and willing to risk being killed for a war surely we can risk some just come for. the u.s. ramps up the pressure on iran designating its elite military force the revolutionary guards as a terrorist organization. moves welcome by israel's prime minister who's facing a tough election race on tuesday some see it as donald trump's latest gift a bad image of the u.s. leaders recognized jerusalem and the golan heights as sovereign israeli territory. and also this italy's comet of interior minister forms an alliance of right wing nationalist parties saying he aims to shake up the e.u. up to next month's election.

live from the r.t. new center in moscow this is your world update with me colum bray the main news we're tracking for you this hour in an unprecedented foreign policy move the trumpet ministration has designated iran's revolutionary guards as a foreign terrorist organization the us president announced the decision on monday repeating accusations that the elite force both finances and promotes terrorism today i am formally announcing my administration's plan to designate iran's islamic revolutionary guard corps the i.r.g.c. including its qods force as a foreign terrorist organization i discussed the recent developments with our correspondents kellam open in new york and in tel aviv. still be the first time that we've seen the u.s. government designate part of another country's government as a terrorist organization now donald trump in the statement he accuses iran of being a state sponsor of terrorism financing promoting terrorism as a tool of state craft and we heard those words echoed by mike pompei o the u.s.

secretary of state he said this designation of iran's islamic revolutionary guard corps as terrorists is intended to send a message to iranian leaders the leaders of iran are record piers not revolutionaries the radio 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 the money in his band of thugs that the united states is bringing all pressure to bear to stop the regimes behavior we ask that are allies and partners around the world do this thing in response to this designation by the us government the iranian government has now declared the us central command and the us military to be terrorists and we've also heard from job he'd zarif the foreign minister of iran and he has spoken up and said this is another move by washington that could lead to further isolation of the united states netanyahu says. nation of the g.c.

fully understand its consequences for u.s. forces in the region in fact they seek to drag the us into a quagmire on its behalf. should my bets have been to be conned into one of the us disaster the troubled ministration has particularly distinguished itself by escalating into rhetoric against the islamic republic of iran distinguishing itself from the obama administration that presided over the p five plus one nuclear negotiations but the trump administration has escalated u.s. sanctions and hostility toward the islamic republic everywhere we go in the middle east it's a red. spread death destruction and behind every problem is iran's the world's leading state sponsor of terrorists iran's leaders so yes. death. and destruction now it's important to note that fighters from iran's islamic revolutionary guard corps were actually key in defeating the i still terrorists

many islamic revolutionary guards of iran actually died in the efforts to defeat the i still terrorists however this organization that was key in defeating the i still dyess terrorist organization and you know made great sacrifices in order to fight against i still has now been labeled itself as terrorists by the us government ok kind of thanks for lining up for us let's go to tel aviv now and talk to a middle east correspondent. i guess there's one happy albeit a bottle of prime minister where you are there's certainly one happy prime minister here the israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu he's hoping that this comment that comes just hours before polls open here in israel will boost his election chances he has thanked the american president donald trump for these comments thank you my dear friend president trump for your decision to declare iran's revolutionary guards a terrorist organization thank you for responding to another important request of mine which serves the interests of our countries and the countries of the region at

the same time though netanyahu is facing tough competition not least of all from the strong military man many guns who is a former israeli defense forces chief now he has positioned himself on this of the israeli political spectrum so he is appealing to those who want that and yahoo out of office he's talking about negotiations with the palestinians any sort also talking about limiting the number of times that an israeli prime minister conserve in office to two terms having said this netanyahu certainly has his own advantages not least of all his close relationship with the american president donald trump it was the close working relationship that saw the americans recognize jerusalem as the capital of israel that saw the americans move their embassy from tel aviv to jerusalem also recognizing israeli sovereignty over the golan heights and now the latest figure in it on yahoo's kept is the americans declaring that the rainy and revolutionary guards are a terrorist organization for many years we failed to acknowledge the obvious the

