i. get the latest. thing. like that. rift between the e.u. and the us deep in ice block leaders question europe's partnership with washington . with numerous probes into alleged russian interference in the us election senators concluded russia did help get elected despite an early house probe finding that there was zero illusion. because tanzania is accused of violently

evicting thousands of indigenous people and. also make way reportedly. just turning midday here in moscow on this thursday may seventeenth thanks for joining us on our international your world news. the european union has now come up with an action plan to keep the iran nuclear deal after the u.s. really negative on the agreement it includes counter measures to protect european trade with iran from sanctions and the president of the european council donald certainly had some pretty harsh words for the u.s. leader. looking at the latest decisions of for them to try someone could see them fitting. with that move. about focus beginning.

europe should be great for a person. that if you knew the hoping. you will find one of your. it's not just being donald tusk that's been well handing out the zing is towards donald trump we had angle of merkel speaking in the book of the stock on wednesday she was well it was part of her budgetary address where she sets out where she sees her government right now and where it stands and she took part of that speech to directly look at the transatlantic relationship and she said that you rip right now sell for the crossroads and we didn't listen to them on the multilateralism is under great pressure at the moment and because it's under great pressure europe must take its fate in its own hands more than before therefore we need european answers almost certainly the biggest strain on that relationship at

the moment is donald trump's decision to pull the united states out of the iran nuclear deal it's this whole well of non consultation with allies policy when it comes to diplomacy that really isn't winning donald trump any friends in europe but then there's also the well extreme possibility of the likely possibility he doesn't care about winning friends in europe if we look back to his campaign he was incredibly dismissive of europe on his way to power he had to be dragged into jolt and poked into getting on board with nato by to resume a we also saw what could at best only be called awkward relations between donald trump and angular merkel whatever they've met in public and then we've got to remember when it comes to our money will he come well he publicly supported marine le pen against him in the election there so all of this is led some people watching this relationship to suggest that should it continue this way then europe may well

start looking in another direction. we look forward to working with russia and china to see to deal that is important part right now we are hoping for both moscow and beijing to act as responsible international players but it's watching that relationship suggesting that america first could well end up with america alone we live in a globalized world and three it is very very important and if he actually end up by still living america. ace not a good idea can he be it is elected for a second he's a question mark i'm at the rift with the e.u. washington's new top diplomat is promising a more direct approach to foreign policy during a closed meeting with staff secretary of state mike pompei reportedly talked about bringing swagger back to the u.s. state department. in our case it's america's essential brightness and it is aggressiveness born of the righteous knowledge that all cause is just special and

built upon america's core principles i don't think it is that's unique to mr pompei i think you have an attitude throughout the political class here in washington that's almost like like a real recrudescence of the view of the soviet union we are the vanguard of all progressive humanity peace progress is socialism archy's peace progress and human rights and that we are right and everybody else takes their cue from us i think that kind of arrogance unfortunately is very standard this goes beyond in my opinion just simple patriotism love of country and even a sense that our values are something that are dear to us this seems to set up a kind of amounted to a limp this attitude that we set up on high and judge everybody else and unfortunately this has been all too familiar not certainly just under this administration but i would say at least since one nine hundred ninety one when the cold war ended through the bill clinton george bush and barack obama administrations. the republican dominated u.s.

senate intelligence committee has concluded that donald trump was elected with the help of the russians comes off to the house intelligence panel which also has a republican majority absolved the trump of any commission. the russian effort was extensive sophisticated and old by president putin himself for the purpose of helping donald trump and hurting hillary clinton so we've heard this story countless times but at this time the bipartisan republican led committee found that there was collusion now how is this different from every other story well republicans on the committee actually agreed with fellow democrats that not only did russia interfere in the election but the influence campaign was apparently directed by president putin himself to elect donald trump however just three weeks ago the house intel committee also a bipartisan republican led committee found that there was no collusion the committee found no evidence that meetings between trump associates and official

representatives of the russian government reflected collusion coordination or conspiracy with the russian government now the democrats completely dismissed the committee's assessment saying that it was incredible that republicans couldn't see collusion throughout the investigation committee republicans chose not to seriously investigate or even see when in plain sight evidence of collusion between the trim campaign and russia and guess what democrats have pledged that they'll continue to investigate this collusion so now there's three separate investigations all contradicting each other and we're not even taking into account investigations conducted by the department of justice homeland security other congressional committees and of course the infamous muller investigation all of those who owned. or something who ever found there to be something could not explain what it was so you have to give you an idea of the ludicrous major of this a number of organizations or. tribunals that found no evidence of wrongdoing

some that found at camps desires and the ones that said yes we found something could not tell you what it was that they found. both democrats and republicans on the senate intelligence committee have also at the same time agreed to back trump's nominee to lead the cia and you know hospital has been accused of being linked to the torture of terror suspects with trumped praising her for being tough on tara also saying that torture works sure importantly ran a secret prison in thailand back in two thousand and two but which so-called enhanced interrogation techniques were used now the intelligence committee backed her candidacy with ten votes to five now during her confirmation hearing a police twice forcibly removed people protesting her nomination of a possible involvement in torture one of those protesters was cia veteran ray mcgovern and he shared his views on hospitals appointment with us the record is

