major u.s. news network all right to security democrats in washington demands fox news register as a foreign agent calling the channel a russian stooge after an all night joke. the parents of a man killed in a traffic accident pulled pressure on the u.k. demanding justice as the wife of a u.s. diplomat and main suspect escapes punishment. we feel it was probably. more concerned with the american citizen. accused of killing our sure none. british citizens agree with the contrary. flames ravage a chemical plant in western texas following a huge blast early on wednesday morning 3 workers are injured.

a very well welcome to you watching r.t. international with meaning airing our top story this hour democrats have labeled fox news an existential threat to the u.s. describing it as a russian stooge with some on the blue half of washington calling for the channel to register as a foreign agent. voices in the mainstream of the democratic party have escalated their calls for the suppression of alternative views pacifically about foreign policy the target now seems to be the fox news network one of the most watched cable news networks in the united states prominent democratic voices have called for fox news to be forced to register as a foreign agent and specifically a foreign agent of russia fox news should register with far as an agent of the russian federation if it's going to peddle the kremlin agenda and propaganda while

hurting u.s. national security interests then it should be treated the same as our t. and nick these allegations and this call for suppression of fox news and forcing it to register as an agent of russia seem to be in response to this comment from tucker carlson i don't like what they are about to go on in the conflict between ukraine and russia but i'm curious like i don't like to know why and why should that run for russia which i am tucker carlson is a prominent host on fox news he has a nightly program and apparently it was in response to not only these comments but also comments he's made in coverage she's had of the o.p.c. w. reports questioning allegations about syria and the chemical attack and duma in 2718 here is some of the response that fox news has endured for its foreign policy coverage folks news host says he roots for russia against the west he said the quiet out loud this clip is just one more exhibit supporting the case that it's no

longer left vs right but democracy versus authoritarianism i think many still underestimate the threat to the republic at this point fox's open the fascist day and g.o.p. are existential threats to do us say we've reached out to fox news for comment on this issue in this allegation we hope to hear back from them this is not the 1st time that allegations like this have been leveled against conservative media outlets in the united states there's currently a case. in court in which one american news is suing m s n b c and rachel maddow over their allegation that rachel maddow referred to america one american news as 'd quote paid russian propaganda one american news network as a conservative media outlet they say this is slanderous they are simply not a paid russian propaganda outlet and that this isn't an attack this is an unfair slander from m s n b c and from rachel maddow and they're hoping to win a settlement in court of up to $10000000.00 it seems that the allegation that one

is a russian agent or a russian asset or a foreign agent agent of a foreign power seems to be a common theme among those calling for the suppression of alternative views it's just not the smear it's then that's all it is and they make these outrageous claims with absolutely no backing your no support about being a foreign agent which is absolutely ludicrous but they make is going on with no evidence and of course the intent is not to actually get these organizations to register as foreign agents that's absurd the intent is to just plant this seed to plant this ridiculous notion which they've been doing all along they've been doing this with the russia gates a lot that blew up in their face earlier this year now with the piece written hearings which is also blown up in their face democratic party in the left used to be the party of free speech the priest speech movement was started in 1960 s. by left wing activists and and they're also the anti-war movement and they used to be the party of anti-war we've seen this dramatic shift in the entire paradigm has

been flipped on its head free speech and war and foreign relations it's just 2 of those biggest issues the democrat party of the left is fundamentally and type free speech. you case foreign secretary has be pounded i callant apparently refusing to talk to the family of a young man killed an icon accidents the deadly incident happened in august outside an american military base in england and reportedly involved the wife of a u.s. diplomat we spoke to the victim's fought the following his confrontation with the foreign secretary. this is done hayden although you know what very heavy security so a bit of a go in there but i think we really have to want to you know we thought it was right but they found one of the all the. people a very happy feeling to go down and try to speak to him because he had been in contact. troubles with how rich carrick's sorry i went down to speak to him but he

