was. it was. breaking news on r t the us is sending extra troops and anti missile weaponry to the middle east they say to protect saudi arabia from iran. and identity crisis facebook now claims it's a competition not just a platform in a legal case which could have a major impact on what's posted on the site. also all street m.p.'s want to pull the plug on a huge trade deal between latin america and the e.u. over the amazon all the european firms all working with companies linked to the destruction of the rain forest.

are you watching r.t. international i'm rosana low could welcome to the program. and we start with our breaking news the u.s. is sending extra troops and air defense systems to saudi arabia and the u.a.e. according to the pentagon the move is a response to iranian aggression. 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 this all comes after washington accused iran of bombing saudi oil infrastructure last weekend iran denies any involvement in that incident and has warned that of misuse military strike on its territory would lead to all out war the drone and missile attacks were claimed by

the shia who think rebels in yemen which saudi arabia has been fighting for the past 4 and a half years on friday the who things said they're holding off on further strikes but will retaliate if attacked by saudi arabia. earlier we spoke to political analyst colin cavill he gave us his views on the latest escalation. the thinking behind these u.s. deployments miss rose is that the u.s. is trying to protect what it considers to be their own or what it's considering to be there's a lifeline so by sending more troops because we sent 500 troops back in july but i read this troop deployment of the u.s. is very concerned about the security of saudi arabian oil definitely iran will fit in this for a thorough turkey for iran to agree to some separate negotiation based

upon intimidation and bullying by the united states is illogical and those who follow international relations know that it's not going to happen so trauma. and he can but it's not going to blow the iranian house down well ali a double trump slapped sanctions on iran central bank health care accusing the country of carrying out drone and missile strikes on the saudi oil refineries a week. 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 and aramco oil facility saudi arabia says that iran is to blame for the attack now iran vehemently denies that

they are responsible 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 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 that 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 the secretary do you 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 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 un team to come to a conclusion after investigating it seems the united states has responded by taking these actions against iran in 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. now in some rather 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 had made mounting criticism of a previously issues and data protection in a recent legal case facebook claimed it is a publisher and is therefore allowed to bad who it wants but potentially that would also make it liable who goes out on its platform responsibility it has previously tried to dodge. explains so what have we got here. that's better. plaintive ultra right web 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 could fly 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 need to facebook know 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 publisher discretion is it 3 speech right to respect to 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 response with your content which made 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. 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 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 but we have also facebook to comment on this story and we'll of course bring you any response we get legal and media analyst lionel gave us his view. 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 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 and the like 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 want to 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. now to central russia when major international monetary excise sent to $29000.00 is in full swing in addition to the hosts nations like china and india also taking pause the drill aims to take cooperation between the countries to a new level in the face of eisel like terror threats among the spectators is about to meet putin as well as watching him in a vis the russian president's been meeting with his coach his counterpart there. i

. this is a very loud if 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 glad to be a putin with the president 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 in a 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 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 contingency representing those 8 nations amanda 128000 troops as well as 20000 vehicles

and. tanks of all time until are 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 worst and 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 well the commander of the india infantry division

who came to observe the drills says he hopes for a similar exercise in the future. but jake say this is being conducted by all the countries in coordination against the. common. element and challenges of terrorism and such like things is very good at the moment ok everybody has been very good we wish that we are. going to have such laking say this morning and indeed i would be happy to participate in such experience. you know the news austrian m.p.'s a vienna to veto a major trade deal between the e.u. and south america there i'm happy about the way brazil is handling the large scale amazon far as similar concerns have been expressed by frauds germany but many e.u. businesses work with firms that have a direct connection to the issue as artie's shall the defense he explains. it's an

environmentalist worst not backed wild fully is raging in the amazon destroying the wolves 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 are factored 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 woos 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 amazon 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 the force in how these companies are run so areas of the amazonas sometimes. to provide all earned for cows to graze or 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 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 fine as well for each bank and blackrock didn't respond b.m.p. paragraphs had this 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 p. to strengthen 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 fuelling the destruction of the amazon their investments. there is no consistency 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 where we have asteroids are going to comment on their links to the deforestation of the i was and we have yet to receive a response. meanwhile millions of people around the world are taking part in what's being called a climate strike calling for urgent action to slash greenhouse gas emissions well the 5000 events are being held globally from sydney to new delhi the largest event

is taking place in new york and the city will be hosting the un climate action summit over the weekend demonstrators are urging world need us to take immediate action to prevent what they call a global catastrophe however for many people going green is easier said than done as an american news network found out. 8 needs every day and one stop because it's good i run my air conditioner 24 seventh's i'm not going to sweat to these this climate religion being scared of the dark comes with energy use consequences i just don't care about and hopefully i do love plastic straws and i cannot lie as many as i can get before i die in such straits sotto with apple pie yes i make.

these concessions page by n.b.c. news about how he supposedly configured to try and change his insane need to meet he must confess his plastic princess drive a car confess there is a list of seeds climate change is a religion. course climate change is real that's like saying women have babies tell me something i don't know what isn't real is such humans are causing climate change or or before that humans didn't cause global warming either but we produce e.o. too of course we do but the amount we produce is so small relative to the total amount . there are things completely insignificant when the un intergovernmental panel on climate change was set up the public were led to believe they were looking at all climate change they were not they were told to only look at human causes of climate

change. a young russian actor who was detained during an opposition protests to moscow has been released and there he is under a travel ban his case galvanize support from activists especially among the community he spoke out following his release. well. that's what. most call court has 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 they're loves. everyone for this and the media the public originary people and actors and even the prosecutor who finally heard us today i was sitting in the hearing with a new film 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. support for. demanding his release but just as that will says we have just finished a performance of jesus christ superstar and we actors from the more so if your theater expresses support for our colleague pavel stina. i'm joining

the freedom to burgle no job russian yes to justice as for this tragic case involving. we sincerely express of support for him and his family patients the whole justice will prevail. earlier monday populous state 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 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 for a policeman in full gear riot gear with rubber sticks got him to the ground and actually be do did not give the answer to the obvious question what happened before

that moment and why police officers single pavol among 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 in pain started that led us here today have a listing of has been released under a travel ban. a recap of our breaking news the u.s. government has 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 defense is a saudi arabia and the united arab emirates and this all comes after washington slapped sanctions on iran's central bank accusing the country of bombing saudi oil infrastructure a week ago iran denies any involvement in the incident and has warned that a military strike on its territory would lead to an all out war. well that's your

news update will be back a few minutes time with more headlines from around the world see that. in the very pain years since crosstalk started 10 years i think it's time to shake things up maybe change the branding maybe the format here is what i've been thinking about next season related episodes filmed on an island 10 experts cited out for a trophy what do you think ok a more affordable option 25 text for. one red rose another suggestion. jeopardy parody no political cookout we will literally wrote the elites. late night show it's a rare form of these days and it's cheap all you need is an old microphone in

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well i don't exactly know i do the comedy show where americans in america covering american news are called foreign agents. so saudi arabian oil fields were attacked and the debris proved. iran was behind it or rather saudi arabia wants to go to war with iran says iran was behind it. but also the united states who want to go to war with iran says iran was guided. yes call me crazy but does it matter if the debris is a ronnie and made don't countries sell arms to each other even though it's a damn stupid idea don't they do that all the time i mean we do it a lot in fact israeli soldiers often hit palestinians with tear gas canisters marked made in the usa.