this hour's headlines stories on american army veteran turned allegedly sympathizer is arrested in california for plotting an attack on christians jews officials say he was seeking revenge for the mosque shootings in new zealand. we speak exclusively to a russian students who attempted to join islam extinct she's been released on parole after spending over two years in prison. day new russian spy scandal surfaces in the media in norway meet a friendly wheel bearing a camera mount and harness bearing the name of a big russian. two

pm here in moscow choose the this the last day of april welcome to our to international i'm union neal we will get to those headlines stories in just a moment but first some breaking news to bring you on the program then this whale is self-proclaimed interim leader house call for a military saying the country's official government says it is pulling done right now a small coup attempt by military quote traitors working with right wing opponents the reports coming in including about tear gas being fired on a highway near an herb base in the capital caracas just after seven am in the morning in the venice we have right now a lot of people waking up to this news. the opposition leader appearing with

soldiers with that message getting it across seemingly in a video from late last night at we are right across the story will bring you any and all updates from venice will. not a u.s. army veteran has been arrested and charged in california over an alleged bomb plots according to the justice department a twenty six year old was planning a must occur on christians and jews killed and brings us more in this. federal officials have raised an indictment for an individual who has just arrested named mark stephen domingo now this is a u.s. army veteran who served in afghanistan is now charged with attempting to carry out a large scale terrorist attack as revenge for the incidents in new zealand the shootings in new zealand at the mosques that killed a number of individuals that apparently motivated mark stephen domingo to plan to carry out a terrorist attack in los angeles and take the lives of

a score as possibly hundreds of individuals here is some of what the indictment says in online posts and in conversations with an f.b.i. source to express support for violent jihad a desire to seek retribution for attacks against muslims and the willingness to become a mosque according to the affidavit following an attack on a mosque in new zealand on march thirteenth domingo posted the must be rich now the f.b.i. says it used confidential human sources to acquire information about domingo essentially began when he was posting on internet forums calling for revenge and retribution for the new zealand attacks and from what i understand federal officials first began talking with him on the internet then they set up in person meetings in those meetings he expressed a desire to attack a rally that was set to take place in california he purchased hundreds of nails and these nails were apparently to be used in an improvised explosive device they were

to be shrapnel that would then be detonated and kill everyone in attendance if possible now from what we understand he is now in the hands of federal officials and he will soon be appearing in federal court to face charges for planning this large scale terrorist attack now people are looking at these incidents the shooting in christ church in new zealand the recent incidents at synagogues across the united states the attacks have taken place in churches and noticing a disturbing trend where places of worship seem to be targeted by those intending to carry out terrorist attacks. and acts of religiously motivated violence so we'll be waiting to see what happens next as the individual mark steven domingo twenty six years old u.s. army veteran set to face these charges after being apprehended you have a person market stephen domingo is alleged to have said he would swear allegiance to if the group were in the united states it's all comes amid growing international figures about planned eisel terror attacks brian terrell from the voices for

creative nonviolence is of the view these threats are inevitable outcome of u.s. military activity abroad. this is. most likely a post-traumatic stress of the. of this war and also it's the training that. that he received a report came out that the united states and its afghan allies are killing more people than the taliban it shouldn't be a surprise it's. he is acting as he was trained you know to lose the horror of this of these wars can't be kept at arm's length it can't be kept in south asia can't be kept in in the middle east we will be suffering here in this country the facts of training people to kill and putting them in situations that are absolutely in human. turning to relate the theme in our russian students who

attempted to join islam mixtape in syria spoken to r.t. shutting the lights on her motivation and the consequences of her actions she's been released on parole after more than two years in prison and this not giving some cautionary advice to anyone who seeks to follow in her mouth. yes because. i want to show myself not as i was probably originally showed but as i really am that my story was a peculiar lesson not given all about isis but about just simple relationships with my family with people this is my deeply personal story the story of my family i want to tell and show people myself and not be afraid of me i just think that what happened to me was also related to my low self esteem and certainty in myself and it turns out that women hold on to their husbands and go there they hold onto them so much that they may not even understand their ideology they do not understand why

