president putin visits finland and condemns a recent u.s. missile test saying the weapon appears to have been developed long before washington quit the i.n.f. treaty. leaked audiotape adds light on how the us oil lobby has managed to criminalize protests against pipelines. and 6 years on from a chemical attack made damascus we look into the official investigation which is still ongoing. hello you're watching international i'm rosana locoed welcome to the program.

russia's president has condemned the recent test of a u.s. cruise missile saying it appears to have been developed long before washington quit the i.n.f. treaty which bans such weapons that to me appears him was also about the issue after talks with the finnish president in helsinki he's done a call to discuss the story with my colleague daniel hawkins. the russian president touched upon a number of issues at the press conference from the i.n.f. treaty like you said to the ongoing protests in moscow now on the latter the western media has been accusing russia of cracking down on its opposition but lattimer putin stressed that the police have been acting within accordance to the law so we too must protest in moscow not something unique need the for the world as a whole not for europe in particular we've witnessed similar events in many european capitals these events oh much would also politically fueled and have quite grave consequences for the protesters now there's plenty of discussion on that front but the main point of discussion had to do with washington's latest cruise

missile test that took place on sunday it was conducted in violation of the i.n.f. treaty which banned land based cruise missiles that had a range of over 500 kilometers now for over 30 years this impeded the possibility of a nuclear arms race between russia and the united states and while this treaty we might not have it anymore putin said that the timing of this test showed that it was in development before washington even withdrew it was a jewel in the wheel disappointed with what we see this test goes against the i and if treaty and escalates the security problem in the world and europe in particular the u.s. tested this missile to phone right so if they lift the eye and if treaty we supposed to work on this missile stilted long before the search for reasons to leave the treaty well the missile was launched off the coast of california and it was the 1st u.s. test of a cruise missile with a range over 500 kilometers but it's really no surprise because on the very day

that washington withdrew from the i.n.f. treaty it announced the new tests now to give our viewers a bit of context the u.s. official reason for leaving the i.n.f. treaty had to do with them blaming russia for noncompliance now moscow denied these claims and vladimir putin emphasized that mosque. it will not be the 1st one to boost its military as long as washington doesn't take steps of its own to boost its military he also reiterated that russia is dedicated to defending its borders and will respond to any military threat against the country. while security analyst charles shoe bridge explain to us why short a mentor and missiles are such a concern the main problems we've got is that i should reduce the range and the should say the payload the nuclear payload of weapon systems so you blur the boundaries between parts conventional systems and then the use of smaller nuclear weapons and then because of the really that deterrence situation that we've had

over many many years really depends upon that boundary being very distinct and clear one because if a boundary is actually diminished in other words you can use perhaps small nuclear weapons in what's called a war fighting way rather than just to terence it was interesting to see that it was exactly this kind of vertical launch a system that is used for those interceptor missiles that was used to test this weapon system this cruise missile that would have been banned under here i have treaties in other words we've got clear proof that the russian suspicions and those were raised repeatedly throughout the pre ending of the i.n.f. years that those suspicions were actually well grounded. now turning to another of our headline news stories a leak through according has revealed how us oil giants helped to bring about laws criminalizing protests against pipelines it started 2 years ago when activists tried to prevent the construction of a pipeline in north dakota protesters chained themselves to equipment and started

fires when the authorities tried to remove them from the site and that triggered a powerful retaliation from the oil lobby as caleb maupin explains. if you want to have big influence in washington d.c. and need to have a big lobby and that means you need to have big money meet the american fuel and petrochemical manufacturers the a.f.p. 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 a.f.p. i am 28 teen age 30000000 dollar 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 kaffir. it's a grassroots environmentalist 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. well the u.s. has blamed iran's economic problems on its so-called marxist economy that plane came from the white house special representative for iran when commenting on oil sanctions iran is in a recession. inflation is creeping up near 50 percent. this is largely caused by iran's corruption. iran's marxist economy the traps people in poverty and a government that prioritizes ideology over the welfare of its own people but it is

also the case that our sanctions have driven up the cost on the regime officially the us sanctions do not target medicine but in practice the ban on financial transactions with iranians mean they are on able to find medical supplies from abroad and that has resulted in critical shortage it's now to the international court of justice ordered the u.s. to remove any impediments they export of humanitarian goods to iran the chump administration however insists medicine is not being targeted. with number one the united states sanctions medical supplies going to the iranian people the truth is that the united states exempts by the medical devices for the iranian people the iranian people know all too well that the real issue preventing access is the regime itself doesn't crash and my husband is a cancer patient and we are worried about his medication and their costs medications used to be available before but after the sanctions they have become more expensive andrea and we are worried about the future and what will happen.

