for minor minor offenders in the drug trade it's a lot watching your children grow up in issue in waves and say by day as you're walking out of the business it's just it doesn't get easier. russia's foreign ministry condemns you to eighteen months in jail sentence for failing to register as a foreign agent as politically motivated coming up we speak to her lawyer. it's very dangerous because if other countries adopt the same. attitude you can get a tit for tat situation with countries grabbing civilians of other countries as leverage or for other reasons a. french media companies join forces to condemn the country's intelligence service for questioning journalists about a leaked documents only to saudi arabia. controversy is the prosecutor in texas said they'll no longer prosecute theft as long as it's not

for economic gain. you know prosecuted i mean if there is a process of criminal operating in this country and once that happens people are stuck. for russia this saturday morning this is all it's international coming from moscow h.q. with me kevin and good morning welcome first of the headlines in more detail than a cold in the u.s. is census russian national maria boots and to eighteen months in prison after she pleaded guilty to conspiring to act as an unregistered foreign agent the thirty year old was a member of the national rifle association which promotes gun rights several u.s. politicians were suspected to be involved in the case. driscoll spoke to the media after the sentencing. our government and our educational institutions have got to

take a close look at the government is here in this case i think would apply very broadly to very large numbers of people. the government's theory is if you act as an agent . whenever you do anything for a foreign official. i think that is an extremely broad interpretation that can apply not only to people like korea but other people those who were in the courtroom heard maria buton and give quite an emotional speech prior to her sentence being handed down she talked about how she came to the united states not as an agent or an operative but with purely good intentions and what a nightmare her family has been through this is some of what maria buton a said to the court my parents discovers my arrest on the morning news they're washed in their rural house in a savior and i love them dearly but i harm the morally and financially they're suffering from all of that i destroyed my own life as well i came to the united

states not under any orders but with who and now nothing remains but penitence. now the prosecutors in the d.c. courtroom argued that somehow maria bootless activities with the national rifle association had somehow harmed the political process of the united states significantly they argued that by being an unregistered lobbyist and working behalf on behalf of the russian government inside the national rifle association that she was in severe violation of u.s. law and had somehow harmed the u.s. political system and done a great deal of damage now the judge did then hand down a sentence of eighteen months in federal prison now nine months of that will be time served that will be the time that she's been held since she was initially arrested so only nine months remaining in federal prison and then after that time she will be deported from the united states back to russia now what's interesting is that maria bhutto was swept up in the aftermath of the twenty sixteen u.s.

presidential elections in which talk of russian agents and russian meddling and russian subversion seemed to be quite widespread there was quite an atmosphere of fear and in that atmosphere she was swept up and it appears that now after months of being detained after quite a bit of time in which it was it was reported that she was held in solitary confinement in rather harsh conditions that she now has nine more months to serve in u.s. federal custody before she will be allowed to return home to her family so people are seeing this is kind of a conclusion to the case as at this point her lawyers are saying they will not appeal this verdict. russia's foreign ministry says the sentence is an embarrassment to the u.s. judicial system. the reputed who was sentenced just because she's a russian citizen she's a victim of confrontation between various u.s. political forces and an active and the russian come pain this is a shame for the u.s. judicial system which. he spoke to reboot his lawyer about the case and the

president he believes it may have set now. i think it's impossible to separate from from the politics and i think that there is a an underlying crime that he pled guilty to which you can make out under u.s. law but i think the notion of this would have been investigated or an arrest would have been made for a typical foreign national who wasn't russian and wasn't in the car environment where in the u.s. i think it's almost impossible to to believe that southern politics has a lot to do with the atmosphere of the case and it's one of those things where if the elements of the crime are there they were selectively enforced in the sense and so i think it's hard to argue. the charges unregistered agent it's not foreign it's not secret agent it's not an intelligence agent it literally is just doing

something for someone else as being their agent not of maria maria's activities in the us were illegal in and of themselves so there's no classified information there's no political sensitive kind of information given she was not paid by by the russian federation she's in her shoes supported by americans while she was here financially but she got caught up in this and she rushes hysteria. i would fear that other countries will start applying the same standards and saying that any american who went abroad to another country and it was involved in civil society organizations and social and met people and networks that's really all we're talking about doing are a more serious than that and reported back on those activities some in the u.s. so i think it's very dangerous because if other countries adopt the same as you're

