just try really. big mistake. you'll find out. tensions mount in the persian gulf as donald trump considers a response to iran's downing of an american military drone iran says it had violated iranian airspace which washington denies. i. georgia's interior ministry labels huge protests in the country's capital a 1000000 massive coup more than 70 people were injured. so over a russian and paid being allowed to address the parliament and facebook is under the spotlight again as report claims poor working conditions at the social media giant the disclosure by a group of employees comes

a year after one of its moderates is died and there were lights. all what you see the up every single day. you see pain and suffering and for days in fact in my mind it just makes you angry. because you're not doing anything. good morning you're watching r.t. international now iran has the international community to stop washington's destabilizing actions in the persian gulf if it comes after tirant shot down an american military surveillance drone over the strategic strait of hormuz on thursday the u.s. president has spoken out on the incident saying the islamic republic has made a major miscalculation. well i made a big mistake and i made a very bad mistake ok i didn't read it how i mean you'll find out and you

maybe you'll find out you'll find. there are obviously obviously you know we're not going to be talking too much about it you're going to find out they made a very big mistake when it is the direct confrontation between the 2 countries amid the current tensions which began but in washington quit the 2015 nuclear deal with more is kind of. in terms of words he seems to have indicated it could have been a human error he pointed out that it could have been a general or some other official who made the mistake of ordering for the drone to be shot down i find it hard to believe it was intentional if you want to know the truth i think that it could have been somebody who was loose and stupid that did it our iran is said the drone did indeed enter their airspace and violate their territory and that they intend to go to the united nations in order to prove this they say that it was in the southern part of their country that this drone entered their airspace and that they shot it down for violating their airspace at this

point we've got the iranian foreign minister condemning the united states for what he calls economic terrorism the us wages economic terrorism on iran has conducted covert action against those and now encroaches on our territory we don't seek war but was endlessly defend our sky land and waters will take this new aggression to the u.n. and show you that the u.s. is lying about international waters now the u.n. secretary general antonio gets here as is calling on all parties to remain calm and exercise restraint i strongly hope that. the situation will be contained because as i said and i repeat the world does not really need any measure of confrontation in the gulf now many observers have noted that it seems that the white house is powerless in toward iran has been rather can see. system this is how the united states has approached iran during the trumpet ministration threat their neighbors are spread instability or terror everywhere we go in the middle east it's

a rare. major destabilizing in influence in the middle east spread death destruction and chaos the leaders of iran are record piers so. death. and destruction behind every problem is a wreck and what we've been trying to do is to get iran to behave like a normal they should now the united states recently sent a 1000 new troops to the middle east region in response to a supposed threat from the islamic republic of iran now on june 13th when 2 oil tankers were attacked the united states blamed iran for the incident however iranian officials rejected those accusations outright and said that it was actually their ships that were on scene to rescue the sailors who had been hurt and take them for medical assistance so at this point all eyes are on the middle east region all eyes are on the u.n. where international bodies will be hearing and taking up this issue and all eyes

are on washington as a response from the united states could be very possible what offer would throwing from the nuclear deal the u.s. imposed sanctions on iran and then did waivers for countries that imported oil in response around renee on some of the deals commitments and driving incidents happened in one of the world's most important oil routes the strait of hormuz its run has threatened to close it if sanctions prevent it from selling oil well i design you the russian president warned the u.s. against any military conflict with iran. but i'd like to say straight away that a military conflict between the u.s. and iran would be a disaster at least for the region it would be an outburst of violence with terrible consequences it's very hard to predict what would happen in the case of military force being used all is you know a spate of accusations against iran have been unconvincing to the international community so busy i think the world has wised up and is

a smarter now and is now going to adopt at face value their years wild allegations leveled iran gooding geisha and reilly iran was all stealing the story visit our japanese foreign ministry when an attack in japanese cargo ships anyone familiar with iran's culture of hospitality alone would know that that's an impossibility and it's another false flag operation and that blaming iran and paving the way to an eventual war which hopefully will not happen and the international community will stand up to the us and its war mongering led by those hawks that have a clear record pushing for and this is the wars of choice instead of necessity. in other news this morning more than 70 people have been injured during a huge protest in the georgian capital tbilisi which the country's interior ministry has labeled a massive queue police used rubber bullets water cannon and also to gas against the

