i. think. you are some credit presidential candidate slammed donald trump's decision to pardon american service members convicted of war crimes we look at how this i was privy to sessoms have also absolve. us also to come we visit the border between denmark and sweden where checks have been imposed after bombings and shootings in copenhagen and around the keys to us all the supporting mass protests

by a hike in fuel price it's. the people of the year and a half ago the united states is with you i don't know how people will not be taken advantage of by outsiders and put economic pressure on nations. good morning just gone 10 o'clock here in moscow you're watching r.t. international now the u.s. president has intervened in the cases of american service members convicted or accused of war crimes in afghanistan and iraq donald trump pardoned 2 u.s. army officers and restored a navy seals rank u.s. democratic presidential candidates they have attacked his decision. there's nothing military about overruling military justice system to prevent it from delivering accountability for war crimes the president has again dishonored our armed services

trumps intervention in the american military justice system to pardon service members accused or convicted of war crimes betrays the rule of law the values that make our country exceptional and the men and women who wear the uniform honorably he is not fit to command our troops but despite the criticism from democrats there it's not just the republican president who has pardoned atrocities sathya taylor now brings us more but just a quick heads up to her report does include a new feature a q.r. code you can use to get more background on the story. victorious election campaign on a platform of nonintervention but don't trump is still juggling wars at home against fake news and the democrats and far away against tara so it's hardly surprising he has a soft spot for the dogs of war no not this one these ones. my

. the. walking free cut to see of the president's generosity and you know why well when you've got almost a quarter of a 1000000 soldiers abroad boosting morale and giving an incentive to put your life on the line in foreign lands it's just what you have to do when our soldiers have to fight for our country i want to give them the confidence to fight for some of their trumps words fail to ring true against a backdrop of human rights reports questioning the morality and lawfulness of

american activity abroad for those i'm convinced these latest pardons can be added to the already bulging saw a labeled military activity with this use of his powers trump has sent a clear message of disrespectful or morality of the military justice system and those in the military who are by and by the laws of war i would include the victims of these crimes but have no illusion he cares for them to a shameful trump might have been an outsider when he took the reigns in 2016 but his policy of whitewashing quo. u.s. military activity is a favorite white house pos time previous administrations well also busy putting up cia crimes and ducking accountability brought bamma for example the very president who found the cia's tool to techniques went around doing some pardoning of his own giving to soldiers who talked to detainees to death

a freepost best not to dwell on the postie said on woods and upwards for those who carried out some of these operations within the 4 corners of. legal opinions or guidance that had been provided from the white house. i do not think it's appropriate for them to be prosecuted as a general deal i think that we should be looking forward and not backwards and apparently it doesn't matter whether you read or blue take george bush he was also pretty relaxed when it came to those secret cia silos and some believe our military and intelligence personnel involved and capturing and questioning terrorists could now be at risk a perp prosecution under the war crimes jack simply for doing their jobs in a thorough and professional way. this is unacceptable. and while

these soldiers might have been given a get out of jail free card despite having been tried and convicted by a court condemned by international watch dogs and housing the blood of civilians on their hands i wonder if 2nd chance cards will be given so easily to those quoting out the crimes julian assange is engaged in terrorism he should be treated as an enemy combatant with you it should be closed down permanently and decisively but i'm not for the death penalty so if i'm not for the death i don't want to do it illegally shoot the son of a this is a man of this gone beyond anything i am aware of wiki leaks walks like a hostile intelligence service and talks like a hostile intelligence service u.s. cyber warfare people should use wiki leaks for target practice it seems for u.s. officials there's still plenty up for interpretation and that it's safer to be trigger happy than dare to expose someone with just the click of your mouse when we

spoke about this with his from the united national antiwar coalition and thinks it's wrong the u.s. prosecutors those who exposed war crimes rather than those who commit. shows that tells the world that the united states can be lawless with impunity in countries all over the world that a position was held but. it was whole but bush it was held by obama now held by trump. position met can't be justified under any sense of justice these people who deserve to be in jail these were criminals are kept out however people that are exposed to crimes such as julian son george also in manning those are the people we go after and prosecute they're trying to kill the messenger but they don't say anything about the message because they didn't say that one word that he said put out through wiki leaks was was untrue. not

