if you mean in. iran's fars news agency says its international web site was shut down on the orders of the us treasury. for the government is accused of hypocrisy after signing a lucrative oil and gas deals with african nations despite promising to help them transition to clean energy. the u.s. pledges millions of dollars to establish what it calls an independent media in syria but critics question washington's motives. for broadcasting live direct from our studios in moscow this is our team

international. it's all right a leading media outlet in iran says its international website has been taken down after falling foul of u.s. sanctions according to fars news the block was ordered by the us treasury treasury . the photos news dot com websites is being blocked on us treasuries orders and emails sent to fall as news agency by the provider clearly stated that the treasury's office of foreign assets control as i did the agency to the sdn specially designated nationals list if you visit the website fars news dot com it is unavailable the web page does not load now it's important to note there is a website fars news dot i r that i are standing for islamic republic that has just been created fars news calls itself an independent news source generally it has been labelled by western media outlets as being a mouthpiece for the iranian government it's one of the primary sources for breaking news within the borders of the islamic republic the fact that it has been

taken down and does not appear to have its website up and is blaming this on the us treasury seems to fit it on standing a long standing pattern for example earlier this month press t.v. the english language t.v. network based in the islamic republic of iran was removed from you tube however google backed down from that decision but regardless that was a moment where we saw a news outlet from iran have its access to the internet and social media cut off or tampered with now we can recall in recent months the escalation between the 2 countries qassam solomonic the top iranian general was killed in a u.s. airstrike near baghdad the iraqi capital and then we saw iran respond with a barrage of missiles directed at u.s. bases in iraq this feud between the leaders of the usa and the islamic republic of iran wasn't even put on hold during the whole cost commemorations in jerusalem take a listen we must also stand strong against the leading state purveyor of

anti-semitism. against the one government in the world that denies the holocaust as a matter of state policy and threatens to wipe israel off the map against the islamic republic of iran. now sanctions have been imposed on the islamic republic by the united states and there has been constant threats of military action and it seems that this effort to silence news agencies and remove them from social media and from the internet itself fits into a longstanding pattern of efforts by leaders of the united states to covertly undermine the islamic republic of iran we heard from the editor in chief of fires news agencies and version he explained how people are reacting to washington's pressure on the country that journalists and reporters there were really and are going to mean they were feeling lots of hatred for the and that is states because

we are not been a war we are not you know mela faeries we are not state officials you know fox news agency was established back in 2002 or 3 and it's the 1st iranian nonnes they news agency so it's not even as they run media people here are feeling the brunt of the united states actions it's not just the reporters and journalists but also average citizens trump has done a lot of good to iran i believe because he has been the one that has shown that all these slogans and chance that they have about the mark willacy human rights and so on and so forth are for nothing and they are hollow and when the time arrives they see no difference between softball or for media warfare or military wofford they just assassinate anyone standing on their way. the british

government has pledged to support african countries in their transition to cleaner energy but it's now been revealed that more than 90 percent of deals signed at this week's u.k. africa investment summit were for oil and gas deals shaadi edwards daschle has the story. initial space of time the poorest johnson has been prime minister we already know he isn't always one to stick to his word especially when it comes to striking deals but this could be one of his. remember those comments at the beginning of the week all about supporting clean energy in africa to put it simply not another penny of u.k. taxpayers' money would be directly invested in. burning it for electricity because well you know we all breathe the same the same. carbon emissions rise in the. same circuit right or wrong it's been uncovered that in fact the united kingdom spend billions of pounds of broad supporting fossil fuel

projects that will emit an estimated $69000000.00 tons of carbon a year that's the same as the country the size of portugal nearly a 6th of britain's total annual carbon emissions but don't worry the government says miss $70000000.00 tonnes is just a worst case scenario even so the darker shade of green deals doesn't seem to be going down too well with the hypocrisy of the government's position is breathtaking it boasts of his green credentials one minute and then hosts an investment summit which sees billions been invested in carbon intensive industries in africa this government's promises on climate action are completely hollow but things could go from bad to worse for grettir and co-heirs 90 percent of the 2000000000 pounds worth of energy deal struck at the u.k. africa summit were full you guessed it fossil fuels but of course the united kingdom's official statement on the summit failed to mention that teeny tiny detail that the agreements were dominated by oil and gas and not coal well adding fuel to

