lot of use in office condolences to the families of 14 sailors killed in a submersible which caught fire and russian's northwest the president ordered his defense minister to travel to the area and investigate. after 3 days of disagreement and debate the e.u. summit finally agrees candidates for the blocks a top jobs a woman is nominated for the 1st time to head to the european commission. social media giants are getting ready for the 2020 u.s. elections with facebook creating special groups to monitor hate speech and vowing to ban content that tries to put people off voting. britain's home office pledges to rewrite advice of traffic to nigerian women suggesting they would lead

wealthy lives back in africa after working as prostitutes in the view carried. a very warm welcome to you you're watching r.t. international with me niki erin and our top story this hour vladimir putin has offered condolences to the families of 14 sailors who died in a fire on the deep sea submersible in russia's northwest. point of the 47 or top rank captains to war heroes of russia this is a big loss for the fleet i offer sincere condolences to the families of the deceased everything must be done to help and support them. for if it actually joins us in the studio now to discuss this further movie you've been following this story since news broke what more can you tell us yes nic you've just heard like mitt putin expressing his condolences to the families of those who died

that was at his emergency meeting with the country's defense minister said again show it to following this truly tragic incident and that is what a minister sure had to say about what happened there let's take a listen. with the result of the examination and rushes to retore that was of the scientific research. who died of the combustion products poisoning due to the software actions of the team before it was eliminated currently the deepwater paratus is the. base. we're definitely going to see are going to see and hear more from defense minister sergey showgirl because i maintain president clinton came to go personally to the city of 7 more square it happened in russia northwestern region and to brief afterwards to president on what happened so it was a scientific submersible it is designed to explore the bottom of the sea or the

ocean it is believed to be able to operate at the depth of up to 6000 meters quite deep in order to do kind of underwater mapping to how boats and submarines in the area navigate safely so at the time when the crew of that some very simple has been doing their research the fire broke out and they've been doing that for russian navy and no one can say why that happened in the investigation has admitted to the launch to find out what caused the fire but we know the. 14 sailors 14 crew members died and earlier we heard from russia's defense ministry that that was from always and so apparently the crew members inhaled toxic smoke and this is what actually killed them and also heard earlier from reuters offense ministry that the fire was put out quotation due to selfless actions of the crew and we only heard from the local acting governor also that the authorities on the ground are ready to provide

any help needed let's take a listen. this is a terrible tragedy we already to provide in this is a serious system to the northern fleet the moments region and the fleets always support each other in difficult situations eternal memory to those who give their lives for the security of our country and as we often see in during such tragedies and fall when such tragedies people get united you know and this time we saw the offices of the russian navy getting united we received pictures you can now watch the offices in russia's southern port of sevastopol bringing flowers not only officers live there are ordinary people with flowers and candles. at the memorial and that city to commemorate those who died so the investigation is under go into probably going to hear more in the coming days ok thanks for that maria flush and keeping cross the story for us thank you. social media platforms are preparing for

the 2020 u.s. presidential election facebook has unveiled a pilot program to monitor hate speech and says it will ban the ads that discourage people from voting but there are concerns about the company controlling just what people can see as r.t. scallop open explains. yes the world is a scary place lots of different views and opinions out there but don't worry silicon valley is going to keep our minds safe from being contaminated by bad ideas they know what's best for you and me facebook has come out with its 1st major announcement of 2019 and as part of its ongoing civil rights audit it's going to have a team of hate speech reviewers civil rights groups have been concerned about us mistakenly taking down compton meant to draw attention to and fight discrimination rather than promoted we're taking steps to address this including the u.s. pilot program where some of the people who review content on facebook only focus on

hate speech instead of a range of content that can include bullying nudity and misrepresentation and it's not just those hateful nasty comments they're going to protect us from in addition as we have the 2020 us presidential election and the upcoming federal us census approaching they will protect us from inappropriate comments about them so you think the vote is rigged against say bernie sanders like it wasn't 2016 well facebook says you best keep that analysis to yourself to protect elections we have a team across product engineering data science policy legal and operations dedicated full time to these efforts they're already working to burn ads that discourage people from voting and we expect a phone line as the new policy and its enforcement before the 20000000 teen gubernatorial elections and it's not just facebook that's concerned about what we might choose to read other high tech overlords are in on it too even donald trump

