other side. of. the. odd cry from liberty groups french intelligence chiefs question 3 journalists. french weapons in the yemeni conflict it's also coming up this. human rights advocates the over the defense secretary's proposal for british veterans saying immunity for a criminal offense sets a dangerous precedent. the legacy the u.n. warns of fresh fallout from a former u.s. nuclear tests in the pacific ocean we hear from a resident of the marshall islands. that clean up of the entire at complete that

is just a portion of the radiation i think. a large amount with. the ocean. around the clock across the world this is your r.t. international from the team you know hello and welcome to our top story leading rights groups have sharply criticized fear calling on except a ball at press freedom in france fears are growing about 3 journalists who leaked a classified 17 page dossier on the use of french weapons in the yemeni civil war could be set to face prosecution and prison time with the latest on what we know here shortly. the question that's being asked now is press freedom under attack fronts and that question is being posed not just by journalists but also by human

rights activists who are hugely unhappy about this investigation that's going on now back in april we covered a story here in r.t. which was that a number of french outlets had revealed uncovered a secretive military dossier which was allegedly showing that french weapons sold to saudi arabia will you being used on the front line in yemen french government has always denied it but this dossier has said that the french government was made aware of this fact now as a result of that an investigation was launched by the domestic intelligence services here in france and 3 journalists were hauled in as part of that investigation to be questioned about their sources and some say to be pressurised to reveal who their sources were which is course is something we as journalists considered to be absolutely sacred well our sister channel r.t. france has actually been speaking to one of those journalists from disclose who is now under investigation. called to be called to surprise because it is not usual

for journalists was summoned just the morning for disclosing secret national information told from the beginning the. associated with our job is fighting the freedom of speech needs to be supported by the people because all cases not be only one intimidation is against society so why was this revelation so controversial not just because the french government according to that dorsey you knew that these weapons were being used by saudi arabia on the frontline in yemen it also showed how they were being used and suggested that french ships were actually being used to blockade yemeni ports which meant that much needed medication and to monetary assistance in terms of food was not getting. the civilians who are being hit by this war know this what's been going on since 2014 it's been described by the un as the worst manmade humanitarian disaster it's seen

thousands of people killed and millions of people pushed towards the brink of starvation and human rights organizations have said that in june this should be doing this kind of work this should be revealing things like this that are going on in governments the undersigned n.g.o.s consider the information unveiled by disclose and its partners to be of essential public interest the threats of prosecution against the 3 journalists constitutes an i'm exceptional threat to press freedom and the protection of journalistic sources the fresh government has repeatedly denied that its weapons that it sells to saudi arabia are being used on the front line in that conflict and even last week we had we're sure it says from president michael that he had spoken to the government in riyadh and they had once again confirmed that that was not the case but the reality is here on the ground many people aren't seem to be believing that in fact so much so that last week saudi cargo ship was due to pick up arms from the french quarter of last it had to

leave because there were protests by people who just don't want any more french weapons to be sold to saudi arabia possibly being used to implicate the country in war crimes. the 1st woman to serve as the u.k.'s defense secretary penny warden's has got her term off to a controversial start she's drawn the ire of almost international by proposing to limit the authorities ability to investigate and prosecute british veterans accused of war crimes while still no active duty. it would be utterly disingenuous to have a presumption of non-prosecution for abuse yet at the same time claim justice is being served british soldiers who break the law must face just like everyone else these proposals potentially set a dangerous precedent over human rights group isn't the only organization concerned about the proposal particularly of pending warden wants to extend protections to

troops who served in northern ireland with more on the controversy polly boyko. the new boss in here has proposed a new law one that would presume soldiers innocent of any offenses committed throughout the course of a broad more than 10 years ago although that rule could have exceptions for example if new evidence of alleged crimes were to come to light it is high time that we change the system and provide devide legal protections to make sure the decisions how service personnel take in the battlefield will not lead to repeated or unfair investigations down the line for the new defense secretary the new legislation is about making the system fairer and preventing what she called law fare repeated and unfair investigations against former soldiers this is no surprise at preventing someone who's committed a crime from facing justice this is about stopping in industries that surrounds

