be i am i i i. i. i. that we will no longer any exemptions we're going to zero. in says they will no longer exempt to any countries from the sanctions on iranian oil imports so just think it's crude produced by gulf allies as the alternative. police are accused of cracking down on press freedom after arresting reporters during the weekends yellow vest protests. democrats pledge to present

a united front over calls to impeach president trump and use the unredacted version of the model a probe on trump russian pollution will be introduced to congress on the may the first. have you with us this evening this is r.t. international. prices shot to six months ahead of the u.s. announcement that it will scrap exemptions on iran crude imports secretary of state . julie confirmed that washington will not extend way visited countries. that will no longer grant any exemptions we're going to zero. going to zero across the board seems like washington d.c. is looking to escalate its campaign against iran to isolate iran now in his

announcement pompei all bragged that iran has already lost about ten billion dollars and he said and his remarks that he emphasized basically that nobody should be doing any business with iran that any nation or entity interacting with iran should use its diligence and err on the side of caution the risks are simply not going to be worth the benefits if you don't abide by this they'll be sanctions now it's been about a year since the trumpet ministration unilaterally withdrew from the j c p o a the p five plus one nuclear conclusion that basically pulled the united states out of the nuclear deal that had been made with iran and now we see that there have been eight countries in the world they were granted waivers from the u.s. sanctions and allowed to continue buying iranian oil in exchange for the fact they were reducing it those countries were china india japan south korea taiwan turkey italy and greece those waivers are now being taken away the united states is

announcing there will be no exceptions there will be no iranian oil they are saying no one should do business with iran and the countries who want to make up the difference should either buy crude from the united states or they should buy it from saudi arabia or the united arab emirates both the kingdom of saudi arabia and the united arab emirates have assured us they will ensure an appropriate supply for the markets and of course united states is now a significant producer as well. i can confirm that each of those suppliers are working directly with the runs former customers to make the transition away from iranian crude less disruptive now the people's republic of china which imports quite a bit of oil from iran was certainly not happy to hear this announcement china always opposes unilateral sanctions and low u.s. jurisdiction china's cooperation with iran is open transparent and legitimate and should be respected now turkey has also voiced opposition to this announcement

saying it rejects this unilateral move from the united states we're waiting to hear from the european union which has long been an advocate of the nuclear deal and a critic of the way trump unilaterally withdrew the united states from it so we're waiting to see further reactions that we've seen the reaction on the international oil markets this is a dramatic move from the united states. roughly video agency took to the streets of tehran to get radians reaction to washington's like to me. i get more behind if you want to process but we shouldn't rely so we'll know will we have to get all of this took our supreme leader says we should do you this is an opportunity over the last ten years we have found ways that allow us to keep exporting some not at all worried in this respect in iran's oil exports but pressure ordinary raining and it's us who are bearing the brunt. in response to the us may if iran is threatened to block the strait of hormuz the world's key oil artery transporting more than

a third of international proved. is a professor of political communication at the university of tehran and joins you on the line now trades have you on fire at the threat of blocking the strait of hormuz iran's made this before is it more serious is it more believable the threat this time. but it depends how much oil iran can sell using the persian gulf area if iran is not able to sell oil this has been a mouse as you said from many years ago that if iran is not able to use this or most no other country and iran has the capability of closing six of four more so. this would. increase oil prices many fords and saudis would not be able to subsidize the loss of oil that is leaving this area so yes this is

a serious threat it's becoming more serious last week as you know the united states government announced. it would be a terrorist organization this is iran's army basically and this is going to increase tensions in the persian gulf and i think the time had missed. a military confrontation with iraq. if they if you're around blocks the straight price she said will go up who the winners and who are the losers in that situation i think whether. iran will lose. it is not interested in a military confrontation persian gulf countries will lose united states will certainly lose russia could win because oil prices will increase very very much but i don't think countries like russia or that oil producing countries are interested in a war in the persian gulf so i think it. is that why this would be the

