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breaking news this hour anti-war activists have confirmed to our tier that they are currently being evicted from the event as well and the sea and washington d.c. calling warnings from police. also this hour as the u.s. ramps up the pressure on iran the senator bernie sanders accuses donald trump's national security adviser of trying to lead america into war with terror just as happened with iraq. it russian games designer faces up to 10 years in the u.s. prison for allegedly smuggling f. 16 fighter jet manuals out of the country he claims he wanted to make his flight simulator game more realistic but prosecutors accuse him of conspiring against the u.s. government. and the philippines recalled its ambassador from canada after
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ottawa failed to meet the deadline to take back on the falsely label trash shipped to the southeast asian country years ago. watching r t international bring you your live news update from our studio here in moscow welcome to the program we start this hour with some breaking news from washington d.c. anti-war activists have confirmed that they are currently being evicted from the venezuelan embassy and falls of warnings from police who said they were trespassing we spoke to ariel gold from code pink national who's outside the embassy. you can see and i'll show you a little background here that that building there any attire seen looks fairly empty so we don't have any idea. if they're still inside carrying out the
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arrest i mean they're being hauled out the back that we do have people around the back haven't seen anything yet either or are our friends are in fact already now in police custody at a police. we plan on staying here at the building you see what's happening and while we wait to hear word from our friends all of their own are now not working so we assume in some capacity at least. that they are fully under cut in police custody and that we plan on staying here as well to make sure that not eat crow quite no opposition protesters now try to be legally invade the building. the news comes days after police issued a warning to the protesters saying the activists were trespassing the demonstrators have been staging a sit in for more than a month already after the u.s. withdrew its recognition of nicolas maduro as venezuela's president and said
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washington now recognizes the opposition leader 1.0 as head of state the activists claim the government has given them permission to stay in the building code pink medea benjamin says the arrest is in violation of international law. we got an urgent call from the people inside at 915 this morning that the police had broken down the door and that they were going to be arrested so the rest are under way right now we denounce this is a violation of the vienna convention speakers the group has been there with the permission of the venezuelan government i was just at the u.n. yesterday with the ambassador to the u.n. who was calling on the u.s. to sign a predicting pair. our green manch with venezuela so that both the embassy in washington d.c. and the u.s. embassy in caracas would be protected the venezuelan government has said it is not given permission for the opposition representatives to enter the building and
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there is still time to negotiate a solution that would be of mutual agreement to both these governments but it will be a tremendous step towards greater conflict with the u.s. if indeed the representatives are allowed to go into that embassy now. u.s. 2020 presidential hopeful bernie sanders has accused national security adviser john bolton of trying to push the country into war with iran in a way reminiscent of another american campaign. the author of the efforts right now to get us into a war in iraq is the guy who was the architect getting goes into the war in iraq and that is john bolton busy so you know i worry about provocations on the part of the united states. washington's taken numerous measures in recent days to counter
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what it calls a credible threat from iran the u.s. has ordered all non-emergency staff out of its embassy in iraq it's also sent b. $52.00 bombers and air carriers to the region media reports suggest there are intelligence images of missiles on iranian boats in the persian gulf sparking fears they might be used against american troops though those images have not been published the spite the lack of clear evidence for a heightened threat from tehran washington continues to make loud noises about one . threat their neighbors are spreading instability or terror everywhere we go in the middle east it's a rare ran around major destabilizing in influence in the middle east spread death destruction and chaos the leaders of iran are record here's world's largest finance ear of international terrorism behind every problem is a rare and we've been trying to do is to get iran to be him like a normal nation. ask for john bolton and his approach to foreign policy we under
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oath to a $2010.00 interview where he admits he would lie in the name of u.s. national security and asked americans what they think about that. john bolton has a very important job keeping americans safe after all that is the job of the national security adviser and it's very important for americans to trust someone in that position john bolton wasn't always the national security adviser here's something he said before he got the job if i had to say something i knew was false to protect american national security i would do it so considering that john bolton has a pretty important position in terms of influencing the president on international matters you think it might be a concern if he says things consistently that turn out to be false we decided to ask new yorkers. iran continues to seek nuclear weapons and intimidate peaceful people is that true not. true right yes that's false.
