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Youre watching are to international bring you your live news update from our studio here in moscow welcome to the program. The u. S. Has conducted its 1st test of a 500 kilometer Cruise Missile type previously banned for over 30 years under a now defunct arms control treaty between moscow and washington. And reports from new york. We have official word from the pentagon that indeed there has been a test of a missile that would have violated the intermediate range Nuclear Forces treaty that treaty has now expired and the usa has conducted a test of a missile that would have violated it heres what we heard from the pentagon the department of defense conducted to fly test of the conventionally configured ground Cruise Missile the u. S. West coast sunday the test missile exited its ground mobile launcher and accurately impacted this target after more than 500 kilometers off light now the test was conducted on San Nicolas Island off the coast of california we understand furthermore that the test was announced on august 2nd the very. The day that the i. N. F. Treaty expired now the official reason for the United States withdrawing from the i. N. F. Treaty was that they accused russia of violating that agreement now russia has said they did not and denies violating this agreement we also heard from russian president Vladimir Putin who emphasized that russia wont be the 1st to boost its military if the usa were not to escalate following the withdrawal of the treaty this is what the russian president said if we receive verified information that the us has finished developing and started producing these Systems Russia will be forced to begin its own full Scale Development of similar missiles so even after the United States withdrew from the i. N. F. Treaty we did not see an escalation from russia however the United States has proceeded to test this missile that would have violated the treaty now its important to remember that the i. N. F. Treaty was signed in 1987 and it was a key moment in the scaling down in deescalation and eventually end of the cold war however that i. N. F. Treaty that banned nuclear and missiles of a certain length is no longer in effect now russia has repeatedly reached out to the United States for dialogue around this issue but so far the conversation hasnt seemed to start now it seems Donald Trumps been eager to strengthen Americas Nuclear capabilities for a while at least since he was president elect in 2016 and the same goes for parts of the us establishment. As we gain the strategic advantage by expediting the development and deployment of a new generation of ground launched missiles now the department of defense will be able to conduct does Precision Development activities bento to an f. Treaty so the department of defense will still have some building though system they couldnt be full United States has said that this is not Nuclear Capable and the United States is planning for another test probably in november this one and somewhere between 508000 kilometers a range but the one that theyre testing in november its miscreants 3004000 kilometers or range thats another in this year is a very unfortunate moves that have been going on for the past couple of years at least well we can actually dated back to 2001 with the announcement that the u. S. Is going to clear the a. B. M. Treaty theres only one major nonproliferation treaty remaining the new start treaty which ends and 2021 and the United States has already indicated that it will almost certainly pull out of that one also or not when they do that one which means we are on the verge of nuclear anarky. U. S. Attorney general william barr has removed the director of u. S. Prisons after the recent death of dicks grace billionaire Jeffrey Epstein some lamarck lawmakers have praised the decision i made concern over the conditions at the jail where he took his own life. Ive seen was convicted of pedophilia back in 2007 then he was sentenced to 13 months as part of a deal signed by then u. S. Attorney Alexander Acosta had many friends and high places among them a double trump bill clinton and Prince Andrew at the time of his death the financier was awaiting trial for sex trafficking offenses he was being held at a facility reserved for the most dangerous criminals among them the drug baron chapo epstein had been taken off suicide watch despite having made a recent attempt on his own life we spoke to his lawyer mark for in which he thinks conditions at the jail may have driven him over the edge. The conditions to which he was subjected would buckle even the knees of the strongest among us its this is one of the toughest federal pretrial detention facilities in the country and the conditions are inhumane epstein was subjected to conditions that were similar to those of guzman but not remotely justified by his character or what he was accused of because he was not. A violent individual like chapo was alleged to have been hes not a guy who has escaped from prior facilities like guzman was alleged to have done so one would be comparing apples and oranges to liken the 2 to each other but yet their conditions of confinement were strikingly similar and theres something fundamentally wrong with that and whats fundamentally wrong with that is that jeffrey abstain did not belong in that facility to begin with. Just my own personal opinion it wouldnt surprise me to learn of anything that might have happened with Jeffrey Epstein and in my view at that in that facility the real story the real miracle is that we dont hear about these sort of things more about