crowds who tried to storm the parliament they were outraged after a russian m.p. was allowed to address the house producer for a video agency ruptly was in you to along with a local journalist you might find the following pictures disturbing. i i i i i i i. thought the local police deployed rubber bullets in tear gas i tried to film everything and suddenly when the tear gas was deployed i turned to get some air to be able to breathe and suddenly i felt a strong pain in the liver area it was

a rubber bullet i touch the area and there was blood on my hand as dawn broke police did appear to be in full control of the city center but the opposition has announced a new round of protests this evening on thursday protesters attempt to storm the parliament building an estimated 5000 demonstrators rallied to opposed to supply of a russian delegation during a session to promote orthodox christianity during the event $1.00 and $1.00 or for visiting deputy sat in the speaker's chair angering protesters georgian authorities have called on the demonstrators to refrain from illegal acts civil rights tests were reportedly telling the georgian president has accused russia of what happened she said the protests benefit nobody but the kremlin russia at the same time has condemned the actions of georgian officials during the protests in the statement the russian foreign ministry queues the move using the protests to say anti russian

sentiment among costa there has more now on the events of the past 24 hours. sirrah gas and rubber bullets have been used against the protesters on the streets here right outside the parliament the country. the police riot police when the once they used that to push the crowd back old began once a russian deputy not willingly but his sat in the place of the speaker of the parliament and nobody paid any attention to that except for activists from the opposition and this is where it all began the opposition a radical position as we had seen they stormed the building they sacked the russian delegation with the water they tried to take away their documents and basically shouting obscenities at them in russian and asking them to leave the country as soon as possible so there was more provocation even before the russian delegate came through this assembly for those countries. opposition is our opposition

forces they claimed that he poured in the local conflicts and without pausing at that sign of what it did happen the russian delegates and he said that this is absolutely fake news he had never taken part in any conflict like that we spoke to a former writing president of georgia nino burjanadze she believes the government in tbilisi has been fermenting and the russian sentiment. they're rushing toward generalisations are really very difficult and sensitive issue for us aside and most of the population now receive the same message the russian m.p. in that year of 2 idea and speaker is this something which is just creating a problem what stability of the country or something which is there just in the plan and sense of morality of that country and it was easy to predict from the side of the government had absolutely unbelievable how and competence is the

government and it's absolutely sure for me that the government did enough people the improvement of crushing georgian relations during the last few years so there was no any kind of positive in this the direction the political parties who are calling them that are themselves the problem is that right now 2 years of these are hard to say sincere pretty nice of people in their political goals and to just strengthen the russian really exists in. jordan population to all you what could be blamed for at least then you shouldn't be absent then be irresponsible. government and to be duty on this government. facebook is under fire once again after

a report by the verge through the spotlight on the way it treats staff it also details to the death of one of facebook's moderators at his work station the revelations were made by staff from a facebook contract from florida called cognizant who were paid to filter extreme images that appear on the site disclosed poor working conditions among other issues a word of warning you might find the following account disturbing. the mother was dropping the baby on the ground then choked the baby and you hear the baby gurgling and trying to breathe and for days it in effect in my mind you always see every single day. you see pain and suffering. it just makes you angry. because they're not doing anything with the army of contractors working for facebook worldwide this does contain about 15000 employees the contractors describe having to work through as many as 200 graphic videos

a day including footage of animal cruelty and extreme violence staff also claim they are forced to work in unsanitary conditions under tight controls with fights often breaking out between moderators another concern raised was a lack of paid sick leave with some reportedly forced to work while for fear of losing their jobs facebook itself says it handles all challenges related to the working environment. there will inevitably be employee challenges or dissatisfactions who call our commitment to this work and our partners employees into question when the circumstances warrant action on the part of management we make sure it happens or facebook has already come under pressure to clamp down on what it allows online one incident in particular was the circulation of extremist content after $51.00 people were killed in the christchurch massacre in new zealand earlier this year meanwhile the social media giant and the contract to introduce

