to. be close to trail. when so many worlds apart. choose to look for common ground. it was a. good day moscow time headlining right now the french president bush's political maneuvering over the weekend took the leaders of the g. 7 by surprise as he had voted the arabian for administered to the g. 7 live for crisis talks we'll look at about when this question of the usa also headline writer called new rules are enforced by google with the tech titan telling employees to gauge a political debate. for by the family of a british citizen. in languishing in jail in sudan without charge for over $100.00

days his family now condemning the u.k. foreign office is disappointing response to the ok. for good afternoon just midday then as mentioned this monday the 26th of august here in moscow my name is kevin owen here with the world news for the next half hour from r.t. international's world news here so 1st starting with this story iran's foreign minister made an impromptu visit to the g. 7 summit in france on sunday the whole crisis talks with president emmanuel mccrum mohamed joba jerusalem rival caught the other world leaders off guard and left the u.s. delegation feeling blindsided shiela do bensky. traumatic diplomatic moves kind of went down like a lead balloon with the white house delegation were seizing to meet during in foreign minister discuss that iranian deal of course the iranian foreign minister

himself under u.s. sanctions at the moment so no meeting between them you might remember that there was an iranian nuclear deal signed a few years ago and they were in trump became president of the united states. he said this deal it's not good enough i'm pulling this out of it and he did that back last year now since then there's been a war of words with iran they have been these sanctions that have been put on iran by the u.s. and the u.s. has demanded that other leaders who are signatories to that iranian nuclear deal kowtow to his demands and also pull out now the e.u. leaders who are at this 7 summit and others say they're not pulling out they signatories to this accord they want it to work and perhaps one of the biggest people who supported this or a new nuclear deal is none other than french president amat corps who is also this g 7 president now he had quite a few tricks up his sleeve during the summit but he tried to ease the u.s.

into his way of thinking very easily instead fast early on we discussed our various initiatives. has taken initiatives towards iran i have taken several initiatives and we have reported on them the g. 7 is an informal club there is no formal mandate given within the g 7. no i just. told you i really hope you can stop people from going in there were a dog and dog despite that i did setting in the south of france it was one g. 7 summit that hasn't gone without its own controversy well most of the leaders with looking to get accords on the table to find agreement there was one who just didn't want to play ball and that was the president of the united states yes dorle trump so no agreement on easing trade tensions across the world no agreement so far on environmental issues although his suggestion that there will be some sort of

formalization of how the leaders of the g. 7 will want to help with those fires in south america in the amazon rain forest and of course they wouldn't be g 7 in france without protest thousands of people. look to the streets over the weekend in cities around to show their armies and their discontent with the g. 7 summit in fact many of them had actually been participating in an anti g 7 for the last week there were clashes with the police although the protests were largely peaceful many arrest taking place some people injured and the security forces a huge number some 13000 in the south of france around this summit using tear gas and water cannons the main overarching theme the main point of this summit it seems was to try and get a cord over iran and so far it's failed and the big question a lot of people pondering today is did the french presidential pull off

a diplomatic coup there by inviting around foreign minister or not we would hear reaction from both the round about the potential implications of what happened. by the beginning i thought like most journalists that it was an all or p.r. stunt a public relations effort of this remark or 2 to make a summit to success but the fact that. the foreign affairs minister of iran is there is in doubt it's a few meters away from the trouble is is astonishing is astounding and it seems that is more to the fact germany and france have discussed with the arrangements over the last few days and i discussing now with a look at the office own in beats it was the french they came to the ukrainians that convinced them to stay in the deal and essentially what that did it actually prolonged the period that iran fully of lies by the deal and that was very good for the americans i mean it will definitely have an impact iran is playing

a major role in the discussions in the g. 7 and donald trump actually made it yesterday that major decisions will be coming in the next few days so i think it is important nevertheless i think it's very very early to talk about an actual agreement between iran and the united states. javert series visit to france thing comes as his country continues of course to suffer the effects of crippling u.s. sanctions international isolation but the politics of it all aside among those bearing the brunt for instance a rainy in cancer patients who say they are struggling right now to get access to the vital treatment they need.

with number one the united states sanctions medical supplies going to the iranian people the truth is that the united states exempts medicine and medical devices for the iranian people iranian people know all too well that the real issue preventing access is the regime itself. is the reality is that the us is pushing iran under pressure and they are justifying their acts with these lawyers like the one said by mr hook in the video it will cause unique chemotherapy medicine is near impossible to access and expensive on the market mr hooke says we give iran's government access to the medicine but when the money transfer system is closed just how can we even buy it. going to do it on the river to ease the financial corridors in the wrong the blocks

around the table to improve when he comes from and some from the regional providers and brands which are mostly in europe and we cannot pay the foreign currency back and therefore you know the provides even the most generic our government has to import from countries which are not developed in this industry. next one celebrate his a firm that promoted for. thoughts on a lively discussion google has issued parallel new set of community guidelines to the staff banning political debate at work the decision marks the culmination of several years of intense scrutiny over its policies both internal and external and influence it has on public discourse. i certainly find the selection deeply offensive and that i think not just in united states but around the world is what's fueling concerns zina phobia hatred and a desire for answers that may or may not be there what we all need right now is google's management has had enough after contending with so much bad p.r.