murdered pretrial detainees or suicidal pretrial detainees because the facility. Is barbaric and its a whole its its its like i dont use the word lightly lightly but its sort of like an american go log for people who have not yet been convicted of anything so the real shock here is that we dont hear about deaths at pretrial oppressive onerous pretrial detention facilities like the m. C. C. More often. Any of us could one day find ourselves rightly or wrongly on on the. Business and of of the United States department of justice and nobody nobody sued should be subjected to the conditions that epstein was exposed to for many reasons one of which is that compromises your mental and physical functioning and you cant assist adequately in preparing your own defense and it crushes people we dont really know what happened to mr epstein but certainly i believe personally that being a locked in a facility like that under extraordinary conditions would logically wreak havoc with ones mind and body so i certainly i certainly believe that they personally that they could have played a role absolutely i mean i think we would be foolish to to deny that but again one doesnt want to treat the symptom while ignoring the disease and the disease is. How people are routinely denied bail with a shocking ease given the laws that Congress Passed allowing prosecutors and judge to do that epstein did not belong locked up pending trial and he didnt belong in a hellhole like that before he had been convicted of anything. A social Media Network aimed at young british muslims has turned out to be part of a u. K. Government Counterterrorism Program reporting from london heres tosca taylor. Wolk is a social News Platform the word thing a popular used to describe someone whos acutely aware of social justice issues especially racism uses bright colors as a morton told design its a space for political engage young people to come together and discuss the burning issues of the day. Were created for us to eat. Just lies really how which is you. Know topic as off limits out woke Climate Change beacon has some gender issues kept the something for everyone across its pages has around 73000 followers and one of its most successful videos has hit 1700000 of you mark but scrolling through its pages one can see that its content is primarily centered around the experience of british muslims and their identity and politics so alongside islamic holiday well wishes youll also find debates on different perspectives of terrorism for example but no one has an issue with the content of what with it sponsor because the report has just revealed that the platform is the cofounder of the u. K. Government counterterrorism strategy now the home office has a false coming with details about its involvement and what it did it has material from the project or if you start any question about the motives. Or indeed the methods that it uses and thats usually on the grounds of National Security and its short statement on the issue didnt really help clarify the issue any thought we committed to using all the tools available to counter the threat from terrorism in the u. K. The home office works in partnership with a range of organizations to reduce vulnerabilities to organized criminal extremist and. Terrorist threats in the u. K. Its not just the wider public or users who want told the governments role the report also reveals that people who are invited on to work can actually featured in discussions that want formed it was part of a home office and they should have an initiative called prevent that is cause great control to see since its implementation back in 2003 and its been called nothing more than state sanctioned spying targeting the Muslim Community is probably unsurprising them that given the revelation related to that very project the backlash against it was quite strong this complete absence of transparency is just one of many reasons why there is such little trust between muslim communities and government so angry about home office this is work situation i cant articulate myself how can the government expect muslims not to have trust issues with our government. The betrayal of trust that we face at every level of every institution include in online spaces media platforms arts and cultural events civic life and Everything Else on this list something i think everyone concerned with racism at all needs to be screaming about this is imagined a recent segment on wont discuss tackling fake news the irony im sure is not lost on many now who look at the platform and see it as a minute factor brand filled with content promoting the secret agenda on behalf of the British Government so there are questions being raised here especially in a country which was once voted as the most transparent in the world sus to tape all teen and. Media group which runs work told us its proud of the work it does for its clients meanwhile facebook is expanding its crackdown on fake news to its instagram platform users will be able to flag what they deem to be suspicious posts the content can be marked fake or false and will then automatically be deleted from searches for example suppose someone posts a false statement such as this one given the hash tag math expert if someone flags that thats false it will never appear again under that hash tag social Media Privacy advocate bill new is skeptical. Its when you get into pictures and primarily with video where things start to get really really difficult and this moment in time the automated tools that they are using cannot tell the difference between a cat a dog and a terrorist this moment in time the humming certainly would lead you on facebook platform to use an enormous number. Of people who sit and do nothing but look through these videos to moderate them and to recognize them with the now taking this sort of technique to instagram which is a lovely picture based medium and obviously the same challenges are going to face them and if they havent got it was also is just absolutely get on top of things on facebook you have to question whether theyve also got resources to police in spawn as well so i think what we need to see is accuracy and authenticity. Still to come after an 113. 