the fire over the last decade the united kingdom has financed $6000000000.00 pounds worth of fossil fuel projects alone including funding some of the biggest oil and gas companies in the world seems like a right royal mess up goodies all the extra. if you couldn't do nothing with it except. try to structure it. i mean that's certainly better things to do with the dollars right charles will come down everybody in the government says some of it is going to renewable projects we are committed to working with countries across the world to unlock their renewable energy present and support the transition away from fossil fuels to cleaner alternatives or maybe we should believe it when we see ads. we heard from african affairs analyst in lawyer he says western countries are only interested in cashing in on africa's natural resource politics and the game itself is one based

on investment based on influence based on business and at the same time obviously climate change is a really big deal so it is a conflict of interest for britain itself but also a conflict of morality a conflict of business if you look at the investment in africa family it still remains that many european 1st world countries are investing in the hydrocarbons or in natural resources and this other thing would change for a very long time purely because there's too much money to stick purely because there are more important issue for these companies to be dealing with i.e. the extraction of mineral wealth from. climate issues are also becoming a key talking point ahead of ireland's parliamentary elections activists have highlighted the contribution of agriculture to the country's emissions one farming union says that while they accept the reality of climate change they reject the idea that only rural communities have to alter their way of life. all sectors must

contribute to learning carbon emissions and farming cannot be singled out for reasons of ideology or political expediency last year the irish parliament's joint committee on climate action issued a report calling for a reduction in agricultural activity stating the sector was the country's largest emitter of greenhouse gases one area in focus was an increasing demand for high carbon foodstuffs such as meat and dairy which it claimed must be reversed we got a response to that. certain enough air and obviously you know we're a food producing island and that's what we are. and we're very very efficient and you know all the issue is a job. so if the food was to be produced in other parts of the go to a far greater environmental impact obviously we've climatic conditions. it's

nice as we approach you know the middle of this century but equally we need to meet as soon as possible but you know we are the most efficient point of view of producing dairy product in the european 20 years and there are environmentalist out there who are. tree huggers who are bashing the reputation of our culture and make us extremely challenging to have a sustainable income from agriculture. washington says it is ready to provide up to $35000000.00 to bring about what it calls an independent media in syria however the list of america's declared purposes has raised questions over its intentions. the purpose is to advance the following us government policy objectives in syria ensure the enduring defeat of isis achieve a political solution to the syrian conflict under the auspices of the united nations security council resolution and and the presence of iranian forces in proxies in syria there are also raising the alarm about this information spreading

through syria but the us media itself has been caught red handed on that issue on several occasions here are some examples in injured boy whose image spread worldwide became a propaganda tool for local rebel groups and some parts of the media his father told r.t. back in 2017 that his son had been exploited the u.s. media has also been pressing the view that it was the syrian government that used chemical weapons against civilians in the city of doom and 2018 later a video purporting to show women and children suffering from the aftermath of the attack turned out to be fabricated. to be used as leverage against bashar al assad's government. we spoke to journalist bartlett who believes western media outlets are losing credibility when it comes to the topic of syria. i think that more people are coming disenchanted with western media given how transparently a bold face lie they have they have been over the course of the war in syria but at the same is like if they want to promote autists if you can't be dictating to

journalists of the can or cannot report it's russian russian media russian journalists russians spokespeople who have been telling the truth on syria and my opinion and this is based on actually in syria and see what they've been saying russian spokesperson army and what they've been saying reporting i can corroborate that with what i've been hearing and serious well and i want to remind people that after the allegations about alleged accomplice happened in the amount it was here in russia the 1st request of the obvious is that you come to syria and investigate and it was the u.s. u.k. and france which syria for that investigation could actually or. britain's national broadcaster is to launch a new educational series to help young children d. tech to fake news with american actress angelina jolie as its star producer parties and quarter comments now on whether the b.b.c. should be taking a critical look at its own coverage as well. it's

