there is a form of environmental research going on in hawaii whether these companies feel they can get away with this because the people have less political. social media giant twitter says it will ban all advertisements from state controlled media aligned on government funded think tanks to determine exactly what falls under that definition. also this hour a leaked audio recording confirms earlier reports about america's oil and gas industry persuaded the government to criminalize protests against pipelines. and its 60 years to the day since a major chemical attack in syria is a school that will look at what progress has been made by the official investigation into that case and others across syria.

a very warm welcome to the program from all of us here at our teach here in moscow thanks for joining us this hour. social media platform twitter has announced it will no longer accept advertisements placed by government controlled media. quarter looks at who exactly will be affected. twitter users fear not the admins are taking new steps to protect you from the big bad state controlled media no longer will you be exposed to their alternative information via advertisements it's all for the best. we want to protect healthy discourse an open conversation to that end we believe that there is a difference between and gauging a conversation with accounts you choose to follow on the content you see from advertisers in your tweets experience which may be from accounts you're not currently following by by b.b.c. and voice of america right well they might actually be what the. media giant is

calling taxpayer funded and tities it's different and twitter has put together a diverse team of western media organizations to draw the line between good and bad that's right freedom house the apparently independent and u.s. state funded n g o that helped the cia with a 980 s. propaganda campaign twitter picked the right state funded organization for the job of censoring state funded organizations so why is twitter suddenly pumping media doesn't like management didn't say but the mainstream media was able to connect a few dots when it comes to burning issues like the protests in hong kong there's only room for one perspective. state owned public funded independent what's the difference if at the end of the

day you're only getting one take on controversial events it's a bad idea for twitter to put any restrictions on on any media companies and on any of their advertising i i support freedom of speech any restrictions that companies like twitter or facebook start putting on media organizations it prevents as much dialogue that could happen and it leads to other other rules that could be worse for other organizations as well and it's not always a very clear distinction on what is state controlled versus not state controlled and there are loopholes that will allow organizations like m.p.r. m.p.'s in the united states or the b.b.c. in britain to continue to to advertise and publish on twitter. a link to audio recording has revealed that an american oil and gas lobby group helped secure legislation that criminalizes protests against. my plans that was in

response to demonstrations against the construction of a pipeline in north dakota during which activists chained themselves to equipment protesters also started fires when the authority has tried to remove them from the site with more on the story here is killed market. if you want to have big influence in washington d.c. and we need to have a big lobby and that means you need to have big money meet the american fuel and petrochemical manufacturers the f.p.m. represents all the big names in the energy markets koch industries chevron exxon mobil valero energy to name a few now the f.p.m. has been around since 1902 making sure that the voice of the ultra wealthy oil monopolists are not left out of the political process and it seems like their latest target has been protesters now the a.t.f. has crafted legislation in $22.00 different states already passed in 9 states that would severely restrict the activities of political activists who might get in the

way of oil pipelines and other profitable infrastructure in an audio recording obtained by the intercept the group's senior vice president discusses the strategy that they're using to criminalize protests. with. the. now the language of the riot boosting act is a little bit vague it could be a stretch to outlaw even thinking about protesting big oil companies. now this is the only law that's been pushed by the. i am $28.00 teen

a $30000000.00 lobbying effort killed a carbon tax in washington state bigger cars means more gasoline and more gasoline means more profits for the oil companies the money and influence of big oil certainly outweigh the efforts of grassroots environmental and everybody knows that in the united states of america if you want something you have got to pay for it and the oil industry certainly has all the means necessary but r.t. new york. it is 6 years to the day since a major chemical attack on the syrian capital suburb eastern ghouta back in 2013 the rebel stronghold in damascus was targeted with rockets containing a serin gas has prompted international outrage with many pointing the finger at the syrian government. the syrian government has utilized chemical weapons in its fight against rebels the syrian sarin gas attack which are ministration says the syrian

government launched the assad regime has used chemical weapons including the nerve agent sarin syrian troops now have the deadly nerve agent sarin gas weaponized and at the ready syrian president bashar al assad responded to the allegations calling them part of the fake narrative of the west over the last he committed to destroying his country's chemical arsenal the organization for the prohibition of chemical weapons launched a special fact finding mission to investigate that incident and others in its wake up report on what progress has been made. the syrian war has become the scene for some of the scariest chemical attacks of the 21st century in many of this tragedy it is still not known to this very day who launched noxious projectiles that have killed hundreds if not thousands of people for years the so-called 5 finding mission an initiative over u.n. backed chemical watchdog has been tasked with. the establishment of

