results you. hear from. saudi arabia faces a massive backlash over its push to sentence a teenage boy to be executed and crucified over his involvement in an anti-government rally when he was just 10 years old. movie industry big german voters to shove an anti establishment candidate whose favorite to become american small town often used as a location for hollywood blockbusters. thousands of videos face to chop from you tube in its battle against online extremism we ask whether the issue is really that straightforward.

where if you cheating in this monday morning here in the r.t. new center in moscow what you will is welcome to the program human rights organizations and the media in the saudi government not to execute a teenage boy for among other alleged crimes taking part in anti-government rallies some of the offenses go back to when he was just 10 years old and while activists sound the alarm of what they say is grossly unfair trial. take a look at whether washington may have turned a blind eye. this is not a job correia as 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 other children cycling around as part of an anti-government rally he was 10 years old what john has spent the last 4 years in jail some of them and saw that she confinement the. 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 or brutality of starvation state authoritarianism and other human rights abuse case the prosecutor in quite a race his 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 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 king. we're losing our defending you king and you have a lot of money. yeah you guessed it minutely contracts to the tune of billions of dollars not of course for getting the millions of dollars of oil having to american shores every day everything made perfect sense for charm and in fact it seems the case actually helped him dip into the saudi coffers they buy a lot from us $450000000000.00 they bought you know you had people wanting to cut off saudi arabia they bought 450 $1000000000.00 i don't want to lose them so where are we now on the one hand trumps 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. the hand the fate of

a minor facing the death penalty for challenging the saudi regime to be reigning and 2nd guess 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 their 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 politik we support the 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 accident legally and by the saudi royal family now to experience these as look they buy a lot of weapons from us is slated to go loot media hype about these new gruesome

executions i don't believe that the us government policy makers will change their relation to research the radio whatsoever this sunny's are a cash out for us that since contractors so you really is a strategic ally along with israel in the me it is the us control over the resource rich period called the middle east. to a picture perfect town in germany now that's in the spotlight 70 election of a new map the likely victory of a right wing candidate who has already won in the 1st round of voting has sent shock waves all the way to hollywood as marie ivanovna now reports welcome to girly wood this is how this little german town of gurlitz at the border with poland is sometimes referred to with hollywood teens frequent guests here not surprisingly look around me having survived * allied bombing raids hain world war 2 it's old town has retained a special atmosphere making it a perfect location for a story. and wore drama as members of the national socialist party card you're

among the blockbusters filmed here in glorious bastards and ham and so the grand budapest hotel boy in training. 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 may or from the alternative for germany party the energy candidate sebastian vettel f. 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 on 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 and for your businesses i personally think it's

a good thing that the c.d.u. was finally voted out it never was and never will be a good while they are in power. i don't really know but i think the previous government made too many mistakes. 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 for example from america is unacceptable. it's typical for artists because they think differently they can also 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 we do not tell others what to do what i can say anything specifically about the spot to. decide on its course so far they have no plan. i wouldn't choose the f.t. anyway there is steel ready nevertheless. actions are democratic this is everyone's

freedom 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 mayor's race here hain this town has itself become big screen material life an ocean on our t.v. reporting from the town of gurlitz in eastern germany. 47 years ago this iconic image of the vietnam war 1st grabbed the public's attention doctors gave the girl in the photograph can food little chance of survival but against all the old she did still though the brutal and protracted war claimed the lives of millions of others.

on this 47th anniversary that r.t. sophie shevardnadze speaks to kevin fuk the survivor about napalm attack who says a wounds may have healed but our heart is not after lunch so we play around and. suddenly decide which is jail for the children and asks us to run and i remember as a child i just stood there and then i saw everything i saw the fall bombs. landing like that and then suddenly the fire was everywhere around me and my clothes were burned by the fire and i saw the fire. was over my left arm and a in late late that and i use my right hands i wear it up and day

by day i i have to go through with a lot of pain in and try my in ny man and very low so it's tim not only does the scar i have from the napalm and a pain from that one there but my heart was in trouble. thousands of videos are said to be pulled from you tube the video sharing joints adopting new guidelines to ban certain groups from promoting themselves as superior but the move largely aimed at the likes of neo nazis but our senior correspondent

for august you have explains it's not that player got. 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 may store a cloud but it's really that vague videos alleging a group is superior gosh according to that statement the hammer of politically correct judgement is about to fall in later other animal lovers that see dogs

