u.s. state department should be required to look into whether russia is a sponsor of terrorism to build making its way through congress we look at whether the country does fit. time magazine's person of the year in 2019 is. the 16 year old climate into prominence voting green issues. the chinese restaurants of new york. 8 months the middle class or the cultural appropriation. once again this is a busybody annoying white liberal. think they have to police the world and stand up for all the. problem all. the.

stereotypes. so very good morning to you you're watching r t international with me making our top story this hour a u.s. senate committee has approved a bill to the country's secretary of state to determine whether russia is a state sponsor of terrorism the draft legislation is titled stopping malign activities from russian terrorism if passed the state department will have 90 days to report back to congress and whether russia meets the criteria of a state sponsor of terror the senator who pushed the bill short is. ludden reported continues to try to cause grievous harm to international peace and stability and i'm pleased the senate foreign relations committee advanced my critical legislation directing the state department to consider naming russia what they are a state sponsor of terror they propose that legislation will have to pass the house

and the senate before being signed by the president though just a week ago the state department said that russia is not a state tara sponsor teleported looks at whether russia falls under this category. state sponsor of terrorism is a special designation under u.s. law in which a country is subject to specific sanctions and treatment by the united states for allegedly supporting terrorism now the countries that currently have this label are iran north korea syria and sudan cuba had this label until u.s. president barack obama lifted that label against cuba as part of negotiations that took place during his presidency now the allegation seems to be that russia supports terrorism and is worthy of this state department designation however we've heard testimony from members of the u.s. state department making clear that russia does not support terrorists the state department has not at this stage determined russia's

a state sponsor of terrorism there's a fairly complex deliberative process for doing and i don't personally see the person as state sponsorship of terrorism terrorist attacks we also have to recognize russia is itself has been a victim of terrorism to make it safe to say that on the record as well now russia has long battled against jihad as an extremist that have carried out terrorist attacks against the russian people the russian government has also cooperated with the u.s. government in antiterrorism efforts the advancing of this bill comes in the immediate aftermath of the very important meeting between russian foreign minister sergei lavrov and u.s. president donald trump now at his press remarks following that meeting the russian foreign minister emphasized that there are certain forces in the united states working very hard to do rail relations between the 2 countries and groups congress seems to have been captured by a desire to destroy us russian relations now relations between the u.s. and russia have been sour as it is and when u.s.

president donald trump met with the russian foreign minister and took a photograph together there was quite a reaction from those who oppose it are critical of president donald trump trump is meeting with russia's foreign minister in the oval office again on this he's invited in. it sounds last time they laughed about troops firing of komi today they can celebrate the success of russian propaganda regen wouldn't recognize this g.o.p. trump lover of the meeting in private this often what conspiracy are they cooking up today among the topics discussed at this high level russia u.s. meeting where the issues of arms control nuclear proliferation as well as the issue of terrorism and it seems that in the aftermath of the meeting some efforts are now taking place to undo whatever progress was made. all of us must in the executive director of the eurasia center thinks that russia has done more to combat terrorism than the u.s. i am shocked i think this is going in the complete opposite direction the president

. would like to go in. i think europe is also would like to be mending and rebuilding the tied to russia i don't understand how the senate even comes up with the this idea i mean if you look at terrorism russia is probably doing more to fight terrorism than the us i mean it's clear that whether it's intentional or not us funding us weapons us training have gone to just an example moderate rebel which one they are supposedly moderate and then the next day there i thirst russia as a state sponsorship i mean these people are off in some other world and they're not in not in reality. i feel very embarrassed. you know like russia but they're going through it i just i'm completely shocked that somebody would actually propose that. time magazine has unveiled its choice for person of the good 16 year olds climate activists crisis fun book well something

you have as a model of determination and praise her efforts to combat climate change others find her approach unscientific and accuse her of 7 world wide panic daniel conflicts into the phone book and the phenomena. last year she was just the regular swedish schoolgirl 12 months on and she's time's person of the year rarely does a discussion on climate change today take place without her name being mentioned growth of the work has become a global sensation not just a prominent figure among climate activists but almost a messianic symbol to pulls no punches in schooling politicians about what they must do to save the planet the real danger is when politicians and c.e.o.'s are making it look like real action is happening when in fact almost nothing is being done apart from clever accounting and creative p.r. she certainly does have a point but what about the greater thornburg phenomenon itself it's on the noise