to go there their husbands say so no discussion and is very important to believe in yourself your and mean something if he says you have to go so what who cares what she says and i've thought a lot at that moment about what was happening and why it was happening actually very difficult thoughts they go round and round and round sometimes it takes you to the point of depression because you can't get out of this g.h. and you don't want to think about it you want to turn away and run but it is still there and i understand that i can't leave this story behind me it will always be part of me. the sra leaking government has bombed islamic female face coverings in public as a security measure it's in response to be easter sunday terror attack which took the lives of over two hundred fifty people about as i entered the country sizable muslim community here in r.t. we discussed whether it is a prudent move or risks further inflaming religious hostility in the region. let's

get real you know overturn hundred fifty people have been massacred in sri lanka and the i fully support the sri lankan president for this temporary sic curvy measure they might in a scenario where the security forces are sorting of people nor covered up. and they could say that we did know who they where their identities are not clear to us so that kind of allows for the muslims to move freely across the society if those women had their faces shaded by a head covering then clearly a c.c.t.v. image would show nothing so there is a logic to this if you follow me you know it's just it's just be explicitly enabling security services ted dent of and of the jewels in the act of or planning to carry out massacres in this instance of hundreds of christian people christian people so i think it's reasonable why not support it as the head of human rights

watch has already argued it is a needless restriction what to do was this sort of creates a sense of helplessness among the muslims they might feel that one by one our rights have been taken away fundamental rights it's been supported by the largest muslim group in sure like it so where's the argument most of them support it sure like and supported i supported who wouldn't support it but then we also talking about the individual rights the rights of women to follow their specific religious obligations and where does it stop who is going to be. compromised by the very act of trying to make sure that security services can check the visibility of those people who could potentially be able to carry out a terrorist incident but the reason for doing this there could be the islamic hard line conservative argument but having said that the state has the responsibility of

looking after the interests of the masses on the basis of that it can take these messages but this should not become a long term because if it does that creates a division between sri lanka's multireligious religious fabric so this article of islamophobia across the international system. this was an attack by radical muslims or christians it slaughtered them in their hundreds and you're talking about islamophobia c'mon this is nothing to do with islam phobia this was christian a phobia not all muslims are terrorists i absolutely agree with this one but on this occasion all the terrorists were muslims you deal with it in. the face of american diplomacy secretary of state mike pompei o has claimed that russians have been interfering in american politics since the nine hundred seventy s. and will continue to pose a threat for decades to come. the russians interfered it happened in the run up to

the election in two thousand and sixteen we have the we have the mission now to make sure this doesn't happen in two thousand and twenty there were threats or elections ninety seven right and they interfered our elections in the eighty's and we should expect in two thousand and fifteen twenty fifty the russians will be added still i must say i was stunned at his reference to nine hundred seventy four and the one nine hundred eighty s. what is he talking about i mean we're talking about the era of gus hall the communist party when he ran for president was zero supported this was the time of the of the old soviet union what relevance does that have today the idea of putting more sanctions round by round is simply this that russia is our eternal enemy they were our enemy under the soviet time they're our enemy and now they will be our enemy in the future this is kind of a manic keon binary mindset that simply has no place in a rational political discourse. and different story but in

a similar vein norway is also preparing for some russian meddling to surface in fact it did apparently this time in the form of a friendly whale that approached fisherman off the country's northern coast spotting a camera mounted on a harness bearing the name of that big russian city are trying to reel is in the story for the. here's a situation a cute white sea mammal starts playing with a couple of fishing boats. through the. creature clearly wants to grab people's attention and even tries to pull straps and ropes. the crew treats the little whale with some yummy snacks but realizes it's probably peeved by the tight harness around its body.

