interest rates above zero you don't need capital you don't need savings you don't. you don't need inflation. people like united states are saying like well why can't we just be like if. the us ramps up the pressure on iran designating its elite military force the revolutionary guard as a terrorist organization. the move is welcomed by israel's prime minister who is facing a tough election race on tuesday some see it as the latest a gift. after the u.s. leader recognized jerusalem and the golan heights as sovereign israeli territory.

and italy's 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 our studios in moscow this is our two international and sometimes. in an unprecedented foreign policy move the trumpet ministration has designated iran's revolutionary guard as a foreign terrorist organization us secretary of state might bump a zero announced of 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. i am announcing our intent to designate the islamic revolutionary guard corps including its goods force as a foreign terrorist organization accordance with section two nineteen of the immigration and nationality act this designation will take effect one week from

today. all right earlier my colleague paul and bray discuss these developments with our correspondents killam up and in new york and possibly or in television. 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 on 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 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 u.s. central command 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 a new 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 minister. gratian as escalated u.s. sanctions and hostility toward the islamic republic everywhere we go in the middle east it's a rare or ran around spread 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 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. 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 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 thank 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 and he's 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 also recognizing israeli sovereignty over the golan heights and now the latest figure netanyahu has 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 . the jaxa this movement encourages jewish people to leave the democrat party total disrespect republicans are waiting with open arms remember jerusalem u.s. embassy and 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. u.s. secretary of state pompei or has stated the trump administration's decision on iran's revolutionary guard was not meant to coincide with tuesday's elections in israel however the analysts we spoke to say the move will have an obvious impact on the vote. any move against the i.r.g.c. would mean reinvigorating terrorist groups like john nostra and i saw or diana and now that the iraq upon the woman is thinking of expelling u.s. army troops from iraq it seems that the us has declared

a withdrawal from syria as well as sending the message to tehran that if the us is not given a share in the middle east then the us is ready to you know turn the table over in the meantime this seems to be also a move in support of the israeli premier trump has done anything for netanyahu and this is yet another move to show his further than support strong support for netanyahu in the hole that netanyahu would reciprocate that and support trump in next year's elections there was so many gifts that president trump donated to benjamin ateneo before those elections that he's almost and over those of gifts those elections about and that the neo yes or no it's own rules the only issue at stake almost the only issue on the table and the almost the only sure which is discussed. the new euro skeptic alliances uniting within the e.u.

zone borders with italian interior minister montana's salvini valued to create a european spring this comes with europe's parliamentary election center for next month. if there were. we are working towards building a new european gene which for me has become a nightmare 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 peas in the european parliament that will allow them to have some sort of power house that we haven't seen from you or 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 are 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 he stated we're ready to build a new future this is the path to save europe because those who are seeking dream are the bureaucrats and the bankers the do gooders who have 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 moving 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 potential. ten parties to join forces potentially up to twenty elections they're hoping they did nothing to make a group of about one hundred fifty people all from the parties are they going to culturalism 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 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 you to not at all divides friends is the massive

influx of migrants 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 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 that small formed smaller groups which perhaps haven't had the power they would like to have there are issues such as in russia which example we know that. the league has praised the resident very often he's called the end of sanctions on russia but that's not the view from the government. let's also 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 enforced. policy which is not possible with individual policies well if the polls all right are we all going see a rise in the number of nationalist and populist policies from the right it's. harmful this essential supergroup this is going to shake up politics in the parliament as we know it's. the death toll from clashes over control of the libyan capital tripoli has risen to fifty one including civilians the violence has been intensifying since thursday when forces loyal to general. launched an offensive aimed at seizing tripoli from the un backed government now the united nations earlier called for a short ceasefire to allow for civilians to be evacuated but clashes continued

anyway here is a video from the airport in tripoli where a military jet was seen launching an attack the shelling of the airport was condemned by the u.n. as a serious violation of humanitarian law while libya's prime minister has accused a rebel general who backs a rival government in the eastern city of two broke of attempting a coup both sides have targeted each other with air strikes so if you take a look libya has been divided since two thousand and eleven following the death of longtime leader moammar gadhafi the country is now split between the un backed government up here in tripoli in the west and the rival government over here in to brooke in the east added to all of this there are also other militant groups active there including of all groups eisel the international community is deeply concerned over the recent escalation and some including the united states have temporarily withdrawn their forces from the ground they say the situation is too dangerous and

