tom. a really harsh thing that happened in the. ringback u.s. president donald trump says he called off a strike on iran at the last moment after he found out the number of possible casualties. the speaker of the georgian parliament resigns after mass protests in the capital $240.00 people including 80 police officers have been injured in the clashes. and facebook is under scrutiny again as a report claims for working conditions by a contractor the disclosure comes by a group of employees who filter extreme content from the site.

you're watching are 2 international bring you your live news update from our studio here in moscow welcome to the program. says he called off a strike on iran with just 10 minutes to go it comes amid escalating tensions between washington and tehran we now go live to our correspondent killed and for more on this caleb what more do you know about remarks well according to what trump has put on social media there were 3 sites in iran that were selected for a u.s. military strike however donald trump looked into the details of the strike and saw that there would be a civilian casualty rate of roughly $150.00 people and you felt that was not proportionate to the destruction of a single unmanned drone craft this is what trump said on social media. made a big mistake and made a very bad mistake. ok i'm interested in how. you'll find out and

maybe you'll find out you'll find where you are you obviously obviously you know we're not going to be talking too much about it you going to find out they made a very big mistake. now that was trump speaking in the immediate aftermath of reports that the drone had been shot down saying that iran had made a very big mistake he's referring of course to the u.s. drone that was shot down over the strait of hormuz now the united states maintains that that drone was shot down in international waters however iranian officials have said that this drone actually violated the country's territorial integrity in the southern part of the country and now at this point we have iranian officials saying they have wreckage of the drone that was in iranian waters and that that was why the drone was shot down now it's important to note that the united states

recently sent extra 1000 troops to the middle east region that was done in response to a supposed rep from iran and of the united states recently blamed iran for the oil tankers out there was an oil tankers that were attacked the united states said that iran was responsible for those attacks however iran has denied that it was responsible now there has been an interesting mixture of rhetoric regarding iran coming from the white house and from various american politicians many observers are saying it's almost like the united states is sending mixed signals let's review . their neighbors stability everywhere we go in the middle east it's a real. major destabilizing in influence in the middle east spread death destruction and the leaders over a record piers the world's largest financing of international terrorism behind every problem is a ring and what we've been trying to do is to get iran to behave like an

organization. now as the u.n. security council meets in new york city at their headquarters it is expected that this issue will be brought up both iran and the united states have asked for this issue to be addressed at the u.n. security council so at this point we have donald trump saying that he was 10 minutes away from striking iran however he chose not to do so and iran says they have wreckage now and they intend to bring proof to the security council that this drone that was shot down took place and violated their territorial integrity and that it was not shot down in international waters so i'm sure the entire world is going to be very curious to see and hear what is said at the upcoming meeting are to scale up and thank you for bringing us the latest. to go live now to her madness of a political science professor at the university of tehran for more on this now what do you think was trump possibly bluffing about being 10 minutes from striking iran

. well i think the fact that the you're a needs were able to shoot down one of the most advanced aircraft of the u.s. air force has been very humiliating for the image of the u.s. military as well as for donald trump himself who likes to project an image of the strong arm leader and i think donald trump is trying to rebuild that image essentially by saying that you know we could hit the reins very hard but we decided not to do so because of so-called humanitarian reasons in reality i think the trumpet ministration understands that any such strikes would be actually responded by the ukrainians as well in this would be essentially into war what do you think is the likelihood of an attack coming in the future even though it was cancelled at the last minute as trump says right now do you think that in the future we can see this happening. well i mean to be frank the predicament we're in right now is bound

to get worse in the following weeks let's not forget that how this mess all started it started when the trumpet ministration decided to withdraw from the nuclear deal and to put so much pressure on iran both economically as well as militarily like every few weeks sending troops and armaments to the region and as a result of this iran is essentially trying to defend itself now as a result of that we've had escalating tensions every few weeks and if the situ f. this situation continues then there is a chance for a so-called accidental war a war where even though both countries do not want to get into war they will because of miscalculation is there a split over how to respond to the us among iran's leaders as mainstream media are claiming and could washington possibly exploit that if that is the case. well the fact that the trial donald trump himself came out and said that perhaps this was

a mistake by euro general or soldier is completely rejected by uranium leaders who have been very clear that they shot down the aircraft on purpose that liberally so i don't think so terrific career the this is i think the rain in whether politicians or even among the iranian people i think everybody agrees that iran should defend itself i mean the united states is essentially circling iran with the troops is sending the fact that this drone whether it was shot down over international waters or iranian waters regardless of that we have to remember that this was a spy or a surveillance drone and pretty sure it wasn't taking pictures of the fish in the persian gulf it was taking pictures of uranium troops and the uranium navy so what the americans are doing is essentially they are provoking the line and i think this is very dangerous now the same time when trying to evade that he's canceled the strike 10 minutes before it happened he also said that sanctions are biting and