00 kind of protest and hong kong we take a closer look at what might be driving the demonstrations details after this short break. Join me every thursday on the alex simon show and ill be speaking to guest of the world of politics sports business im show business ill see you then. Welcome back social media platform twitter says it has blocked a number of chinese accounts for trying to undermine the protests in hong kong we are disclosing a significant stayed back to informational pression focused on the situation hong kong this disclosure consists of 936. 00 a cancer region 18 from within the peoples republic of china over all these accounts were deliberately and specifically tempting to sow political discord in hong kong including undermining the legitimacy and political positions of the protest movement on the ground. The protest movement in hong kong started back in june over draft legislation permitting the extradition of suspects to Mainland China but has since brought into other political issues over the last 11 weeks rallies have frequently turned violent with police using tear gas and rubber bullets against protesters the latest rally on happened on sunday organizers claim 1700000. 00 people turned out for it parties down the corridor it takes a closer look at what might be motivating the protesters. Freedom Fair Elections democracy its words like these youll find throughout the western Media Coverage of the protests in hong kong but the reality of it is all much more complicated. Its not just politics motivating the violence racial slurs against people from Mainland China can be heard throughout the crowds and seen graffitied on official buildings protesters have also been seen brandishing the infamously racist pepe the frog me an internet hate symbol and this is enough phobic violence has even spilled over to protests in other countries. This anti china extremism comes from a concept called hong kong exceptionalism the idea that hong kong has more in common with the west than with china because of its British Colonial past and that ideologies it here in sa are not exactly shy about their love for all things anti china 6 6. Despite all the american flags and anthem singing donald trump says he had no idea why protests were being blamed on the u. S. But his cabinet might have an explanation since theyve been meeting with one of the oppositions main icons jimmy lie. Appreciation lies a selfmade billionaire whos made a huge mark on hong kongs Opposition Movement he landed himself in hot water with beijing back in 2012 when his newspaper published an ad portraying pregnant Chinese Women as locusts and hes very open about his feelings for American Values we need to know that america is behind us but back in our some america is showing more rule 30 because we are the only place in china which shares your values and is fighting the same battle you have with china but theres another younger and not so rich rebel leader at play here too joshua wong a fresh 22 year old face of revolution a face loved in many corridors of washington to marco rubio was so in all you nominated wong for a Nobel Peace Prize leave it to washington to nominate a leader of violent protests for peace when it suits them agenda the u. S. Is very determinately supporting these protesters every arm of the corporate media. Radio Television Social Media is is raising them to and always referring to them as prodemocracy protesters where theyre not at all this has nothing to do with democracy and they are determined to sabotage in every way that they can any normal relations between china with hong kong and it it is creating intentionally a great deal of confusion among young people who have been pulled into this against their own interests weve asked the u. S. State department and leaders of the hong kong process protest movement to comment on the alleged links we highlighted although so far we have not received a response. Tensions between beijing and washington are also high over another part of china taiwan is doing is furiously trumpet ministration has approved the sale of fighter jets to the island and is warning it will take action if the deal goes ahead china has made numerous solemn representations to the u. S. On the sale of the f. 16 s to taiwan the us just about all the consequences triggered by the sale its 8000000000. 00 u. S. Dollars its a lot of money thats a lot of jobs and we know theyre going to use these f. 16. 00 responsibly the deal still needs to be approved by the senate but if it goes ahead it will be the 1st sale of after 16 fighters to taiwan since 1902 previous requests for jets by taiwan were rejected by the a moment Administration Last month the u. S. State Department Approved another arms deal with taiwan that includes 108 tanks and more than 200. 00 missiles the deal is worth 2200000000. 