going to get a tit for tat situation with countries grabbing civilians of other countries as leverage or for other reasons and i think it's a bad idea. dozens of french media companies have but three journalists have been summoned by french intelligence officials of the what's been described as a breach of national defense secrecy it comes out for leaks document was published on the use of french weapons in the four year long civil war that's been tearing yemen a. we express our full solidarity with our colleagues who have done only that job to bring to the attention of citizens information of public interest on the consequences of the sale of french arms since these revelations the government has remained silent on the fact they appear to have exposed a government line but now it's three journalists all the ones being investigated they've been summoned to appear before the french general directorate of internal security or the d.g.a. s.l.i. after a feeling of confidential note from the country's intelligence services it showed

the french government knew weapons that sold to saudi arabia and the united arab emirates were being used in the conflict in yemen a fact the government has repeatedly denied that's left thousands dead and pushed millions to war to the brink of starvation it's been described by the u.n. the world's worst humanitarian disaster. at the center of all that this storm is a classified by france's military agency the d r i'm real to these

journalists it should be forty eight french sees a terrorist guns were being used along the sound the yemen. tanks and fighters sold to the u.a.e. in action and its missile guiding technology may have been deployed as well in the end of seize a truck mounted home was this had been deployed the year. many border on the saudi side bringing the number of caesars in that area to forty eight as of the twenty fifth of september twenty eighth seen about forty u.a.e. leclerc tanks are observed in a fixed defensive position and advance positions in the west of the seventy or so tanks deployed by the u.a.e. as part of the operation the french government has continued to repeat the line that weapons it sold to saudi and u.a.e. were only being used for defensive purposes to our knowledge the french weapons

available to the members of the coalition are mostly in a defensive position outside yemeni territory or on call or should rights of way but not on the front line and we are not aware of any civilian casualties resulting from their use and the yemeni theater france is not among the leading arms suppliers of countries in gauged in yemen the concern now is that this investigation by french authorities is about putting pressure on these journalists to break their professions and most some of them. to reveal their sources challenged even ski ulti paris. mentioned their french authorities in turn of constantly insisted his weaponry is being used for defensive purposes only and the saudi led coalition to denies any deliberately or deliberately targeting of civilians in yemen political journalists with gave us her thoughts on the leak and

why it's cause such concern for the french government. i don't think there's any kind of secret that french weapons are being used in yemen and you could very well argue the government has been saying this and preaching about this that since the civil war in yemen was started by rebels against illegally installed government with the support of the store and now that you are wrong this is indeed in defense of the state it's a member of the us it's the position of the number of people for. you know america britain saudi arabia etc so i think what's different in this specific instance is the detailed nature of the report which is fascinating reading but it also ate meat makes it easier to place possible french agents on the ground so the french government feels that this is. it's not helping and earth is their position that's what they are defending the question is you know is this a crime graffiti a state secrets on the one hand on the other is there for all that it is the

brother to the journalist to reveal something in the public interest. in a bid to battle the end of poverty a u.s. counter or no longer prosecute the theft of essential items that cost less than seven hundred fifty dollars so long as the cover at the crime was not for economic gain criminalizing poverty is counterproductive for our communities health and safety for that reason this office will not prosecute theft of personal items less than seven hundred fifty dollars and less evidence shows that the alleged theft was for economic gain. or the essential items are defined as goods like food like nappies and baby formula but how to define whether or not the theft is for economic gain remains on clear most low level marijuana offenses are also no longer to be prosecuted as well the theft rate in dallas for instance is nineteen cases per one

thousand slightly higher than the national average of seventeen many in the state are stunned by the decision though and a calling for the prosecutor to step down. those county district attorney's storks crime by refusing to prosecute fifty of personal items worth less than seven hundred fifty dollars if someone is hungry they can just steal some food if cold steal a coat we're does it end its wealth redistribution by fifty we discussed initiative of political analysts and to roger's right a conservative blogger brian logan. well i understand it's trying to have some reform and a justice system but it's been a little bit too far i mean talking about not prosecuting seth i mean clearly if if anything below like what i thousand dollars seven hundred dollars is a little bit too far because audrey doing a damn point is making cry and some areas of dallas texas which has a lot of crime problems making the crime worse because you can imagine out there to say i say if you're still a lesbian it's in

