no clues in the nest the u.s. charges 2 former twitter staff with being saudi spies accusing them of gathering data on thousands of users critical of we are. whistleblowers become the new frontline in the political battle being waged in washington as the bill to protect their identities is blocked in the u.s. senate. and tackling hate in hospitals their health trust in england plans to root out racism by threatening to withhold treatment for people who abuse stop. a message to 0 tolerance towards it will lead to a level of self control the n.h.s. is there to treat people but should treat people. without question.

a very warm welcome to you you're watching r t international with me nicky aaron it's a pleasure to have you with us our top story this hour the u.s. justice department has charged 2 former twitter employees with spying for saudi arabia prosecutors claim the pair an american citizen under saudi national used their positions to collect sensitive information about users critical of the kingdom you know neal discussed the case with donald quarter. well it's 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 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 visit employees. 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 monarchies 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. riyadh been making headlines in another big story this thursday over a video allegedly showing a so-called secret weapons delivery and you haven't all the details on that story and the possible implications for a little later in the program. u.s. democrats have failed to push through a bill to keep the identity of whistleblowers secret republican senator rand paul blocks 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 fast your 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 only rother 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 abuses 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 go in cologne 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 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. fronts 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 the 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. actually exist in all countries because it helps the country. to have people tell the truth about corrupt officials united states pretends to have laws 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 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 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 a mess 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. us democrats have released $300.00 pages of testimony from the country's top

diplomat in ukraine which they say amounts to damning evidence that the president committed an impeachable offense the document details how bill taylor believes that to have been an improper quid pro quo a range but with care of he says it with clear to him that the release of hundreds of millions of dollars of financial aid would be dependent upon ukraine launching a corruption investigation into donald trump's potential political rival joe biden . this is a deeply credible knowledgeable person and he allegedly realizes that there is a quid pro quo his testimony has been one of the most important for democrats who say it provides the clearest explanation for what president trump and its allies were demanding at the time this was all going down he texted are we now saying that security assistance a white house meeting are conditioned on investigations conditioned we talk about quid pro quo condition is a key word there that is what prosecutors call a head shot it is right on point republicans have pushed back against bill taylor's

testimony the base say that despite the ambassador claiming to have to have understood very clearly that there was no quid pro quo he actually had no 1st hand knowledge of the alleged arrangement taylor at mitzi had not spoken to the president and the some of his testimony was based on reporting by the new york times the diplomat is due to testify openly before the house intelligence committee next week. everything in life now is best if i have to analyze david lindorff to discuss this further welcome to the program i miss him and of how waits in your view is detail is testimony i think it's pretty weighty i mean he you know he's backed up by other people so that if they are picking away at things which is exactly what you would expect the other side's attorneys to do or or there are you know the staff attorneys or members of the republican side of the intelligence

committee there they're going to bump up against the fact that sunderland had to come back to correct his testimony and say that in fact there was a quid pro quo and this was the trump appointed ambassador to europe so. you know it's going to be taken in more it's not none of this is going to hang on one person at one point it would have been tailor but it's taylor's no longer the central with witness in this there are a lot of witnesses and when you put all the pieces together it doesn't look very good. i would say that to what extent would you say it will bolster the democrats as impingement case and those 10 as account has to be at tight for inpatient proceedings to progress to the next stage. no i don't think they have to because they're supporting evidence from people like sunderland he ran back to correct his testimony because he perjured himself before so he had to cover in-cell so if you

can get in trouble. it's like you know the focus on the original whistleblower by republicans is also problematic because it really doesn't matter even if that you know was of lawyer was a new york times reporter which i've seen written somewhere because all that did was start this thing going and and now you've got actual ambassadors testifying several of them and you know key other key people in the bush administration in the area and in the trump administration so you know as these things move on i think where the interesting thing that's going to happen is when you start having testimony live on t.v. and you'll see these you know questions aired from both sides and people will have to decide when they look at it we went through the same thing with the nixon impeachment you know that you you had people attacking the witnesses who were undermining nixon's presidency and sometimes there be issues that would come up of

