beforehand mccrone pick too low as an icon of the green movement but he repeatedly clashed with his cabinet colleagues he felt they were too weak on veyron mental issues. or government experts from around the world are meeting in geneva to discuss the future of so-called autonomous weapons systems also dubbed killer robots these systems can operate and kill without any human guidance critics are calling for this new generation of weaponry to be banned globally before it goes into mass production. germany's armed forces already make use of semi autonomous weapons this air defense system can seek out targets on its own. for now soldiers still have to give the order to fire but fully autonomous weapons are being developed they can select and attack targets without humans at the controls. their highly controversial supporters say the new weapons are needed in modern warfare and will help people make ethically responsible decisions. warfare is becoming so fast right now that human beings are not capable of making intelligent informed decisions like they could in the past others have voic

it's hard to know if he was trying to send a message but certainly after all the bonhomie of the mccrone meeting after the supposedly improved atmosphere in the merkel meeting and then he actually treated his intention to make this announcement and sort of telegraphed where it was going while foreign secretary boris johnson was actually in washington trying to convince vice president pence and the secretary of state to continue the negotiations it whether or not he was intending to be rude whether he was trying to send a message this clearly isn't the way allies behave toward one another the russians are often accused of and into taking all sorts of conspiracy theories and i personally think that's a cultural thing rather than political because we enjoy it counter-intuitive explanations and one such conspiracy theory that's been. stalking me as a vice preparing for this program is a thought of whether or not iran is the main thing here do you really think that. the major thing here asked me. sas is this fear of iran's potential nuclear program oh absolutely not if the concern were ron's

he's been on a hunger strike for almost three months in a russian prison french president a man in mccrone will discuss his feet would russia's vladimir putin later today a russian has released photos of sense of suggesting he's fine social media. family and lawyer for the filmmaker saying the end is near a sense of course the charges against him and dozens of other ukrainian prisoners political in twenty fifteen russian court sentenced him to twenty years in a siberian penal colony on charges he planned terrorist attacks on the primary and . for more on on accent and his imprisonment in russia joining me now from the ukrainian capital kiev is correspondent david stern and from moscow. welcome to both if you are let me start with you what can you tell us about sense of health you're getting conflicting reports with some reports even saying you're not live that long. as our colleagues from the w.'s russian service spoke to all the insults lawyer dmitri didn't say who met since off the last time three days ago mr dean's s.s. objects and self uses a mix of drugs just to maintain consciousness

this is due to be a news live from berlin will president mccrone of france be able to help a dime ukrainian film maker all its sense off is a fierce kremlin critic he's on a hunger strike right now in a russian jail and is said to be close to death the french president discusses his fate today with russian president vladimir putin also coming up. at least twenty nine children dead after their school bus was hit by an air strike in yemen there are strong condemnation of the saudi led coalition says it was targeting rebels. last we visit southern spain to look at the desperate living conditions for the growing number of african migrants there was the route to get away now shut down spain is the main destination for thousands of myron seeking a better life in europe. and europe's largest budget airline hit by its biggest ever strike more than seventy thousand passengers are affected as the summer holiday season goes into high gear. i'm brian thomas thanks so much for being with us we begin with the case of the jailed ukrainian filmmaker and kremlin critic all that sends off now he's been on a

france's president stirs outrage among the country's opposition figures after emanuel mccrone calls his own citizens french dolls for resisting his economic reforms. and we meet outspoken british rock star roger waters was currently on tour in russia he's got plenty to say about the world's biggest issues and where he gets his news . going bust but you should do it because you should distribute the construction so let me. follow to you. was. just pure propaganda nothing but the flow is what i want churchill. this is our key international bring your live news update this hour with me talking boga wherever you are welcome to the program. a crucial battle is looming in the last rebel stronghold in the syrian province of the u. . special envoy for syria says there are around ten thousand allness or terrorists there and that the group is capable of producing chemical weapons meanwhile russia's foreign minister has warned that another terrorist all flying attack is being prepared to sabotage the liberation of libya i should add the that's another false flag attack is being prepared to try and

