the police chief of the police rubles who were. in the stories that shaped the week here on r t tensions escalate in the gulf with the u.s. sending troops to saudi arabia and imposing new sanctions on iran or tehran allegedly on an oil facility. plus more chaos in hong kong and to beijing protesters clashed with police who respond with rubber bullets and tear gas. deadlock in israel after a such an election failed to give any sign a majority to form a government but both prime minister benjamin netanyahu and his main rival vying to lead any coalition. and thousands of children as young as 5 have been held

without charge in tension and in nigeria human rights watch says the arrests were made as part of an anti terror crackdown. the describes a severely overcrowded sounds 250 or 300. 10 meters high temperatures. this is the weekly here on our t.v. welcome to our roundup of the headlines that shape the week. the iranian president says he wants gulf nations to work together to provide security in the region that comes after his country standoff with the u.s. intensified this week washington accused iran of being behind a drone attack on an oil refinery in saudi arabia and 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. the drone missile attacks were claimed by cruise the rebels in yemen on friday saudi forces launched several airstrikes near the yemeni port of diana a saudi coalition spokesman said the goal was to prevent who the rebels from launching remote controlled assault on shipping in the red sea and the saudis and the u.s. still blaming iran for the attack on the oil facility. has more. that is being decided that iran did not start an opinion a finding with the result of an investigation it's a decision guilty secretary gather any new evidence that shows who was 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 month. 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 bree and bits and pieces of the missiles are 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 of these. kind of components were made in iran. so what they found is the weapons were allegedly made with 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 taj they've got the 3rd biggest military budgets on earth but of america's best clients the 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 the moves say made in the united states more likely than not he has been clearing the shelves of american arms manufacturers recently by this logic is new need to investigate to collect evidence it's american bombs it has got

to be america. and. again. there's. 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. and to beijing activists in hong kong have staged another protest the summit autonomous chinese city is in the grip of a 16th consecutive weekend of demonstrations and unrest the protesters have been waving american flags and stamping on chinese guns on saturday police in the city used tear gas and rubber bullets all writers threw molotov cocktails and started fires in the streets.

on tuesday leading name in the hong kong protest movement appealed to u.s. lawmakers and congress joshua wants them to pass a bill that would see greater u.s. support for hong kong. hong kong special status under american law depends on the city being treated as a separate customs area beijing should not have it both ways wrapping all the economy benefit of hong kong standing in the world while erosion of our freedom that is the most important reason why the hong kong human rights and democracy act and just bought some throws off hong kong civil society. well as

a prominent activist who organizes protests against the chinese government in support of hong kong's independence the 22 year old is also a leader of the pro democracy party. he's already served several jail terms for his activities explains why one has planned for us supervision over hong kong may backfire. they are many they've won the fight with the authorities by early submission but they are anything but done the american flag waving taskforce among the hong kong protesters are sending their poster boy to convince us legislators to do something big on autonomy. well for those of you having difficulty making out the essence of this boilerplate script it's that human rights and democracy act and it's meant to show beijing that

the u.s. is serious about fighting for hong kong's rights the united states must make clear to china that its interference in hong kong's affairs will have consequences this month we must pass a by cameron bipartisan on consumer rights and democracy act the bill was devised in response to what the u.s. has been calling a chinese infringement on the region's autonomy and requires for america to review own comms special status annually and if that status is ever revoked the region's autonomy would not so much been friendly to but rather new to dust since the early ninety's hong kong has been enjoying huge advantages for wearing washington's special status badge.

and some believe that a small yet vocal group of protesters is laying an explosive tripwire for the whole region which will not enjoy the konami chain reaction if it's ever triggered in a way this they've just. to get all of the 'd the biggest economy in the world. will always just ordered. but was is going to hold a great deal but it's not just the whole portly there are thousands all united states don't believe it would likewise be affected of course it's a political war because. it's only or percent of china's economy he was the. head of the deal years ago in be a kind of tool more as far as equality is also. it's now but this isn't on the other hand of course we lost i wish the one country to see so as to help china with the internationalization that really with. all

american legislators see the bill is designed to punish mainland china specifically as protesters would not but while the end goal may very well be punishing beijing in pursuit of a geo political supremacy washington my just overlooked the collateral damage. the israeli president is intervening to break the deadlock over forming a new government he's initiated 2 days of crunch talks with prime minister benjamin netanyahu and his main rival benny gantz both are vying to head a coalition after snap elections fail to return a majority. 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 to now i was talking about it almost for the whole year i intend to create why do you need

