policy would be to make. the chilean economy scream. tensions in the persian gulf continue to build iran says it has no interest in going to war with the u.s. and its allies president putin says he has been urging everyone to stick to the hard core 2015 is fine with it. and the world's biggest tech companies unveil new rules to crack down on violent content after criticism of their handling of the. what if this was an actual real time alloted stream of child pornography nobody would be even debating this i would say you got to fix this technology. more during your moderating in real time more videos or.

4 hours a day 7 days a week a time for the weekly here on alt international with me these are all top stories of the week and the latest up to date news of the day welcome to the program the iranian president has said his country is open to holding crisis talks with its international partners but will not respond positively to hostility and attempts at coercion hassan rouhani is comments come as tensions flare in the persian gulf and fears of conflict between iran and the us. why we welcome to go we do not negotiate with a party that behaves like a bully and takes a knife out of his pocket and forces a stone talks we do not hold such negotiations with anybody in their neighbors or straight instability or terror everywhere we go in the middle east it's already in iran iran and made destabilizing influence in the middle east spread destruction

and chaos the leaders of iran are racketeers the world's largest financier of international terrorism behind every problem is a red and we've been trying to do is to get iran to behave like the old way should . the us has been waging what it calls a maximum pressure campaign against iran since withdrawing from the j c p a nuclear deal last year and has imposed crippling sanctions on the islamic republic earlier this month to iran responded by saying it would be enriching uranium at high levels unless the remaining signatories to the landmark accord take measures to shield it from u.s. penalties given washington a fresh impetus to time iran is looking to develop nuclear weapons and allegation it has always denied with more now on the escalating dispute has done a whole can. seems now although hostilities have reached new heights the u.s. has issued a security alert all its non-emergency personnel in iraq asking them to immediately

depart from the u.s. embassy in baghdad and from the consulate bill that's an order that relates to all non-emergency personnel now why the sudden panic well this security alert mentions no specific threats or reasons nevertheless though officials haven't explained these recent developments and how any sort of iranian threat would actually manifest itself to harm u.s. personnel tensions were wrapped up last week when the u.s. deployed an aircraft carrier group complete with bombers to the region iran is the scribed all such moves are psychological warfare. stating that they're not looking for confrontation or war but they would respond to anything made viewed as u.s. aggression that some. view other echoed by washington as well now the root of all of these recent troubles this recent escalation was of course troops withdraw from iran nuclear treaty that was criticized roundly by the other signatories party to that agreement it was followed by threats of sanctions saber rattling and rhetoric

on all sides certainly things are not slowing down and concerns globally are growing of just how far things can be pushed to the brink and you see this type of high you can't help it but you remember what the united states did when they wanted to attack iraq in 2003 come and go the. bogus intelligence. issues that really is something that should be taken seriously at the same people john bolton. working work for the u.s. government that gives us national security. and he wrote an article in march of 2015 calling for a military strike on iran iran is not interested in a military confrontation with the united states so when you look at the u.s. history you see false flag operations you see different types of initiatives when the u.s. wants to attack a country they come up with excuses so i hope we're not seeing that if you talk.

iran was part of the broader discussion between the top diplomats of russia and the us which took place this week in the russian resort of sochi the russian president was also in attendance and here to rant to stick to the 2050 nuclear deal despite the u.s. pulling out. i mean you can so wish me to go if i was at all sure that americans have withdrawn from the iran nuclear deal so the deal is coming apart european countries can't do anything to save it and can't really cooperate with iran to compensate their economic losses but as soon as iran makes its 1st steps in responding and announces its withdrawal everyone will immediately forget that it was the us who initiated the collapse and everyone will end up blaming it all on iran russia saying that it believes the iranian nuclear deal of 2015 is the best option going forward it's a system a platform a framework that's already established that will guarantee to the international

community that iran isn't pursuing nuclear weapons the united states agreeing to disagree the united states will continue to apply pressure to the regime in tehran until its leadership is prepared to return to the ranks of responsible nations that do not threaten their neighbors or spread instability or terror or mouse and we have many disagreements on iran now but the fact that we've started talking on this issue gives us hope that we will be able to achieve agreements if both sides show willingness to do that nevertheless both sides have said that you know they will continue to work together on coming up with some sort of solution along with the other signatories of the iran iranian nuclear deal. and venezuela we have disagreement i urge my russian colleagues to support the venezuelan people as they return democracy to their country. the united states and more than 50 other nations agree that the time has come for nicolas maduro to go

