i don't see how. very creative. you sit. cuckoos in the u.s. charges 2 former twitter being. accused of gathering data. critical of the country. coming up in the program. whistleblowers become the new frontier in a battle being waged in washington as a bill to protect their identities is blocked in the u.s. senate. in hospital health trust in england plans to route racism by threatening to a treatment for people who. control the n.h.s. he said to treat people they should treat people. without question. wherever

you're tuning in from around the world this are welcome to. my names you know neal . 2 former twitter employees being charged by the united states with spying for saudi arabia it is claimed there were recruited to steal the personal data of users critical of the kingdom. well artie correspond double quarter is across the story for us don what is no law but the suspects in question what they're actually accused of well you know right now there's 3 people being charged 2 former employees twitter one being a u.s. citizen and the other being a saudi citizen and one outside saudi accomplice now the duo are being accused of using their positions to access the private information of thousands of twitter

users both for the saudi government and against critics of the monarchy notable users absolutely anywhere in the world now on wednesday the justice department released an official criminal complaint against all of the all of these 3 people so let's take a look at what that said. the defendant did knowingly act in the united states as an agent of a foreign government acted within the united states and the direction and control of the kingdom of saudi arabia and foreign officials working on behalf of the kingdom of saudi arabia without prior notification as required by law they have access to proprietary and confidential twitter information including information about twitter users including the user provided e-mail addresses birthdates phone numbers and internet protocol addresses now the complaint also said that these 2 former employees didn't have jobs that required them to have access to people's private information now as for their payout they were given a designer watch that was priced at 20000 dollars and another at least $300000.00

transferred into secret bank accounts that they had. twitter security its users privet see clearly dealt a blow here but to what extent well the just recently the american involved he was arrested in seattle for tampering with 3 twitter accounts but the real damage was done back in 2015 where when over 6000 twitter users had their information stolen by the saudi coconspirator who now is all the way back in saudi he's believed to be back in saudi arabia safe and sound i mean this is twitter we're talking about it's it's a major social media platform that's in countries all over the world and it's a serious concern when just 2 people who weren't even supposed to have the rights to people's private information can get so much of that when twitter says this is supposed to be confined to a small team of trained professionals. we recognize the actors will go in trying to

mind our service our company limits access to sensitive account information to a limited group of trains and that employee. twitter has agreed to cooperate with the investigation and we don't know how long saudi arabia may or may not have been conducting espionage in the united states but what's significant about this case is that it's the 1st time prosecutors have ever accused saudi arabia of running agents within the united states and another interesting thing about this is that back when these moves were made against the monarchy's critics the current king of saudi arabia was just coming to power after his father died so that's an interesting thing to know so far the saudi embassy has been silent on the issue but it certainly will be interesting to hear what they have to say if they decide to make a statement you know big questions once again over how much information social media companies actually hold over its users don't they don't quarter thanks very much. ok to another of the headlines stories this hour u.s.

democrats feel to push through a bill to keep the identity of whistle blowers secret republican senator ron paul block the proposal accusing the democrats of spreading selective outrage the amendment was designed to bolster the senate's position which is that whistleblowers should be protected from retaliation their contribution acknowledged well it comes in the heat of the trump and pietschmann inquiry that was sparked by anonymous testimony from insider. reports on the fate of those who recently to speak out in america. for the democrats impeachment must now seem tantalizingly close all they need is that final piece of damning evidence to seal the deal and to senate minority leader chuck schumer he has come out for the protection of whistle blowers only one intelligence officer who is inside info could make. break the

impeachment dream the calls to make public the whistleblowers identity are despicable whistleblowers should be protected period period that's quite the radical departure from his previous comments on those exposing government to be uses and each day that snowden is allowed to room 3 is another twist to the knife snowden is a one of the few picked up by the media he chose the path of raising his voice and going clone ball unlike the hundreds of others who chose the path of least resistance you see they quietly launched official complaints hoping for the system to reform but they were out of luck because as a damning report from an intelligence watchdog shows the cia and n.s.a. when 189 out of 190 cases of whistleblower complaints by had to

send you the link but the report was shot down i wonder if mr schumer praised or even remembers all those whistleblowers who ruled against what the name for example rich barlow bring about now living in a trailer in remote montana with his hunting dogs back in the late eighty's bhalo worked for the cia now he found himself in a patriotic di lemma when he uncovered what he said amounted to the u.s. helping pakistan become a nuclear power including by selling band technology and though he followed protocol he became the victim of a smear campaign disgraced and discredited barely able to scrape together a living i was disgustingly patriotic and i thought the government is allowing pakistan to develop and spread nuclear weapons and i got destroyed for trying to stop it what about former u.s. marine affronts gayo he thought he'd found a way of reducing the number. of u.s.