quickly and loudly drawn attention to climate change she's got people talking and even been credited with influencing european and national elections but wants more than just talking she wants action from politicians or the critics question what useful action grettir inspired movements have actually taken from strikes and protests which she herself says are unsustainable we can't go on like this it is not sustainable solutions that children skip school we can't go on like that so now. we don't want to continue so we would we would love some action from people in power her speech is resonated across the world it wasn't long before her fiery indictment of world leaders at the un assembly became a meme now they followed a clear structure grave danger bad government and a need for immediate action she soon became

a target for opponents who said her ideas it lacks substance and slated her style but that was quickly knocked on the head criticism was often swiftly silenced with those critiquing her justifiably or not. labeled is massage honest hysterical or being triggered the climate hysteria movement is not about science if it were about science it would be led by scientists rather than by politicians and the mentally ill swedish child who is being exploited by her parents and by the international lair you. markku knows of daily want to just call get a phone by get a mentally ill swedish child she is mad and dangerous and she is causing the young children sleepless noise and with the idiocy i was in she said she needs to go to school and show that i was fascinated by this school girl starting this strike for climate change awareness and i thought wow that's pretty gutsy it was all

a little melodramatic it was all in the world of succulent dick i don't want millions if not believes of young people watching great to do that kind of speech and genuinely think the plan is literally about the way she is daring to express what so many young people are feeling and actually i find it remarkable that she can speak in such an honest way it's truth to cow thing is she speaking some of her actions a ridiculed like her transatlantic boat trip having sailed through storms to avoid carbon emissions from air travel she sailed into a storm of criticism when a fellow companions joined her flying in by plane not to mention the impracticality of adopting such measures on a wider scale this brings us back to growth as words about politicians creative p.r. world leaders from merkel to micron among others were happy to humor the latest global

trend with a photo opportunity while rebuking some of our ideas so what does this leave the person of the year at 2019 which is certainly sent a message taken center stage and brought people into the streets with a call it is now time for civil disobedience it's time to rebel but will this have the desired effect the only thing you want is real action and reaction has not been happening so of course we have to see. a lot but. but if you look at it from. far from a certain point of view we have achieved nothing like her all over she's created a stir it may be difficult to understand the method behind a person of the year awards one of good as runner ups was donald trump maybe we can agree to hope that this year's award isn't just symbolic isn't just creative p.r. but will lead to the real change the grettir seeks to create. and on our website

you can find out more about grace i found bag on the issues she's made for t.v. . and as if taking up call the e.u. commission has unveiled new plans to make europe the 1st climate neutral continent under the european green deal emissions will be halted by 2030 with carbon neutrality to be achieved by 2050 but the deal has already faced criticism from bloc members evangelos that south looks at why. there is no bigger challenge than saving the planet and europe wants to lead the way the new e.u. commission leader wonderly in has proposed a new green deal aiming to make the continent climate neutral by 2050 the european green deal is our new growth strategy for growth that gives back more than it takes

away we will help our economy to be a global leader by moving 1st and moving fast by showing the rest of the world how to be sustainable in competitive we can convince other countries to move with us via bishan are there but making it happen is not going to be easy the plans were choir a revamp of almost every sector transport farming manufacturing power plants and many countries already pushing back on the day it was introduced one 3rd of the country's bloc the finance underpinning the new green deal so for euro skeptics this might look like it another example of brussels making plans before getting the member states on board most governments support the general direction of the new green deal but the trade off between saving the planet and protecting jobs is not going to be easy for the politicians electricity is a key factor in cutting emissions and us things then in europe most of it comes

from either nuclear power or fossil fuels the nuclear power sector employs more than 1000000 people in the u.n. another half a 1000000 people work in the coal industry so that's a lot of jobs that are at stake and france the continent's biggest nuclear power producers are now questioning why that sector should be excluded from the green financing we cannot succeed in the ecological transition and we cannot achieve a goal in terms of combating global warming without nuclear energy meanwhile the renewable turn it is are not always popular look at germany's wind power sector. turbine installation here has slowed down due to legal disputes long delays in planning permission and alarm over a number of birds being killed by the blades e.u. commission leader von der liran calls her new green deal a quote men on the moon moments this is europe's man on the moon moment but from down here on the ground you can see it's going to be

a long and difficult journey eventually. for are 2 different. other firms targeted by the sanctions include iran's biggest shipping company along with a subsidiary based in china the nation's flagship. is also on the list. now washington has already imposed numerous sanctions on iran accusing it of pursuing a covert nuclear weapons program but members of congress have questioned the entire strategy. the goal is to limit their nuclear weapons capability and iran is now advancing their nuclear weapons capability they're much farther they're much closer to having a nuclear bomb than they were under the deal ministration want to talk about the mashing pressure campaign and all the ways it's hurting their economy and everything but i'm just holding you to your stated strategy to your stated strategy and on all 3 points the administration strategy is failing the administration is worse off we are worse off we are less safe than we were under the way joshua