unpredictable and washington has urged the rebels to immediately halt 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. as. a leader and he must leave. we came we saw that he died there. in the world you would get rid of a dictator i do you would choose freedom. thank god see. what i. was advanced 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 game is a complete surprise to us 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 airstrikes and the u.n. is panicking. if uncertain and the heavy heart. i still hope would be possible it's bloody station in and out on tripoli it's entirely possible that things will spiral out of all control the united states for one is already preparing for just that we will continue to monitor conditions on the ground and assess the freeze ability for renewed u.s. military presence i was appropriate it appears they have a plan and they have the aces u.s. military presence is an x. hanging over libya at the drop of a had they can intervene. again trouble is the last time they had a plan it ended in disaster turned libya into

a failed state so here we are one nation two governments and countless fiefdoms guying zn 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 loyalty to the us 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. ramos. 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

yugoslav former yugoslavia but to despite his allegiance to the u.s. . maintains that kosovo is fully sovereign and pursues its own policies marco gossage international affairs commentator believes washington has been calling the shots from the beginning. well mr hart and i should be commended for telling the truth the first time in his life. so many years we heard the. leaders that we pretended to be more to show. some ties. and he said actually i'm an american soldier and he's right. clearly there is no elementals in this situation. who are in course over all basically america's placemen they do what the us. no i did i did say because they don't know or impose

a us so there is no severance here is not some kind of equal nation realize the world this is american. also and aggression without security council authorizes nation. the british parliament has passed a bill requiring the prime minister to seek an extension to article fifty aimed at preventing the u.k. from crashing out of the e.u. without a deal on april twelfth cooper led her lead when bill has already received royal assent from the queen making it officially the law this comes just as teresa mayes . to depart for brussels in order to ask evil leaders to further brags that delay professors of international politics at city university of london. david blunt thinks m.p.'s want to put more pressure on the prime minister. well tourism has already committed to going and asking for an extension right so it's really just

the parliament trying to tie her hands to make sure that she follows through with what she's already promised and of course people are saying this might tie her hands too much but it seems like she has no option but to comply with this but it might be that the european union says well there's no reason for us to give you an extension they've said very clearly that they're not going to keep on extending just because teresa mayes asked us to give a good reason for them to it especially if they're still being hesitant about participating in the european parliamentary elections. as facebook continues its crusade against a fake news web security researchers have revealed that the social media giant has failed to contain a 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 here's our quarter with commentary. 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 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 spoke of finally understood that self moderation and self regulation hasn't worked and that a regulation is required from the industry and the governments need to start to step up to take a role in defining what those regulations are going to be it has a number of human monitors that are seeking to moderate the platform and a lot of its contents but they're never going to be able to cope with the sheer volume of content that we see on not only facebook but 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 some of the platforms. to handle foreign fighters returning home after joining islamic state has stumped 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 for that 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 eisel between two thousand and eleven and two thousand and sixteen the u.k. france germany and belgium are among the most affected countries and with ice a largely defeated many of those who swore loyalty to the caliphate are now

regretting their actions artie's roughly video agency talked to two former militants born in germany they both converted to islam in their teens. joined islamic state terrorists in aleppo while martin worked in and i saw hospital in iraq here's what they had to say. the i thought a common sense. 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 about 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 death killing civilians who live in france or america that drove.

some mission of took up i want to just after approximately three months of working at the police station in iraq a separated from my ass off to 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 of 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 our wives would be great we would be killed but we would be beaten we wouldn't get any food will 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 phantom terror organizations my three children were taken to france for me personally it would of cool speak better if they lived in germany

with my mother i am of course one hundred percent against the islamic state and as i said it might be the biggest mistake of my life that we emigrate to finland and get a gun from coming in from by that mistake that we made absolutely cannot be undone unfortunately we will. be punished for the mistake that we made we deserve to be punished. by the dozen for me i'll be back in thirty one and a half minutes with more news you are watching. join me every thursday on the alex simon show and i'll be speaking to guest of the world of politics sport that's less i'm showbusiness i'll see 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. ah.

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