veracity with certain other facts but in the end when people saw the live testimony they reached their own conclusions and what do you think we can expect to come out of tailless hearing in front of the house judiciary committee do they they might be any further revelations. they're might mean it depends what what he's held back so far there may also be embarrassing things you know there are skilled litigators on both sides of this in the committee and their staffs so i think it's going to be drama. and drama and will mean more viewers so if it was just a boring recent recitation of facts you might not have people watching it but if you get a lot of fireworks you'll have a lot of people watching and then who knows what the public sentiment will be after watching all these things david lindorff investigative journalist thank you for your time. thank you. for patients who abuse staff at

a hospital in western england could receive lengthy balance from using the n.h.s. the north bristol health trust has launched a red card to racism campaign which could see treatment refused what it safe to do so but i didn't voice the question we are seeing in the moment we really do need to use it to safeguard our stuff and work with colleagues every 6 of us and i've 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 what and counter a sports like disciplinary system a warning yellow card will be given on the 1st incident a 2nd time and patients get a red card meaning treatments will be withdrawn once

a patient's condition is safe. well as some of the reaction we got to the plan from the national secretary for the english democrats party stephen lawrence and women by that 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 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 but 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 a freedom to insult and abuse people on to lock them up is in serious actually most of these people who find that one step 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 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 equality at 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 as a bill that said 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 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 piece. believe it should be tolerated actually resists any kind of basic principles. because all the way it. prosecuted you're talking about people under normal circumstances these are not normal circumstances when people go into a in a. in the us so these are 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 go and 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 that people who 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 issue in your card records in the hospitals that's gone that's going to a people more. c.n.n. has published leaked video which it says shows american made weapons being delivered to the saudi led coalition in yemen it comes as concern builds over the united states' role in feeling the conflict which by some estimates has claimed 100000 lives. weapons arriving in yemen that is even to. make his last full an urgent briefing from secretary of state like demanding all its on the weapons that it shows the port of aden which is under control of the saudi led coalition and u.s. made military vehicles being unloaded there now so far we have heard from the

pentagon which has not confirmed the accuracy of this video this is what we've heard we cannot comment on any potential on going investigations of claims of and to use violations now u.s. law does stipulate that weapons that are exported are required to have end use monitoring to make sure they're not being used for the violation of human rights or the killing of civilians however the kingdom of saudi arabia does maintain that it is not killing civilians in yemen that it is simply fighting a war against the who is the forces however there are many international bodies and observers that strongly disagree with that assessment and say that civilians are dying in yemen let's review some of what has taken place since the saudi led military campaign in yemen began.

now there is widespread disapproval of saudi arabia's activities in yemen in the united states and there have been multiple attempts by the u.s. congress to stop the sale of weapons to saudi arabia and 2019 there was the war powers resolution which was approved by the u.s. house and senate however it was vetoed by u.s. . as and donald trump and in july of 29 teen there were a trio of congressional resolution aimed at banning the billions of dollars worth of weapons that are sold to saudi arabia the united arab emirates and other countries and that was also vetoed by donald trump so this new video seems to show u.s. made weapons and military vehicles being unloaded at the port of aden handed over

to saudi forces and that is something that many americans and members of congress don't approve of but that the president of the united states has made clear he wishes to continue. a financial exodus could be on the cards of jeremy corbyn sweeps to victory in the u.k. is this not general election on december the 12th the prefix that warning has come from the country super rich with their lawyers saying they could bail on britain if the labor party wins next month's vote. gloams on the whole be more concerned. than about broke that i believe we can realistically expect according government would trigger an exodus of the country's most successful and wealthiest individuals who contribute significantly both directly and indirectly to the british economy lots of high net worth individuals so worried about having to pay much higher taxes somebody wealth and have already for the possibility of a korban government transfers of wealth are already arranged in many cases all that

