into the latest u.s. sanctions on russia is not gas pipelines in germany branding it's an interference in domestic affairs that is the project's main squares contract over washington's top and will to. also become u.s. rules and it is ok for american spy agencies to collect data on citizens without a warrant if done by accident that is the essence of the n.s.a. whistleblower edward snowden who did lift the lid on u.s. mass surveillance saying 2 things can. you tell us who edward snowden. wait a 2nd stones not the. not that guy that he wants some information and the man accused of stealing and burning a rainbow flag from the u.s. church jailed for 16 years i guess debate whether the time fits the crime. and

16 years for offending probably one of the most privileged groups in america when it came to course he did not express any regrets justify his actions based upon his particular extremist interpretation of the christian faith. welcome just come a day here in moscow you're watching international now has been strong reaction from berlin and more skyway of a new u.s. sanctions targeting north to the russian gas pipeline to europe that's almost complete. the german government has regretfully taken into account that sanctions against north stream 2 and 2 extreme initiated by the us congress are coming into fact today after donald trump signed them off the fact of german and european

companies and tantamount to interference into domestic affairs and country with 22 trillion in state dept forbids credit worthy countries from developing a real sector of their economy the american ideology of living on loans has failed to stand against a global competition something that's been demonstrated again and again by the u.s. treasury department issuing new orders for economic arrest soon they will demand that they stop breathing at once and many of them will well that does come as the projects main swiss contract has pulled back to over washington's tough penalties. join me in the studio with more story but at the trump administration sanctions have become a political tool of choice and often simply automatic reaction to anything that the president takes issue with and this case is apparently no different because president trump has officially signed a bill which will require him to impose sanctions on any foreign companies and individuals which are involved in the building of nordstrom to now many of course

you know not soon to it is a huge $11000000000.00 venture it's a pipeline over 1000 kilometers long running from russia to germany and essentially it's going to flood the european continent with russian gas at a faster and cheaper rate than anything else currently available on the market but since the very beginning washington has had a bit of a problem with the project the united states commands all our european partners who have taken a strong stand against north stream to. and we commend others to do the same germany is totally controlled by russia because they were getting from 60 to 70 percent of their energy from russia and they knew by the way this pipeline if completed would make europe even more dependent on russian energy would generate billions of dollars for putin billions of dollars that would follow on russian military aggression. we don't want your energy suppliers to be.

so many see this bill as a last ditch attempt by the u.s. to stop trying to end its tracks the pipeline was originally due to be completed by mid 2020 but it seems they're ahead of schedule the only 2 weeks out from it being done in fact there are any around 60 to 70 kilometers left of the pipeline to lay now one of the many companies which will be affected by this bill is the swiss. cheese and they've been providing vessels for the construction a couple of days ago they in fact received a very aggressive you have to from the republican senator ted cruz which can only be described really as a letter of blackmail he gave them an ultimatum either you stop participating in this project or we're going to freeze all your assets in the u.k. in the u.s. and we're going to. have your employees from coming into the u.s. so unfortunately they count out and and have stopped all the operations america has made it clear is concerned it says about europe's energy security bit of a. wild card pipelines between russia and europe run through several european

countries such as poland but to russia ukraine. this means that of course that they get a very hefty transit fee for allowing these pipelines through. the baltic sea meaning that these countries will be bypassed washington maintains that this is unfair and specifically with regards to ukraine says that it's somehow politically motivated by what's very important to note here is that just a few hours before the bill was signed into effect russia and ukraine decided that they would likely by the end of 2019 signed a new agreement on russian transit gas a value crane to europe so that completely undermines what washington saying that somehow russia is trying to cut ukraine out of a deal and is that many to suspect that really what washington's up to is is trying to eliminate fact competition and its dominance in the e.u. . markets especially considering the bill also impose sanctions on another russian