he's brought nothing but misery to the venezuelan people. and we hope that the russians to support. form a durable will and democracy to steal or use them on democracy can be imposed by force the threats coming both from u.s. officials and the opposition leader won quite. who is always reminding us of the possibility of military intervention have nothing to do with democracy. what booth countries seem to agree on is that it's very that should decide what happens to their country they've managed to talk about all their differences and they vanish not as you see teach other we disagree on this this is how we see it. 5 major internet giants have committed to combat in violent content online after world leaders urged them to do so at a summit in paris on wednesday that meeting was convened in response to the recent terror attack in christchurch new zealand which was live streamed and then widely

shared facebook. terrorism and violent extremism are complex societal problems that required all of society response for our part the commitments we are making today will further strengthen the partnership the government society and the technology industry must have to address these threats the tech firms including google and microsoft have signed up to ban anyone who shares violent or extremist content they've also pledged to follow up on the terrorist propaganda promptly while new rules for live streams will be implemented in new zealand 10 people have been charged so far for sharing the video of the christchurch massacre. in march this year a gunman killed 51 people into mass video was uploaded around one and a half 1000000 times on facebook in the day that followed the live stream. we discussed who should shoulder responsibility for removing extremist content platforms or users with privacy activists bill new media analyst lionel and rights

attorney jennifer brandt and. you have an army not just with facebook but with twitter there's an army of contractors employees and other people who are there to immediately get it off right away as has been stated this happens with people that's a spouse certain political opinions and other ideologies and so now we're talking about you know we're. talking about getting off far more egregious things monitoring or moderating in real time what these videos are and what the content is funding some research to try and improve their ability to detect this in real time with sort of automated means which is absolutely necessary given the volume of content but the technology simply isn't up to it yet the idea of somebody actually showing in broadcasting real time the slaughter of human beings all make it even simpler what if this was an actual real time live stream of child pornography nobody would be even debating this i would say you've got to fix this technology

and now this is nothing to do with freedom of expression nothing to do with the dissemination of ideas in no way does it violate and by the way very quickly facebook has the most incredible celerity what it comes to shutting down and immediately knocking somebody off who are spouses a poll a little opinion just by merely supporting somebody you need to recognize the fact that a 1000000 copies were taken down effectively and we need to actually take a hat off to facebook the fact that it did take down so many different copy there would have been any number of different videos being all being shot civil taney asli and i see dealing with all those in real time would be almost impossible but those were the perpetrators do you publish them is that report told do you allow that what about people who are filming atrocities in miami more they're doing genuine reports do you allow that if it appears to be atrocious attacks and therefore we actually have to be slightly more realistic than saying the technology

could do it come on get you move get a move on their answer for more complicated challenges they have i do believe and i know that they have this technology not only do they have that they have hundreds upon thousands of employees of contractors of people whose jobs it is to sit there and to see what's coming up and the moment something that is violent that is agreed just as her. the horrific thing about this is that we are now given social media giants like facebook and twitter a very very severe amount of power that was supposed to only be a spouse of the us government federal government and state governments under the 1st amendment and now it's as if social media giants and platforms like facebook or twitter have taken over the you know what you guys have your 1st amendment governments you can't do anything we're the ones who dictate your speech now that's dangerous and that's something that needs to be consistently watched i don't want to hear anybody tell me that the technology is not there or there's no way to monitor this because let me tell you something if this war is something that was

contrary to the zuckerberg world view it would be awful for anybody even thought it so they're dragging their feet it's nonsense and they know exactly what has to be done and they're simply not doing it. the pentagon is sent to have developed a secret to weapon it's a missile with blades nicknamed the ninja bomb is designed to be more accurate than explosives in this reduce civilian casualties in drone strikes. as the details. drone warfare has long been part of the us government's war on terror and it's gotten ugly on more than one occasion. killing people by these drones basically sitting on