didn't want to talk to me because there was some press that would be trying to speak to mr arar for a long time now or just do is call me he goes on nobody knows where. orders to do is get in touch with us and we can arrange a marriage so you have. since there is asking since the start but we haven't had any support from the u.k. government really i had one meeting with mr brough which wasn't very such structuring for us as a family and a lover now there has been no contact with the right we fail as a family that. they're more concerned with helping the american citizen is accused of killing our son then calculus british citizens that been in the country teenager harry down died 3 months ago as a result of a traffic accident between his motorcycle and a car the suspects in question and succulents admitted that she was driving on the

wrong side of the road she left the u.k. afterward sending votes diplomatic immunity to her lawyer cyclists that she had no time to react and apologize to the dunn family. the u.k.'s foreign office is providing all the necessary help to seek a resolution to this case but harry dunn's father told r.t. more must be done for justice to happen. probably rick we want and secure this to come back and be charged through our courts for the crimes she has committed and except. for us that is what we are. 100 percent. sure we're going to try how the governments or the countries look at this diplomatic community or because it's a city rather than. an american worker control and knowledge when you're all out there how to meet the coach your own beauty i think

the laws need to be updated so be more current with the work you are not songs we live in we feel we cannot let this injustice go forward was a young star and now 19 years old starting to enjoy his life and it will take you know i have of him and we would feel we would not be the parents we should be for we we do not try and see this through and through but just as he deserves. the spanish will be taken off in bolivia at the start of december that's according to the leading t.v. operating in the latin american country. joins me live in the studio where it's discuss this further now eliot has there been any explanation of a why this happened hi again well for now no proper details but a leading bolivian t.v. provider called coulter explained their decision to take r.t. spanish off their list of channels through some kind of order that they got from

what they called the company's administration listen to what they said this is a decision taken by the companies administration which touched us with shutting down the channels broadcast. so code is a private operator and it is the number one provider in that country bolivia the decision by the way follows a similar move by ecuador although there it was made by a public provider to r.t. spanish to take them off air pretty much which happened almost 2 weeks ago and moscow has demanded explanations from quito which for now it hasn't received in this particular case it's still unclear whether this is something that solely came from the company's management or whether this situation has something to do with the political situation in bolivia member that earlier this month what this country

suffered was pretty much a coup yet take us through exactly what happened there just remind us it's all to do with the country's former president. and his government we remember that on november 10th he was all but ousted and that happened after he was reelected in a vote although eventually had to flee bolivia because the opposition demanded him . they wanted him to step down there were mass protests and as a result of this the police and the military turned their backs on to have a morale as he had to seek political asylum in mexico but what's crucial in this particular case is that the person who is now the interim leader her name is janine and yes she's never been elected in a vote she basically her claim herself the interim leader of the country after the president stepped down the vice president stepped down the head of the senate

stepped down and there she is the proclaim task by her now is to make sure that the country's now. well she wants new elections to happen this is what she said. this is the law we believe in swanned we have arrived at this day with the satisfaction of fulfilling a duty because this is the main objective of my government new elections will happen in the shortest time possible. although many would say that this isn't really what she's doing right now her main focus looks to be something completely different 1st of all she turned a blind eye a violent crackdown of. supporters and he's mostly supported by the indigenous people of bolivia but more importantly she pretty much took the country's foreign policy in her own hands and decided to it seems make as many u. turns as possible as quickly as possible she appointed an ambassador to the united

states for the 1st time in over a decade at the same time she severed diplomatic ties with bolivia traditional allies which have been cuba and men as well. although diplomatic personnel representing major divinest while an embassy in bolivia will be allowed to leave the country for having interfered in internal state affairs. a very important crisis in latin america for the last year or so has been the ongoing fight between the government of nick lost my door and been as well and their opposition and save a self-proclaimed leader. well another thing that interim leader on the us did and was announced that bolivia is now recognizing. as the legitimate leader of men as well. that i hope got will and that you with

the venezuelan people will soon be free because i believe that there have been many years of suffering mr president. are you do have to say though that eventually. did pass legislation which allows a new general election but the party of more all as has already said that they will not be taking part in this general election and what kind of election is that going to be when pretty much half of the population wants to boycott it so it will have to be interesting to watch thanks for coming in and taking us through that. was part of the national coordinator from the think tank alliance for global justice to say if the self-proclaimed government is attempting to prevent the bolivian people from any alternative coverage. coup government and bolivia struggling to establish itself against. resistance.