troops dying in iraq as a result of improvised explosive devices all that was needed was a simple swap of patrol vehicles and given that were responsible for over 60 percent of all american losses in the country between 20032008 surely the pentagon would have been interested the response was more of an. automated response he's not obeying our instructions he's he's gone off the reservation as we often say. and we've got to stop him from doing that and just as it took gail 7 years to restore his reputation it took just a few months to discredit peter van buren raising 24 years of loyal diplomatic service from pure and found himself on the wrong side of the table when he shed light on state department mismanagement i'm waste in iraq what happens when you're

thrown out of the government and blacklisted is that you lose your security clearance and it's very difficult to find a grown up job in washington you have to step down a few levels to find a place where they don't care enough about your background to even look into why you washed up there the list of nameless faceless and unrecognized whistleblowers goes on and who to blame them for choosing to do to free fall their complaints because if you follow and manning will snowden's footsteps sure you might end up with your name on a plaque card and become the face of the fight for transparency but you might also find yourself behind bars and while you're sitting in prison think about how your brothers in arms only have a how to one in 190 chance of success whistleblowing protection should actually exist in all countries because it helps the country to have people tell the truth about corrupt officials. united states pretends to have allies that

protect whistleblowers but they often either don't work or they are deliberately sordid and certainly the government officials do not want anyone ever telling about things they do illegally the governments are basically wanting to control things and control public opinion they put john kiriakou in prison for telling that for instance is that the cia was torturing so they normally absolutely do not want to protect whistleblowers and they actually hate anyone who tells the truth about their illegal activities schumer about him alongside the washington elite needs to clarify his position on whistleblower as if you are a whistleblower you need to accept that harassment prison self-imposed exile just being consigned to the forgotten pages of history all on the cards are less of course you happen to be that rab breed of whistle blower who finds himself in the

right place at the right time with just the right exposé. to the u.k. where patients who abuse stuff at a hospital in western england could find themselves without medical help the north bristol health cross launched the red card to racism campaign which could say treatment refused when it's safe to do so. hard to avoid this no question we are seeing him wrong but we really do need to use it to safeguard our stuff and working for the 60 of us mark or to be able to. say well the campaign aims to cut out a wide range of abuse the hospital staff could face side from racism the national health service will apply as 0 tolerance policy to sexism fence of language and also inappropriate behavior malicious allegations and intentional damage to property patients phone to be abusive will face

a sports like disciplinary system a warning or yellow card will be given on the 1st incident a 2nd time and patients will be given a red card which means treatment will be withdrawn once a patient's condition is safe. but here's some of the reaction we got to the plan from the national secretary for the english democrats party stephen morris and women bennett's up to stand up to racism pressure group. my mother was a nurse for for most of her life for the n.h.s. and nothing was done about the abuse that she see faced and there's no reason why she should have put up with the abuse after nursing people in very serious conditions i think a message to tolerance towards it would lead to a level of self control and h.s. is there to treat people they should treat people. without question the issues of sexism racism is a massive can of worms because obviously the hospitals could be in breach of the

only quality because obviously a female that he wants to be treated by a female will not be allowed to because it will be deemed a sexist or if you have certain religious views you won't be allowed because it be deemed racist or sexist in some form that you're racist you will have a problem with this because you think it's a normal discourse of normal wear behavior some framed in some ridiculous notion that you've got a freedom to insult and abuse people on to lock them up is in serious actually most of these people who find that one state behavior is deemed unacceptable people realize they can no longer behave like that is not true that just clogging up the court system we say people should be prosecuted but you don't want to prosecute it because your actual words was it would only clog up the court system somebody who may have a feel a philosophical or religious belief about being treated by women are being treated by a certain person then they have their philosophical and religious beliefs have to be also respected and if the n.h.s. are not going to respect their views then they're going to fall foul of the quality