a fact finding mission was based on the general authority of the p.c. w director general seek to uphold at all times the object and purpose of the chemical weapons convention. in a report on a series of chemical incidents in 2015 the mission showed a drawing of an alleged munition used in one of the attacks what they didn't mention though was that using such a device as a bomb didn't make sense it was loaded looked with chlorine but brought the chemicals that needed to be mixed together to become toxic according to the u.n. to facilitate this would be a tall order the h.c.f. see hydro crew fluorocarbon gas canisters commonly referred to as refrigerant canisters a widely a very. because they used to refill refrigerators and air conditioners however they are disposable and they repurchasing all refilling would require technical modification of the valve technical expertise and equipment would be needed to

modify the valves to refill the canisters with liquids or compressed gas the report gave you no clear indications as to how this weapon had been assess. and any nation that looked to see it was a holes a look virus claim put forward and yet report is that these were. filled with something else ok these canisters that there was no device shown these councils would rule out on to have been refilled were not accountable so this is a big question mark and yes taken something constructive to devise which allegedly can be ineffective where the pattern continues in other reports by the fact finding mission to. a toxic attack and hunchy whom seem to reinforce bashar assad's reputation of

a tyrant gassing his own people even though damascus denied any involvement the fact finding mission provided an extensive analysis of the incident but somewhat overlooked the fact that the closest the government planes got to hunchy who in their day was 5 kilometers the map indicated that the closest to hand shake that the aircraft had flown had been approximately 5 kilometers away additional information provided by the mechanism referred to 2 aircraft that had taken off from the shea rad air base at around the time indicated as above 10 minutes apart following the same flight path this effectively rules out the possibility of an air strike throwing a dark shadow of doubt on the version suggesting the government's involvement. another thing left out about this incident is the fact that some of the alleged victims had been admitted to hospitals before the attack some were chipped in as

patients in a hospital more than a 100 kilometers away just 30 minutes after the incident the mission didn't seem to present any facts explaining how the ambulance could have covered this distance in under 30 minutes because to do so it would have had to go at a speed of more than 200 kilometers per hour to reach the facility wanted to keep problems that being in the station many of the lowest tax there's been a reliance on. n.g.o.s relied on was asian which are not independent question is raised how much international organizations you are. being subjected to external pressure in order to generate. geopolitical goals the war in syria almost normalize the use of chemicals in warfare but it seems that the very mission there was

a stablished to find out the facts as to who bears most of the blame has been just a bit selective as to which facts to look for we've asked the o.p.c. w.-a to comment on why some evidence appears to have been ignored so far no response. russia's top diplomat has accused the us of a long wanting to pull out of a nuclear arms treaty sergey lavrov the comments come as washington an ounce it has started to develop a new missile previously banned under the now defunct arms control deal between the 2 countries. it's a simple as just be known from october of last year when the us national security advisor john bolton visited us he said that donald trump statement about washington's withdrawal from the treaty is not an invitation to dialogue but a final decision but it pays that then will maybe even earlier for the u.s. stance in preparing the missile tests conducted on sunday and banned by the i.n.f. treaty he's been a good and long before the iran after treaties demise parts of the us establishment

were eager to enhance america's nuclear capability as the united states must regain the strategic advantage by expediting the development and deployment of a new generation of ground launched missiles now the department of defense will be able to conduct does free search and development activities bento to an after so the department of defense will still exist have some denting though system they can be full former u.s. diplomat jim john trust gave us his views on the missile test and the collapse of the treaty i believe that the decision to pull out of the i.m.f. was made of bad faith with the idea that we can attain strategic superiority over russia make russia security situation i'm annabelle and that report. just with political leverage i think that's what these people think and i think of the speed with which this test was made is indicative not not dispositive not true but