a screen and eliminating people. dehumanizing them. as if you know from some other planet not giving them a basic right of proving their innocence i mean it it violates all norms of justice on top of that it's all classified so leaking the methodology behind what human rights groups have called a method for extrajudicial executions can get you in a lot of trouble for daniel hale and n.s.a. officer and now suspected whistleblower that could mean up to 15 years in jail that echoes chelsea manning say she's just recently been released from jail for refusing to testify before a grand jury but she could return soon as she's already got another subpoena now to be fair u.s. leaders have long talked about their deep conviction over civilian deaths the architecture of the legal texture around to the use of drone strikes or other committed strikes wasn't as precise as it should have been and there's no doubt

that civilians were killed but shouldn't have but apparently it was u.s. president barack obama who ordered the creation of a new missile device that would increase the percentage and accuracy of these predator drone strikes and minimize civilian casualties it's apparently called the ninja bomb now it may be the pentagon's worst kept secret they have not officially confirmed it but so far several military officials have said that it's being used it's argued. that the new missile might enhance the image of the united states in the countries that are already subject to u.s. military drone strike operations unlike a regular missile it doesn't explode instead it deploys 6 blades that fanned out of its casing moments before impact blades are so sharp they can cut through vehicles and slice their target into pieces so we've got blades flinging through the air in order to reduce civilian casualties sounds plausible enough apparently the new ninja bomb has already been used in iraq libya syria somalia and yemen so is this

new missile the answer will it improve the image of the drone strike program in the eyes of the american public what do you think of the drone strike program. ok with it i know nothing about it it's pretty awful actually we have this thing now called a bomb and what it is is it and when it detonates it sends blades through the air and the idea is this will minimize civilian casualties we can pick the terrorist we want to kill send the ninja bomb and fewer civilians will be killed you know that the blades kill the terrorists and not the civilians it doesn't seem like that you can target maybe specific people with that seems like you'll just. spread out a lot of. a lot of damage i think that's also did a pretty good program number limit civilian casualties you're going to do not that's not happening i think if somebody suggested that that. i had i don't think that is even real i don't think it really busy. room reduces actually so i think

this is a. propaganda whatever you want to call it that way too many people you know there's a kinder gentler way of killing people one of those through the nation which. you want to encourage the viewer writes the kind of person you're talking about. actually you know also paul and the notion knows that as a nation whether personal history of general i was totally unacceptable. we've asked the pentagon to comment on the reports and will let you know when we get a reply. tensions have fled between the philippines and canada over a 9 defunct garbage disposal deal story animal still ahead on a weekly. 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 that only really exists i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical time to sit down and talk. i am reluctant to give credit to the president trying for just about anything but by action in a way when he said at the beginning of his presidency that he be open to work to one state or a 2 state solution whatever he is rising above is going to agree on i think that was actually a smart thing to say a given the legacy of american support for israel you expansion essentially over the decades given the kind of political culture and political system that israel has developed there really isn't a way to negotiate something between palestinians and israelis.

welcome back to the program the united nations is not to grant amnesty to soldiers accused of historical battlefield offenses it comes in response to a proposal outlined by the country's defense secretary this week which would see british service personnel shielded from repeated investigations into possible war crimes dating back more than 10 years. plans have also been condemned by whites. it would be utterly disingenuous to have a presumption of non-prosecution for abuse yet at the same time claim justice is being solved british soldiers who break the law must face just like everyone else these proposals potentially set a dangerous precedent. and he will add another to the controversy by saying she

would like to extend the protections to troops who served in northern ireland as well with more on the story his polyploid. 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 industries 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 speaker i competed 72 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 the fate of those detained by them remains unknown. 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 selves to get our voices heard on the one article 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 of fighters on the battlefield that's obviously really dangerous because obviously the battle is one place where there's lots of very wonderful people civilians and armed people and 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 a blanket amnesty or exemption for anyone anywhere couldn't find an easy way to say that we will now bring all of these veterans back into the court and this will be our intention from the. a feud between the philippines and canada waste disposal has escalated with minute are calling its ambassador on wednesday that's off the calendar refused to take back 100 shipping containers of household waste it sent to the philippines back in 2013. that recall

shows that we are. very serious. asking them to get back their otherwise. severe relationships with them. it was later discovered the waste had been mislabeled as containing recyclable plastic and at 2016 a court in the philippines ordered the canadian company to take the rubbish back but it continues to languish at a landfill site last month the outspoken filipino president gave canada a stark warning after more than a year of waiting for the canadian prime minister to get things moving will declare war against canada we can take them down i'll return the trash just wait and see i will advise canada that your garbage is on the way prepare a ground reception eat it if you want to it is theoretically possible to get it back but there's still a number of questions around who will pay for it where the financial responsibility

