that was. in a mosque change of attitude u.s. mainstream media now want to be dangerous president being that the journalists by washington's intensified pursuit of julian assange has. president trump announces he's sending more troops to the middle east and speeding up arms sales to the region to keep iran in check. netflix so 13 reasons why about a teen who kills herself sparks fresh outrage with critics saying it should be pulled from the platform for a month or sizing suicide our guests debate the issue. of the problem is that they did kind of you know glamorized at their 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 and ball in the lives of their children . a warm welcome you're watching artie international with me making airing. ever since the u.s. filed 17 further charges against julian assange on thursday concerns have been mounting in the journalistic community the new indictments have been branded a declaration of war on journalists. anyone 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 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 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 is it we do here for a living those who dug all of it out or made to the secret info public were praised that was nowhere near the kind of media treatment mr sun received the

free process 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 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 look he's his activities to follow mold john made good you're not allowed to help instruct you're 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 leaks for getting the d.n.c. e-mails out are now feeling something's wrong with this new indict. and this is to

put it bluntly wrong unconstitutional and downright tyrannical is a pretty aggressive new move by the justice department the big deal here for a 1st amendment advocates the government is now trying to assert this brand new right to criminally prosecute people for publishing secret stuff and newspapers and magazines and investigative journalists and all sorts of different entities publish secret stuff all the time that is the bread and butter of what we do however for all these years while julian 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 the cornerstone of democracy like the president calling them bad things or c.n.n. 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 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. and long being a divisive figure we still 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 they'll be limited takers for that actually both by sea the u.s. and here although the 1st amendment the reserve to be a news gathering and clearly where julian the psalms gross united states of america assuming it goes that there would be a court case to the supremes courts related to that but if you look at where bradley manning released all they see 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 is a basic mark of respect to chelsea manning to get her name right and and give her due respect on that score in addition she was never a part of the administration i wish she had been her sentence was commuted which

means that her conviction her conviction stands which is something that she is still being appealed and i believe will go all the way up to the supreme court this could seem like a case where there could be some issues that he has to face and that he has to own up to but there also is the the facts that have come out that they haven't seen a lot of people who were who were either killed or damage in the light of duty because of this so there have to look at actual damages and harm that this cause in the very extensive surveys the u.s. government did after the manning disclosures they 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 koch actually properly constituted judge you when i'm serious i think you need to go to america and he needs to make his case in front of the american courts which mary although most a lot except 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 issues 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. france is seeing the 28th consecutive weekend of nationwide yellow vests protests and an r.t. france journalist car caught up in the clashes with police while covering the demonstrations in toulouse. video shows a police officer with a baton running us our correspondent instant and while the r.t. francine was filming the clashes standing on the pavement of a safe distance despite his presence markings the officer hit our correspondent several times on the leg and clyde to take away his mobile phone people gathered

across france all the protests wearing their symbolic yellow vests and chanting and waving flags according to official figures that a 12500 people turned out on saturday the smallest showing since november when the movement against rising petrol prices began the protesters claim there were 3 times more people than the number given file storage these demonstrations 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 $8000000000.00 of arms 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 and expedite the shipments an emergency was declared the arms will include a patriot a patriot missile but talian intelligence assets and combat and the collison sacrifice that we have comes hot on the hills of president trumps announcement on friday that additional u.s. troops will be sent to the middle east to maintain the situation there only the day before though he was singing a different tune. do you consider sending troops to the middle east to go into iraq you know i don't think we'll need it but if we need it we'll have we'll be there in whatever number we need some very talented people are going to the middle east right now and we'll see out and we'll see what happens. it'll be

about 1500 people earlier in the week numerous senators expressed frustration about the current administration's rhetoric. worry you very much but intentionally or unintentionally we have been create a situation in which a war will take place a war busy that will go on and on and on and that's been our worry from the beginning that this is beyond escalation with the hope that the iranians will come to the table and the best thing to happen is for everybody to calm down in iran to back off and i'm hoping that this show of force will result in deescalating now escalate they raney in foreign minister has reacted to the planned increase in u.s. troops saying it poses a threat to international peace want to see me every day in a military official has been more blunt saying iran would think u.s. warships are using quote secret weapons if they do anything unwise political

commentator hala must ave believes washington should take time to see the situation from iran's perspectives. the u.s. is unfortunately going down a path of confrontation the trumpet ministration on the surface it has constantly repeated that it wants to negotiate with iran and trump saying that it wants to talk with the iranian leaders however in reality what we have been witnessing is that in the past 2 years the us administration is taking a very hostile act towards you want i mean for example the recent announcement of sending troops and the sending of a u.s. aircraft carrier towards iran if you look at it from the ukrainian perspective are seen very as as a very hostile act for example if we reverse 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 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 has written to the platform demanding get justify hosting the series 13 reasons why a teenager who kills us self amid reports the show was encouraging people to take their own life. 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 early activists started a petition also calling for it to be paul's however a 3rd season is poised for release the council points out that the 1st season reportedly helped drive a 26 percent increase in google searches for how to kill yourself according to the

us national institute for mental health says the show has released the teen suicide rate spiked even more now it's flick says is examining the research and will address the issue discussed the show's potential for harm with houllier rivera editorial director for reactionary times dot com and mark rather 30 a licensed psychotherapist. can a show inspire someone to commit suicide well yes and no maybe it would maybe it does but these are children that are probably obviously suffering. with a lot you know obviously they're very they're dealing with some personal issues in their life god knows if there is abuse you know sexual abuse bullying other kinds of issues you know and people are tying it to the program the problem is that they did kind of you know glamorized it they were kind of romanticized this idea behind it so even though the message was you know there is always help. it will get better

