the u.s. ramps up the pressure on iran designating sarongs elite military force the revolutionary guards as a terrorist organization. italy's competent area minister forms an alliance of right wing nationalist parties saying here to shake up the e.u. after next month's election. 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 upcoming vote. a warm welcome you're watching r.t. international with me if you are and now in on the unprecedented step for u.s. foreign policy the trumpet ministration has designated iran's revolutionary guards as a terrorist organization the american leader and other top officials announced a decision on monday repeating accusations that the elite force finances and promotes terrorism in the middle east. today the united states is continuing to build its maximum pressure campaign against the iranian regime. i am announcing our intent to designate the islamic revolutionary guard corps including its good force

as a foreign terrorist organization accordance with section two nineteen of the immigration and nationality act just as a nation will take effect one week from today. to discuss this further we're now joined by political communications professor fellow it is already from tehran university welcome to the program now it seems this move has been planned for some time do you think this is good timing from donald trump. i think it's good to have a baby in. his election. any more sanctions. g c g c has been under sanctions for many years the timing i think has a lot to do with. what he wants to do with regard to having an interfering basically in. elections he has been taking a step in this regard with regard to with regard to moving the embassy and now this

is the last step it's not going to be. you know and it's basically a propaganda tool. so putting psychological pressure on iran without any real effects on what. is moved it is totally unprecedented isn't it is the first time the us has labelled another nation's military as a terrorist organization and the islamic revolutionary guard has such a massive influence on iran is washington effectively declaring the whole country a terrorist organization enduring sigh. yes. trying to overthrow the iranian government. your clip showed mike pump will wants to put maximum pressure on iran after regime change and they're not really good at it because john bolton predicts that some months ago that you know i would not see the for your kind of. make that would be and that was in.

they want to put a lot of pressure on iran but in reality you know on's ability to defend itself is quite extensive and iran has been able to continue. fighting this type of operation that's coming from the united states and i think they will continue to do so given the scale of the. way sensually gives the us president grounds to wage war against iran so how dangerous is this i think having someone like donald trump in the white house is dangerous. and he is the commander in chief is not various able person so people have to worry about what he actually plans to do and. there's anything. may let him think that he's able to attack iran. or the

issue is that he is the only person that thinks so and i think u.s. allies should remind united states not to play with fire because iran is military capabilities are quite extensive. military engagement with iran i think and. finishing his presidency we've also heard from the secretary of state mike pompei who had a mass teach for the leaders of iran let's just have a listen in my mind ourselves what he said. the leaders of iran are racketeers not revolutionaries the iranian people deserve better than to be governed by this kind of hypocritical and corrupt officials with this designation we are sending a clear signal a clear message to iran's leaders. including counsel him on the in his band of thugs that the united states is bringing all pressure to bear to stop the regime's outlaw behavior we asked that our allies and partners around the world do the same

with such rhetoric surrounding them if what we action do you expect from to iran and especially the ayatollah. i think parliament. a separate case what the united states has done so i think you will see. you don't end parliament designating us military as a terrorist organization. as i said earlier in terms of sanctions it's not going to really have any effect because d.c. is already having the sanction so you don't look continue to basically resist this . as you mentioned increases the possibility of a military confrontation between iran and the united states and i think it's up to other countries to make sure that the u.s. does not take that. step because that's going to be harmful not only to iran and the united states but for the rest of the world mr zandi thank you for joining us

on r.t. international and commenting on this breaking news story for us fast forward is that a professor of political communication at the university of toronto. in other news now a new euro skeptic alliance is uniting within the hughes own borders with italian interior minister matteo salvini vowing to create a european spring this comes just a month before europe's parliamentary elections. there were. we are working towards building a new european dream which for me has become a nightmare. into focus family work security environmental protection of values and the future if younger people will do it as an alternative movement many people are hoping that they will gain a number of additional any peace in the european parliament that will allow them to have some sort of powerhouse that we haven't seen from euro skeptic parties in the past tell you sylvania 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 the european parliament hasn't done very well in the past and the polls are showing that they all likely to increase the number of seats that they hold at next month's european elections let's take a listen now to what else mathias salvini had to say today you'll not find any extremists or veterans at this table the only nostalgics are those in power in brussels today instead we're ready to build a new future this is the path to save europe because those who are sinking in the european dream are the bureaucrats the bankers the do gooders who've been government for too long so who are the key players in this particular block well today it was of course material salvini 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 modi in the pens national rally here in france is also. with this new idea salvini has also been traversing across europe trying to get other politicians to join in as well reaching out to you hungary's viktor orban 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 of the elections and they're hoping that they could gain enough amy peace to make a group of about a hundred and fifty peace all from parties against multiculturalism immigration and against the e.u. as it currently stands. it is the technocrats who is driving europe into a ditch and we will declare war on the. us the political forces in the brussels bubble want to present a christian culture for the not so secretive reason that if the masses of migrants

