died like a dog he died like a coward in the stories that shaped the week donald trump announces the death of the islamic faith leader in syria we compare the raid against baghdad to the operation that killed bin laden. brags it is delayed yet again the u.k. is heading for an early general election widely seen as another referendum on leaving the e.u. . and an american journalist claims political persecution after his arrest for an alleged assault. is being targeted for reporting on venezuelan opposition violence . we have been at the forefront of exposing the us. and now they're trying to steal my freedom.

of broadcasting live direct from our studios and this is r t international thomas have you with us as we recap the week's top stories. a week ago shook the world the terror group has since confirmed the claim u.s. president said the terrorist detonated to suicide vest during a u.s. raid in syria killing himself and 2 of his children a brutal killer one who has caused so much hardship and death has violently been eliminated he died like a dog. he died like a coward this drone video shows the aftermath of the us operation of the compound is located in the valley but province the last rebel stronghold in assyria and his men are god they have looks into the similarities between of the u.s.

raid against the baghdadi and the operation that killed bin laden. honestly at this point it's turning into whack a mole whack a terrorist it's like an initiation now for american presidents to kill the biggest the baddest guy you cad and take a really cool photo. the united states brought the world's number one terrorist leader to justice. approve a car al baghdadi is dead. that the united states has conducted an operation that killed osama bin laden the leader of al qaeda and a terrorist who's responsible for the murder of thousands of innocent men women and children deja vu doesn't do this just this big bad bin laden hiding out in pakistan a friendly nation that washington liberally sprinkles with billions in aid big bad

baghdadi i did got an evening a bastion of u.s. supported rebels which up until 2007 seed washington liberally supplied with guns add munition and missiles it is the last a major rebel stronghold in the north of syria the last rebel stronghold of in that one of the last remaining areas in western syria that the government does not control booth tera honchos were given the same burial ceremony with the same rights baguette his remains were buried at sea the in accordance with the law of armed conflict within 24 hours of his death of somebody lodges corpse was taken by the troops to the aircraft carrier the u.s.s. carl vinson the he was buried at sea according to muslim tradition of kools 7 things classified new pictures new proof that it was the men they claim to have

killed just there would also he were to dogs the dog that helped sniff out bin laden and the pooch who it's in the raid in baghdad what are the chances are all well and good the great click bait for the tabloids but the timing in both cases a year before elections to kill the biggest the baddest guy you can add is going to get voters and you aside right the feet of al qaida defeated isis problem is of course they didn't 8 years since bin laden's death we find the cause. alive and kicking with their own mini caliphate didn't even live where they were hosting the leader of isis is a province which is the largest al qaeda safe haven since $911.00 killing bin laden didn't stop al qaida they googly grew since then now a week off to trump off the baghdadi isis has already proclaimed the newquay live

but hey at least both a bomb and trump got absolutely blood that pictures to 50 commanders in chief. you know neal discussed of the death of baghdad me and what it means for for islamic state with our team america correspondent no boy mileage assuming he did it how significant a development is that what extent will i still be weakened well they've lost the territory long ago i mean what we're dealing with for all intents and purposes are small bands of. leftover bands of fighters their power their true power was was broken long ago with the end of the if it's confirmed and that's a big if always because he's been dead what 5 times by now is would be a significant development in so far as he declared himself the colleague and this

the manner of his death has been. the really the legitimizing to that particular role somebody who claims to have the mandate of heaven such as it is and you know ending in such a fashion which i think was the purpose of president trump's comments the way he phrased it there'd be a lot of anger directed double trouble over his. what was called his betrayal of the kurds and that wasn't very long ago high potentially beneficial might this be in the other aspect for him taking out such a high profile target well your vast majority of americans would react to this with pride and joy ok baghdad we got baghdad isis is done for fantastic the media absolutely hated because this ruins their entire narrative about being a bumbling inept politician who's who's messing up the syria policy who's who just needs to be impeached right away that's the narrative they've been trying to sell the american people for the past 3 years it was a terrible day for them and

