the reality is. an investigative news website claims to have been blacklisted by british intelligence after exposing government surveillance practices declassified u.k. says it is being targeted by g c h q. a lawmaker resigned his seat in the european parliament after being caught at a party in brussels that media is it describing as a mostly male orgy to e.u. diplomats were among the guests. and iran ups the ante over the murder of its top nuclear scientist value to hunted down criminals and seek revenge.

are broadcasting live direct from our studios in moscow this is our 2 international i'm sean thomas certainly glad to have you with us now an investigative news web site is claiming to have been blacklisted by british intelligence declassified u.k. is known for exposing military activities and government surveillance sali as more . the classifier the u.k. and their head of investigations matt ken are these the former financial times journalists they've been blacklisted by g c h q and a number of internal emails showing that staff are being told not to engage with that doubt that declassified u.k. blacklisted by g.c. age kill britain's largest intelligence agency internal emails from d.c. show it will not been gauging further with matt can it declassified head of investigations the day he published what the agency privately disparaged as a negative long read about his secretive schools program according to declassified

u.k. one particular line of investigative journalism is what got the bucks off of a program run by the intelligence agency looking into going into schools and teaching children how to conspire and brute force cyber attack the website have also got quite a long history of looking at other aspects of the things that britain's military and government in general are getting up to. the older members question is assumed to refer to lifton and colonel moore and our bodies who completed typhoon conversion training in the u.k.

delivered by royal air force r e of personnel in 2011 to 2012 we've been hearing from joe that it's groups like reporters without borders who have described this mode of operating by g c h q m by the government as being trumpy and this is yet another worrying example of the u.k. government imposing arbitrary restrictions on media deemed to be critical to trampy unmoved as her. no place in british democracy for a few years now the criticisms that press freedoms are being clamped down on in the british government so far as this latest incident is concerned doesn't bode well for those who are concerned about press freedoms we spoke with a british journalist yvonne ridley she thinks the targeting of declassified u.k. follows an alarming pattern of governments are cracking down on any form of reporting they disagree with. britain is a country which likes to pride it sounds in treatment speech and

this goes completely against the grain quite why the c.h.p. was made this decision and is silly it is a journalist's job to ask all could questions to be critical of the information beatrice seems so you know journalists don't do that jobs to be popular quite the reverse and. you know this this move has already been likened to a trophy and styled. decision and of course this is what we've seen in the white house that when journalists upset. president donald trump they get blacklisted or are asked to leave the the white house press corps and for g c h q to do this to a. journalistic organization is astonishing.

hungary a member of the european parliament has resigned after admitting to attending a private party in brussels that local media are describing as an orgy the get together happened last week in defiance of a lockdown and was broken up by police about 20 other people all or mostly naked men were present at the party above a gay bar 2 european diplomats were among the guests of the hunger and lawmaker allegedly tried to flee by climbing down a drain pipe and police say he was carrying drugs at passer by reported to the police that he had seen a man fleeing along the gutter he was able to identify the man the man hands were bloody it is possible that he may have been injured while philine now according to were found in his backpack. in his resignation letter yos have cher who is a member of hungary's ruling finnish party admitted that his behavior was irresponsible you apologize for breaching lockdown rules and commenting on the

ecstasy pill the one in his backpack he said well it's not mine david coburn a former member of the european parliament for scotland says politicians who break down rules are undermining public health efforts it's not setting a good example to the people in a time of the americans generally don't have a good laugh about it you know the caucus even though it is serious and as much as that people do what we set an example like that it is a goal if they're out there politicians are having a tremendous party while the rest of us are having to isolate i mean it look at my hear a lie and b. i never had careless loans as i was a student i was you know bob i'm in months so you know i try to be the rules and set an example of those a little bit o. a way and by you know i think it's better people obey the rules overseas but it's not to to do the opposite to what you're you're selling to the public.

