he's going to people. in the. american mainstream media now warn of the dangerous precedent being set. by washington's. president trump announces he's sending more troops to the middle east and expediting arms sales to the region in order to keep iran in check. and the un's educational body unesco warns the automated voice assistance like siri. the most gender stereotypes.

international live from our studio with me welcome to the program concern in the journalistic community is mounting after the u.s. 17 for the charges against you. in what's being described as an attack on media freedom and detect a ration of war on journalists a song his lawyer summarize the watery. 170 years in prison for publishing truthful information an indictment which captures what is typical news gathering activity for investigative journalist journalist it is all day every day so it's 17 new counts what american prosecutors are now stacking up against you in a songe is probably enough to put a whole basketball team behind bars. and we keep leagues have repeatedly sought and detained and disseminated information that the us classified due to serious risk dragging big fat skeletons out of government clausewitz once that was seen as

top class journalism at its best those were the days remember the $971.00 pentagon papers released about the vietnam related ugly skeletons. talking about exposing years of government secrets is that legal what is it is that we do here for a living those who dog all of it out or made to the secret info public were praised that was nowhere near the kind of media treatment mr received the free process not responsible for the origins of any material that gets to us. unless of course we are responsible for it because we had something to do with how it was a leak illegally obtained if someone's life was potentially at risk responsible media would not publish yes these are conversations hard conversations that are had

in newsrooms around the country and the world at the end of the day what would you say to those people who claim that look he's his activities to follow mold john made the good you're not allowed to help instruct you're not allowed to try to help somebody defeat security system even the most russia gating media people out there who would have all but destroyed weiqi leagues for getting the d.n.c. e-mails out are now feeling something's wrong with this new indictment this is to put it bluntly wrong unconstitutional and downright tyrannical this is a pretty aggressive new move by the justice department the big deal here for a 1st amendment advocates the government is now trying to assert this brand new right to criminally prosecute people for publishing secret stuff and newspapers and magazines and investigative journalists and all sorts of different entities publish secret stuff all the time that is the bread and butter of what we do however for all these years while julian a songs have to hide in london's ecuadorian embassy

and we all know why these folks pretty much kept on his fate because obviously there were plenty of other real threats to american journalism i.e. the cornerstone of democracy like the president calling them bad things or c.n.n. says jim acosta getting his white house pass revoked for causing trouble at a press conference this is a journalist who has spent his career doing what i think the great journalists do which is holding power to account i do think they're trying to to shut us down to some extent the reality is that this is could possibly be the new normal and that's what people are for that's not ok that's why. lawsuit is actually happening i think they're trying to send a message to our colleagues well it's now finally the week it leaks founder's fate was able to squeeze out a few 1st amendment tears on american news now it's probably too late

anyway. as long as split opinion reacted to the latest twist in his tale. we're talking a lot about 1st amendment issues and 1st amendment rights and it is very important to look at that i mean we're looking at social media mass banning censorship of certain political party outputs certain media commentators this is another platform we're talking about these are laws that really need to be looked at the 1st amendment has come up a lot not just with twitter banning but with banning of other people and a lot of the people that are being banned are journalists are either freelance journalists or members of the media in some way and so this is a very important case to look at the prosecution of today in the sun is part and parcel of trump's war on the free press full stop and i think we'll be limited takers for that actually both i think the u.s. and here look the reason important process exists both in the united states in america and across the world although the 1st amendment the reserve to be a news gathering and clearly where julian the psalms goes united states of america

assuming he does that there will be a court case to the supreme court related to that but if you look at where bradley manning released all they say information he was ultimately paul didn't brock obama not because there's there's a process here what cannot be allowed to happen. a group of people in the military intelligence services. break the laws i think it's a basic mark of respect to chelsea manning to get her name right and and give her due respect on that score in addition she was never a part of the administration i wish she had been her sentence was commuted which means that her conviction her conviction stands which is something that she is still being appealed and i believe will go all the way up to the supreme court i think if you look at the elements of the espionage act itself and of what's happened i mean this this could seem like a case where there could be some issues that he has to face and that he has to own