indicative that that was the agenda all along united states establishment's not necessarily mr trump but the a fabulous one see shine as another adversary to be eliminated i think they are on deck after russians but nonetheless that's the way they tend to look at that they don't see it in terms of your other powers in the world with their own interests their own legitimate spiritual influence how do we accommodate that how do we come to a balance of our will rather there's only room on this planet for one hedge on that and these people must submit or be subdue. our team is going underground discuss the collapse of the i.m.f. treaty with award winning journalist and filmmaker john pilger he thinks many people don't realize how dangerous the situation is you can watch that full interview here on the internet later spades of the i and if treaty the most important pantie nuclear war treaty signed and here we had yesterday i think it was

the us. now testing again these intermediate range nuclear weapons cruise weapons and russia saying well yes of course we were in the noms race against. the dangers of this the dangers of of accidentally they can be beginning a nuclear war i'm not known to most people that i was you let slip hold out of this spectrum some say the i have treaty had to be revised because china was always opposing and was violating the terms of the environment in which the idea of treaty was originally created between go but show that come out of washington and the food if that treaty didn't need provision then revise it sit down i remember those discussions and i interviewed a number of the american negotiators the extraordinary man like paul won't who who sat down and negotiated with the russians these complex treaty they were serious

people. we are not dealing with serious people. so the common at least prime minister has announced he is quitting plunging the country into an even deeper political crisis a look at the ramifications and what happens next after this quick break.

so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy on from day shouldn't let it be an arms race is on off and spearing dramatic development only personally i'm going to resist i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical time time to sit down and talk. cas calendar is dying alfonzo any longer has died has changed and paid change dard serve the old guard. whose 1st

words were how long a c. or a challenging post you've got 2 years to live. i have no doubt that what happened was criminal. defense concentrate market is a $1000000000.00 industry these companies have a huge financial motivation to solve these problems there are numerous talking showing that doctors were keen to chest x. ray concentrate straight infectivity on the patients won't give them doctors the wrong place to play golf our current system why they would keep me from secure those years day. and people still die and i'm always question michel i tried being hard to live when so many have.

welcome back the time prime minister decepticon time has resigned after a year of tensions with italy's ruling coalition had been threatened with a vote of no confidence by the country's interior minister and both lashed out at each other in parliament. freedom is not about having a master but about not having a master or don't want to be enslaved by anyone go to a minister the minister of the interior did by promoting this government crisis you have taken on a great responsibility before the country you announced this crisis asking for full powers to govern the country you approach worries me.

well contact has been asked to stay on as part of a caretaker cabinet and there are also talks of new governing coalition being formed but if that doesn't happen the president could dissolve parliament and force a snap election so the question then becomes who would benefit from that surveys predict that material solving these parties would get 38 percent of the vote if an election were held today that is significantly more than the 5 star movement who had formed part of the coalition government that was formed back in june of last year and it was an unusual combination between the left leaning populist 5 star movement and anti immigration party the league although paparazzo a researcher at the italian center for electoral studies so the coalition was never going to last long. it was the 1st day that the government formed by these 2 bodies defy someone and that would be in government and the legal. system to go over

minutes so this was a new experimental quality show governments we have problems that what we show governments to these unique one was not expected to last a bit longer they've got to walk that they mean it's hope to be cleared in the beginning but of course nobody expected these. bombs to beat up the love that these these bleakly surprising and even from that you can really understand why some of the foster. moment. have a look in brief at some other stories making headlines around the world refugees living in the pakistan minister part of kashmir held a rally demanding that india and its lockdown of its part of the region hundreds chanted anti india slogans and protesters burned in effigy of the indian prime minister the indian part of kashmir has been on lockdown since august the 5th when india stripped the region of its own ptolemy telephone and internet connections there are currently restricted. a man who hijacked a bus on

a bridge and brazil's rio de janeiro taking a 37 passengers hostage used a fake gun and threaten to cut the bus on fire didn't make any particular demands the suspect was shot dead by police after a 4 hour standoff no one else was harmed but the incident did create a major traffic jam. and placed in southeast turkey and have dispersed kurdish protests with water cannon and tear gas the region has been gripped by unrest since the firing of 3 kurdish mayors elected back in march they were accused of links to the p.k. k. which considers a terrorist organization $400.00 protesters have been arrested since monday the government crackdown comes amid fears of a cross border military operation in kurdish areas of the. and syria. a prominent defender of media freedoms has been slammed for breaching press freedom

