at that time i mean it's ridiculous that in my back pocket i have much much more capability than we had the entire apollo program. who's in the next to the u.s. charges to form a twitter start with big saudi spies accusing them of gathering data on thousands of users critical of riyadh. whistleblowers become the new frontline of the political battle being waged in washington as a bill to protect their identities is a blow to the u.s. senate. on tackling hate in hospital health trust in england's plans to woo time and racism by threatening to withhold treatment for people who abuse start . a message to 0 tolerance towards it would 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 caring for 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 use their positions to collect sensitive information about users critical of the kingdom you know neal discussed the case with donald quarter. list 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 length. of my nose service our company limits access to sensitive account information to a limited group of trains and visit 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 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 but harris county is the chairman of the conservative think tank the boat group he told us that the immense reach of social media platforms represents a serious threat to society. the extent to which twitter and other similar social media platforms collects such a wide range of data for the pallet these companies that deal with my state somehow this is the power of god it exceeds the power of most governments they are able to

not saying only no intimate details about their uses laws but also predict their behaviors in often more efficient ways than the uses themselves can pick their behaviors and that obviously has a potential great destry pm outcome in the future when these organizations operate with the political bias that they clearly don't i think that should be concerned for all individuals that leave in it free speech and free expression of democracy. we are also be making headlines in another big story this thursday over a video allegedly showing a so-called secret weapons delivery in yemen all the details on that story and the possible implications a little later in the program. yes democrats have failed to push through a bill to keep the identity of whistleblowers secret republican senator rand paul block the proposal ok's and the democrats of spreading selective outrage they want

the amendment was designed to both of us and its position which is that whistleblowers should be protected from retaliation i'm spec contribution acknowledged it comes as the president's son has tweeted the alleged name of the whistleblower who triggered bay trump and pitchman inquiry south 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 that 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 rather of thing one. intelligence officer whose 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 of 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 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. 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 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 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. 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 for instance 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 boughton longside 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 that rab breed of whistle blower who finds himself in the right place at the right time with just his her abuse start at a hospital in western england could receive lengthy bones from using the national

health service but still health trust has launched a red card to racism campaign which you think treatment refused what it say to do so. but the point to avoid is 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 to various markets to be able to show their face the campaign aims to cut out a wide range of abuse that hospital staff face aside from racism the n.h.s. 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 when patients get a red card meaning treatment will be withdrawn once the patient's condition is safe well here's some of the reaction we got through the plan from the national secretary for the english democratic party stephen morris and wayman benefits 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 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 courts the n.h.s. was built on immigrant a migrant labor from all over the world the actual she was new many people yes in ireland 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 being a race isn't

a philosophical view it's just plain wrong only those p. . 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. whimper in the us so 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 the 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 start issuing your card records in the hospitals that's going that's going to a people more. c.n.n. has published leaked video which is there says american made weapons being delivered to the saudi led coalition in yemen it comes as concern builds over the united states his role in fueling the conflict which by some estimates has claimed 100000 lives. weapons arrive in yemen and that is even to. make his last full an urgent briefing from secretary of state mike demanding all it says on the weapons 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 the new 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. the french president has said he believes nato is in terminal decline describing the once where both the alliance is experiencing brain death consequently according to among them a chronic europe needs to start thinking strategically and must assert itself as a geopolitical 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 be in control of our own destiny i believe that very deeply well that stark warning was made during an interview with the economist magazine the french president also cast doubt on the reliability of nato article 5 which requires member states to come to one another's defense if attacked he suggested

that the deterrence has been undermined by washington's faltering commitment to the alliance it doesn't seem that all of the allies agree with his assessment though the comments of truong several responses since they were published. france's president the french president used rather drastic words to express his views this is not how i see the state of corporation with nato i don't think that such a sweeping judgment is appropriate made to is in 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 were done for decades we have implemented the strongest reinforcement so collective defense since the end of the cold war writer and broadcaster jonathan fryer told as though that chancellor merkel's remarks don't help to clarify her position. there is

a certain contradiction i suppose in what she was saying in that if europe is going to be more responsible for its own military as well as economic future then obviously that would suggest painting of the link with the united states but on the other hand she was basically urging the americans discreetly not to pull away we have to remember that she's addressing those remarks basically to donald trump who has given several indications that he would really prefer america to be america 1st america alone as far as possible and really has undermined to a degree nato's integrity and indeed is very critical of the european union which he sees as a competitor rather than as a colleague. france has started taking a tougher stance on immigration to makeshift migrant camp they come sites in

a paris suburb were evacuated on thursday morning more than a 1000 people were removed from the area on buses it comes after the french prime minister is that the country needs to take back control of migration but government is also planning its 1st ever quotas for newcomers as well as restricting their access to the country's health care system solo dip and ski takes a closer look. at corner 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 not showing 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 mcallen may be dipping too much into the pool of ideas from the right with a crack down on him. gratian 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 in america time on migration because french ship is sinking and what about showing in the frame the shining an area in the rules of dublin regulation does not work anymore 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 the claim before being able to access procedures universal health care france is also looking to introduce for the very 1st time

economic quotas setting quotas is a u. turn from mad 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 $123000.00 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.

away from the national rally but look penn 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 mark calls attempts to reach out to right wing voters comes ahead of municipal 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. . a crane seaside town in the south west of england has been swept up in

a storm of controversy over the suggestion its longstanding nickname smacks of white supremacy and it's left many of the locals a little long plus. if this were doing is not removed the town council could be glassed as a racist white supremacist therefore the issues should be rectified immediately. all who have traveled through the delicious scenery of north devon must needs know the little white town a bit if it. was i can't imagine why it would get any better. perhaps shock and. shock

everybody you know i'm going to talk with him and everybody but. i think it's stupid to tell her to watch out on is that a watch on because a lot of properties if i did watch nothing to do with rice it's unbelievable to me the culprit you feeling. thank you. could. we love to hear your thoughts on all of our stories so to get in touch by following us on social media will be back at the top of the out with the latest stephen. thank. you. it

was introduced in a changed global geopolitics forever and you can't invent gunpowder coyness changed now the whole notion of what money is and you cannot uninvented there's no turning back. in my iphone or you have a 1000 times the capability of the of the computers we had on board the space for the top i mean it's ridiculous that in my back pocket i have much much more capability than we had in the hood in the entire apollo program. seemed wrong. just don't hold. any belief yet to shape our disdain comes to educate and in gains from it equals betrayal. when so many find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground.

well we've undergone a corporate coup d'etat in slow motion. 35000 lobbyists in washington they write the legislation they write the bills. all it takes is one phone call from somebody on the hill to someone in the pentagon saying hey turn on the dogs the hills out to get our program the guys in the senate are on board we need you to turn on the gucci shoes guys to straighten this thing out the guy's been the lobbyist. and what this does is just lock the system up that's the whole name of the game it's it's called political engineering and i'm like political science political engineering is real. one of the most important things dunder stand is

essentially creates what we call a self-selecting ice cream. and it's like a petrol motion machine for getting ever increasing defense budgets the way we do it is by downplaying the future consequences to start a new weapon we over promises performance under promise its costs we then systematically spread dollars jobs and profits to as many congressional districts as quickly as possible so that everybody has skin in the game. the people who are invested in this state or people like the largest defense contractor in the world more than they would die before they see it. going to change the world that. we're probably already working.