first option the main option for iran because you don't think that that likely to be drawn into military conflict the main option is for the countries that are buying oil from iran to continue to do so what us is asking these countries is illegal internationally us congress can dictate to american companies about their international trade the u.s. government or u.s. congress cannot dictate to other countries what to do this is against the very principle of sovereignty the u.s. government is why they think the sovereignty of countries like china and tolkien india and south korea and japan and other countries are buying oil for me and i don't think these countries will actually accept this type of this type of infringement upon their sovereign rights to trade with whoever they want to. so i hope that you're not reaching you know not being able to sell oil but if that

happens i think you will see a military confrontation. i think there's something slightly surreal about listening to my pump. countries they must not buy oil from iran and in the same breath remind you know that the u.s. is selling a good price is. such threats from the u.s. so they legal. they are not legal the u.s. government is not running the wall. over two hundred independent countries countries can. decide. if they want to have you know that in a document. on iran so there is no internationally agreed framework to sanction iran the sanctions that you're talking about are us sanctions sanctions that are passed by the u.s. congress and therefore they apply to u.s. companies now for us to dictate to other countries what to do is the height of

arrogance this is what we have seen in the trump administration at the height of u.s. germany i don't think there will be able to achieve that i think it's going to be a major failure for u.s. foreign policy in the coming months how do you think the likes of china india who rant they have already announced as it was in your report you have announced that they are not following us orders these are major international players i don't think they will follow us or theirs because it's not in their national interest to be subservient to u.s. demands. china for example realizes if these type of pressures and iran results in a military confrontation china gets about sixty percent of its energy from president bush. it's a home was a close this is going to be a major devastation for chinese economy and they're not going to accept that so i

don't think they will follow us orders and decision. i guess this hour for desire the professor of political communication at the university of tehran thank you for your time thank you. journalist organizations have condemned french police after reporters were detained on saturday during the twenty third consecutive weekend of yellow vest protest. takes a closer look at the story. well the two independent journalists were among the more than two hundred individuals who were detained by police arrested in act twenty three their names are gassed by the glance and also alexis curry learned we know that the paris prosecutor has said that they were arrested for participation in a group to commit violence or degradation now the interior ministry has been talking about the arrests of these journalists it said that the police arrest these officers are out every week they're out to try and make sure that there is safety

for the demonstrators and the journalist carry out these protests and also to cover these protests that have been happening there since november every week since november here in france but that statement from the interior ministry then goes on to say that if journalists are deemed to have committed an offense then they are likely to also be detained and arrested by the officers on the ground now the national union of journalists in france sees that as being just right and it has gone even further saying it believes that some journalists are being specifically targeted. there is a question the merging is their determination to intimidate journalists we have an impression some of them are being targeted since the yellow vast movement appeared the number of incidents targeting journalists when they're filming or photographing hampers the walk the press and nimitz the coverage of events which represent crucial public interest it's now five months since this protest movement began

twenty three consecutive weeks of protests and every week thousands of officers arrived in the streets to trying to control this protest last saturday got twenty three there were some sixty thousand officers deployed across france to try and control those protests and we've also seen the protesters turning on the police in recent weeks pacifically on saturday. where they would protest is that filmed screaming at the police go kill yourself let's take a look at the violence marred yet another protest. league so what can put out the fire of these protests that have been

going on for so long in france president michael in hopes that the speech he's due to make on thursday to outline his response to the big debate this is the debate that they started to ask people what their issues were in france that will actually call the protests will it well i'm not so sure because so far nothing has been able to stop these protests. thesis on the bomb attacks that left two hundred ninety people dead and hundreds more injured in sri lanka were carried out with the help of an international network according to government officials we do not believe these attacks were carried out by a group of people who are confined to this country there was an international network without which these attacks could not have succeeded. special forces also blew up a van near one of the targeted churches with this is reported it been parked there since the explosion on sunday.

we heard a loud bang and we fainted that's all i remember we heard a loud explosion and everything collapsed we managed to protect the children but when i came here i found out that my son in law and my son. i wish to express my heartfelt solidarity christian affected one supremo with all the victims of such cruelty.