a certain items it's good you won't go to jail that's that how you go about fixing the justice issue by totally ignoring these crimes i definitely understand those concerns are there with me myself i certainly wouldn't put them in prison or jail maybe get them community service but the over arching you see is that there is a process of criminalizing operating in this country and once that happens people are stuck in a circumstance a penny or so even after you serve your time and can't get a job after you get out what are those people supposed to do we have any president right now who continues to cut programs meant to help these people so that they can paper is one point five trillion dollars deficit induced tax cuts for wealthy people say so many programs out there and need low income areas especially in these big cities all kind of resources you have people live in poverty and a lot of times they have easier access to certain things people who don't live in poverty do because of all the things and here to help them there's no excuse to

just go into a store and studio and a.b.n. man first of all what we've already seen with trans budget cuts to education by seventeen million dollars cuts to snap as well went to get the paper that's one five trillion dollars one point five trillion dollars deficit these stores do happen sure and so it's not like they're going to go out of business to bring up if they're not going to and it's if they can't sell anymore if you can't get a case on him why does it keep getting stolen from every day if people go out of business why was he being a place where you're not making any money the insurance won't cover you if you continuously stay in a place you keep getting robbed every day that it's interesting that you believe that the insurance. doesn't work for the stores but for some reason you believe that snapping or working for these people it is not lifted them out of poverty there is no such thing frailty right now and it's absolutely shameful that someone who claims to come from these communities doesn't have any other ideas on how to read them. except telling them to go to churches which are underfunded and which are under supply that is not a viable option so the solution is not to do

a poll down on a policy to get training don't just say ok if you could meet fry we're not going to sing you to jail you could just do whatever you want to do that will make things worse so don't go down change course on the conversation went on it's a sixty eight in the morning a saturday here in moscow if you're just joining us good morning thanks for choosing out internationally knows the choice out there coming up donald trump has promised to pull the united states out of a global arms trade treaty just one of the stories about lined up for you then after this break. join me every thursday on the alex simon sure and i'll be speaking to guest of the world of politics sports business i'm show business i'll see you then.

imagine that you run a blood bank. in one room are dead patients they've been dead since two thousand and eight that would be j.p. morgan goldman sachs deutsche bank b.n.p. societies generali just b. c. etc and in the other room you have living middle class people and the point of blood bank is to take blood from the living middle class people and to transfused blood to the dead banks next door the they've been dead now for more than ten years the people that are in the middle class are going to start to suffer and suffer horribly and many of them will die by the way they won't be getting any of the blood from the other middle class people to keep them alive all the blood all the plasma goes to the dead but.

are going to morning in defense of american sovereignty don't trump says the united states will no longer be part of a landmark global arms control treaty you know who was made during the president's address of manual meeting of the national rifle association. meyers ministries will never ratified the u.n. arms trade treaty and i am officially announcing today that the united states will be revoking. the effect. of america's signature from this badly misguided treatment we're taking in our signature back so that we are well the united nations arms trade treaty aid to promote global peace and stability and require that signatories ensure the weapons they're exporting did not end up in the wrong hands more than one hundred countries have ratified the deal the us signed up to it under barack obama but never formally joined the un there's responded to the

trump of ministrations decision to drop its support for the deal the arms trade treaty is the only global instrument aimed at improving transparency and accountability in the international arms trade it is a landmark achievement in the efforts to ensure responsibility in international arms transfers this is particularly important in present times when we witness growing international tensions and renewed interest in expanding and modernizing arsenals further her president trouble wrote on twitter that he would never let forum bureaucrats trample on the us second amendment investigative reporter dave lindorff believes trump took the decision to galvanize his support base. the biggest supplier of arms in the world is the us and it isn't just a signatory so the fact that trump is cancelling that signature is a grandstanding actually to his his when he considers his electoral vase because the senate never ratified the treaty and so it's not in effect the united states

doesn't to be the world court it doesn't accept the jurisdiction of the world court it doesn't feel obliged to follow the geneva convention relating to war and genocide so tearing up the is this presidential signature which obama put on it really doesn't have any significant change in the u.s. position. at least in sri lanka say twenty people have been killed including six children during a raid on the homes of militants allegedly linked to the series of bombings on easter sunday authorities also say suspected suicide bombers were among the dead as well as a civilian that was killed in the crossfire during the raids police have found eisel flags hundreds of dynamite sticks and batteries and joint operation was conducted their response to the east and suicide bombings that rocked for lanka last sunday at least sixty people were injured meantime elsewhere on friday

