google's accused of interfering in last year's referendum on abortion in ireland sparking protests in dublin among religious conservatives. between london. and recalled the ship can be impounded for. project climate activism of swedish. 100000 people signed a petition calling on the french president to intervene in the case of a man whose life support systems are being turned off.

with a developing story coming from the u.s. state of florida 20 people have been left injured after an explosion ripped through a shopping center 2 of those involved are believed to be in a serious condition right now the blasts believed to be the result of a gas explosion in a vacant restaurant nearby businesses were also damaged and still closed until 5 crews make that area safe large pieces of concrete and metal were seen scattered across the mile surrounding areas have been closed off by the authorities we'll keep watch on that and keep you posted on any developments that we learn in the coming hours. headline stories then google's being accused of interfering in last year's landmark abortion referendum in ireland by blacklisting certain pro-life search terms on you tube in the run up to the vote the allegation that the tech giant may have attempted to influence the outcome has angered those who voted against allowing her abortion in the country protests have been taking place this

saturday in dublin with more on the story here's polly. when you type are searched into you cim you expect to see the most relevant results but how do you know that that search result hasn't been manipulated well according to recent revelations you don't in fact it's alleged that google which owns you tube. with its you tube search results on the eve of the irish abortion referendum according to the project veritas investigative website google is alleged to have manipulated its algorithms and employed so-called black lists on you tube a leaked document shows terms such as save the 8000 pro-life were among those thought to be bolted to google isn't denying that it tweaks results of politically sensitive content on you tube by pushing what it deems to be the most credible videos above the ones with the most views we've been very public that for

a wide range of news and information queries we have algorithms that are designed to surface authoritative content of all political viewpoints this helps prevent spam and conspiracy theories from surfacing prominently on our site in the midst of the irish referendum on abortion our systems brought authoritative content to the top of our search results for abortion related queries this happened for both pro-choice and pro-life queries there was no distinction pro-life groups aren't convinced by that statement it's that word or thora to vinh google statement that's causing concern catholic groups in particular say they want to know why it's enormous google employees who get to decide what is and isn't or thora to have content google interference in the referendum unarmed i think is it should send

a warning shot across every to everybody who is interested in democracy google blacklist to be. you know those and they deliberately and intentionally manipulation the kind of things that people would find when you push in search terms and here's the very obvious question i think from if this was all aboveboard and if this was not mysterious then why did they hide this why we only learning about this because of projects very tight because somebody in google decided that this was wrong i mean. that's the only reason we know to the pro-life camp only gone it 33 percent when the vote was held in may and abortion was then legalized denial and that issue has now been put to rest but the dispute over the way google cure rate say it's so much results isn't going away this is horrific what google has been doing and they really need to be held accountable i mean it's at the point now where they're now interfering with elections in other countries to hear that

something like this is happening in ireland in a foreign country where a company in southern california the united states is dictating what gets what search results are seeing ireland to the people of ireland regarding their loss pacifically on things like abortion which is already a very contentious issue in the u.s. throughout the globe is horrific google has absolutely no place to take part in political decisions or social decisions and to make sure that they all alone can tell which news is seen and which news is not. what it looks like iran will have to wait at least another 4 mine for the return of its oil tanker which was seen as off the coast of droll to on thursday it suspected that the vessel may have been smuggling oil to syria in violation of e.u. sanctions to says that the incident amounts to maritime piracy shoddy edwards daschle now report. if you're brought to court has extended the detention of a tanker carrying a rainy an oil for 2 weeks it comes as the british royal marine seized the ship off

the coast of japan alter on thursday for allegedly trying to take oil to syria in violation of the sanctions now the crew of the sea ship grace one being interviewed by officials and the ship is likely to remain impounded for several weeks now in retaliation for an immediate release of the vessel and what it sees as an illegal detention tantamount to maritime piracy iranian foreign ministry official described the u.k. moves on acceptable and called for the immediate release of the oil tanker given that has been seized at the request of the u.s. the u.k. navy's measure is tantamount to maritime piracy britain has no right to impose its own unilateral sanctions all those of the european union in an extra territorial manner against the other countries this is the very bullying policy of the us britain's foreign office said it would not respond to every single comment about the incident that emerged from iran but it reiterated its position that the action

came at the request of gibraltar to halt a better believed to be bound to syria which indeed violates sanctions this action the rose from information giving the gibraltar government reasonable grounds to believe that the vessel the grace one was acting in breach of european union sanctions against syria now the e.u. sanctions in place prevent syrian regime from importing oil and gibraltar said it believes that grace one and its barrels of rain in oil were bound for syria however it's understood that iran has provided these documents to the u.k. proving that the vessel was transiting to a primitive destination although it didn't exactly specify where since then. and spain have become embroiled in a row about the seizure with madrid saying that grace one was intercepted because of a request from the u.s. to the u.k. i was ok and we have been aware of the operation civil guard. have been watching the area but we are investigating the circumstances under which the us said its petition to the u.k.

