in a marked change of attitude u.s. mainstream media now warn of the dangerous precedent being set for journalist i washington intensified pursuit of julian assange. president trump announces he's sending more troops to the middle east and speeding up arms sales to the region keep 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 the romanticizing suicide our guests debate the issue. the problem is that they did kind of you know glamorized it they were kind of romanticized this idea behind it you know we have to give the responsibility on this are put the onus on the parents so i think parents have to be more involved in

the lives of their children. in watching our changing national coming to you live from the russian capital where it's just turned 7 pm welcome to the program. ever since the u.s. filed 17 further charges against julian assange on thursday concerns have been mounting in the journalists to listen community the new indictments have been branded a declaration of war on journalists. and there one who cares about press freedom and the ability 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 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 join 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. 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 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 live 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 damage than 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 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 dissolve the 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. has long been a divisive figure recent reaction to the latest twist in the story from a 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 we'll be limited takers for that actually both by sea the us and here although the 1st amendment the reserve to be a news gathering and clearly where julian the psalms goes 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 see information he was ultimately paul didn't buy brock obama not because there's there's a procession 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 right and and give her due respect on that score in addition she was never pardons by the bomb an 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 juries i'm court's actually properly constituted 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 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 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 and 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. crowds of protesters have once again descended on paris for the 28th consecutive weekend of demonstrations. now these are live pictures now from the french capital lots of people have talked into the center of the city chanting and waving flags as usually there's a strong police presence trying to keep the situation under control although there have been some clashes already today officers have been pelted with rocks and smoke grenades this weekend's demonstrations coincide with the european elections and is therefore expected to draw

a far greater numbers than of late will be following the demonstrations. 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 an emergency was declared the arms will include a patriot missile but talian 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 no 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 rhetoric are you worried very much that 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 blind escalation with the hope that theory means will come to the table in the end the best thing to happen is for everybody to come 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 plan 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 think u.s. warships using quote secret weapons if they do anything unwise political commentator believes washington should take 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 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 you on 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 it americans feel if you're on started to send it back ships near the coast of florida and

started to position so-called cred tekton troops in mexico i don't think they would like that and we have the same situation in iraq. washington's decision to send additional troops to the middle east hasn't gone down well in iraq the capital baghdad 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 in rocket reportedly fired by iran or by militants looking to stoke tensions hit baghdad high security green zone no one was injured. it's. t.v. 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 start a petition also calling for it to be polled however if 3rd season is poised to be released 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 rules 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 rivera 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 you love the 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 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 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 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 that show dropped on netflix it was all every teenager that sat on my couch talked about

and 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 . palestine it won't trade freedom for money after billions of dollars were offered by washington and exchange for political concessions or not after the break.

there is a cyclical nature to things there is to 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. they were going to see that happen to you it was most of those they managed to overthrow the previous government. the former president and c.e.o. of ford which to 40 years the country people wanted much more didn't want just. travel freely with europe they walked through 2 because. this is a very far way to go. still you mean you were.

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 trump and his son in law question of oh 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 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 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 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 am 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 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 because situation is pretty bad the u.s. administration unfortunately that it's the suit that they did in the last 2 years was all of that we're only with the what is standing beside israel and putting conditions and meeting this is the meeting and the rain is supposed to show palestinian business leaders the benefits they'll reach 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 on national rights for money business leaders here 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

in recession. of course helping but it's an incredibly easy porton but 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 were seen for me is suffering with a bit of seniors where's 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 alexa are being called up for

sexism by unesco united nations educational body is claiming the digital helpers promote gender stereotypes. the subservience of digital voice assistance becomes especially concerning when these machines on top and more far as this female by technology companies give deflecting bleck lusher 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 docile and eager to please helpers available at the touch of a but. 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. they have to be good to me. i swear i've heard good generous born to the phrase your hard or sexy me with in a confused joe and i am told. that 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 little

orphans are the only guess at the center which has already saved more than $200.00 cubs from starvation and harsh winters. the deserts the border nearly all the bear cubs that have passed through our hands since 1975 have been orphaned those. that used us. if earlier it was due to illegal hunting which was then stopped now the main reason these widespread logging the sound of 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. that's a news break down for this hour and that's all for me as well today but why not neil harvey will be taking over at about 30 minutes thanks for tuning in wherever you may be. ever.

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