00 back then beijing also accused the u. S. Of meddling saying it would cut ties with every American Company involved in the deal taiwan is officially recognized by only 18 countries but the u. S. Has an officially been supporting the islands military since the 1980 s. China seas taiwan as part of its territory china expert and lee says beijing will point the finger at washington if tensions escalate. There is some unity in washington to go hard on china and some of these folks who are elected theyre basically elected with the same funding or the people who got people into the trumpet mr gratian and who fund the think tanks in washington and so its all basically representing the same elite interests china sees this as an aggressive move by the u. S. To try to provoke them into war the chinese basically up and say that the u. S. Is going to be at fault here because there are not being consistent and not honoring the promises that were made in previous administrations and so this big departure is going to be on the u. S. And thats where they want to place the blame here if there is any military escalation that happens. The u. S. Democratic lawmaker has apologized after pictures showing the mock assassination of President Donald Trump went viral and one state senator mark martin some of all says an Entertainment Firm hired for one of his fundraiser events was behind them the pictures were posted online by the senators supporters who were at the fundraiser in the photos a man is pointing a gun at someone wearing a trump mask and theyve provoked and reaction. The apology from senator sanders will for the detestable pictures from his event depict an assassination of President Trump is too little too late its inexcusable for an elected official to allow the promotion of violence in any way if the individual pictured as a star for all volunteer they should be terminated immediately martin son doval in illinois is further proof it is the democrats who are inciting violence i have yet to see a republican promote such violence every democrat should be asked if they support to disavow this we discussed the situation with julio rivera editor at the tauriel director at reactionary times he says violent behavior has become more acceptable among some parts of the left or unfortunately the rhetoric from the liberal left has continued to get more and more violent this is becoming increasingly excepted by the left in the Mainstream Media continues to blast this message oh were seeing an increase in violent behavior from the left people complain about supposedly negative you know divisive rhetoric from President Trump but ive never seen a president from stage a mock assassination of any of his democratic opponent what happens is it has the potential to radicalize the weak minded you know todays stage assassinations become tomorrows assassination attempt. More than 30 children in the south of france have been diagnosed with arsenic poisoning after a flood back in october released toxic mud from a closed off gold mine and parents are worried more children could be affected. In october 28th away flooded the entire School Courtyard and carried away all the walls that were here after this the yard was covered with a layer sedimentary mud and unfortunately 6 months later in april we unexpectedly found out that the level of arsenic was abnormally high then the team from the Geological Research Office Conducted an independent examination and said that now despite the conclusion of the Previous Team there are no more traces of arsenic on the most. Wanted to ensure no grass we will read a day and night our boy had very strong symptoms but when the results were given to us at the hospital the doctors told us the symptoms were related to the levels of arsenic were struggle they did deference of due to already all the dust is simply swept under the carpet while there is more and more obvious evidence that there was a natural sanitary problem and. My son got arsenic poisoning at school and in the valley of or b. L. Where everyone was a triscuit airborne infection and especially my son because he suffered from their facts of the flooding and school yard. Thats our global news wrap up for now but ill be back at the top of the hour with the latest thanks for tuning it. Cass calendar is drawing alfonzo along. This changing page hes dard to serve the old guard. Whose 1st words were added i will say youre a child of the post you got 2 years to live. I have no doubt that what happened was criminal. 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Well i want to talk about corruption because as we all have seen in the past week or 2 that we went through the Looking Glass in many regards the corruption the Global Financial system Monetary System the negative rates and all that sort of stuff but when this Jeffrey Epstein suicide situation happened it was quite remarkable that the universal opinion immediately at least until people started filtering themselves but immediately there were the likes of Washington Post New York Times and n. B. C. Sort of journalists on twitter scaring the population going oh my god like. This guy was murdered you know so then they all said oh its all a Conspiracy Theory but the fact is that this could happen that the corrupt people he was blackmailing perhaps well never know what truly was the whole story behind the situation of Jeffrey Epstein but because now conveniently all of the revelations will no longer happen so i want to talk about the corruption that we see all around us now since 2008 when barack obama was elected and came to the rescue of the Global Financial system and offered hope to the American People that something will change nothing has ever changed that it was never help for the people it was never help for the population it was always