well as well as spain a senior iranian foreign ministry official said that the united states had asked the u.k. to intercept the ship however just bolters government said in a statement that they acted independently on their own accord the decisions of her majesty's government of gibraltar were taken to do independently waste some breaches of existing law and not at all based on extraneous political considerations meanwhile the seizure was hailed enthusiastically by a key member of the trumpet ministration excell news yuki has the teen the supertanker grease one laden with the reigning oil bound for syria in violation of you sanctions american our allies will continue to prevent regimes into ran in damascus from profiting off this illicit trade so this latest round comes at a time of escalating tensions between the u.s. and iran and of course it follows the trumpet ministration previously pulling out of the 25th the nuclear program a plus has reinforced panish ing sanctions against iran iran now says it's no

longer bound by the agreement and will breach impose limits on your aim stockpiles and that although it allies its european allies including the u.k. have not followed suit in terms of pulling out to her and argues that others think that treats including france and germany and even the u.k. haven't done enough to keep the deal alive meanwhile other countries including russia have weighed in on the diplomatic row with russia's foreign ministry saying that the seizure is an attempt to aggravate the situation around iran and syria and that the reaction from london and washington shows that the incident had been planned in advance. teenage environmental activist group a phonebook who shot to fame by leading a wave of student climate protests appears to be drawing the ire of motorists in germany vehicles across the country have been sporting offensive bumper stickers ridiculing campaigning it's unlikely to put the 16 year old of course low growth has already secured a nobel peace prize nomination and she's made it to the cover of time magazine as well.

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6 any more. recent survey data suggests that the german public are eager to combat the reasons which may be contributing to climate change more than 70 percent for instance said that there are prepared to give up short haul flights immediately and the majority to also willing to pay more for their meat in the shops as well when it comes to fuel is a very different story only 27 percent that would favor higher fuel prices to come back climate change now that could be explained by germany's passion for cars and the importance of the auto industry place in that country and accounts for one 5th of germany's entire industrial output it also provides jobs for more than 800000 people political commentator i came and told r.t. that efforts to target that particular sector will not prove popular. so in germany people already feel or there's something going on against them and especially if it's regarding their cars germs are concerned. is

specially because really they start so although well meaning most of the people who just follow the parking off the ground are. telling us. of those in the area and there are these n.g.o.s sessions on climate change. with the sharia or with the aim of restricting jobs in germany car industry and restricting people using their car and these 2 nurse where the germans are the 1st one who said well i don't know that we are other. jarte and our cars then do a little climate change. moscow has slammed the new strategy paper by the u.s. government's international development agency which is titled the countering malign kremlin influence the russian foreign ministry has dismissed it as

a propaganda tool of ideological warfare. the term countering is a clumsy attempt to conceal the aggressive offensive approach this conception is blatantly aimed at propagating risa phobia in the world especially in neighboring countries to russia on our side we have proven multiple times that we are open to establishing constructive cooperation with the us on a basis of equality of rights and the consideration of mutual interests however malicious and the russian propaganda by washington which strikes but lobel domination cancels out these efforts it's a great pity usaid says its main goal is to boost the resilience of partner countries that focuses on preventing meddling abridge you think economic and energy independence from russia with washington's funding and that funding would also be given to local media to ensure their independence and trustworthiness. us an i.d.s. funding will build the capacity of indigenous media to provide trusted independent news and information sources as part of the support usa id will promote media

literacy programs that help citizens recognize kremlin driven disinformation efforts if u.s. insurance is much bigger than adding the came into the ring to do anyway the media they're going to. eastern european counties are going to be part. of us they're into whatever then seas of peaceful or lesion we touch and there might exist there depends on which guarantee we have been the remaining 2 of us did it to china i have personally and syria. in the united states you know they speak of the rule of law the national law. we all the essentials of addition of international law all the traits of a vision of international law this is. well the 100000 people have signed an open letter to the french president in him to intervene in a controversial case of life and death it's all next story when we come back.

