it. was. breaking news here on our t.v. the u.s. is sending extra troops and anti missile weaponry to the middle east they say to protect saudi arabia from iran. identity crisis facebook now claims it's a publisher not just a platform in a legal case which could have a major impact on what's posted on the site. also austrian m.p.'s want to pull the plug on the huge trade deal between latin america and the e.u. over the fires in the amazon all the european firms are working with companies linked to the destruction of the rain forest. and a major international military exercise in central russia and to its final stage with

china and india among the participants. now we start with breaking news this hour the united states is sending extra troops and defense systems to the middle east to protect saudi arabia and the u.a.e. from quote iranian aggression the u.s. defense secretary marc i spoke made that announcement just a few minutes ago. the president has approved the deployment of u.s. forces which will be defensive in nature and primarily focused on air and missile defense we will also work to accelerate the delivery of military equipment to the kingdom of saudi arabia and the u.a.e. to enhance their ability to defend themselves well donald trump slapped sanctions on iran's a central bank after accusing the country of carrying out drone and missile strikes on saudi oil refineries over the weekend. these are the highest sanctions ever

imposed on a country we've 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 that 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 what 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 might pompei o who is. on

a regional visit to saudi arabia and the united arab emirates said he is sure iran was responsible secretary do you gather any new evidence that shows who is behind the attacks and do you think it is a 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 there were 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 while the head of the iranian central bank has responded saying washington has now run out of any leverage on to her and that's cool analysts should behave similarly to believe these 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 america's 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 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 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 we fall over and you know bow down to the almighty trump not which 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. essentially america shooting itself in the foot while thinking that it shooting someone else or. some other headline news facebook c.e.o. mark zuckerberg has met with president donald trump the social media platforms

chief is looking to defend his company amid mounting criticism over privacy issues and data protection in a recent legal case facebook claimed it is a publisher and is therefore allowed to ban who it wants but potentially that would also make it law what goes out on its platform responsibility it has previously tried to dodge takes a look at 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 try and 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 publisher digging a bit deeper will reveal facebook has done that in the past as well when last year an app startup was crossing swords with facebook in court this is what came from the network spent the thought discretion is if 3 speechwriter respective 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 are 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 made exactly the kind 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. the way. 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 alloted it's well known you can't have a cake and eat it at the same time will probably less your last name a sucker berg when we all face but to comment on this story and we'll bring you any response we get legal and media analyst lionel did share his opinion. 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 want to i have not publishing i don't put out opinions i'm just like a billboard and that's 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 there 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 organization 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. austrian m.p.'s 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 large scale amazon fire its similar concerns have been expressed by france and germany however many e.u. businesses do work with firms that have a direct connection to the fires as artie's sold it to penske explains it's an environmentalist worst nightmare wildfire 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 are counting on us the lungs 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 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 families all 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 those areas of the amazon are sometimes tension only to provide all earned for cows to graze all to grow crops to feed life stock these european banks are directly building 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 saw in the 3 largest cattle companies operating in brazil 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 was fired as well

deutsche bank and black rock didn't respond the m.p.e. paragraphs had to say then 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 the efforts of things like the history of the seed gardens in their portfolios our research demonstrates that another another process is playing out on the ground they are claiming to protect forests and poorest peoples in their official policies wow fueling the destruction of the amazon 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 paris well we have asked torch a bank to comment on their links to the deforestation of the amazon and we will bring you any response they give us now russia is hosting a large scale military exercise with chinese and indian forces involved we'll have that story and more after this short break. negative interest rates are telegraphing a drop in population if you look at forced consumption in the present to feed the

ponzi scheme that means you've got this generation will have to be sacrificed and so you know humans have not really psychologically evolved from the days when they just used our. children for their gods or their books or a generation see the policy gods. of. tensions between the masses and classes have existed ever since modern states came into being but often serve as a drive a real political change with russian civil society growing larger and louder against the excesses of the government leaks what does the future of the political system look like.

now to central russia when major international military exercises center 2019 is in full swing in addition to the hosts nations like china and india also taking part the drill into take cooperation between the countries to a new level in the face of ice alike terror threats among the spectators vladimir putin as well as watching them in a vis the president is also meeting his courage his counterpart. this is a very loud if press of spectacle the simulated food terrorists have

predictably been 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 to me a putin with the president of cuba started in the stands as well 20 meters away from us but there's a purpose to this is isn't just a shoe for enjoyment to 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 and simulated. central asian republic they've

