A very warm welcome here watching r. T. International with me to carry on our top story this hour democrats have labeled fox news an existential threat to the u. S. Describing it as a russian stooge with some on the blue heart of washington calling for the channel to register as a Foreign Agents. Voices in the mainstream of the Democratic Party have escalated their calls for the suppression of alternative views pacifically about Foreign Policy the target now seems to be the Fox News Network one of the most watched Cable News Networks in the United States prominent democratic voices have called for fox news to be forced to register as a Foreign Agent and specifically a Foreign Agent of russia fox news should register with far as an agent of the Russian Federation if its going to peddle the kremlin agenda and propaganda while hurting u. S. National security interests then it should be treated the same as our t. And nick these allegations and this call for suppression of fox news and forcing it to register as an agent of russia seem to be in response to this comment from Tucker Carlson i dont live like they are about to go on a conflict between ukraine and russia but im curious like i dont like to know why and why should that run for russia which i am Tucker Carlson is a prominent host on fox news he has a nightly program and apparently it was in response to not only these comments but also comments hes made in coverage shes had of the o. P. C. W. Reports questioning allegations about syria and the chemical attack in duma and 27 seen here is some of the response that fox news has endured for its Foreign Policy coverage folks news host says he roots for russia against the west he said the quiet out loud this clip is just one more exhibit supporting the case that its no longer the left versus right but democracy versus authoritarianism i think many still underestimate the threat to the republic at this point foxs open the fascist day and g. O. P. Are existential threats to do us say weve reached out to fox news for comment on this issue in this allegation we hope to hear back from them this is not the 1st time that allegations like this have been leveled against conservative Media Outlets in the United States theres currently a case. In court in which one American News is suing m s n b c and Rachel Maddow over their allegation that Rachel Maddow referred to america one American News as quote paid russian propaganda one American News network as a conservative media outlet they say this is slanderous they are simply not a paid russian propaganda outlet and that this is an attack this is an unfair slander from m s n b c and from Rachel Maddow and theyre hoping to win a settlement in court of up to 10000000. 00 it seems that the allegation that one is a russian agent or a russian asset or a Foreign Agent agent of a foreign power seems to be a common theme among those calling for the suppression of alternative views its just not the smear its then thats all it is and they make these outrageous claims with absolutely no backing your no support about being a Foreign Agent which is absolutely ludicrous but they make it with no evidence and of course the intent is not to actually get these organizations to register as Foreign Agents thats absurd the intent is to just plant this seed to plant this ridiculous notion which theyve been doing all along theyve been doing this with the russia gates a lot that blew up in their face earlier this year and now with the piece written hearings which is also blown up in their face Democratic Party in the left used to be the party of free speech the priest Speech Movement was started in 1960 s. By left wing activists and and theyre also the Antiwar Movement and they used to be the party of antiwar weve seen this dramatic shift the entire paradigm has been flipped on its head free speech and war and foreign war relations its just 2 of those biggest issues the Democrat Party the left is fundamentally and type free speech. The u. K. Foreign secretary has been branded a cow its a soft apparently refusing to talk to the family of a young man killed in a car accident the deadly incident happened in ogust outside an American Military base in. England and reportedly involved the wife of a u. S. Diplomats we spoke to the victims father following his confrontation with the foreign secretary. Mr dunne how does the you know what very have you any sort of agreement that they really have to have the you know the to the right but they found one of the i want to feel very. Deeply very happy for you and to go down and try to reach him because he had been in contact. Troubles with how restrikes sorry i went down to speak to him but he didnt want to talk to me because there was some press that would be trying to speak to mr arar for a long time on or yes jews call me he goes on and. Orders to do is get in touch us and we can arrange a marriage so you have all the arts is there is why we asked him since the start we havent had any support from the government really. One meeting with mr brough which wasnt very such structuring for us as a family and a lover now there has been no contact with the u. K. Government on the right we fail as a family that. Theyre more concerned with helping the american citizen is accused of killing our son than calculus british citizens have been in the country teenager harry dunn died 3 months ago as a result of a Traffic Accident between his motorcycle and a car the suspect in question and so clueless admitted that she was driving on the wrong side of the road she left the u. K. Off the words and invoked diplomatic immunity through her lawyers cyclists said she had no time to react and apologized to the dunn family. The case Foreign Office says is providing all the necessary help to seek a resolution to the case but harry dunns father told r. T. More must be done for justice to happen. Probably require one ounce acuteness to come back and be charged through our courts for the crimes she has committed and except. For us that is what we are. 100 