landis a professor of middle eastern studies things in iran is being punished for challenging u.s. dominance in the region both era flounders the head of the international action center calls american punitive measures pure terrorism. the united states uses a number of rationales for its actions in the middle east which are largely driven by balance of power desire for to preserve its position and gemini in the middle east one of those is human rights democracy promotion restricting weapons of mass destruction upholding international norms these are the standard accusations for intervention in places like syria iraq sanctions on iran whether it's sudan and other places i think it's about iranian power in the middle east which challenges america's allies it's about america's position in the middle east and its dominance over the persian gulf that's what the united states is doing it's trying to pin

back iran weaken it force it out of places like yemen syria iraq so it's going to escalate and that's why the united states is sending more troops the gulf and taking more measures to try to put pressure on iran but the death strategy is only going to make iran strike back iran has very little choice unfortunately because diplomacy does not seem to be america's strong suit today and it isn't offering really any kind of diplomatic solution for iran so you know i forsee an escalation on iran's part i think the u.s. government is trying to find one excuse after another they grow an agreement that they made with iran and with the world. in in terms that they need agreement on nuclear which ran on biden 2 to the letter and now it's gone much further they re in poland sanctions and have this strengthened them tighter and tighter and

there's no reason to defend it at all and there is no reason to support or even accept and terrorism designations. i think we need to say what sanctions economic warfare are on terror against defenseless populations securely against and against children against seniors the disabled all those who are in the most fragile health conditions are threatened by when there is destabilization and economic shortages. controversial chinese restaurant in new york open by a white woman has shut down after just 8 months amid a backlash over cultural appropriation xenophobic american lady we've all been there having chinese food on sundays but don't you hate how it's so unhealthy me

raced for 20 years by asian metrics cooking healthy balanced meal 7 days a week know her blog talks about how chinese food is usually dolls and drones sauces and makes your eyes puffy lady what a lucky liza started by a white woman ignorantly use an asian stereotypes to put her clean american chinese food promotional material by our alehouse full of lucky lees restaurant repeated stereotypes about supposedly unhealthy chinese food claiming only its offerings don't leave you feeling bloated and. the establishment has since deleted that post . we have been listening and learning and we have been making changes and we will continue shame on us for not being smarter about cultural sensitivities. it's the latest in a long line of cultural appropriation claims in the food industry a top chef and leading indian restaurant joined condemnation of the new v. can bury on a round by british supermarket marks and spencer noting that rice is always part of

a real biryani meanwhile celebrity chef gordon ramsay's new asian restaurant in central london was pounds for not having a single asian chef. and my colleague neil harvey earlier discussed the issues raised with human rights campaigner peter tatchell and journalist and political commentator chadwick. the whole issue of cultural procreation and that's what they seem to be mad about they're trying to say that she was using disparaging language if that's the best they have and she said chinese food makes you feel icky that's not a really strong argument and i don't believe it i don't think any chinese people upset about this i haven't seen the government of china banning her from visiting i think the problem was that the own a did indulge in a few stereotypes and you know i don't think it's true at all the claims that chinese food makes you feel bloated or icky. i've never experienced that i love chinese but i think it's great but of course there are good and bad chinese restaurants just like there's good and bad british ones once again this is

a busybody annoying white liberal preoccupation who think they have to police the world and stand up for all the poor suffering minorities out there and you know it's great to see them eat their own it's wonderful to see them be ridiculous and to shut down a female owned business because they didn't like one thing she said i think you know obviously it's very important that the owners and providers of i think minority traditional foods do have a cultural sensitivity and respect for those cultures but that's like why would that even be controversial who cares it's not like it's insulting a culture it's not like it's racist the whole problem if they had you know if that would also just be her stating her opinion about chinese cuisine which would be shared by many people this is not like a hateful statement celebrity chef gordon ramsay criticised for opening an asian restaurant without a single asian chef i would guess probably say i just choose the best chefs regardless of race and you would think that would be applauded but how do you feel

about it i think gordon ramsay could easily afford to find some good asian chefs and there are plenty of them believe you me you know there is no excuse from not for not having some chinese chefs in the restaurant because there are many many really good chinese schiff's i think that's ridiculous because that the accusation to be something that you. i intentionally didn't hire a chinese person which of course i think it would would be completely not true he simply hired the best person for the job why me waste time money and resources scouring for employees based on their skin color just because they happen to. have . a genetic history from a certain part of the world. into its 11 earthquake and tsunami hit japan's fukushima nuclear power plant contaminating the surrounding area hundreds of thousands of people were evacuated from the area since then have to cloud parts of the town closest to the plant say for habitation r.t.

