i mean it's ridiculous that in my back pocket i have much much more capability. for the entire program. cuckoos in the u.s. charges 2 former twitter. using them of gathering data of users critical of. coming up on the program whistleblowers become the new front line in the. being in washington as a bill to protect their identities is blocked in the u.s. . also ahead. in hospital a health trust in england. racism by threatening to withhold for people who.

control the n.h.s. he said to treat people they should treat people. without question. around the clock across the world this is your r.t. international from the team myself you know. the u.s. justice department has charged 2 former twitter employees with spying for saudi arabia prosecutors claim the pair an american citizen national use their positions to collect sensitive information about users critical of the kingdom i discussed the case with correspondent double quarter. list 3 people being charged here to our former employees at twitter one being a u.s. citizen and the other a saudi citizen and their 3rd accomplice also a saudi citizen now the duo are be. accused of using their positions at twitter to

access the personal information of thousands of twitter users in the interests of the saudi government and against to be used against critics of the monarchy now on wednesday the justice department filed a criminal complaint against all 3 involved the defendant did knowingly act in the united states as an agent of a foreign governments acted within the united states on 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 had 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 $20000.00 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 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 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 try undermine 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. ok moving on the u.s. democrats failed to push through a bill to keep the dentity of whistleblowers 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 the whistleblowers should be protected from retaliation their contribution acknowledged it comes as the president's solemn tweeted the alleged name of the whistleblower who triggered the trump impeachment inquiry to reports now on the fate of those who recently there 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 need to chuck schumer he has come out for the protection of whistleblowers all move all the one intelligence officer who is inside info could make or 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 merits snowden is a one of the few picked up by the media he chose the path of raising his voice and go include 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. wouldn't $189.00 out of $190.00 cases of whistleblower complaints by had to send you the link but the report was shot down i wonder if mr schumer praised 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 a 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 poor 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 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 all 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 and 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 sorted. and certainly the government officials do not want anyone ever telling

about things they do illegally the governments are basically wanting to control saying and control public opinion they put john kiriakou in prison for telling 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 are all on the cards unless 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. patients who abuse stuff on a hospital in western england could receive lengthy pounds from using the n.h.s.

the north bristol health cross-ties launched a red card to racism campaign which could see treatment refused when it's safe to do so. hard to avoid this no question we are seeing in the wrong but. we do need to use it to safeguard our stuff and working for colleagues every 60 mark or to be able to. say. the campaign aims to cut out a wide range of abuse that hospital staff face aside from racism the national health service will apply as your 0 tolerance policy to sexism offensive language inappropriate behavior malicious allegations and intentional damage to property patients found to be abusive will in country sports like disciplinary system a warning or yellow card will be given on the 1st incident a 2nd time and patients get a red card meaning treatment will be withdrawn once a patient's condition is deemed safe we'll hear some of the reaction we've got to

the plan from 'd the national secretary for the english democrats party stephen morris women delegates of the 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 of the nursing people in very serious conditions i think a message of tolerance towards it would lead to a level of self control 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 if 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 freedom to insult and abuse people on to lock them up is serious actually most of these people will find that one state behavior is deemed unacceptable people realize they can no longer behave like that it's 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 philosophical or religious belief about being treated by women are being treated by a certain person then there are 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 courts the n.h.s. was built on immigrant a migrant labor from all over the world she would get many people yes you know me and my god oh here we go you have no idea as a bill does it on that i don't use the word because it wasn't built just on that

this is ridiculous if somebody says i don't want to be treated by 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. police believe he should be tolerated actually resist any kind of basic principles. because all the way it. prosecuted you're talking about people under normal circumstances these are not normal circumstances where people go into a in a. in the u.s. 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 get him prosecuted you didn't want to do that because you said it blocked 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 there 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. out in the hospitals that's going that's going to a people more. the look of france begins clearing migrant camps and carousel occurred signal the new direction for a president or money or mccraw the story teller after the break. so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy. let it be an arms race off and spearing dramatic to follow the only closely i'm going to resist i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical time to sit