turn to those who who love. peace behind this kind of you know kids when they see these kind of things they don't have the frontal lobe isn't developed into their executive 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 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 that kids are growing up nowadays with a completely different set of pressures you know the suicide rate did go up after the show that piece of the damage was done because this kind of glamorous product was put out there they're there the parents are there in the show the guidance counselors are there in the show and no one's talking and which is the way it is in the real world when i see teenagers in my practice it takes 23 sometimes 456

sessions for them to really open up and tell me anything these are all things didn't have to be monitored better by parents any decisions that they make you know for netflix to take this show down will be their own internal decision and it will be driven. by the market quite frankly i mean if people start boycotting netflix because they have this show on then at that point it will become a financial decision and 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 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 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 or . highest union officials have branded washington's draft peace plan with israel a bribe and i think that it's unacceptable to trade national freedom for money donald trump and his son in law jared krishna though call it the deal of the century it off is billions in investment in exchange for political concessions and we looked at the palestinians we said well what are the opportunities i think of what's been holding them back economically i think we built a very good business plan. i know the deal there would be a heavy investment in palestine which in return 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 the gaza strip though it would be forbidden from having an army reports.

american president donald trump my 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 it proportionately 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 the conference mixed man in bahrain to discuss things its chairman says he was quite frankly insulted. for this because they called it that is for developing that but assuming the economy from a personal perspective it's not a successful conference. surely. can we

put the palestinian business people because it came out of. a sudden one it was a big surprise for us it would be could situation is for the parent the u.s. administration unfortunately that it's the us to use was all of that. the world is standing. and putting conditions and we think this is the meeting and the rain is supposed to show at least in the in business leaders the benefits they'll reach and get 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 our national rights for money business leaders here say they will not people with cash but it's an economy suffering heavily everybody knows that it is seen economies in a bad situation actually the world bank and they may have seeing that we are almost

in recession. of course helping people to be incredibly supportive but to this is not the way if you if you want to look for what the but it's easy for me suffering from number one is the patient so they were speaking about the issues of billions and at the same time the really good morning the reasons why they were the scene for me is suffering with a bit of seniors who has 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 can the u.s. 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 paula r.t. . the u.s.

senate armed services committee has agreed on 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 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 their marks for 16 new fighter jets budget plan for seize a ban on jet exports to turkey of course to fish and to buy arms from russia and there are plans to launch a new branch of the armed forces a space force or innocence of cold war plans for star wars program the u.s. military would be getting its large latest super sized cash injection at

a time when it already massively out spends the rest of the world in 2018 washington spent this much on its military exceeding the next 7 countries combined paid antiwar activist 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's it really gets pretty ludicrous when ever the pentagon has actually asked for a justification oftentimes they just cannot come up with one of 4 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 that people don't don't talk about this and on top of which way do 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 because they don't cost money the cost in the long run of switching to clean energy of switching to sustainable energy is in the negative trillions of dollars it saves money in the long run. to baby beza found a new home at a special facility in french or russian after them a band of them that has a little things on the any guests at the center of which is already saved more than 200 cubs from starvation and tosh went to this. hole in the desert the border nearly all the bear cubs that have passed through our hands since 1975 have been orphaned was. born. and you sometimes feel that if i want to go to one

if earlier it was due to illegal hunting which was then stopped now the main reason is widespread logging this sound over grief and this scares the mother bear out of her death the worst thing is she will never come back. that when the cops get to be about 6 weeks old we take them to the separate buildings where there's no sound or smell or fumes. thanks for joining us on r.t. international we're back to that in minutes for the latest headlines.

historically turkey is opponents used to claim that there are 3 issues with turkey for the east to bake and turkey still muslim the fact as we are too poor is no longer correct because our per capita purchase parity is higher than some of the current deal member countries. you know world big partisan movies 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 bad 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 for watching closely watching the hawks. the more i tried to understand venezuela the more i could see the signs of all solitary unism emerging on my continent as well. however what venezuela's critics didn't dare do was compare human rights issues to those in other countries on the american continent. civil and political rights

have been violated in venezuela. but they're violated every day in colombia and they're violated every day in mexico and they're violated every day in brazil. what i call human rights. what i call. of integration. you shoulder enormous in the nation with regard to one country. with regard to many other countries where the situation is many times worse. in brazil the police kill 14 people a day on average. the colombian army killed 10000 civilians between 20022010. that doesn't include hundreds of political activists assassinated every year by powell ability groups tolerated or even supported by the authorities.

even in the usa the police killed almost a 1000 people in 2018. politicians in some of those countries have called for military intervention in venezuela to protect so they say its citizens. but we have troops all over the world that places a very very far away venezuela is not very far away and the people are suffering and they're dying we have many options for venezuela including a possible military option if necessary. i'm always careful when we talk about south and central america and the cia there's a lot of stories. we are very hopeful that there could be a transition of venezuelans i was just down in mexico city and in bogota week

before last talking about this very issue trying to help them understand the things they might do so that they can get a better outcome for c.n.n. can now confirm the president trump asked a number of his top foreign policy advisers last summer about the possibility of invading venezuela thank you. and now opposition needs you on one has declared himself the country's new president have you also the president of the united states for any military support in your struggle you got by as a way down on the amount of this is going up as it would in terms of taking decisions that even though this is a dictatorship the little people want to advance with whatever pressure is needed

this is no time for dialogue this is time for. any negotiations with nicolas maduro. no. the strange thing about the coup and threat of invasion is that they didn't just come from the usa. supporters of the right wing opposition asked for a foreign country to invade then as you. and i made the mistake of answering one of them. i told him it had happened in greece back in the days of nazi collaborators. i hadn't noticed that the person had hundreds of thousands of followers on twitter .