has noticed he says that's an attempt to insert bias and hurt him in the upcoming election twitter is it is just terrible what they do you saw what happened yesterday with google google is totally biased to trying to rig the election that's what we should be looking at now which and the phony which and which is proven do you row and trump does have a point if you. look at twitter's new rules they say that they will now be hiding tweets from world leaders and politicians that have been left online despite violating the rules due to the public interest now these tweets were only be available in rare cases there are certain cases where it may be in the public's interest to have access to certain tweets even if they would otherwise be in violation of our rules on the rare occasions when this happens will place a notice a screen you have to click or tap through before you see the tweet to provide additional context and clarity will also take steps to make sure the tweet is not algorithmically elevated on our service now of course twitter did not mention any

particular president but mainstream us media has read between the lines and they are overjoyed. to see lays the groundwork to finally some for trump but will executives that ever pull the trigger on twitter won't sense a trump through breaking tweets but who will make them harder to find is this the fix to one of twitter's most delicate problems trump tweets have gotten so bad that twitter to my stunt giving the morning labels so in the lead up to a us presidential election we've got gigantic tech monopolies basically announcing that they will be deciding for us what we are and are not allowed to hear and read and why well they've got to protect us from election meddling after all and make sure we choose to vote in the right way why do we need a set of self appointed. normal length to a bunch of people from tweeter are to to decide what politicians can or cannot

say i think it would be a much much better idea to make the public decide whether they like and dislike would to pollute the should they say. and it isn't just facebook or twitter google is updating a special algorithm in order to fight misinformation after the rise in mass shootings in the us. we have developed algorithms that recognize that a bad event to stake in place and that we should increase our notions of authority and grease the way to authority now ranking so that with surface high quality content rather than misinformation in this critical time here and rising death toll from mass shootings comes after 14 incidents already this year 72 people have been killed and shootings are classified as those with more than a 4 face how that is however a year cohen believes the new algorithm will not be objects have. the risk of course is they we are leaving google to decide what information google is

considering to be true information about what information will is considering to be fake news and i think this is very dangerous particularly because we know as a matter of fact the make up of google's employees is very specific they tend to lean towards $1.00 to $1.00 part of the political spectrum specter rather than another. after 3 days of disputes the e.u. summit has finally agreed candidates for the block top jobs and the nominations are not here many expected as artie's piece of course. 3 days later than we expected but the european council that's made up of the heads of government of the 28 member states of the european union put forward their nominations for the top jobs in the european commission now these nominations will be put to parliament they decide whether they get the job so the nominations are for commission president taking

over from john claude younker on the line who's currently the german defense minister for council president to take over from donald tusk sheilds michel currently acting prime minister of belgium for a representative of foreign affairs basically the e.u.'s equivalent of a foreign minister it's currently occupied by federica marketing any it will if it's approved be taken over by your said bell who is currently the foreign minister of spain while christine legarde the current i.m.f. head will take over at the european central bank now if on the line was put in as european commission president should be the 1st woman to take over that role now i was speaking just after the announcement was made she said it was a great thing that a woman had been given a chance to take over one of europe's top jobs. that would be unable to reach an agreement today which is that we've nominated for the very 1st time in woman as the president of the european commission that is from the land. this wasn't an easy

process though. munford verba from the european people's party was thought that he would be a shoo in to be the next commission president not so much then france timmons from the socialists would he be the next one he seemed almost anointed no said particularly those from central and eastern europe we have seen this be a process whereby a lot of people have started to question this this nomination procedure that goes through particularly big voices as well the president of france a manual micron saying he was far from happy with it the spite that despite this rocky lead into these nominations that all to the now i guess we can say outgoing european council president said he was happy with the way it had gone we have a greet the whole package before the 1st session of the lemond. 5 years ago we needed 3 months to decide it and some leaders who are against. this

year. and know about their votes against 751 that's the number of m.p. any peace that will be voting in the european parliament to decide if those live on the line becomes the next commission president the m.e. peace themselves were busy on tuesday they were sitting for the 1st time in the european parliament in strasbourg and it wasn't without incident itself there was a number 29 in fact from the break that party from the united kingdom he decided they were going to stage a little protest wild to joy the anthem of the european union was being played in the chamber they decided to do this. party piece that turning their backs but they will be

a my. the only piece that will have a bow to the side of ursula on the line the current german defense minister becomes the next european commission president and the 1st woman ever to take the job. the british home office has sparked outrage after insisting that nigerian women traffic to the u.k. to work as prostitutes can enjoy a wealthy life when they return to africa in the wake of the scandal the home office says it will now rewrite the advice challenged pinsky reports. it's been described as at crisis level the number of nigerian women trafficked into prostitution across europe thousands of women and girls every year forced into the sex trade often in a bid to pay off a debt that they think could in paying transported to the continent according to the new when these women are sexually exploited their raped. they are

