in a marked change of attitude u.s. mainstream media now warn of the dangerous precedent being set for journalists by washington's intensifying pursuit of julian assange. president trump announces he's sending more troops to the middle east and speeding up arms sales to the region to keep iran 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 guest about the issue. the problem is that they did kind of you know glamorized they were kind of romanticized

this idea behind it you know we have to give the you responsibility on this put the onus on the parents 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 r t h q in moscow thanks for joining us this hour. ever since the u.s. filed 17 further charges against julian assange on thursday concerns have been mounting in the journalistic community the new indictments have been branded a declaration of war on journalists. and one who cares about press freedom and the billet of journalists to publish classified government information in the public interest should wholeheartedly condemn the charges against julian the songs the most dangerous aspect of this indictment full freedom of the press is that it would criminalize the encouragement of leaks of news with the 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 clauses 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 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 at risk responsible media would not publish yes these are conversation 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 to follow 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 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 and 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 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 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 now it has long been a divisive figure of course so we saw reaction to the latest twist in the story from my panel of guests. 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 and some way 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 by sea the u.s. and here although 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 supremes courts related to that but if you look at bradley manning released all they see 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 intelligence services. break the espionage laws i think it is 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 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 couldn't 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 juries i'm courts that actually properly constituted judge you when 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 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 be assessed very soon. as part of a new effort to deter iran the u.s. secretary of state has confirmed the approval of $8000000000.00 of arms sales to saudi arabia the u.a.e. and jordan. 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 in emergency was declared the arms will include

a patriot missile battalion intelligence assets and combat and reconnaissance aircraft the move comes hot on the heels of president trump's announcement on friday that additional u.s. troops will be sent to the middle east to maintain the situation there only the day before though he was singing 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 at the current administration's rhetoric are you worried you very much but intentionally or unintentionally. we kind of 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 theory means will come to the table and the best thing to happen is for everybody to calm down in 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 planned increase in u.s. troops saying it poses a threat to international peace while a senior iranian military official has been more blunt saying iran would sink u.s. warships using quote secret weapons if they do anything unwise political commentator homer believes washington should take the time to see the situation from iran's perspective. 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 trump 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 critiqued of 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 hasn't gone down well in iraq the capital baghdad saw a large gathering with people demanding the government stays out of any battle between washington and tehran they fear the country being dragged into any escalation only last week a rocket reportedly fired by iran or by militants looking to stoke tensions hit baghdad's high security green zone no one was injured.

to be streaming service 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. 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 activists started a petition also calling for it to be pulled however its 3rd season is poised for relief soon 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 even more now flick says it's examining the research and will

address the issue we discuss the show's potential for harm with julio riviera editorial director for reactionary times dot com and mark rutherford a licensed psychotherapist. can a show inspire someone to commit suicide well yes and no maybe it would 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 this 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 function and they can't 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 on to the to the energy of that you know i also 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 that kids are growing up nowadays 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 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 in then. we were moving for that week 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 you know some of 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 or 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 as 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 exchanged for political concessions on that after a short break. so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy from day shouldn't let it be an arms race off and spearing dramatic developments only really i'm going to resist i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical time to sit down and talk. there's a cyclical nature to things there's to 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. historically toward his opponents used to claim that there are 3 issues. too poor to big and to refuse to muslim the fact as we are too poor is no longer correct because our per capita purchase perry is hajo than some of the quran 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 though call it the deal of the century it offers billions