any process to brief the president on the progress and so you know he heard about it from president mccrone and from chancellor merkel but that had not been buying into the decisions made along the way as you pointed out in one of your articles they were a number of things that trump could have done he could have extended the sanctions waiver to allow a little bit more time for the talks and yet he decided to end it abruptly after all those meetings cordell meetings with president micron and chancellor merkel to the russians that looked kind of through a do you think he was trying to make some point to send some assets to the europeans or is it just mr trump being who he is you know it's hard to know if he was trying to send a message but certainly after all the bonamy of the mccrone meeting after the supposedly improved atmosphere in the merkel meeting and then he actually treated his intention to make this announcement and sort of telegraphed where it was going while foreign secretary boris johnson was actually in washington trying to convince vice president pence and the secretary of sta

british prime minister to resign may's meeting french president then manu and mccrone to try to soften his resistance to have breaks it plan the leaders are meeting at mccombs the summer residence in bring down solve may has been facing growing pressure to win allies in europe after her breaks a blueprint prompted two senior ministers to resign in protest last month's one person has been killed during protests along the gaza israel border palestinian officials say one hundred twenty others were injured when the israeli military use the live fire against their own streeter's tensions along the border has been growing on weekly friday protests. those are the headlines i'll have more news in half an hour coming up next china's the milk receive experiment. tens of thousands of demonstrations erupt across china each year driven by anger over corruption and the illegal sale of communal land most protests fail to make an impact but in two thousand and eleven one village defied the odds. to cancer villages rose up demanding the return of their lead and calling for their leaders to step down af

then impose these additional sanctions on countries and companies remember the europeans present mccrone said no this day and we'll even compensate you well it doesn't look like that's a road that anybody in the euro zone is going and total being i guess the big one i mean what does this mean for iran alex. well of just what you said you know it's interesting also the chinese banks said well if the us don't want to fund you to a lot of these companies especially from europe there's a well we'll back you up but it doesn't seem like anybody is biting for that offer as when it comes to iran i mean this is obviously big news for them we're talking about a deal that would have lasted over a span about twenty years from two thousand and fifteen this is something they desperately needed in many ways so when they announced this and it was their minister actually they really an oil minister is name is john numb darr. zangana and so he when he basically said that these guys are going out of the south park project this was very disappointing for them because this whole the project itself was suppos

uriah mccrone not allowed to speak to your coach, so i went and told the supervisors, what are you doing, i don't get it. ricardo pascoe said his coach, went the toilet and the other players just happen to be in the ice bath. andy murray ticks to instagram and initially friendly tone... suggesting he doesn't agree with badass government's account of events. asian be for the player competing against him —— it shouldn't be for the player competing against him to go and take this. i shouldn't be in that position in the middle of a match at a slam, trying to make sure they're doing theirjob. so what next for murray? fitness aside, he showed plenty against the spaniard to show his game is heading in the right direction. how long it takes to reach the end direction in the world's top ten remains to be seen. in the short time, murray has expressed a desire to return to glasgow for the davis cup tie against uzbekistan, saying he'd like to ta ke against uzbekistan, saying he'd like to take the chance to play one last time competitively in scotland. after that, hardcore theremins ahead of the most

how then did the story of a kremlin twitter plot against the money will mccrone appear well the mainstream media just took this whole thing to a whole new level people were talking about a russian plot and even disinfo lab itself was surprised at this interpretation. we did not modify the conclusions of our study a lot of media reported that we studied and identified that there had been russian meddling that the russian state orchestrated interference in the banal a scandal we never said this the fact that lawmakers all the government spokes person immediately exploded this for political ends created this sort of hype that was never the object of our study. but here's the kicker artie paid twitter one point nine million dollars back in two thousand and sixteen to fight the spread of fake news and ironically part of that money was used to fund disinfo labs research and it's now being used by the mainstream media to slander russia is the story ok thanks for bringing us right up to date with a double quarter in the studio. all right another headline stories this hour new revelations have emer