subject to all forms of human rights violations including torture rape extortion forced labor sexual and labor exploitation amounting to trafficking and contemporary forms of slavery peace they were turned home there is also the risk of violent prize or the un has described that we have billet taishan in full social inclusion of trafficked persons back in nigeria as being particularly challenging however the u.k. government appears to be painting a very different picture one that's far racier trafficked women who return from europe wealthy from prostitution enjoy high social economic status and in general are not subject to negative social attitudes on return they are often held in high regard because they have improved income prospects this is part of an official policy and information gets used by the home office decision makers who handle any

protection and. human rights claims that includes trafficked women who may be seeking asylum that's sparked outrage the issues are faced by the thousands of people who are trafficked from injury to the u.k. is one of destitution a mother brought by traffickers they have a copy of their free will and imply that on the return back home they'll be back with open arms and the community from the hard working people it is difficult to return back there are cultural stigmas behind the field position among them is itself a society in which religion plays a big part of it and put aside by your family or even just even the community also shot in them so these are negative aspects of africa fighting i mean which the home office doesn't seem to fully understand there is also a huge issue for those who do return to nigeria and getting access to the support that they desperately need percent of people who are trafficked to europe from

nigeria with it and 50 to 500 of them actually face security for a fraction of. their p.t.s.d. . or mental health issues and over time by slight injury a felony the local authorities and government itself and do not have the required for the teacher to teach help such ingrained issues within the population to have these issues it's not the 1st time the home office has found itself questions sized over the way that it deals with victims of trafficking lawyers have accused of showing disregard for this safety after it emerged victims were being released from immigration detention back to the addresses where they were in slaved in 2018 it also emerged that under the hostile environment policy victims of modern slavery and human trafficking had been jailed in breach of legislation while others had been deported in a statement the home office said victims of modern slavery shouldn't be prosecuted

for. fastest they were forced to commit as a result of exploitation just months off the backing a campaign urging nigerian women and girls to find jobs at home instead of risking a life of modern slavery in the u.k. some might argue that this latest advice that prostitution can essentially equal wealth could actually encourage more women and girls who are to try their own luck and risk their own lives. r.t. london. star trump has lashed out at iran after it exceeded the amount of low enriched uranium is allowed to stockpile under the 2015 nuclear deal. as i have been informed iran has crossed the 300 kilogram limit breeched and is earlier we had announced our plan to exceed the limits of there for based on our previous announcement we made it clear what we were going to do we see there's

a right to disappear where you're going about your vision or who do you go with the airplane with i think they're playing with fire. the trump administration has vowed to apply maximum pressure to on iran over its nuclear ambitions it's also suggested that iran was already producing high amounts of enriched uranium before the deal with find the iranian foreign minister responded with a simple tweet or one word question seriously he also said the latest enrichment was justified by the fact that america pulled out of the nuclear deal the u.n. nuclear watchdog has since confirms that iran has breached its limits under the agreement is the latest twist in iran's long running difficulties with the west. iran's done with dialogue at least it seems when it comes to washington. the useless sanctions imposed by the desperate u.s. government on iran's supreme leader and foreign minister has the effect of blocking the path to diplomacy for years and has attempted to rebuild relations with the

u.s. without any tangible results in 1988 u.s. military. passenger plane that killed $290.00 civilians including $66.00 children and the incident was considered an accident the pentagon never apologized. i believe that given the operating environment. his nation expected of him this. president. shouldn't hold his breath. for the united states of america ever. the fact. iran helped organize the release of u.s. hostages in lebanon but this goodwill gesture wasn't reciprocate by 995 even harsher u.s. sanctions will be. formally announcing. all trade and

investment with iran the 2nd round of came shortly after 911 i was. a muslim and. again express my deep. we. all great. candlelight vigil. for the diplomatic progress didn't last long for months. in president bush's axis of evil speech which included iran this is a regime that has something to hide from the civilized world. states like these and their terrorist allies constitute an axis of evil. finally in 2050

iran signed a deal with the international community including the us agreeing not to pursue nuclear weapons the united states together work international partners has achieved something the decades of animosity as not a comprehensive long term deal with iran will prevent it from attaining nuclear weapons it was celebrated but shortly dubbed a bad deal by donald trump he walked away without any confirmation turned around was a violation so perhaps it's no great surprise iran is tired of talking. the united states does not seem to be very much willing to talk to iran otherwise they would have kept the nuclear deal and built up on that at least they could have given to try but they've not done that they have ruined the former deal and this shows there will be reimposed sanctions to the harshest level possible this shows that they are