when i had to do all this is the 2nd round of my chemotherapy off to sanctions before my chemotherapy used to cost $211.00 euros but now with each round i need to pay 422 year old drugs cannot be found easily like this for we have to search them in different pharmacies with every single one of them having a specific kind of drug. no when they impose sanctions on the banks the money cannot be transferred fees. to a foreign country you know to point medication.

or to bring in many voices and some of them like components it's obvious that without these parts the devices simply won't work university of tehran professor say of mohammad marandi believes washington just doesn't want to shoulder the responsibility for the impact of its sanctions while the united states under shop is trying to be brutal he is trying to brutalize ordinary iranians and kill as many iranians as possible they want to have their cake and eat it too on the one hand they want to say that he ran we are powerful and we're destroying the iranian economy and on the other hand they want to say well the iran is evil busy and incompetent and it's their own fault but the truth of the matter is that they have caused a great difficulty in iran this sanctions regime or this maximum pressure campaign is directly targeting work mary right here you cannot import medicine through the banking system and you are you cannot import anything through the international banking system and this of course is a violation of human rights. in other news this hour the u.k.'s public broadcaster

the b.b.c. is making headlines of its own that's after it admitted to failings in its brics it coverage during the recent european elections despite its own strict editorial guidelines but as saskia taylor explains it took a lot for the corporation to acknowledge its error. the b.b.c. has just admitted that one of its graphics in a straight in the results of the european parliamentary election back in may this year it was misleading now the chart in question shows how well pro and anti breck's at parties did and it suggests that remain as one a little over 40 percent of the vote with bracks it is coming in just shy of 35 percent the conclusion of course being that sentiment in europe was stronger but this is where the issue is the core fails to account for one important thing while the need for the party and ukip are represented as backing bracks it the conservatives are not despite being

a party that was then and still is committed to leaving the european bloc. coconspirator has pursued the shoe for months and despite being rebuffed twice by the b.b.c. yesterday finally had his complaint accepted it was up to dr threatening to take them out it's the ofcom the charge to use by the b.b.c. to present the election results attempted to do a brutally imply and to brag suit parties receive the most routes now conservative support of bracks it is by no means whole hearted but publicly it's now pursuing united pro bracks it policy to reason may of course was adamant on this everyone now knows her famous mantra that means brett said and this is only hardened and boris johnson has vowed to take the u.k. out of the e.u. by the october deal or no deal so this was a significant omission on the part of the b.b.c. indeed if that had correctly included the conservative party the progress it is

would have taken the lead in that graphic by 3 percent potentially changing the implications of that election another aspect of the story was mentioning is that the b.b.c. actually rebuffed the complaint for almost one month while we. your concerns given the preceding paragraph we don't believe readers would have been misled on what the graph was showing now as i said the b.b.c. has since admitted that these graphics were a lapse in editorial standards they've been removed and a note of correction added to the website but there is a little back story to this because this isn't the only complaint directed against the b.b.c. on this very issue actually jury the elections back in may the book cost a faced allegations of bias from viewers are nigel frosh who claimed that the party hadn't been given a fair amount of time so allegations of antibiotics that brought bias aunt knew we

all know of course that brett's it has become one of the most divisive issues of british politics in modern history so it's probably on surprising that people are disappointed that the b.b.c. has failed to live up to its commitment to impartiality on the issue. with the annual meeting of the g 7 group of leading global economies fast approaching artie's host action returns he discussed the upcoming gathering with investigative journalist john pilger you can watch the full program later on r.t. international but here's a quick look g 7 at the end of the week russia not invited join in or considered by the i.m.f. to be the advanced economy excluding 2 of the most interesting developing developed powers in the world. china and russia. i mean you know the truth is what nobody is talking about is there is

a world war. it's not a shooting war but it could easily become a world war there was a war already on china there has been a war of attrition against russia for somebody is now breaking up the russian federation is an american objective. the the. maintaining. maintaining the supremacy of the u.s. in all areas of human affairs economic affairs cultural affairs is what this particularly this regime and washington is committed to all regimes have been a bit to it's now reaching ahead. because they see a challenge shouldn't china a challenge that. undoubtably it's an economic challenge but

it's not a military challenge. 6 years on from a chemical attack in syria the official probus still shrouded in doubt that story and more after this break. when i almost chose seemed wrong. when old rules just don't call. any new world yet to shape out this day become active. and engaged with equals betrayal. when so many find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground. going back to medieval days you had the church which is like the monetarist of