a really good day for trump from the standpoint of inter merican optics for the for the population of the country at large because it helped obama didn't win the bin laden photo that went everywhere actually and now they're saying that you have a sim very much the same situation analogous situation and yet the treatment is completely different. but it was supposed to be a howling bragg's it for the u.k. on thursday but the prime minister was forced to ask the e.u. for yet another extension after months of parliamentary deadlock and now the country is heading for a snap election with all options still on the table artie's ball of boyko sums up the saga so far. what has hit its hollow we brags that deadline and in case you haven't noticed the u.k. hasn't left the european union again they've called a general election instead it's fair to say that for many here in britain brags it is now a joke ever since the country very tied to leave the e.u. back in 2016 the u.k.'s internet users have been trying to console

themselves through the 5 stages of grief denial when the braggs it was all was fast announced even the queen was confused the british people have to leave the european union she said the people. and then there was the time that everyone realised that adele song was about bread visit. and brags it werry journalists started talking about the most important meal of the day 7 instead she will say that bricks it means breakfast bricks it until it breaks breakfast and you keep the breaks breakfast we will make breakfast breakfast a success. after denial that was anger best summed up by john bercow trying to

keep a lid on parliamentary proceedings. she told. 6 me what i'm doing all day. oh do 6. i want it was time to officially trigger article 50 that's that letter telling brussels that the u.k. really does want divorce well the analogies well priceless. then there was bargaining when to resume a made trip after trip to brussels trying to get herself a brags it deal off to advance the own set of bragg's it induced depression that was when brits started coming up with drinking games just to make things a little more exciting what we need is

a bricks and drinking guy it would be so much more interesting if the whole country lined up some shots and took one every time certain words were mentioned the government is still searching for the censorship. come on us like you've been drinking going to a little bit. to reason raised government's vision of a successful brags it had become this magical unattainable unicorn. politics you know basically parents who promise their daughter a unicorn to reason why is presenting them a horse with an oist cream cone gluten which while over in brussels the u.k.'s even ability to get a briggs it deal through parliament turned into existential angst there is a special place in hell for those promoting bragg's it without a plan said donald tusk and the guest list is still being finalized according to. those still empty and. it means the

lot of. one man we can bet may think will make an apparent is britain's new prime minister boris johnson. with another extension agreed with brussels under a general election on the way the u.k. gets to stay and gregg's it limbo for another few months in fact purgatory has become the norm for those of us living in these green and. pleasant pastas which brings us to the final stage of grief and that's is except. an american journalist claims that the u.s. is trying to silence him for his reporting on venezuela blumenthal was recently arrested for allegedly assaulting a woman during a protest at the venezuelan embassy in washington back in may he spoke to r.t.

about the case. why 5 months after the incident alleged in the court documents and this false charge did i have a team of police officers show up and demand entry to my house and take me to prison for 2 days without access to a lawyer i was told by someone who has very good inside knowledge of this case that a judge already rejected the warrant and i for the last 5 months have been able to walk free i have traveled in and out of the country if there had been a warrant at any point i would have already been arrested furthermore. why didn't they notify me that there was a warrant so i could turn myself in and show up at my own arraignment because i have nothing to fear i'm completely innocent i'm not a flight risk why didn't they do that it's an attempt to persecute me for the

journalism that we've done at the gray zone because at the gray zone we have been at the forefront of exposing the u.s. against venezuela of exposing one team for the covert and overt u.s. support they've received and for the massive corruption and now they're trying to steal my freedom. well police say the woman in question identified the journalist from a photo she as a supporter of the venezuelan opposition max blumenthal was reporting from outside the venezuelan embassy where the woman claims she was badly beaten. they may want to make it to be pushed to the 2 of them then they try to grab the passage so i start to how they would be telling me i'm earlier this year u.s. backed opposition leaders in venezuela launched a failed coup against president nicolas be grown in washington supporters of the opposition attempted to install themselves in the country's embassy. for control of

this whole government and to this the alleged assault took place. max woman falls attorney told us more about the political persecution claim. they decided to arrest him right after the gray zone had republished a story that showed that. and his team were receiving funding from usa id now are those 2 things related it certainly would seem like this is some form of retaliation if you sit in a court for arraignment you'll see 3040 people come up and their cases if it's a simple assault allegedly. will be what's called no paper the prosecution won't bring a case here we have a dynamic where one individual was arrested in may and now 6 months later. they are now bringing a case against max blumenthal on the same matter where i do believe that there are political motives i mean how else does one explain a case that you know is brought 6 months after the fact. you know

what was going on in those 6 months prior why did they not bring the case then because there's not evidence this man didn't do this so it's here we have a journalist on this topic and on others who has been critically reporting inconvenient facts about powerful people. you know both in the u.s. government and u.s. interests and you know it's reported critically on those which is a journalist is supposed to do and now he's being retaliated against and now you know this is his punishment for speaking out that is what this looks like. we contacted the prosecutor's office in washington for comment on the case we will let you know if we hear from. saddam hussein.