changes including salary boosts and also health care a start we put the issue pretty bad. i think i think folks will take to need to take more responsibility for their contractors this is as much about the law or around working conditions in particular offices and around the responsibility that facebook takes for its supply chain the issue here is actually treating them better giving them better working conditions paying the more and and possibly keeping on top of the supply chain and making sure the coldness of the ox cutting corners and giving them enough budget to run it smoothly so that they don't have to cut corners in terms of. all the internet companies. sufficient resources for the race but the other important thing is 2 first we need greater cooperation between social media companies so for example google may have a much better official intelligence to read the video contained because of its

experience tribute to their ups and to share technology trace groups and the 2nd thing is to create greater transparency so to allow for an external body to go into facebook and all the. other it's process in terms of moderation i don't think the technology is yet sophisticated enough to be the solution quite yet and the moderators themselves can identify the type of content that needs action to be taken and action has been taken in some cases it hasn't been taken in all instances and we need to understand what the level of investment is where the thing the things are pouring through the cracks whether that is the focus and then what it's reported to facebook what it's passed on to the authorities we need to have a password or a more effective means of doing this but we're not going to get away until the technology improves dramatically we're not going to go away from the need for human

moderators the moderators need to be able to work very very and with great really great real accuracy so i think that the solution for now would be to this much much more. money into the moderation process facebook needs to be investing far more in the technology to assist some of these moderators and you could pixelate out faces you can do certain measures to make it more pleasant for the employees are having to do this moderation. taste and had peter sad and you can document shows that the u.s. military believes they need peace winnable but have a look at that place of the stories take to stop crying. most people think just stand out in this business you need to be the 1st one on top

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a heartbeat the apollo 11 landing. to the max and stacey. back now the u.s. military claims the use of nuclear weapons could create decisive results and restore strategic stability it comes from a documentary published in public but was then suddenly classified don't quarter picks up the story. bombers submarines and ballistic missiles the pentagon's triad of nuclear warfare usually atomic weapons are considered a means of deterrence but now classified documents suggest the war hawks in washington may have other ideas using nuclear weapons could create conditions for decisive results and the restoration of strategic stability specifically the use of a nuclear weapon will fundamentally change the scope of

a battle and create conditions that affect how commanders will prevail in conflict the 60 page document came out in early june only to be classified a week later by the pentagon it's a surprise it wasn't a secret to begin with the fundamental principles underpinning washington's nuclear operations are laid out for the world to see and they don't exactly correspond to some of president donald trump's past talk of nonproliferation between russia and china and does. busy make. hundreds of millions of dollars worth busy of weapons including nuclear which is ridiculous i think with that leader i think we're always going to be the leader we have to be the leader i think it's much better if we all got together and we didn't make these weapons so i think that's something that could be a phase 2 after this is done but then again trump himself hasn't been very consistent on nuclear posture either he called for talks with both the presidents of russia and china just last year to put an end to

a so-called uncontrollable arms race several months later trump accused russia of developing missiles prohibited by the 1987 i.n.f. treaty although moscow denied violating the agreement signed to specifically prevent an arms race the u.s. withdrew the united states will therefore suspend its obligations under the n f treaty effective february 2nd and it's no secret the pentagon's long been on the anti russia bandwagon and 2018 its nuclear posture review accused russia of producing more non-strategic and i n f banned weapons. but a recent article by the american federation of scientists about d.o.d. exaggerations pointed out something interesting that the nuclear posture review contradicts itself their own statistics indicate that russia had between 3 and 5000 nukes in 200-922-4000 in 20112000 are less than 2018 exaggerating the threat from russia only justify spending more money on weapons

that can annihilate humanity and with the risk of nuclear war at a tie if since world war 2 there's no time for war games these seeming double standard is to present trump as someone who is reluctant to go to war the document i believe was a message unit was in fear not only to probe the current belligerent rhetoric oh the troubled ministration but as well to buttress his foreign policy which is aggressive aggressive in south america aggressive in the middle east aggressive in asia. now the russian presence on you q. and a session collected over 2000000 questions from the general public and amid putin spent about 4 hours on sharing more than 1000 questions on their ia subjects including international issues. if the american

side shows interest and we are always ready for dialogue or what we see what is happening in us domestic politics this president will always look back on the race he's in right now with the some in the american establishment are speculating about our country's relationship with trying to find problems and telling lies lead if we can. and we did it everything we've seen presented as evidence that russia is responsible for everything doesn't suit us we think it is insufficient evidence it doesn't say anything we've presented our version of events but unfortunately no one wants to hear it until there is a proper dialogue here we won't find any answers to the question it's about the plane crash and the deaths of the people on board which remain open to you this is a tragedy and we mourn its victims such tragedies are unacceptable to. me i think that we still. we're going to use if we want to mirror zelinsky went to paris and