after iran so run that if the united states removes the sanctions gets back to the nuclear deal to show that it shows the respect towards the action the case could be different until then there couldn't be any kind of talks with the u.s. no matter who is in office and iran will keep its exemption from opec rules cutting crude production to runs on minister has announced after talks with a group they all producing organization agreed to extend production cuts for other member states for another 9 months we spoke with members solomon international oil economist says the deal is a needed boost to a fragile global crude market. however iran was anxious by the fact that it played nor all of this. in fact it was russia leading lee and numb on produce service and saudi arabia the leader

of our great reach agreement outside opec before they come to the meeting they have been calming iran to accept the extension and iran accepted it although its production or love to be affected since it is exempt from the production cup agreement the suspension of the. club is m.s.s. if the 2 ensure that oil prices start to rise again bought a peculiarly if there is a breakthrough in the trade war between china and the united states. donald trump says he would like to withdraw all the u.s. troops from afghanistan leaving only enough to deliver what he does strong intelligence i would like to just get out the problem is it just seems to be a lab for terrorists or seems to i call it the harvard of terrorists i would leave

very strong intelligence there you have to watch there are currently around 9000 u.s. troops in afghanistan over the last 18 years that the u.s. has lost thousands of personnel and nearly a trillion dollars. earlier i spoke to author and veteran of the conflicts roger hill who argues the rules of engagement should be changed. the rules of engagements are outdated and when i say rules of engagement i mean the law of war the law of armed conflict don't necessarily account for an enemy force that doesn't reciprocate them the geneva conventions concerning how we fight in that how we conduct ourselves and warfare are written under the idea that the enemy will reciprocate how we fight and how we conduct ourselves in combat and the enemy does in fact reciprocate then fine that's that's one thing altogether but however we're fighting in a situation that's unprecedented for example with isis and the enemy. does

not fight according to those conventions and so we're trying to force an undue burden on our military service members to conduct themselves when there is such a deficit or disparity between how they fight and the enemy's forces are fighting for you and finds the u.s. and allies in afghanistan responsible for most of the valley in death in the 1st 3 months of this year then the taliban and isis together. even you will call to further relax pentagon will against enemy combatants highly irresponsible i think the the ideal behind why we're overseas in iraq and afghanistan is what needs to be questioned i think a lot of times we get fixated on individual instances of civilian casualties and persecuting military service members for the collateral that's created however the type of fight that we've been forced to engage in there is

a large possibility or risk for inevitable collateral to include civilian casualties so you can't place an undue burden on the service members on the ground when that collateral is created and if you do then the people that you need to bring alongside them when you do prosecute them needs to be the politicians in the senior military that sent them over there to begin with you said how you'll book you don't company. it was redacted i can you tell us how and why yes so the pentagon has an office of security review and they claim on their website that they can turn a manuscript around in 2 months and that is to review it for sensitive material and then get it back to the authors with their recommendations on what material should be removed or changed they kept dark company for a year in the content that they redacted 95 percent of it according to the experts that we hire to review the manuscript outside of the pentagon was actually on federally sponsored websites that's us going to government federally sponsored by

sites. a crowdfunding campaign has been launched for conservative journalist after he was assaulted at a far left rally in portland oregon it quickly raised more than $160000.00 in donations more than 3 times the target the anti firearm it was staged to counter a far right march in the same city organized by the group proud boys who were known for promoting violence the opposing groups did eventually meets resulting in multiple clashes and arrests not easy cost on of looks at how the gloves are off when is the far left versus the far right. this is what you can get if you don't have a ticket to ride the leftists train for this conservative journalist it went from threats to violence pretty quickly it seems the attack on him had been planned for them he wasn't a journalist he wasn't an equal. to an islam of a white supremacist fascist because before trying to cover their rally no had

covered one from the other side of the political spectrum and in the far right activist and blogger who rides bogus get this is the incite hatred against muslims he is not a journalist in many capacity whatever your opinions on the far right activist getting punched in the face are when he's described his actual profession correctly until you 1st jigsaw puzzle is complete and if you are a pea. that doesn't fit you're just not welcome. here. i believe. we believe survivors there are chanting that was senator ted cruz and his wife heidi being forced out of a washington restaurant by left wing activists in america in the u.k. and the rest of europe it's a discourse in which fists and kicks speak louder than words any opponent is

painted evil regardless of whether or not they have any history of engaging in far right violence and if the left can deal with you physically they will discriminate against you as happened to white house press secretary sarah sanders last year when she was refused service at a restaurant they will publicly ostracize you like when eric trump was harassed when eating out the left will even track you down and come knocking on your door. i. think the left is on a search and destroy mission and progressive outlets will give plenty of outrage to announce the new rules when the goal is just a phase all means so when the day comes that the world feels return to its normal.