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so the one year period that we've talked about from the point where north korea makes the strategic decision to denuclearize is something that north and south koreans have already agreed to is that true or false false this sounds like something that's not true doesn't seem to fit right. i'm not running around the world looking for ways to create hostilities well it's just the other quotes pretty much speak for themselves that john bolton doesn't seem to have a golden record however that doesn't seem to put him in any danger of losing his job at least for now. you would lie in order to preserve the truth if i had to say something i knew was false to protect american national security i would do it fulton is the point man little. jackal to carry this effort to for it and to topple the elected government of iran and while we can see the
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history in record of john bolton as being in favor of the wars from iraq to going as well it's all wrong and he's always and so the root of imperial wars abroad so from a political perspective we have to see this as a reflection of the system itself the united states they want the oil in iran and whenever a bully wants to take something out of your position then they will allege provocations to justify that violence that they're getting ready to perpetuate. the russian embassy in washington d.c. says u.s. intelligence may have staged a provocation that after a russian games designer was detained on suspicion of trying to export u.s. fighter jet manuals electrician to cough faces up to 10 years in jail for allegedly smuggling arms documents and plotting against the u.s.
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government that hawkins pick up picks up the story. conspiracy to smuggle classified documents and undercover sting operation at a trail leading to russia gradients for a classic james bond movie. but for a leg to shouldn't go it's playing out in real life not on the silver screen with no hint of glamour the russian citizen is set to go on trial in august in the united states the charges are serious conspiring against the us smuggling and violating almost export control laws and you know despite decades of stereotypes about russians missed the titian code isn't a secret agent or a spy many would label him a computer nerd a guy whose passion and job was developing airplane flight simulators like this one .
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according to the manuals he wanted to obtain were to improve his knowledge of the jets and build them into a flight simulation game the problem is that despite the clear availability of such materials online only those with government licenses can export such manuals and because of u.s. sanctions on moscow sending them to russia is a big no no honestly it's a very strange situation i don't know why the united states would allow these minerals to be sold in the 1st place if there could be used against the united states so there's a contradiction there if you can purchase them in the united states foreigners come to the united states purchase them and read them and we so it really does seem that the statute has a huge loophole which would suggest that. someone at some level of prosecution has done so titian co was charged in absentia back in 2016 although he
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was none the wiser and off the traveling to a festival in neighboring georgia early this year he was swiftly detained and extradited at the u.s. government's request eagle dynamics the software company where the legwork. for many years have distanced themselves from the whole story eagle dynamics confirms that it was not involved in any way in the actions of its employee who acted in a purely private context and his own personal interests the company develops all of its d.c.'s aircraft gain modules exclusively on the basis of publicly available information and has never used nor tried to taint any classified information at least the computer whiz isn't entirely alone the russian embassy in the u.s. has been following the case accusing u.s. intelligence services of carrying out a provocation the russian embassy in the u.s. is keeping a close eye on the situation surrounding the arrest of a russian national teaching crew who was extradited from georgia 5 charges have
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been brought against him including smuggling violating the arms export control act and conspiracy against the interests of the united states there are indications that this is a provocation staged by u.s. intelligence agencies the claim isn't entirely without foundation after homeland security took an interest in titian co an undercover agent posing as a buyer of air play money was contacted titian co to catch him out and gather evidence on his nefarious activities it seems that a software designer and play in the simulation enthusiastic warranted an undercover sting operation so while tisha go faces 10 years or more of prison both simulators and fighter jet miles are available online across the world just be careful where you post them and who you talk to online. if he be is allowing military type documents to be sold they really should have a full notice of the statute that it violates so that there's no doubt that
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somebody who's buying him. fully understands the consequence is the american was knowingly selling something to somebody who was a russian i mean that's really something that's you know not be. loyal to your country if frankly anybody should go to jail if they could be the american and not he should. chinese telecom giant huawei has warned u.s. authorities their latest move won't make america quote more secure or stronger i think that washington could end up having to pay more for lower quality 5 g. equipment china's foreign ministry for its part to washington's latest move as disgraceful and unjust that's all after the u.s. department of commerce place while away on a trade blacklist the decision comes hard on the heels of donald trump declaring a national emergency to protect america's computer networks from what he described as foreign adversaries. foreign adversaries are increasingly creating an explosive
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vulnerabilities in information and communications technology and services which store and communicate vast amounts of sensitive information over the past few months washington has been trying to persuade allies to shun a war way equipment threatening to limit intelligence sharing with those failing to comply the briton one of america's key allies in europe is refusing to ban the chinese company out of hand saying it sells that made the decision a similar response came earlier in march from germany china economy expert professor benjamin chart says while way might actually benefit from american stance . polly actually has an unblemished record of over 30 years in 170 countries punishing one corporation with those solid and sprains waves of fear to other corporations the us my luck behind with no using the equipment available in the world and americans are forced to buy spend technologies and even in few