these processes which is not about the pursuit of justice i have at the iraq historic allegations team spent 7 years trawling through allegations of murder torture wrongdoing at a cost of 60000000 pounds to the taxpayer none of the claims resulted in a prosecution and in 2016 the unit was shot down speaker i competed 72 as you know all with the infantry or associated units i lost many men. and i was involved in fatality shootings i was investigated along with others. the investigations were. aggressive and bloody awful to go through so well former soldiers and members of the military say that the amnesty doesn't go far enough that it needs to include northern ireland 2 human rights groups are

concerned that the government's desire to better protect its former and current servicemen and women will effectively place them above the law it's reported that there are around $150.00 investigations looking into alleged abuses by british soldiers in iraq and afghanistan the question is how the victims of those alleged abuses will ever get justice if these new proposals become law because so many detained so many killed the troops are the reason for the total destruction that the fate of those detained by them remains unknown to them. of course some against an amnesty because of the systematic killing some of the blood they said since no one cares we have to demand our rides through international courts because we're just simple people who just can't go by as soft to get our voices heard on the whole not because there is grave concern here that the crimes will be forgotten many people haven't received any compensation for the damage those who lost their

homes or became disabled what they're trying to do is create an exemption from european human rights or for soldiers or fighters on the battlefield that's obviously really dangerous because obviously the battle is one place that is not so very wonderful people civilians armed others who might not be after that whose human rights need to get those soldiers should have understood what they need to say just sr if you committed you or if we should you get punished if you haven't you don't so there shouldn't be any market amnesty or exemption for anyone anywhere the government couldn't find an easy way to say that we will now bring all of these veterans back into the un. and this will be on. from this. radioactive waste from a u.s. atomic bomb test site in the pacific is an immediate danger of leaking into the ocean according to the secretary general of the united nations there is

a risk of leaking of radioactive materials that are contained in a kind of coffin in the area the consequences of nuclear tests have been quite dramatic in relation to health in relation to the poisoning of waters in some areas . for the marshall islands we march from the colonial period or want to end the impacts of nuclear testing conducted more than 6 to get civil. only 27 years later and now facing the consequences of climate change well here's some bach chorale and the nuclear test for a curry died from 1946 to 958 far away from american turd 3 on the marshall islands in the pacific at the time they were under u.s. administration the testing to do the most powerful destination of an american hydrogen bomb which was about $1000.00 times bigger than the atomic bomb dropped on the japanese city of herat many islanders were forcibly evacuated from their

property and resettled and for those who remain there's been some serious consequences. the cleanup of the entire at a was not complete that is just a portion of the radiation that exist on the apple a large amount was dumped straight into the ocean the entire atoll is contaminated not simply ruin it and the radiation affects us on a daily basis then we have many illnesses in our community personally as a mother the finitely impacts me because when my children get sick i wonder is it something more than just a cold or a flu that worry is constantly there the island i was that of always attempted to bring attention to the fact of what has happened and what continues to happen to any way which and including petitions to the u.n. court case regarding environmental law and they are met with silence.

and this perhaps demonstrates what our guest was speaking at by clearly a concrete dome built back in the seventy's on one island as a dumping ground for radioactive waste is now a. decade it's 40 centimeters thick and more than 100 meters across covering a 9 meter deep crater well a vast hole was created by the cut to nuclear weapons test back in 1058 the cover was planned as a temporary fix but due to cracks may be about to leak radio active waste being added to by rising sea levels as well now the crater has never been lying and the u.s. government report also warned of the rest several years previously a former worker there told us that people are suffering health problems related to the site. i'm nationalist to go to the marshall islands and we talk of so once we leave over 40 atomic bombs. and the fifty's and i think into the sixty's i will say

that in the forty's up to the sixty's to clean up everything. on the northern islands which were the most contaminated they said and we'd start was an examination the main island itself but yet it was it was supposed to take anywhere from $6.00 to $18.00 inches of snow all transported from whatever alan a call that going on to our in a run it place it and one of the bad craters the last great is that were created by farming and then eventually can degrade us supposedly to contain it for ever they told us that we would not be exposed to any more radiation and have been maybe 2 or 3 x. rays a year which was a total there was no radiation study with. certain ones believed that they would have the. big year or roughly about $8000.00 men went there many of them have passed away since down we're losing in awareness 6 to. 7

a year and that's a very liberal number we have this tracks with our georgian government has no compensation for us. all right living on the nord stream to project a gas pipeline that's intended to pump russian gas to europe by way of the baltic sea past an important milestone with over 50 percent of the construction work done and dusted we got exclusive access to one of the festivals laying the pipeline. i'm above the sea somewhere between helsinki and say petersburg and i have a valve to show you something that could cause a real scuffle between germany and its european code and the us it is a real gas pipes to get to the show.

