we. still love. children. and a marked change of attitude american mainstream media now warns of the dangerous precedent being set for journalists by washington's intensifying pursuit of julian assange. u.s. president donald trump announces he's sending more troops to the middle east and expects but on arms sales to the region and order to keep him around in check. and the netflix show 13 reasons why about a teen who kills herself sparks fresh outrage with critics saying it should be pulled from the platform for romanticising suicide our guests weigh in. on the problem is that they did kind of you know glamorized if they were kind of romanticized this idea behind it you know we have to give the you responsibility on this saw it put the onus on the parents so i think parents have to be more involved

in the lives of their children. a very warm welcome to the program from all of us here at our church q in moscow thanks for joining us this hour. concerns in the journalistic community is mounting after the u.s. filed a 17 further charges against julian assange on thursday and what's being described as an attack on media freedom and a declaration of war on journalists. and the one who cares about press freedom and the billets of journalists to publish classified government information in the public interest should wholeheartedly condemn the charges against julian the song the most dangerous aspect of this indictment full freedom of the press is that it would criminalize the encouragement of leaks of newsworthy classified information criminalize the acceptance of such information and criminalize publication of it

that's criminalizing journalism 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. i'm 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 press 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 lot 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 claim that no. his activities far more john made good you are not allowed to help instruct you are not allowed to try to help somebody defeat security system even the most russian gating media people out there who would have all but destroyed weiqi leagues for getting the d.n.c. emails 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 a 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 song had 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 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 it's now finally the week at least founder's fate was able to squeeze out a few 1st amendment tears on american news now it's probably too late anyway. has of course long split opinion and our guests 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 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 the prosecution of today 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 if i see the u.s. and hear all of the 1st amendment the reserve to be a news gathering and clearly where julian the psalms gross united states of america assuming it goes that there would be a court case to the supreme court's related to that but if you look at bradley manning released all they say information he was ultimately paul didn't bar brock obama not because there's there's a process here but what cannot be allowed to happen. a group of people in the military in the intelligence services. break the espionage laws i think it is a basic mark of respect to chelsea manning to get her name rights 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 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 of people who were who were either killed or damage in the light of duty because of this so there have to look at actual damages and harm that this cause 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 this disclosure is the truth the monster was he has been afraid. making his case to a group of jewelry these courts actually properly constituted a judge 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 or they 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 ecuador that was a 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 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 u.s. secretary of state might pump aoe has confirmed the approval of arms transfers to saudi arabia the united arab emirates and jordan totaling over $8000000000.00 as part of an effort to deter iran. 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 in order to bypass congress and expedite the shipments and emergency was declared the transfer of arms will include a patriot missile intelligence assets and combat and reconnaissance aircraft the

move comes hot on the heels of president president trumps announcement on friday that additional u.s. troops will be sent to the middle east to maintain the status quo there only the day before though he's saying a different tune. do you consider sending troops to the middle east to go into iraq you know i don't think we'll need it but if we need it we'll have we'll be there in whatever number we need some very talented people are going to the middle east right now and we'll see out and we'll see what happens. it'll be about 1500 people earlier in the week numerous senators expressed frustration about the current administration's bellicose rhetoric. very much but intentionally or unintentionally we have been 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 blind escalation with the hope that the iranians will come to the

table and the best thing to happen is for everybody to calm down and iran to back off and i'm hoping that this show of force will result in deescalating not escalate the iranian foreign minister has reacted to the u.s. troop boost saying it poses a threat to international peace well a senior iranian military official has been more blunt saying that iran would think u.s. warships using quote secret weapons if they do anything unwise political commentator home or most obvious is washington should take time out to imagine life in iran's shoes. 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 iranian leaders however in reality what we have been witnessing is that in the past 2 years the us 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 this situation how would an american's feel if you're on started to send attack ships near the coast of florida and started to position so-called protective troops in mexico i don't think they would like that and we have the same situation in iraq washington decision to send additional troops to the middle east didn't go down too well in iraq the capital baghdad saw a large gathering with people time the government to stay out of any scrap between washington and tehran they fear they will get caught up in the escalation only last week iraq it allegedly fired by iran or by militants looking to stop tensions. totally secure green zone no one was injured. streaming t.v.

show provider netflix is under fire for hosting content accused of romanticizing suicide the us parents television council has written to the platform demanding it justify hosting the series 13 reasons why about a teenager who kills herself amid reports the show is encouraging people to take their own lives. settling 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. counsel argues that the show should be x. in the interest of children's mental health and safety earlier activists started a petition also calling it for it to be pulled however a 3rd season is poised for release later on 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 since the show's release the teen suicide rate spiked by over a quarter as well netflix says it's examining the research and will address the

issue we discuss the show's potential for harm with helio rivera editorial director for reactionary times dot com and mark rutherford a licensed psychotherapist. can this show inspire someone to commit suicide well yes and no maybe maybe it does but these are children that are probably obviously suffering. with a lot you know obviously they're very they're 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 and 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 turn 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 into their

executive functioning they can understand this idea of the gets better what it is in that moment is what they feel it will always be and so i think there were there were a lot of kids that kind of ramped to the to the energy of that you know i also at the you know 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 read. 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 and 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 show down 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 week and i see a lot of teenagers in my practice and in the in the couple of weeks after that 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