plain reality that israel's capital is jerusalem i will sign a presidential proclamation recognizing israel's sovereign right over the golan heights. the jokes of this movement encourages jewish people to leave the democratic party total disrespect. it's republicans are waiting with. despite the assistance that trump has certainly given netanyahu it is still unclear whether the incumbent prime minister will win these elections the something closest israeli elections in recent history and also one of the dirtiest there's been a lot of bad mouthing of candidates and a smear campaign so it's taking at this stage unpredictable as to who will come out and the extent to which it's perhaps been timed to have an impact on the israeli parliamentary elections. any move against the i.r.g.c. would mean reinvigorating terrorist groups like. and i saw or

and now that the iraqi parliament is thinking of expelling u.s. army troops from iraq it seems that the u.s. which has the withdrawal from syria as well is sending the message to iran that if the u.s. is not given a share in the middle east then the u.s. is ready to you know turn the table over in the meantime tomorrow will have elections in israel this seems to be also moved in support of the israeli premier trump has done anything for netanyahu and this is yet another move to shore up his further and support strong support for netanyahu in the hole that netanyahu would reciprocate and support trump in next year's elections there was so many gifts the donated to benjamin ateneo before those elections that he's almost

in over those of gifts i'm not sure the last one would be perceived it is really something that we. change and he's seeing in the way that people who vote those elections side about him that the neo yes or no it's own rules the only issue at stake almost the only issue on the table and they're almost the only sure which is discussed it shows that the way the neo is going. either way that brings israelis support from the road that states this is something the voters might have in their mind and you're a skeptic alliances uniting within the e.u. zone borders with italian interior minister of interior selvi vowing to create a european spring it comes as europe's parliamentary elections are set for next month. so there were. we are working towards building a new european dream which for me has become a nightmare. into focus families work security environmental protection and the future of younger people will do it as an alternative movement. many people or how

you call them and that will allow them to have some sort of power house that we haven't seen from euro skeptic parties in the past. as he was launching this cross party this year a skeptic party across europe today was talking about working towards common ideologies which is in this 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 next month's european elections let's take a listen now to what else materia 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 seeking new 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 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 for the last week that movie in the pens national rally here in france is also on board with this new idea has also been traversing across europe trying to get other politicians to join in as well reaching out to the hungary's viktor orban and also to politicians in spain 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 elect. and they're hoping that they could gain enough emmy pieces to make a group of about a hundred and fifty and one piece of all from parties are they going to 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 push him into 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 their common interests are 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. the league has praised president putin very often he's called for the end of sanctions on russia but that's not the view from the government. let's also take a listen to what alternative 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 to all 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 go get seats and you actually they can form this essential super group this is going to entirely shake up politics in the parliament as we know it.

acts at least. forty six militants have been killed and scores more injured in fighting near the libyan capital the violence has been intensifying since thursday when forces loyal to general khalifa haftar launched an offensive aimed at seizing tripoli from the u.n. back government the united nations called for a short ceasefire to allow for civilians to be evacuated but clashes still continued despite that the organization says two thousand eight hundred people have fled the area libya's prime minister's accuse the rebel general who backs a rival government in the eastern city of tal brooke of attempting a coup both sides have targeted each other with air strikes. libya's been divided since twenty eleven following the death of longtime leader moammar gadhafi the country is now split between the u.s. backed government in tripoli in the west and that rival government in tobruk in the east but out it's all this there are also other militant groups active there including i saw one eye on this the international community which remains deeply concerned over the recent escalation including the united states have temporarily

withdrawn their forces from the ground they say that the situation is too dangerous and unpredictable washington's urge the rebels to immediately halt the military action against the tripoli government insisting that the crisis can only be solved through diplomacy but that represents a marked shift in the position of the white house from eight years ago. margaret has lost legitimacy to lead and you must leave. we came. to our senior correspondent has the latest on john will have two hours advance on tripoli and the international community's reaction. 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 told her to rule general hafta and his libyan national army on a roll storming toward the capital tripoli the desperate the 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. and there's be hard. it would be possible. the call from stations 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 frieze 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 axe 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 gangs militias and sects a grand battle royale with a prize worth fighting for the winner gets one of the biggest oil reserves in the world. the prime minister of the breakaway balkan state of kosovo has seemingly pledged total of three to the united states during an official visits of detroit. our positions are similar to what the us stands for and those on the ground know it i am an american soldier on the ground. rather now to also told the media that washington must report kosovo in order to push back against russian influence in the balkans he is a staunch supporter of the us and nato and in march he even sacked a minister who was critical of the military alliance actions in the former yugoslavia but despite his allegiance to the us around enough maintains that kosovo