that from a source in mccrone's office.hey had been on a hunger strike since may and is said to be gravely ill. he was sentenced in 2015 for 20 years in a penal colony for planning terrorist attacks. russia annexed crimea in 2014. charges against him and 64 ukrainian prisoners. social media posts by his family quote the filmmaker as saying, the end is near. business news, germany is making it more difficult for foreign investors to step up domestic companies. >> one target is there in particular in the target is china appeared on its quest to become an even stronger economic powerhouse, aging for years, has been fighting foreign companies. as market leaders intend different she industry sectors like robotics and pharmaceuticals. germany and the united states, see an industrial advantage at risk. >> it is a move china will not like. germany's government wants broad feet of leaders when investors from outside europe by into local companies. starting at 15% stakes instead of the current 25. the new regulations comes after effe

send some scores including celebrities and western governments say the french president in london mccrone with again but not to me putin will that pressure have any bearing on this case do you think. well look at it as we're just heard from a david finch office demanding the liberation of all ukrainian political prisoners in russia and since often tends to take it to the bitter end if i have to die thing i have and i have to die she says but despite of the international pressure i don't think i don't think moscow would ever make such a huge concession to mr since off and in russia there are plenty of other petitions asking for a pardon less than the one percent of the titians are actually concede that the russian clemency commission works very very practically which means officials usually find formal reasons to refuse almost every plea for pardon on the other hand the issue is now being discussed on a very very high level so other experts assume that the telephone call with of the french president tomorrow later today could help one possible outcome it could be the extradition of lexan s

president mccrone had a four- point formula that is similar to the u.s. approach. >> you are talking about nonnuclear activity. i submit that we can continue to work with europeans on the nuclear activity. let's get the playing field straight today. the europeans are not interested in re-imposing new nuclear sanctions on iran. they are interested in trying to hold together this set of economic benefits that will entice iran to stay in the nuclear agreement. that is europe's position today. >> i think we will know more about that in the coming days. there is some difference of opinion among different members of the e3. we will know more about the collective perspective on this when we have more dialogue in the near future. i would say that there is that they are self policing. european companies doing business with iran has changed. european union leaders are seeing it is removing themselves. >> it still does not sound to me like a strategy about how you get europeans into a fundamentally different place than they are today. it is true the europeans are tr

of france has described some of his own citizens as being stuck in the past and backwards emanuel mccrone said so-called french goals were preventing positive change or praising the danish economic model on a visit to copenhagen. given these looser and people who have lived through the transformations of recent years are not exactly who are resistant to change the world those comments by president mike or never not gone down well here in france with opposition politicians from across the political spectrum telling him exactly what they thought saying that he was showing contempt for the french people and they took to twitter to show their angry reaction as usual he despises the french from abroad the girls will be happy to respond to his arrogance and contempt. the contempt for mccraw for the french is unbearable and reveals his disconnect with the people of france we are in twenty eighteen a d. there are many on yielding goals who are attached to social progress who still fight against regression it is inadmissible to hear the president of the republic caricature and despise the french f

iran situation some europeans are thinking out of the box for james for example we have president mccrone of france talking about aggressive isolationism what's your take go ahead. no chance that they'll be able to do anything without.

out and then impose additional sanctions on countries and companies remember the europeans present mccrone said no this day and we'll even compensate you well it doesn't look like that's a road that anybody in the euro zone is going and total being i guess the big one i mean what does this mean for iran alex. well of just what you said you know it's interesting also the chinese banks said well if the us don't want to fund you to a lot of these companies especially from europe there's a well we'll back you up but it doesn't seem like anybody is biting for that offer as when it comes to iran i mean this is obviously big news for them we're talking about a deal that would have lasted over a span about twenty years from two thousand and fifteen this is something they desperately needed in many ways so when they announced this and it was their minister actually they really an oil minister is name is john numb darr. zangana and so he when he basically said that these guys are going out of the south park project this was very disappointing for them because this whole the project itself was suppos

and well before them for withdrawal yes along with for example just after mccrone i was given a slightly different kind of treatment i think is a really this very complicated question and i think to some extent there's a there's a kind of broad long term shift going on in the kind of global geopolitics and geo economics and i think then there are these kind of tactical transactional isms which trump is championing and i think to some extent trump is being criticized but i in the end he's standing up for what he believes he's the american and he's seeing any he's keeping his promises let's keep that in mind but it shouldn't be surprising ok he said this on the campaign trail keep going going keep. yes and i think what i would say about that to you is is that i think a large part of this is really a sort of tactical power play and it's as much dictator directed at home it is a political base to try to show them that he is standing up for the united states the key thing that he had promised to really that america first was going to do for them was to basically give them back economic and ot