up to but there also is the the facts that have come out that they haven't seen a lot. people who were who were either killed or damaged in the light of duty because of this so they're have to look at actual damages and harm that this cause it's worth remembering that that particular claim which was rehearsed during chelsea's court martial was no it was never proven at the court martial and information extracted from the us government by a freedom of information request subsequently has shown that in the very extensive surveys the us government did after the manning disclosures they could not find a single person who had been harmed by those disclosures he's not a proper journalist it will be for the american courts to decide whether what he did was not terrorism and that spirit knowledge or whether he is a genuine journalist my own view is that julian the sarge was dragged out of the ecuadorian embassy like a scared badger in the headlights and actually the truth the matter was he has been afraid of making his case to a group of juries i'm courts actually properly constituted. i'm serious i think

he needs to go to america and he needs to make his case in front of the american courts which may you although you may not accept that he's a journalist but what you can't do is what he did when he ridiculed the united kingdom by hiding in the ecuadorian embassy here in the science has been a member of australia's accredited journalism union and since 2007 julian of psalms is pretending that britain and america are like north korea i think julian charge should do is make his case and good luck to him i think it's going to be a fight but i think i think he can win it because what has happened with this superseding indictment it makes the issue absolutely crystal clear i think this is going to be a much bigger case than people imagine look at the end of the day i could scream and cry and insult others and just and just sit there and sob and baying my feet like a baby and called conspiracy theory when i don't like something but there are facts there are laws and all of that is going to be assessed very soon. the trumpet

ministration declared an emergency to bypass congress and move ahead with massive arms sales to saudi arabia the united arab emirates and jordan citing the threat posed by iran. i directed the department to complete immediately the formal notification of $22.00 pending arms transfers to jordan the united arab emirates and saudi arabia totaling approximately $8100000000.00 to deter iranian aggression and build partners self defense capacity these sales will support our allies and hands middle east stability and help these nations to deter and defend themselves from the islamic republic of iran. next and weapon sales came hot on the heels of president china's announcement on friday that additional u.s. troops would be sent to the middle east their official purpose is to maintain the status quo in the region oddly only the day before he had said there was no need

for boosting the u.s. troop presence that though the actual number now being sent is significantly lower than previous reports had suggested. we want to have protection in the middle east we're going to be sending a relatively small number of troops a boastfully project to. some very talented people are going to the middle east right now we'll see how and we'll see what happens. it'll be about 1500 people we have seen reports in recent days that the united states was preparing to increase its troop presence in the middle east was some reports claiming that national security advisor john bolton was pushing for at least 120000 troops to be sent to the middle east to prepare for a possible war with iran there are reports of claim that that number will likely be between 510000 troops this comes after reports from u.s. intelligence claimed their wrong was directing militias to target american forces

in the middle east in response to those reports the united states increased its military presence in the region and it also won as far as to call for the withdrawal of all non-emergency personnel in iraq citing threats from iran congress hasn't. to pass a resolution declaring war on iran and the senate foreign relations committee follow the past a proposal that would have require congressional approval before any military action against iran multiple senators expressed frustration with this and they pointed to the fact that without the need for congressional approval the united states can continue to wage war in the middle east as it has done in countries like syria iraq and afghanistan without any checks or balances or you worry very much that intentionally or unintentionally we can create a situation in which a war will take place a war that will go on and on and on and that's been our worry from the beginning

that this is beyond escalation with the hope that the arabians will come to the table and the best thing to happen is for everybody to calm down in iran divac and i'm hoping that this show of force will result in deescalating you know the escalating despite the fact that multiple u.s. officials have continued to warn about an imminent threat from iran against u.s. forces in the middle east president trump has said that he does not want to go to war with the country and at the same time iran's president has also said that he does not want to go to war with the united states and he has called for a merge and some talks to be held in a neighboring country so for now it remains to be seen just how many troops the united states will the ploy to the middle east if that number will remain at 1500 or go even higher and exactly what those troops will be used for the u.s. is unfortunately going down the confrontation the transit ministration on the

surface it is constantly repeat is that it wants to negotiate with iran in trying saying that it wants to talk with the rainy and leaders however reality what we have been witnessing is that in the past 2 years the u.s. administration is taking a very hostile act. towards you want i mean for example the recent announcement of sending troops and the sending of a u.s. aircraft carrier towards you wrong if you look at it from the ukrainian perspective are seen very as as a very hostile iraq for example if we reverse this situation how would americans feel if iran started to send a tank ships near the coast of florida and started to position so-called creek tekton troops in mexico i don't think they would like that and we have the same situation in iraq. in any war those so-called collateral damage and that includes trying to force china and the us again to the threats economically for health care to pulp and reports on those caught in the trade will

