oh. 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 down speeding up on cells to the region to keep iran in check. and netflix show thirteen reasons why about a teen who killed herself sparked fresh outrage with critics saying it should be pulled from the platform for a month as lies in suicide and our guests debate the issue. of the problem is that it kind of you know the grammar i stick there kind of romanticized this idea behind it we have to give the you responsibility on the sort of put the onus on the

parents i think parents have to be more and war in the lives of their children. very warm welcome to you you're watching r t international with me mickey. ever since the u.s. filed seventeen further charges against julian or songs on thursday concerns have been mounting in the journalistic community the new indictments have been granted a declaration of war on journalists. and one who cares about press freedom and the billets of journalists to publish classified government information in the public interest should wholeheartedly condemn the charges against julian the songs the most dangerous aspect of this indictment full freedom of the press is that it would criminalize the encouragement of leaks of news where the classified information criminalize the acceptance of such information and criminalize publication of it

that's criminalizing journalism so it's seventeen new counts what american prosecutors are now stacking up against you in a songe is probably enough to put a whole basketball team behind bars as songe and we keep leagues have repeatedly sought and obtained and disseminated information that the us classified due to serious risk dragging big fat skeletons out of government clausewitz once that was seen as top class journalism at its best those were the days remember the nine hundred seventy one 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 my old job made good you're not allowed to help instruct you're 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. e-mails 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 first amendment advocates the government is now trying to assert this brand new right to criminally prosecute people for publishing secret stuff and newspapers and magazines and investigative journalists and all sorts of different entities publish secret stuff all the time that is the bread and butter of what we do however for all these years while julian a song had to hide in london's ecuadorian embassy and we all know why these folks pretty much kept on his fate 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 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 first amendment tears on american news now it's probably too late anyway. and stone has long been a divisive figure we saw reaction to the latest twist in this story from a panel of guests. we're talking a lot about first amendment issues and first 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 first 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 in the u.s. and here although the first amendment the reserve to be a news gathering and clearly where julian the psalms gross united states of america assuming it goes that there would be a court case to the supreme court related to that but if you look at why bradley manning released all the c. information he was ultimately paul didn't by brock obama not 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 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 discloses they could not find a single person who had been harmed by those disclosures the truth of march was he has been afraid of making his case to a group of juries koch that actually properly constituted judge you are in i'm serious i think you need to go to america and he needs to make his case in front of the american court which may you 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. processing the twenty eighth consecutive weekend of nationwide together vest protests as an r.t. france journalist got caught up in the clashes with police while covering demonstrations in two dupes. video shows a police officer with a baton running us our correspondent instead happened while the r.t. france team was filming the clash is standing on the pavement to a safe distance despite his press markings the office they hit our correspondent

several times on the leg and trying to take away his mobile phone people gathered across france for the protests wearing their symbolic yellow vests and chanting and waving flags according to official figures only twelve thousand five hundred people turned out today the smallest showing since november when the movement against rising petrol prices began the protesters claim they were three times more people than the number given by origin in this demonstration. and in several cities turned violent with police dispersing the crowds using tear gas.

as part of a continuing effort to deter iran the u.s. secretary of state has confirmed the approval of over eight billion dollars of on sells 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 on the expedite the shipments an emergency was declared at the arms would include a patriot missile but hardly an intelligence asset sound combat and mccollister in fact craft the move comes hot on the heels of president trump 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 you. do 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 how it works see whatever. it will be about fifteen hundred people early in the week numerous senators expressed frustration about the current administration's rhetoric. are you worried very much but intentionally or unintentionally we heard them create a situation in which a war will take place a war that will go on and on and on and that's been our worry from the beginning that this is the wind escalation with the hope that the arabians will come to the table you mean and 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 planned increase in u.s. troops saying it poses a threat to international peace while a sunni a radio and military official has been more blunt saying iran would think u.s.