a very good policy. that's denmark where officials there have temporarily imposed checks of border crossings into sweden to me was prompted by a spate of bombings and shootings around the capital copenhagen among them was the bombing of the tax agency an organist danish justice ministry claims the perpetrators had traveled from sweden these events i sip sas reports now from the border between the 2 countries. that mark has drawn a line in the bridge behind me they have put checks to stop and search anyone coming from sweden after copenhagen has seen more than a dozen exporters in the sea this year alone the danes blame it on rival gangs mostly from sweden and hoping that these checks will put an end to it the explosion at the tax agency and the double killing in her leave are examples of the serious crimes that can flow across the border from sweden we will not accept that to counter the threat of serious crimes by the crime we are now strengthening

protection of the border with sweden by introducing temporary controls and strengthen police efforts in the area then mark and sweden are both in. area members of the orissa. bridge used to be a free passport bridge for nearly 60 years but not anymore for at least 6 months it is this bridge that the danish authorities believe perpetrators crossed into then more causing all the explosions. but as bombings become a worrying trend in the usually safe country here in sweden criminal gangs are on the rise according to official statistics there have been $38.00 more explosions this year then 2018 but it's only the explosions gun related crimes are fast

becoming a concern to during the ninety's the average were 4 per year now nearly 40 and the public puts these incidents down to immigrants but a teligent chief says it is not correct to link newcomers to criminal organizations in sweden they do not they. make a fist still counts of who says sweet is and who is actually an immigrant so in sweden they do not know this but we make these counts in denmark and we can see that a lot of those who are that they are a 2nd and 3rd generation immigrants of people who are arrested who are from sweden who it does these attacks in copenhagen are also a 2nd and 3rd generation immigrants and of course it would be normal to show that they if there's a problem with the 2nd one 1st generation immigrants and that is social why would do this in denmark because we have to know. what the problem is before we can do

anything about it from the famously soft approach that once worked well 'd in sweden the government has gone a 180 degrees by announcing a plan allowing police to have. greater stop and search powers but also making it easier for them to search suspects houses and access their devices and all this with the backing of sweetness officials we welcome that denmark is taking action to fight crime in the orissa and region i have respect for the danish government strengthening border control in order to keep criminals on a short leash the country of little mermaid bicycles and label how did this fair share of violence in the past in the ninety's this quiet country solve bombings and shootings by rival biker gangs but no checkpoints were introduced well whether you blame it on the migrant crisis or law or as in europe are becoming real again eventual us obsess for r.t. . now the president of iran has moved to quell mass anger over

a 50 percent hike in fuel prices and rouhani said on sunday that the government will compensate those who are worst affected there's been trouble in least a dozen city buildings vandalized and pictures of iran's supreme leader. well the surprise fuel price rise announcement came on friday with the government saying the revenues will fund support for the poor moves backed by iran's supreme leader who described the writing is sabotage and call the protesters hooligans meanwhile washington as voiced support for the protesters a move that iran has slammed as hypocritical. as i said to the people of iran

almost a year and a half ago the united states is with you i don't know how our people will not be taken advantage of by outside economic pressure on our nation or your iran's economy has been in freefall since the us 3 imposed sanctions after pulling out of the international nuclear deal last year and a national currency is lost around 60 percent of its value on an official markets in inflation is hit 42 percent in the year leading up to what tobar aside from fuel prices the crisis has put a huge strain on the health care system to be shortages of life saving medication political scientists have a efficacy are being believes that u.s. sanctions have had a devastating impact on ordinary people. we are hearing increasing reports not just from you know reliable iranian sources but also u.n. and other international organizations about the devastating effects of the u.s. sanctions on ordinary raney and particularly with respect to import much needed

medicine and you know you also have. the overall economic impact that is contributing to and employment and and so on all of which mr perle conveniently ignores and claims to be you know in support of the ring and people are shedding crocodile tears for down while imposing these harsh and savage economic sanctions on iran that are in violation of the u.n. security council resolution 2231 as well as the international agreement that the u.s. unilaterally walk out of. now you may have noticed a new feature started because certain stories do have a q.r. code alongside them which you can use to get more information on the story. give it a try we're back with more news after.