is fully sovereign and pursues its own interest political analyst nicola merkel which told me last hour that the cost of the premier's comments were revealing. kosovo is clearly us an american protectorate today and her in ages telling the truth he is an american soldier and he even added executing orders so i think you can be more clear than when his job is today and we coast of all represents the us and what it really is in the balkans today an american protectorate he wants to give the image of being an independent country don't forget that today kosovo is not recognized by seventh of humanity china is a recognized kosovo india russia. spain the vatican does and you can recognise coastal worsen and own country so you try to fight for that but. you still remain in the cockpit of the americans and he says it himself. as a facebook continues its crusade against fake news web security researchers have revealed that the social media giant has failed to contain cyber crime on its

platform they claim that dozens of so-called cyber criminal flea markets operate openly trading stolen credit card data hacking tolls and spam lists has done a quarter. 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 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 this book are finally understood that self moderation and self regulation hasn't worked and that 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 online child brides all sorts of things there are many other forms of trafficking content that we really don't want to see and therefore they also need to be cracking down on illegal activity some of their platforms. how to handle foreign fighters returning home after joining islamic state of seven gathering in france the group of the world's most advanced countries failed to hammer out a joint position on the issue of 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 the orphans were abandoned will be studying the situation of children on a case by case basis. the e.u. commission claims some five thousand europeans joined i saw between twenty eleven and twenty sixteen the u.k. france germany and belgium are among the most affected countries and with i so

largely defeated many of those who swore loyalty to the caliphate are now regretting their actions. ruptly video agency talked to form a militant born in germany that both converted to islam and that tains look at glasto in the islamic state terrorists in aleppo. worked in an eyeful hospital in rocca here's what they had to say. the. comes and. 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 the highest did that i wasn't convinced were permitted on the islam blowing yourself up so that you can take your enemies with you into this

killing civilians who live in france or america. some mission it's a couple i want to sort of to 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 because our we're trying to get out to die ash several times that was why i was twice in a prison many executions took place you just couldn't believe many were arrested and killed they told us that our wives would be great but we would be killed that we would be beaten we wouldn't get any food would be sold to the iraqi government or to the syrian regime. conservationist 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 be cool speedbird safe they lived in germany with my mother. i am of course one hundred percent against the islamic state because i said it might be the biggest mistake of my life that we immigrated in philadelphia began from coming or going from by the mystic that we made absolutely cannot be undone unfortunately we will be punished for the mistake that we made we deserve to be punished. the russian the theater and film director can also run it off has been released on bail after a year and a half under house arrest the award winning artist is facing a two million dollar fraud charge along with codefendant if an option has the details. because house arrest lost it around eighteen months and early on monday he was released but he's not allowed to leave moscow he's still on the trial but of course it makes a huge difference for him and we've heard from considerably because shortly after the cole decision was announced here thanks to everyone who supported. yes we have

to continue to. listen as. you just heard from killers who have been speaking about innocence and i have to say that this was his position all throughout his case he's been claiming it all the time and for those of us who haven't been following this case can you give us some background well started in back in two thousand and fifteen when police opened a probe into. the collective i have to remind you that this is a prominent a famous movie and theater director here in russia award winning director in relation to that later in two thousand and seventeen his home was searched in just three months later in august two thousand and seventeen he was arrested and he was initially charged with the organizing the embezzlement of more than one million dollars in state funds donated granted to a nonprofit organization known as seventh studio established by of late to the prosecutors doubled the amount of the fraud and it is now two million dollars

critics have been saying that this is a politically motivated case and kill has been claiming all the time that he is innocent interesting though that he while under house arrest he managed to stage an opera premiered in hamburg in germany and he mentioned today after the ruling of the court that he's ready to get back to work of course so we can understand that the fight is not over for him and it's far from the end of this case ok that's the way it looks from moscow this hour thanks for watching cross-talk up ahead on nato seventieth birthday oh my story is the hardest word for the liberal media. to russia great. after the previous stage of my career was over everyone wondered what i was going

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