for the policy would be to make. the chilean economy scream so want some making the economy of venezuela scream. to the stories that shake their way karen r.t. tensions escalate from the us senate with the u.s. sending troops to saudi arabia and imposing new sanctions on iran which around alleged attack on an oil facility also to come deadlock in israel for a 2nd election fails to give any side a majority to form a government by prime minister benjamin netanyahu and his main rival following to lead a new coalition and thousands of children as young as 5 have been held without charge and prompt attention senses in nigeria human rights watch says the rest were made as part of an anti terror crackdown. please describe severely overcrowded cells 250 or 300 teams hacked into and cell phones 10 meters high temp leaders.

good morning welcome the latest developments and look back at what's been happening over the last 7 days to you watch the weekly here on r.t. international now the standoff between the u.s. and iran escalated further this week washington accused iran of being behind a drone attack on an oil refinery in saudi arabia i made this pledge of support to riyadh. 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 it is clear that even the saudis themselves don't believe the fiction of iranian involvement. said the drone missile

attacks were actually kinds by who was in yemen on friday saudi forces launched several at strikes near the any port in the data aside the coalition spokesperson said the goal were prevent the rebels from launching remote controlled assaults on cheaping in the red sea yet the saudis and the u.s. still point the finger at iran over the oil facilities strike against the if there's more. that is being decided that iran did it and that's not an opinion will find it will the result of an investigation that's a decision guilty secretary to 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 that for

a single mom trub is doing what trump does best signing pieces of paper bringing to bear a slew of new sanctions against iran but 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 iran it's going to hell the americans who weren't attacked of already decided what happened then who is guilty the saudis who were attacked and have all the day bre and bits and pieces of the missiles as. still working on technicalities like evidence and proof let that sink in. the attack did not originate from yemen the attack was launched from the move and was unquestioned be sponsored by iran it's not in the range of yemen's capabilities if it was them who conducted the attack this is one of the missiles we have recovered and we have information

that leads us to the source that these kind of components were made in iran. so what they found is the weapons were allegedly made with iranian components they were fired from the north the direction of iran and its neighbors so cutting to the chase it was iran that's what you're going to say right not once during the presentation did the saudis specifically say that iran did it 1 may ask what on earth saudi defenses were doing at the time they've got the 3rd biggest military budgets on earth one of america's best clients their countries livid with patriot and other anti missile systems $80000000000.00 a year should protect you from a score of drones and missiles no the only thing that might be iranian related is that maybe some of the equipment some of the technology that the who these have

might have been incorporated into the attack but why why or why is anyone complaining especially the saudis since the u.s. has been providing the bombs and the aircraft to the saudis to bomb yemen for 4 years so the who with these are just responding back then again to those saying it's iran because there are alleged iranian components in the day bri does that mean that the u.s. is responsible for her refit massacres in yemen i mean sure saudi arabia dropped the bombs but those say made in the. united states more likely than not the arabia has been clearing the shelves of american arms manufacturers recently by this logic there's no need to investigate or collect evidence it's american bombs it has got to be america. and. and.

an entire country reduced to misery and pain untold thousands dead more to die but you know what it's the oil refinery in saudi arabia the book was vengeance. the israeli president is expected to meet the nation's leaders prime minister netanyahu and his rival benny gantz near term to break the stalemate over forming a new government both are refusing to join a unity government headed by the other after both major blocs fail to gain a majority in the country's snap elections. according to the election commission we have received $33.00 seats and netanyahu did not achieve the bloc that he had hoped to achieve citizens of israel want to the unity government even after previous

elections and they want it now i was talking about it almost for the whole year i intend to create a wide unity government with me is the leader. i was surprised and disappointed by the fact that as of now benny gantz still refuses my call to meet the president called for unity and without a meeting between the 2 major party leaders a unity government cannot be formed. so israel does face the prospect then of a 3rd round of elections in less than a year if an agreement between the blocs can't be reached cancer center left blue and white alliance won $33.00 seats while netanyahu center right likud party was just behind that the arabic bloc came 3rd with 5 more seats than in the previous election well arab israelis do make up around 20 percent of the population making them a major voting bloc netanyahu has made unproven allegations of ballot fraud in arab districts even accused rival parties of stealing the recent election after they

blocked his bill for cameras to be placed in polling stations in arab areas is inflammatory views was seen as perhaps a factor in boosting arab voter turnout to 59 percent political analyst michel barak believes though that for now netanyahu doesn't have any viable options for a coalition. the ironic thing is the last election which was a few months ago and then you know how to really all the options in the world he could have formed a right of center government a narrow one with about 61 seats or he could have sat down with benny gantz and had a unity government with 70 and added more parties he chose to do neither he wasn't successful in either called for new elections now what it appears is i would say it's the final countdown to the end of the career of that and you know he's talking about a narrow right of center zionist government you know a narrow government and many gods is sounding like a leader unifying the people the will of the people he's going to talk to all the parties most of the parties that have run from the left blue and white to the labor

party to the democratic camp party all of them has said will join a national unity government with the likud even we just won't do it with it and you know that and you know for most israeli politicians and many and many of the israeli people is damaged goods. that millions of people around the world took part in the so-called climate strike this week calling for action to reduce greenhouse gas emissions more than 5000 events were held belief from sydney to. the un climate action summit that weekend and demonstrates the sage leaders to take immediate action to prevent what they call a global catastrophe one of the topics being discussed is the ongoing amazon fires a few politicians have weighed in on this matter is awesome shouted expects. it's an environmentalist would not back 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 more closely at where the amazon would make. europe's financial institutions the companies and the financier's 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 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 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 funding the forestation do it your bank and he black rock in vanguard collectively on more than a $1000000000.00 in debt in just the 3 largest saw in the 3 largest cattle companies operating in brazil 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 fine as well deutsche bank and blackhawk didn't respond the m.p.e. power about us had to say the in 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 applaud your efforts of things like the history of the safeguards 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 fishel while fueling the destruction of the amazon their own best. beer 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 the accountability of all actors involved including here in europe the fear is that our house will continue to sell the table off to paris but we did ask a dodgy bank to comment on its links to the deforestation of the amazon although i say far we haven't received a response but still to come this our identity crisis facebook now claims it's a publisher not a platform and a legal case which could have a major impact on what's actually did on the site we'll have a look at this story. just after birth.