. still to come palestine says it won't trade freedom for money after billions of dollars were offered by washington and exchange for political concessions are not after this short break. so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have. it's crazy foundation let it be an arms race is on all sides theory dramatic development only loosely i'm going to resist i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical time time to sit down and talk. there's a cyclical nature to things there's t. globalization there's globalization there's lowering interest rates there's rising

interest rates so when the interest rates rise that the impact it is said will be instantaneous death. historically took his opponents used to claim that there are 3 issues. too poor to bake and to refuse to muslim the fact as we are too poor is no longer correct because our per capita perch is very is higher than some of the cura do you remember a country. welcome back palestinian officials have branded washington's draft peace plan with israel a bribe adding that it's unacceptable to trade national freedom for money donald trump and his son in law jared kushner though call it the deal of the century it offers billions in investment and exchange for political concessions and we looked

at the palestinians we said well what are the opportunities that they could have what's been holding them back economically i think we built a very good business plan under the deal there would be heavy investment into palestine which in return would have to relinquish claim to the occupied territories and jerusalem and a state called new palestine would be established within the borders of the west bank and the gaza strip though it would be forbidden from having in the army off layer 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 i should be away for supervised release for this because they called it that is for developing the palestinian economy from my personal perspective i see it's not a successful conference i see it it's actually. for the palestinian community and for the palestinian businesspeople because it came out of school like a sudden one it was a big surprise for us it was you could situation is pretty bad the u.s. administration unfortunately that it's the best to use was all of it we're all agreed to the world is standing. and. conditions and looking this is use against us the meeting in the rain is supposed to show how the sting 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 entailed the official word from the palestinian leadership is we do not trade on national rights for money business leaders here say they will not people with cash but it's. very everybody knows the scene economy's in a bad situation actually the world bank and they may have seeing that we are almost in recession. of course has been devoted. to this is not the way if you if you want to look forward the but it's an economy suffering from number one is the nation so they were speaking about issues of billions and in the same time the reconnoitering the reasons why they will see me for me is suffering with a bit of seniors where is 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 care in the 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 policy or r.t. . automated voice assistance like syria and alexei can be a problem for example when they fail to do as they're told or misunderstand what you say but you can ask oh thinks there is a bigger problem than that the educational body of the un and a new $150.00 page report is raising the sexism alarm claiming that these robotic helpers promote gender stereotypes.

the subservience of digital voices systems becomes especially concerning when these machines on top and more far as this female by technology companies get 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. and eager to please helpers available at the touch of a button. we carried out research and found that a woman's voice is more sympathetic and better received. the. users prefer a gendered human voice surveys on the topic have indicated that people often state a preference for gender neutral.

that have to be given me. i swear i've heard good summer respond to the phrase you're caught for sex with in a confused joe and i am told. no human being is just a computer algorithm to people and get a life. style . high i.q. the world's best gentlest voice assistant think of me like syria or alexa but neither male nor female. thank you. i don't see that being a problem on the other side of the software and really think that there's the on

a bit too far i really do and the people that are thinking that that is sexes or that there's a statement against women act i believe that they have just overstep overstepped a bit we're not going to stop people problems by changing machines is another 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. 2 baby bears have found a new home at a special facility and central russia after their mother abandoned them the little orphans are the only guest at the center which has already saved more than $200.00 cubs from starvation and harsh winters. every dish out there cooked or nearly all the bear cubs that have passed through our hands since 1975 have been orphaned it's.

just got us a lot of that what if earlier it was due to illegal hunting which was then stopped now the main reason is 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. is that 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. that's our global news update for this hour but don't forget you can always had to our website r.t. dot com for the details on all those stories and many more. after

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mayors and they are early as the british prime minister has announced her resignation as bragg that negotiations limp forward l.a. forward and the british american business association joins us to give us a look at what we can expect going forward in the negotiations and it's that time of the week where we break down global markets from asia to the streets after a week full of turmoil and finally we've talked all the time about the financial uses a block but what about the social impact of the pentax. of the plot change founders fund really think of the details we have a jam packed show today. an early end after a long wait leaves are global report today as u.k. prime minister to resign may admit she has failed to deliver bragg's it and sets a date of june 7th for her resignation as prime minister ms may will remain in the parliament of her she leaves 10 downing street and her conservative party is expected to choose a new leader by late july ms may has been seen as a caretaker leader for some time but was affectively told her time was up in

a meeting with the so-called $922.00 committee after fellow conservatives began pushing once more for her to step down and her final push for her brags a plan to revive failed to reverse the trend of fading support here to dive into the details contributor hilary for which she'll stroll market we welcome our pleasure danielle so hilary 1st what is the market reaction right now so far and more specifically how is the pound behaving in the currency markets after the news kristie actually today it was up fractionally it ended the day a little bit down but it was up point one percent against the euro so i think actually what you're seeing from global markets is that everybody has really everyone is really big no deal business leaders have thought for a long time that the politicians simply aren't going to get this done the mayhem that exists in the political arena has not existed in the business and it actually has held steady and you look at the unemployment in the u.k. i shoot at an all time low still since 1973 it hasn't been this low 3.