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again you with universities in the strain you are being asked disclose their overseas financial donors and also research partners on the guidelines designed to counter foreign interference one quarter as more. once a place for the free exchange of ideas now a battleground for political influence universities in australia have been ordered to reveal their research partners and financial donors to the state all in the name of combating so-called foreign interference we've got to make sure that we continue to because with the foreign interference threat that's unprecedented levels that

would if we can get a change of culture in all campuses that is the best way that we can ensure that we deal with the threat of forward into ference this new federal directive isn't just targeted at any old interference congress convinced chinese influence is growing at an alarming rate how exactly is that putting the nation at risk well a new report says australia's universities are too were alliant on chinese students for their economic survival it's healthy to foreign students the problem is when you have so many foreign students that you depend on them for your financial survival there's a double play here in terms of these training approach the guidelines don't think so will specify that this is targeted you can say to any one country but everybody knows this who will china is the obvious the primary one but congress has still a need to beijing's influence isn't only about economics back in july the attorney

general called for an investigation into the beijing funded confucius universities in australia it coincided with a protest that turned violent at the university of queensland between pro hong kong independent students and chinese mainlanders now the government suspects students sympathetic to the hong kong protests are being silenced and while it admits a lack of evidence the state's anti china attitude has been left unchanged the review finds that there are a number of specific facts is that could give rise to the perception that the confucius institute is or could be facilitating inappropriate for an influence in the department this review has found no. evidence of actual political influence being exerted by the chinese government through the confucius institute in new south wales public schools no evidence no problem i guess university staff will still have to follow the rules of this new directive to declare foreign funding but whether or not it's a real issue is another discussion especially as reports of racism against chinese

students have become more and more widespread as of late and as canberra has been stifling scientific cooperation with china by making it more difficult for scientists to get visas coordinated influence from beijing hasn't even been proven to exist and yet the countermeasures against it are already having a very real effect it has the potential of restricting donors along the nature of research having direct government interference academic freedom is already compromised as it is and it's not very clear sternness how these guidelines are going to operate in the workplace so for example the various university managers making comments that we will try to accommodate these particular concerns to see what happens to research when their star schools what the end game is and the end game here is to try to a broader very public and international statement distributed wants to restrict and

rein in the venture chinese influence whether actual real. and the number of people seeking sex reassignment surgery near any capital is on the rise that's according to the uranium legal medicine organization we spoke with an iranian actor and director some man asked to use organized a small theater group staging performances to promote trans canada aware that. i live in iran and i was a well known director and it is clear that going through a sex change is a little unnerving but i overcame my shaman fears when i went through this procedure at the age. what you want audiences in our theater include family members of transgender people and workers who come and watch my performance i'm glad that they come here it changes their views on gender issues i think the influence of my theatre has been significant so we have large audiences and the performance runs up to 24 nights but if we can reach just turn that around for 3000 people then that's

a big step i have the chance to create something positive in the middle east i already have 6 projects going on internationally compared to many countries we are sentries ahead with we are also behind some countries so we need to improve and we have the potential where transsexuality was made illegal in iran in 1987 the government offers financial assistance in certain gender reassignment cases and according to the state welfare organization of iran 70 people apply for help every year so exchange is regarded as a medical disorder in iran and is only permitted after a rigorous assessment process this includes medical tests and psychiatric examinations we spoke with surgeons. about the threat. i carry out gender reassignment surgery on 2 or 3 patients each month the patients are fully supported some of their costs are covered by state funds but they need to pay the rest my colleagues are aware of what we do and i haven't heard any negative

views from patients who come in for other procedures kidney stone removal and so on they view it positively this is the patients attend at least 10 therapy sessions with psychologists and psychiatrists they are given full information on the operations possible side effects the pros and cons so when patients are accepted for surgery and come here is psychologically prepared then they start home and therapy. finally if you signed up for it is nice flagship streaming service i'm looking forward to bingeing binge watching your favorite episodes of the simpsons you could well be disappointed because one episode featuring the voice of michael jackson has been dropped from the platform or you hire michael jackson to jesse the reception from the ship to. the episode does include a character who thinks he's michael jackson and was in reality voiced by the singer though the credits don't mention his name in the decision to drop the episode

annoyed some including michael jackson's nephew attached jackson. one of finally reports about all the leaving neverland lies exposed or how hypocritical this is for both disney and the simpsons or uses here to take another dig of my uncle who is no longer here to defend himself ok seriously this this is welcome it's taken too far there is no need for this i'm so tired of this p.c. world we are creating a world of shelters people who will have no clue of what's what well disney didn't explain why it decided to drop the episode but fox 1st removed it after a controversial documentary about jackson's misconduct emerged executive producer of the simpsons said they had the right to take that particular chapter of their book out we put the issue up for debate. i don't think it was right at all here's the thing about it what we have recently seen with what i would call council culture is identifying a person who has you know been