as superior to men. or in any way to saying i'm allergic to dogs but i'd still choose allergies over another man in my life. than i love my don't suppress but couldn't imagine my life without my has was. always very of the me as i see it comparing an entire gender to a dog could be taken as offensive by both sexes and all those that are between and sexual 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 censors moral police responsible for how and what you say neither apparently all responsibility is yours and if you violate any of the incredibly vague rules you'll get banned no matter how funny you think it is. the stores are the words tourists

there say the traffic we're going to hold. tours 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 is better than americans that is like oh my god so racist someone call 911 dog youtube dot com bulletin feminist your next these eat. an objective observer can see that man's life is nothing but a kind of staggering from control by his mother too 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 if as they were feliz 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 ness 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 challenge even remove the political controversial video stand or their i say it anything and she is stablish moment. coming up we'll take

a look of the crew. reaction to the controversial arrest of a russian journalist in moscow we'll have an update on that for you on much more when we come back. what politicians do something. they put themselves on the line to get accepted or

rejected. so when you want to be president. or somehow i want to. let you go right to be for us that's what i'm up for 3 in the morning can people get. interested falls in the waters of our. first sit. back the german foreign ministers described tensions between iran and its adversaries as highly explosive and extremely serious masses comments come during an official visit to tehran where he's looking for ways of saving the 2050 nuclear deal which is on the verge of collapse. germany's top diplomat has already met with his iranian counterpart mohammad javad zarif will also hold talks with president

hassan rouhani later in the day speaking to reporters earlier maher stressed that europe's support for the agreements and promise that a payment system designed to bypass u.s. sanctions on iran will soon be ready. we want to fulfill our good days since we cannot work miracles but we will try to avert the failure of the nuclear do the foreign minister's visit comes with less than a month until an iranian imposed deadline for compliance with the deal expires in early may iran suspended some of its commitments under the accord and called on other signatories to shield it from the impact of u.s. sanctions thereby honoring their commitments the leadership in tehran has said that it on the 7th of july it will start high level uranium enrichment on over the past few weeks the united states has bolstered its military presence in the region sending a carrier strike group to the persian gulf it's also continuing to put immense financial pressure on the iranian leadership a policy that donald trump has repeatedly praised. to fail it is illusion one of

the flows of the. journey there are. but this ancient of. extraordinary power all that is. ok well let's see where this is going to take us next then independent journalist who joins us welcome to the program again do you think europe is going to be able to protest around from the protect iran from the impact of u.s. sanctions in line with their commitments to the deal. well that's what they say but as mr ma says just to clear the interior on he hopes it will be efficient and i have great doubts because they have created this s.p.v. special purpose vehicle called in stakes to to mainly to buy oil in euro and to credit iran so that iran can then buy goods in europe also denominated of course in europe. this is not where i mean they have created the structure it's in

paris it said the ministry of foreign affairs in an office somewhere probably would like to go there and ring the bell to see where it is exactly because they have a website they have a budget an official by which it which is something like $6000.00 euro capital i mean that it's incredible they have it there is nothing behind that they have designated a direct and a pair of fischer was a former communist. fine but the board of directors is composed of diplomats that's not the people they need they need financial specialists they need economists who can deal with huge sums of money in the oil sector in the industry not those so i have great doubts that they will be ready soon despite what they say what you think will happen on the 7th of july if nothing substantially changes that it it's hard to imagine that iran won't begin the high level uranium enrichment it's not going to say they're saying we'll stick to the rules of no one else's.

exactly as you say so of course the iranians are getting bit nervous i understand because they have respected their part of the day you apparently until now so are ok they start saying if nobody moves we will move and start again dean richmond of eurabia so that is the issues because of course at that moment the americans could feel justified to do something so europe should move quicker because the. it means not europe really but it means to you germany and france have promised to do so and this s.p.v. special purpose is nowhere near functioning. but if that uranium enrichment does begin it really isn't going to bode well for regional tensions is it i'm afraid it will be really the situation will get really more dangerous because of course israel is following closely to probably have very good sources of information. they don't like what they see or hear to have mentioned it to the

americans don't listen started much to what israel has to say about iran and so the situation gets tensions as you said the americans have sent. a plane carrier and units of to the region so this is bode well for the coming months. it's also hard to imagine of saudi arabia standing aside israel standing aside of the u.s. standing aside it feels like it's heading towards a situation where everybody can make a bold even dangerous move and yet blame everyone else you know what you have of course the out of the gulf or the persian gulf depending on what side you are. which is the motorway for all exports i think 60 percent of the world oil goes to this so iran is on one side and the americans are in the region too so . you know something can happen any time you have the revolutionary guards in iran

that have shown that they are sometimes a bit hold added and they could start something with only immediate reaction by the americans etc etc so that is a very dangerous. given that there's so much to lose for so many nations how likely is it then that we'll see a reworking of either the current agreement or a new deal altogether. what europe has to have its. functioning to satisfy the arrangement and have some companies benefiting from it or iran benefiting from it to continue trading with european countries that's the minimum now so that because 81 percent of the exports over iran is all so beautiful has promised things now we have to follow suit. mr maher always very good at announcing things but it seems that practically doing there is more difficult in paris but if the situation is so situated so the s.p.v.