and other cultures drive back christianity then along with christianity it will be possible to eliminate individual nations the language you use is the language of division is that what france wants not at all what divides friends is the massive influx 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 they've small formed smaller groups which perhaps haven't had the power they would like to have there are issues such as russia which for example we know that salvini from the league of 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 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 go and see a rise in the number of nationalist and populist parties from the right they don't get the new election they can form this essential super group in the us me european parliament sentient this is going. entirely shake up politics in the parliament as we know it. 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 for the israeli military benny gantz well netanyahu who leads the right wing likud party supports free market capitalism a liberal agenda and is opposed to palestinian statehood but his 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 keller morgan 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 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 of 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 democrat 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 bebe'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 slim 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 around you 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 in an atmosphere similar to the 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 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 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 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. more global stories coming up after this short break on r.t. international including the latest on the violence in libya stay tuned for that. join me every thursday on the alec simon show and i'll be speaking to guest of the world of politics sports business i'm show business i'll see that. as we continue to grow online with our online identities and personas you will

continue to see this mixture of physical crime and internet crime and the two will be mailed to a point where they're almost indistinguishable if you can't really distinguish what all. what politicians do something that. they put themselves on the line they get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be president. or some want to. have to go right to the press this is what before three in the morning can't be good. i'm interested always in the why is in the house. they said. welcome back at least forty six militants have been killed in schools more injured in fighting in the libyan capital the violence has been intensifying sings thursday

when forces loyal to general khalifa haftar launched an offensive again aimed at seizing tripoli from the u.n. backed government that the united nations earlier called for a short ceasefire to allow for civilians to be evacuated but clashes continued despite that slogan. ization say's two thousand eight hundred people have fled the area libya's prime minister has accused the rebel general who back survival government in the eastern city of tobruk of attempting a coup both sides have targeted each other with strikes well libya has been divided since two thousand and eleven and the death of leader moammar gadhafi the country's now splits between the un banks government in tripoli in the west and the rival government over in top broke in the east all adding to all this there are also other militant groups active there including i still the international community is deeply concerned over the recent escalation some including the united states have

temporarily withdrawn their forces from the ground they say the situation is too dangerous and too predictable washington's urged to 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. the market i think has lost legitimacy to lead and you must leave . we came we saw him he died. during the world you would get rid of a dictator you would cherish freedom. thank you very. well our senior correspondent mark garcia picks up the story for you. 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 came as a complete surprise to us double it began with warmongering rhetoric from hafter which were the throwback to the days of dictatorship and total terror 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 air strikes and the u.n. is panicking. if. the heavy heart. i still hope would be possible before it luvvy off from 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 a 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 ax hanging over libya at the drop of a had to they can intervene if. 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 author and historian gerald horn believes this situation is a direct consequence of nato actions in two thousand and eleven. and. probably ignore the call for a negotiated political settlement and you may well 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 at 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 gadhafi in tripoli this is led 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 the current regime in libya is not very popular it is dependent on our militias oftentimes like gangsters looting and plundering their fellow libyans. as facebook continues its crusade against fake news that web security research has revealed the social media giant has failed to contain cyber crime on its platform they claim dozens of so-called five a criminal flea markets operate openly trading stolen credit card data hacking tools spam lists don't cause to investigate. 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 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 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 where it's under pressure from all sides it's because finally understood that self moderation and self regulation hasn't worked in the form of regulation is required from the industry in that 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 contents 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 on line child brides all sorts of

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