the people who are printing the money don't rely on taxes to get wealthy they're not part of the real economy that's it does the same thing as saying the rulers of saudi arabia rely on the wages of the people living in saudi arabia to get rich they they don't they just print more or pump more oil so in the america the princes that run our economy just print more money they don't need the workers they don't need their taxes that's why they don't have wage growth that's why there's been this aeration because there are needed. the world is driven by a dream shaped by. the

day or thinks. we dare to ask. this is our team international and of the weekly their huge crowds have flooded central baghdad throughout the weekend calling for a radical overhaul of the country's political system demonstrators have been blocking major roads and burning tires forcing government offices and businesses to close rallies have also been taking place in the country's south as protesters disrupting transport networks in basra iraq's government is accused of rampant corruption and 'd failure to restore basic public services adding to the anger and

has also launched a brutal crackdown on dissenters killing more than $250.00 since the uprising began . to meet the love of the university students and backed out of taking part in these protests it's. most of the people here are deeply patriotic. these protests are sending a message if our demands are not mad we will hold even bigger demonstrations. lead the people decide for themselves that the people form the government at least. people are protesting and so the government should resign everyone is taking to the streets students young people the elderly when everyone is on the streets. middle eastern affairs analyst alan risk had told us more about what's driving the protests. but the fact is that you do have the lawyers for corruption in iraq and this is something which iraq all these iraqi citizens have complained all the time and again you have to remember that there's a lot of. resources in iraq iraq is

a very rich country you know when the so be rocked should be a prosperous nation if you take all new starters in mind do you know its economic strengths you already it's as i said we're just tourists from around the worst place where many show up who don't visit so the iraq does indeed suffer from this problem. was donald trump's a former national security adviser pushed into pleading guilty to lying to the f.b.i. in 2017 u.s. federal prosecutors have refuted those claims but michael flynn is that new legal team claims evidence against him had been manipulated and flan had admitted misrepresenting conversations he had had with russia as the u.s. ambassador at the time and was prosecuted as part of the investigation into suppose addressed and meddling.

michael flynn lied to the f.b.i. flynn is a proven liar practice liar michael flynn is a liar why did the f.b.i. was a liar general flynn casualty number one of the russia gates saga is calling out the f.b.i. he claims they changed the wording of his responses to their questioning and did so to arrest him we also have information that the agents did manipulate the 3 o 2 you know it was long in a quote deliberative stay. as they called it which is highly unusual in a novice self we attach as exhibit 11 to our document the comparison of the february 10th and february 11th $30.00 to that show the addition of substantial additional claims that were not in there before and are not supported by the notes . the f.b.i.

uses 30 tuesday keep an official record of their interviews in flynn's case the form was used by the f.b.i. to claim he lied but did he really it's not so clear anymore flynn's defense team just released a court documents suggesting something very different happened that the f.b.i. actually significantly changed the meaning of what he actually said. the f.b.i. wanted to know if len had ever discussed sanctions with the russian ambassador he said he wasn't sure he had spoken to many i'm basters and didn't really keep a tally although the record showed he said this. flynn stated he did not the narrative of flynn the liar was born but that wasn't the only problem with the interview some of which were there from the get go. the f.b.i. wanted to send agents into the white house itself to interview senior official you

would work through the white house counsel in the discussions and approvals and it would be there and i thought it's early enough to send a couple guys over so who did call me send on over agent peter struck who was fired for sending messages to his f.b.i. girlfriend funny enough it's those messages that shed some light on how flynn's 3 o 2 was apparently tampered with a major edits and sent them to joe i also emailed you the day 2302 full of this was proven to be a lie it was a set up and there is an investigation that is going on by attorney use the f.b.i. for political purposes in order to manipulate or to target certain people like michael flynn by using countries like russia and others as scapegoats as enemies of the people as is those not to be trusted all of this was set up in order to harm political opponents and these notes that were typed up later were altered in edited even so much so that the written word again was altered later it would be as if

