the u.s. ramps up the pressure on iran designating its elite military force the revolutionary guards as a terrorist organization. the move is welcomed by israel's prime minister who's facing a tough election race on tuesday some see it as the latest gift to. the u.s. leader recognized in jerusalem and the golan heights as israeli territory. and italy's combative interior minister forms an alliance of right wing nationalist parties saying he aims to shake up the e.u. after next month's elections.

are broadcasting live direct from our studio in moscow this is r.t. international i'm john thomas certainly glad to have you with us all right in an unprecedented foreign policy move the trumpet ministration has doesn't mated iran's revolutionary guard as a foreign terrorist organization u.s. secretary of state pale announced the decision on monday repeating accusations that the elite force both finances and for most terrorism. today the united states has continued 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 as a nation will take effect one week from today earlier my colleague colin bray discussed these developments with our correspondents in new york and paula sleeper

in tel aviv. this 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 the mommy's band of thugs that the united states is bringing all pressure to bear to stop the regime's behavior we ask that our allies and partners around the world do the same in response to this designation by the u.s. government the iranian government has now declared the u.s.

central command in 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 who 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. spread death destruction and chaos behind every problem

is a rare the world's leading state sponsor of terrorism iran's leaders so. death . and destruction now it's important to note that fighters from iran's islamic revolutionary guard corps were actually key in defeating me i still terrorists however this organization that was key in defeating the i still die a terrorist organization and you know made great sacrifices in order to fight against i still has now been labeled itself as terrorists by the u.s. government ok thanks for outlining out 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 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 that and yahoo out of office he's talking about negotiations with the palestinians and he also talking about limiting the number of times that israeli prime minister can serve in office two 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 feather in netanyahu is 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 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 unpredictable as to who will come out tops at the end of tuesday. for more of this we're now joined by hooshang amirahmadi who's the founder and president of the american iranian council thanks for being with us as always. so how significant is the timing of the trumpet ministrations decision to designate iran's revolutionary guard as a terrorist organization. well first up is the it will deter you date. did relation between the two countries and create a more difficult environment for the two to ever come to get it as long as. the say she's in power but they're practically speaking i don't believe. this has any gain for the united states of america

the u.s. will not gain much from disputed little policy because after all are. the guys who control it didn't lose nearly got it guys who ordered delusionary ghar to do what they are doing are not and they're just sanction at there and they're just as ignition conclusionary guard is an instrument of a group current. who controls the country dick who controls dirt. division team and therefore i don't think that there is any practical that italy is speaking useful about this well. there is lamp and it would usually god will do what the guys in the higher up will tell them to do so how will around the allies react to this i mean do the benefits of siding with america outweigh regional ties in the middle east. but obviously.

i don't think that abs are going to toot well qantas i don't think they will join an emetic on this but this right is obviously you have all of the joint and this is a gift for netanyahu who has an uphill battle in this coming election. so i think this is designed to have that on your whole in that election i believe largely that is the case but i do believe however that this is a geisha and what harm it on the economy tremendously the guys who had to lose most are the a.t.m. people why so because this is a nation our. of the guard as a terrorist organization we're frightened a lot of countries and companies that still do business with iraq and these guys are going to today's companies and countries are going to be durable

and therefore the economy is going to get that impression and i do believe honestly that this is the already reason that. that the blues did it got was that ignited as a terrorist organization because the term knows that that by doing that it's going to frighten particularly many companies that are doing business in iraq so again. times and government hopes that by distancing the nation. the economy is going to get further into a problem in fact today the exchange rate for thought is. you know made up boost. the price up gold of bent affan are kinds of the stuff and that means that very soon in the near future heating and people may come to distance but testing. regimes handling all of its own that could

create chaos in the country that could be out of control for what the regime and it could in fact be to some kind of a button and rob and to fail state in iraq and that could be disarmed but again this particular does it nation is not going to be and now for this nominee he seems over to rule or for david lucia the guards in jordan and it's his exit from good egypt interesting to hear your thoughts and it will be interesting to see how this plays out in regards to giving netanyahu that push as well hooshang amirahmadi thank you very much for being with us founder and president of the american iranian council. my pleasure. new euro skeptic alliances uniting within the e.u.

