change of attitude american mainstream media now warn of the dangerous precedent being set by washington's intensified pursuit of. u.s. president donald 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 netflix show reasons why about a teen who kills himself fresh outrage with critics saying it should be pulled from the platform for romanticising suicide i guess weigh in. on the problem is the

kind of you know. we have to. put the onus on the parents i think parents have to be more. of their children. it's 9 o'clock here in moscow and you're watching all to international live from our studio with me. welcome to the program. concern in the journalistic community is mounting on after the u.s. falls 17 for the charges against you on thursday in what's being described as an attack on media freedom and a declaration of war this. summarized the worry. 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 as songe and we keep leagues have repeatedly sought and obtained 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 pentagon papers release about the vietnam related ugly skeletons. you're talking about exposing years of government secrets is that legal what is it you think 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 saunders received the

free process is 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 illegally obtained if someone's life was potentially a risk responsible media you 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 do claim that look he's his activities to follow mold john made 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 is 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 the cornerstone of democracy like the president calling them bad things or cnn's 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 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 the lawsuit is actually happening i think they're trying to send a message to our colleagues well if now finally the week at least founders 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 on gas 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 fuel in the sand is part and parcel of trump's war on the free press full stop and i think they'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 gatherer and clearly where julian the songs go see united states of america assuming he does that there will be court case to the supremes courts related to that but if you look at where bradley manning released all they see information he was ultimately paul good and by 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 espionage 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 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. these same 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 of 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 her hearst during chelsea's court martial was no it was never proven at the court martial and information extracted from the u.s. government by freedom of information request subsequently has shown that in the very extensive surveys the u.s. 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 the espionage or whether he is a genuine journalist my own view is that julian the sarge was dragged down so the i could say like a skillet in the headlights and actually the truth of martha was he has been afraid of making his case to a group of juries i'm courts that actually properly constituted judge you and 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 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 songs is pretending that britain and america are like north korea i think julie the song 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 baton being my feet like a baby in call conspiracy theory when i don't like something but there are facts there are laws and all of that is going to. a.s.'s very soon. the trumpet ministration has declared an emergency to bypass congress and they've had with massive on sale society 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. the expedited weapons sales came hot on the heels of president trump's announcement on friday as 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 said there was no need for boosting the u.s. troop presence that the actual number now being sent is significantly lower than previous reports that suggested. we want to have project should 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 and 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 has yet to pass a resolution declaring war on iran and the senate foreign relations committee felt that passed a proposal that would have required 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 afghan. stana without any checks or balances to worry very much but intentionally or unintentionally. we can create a situation in which a war will take place a war busy 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 iranians will come to the table you mean and the best thing to happen is for everybody to come down on iran to back off and i'm hoping that this show of force will result in deescalating not escalate and that's right 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 a path of confrontation the trumpet ministration on the surface it has constantly repeated that it wants to negotiate with iran and trying saying that it wants to talk with the rainy and leaders however the 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 iran if you look at it from the ukrainian perspective are seen very as as a very hostile act for example if we reverse the situation how would americans feel

if iran started to send attack ships near the coast of florida and started to position so-called creek tect. troops in mexico i don't think they would like that and we have the same situation in iraq. the u.s. senate armed services committee has passed a 2020 defense spending bill bloated to levels not seen since the iraq war if passed by congress the money will go to country perceived threat posed by geo political rivals. we aligned the budget and the resources of each service with our strategic priorities addressing great power competition regaining our combat advantage in making the pentagon run more effectively and efficiently if passed defense spending next year would rise to $750000000000.00 it would be the 2nd big hike in 2 years 10000000000 is earmarked for 16 new fighter jets the budget plan foresees