or government temporarily blocked social media in the wake of the attacks saying that it was done to stop the spread of false information. let's discuss this issue now with a couple of guests let's bring in the center part tyler who's the founder of the villa web news site and board chair of the european journalism center and derek bros is founder of the conscious resistance network that's an independent media get welcome to both. the first. you. understand you were one of the very very first people to become an avid internet user you very experienced in the way that it's said that it's been changed over the years do you think that it is now a force that's being used to spread hate in incidents like this rather than bringing people together. well this is not exactly the situation because we have

seen today the decision of the lankan government has been. adopted to be useful or initially happens in the social network you know only increase will create a speech. before the station out there. somewhere you can see this is a print to try and of course this is because. a lot of things are happening with the social mobile it's all over the world and more and more grounds are concerned with what could happen if you don't have free use of these networks all over. derek just building up the back of that how do you feel about the use of social media if we think back to the arab spring it was social media was considered to be such a positive force that it helped protesters coordinate their efforts it's now being looked at as a as a negative role that's being played by the likes of facebook if you look at the the christchurch attack in new zealand and now the fears of the authorities in sri

lanka. well you know from our perspective i think as you said the tool of social media over the last decade has been used in a number of great ways you can look at the arab spring you can look at the growth of the independent alternative media in the united states and really around the world and in the last year or so we've seen this move toward censorship as your other guest said now you know they want to prevent certain hate content or hate speech from spreading and so even before it spreads we're now starting to see actively suppressing of access to the internet maybe access to facebook or threatening people as is the case with new zealand with jail time for possessing certain types of content or for merely watching videos and things of that sort i do think that this is a shift in the way the governments of the world as well as the tech companies and some of the media are promoting and portray in social media i have difficulty accepting that they are simply doing this out of the kindness of their hearts and out of to keep the you know the people from having access to graphic content i do

think that it benefits governments of the world once they start censoring certain parts of the internet. what do you think of that call them that they send do you think this is governments looking after themselves as opposed to protecting members of the public. well it's not clear because first. happened without the intervention of any social media to us. a situation that is well know when mr lanka a country about how. difficult a relationship with different ground you can under allegiance. factor we have seen on that on most of sunday i see nothing to do with it we will use sort of social media but of course what is happening all over the world are what happens for instance and. that creates a sense of exterior. in some governments but want to prevent.

the hate of speech to explode after one of these situations the problem is that you are at the same time you are preventing the people to communicate for instance in order lanka to use a little while or a phrase book it's very popular and a lot of people cannot communicate with their own families you see going on there too and so when you close one of those social media you are not just preventing the hate to speak to happen but you are creating a problem to your own operation and problem doc comes from a situation that in many cases it was not created by social networks. dixie both pointed out you know the concern say that you know people are going to denied the freedom that they have to express themselves via social media in these scenarios but there is that i mean we can't just say the government is making it up can we have seen the darker side of humanity does emerge in in the wake of terrorist

attacks and we saw it in christchurch people have been charged for rain posting what was considered to be the offensive material that was the live streaming that it was a hateful deliberate posting of material in some cases and even with the not a damn fire we saw a lot of you know positivity and condolences expire. but we also saw people mocking the tragedy so the negative element it is a reality is that. i mean sure it's a reality but i mean it's i feel like i don't know if we have quite right yet reached adulthood if people are so afraid of reading offensive things or angry mean comments on the internet i mean anybody who has been involved in any sort of media creation whatever the type of content creation you do whether writing articles making music you know broadcasting podcasts you get really ignorant hateful sometimes ugly despicable comments online and i just unfortunately that is a part of the world that we currently live in and there are people who you know

they do this anonymously but i do think that once we start making that argument say well because somebody is posting something offensive or something graphic which by the way you can find things on the internet right now that are much more graphic than anything you can see in the new zealand shooting video you can see much more graphic things on hollywood films and on you know the nightly news but those things are allowed to continue to be on the web i think that this is really for my take a the bigger picture is that this is various governments around the world you know and we're seeing new zealand maybe you'll see it in the u.s. and u.k. and elsewhere they're taking the opportunity when they see the opportunity to seize more power of the internet yes you can say what's to stop you know graphic content it's to stop hateful content and that exists but hateful people exist whether or not the internet exists so if we simply just stand by and say i don't want to be offended or i don't want to be you know i don't want to see those that type of content so please take control of the internet or shut it down or block my access i think that sets a dangerous precedent. this isn't as

