the u.s. is sending extra troops and anti missile weaponry to the middle east they say to protect saudi arabia from iran. an identity crisis a facebook connect claims it's a publisher not just the platform their legal case which could have a major impact on what's posted on the site. so all straight m.p.'s want to pull the plug on the huge trade deal between latin america and the e.u. of the flies in the amazon although european firms are working with companies linked to the destruction of the brain fart as to.

why you're watching on c international i'm resigned i don't want to welcome to the program. the u.s. is sending extra troops and defense systems to saudi arabia the u.a.e. according to the pentagon the move is a response to a rainy and 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. this comes after washington accused iran of bombing saudi oil infrastructure last weekend and that's despite the drone missile attacks being claimed by the rebels in yemen on friday saudi forces launched several airstrikes near the u. many port city of her data coalition spokesman says and said the goal was to prevent toothy rebels from launching remote controlled assaults on shipping in the

red sea and in the past hour the iranian foreign minister cowens it on those saudi strikes saying they're essentially an admission that the who thier bills were behind the oil refinery bombings says the saudi regime has blamed iran but useless as that is for the attacks on its all facilities curious that they retaliated against her daughter in yemen today breaking u.n. cease fire it is clear that even the saudis themselves don't believe in the fiction of iranian involvement or political analyst calling cavill gave us his views on the latest escalation. the thinking behind this your 1st deployment is ms rose is that the u.s. is trying to protect what he considers to be their own or what it's considering to be their strategic lifeline so by sending more troops because we sent 500 troops back in july but i read this troop deployment of the us is very

concerned about the security of saudi arabian oil definitely iran will fill 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 truong. and he can but it's not going to blow the iranian house down well earlier donald trump slapped sanctions on iran's central bank off accusing the country of carrying out those trying to missile strikes on the saudi or fineries a 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 the 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 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 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 the secretary could 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 seem. 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. and other headline news facebook c.e.o. mark zuckerberg has met with president donald trump this initial media platforms chief is looking to defend his company amid mounting criticism over privacy issues and data protection in a recent legal case of facebook claimed it is a publisher and is therefore allowed to ban who it wants but potentially that would also make it liable for what goes out on its platform responsibility its previously tried to doj as it 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 nor any of the publish it can be liable for failing to publish someone else's message 1st amendment provides absolute protection for such decisions what was it again your 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 top discretion is a 3 speed you write 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 are you responsible 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. the way or what have 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 have a cake and eat it at the same time will probably lots your last name is sucker berg

but we have all facebook to comment on the story and we'll of course bring you any response we get legal and media unless leinil 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 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 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 where major international military acts signed center $2900.00 is in full swing in addition to the hosts nations like china and india are also taking pause the drill aims to take cooperation between the countries to a new level in the face of eisel like tariff rights among the spectators is flags of a putin as well as watching them in a vis the russian president's been meeting with his current his counterpart.

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 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 the 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 that 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 exercises in the future. but jake ses is being conducted by all the countries in coordination against the. common. element and challenges of terrorism and such like things is a very good the promise of everybody has been very good we wish that we are. going to have such a case is more and india would be happy to participate in politics. in other news austrian m.p.'s a vienna v so a major trade deal between the e.u. and south america the on how they are unhappy about the way brazil is handling the large scale amazon fire as similar concerns have also been expressed by france and

germany but many e.u. businesses work with those have a direct connection to the issue as artie's shela do bensky explains it's an environmentalist worst nightmare wild flow is raging in the amazon destroying the wools 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 the lungs of the entire earth for acted 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 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 power of us 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 saw in the 3 largest cattle companies operating in brazil are these even banks often vocal about their staying ability 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 blackrock didn't respond the m.p.e. paragraphs had this 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

applied fruits of the. history of the seed gardens in their portfolios our research demonstrates that another another crisis is playing out on the ground there are claiming to protect forests and poorest peoples in their official policies while fueling the destruction of the amazon their investments. there is lucas's than 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 where we have asked the richer bank to comment on their links to the deforestation of the amazon and we have yet to receive a response. again that 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 from activists especially among the acting community he spoke out following his release. well i wish the best of luck with assuming that this. 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 puzzles sister and his mom talked about after the decision was announced yet like that that in the absolute i'm thankful to

everyone for this and the media the public ordinary 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 steen of demanding his release the gist of that which will say we have just finished a 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 a little steam if we sincerely express our full support for him and wish his family patients the whole. justice will prevail you. earlier monday pava listing of 23 year old russian actor was sentenced to 3 and a half years in prison for violence against a police officer during his arrest at an unauthorized opposition rally in central moscow in early august but before that short of the moment of the arrest of populist you know it 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 the b. dude did not give the answer to the obvious question what happened before that moment and why police officers singled pavol among other people in the square by

was very strong and when the judge refused to use this video as an added a huge massive compay in protest pain started that let us here today have a listing of has been released under a travel ban. several 100 people have gathered in the nevada desert in the us under the running cry storm area $51.00 was started as a joke campaign to break into the secretive military base has ended up attracting about 2000000 supporters on facebook with many claiming the american government's hiding your photos there a festival known as alien stock which is due to be held in the nearby town was cancelled last week but that hasn't stopped u.f.o. enthusiasts from descending on the area despite warnings from the authorities nevada airspace has also been shut down on friday to protect the facility auntie's dollar quarter picks up the story. it's the day we've all been waiting for

a chance to discover if we've been contacted by aliens over 2000000 people have already said they're going to storm area 51 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 erie of $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 peer struck imagination is 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 and 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 is only been to find a real phenomenon the unidentified aerial phenomena terminology is used because it

provides the basic descriptor for the society observations of. craft 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 who might not know how many people are really going to this area 51 a vent but one thing's for sure u.s. government is acting like it's got something to hide on the border marty. well that's your news update for now we'll be back in around 30 minutes time with a roundup of the nation's headlines from around the world see that.

welcome to maximize are plentiful survival. looking forward to the. yanks this is what happens to pensions in britain. watched as a report. israel's parliamentary elections to begin 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 government how does this kind of rhetoric bode for the palestinians middle

east ability. for most of us. to ourselves still sounds like something out of the science fiction but not for my guest i guess believes that human bodies absolutely without modern technology i guess today performance artist stelarc. stelarc it's really great to have you on our show so here performers of performance art is actually blending biological body was technology and you're doing all kinds of exciting pushing the boundaries. i read you say on one hand the very

exciting. on the other hand you know we should be careful so which one is that are you embrace in the future or does it frighten you oh on noir the utopian no dystopian in my ideas i think. the problem with technology is how to. manage it new technologies generates unexpected information new kinds of imaging possibilities so we always extend out sort of comprehension of the world what a body is how body operates what it means to be human. so for me technology is is generally a plus but i'm on this. just to you really ever sent more about you there is an inventor in cannabis called steve mann you're hurting them.