i think some. tensions flare up in the gulf region iran says the u.s. is resorting to sabotage the plane missing after washington the keys as it attacking oil tankers. also comes in a court will hold a hearing on whether to extradite using the sands to the u.s. where the whistleblower could face up to 175 years in prison and take charge ricky silencing speech they don't like that after each you remove the video by the project director asked the claims to show his social media interests and it's conservative you. know there are 11 in the morning here in moscow you're watching r.t.

international nash sabotage diplomacy that's what the iranian foreign minister has called us allegations that iran was behind the apparent attack on 2 world tankers in the gulf of oman on thursday the u.s. has sent missile destroyers to the area secretary of state my compost said washington's assessment was based on intelligence adding that no one else in the region had the capacity to carry out such an attack islamic republic of iran is responsible for the attacks that occurred in the gulf of oman by proxy group operating in the early has the resources and proficiency to act with such a high degree of sophistication the us immediately jumped to make allegations against iran without a shred of factual circumstantial evidence only makes it abundantly clear that the b. team is moving to a plan b. sabotage diplomacy. well the u.s. military published a photo claiming it depicted signs of minor damage on one of the tankers in

addition central command released a video showing what it says is in the iranian military patrol boat from moving an unexploded mine from one of the tankers as already mentioned iran denies involvement in the attacks into question too the timing of the incident says expects. so there were 2 or oil tankers that were hit. probably. from tokyo you. don't know you got to remember the real being on board don't fly with. them on one

company. they're going to be on. the boat but it will do the civil the business says when the did it will get on the not supposedly the let's go over the facts now the 1st one belongs to john frederick so he's a long time norwegian trading partner of iran his relationship with iran goes back to the 1980 s. one biography even refers to him as the ayatollah as lifeline so at a time when washington is using all kinds of pressure to try and stop or running an oil exports it really doesn't make sense for iran to then lash out and attack one of its oldest friends now the 2nd oil tanker to be hit is even more interesting this is a japanese owned chemical tanker and it was hit at the same time that japan's prime minister shinzo ave was in tehran meeting with iran's supreme leader is that.

iran from the ancient times of the persian empire into the present day has been the great country of the middle east and will remain so i mean the future so we're to believe that at the time that iran was making nice with japan while japan was helping them to find ways to help their oil exports keep flowing despite u.s. sanctions that iran then turns around and decides to bomb a japanese vessel. in fact iran has been rather nice to the united states in the last few days a us resident who is charged with espionage was just released as a gesture of good will so why would they then choose this moment to fire tar paedos in the gulf of oman the iranian foreign minister jobbins zarif is describing these events as suspicious report to the turks on japan related to tankers occurred while pm was meeting with ayatollah for extensive and friendly talks suspicious doesn't begin to describe what likely transpired this morning while iran is struggling to keep its nuclear deal intact and keep its economy afloat by selling its most prized

resources on the international market like bomb peo would have us believe they then flipped out and torpedo their 2 key business partners now why exactly would iran do that well because they're the bad guys of course don't ask too many questions caleb mop and r.t. new york while the sea vessels did catch fire in one of the world's key oil routes near the strait of hormuz is the only way in and out of the goal of the incident prompted the oil prices to surge taran has threatened to shut the water way in response to the u.s. sending why even on iranian oil imports were last month for oil vessels were sabotaged to near the same strategic strait back then the u.s. also pointed the finger at her on and sent an aircraft carrier group plus bombers to the region in may iran's said it would win a sum of its commitments under the nuclear deal you know laterally abandoned by the u.s. after washington imposed sanctions this escalation sparked fears of

a confrontation although both nations do you say they do not want war we asked 2 middle east analysts for their views on this on who and on who may have been behind the latest incident. washington with mr palm piro and mr bolton are really trying to. escalate the situation so that they have an opportunity and an excuse to attack iran when a crime is committed you have to know to whom this crime is beneficial so as all we can discuss and we can see the geopolitical situation of iran and the united states in the persian gulf we can say that the iranians are not going to torpedo is ship which will lead to the americans to attack them and it's going to give the american an excuse to attack that. they ran their country of iraq there are other interested parties who could very easily been walled in this particular act which took place

