stories that shake the week here on tensions escalate in the gulf the u.s. sending troops to saudi arabia and imposing new sanctions on the round house over tehran's alleged attack on the focus of the. beijing protesters clashed with police who responded with rubber bullets and tear gas. well plate of the israeli prime minister hangs in the balance of the place an arab political alliance from the recent elections. the main rival to form the.

other thanks for joining us this is our. iranian president says that he wants gulf nations to work together to provide security in the region comes after his country standoff with the u.s. intensified this week washington accused tehran 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 the rainy and involvement. over the drone missile attacks were claimed by rebels in yemen on friday saudi forces launched

several air strikes near the yemeni port city of day the saudi coalition spokesman said that the goal was to prevent toothy rebels from launching remote controlled assaults on shipping in the red sea if the saudis in us still blame the run for the attack on the all facility. as the it has more. that is being decided that iran did it and that started opinion will find the result of an investigation it's a decision guilty. do you gather any new evidence that shows who is behind the attacks and do you think you have 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 month. rob 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 bri 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 north 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 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 but of america's best clients the countries lifted 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 us 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 their alleged iranian components in the day breach 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 be 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.

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 beijing activists in hong kong have staged another protest the semi autonomous chinese territory is in the grip of a 16th consecutive weekend of demonstrations and rest and the protesters that have been waving american flags and destroying chinese ones and some today police in the city used to gas and rubber bullets rioters through moments of cocktails and started fires on the streets.

meanwhile on tuesday a leading name in the hong kong protest movement appealed to u.s. lawmakers in congress joshua was once sent to pass a bill that would see going to u.s. support for hong kong hong kong special status under american law that bans on the city being treat as a separate customs area beijing should not have it both ways reading 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 a bought some throws off hong kong civil society. on these a prominent student activist who organizes protests against the chinese government in support of hong kong's independence and it erodes also a leader of the pro-democracy party dema says that he's already served several jail terms for his activities you can stand of explains why want to plan for us

supervision over hong kong might 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 absence 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 homes special status annually and if that status is ever revoked the region's autonomy would not so much been fringed 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 that is the villages. signal of the biggest economy in the world.

and see that it will always just ordered. well it was going to hold a great deal but it's not just the hong kong bali there are thousands of you notice this don't believe in all of it would likewise be affected of course it's a political war because. it calls only or percent of china's economy previously stated goal of the deal years ago in me a call to all more as far as equality is also. all but low is also sent but on the other hand of course we law i would wish the one country to see so as to help trial or with the internationalization that remain with the. all american legislators say the bill is designed to punish mainland china specifically as protesters want sean not to but while the end goal may very well be

punishing beijing in pursuit of a geo political supremacy washington my just overlook the collateral damage. the fate of the israeli prime minister hangs in the balance after the arab bloc the joint just gave his backing to form a new government to know his main rival to the recent election resulted in deadlock the israeli president initiated 2 days of crunch talks with parties to decide who will be the next leader. we usually did not indorse israeli p.m.'s so without doubt there is an historical side to what we're doing now we want to put an end to the era of binyamin netanyahu therefore will indorse benny gantz to form the next government we want to live in a peaceful place based on ending the occupation the establishment of a palestinian state alongside the state of israel true equality to civil and national level social justice and democracy for all.

the citizens of israel this happened just as we warned the arab joint list recommended by any chance for prime minister there are 2 possibilities now either a minority government will be formed that relies on those who reject the israel as a jewish and democratic state and glorified terrorists that murder all soldiers and citizens or a broad national government will be formed i know what the answer is and so do you and therefore i will do whatever i can do for more broad national unity government there is no other solution the bloc of arab parties known as joint list came 3rd this week getting 5 more seats than in the previous election it's thought that that was spurred impasse by netanyahu inflammatory remarks about arab districts and the potential for voter fraud that led to a spike in arab voter turnout which is around 59 percent the age of the arab joint list the line said that the outcome of the election was the price of incitement. israel faces the prospect of a 3rd round of elections in less than

a year if an agreement between the blocs isn't reached and against the center left blue and white alliance with $33.00 seats and yahoo center right it could party was just behind and it seems that israel's destiny could now be determined by the leader of the us rail attain a party who came 5th political commentator neil lazarus explains why. very important because what he is saying is it will probably mean that the president will turn to benny gantz to try and form a government having said that we know that the president of israel is very keen to form a national joint national government of likud and blue and white the fact that the israeli arab vote came out much more if it was about 10 percent higher than it did last time and the voices we've heard today is actually showing that israeli democracy is much stronger than the cause of hatred against certain members or parts of the population today the israeli arab voted in strength to try and bring