very clear that she supervised waterboarding of alanah shiri at that like say in thailand she pretty much admitted that but then she classified the information so that would be tell held from the public the senate committee that sent that recommendation up to the full senate today is the same one that brought into this charade about russian interference in our election this is a committee that defends the intelligence community defends the torturers defends the people who eavesdrop on all americans this is me that is sort of joined at the hip but the intelligence people that is supposed to supervise most americans are abysmally ignorant with respect to what's going on and most of them have been led to believe that russia and feared here in our election in two thousand and sixteen

and ideas say is very little i would say no significant evidence that has been it used to show that that is the truth that is very shared. the government of the east african. state of tanzania is accused of a victim indigenous must communicate to use according to a new study this began in the two thousands with the alleged aim of making what way for up so far a tourism up between august and september twenty seventh seen some twenty eight thousand people were made homeless after nearly six thousand homes were allegedly damage here are some of the affected locals telling their stories. we got to come out of the fire you know what. we got that much. across that because i want to get that a woman up that was when i knew. about that. you know we don't but i've got what you. wanted to go. to get one of the lucky lucky.

you know your son luke burns a. close and yes there was a sub. who was told why do. you need to know more because if. not from the fukushima to not. do to. then the one visit to one is what would be going to cisco moving along. a ledge and there is. doubt any distance and leave the home sometimes it is not the company's supply them selves inability got the homes usually the owner has and these evictions and carried out by going to see shows like the park employees and last year the statement was that this was happening to protect the environment and to promote tourism ahead of the times and so far as groups strongly denies being

involved in the evictions or thompson says that his company works with local communities and government improving access to water but here's another metal again . religious lation landlubbers in the name of conservation the government or tanzania has been dispossessed in the indigenous. these legislations have been used to basically denying them aside their access to greeting lands the access to water holes but not just that it has allowed some of the suppliers in companies that are operating in the area to conclude that the officials who have been intimidated who have been arrested and beaten the villagers because they have tried to use their ancestral lands more specifically we have the two companies are going to kill or one is tanzania conservation ltd which is operated by boston be. owned by the boston based company one constant supply really the other is u.a.e. babies or here in business going to ration we. basically operates hunting

excursions for the royal family of you we see. the president of the french national union of students has been condemned for appearing on television wearing a job she was slammed on social media with people tweeting that it was impossible to stand up for rights while wearing that head covering. artie's correspondent she delves more into the story. the debate over women wearing a hit job in france is getting fired up once again why well student union president miriam pushed was in the news recently talking about the ongoing student protests here but instead of lighting a fire in support of a cause she became a target just for wearing a hijab. meant a field day on social media questioning how a woman wearing

a hijab could possibly be the president of the left wing progressive student association and that it was time for the. movement had been hijacked by jess salads. decades ago in the middle of twentieth century you any of was left wing and secular and did not allow itself to be polluted by any religion we were far from imagining that this would happen at the beginning on the twenty first element to both of us. sad decline for the student union today forced to choose its leader in the shadows of islam is a. response to support miriam hash tag has appeared with a lot of people highlighting how france is a multicultural country and that wearing a hit job is an acceptable form of a toy as it doesn't cover the face which is of course banned in france. tonight all my support of ghost activist marian from and who fights daily to defend

the rights of students and who suffer racist and islam a phobic insoles to hide behind the muse guided vision of secularism to mask lead in tracey's is unbelievably low you will remain progressive i want to express support of a grade from you and some for bush would have no place in society organisations. marion's student union is also backing her saying it's each individual's right whether or not the way ahead stuff and that as a woman she has a right to choose was strongly condemned the wave of racist sexist and the slammer for became a threat which mariam is a victim of u.s. support to marry him against these attacks but that isn't stopping the run for reaching the loans of the french government the gender equality minister is in no way doing in condemning the own line trolls for targeting marian but at the same

time questioning whether a woman in that role is setting the right example by wearing a hit job. never supposed to be a feminist progressive student union whereas to bally's proof of the grip of religion the promotion of political islam in a sense instead of just using the right ministers contribution is yet another. decades long debate can you be a feminist a progressive on it's. us with the program here on our t.v. just a moment we go live to the russian city. where there's an international legal forum being being held one of the issues being discussed fake news we'll have a live guest from next in a moment. i

