other social network platforms illegal credit cards are being offered online job boards all sorts of things there are many other forms of traffic and content that we really don't want to see and therefore they also need to be cracking down on illegal activity or some of the. some breaking news for you now the u.s. president donald trump has designated iran's islamic revolutionary guard corps as a terrorist organization accusing it of financing and promoting terrorism in the region on sunday iran's foreign minister mohammed jabot zarif seemed to anticipate the designation saying in a tweet their president should know better than to be conned into another u.s. disaster we will have more on this story throughout the day well here on r.t.

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up in today's going underground the first image of bricks that chaos the u.k. releases g.d.p. estimates in forty eight hours but will politicians in the media be reading the figures upside down is g.d.p. really a measure of the success or failure of a society from a cause your culture has in the usa to corbett in britain the ideas of mach's and socialism originating explosive debates from congress to the house of commons about what is truly valuable when it comes to human happiness joining me now is world renowned economist professor mary on them as a college or university college london and founder of the u.c.l.a. institute for innovation and public purpose a new paperback is the value of everything making and taking in the global economy welcome to the show marianna why apart from say jeremy corbyn is there very little skepticism value in the first place in modern society which is the main issue on the front of the book so the word value has become a very fuzzy kind of flaky word that you know anyone can use you can call yourself a wealth creator lloyd blankfein the c.e.o. of goldman sachs one year after the crisis said that goldman sachs workers were the

most productive in the world we as economists use to really debate a contest. that word there's different theories of value and actually first we debated value and then that turned into a theory of price today we have basically an approach to the economy which is all about prices supply and demand curves that determines price and that determines what we value so the logic actually go reverse think of it value chains shareholder value shared value and goldman sachs calling goldman sachs workers the most valuable but what does that actually mean and so when we don't actually have a way to distinguish value creation from value extraction it becomes much easier just to throw the word around in fact the reason i wrote the book believe it or not is that in the two thousand and fifteen election when the labor party lost the analysis by labor members themselves by leaders in the labor party the next day was we lost because we didn't embrace the wealth creators the value creators and by that they meant business and i thought to myself how can it be that we've gotten to the point where even the labor party which is about work.