the headline stories. from the group french intelligence chiefs questioned. the french in the. human rights advocates raise the alarm over the you. for a criminal offense a dangerous precedent. for united nations. in the pacific ocean we hear from a resident. that.

the radiation i think. a large amount was. the only. international news center here in moscow this is our team welcome to the program. their top story leading rights groups have sharply criticized what they're calling on. tuck on press freedom in france fears are growing there 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. 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 were you being used on the front line in yemen a 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 of 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 that we were not. disassociated with our jobs druids i think that freedom of speech needs to be supported by the people because our case is not the only one intimidation is against society so why was this revelation so controversial not just because the french government according to that dossier 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 to the soup. millions 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 and 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 acceptable 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 called the ship was due to pick up arms from the french quarter flour 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. let's move on to another headline stories the 1st woman to serve as the u.k.'s busy defense secretary penny mordant has got her term off to a comp for small start she's drawn the ire of a misting international are proposing to limit the authorities ability to investigate and prosecute written spectrums accused of war crimes while still marked of 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 well the human rights group isn't the only organization concerned about the proposal either particularly as penny morton wants to extend protections to troops who served in northern ireland as well with more on the

controversy brick and it'll probably work. 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 divide 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 not about preventing someone who's committed a crime from facing justice this is about stopping an industry that surrounds these

processes which is not about the pursuit of justice i had 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 just because i competed 2nd term as you know or 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 a 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 say since no one cares and we have to demand our rides through international courts because we're just simple people who just can't go by those selves to get our horses hurt yani one other cause 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 europe here. for soldiers on the battlefield that's obviously really dangerous because obviously the battle is one place where there's not so very wonderful people civilians on armed others who might not be arguing that it was 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 a blanket 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. air to another story we're closely following today radioactive waste from a u.s. atomic bomb test side in the pacific is in 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 one of the marshall islands we march from the colonial period or want to and the impacts of nuclear testing conducted more than 60 gets a call. only 27 years later and now facing the consequences of climate change the nuclear tests were carried out from 146-2958 far away from american territory in the marshall islands in the pacific at the time they were under u.s. administration the testing to the most powerful detonation of an american hydrogen bomb which was about $1000.00 times bigger than the atomic bomb dropped on the japanese city of her russia many islanders were forcibly evacuated from their property and resettled and for those who remained 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 exists on the atmel a large amount was dumped straight into the ocean the entire at smallest contaminated not simply ruin it all and the radiation affects us on a daily basis then we have many illnesses in our community has that only as a mother if there finitely impacts me because when my children get sick i i wonder is that something more than just a cold or a flu that worry is constantly there the islands are so have always attempted to bring attention to the fact of what has happened and what continues to happen to our no way and including petitions to the un court case. regarding environmental law and they are met with silence and this is of

particular worry a concrete dome built back in the seventy's on one island as a dumping ground for review active waste is no badly decayed it's 40 centimeters thick and more than 100 meters across covering a 9 metre deep crater know the vast hole was created by the cocked us nuclear weapons test that was back in 1958 the cover was planned as a temporary fix but due to crux may be a buy to leak review active waste that's been exacerbated by rising sea levels and the crater has also never been lined up a u.s. government report also warned of the risks several years ago a former worker there told us that people are suffering health problems related to the site. and nationalists who go to the match a lot of then and we talk and so naturally i believe over 40 atomic bombs were dropped 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 there. the northern islands which were the most contaminated they said any weeks art was an examination that 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 the island of ruin it place it in one of the bomb craters the last great is that were created by comic downstairs and then eventually kept that greater 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 lie there was no radiation study would. certainly want to believe that and they would have the. big year or roughly about $8000.00 men went there many of them have passed away since dan we're losing anywhere from $6.00 to

$7.00 a year and that's a very liberal number we have the facts without georgian the government has no compensation for us. big news in the energy world the nord stream to project a gas pipeline that's intended to pump russian gas to europe by way of the baltic sea past the important milestone with over 50 percent of the construction work done in the us that we got exclusive access to one of the vessels laying the pipeline. of the sea somewhere in between in helsinki and st 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 ship.

this is where that all seems to project is born right to. the heart beat of the ship like chase you know just this gentleman controls the pieces the forms the kings the route. one makes the solitary 5 like vessel real think the odds of them are about the fact that they get army here and right on the border. to fight thanks to our for attack oh well they have to. just imagine you are a real shopaholics you love going to all kinds of 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 but what if 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 jude project if you will not supply me to someone else will but in the end i'm still would only guess he was. it's what has been so i could probably guess where this project is 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 bowling 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 and draft

bill has been proposed in the u.s. senate suggesting that companies and individuals working on the one strain could have their absence frozen and they could even receive travel bans to the u.s. can i do buy them from the ship to do a job and if so 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 the throwing of the finger boded i mean we apply all of the world. political view shouldn't really i mean 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 long is to get the strength of the world that is making its way into the sea water and the pace is. kilometers a day when this kind of performance the team is expecting the project will be completed by the end of this year. you're watching r t international live from