iran's situation some europeans were thinking out of the box for a janes for example we have president mccrone of france talking about aggressive isolationism what's your take go ahead. no chance that they'll be able to do anything without the united states i think it's all talk by opinion i think that you're up to. two owned by the united states and to me this is just this is all about trump you know these these leaders about. these guys these neo liberals what's been left of the obama crew so to speak they just don't like trump they don't like to deal with trump they don't like his rhetoric and so you know they've got a little bit of trouble arrangement syndrome in europe but i don't think there's any chance in the near to medium term that europe can do much without the united states i think we saw that with younger i think you are went to washington and he pretty much capitulated to whatever trump wanted yeah but mark i mean i agree with alex broadly speaking but there are very specific things like energy where the germans and the austrians and the italians etc are going to go down their ow

any process to brief the president on the progress and so you know he heard about it from president mccrone and from chancellor merkel but that had not been buying into the decisions made along the way as you pointed out in one of your articles there were a number of things that could have done he could have extended the sanctions waiver to allow a little bit more time for the talks and yet he decided to and it abruptly after all those meetings cordial meetings with present chancellor merkel to the russians that looked kind of fluid do you think he was trying to make some point to send some assets to the europeans or is it just mr trump being. in court he is you know it's hard to know if he was trying to send a message but certainly after all the bonamy of the meeting after the supposedly improved atmosphere in the merkel meeting and then he actually treated his intention to make this announcement and sort of telegraphed where it was going while foreign secretary boris johnson was actually in washington trying to convince vice president pence and the secretary of state to continue the negot

british prime minister theresa may has met french president emmanuel mccrone in a bid to soften his resistance to her brags that plan leaders met in moscow in the summer residence may have been facing growing pressure to win allies in europe two of her senior ministers resigned last month in protest at her latest bragg's a proposal france is seen as taking a hard line and brags that negotiations as david chaytor explains. it's very very clear from french officials and from briefings of record in the least say that a man your macro is one perhaps of the hardest line leaders out of the twenty seven members of the e.u. on the on the other side of the channel now he has made europe his ideal he campaigned for and he got elected on it and he is very very clear that the united kingdom will not get a back door deal what they're calling here a semi detached deal where they will get a customs union but have none of the obligations that are at the heart of the european union also he's very clear that the negotiations will not be handled between political leaders it's michel barnier a main negotiator for

french president emmanuel mccrone says the european union needs to stop relying on the united states for its security in a speech setting out his diplomatic agenda has said europe needs to have an integrated defense policy with a common budget is also called for the development of trade and financial tools which he says needed to fend off u.s. sanctions. simply called the who didn't she think you will have been gritter solidarity means we will have to look again at the structure of european defense and security by initiating a renewed dialogue on cyber security chemical weapons conventional weapon right the territorial conflicts based security the protection of the polar zones in particular with russia i want to launch an exhaustive reflection if with all of our european partners and that has more from paris. him out omar can use this speech to the ambassadors to in a way promote his multilateral vision of the world and politics in the face of what he sees as rising nationalism and populism in terms of the european union he said that the union must try and strengthen its abilities in

news live from berlin well president mccrone of fraps be able to help a dying ukrainian filmmaker all its sense off is a fierce kremlin critic he's on a hunger strike right now in a russian jail and is said to be close to death the french president discusses his fate today with russian president vladimir putin also coming up. at least twenty nine children dead after their school bus was hit by an air strike in yemen there are strong condemnation of the saudi led coalition says it was targeting rebels.