protests on the israel gaza border thirty six shot by israeli forces according to the gaza health ministry. oh according to israel around seven thousand protesters gathered at the border they were attacking troops with rocks and explosive devices the israeli army responded in accordance with standard procedures the palestinians been protesting at the gaza border from more than a year calling on israel to end that blockade of the territory more than two hundred palestinians have been killed during the demonstrations. the brakes not to dumb cathedral may have been caused by a short circuit or cigarettes is the latest of two theories now being considered by authorities after they finally got access to the building of the place the cathedral the disputes on its restoration broken out some ideas into just too modern for locals. in your backyard

we will rebuild the cathedral but you're on the border we will rebuild not you damn us because this is going to foster because this is what the french expect us because this is going to taste to me is this is what our history deserves. because this is our profound destiny. should we rebuild a spy or should it be the same adapted to the techniques and challenges of our age and international architectural competition for the reconstruction of the cathedral spire or we'll build in a used. don't

touch not to die. louis or french president marcos says not a damn should be rebuilt consistent with a more than diverse france and architecture suggest a minaret. mark ronson as not a damn should be rebuilt in line with diversity market accenture's to minaret glass roof steel spire the west is sick and france as the dying man if you are. well that's the way things are shaping up so far this weekend saturday morning from us here out international moscow or course on a main star r.t. dot com if you download or are you can be guaranteed to get all of breaking stories as they are straight to mobile device for. with the rest of this weekend though i'm kevin oh and by the way thanks for watching this program.

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guidance to the process and so basically what i'm waiting for he's an author politically. extending from the moment. they can come and blow our brains out at any given time if we can't really do anything actually america is the only country in the world where you can kill people. war illegally get away with. all the fire crawls still. all the troubled history fail the point it's hollow flying to k.k.k. exists because america wants it to exist they are the biggest terrorist group to ever operate in this country and they're dead to me they're worse all the people who destroyed the world trade centers are those girls.

and we don't know what facebook's aims are in fact facebook doesn't know what its aims are because it's going to be the sum total of all the people who are working on these algorithms a whistleblower someone who used to work for facebook came forward last year and said i was one of the news. at facebook a bunch of us eased to sit around every day and we used to remove stories from the news feed that were too conservative and now and then we inject a story that we saw it was really cool. facebook founder mark zuckerberg says he's committed to giving everyone a voice he's from responding to an allegation that facebook edits conservative views out of its true. they can suppress certain types of results based on what

they think you should be seeing based on what your followers are presenting now a new report claims that according to a former facebook employee the social media mega company sometimes ignores what is actually trending among its billion users if the story originated from a conservative new source or if it's a topic causing buzz among conservatives. facebook cosily manipulates or users they do it by the things that they insert into the news they do it by the types of posts they allow their users to see and the fact that they actually decided to do psychological experiments on their users is something that i think a lot of people need to really fully understand and they were doing it based upon the fact that different things that people posted they want to see how other people would react to it. to help watch why your facebook friends posts can have a direct effect on your mood new research shows the more negative posts you see the more negative you could become. so if for example let's say somebody wanted to post

something that was on the news feed that was a very negative story they want to see how their users would react via their likes by their statements for their posts and they would show people who already had a predilection to maybe having some depression or maybe having some other issues in their lives and they can figure that out based upon your like space upon your connections based upon where you're going and so what they want to do is take that information and then use it to basically weaponize this information against their users so that way their users could see different things that may affect their mood and may affect how they interact with others and that's something that is highly unethical it appears that some young people may have been so affected by this that they may have done harm to themselves based upon what they saw on their facebook feed and it was all because it is experiments do things that we have no standing with the sport. we're not citizens of facebook we have no vote on facebook it's not

a democracy and this this process is not a way we can design the future we can't rely on this single company to invent our digital future. there's there's what i call the creepy line and the google policy about a lot of these things is to get right up for the creepy line but not cross at google crosses the creepy line every day. not only does google cross the creepy line the location of that line you keep shifting well it's an interesting word creepy right because it's a word that connotes horror he didn't say dangerous he didn't say an ethical there's all sorts of words that could have fit in that slot he said creepy and a creep is someone who creeps around and follows you and spies on you for unsavory purposes right that's the definition of a creep you know i don't think the typical ethical person says.