warships are using quote secret weapons if they do anything on wise but it's all commentary to harlem a salvi 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 trump saying that it wants to talk with the iranian leaders however in reality what we have been witnessing is that in the past two 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 the 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. t.v. streaming service netflix is under fire for hosting content to cues to romanticising serious side the us parents television council has written to the platform demanding it justify hosting the series thirteen reasons why about a teenager who kills us self amid to a pole with the show is encouraging people to take that lives. settling because i'm about to tell you the story of my life. more specifically why my life ended. and if you're listening to this tape you're one of the reasons why. the counsel argues that the show should be axed in the interests of children's mental health and safety early activists started a petition also calling for it to be pulled however third season is already poised to be released the council points out that the first season reportedly helped drive

a twenty six percent increase in google searches for how to kill yourself and according to the u.s. national us national institute of mental health since the show's release the teen suicide rates spiked even more now flick says it's examining the research and will address the issue we discuss the show's potential harm the potential for harm with rivera editorial director for reactionary times dot com and mark rather 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. a lot you know obviously they're very they're dealing with some personal issues in their life god knows if there is abuse you know sexual abuse bullying other kinds of issues you know and people are tying it to the program the problem is that they did kind

of you know glamorized it they were kind of romanticized this idea behind it so even though the message was you know there is always help. it will get better turn to those who who love. peace behind it was kind of you know kids when they see these kind of things they don't have the frontal lobe isn't developed into their executive 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 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 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 there their 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 two three sometimes four five six 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 the show on then at that point it will become a financial decision in the end. 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 . palestine says it won't trade freedom for money off to billions of dollars were offered by washington in exchange for political concessions ron that after they show. you know world's big partners. a lot and conspiracy it's time to wake up to dig deeper to hit the stories that mainstream media refuses to tell more than ever we need to be smarter we need to stop slamming the door on the back and

shouting past each other it's time for critical thinking it's time to fight for the middle for the troops the time is now we're watching closely watching the hawks. so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy. let it be an arms race is on offer and spearing dramatic development is only really going to exist i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical time to sit down and talk.

welcome back posting 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 andres sun lord gerrard commissioner though called it the deal of the century it offers billions in investment in exchange for political concessions. when 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 part of the deal there would be heavy investment in palestine which in return would have to link which claim to jerusalem and parts of the occupied territories a state called new palestine would be a stop just with the borders of the west bank and gaza strip that would be forbidden from having an army report. 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 president trump to attend a conference next month in bahrain to discuss things its chairman says he was quite frankly insulted i should be away for so braced. for this conference they called it that is for developing the palestinian economy from my personal perspective i see it's not a successful conference sexually and so patient 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 best to use was all of that we're all agreed to the world is standing. and. conditions and meeting this is the meeting and the rain is supposed to show how the sting in business leaders the benefits they'll reach and of 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 be full of cash but it's. very everybody knows the scene economy's in a bad situation actually the world bank and they may have seeing that we are almost in recession. of course helping to go to an economy is important but this is not the way if week 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 two 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. . the. us senate armed services committee has agreed to a twenty twenty defense spending bill increase to levels not seen since the iraq war if passed by congress the money will go to countering the perceived threat

posed by geopolitical 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 pass defense spending next year would rise to seven hundred fifty billion dollars it will be the second biggest hike in two years ten billion is a market for sixteen new fighter jets the budget plan for seize the ban on jet exports to turkey of course decision to buy arms from russia and there are plans to launch a new branch of the armed forces a space force from innocent of cold war plans for star wars program the u.s. military would be getting its latest super size cash injection at a time when it already massively outspends the rest of the world in two thousand and eighteen washington spent this much on its military exceeding what the next seven countries combined paid and see what i have to this david swanson believes

the money would be better redirected to other parts of the u.s. economy. i think the overwhelming justification is that vladimir putin is going to get us in our sleep but beyond that it really gets pretty ludicrous when ever the 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 with us 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 if they don't cost money the cost in the long run of switching to clean energy of switching just sustainable energy use in the

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