thankfully. saudi arabia faces a massive backlash for imposing the death penalty on a teenage boy who took part in anti-government protests. a picture perfect town in germany to reject a right wing. and thousands of videos face the chop from you tube as it continues its battle with extremists but many are crying foul saying it's just another crackdown.

on global news 247 live from moscow this is r.t. international your. welcome to the program. grossly unfair and appalling human rights organizations and the media urging the saudi government not executed teenage boys for among other things alleged crimes and taking part in anti-government rallies with activists now sounding the alarm is not the 1st time the saudi authorities are being accused of violating human rights. takes a closer look. this is more courageous he is now 18 years old and on trial in saudi arabia and this is him at the time of his alleged crime on a bike in his hometown and with 30 other children cycling around as part of an anti-government rally he was 10 years old with a child has spent the last 4 years in jail some of them and saw that she confinement the saudi authorities say he's confessed but the teenager denies this

claiming he was forced into an admission of guilt off to hours of torture riyadh's decision to sentence him to death is on surprisingly not going down well ridiculous exercise of brutality of starvation state authoritarianism and other human rights abuse case the prosecutor in quite a racist case is not only calling for the death penalty but for his body to be crucified or dismembered afterwards here's a chain year old kid riding his bike and somehow this is a capital offense now you'd be forgiven if you're experiencing some deja vu remember all the indignation over lost his assassination of saudi john this jamal khashoggi the media allege the crown prince was complicit in his murder something the kingdom need to noise politicians called for immediate sanctions against riyadh and human rights groups blasted the candids constant violations of well human rights but do you remember how it and did i call the game i like the king.

i should get. the funding you can and you have a lot of money. yeah you guessed it minute 3 contracts to the tune of billions of dollars not of course for getting the millions of dollars of oil heading to american shores every day everything made perfect sense for trump and in fact it seems the case actually helped him dip into the saudi cause. yes they buy a lot from us $450000000000.00 they bought you know he had people wanting to cut off saudi arabia they bought $450000000000.00 i don't want to lose i'm not so where are we now on the one hand trump's administration has just all through a top american defense fund called raytheon to couple with the saudis and build bomb parts in saudi arabia on the other hand the fate of a minor facing the death penalty for challenging the saudi regime to be reigning in

2nd gas what's next there is no pretense anymore of it being moral and of the trump administration there you the u.s. used to maybe it was worse when her prior administrations where they tried to pretend that what they were doing was the moral thing that's been very clear he brags about the deals he strikes you know selling arms to the saudis we you know just turn a blind eye to the atrocities and that say well you know it's real politic we support saudi arabia because they're on our side is really very honest that he doesn't care about human lives the life of a show. or any other person on death row or any other person who's about to be executed by extralegal knees by the saudi royal family now to experience these as look they buy a lot of weapons from us is made of gold media hype about these new gruesome executions i don't believe that the u.s.

government policy makers will change their orientation towards the radio whatsoever this is only zahra cash out for us that since contractors so you really is a strategic ally of israel in the me is the u.s. control over their resource rich period called the middle east. to a picture perfect town in germany now that's in the spotlight have the election of a new met the likely victory of a right wing candidate who's already won the 1st round of voting has sent shock waves. way to hollywood reformation and i report. welcome to girly wood this is how this little german town of gurlitz at the border with poland is sometimes referred to with hollywood teams frequent guests here not surprisingly look around me having survived * the allied bombing raids hain war to its old town has retained a special atmosphere making it a perfect location for historical and war dramas national socialist party car

you're among the blockbusters filmed here inglorious basterds and it's a grand budapest hotel boy intriguing. but some no fear that this traditionally left leaning town is about to undergo an inglorious shift and become germany's 1st to vote in mayor from the alternative for germany party the energy candidate sebastian vettel 36 year old police commissioner picked up 36.4 percent of the vote in the 1st round and he has a serious chance of topping the candidates in the 2nd round runoff later this week now actors and directors both german and foreign are calling the locals here to avoid. the right don't give in to hate and hostility conflict and exclusion please vote wisely don't betray your convictions the moment someone claims to be able to solve problems for you as for me for this is i personally think it's

a good thing that the c.d.u. was finally voted out it never was and never will be good while they are in power. i don't really know what i think the previous government went too many mistakes as you did and no i don't think it's right i think the people of gurlitz a smart enough to decide for themselves i think that imposing someone else's opinion or example from america is unacceptable. it's typical for artists because they think differently they can all. so voice their opinions we live in a democratic country so everyone is free to express their thoughts if they don't live here then they shouldn't meddle in our local affairs so we do not tell others what to do what they can say anything specifically about the spot to. decide on its course so far they have no plan it's been years since i wouldn't choose the f.t. anyway there is steel ready nevertheless the elections are democratic this is