a crusade against fake news and the b.b.c. has elected itself to lead the charge its latest show is aimed at protecting youthful eyes and ears from poisonous propaganda there's a gap in provision for young people who want to understand how the news is made and the values that stand behind it they need the tools to distinguish the real from the fools online and the skills to think critically about information wherever they encounter it and the new programs producer is none other than angelina jolie as a parent i'm happy to be able to give my support to a program that aims to help children learn more about the lives of other young people around the world i hope it will help children find information and tools they need to make a difference on the issues that matter to them it's a noble pursuit and all but the b.b.c. might not be the most qualified to act as the authority on fighting fake news b.b.c. russia correspondent olga was caught in the act asking

a local journalist to help her find evidence of russian meddling connected to protests in paris naturally moscow wasn't very happy with the attempts to pull an anti russian narrative out of thin air authorities all the time accused russian television channels of an internal protest movements and politics and call them propagandists i think it's humiliating when the british media disseminate such information and the b.b.c.'s track record of pursuing a political agenda goes much farther back than that in 1953 it was used covertly as a pawn in a joint m i 6 cia operation to support a coup against the democratically elected prime minister of iran mohammad mossad a cook the british government used b.b.c. persian radio to advance its propaganda against most attack on material was repeatedly aired on the radio channel to the extent it's a very new stuff at the b.b.c. persian radio service went on strike in protest britain's national broadcaster was even accused of sending coded messages to the coupon. others through the specific

wording of their broadcasts during the cold war london once again used the b.b.c. as a front to fund anti soviet propaganda in the middle east and latin america fast forward to 2018 and the b.b.c. covered the duma chemical attack from aboard the anti assad bandwagon citing u.s. officials who confidently claimed that the syrian government had deployed sarin gas against civilians the narrative was used as justification for washington's bombing of syrian government installations although b.b.c. syria's own producer said the attack was staged after almost 6 months of this to go sions i can prove with the host producing was staged no fatalities occurred in the host but look for a network with a history of having its strings pulled by british intelligence services and affinities for a certain line of political agendas it's no wonder viewers are struggling to see the b.b.c. as impartial. former b.b.c.

journalist anna breeze says that the broadcaster is desperately attempting to rebuild faith in the organization the level of trust since the b.b.c. who the general public is dwindling daily weekly and i would say really possibly 2 years ago they could send things around but it just got worse and worse really ever the last 2 years of the militarism but to lead to a soprano on the programs that a lot of people who credibly disappointed the b.b.c. in how they handled the run up to the election i think they do what they can you know they that picking certain celebrities or influences to touch themselves to increase their reputational brand but. it's a case of is it is it is it possible to rescue that and i'm not quite sure it is you're not discuss it with the public they're just going to come they just can feel more and more alienated and and feel they're not not being listened to and that's right and that the b.b.c. have not been able to take control of that situation and they all suffer and. the

french teenager has received death threats for criticizing islam on social media that's right much more after a short like this with our 2 international. their goal of the government is. from all its want to see the show and see the governmental state do so we'll see in the projects which ahd not realized it has been plants. the problem i see is they have these government is in my view watch what capable to be more effective in doing what it's wanted to do the problem is that it will move the illegal bit wrong direction so it will be a stated goal and then me and they use the way street investment was more effective

that's what but it would be bad at the c.s. private in this. join me every thursday on the alex simon show and i'll be speaking to guest of the world of politics sports business i'm show business i'll see you then. welcome back this is our team international now a 16 year old french girl has been told to go into hiding after she received death threats for posting anti islam videos on instagram mila who is from the on said she was responding to homophobic and racist abuse from muslims police are now investigating the case. the viral posting spread on social media networks of

a video posted by a young girl expressing during a personal discussion violin and horsetail comments about the muslim religion has provoked a multiplication of reactions taking the form of death threats and threats to commit crimes the incident has garnered widespread attention and lead to support for me a lot from some politicians. the speech of this young girl is the voice description of charlus caricatures no more no less you can find it but we cannot accept that some people condemn her to death for that in france in the 21st century let us support me like a 16 year old high school student insults and threats and with death by thousands of fanatics for having given her opinion on islam we got some reaction to the story from must good shot jar a chair of the u.k.'s islamic human rights commission and andrea walker economist for the new york observer my concern is that time and time again we're seeing