something wrong with being rich and being rich is nothing wrong with it people work hard they make a lot of money and for a lot of people that's very satisfying but when you become a rapacious monopolist then you are heading up like a pharmaceutical industry one or 2 or 3 major to kratz collusion colluding monopolist unelegant plus pricing that's not rights that's tied around it. so the temporary orders that i'm under before you go to final trial actually do allow me to address them as james and use male pronouns but i cannot do that in front of 3rd parties who know him as a girl so basically i can't go to a school i keep them away from any friends he might have at school but known as

a girl and at my home he's known as james and i use male pronouns what i'm prohibited from doing right now is trying to convince him that he's actually a boy. more than 100000 people have now put their names to a petition urging the french president to intervene in the controversial case of vincent he's a former psychiatric nurse whose life support systems are being switched off almost 11 years after a car crash left him in a vegetative state with no hope of recovery the call comes after france's highest court ended a long running legal battle on friday ruling that doctors can disconnect the 42 year old feeding tubes that will leave him dying slowly of dehydration in a sedated state euthanasia is illegal in france but medics are allowed to put

terminally ill patients into a deep state of sedation until their death however while some of lumbers relatives believe he should indeed be allowed to die his catholic parents are strongly opposed to the decision they say that because he only requires basic care and can breathe on his own and he's being murdered. i beg you to intervene to remind france if it's not legation to respond to the precautionary measures prescribed by the comedian and not to kill my son the young my son is the life of one saw then 700 people who share this condition and that are threatened please help us with more now on the case which has proved to be polarizing both for vincent lumbers family and friends society as a whole here's where if a national. this could be the end of a complicated contradictory and absolutely heartbreaking case which has lost more than a decade in 2008 a traffic accident left vincent lumbered a french nurse in a vegetative state his brain was unresponsive his body was paralyzed he could only

be fed and hydrated artificially after a 5 year battle for his life the battle for his death has started when numerous medical exams stated vinson's semiconscious condition was irreversible the question arose for the 1st time should be vincent continue receiving life support assistance or not it's not a question that is easy or simple to answer and it has divided instance family his wife and 6 of his siblings wanted to let him die peacefully as they put it this is not the life vincent himself would want to leave opposing them were his parents arguing that vincent is simply a person who does not fall under france's and of life legislation and that he should leave when the 2 sides failed to reach an agreement to dish a marathon started that resulted in vincent been off and back on life support 5

times after the ruling to store artificial and tradition was confirmed by 5 different legal bodies including the european court for human rights we do rely on doctors of course and as a see vincent has been in this state for 10 years so his chances of recovery let's be perfectly honest with you a reboot how much does he understand what quality of life does he have would you wish this sort of life on your worst enemy never mind loved one when says mother was never ready to give up at one point she even released a video clips of vincent's crying in attempt to show that he does feel and he is aware. but brain specialists say that this is not necessarily the case as far as saying it's the logical say. not realizing what he's living.

normally should solve is mostly. they have nothing to do with emotions several more times the mother has tried to persuade the public and legislators that vincent should leave however every time she appealed him being taken off life support the plug was pulled anyway you know it's a crime that's all i am ashamed of france this monday been since mother made her very last plea she appeared at the un human rights council in geneva emotionally appealing for her son's life skills in rooms i'm sorry for being too emotional i'm crying knowledge of the top of my voice that this is the murder offense and that's the right word while we're not being listened to vincent is a human being he is not an object he's had has been held under water i agree to come here in the hope that we might be able to defend him but despite all the efforts vincent was taken off of life support yet again the very next day see.

