the u.s. . military force the revolutionary guards as a terrorist organization. welcome by israel's prime minister who's facing a tough election. with the golan heights israeli territory. alliance of right wing nationalist parties saying he aims to shake up the next month's election.

this hour our top story in an unprecedented foreign policy move the trump administration has designated iran's revolutionary guards as a foreign terrorist organization u.s. secretary of state of announced the decision on monday repeating accusations that the elite force both finances and promotes terrorism. today the united states is continuing to build its maximum pressure campaign against the iranian regime. to designate the islamic revolutionary guard corps including its good force as a foreign terrorist organization according to. the immigration and nationality act as a nation will take effect one week from today i discuss the developments with our correspondent in new york. will 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 his band of thugs that the united states is bringing all pressure to bear to stop the regimes behavior we ask that our allies and partners around the world do this thing in response to this designation by the u.s. government the iranian government has now declared the us central command and the u.s. military to be terrorists and we've also heard from job he'd zarif the foreign minister

of iran and he has spoken out and said this is another move by washington that could lead to further isolation of the united states netanyahu for whom of mum. and 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 trumpet ministration has escalated u.s. sanctions and hostility toward the islamic republic everywhere we go in the middle east it's a rare or ran around this. bread death destruction and chaos behind every problem is a rare and the world's leading state sponsor of terrorism iran's leaders so as. 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 however this organization that was key in defeating the i still die a terrorist organization you know made great sacrifices in order to fight against i still has now been labeled itself as terrorists by the u.s. government. thanks for outlining that 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 seventy 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 donald 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 a strong military man many guns who is a former israeli defense forces chief now he has positioned himself on the same test of the israeli political spectrum so he is appealing to those who want netanyahu 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 can sort of 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 all. so where can i sing israeli sovereignty over the golan heights and now the latest feather in netanyahu cap 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 sovereignty over the golan heights . digic siddhis movement encourages jewish people to leave the democrat party total disrespect republicans are waiting with open arms remember jerusalem u.s. embassy the horrible iran nuclear deal and yet despite the assistance that trump has certainly given netanyahu it is still unclear whether the incumbent prime minister will win b.c. makes sense these are the 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 certainly at this stage and predictable as to who will come out tops at the end of tuesday. and we can talk now to

a former advisor to iran's nuclear negotiating team. welcome to r.t. international good to have you on the program again how wide are the implications of this because the iranian revolutionary guard is a big organization it has impact and influence in iran's economy politics as well as the military and i suppose technically we're dealing with the revolutionary guards we know we see those terror supporters in washington's eyes. this is a very unfortunate development. with the majority of foreign policy experts who characterize this disease and by president trump. and counterproductive to us as all national interests because it puts the us irreversibly. in course with the iranian military forces principally the lucian in the guards who play a pivotal role as iran's coast guard. and so on so

the top administration has pre-match obviated any and all necessities for diplomacy with iran has broken all the diplomatic bridges and has escalated the pressure by designating their own guards as terrorists in order to further the. tocsin. economic environment for iran scaring away potential foreign trade is an investor. and criminalizing those who dared to engage with companies that might have some affiliation with their wish and regards. banks in particular and of course the most important dimension of this is the military dimension because this raises the prospect of for example fast flag operations it is really forces dressed up as revolutionary guards attacking the u.s.

forces in you know c.e.o. elsewhere and then igniting and. calamitous war in the middle east as is very ironic for president who pledged to the voters that he would not be and george bush and now he's doing the exact opposite because it does seem in theory at least that this give ground to the united states to wage a ground war with iran how dangerous is that possibility in reality. i think it's highly dangerous and it makes war with iran an imminent possibility not just the probability because of the proximity of forces in the region in iran is circled by dozens of. u.s. military bases in iraq and elsewhere in persian gulf and you know revolutionary guard. and naval force as well that sometimes where on

u.s. ships passing through this trait of who are moved by this ng needing them as terrorists the u.s. military theoretically speaking has a free hand to blow up the guard's fastballs just as president trump recently asked his military advisers and unfortunately in the defense department that was once chaired by you know a dove james mattis whose who was dismissed with a lame excuse is now headed by a trump enabler and this situation is very dangerous and this is a recipe for disaster finally the unnecessary war hopefully there was a reason in the u.s. congress will wake up and take the necessary action to prevent another iraq like pretextual war. former advisor to iran's nuclear negotiating team thanks very much

for joining us on r.t. . next a new euro skeptic alliance is uniting the within the borders with italian interior minister mattel yourself an event to create a european spring comes with europe's parliamentary elections set for next month. so there were. we are working towards building a new european genome which for me has become a nightmare. into focus families. environmental protection and the future of 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 and not one of them to have some sort of powerhouse 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 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 seeking 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. 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