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more in fewer technologies and in fact in the longer one. americans my choose to go to china to hatch their technologies in china you know the to sell to china how we should do what he has been doing in the past 30 years let the products speak for you and in fact if some are good billy while we could be the biggest winner we've all this free of a tightening. of the spirit about the building of a new church in a russian city ask related into a standoff has been going on for days following clashes between the opposing sides and a number of arrests a lot of reporting has even gotten involved or if an argument joins me now with the details maria how did plans for a new church end up resulting in all of this. well hi i have to say that this has been going on for some time already off to the. forces in russia's city or vacated
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in the east of moscow decided to build a new church st catharines cathedral on the city's main central square to market it involves 300th anniversary some people got really upset saying this will need to destroy one of the city's green areas and on monday for the 1st time this discontent took to the streets all of a call on social media some several 100 people gathered around a temporary fence marking the sport where the church is supposed to be build chanting we want a square and apparently at some point it went wild according to the region's governor the protesters managed to throw this fence they were arguing with the police and security on the ground. refusing to leave the area and there were clashes between these people and those who support the construction of the church the government decided to have an emergency meeting inviting both sides but as a result decision was made to go on with the construction and this is why on
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tuesday the protests continued with 26 people arrested at the end of the day with 3 taking to the hospital including one with a broken rib according to local police reports it went on on wednesday as well with another 21 protesters detained by local police and earlier on thursday russia's president vladimir putin was asked to comment on this situation during a media forum that is currently happening in russia southern city of sochi and weidman putin has said that when he 1st learned about this situation that in wood he was rather surprised because there is only one and very easy way to resolve this issue to know the opinion of the majority of the people living in this area and to go on with their decision and this should be done through local referendum let's take a listen. everyone has the right. express opinion if this is the opinion of
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local inhabitants the opinion has certainly to be taken into account there is a simple method to conduct a poll and minority must all be majority. and shortly after vladimir putin's comments on the situation you consider and what we've heard from local authorities that they support the idea of local referendum back to you. thank you for bringing us the latest. now asked embers censorship increasingly gets a hold on social media a new documentary it takes an alarming look at the future of free speech that started more after this short break. seems wrong why don't we all just don't all. get
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to shape out just to become educated and in detroit equals betrayal. when so many find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground. so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy confrontation let it be an arms race off and spearing dramatic development only closely i'm going to resist i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical time time to sit down and talk.
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welcome back social media giants face increasing pressure to monitor their content a new documentary is being hailed for firing a warning shot about a future without the freedom of speech on wednesday you can't watch this chronicles the recent social media purchase of prominent conservative activists and how soon people all across the political spectrum could fall victim. tonight we present this special report on social media exclusion. zone the burbs power unprecedented and un-american listen this is not just targeting one side of the political spectrum this is the 1st time that the high court ruling is the admin free speech rights and social media this is a monopoly there is no competition and there's no accountability facebook or google are not government actors so the 1st amendment is not speak for their conduct. the project looks into how social media is being used as
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a tool to exclude certain voices and focuses on the online war with prominent conservatives and the implications this removal of content has for the freedom of speech the director says he hopes the film would uncover how serious and widespread it's become and the danger it poses to our culture the film falls 5 controversial figures who have been victims of social media purges one is british activist tommy robinson who founded the far right english defense league facebook accused robinson of promoting hate against the muslim community also featured as alex jones director of the info wars website permanently banned from twitter jones is said to have promoted discriminatory behavior and spread dissent from a nation. now to discuss the documentary and the issue it touches upon we're joined now by killing robertson and executive producer of the documentary you can't watch this unless you're a chair of the islamic human rights commission you're both very welcome to the
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program now if we could start with you social media platforms are public forums do you not think it's a fair argument to respect the diversity of users and not to actively provoke or offend them. well you know what this documentary explores is the increasing powers of social media have been changing the overton window and influencing what people can and how watch online as consumers in changing elections and this is why it's so important a lot of people argue over you know their private companies they can do what they want well they're actually acting like publishers and they actually have a duty to actually hold free speech. as one of their core values especially given how important social media is in our society. must surely debate is the foundation of a free and democratic society doesn't the blocking of material undermine that. no i don't i actually think that yes they have a responsibility but responsibilities don't one side that you know we know there is
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a limitation to freedom of speech is not just on social media it's everywhere else and social media is no example without the reality is that we could have hate speech promotion of violence and indeed acts that if it was gone outside the social media it would be a crime and needs to be dealt with and i think what is important is we need to have a basis of basically controlling this social media in the same way we do elsewhere in publication and so forth but also i am quite concerned that sometimes when you put regulations you end up removing freedom of speech of one section of community while others are going to be you know allowed to get on with it and i think what is important we need to be very fair in the way that we deal with this