said he would not talk to the separatists representatives of these unrecognized republics how will they resolve this issue but modern history doesn't provide a single example of a conflict which was resolved without direct dialogue between the sides because we political will from kiev. in other news the ecuadorian embassy in london spied on wiki leaks from when julian assange jafta lanham rayno became president last according to police recordings of the alleged extortionist the group consisted of a spanish reporter and 2 computer experts who were trying to sell the information they had to his teen and included video and audio footage his medical reports and also legal documents found his lawyer asked them where they got pictures of his documents the alleged store she said it was from someone on the inside they also said the embassy had microphones and the recorded material had apparently been

handed to the ambassador we can he said that or in chief believes the ecuadorian authorities were gathering the surveillance for the us. when we knew the extortionists. this was going to go with. ready the. us this of course. although. it's not the words just days after she was forced from the embassy back in april footage from inside the building was leaked to the media he's now currently serving a 15 in the u.k.'s high security belmarsh prison for jumping bail and 2012 that's when he sought refuge following. rape allegations in sweden which has denied

arguing they were a pretext to actually came to the u.s. or the u.s. is indicted sanj on 17 counts of spying for publishing classified documents and one of conspiracy to hack a government computer if extradited he faces up to 175 years in prison back in 2010 a santa released military and diplomatic cables leaked by former u.s. army soldier chelsea manning detailing alleged u.s. war crimes in iraq but the editor in chief we can weeks again believes the u.s. charges go against journalists. we do not do what lawyers. crime is being a jerk ready i'm sure. that this work surfaces in the loose and this is what just an american city was. on indictment of all of the world series to be extinct and so to have. all the will we just found.

by the special reports or throughout the united nation which recently condemnation of 4 of the role of the united states you know looking in sweden or basically making light of the whole. you're watching r t thanks for the company this morning we're back again with more news in just over. a year old birds or 10. more behind or the feel good but so. out of our good. to have it is that you. just showed you the commercial did you. see some mathematical tools. to

manage to fish you know not much coffee a whole ministry which most of the meat. there are has when. you go to a god since we're. in a manner now but i need to learn to me the name of. the skin or to. give. it a kind of open system definition in the head in the midst of them the names of. describing the trump administration's iran policy is confusing contradictory and even incoherent would be an understatement as members of his administration beat the drums of war the president suddenly injects themselves into the conversation with words to the conquer what is the world think.

elizabeth warren's poll numbers are up is she emerging as the progressive as alternative to bernie sanders and will her steady grind on the campaign trail pose a threat to democratic front runner joe biden we're taking a look on this edition of.

welcome to politicking i'm matthew cook in for larry king former vice president joe biden remains the clear front runner in the race for the democratic nomination for the presidency not only is he well ahead of his primary challengers some polls actually show him beating donald trump in key swing states but something interesting is happening in the fight for 2nd place in the primary among the democratic candidates some polls and a few editorials show senator elizabeth warren gaining on sanders and suggest a cooling toward the vermont senator this as political analysts expect senator warren to perform very well in the upcoming democratic primary debate in florida so will that progressive ring of the party embrace warren at sanders expense and what threat is she to joe by. for the democratic nomination let's talk about that with katrina vanden who will she's the editorial director and publisher of the nation and a washington post columnist she's in new york city welcome to the program thank you so there's a lot to discuss but 1st your publication the nation endorsed bernie sanders for

president in 2016 are you expecting the nation to endorse him again so early matthew what we're endorsing is what we call the ideas primary and i think bernie sanders and elizabeth warren are winning that primary elizabeth warren has a plan for everything and i mean well thought through connected to her personal experience dealing with the true fundamental problems issues of this country bernie sanders ran a transformative campaign in 2016 and you got to give him credit that the issues he elevated medicare for all 15 minimum wage free higher education are now front and center in this debate medicare for all has several co-sponsors were running in the democratic primary including kirsten gillibrand kamel harris so i think let's hope for a virtuous competition around the ideas primary elizabeth warren no question has through her tenacity through her persist.