over the last year the bosses have decided to say no more politics on the shop floor while sharing information and ideas with colleagues helps build community districts in the work day to have a raging debate over policy so the latest news story does not our primary responsibility is to do the work we've each been hired to do not to spend working time on debates about non-work topics company's new guidelines demand that employees stop insulting demeaning or humiliating their coworkers and others plans or even already in place to hire a team to moderate coworkers internal message boards and while political debates are generally frowned upon at work google's earned quite the reputation. and.

on top of that recent leaks by google employees sparked accusations of widespread political bias in the company from manipulating search algorithms to fit a liberal agenda i see google executives go to congress and say that it's not going to be late it is not political and i'm just so sure that's not true to punishing those who oppose the company's political line one former worker of google even said he was fired for being conservative when i joined google i saw a lot of employees being mistreated interviews. and harassed for sharing conservative views or just for questioning company policies and maybe one of the most powerful companies in the world but it seems when it comes to controlling its own staff management just needs to google it there are always guidelines governing employee behavior of course but this these are unusual guidelines because they are specifically targeting political speech you know that i have not really seen

and that it's just tremendous concern because what they're really doing here is when they're trying to suppress political speech by employees they're really trying to suppress political speech by conservative employees leakers the whistleblowers so far have come forward have been conservative employees that's what's google is most concerned about apparently even starting last year google began to restrict access to documents by its own employees so i think if you look internally in the company you'll find that they're probably doing much more extreme sayings to try to get their employees under control then we're aware of i don't think it'll work i think it will backfire.

next by the family of a british sudanese who's been held for over 3 months in a sudanese prison they've strongly condemned what they called the u.k. government's disappointing lack of action over it his name that he was imprisoned in may after criticizing the african nations transitional management council on social media and then they declared by prosecutors of any wrongdoing. the chance to speak to what mr amidst all of these continuing detention that. on the 11th of may 6th year old. british sudanese since then was arrested and detained in khartoum despite a prosecutor finding him not to go. t. of any alleged crimes the sudanese authorities refuse to release him i've come to liverpool where one of kamala's daughters lives she tells me her father's story and how anger at the british government for its failure to take action in protecting one of its own citizens were extremely worried obviously it's been 3 months now

we're going into the 4th month of his detention despite the fact that he has not been charged with anything and his release has been ordered. it still hasn't been carried out gaining access to them prison is difficult and unreliable even his own lawyer has not been allowed to visit him but as it has been once and describes the conditions they're very isolated from the outside world they don't have access to telephone calls we've tried to send in newspapers he's not allowed access to newspapers. he's not been allowed access to his lawyer which is a basic human right for all detainees kemal moved to the u.k. in 1986 and worked for the n.h.s. as a doctor for 20 years all 4 of his children are british citizens too but the foreign office has been unresponsive to pleas from commands family to step in and secure his freedom the embassy in khartoum haven't actually had direct contact with my father we as a family have been in contact with them updating them on my father's condition

unfortunately they've had very little input so our only contact with the foreign office has been through our m.p. . and they've been very slow to respond their responses have been very disappointing i think it's very shameful it reflects very badly on the british government. whether you're a jewel national or british national if there's injustice happening then you need to take action early on in his detention kemal went on an 8 day hunger strike hoping to draw attention to his plight but though it sparked protests in his hometown the international community. he failed to take notice it was a cry for attention and he went on a hunger strike for 8 days but unfortunately fell on deaf ears it's obvious this is a human rights violation and i would call upon the human you know international human rights organizations to get involved in my father's case i think there does need to be more attention on this to pressurize the british government into taking

action against unjust attention i'm also case is not unique a recent petition to force the foreign office to make its protection of citizens an obligation not a choice reveals that as many as $1000.00 brits apart and being detained abroad without trial as our son others like her take matters into their own hands one can also the question is do you take government doing all it can to secure the wealth that human rights of all its citizens sask taylor all team liverpool or quick follow up to those are going to go for office for comment on his current situation thus far with no response might come in later if it does we'll let you know 50 moscow time coming up after a break next we look at the case of a texas man who was executed on rape or murder charges last week but he insisted in the very that he was in this story.