present day 21st century where they would discuss how many angels can dance on the head of a bed they were in power and they enclosed this little model and now we've got neo feudalism are you guys central bankers discussing how many derivatives can be stuffed into a worthless action fund and we've got folks in san francisco in newark new jersey dying for medieval diseases. welcome back wednesday 6 years since a deadly chemical incident outside the syrian capital back in 2013 the rebel stronghold of east grew so it was targeted with rockets containing sarin gas this 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 art 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 they were going to as ation for the prohibition of chemical weapons launched a fact finding mission to investigate that instant and others in its wake he goes down the reports on what progress has been made. the syrian war theater has become to seeing for some of the scariest chemical attacks of the 21st century in many acts of this tragedy it is still not known to this very day who launched noxious project tiles that have killed hundreds if not thousands of people for years the

so-called fact finding mission and initiative over un backed chemical watchdog has been tasked with dotting the ice the establishment of a fact finding mission was based on the general authority of the o.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 lebanon 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 not with chlorine but rather 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 a c f c hydrochloride fluorocarbon gas canisters commonly referred to as refrigerant canisters are widely available 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 valve to refill the canisters with liquids or compressed gas the report gave no clear indications as to how this has been a success. and any musician that looked to see it was a holes of the virus claim forward and yet for any report the leaves were. filled with something out of. these canisters that there was no device shown the cancer was real loud and to being. refill are 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 or 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 handshake 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 they're being ok in addition to many of the alleged attacks there's been a reliance on. n.g.o.s reliant on war and i was asian. which are not independent. question is raised as to how much international organizations you were in w been subjected to external pressure in order to generate that.

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 asked the o.p.c. w. to comment on why some evidence appears have been ignored so far they've not yet responded. facebook has launched a new tool letting you see what sites and apps have been telling the social media platform about you it's called off facebook activity and you'll be able to find out which 3rd parties are sharing your data with the science and what kind of data for example what you've done online while away from facebook like logon somewhere or sign up for something and if you don't like what you see you can tell facebook to decouple your data from your profile although that's not quite the end of the story

your future of facebook activity will be disconnected within 48 hours from when it's received during this time it may be useful measurement purposes and to make improvements to our system social media expert year cohen thinks of facebook will still collect users private data. the control isn't going to be a complete control so you need to tell facebook look i don't really want you to shut the state or my data any longer we does that by the websites. stall sharing your data but facebook will will do is facebook will disconnect your name and personal details from the data which will continue extracting the data and showing the data and it only problem is that facebook is making is that you'll name will be linked to ducks they will continue collecting the data is. the been doing for a very very long time bear in mind that it is impossible in

a moment to to delete you'll facebook accounts your data still retains by facebook at any time facebook might. decide to reactivate your account with all the story called data that. i'm resigning loquitur and i'll be back in just over 30 minutes time with more news headlines from around the world to see that. what politicians do. they put themselves on the line they did accept it over checked. so when you want to be president and she. wanted. to go right to be press this is like the full 3 of them can't be good. i'm interested in the why. aren't they said.

you know world of big partisan movies a lot and conspiracy it's time to wake up to dig deeper to hit the stories that mainstream media refuses to tell more than ever we need to be smarter we. need to stop slamming the door on the back and shouting past each other it's taught for critical thinking it's time to fight for the middle for the truth the time is now for watching closely watching the hawks. oh why a paradise with some all year round turned into a round the experimentation field but 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 that suited up locals attempt to combat the on regulated experiments but often in day you have

many of these people who have 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 racism going on in hawaii whether these companies feel they can get away with this because the people have less political power. seemed wrong. but all roles just don't all. i mean you didn't get to stamp out these days to come to advocate and engagement equals betrayal. when so many find themselves worlds apart. just to look for common ground.

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question was so ironic being on our way to live one so many have. this is boom bust broadcasting around the globe uncovering the world of business and finance and impact upon assault and daniel brito and here's a look at what's on deck today with china trade borderlines on with its new twists seemingly every day but what clues to possible to look like from within asia are from correspondents from other dope and gives a look inside from. an informal leave about to look for the recession then later as those lists of recession fears wind up the trumpet in the tradition of pushing

positivity in calling. in the cupboard part of the conspiracy professor richard wolfe is on hand to give us his latest take on the transpacific fight and the near term future of the u.s. economy and finally days of corporate titans are squaring off in court and tesla is under fire yet again as they face a super wal-mart over solar panels our correspondent alex mahela just standing by to break down the trouble for the lecture giant can one show really cover all that we're about to find out let's go. threat of sanctions over an arms deal leaves our globe report today as china's foreign ministry says it will target any u.s. company involved in the sale of advanced fighter jets from the u.s. to taiwan the island nation and u.s. ally plans to pay a $1000000000.00 for $66.00 f. 16 v. fighter jets made by the joaquim army corp beijing still considers taiwan which was founded after chinese nationalist forces retreated from the mainland to be a renegade province so there are conflicts.