the president of the red cross is urging governments had to combat have the spread of false information on covert vaccines which he calls a 2nd pan demick francesco rocha said the public reluctance and to take the jab could stall efforts to counter the virus we believe that the massive coordinated efforts that will be needed to roll out the vaccine in an equivocal manner need to be paralleled by equally massive efforts to proactively build and maintain trust. the red cross or chief went on to side surveys showing that in a quarter of countries less than half of people are willing to take a covert vaccine and as examples of fake news he highlighted a popular belief that the virus doesn't affect young people or africans and also claims that the virus has disappeared and the pandemic is over the director of health and care at the red cross told us he believes public a acceptance of covert vaccines will emerge over time well the reason one element

these is a new prime demi can you virus that behaves in ways that we didn't know until a year ago and we have been discovering it slowly slowly by slowly and so science is adopted and it will be and communicating able being science is difficult and that's why i think media scientists critiquer role to play to try to explain in very simple terms that what is up and why changes may be happening people at the moment of a very high level of vaccine hesitancy and so right now we see that the only 30 percent of population in many countries would actually be ready to take the vaccine we know that these these will increase time passes by and people get more confident and i think we have a role to play to ensure that people feel comfortable confortable that people feel trust towards the authorities towards the scientists and towards the means that be putting in place to keep everybody safe for all around the world. iran is

trying to hunt down those behind the assassination of its leading nuclear physicist top officials issued a stern warning after the scientists funeral. you know on. the run as stated before it's our definite call see independently give a reciprocal response to those who ordered and committed this crime with maximum pain for the culprits god willing no crime no association no foolish. nation we will certainly hunt down criminals until the end they must know that they will be punished for their actions had not the assault took place on friday when the scientist was travelling in his car near teheran he was shot in an ambush and then died of his injuries in the hospital iran has branded the assassination an act of state terror and blamed israel and the united states daniel hawkins reports on the shock waves it has sent throughout the region. dr morsi in factories ardea was

different things to different people to his family a husband and a father to his country a patriot a prized and respected scientists to others though he was a threat a man affectively in charge of iran's alleged nuclear weapons program we don't exactly know what motivated the killing but if it had anything to do with removing a supposed threat in the interests of peace and stability the result so far seems to be the reverse. of. the streets a boiling over with anger well fuck resort it was given a state funeral and granted martyr status iran is out for revenge some hardliners are calling for direct massive retaliation against those who they think are responsible even the strikes on israeli cities are on the table life for an eye says god's law and to ron is in no mood to let this crime go unpunished an image of

around you know that the rain and the country's official who are brave enough to respond to this criminal action when the term is raid the relevant officials in which part of this crime but this is now bigger than just tit for tat violence if wars in iran's alleged nuclear program was the goal that's failed iran's government has vowed to continue this scientists work with redoubled efforts. it will be more united will be more determined even for the continuation of your post and will carry on with. the nuclear deal already in tatters after the us withdrawal is quickly fading as the country's parliament looks the stop inspections at its nuclear sites with the consent of m.p.'s to urgent action plans were adopted to lift sanctions in order to return to the era of the nuclear energy boom and to stop surveillance by i.a.e.a. spies with biden's incoming administration aiming for a new deal with a rod in. looking like they could get no deal at all by them we'll have to.

put it in simple terms apologize in some ways and he will have to come up perhaps with even more. of a diplomatic concession than simply restoring the j c p o e. agreement i think iran will need far more guarantees after all even when president obama signed the deal not all sanctions were removed and iran never applied benefit economically as hoped and why would the iranians choose compromise in a rare moment of unity they now have the support of everyone from turkey and iraq to the u.a.e. and even europe we condemn this heinous murder and extend our condolences to the government of iran and the family of the deceased the emirates condemns the crime

of the assassination of cause and also rights to practice the greatest possible restraint so as to avoid dragging the region to new levels of instability and threats to peace this is a criminal act and runs counter to the principle of respect for human rights the e.u. stands for for every action equal and opposite reaction it was clear assassinating a scientist on a rainy and soil would start up a hornet's nest of reaction across the region and beyond. plenty heard it still from march international it is revealed a huge hollywood charity to help sexual harassment victims spend just a fraction of donations helping the victims themselves that claim and reaction are up next.

