news in the next the u.s. charges 2 former twitter stuff with being founded by accusing them of gathering data on thousands of users critical of where. whistleblowers become the new front line of the political battle being waged in washington as a bill to protect their identities is a blow to the u.s. senate. is tackling hate in hospitals and health trust in england's plans to root out racism by threatening to withhold treatment the people who stop. a message there's 0 tolerance towards a level of self control the n.h.s. used to treat people should treat people. without question.

and i welcome you watching r.t. international with me care and it's great to have one of our top story this hour the u.s. justice department is charged to form a twitter employees with spying for saudi arabia prosecutors claim the pat an american citizen and a saudi national used their positions to collect sensitive information about users critical of the kingdom you know neal discussed the case with donald quarter. was 3 people being charged here 2 are 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 being 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 there's just. 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 length but this will go into a undermine our service our company limits access to sensitive account information to a limited group of trains and that employee at 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 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. u.s. democrats have felt to push through a bill to keep the identity of whistle blows secret republican senator ron paul bloke's the proposal accusing the democrats of spreading for elective outrage the amendment was designed to bolster the senate's position which is that whistleblowers should be protected from retaliation and their contribution acknowledged it comes as the president's son has tweeted the alleged name of the whistleblower who triggered the trump impeachment inquiry tale of reports on the

fate of those who recently dead to speak out in america. for the democrats' impeachment must now seem tantalizingly close all they need is the final piece of damning evidence to seal the deal and to senate minority leader chuck schumer he has come out arguing for the protection of whistleblowers all rother of one intelligence officer who is insider 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 nie snowden is a one of the few picked up by the media he chose the path of the. raising his voice

and going clone bull unlike the hundreds of others who chose the path of least resistance you see they quietly lodged 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 hume appraised 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 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. reservation as we often say.

and we've got to stop them from doing that and just as it took 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 and that use 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 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 sordid and certainly the government officials do not want anyone ever telling about things they do illegally the governments are basically wanting to control saying who's in 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 shoom about him alongside the washington elite needs to clarify his position on whistleblowers 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 the. breed of whistle blower who finds himself in the right place at the right time with just the right exposer. patients who abuse staff at a hospital in western england could receive lengthy bounce from using the n.h.s. but off bristol health trust has launched a red card to racism campaign which could see treatment refused when it's safe to do so. but the heart to avoid is the question we are seeing in the moment we really do need to use it to save god all stuff and work of colleagues over the 6 of us and

i got to be able to show this. campaign aims to cut out a wide range of abuse that hospital staff face aside from racism the national health service will apply as 0 tolerance policy to sexism and offensive language and also inappropriate behavior malicious allegations and intentional damage to property patients found to be abusive will encounter a 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 that will be withdrawn once the patient's condition is safe. it is them of the reaction we got to the plan from the national secretary for being a democratic party stephen morris and wayman bennett of the stand up to racism pressure group. 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 to nursing people in very serious conditions i think a message to tolerance towards it would lead to a level of self control and a choice is there to treat people that 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 then who wants to be treated by a female will not be allowed to because it will be deemed a success or if you have certain religious views you won't be allowed because it be deemed racist or sexist in some form if you are 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 serious i see most of these people will find that ones. behaviors 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 prosecuted because your actual word was it would only call got the court system you may have a feel philosophical or religious belief about being treated by women are being treated by a certain person then 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 courts the n.h.s. was built on immigrant a migrant labor from all over the world. with your many people yes and my god oh here we go you have no idea as a bill does it on the trees don't use the oil because it wasn't built just on the 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 been a race isn't a philosophical view it's just plain wrong only those people who believe it should be tolerated actually resist any kind of basic principles. of 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 their wanted us so these an absolute wide range of circumstances just to say can you come down a bit 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 up 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 the people who are a racist need to be challenge 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 refused to issue. in the hospitals that school at school i got a group of 8 people more. conference begins clearing my current

council in paris so they could signal a new direction for president among the micron we look at that story right after this very short break stay with us. i am.