this is where it all seems to project is born right to. the heart beat of the shift it's life changing not just this gentleman controls the pieces the forms the kings the route. one makes the solitary 5 like us all real technological marvel and the fact that to get the army here right on board. 5 tanks you have to be protected well and then. just imagine you were

a real shopaholic you love going to all. into the stores but then i hand out comes out what you do is you swipe look for the best thing push the button and your shipment is ready so probably you're going to change your shopping habits a little bit and wanted someone forces you not to do it this is probably not a perfect analogy but it does explain what's happening with the north st 2 project if you will not supplying someone else will put in the end. we still would only get shown it was just because we decided to have a guess where this project is really low in washington they want american companies to sell liquefied natural gas to europe and send it there on ships and america has literally been fully europe with all kinds of rights the american ambassador in germany put on precedent pressure on local companies sending out letters to them and just recently at raf bill has been opposed to the us senate suggesting that

companies and individuals working on the one strain could have their absence frozen and they could be receive travel bans to the us can i do by the computer to do a job and why do we all need guns. it has to come from somewhere when you hear these kind of things are you ever worried or do you ever think about it. to be honest i try not to think about it in the way we apply all over the world. political view shouldn't really come in at the end of the day we've all got a job to do but no matter what there you have it what's probably going to be the longest getting string in the world is making its way into the seawater and the pace is. kilometers a day when this kind of performance the team is expecting the project will be

complete by the end of this year. the venezuelan embassy in the u.s. continues to be a flashpoint in already fraught relations between the countries we've got more not right after this. this and petersburg international economic forum is a unique event in today's business world. over the last 21 years the forum has become a leading global platform for discussing that keep economic issues facing russia emerging markets and the world thousands of business community members attend a forum to address today's a vital issues. watch a special forum coverage on r.t. . those very well known case that was stolen in 69 in.

a very important painting and somebody from the mafia just said a few years ago dead today has stolen and stored it in a pawn and when they wanted to pick it up it was called because tourists had eaten it. hello again apparently it's no much more difficult to tell fact from fiction and news and reporting in the united states according to a new study by the round think tank. so we end up in a situation where not only are we not sure what's true and what's not but we're not even really sure where to go to find that factual information that's cognitive bias

and the way we process information we like to be right we seek out things that prove that we're right we just regard things that think that we're wrong technology changes fast and institutions change slow so schools haven't caught up in terms of providing students with the skills they need to be able to navigate that space and then finally polarization and we've alluded to it here several times in the political space but it's also important to think about social economic endeavor graphic polarization of the news in the digital age report examines the coverage of 15 news outlets they include such pillars as the new york times the washington post major t.v. networks like c.n.n. and n.b.c. fox all know the microscope to along with digital platforms politico breitbart buzz feed will report suggests that 499227 us media has taken a gradual and subtle shift toward subjectivity and away from fox and nala says it's

all a media in particular reflects personal frames on subjective references it also claims t.v. news reporting is being replaced with opinion based shows led by pundits prize winning journalist chris hedges sees the findings are justified. i think on the cable news channels whether it's m s n b c or c.n.n. or fox they've actually given up on journalism. and replaced it with. reality show. you know news programs newsprint at the same time has become so anemic. and that real journalism in most major cities has withered away you take for instance philadelphia live an hour from philadelphia the philadelphia inquirer was once one of the great newspapers with its own foreign correspondents and it's all gone and the internet is

a kind of free for all where people are getting wise to into whatever particular political belief system or you know conspiracy theory today happen to embrace their reinforce so if you look at the especially the electronic media fact is interchangeable with opinion people believe whatever they want to believe. us army was a blower chelsea manning is back in prison just a week after being released the ruling handed down after the former soldier refused to testify before the grand jury on her contacts with wiki leaks. the case doesn't make sense it seems kind of bananas in comparison to the evidence that we that we got out i think i think it's going to be i think it's going to be very much a return to the conditions that i was in last week you matter what happens today whether i get into whether you know whether i am placed in confinement or not i'm