of the n.h.s. was built on immigrant a migrant labor from all over the world she was going many people yes in and my god oh here we go you have no idea of the bill that is set on the please don't use that because it wasn't built just on that this is ridiculous if somebody says i don't want to be treated like some of these black or asian there's no reason to respect that at all being a race isn't a philosophical view it's just plain wrong only those peace. believe he should be tolerated it actually resists any kind of basic principles. because of the way it. prosecuted you're talking about people under normal circumstance these are not normal circumstances when people go into a in a. way in pain they wanted us so these an absolute wide range of circumstances just to say can you come down to the can ask you like the situation you want to use a little coward to tell people off i say let's go and prosecuted you didn't want to do that because you said it blocked out the court systems are not against prosecute

them i think it's easier it's easier for health professionals to give people a warning about their behavior and challenge it without necessarily bringing in the police and the courts i think that people are a racist need to be challenge to and has to be done in such a way as they can simply understand that their behavior is unacceptable what you need to do is make sure you get them treated get them out reports and then get prosecuted if need be afterwards very simple if you start issuing yellow cards red cards in the hospitals that's going that's going to a people more. france takes a tough line on migrants clearing hundreds from makeshift camps in paris as are t.v. reports after the break. it

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hello again for us is toughening up on immigration on 1st the authorities started to evict migrants from to make shift campsites in the suburbs of paris several 100 people have been cleared from the areas it comes after the french prime minister said the country needs to take back control of migration it's also plumbing its 1st ever quarters on new comers as well as restricting their access to the health care system taking a closer look charlotte. corps was catapulted into the french presidency on a ticket of not being from the right nor the left it was a poor enabling him to attract votes from across the political spectrum and it was

a successful tactic half way through his mandate and it seems to still not show i about pinching an idea here all that from his political enemies in order to pepper the french government's policies for some there's a feeling that maybe dipping too much into the pool of ideas from the right with a crackdown on immigration high on his agenda takes this kind of host everyone if it wants to host people well that seems a bit familiar. right now where demand to mark time on migration because friendship is sinking and what about showing gain. in the ruins of the blue. regulation does not work anymore if we have to suspend immediately the french public have been given more and more teasers of policies to come policies that many feel wouldn't look out of place had they been announced by marine le pen's national rally the country's prime minister has outlined 20 measures for tighter controls

these include making it more difficult for migrants to claim benefits and health care under these new rules let me say claim asylum would have to wait 3 months after launching a claim before being able to access proxies universal health care france is also looking to introduce for the very 1st time economic quotas setting quotas is a u. turn from corn during his presidential campaign he had ruled it out so this is a clear attempt to appeal to right wing voters for whom migration without limit is a huge issue that comes as recent figures showed france had received nearly 123000 asylum requests last year not only a record high but an increase of 22 percent compared to the year before mcallen

himself has admitted his party just can't ignore the problem of immigration the bush was you have no problem with migrants because they don't see them but the working classes do and they have been seduced by marine le pen's and to immigration far right machinable rally may have thrown down the gauntlet in his attempts to pry voters away from the national rally but lappin isn't backing down either she's warned while mcallen may want to act tough his party is somewhat softer than its leader proposals to prevent abuse of the salem system are all shut down by his own party members although much because attempts to reach out to. right comes ahead of elections it's clear that this is about something big much bigger in fact 2 and a half years before the next presidential election in france polls are showing only competition will likely come in the form of le pen the indication is that the race

could be a tight one and in a bid to stay ahead he's having to pull out all the punches even if that means possibly alienating many of those who put him in power in the 1st place. r.t. . living on israel's top court upheld a government decision to deport the regional head of human rights watch omar sheikh here who's a u.s. citizen cannot be removed on law which prohibits public calls for a boycott of israel but the organization warns it will set a dangerous precedent we spoke with the man at the center of the story. neither human rights watch nor i as its representative have called for boycotts we do not call for a consumer boycott we do not call for a boycott of israel proper what we do do as we do throughout the world is call on businesses to respect rights and in the context of the west bank years of research