blasphemy laws reinstituted across europe remember back in the middle ages europe was plagued by blustery laws inflicted by the christian community and i think that we've got a lot better as a society since they disappeared against blasphemy law blasphemy is something a very christian sort of centric. and it's got no room in within the sort of in the slam we actually encourage any sort of criticism the idea that insulting the prophet mohammed should be something you should die for is completely unacceptable and always remember you or it got better when we walked away from these blasphemy rules ourselves i think it would be great if the islamic world was to follow that example. i don't know i don't know i don't know why you keep on being in blasphemy laws no one is actually talking about bringing in blasphemy laws we are saying that you should not be able to abuse muslims under the pretense that

this is. well look what you've just laid out it should be it should be patent to be abusive towards islam even if that stressed opposites are congratulations you're describing a blasphemy law and that is something that we need to get away from let's sit down around the cup of tea let us criticize one another's believe. but respect one another and i don't see why this should be confusing for anyone but there is a problem with fundamentalism in our society and most of the bad place of a muslims they're not all muslims but most of them are ease an attempt to say that in practice you can't criticize a sob you counted insult the prophet muhammad you can't be critical of the views that he expressed that is something that is dangerous for our society i'm not saying that you can criticize islam and say. no problem let's get together or a cup of tea you can criticize those wonders you won and i will discuss with you.

sunday's election in northern italy could trigger a major shake up in the country biggest party has been left a reeling after leader foreign minister luigi the mio resigned who with support falling rapidly. immigration the league party may now reap the benefits and he showed when he reports. as a tell you go to the polls in the northern region of the media row mangas this weekend there is a lot at stake not just for the current shaky coalition government but also potentially for the future of one of its members the 5 star movement the empty establishment's party was founded 11 years ago with a promise to rid italy of a corrupt ruling elite a champion of digital to mock or see it start to send it quickly and brightly taking a 3rd of the folks in 2018 election and joining to form not one but 2

governments but as we all know what goes up at some point must come down after that big election turnout 5 star set about signing up to a brand new italian government with the league though the league was supposed to be a junior partner the headline grabbing lead them to use the. and he pushed it into the forefront that it state you know the good times for the illegals are over get ready to pack your bags and money well mccraw on has not been very nice lately he's a polite man but he probably drinks too much champaign. you'll not find any extremists or veterans at this table the only nostalgics are those in power in brussels today she stayed where ready to build a new future this is the path to save europe because those who are sinking into the european dream are the bureaucrats or the bankers the do gooders who have been

government for too long by the time italians headed back to the polls this time for the e.u. elections for ching's had been reversed it was clear the league was now in the droid ing seat if we see it the at the numbers i'm in the last polls that have been made the lead maintains leadership in the polling stations and the intentions of votes and so these view the continuation of the governance of would have not proved to move to the elite so he decided to cut it off and run out of the government to be much fear or in pursuing his lead to rate without the ties of the government necessarily implies he has been running up the no need to gaining ground and especially defeating of decline of the 5 star bickering poll has started to turn on each other and when salvini took a gamble to pull out of the coalition 5 stone looked elsewhere months of infighting

within 5 still seen dozens of its parliament true representatives defect be expelled and the cold digital support base has also been hemorrhaging with many unclear about the party's future certainly dismaying risk to become. ill as. especially for the 5 stars if they stayed after defeats in the region of the nation so we've already seen this kind of take legal official kind of for us government isn't a good look like tired of it they want to see political leadership of the kountry. elections haven't been particularly coing to the current italian it ministration in october a coalition of right wing parties spearheaded by the league one in the traditional heartland of the left now the government faces an even tougher test in the media

among the region's biggest city is a bit lonia and it's been center left for 75 years but polls indicate that that could be about to change with the race neck and neck between the league and the democratic party 5 star is trading so far behind it's not even considered worth a punt. today i'm here to hyundai my resignation as leader of the 5 star movement more to miss the most vivid many are rushing in calling telling me not say give up i'm not giving up this is the end of a phase i'm currently without a leader 5 stars future looks more doubt than bright if it does come crashing down the view is it could bring the italian government down with it opening up a way for salvini to seize the asian national elections he's been waiting for since last summer challenge even ski ati paris. we'll be back with more top of the hour this is our international.

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