is missing is a signature on the contract jeremy corbyn is seen as a threat by the u.k. so-called elite and wealthy here's why back in 2017 the opposition leader had planned to impose a stricter tax system on high earners with 45 percent on those earning above $80000.00 pounds and 50 percent for more than $123000.00 pounds right now the 45 percent rate is only applied to income of more than 150000 the u.k.'s prime minister says corbin's reforms will destroy the economy. that is. the problem with blue. the revolutionary socialism as practiced by julie called it a labor party labor body always runs out of other people's money. and it will happen again if jeremy corbyn is the most pressing concern for some right now the ukase exit from the european union is still lurking around the corner

it strikes fear into the most wealthy and major companies and sure of the economic impact back in 2016 or breaks a referendum was dubbed a once in a lifetime opportunity then and now the labor party seems to be offering something similar. this election is a once in a generation chance to transform our country to take on the vested interests holding people back and ensure that no community is left behind. let's go live now to financial commentator charlie boyle welcome to the program great to have you with those how damaging could a labor party victory be i mean ukase elite do you think. i think it could be very damaging indeed but there's a lot of ignorance over this subject it could certainly turn the markets we're already in a very fractured situation right now and not just in the u.k. but all around the world but i think what a lot of people forget about the super rich if you're talking about

a fraction of the one percent. these are the types of people that can not just leave at the drop of a hat but there aren't really enough of them there's a massive gap between the rich and the poor all over the western countries and that is a massive problem by the way so that there are actually enough of them to make a serious impact and this is a problem with that with jeremy cause and policy is i actually agree with a lot of what he says and a lot of his sentiment but he just doesn't have the technical knowledge economically to make these things worse now if you're talking about the middle classes which i think you are in some of this like lawyers 'd and. people that have businesses that are fairly well off not quite millionaires those are the people that pay the most tax but they've also got large amounts of debt it's now i hate to bang on about history but we've had very low interest rates in the u.k. and in the u.s. and in europe of course from the past for 10 years now and the reason why are able

to service this these debts is by low interest rates and a certain amount of tax breaks and regardless of what you think of that that's all going to be cancelled out by a lot of jeremy cauldrons policies and and by the way even if he never gets around to doing any of them just the thought of him winning the election or winning it even if practicality sets in is going to be enough to topple the u.k. economy and possibly the world because i don't know whether anyone's noticed recently but we've got more debts trillions of dollars of debt negative rates right now and that's that's a big worry for even very wealthy people so it's all about safety and this is a this is the sort of flash point that could turn the u.k. economy it's all it's all very fractured right now so that makes sense why do you think that people are some people are fearing corbin more than break think

considering the u.k. they'd be for the e.u. is still somewhat of an unknown entity. yes so. this is an interesting one and i've spoken to quite a few people about this. in terms of the braggs it. sort of budgetary scenario and the markets like the strength of the pound all these things have all been factored in so for example the pound is dropped quite significantly and they've already factored brigs that carnage into the mix and another advantage of that the u.k. house at the moment whether people like to talk about it or not very pro european but i'm not sure part of being europe as a situation a lot of the european countries of the ball on the verge of bankruptcy now and the u.k. is is seen as a safe haven and that's why it's still one of the big financial centers and if somebody like jeremy corbyn gets into power that could that confidence could easily be the last market crashes don't necessarily come from big losses but by

a loss in confidence we saw in 2008 we saw in 2001 with the dot com crash throughout the decade so we're due for another one anyway the last thing we want is something and it's going to push the confidence of off the edge of that cliff and we end up really getting into recession like the rest of europe financial commentator charlie boyle thank you for your time. and thank you for joining us here on r.t. international we're back with the latest in 30 minutes. i was introduced to the change global geopolitics forever and you can't invent gunpowder big oil has changed the whole notion of what money is and you cannot uninvented there's no turning back.

it's a part of hungary has long positioned itself as an independent player within the european union capable of putting its foot down and standing up to brussels when it comes to pour national interests but when dealing with a triumphant ministration is the organ government equally forthcoming in putting hungry 1st to discuss that i'm now joined by the country's foreign affairs minister . this it's always a pleasure seeing you in russia thank you for its.