not going to comply with this grand jury in march this year moment was jailed for 2 months for refusing to ensure the grand jury's questions on wiki leaks and its founder julian assange mother was 1st detained back in 2010 for sending photos of classified documents to wiki leaks she was sentenced to 35 years behind bars but then president obama later reduced the term to 7 years former f.b.i. agent coleen rowley believes the latest sentences again against money is a lawful. the current administration did not like the fact that the obama administration pardoned her so this would be an illegal. punishment a 2nd punishment after already serving time for the case against julian assange is just that weak that they absolutely need actual c. manning's testimony in order to firm up those specious charges it's got to be one of the 2 things otherwise it makes no sense i have never heard of the jailing

a witness this one she's already been jailed for 62 days for failure to i talked to a grand jury and she's really putting on a very brave face in the face of this additional what i would think is illegal punishment to be this struck home and. then this will in president nicolas maduro host condemned the detention of 4 octopus who were arrested after staging a sit in at the venice will an embassy in washington the protests were against the expulsion of mature us diplomats last month to u.s. interference in the south american country armed police raided the embassy building on thursday morning in venezuela did no longer give permission for the police operation on say it breaks international law the activists spent more than 3 weeks in the embassy preventing officials of self declared interim president from entering the us with his permanent representative to the united nation sais that it's their poll lease who are the trespassers the activist. they are not us

possibly coles. we are for rule folly station i mean the republic of it is the holy. low flow footy's over this without which is the government oppressed in my little wee she's over i see them to pay vat so they're not trespassing that's the 1st thing and 2nd when they and be afforded the same being the local police and the secret service. when they. work in. private they actually break. the actual class. the police the local police and all the pacifists all the activists have gained the attention of some prominent figures on civil rights figurehead jesse jackson arrived at the embassy to give food to the protesters after reports suggested authorities were preventing supplies from reaching them or

very jesse jackson's charitable act was criticized by the quite the appointed ambassador to the u.s. to accuse them of supporting human rights violators reverend jackson explain to us why he decided to help the protesters. to the mother or the birth of the murderer could oh and that was not right. in this case no one wins. and is counted and does a room of reconciles. real credible can bring in the us cannot do it alone and replace one government for another that regime change is not with the democracy it is in their fellowmen then we were in direct about an international law and human rights and said terminations with a nation must have been the people must protest that. he's being called the indiana jones of lost art next historian and detective arthur brown join sophie

shevardnadze to talk how extremists in the middle east are using looted treasures to fault their terrorists. join me every thursday on the alex salmond show and i'll be speaking to guest of the world of politics sport i'm showbusiness i'll see that. is donald trump's national security advisor john bolton a clear and present danger to america and the world to saber rattling in the middle east particularly against iran should concern us we are forced to ask a fundamental question is the primary architect of trump's policy.

welcome to self and calm sophie shevardnadze he knows how to hunt down a man. your piece last for decades no matter if it's decorating somebody's backyard or hidden beneath the murky waters of the underground art world the indiana jones of lost art historian and detective arthur brand is my guest today. pretty free you've still purses and wallets others might come as all hells as well some still hold budgets but there is a criminal underworld with exquisite taste in which people steal contemporary and selling the finest crafted treasures on the black market want to. give the don't go

to action so why is the crime culture more sophisticated than other speeches and how do you. to retrieve lost most of pieces. ours are brand historian and our detective welcome to the show great to have you with us mr brand so. the media call you indiana jones of the art world but as far as i can tell from your own accounts your job isn't as action packed i mean it's more like dan brown no well you said that you deal with it and underworld and obviously you're risking your life sometimes so why like the most dire threats you were saved i don't know the colombian necktie or where your family lives do you take this threat seriously. sometimes you get threats it's normal in the underworld in the criminal world they cannot go to a judge they do not have access to the to justice so de have to use threats so

they also do it to me but i don't take them too serious you know. if you keep your words with criminals of with somebody else most of the time you're quite safe but it does mean that i do have to keep my words and of course i have to be cautious as and keeping your word always depend on you yes because if they don't keep their words what can i do but it's very important to keep my words these people as says they cannot go to the police they can not go to to a lawyer or to to a judge so they have their own criminal. laws and you have to accept those laws and those laws. keep your words. don't be trade things like that. and you are pretty sound for a way out or stand you have a reputation there right that's why they say to people trust you.