it takes a while and some real effort to take the straps off the unfortunate friend the white chap swims away enjoy the harness clip is branded equipment st petersburg which turns out to be a real russian firm making extreme sports equipment now how about this story. a group of norwegian fishing vessels have survived an attack. a rasta boat the tide harness round its body with the name of the lot of putin's hometown on it made locals think the whale was a russian navy weapon norway is now on high alert amid fears russia could have trained entire teams of sea creatures for spying and combat missions some of you might roll your eyes and think what a weird paranoid freak out well i'll tell you what pretty much all the media out

there reported the encounter of norway's northern coast and in some cases my impression of the catchy coverage wasn't too much of an exaggeration whale found off noways coast believed to be spying for russia. there's a new alleged russian spy it's a below go whale colonel beluga off of course if it says st petersburg on that thing the cute creature must be a russian spy or not to underestimate what britain is probably a better word than luke a whale found wearing a harness to carry a camera could be russian weapon whales trained by russia's military maybe harassing fishermen from nato ally no we ok i'll tell you a secret the likes of the russian or u.s. navy's started training seem for things like the mining rescue operations spotting underwater threats decades ago just google it but it never really put their

neighbors in panic mode this time though beluga whale with russian harness raises a lot in norway i just hope those who wrote this do stay away from some of the following displays of russian humor. we've got some more news in ninety seconds thought they were the. so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy one from day shouldn't let it be an arms race is also and very dramatic to follow only

closely i'm going to resist i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical time to sit down and talk. shows seem wrong. will just don't. let me. get to shape out these days because educated and engagement equals betrayal. when something you find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground .

we are back with a reminder of our breaking news this hour venezuela's self-proclaimed interim leader has posted a video calling for a military on pricing thoughts while at the same time the country's official government says it is putting down a small coup attempt by military quote traitors working with right wing opponents reports are not coming in the tear gas has been fired on the highway near her base in the capital caracas where the opposition leader has appeared with soldiers just after a quarter past seven in the morning in the venezuelan largest city we are right across this story some protest marches believed to be happening today as well we'll keep you up to date with everything. now after a year in the financial wilderness saudi arabia has been ushered back into the fold some of the world's biggest firms give riyadh their seal of approval last week on

the investment forum there last year the boycott of a similar gathering over the murder of journalist jamal khashoggi our senior correspondent murat because the of reports. the smell of money can be intoxicated or even a year since the gruesome murder of washington post journalist jamal has shoji and the worldwide condemnation over a saudi official suspected role in it but it seems enough money can sway anything throughout last week who's who of the financial elite hunkered down together at a saudi financial summit i find it's a very important interesting place for us to build a relationship the transformation of the region has been quite amazing the list of speakers and those in attendance was impressive top dogs from banks including h.s.b.c. morgan stanley j.p. morgan chase sausage. former e.u.

prime ministers the v i p real deal now juxtapose that with the conference the saudis held in october davos in the deserts at was talk sic c.e.o.'s investors made their excuses left and right and center but not for long because the u. resistible smell of money soon returned the factors issues in the press does not tell me i must run away from a place ironic given that he said that at the ritz hotel in riyadh where eighteen months ago dozens of saudi dissidents and world rivals detained apparently tortured and forced to give up billions of dollars to the king so who cares if an outspoken journalist was butchered and dissolved in acid who cares if saudi arabia just executed thirty seven men reportedly for political reasons crucifying one of

them those saudi billions could be just the thing to make america great again. saudi arabia very rich country we defend them. they have nothing but cash. you know here people wanting to cut off saudi arabia they've bought four hundred and fifty billion dollars i don't want to lose them i call the cain i like the king. i said king. we're losing our founding you can and you have a lot of money. i didn't it's bad for business is bad for everyone so perhaps goes without saying that with some things it's best to forget like murder torture mass executions and depression i mean put yourself in the very very expensive shoes the c.e.o.

of investment firm blackrock manages more than six trillion dollars in assets trillion for reference the us government budget for next year is just under five trillion i'm a talking about trillions of dollars human rights and well just people generally become a little less important that's not to say the c.e.o. of blackrock is a bad guy now mr fink was recognized last november by the crisis response group the international rescue committee for his spirit and passion for humanitarian causes real people guy charity and all that said the smell of money of trillions does crazy things to you so no you can go on boycotting and criticizing saudi arabia but the guys with the money hold the strings they're interested it's

business as usual. the united states is. of manipulating travel procedures to humper russia from participating fully in the united nations the plane coming from the russian foreign ministry after washington refused a visa to the head of the russian delegation to the un disarmament commission school live north artie's meeting a call but for more on this medina some big claims here well the reason behind such a harsh statement coming from russia's foreign ministry is the fact that they had a fresh as defense ministry research institute meet the brooklyn ski was denied a u.s. visa now he was supposed to travel to new york and there at ten and a un security council session he was a do you to brief the council on russia's account of a suspected poison gas attack in syria now the ministry added that the us

