the israeli army launches an air strikes on syrian territory killing 3 soldiers the i.d.f. claims it was a response to an earlier attack by syria. and among the stories that shaped the week a u.n. expert on torture says the way julian has been treated in recent years amounts of psychological torture assessment came a day after a song failed to appear in court to for help. to support the police who proceed with this to be exposed to so little to be true over a long period. from impeachment to case closed all sides are getting something from special counsel robert muller's final say on the trump russia pollution report. and

redrawing the map of the e.u. elections the anti-establishment parties make major gains as europeans crave a shake up of their politics. welcome to the weekly here on our chanter national bring you today's headline news and the top stories from the last 7 days. the israeli army targeted syrian territory saturday night killing 3 soldiers and wounding 7 more it says it was responding to 2 missiles fired from syria also reports. well this way the defense forces the i.d.f. has confirmed that it hit a number of targets in syria overnight saturday and it says that this was in retaliation to 2 missiles that were fired from syria at the israeli part of the golan heights there were no reports of injuries or damage on the israeli side but we are hearing from the israeli cabinet that it was the israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu who posts to meet ordered these retaliate tree strikes now it

comes as the israeli army issues a statement in which it says its planes and helicopters hit 2 artillery batteries and a defense battery and also a number of observation points along the israel syria border syrian state media is reporting that there are 3 syrian soldiers were killed and an additional 7 injured this happening in the eastern part of the connector country side all of this is happening as tensions between israel and syria escalate particularly in the area of the golan heights now earlier in the week jared cush know who is the son in law and also the senior adviser to the american president donald trump was in jerusalem where he gifted netanyahu with a map that had been personally signed by the american president and there clearly showed the golan heights as part of israeli territory netanyahu held a press conference in which he acknowledged and thanked the american president.

brought me something from the u.s. presidents in the state department there is an official map of the states which had not been updated since the sixty's well now it's been up to its christian who brought me the new mount which includes the golan heights as part of his road it's signed by president trump who writes. so i would like to say that's very nice. now this follows trumps a full recognition of israeli sovereignty over the golan heights back in march that happened during a meeting between the 2 leaders when netanyahu was at the white house in washington this has been denounced by the international community who consider the area occupied territory and that is the status they have accorded it ever since israel took over the golan heights back in the 1967 war at the same time we are hearing from the syrian side they say that the aerial defense systems were activated to strike at so-called enemy targets in the southern damascus countryside so certainly

the situation between the 2 sides remains tense and both sides on a state of high alert. let's get reaction now from a former israeli ambassador to the u.s. standing i want now how do you interpret israel's incursion into syria. well. first of all i would say that israel would like to keep. the rules of the game and the rules of the game right now is that since the civil war in that started 8 years ago in syria it was a no man's land we have found on our borders. she. says militias and we were attacked in the course we have to exercise our right for self defense what we see lately is that the. syrian

army is trying to come back to its previous positions and challenge. the idea of these ready defense forces and of course the israel will not allow to change the name of the games but it's not just syria syria is not the problem the main problem here is iran and as long as you. iran is trying to intrench in syria to bring the militias increase. to our border and to build installations military and otherwise that will endanger israel we have no choice but to exercise our right for self-defense at this point we have 3 syrian soldiers dead could this situation escalate further from here. well it all depends on what the. syrians it will do we know that. previously they have also tried some mischief here and when the israeli

response came it was quiet i hope this will be the case in any case i think that the responsible adult in the area and in syria right now is the russian federation so i'm sure since they are very very good relationship of trust and of confidence and appreciation between prime minister netanyahu and president putin i'm sure that they will update each other and see how to bring back the situation to a calmer much calmer waters. now while there is a dispute over the golan heights how big a threat does war battered syria really post israel right now. well i don't think that the syrian military can engage in a full scale war but our main concern

is terrorism that could inflict trade that could challenge not just israel but also the syrian military and there is again we see the relentless attempts by iran through its proxies hizbollah to try and attack israel from their border or as they say. in the run they would like to open a 2nd front you know we have our front with hizbullah in lebanon lebanon pretty much is ok bye bye bye hizbullah by iran and israel will not allow a 2nd front to be open on the on the golan heights so this is why israel will continue to do what we do and again i don't think that it may escalate into a full scale war. situation can be easily easily resolved