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and remove criminality incitement to hatred incitement to violence like talking robinson's case of proven. his. intervention was contributed to all support and going and i should be attacking a mosque and killing one person by driving the van into the crowd so you are saying that you are saying that tom robinson should be banned off the internet because he incited this terror attack i mean would you say that that the orlando shooting that killed 49 gay people in america in the aftermath of the people with and he gave you should be banned off the internet or people who are maybe islamic clerics should be banned off the internet do you think those people should be censored as well as an incitement to that violence. no i actually believe that anyone who creates. demonizing perception. and promotes lies and so forth to actually inside people into. area of sort of
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hatred and environment of hate is created that is actually really didn't do this we need to recognize that we need to run how do you know if i hate how do you know any of these people see how do you define hate. you spoke always hard core of a lot of these are very homophobic a lot of the people could've been blamed for the orlando shooting would you say that that march should be canceled and banned no no not you know you you really again you know you're saying something out of your perception and prejudice rather than fact no no i'm just asking the question should those people leave out of all social media. look for example i'll give you an example we how you're not answering the question as you know one thing on an anti gay islamic clerics or anti gay people should be banned from social media because of what happened to orlando you're coaching to anyone's pointing in only one anywhere little look at anyone if any one cleric or not actually turns around and say gay people should be executed or or punished in this way and that's why you know let you know there's no
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exception i'm saying very clearly there is there's a difference between giving the opinion. and then actually inciting people to violence inciting them into action to create sort of demand to follow all of that demonization into action which is unlawful we have a case right now of someone from jewish defense league in france is saying that it's going to come to the next demonstration and bring it trashy cough with him to shoot people but you know he's not being dealt with just because he is you know this is going on the basis of the freedom of speech and its social media so it doesn't really matter well if he did it if he said the same thing elsewhere it would have been dealt with i think there's a barely so and i would you only focus on the right you've only focused on my sheet or was he by the way you call her a no no you're right jugglery normal conservative people where would you draw the line. well hate preachers are the ones that actually put you know the
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dumbest marian imagine i was i said i hate preachers because of the fact that they're associating act of terrorism we all. unary and law abiding citizens muslim community for dance dora hate preachers because they're actually promoting that level of sort of. violence of terrorists with ordinary muslim community members who have shown her wrong it said on the album and say the machine was incited terrorists and that's what he is a muslim he's been one of the most outspoken people in britain no i said i see something i'm all right no no no no no look look you know you're being you're your total you know you're putting words in my mouth i said actually he's a preacher because he promotes what happened and you know this is factually proven in court now that all is born was put was promoted indeed was radicalized by the
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media people who said that demonstration were bunch of terrorists when the metropolitan police when every other institution said that it was a lawful demonstration and resupplying are so you going to quarantine say both because you're saying it learns i don't like you are you have nothing finishes start no look look you are saying that you're a champion of freedom of speech and you're denying the right of people going in the street and actually demonstrating against palestine when they're as i would have learned i think it should have the right to choose i'm all for i'm not look like that you're putting words in my mouth i didn't mean them not to for look at oregon no never so what i'm saying is that no magic number was saying that they should not have the right to do that and majeed in a ball that's associated all those law abiding people who go in the street association and be terrorism it's on the record as it said there are terrorists and by promoting does he's actually promoting. environmental right here you think they
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should be don't you think i'm proposing or it will go to it that they were if they want to watch somebody it was so the westminster attacker who quoted the koran if it was somebody. if it's already been on wasn't ok guys if i can jump in here somebody if somebody should the koran be banned i'm not much at your house and it's all about western style and i could tell how do you want your film masoud i think that one has a point that can do is try to say is that more often than not those that are getting banned are considered more right wing people why do you think that it is no that's not true that's not true that's not true the fact that only not even heard of god look at the most high result people are very happy and outlook on here in the last year the majority are conservatives yes it is. yes it is true no no that's not true there are actually majority of people majority of people who are actually from the muslim community you know we've been have got the situation that you have taken precede me off and you know when there is no new you know you know you have
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failed to see the champions of freedom of speech like yourself coming out to actually protect the rights of those people the rights of people in the stream i don't think there's so much of a ban on social media and you're putting words in my mouth i know it well and i heard your i know you should be personally or your magic was who your coming through is you know his rally support is that one that is saying that these are all terrorists and they should be bound if somebody says all the gays are terrorists and they should be equally that is the hate preacher. when i'm imagining of all of them when i was referring to me this is another. i guess and coming back to the movie which is what it's about have you watched the movie because you seem to know all this stuff about tommy seem to be talking about how these people are insight into terrorism and no are. very are you going to want to tell them is right ok so worried about a movie and yeah.
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