that's after the bodyguard of cnn's april ryan forcibly prevented another journalist from filming her speech. but. it is a sad day. when. a u.s. president does not stand by the constitution the 1st amendment freedom of the press there's been efforts to silence me in the briefing room they have been efforts to discredit me you now have security. and you say the white house should pay for it i'm here because they started they started up. a security guard assaulted me in a hotel lobby after stealing our camera. whatever they want i thought i

would i don't think. that i did it all sheer put that down by. this ryan's remarks well then interrupted by a visit from the mystery man who i later learned is named joel morris and works as a security guard for miss ryan mr morris proceeded to unplug my camera grab the tripod it was connected to and steal the entire thing. i. feel like. ok. i was. trying to get away from the perpetrator but within seconds he began without provocation. and continued his assault as he forced me out of the building . i.

know this is the same. encourages violence at his rallies people get thrown out and that's just part of it as like a blood sport and then he or she is havin something that is much worse happen at one of our own events seems pretty you know hypocritical to say the least well you want to protect themselves 1st and foremost say cname so they don't want to have any kind of negative coverage about their journalists and their pundits on air they won't talk about a pariah in heaven or bodyguard basically beat somebody up almost say her particular event they won't talk about that because about protecting their and their and their image but i talk about day long even if it was illegitimate excuse to throw a person now even if they were trying to fight other people will talk about their inner child to paint chump in his supporters as violent as negative is hateful in these races but on their end of it they just perfect dangers they can do no wrong that's

a global news update for this hour but don't forget you can always head to our website are to dot com for the details on all the stories and many more. join me every thursday on the alec simon show and i'll be speaking to guest of the world of politics sports business i'm showbusiness i'll see you then. going back to medieval days you had the church which is like the monetarist present day 21st century where they would discuss how many angels can dance on the head of a pin they were in power and they enclosed this little model and now we've got neo feudalism or you guys central bankers discussing how many derivatives can be stuff into a worthless pension fund and we've got folks in san francisco in newark new jersey dying to medieval diseases. why

a paradise with some ground turned into a round the experimentation field the agricultural chemicals we know that these chemicals have consequences they are major irritants there's no question otherwise why would that the chemical company workers themselves be geared up and suited up locals attempt to combat the on regulated experiments but often in day you have many of these people one foot into the biotech pharma and the other foot in the government regulatory bodies this kind of collusion is reprehensible while the battle goes on the chemicals continue to poison hawaii and its people so one has to ask the question whether there is a form of environmental research going on in hawaii whether these companies feel they can get away with this because the people have less political power.

greeting them salutation. marker counters talk watchers because this past sunday i'm august 18th at 2 30 pm. the united states officially put the final nail in the coffin that was once the i m f treaty as burial services for the landmark end of the cold war era deal made between the united states and the soviet union to rein in the buildup of intermediate range nucular forces were held at san nicolas island off the coast of california the highlight of the services on the island beach with the u.s. military testing a new ground based 500 meter range cruise missile a department of defense press release stated the test missile accident it's ground mobile launcher and accurately impacted its target after more than 500 kilometers of flight and that the data collected lessons learned from this test will inform the plans of the apartment of the plans development of future intermediate range

capabilities. great for them these latest moves by the pentagon has left many rightfully concerned as this test comes just 16 days after the united states appears really withdrew from the treaty back on august 2nd newsweek writes the both china and russia are criticizing this latest test reporting that kremlin spodes spokesperson dmitri cited president vladimir putin as saying tuesday such tests only prove that from the very start the americans were determined to direct the i.n.f. treaty and were making preparations for it. so under the rocket test red glare treaties toward up on the floor and the threat of another nuclear arms race knocking up the door i think it's time to start watching the whole. you. want to see you treat the threat like real that this would be the last to

keep the ball out of it. for the day like you know i got. was that we. would. be. there to. love the watching the harks i am tired of it and on top of the wallace. bit in the eye and after trading for a while right as you mentioned there were like not yesterday 12 maybe several i think also what. it is that i'm like 30 someone years ago when we the united states said we're not going to do this we're going to abide by these treaties and as i understand that the reason we came out of the treaty is because russia wasn't following the treaty. it's amazing how we were able to build as did you know design test all the successful.