i am. was and am. not an expert in office condolences to the families of 14 sailors killed in a submersible which caught fire and russia's northwest the president ordered his defense minister to travel to the area and investigate. after 3 days of disagreement on debate the e.u. summit finally agrees candidates for the blocks top jobs a woman is nominated for the 1st time to head to the european commission. britain's home office pledges to rewrite advice on traffics nigerian women suggesting they would need wealthy lives back in africa after working as prostitutes in the u.k. .

to. a warm welcome you watching r.t. international with me carrying. that amir putin has offered condolences to the families of 14 sailors who died in a fire on a deep sea submersible in russia's north west. some of the 147 or top rank captains 2 were heroes of russia this is a big loss for the fleet our 1st sincere condolences to the families of the deceased everything must be done to help and support them that was at his emergency meeting with the country's defense minister said again show following this truly tragic incident and that is what a minister surely go had to say about what happened there let's take a listen. but if that's the result of the examination and rushes to retore all waters that was of scientific research of. 14 sailors died of the

combustion products poisoning due to the softness of the team the fire was eliminated currently the deepwater paratus is the. base going to see and hear more from defense minister sergei show because at this meeting president clinton came to go personally to the city of 7 more square it happened in russia's 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 over 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 map painting 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 have been doing that for russian navy and no one can say why that happened in the investigation has admitted to me long to find out what caused the fire and we only heard from local acting governor

also that the authorities on the ground are ready to provide any help needed this is a terrible tragedy we are all ready to provide in this is serious system to the northern fleet the moments region and the fleet always support each other. difficult situations eternal memory to those who give their lives for the security of our country for when such tragedies people get united you know in these times we saw the offices of the russian navy getting we know i did we received pictures you can now watch it the officers in russia's southern port of several stopover bringing flowers not only officers live there are ordinary people with flowers and candles. at the memorial in that city to commemorate those who died so the investigation is under go in we're probably going to hear more in the coming days. 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 ads that discourage people from voting but there are concerns about the company controlling just for people can see and artie's caleb moore can explain. 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 mind 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 of being 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 a 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 formula 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 and your oh 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 interests 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 jack dorsey lays the groundwork to finally some for trump but will executives that ever pull the trigger twitter won't sense the trumps rue 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 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 let the public decide whether they like you dislike will deplete these in the say. after 3 days of disputes the e.u. summit has finally agreed candidates for the blocs top dog and the nominations are not too many expected as artie's pay to all of a report. 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 if 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 high representative of foreign affairs basically the e.u.'s equivalent of a foreign minister it's currently occupied by federica mukherjee any it will if

it's approved be taken over by your state bell who is currently the foreign minister of spain while christine lagarde the current i.m.f. head will take over at the european central bank now if live on the line was put in as european commission president should be the 1st woman to take over that role now i'm going to miracle 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 one stuff it 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 wonderland. 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 a day in france to moments from the socialist would he be the next one he seemed almost anointed you know said particularly those from central and eastern europe we

have seen this 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 saying he was far from happy with it this fight this fight this. rockey lead into these nominations then 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 great the whole package before the 1st session of the euro parliament. 5 years ago we needed 3 months to decide it and still some leaders were against. this year 2 or 3 days and know about divorce against 751 that's the number of m.p. any peace that will be voting in the european parliament to decide if this live on the line becomes the next commission president but 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 they decided they were going to stage a little protest while ode to joy the anthem of the european union was being played in the chamber they decided to do this. it's a very strange situation because. of all the british a piece of does more moment we don't know if they will be soon one year time. if they will look. they will withdraw from the parliament in the case of the bracks it's absolutely and finally so it's