what politicians do something to. put themselves on the line to get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be president. or somehow want to. have to go right to the press that's like a 43 in the morning can't be good. i'm interested always in the waters of my house . first sip. tensions between the masses and clauses have existed ever since modern states came into being but often serve as a driver of 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.

again you're watching we now know i'm going crackdown on terrorists nigeria has seen thousands of children being detained according to a new report by human rights watch we spoke to one of the researches behind the publication. since 2013 nigeria has detained about 3600 children and in june human rights watch went to the northeast of nigeria where boko haram its most active and we interviewed more than 30 children who had been detained the vast majority of these children were never charged with a crime in fact they were never taken to court they never had the opportunity to

see a judge the children were denied contact with their families and held in orrible conditions they described so little space that they couldn't turn over at night they were you know pile one next to the other they described it like the razor blades packed many of them something began losing hope that they would ever be released some thought that they would die in detention children as young as 5 were reportedly held in overcrowded military tension facilities on little or no evidence they spent months some even yeas there with that charge with reports of sexual physical and mental abuse and also as we heard extreme overcrowding the children had been accused of involvement with the terrorist group boko haram where the radical islamist organization is based in northeastern nigeria it's a scary at suicide bombings as well as. throughout west africa in 2015 boko haram

pledged allegiance to islamic state to many of the imprisoned children were rounded up by nigerian authorities during military operations against the terrorists. they are asked me if i was a member of burka her and beat me up when i said no they tied my hands and legs and hung me to a tree and continued to flow camy they flogged me and left me tied to the tree from morning till evening one person from my village was killed during the interrogation if you make a noise if you drink water without asking them if you go toward the door to get fresh air they beat you. the soldiers had girlfriends one of the girls from our village was a girl friend of a soldier she would usually take her out of the compound some ladies got pregnant in the cell and delivered while i was there. the nigerian authorities have released over 2000 children from detention since 2030 nearly all of them had been held without charge jo becker again says the government though should make more of an

effort to release the children still being held. nobody knows the current number of children who may still be in military custody nigerian authorities do not allow the united nations or independent organizations like human rights watch to access the military detention centers but what human rights watch is calling for is that nigerian authorities release any remaining children in military detention and transfer them to civilian child protection authorities so that they can receive rehabilitation help or unifying with their families and reintegrating into their communities. where response the nigerian military has denied the allegations that have been made in the report saying the children are kept in secure areas and are adequately cared for we did ask to the nigerian ministry of justice to comment on this story alleged so far they haven't replied. now social

media giant facebook is apparently undergoing an identity crisis it's changed the way it describes itself from a platform to a publisher and that could actually have some important ramifications in a recent legal case facebook claimed it was a publisher insisting it has the right to ban who it wants but that would also make it liable for what goes out on its platform responsibility is previously tried to dodge it has more. water here. that's better. plaintive ultra right activist laura loom or 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 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 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 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 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. 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 end 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 law 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't have a cake and eat it at the same time will probably unless your last name is sucker burg. it is a prank that will be did ask facebook to comment on this story all very well so far they haven't responded we did get opinion though from

a legal media analyst binal. 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 and that's 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 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 was 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. now large scale military drills were conducted this week in central russia troops from 8 different countries 2 parts including china and the long time in the streets india and pakistan the primary goal of the exercise was to develop cooperation fighting terror groups like islamic state in central asia. her the purpose. of.

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sanctions against the troll venezuela so if you. have a son of a moment to. get out of that. data to. the people of the moment the focus of the who story isn't new makes him henry kissinger to tell him that it would not be tolerated in latin america. an alternative economic and social system could take hold and therefore the policy would be to make. economy scream so wants now making the economy of venezuela screed.

i think the men that we attract to the military you know we've got to the army of one you know be all you can be all those themes that we've had throughout the years very very heavily masculine masculinity cannot be victimized because if you're a leader if you're a masculine person and you're victimized then you're weak the problem is that anybody can be a victim of sexual assault. and join the service in 1972. the military is a great way to life. and that's a see the world. i got educated i love the military. was 19 and i want to challenge a loan and the next thing i know i was laying on the ground i was struck from behind. and you guys will hold me down one day i was pulling my pants down. and. you know. i was taking care of his business and you

know struggled and i was being struck and hit and told you know told to shut up or they'd kill me. and i see how it destroyed my life. i mean that i'm i've been married 3 times this luckily i have a wife right now who i've been married to for 25 years. you start wondering you start sort of you know you're coming up with reasons why things are the way they are and for a long time i kept thinking i don't know this something something else. i had never told anybody over 30 years i decided to tell my wife. it was the scariest moment my life i was going tell my wife she was going to leave me and i would be lost without her i mean honest to god i couldn't i couldn't get up every morning without my wife. you know.