in a moment change of attitude to us mainstream media now one of the dangerous precedent being set for journalists by washington's intensified pursuit of julian assange. president trump announces he sending more troops to the middle east than speeding up arms sales to the region to keep the run in check. on the netflix show 13 reasons why about a teen who kills as sparks fresh outrage with critics saying that he should be pulled from the platform for a monthly sizing suicide debate the issue. the problem is that they did kind of you know glamorized it they were kind of romanticized this idea behind it and you know we have to give the you responsibility on this so i put the onus on the parents i think parents have to be more involved in the lives of their children

. thanks for joining us this evening this is our. ever since the united states filed 17 further charges against julian assange the concerns of the mounting in the journalistic community the new indictments of being branded a declaration of war on journalists. and the 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 sons 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 claws it's 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 live 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 do claim that no. his activities did 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 and 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. some inches 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 but 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 sun

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 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 where bradley manning released all they see information he was ultimately paul didn't by brock obama not because there's there's a procession but what cannot be allowed to happen. a group of people in the military intelligence services. break the espionage laws i think it's a basic mark of respect to chelsea manning to get her name right and and give her due respect on that score in addition she was never part of the administration i wish she had been her sentence was commuted which means that her conviction her

conviction stands which is something that she is still being appealed and i believe will go all the way up to the supreme court 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 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. 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 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 start paying 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. france is seeing the 28th consecutive weekend of nationwide yellow vest protest and an r t france journalist got caught up in the clashes with police covering the demonstrations in toulouse. this video shows a police officer with the birdsong running our correspondent while the anti france team was filming the clashes standing on the pavement at a safe distance despite his purse markings the officer hit our correspondent

several times on the leg and tried to take away his mobile phone. the protest in paris also turned out to be rather violent with police dispersing crowds of yellow 1st protesters using tear gas. was. i. people gathered in the city center for the protest wearing their symbolic yellow vests and chanting flags there's been a strong police presence on the streets and the number of scuffles broke out with the demonstrators offices resorted to tear gas after being pelted with rocks and smoke grenades in the vests weekends demonstrations began back in november with people then protesting against rising petrol prices since then the demonstrations

have expanded in the now also against the government's economic policies. as part of a continuing effort to deter iran the u.s. secretary of state has confirmed the approval of over $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 and emergency was declared the arms will include 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. and you listen to her singing troops to the middle east to go to

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 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. very much but intentionally or unintentionally. we kind of 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 mind escalation with the hope that the iranians will come to the table in the end the best thing to athan is for everybody to calm down and iran defect off and i'm hoping that this show of force will result in the escalating not escalate. iranian foreign minister has reacted to the plan didn't crease 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 wise political commentator have a survey believes that 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 u.s. administration is taking a very hostile act towards you want i mean for example the recent announcement of sending troops and the sending of a u.s. aircraft carrier towards iran if you look at it from the ukrainian perspective are seen very as as a very hostile act for example if we reverse the situation how would an american's

feel if iran started to send a tash ips 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. t.v. streaming service netflix is under fire for hosting called turned 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 this amid reports the show is encouraging people to take their own life. settling on a basset hound the story of my life. my specifically why my life ended. and if you're listening to this tape you're one of the reasons why. 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 a 3rd season is still poised to be released the council points out the 1st season reportedly helped to 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 is by even more now says it is examining the research and will address the issue discussed the potential for harm with rivera editorial director for reactionary times dot com mark rather for a license 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's 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 you 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 a 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. but 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 showed 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 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 to billions of dollars were offered by washington in exchange for political concessions but on the story after this short break. they were going to see that happen to you it was most of those they managed to

overthrow the previous government of. the former president and c.e.o. of course which to 40 years the country people want that much more they didn't want just. roll freely with europe they walked this route to become part of. this is very far way to go still in ukraine. historically turkey is oakland and houston to claim that there are 3 issues. to poor east to big. if you still muslim the fact that we are too poor is no longer correct because our per capita purchase very is higher than some of the cura do you remember a country. 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 a son in law jerry cushion of though called it the deal of the century and 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 turn would have to relinquish claim to jerusalem and parts of the occupied territories a state called new palestine would be established within the borders of the west bank and gaza strip they 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 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 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'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 will take a situation is for the u.s. administration unfortunately that it's the us to use was all of that. the world is standing. and. conditions and looking this is amazing and the rain is supposed to show how the sting in business leaders the benefits they'll reach and the so-called american deal of the century that 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 our 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 economy as he poured in to this is not

the way if week if you want to look for what the but it's economy suffering from number one is the patient so they were speaking about issues of billions and in the same time the only good morning that 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 a lot 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 policia r.t. . the us senate armed services committee has agreed a 2020 defense spending bill increased to levels not seen since the iraq war if

passed by congress the money will go to countering the perceived threat posed by geo political rivals. we aligned the budget and the resources of each service with our strategic priorities addressing great power competition regaining our combat advantage in making the pentagon run more effectively and efficiently. if past defense spending next year would rise to $750000000000.00 it would be the 2nd big hike in 2 years 10000000000 is the amount for 16 new fighter jets the budget plan for seize a ban on jet exports to turkey over increase 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 supersized cash injection of the time when it already massively outspends the rest of the world in $20000.00 washington spent this much on its military that exceeds what the next 7 countries combined hate and

war activists david swanson believes that the money would be better we directed to other parts of the us economy. i think the overwhelming justification is that vladimir putin is going to get us in our sleep but beyond that it's it really gets pretty ludicrous when ever heard the pentagon is actually asked for a justification oftentimes they just cannot come up with one for it for the for the vast bulk of the budget not just the increase what the money has to come out of the military. and go into useful things people don't don't talk about this. on top of which will 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 you get the job 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 saves money in the long run. by staying with r.t. international been bringing right up to date on the world's biggest stories that's all for me for now but you are in capable hands my colleague nicky gavron will have all the latest for you just over 30 minutes. if you will not obey the voice of the lord your god will be careful to do all the school long months and use that huge. day when all these curses shall come upon you and overtake you. and then the white people is stolen property and must pretend to black people if they get rid of whites only problems will go away.

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

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