has led us to determine that any company that operates in illegal settlements inherently contributes to rights abuses so we've called on companies to uphold the rights and stop those activities but we've never called for a boycott of those companies much less israel proper the european union has spoken out in support of human rights watch calling on israel to the porch of the u.n. to say that israel must allow the rights defenders to carry out their work with threats or intimidation the israeli court base that's the section on the law introduced back in 2017 which can deny entry to any individual or company if the call for a boycott of the country over its internal actions the country has adopted a tough stance in recent years towards the. and lead be movement which it say is aimed at the legitimizing israel's existence and wiping it off them up with human rights watch has long been critical of this really government the group's website claims the state is expropriating palestinian land building illegal settlements in the west bank or more secure against the court's decision exposes the systematic

oppression of rights activists. this decision is coming in the context of many other measures that have been taken against human rights defenders just the last couple of months last week we saw palestinian staff member of amnesty international issued a travel ban for unspecified security reasons clearly a punitive measure given amnesty to work we've seen a campaign that's incitement against groups like palestinian groups like al that is really groups like we saw a raid of the offices of a palestinian prisoner rights group of the media that just in september what's happening here is a systematic pattern but now that the court has rubber stamps and said this has the nearest legality under israeli law it really sends a chilling message and threatens to embolden the government to take further steps today it might be deportation denials tomorrow is that criminalizing the same kind of speech today it's boycotts tomorrow is that calling settlements illegal or the

west bank occupied it's an incredibly dangerous precedent. federal cash to boost american roads reel and other infrastructure appears to be waged on washington's list of priorities this year the u.s. is planning instead to plough transport into asia and competes with china even though people back home are still contending with crumbling roads creaking real ways and data reports. china's one belt one road project of building infrastructure around the world is facing a challenger and the united states is not hiding its intent we have no intention of vacating our military or geopolitical position we are here permanently and we will be continuing to invest more here and we will be continuing to have more bilateral trade and i'm spending much more time in the region but wait a mere year ago donald trump promised to channel money into rebuilding america's

decaying infrastructure i've asked republicans and democrats in congress to come together and deliver the biggest and boldest infrastructure playin in the last half century a plan generates an unprecedented $1.00 trillion dollar investment in american infrastructure well it sounds great but those plans have been show now the american society of engineers has graded america's infrastructure and they are pretty unimpressed when it comes to bridges c. plus with more than 200000 around the country that are over half a century old dams d. more than $15500.00 of them are listed as high hazard drinking water d. with 2 trillion gallons of treated water lost every year essentially wasted and energy lines are also pretty weak take a look around new york city the richest city in the country the brooklyn queens

expressway is falling apart city planners say that by 2026 big trucks will no longer be able to use it for gifted children sign about london bridge falling down it's the brooklyn bridge that's visibly breaking apart a few years ago 5 people were injured after pieces of granite fell on to the underpass of the iconic brooklyn bridge in fact that bridge is said to be structurally deficient $683.00 bridges in new york city are in disrepair and then there's the subway. system constant delays the escalators keep breaking down in fact only $31.00 out of $472.00 subway stations are listed as having all structural components in good repair the should be paying attention to what's going on within this country 1st and foremost before we start spending out to look around new york and tell me if that's what we don't need to do absolutely look at the subway system so 100 and something years old and it's still like something from the turn of the century we need to invest in our cities our country and make our country

a better place to live it was worth going to as a kid so clean it lot of people say u.s. infrastructure is just a mass i mean do you buy that yes i would because i drive a lot of it depends on where you live to new york for instance the bridge is in bad shape. and i guess you should take the initiative to really fix it will start here fullest yes public opinion seems to feel pretty strongly that we ought to focus on fixing things up here before we go around the world and try to beat china at its own game. r.t. new york us insurance companies are buying homes for homeless people to lower health care spending in emergency rooms blue sky thinking or an almost sustainable plaster on a gaping wound that watching all screw discuss. is

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be cross as a white woman for 3 of them or 10 people get. interested always in the water. thank. you thank you greetings and salutations on october 9th of 21000 documents unsealed by the office of the director of intelligence revealed that employees of the federal bureau of investigation had enough appropriately use data collected under section 702 of the foreign intelligence surveillance act now in this fight up the f.b.i. was found to have misused surveillance data.