they can't they can't afford for people to hear alternative voices to. news that they want the message that they want to get get out there because they have to have control of the message. people can you know if people have free access to information they're going to say that other people or country are are suffering the way that they are suffering they're going to know the reason for the suffering. this. is the sole legitimate government that. composed the resistance will continue and grow. while washington has announced it will look into allegations that his own weapons to fall into the wrong hands in conflict. the department of state takes the

allegations very seriously and is working closely with pardon in the nation's to determine whether there were any such unauthorized transfers the statement came in response to queries made back in october by senator elizabeth warren those concerns triggered a c.n.n. investigation which claimed mine resistant vehicles that the saudi backed forces in yemen apparently ended up being used against them amnesty international names the u.s. is the world's biggest exporter of arms to date at the same time it says saudi arabia is the main recipient of american armaments between 2014 to 2018 riyadh accounted for 22 percent of washington's weapon exports here's a quick reminder of what's been taking place in yemen since the started campaign began in 2050.

we're joined now by michael maloof f.l. the pentagon security analyst thank you for joining us on the program michael how is it possible that weapons or in this case vehicles can end up in enemy hands i mean what's the most likely or common scenario for this. well generally it's through surreptitious sales if there's no real strict accountability of these arms particularly in the hands of the saudis and and the. the u.a.e.

so and that's what the investigation is going to be about is try to get some idea. how some of that those arms may have gone wayward based on those reports and i don't rule it out because if local troops there can make some money and sell some arms they will now it's a little. fantastical i guessed to have a whole enwrapped go way word like that because those are fairly well accounted for and but but the state department's going to look into it i i don't know if am raps which is like a big troop troop carrier. is in the hands of rebels but it's quite possible because there's no real strict accountability on the flow of arms and we've seen that in syria we saw it in. we saw that certainly in iraq in which u.s. arms have gotten into the hands of al qaeda and ultimately isis that's what the

allegation is is that those arms have gotten into their hands and has been used against the government of yemen and how do you expect the u.s. banks coalition and washington to react to this now. well it's probably i don't think it's sanctioned at the top but it's probably the middle and lower level troops who are doing it certainly there will be an investigation but again if you don't have a strict accounting of goods and where they might go and we've seen this even a syria in dealing with the kurds you don't want one safe past hands in don't know what other hands they may be may have passed through and wound up in the wrong hands ultimately and that's that's basically what occurs i don't think anything is going to come of it ultimately they're they will just say that they will give generalizations like they have in the past and move on but it's nothing that's

going to be to earth shattering now. senator warner was the. the who's running for president by the way is the one who asked the state department to look into it so she's got she's going to probably use them on her political campaign and use it to to to the extent that she can would would you say that this shows an element of recklessness when it comes to u.s. weapons exports you know to. oh totally but you know we're we're involved in so many wars so many actions are so many fronts and that's why the defense department frankly cannot pass an accounting because. because there's no way to account for where any of these items go alternately certainly aircraft will be watched bigger items big ticket items ships. but not not small arms not that's almost impossible to control mortars. and. but but but it's

very very difficult if not impossible to have a strict accountability of that of that type of equipment on the battlefield and when it passes through so many hands it's inevitably going to some of it's inevitably going to wind up in the hands of the enemy and be used against your own troops. do you think incidents of weapon weaponry falling into terrorist hands could ever face repercussions in an international court. no i don't think it'll get to that to that extreme i don't think that to get that far rather. us probably wouldn't recognize anything in an international court anyway because it doesn't belong to the international court of criminal justice so it us wouldn't participate in the whole thing will die but they have a reality michael billy for the pentagon security analyst thank you for joining us on our team tonight on today we appreciate it pleasure. a chemical