a ban on jet exports to turkey should anchor inside to shell farms in russia and there are plans to launch a new branch of the armed forces a space force reminiscent of cold war plans for a star wars program the u.s. military would be getting its latest super size cash injection at a time when it already massively outspends the rest of the world in this fear in a 2018 washington spend this much on military and then the us budget exceeded those of the next 7 countries combined antiwar activist david swanson says the money would be better re directed to other parts of the u.s. economy. i think the be overwhelming justification is that lead in your book is going to get us in our sleep but beyond that it really gets pretty ludicrous when ever the pentagon is actually asked for a justification oftentimes they just cannot come up with one for it for the for the

best bulk of the budget not just the increase but that money has to come out of the military and go into use. it people don't. don't talk about this. topples 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 saves money in the long run. shaming t.v. show provider netflix is under fire for hosting content accused of romanticizing suicide the us parents television council has written it to the platform demanding it justify hosting the series 13 reasons why about a teenager who kills herself and it reports the show is encouraging people to take their own life. not only because i'm about to tell you the story of my life.

more specifically why my life ended. and if you're listening to this tape you're one of the reasons why. the council argues that the show should be axed in the interests of children's mental health and safety earlier today started to petition also calling for it to be pulled however a 3rd season is poised for release the council points out that the 1st season reportedly helped drive a 26 percent increase in google searches for how to kill yourself and according to the us national institute of mental health says the show's release the teen suicide rate spiked by over a quarter to netflix says it's examining the research and will address the issue we discuss the show's potential for harm with julia rivera editorial director for reaction times dot com and mark rather a licensed psychotherapist. can the show inspire someone to commit

suicide well yes you know maybe maybe it does but these are children that are probably obviously suffering. with a lot you know obviously they're either dealing with some personal issues in their life god knows if there is abuse you know sexual abuse bullying other kinds of issues you know in people are tying it to the program the problem is that they did kind of you know glamorized it they were kind of romanticized this idea behind it so even though the message was you know there is always help. it will get better term to those who who love. peace behind it was kind of you know kids when they see these kind of things they don't have the frontal lobe isn't developed you know their executive functioning they can understand this idea of it gets better what it is in that moment is what they feel that will always be and so i think there are a lot of kids that kind of ramped on to the. to the energy of that you know i also

we have to give the responsibility on this put the onus on the parents i think parents have to be more involved in the lives of their children they need to communicate more i think kids are growing up now with days with a completely different set of pressures you know the suicide rate did go up after the show that piece of the damage was done because this kind of glamorous product was put out there they're there the parents are there in the show the guidance counselors are there in the show and no one's talking in which is the way it is in the real world when i see teenagers in my practice it takes 23 sometimes 456 sessions for them to really open up and tell me anything these are all things didn't have to be monitored better by parents any decisions that they make you know for netflix to take this showdown will be their own internal decision and it will be driven. by the market quite frankly i mean if people start boycotting netflix because they have this show on then at that point it will become a financial decision and then they'll probably remove it for that reason and i see

a lot of teenagers in my practice and in the in the couple of weeks after that show dropped on netflix it was all every teenager that sat on my couch talked about and in the summer some of the teenagers hated it some of them loved it but what it did is that it sparked discussion and it wasn't about you know the guidance counselors or teachers telling them about what you know what they should think of what they should feel the teenagers were talking with each other and they were kind of talking i call it teen speak they were talking to each other at teenagers to teenagers about a subject matter that you know oftentimes is just kind of swept under the rug so in my opinion that was the biggest value of that show it generated a discussion yes it's a slippery slope it could go either way but i think we have to also put faith in our teenagers you know their wanting to understand this is much as we as adults are . automated voice assistance like siri and a length can be a problem for example when they fail to do is that tell the whole misunderstand

what you say they even ask it thinks their biggest problem and not the educational body of the u.n. in a new 150 page report is raising the sexism a lot claiming that these immobile take help promote gender stereotypes. when we looked at the palestinians we said well what are the opportunities i think it's what's been holding them back economically i think we built a very good business plan. palestine says it won't trade freedom from money off to billions of dollars were offered by washington in exchange felt political concessions were a lot after this break. there is a cyclical nature to things touristy globalization there's globalization there's lowering interest rates there's rising interest rates so when the interest rates rise. the

impact it is said will be instantaneous death. as it were for moves you can see that happen to you it was most of with a moment stallworth for all the previous government. the former president and c.e.o. of course which to free you the country people want that much more and they didn't want just. to travel freely with europe they want to through to become part of. this is very far way to go still you mean you can bring.