should now move much faster than ok well we'll see what comes out of the german foreign minister's visit for now though in brussels the journalist will give a thanks for the time. next to russian investigative journalists who was charged over the weekend with intent to supply illegal drugs has been placed under house arrest in moscow if angle of detention which has been strongly condemned by his supporters was addressed for the 1st time by the kremlin on monday. or do you then vladimir 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 monday saw a russian headlines come out in support of the arrest a journalist with the title we are evolving of strewn across several major newspapers now it was detained on thursday after the police said they found drugs in his possession as well as scales and more drugs in his moscow apartment he was

then charged with trying to sell these drugs around the same time he was sent to the hospital because he claimed that he was beaten in custody as well as refused a lawyer which the police deny in both cases the online newspaper going over. is convinced of his innocence they've riposte a statement from his lawyer saying that the arrest itself may have been a set up the publication also mentioned that this journalist has received threats regarding his investigative work for the past several months however the police claim that his arrest was not an isolated incident but it was part of a wider investigation into a drug ring in moscow so go know it was placed under house arrest on saturday after being released from the hospital with no serious trauma reported nevertheless an open petition is going around the internet and around the world calling for immediate release over 148000 people have signed including high profile journalists in the russian media so this is a story that's quickly developing new information hour by hour and we'll bring you

the latest as it becomes available. well underway in what is an historic election in the central asian country of kazakhstan the one guarantee from this vote is that a new leader will be elected for the 1st time since the breakup of the soviet union no official results yet exit polls from the say that the interim president will win around 70 percent of the vote because you don't have 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 favorites of the race yes the interim president and the appointee of the previous president because sims are much is the leading in the race with some the 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 chair the senate used to chair the upper house of the country's parliament now as he caused his ballot as kissinger might the kind of cost his ballot with and the i should say quite beautiful interiors of the opera house here right after that i got a chance i got the opportunity to ask him what he envisions for the country and he's what he told me are wrong because our strong there are so many challenges to situation there on the war that is becoming increasingly tumultuous so we believe that here in cost on we need to avoid recession and pitfalls we need to meet our challenges that come from outside or uniform inside but anyway we i believe there

due to the we work with almost the people of color started will be successful parents we will all account this is the 1st presidential election in this country in which the previous leader did not run news a little kindness at a bio 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 and. new leader so it is a big deal and really figures 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 does the future holds for this country assumes are not the kind of seems to 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 he goes down that's all for the moscow newsroom for now get the r.t. app and get r.t. news alerts on the go your next update from us is in just over half an hour i hope to see it. on this edition of the program we discuss what drives the russia china relationship critics claim it is a marriage of convenience proponents say otherwise it is the pivotal relationship of the 1st century.

not after times are we going underground is u.k. conservative party leadership nominations dominate mainstream headlines while ignoring u.n. figures claiming 14000000 people here now live their lives in poverty coming up to show. governments commit the un charter is supremum war crime we speak to a former shadow minister who has just tabled a written parliamentary question about a possible staged justification for last year's british aerial bombardment of syria and was new york born donald trump right before meeting the queen even named russia syria and iran for the indiscriminate killing of civilians in the ad lib trumped the fact that supporting those who would have supported the 911 massacre in is birthplace posable coming up in today's going on the ground the 1st 8 years ago the i.a.e.a. reported syria to the un security council over suspected nuclear weapons barack

obama's state department quickly followed up to be using the iraq war w m d playbook serious apparent attempt at constructing a secret. under clear tony in production reactor. a reactor with no credible peaceful purpose represents one of the most serious safeguards violations possible soon a u.s. politician who could have begun world war 3 had donald trump not being elected doubled down on w m d claims to justify war on syria i really believe that we should have and still should. take out his airfields and prevent him from being able to use them to buy our innocent people and drive sharing gas. so-called mainstream media is fully on board with w m d claims worldwide reaction today to a dangerous move in syria.