down the government of netanyahu and work as a democratic country for a better hope both parties both in that in yahoo and. gantz don't have enough to make a majority even even when as the backing of the arab list the person who is the king banker is lieberman and he holds the balance of power and i believe in this been saying that he wasn't going to recommend anyone to the president to be the preferred to form the coalition what we do know he has a personal dislike for netanyahu and actually was responsible for bringing down the government and cause and 2nd elections or the momentum that led to it at least so we really are in a stalemate i think we should be looking less at how these really arab vote is but which way lieberman is going to actually be voting. identity crisis facebook now claims it's a publisher not just the plan when the legal case that could have

a major impact on what is posted on the side to bring you that story and more after this break. you know world's big partisan movie lot and conspiracy it's time to wake up to dig deeper to hit the stories that made stream media refuses to tell more than ever we need to be smarter we need to stop slamming the door on the back and shouting past each other it's time for critical thinking it's time to fight for the middle for the truth the time is now for watching closely watching the hawks. make this manufacture consent to public wealth. when the ruling

classes protect themselves. with the famous merry go round be the one percent. we can all middle of the room. real new. facebook has changed the way that it describes itself from being a platform to a publisher and that could have a major impact on the way the social media john works in a recent legal case facebook claimed that it was a publisher insisting it has the right to ban anyone it wants but i would also make it liable for what goes out on this platform a responsibility this previously tried to dodge. 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 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 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 sponsor for 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 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 berg. we have us facebook to sponsor the story they have not commented. this is northern fleet's been put through its paces in the barents sea the ministry of defense released footage of combat training on the way. how it looks despite a raging storm and strong winds the mission continued though the family was focused on repairing an air attack with artillery and missiles fired from the naval vessels

the kynge of missile system was or were the naval air defense system able to track up to 8 missiles or bombs from up to 12 kilometers. millions around the world took part in a climate strike this week calling for urgent action to reduce greenhouse gases one of 5000 events were held around the world from sydney to new delhi new york has been hosting the un climate action summit this weekend and demonstrators that urged world leaders to take immediate action to try to prevent a global catastrophe one of the topics being discussed is fires in the amazon something politicians weighed in on the charlotte explains. it's an environmentalist worst nightmare wildfires raging in the amazon destroying the world's most 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 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 would make. europe's financial institutions the companies and the financier's 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 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 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 table were spelled b m p e paragraphs i had to say then people rebbe 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 beliefs 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 official policies while fueling the destruction of the amazon their investments. because look this is an 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 burden. off paris and we have to comment on its links to the deforestation of the amazon will bring you any response. ok what you got up to date appreciate your company the savings do stay with our take updates on our top stories in half an hour. join me every thursday on the alex i'm unsure when i'll be speaking to get a feel of the world of politics or business i'm showbusiness.

thousands of american men and women choose to serve in the country's military and the decision a little sheltered lives every song came to a complete. the day that i was raped be instructed you know told to shut up but they'd kill me and i see how destroyed my life any screamed at me and he made me come in the gram my arm and he write me with his birth ink area if you take into account that women don't report because of the extreme retaliation and it's probably somewhere near about half a 1000000 women have now been sexually assaulted in the us military rape is a very very traumatizing thing tat happen but i've never seen trauma like i've seen from women who are veterans who have suffered military sexual trauma reporting rape is more likely to get the victim punished in the offender and almost 10 year career

which i was very invested in and i gave a sex offender who was not even put to justice or put on the registry this is simply an issue of tower and violence male sexual predators for the large part of target whoever is there to prey upon whether that's a man or woman. in the big pain your existence crossed started 10 years i think it's time to shake things up maybe change the branding maybe the former here's 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 $25.00 text birds. and one red rose another suggestion geopolitical jeopardy parody no political cookout where we will literally wrote the elites. late night show it's a rare former these days and it's chief all you need is an old microphone in a printed banner but actually i guess i can do this campbell after

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it's just great now i really want to dance the kind of twine and that cracker i love that i want you. know i've dreamed of being a prima ballerina since i was a child that i like to dance solo parts of course but i have no problem dancing in the core of the ballet i don't want other ballerinas to be jealous of me to the point of putting glass in my shoes they did that once to a dancer i want everything to be smooth. getting in the dirt like yesterday guys towards the bar shoulders away from it grazed your legs far as it will go. stay where you are with shoulder pointing backwards shane. your elbow feedback shift if it backwards. while my free mother bringing her child to the academy believe she will be an accomplished

delayed dancer you've raised your child and gone through all the trouble to hand her over but not my words at best she's going to dance in the back row of quarter ballet mothers once when they hear that 80 percent of the girls and out of there even though all of them dream of a crown and pink tutu just take off those rose colored spectacles pulls you see how graceful they are when they step but you should know that makes them very miserable because of the pain they suffer from the sacrifices have to be made here. marian ski theatre is so that's why i want to be a part of it but when i 1st went on stage i thought very scared my heart was pounding the 1st time i performed on the variance the stage. ok everyone here.