if the iranians leave all together syria and go back to tehran danny aisle and former israeli ambassador to the u.s. thank you for your time and your comments. on friday are you an expert on torture and inhumane treatment said the way julian assange has been treated amounts of psychological torture adding that he doesn't think the wiki leaks co-founder we're going to fair trial if he's extradited to the u.s. . this is. crucial because it was 2 medical experts. document symptoms all physical and psychological to truly treat. to a person who has been exposed to psychological torture over. speaking. and severe psychological trauma never see. several states.

in order to persecute them to. single out particular individual without the protection that actually is according to. britain's foreign secretary it slammed the experts assessment as wrong and inflammatory and the tweeted germy hunt went on to claim that a songe had hold himself up in the ecuadorian embassy of his own accord and had been free to leave those mails or hit back saying that assad was quote as free to leave someone sitting on a rubber boat and a sharp fall on top of that the expert accuse u.k. courts of not showing due impartiality and objectivity. an operator on torture also accused australia of abdicating responsibility for the protection of a song and bear responded by saying it had provided him with adequate consular support on thursday a day before the torture assessment songs failed to appear in court due to poor health poli boycott was outside the westminster court where his the hearing was

supposed to have taken place extradition hearing isn't taking place any longer to do this on children actually meant to be here in person but he's not even well enough to pay it via video link 10 minutes on she's been moved to the all sites are weighing up all belmarsh prison that's up to a maximum security prison where 715 said to expect. anyone in the ecuadorian embassy back in 2012 and went to great great you can say about the face of this. health what we know is that there was a push from the yeah the medical board. and the fact that they did this and they put him on the world speaks speaks plenty and that's how you know being in a high security start maximum security prison is difficult for anyone but you can spend 7 years confined in the ecuadorian embassy before that with medical treatment for that hospital medical treatment this is meant to be the 2nd hearing about this on just the extradition the official start of it has been moved to around about the

12th of june we think we've already had a fuss terry earlier this month geneva. consents to being extradited to the us. u.s. special counsel robert mueller handed in his resignation on wednesday 2 years after he opened his investigation into alleged collusion between president donald trump and russia before announcing the decision he sought to give clarification on the report's key conclusions if we had confidence that the president clearly did not commit a crime we would have said so. we did not however make a determination as to whether the president did commit a crime we chose those words carefully and the work speaks for itself and the report is my testimony some have likened the report to a rorschach test in psychology or patients give interpretations of what represents in a similar way both camps in washington or interpret muller's final speech very differently

. mahler was essentially referring impeachment to the united states congress the special counsel has clearly demonstrated that president is lying i think it was very clear if you could clear the president he would have but he couldn't it was to be the same as the record. though it struck you what we're saying is no obstruction just don't go there is nothing and we consider this case closed he completed his investigation now he's closed his office and it's time for everybody to move on legal and media analyst lionel gave us his views on the probe the interesting thing to note is one of the reasons why many suspect he doesn't want to speak to congress is one that republicans asked him when did you know this how many years ago how many months into this investigation did you come to the conclusion a either there was no evidence or are there was no reason to charge him but how

long have you been stringing the country and the president and the world along what here's another question for you if you can't end dive him if those were the rules why did you investigate him in the 1st place did you know these rules before or did you know the rules before that say you can indict him or charge him then what were you investigating ah you were investigating collusion and by the way did you notice such a paltry and de minimus amount of time that was that was given to the reason for this what was this russian collusion explain this more the weekly continues after the break.