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critical time time to sit down and talk. good of you to share your thursday with us here at r.t. the russian city of st petersburg is hosting an international legal forum bringing together the leading minds of the field from across the world and one of the issues being debated there is the influence of fake news and fake evidence on court procedures and one of the foreign participants joins us live now from st petersburg . queens a council from brick court chambers and michael thanks for joining us today hope the forum is going well we're all aware how fake news can sway public opinion how specifically is it affecting court cases. the problem is that after creating this propaganda particularly in international

cases some of the authors of it then presented as evidence and obviously evidence can affect the proceedings unless you're very careful in dealing with it. and so what kind of methods can be a corporator to combat this kind of fake evidence as you say. well it's increasingly difficult because the techniques of creating it very sophisticated it often starts with digital media pictures and video on the internet uploaded on anonymous accounts and then picked up by some purported experts who are christians the material is genuine and then it moves into mainstream media as received fact but the fact can be false and very quickly the original pictures and video disappear there on the femoral accounts anonymous accounts and in any event it's very hard to check mete data and do forensic

analysis because the process of uploading through social media strips out that datum. the answer is you've got to bring your skills as a lawyer and common sense to you've got to look at context motive try to work out whether the picture is physically possible sometimes they defy the laws of physics i've got an example in the georgia litigation where a piece of missile is supposed to landed on a sofa for people to photograph it's supposed to come through the roof from one side of the room across the room landed gently on the sofa for people to photograph it turns out that the key photo was taken by a us navy photographer as part of the state department mission after russia pulled out of gori in georgia and after the the state department moved in

so once got to look at context who is the author of the material what's the chain of custody of the data what process the process is being applied to it and also one has to have in mind the burden of proof if somebody has cases true normally they should be able to produce primary evidence not just pictures and video you meant you mention primary evidence of course it's not just news that can be fake or tampered with court room evidence can also be fake or tampered with as well how did how did courts go about dealing with this as you were saying there are so many social media platforms now it's difficult to know where the information is coming from or the so-called evidence is coming from but how can courts be more proactive in protecting the so-called evidence. well i would disagree with you i think that a court room potentially is the best place to test such material and the best way of doing it is cross-examination of witnesses in court because if they false

witnesses the chances are they'll be inconsistency is between the various accounts and if it's a false story in. they're backing up something false on. video or digital photographs there will be problems of physics and they won't be able to explain how the picture could have come about so it's important that adequate time is given for cross-examination and unfortunately international tribunals often have those resources for example in the georgia case i was allowed fifteen minutes for a witness to cross-examine on very complex matters. with respect that's that's not enough but you have to have an opportunity to challenge the case you have to have an opportunity to present evidence in rebuttal of the tribunals has to bear in mind the burden of proof and the standard of proof that the words the party presenting

such a case has to prove it and if they don't do that by obvious primary evidence then the inference is flow against them now michael obviously you are at this international forum in some petersburg or any any highlights to mention any surprises for you so far that we should be aware of. not being quite busy here i'm afraid in preparing for my session one thing that has struck me within my sessions is the common factors between advocates in a number of these cases phillipe. represented the russian athletes who were recently cleared of doping and he was complaining that the case against them was very public his challenge to the case was confidential because the process of the arbitration was confidential and that's my experience in international

litigation as well the evidence gathering is confidential and that seems to me to be a problem because it potentially means that cases are used for. propaganda instead of proof it sounds like some very pertinent cases being addressed here at the international forum in some petersburg. the queen's counsel from british court chambers thank you very much for your time and thank you for your insight on r.t. today thank you. all thank you for joining us as well for the program one us activist fighting against police brutality he was released after five months in prison claims to be the first victim of a secret f.b.i. surveillance program. took part in several anti brutality protests and advocated for the rights of african american gun owners he claims he's been secretly monitored by the f.b.i. since two thousand and fifteen overs anti police statements that the f.b.i. reportedly alleges that bloke and made facebook posts in support of a man who killed police officers however prosecutors failed to establish that he

posed a threat. you know each of the state of being in order. to . be you know the way. it is to. be. changing you know one meeting is over a clue or. two. there is. a lot. but logan's lawyers believe he was prosecuted under a new f.b.i. program according to several released documents the bureau is carrying out a special investigation into those deemed to be domestic threats it focuses on so-called black identity extremists in the case of balogun police confiscated

several weapons from his house and the activist himself claims his protest was never violent. but black how do you stream is this a way to put it through a label. or to simply. they. may disagree with the nice days of social or economic policies the way in life my case is this is another crew oh how the word terrorist is very loose. with the united states samir. sent a letter to the f.b.i. asking them to clarify the links between the case of what i can buy logan and the alleged black identity extremist program the agency replied saying it doesn't have any comment on the matter. so i will thank you joining us here on this thursday were not international many more of your worldwide stories at the top of the hour.

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a us dollar empire remember we've had this exorbitant privilege for the last forty years since one nine hundred seventy one since we went off the gold standard we've had this exorbitant privilege as charles the goals of government pointed out that we were able to basically print money and get free goods from the rest of the world and this worked out quite well for a very long time and led to globalization and a rise in global living standards and now it feels like once we erected one trade barrier one basically barrier by a swift to this financial this dollar financial system a few years ago against iran and at that time our guest jim rickards said be careful what you do because if you use this weapon too often things could fall apart but this story about c.t.e. what happened to z t e m a massive chinese telecoms company that got destroyed overnight by the u.s. and now is trying they're trying to resurrect it is interesting an.