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in the depths. for a mate in the shallowness. welcome back this is our national now russia's delegation to the global chemical weapons watchdog has urged germany and other members to stop using the o.p.c. w. for political purposes. the own brutal campaign of the so-called poisoning of a russian blogger and in suing actions by germany and its your atlantic allies in the o.p.c. w. is a way to use this international organization to exert political and sanctions pressure on the russian federation on monday 56 of the 193 member states condemned the alleged poisoning of russian opposition figure alexina vali they released a joint statement urging moscow to disclose the circumstances of what they called

a chemical attack in a volley fell ill in august on a domestic flight in russia and was taken to berlin for treatment germany claims it found traces of a know what shock nerve agent in his body and allegation later repeated by your p c w however moscow says its own tests found no such substance and that berlin has rejected a request for lab data we spoke with alexander russia's permanent representative to the o.p.c. w he thinks the claims against russia have a clear political motive. partners in the p c w or against further politicizing the organization which would create deeper divisions and interrupt a normal work in the search for compromises different countries interpret provisions of the chemical weapons convention in their own way. we should prevent any attempts to spread one's own rules in place of the established conventions of international law or our western partners and their technical secretariat's when

it's convenient for them refer to confidentiality clause under this pretext russia has refused access to key aspects of the technical secretary its report on providing assistance to germany in the case but when western countries are not satisfied they forget all about confidentiality clauses the chemical weapons convention and international law must be strictly complied with and only after that will have the confidence that we can overcome our problems and work together. there is a major embarrassment for a sexual harassment charity set up by hollywood celebrities with massive publicity that is after it was revealed of the time is up foundations spent just 10 percent of donations on actually helping women in its 1st year of operation tax filings show the group raised more than $3500000.00 in 2018 but almost half went on salaries alone with huge sums also spent on luxury resort conferences in fact just

$312000.00 went to the victims of the sexual harassment themselves are to receive this response from the organization our turn to 18 expenses were mostly related to our start up costs such as legal costs and recruiting start of that would establish initiatives that would be launched in 2019 times up was formed in the wake of the scandal over harvey weinstein a former top hollywood producer found guilty of sexual assault the foundation itself claims it has gone on to help thousands of victims including committing millions of dollars in legal and p.r. support but lawyer. thinks new rules are needed for such nonprofit organizations. i would say this really is not a good battle for a nonprofit organization. this is what i would call in a disciplined nonprofit basically lost their way i don't really want there to mission ones and it seemed like the nonprofit was sort of using the organization

as a slush fund the golden rule for not profits is that 75 percent of its funding really should go to its mission ma 25 percent go to goes toward the administration of it right here 38 percent went to salaries and let the c.e.o. should earn less to see this imbalance and actually take a pay cut here's what happens or not profit organizations as there are they're very sort of like self regulate i think the best thing that a nonprofit actually can do is put their taxes like right on their web site for the public to see and also i mean i think for these sort of large nonprofit organizations that you know get a lot of media attention. you know what they really should do is put sort of mechanisms in place where you know you have like an independent board you have an independent auditor you put controls internal controls in place. space is cool russia is planning to launch its own space station after 2024 that's

of the year the funding will run out for the i assess which is nearing the end of its service life art is it was done of reports on the shifting priorities and computing powers in space. it's the most expensive object humanity has ever built and it's approaching its inevitable retirement and as it ages it. humanity's home away from home the i assess is not feeling as good as it used to so will there be life in space that we know of after the station finally goes off judy how soon might it happen and how likely is that the technical troubles piling up could bring about its demise. lived on board of the i assess for 17 months here's what he told me. there always were are and will be some problems the more complex technology is the higher the risk of failure during my 2 expeditions breakdowns

happened as frequently as sunset and we consider it something close to normal if there's a breakdown you go fix it but we can't ignore the fact that the station has been in orbit for more than 20 years and the recounts occurrences to that russia is obligated to take part in the program until 2025 so to keep its presence in orbit past that it needs to devise a mission of its own or stick to funding the i assess indefinitely and while moscow has confirmed it has a project of a new station in the works the head of russia's federal space agency has said it's too early to write off the i assess just yet cosmonaut cutting young says that russia should think bigger on the scale of the solar system. there's no point in maintaining the station any longer 1st of all the americans are going their own way they've got different plans and sooner or later they'll have no use for the i.s.a.'s it'll be much worse if they leave it earlier than we do that'll be a punch to the girl cosmos and the energy a rocket in space corporation