is where the consequences are however a foreign affairs analyst we spoke to in manila says justin trudeau has failed to make good on those earlier promises. very long time to feel the king size being unfortunately the recipient of top seek ways including nuclear waste from the united states in software western allies so this case shows the lingering for quite long science fiction a day in one of those however a summer of 0.4 for the philippines for if you're president you going to tear that because with no plan these are just introduce us here in the last 2 years ago for the audience saw me he promised that they're going to take back the trust of the garbage toxic garbs that was left here lingering since 2030 and to your scheme that has not been happening i mean the canadian government is saying that this was a private deal between a canadian company and if filipino counterpart in the 1st guinea there's also good say that you know it's not only the case against all these also whoever was able to

accept these back in 2013 in the philippines this is the greatest diplomatic crisis could get the president the duty to long term holidays philippines and canada be watching them we cannot international i'll be back with whom they sit around 30 minutes time say to stay with us. after the previous stage of my career was over everyone wondered what i was going to do next about different clubs on one hand it is logical to sit in the home fields where everything is familiar on the other i wanted a new challenge and the fresh perspective i'm used to surprising us all why not if you think. i'm going to talk about football not the or else if you think i was going to go.

by the way ways of that slide here. in 2040 you know bloody revolution to the demonstrations going from being relatively peaceful political protests to be creasing the violent revolution is always spontaneous or is it just a lawyer but i mean your list book video put him in the new bill is that i mean you split needle the former ukrainian president recalls the events of 2014. of those who took. it invested over $5000000000.00 to assist ukraine in these and other goals that will ensure a secure and prosperous and democratic. and those who they are supporting cost and they have they don't care about me or they don't care about this the beneath you know for libya the only thing the cure is about their own agendas and so we might be bugged here for

a long time you can be really a civil war that continues for 4 months time. on welcome to worlds apart the 2 state solution may still be didn't mantra in international circles but it's increasingly hollow and deceitful promise for these release and palestinians alike according to polls to majority on both sides find it either undesirable or unfeasible thomas more of the status quo will it take to finally change tack well to discuss that i'm now joined by. professor of political

science at the university of pennsylvania professor list it's good to talk to you thank you very much for your time glad to be here now i know that you personally started out as a supporter of the 2 state solution but then you changed your mind completely and i think for the majority of of our audience 2 states between the river and the sea still seems like the most optimal and the fairest option why do you think it's good in theory and not so good in practice i put it this way you're correct back in the late 1600970 s. i was i began to be interested in the 2 state solution and became very active both as an activist and as a scholar and studying it and i believed until maybe about 10 years ago that it was not only the prettiest picture of the future that i could imagine as plausible but also one that could be achieved through negotiations but as a result of the processes that i and others have been warning about for decades of

de facto annexation of u.s. bank in the credible ization of the entire process polarization and so on i no longer think that it's an achievable picture so as if there is one thing to discuss what's the best solution as far as well what would the prettiest picture of the future that you. imagine be the fairest one the prettiest one the most attractive but if you can't figure out a way to get there then it's not really a solution it's just a picture so i'm not really saying any that there is a one state pretty picture either yet but i can tell you that there is no way busy to get to a negotiated 2 state solution from where we are now and the continued attempt to do so is is retarding the process of actually making progress toward a democratic solution for all the peoples who live between the sea in the river now about 2 years ago soon after president trumps inauguration you wrote that by anding

this almost obligatory fixation on the 2 state solution trump may be opening the door for something more realistic do you still feel that way by accident i am reluctant to give credit to the president trying for just about anything but as the saying goes a broken watch is right twice a day and by accident away when he is at the beginning of his presidency that he be open to a 21 state or a 2 state solution whatever the is or isn't a balance going to agree on i think that was actually a smart thing to say and it recognized and in a way the position of the white house that the 2 state solution is no longer achievable through negotiation is correct there is no way to a given the legacy of american for some support for israel you expansion essentially over the decades given the kind of political culture and political system that israel has developed there are.