that's the end of this dispute there is no longer any plea that can be made that can suspend the discontinuation of here there is no longer any legal obstacle to the discontinuation of care and so that's the end of this legal case minsan stories truly heartbreaking and controversial in many ways the battle of 2 sides of one family both wishing the best for their loved one the mother says she was fighting against a system that she believes fails to protect its citizens but some point out there was an important lesson to build learned from vincents case in an ideal world most of us or all of us should discuss death with our loved ones. of course we don't especially when you're young of course you don't think you're ever going to die you think you're going to live forever but you know the organization to which i belong friends at the end we urge people to make an advanced directive but it seems that

regardless whether the man's and is peaceful or not the fight is far from over he's parents and now preparing to press murder charges. r.t. . now into its 9th month of 34th consecutive weekend yellow vest protesters have again been marching through the streets of paris where police have been called into action. i. tear gas was used sporadically to disperse the demonstrators the rally started in november last year against a few hikes but quickly expanded to a nationwide anti-government the numbers of those involved have been waning in recent weeks and comes on the back of months of violence which led the french government to introduce regulations against the protesters. this month rwanda marks the end of one of the most harrowing chapters in modern history the 994 genocide over the course of 100 days 800000 people were killed most of the dead

were from the tootsie tribe with those perpetrating the violence from the hutu majority and the 25 years since the atrocity rwanda has made significant steps forward it's regularly ranked among the safest african countries but still faces a number of challenges. a solemn anniversary for the troubled african nation of rwanda it's 25 years since one of the worst genocides of recent times this history . where not repeat. that is out on egypt ever had there. forgive. backward or not the one forget also known as the genocide against the ethnic tutsi in 1994 almost a 1000000 people were killed this escalation of the ethnic hutu president triggered the slaughter of some 70 percent of the turkey population quarter of a century on

a more the deep scars remain something of a surprising trends formation amazingly rwanda's 29th in the world for ease of doing business head of spain france japan and china in terms of corruption similar remarkable progress in the top 50 head of italy malta the country was even ranked 5th safest in the world for walking at night to singapore topping the list no surprise or wonder school the singapore of africa and also now one of the cleanest places on earth when the countries disagree. it's nice to. go under still far from being a paradise it remains a relatively poor country and democracy is not entrenched the e.u. knows serious violations of civil and political rights in fact the west is logged in conflict with the white house slapping steep tariffs on the nation and a major round with europe's powerhouse germany but its folks still no one has drove

past due to backing from another superpower china beijing's military come and troops at this week's anniversary celebrations. their performance today has gone beyond our expectations reaching the level of we train we are satisfied with their performance with the west apparently blocking its path to smear african nation may have found a different roadmap to success. african affairs analyst lawrence freeman told us that it's china's extensive investment in rwanda which has been the real driver of its development. if you do this. now really helping out from country by that country or democracy when the west is doing nothing nothing to actually control infrastructure an economic to build so it's a shameful at both the united states and other european countries it's only been

the last kennesaw year with. china that you ship or president xi jinping and they actually begun to build railroads tell clunes ports. where the previous 50 years nothing was done by western nations and that to me crews that are not that serious about mark received and that they use democracy they hammer to beat upon and being up and sometimes regime change in african nations. the news are out for this out thanks for watching it accept it for me in the moscow news team is in just over 30 minutes i can type like it was.

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head up the european central bank coming up in the show election time in the cradle of european democracy where every 3rd person is now at risk of poverty we go to athens to investigate the front lines of european union near liberalism and austerity and on the day of europe's largest exhibition on palestine we ask our present member and keynote speaker dr youssef jabbering why the israeli government and u.k. lobbying groups are trying to shut the event down with over a 1000000 people expected to take to the streets of london today to celebrate pride we speak to britain's 1st out muslim drag queen messy for love or about growing up as gay on the fast track and fighting for equality under theresa may all the more coming up in today's going on the ground the 1st how out of touch is u.k. labor leader jeremy corbin while his calls for a civil service inquiry demonstrate he may now understand there may be a deep state attempt to destroy him what about the policies of those who he has chosen for his shadow cabinet it's something the outgoing prime minister tourism

a pinpointed on wednesday where does the labor party stand on bricks it shadow press secretary doesn't support the shadow foreign secretary doesn't support the shadow chancellor doesn't support the labor party leader doesn't support. labor wants to bret's it and that would be a big trial of the many by the few yes as britain has for bracks it all been assembled and the entire remained team around him this in a week when those who seek an anti neo liberal e.u. were arguably dealt a blow. the you chose people like the head of the i.m.f. to run the european banking system yes this person the head of the international monetary fund has been found guilty by a french court of negligence when she was the country's finance minister christine lagarde denied accusations which said she allowed the misuse of public funds over a 400000000 euros state payout to a business tycoon the tapped new head of the e.c.b. is also natori is for backing austerity across europe in britain.