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in moscow. further sanctions on iran in the wake of these strikes saudi arabian oil facilities last week. these are the highest sanctions ever imposed on a country never done it to this level and it's too bad what's happening with the rand it's going to hell now trump is calling it the highest level of sanctions ever imposed against the islamic republic of iran now the sanctions are being imposed in response to the recent attack against any aramco oil facility saudi arabia says that iran is to blame for the attack now iran vehemently denies that they are responsible says that they did not carry out this attack and this is

a deception from saudi arabia interestingly who is the forces in yemen have claimed responsibility for the attack but saudi arabia says it doubts that the who the forces have the capability of carrying out such a strike now there was some anticipation of a possible military response from the united states but now donald trump has come forward and said that there will be an escalation of sanctions against iran this highest level of sanctions and sanctions imposed on iran's national bank but not a military response this is donald trump speaking to journalists easiest thing i could do if i could do it while you're here which say go ahead fellows going to knock out 15 different major things in around i could do that and all set to go it's all set to go but i think the strong persons approach and the thing that does show strength would be showing a little bit of restraint now while saudi arabia maintains they are sure that it is iran was responsible on thursday we heard from the pentagon and they said they are

still investigating and haven't come to solid conclusions let yet this is the u.s. department of defense our position on this has been we're going to work through with the saudis as they make their assessment of what took place so we're going to work with them but we're going to allow the saudis to make the declarations on where they believe the attacks came from and the ultimate responsibility unlike the pentagon mike pompei o who is. on a regional visit to saudi arabia and the united arab emirates said he is sure iran was responsible. to gather any new evidence that shows who is behind the attacks and do you think it is slam dunk case to bring to the u.n. next week. i think it's abundantly clear and there is an enormous consensus in the region that we know precisely who conducted these attacks was iran i didn't hear anybody in the region who doubted that for a single mom so it seems there is no hard evidence and rather than waiting for the

u.n. team to come to a conclusion after investigating it seems the united states has responded by taking these actions against iran and imposing these new sanctions despite the fact that no hard evidence seems to be presented and that the u.n. team has not concluded its investigation and has not reached any conclusions about who is responsible now it's also important to point out that iran has reacted saying that it will offer a response to the u.s. plots the head of the iranian central bank has responded saying washington does not run out of any leverage on tehran because glenn missed a house and ali to believe the sanctions will have no impact. it's very revealing that america things with all these weapons and everything it can go away and make all these sanctions against iran it doesn't really solve anything for america what does it achieve really it's not going to make iran bend the knee it's going to rob their bring all of the countries that america is currently in some sort of war

footing with china russia etc it's going to bring everyone closer against america so really this is isolating america more the sanctions against iran clearly have not worked have not you know stopped iran and its tracks sanctions will work on a country that is dependent on the sand on the country making sanctions on it if you look like iran has had this policy for you know close to 40 years now of something which they call the resistance economy this allows iran as a country to be relatively independent at least independent from america is it painful yes of course it is in the know is going to say it's not painful but is it going to make your on bended knee and would fall over and you know bow down to the almighty trump well it's not only place where it can potentially cause a problem is there for example me someone in england wants to do business with iran i can't but of course there are ways around that as well it just makes it

a little bit more inconvenient but it doesn't break it or doesn't make it impossible the sanctions are essentially america shooting itself in the foot while thinking that it shooting someone else. facebook c.e.o. mark zuckerberg has met with president donald trump social media platforms chief is looking to defend his company amid mounting criticism of a privacy issues and data collection in a recent legal case facebook claimed it is a publisher and is therefore allowed to ban whoever it wants but potentially that would also make it liable for what goes out on his platform of responsibilities previously tried to dodge trying to look at the potential ramifications. so what have we got here. that's better plaintive ultra right activist laura luma who was taken off pretty much all major online platforms defendant facebook one of the giants which kicked her out we carefully