to government with me as the leader. i was surprised and disappointed by the fact that as of now benny gantz still refuses my cool to meet the president called for unity and without a meeting between the 2 major party leaders a unity government cannot be formed as are all now faces the prospect of a 3rd round of elections and less than a year of an agreement between the blocks isn't reached into the center left blue and white alliance won $33.00 seats while netanyahu center right party was just behind a bloc of air parties known as joint list came 3rd gaining 5 more seats than in the previous election this block poses a major threat to the party as it could enter into a coalition with dances alliance arab voter turnout was high at around 59 percent and it's thought that was spurred in part by netanyahu is inflammatory remarks about arab districts and the potential for voter fraud urban bercow a commentator for israel today says a coalition involving the arabs would still be difficult to pour. probably wants

unification between the 2 main blocs they want unification and numbers speaks for us and as for the. party you know it's sensitive to say that any of the 2 blocs mainly the good the guns. the red white brock can adopt them because they object to anything called zionism is a very real and they support to do surely the palestinian terrorist organization it's hard to be allied with such a bloc they cannot be adopted this part of legitimate government because they are all gypsy everything we do. they are blocked with trying to blackmail to go to government so it's very hard to predict what is about to happen in the new near future. social media giant facebook is apparently undergoing

a bit of an identity crisis it's changed the way it scribes itself from a platform to a publisher and that could have some important ramifications and they recently the case facebook claimed it was a publisher insisting it has the right to ban whoever wants but that would also make it liable for what goes out on its platform responsibility its previously tried to dodge go has more so what have we got here. that's better. plaintive ultra right web 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 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 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 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 up 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 a 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 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 if simply someone decides to lawyer and bully me with all kinds of offensive stuff right on facebook should i then also follow defamation suit against the network because they as a publisher a lot of it's well known you can't have a cake and eat it at the same time will probably unless your last name is sucker berg we did ask a spoke to respond to this story all this so far they have refused to comment and weekly continues after this short break.

what politicians do something to. put themselves on the line to get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be president i'm sure. some want to. have to go right to the press this is like the for 3 of the more people. interested always in the waters about how. they see. the. tensions between the masses and clauses have existed ever since modern states came into being they often serve as a drawing of a real political change with russian civil society growing larger and louder against the excesses of the governing leaks what does the future of the political

system look like. and. welcome back an ongoing crackdown on terrorists in nigeria has seen thousands of children being detained that's according to a new report by human rights watch we spoke to one of the researchers behind the publication. since 2013 nigeria has detained about 3600 children and in june a 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 and 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 piled one next to the other they described it like the razor blades in a pack many of them something began losing hope that they would ever be released some felt they would die in detention children as young as 5 were reportedly held an overcrowded military detention facilities on little or no evidence they spent months some even years there without charge with reports of sexual physical and mental abuse and as well as extreme overcrowding the children had been accused of involvement with the armed terrorist group boko haram. the radical islamist organization is based in northeastern nigeria carries out suicide bombings as well as armed assaults out west africa in 2015 back to her own pledge allegiance to islamic state and many of the in prison children were rounded up by nigerian

authorities during military operations against the terrorists. they are smee if i was a member of booker 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 to 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 be chewed. 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. that i did and authorities have released over 2000 children from detention since 2013 nearly all of them have been held without charge jo becker again says the government 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 community. and they very military denies the allegations made in the report saying the children are kept in secure areas and adequately cared for we've asked the nigerian ministry of justice for comment but have not received any reply. millions of people around the world took part in a so called climate strike this week calling for urgent action to reduce greenhouse gases more than 5000 events were held globally from sydney to new delhi new york

city is hosting the un climate action summit over the weekend and demonstrators urged world leaders to take immediate action to prevent what they call a global catastrophe one of the topics being discussed are the ongoing fires in the amazon you politicians have weighed in on the matter as are to explain. it to the environmentalist's would not back walt fully is raging in the amazon destroying the wolves most bio diverse 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 it's our kids and grandkids are counting on us the ones 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 wus 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 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. the amazonas sometimes

tension only to provide all earned for cows to graze or 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 $1000000000.00 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 sustainability policies. are also being accused of hypocrisy environmental campaign group amazon watch contacted them about their work in the amazon was fine as well for each bank and black orchid didn't respond b.m.p. 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 forest and poorest peoples in their official policies while fueling the destruction of the amazon with their investments. there is a new consistency here that needs to be essentially 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 burden. auti paris we've asked our to bank to comment on its links to the deforestation of the amazon we've yet to

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