somebody say you are either normal person was questioned by police officers about a robbery and you say i did not commit this robbery but instead the officer writes down they committed the robbery and then you have to go before a judge and argue that your statements weren't lies within the notes of the officer and that's what this case is talking about that's why this is so important. there's a female back for the week we have the top the hour stay with us. you know world of 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. 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. imagine that they know the 635 and you have a but career and a career involves using your eyes filling in your computer and things like that in an office and perhaps you started getting headaches circular teeth you could have to stop doing all this and this is tell you lou the minutes must be frightening my world became smaller and smaller and smaller until i ended up winning it and the box. around it a very strong magnetic field held in my head. think of it like a real hard time assured my skin burns and that wireless access point there since

continues on saying with our students in the school. we are just continually bathing our citizens in this microwave radiation it is certainly electro small and it's getting worse. still. alone welcome to worlds apart the limits of my language mean the limits of my world

the loss of our lives with against in 1920 why then the following century of booming linguistic studies have only confirmed that if our languages indeed shape us as much as we think we shape them do we ever really speak our mind well to discuss that i'm now joined by letter but i didn't ski associate professor of cognitive science at the university of california san diego professor bard it's a pleasure and honor to talk to thank you very much for your time thanks so much for having me now i know that you have long been studying the relationship with the mind the language and the world around us and i think you come to some very humbling conclusions as much as real like to see ourselves as the masters of our thought and our boards it works in the opposite direction to our language shape our experience in some very profound ways how does that work well of course we all have many years of experience speaking

a language and we absorb so many habits and so many important structures from the language each human language is exquisitely structured there are about 7000 languages and all of that experience of speaking a language hearing the language around you trains your mind to focus on some things and not others there's always potentially an infinite set of things you could notice about the world you could potentially try to remember about. at the world and language stream and to think about only some of those things to focus on only those things that the people before us who built the language over many generations those things they thought were most important those things got built into the language and so now those are the things that we tend to focus on and the structures that we tend to conform and the heat works also in very subtle ways we do not necessarily we kind of appropriate ourselves to our own free will but without necessarily realizing that there are forces that imposing certain

structures on ourselves you know we all take the language that we speak for granted it's like the air that we breathe we don't notice it and in fact most of us believe that we simply perceive reality the way that it is in fact we know through many years of psychological experiments that that's very far from the truth we don't see things just the way that they are instead the world that we the internal world we live in is highly constructed by the structures of our brains but also by the structures of our languages and cultures that tell us how to put things together we often talk about the symbiotic and lean forcing relationship between language and culture and it's very hard for me personally to resist thinking about that relationship in cheek in that terms enough to sort of struggling with it for some time i wonder if it's actually a fitting metaphor or not in terms of what comes 1st but the terms of how the to encapsulate reproduce one another yeah so i think of language as a part of culture language is a really good way to make

a part of culture very long term and universally distributed so if i make something like a magical engender a part of the language well all speakers of that language are going to have to use that structure it's not going to be optional if you're speaking russian you can't just speak russian and that is grammatical gender no one's going to recognize you as a real russian speakers and so it becomes something that's then universally distributed . through the culture the languages can lose genders can add genders that process is going to have to take a very long time whereas other cultural practices can come and go much more fluidly and may only affect some portions of the body but how far do you extrapolate from that relationship the fact that english and to some extent russian and both adding to their quick to assign blame or responsibility doesn't have anything to do with the incarceration rates in the united states and the russia being among the world's highest it's really hard to draw a straight line from language to

a statistic like that because there are so many other factors that also all play and so we would have to do a very careful study trying to rule out is that even possible do you think you can design a study like to prove that connection the reason it would be hard to do in the real world is big if we're going country by country there aren't actually that many countries in the world and so you very quickly run out of statistical power that's a technical answer to your question but you could do expect some smaller scale experiments where you ask people to make judgements about. blame and punishment when they're seeking one language or another or when they've been exposed to more attentive language or less attentive language and see if they make different judgments we use the example of justin timberlake and janet jackson having a wardrobe malfunction at the super bowl if we say timberlake rips the costume. people are much more likely to blame timberlake and they also want to charge him to .