flicked through these court papers which the defendant filed to line bury the lawsuit and here's what really caught the eye. to the extent miss lewis claimed targets facebook's decision to deactivate her accounts it is also deficient on the well established law made the facebook nor any of the publisher can be liable for failing to publish someone else's message 1st amendment provides absolute protection for such decisions what was it again neither facebook nor any other publisher protection by the 1st amendment so in this particular case the lawyers of sucking co are happy to legally refer to their social network as up publisher digging a bit deeper will reveal facebook has done that in the past as well when last year and app startup was crossing swords with facebook in court this is what came from the network spent the thought discretion is if 3 speech rights are respected what

technological means is used so is it just me or something's wrong with how the platform we use every day identifies itself because when facebook bosses take questions in other places it seems they always try to distance themselves from the notion publisher which are you are you a tech company or are you the world's largest publisher because i think that goes to a really important question on what form of regulation or government action if any we would take. senator this is. a really big question i view us as a tech company because the primary thing that we do is build technology and products as your sponsor for your content which make exactly on of a publisher. well i agree that we're responsible for the content but we don't produce the content and that's been the message for quite a while. we are a tech company not a media company i do think we have to be the publisher and we definitely don't want

to be the arbiter of the truth now just imagine what kind of legal trouble the tech giant may put itself in if it becomes universally recognized the company mr zuckerberg is running is a publisher not just a tech platform are they really ready to be responsible for anything disturbing or outright criminal that gets posted under the blue logo the examples have been out there in abundance. was the right or what if simply someone decides to lawyer and bully me with all kinds of offensive stuff right on facebook should i then also follow defamation suit against the network because they as a publisher a lot of it's well known you can't have

a cake and eat it at the same time will probably unless your last name is sucker berg we have facebook to comment on the story and we'll bring you any response we get legal me down this line or did his opinion that. what is facebook now when mark zuckerberg spoke before congress he said we're just a tech company i just make the platform available for people to say what they were on to i have not publishing i don't put out of pinions i'm just like a billboard in cats the way people get around the idea of of perhaps allowing defamatory or libelous statements in the light now they're saying we're publishers we have the right to have anybody on that we want well if you're a publisher under defamation law libel law you can be held accountable and liable

for the longest time facebook push trying to have it both ways if i'm on a t.v. station and i say something defamatory about you or organisation the t.v. station the magazine they're liable to because they broadcast it they put this libelous statement out so what's it going to be facebook do you want the liability that comes with being a publisher or do you want to just merely be a tech platform and if you want to be just a tech platform here have to make up your mind because you can't limit speech you can't act like a publisher unless you are a publisher. of urging vienna to veto a major trade deal between the e.u. and south america they're unhappy about the way brazil is handling the long scale amazon fire is similar concerns have been expressed by friends germany but many businesses do work with firms that have a direct connection to the fund as he shall to do because he explains. it's an environmentalist school worst nightmare wild fly is raging in the amazon destroying

the world's most biodiverse tropical rain forest. our house is burning literally the amazon rainforest the lungs which produce 20 percent of our planet's oxygen is on fire as an international crisis i couldn't agree more manual macro we need to act for the amazon and for our planet talk kids and grandkids accounting on the lines of the entire earth our frac to and that's why we need to find common solutions here leaders of the globe's most advanced countries pledged to do more at the g 7 the heat may have died down but the blame game certainly hasn't with some looking closely at where the amazon wu's may. europe's financial institutions the companies and the financier is housed in those countries are contributing to that the forestation many of these companies are known to have

unsuitable practices in their supply chain to be clearing areas for the expansion of agriculture especially pursuing cattle so yeah and cattle ranching account for 80 percent of deforestation major companies such as a.t.m. call gail j.b.s. are being financed by some of us biggest banks including b m p paragraphs don't spank and block walk they not only bankroll the debt they're also major shareholders with a voice in how these companies are run so areas of the amazon are sometimes. to provide all earned for cows to graze all to grow crops to feed life stock these european banks are directly funding the forestation do it your bank and he black rock in vanguard collectively more than a 1000000000 dollars in debt in just the 3 largest away in the 3 largest cattle