down and talk. one else seemed wrong. but. just don't. get to see how this day becomes active. and engaged equals betrayal. when so many find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground. hello again federal cash to boost american roads real and other infrastructure

appears to be waged on washington's list of priorities this year the us is instead planning to plough transport funds into asia competes with china even though people back home are still contending with crumbling roads creaking railways and dated reports here's artie's. 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 in this country 1st and foremost before we start spending you know a 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 worse when i was a kid. 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 drive it depends on where you live to new york for instance the bridge is in bad shape. i guess you should take the initiative to really fix it. 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. ok turning attention back to europe where friends started taking a tougher stance on immigration to make shift migrants in a paris suburb or if i can get it on thursday morning that led to more than a 1000 people removed from the area they left on buses now it comes up to the french prime minister said the country needs to take control of migration policy is also planning its 1st ever quotas for newcomers as well as restricting their access

to the health care system. takes a closer. nakoula 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 off way through his mandate and it seems to still show i have a. pinching an idea here or there from his political enemies in order to pepper the french government's policies for some there's a feeling that mcallen may be dipping too much into the pool of ideas from the right with a crackdown on immigration high on his agenda take this france cannot host everyone if it wants to host people well that seems a bit familiar. right now where demand a mark time on migration because friendship is sinking and what about showing gain to sharing an area in the ruins of dublin regulation does not work anymore if we

have to suspend. 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 that we should claim asylum would have to wait 3 months after launching the claim before being able to access proxies in 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 out so this is a clear attempt to appeal to right wing fotis for whom migration without limit is a huge issue that comes as recent figures showed france had received nearly

$123000.00 asylum requests last year not only a record high but an increase of 22 percent compared to the year before my corn himself has admitted his party just can't ignore the problem of immigrate. the bush 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 immigration far right machinable rally macoun 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 may want to act tough his party is somewhat softer than its leader proposals to prevent abuse of the salem system virtual shut down by his own party members although much because attempts to reach out to right wing comes ahead of

nyssa pull elections it's clear that this is about something bigger much be going fact 2 and a half years before the next presidential election in france polls are showing that kwame's only competition will likely come in the form of le pen the indication is that the race could be a tight one and corn in a bid to stay ahead is 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. . israel's top court has upheld a government decision to deport the regional head of human rights watch marcia cure who is a u.s. citizen cannot be expelled droll or which prohibits public calls for a boycott of israel but the organization warns that will set a dangerous precedent we spoke with the man at the center of the story. neither

human rights watch nor i as its representatives 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. operates illegal settlements and 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 european union has spoken out in support of human rights watch calling on israel not to deport check here the un too has said that israel must allow writes the offenders to carry their work without threats or intimidation the israeli court based its the law introduced back in 2017 which in this it is an entry for any individual or company who call for a boycott of the country over its internal actions israel has adopted

a tough stance towards the palestinian led boycott divestment and sanctions movement which it sais is aimed at the legitimizing the nation's very existence. human rights watch has long been critical of the israeli government's rights record of the construction of settlements in the west bank or marshy cure again save the court's ruling is part of a targeted campaign against rights advocates. 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 of incitement against groups like palestinian groups like al that is really groups like that said we saw a raid of the offices of a palestinian prisoner rights group of the media that just in september but what's happening here is a systematic pattern but now that the court has rubber stamps and said this has the

vin near if 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 it calling settlements illegal or the west bank augie pide it's an incredibly dangerous precedent we turned over the stone on the real cost of war next the corrupt arms deals fuel conflicts across the globe shadow world begins in moments.

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buying their products while the damage is being done far away and this is something i'll just let's keep going to an even and i mean look. this is the move and you mustn't be doing to me when i'm stung themed i mean the best understood look to what is going to. join me every thursday on the all excitement show and i'll be speaking to guest of the world of politics sport business i'm show business i'll see that. still. we are at war. i'm responsible for the deployment of thousands

of young americans to battle in a distant land. some will kill. and some will be killed. and so i come here with a cute sense of the costs of armed conflict. filled with just good questions about the relationship between war and peace and our effort to replace one with the other . we've got. the saying. time mostly to have. you know i need to make i'm tall. good come sit to thanks tony.