pipeline which is tucked stream which runs through the black sea to touch so it's quite a patent being established if you're so american to export its own gas to europe as a result in europe's reaction to all of this while of the e.u. and u.s. standpoint on this issue couldn't be more different european countries call this an economic project that benefits everyone involved russia agrees germany and particular has consistently said that european and that you policy is europe's business and it's also a us to stop meddling so it's probably on surprising that these latest sanctions were not welcomed with professor of political economy and also seem to trust a former u.s. diplomat both say that the u.s. is trying to prevent russia from becoming economically more integrated with europe . well it's kind of ironic that the u.s. is saying they don't want germany and europe to be dependent on cheaper russian gas but they wanted to be dependent on more expensive american gas you see and what you

see here in this latest move is that they couldn't us couldn't get germany to. pull out of the nordstrom too so it's going after smaller companies building some of the products of nordstrom to those kind of an act of desperation in a sense the u.s. is getting concerned to some extent trying to keep russia from being economically more integrated with europe which is the big strategic objectives the u.s. is trying to achieve a washington policy establishment is a big dinosaur that can never admit that it sailed north stream 2 will be completed i think that this this latest round of sanctions on the cessation of war is a hick up it will be finished it will go into operation but these people are washing cannot and met their policy has failed we don't know how to adjust ourselves to a reality we don't like we only have one reality that is russia is bad and i think that connects russia to europe is bad too but we must do whatever we can to try to

stop it and if we can't stop it let's just make life difficult. for americans spy agencies are permitted to gather information on citizens without a warrant in certain situations the u.s. court of the pay was has proved that this can happen if a non-national he's good and they just met him being monitored abroad makes contact with an american the case was brought by an american citizen arrested in 2 n.t. 11 he had played guilty to attempting to giving material support to a terrorist organization however he questioned whether it was legal for the n.s.a. to collect information on him without a warrant or my intelligence official whistleblower william binney told us that the ruling does not necessarily reveal anything. it does it made no difference at all it was all under executive order or $1.00 to $2.00 or 3 section $23.00 c. which they used to been signed. into effect since the reagan years the reagan

presidency so they've been using them as early as they were and also really use the excuse that they are unable to separate their data as an out of right lie to so they've been lying to the courts are wrong and they have the capability to sort that stuff out it's just that they don't want to because it gives them power over everyone the ability to look into political opponents like they did the president drop. the n.s.a.'s illegal mass they in an internet surveillance of its own citizens was revealed by edward snowden a former contractor of the agency back in 2013 he's wanted in the u.s. for leaking classified information but was granted asylum by russia.

if we should be able to freely assemble we should be able to communicate freely if we're going to be talking to countries like china and russia about how they secrete people we should start in our own backyard the people oppose the surveillance state the n.s.a. is violating the rights of not only americans but also as citizens all over the world the alphabet soup of government agencies was it carrying out all kinds of wild spying and violations of privacy it was all pretty clearly a violation of the us constitution or that meant that offers protection from unreasonable search and seizure however at the time the n.s.a. tried to fight back pretty hard does the n.s.a. collect any type of data. on millions or hundreds of millions of americans. no sir. it does not. not wittingly 7 years on u.s.

federal courts have ruled that edward snowden the whistleblower who revealed this apparatus of surveillance won't be able to make any money from the book that he just published the ruling argues that edward snowden violated his contract with the cia and the n.s.a. because he didn't submit his book for prepublication review who don't want to see books like to skip written especially don't want to see books like this get rid of from it is still pursuing that case quite strongly they're more focused on the financial censorship side of it this court ruling comes as. federal courts have also ruled that it is now except a bowl to monitor the communications of americans with a quote foreign interest without any procedure or warrant so while u.s. courts have ruled that it is now acceptable to continue carrying out practices once

considered to be scandalous they have come down pretty hard on the man who revealed these practices to the public so do americans even remember edward snowden we decided to ask new yorkers can you tell us who edward snowden is now and doesn't ring any bells hope that word snowden. edward snowden is. it's. way to 2nd snowden's not the. not the bricks that guy. he is the wiki leaks not like the wiki leaks guy but the guy who was working for the government here and is over in russia now now that he leaked some from ation he lead. basically the government spying on us and watching of our things and gave a detailed report as to what the government's doing yes there was a massive outrage back in 2013 when this was 1st revealed but it seems that since then this is all becoming part of the new normal in the united states what was

