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

from broadcasting live from our studios in moscow this is our team international and sean thomas really glad to have you with us as we recap the week's top stories . the death of ice a leader. a week ago shook the world the terror group has confirmed the claim the u.s. president said the terrorist to detonated a 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 u.s. operation the compound is located in italy but province the last rebel stronghold in syria ghazi of looks into the similarities between the u.s.

raid against daddy and the operation that killed bin laden honestly at this point it's turning into whack a mole whack a terrorist it's like initiation now for american presidents they 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. of move a car al baghdadi is dead. but 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 idea got in easily a bastion of u.s. supported rebels which up until 2007 seed washington liberally supplied with guns ammunition 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 it's the in accordance with the law of armed conflict within 24 hours of his death some of it 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 cool 7 things classified new pictures new proof that it was the men they claim to have killed

just their would also he were to dogs the dog that helped sniff out bin laden and the pooch hoods 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 0 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 alive and kicking with their own mini caliphate didn't even live where they were hosting the. of isis is a province just the largest al qaeda safe haven since $911.00 killing bin laden didn't stop al qaida they 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 bad pictures to 50 commanders in chief you know neal discuss the death of a baghdad and what it means for islamic state with our to america correspondent. 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 gadhafi is would be a significant development in so far as he declared himself the colleague and this manner of his death has been. there only 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 hi 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 and now they're saying that you have a sim very much the same situation analogous situation and yet the treatment is completely different. it was supposed to be a hollowing brags 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 boyko sums up the saga so far. which has hit its hollow we bragg's it 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 voted 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 fust announced even the queen was confused the british people have to leave the euro kind that everyone realised that adele song was about brave visit. and brags that wary journalists started talking about the most important meal of the day instead she will say that bricks it means breakfast bricks it breaks breakfast and you keep the. breakfast we will make breakfast a success. after denial that was anger best summed up by john bercow trying to keep a lid on parliamentary proceedings or did. she. know what i'm doing.

oh do. 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 analogy is 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 drinking it would be so much more interesting that 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 see a little bit go. 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 inability to get a briggs it deal through parliament turned into existential i sed 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 toast may think we'll 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 in gregg's it limbo for another few months in fact her good tree has become the norm for those of us living green and pleasant hostas which brings us to the final stage of. and that's is except. an american journalist claims the u.s. is trying to silence him for his reporting on venezuela max 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. police say the woman in question identified the journalist from a photo shoot as a supporter of the venezuelan opposition max blumenthal was reporting from outside the venezuelan embassy where the woman claims she was badly beaten. i want to make a push to have them trying to. passage so i started to how do. i know or earlier this year u.s. backed opposition leaders in venezuela launched a failed coup against president nicolas maduro and in washington supporters of the opposition attempted to install themselves in the country's embassy during the tussle for control with pro-government activists and the alleged assault took place max blumenthal's attorney told us more about the political persecution claim. they decided to arrest him right after the gray zone had republic 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 of 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 right 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 others who have been critically reporting in can be . acts 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 max blumenthal's case we will let you know if we hear back from them. huge crowds 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 with protesters disrupting transport network in basra iraq's government is accused of rampant

corruption and failure to restore basic public services adding to the anger it has also launched a brutal crackdown on dissenters killing more than $250.00 since the uprising began . to meet the love of god all of the university students in baghdad taking part in this protest it's for our country and 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 let the people form the government please go where the people protesting and say the government should resign everyone is taking to the streets students young people the elderly when everyone is on the streets all right middle eastern affairs analyst l a risk told us more about what's driving the protests. the fact is that if you do hope the boys 'd for corruption in iraq this is something which iraq these iraqi citizens have complained all the time again you have to remember that there's

a lot of a lot of resources in iraq iraq is a very rich country you know so be rock should be a prosperous nation if you take new starters it might do you know its economic strength it's your opinion it's as i said reduced to restructure the worst place where many show up who don't visit to. europe so this indeed suffer from this problem. u.s. prosecutors this week rejected a claim from president trump's former security advisor michael flynn that he is the victim of a plot to set up an innocent man flame faces up to 5 years in prison on charges of lying to the f.b.i. in the trump russia collusion probe ninety's down the quarter comments.

michael flynn lied to the f.b.i. flynn is a proven liar practice liar michael flynn is a liar lied to 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 state as they called it which is highly unusual in an homage self we have taxes exhibit 11 to our document comparison of the february 10th and february 11th 3 o 2 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 flynn had ever discussed sanctions with the russian ambassador he said he wasn't sure he had spoken to many investors 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 and 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 strock 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 e-mailed you the day 230 to all 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 that's what this case is talking about that's why this is so important. russians are often the go to villains in today's computer games and the latest edition of call of duty takes it to hold a level although in a bid to protect sales the version for the russian market has quite a few key differences take a look. russians on the on the stand. so i showed them quite.

closely with. understand why. because they killed all soldiers. now look at. the us and allies rocky soldiers as they try to flee kuwait and return to iraq. by way of. killing the people trying to escape. this we don't want to say that one of them is correct. a lot of hearts out trying to blur the lines between good and bad but it ends up

quickly establishing the good guys as very clearly that's right cool. and you keep the lessons yes. i make no distinction between alcohol and also not me that both terrorists i mean your presence in your dichotomies mean by. the. now tell us. some i don't know much. more of the weekly of the top they are this is our attention national stay with us .

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alone welcome to worlds of the limits of my language mean the limits of my world the loss of our lives with inspired sad in 920 why then the following century of booming linguistic studies have only confirmed that if our language is indeed shapeless as much as we think we. do we average really speak our mind well to discuss that i'm now joined by letter but i didn't speak associate professor of cognitive science at the university of california san diego professor martin ski it's a pleasure and honor to talk to thank you very much for your time thanks so much for having 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 life to see ourselves as the masters of our thought and borrow. 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 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 the world and language streamlet 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 in the structures that we tend to conform and the heat works also in very subtle ways we do not necessarily we kind of appropriate to ourselves through 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 so 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 reinforcing relationship with been 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. i wonder if it's actually a fitting metaphor 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 dramatically gender 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 not use 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 popular 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 does it have anything to do with the incarceration rates in the united states and then russia being 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 a lot 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

intent and language or less attentive language and see if they make different judgments use the example of justin. timberlake and janet jackson having a word drug the function of the super bowl if we say timberlake rips the costumes. people are much more likely to blame timberlake and they also want to charge him to 53 percent more in fines than if we say the cost and risk is another watching the same video now you mention the billy 2 years of language to universally distribute certain practices and english clearly the lingua franca of all of our times. do we end the stand are there any indications of why it has been able to gain such a status isn't because it's relatively easy to learn compared to other languages are other perhaps other factors contributing to that probably economic.