alright let's go live to david lindorff who is an investigative journalist and founding editor of the online news site this can't be happening david thanks for being with us here on our team international. so thanks for having. pulling out of the w t o would be very serious move. is trouble bluffing or could he follow through. with this kind of unconventional idea. well it's seems to me that his rhetoric at least is. example of a bit of megalomania because these are treaties these are not the you know the iran deal for example it's not a treaty it was approved by the senate the w t o is approved by the senate the un is the us a membership is approved by the by the senate and nafta is a treaty that was also approved by the senate the president does not have the power to pull out of any treaty like that it would have to be the senate would have to revoke the tree baby. big step and i doubt that there are the votes there from democrats who are going to want to give trump anything he asks for and which who are for you know global trade anyway and a lot of republicans. are for global trade

rights council you know asco and of the paris climate accord he spoke to investigative journalist david lindorff and former british politician george galloway for their thoughts. donald trump is a bull in a china shop and he's knocking over all kinds of institutions this is just the latest china shop that he's lumbered around and he did the same with nato he did the same with the european union he's done the same with the potus climate arrangements done the same with the iran nuclear deal and so on so is the great disruptor. to have an enormously negative impact. the u.s. economy i mean the us is a huge trading country i think you would find in countries becoming skeptical. about any further dealings with the us including you know some of the us is the largest partner secure many. european countries in general and in asia i think it would be a hugely damaging to the u.s. relations with its trading partners. the president of the international olympic committee has admitted the war on doping in sports might never be won but thomas bach has come under fire for this comment especially from america's

police quickly on the scene investigative journalist david lindorff really if this is the way twisted tackles speech it isn't work. they didn't then one thing they've been another that was just the substitution of words and they look really stupid for doing it so. they made a hash of. this instead of trying to solve the problem that made it worse they really need to think this through and. jump in when there's a screaming match from one side or the other and they'll jump to try to stop it quickly with a stupid decision they need to really. think through policy and then operate according to a policy that is rational coherent and consistent and that hardly what they're doing right now meanwhile one of the most popular online or tentative news channels in five wars has seen a major crackdown with facebook he cheap apple and sports if i blocking its accounts and taking down its content all in the same day with his high facebook explained the. we have taken it down for glorifying violence and using dehumanizing language to describe people who are transgender muslims and immigrants which vi

a blind eye to domestic factors which could be where their answers are investigative reporter david lindorff says the election tampering claims are being exaggerated. the middling issue is. first of all i think has been overblown in the first case you know when they found evidence of. you know russian based. organizations that were buying in ads and things on facebook it was such a tiny amount during the two thousand and sixteen election that it was laughable so you know i think most people most sensible people realize that the election in two thousand and sixteen was not significantly impacted by meddling it was effected dramatically by a really bad candidate running a really bad campaign in. facebook's upping the ante in its crusade against fake news it's now been hundreds of pages it claims are linked to iran and russia for allegedly trying to sway political opinion is they are trying go with the details. thanks for joining us i believe that franco with your latest news in the world of social facebook and twitter gotten rid of suspicious accounts schooling fakes and propaganda from iran t