a journalist i'm sure you can appreciate this that now when there is a terrorist attack floods of information come in pictures videos comments and claims and it's increasingly difficult to know just what is true that awful lot of fake stuff that's put out and i would make the argument that increasingly deliberately fake information is being spread now how on earth do you try and organize control these situations and filter the information. but this is nothing different law in the us we have seen all the time. people trying to create fake information about anything that happens even one century you know two nights ago it's not nothing new unfortunately is generally so always do the same thing can trust check to see real or not so that we can do the same job now using the social net of what's in your previous question if i may notice one line that i think we

can understand bodies really are the very graphic videos of the attacking christian church of course it is i understand absolutely that most of the new zealand government any government the world and the companies try to prevent these big tourist to be uploaded to the social no reason i agree that this because it is not good for anyone to be show that there is no one that can half. need the discount of so graphic material to understand how dangerous was the actual miho tribunal was this action so i agree that the scandal to be just don't need to be shown. in order to understand what is happening but it is does is very different what to what is happening now in sri lanka in israel i go is the government trying to prevent something that you don't know even even real happens so it's crossing

a line is it's a very different line i.e. we don't really slow all aware of the world and all over that time. has been dealing with the. single how to show how much you need to show something when what he said to start being a band how much you need to show to your readers to your. nor that they to understand the situation but after death happens trying to cling to. all b. florida crap and this is. biggest to do this is a major. different situation that we are freezing in to my memory i don't remember a new situation before. when the government tried to control the social mobile looks pretty empty it before something happened in the social network . as i mentioned before social media giants the likes of facebook twitter i mean they've really expanded their number of users in the in the likes of the arab

spring that's where they picked up popularity now they're finding themselves switched off at the will of certain governments what do they need to do to adapt to make sure that isn't going to be happening to them in the future. well you know i can speak from experience as somebody who has kind of grown up on social media and use it as an activist as a journalist to spread information and has been involved with facebook pages that have grown to millions of followers and that were deleted off of facebook back in october in the facebook purge that these types of actions of censorship of the internet and social media whether being done by governments or by the social media companies themselves is only going to increase we've seen increasing over the last year and i do think that the answer is for the people of the world wherever you're listening from to start to look for more decentralized alternative platforms that cannot be simply turned off by these companies i mean there are plenty of block

chain based platforms out there that are not subject to the whims of mark zuckerberg or to the whims of the government and that can't just be simply a race so i think that it's time for people to start realizing that by centralizing our communication through these platforms through whatsapp through facebook through instagram and what have you we are making it easier for anyone who wants to limit that conversation and to limit that communication whether that's the spread you know the video graphic video or to you know prevent something bad from happening either way as long as we're using those tools we've been we've already been shown that they they will use them in a way to censor people if they choose to. understand same question to you what do you think the future is for social media if it's to adapt to thrive in people is to retain those freedoms that they enjoy from. a company like crazy. not voted by of sherry cause they are doing so many seeing so wrong very difficult but anyone support them i'm not

a final book i'm not from especially talk about. ready there will be new alternative decentralized little don't we low people do keep the tool. present information to discuss new information are not being controlled by the big rollers companies like idiots. don't need time don't need good people begin to use alternative. ops two to share the information but i'm sure that that will happen sooner or later because once you have the feeling that you are part of the conversation that's the big thing happening that's what why are you. ok and now i'm i'm coming back to the time where not only big mediocre to speak it's impossible but will

happen in the sense thank you so much and indeed to derek gentleman it's been great to get your input an interesting conversation i believe they said my first guess founder of cantillon is villa web site and derek bros founder of the conscious resistance network thanks again they can begin. and as always thank you to all of you guys that have a cheating in the saving of the boat with that that's not top stories for you in just over half an hour. after the previous stage of my career was over everyone wondered what i was going to do next the ball different clubs on one hand it is logical to sort of go from fields where everything is familiar on the other i wanted a new challenge and a fresh perspective and i'm used to surprising. what not if you think.

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