nothing in the pens national rally 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 potential. they can get at least ten parties to join forces potentially up to twenty of the elections and they're hoping that they could gain enough any 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. elite as a political forces in the brussels bubble want to pursue a christian culture for the not so secretive reason that if the masses of migrants and other countries drive back christianity then along with christianity and it

will be possible to eliminate individual nations the language you use is the language of division is that what france wants you to not divides friends is the massive influx of migrants equal so we know what joins them together what i call my own interests all but what are the problems that they face going ahead well many of these parties don't agree on all issues and 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 an. example we know that salvini from the party has praised president putin very often he's called for 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 go and see a rise in the number of nationalist and populist parties from the right. get seats in the election they can form this essential super group this is going to entirely shake up politics in the. as we know it. 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.s.

backed government there the united nations earlier called for a short ceasefire to allow for civilians to be evacuated but clashes continued despite the organization says that two thousand eight hundred people have fled the area libya's prime ministers accuse the rebel general who backs a rival government in the eastern city of tobruk of attempting a coup both sides of targeted each other with airstrikes libya's been divided since twenty eleven following the death of longtime leader moammar gadhafi the country is now splits between the u.s. backed government in tripoli in the west and that rival government over into brooke in the east added to all of this there are also other militant groups active there including so-called islamic state the international community is 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 hold the military action against the tripoli government insisting that the crisis can only be solved through diplomacy that represents

a mark shift in the position of the white house eight years ago. former gadhafi has lost legitimacy to lead and he must leave. we came we saw he died there. showed the world you would get rid of a dictator you would choose freedom. thank you. our senior correspondent has the latest on general have two hours advance on tripoli and the international community's reaction. to the u.n. 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 to get all

groups considered by the international community to be terrorists we have security council resolutions according to which these organizations a class for it is terrorist groups where this military escalation came as a complete surprise to us it began with woman giving rhetoric from hafter which were the throwback to the days of dictatorship and told her to rule general have to up and his libyan national army own role storming toward the capital tripoli the desperate g.m.a. have ordered their armies meaning the various islamist 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.

it's bloody awful 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 feasibility 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 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 loathing to the u.s. during an official visit to detroit oppositions a similar to what the u.s. stands for and those on the ground know it's i'm an american soldier on the ground . ridenhour has also told the media that washington must support kosovo in order to push back against russian influence in the balkans he's a staunch supporter of the us and nato and in march even sacked a minister who was critical of the military alliances actions in the former yugoslavia but despite his allegiance to the us or rather that maintains that kosovo is fully sovereign and pursues its own policies political analyst nicholas berg of it told me that the cause of the premier's comments were revealing. kosovo is clearly us an american protectorate today and her knowledge is telling the truth

he is an american soldier and he even added executing orders so i think you can be more clear than what his job is today and what coast of all represents to 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 doesn't recognize kosovo india russia. spain the vatican doesn't even recognize coastal worsened country so you try to fight for that but. you still remain in the cockpit of the americans and he says it himself. is facebook continues its crusade against fake news web security researches 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 tools and spam list 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 its 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 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 as book of value in this do so moderation and self regulation hasn't worked in the regulation is required from the in the. when 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 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 of some

of their platforms. how to handle foreign fighters returning home after joining islamic state has stopped a g seven gathering in france the group of the world's most advanced countries failed 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 the orphans are abandoned will be studying the situation of children on a case by case basis. the e.u. commission claims some five thousand europeans joined eisel between twenty eleven and twenty six to the u.k. france germany and belgium among the most affected countries where the ice largely defeated many of those who swore to the caliphate and now regretting their actions . video agency talked to two former militants born in germany that both converted

to islam in their teens because glass joined islamic state terrorists in aleppo while martin lenka worked at an iso hospital in iraq here's what they had to say. the. comes and. when we first arrived to islamic states everything was very new for us it's happening 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 about the first life you morocco was very normal but during this time i began to see things things the highest did that i wasn't convinced were primitive 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 it's true. some missions took up i want to exist 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 because our we're trying to get out to dry 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 no one would be great we would be killed we would be beaten we wouldn't get food we sold to the iraqi government or to the syrian regime . conservationist what if germany doesn't accept me then i will try to work here and to help in terms of family terror organizations my three children were taken to france for me personally it would be a cool speedbird say they lived in germany with my mother i am of course one hundred percent against islamic states as i say gee it might be the biggest mistake

of my life that we immigrate into london to become homecoming of unified by that mistake that we made absolutely can go beyond fortunately we will be punished for the mistake that we made we deserve to be punished. as a finale the next update from the moscow newsroom is in just over half an hour off we have had the us veterans risking everything to win their country from waging multiple wars. breaks it count down. bests were her cocaine as were four bucks for the under fifty it's the

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