companies operating in brazil are these even banks often vocal about their sustainability policies. are also being accused of hypocrisy environmental campaign group amazon watch contacted them about their role in the amazon the wall of fire as well deutsche bank and black rock they will respond the m.p.e. power about us had to say been people rebar has been strengthening insecta policies related to deforestation for several years and is prompting its clients to protect natural ecosystems and preserve biodiversity to the best of their abilities that experts say is just simply not good enough while we have applied you know fruits of beliefs like the street to the seed gardens in the horrible years our research demonstrates that another another process is playing out on the ground they are claiming to protect forests and forest peoples in their official

policies while fueling the destruction of the amazon with their investments. because lucas isn't see here that needs to be socially right home to these companies so that they better understand their role and also they can themselves be part of the solution rather than part of the problem without the traceability and the accountability of all actors involved including here in europe the fear is that our house will continue to burn. off powers and we have a story to bank to comment on their links to deforestation of the amazon we await their response. u.f.o. fans of alien hunters descend on the the desert with the u.s. military apparently spoke to that they might actually storm the infamous area 51 that's coming up at the other side of this quick break.

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divided divided on the political right sitting prime minister benjamin netanyahu says it's either my right we block or again back government how does this kind of rhetoric bode for the palestinians and middle east ability. several 100 people have gathered in the nevada desert in the u.s. under the rallying cry storm area 51 and all started as a joke campaign to break into the secretive military bases ended up attracting around 2000000 supporters on facebook many claim the american government's. first of all know there's only installed which was due to be held in a nearby town that was canceled last week but it hasn't stopped us. descending on the area despite warnings from the authorities involved airspace was also shut down

friday to protect the facility. quarter picks up the story. of the day we've all been waiting for a chance to discover we've been contacted by aliens over 2000000 people have already said they're going to storm area 51 a top secret u.s. military base it's notoriously connected to u.f.o. sightings and 2 teens have already gotten their feet wet trespassers caught near area $5012.00 men from the netherlands arrested after getting 3 miles inside the van a national security site it was just a joke at 1st a facebook event encouraging people to storm the mysterious space. we will all meet up in rural nevada and coordinate our own parties if we know who to run we can move faster than their bullets let's see them allianz even the guy who came up with the idea wasn't taking it too seriously it was all fun and games until the f.b.i. came knocking on his door thinking he could be

a terrorist started out as just from a pure stroke of imagination it's just meant to be funny i want to do something cool out there now that we have a bunch of people but i don't want anybody to get hurt still that hasn't stopped people from jumping on the bandwagon maybe most will just stick to being keyboard warriors and chicken out at the last minute ok but the authorities are not treating this as a joke which may just be adding to the curiosity all joking aside we're taking it very seriously on nation has secrets and those secrets deserve to be protected it also doesn't help that several videos have surfaced in recent years of supposedly u.f.o. sightings all captured by u.s. navy pilots. and the navy only added fuel to the fire of speculation when it labeled those objects and identified aerial phenomena the movie does ignatz the objects contained in these videos as. a real phenomenon the unidentified aerial phenomena terminology

is used because it provides the basic descriptor for the observations of. objects that have been observed entering operating in the is space various military controlled training ranges government secrecy always will fuel all kinds of speculation when you have a government that is not transparent it's going to lose the confidence of the people this was the lesson of the soviet union it's the lesson of the united states today where there is a lack of transparency where people know their. they are not getting the truth from their government on a large number of matters area 51 and u.f.o.'s in general have never gone away in the public imagination certainly not in the united states. there have been many sightings of apparent u.s. those in the vicinity of area 51 and people know about that and there's always been

the stories so. i think it has captured the imagination of a lot of people we might not know how many people are really going to this area 51 of that but one thing's for sure the u.s. government is acting like it's got something to hide donald quarter r.t. . if you sent to russia where a major international military exercise center 29 team is well underway in addition to the hosts nations like china and india are also taking part in the 2 lines to take cooperation between the neighbors to a new level in the face of ice alike terror threats among the spectators with putin and as well as watching the maneuvers the president was also able to meet with his counterpart the. i. i.

