in stories that shape that we cannot see tensions escalate in the gulf with the u.s. troops the saudi arabia and imposing new sanctions on iran over tehran's alleged attack on the city. is more chaos in hong kong where anti beijing protesters have clashed with police who responded with rubber bullets and tear gas. on the fate of the israeli prime minister hangs in the balance after the place arab political lines from the recent elections netanyahu his main rival to form a new government. by

the great to have you with us this evening this is r.t. and tonight. the iranian president says he wants gulf nations to work together to provide security in the region comes after his country's standoff with the united states intensified this week washington accused iran of being behind a drone attack on an oil refinery in saudi arabia a made this pledge of support to. 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 rain in involvement. but the drone a missile attacks were claimed by 3 rebels in yemen on friday saudi forces launched several strikes near the yemeni port city of her saudi coalition spokesman said the

goal was to prevent the rebels from launching remote controlled assaults on shipping in the red sea and the saudis in the us still blame iran for the attack on the all facility. that is being decided that iran did it and that started opinion will find the result of an investigation it's a decision guilty secretary do you gather any new evidence that shows who was behind the attacks and do you think you have a slam dunk case to bring to the un 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 never done it to this level. and it's too bad what's happening with the ran 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 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 iranian components they were fired from the north in 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. as 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 there are alleged iranian components in the daily brief does that mean that the us is responsible for horrific massacre in yemen i mean sure saudi arabia dropped the bombs but those say made in the united states more likely than not 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. activists in hong kong the state another protest the chinese territories in the grip of a 16 consecutive weekend of demonstrations and rest the protesters have been waving american flags and destroying chinese ones saturday police in the city used tear gas and rubber bullets rioters threw molotov cocktails. fires on the streets. in milan cheesed a leading name in the hong kong protest movement appealed to u.s.

lawmakers in congress just wants them to pass a bill that would see greater u.s. support for hong kong hong kong a special status under american law that bans on the city being treated 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 the thought some throws off hong kong civil society wong there is a prominent student trying to vist to organize his protest against the chinese government in support of hong kong dependence 20 year olds also a leader of the pro-democracy party them a system he's already served several jail terms for his activities he's done of explains why wanks plan for u.s. 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 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 possibly 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 be infringed 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 ready 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 whole poly 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 ringback stated goal of the deal years ago in me a call to all more as far as equality is also. all but low is always present but on the other hand of course china we law i would wish the one country to see so as to help trial or with the internationalization that really with the source of 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 overall look at the collateral damage

. the fate of the israeli prime minister hangs in the balance after the arab bloc the joint list gave its backing to form a new government to netanyahu is main rival after the recent election resulted in deadlock the israeli president has 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. this is the citizens of israel this happen 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 israel as a jewish and democratic state glorified terrorists that murder all soldiers and citizens or a broad national government and before i know what the answer is and so do you and therefore i'll do whatever i can do a form of broad national unity government there is no other solution. with a block of arab parties known as joint list came 3rd this week and 5 more sees than in the previous election it's thought that that was spurred in part. inflammatory remarks made about arab districts and the potential for voter fraud that led to a spike in arab voter turnout which is around 59 percent the leader of the arab joint list alliance said 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 blocks isn't reached and against the center left

blue white alliance won $33.00 seats and yahoo center right likud party was just behind but it seems israel's destiny could now be determined by the leader of the years rail bates' a new party who came 5th political commentator near 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 or banker is lieberman and he holds the balance of power and lieberman has 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. i did see crisis facebook now claims that it is a public show not just a platform in a legal case that could have a major impact on what is supposed to be on the side will bring that story under

this to this bright. tensions between the masses and classes have existed ever since modern states came into being but often serve as a driver political change with russian civil society growing larger and louder against the excesses of the governing elites what does the future of the political system look like. what politicians do something to. put themselves on the line to get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be president. some want.

to go right to be pretty much like them before 3 of them or 10 people. interested in the why. should. come back facebook has changed the way 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 and the recent legal case facebook claimed it was a publisher insisting it has the right to ban who it wants but it would also make it libel for what goes out on this platform a responsibility it has previously tried to divulge and it trying to explain. so what have we got here. that's better. plaintive ultra

right 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 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 if 3 speechwriter 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 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 yes facebook to respond to the story so far they have not commented. moving on the millions around the world took part in a climate strike this week they were calling for urgent action to reduce greenhouse gases more than 5000 defense were held around the world from sydney through to new delhi new york who's hosting the un climate action summit this weekend demonstrate is that urged willed leaders to take immediate action to try prevent a global catastrophe one of the topics discussed fires in the amazon something e.u. politicians have weighed in on the dubiously has been. it's an environmentalist

worst nightmare wildfires raging in the amazon destroying the world's 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 accounting on the lines 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 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 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 amazonas sometimes. to provide all earned for cows to graze or to grow crops to feed life's stock these european banks are directly linked the forestation do it your bank and he blackrock 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 role in the amazon was fine as well for each bank and blackrock didn't respond b.m.p. 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 ability but 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 portfolio as 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 a new 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 the accountability of all actors involved including here in europe the fear is that our house will continue to burn. off paris we've asked him to comment on its links to the deforestation of the amazon will bring any response as we get it. i'll bring you up to date from a finale appreciate you company throughout the evening do stay with my colleague was on the look which will bring you all the very latest on our top stories in half an hour.

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hello and welcome to worlds apart the tensions between the dim masses and the classes have existed ever since modern states came into existence often serving as a driver of political change with the russian civil society growing larger and allowed there against the excesses of the governing elite how does it bode for this is to move the whole world to discuss that i'm now joined by constantine god's a non the resident scholar at the carnegie moscow center because it is good to talk to you thank you very much for coming into the studio for the invitation now as we are recording this program moscow as i still take getting governments buildings in moscow in support of populists in the us and the actor who was detained during the election protests and sentenced to 3 and a half years in prison for a legit violence against law enforcement a charge that is contradicted by video evidence which deport refused to consider

now the conviction buys of the russian system is nothing new but i think the mobilization off russian society provoked is what strikes you the most about it i think the reaction though it's called public opinion on the picture on for our coalition troops almost stripped like half of nation does prove in the same moment it was oh a huge focus on state control to be the protests isn't organic it's cosponsored from the west and so on and so on but still half of the population said that they just. i don't like the picture of troops in the capital and i think there's a horse was disproportional it was known that the quote and that of course he's sort of a. part of social fabric in russia wheat well we are the chosen for how far we adequate for how far the situation is that and the use of force was absolutely none

of it and i think apart from disapproving of the massive use of force. a lot of people in moscow and polls show that the majority of people in most crack surely support it people's right to take to the streets which i think is also an interesting indicator i think one of the features that distinguishes the current protest away from the previous ones is that it's becoming increasingly mainstream it's not just the mostly intelligentsia on non-systemic opposition anymore it's much more broad based actors journalists priests isn't that actually a very good development that the russian society is finally becoming a subject rather than object of politics. if we compare protests and shias in the one description and protests and mosco we will see still the pictures quite different colors and says it's more like one of my colleagues foreign journalist a moscow characterized it as

a green red or even green bro mating that this is actually the same social groups that support for example russian role in ukraine but they also care about the environment and in moscow for example it was pretty different picture it was yes it was not just what you call an intelligence it means old public noons those who have some traditional only critical of their as those who control sort of symbolic capital like the language the humanities and so on and so on but they were joined by 3 other groups 1st and them them the most interesting group in this protest moscow activist who participate in. different forms of when a signal governing day in war in actually in mayor's office agenda.