in the last 24 hours could be saudi arabia could be washington itself with this fleet in the gulf region the americans not because the americans despite what donald trump always say he doesn't want to go to war he doesn't want to put boots on the ground he doesn't want to to send his troops to iran to get killed the american people are not ready for that he just want to score a political win and get the uranium to come and discuss on the table with him in usa ones to remove the current government in tehran mr bolton has clearly been rubbing his hands with glee over the last decade when he wasn't security adviser that he once removed all of the regime in tehran so it's only john bolton who wants to go to war but even the president recently said that he's ready to go to the to discuss with the iranians and even my computer the secretary of

state with the hotties and who was go to war all the time he said recently that the united states is ready to negotiate with iran without any precondition. in other news the whistleblower julian sanchez g to appear in the u.k. court later on friday through a hearing on his possible extradition to the us or the head of that the british home secretary said that he was glad a son is in jail. you're very pleased that the police were finally able to apprehend him and now he's right you're behind bars because he broke you cade law i want to see justice done at all times and we've got a legitimate extradition request so i've signed it but the final decision is now with the court's wiki leaks co-founder is currently serving a 15 minute you case high security belmarsh prison for jumping bail in 2012 this is a video filmed from inside that facility and obtained by artie's ruptly video agency or the u.s.

is indicted him on 17 counts of spying and one of conspiracy to hack a government computer if extradited he faces up to 175 years in prison we can he said it when chief says a songe will not get a fair trial. i don't believe that we are going to win this with legal arguments there is no chance the julian will get a fair trial here in the u.k. we are in the u.s. of course unless there's a change of reporting that people actually start speaking out we're not talking about a prosecution we're talking about a persecution in april or songe was forcibly removed by british police from the dorian embassy in london after quito ended his 7 year asylum there he sought asylum there following sexual assault allegations against him in sweden which he has denied arguing they were a pretext to extradite him to the us back in 2010 he released classified documents leaked by former us army soldier chelsea manning showing alleged us war crimes in

iraq with the prospect of a songe getting convicted under the us espionage act has prompted some american journalist to raise concerns about press freedoms. this is to put it bluntly wrong unconstitutional and downright tyrannical is a pretty aggressive new move by the justice department a 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 with the new indictment of a songe the government is advancing a legal argument that places such an important work in jeopardy the administration has gone from denigrating journalists as enemies of the people to now criminalizing common practices in journalism i think that any extradition council whether.

it's for the for the crown or probably the syrians he is going to understand as in many other extradition proceedings particularly one that's open high profile like mr assad that politics this point come into play i think it's shiny i don't think that it should come into play in any extradition proceeding i think that an extradition hearing should be based solely and that this in the resulting decision either for or against extradition should be based solely on the law but i also believe that that's a naive approach and i do think that politics will factoring in post $911.00. the u.s. and u.k. . entered into an expert dition treaty that provides for a lower. standard of proof that the u.s. hasta my to have someone extradited so it's much easier for the u.s. to have one extradited from the u.k. to the u.s.

than the other way around and i'm not familiar with any other extradition treaty that the u.s. house where that floor standard where the. even state between the 2. states is presently the u.s. treaty. you tube has removed the video by project very task which uncovers the way social media app pinterest allegedly senses conservative views twitter also chimed in to temporarily banning the group for sharing internal communications from pinterest the founder of project veritas is accused youtube of waging war on journalism. tech giants retaliate against the side who leaked docs showing censorship of christine and pro-life material they have removed our investigative inside reports you tube now 14 bullet proof journalism by deleting it censorship

that's how you tube responded to a recent report by project veritas exposing well censorship in social media the investigation features an inside source from the social media platform pinterest concealing his identity during the interview whistleblower eric cochrane exposes the ways his employer censors conservative voices on the platform words like bible verses and christian are put on a so-called sensitive terms list basically words that might offend people are excluded from search suggestions a list of what the company considers conspiracy theories was formed also to control the spread of certain information and a pro-life website was even labeled as pornography to prevent usage of its link on the platform or her school groups and cruise through talking about who would of course and somebody. wardrobe should go to war. are the ones who support our. troops from war groups

so what of this whistleblower get in return for shedding some light on social media censorship the boot from his job and the backlash didn't stop there twitter also suspended project veritas after the organization leaked pinterest employee chats publishing conversations without permission violated the terms of service they said but the published talks revealed employees calling ben shapiro a white supremacist the pinterest insider also saw how quote white supremacist unquote content like ben shapiro commentary for instance goes from identified to censored and somehow his name found its way to pinterest sense. terms list alongside cocaine and some not so very tasty sandwiches see the connection and to be honest this isn't the 1st time project vera toss has so controversially done what journalists are supposed to do.