cross by. the trade war between china and the united states is not just affecting the 2 countries take for example the dominican republic. the head of the u.s. government's development finance institution recently called them out for allegedly being too friendly with beijing the aforementioned u.s. government official questioned the chinese dominican relationship without any proof and aims to interfere in the current stable development of the bonds of friendship and cooperation between china and the dominican republic we object to this comment which is lacking in respect to both the chinese and the dominican side dominican officials have remained silent on the matter. canada is also at this point mean deep in geopolitical tension recently canadian officials arrested the chief financial officer of wow a china's telecom giant 2 canadians are being held in china and charged with spying

john bolton says that it is simply retaliation. china is punishing canada for upholding its treaty obligations in the rule of law the u.s. stands with canada in efforts to secure the release of its citizens unfairly detained in china but how does the usa stand with canada the prime minister is certainly not happy with the situation any time the world's 2 largest economies are engaged in what is increasingly look like an acrimonious trade war there are going to be unintended consequences to the global economy and to other countries countries like canada. the u.s. secretary of state mike palm pale says that the philippines is being kicked around and that the usa is with them against those power hungry chinese obligations are real the south china sea is certainly part of an important body of water for

freedom of navigation i think the whole world understands that the trumpet ministration has made a true commitment to making sure that the seas remain open as the south china sea as part of the pacific and the armed attack on philippine forces aircraft or public vessels in the south china sea would trigger mutual defense obligations under article 4 of our mutual defense treaty the present guitar day doesn't seem to agree he actually visited beijing a month ago and now he describes a glowing relationship and there who are both leaving their nieces with. the food is the beauty of it is even if. he's a good. deal of the night he was very. recently italy signed on with china's belton road initiative to build infrastructure across the developing world and the usa was not thrilled. italy's

a major global economy and a great investment destination indorsing the initiative to china's spread reproached investment will bring no benefits to the italian people but italy disregarded u.s. concerns and went all the way in with the asian infrastructure investment bank as the clash between china and the united states gets bigger it's likely also get messier many international observers have got to be asking themselves how many other nations are going to get caught in the crossfire unfortunately most of these countries the middle part of smaller countries they have all become collateral damage in this mismanagement of us china relations and the us aggravated korean war they know that they are dependent on board markets countries like the philippines malaysia. indonesia of vietnam i'm not going to pick sides but i'm fearful that the us at this point of time is using every avenue possible to

place pressure on china the u.s. is going to be hurt china is going to be hurt. region which is one of the most dynamic economic regions they're all going to be hurt so they're really nor with nerves. it's just it's just a question of who knows loses more. automated voice assistants like siri and alexa can be a problem for example when they fail to do is that told all misunderstand what you say but you know things there are a bigger problem that the educational body of the un in a new 150 page report is raising the sex as a law claiming that these robotic helpers promote gender stereotypes. this observing soap digital voice assistance becomes especially concerning when

these machines on top of more farms this female basic knowledge accompanies good deflecting like last year or apologetic responses to verbal sexual harassment. because of the speech of most voice assistants is female it sends a signal that women are obliging sorrow and eager to please help produce a pile of bull at the touch of a but. we carried out research and found that a woman's voice is more sympathetic and better received. the. user's prefer gendered human voice service on the topic have indicated that people often state a preference for gender neutral. you. have

to be good to me. i swear i heard good german respond to the phrase you're hard for 60 minutes with in a confused job i'm. not human beings just a computer algorithm these people get a life. thank you the last post gentleness course is to think of me like siri are lesser but neither male nor female. i don't see that being a problem on the other side of the software and really think that that's gone a bit too far i really do and the people that are thinking that that is

sexist or that there's a statement against women i believe that they have just overstep overstepped a bit we're not going to stop people problems by changing machines is not a machine problem it is a people problem it is internal we have bigger issues on this planet than whether or not the voice on the phone is is male or female we'll be back in a couple of minutes after this break.