everyone through them they'll turn to for germany party candidate may be leading the polls right now but with 6 days to vote and the power of the film industry is elite now involved the maoris here him this town has itself become big screen material life an ocean on our t.v. reporting from the town of gurlitz in eastern germany. thousands of videos are said to be taken down from you tube platforms adopting new guidelines which ban videos that promote the superiority of any group it's the latest in a range of widespread reforms by various websites aim to baffling allegedly harmful or discriminatory content but as our senior correspondent explains it's not quite as clear cut as it seems. you tube has again shuffled about it's hate speech and discrimination policy this follows a sidestep wark to somersault and a back flip today we're taking another step in our hate speech policy by

specifically prohibiting videos alleging that a group is superior in order to justify discrimination segregation or exclusion based on qualities like age gender race cars to religion sexual orientation or veteran status if that was any more vague it might as well have been fog me store. but it's really that vague videos alleging a group is period gosh according to that. statement of the ham a politically correct judgment is about to fall in. other adam love us that see dogs as superior to men. and to saying i'm uneducated docs but i'd still choose allergies over another man in my life. that i saw not much don't suppress but couldn't imagine my life without my has.

one of his very vivid than me as i see it comparing an entire agenda to a dog could be taken as offensive by both sexes and all those that between and sexually but it does raise an interesting point who the hell are you tube facebook or twitter the platforms for people to chat on express themselves or they senses moral police responsible for how and what you say neither apparently all responsibilities use and if you violate any of the you can credibly vague rules you'll get banned no matter how funny you think of these chinese tourists are the worst tourists there say the traffic we're going to hold a tour is about all the travelers like please. they are here are 10 things russia excels at and does better than how we do it in america both consume a lot of vodka but as far as manufacturers the us hasn't really brought anything

new to the game including adding flavor to it that was popular among russian aristocracy before the us was even a country russians doing things better than americans that is like oh my god so racist someone call 911 dog youtube dot com militant feminist your next these is eat. an objective observer can see that man's life is nothing but a kind of staggering from controlled by his mother to controlled by his wife. women can both think and feel the same time man can. man can either think or feel it does sound too good to be true if they start enforcing their own policies no matter how vaguely well stop hearing about the best country in the world the freest country in the world the greatest country in the world daily why are fellas i'm proud of my mexican ancestry but i also am proud of my american

nationality how do i balance these 2 things super simple celebrate cinco de mayo because you are proud of your mexican heritage believe that it is mexico's independence day because you have american and. let's be honest you tube overlords didn't update their rules to take down america is great videos but given that the rules are now so ambiguous they can be used to take down anything what chance to even remove the political or controversial video stand or there i say it anything and she is stablish moment. 47 years ago this iconic image of the vietnam war 1st grabbed the public's attention doctors get the girl in the photograph can fuk little chance of surviving a woman's but against the old she did a brutal protracted war claimed the lives of millions though.

on this 47 found a verse 3 then sophie shevardnadze speaks to kim fuq a survivor of that napalm attack who says her wounds may have healed but her heart is not. after lunch so we get clay around all and. suddenly the soldiers jail for the children. to run i remember. as a child i just stood there and then i saw everything i saw the fall of bombs.

landing like that and then suddenly the fire was everywhere around me and my clothes were burned off by the fire and i saw the fire. was over my left arm and in late late that and i use my right hands i wear it up then day by day i i have to go through with a lot of pain in and try my in ny mayor and very low so is tim not only the scar and i have from the napalm and the pain from that one there but my heart was in trouble.

coming up next we'll take a look at the kremlin's reaction to the controversial arrest of a russian journalist in moscow we'll bring you the latest on much more when we come back. the at. join me every thursday on the alex simon short and i'll be speaking to guest of the world of politics sports business i'm show business i'll see you then.

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each other it's time for critical thinking it's time to fight for the middle for the truth the time is now we're watching closely watching the hawks. welcome back president trump maybe celebrating his recent border control deal with mexico that limits the number of migrants that can enter the united states but he's not above adding a little insurance into the mix. there is now going to be great cooperation between mexico and the usa something that didn't exist for decades however if for some unknown reason there is not we can always go back to our previous very profitable position of tariffs and president trying rolled out his threat of tariffs of the end of may in 2 to start a monday all imports from mexico were to be hit with

a 5 percent tariff rising to 25 percent if a deal wasn't struck but a deal was struck and now the united states is expecting this mexico has to deploy its national guard giving priority to the border with of the united states it also has to make greater efforts to tackle human trafficking and accept south american asylum seekers who are awaiting a decision from the united states all that in exchange for no increased tariffs on mexican goods and touring america can absorb and looks into how trump got his virtual wall. just recently a column of migrants coming from honduras el salvador and guatemala was stopped after just being in mexican territory for a few miles they're saying they're going to take us and give his papers but we don't believe them their behavior is not normal it's a sharp contrast to previous attempts where caravans made it all the way 4000 kilometers to the u.s. border with mexico change is now afoot for mexican president lopez obrador he was certainly no fan of donald trump on his campaign trail those are the neighbors the