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again thanks for chatting to us this monday so next a texas man has been put to death over the rape and murder of a college student over 2 decades ago but it's a crime he always insisted he did not commit. prosecutors say they are certain that swearing john was responsible for the murder they argue there are mountains of evidence they say demonstrating his guilt including for instance bits of the victim's clothing that were found in his trailer

he also had apparently asked a fellow inmate to write a letter to his lawyer purporting to be the real killer syringe and also had a track record of violence against women despite that though his defense claim that there were discrepancies in the prosecution's chronology over all this and that on that basis he could not have been responsible further they allege that the clothing in the former christians trailer may have belonged to someone else moreover that the blood found under the victim's fingernails didn't belong to either her or sweater engine they executed man's lawyer told us more about the conflicting evidence than. we presented the opinions of no less than 5 medical examiners who reviewed the path ology who reviewed the histology and all converged on a single conclusion which was that the body was left in the woods after mr sware engine was incarcerated they all work pro bono on mr square engines case they did

not ask for a dime the examiner that 1st compared those 2 pieces of pantyhose said they were not a physical match it took 2 and a half days and eventually she made them match mr swear engine was poor he was an educated and he did very ignorant things that made him look guilty we believe that. the state needs to take some action. about. how the scientific evidence is presented evaluated by the courts. let's check and some news in brief now starting with this violence breaking out again between police and protesters in hong kong this is the same sunday as that city saw its worst unrest since the start of its pro-democracy campaign in june during clashes in district right officers used water cannons against activists for the 1st time they pointed weapons at the protesters dozens of people including

a 12 year old were reportedly arrested demonstrations in that chinese territory original began in response to a controversial extradition bill and since morphed into a big movement calling for broad social reform. you can self defense forces have conducted on your military drills close to mount fuji in the country south the 4 days of exercises involved lot of people over 2400 soldiers 80 tanks and armored vehicles and 20 helicopters and those drills have been held every year since 1981 but with bear in mind government has been expanding its military capabilities and in 2015 passed legislation allowing japan's military to participate in foreign conflicts those fires in brazil now update their protests have been held in the brazilian capital over the unprecedented number of fires raging in the amazon rain forest tens of thousands of outbreaks have been recorded this summer many started deliberately by pharmacy with tacit government support clearing the land for cattle

ranching facing immense international pressure now though on financial pressures the administration sunday deployed $44000.00 troops to try and put out the fires and tackle it all. at bay 30 employees a luxury hotel far from happy they've been on strike over what they say are abysmal working conditions this the height of the holiday season then demanding that their rights be upheld in the end ploy is treat them as professionals hotels maids have previously claimed that they work the kinda slavery and causing them stress. injury . finally for this story is a bit different developing of our heads kind of history has been made in space for maybe all the wrong reasons an astronaut has been accused of committing a crime in near earth orbit while on board the u.s.s. .

there's unequivocally no truth to these claims we've been going through a painful personal separation that's now unfortunately in the media. ok i'm sorry but if this was me i would definitely own up to this how cool would it be to be the 1st human intergalactic space criminal. that potentially the 1st crime in space may have been committed by a woman and a lesbian speaks to how far we've come. that would be astronauts and mclean if this is true will have us her legacy this crime instead of anything else she

accomplished. or for star let you know it gets so you can follow so much more from us to the course i'm also i talk to dot com. updating that for you 247 daylight or up to the latest breaking news as well stretch mobile device as a when it happens here yet in soon for the afternoon call and after the line up later today on r t but back to now thank you for watching and stay tuned if you can if you've got a minute for our next programs coming up in your part of the world here on r.t. international.

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for welcome to. our not sexual abuse in the catholic church is once again in the spotlight was encouragement to europe and north america what can be done to make a big thing of the past call the government himself a survivor insider against sexual abuse is with me today to talk about. the catholic church with reports painting a grim picture of systemic proportions implying that even high ranking church officials are complicit will take francis take the fight against abuse personally and break the system what are the roots of this plague that's eating away at the church now will transform the global catholic. calma warman survivor and fighter against sexual abuse welcome to the show it's great to have you with us today so you have been complaining for accountability of clerical child abuse for

more than 20 years what kind of change have you made over this time what are your successes. well i think our gracious success has been finally exposing the fact not just that the abuses happened on us on the scale that we've been talking about for many years but that it's endemic within the roman catholic church that it's systemic. and that the cover up of abuse by church authorities was a willful intended program that was designed to protect the institution and its power and its money that it was operated and directed by the vatican at the global level and that it's been a global cover up i think that's something we've never really clearly exposed so we're going to go through all of that step by step but 1st ireland is a very catholic country when you came out publicly about your deal when you see the vatican where you supported by the irish or catholics around the world it was a makes.