documentary visited the ghost town you can catch that film in full tomorrow on r.t. . the march 20th live an earthquake and tsunami. a giant wave hits the fukushima one nuclear power plant. flooding almost the entire facility. first the reactor cooling system is compromised then there's an explosion then another and another. radiation rises to 5 times the normal level the situation is exceptional and it's given the highest possible score for severity of nuclear contamination. and that more pretty. obvious during this i am the say of.

those zone that's what they call the part of the prefecture to which access is still restricted the. highway runs right through this section and it's fenced off on both sides. now and then the. one that the media has done then. corner that could just ocasio 2 near the border. just kind and. that's wrapped up now with the world news in brief 1st to israel where the parliament has been dissolved off the failing to meet a midnight deadline to form a new government it's automatically triggers fresh and elections in march that in

this case everybody. oh. oh. anti-government protesters were attacked by a rival group in the lebanese capital so riot police intervened but were met with a hail of stones nationwide balance of unrest began in october triggered by the diet state of the okapi economy. countries to the streets of the indian counter-insurgency as the 6th in ship amendment bill with a 6 to grant citizenship to non muslim and illegal immigrants from pakistan bangladesh and afghanistan protesters say it's discriminatory. go to every house he loves her your thoughts on all of our stories so do get in touch by following us on social media and leave your comments that join us again at the top of the hour for the latest.

you know world of big part of the law and conspiracy it's time to wake up to dig deeper to hit the stories that made stream media refuses to tell more than

ever we need to be smart 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 we're watching closely watching the hawks. and we don't know what facebook's aims are in fact facebook doesn't know what its aims are because it's going to be the sum total of all the people who are working on these algorithms a whistleblower someone who used to work for facebook came forward last year and said i was one of the news at facebook a bunch of us to sit around every day and we used to remove stories from the news feed that were too conservative and now and then we inject

a story and we saw it was really cool. facebook founder mark zuckerberg says he's committed to giving everyone a voice he's from responding to an allegation that facebook edits conservative views out of its trending topics they can suppress certain types of results based on what they think you should be seeing based on what your followers are presenting now a new report claims that according to a former facebook employee the social media mega company sometimes ignores what is actually trending among its 1000000000 users if this story originated from a conservative news source or if it's a topic causing buzz among conservatives. facebook costly manipulates or users. they do it by the things that they insert into the news feeds they do it by the types of posts they allow their users to see and the fact that they actually decided to do psychological experiments on the users is something that i think

a lot of people need to really fully understand and they were doing it based upon the fact that different things that people posted they want to see how other people would react to it. on how to watch why your facebook friends post can have a direct effect on your mood new research shows the more negative post you see the more negative you could become. so if for example let's say somebody wanted to post something that was on the news feed that was a very negative story they wanted to see how their users would react via their likes by their statements for their posts and they would show people who already had a predilection to maybe having some depression or maybe having some other issues in their lives and they can figure that out based upon your like space upon your connections based upon where you're going and so what they want to do is take that information and then use it to basically weaponize this information against their users so that way their users could see different things that may affect their mood and may affect how they interact with others and that's something that is highly

unethical it appears that some young people may have been so affected by this that they may have done harm to themselves based upon what they saw on their facebook feed and it was all because it is experiments these things that we have no standing with facebook we're not citizens of facebook we have no blood on facebook it's not a democracy it is this process is not a way we can design the future we can't rely on this single company to invent our digital future. because there's what i call the creepy line and the google policy about a lot of these things is to get right up for the creepy line but not cross google crosses the creepy line. every day and then only does google cross the creepy line the location of that line keeps shifting well it's an interesting word creepy right because it's it's a word that connotes horror he didn't say dangerous he didn't say unethical there's

all sorts of words that could have fit in that slot he said creepy and a creep is someone who creeps around and follows you and spies on you for unsavory purposes right that's the definition of a creep you know i don't think the typical ethical person says i'm going to push right up to the line of creepy and stop there you know they say more something like how about we don't get near enough to the creepy line so that we're ever. in gauging in even pseudo creepy behavior because creepy is really bad you know it's. a creepy mugger is worse than a mugger the mugger wants your money god only knows what the creepy mugger wants it's more than your money and you give google a lot of information you searching for the most private stuff on google you're searching about you know they'll mrs and diseases that your family have you're searching about things that might be your wife may or just.