wiretapping of civilians will continue in the united states and american leaders will also continue to boast that they have the freest country in the world we're going to do we assume they're in it to the mission that the unit and this is incapable of collect the only targeted towards firearms that they're monitoring so i mean to me that was not a problem even in the 99 we could have done that but they decided not to do that they wanted to collect their really what they're not saying here is that the cia the f.b.i. and the d.e.r.a. and other law enforcement people have access to that do the search for a common crime in the united states and they use it against u.s. citizens. in criminal courts without the without telling the coup or anybody else in the court lawyers included so they're fundamentally violating the rights of those of us citizens every year and they do this without any oversight whatsoever

even though that tempted over so i know you were saying to us in the united states who believe the intelligence these diseases any good anyway it's just it's over look a conversation it's not an oversight at all. man accused of stealing and burning analogy between a flag from the u.s. church has been sentenced to 16 years in jail after being found guilty of committing a hate crime a lawful martinez was 1st arrested and accused of desecrating the flag belonging to a local church in iowa earlier in the week he was also convicted of 3rd degree harassment safire boston as has admitted he's against time i say show ality but the length of his sentence has caused the. why does the left cheer when the american flag is burning no one goes to jail for that but they do for burning an activist movements flag while he got more years than murderous

get in the u.k. unbelievable so burning a rainbow flag is hate speech bunting an american flag is freedom of speech i see. he should have been the american flag then he would have been praised statues dedicated well i think in principle people should have the ride to burn flags fly it is a symbol and people have a right to disagree with homosexuality they have a right to disagree with did i did states or britain i don't think that should be a crime per se but i would say that the flag is a bit different from the american flag because it days ignites a specific community in the same way as maybe burning a jewish flag might designate the jewish community if you look at the report of what happened he was kicked out of the strip club he grabbed the flag he set it on fire outside of the strip club and started ranting about i was going to burn down the club i was in there i don't know it sounds like maybe he was wasted i don't think i don't think this is that they just would go around doing even if that

weren't the case it still is extreme and hate crime laws are silly anyway they should exist no a crime happened here it is absolutely 100 percent our institutionally protected speech to burn the gates of the gay pride flag in the same way that according to the supreme court's also protected speech to burn the american flag while i'm gay and much of my human rights involve supporting the human rights of l.g.b. plus people but i've got to say this sentence is excessive it is disproportionate it is not commensurate with the crime committed however there are some disturbing elements a he was not given the sentence purely for stealing the flag and for burning it there were also. accusations and claims of arson and threats to burn down all the properties namely a strip club when it came to course he did not express any regrets and indeed justify his actions based upon his particular extremist interpretation of the

christian faith now i don't believe that this flag necessarily represents the rainbow flag i don't think it. resents gay individuals maybe at one point it attempted to but it's we've come to a point where the rainbow flag and all the symbolism represents an l g b t political ideology which is becoming increasingly authoritarian increasingly toxic increasingly anti-christian so people are going to have gripes about it i mean this is actually proven that people are are millennial this is a study done recently that young people millennia old are less in favor of l g b t now they were a few years ago now the left in the gay lobby would say that that is due to hate speech on the internet and trumps america blah blah blah no i would say the real reason is probably because this movements that is symbolized by the flag has become authoritarian and ridiculous we see it with the insane trans narrative in the bathroom transfer people and women sports we see it with the children with the

transylvanian the drag queen story it's i mean you can think of and this is just another example 16 years for offending probably one of the most privileged groups in america. still ahead of the e.u. commission could be in trouble back how many optician didn't think messages that had been requested as evidence for probably going to time as the country's defense minister the times just after the break. in a world of big partisan motley's 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 on the back 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. the world is driven by dreamers shaped by the one percent of those great. dares thinks. we dare to ask. the president of the commission is facing a scandal back home in germany it's a move that her phone data was deleted after it was requested as evidence and