united states government would want us to do the work by blocking migrants from central america who are to live but it seems that he has now decided to assert mexico's sovereignty and follow the white house's lead. want to have a relationship a read to rate of friendship with the people and with the government of the united states this is our position the u.s. authorities president trump of all behave well because they have not closed dialogue now we all remember donald trump's epic campaign promise we need to build a wall. i will build a great great wall we're building a wall it's going to be a wall that is not nobody's going through my wallet and who were supposed to fit the bill and i will have mexico pay for that war mark my words now a couple of years later there's not much of a wall exactly but perhaps we just can't see it the government of mexico has big

this missteps to sign disagreement because they're worse no other way to go our way of those arabs or all the products from mexico and now we are in between 2 fires at the fire of next week and government under fire a lot from you know pushing for more control on immigration and this is based out and really but for our economy and we think this is just the beginning of this. whole mr truong is pushing for commercials and immigration at this famed time because he knows that this is good for his reelection on 2020 he's doing everything he can to gain and he's going to one again doing this kind of pressure on mexico and mexico's just fine in this kind of argument is really is that. new in this hour

a russian investigative journalist who was charged over the weekend with possessing drugs and intent to supply has been placed under house arrest in moscow if i'm calling off detention which has been strongly condemned by his supporters was addressed for the 1st time by the kremlin on monday. or do you deny that in the putin was informed about the case in some petersburg on friday he was informed that it's a high profile case the kremlin can't comment on criminal cases and wouldn't do in this case but taking into account of the cases i proof we're observing it very carefully. of course all the dog of course has been across this developing story for us take us through the case then why it's getting so much attention well call on monday saw russian headlines come out in support of the arrest a journalist with the title we are evolving across several major publications now detained on thursday after police said that they found drugs in his possession as well as scales and more drugs in his apartment in moscow they charged him with attempting to sell these drugs around the same time he was sent to the hospital

because he said that he was beaten in custody and and refused a lawyer which the police reject in both cases now the online newspaper a lot of works for him and those that is convinced of his innocence and they were posted a statement by his lawyer saying that the arrest in itself may have been a set up the publication also mentions multiple threats that he received in the past several months related to his journalistic work however the police say that his arrest was not an isolated incident but connected to an investigation into a wider moscow drug ring so go and i was placed under house arrest on saturday after being released from the hospital with no serious trauma reported nevertheless an open petition has been circulating around the internet calling for gold in all of immediate release over 145000 people have signed including high profile russian journalists in the media so this is a story that's really quickly developing new information hour by hour and we'll bring you the latest as it becomes available ok if and of course thanks very much

for that. counting is underway after what was an historic election in the central asian country of kazakstan the guarantee to elect a new leader for the 1st time since the breakup of the soviet union and although there's no official results yet exit polls suggest that the interim president will get about 70 percent of the vote he goes down of reports from the capital. this monday kazakstan woke up to decisively find out who's going to lead the country in the next 5 years and well i should say there have been no surprises there the all time favorite of the race yes the interim president and the appointee of the previous president. is the leading in the race with some 70 percent of the votes now again these are not the official results just yet we're expecting those close to the evening here but i mean still even with such exit polls with the numbers they're giving it's highly unlikely doesn't look like any other candidate

has a viable chance of getting that top job now too just to give you an idea as to who this man is he has been in the upper echelons of power in this country for quite a while and before running in this election he used to share the senate used to chair the upper house of the country's parliament now as he cast his ballot as kissinger might the kind of cast his ballot with and the i should say quite beautiful interiors of the opera house here right after that i get a chance i got the opportunity to ask him what he envisions for the country and he's what he told me the wrong cars are strong there are so many challenges. to situation the wrong doer to use becoming increasingly tumultuous so we believe that here in coinstar and we need to avoid reduce and pitfalls we need to meet our challenges that come from outside or you know from inside but only we we are believe there due to the we work with almost the people our cover star. we'll be

successful apparently we will on account this is the 1st presidential election in this country in which the previous leader did not run. by of skipped this race and so it means for the 1st time since the fall of the soviet union kazakstan will have a new face a new leader so it is a big deal and really figures that show i mean they speak for themselves more than 70 percent more than 77 even percent of the voters of the people who were allowed to vote took to the polling stations on sunday this amounts to some 12000000 people as for the what the future holds for this country assumes are not the kind of seems to world stick to the policy line maintained by his predecessor at least his actions so far as the interim president indicate so but of course it's only the

next 5 years that are going to show what really future holds for kazakstan they got it out of europe today thanks for choosing r.t. if you're news this monday we're back with the latest developments around 34 minutes from now. seemed wrong. just all. get to shape out. and engage. the trail. find themselves while the part. of the common ground. 0 officer. told them to get up off the ground serve begin to get him down.

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