i. this is a very loud press of spectacle the simulated food terrorists of predictably being beaten back and just a few meters away from us we have military observers from all over the world i counted at least a dozen nato badges watching the show watching the spectacle that we have. with the present the future starting in the stands as well 20 meters away from us but there's a purpose to this isn't just to show. do for and draw him into a spectacle this is an exercise to form a unity to form corporation between asian nations asian states that are threatened by islamic radicalism and this is their effort to sort of get to get to know each other get to work together even india and pakistan odds with each other open

conflict working together here behind me as i reported earlier the story is radical islamist terrorists of come to power in a simulated central asian republic they formed a quasi caliph that if you will and the mission is to stop them to prevent them from seizing any more territory they come into possession of advanced weapons and being belligerent towards participating nations and participating are 8 countries representing a good heart full of the world's population china india pakistan russia as well as for central asian republics their mission is to stop the terrorists and prevent them from taking any more territory to defend themselves the military contingent representing those 8 nations amanda 128000 troops as well as 20000 vehicles

and tanks of all time on tiller air defense missiles systems as well as 600 aircraft including drones the military exercises themselves are stretched over a 6 day period across a variety of different battlefields and today the grand crescendo the objective is to hold an enemy attack knock out their cruise missiles and at the end go on the offensive and crush them the point of these military exercises isn't to show off any participating nations to some degree will face the threat of radical extremism and the point. these war games is to make sure that if worst comes to worse than these people come to power that the participating nations can present a united front to stop an enemy that has demonstrated its remorseless merciless and capable of anything. the commander of the india infantry division who came to

observe those trails says he now expects more such events in the future. but jake says is being conducted by all of countries in coordination against the. common. element and challenges are better than them and such late things is a very good the promise of everybody has been very good if you wish that we are. going to have such a play king says more and india would be happy to participate in the texas let's stay with a international join me for updates at the top of their. process for constructing this was to train as a barcode to write

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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 time for critical thinking it's time to fight for the middle for the truth the time is now we're watching closely watching the hawks. the federal reserve lowers interest rates will this add to speculation of a looming recession and new poll numbers show joe biden and elizabeth warren gaining supporters and leaving the rest of the democratic pack well behind what's driving their favorable numbers it's all next on this edition of pounds.

welcome to politicking on matthew cook in for larry king on wednesday the federal reserve cut interest rates for a 2nd time this year by a quarter percent well this action increased the fears of a coming recession and how might that impact the 2020 alexion and a brand new n.b.c. news wall street journal poll conducted after the last democratic debate shows joe biden and elizabeth warren both gaining ground and leaving their challengers well behind what's behind the strength of the new front runners and how might the rest of the pack adjust their campaigning as a result of this poll let's talk about that with the political panel they are chris wilson he was director of research and digital strategy for ted cruz's 2016 presidential campaign he's in oklahoma city and in atlanta robin buyer. democratic strategist and former obama campaign regional field director he's also retired u.s.

army ranger welcome to the program thank you matthew good to be with you ed thanks for having so let's jump right in 1st your reaction to this federal reserve cutting interest rates by a quarter percent does this lend credence to a coming recession let's start with you chris. well i think the fed is clearly concerned about some type of downturn but let's face it recessions are notoriously hard to predict and if we tried to bet every time the federal reserve cut interest rates it was going to lead to recession we've lost a lot of money i'm betting that way i think what is probably more correct to say is that the fed doesn't see any signs of looming inflation and they don't want they want the economy to continue to grow without it with this past off without inflation but what you will see if there's one assumption made from this is anyone who is not refinance their home in probably the last 18 months is going to get out and do it because you're not going to find much lower interest rates ever again.