a very difficult situation for the parliament for being commissioned so you have been a member of commissions on a nobody not exactly what will happen to. the british home office box 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 and the wake of the scandal the home office says it will now we write the advice so that events he 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 they're 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 paid they were turned home there is also the risk of violent price the un has described that we have been a 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 crazy 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 my injury to the u.k. if one of destitution i'm a they are brought by traffickers to have a copy of their free will and imply that on the return back home they'll be welcomed back with open arms than community of the hard working people it is difficult to return back there are cultural stigmas behind them or what of the few people. i'm under itself because of the society in which religion plays a big part of it and put aside by your family or your biggest division the community also shall use them for the for the negative aspects of africa society i mean which the home office doesn't seem to forget 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 such

a differential fault from p.t.s.d. . or mental health issues all the time but me the local authorities and government itself do not have the required for the teachers to teach help 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 enslaved 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 criminal fast as they were forced to commit as

a result of exploitation just months after 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 from nigeria to try their own luck and risk their own lives. r.t. london. what is coming your way after this very short break. trump's impromptu visit to the d.m.z. separating the 2 koreas was unprecedented and historic indeed it was a bold even brilliant decision of course his political opponents particularly the

democrats running for president and the media slammed an orthodox diplomacy is on the side of peace. what politicians do. they put themselves on the line to get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be president. or some want to. have to go right to cross the sea level before 3 of them or 10 people. interested always in the waters in the. first.

donald trump says he would like to withdraw all u.s. troops from afghanistan even only enough to deliver what he dubbed stronger intelligence. i would like to just get up the problem is it just seems to be a lab for terrorists it seems like or at the harvard of terrorists i would believe very strong intelligence there you have to watch there are currently around $9000.00 u.s. troops in afghanistan over the last 18 years that the us has lost thousands of personnel and nearly a trillion dollars or less course lives now to our guest again until this down veteran of iraq welcome to the program it's great to have you with us now donald trump said he would like to withdraw all troops from afghanistan what's stopping him from doing so. i you don't it's good to be here well the 1st thing i think it's very important is to realize the people who are surrounding him so the

president is obviously surrounded by a lot of hawks as we call him here so the reasons obviously for staying in ghana stand are very important specifically geopolitically and i think those hawks are not going to allow to lose any grip on any part of the world i mean you can see what's going on with their iran right now as the tensions are rising as well as what was happening with man as well as well so i don't think i mean the people who surround trump are not going to allow him to withdraw troops out of afghanistan i trimmed their campaign strongly against what was in the middle east how much progress do you think he's made in changing course here. well a lot of presidents and a lot of politicians get paid all about a lot of different things but when they get into office things are different and so i would say that. no i mean i i don't think i mean obviously things have not

changed i mean we still see the number of refugees and we still see of course that isis has somewhat self but that's not due to trump it's due to for a long war of attrition for isis and so yeah i mean i don't i mean i haven't seen anything anything impressive coming out of the middle east or far east in terms of stability or some kind of rebuilding of the countries that we've totally annihilated sense of well for a long time but particular since 2001 when beta genesis i made fortunes and intends to leave enough chips to provide what trump called strong intelligence in afghanistan do you think that means that the country will remain under u.s. influence. well i mean i guess it depends how you look at i mean the u.s. intelligence services been there since the soviet union and. i keep private and

since. the soviet union left while god defeated in afghanistan so i'm in the intelligence services are always going to be everywhere i mean we know that we have over 8 to 900 military bases occur across the world and i view this leave us intelligence as everywhere and they're always going to be there is the question is in what capacity they're going to be there and what what type of intelligence are they going to be gathering and the usa is currently negotiating with the taliban it's the 7th round so 5 do you think the talks will go anywhere. oh man i think i mean i really don't know where the taliban and stands out now specially with the rise of isis and i know there's been instances where isis is also conducting operations in afghanistan so i don't know what they trying to get i don't know where they're ideologically. i don't know what they're trying to get out

of that they are as ideological as they wore during the soviet occupation i think unless the u.s. troops pull out there's not going to be any negotiations and as we have seen. we don't u.s. doesn't actually really have any influence in afghanistan i have ghana's dentist intro by taleban and. so the u.s. forces there is literally just being present there for military industrial complex some contracts not for different ideological reasons of different hawks who are in these administration and the administration of a bomb when that going to that came before so yeah i mean i i hope i hope the u.s. pulls out against then and i hope they find means to figure things out but then the question stands as well like well what what happens what happens afterwards are we going to we're going to assist the. government in any way of trying to rebuild it