one strategy shouted back. a few shadows that. you found someone they don't know that think he shows she know what she sure that. this is all those photos. will go by says i mean that it's all about the you. know that. i think it was. like what about my whole life you know what they say when the going gets tough the tough get going. well pinterest says the web site was targeted to misinformation relating to conspiracies and then to

vaccination advice while he chief said that robust privacy guidelines exist because of the importance of use of privacy to the company a tech expert we spoke to see though says platforms like e chiba are increasingly losing people's trust. but they didn't want people to know what what they found out i mean what they found out was actually very bad they found out that that there was a systematic suppression of conservative voices on on these basically on these platforms that are open and in fact under the law these are supposed to be communications systems which are protected speech that people have that's just like a telephone they don't censor your telephone calls and why should they be able to censor you when you go on twitter or on instagram this is the kind of thing that's happening now and people just need know one thing they cannot trust these platforms for anything you want to say we're back with more decency it's.

after a breakdown in negotiations presidents trump and she may soon again meet to hash out a trade deal the stakes couldn't be higher both sides need to proceed when failure could witness the global economy divided into rival blocks and internet 1. what is it called. magic internet the new type of digital currency the centralized digital scarcity chancellor. of 2nd for bankers call the genesis blog for reason calling a civil disobedience a source of optimism because i can control my own financial destiny it's just a new way of coming to consensus is a game changer in the human history and this is columbus discovering

a new world this paradigm shifting technology that transforms economics and finance in a heartbeat the apollo 11 landing. to the max and stacey. again that the b.b.c.'s facing a backlash at the moment from the u.k. pension is they are angry after the broadcaster announced it was scrapping free t.v. licenses for the 70 five's. respecting and honoring our elders looking out for them is one thing but money is money if a 75 year old can watch t.v. they sure as heck can pay for it says the b.b.c.

currently all households with people over $75.00 are entitled to a free t.v. license that government funded scheme which is expected to cost $745000000.00 pounds by 2021 slash $22.00 comes to an end in 2023 tele's over the grandpas and grandmas time to cough up insured millions of pensioners many of them the same will then living on very modest incomes are going to have to sponsor the b.b. she because the corporation doesn't feel like shutting some of its hugely expensive projects the b.b.c. did the math right what they got wrong was the public reaction outrage i'm this close to canceling my t.v. license these clothes i want my license fee refunded. i'm so glad i stopped paying for a t.v. license 2 years ago petitions popping up left and right anger frustration

a feeling of injustice why of those who worked serve the nation for decades being put in the same level as everyone outs where are your manners even government ministers party leaders are upset pensioners have spent their lives contributing to our society providing over 70 five's with free t.v. licenses is not too much to ask here is the kicker the b.b.c. plans to make an additional $500000000.00 pounds by making the seniors pay for comparison that's roughly the cost of $5.00 f. $35.00 fighter jets which the u.k. is buying $140.00 of talk about priorities some are angry about the t.v. license cost say the b.b.c. of today the quality of their programmes don't justify the billions that go into it

with the latest public hits show hosted by a cartoon vladimir putin who has what appears to be a middle eastern accent. of the night. you see now why the b.b.c. needs more money the poor fellows can't even afford a russian voice actor public patience is wearing thin for those that are getting tired of the scandals of the scandal coming out of the b.b.c. be it ridiculous salaries for the top guys or lack of objectivity so many british people are asking openly why are they still paying to own t.v.'s in the age of the internet almost certainly this idea of a t.v. being a separate box the different to your computer will completely. disappear. from many many households and then the question do you have a t.v.