plant in southeast texas is a blaze following an explosion early on wednesday morning in which 3 workers were inches. i. only we spoke to one local resident who told us about the shock and extent of damage to locals homes. you know so our house was actually really damaged but all the garage doors pretty much all of the doors down the middle all the windows blew

out some of the the roof you know. so we had a lot of damage you hear about that explosions but and it's half and around the area before but not to this extent it's never affected homeowners around the refineries i definitely did not expect you know something like this to happen but i guess it comes with living in the area of the refinery owned by the tepee secret produces thousands of tons of chemical and petroleum based products the situation important h.s. is still ongoing. to seek to bring the fire under control this quickly as possible journalist on the campaign own the health and environment on and on health and environmental issues all of it to kell believes that a substantial investigation will be needed to determine any background toxicity. and really quite toxic compounds are used on this site and the manufactures on this site i think that really quite

a lot of investigation will be needed just to determine the background toxicity in the local area following this since the local community will have a love hate relationship with this plant these plants are responsible for quite a lot of wealth in this area they provide a huge amount of employment they are the economic lifeblood of this golden triangle area but at the same time there are these pollution incidents i think that this incident may actually bring quite a lot of additional political pressure on to the trumpet ministration not to cut the resources of the as it's intending to do. sculptures of whistleblowers julian a songs chelsea manning and edward snowden have made a real parents in central berlin more than 4 years after they were 1st unveiled and time's old anything to say they collection of sculptors and has now returned to its former place near the brandenburg gate after a world tour the artist behind it david domina uses it represents those who dare to

say no to global surveillance or make a stand against lies that lead to war but to sarra vaga next from the german left party she told us the art pieces bring to life hypocrisy when it comes to freedom of speech. is so good as to this culture attracts attention to this incredible scandal it is the journalists and whistleblowers who uncover crimes are sitting in jail today while those who committed these crimes are not held accountable this has nothing to do with the rule of law and therefore it is very good there we are now so closely right because here is the federal government which could have started to act on this issue a long time ago and for example could provide a sound or snowden asylum in germany. returns to germany as there are serious concerns over wiki leaks editor julian assigned to the u.k. prison earlier this week more than 60 doctors wrote an open letter to the british home secretary saying

a stange could die in prison they based their assessments on eyewitness accounts following an october court appearance it was reported that a stanch couldn't record his date of birth at the hearing and when asked whether he could understand what was happening the australian replied that he couldn't think straight the wiki leaks co-founder has also complained about the conditions of his imprisonment on multiple occasions. to recap a songe is currently being held in london's belmarsh prison where he's serving a 50 week sentence for breaching his bell conditions and 2012 separate leaders also fighting a u.s. extradition request over wiki leaks publishing classified information on american political and military dealings un rapporteur on torture and strongly claims that it's not just about saddam's but about the integrity of governments and safeguarding future generations. 6 months ago already i went into medical doctors and i sent a clear in the examination and conclusion to the government and asking for

immediate measures to be taken for his protection and delineation of the pressure on him the government sent me a tweet the next day and then waited for 5 months to send any response whatsoever and when they did respond to sent me a 2 paragraph response is rejecting all old school all my conclusions they're not at all indicating their readiness to engage in a dialogue and do what they need to do both doctor said if pressure is not alleviated rapidly that situation will deteriorate into a dangerous level we have seen this happening within 10 days of our visit and since then i'm seriously concerned for his life this is not really about a son george snowden or manning this is about us it's about our governments their integrity the rule of law and the future of our self our human dignity and our children thanks for joining us here on r.t. international and don't forget of the top of the hour for the latest.

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