manufacture to send to the public well. when the ruling classes protect themselves. in the final. we can all middle of the room 6. china is not a partner number one for us yet steel. and e.u. countries our trade partners number one with us and. i cannot share the. those who are those who say that it's a turn of russia he's good no russia i hope will never turn eastwards. you know russian egoless is looking to both sides west towards

a nice towards. welcome back the european parliamentary elections saw green and liberal parties make significant gains while anti-establishment movements came out on top in countries like italy france and belgium and the charlotte devinsky reports there was no shortage of political drama in the run up either. for months pundits have been predicting a rise in anti establishment parties ahead of the e.u. elections afterwards they were right but across the bloc in the weeks leading up to the vote panic was setting in. take martin look 10 days before france headed to the polls the e.u. top court ordered her to pay back 300000 euros to the european parliament

this followed a case in which the national rally leader had been accused of paying an aide incorrectly but the timing felt off it was almost as if it was a way to tell voters that her party just couldn't be trusted that came hot on the heels of accusations that former trump strategist steve bannon was actually the one pulling all the pens strings yet the public didn't seem to care and the national rally still talked the polls here in france other scandals that were rife in the media included one russians well at least the alleged russians. it was of course if. the party which was in coalition. people's party found itself under the spotlight not for its potentially dubious policies but for a good old cash influence gambit. piece

. he says. there was even an attempt to drag le pen's name into the thick gate as it became known a few months ago marine le pen was singing the praises of austrian vice chancellor heinz christian straka saying how formidable he was struck as being forced to resign we find out why he was trying to sell his services to foreign forces behind this nationalist movement is a submission to foreign forces despite this the f p o still managed to pick up just over 17 percent of the vote in austria. there was also of course the elections very own 2 moment one swedish democrats candidate accused the other of sexual harassment and even though this scandal

washed away it didn't hamper the anti immigration party's performance they increased their share of the vote to more than 50 percent. and despite merkel back on it out warning the populace party's wanted to destroy europe we are haring to deal with populist movements that in many areas are contemptuous of our of fail use and want to destroy the europe of the valleys we represent we have to stand up to this these parties significantly increase their representation in many parts of the e.u. sex money the long arm of washington reaching for controlling europe nothing seemed to put voters off seeking something new what is clear from the results of these elections is that the old guard could no longer count on the masses to support them implying face what europeans want is something different it seems but godless what

that is what i think why you're skeptics because of the migrants people are skeptical because they do not know what it's going to get them they're afraid of migrants or. that i think the reason is the decline in the number of elites compared to the rest of the people as well as the quality of the democratic representation. spots because. i think it is because of immigration all europeans who are afraid of tea many migrants coming i think this is the primary cause of the spurt i think people feel as if the existing political parties are giving them what they want and therefore they're hunting around for something else i think says some extent it's probably a protest just trying to engineer a tory vote to go more with. it wasn't unexpected as an outcome i would say kind of a level of division i would have expected across the country a bit the green party so play remain pro vironment why because they're very remain employed vironment are the 2 things that that's what i care about. the. parties had

a disastrous defeat in my opinion it was high time for it and now we'll see whether the european result. good influence on national politics all be implemented here on the leader of germany's s.p.d. party which is a member of the ruling coalition says she's stepping down under and allah's will officially announce her resignation as party leader on monday and this parliamentary leader on tuesday comes a week after her party's porche owing in the elections for the details let's cross over now to the notion of maria is the election result linked to her going then. they indeed it's not just a coincidence but rather a large recall move following what many cold germany's social democrats double defeat they lost dramatically in a regional vote earlier in may but symbol tenuously were even harder heat in the european parliament elections the national support dropped down to 15.5 percent

that's comparing to almost 28 percent back in 2014 the results that the party is cheaper south described shortly after the results were announced as extremely disappointing let's now take a listen what else she had to say. the election results indicated it was dealing with a major change in the political landscape and public opinion i don't little economy and society is changing and we haven't managed to adjust to the sufficient. but what is interesting what happened to the asiri part of the road a phenomenon not only social democrats but angela merkel's conservatives the tea parties that have been dominating german politics for decades started losing to smaller turn and to parties hand usually it happens when people are looking for changes back to you art is maria for national thank you for bringing us that report . the world is a dangerous place that was us vice president mike pence is message to graduates of

the elite west point military academy in a speech at times hectoring that also told them to expect to see combat and they're trying to listen to the drill in full. it will fight on a battlefield for america some point your life if you didn't notice the words in the background that was mr vice president talking to the graduates of a top class u.s. military academy and that wasn't it how do you like this degree of certainty it is a virtual certainty that you will fight on a battlefield for america some point your life. you will lead soldiers in combat. he will have so what is the 2nd most important official in the country trying to make clear by that the good old boots on the ground will certainly be on the way to quite a few different places after all come on no one in this world would dare to send an army against america to put up