welcome back to the program palestine has rejected a deal touted by donald and his son a knowledge or a question as the deal of the century which offered the billions in exchange for peace. and we looked at the palestinians we said what are the opportunities i think what's been holding them back economically i think we built a very good business plan. that deal with reportedly require palestine to give up claims on the occupied territories in jerusalem and exchange for heavy investment and the state called a new palestine would be established within the borders of the west bank and the gaza strip there would be from britain from having. 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 if the port city offers 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 president trump to attend a conference next month in bahrain to discuss things its chairman says he was quite frankly insulted should you where you put the issues for this because they called it that is for developing the palestinian economy from my personal perspective are you see it's not a successful conference. surely. for the people of senior. business people because it came out of school like a sudden one it was a big surprise for us it was because situation is pretty proud of the us administration unfortunately that it's the us to use was all of it we're all. the world is standing beside israel and putting conditions and meeting this is

the meeting and the rain is supposed to show how listing in business leaders the benefits fell weak and of 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 on national rights for money business leaders yet say they will not people with cash but if you need commies suffering. everybody knows that scene economy is in a bad situation actually the world bank and they may have seeing that we are almost in recession. of course helping to see potent but this is not the way the freak if you want to look for what the but it's an economy suffering from number one is the patient so they were speaking about the issues of billions and at the same time then ignoring the reasons why the army is suffering with a bit of seniors who has the problem if they are not speaking to us and they will

speak alone i don't know how they're going to implement that plan if they want to enforce the plan they can the u.s. 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. who was tossed 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 r.t. . 2 baby bears have found a new home at a special facility in central russia after another bout of the little things all the any guess at the center which has a long history of rescuing cups. of live results but for nearly all the bear cubs that have passed through our hands

since 1975 it's have been or since. the one. that used was the lead of the 4 took over if earlier it was due to illegal hunting which was then stopped now the main reason these widespread logging missed 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 is no sound or smell of humans. he has shown us now i'll be back around 30 minutes with will update so do stay with us.

thank you. yet. you don't know the exact of the night the comedy show where americans in america covering america. newser called foreign agents. over the past few weeks i've probably covered the venezuelan embassy a little too much and that's because full disclosure it's the mother of my child so judge me if you want but you can't say you've never had a few too many to kill on a lonely summer night and in embassy we've all been there we've all been there i have new information on the pro clue opposition protesters who have been portrayed

in the mainstream media as just the salt of the earth venice wayland's living in america who want to help their home country by getting the u.s. military to blow up much of it. it turns out a lot of what we saw outside the embassy was the result of an astroturf campaign astroturf is the term given to fake grass roots of prising is usually funded by deep pockets and made to look like average people now while astroturf is a very clever name that is not to be confused with nerve which was the failed anal sex toy made by nerf. nerve nerve got really desperate in like the late ninety's had to come up with new ideas so you see when the program or mob outside the embassy here in d.c. there when they 1st showed up a month ago they were they were yelling racist and homophobic apathetic as they were sexually assaulting women by grabbing their chests and committing just

straight up violence against peace protesters but then it occurred to someone in their group that that might have a bad look to it so a handful of marketing strategist emerged as defacto spokespeople for the mob they are now delegated for interviews with national media outlets deploying a combination of liberal sounding language and identity politics to deflect from the presence of violent sociopathic elements within the mob they also started the hash tag and website ask a venezuelan in order to apply. all of them as well and support us military destruction of their country but since they didn't clarify what to ask a man as well and i just kept emailing the website i was questions like i have my baby because i know dyson vacuum how can it survive in their ways and to shoot that is why that is yes. thank god i asked.