moscow we're back in less than a minute and a half. is donald trump's national security advisor john bolton a clear and present danger to america and the world because saber rattling in the middle east particularly against iran should concern us all we are forced to ask

a fundamental question is fulton the primary architect of trump's policy. joins me every thursday on the alex salmond show and i'll be speaking to a guest of the world of politics sports business i'm show business i'll see you then. 19 minutes into the program welcome back facebook has taken don hundreds of pages groups and a college sling to him is really groups suspected of attempting to disrupt the elections in africa as well as in latin america and south east asia the social network says the archimedes group spent more than 3 quarters of a $1000000.00 on the facebook platforms to quote disseminate their culture and

artificially increase in agent let's go live now to israel and artie's paul you're all are there what else is facebook saying about this far reaching raid on suspicious occurrence. but what we know is that this has been happening for years where you have fake accounts that i'm escalating are there as the locals or as the local news outlets and they are either providing blowing information off forming part of a smear campaign regarding candidates who are standing in local elections and part of the tactic they use is to quote so-called and identified sources and leaked information now what we're hearing from facebook is that this has affected countries such as latin america and numerous countries across asia and africa where we synch any of that try and swishes have changed the reality on the ground facebook saying that this is an extensive israeli run political influence campaign

having said that facebook has not been that forthcoming and that is largely presumably because the relationship between facebook and israel is very close facebook in the past has taken down political advertisement that are considered in the states for inconvenient by the israeli government the head of the facebook cyber security policy had that had had this to say. today removed 265 facebook instagram accounts facebook pages groups and events involved in coordinated behavior this is the originated in israel and focused on nigeria senegal and goler niger and tunisia along with some activity in late in america and southeast asia. now some of the pages boasted as many as $2800000.00 followers there were also

a series of events that were advertised online but it's not clear whether or not those events actually took place more than 8 $100000.00 is estimated to have been spent over the past 7 years on these advertisements aimed at deception and a lot of that finds its source in an israeli corporation that's called the archimedes group now we have asked the group for comment but we're still waiting to receive a response from them at the same time a lot of the people all the organizations involved have concealed their own data identities now there was a similar case with another israeli organization whose motto was to shape reality it was forced to close its doors after it was implicated in the whole investigation and it was criticized and came under fire for possible involvement in the donald trump presidential election so we need to wait and see how the story itself

develops all right thanks for taking us through for no the artes policy or live in all of. us all the whistleblower chelsea mommy is back in prison just a week after being released the ruling 100 done after the former soldier refused to testify before the grand jury on her call the turks 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 i'm placing confinement or not i'm not going to comply with this grand jury will in march this year mulling was jailed for 2 months for refusing to answer the grand jury's questions on wiki leaks its founder julian assange he 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 reduce the term to 7 years former f.b.i. agent coleen rowley believes wiki leaks founder julian assange is ultimately the main target. the current administration did not like the found 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. not venice wheelin president

nicolas maduro house condemned that attention of 4 activists who were arrested after staging a sit in at the venezuelan embassy in washington the protests were against the expulsion of maturer diplomats last month to u.s. interference in the south american country and armed police we know raided the embassy building on thursday morning now venezuela did not give permission for the police operation and say it breaks international law the activists spent more than 3 weeks in the embassy preventing officials of self declared interim president one guai toe from entering it venezuela's permanent representative to the united nations say's it's the police who are the trespassers in this situation the activist. they are not us possibly kohls. we are for all family station. i mean the republicans in a swell of the holy. low flow forty's over this without which is the government

oppressed in my little wee she's over i see them to pay that so they're not trespassing that's the 1st thing and 2nd when they are. the afforded the same in the local police the secret service when they. were in. private they actually were breaking. international law the actual. police the local police and all the pacifists but the activists have deigned the attention of some prominent figures on whedon's the 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 however jesse jackson's charo was criticized by big why do appointed ambassador to the u.s. who accused him of supporting human rights violators reverend jackson explain to us

why he decided to help the protesters. who the mother was because the murderer could oh and that was not right. in this case no one wins. and it's going to reduce the room of reconciles. real credible can bring the us cannot do it alone and replace one government for another. with the democracy it is in there's a lot of then a movement to write about international law and human rights and so to terminations with a nation most people must protest that ok that is our news for no but next views forcibly held down rigorously argued in our debate show cross-talk joined peter and gas and moments as they ask who's the real shaper of american foreign policy.

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a low and welcome to cross talk we're all things considered i'm peter lavelle is donald trump's national security advisor john bolton a clear and present danger to america and the world is saber rattling in the middle east particularly against iran should concern us we are forced to ask a fundamental question is colton the primary architect of trump's foreign policy. cross talking john bolton i'm joined by my guest brian becker in washington he's the director of the answer coalition as well as host of loud and clear daily new show on radio sputnik also in washington we have gareth porter he's an independent investigative journalist and historian as well as author of manufactured crisis the untold story of the iran nuclear scare and in boston we cross to max abrams.