investigation into her actions while she was germany's defense minister peter all of a has more on the story. those live on the line is looking to stumper or thorough on the e.u. commission presidency right from the off. the former german defense minister has been dogged by a scandal from her past and berlin she doesn't seem to be able to shake off while in charge of the german military her ministry was accused of massive overspends on outside advisors it was revealed that the fonda line defense ministry was spending 155000000 year over year on outside advice that's more than all of the other branches of government combine and a federal audit office investigation found the defense ministry couldn't sufficiently justify why that external advice was even needed for the lions phone

was thought to hold the answers to whether she was involved or even knew about any impropriety but it's emerge now that all of the data on her ministerial phone had been deleted the data from the phone of the line was already deleted in august the phone had a factory reset and the data was lost with no possibility of feed being restored but the data was deleted from the phone after it became part of the body of evidence in the investigation opposition parties and those in the ruling coalition in germany are demanding answers i expect defense minister crown current power to take action now on those responsible this is destruction of evidence and must also have personal consequences this is an annoying delay tactic by the government 1st the ministry said that people were looking for a mobile phone then it was announced that it was still pin locked now the government has admitted that it had already been white the investigative committee

has still not received any s.m.s. and the mobile phone has still not been examined there is simply no preservation of evidence the consequence is. the defense ministry gave the people concerned every possibility to delete as messes and messages the german defense ministry hasn't exactly made things crystal clear with its statement on the phone data being deleted the types of communication and official mobile phones that are subject of interest for the investigation committee are covered by evidence decisions the federal ministry of defense provides the committee of inquiry with all existing documents relating to the subject of the investigation this is far from over the investigation continues and as long as it does has the potential to throw mud on angle americans christian democratic union party who were in overall charge found on the line herself which could well spell a short honeymoon period for the new e.u.

commission president as the media and eventually her colleagues in brussels question how involved in these payments she was one thing is for sure silence and the deleting of data is only going to raise more questions peter all over r.t. berlin. mean criers the deputy chairman of the alternative for germany party saxony brown she says that the public should put more pressure on the government. does one flinch fielder's of german minister of defense everywhere she had to tell her it was a catastrophe and all do is force. the liberal socialists and the christian devil for the waters for president of the e.u. commission the ministry of defense fund long and some millions to external consultants was an awesome alone created the so where are external beep for more military people decide how to purchase new equipment after the channeler of mrs

fyne level of mischief germany israel needed to defend. itself with the military is completely ruined and no she destroyed the evidence that can share with her she was just. corrupt i didn't think it was and biggest addition will bring the truth to a lot it is that the political cost of the dollars are higher. to silence that should you alone nothing happened in germany to governments that will try to. we're not there to look at a public. pressure on merkel and other christian democrats and middle. except that they get treated badly. by the rock musician turned political activist roger waters has a lot to get off his chest these days especially given the state of parties politics at the moment he is the guest on the latest episode of going underground

in which he does rail against the mainstream media's influence on the u.k. election recently you can watch it later today here in full on r.t. he's a quick. it's becoming more and more apparent that propaganda is almost the most important thing in our lives and the fact that the mainstream media is owned by very rich and powerful people and in consequence they may be that they coming closer and closer to controlling everything not just all the elections but everything and obviously the elections they can't control they send in the troops you know and stop killing people what's what's interesting to me is that here we are what 500 years since columbus and just now this is the only thing that makes me. that gives me the strength to carry on in this fight and it is this 500 years later it seems that we the people are just beginning to rise up

now against the settler colonial attitude supply last 500 years and that gives me heart that of course are not in the streets of the pads being shot or in santiago in chile being blinded or by the pinkerton men. and you can watch that interview in full in a couple of as time so that's how things are looking so far today here not even back again as usual at the top of the. this is a sticker from the water bottle phone in the stomach of a fish the brand is part of the coca-cola company which sells millions of bottles of soda every day the idea was that let's tell consumers there are the bad ones there the litter bugs are throwing this away industry should be blamed for all this

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