a right to consider their own project but i think having another orbital station is out of date we need to go further to keep from the space race of the cold war 2 international partnership. and now the pendulum is swinging back towards an orbit so free for all chinese concocting a space program of its own the u.s. has announced plans to return to the moon and venture out to mars while nasa has been joining forces with private contractors. cooperation in space exploration is beneficial to assess experience has proven that the remote of countries participating in the i.s.a.'s project and it's also facilitated some political challenges here on earth but that's a concern for the politicians with more than 20 years of operations behind it of the auld enough to be called a senior citizen in space station years so it will have to be maintained until the tech of a new era is ready and ultimately left behind as

a stepping stone to the next frontier. unprecedented pressure facing the e.u.'s internal open borders known as the schengen zone has seen members meet online for a unique forum to thrash out if the free movement area can be reformed and saved europeans in 26 nations have been able to cross into each other's countries with ease for years but crisis ranging from migration to terrorism to covert even have seen nations increasingly bring back border controls. between 20062014 over 9 years internal border checks were introduced $35.00 times but since 2015 in less than 5 years internal border checks were introduced 205 times this is a significant increase when and to understand the reasons behind it and address them urgently. border guards in the e.u. focus on the block's x. tunnel frontiers while people and traffic within the zone are free to move between

others nations but security concerns have steadily mounted and seen some countries take it upon themselves to unilaterally bring down the barriers again pitting them against e.u. leaders in brussels for some countries patience has run out and there's increasing feeling that it's time for a major shame didn't shake up. we need to reform shingle and to make it a zone of security no just free movement geo political analyst ron arad 1st thinks europe's the politicians have failed to achieve the basic goals. in the past 5 years since the migration crisis in 2015. yeah the politicians failed to show it to the citizens really a reliable system which protects the external borders and therefore we have that

charge increase in internal controls so the problems are already busy dispersed inside the shing an area. the security challenges can be found in all the different nations so controlling the borders. a little bit late as an idea of the politicians should have been applied from the start because that was the basic idea of the schengen area of really having a solid. reliable protection of the external borders and this has not been achieved so far and it's not a site for the near future. a bar in the heart of new york has taken a defiant approach against the lock down declaring itself an autonomous zone exempt from authorities restrictions on public dining.

give me something i can generate i can have work and just pay my rent and my utilities so i don't have to shut down so much. where i have to walk to make up or say no i mean you know i'm sure they can find money to do that. we're going to live you want to live out here are you supposed to know run a business and everything like you know we've got 5 and i will but these people expect people to do it on me if you got to the holidays you know you're going to see their parents going to thomas on how he how you feel about it how i feel alone i don't think it's going to work. for you go find 15000.

in 33 minutes on the back of another look at your news this is our change national glad to have you with us. financialization has its limits the accounting tricks of stock buybacks and money printing have their limits and in saudi arabia we see a brilliant example of what happens when a country decides to go into financialization instead of let's say diversifying into actual productive economic activity. just. thank you.

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hello and welcome to crossfire for all things considered i'm peter lavelle at this point no one knows when the code crisis will abate however it is undeniable that this health crisis has negatively impacted the economy what does it mean to return to normal is that even possible now and will the divide separating the rich from the poor continue to update.

to discuss the economy and more i'm joined by my guest peter burrowing great american he is an economist at the american institute for economic research in miami we have made rezko he has been seen as chief investment strategist and we also have eric townsend he is host of the macro voices podcast original macross up rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want and i was appreciated ok let's go 1st to peter you know in looking at the very the. the broadest picture of what's going on in the economy right now i think we all have to be very honest with ourselves that the election cycle influenced people how they look at the economy how bad it is or how good it is and it's all been kind of changed and now as we move out of that cycle. give me your kind of most sober view of what's going on in the economy because you know we hear about a w. recovery of a you.