no longer correct because our. church is very. curious do you member country. in a moment change of attitude u.s. mainstream media now one of the dangerous precedent being set for journalists by washington's intensified pursuit of. president trump announces he's sending more troops to the middle east and speeding up arms sales to the region to keep it around in check. plus the netflix show 13 reasons why about a teen who kills herself sponsors. critics say it should be pulled from the platform for romanticizing suicide our guests debate the issue. and 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 you responsibility on this put the onus on the parents i think parents have to be more involved in the lives of their

children. ever since the u.s. falls 17 further charges against julian assange the concerns of the mounting in the journalistic community have been branded a declaration of war on journalists. and there 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 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 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 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 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 his activities to follow mold john made good you're not allowed to help instruct you are 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. 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 and songe had to hide in london's ecuadorian embassy and we all know why these folks pretty much kept on his fate dissolved 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 c.n.n. jim acosta getting his white house pass revoked. yes 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 it leaks founder's fate was able to squeeze out a few 1st amendment tears on american news now it's probably too late anyway. songes long been a divisive figure we saw 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 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 i think the u.s.

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 he goes that there will be a court case to the supreme court related to that but if you look at why bradley manning released all they say information he was ultimately paul didn't brock obama and that's because there's there's a process here what cannot be allowed to happen. a group of people in the military in the 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 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 damaged 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 disclosures the truth the monster 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 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. crowds of yellow verse protesters once again descended on paris for the 28th consecutive weekend of demonstrations. i. was. i. i. i. people gathered in the city center for the protests wearing their symbolic yellow vests and chanting and waving flags and a strong police presence on the streets and

a number of scuffles broke out with demonstrators says used tear gas after being pelted with rocks and smoke grenades hilla vests weekend demonstrations began back in november and people then protesting against rising petrol prices since then the demonstrations have expanded against the government's economic policies. it's 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. he's 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 arms will include a patriot missile battalion intelligence assets and combat 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 chain. 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 will see how it works see what happens. it'll be about 1500 people earlier in the week numerous senators expressed frustration about the current administration's rhetoric. barbara worry you very much but intentionally or unintentionally we haven't created 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 a blind escalation with the hope that the iranians will come to the table to me and the best thing to happen is for everybody to come down in iran to back off and i am hoping that this show of force will result in the escalating out escalate the

iranian foreign minister has reacted to the planned increase in u.s. troops saying it poses a threat to international peace and the senior iranian military officials be more blunt saying iran would sink u.s. warships using quote secret weapons if they do anything unwise political commentator hammad massai believes washington should take time to see the situation from it runs 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 rainy and leaders however in 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 iranian perspective are

seen very as as a very hostile act for example if we reverse this situation how would an american's feel if iran started to send a tac 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. t.v. streaming service netflix is under fire for hosting content accused of romanticizing suicide the us parents television council written to the platform demanding it justify hosting the series 13 reasons why about a teenager who kills a self in the reports the show is encouraging people to take their own lives. because i'm about to tell you the story of my life. and i specifically ram right ended. and if you're listening to this tape you're one of the reasons why the

council argues 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 told however 3rd season is poised to be released the council points are the 1st season reported to help drive a 26 percent increase in google searches for how to kill yourself according to the u.s. national institute of mental health since the show's release the teen suicide rate has spiked even more that flick says it's examining the research and will address the issue we discussed the show's potential for harm with who rivera editorial director for reactionary times dot com and mark or rather furred a licensed psychotherapist. can the 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. 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. peace behind it was kind of you know kids when they see these kind of things they don't have the frontal lobe is and developed you know 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 are 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 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 and then they'll probably. 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 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 as much as we as adults are . palestine says it won't trade freedom for money after billions of dollars were offered by washington in exchange for political concessions a lot more money after this 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 will be instantaneous. so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy. let it be an arms race. theory dramatic development only. exists i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical. to sit down in.

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 gerry cushion of the deal of the century it offers billions in investment in exchange for political concessions. and we looked at the palestinians we said what are the african he said what's been holding them back economically i think we built a very good business plan under the deal that be have investment in palestine which in return would have to relinquish claim to jerusalem and parts of the occupied territories the 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 tains 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 am 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 the rain to discuss things its chairman says he was quite frankly insulted. braced. 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 people to see new 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 best to use was all of that. the world is standing. and. conditions and looking this is the meeting and the rain is supposed to show palestinian business leaders the benefits they'll reach and 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 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 the economy is he pulled in by to this

is not the way if you 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 in this same time the only good morning that eason's why they will 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 jared questioner who was tasked with working out the details has been meeting with arab countries to bring them on board but for trump for whom the art of the deal is everything he's about to learn that at least here buying his way to a deal seemingly does not work paula r.t. . the u.s. senate armed services committee has agreed to 2020 defense spending bill increase

to levels not seen since the iraq war if passed by congress the money will go to countering the perceived threats 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. 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 you falling to get the budget plan for seize a ban on jet exports to turkey overanxious decision to buy arms from 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 now the u.s. military would be getting its latest super size cash injection at the time when it's already massively out spending the rest of the world in $2800.00 washings but

this much on its military exceeding what the rest of the next 7 countries combined paid antiwar activist david swanson believes the money would be better re directed to other parts of the u.s. economy. i think the overwhelming justification is that lead in your book is going to get us in our sleep but beyond that it really gets pretty ludicrous when ever the pentagon is actually asked for a justification of intones they just cannot come up with one of 4 it's for the for the vast bulk of the budget not just the increase but that money has to come out of the military and go into useful things that people don't don't talk about this. top of which when 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 is in the negative trillions of dollars it's money in the long run. thank you stay with alter international join me for updates on our top stories on the back at the top of the on. plenty.

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china trade war india's b j p and congress bodies tell us who really won in the largest democratic votes in world history and the management of so have a jury could western aggression towards iran pray. the next ice is a new book by york times bestselling author max blumenthal conical of the history of us cultivated terrorism plus not one u.k. politician that pm queues thinks to ask about m i 5 and why no one has still been charged for the manchester atrocity 2 years ago this week possible coming up in today's going underground a fast let's go straight to india where 900000000 eligible voters to part in the largest democratic vote in world history joining me now via skype in new delhi is the national general secretary of prime minister moody's b j p party. thanks for coming on the show so why do you think your party won the biggest political democratic vote in world history this in the history mandates that our party well secured almost close to 40 percent of the popular vote it's almost that includes field mandate that our party got the end at and it was

a leader the prime minister of india was still not in the. leadership it's 5 years of the government and it's don't look in programs for the country it's all in there just don't aren't people. shift good this method to mend it this will be a watershed will make in politics of the right thing but be led by a mr morley is secured in such a mess still managed. to lead to change the dynamic of this n.g. you see you probably know and probably prime minister modi may know that most nato nation mainstream media claims that your party is racist is islamophobia it is you just said right wing is kweisi fascist and it's bent on a nuclear war with pakistan you see it in that article completely baseless and malicious allegations are going to start party any other electricians to make it in a star body the opposition some place to belittle it the mandate making sets its

missions and that's. the job and if you push it i don't blame mr moti the gate be brought down the world has. speed to get a bit r. and development for all why do you think pakistan's leader supported prime minister modi at this election even while firing pakistani shaheen to ballistic missiles while you counted your votes that is something that you must be asking to let mr spock we have no control over his department out there at their success the democrats do not l.o.l. ily x. the notes that goes to influence our elections if people who thought leadership make it not a simple in a 1000000 other folk undoubtedly a bit of a prime minister after the election that is of course. that he will come by acting .