historically to accuse opponents used to claim that there are 3 issues. and to accuse 2 muslim the fact as we were too poor is no longer correct because our per capita purchase parity is higher than some of the cura do you remember a country. back to the program in palestine has rejected

a deal tightened by donald trump and his son and. as the deal of the century which offered the billions in exchange for peace. when we looked at the palestinians we said what are the opportunities i think what's been holding them back economically and obviously of the core issues because you need to resolve the core issues to be able to move forward so we started doing is going to an economic vision for how do you take that region and push it forward in a more substantial way and so i think we built a very good business plan the deal would reportedly require palestine to give up claims on the occupied territories and jerusalem in exchange for high be investment and a state called new palestine would be established within the borders of the west bank and the gaza strip though it would be from britain from having an army reports. american president donald trump might think he's dangling a carrot by offering palestinian businessmen tens of billions of dollars if they sign up to his much touted peace plan which is still shrouded in secrecy but it

will portie office palestinians sovereignty although not a full state and it allows israel to annex the large settlement blocks but here in ramallah the message is a resoundingly no thank you i'm in front of the headquarters of one of the largest companies in information technology in palestine after receiving an invitation from places in trouble to attend the conference makes in the rain to discuss things its chairman says he was quite frankly insulted and should be away for supervised release for this as they called it that is for developing the bit of steam in the economy from my personal perspective i see it's not a successful conference sexually and so patient for people to see new. business people because it came out of school. so than one it was a big surprise for us it was you could situation is the us administration

unfortunately that it's the us to use was all of that. the world is standing. and the. conditions and meeting this is the meeting in the rain is supposed to show palestinian business leaders the benefits fell weak under the so-called american deal of the century but without being consulted as to what exactly the details of that deal entails the official word from the palestinian leadership is we do not trade our national whites for money business leaders here say they will not people with cash but if you need commies suffering really everybody knows that they were seen economies in a bad situation actually the world bank and they may have seeing that we are almost in recession. of course helping people to kind of ease people to back to this is not the way the freak if you want to look for with the but if he thought of the suffering from number one is the patient so they were speaking about the issues of

billions and at the same time the really good morning the reasons why the me is suffering with a bit of seniors who has the problem if they are not speaking to us and they will speak a lot i don't know how they going to implement that plan if they want to enforce the plan they came to us is a strong country they can enforce a plan but this plan will not succeed it's taken trump more than 2 years to reach this point his son in law who was tasked with working out the details has been meeting with arab countries to bring them on board but for trump for whom the art of the deal is everything he's about to learn that at least here buying his way to a deal seemingly does not work paula r.t. the. u.s. senate armed services committee has authorized a 2020 defense spending budget bloated to levels not seen since the iraq war the money will go to counseling the perceived threat posed by political rivals.

we aligned the budget and the resources of each service with our strategic priorities addressing great power competition regain. our combat advantage in making the pentagon run more effectively and efficiently defense spending next year will now rise to $750000000000.00 it's the 2nd big hike in 2 years 10000000000 is for 16 fighter jets the budget plan for us is a ban on jet exports to turkey should ankara decide to shop for arms in russia and there are plans to launch a new branch of the armed forces a space force and more center of cold war plans for a star wars a program the us military is getting its latest super sized cash injection at a time when it already massively outspends the rest of the world in this fear in 2018 washington spent this much on military then the u.s. budget exceeded those of the next 7 countries combined antiwar activist david

swanson says the money would be better we directed to other parts of the u.s. economy. i think the overwhelming justification is that lead in your book is going to get us in our sleep but beyond that it's really gets pretty ludicrous when ever the pentagon is actually asked for a justification oftentimes they just cannot come up with one of 4 for the for the best bulk of the budget not just the increase but the money has to come out of the military. and go into useful things that people don't talk about this. on top of which is where you ask how could you spend all this money on a green new deal or how can you spend all this money on health care these are things that actually save money it don't cost money the cost in the long run of switching to clean energy of switching just sustainable energy use in the negative

trillions of dollars it's money in the long run. to baby bears have found a new. at his special facility in central russia after their mother abandoned the little fence on the n.h.s. at the center which has a long history of rescuing couples. in the desert there for nearly all the bear cubs that have passed through our hands since 1975 have been orphaned. the one. that used was the one that you're going to want to put up with if earlier it was due to illegal hunting which was then stopped now the main reason these widespread logging this sound over grief and this scares the mother bear out of her down the worst thing is she will never come back.

when the cops get to be about 6 weeks old we take them to the separate buildings where there's no sound or smell of humans. on us now i'll be back around 30 minutes time with a more global update so to stay with us. they were going to see that happen to fortunately it was not feet but they managed to overthrow the previous government. the former president and c.e.o. of oil rich. city of the country people wanted much more and they didn't want just love the idea was to travel freely with.