zone borders with tell you an interior minister matteo salvini vowing to create a european spring this comes with europe's problem entry elections set for next month. we are working towards building a new european. has become a. little put 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 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 you are a 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. the european dream or the bureaucrats and the bankers the do gooders have 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 i'm very already you know for the last week nothing in the pens national rally in france is also on board with this new id. here he 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 the netherlands and elsewhere across europe so the vision he has put forward is that potentially ten parties should join forces potentially up to twenty elections and they're hoping they can gauge nothing to make a kind of about a hundred and fifty peace all from parties are they going to multiculturalism immigration and against the e.u. as it currently stands. it is the technocrats in brussels driving europe into a ditch and we will declare war on the. us the political forces in the brussels bubble want to pursue an end to 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 an 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 to fight them for example we know that salvini from the league of party there 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. and 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 who are going to get seats in the election and they can form this essential super group this is going to entirely shake up politics in the. and as we know it's. well 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. launched an offensive aimed at seizing tripoli from the un backed government the united nations earlier called for a short ceasefire to allow for civilians to be evacuated but clashes continued now here is video from the airport in tripoli where

a military jet was seen launching an attack in the shelling of the airport was condemned by the u.n. as a serious violation of humanitarian law by libya's prime minister has accused the rebel general who backs a rival of government in the eastern city of tobruk of attempting a coup both sides have targeted each other with air strikes. and libya has been divided since two thousand and eleven following the death of longtime leader moammar gadhafi the country is now split between the u.n. back to government up here in tripoli and the the west that rival government over into brooke in the east added to all this there is also militant groups active there including eisel now 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 unpredictable washington's urged the rebels to immediately halt of the military action against

the tripoli government insisting that the crisis can only be solved through diplomacy that represents a marked shift in the position of the white house eight years ago. prom are going off he has lost legitimacy to lead and he must lead. we came we saw our guide. showed the world you would get rid of a dictator you would choose freedom. thank you. our correspondent tamara goes they have has more on general haftar as advance on tripoli and the international community's reaction. to 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 a class for it is terrorist groups where this military escalation came as a complete surprise to us it began with woman giving birth rate from after which were the throwback to the days of dictatorship and told her to rule general half and his libyan national army and roll storming toward the capital tripoli 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. and. the possible. rotation in 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 a renewed u.s. military presence as 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 leader of the breakaway balkan state of kosovo has pledged loyalty to a nation but not the one you might expect more on that after a short break this is r.t. international. after the previous stage of my career was over everyone wondered what i was going to do next. different clubs on one hand it is logical to go from fields where everything is familiar on the other i wanted a new challenge and

a fresh perspective i'm used to surprising. you. i'm going to talk about football not the or else you can think i was going to go. by the way ways of that. this year the nato alliance is seventy years old is it time now to shut down this cold war relic also liberal media can say sorry and choke on russia again.

welcome back this is international now the prime minister of the breakaway balkan state of kosovo has seemingly pledged to total loyalty to the u.s. during an official visit to detroit. oppositions a similar to what the us stands for and those on the ground know it i am an american soldier on the ground. all right. also told the media that washington must support kosovo in order to push back against russian influence in the balkans is 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 arrived in and. excuse me maintains that kosovo is fully sovereign and pursues its own policies political analyst and medical which told us the course of on premier is comments were revealing. kosovo is clearly us an american protectorate today and heard in ages

telling the truth he is an american soldier and he even added executing orders so i think you can be more clear that what his job is today and what coast of all represents to us and what it really is in the balkans today an american protectorate he wants to give big 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 kosovo as an independent country so you try to fight for that but. you still remaining the puppet of the americans and he says it himself. has facebook and continues its crusade against fake news that web security researchers have revealed that 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 tools and spam lists is artie's down 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 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 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 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 on line 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 the forms. you're watching our international be back in thirty two minutes stay with. financial survival. housing bubble. oh you mean there's a downside to artificially low mortgage rates don't get carried away that's cause report. what's. going to look. at hundreds. if. not you'll see just to. see if it was.

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