in investment in exchange for political concessions. and we looked at the palestinians we said well what are the opportunities i think what's been holding them back economically i think we built a very good business plan under the deal there would be a heavy investment in palestine which in return would have to relinquish claim on 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 any 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 if the porty 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 and trying to attend a conference next month in the rain to discuss things its chairman says he was quite frankly insulted i should be away for so braced. for this as they called it that is for developing the but i've seen in the economy from my personal perspective i see it's not a successful conference it's sexually. active but a senior 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 because situation is that the u.s. administration unfortunately that it's the suit that has to use was all of it we're all with the what is standing. and. conditions and weeping this is use against us the meeting in the rain is supposed to show how the sting in business leaders the benefits the weak and the so called an 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 our national rights for money business leaders to say they will not people with cash but if you need. everybody knows that they were seen economies in a bad situation actually the world bank and they may have seeing that we are almost . sure. of course helping but it's an incredibly easy potent to this is not the way if you want to look for what 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 ignoring the reasons why they would see me for me is suffering with a bit of seniors where's the problem if they are not speaking to us and they will this week alone i don't know how they're going to implement that plan if they want to enforce the plan they can 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. . in any war their so called collateral damage and that includes trade wars china and the us have been at each other's throats economically for half a year now and reports on those caught in the crossfire. 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 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 dominican officials have remained silent on the matter. canada is also at this point kneedeep 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 posting 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 pale says that the philippines is being kicked around and that the usa is with them against those power hungry chinese our 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 going to be very nice as well.

because it is leading but it isn't even if. he's a good. deal of the night he was very. recently in italy signed on with china's belgian 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 and 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 overall u.s. china relations and this aggravated trade war they know that they are dependent on board markets countries like the philippines malaysia. indonesia vietnam are not going to pick sides but i'm fearful that the u.s. 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 if they ship pacific region which is one of the most dynamic economic regions they're all going to be hurt so they're really nor we're nerves. it's just it's just a question of who knows loses more better global news update for this hour but don't forget you can always have to our website r.t. dot com for the details on all the stories and many more.

after the previous stage of my career was over everyone wondered what i was going to do next the pope the ball different clubs on one hand it is logical to sit in the home field where everything is familiar on the other i wanted a new challenge and a fresh perspective from i'm used to surprising people. why not if you think. i'm going to talk about football not the or else you can think i was going to do. by the way what is that that's like here. this is a story about what happens auster a stray bullet kills a young girl in the street. what happens to her family and daughters in florida another mother daughter is buried innocent terry it is really messes with your head

what happens to the community the public was screaming for a scapegoat the police need is a scapegoat so why not choose a 19 year old black kid with a criminal record who better to pin this on than him and what happens in court be be. shot after shot as far off society we feel. we don't know she'll just from. the end of this trial unfortunately due to the will still not know what childress. max kaiser this is the kaiser report krypto spring is here it is just bleeding

right into our lives we can hear the lawnmowers out sudden they're getting ready for a trip to a summer and then crypto sente zia crypto parallel dimension and the bit coy it's all happening it's all happening right now stacy in the meat space things are coming apart however the meat space is ruled by tweets from donald trump and donald trump is continuing apace the error of globalization is over at least for now we've had many periods throughout the last 4 or 5000 years of globalization then d. globalization and we're now going through a period of de globalization we see these trade wars hotting up you know. basically blacklisted huawei the 2nd largest mobile phone builder operator manufacturer in the world and they're also way ahead of any western competition in terms of 5 g.

technology they do however while way requires many many parts many chips from u.s. companies and basically they're not allowed to send anything to qual way though then via tweet as well trump has basically given them a 90 day window to maybe allow their leaders of china to negotiate a trade deal this is his art of the deal right i mean the key phrase here is to globalization and you're right you know it ebbs and flows and we get globalization before world war one and then the world war one and then we had before world war one that led to world war one and then world war 2 yes exactly therefore ipso facto at the moment it's de globalizing. so the ripples in buckles in the global economy because of volatility and uncertainty and there's no way to hedge against that really. in the us you want to go long

opiates well certainly one would go long gold bitcoin or silver and this has been throughout history of globalisation whenever an empire starts to fall leading up to world war one it was of course the british empire falling apart and losing power and losing control and no i guess most great powers don't like to lose control and they like to have the power and they like everybody to obey their orders and once they stop obeying so easily and they become disobedient the empire lashes out and then starts. and they stop trade they stop that especially that when the trade starts allowing their competitors to rise above the us so that in the victorian era there was globalization and then in. free world war one then you behead this and headed angst as germany without powering them out manufacturing them out creating

better better products out competing them you know trading around the world and doing better.