a fight there nobody will realistically send soldiers to attack the superpower of all superpowers and so men and women of westpoint no matter where you're deployed. you will be the vanguard of freedom here they are the future of basters of freedom you look at their faces and frankly it doesn't seem they're in raptures over what mr pence is saying but let's hear where in the world we might expect to see a boost in freedom in the days to come some of you will join the fight against radical islamic terrorists in afghanistan. and iraq oh these are familiar places where the pro says so to say began a while ago soon it will be 20 years any more destinations some of you will join the fight in europe where an aggressive russia seeks to redraw international boundaries by force probably in this area it's

a bit of an exaggeration that the graduates will find themselves on a battlefield taking part in nato zbig war games there that's more like it. well at least for now it's only been in the form of drills for now and finally the most curious part and some of you may even be called busy upon to serve. in this hemisphere it won't be rocket science for you to figure out where the boots on the ground money to be marching off to next in the western hemisphere. where for the white house it's a classic all options are on the table plus we heard from the opposition big guy there one. he wouldn't mind at all that's our snapshot of just some of the stories

that help shape the world these last 7 days for all the latest and up to minute reports follow us on twitter or facebook. luke won't you. write. this in petersburg international economic forum is a unique event in today's business world. over the last 21 years the forum has

become a leading global platform for discussing the key to economic issues facing russia emerging markets and the world thousands of business community members attend the forum to address today's financial issues. one just actual forum coverage on r.t. . and we don't know what facebook's aims are in fact facebook doesn't know what its aims are because it's going to be the sum total of all the people who are working

on these algorithms a whistleblower someone who used to work for facebook came forward last year and said i was one of the news curators at facebook a bunch of us used to sit around every day and we used to remove stories from the news feed that were too conservative and now and then we inject a story that we 1st thought was really cool. facebook founder mark zuckerberg says he's committed to giving everyone a voice he's from responding to an allegation that facebook edits conservative views out of its trending topics they can suppress types of results based on what they think you should be seeing based on what your followers are presenting now a new report claims that according to a former facebook employee the social media mega company sometimes ignores what is actually trending among its 1000000000 users if the story originated from a conservative news source or if it's

a topic causing buzz among conservatives. facebook costly manipulator users they do it by the things that they insert into the news feeds they do it by the types of posts they allow their users to see and the fact that they actually decide to do psychological experiments on the users is something that i think a lot of people need to really fall. we understand they were doing it based upon the fact that different things that people posted they want to see how other people would react to it. on how to watch what your facebook friends post can have a direct effect on your mood new research shows the more negative post you see the more negative you could become. so if for example let's say somebody wanted to post something that was on the news feed that was a very negative story they want to see how their users would react via their likes by their statements for their posts and they would show people who already had a predilection to maybe having some depression or maybe having some other issues in

their lives and they can figure that out based upon your like space upon your connections based upon where you're going and so what they want to do is take that information and then use it to basically weaponize this information against their users so that way their users could see different things that may affect their mood and may affect how they interact with others and that's something that is highly unethical it appears that some young people may have been so affected by this that they may have done harm to themselves based upon what they saw on their facebook feed and it was all because it is experiments these things that we have no standing with facebook we're not citizens of facebook we have no food on facebook it's not a democracy and this this process is not a way we can design the future we can't rely on this single company to invent our digital future. there's there's what i call the creepy line and the google policy about

a lot of these things is to get right up to the creepy line but not cross it google crosses the creepy line every day. not only does google cross the creepy line the location of that line you keep shifting. well it's an interesting word creepy right because it's a word that connotes horror she didn't say dangerous. he didn't say unethical there's all sorts of words that could have fit in that slot he said creepy and a creep is someone who creeps around and follows you and spies on you for unsavory purposes right that's the definition of a creep you know i don't think the typical ethical person says i'm going to push right up to the line of creepy and stop there you know they say more something like how about we don't get near enough to the creepy line so that we're ever. engaging in even pseudo creepy behavior because creepy is really bad you know.