more added last night what kind of reaction do you think we'll see to that. i mean it's true that the americans are increasing economic pressure on iran and this has had a tremendous effect on the iranian economy and this is the whole point about you cannot expect to increase pressure on a country such as iran both economically and militarily and expected to do nothing so as the americans increase pressure on iran then they should also expect the uranian to respond in kind and as a result of that iran has said that in 2 weeks' time they are actually going to reduce their obligations under the nuclear deal they are going to halt some of the obligations they had under the nuclear deal that they signed. and when it comes to that agreement do you think that there is any chance of saving at this point in time. it's very unlikely i mean listen the americans didn't only withdraw from the nuclear york essentially they made it impossible for other parties to also stay in

it they started to sanction every company organisation that was doing business with iran and as a result of that most companies have already left iraq and we're not talking about american companies so today we have a unilateral agreement essentially work iran is doing its obligations but it's getting nothing in return so i mean logically you can't expect your aliens to also stay in a unilateral deal. of a political science professor at the university of tehran thank you for joining us on the program today. the speaker of the georgian parliament has resigned after mass protests in the capital the russian foreign ministry accuses georgia's radical opposition of using the visit of a russian delegation to provoke protests 240 people have been injured including 80 police officers georgia's interior ministry labeled the unrest and last of coup

a reported over 300 people detained you may find the following pictures disturbing . i. was. just vocal critical dogwood the situation got very heated there was response and then the crowd good out for another storm stone sticks and both walls with thrown

from the side of the crowd special forces fired rubber bullets and deployed to a gas line as dawn broke on friday of police appeared to be in full control of the city center but the opposition has announced a new round of protests on friday night there saison attempt to storm the parliament building an estimated $5000.00 demonstrators rallied against the participation of a russian delegation and a parliamentary assembly one of the russian lawmakers sat in the georgian speaker's chair further angering protesters georgian authorities have called on the demonstrators to refrain from breaking the law. the georgian president is blaming russia for the situation saying the protests only benefit the kremlin she's now cut short a visit to belarus to return home moscow meanwhile condemn the actions of georgian officials during the protests in a statement the russian foreign ministry accuse them of using the protests to so anti russian sentiment protests erupted after a russian m.p. addressed a parliamentary assembly of lawmakers from orthodox christian countries the

protests come amid ongoing tensions between russia and georgia a decade after the conflict in south ossetia. protesters are now demanding that the interior minister resigns as well the minister said he is ready to do so if needed but called on the protests to stop the former acting president of georgia you know non-si told us the government has been fermenting anti russian sentiment. they're rushing toward generalisations are really very difficult and sensitive for you against a site and most of the population now receive the same message the russian m.p. in the chair of door again speaker is this something which is just creating a problem what stability of the country or something which is the just touching independence and sovereignty of the country and it was easy to predict from the side of the government but excellently unbelievable how and competence is the government and it's absolutely sure for me that the government didn't

fully implement off russia and georgia relations during the last few years so there was no any kind of positive in this the direction 2 of political parties calling. themselves the pro-west and that right now 2 years they seem. to say so you see a plane upset people in their political goals and to just. to russia and really exist in the serious part of the georgian population the only one who could be blamed for the recent shouldn't be absent and be responsible. government and stability of this government. european commission leaders have failed to agree on who will take up the reins of the blocs top post a summit for june 30th has now been announced in another attempt to break the

deadlock the commission present council president and 4 other top jobs have been chosen by now r.t. is has more. well this deadlock in the european union over who will fail a number of the e.u. institutions top jobs including the european commission president and president of the european council those jobs currently held by junk load younker and donnel to escape at the moment and they've been heading up talks to try and pick their replacements essentially however those talks have broken down one of the reasons that we're hearing that there's no solution so far wealth comes from leo varadkar the irish prime minister he said that it was easy of picking a pope than using the system that's used in the e.u. to pick a commission president as well as other top institution posts it's called the spits and counted method method or busy system basically preferred hamlet in germany is what it is it means that if you look at all of the different parliamentary groups

in the european parliament whoever gets the most seats well they're just bits and candidates their preferred candidate gets looked at 1st by the e.u. heads of government if they like that candidate well they put them forward to majority votes for them they put them forward to the european parliament parliament then votes on them and if they vote them through they become the next european commission president if they don't the whole system starts right over again with whoever came in 2nd as we understand it well so far the heads of government weren't that impressed with munford verba who is the candidate from the p.p. who got the most seats in the most recent european elections and also they weren't that keen on france timmons from the socialists the european socialist group who got the 2nd highest amount of seats in the parliament so we really are all up in the air at the moment we are looking at a split though between key power brokers inside the e.u.