i was introduced to the change global geopolitics forever and you can't invent gunpowder big oil has changed now the whole notion of what money is and you cannot uninvented there's no turning back. welcome back francis started taking a tougher stance on immigration to make shift migrant camp sites in a paris suburb were evacuated on thursday morning more than a 1000 people were moved from the area on buses comes after the french prime minister is that the country needs to take back control of migration the government

is also planning its 1st ever quotas but new comers as well as restricting their access to the country's health care system so it depends he takes a closer look. back or was kurt's a pole to 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 what shall i say about 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 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 don't image right now where demand him are turning him on migration because friendship is sinking and what about showing gain. in the ruins

of the. it does not work any more if we have to suspension going to. the french public have been given more and more teases 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 see claim asylum would have to wait 3 months after lodging 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 the koran during his presidential campaign he had ruled it 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 corner himself has admitted his party just can't ignore the problem of immigration 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 may have thrown down the gauntlet in his attempts to pry voters away from the national rally but le pen 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 or all shut down by his own party

members although my concert attempts to reach out. to right wing voters comes ahead of minister pull elections it's clear this is about something bigger much bigger in 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. . the french president has said he believes nato is in terminal decline describing the wants robust alliance as experiencing brain death consequently according to a manual mcraney europe needs to start thinking strategically and with the 1st

itself as a geo political power europe is now dealing for the 1st time with an american president who doesn't share our idea of the european project if we don't wake up there's a considerable risk in the long run we would disappear geopolitically or at least that we will no longer being control of our own destiny i believe that very deeply that stark warning was made during an interview with the economist magazine the french president also cast doubt on the real reliability of nato as article 5 which requires member states to come to one another's defense if attacked he suggested that there be deterrent has been undermined by washington's faltering commitment to the alliance doesn't seem that all of the crohn's allies agree with his assessment though the comments have drawn several responses since they were published. france's president of the french president used rather drastic words to express his views this is not how i see the state of corporation with nato so i don't think

that such a sweeping judgment is appropriate made to isn't our interest it's all security lines obviously we have to take our destiny in our own hands but the transatlantic partnership is absolutely indispensable i agree with the chancellor merkel nato is strong. united states north america and europe we do more together than they're done for decades we have implemented the strongest reinforcements of collective defense since the end of the cold war. a lot of unease to the belgian politician and former deputy speaker of the country's parliament he told us that a man who mccraw may be seeking to reposition himself as the e.u. is defacto later. there are those who are for peace here and for a 1st at the precinct level i mean that the european union finally is a good day to be a distance from the united states is a good thing in itself now the motives for microsoft to say these things are

several it has to do with the fact that 1st of all that. you can be united the home is soon to be going to be drawing from the e.u. and france and micro season this an opportunity to become disputed leader of this future e.u. or without the united kingdom and secondly we should not forget that nato minus the united states and probably minus canada would mean that this would be a military alliance with by its weapons mainly from european manufacturing. fronds which you said made a big weapon producer not as big as the united states or that there's also a play the fact that we doubt it can all of the ng it openly that the e.u. in reality wants to improve its relationship with its neighbor to the east with russia. at all cash to boost american roads rail and other

infrastructure appears to be way down washington's list of priorities this year the us is planning instead to plow transport funds into asia as it competes with china even though people back home are still contending with crumbling roads creaking railways and outdated at ports his. 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 geo political position we are here permanently and we will be continuing to invest more here and we. we'll 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 'd infrastructure plan in the last half century the 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 $200000.00 around the country that are over half a century old dams d. more than 15500 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 but forget the children's song 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 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 out of 472 subway stations are listed as having all structural components in good repair these 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 it's over 100 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 than when i was

a kid so clean it out of people say u.s. infrastructure is just a mass. yes i would because i drive a lot of drive it that brings only you live to new york for instance the bridges are in bad shape. and i guess you should take the initiative to really fix it will start here for this to 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 caleb mop and r.t. new york and chasing off the international we're back with the latest and best in minutes. in my iphone i have a 1000 times the capability of the of the computers we had on board the spacecraft at that time i mean it's ridiculous that in my back pocket i have much much more

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