a sexual predator with sexual harassment sexual assault sexual abuse there are enough sexual predators that are currently available for us to address them to go digging up dead bones thriller well i see it totally differently i don't think it's even touching whether or not michael jackson was or wasn't i firstly loved his music i think it's simple production decision and commercial decision by a corporate system that's always been a part of entertainment and benefactor so i don't think it necessarily is a comment by the simpsons or the creators of the simpsons on michael or on what occurred or didn't occur this was not just a decision that was made and it has nothing to do with michael jackson this was specifically removed why because it contained the voice of michael jackson who they decided they wanted to saying and just like with countries in international government you saying someone as a way to punish them my colleague here is very determined to make this about the

things that unfortunately were attached to michael's brand identity when he was living and frankly she's the one doing that not the prieta of the simpsons in fact they might be even said to be acting out of respect for the family and respect for michael jackson's estate by choosing to eliminate that episode or his voice net as they were in a capitalist society and all of these things have money attached to them if if michael jackson appears on an episode of one of the longest running television shows in the u.s. if his voice is there his family receives royalties ok so in it so his family has no interest in michael jackson's voice ever being muted because if i knew actually benefits them to for the for the rest of us to continue to carry on his legacy. and celebrate his greatness i would say that about the economic interest of the company the economic interest of the company is just as valid as the interests of the jackson's family holdings and their state the the interest of the company to not

get sued every time michael jackson's name of fans of you or maybe that's plagued in hollywood right now we've seen all these great shows gotten sued and attacked a bunch 1st 1st subjective feelings of viewers so why don't we go ahead and broaden this and just say nobody has to be trying to hurt anybody to and to protect their bottom line the baby had harry and i before we go just to remind that we are now including q.r. code to now reports there were days just in the bottom left hand corner of your screen if you click on that or scan it with your mobile phone it will then get more information on the story that we're running it's a good feature easy to use it to give it a try with back with no need to be at the top.

you know world big partisan movies a lot and conspiracy it's time to wake up to dig deeper to hit the stories that mainstream media refuses to tell more than ever we need to be smarter we need to stop slamming the door. and shouting past each other it's time for critical thinking it's time to fight for the middle for the truth the time is now for watching closely watching the hawks. description sound appetising even for the owners so how to choose this bad food industry is telling us what to feed our pets really more based on what they want to sell us then was necessarily good for the pet turns out pet food may not be as healthy as people believe we have animals that have you know diabetes in arthritis

they have auto immune disorders they've cut allergies we are actually creating these problems it's a huge epidemic of problems all of them i believe can be linked to a very simple problem of diet and some dog owners so heartbreaking stories about their pets last treats the larger corporations are not very interested in proving or disproving the value of their food because they're already making a $1000000000.00 on it and there's no reason to do that research. was the her daughter.

time after time if you were going underground is pictures continue to emerge of alleged atrocities committed in gaza before the signing of a temporary cease fire agreement coming up in the show we go to ramallah to hear from the former palestinian prime minister nabil shaath now senior advisor to president abbas plus what is netflix's the crown season 3 not telling you about the british monarchy u.k. for my home office minister and privy councillor to the queen norman baker reveals all that you want to hear from the mouths of a libya coleman and helena bonham carter told us of all going up in today's going underground the 1st this month marks 45 years since yasser arafat became the 1st

so-called on state leader to address the united nations general assembly in his speech he claimed optimism based on the attitudes of human rights of the u.n. charter. this attitude heightens the hopes that all the world attached to the u.n. contribution in defending the issues of peace justice and independence to create a new world free from colonialism imperialism neo colonialism and racism in all its forms including zionism he went on to offer israel in all of branch but 15 years ago last monday he would be dead israel still continuing to violate un security council resolutions and in the past few days fighting has intensified between the so-called largest prison camp in the world gaza and illegally occupied israeli settlements israel's ambassador to london has not got back to going underground and successive representatives have never been available for interview on this program joining me now from ramallah is a senior palestinian official and former chief negotiator.