president trump says he had a good phone call with emmanuel mccrone, president of france., security and tray. many other calls and conversations according to the president looking forward to dinner tonight with tim cook of apple. he's investing big dollars in the united states of america. breaking news about elon musk and tesla. be careful what you wish for. what is reports mr. mosque were sued today by investor who said they had been defrauded and that the mosque and board of directors defrauded shareholders in a scheme to manipulate the stock price with the august 728 that he might take as a private in a proposed class-action the complaint filed in san francisco that the scheme was connected in part by completely decimating short-sellers eventually leading to an inquiry to an extension mission and class-action includes investors who bought tesla shares as they were rising in the wake of mosques tweet. the share price later fell. it rebounded a little today. here to discuss this, strategic divider for the new york gop and back with us rick. john, i have to ask you. i don'

the french president emmanuel mccrone says the european union must stop depending on the united states for its security in a speech setting out his diplomatic agenda is here it needs to have an integrated defense policy with a common budget he also called for it to develop trade and financials tools needed to fend off u.s. sanctions well those are the headlines stay with us now for slavery routes that's next. this is the story of a world whose territories and borders were drawn by the slave trade a world where violence subjugation and profit imposed their roots. this criminal system shaped our history. the portuguese invented an economic model with unprecedented profitability the sugar plantation. in doing so as you describe as just. the sixteenth century by then all of europe was trying to imitate them. a quest for profits would plunge a whole continent into chaos and violence. nearly thirteen million africans were thrown on to new slavery routes to the new world where the english the french and the dutch hope to become wealthy immensely wealthy. because the caribbean has the same geo

first beyond our borders tonigh tonight, manual mccrone blaming the u.s.t he calls a major crisis and multilateralism. he told french investors in paris that president trump seems to turn his back on, and history. he is calling for trade discussions between the u.s., europe, china and japan. in paris this november. moscow has sentenced opposition leader to a month in jail for an unsanctioned protest rally in moscow. he is vladimir putin's most prominent rival and has caused for nation right rallies to protest government plans to raise the retirement age. investigators working for the u.n.'s top human rights say burma's leadership should be prosecuted for against the muslims. the call amounts to some of the strongest language yet from officials who have denounced alleged human rights violations and burma since the bloodied crackdown began last august. to some of the other stores beyond our borders tonight, we'll be right back. ♪ ah. that's it? everybody two seconds! "dear sebastian, after careful consideration of your application, it is with great pleasure

environmental issues nicola admitted during an interview that he hadn't yet told president emanuel mccrone he says the country has been inadequate in tackling climate change defending biodiversity and addressing climate change he's known to score high in popularity polls at the same time own ratings has plummeted to new lows. i have an immense friendship with this government and i offer my apologies but on a challenge this serious i find myself resigned to it every day adapting to it a little more each day even though the global situation with a planet that's becoming a sauna requires us to change our scale change our scope and change our thinking our let's go live to our correspondent who is in paris the treasury it seems a little bit old should we say that the environment minister is announcing his resignation in a national radio interview and admits that he has not she told the president is this a a massive blow for emanuel mackerel. it is a huge blow for a man or michael i mean it seems nicolas ullo took this decision perhaps of the last minute and he he decided to make this announceme

stop relying on the united states for its security in a speech setting out his diplomatic agenda mccrone said europe needed to have an integrated defense policy with a common budget he also cool for it to develop the trade and financial tools needed to send off u.s. sanctions. simply called didn't she think you will have been gritter solidarity means we will have to look again at the structure of european defense and security by initiating a renewed dialogue on cyber security chemical weapons conventional weapon right territorial conflicts basic euro to the protection of the polar zones in particular with russia i want us to launch an exhaustive reflection if with all of our european partners with us from paris. him out omar can use this speech to the ambassadors to in a way promote his multilateral vision of the world and politics in the face of what he sees as rising nationalism and populism in terms of the european union he said that the union must try and strengthen its abilities in terms of security and defense and not be so reliant on the united states and the french president said

the mccrone case is a perfect example of situational awareness as well as quick and decisive actions to counter it in terms of public speech by the leadership had an effect. >> i've got one final question here. i want to hear your opinion. in west virginia, people are having a hard time deciding where to get the facts. fake news seems to be the real news depending on where they get it from. social media and sometimes on networks if you will. whereask each one of you you receive each news you believe is factual? where do you go to? where can i help a west virginia and find some real news and not have to rely on trying to decide for themselves? is it fake or not, made up or not? i will start by going right now. >> i go to pbs, bbc, and the canadian broadcasting company. >> i'm old-fashioned and i like newspapers as my major sources. i like having publishers involved and editors who are able to fact check. >> i'm a new yorker and will go with the old gray lady. >> "new york times," "washington post," "wall street journal." >> not one of you mentioned social media as where you get your n