over this money we're mccaughan in france he's not a fan at all of this bits and condit method and on the other side. the german chancellor who wants to essentially see her man put into play as the next european commission president now money would be a core on what he's been while he's been speaking out against the system that's in play at the moment he's also said the hot angela merkel throwing her hat into the ring he would have been inclined to vote for her have nothing against a german candidacy i said it and wasn't a joke had the chancellor been a candidate i would have supported her because i think she has the qualities the skills to be a very good president of the commission it is not what she wants i respect that very deeply well i'm glad merkel has dismissed 80 chance of her running to be the european commission president she was speaking on friday she also tried to calm down rumors that baena a serious rift between bolin and paris over who should get the european commission

top job. and i still say no and i want to add that i'm a little bit sad that my words which accent so often and apparently not respected at all respect each other i do not want to make a decision against france and i believe that france doesn't want to make a decision against germany of the very latest it does seem that money isn't getting the amount of votes and needs from heads of government to be put forward as the next president of the european commission that hasn't stopped the german chancellor though for saying that she still bucks her mom in repeat what i said and to avoid any unnecessary questions we stand by our lead candidate the p.p. candidate manfred weber others stand by their lead candidate obviously those are quite tired looking young who addressed the press after this meeting broke down he's searching for his own replacement however he did allow

a joke his own expense. i noted with satisfaction mused and yes pleasure that it seems is not easy. to replacement. so with no decision from the heads of government of the states over who they want to see appointed as the next european commission president they're all going to have to come back again next week on the 30th of june for another round of talks in the go see asians to try and hammer out a solution. coming up shocking allegations of mistreatment by a facebook contractor come to light details after the break. quick note for those italian the sad want to keep their savings or put into a big client you can escape to confiscation of the government or the vatican our

whoever runs the country over there and you will preserve your wealth and jurisdiction that respects your sovereignty as an individual and respects your wealth don't live in a country that's just going to rip you off blind. you know world of big partisan lot and conspiracies it's time to wake up to dig deeper to hit the stories that made history media refuses to tell more than ever we need to be smart we need to stop slamming the door on the back and shouting past 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 facebook is under fire again after a technology website report through the spotlight on the way it treats staff the verge also details the death of want to facebook's moderators at his workstation their relations were made by staff from a facebook contractor in florida called cognizant who are paid to filter extreme images that appear on the site they disclose poor working conditions among other issues they describe having to work through as many as 200 graphic videos a day including footage of animal cruelty and extreme violence staff state they are . forced to work in unsanitary conditions which include bed bug infestations they also face bodily waste issues at work stations on a regular basis as well as numerous verbal and physical fights another allegation raised was sexual harassment facebook says it handles all challenges related to the working environment. there will inevitably be employee challenges or

dissatisfactions the cool our commitment to this work and our partners the employees into question when the circumstances warrant action on the part of management we make sure it happens social media giant is under pressure to clamp down on what it allows online one instant in particular was the circulation of extremist content after $51.00 people were killed in the christchurch massacre in new zealand earlier this year facebook and its contractor i know vowing to introduce changes including salary boosts and health care for staff we put the issue up for debate. i think i think facebook take need to take more responsibility for their contractors this is as much about the law around working conditions in a particular offices and around the responsibility that facebook takes for its supply chain the the issue here is actually treating them better giving them better working conditions paying them more and and possibly keeping on top of the supply

chain and making sure the cognisant aren't cutting corners and giving them enough budget to run it smoothly so that they don't have to cut corners in terms of freezing it is a matter for the internet company disgraceful phrase to. 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 or if you should intelligence to read the video contained because of its experience reduce. to share technology we 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 falling 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 we 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 reels. civil i see that this is the signal that would be to do this much much more. money. into the recent protests facebook needs to be investing far more in the technology to assist some of these moderators and you could pixelate out places you can do certain measures to make it

more pleasant for the employees are having to do this moderation. the u.s. military claims the use of nuclear weapons could create decisive results and restore a strategic stability that comes from a document recently made public but was then classified artist on a 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 we're all busy making. 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 in 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 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 trumpet ministration but his will to buttress his foreign policy which is aggressive aggressive in south america aggressive in the middle east aggressive in asia. that's a news break down for this hour and that's all for me as well today but we're not neil harvey will be taking over in about 30 minutes at the latest thanks for tuning in for every maybe.

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describing the trump administration policy is confusing contradictory and incoherent would be an understatement as members of his administration the drums of war the president suddenly inject into the conversation with words to the concord what is the world. this is a boom bust broadcasting around the globe and covering the world of business and finance in the us all. and i'm christiane washington here's a look at what's on back today oil prices after a u.s.

drone was shot down over the fate of parm is yet another in the market david to make out any financial group and former pentagon official michael maloof are on hand to break down the boom in that and the geopolitical consequences of the. pressure continue to put fire on facebook just as the photo media giant has included plans to launch their own digital currency fartlek nailer a public that if it is on hand to fit through the scrutiny of facebook forensics and we've got a pad show today so let's go and dive right in. a jump in global oil prices after another violent incident near the strait of hormuz leads our global report today as iran shoots down a u.s. military surveillance drone the latest flashpoint developed in pre-dawn hours on thursday in the gulf region or wednesday night in washington and troubled ministration officials quickly huddled to assess the situation and possible responses on thursday morning.