will become a weird question to ask by the way the b.b.c. is still 250000000 pounds short of keeping the all of its stuff on there so if you have any ideas of who else to squeeze for a few more quid immigrants ginger's centenarians don't hesitate get in touch i'll appreciate it were a guarantee of their will the b.b.c.'s decision does come after the u.k. government passed the cost of funding for licenses for the over $70.00 five's to the broadcaster the b.b.c. says though that maintaining the free licenses would actually affect the quality of its programming however it has stressed that those least able to pay and on low incomes will be entitled to the waiver. white south african farmer was murdered recently in mid rising tensions over land ownership in the country r.t. spoke with the victim's neighbor who was himself attacked the day after the killing

. i saw. a person in the window in the kitchen and it all all happened so fast he was standing on the ground so when this guy was at the bar has referred crowborough. i grabbed hold of it to to try and get a problem because i thought that i could stop him from smashing in but he was so strong. imposed apartheid south africa whites to make up about 8 percent of the population but they still dominate the economy and own more than 70 percent of the country's most productive land in 2017 the african national congress that indorse the expropriation of land without compensation although the policy has still to become law without prospectors heightened tensions bringing the national

debate over the ownership of land to the for the number of farm attacks has increased significantly over the last 4 years and the government denies white people are being deliberately targeted and says farm murders are part of south africa's crime problem white farmers say they are living in fear we were shocked when we got from smoot who'd been q. . and. a even through 2 years ago in the last year. ready we didn't leave. but no we're going to look you know this is. according to the police one of the suspects in the recent farmer murder was previously employed by him this triggered calls for better policing of agricultural farmlands linsey he must top is a spokesperson for black 1st land 1st and says that south african society still

lacks equality. south africa is a divided society the most unequal society the world we continue but people in general in this country are subjected to lend this and this and in this particular case and white people in particular the white minority continues to land at this still since 60 to 80 percent of the lead people that people in particular continue to live without in and without hopes in an everyday undignified way the white community strike to peace into the international community. like the. white genocide against because it's completely false white people when they die in day. 8 of communities or on their farms that the stolen land that there was this white people in the white community at large tries to make it like it's some special experience that they have been told that if anything we must realize that black

people are subjected to in human conditions thrown into kittens living in a. really made leninist that majority with thrown into that get those and kill each other as it is out of this and white people must immediately turn the net and that they have stolen so as to ensure that respect people can look with dignity and not be a placed in the ways that we have been all being replaced. and the things you will accuse for now here are nazi would back again they were the headlines on more stories in just a hofner. seal welcome you style all jim normal guy called. a member of the real world will know will show up at the open auditions your vocal cords are. up on

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and i'll be speaking to guests of the world of politics sports business i'm show business i'll see that. officer they're going to get up off the ground serve begins again in. your game face on the sounds of minutes maybe. i mean a grown man like wrestling essentially in your office or hurling. through his or her own. twisted away from the office or the toys out of his crib. the obvious or did they kind of lunge for the web in one's midst and then when it happened on trace one as i was just hands didn't hit him i never saw any contact between the 2 and it kind of went back to where they were so the officers back here they're high again 15 feet apart at this point and that's when the officer pulled out his gun and he did it on 3.

hello and welcome to cross talk we're all things are considered peter lavelle after a breakdown in negotiations presidents trump and she may soon again meet to hash out a trade deal the stakes couldn't be higher both sides would need a perceived wind failure could witness the global economy divided into rival blocks and a dual internet world. trade war i'm joined by my guest now the zoom in washington she is a financial analyst as well as vice president of vision for fund distributors also in washington we have john gong he is

a professor at the university of international business and economics located in beijing china and in forest hills we crossed to michael hudson he is a professor of economics at the university of missouri kansas city as well as author of forgive them their debts a financial times 2018 book of the year all right cross talk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want and i always appreciate heather let me go to you 1st in washington it seems to me i mean you know we're all covering this so-called trade war you know beat by beat pulse by pulse but you know you and the larger screen scheme of things it's really about who is going to dominate this century economically and technologically the united states is fighting very hard to preserve the status quo its position in the world and we can focus in on the tech sector and this is really what it's more about it's who is going to dominate and that's why it's taking so hard to get an agreement and it's.