and provide necessaries services in the country for people to try try to recover from from the damage that the soviets inflicted as well as united states military that in the past while it's been 18 years i mean that's pretty crazy i mean 18 years. as you can take an antiwar activist and iraq veteran thank you for your time . thank you to be here i don't. but i'll try and pass last ounces around after 60 to be amounts of low enriched uranium is allowed to stop hot under the 2015 nuclear deal. as i have been informed iran has crossed the 300 kilogram limit based on his earlier we had announced our plan to exceed the limits therefore based on our previous announcement we made it clear what we were going to do we see it as a right. to do it you know with the airplane with i think they're

playing with fire but trump administration has vowed to apply maximum pressure on iran over its nuclear ambitions it's also suggested that iran was already producing high amounts of enriched uranium before the deal was find the iranian foreign minister responded with a simple tweet that one would question seriously he also said the latest enrichment was justified by the fact that america pulled out of the nuclear deal with the u.n. nuclear watchdog has since confirmed 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 iran has attempted to rebuild relations with the u.s. without any tangible results in 1988 u.s.

military shot down a rainy and passenger plane that killed 290 civilians including 66 children and the incident was considered an accident the pentagon never apologize if i believe that given the operating environment captain rogers acted reasonably and did what his nation expected of him this regrettable accident and it was an accident was a byproduct of the iran iraq war and saddened all americans and if past presidents are anything to go by to rand shouldn't hold its breath i'll never apologize for the united states of america ever i don't care what the facts are still ready to reconcile iran helped organize the release of u.s. hostages in lebanon but this goodwill gesture wasn't reciprocated by 995 even harsher u.s. sanctions were being lined up for iran i am formally announcing my intention to cut off all trade and investment with iran the 2nd round of reproach men came shortly

after 911 i was. ready and. as a human as a muslim and as an iranian for you to once again express my deepest sympathy we. and beat all the great american people across iran candlelight vigils were held to mourn the victims but the diplomatic progress didn't last long 4 months later became president bush's axis of evil speech which included iran this is a rich. that has something to hide from the civilized world. states like these and their terrorist allies constitute an axis of evil. finally in 2015 iran signed a deal with the international community including the us agreeing not to pursue

nuclear weapons united states together were international partners has achieved something that decades of animosity has not a comprehensive long term deal with iran that will prevent it from obtaining a nuclear weapon it was celebrated shortly dubbed a bad deal by donald trump he walked away without any confirmation turned around was in 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 tehran 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 their 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 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. a total solar eclipse could be seen tonight over latin america the phenomenon is visible only once in 360 years at any specific location and it was the 1st transcontinental total eclipse since 2017 and is the only total solar eclipse of this year where if you missed it you'll have another chance to see it in 2021 it will a paragon of a latin america as well as the south pacific. i think such a thing r.t. international best out my colleagues ask you taylor will be with you in 30 minutes with all the latest headlines. the a was. by the way bankrupt pres

but we bother to think of what all that is there is about them so you can see them as us the truth was completely divorced from human so. the justice department said today the inmate population of federal and state prisons in this country is at an all time high. the public sees a need for more prisons because crime is the number one concern of the people in this state. too many inmates not enough space. in their crime another. country and already have met up with the start of. a. combination of an american with all of this going to prison time going towards want to. know i'm. going to prison are going to go on.

a shocking new number was released today and it deserves our undivided attention one out of every 100 americans is now behind bars walked up to prison or in jail. the most important thing. is to talk from your heart if you have more than one child give it like an overall message but then do an individual one to each child throws them a kiss talk to them about what you do daily the rest should be just you if you've written a porn we've had people pray we've had people saying one guy showed his little boy how to shoot a basket be creative. these are gifts to your children. the families are punished.