authorities were obviously as seeking not to allow objective for information about what happened in syria to be heard at the un and as it turns out such situations are becoming quite common now the. opposite follows quite a similar visa denial to the had of the russian delegation of a un desire moment commission in march the ministry now believes that the us side repeated the tries to prevent true information from spreading. prevents a prominent chemical expert from going to new york the us government was clearly trying to prevent objective information on the incident from being told from the un tribune grow implicitly putting the blame for it on the syrian authorities washington doesn't want the international community to understand that last year's american aggression against syria was carried out under a febrile pretext. well the attack on the city of doom which is located very close

to the capital of damascus took place in april twenty eighth scene and right after that almost right after that the u.k. u.s. and france launched more than one hundred missiles against what they say were syrian chemical weapons facilities and now last month inspectors from the or going for the prohibition of chemical weapons has said that a toxic that was used in the attack was a likely chlorine now syria rejects all of these findings and the russian military also said that it has found no trace of chemical weapons used when they inspected parts of the city and at the same time the u.s. has been blaming repeatedly the syrian government for being behind the attack now r.t. has requested an official comment from the u.s. state department on this developing story but we haven't heard any response as of yet but the cost of

a bring this right up to date on the thank you. all right let's get a reminder of our breaking news this hour a venice will a self-proclaimed interim leader has called for a military operating in the country labeling it a final phase at the same time the country's official government says it's putting down a small coup attempt by army quote traitors working with right wing opponents why do appeared on a highway near an herb base in the capital caracas which soldiers and also accompanied by another prominent opposition figure leopoldo lopez who is currently on her horse rest a lot of chatter today about why this is happening right now what kind of support might a lot of opposition protests choose to take place today as well a lot going on in venezuela we will keep you up to date any updates we will bring them to you r.t. . well as the trade war between china and america continues to brew the new

battleground seemingly is five g. technology we keep hearing by thought don't we get to grips with all the next in the country of course they were. 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 i'm used to surprising people. or not if you think. i'm going to talk about football narvi or else you can think i was going to go.

by the way what is it that flying here. is this is a sticker from the water bottle found in the stomach of a fish the brand is part of the coca-cola company which sells millions of bottles of soda every day the idea was that let's tell consumers there are the bad was there the litter bugs are throwing this away industry should be blamed for all this waste the company has long promised to reuse the plastic. that seems cool set their classes. at a special projects funded. online your best bet is the end of a footy team but for now the mountains of waste only grow higher. what politicians do. put themselves on the line. to get accepted or rejected.

so when you want to be president or injury. or somehow want to. have to try to be cross this is like a hopeful tree in the morning can't be good that i'm interested always in the waters of our. first sit. joining me every thursday on the alex salmond show and i'll be speaking to guest of the world of politics sport this list i'm showbusiness i'll see that.

i am extra eyes are this is the kaiser report what happens when you combine five g. satellites an artificial intelligence dystopian nightmare or a liberating technology let's find a place well one certainly finds competition for american corporations that apparently we can't compete against so it's my way or the huawei i only my way always that is in the title my way or the highway how us all to made him over china's five g. giant fell flat in south east asia apparently southeast asia is ignoring the u.s. threats to not use five g. the the five eyes partner nations have all basically stopped using weiwei but that's that includes the u.k. australia new zealand canada and one of the person i think but the region is shaping up as a key battleground in a war between the us and china to influence the roll out of super fast five g.

internet service is billed by experts as an era defining technological shift that could pave the way for breakthroughs in everything from artificial intelligence to the creation of smart cities so era defining and shifting technology and we've seen this throughout the past thousand years of human history is that as soon as there's a new era shifting technology or energy source like from coal to whale oil to you know oil from the ground you know whoever controls that changes you know becomes the new power of the superpower of the world so right now apparently if china's five g. is like twelve to eighteen months ahead of anything else in the west and it's like half the price so it's not going very well for us well the economy is no longer a commodity driven it's i really do.