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 of 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 and to stop an enemy that has demonstrated it is remorseless merciless and capable of anything when the commander of the indian infantry division who came to observe the drill says he now expects more events like this in the future. but jack says is being conducted by all the countries in coordination against the. common. element and challenges

of terrorism and such like things is very good the promise of everybody has been very good we wish that we are. going to have such laking say that more and india would be happy to participate in such a. russian actor who was detained during an opposition protest in moscow has been released though he is under a travel ban his case galvanize support my activists especially among the acting community spoke out following his release. aside well i wish the best of luck with assuming that it isn't. court has 9 changed previous decision and pov a listing of has been released under a travel ban russia's general prosecutor's office as well as the country's own woodsmen all have been calling for softening the initial punishment for these young men but many believe that today's decision is not about that but rather about

a victory of a civil society and 100 percent result of unified actions and afterwards and solidarity of people who simply believed that pavol o'steen of had been convicted wrongfully and that was exactly what pavel sr and his mom talked about after the decision was announced that there are lots that are unfair and crude to everyone for this and the media the public origin yuri people and actors and even the prosecutor who finally heard us today i was sitting in the hearing with a new feeling because everything is different now it was obvious that after so much support from the public the decision would change now he can be at home it's a victory for all of us pavel's case caused an unprecedented wave of defiance and support from celebrities to ordinary people we saw them lining up for what is known as one man protest this is the easiest legal way of protesting demonstrating here in russia and there was also a massive online campaign with actors and other public figures publishing their

video statements in support for pavol stina demanding his release just as that which will since we have just finished our performance of jesus christ superstar and we actors from the most soviet theater express our support for our colleague pavel steen of this office will i'm joining the flash mob freedom to buy the listing of no job russian yes to justice as for this tragic case involving problems do you know if we sincerely express our full support for him and wish his family patients whoa. justice will prevail. earlier monday pov a listing of 23 year old russian actor was sentenced to 3 and a half years in prison for violence 'd against a police officer during his arrest at an unauthorized opposition rally in central moscow in early august but before that a short video of the moment of the arrest of populist you know was published and

pavol was seen there walking normally in the middle of the square your mind other people before him for a policeman in full gear riot gear with rubber sticks got him to the ground and actually the b. dude did not give the answer to the obvious question what happened before that moment and why police officers singled pavol the man all the people in the square by was very strong and when the judge refused to use this video as an added in a huge massive campaign protest can pain started that led us here today have a listing of has been released and a travel ban. now a recap of our breaking news the u.s. government has just announced extra military deployments to the middle east to counter what it calls iranian aggression president trump has approved the pentagon's request for troops and anti missile systems to bolster the defenses of saudi arabia and the united arab emirates this comes after washington slapped

sanctions on iran's central bank accusing the country of bombing saudi oil infrastructure over the weekend iran denies any involvement in that incident and has warned that a military strike on its territory would lead to all out war we will of course keep you posted on the situation as it develops but your news update will be back in 30 minutes time with more headlines from around the world see them. the process of constructing this was to present as a body divided both scaffold. as porous and this is inserted beneath the skin when the skin is suctioned over the scaffold over a period of about 6 months you have to shoot in growth investor or as i from

occurring in other words the sales the mule in your body grow into the scaffold it grows its own blood supply so now this is fully integrated as part of its own living. as a tense situation in venezuela is still all over the news the problem in venezuela is not that socialism has been poorly implemented but that socialism has been faithfully implement from the inside venezuela things move different we're going to announce sanctions against petroleum to venezuela associated. in this will have a son of a moment to think that person that political battle to stay on the path to the madness of the moment the focus of the whose story isn't new nixon called in henry

kissinger to tell him that it would not be tolerated that in latin america. terms of economic and social system could take hold and therefore the policy would be to make the chilean economy scream so wants to make the economy of venezuela screech. hello and welcome to crossfire for all things considered i'm peter lavelle israel's

parliamentary elections have again ended in deadlock the electorate is divided divided on the political right sitting prime minister benjamin netanyahu says it's either my right wing blogs or again chris air back government how does this kind of rhetoric bode for the palestinians and middle east the ability. crosstalk in the israeli elections i'm joined by my guest philip giraldi in percival he is a former cia counterterrorism specialist who is now executive director of the counsel for the national interest in tel aviv we have gideon levy he's a columnist for hideouts also in tel aviv we have mehlman he is a senior israeli security writer and commentator all right gentlemen crosstalk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want and i always appreciated gideon let me go to you 1st in tel aviv and ask you your perceptions of this election cycle you know i looked at israeli media in english and of course

they go through all the different platforms and ideas that the part different parties have but from my perch really far away it really looks to me is that how far right will the next government will be and how much people like or dislike bibi netanyahu is that a fair way to kind of assess this election go ahead get in. it's more than. this election and therefore my election we're only on one issue benjamin netanyahu year so no choice is really between the nice right wing and the list guys right wing or if you may call it the central right and the right it's a very small choice but that's the choice of the people of israel ok philip going back to you did donald trump.