percent. Sure were going to try and have the governments all the countries look at this diplomatic immunity law because it just say rather than the. Spouse of an American Worker can kill a 19 year old out in the house who needs a culture on beauty i think the laws need to be updated to be more concurrent with the work we are not songs we live in we feel we cannot let this injustice go forward was a young lad just starting out 19 years old started to enjoy his life and it was take your wife of him and we would feel we would not be the parents we should be for and we do not try and same is true and get there just as he deserves. As the us where a Chemical Plant in Southeast Texas is ablaze following an explosion early on wednesday morning in which 3 workers were injured. I. When i go live to a local resident who lives close to the plant im all welcome to the program its great to have you with us now when you have the bloss what we know is that your 1st thoughts. Are going to be honest this i mean as soon as i heard it i kind of just looked up and it was almost like a little bit of shock. And then you know right after the initial boom everything started lighting up outside and so its i mean its it was one of the here its everything started lighting up and then i just watched the entire front of my house just. The whole d explosion blow through all the doors and windows and it was it was terrifying i mean i i generally my immediate thought through that somebody had you know set something off or a bomb went off or Something Like that. And those and then i found out it was a plant explosion that was a house damage to tell. You know so our house was actually really damaged all the garage doors pretty much all of the doors down the middle all the windows blew out some of the roof you know a thing so we had a lot of damage below thora tazer understand immediately issued and mandatory evacuation how long afterwards were you told to leave and we had given a full explanation as to what happened. So we werent we were i mean they just kind of theres a mandatory d evacuation one plant. But me and my brother we were the only ones in the health. And we we kind of made that connection earlier we we knew that once we found out it was a Chemical Plant we knew we had to leave because you dont know whats in the air at that point so we we pretty much grab whatever we could and just immediately left before most of the people started evacuating and do you expect to receive any compensation for the damage to your prophecy. I really really hope so because i dont think insurance covers this kind of stuff so im hoping you know one of the plants or somebody can help out because its a lot of damage and we cant really afford that right. Before you may think that property added even considered that the risks of living close to that. I mean you hear about it you hear about plants explosions and but and its happened around the area before but not to this extent its never affected homeowners around the refineries i definitely did not expect you know Something Like this to happen but i guess it comes with living in the area. As just one of those things that we have to accept but again i really hope you know theres some type of aid that comes in. I suppose it makes you feel a little bit apprehensive about me if im back into that property and living in the area now oh definitely i mean its terrifying no it is absolutely terrifying hopefully they get everything under control im glad there werent any casualties as of right well. Thats good to hear but its still terrifying and in the end they still dont necessarily know whats in the air and thats whats scarier so were were actually going to head out pretty soon were closing were putting boards over the windows so that nobody can access the house while were gone but were trying to leave because i want to breathe and if this air thank you speaking to us i might have a local resident of from a port in a chest good luck with everything thank you. Refinery owned by the t. P. C. Group produces thousands of tons of chemical and Petroleum Based products the situation in porn h. S. Is still ongoing as Emergency Services seek to bring the fire and to control as quickly as possible journalist and campaign on health and Environmental Issues all of a tick hell believes that a substantial investigation will be needed to determine any background toxicity. And really quite toxic compounds are used on this site and the manufacturers on this site i think that really quite a lot of investigation will be needed just to determine the background toxicity in the local area following this since the local community will have a love hate relationship with this plant these plants are responsible for quite a lot of wealth in this area they provide a huge amount of employment they are the economic lifeblood of this Golden Triangle area but at the same time there are these pollution incidents i think that this incident may actually bring quite a lot of additional political pressure on to the trumpet ministration not to cut the resources of the e. P. A. As its interning to do. R. T. Spanish will be taken off air in bolivia at the start of december as according to the leading t. V. Operator in the latin American Country we requested an explanation concerning the concerning the decision his their response. This is a decision taken by the companys administration which tasked us with shutting down the channels broadcast. Curtis is a nongovernmental operator on the lead in bolivia has paid television markets the decision follows ecuadors move to also cut off spanish almost 2 weeks ago with moscow still awaiting on a response from key so lets discuss this further now and go live to the National Coordinator of the think Tank Alliance to global justice took health money welcome to the program its great to have you with us what reasons do you see behind spanish being cut off here. Oh its such a short pier and some people. The. Government in bolivia is struggling to establish itself against. Resistance and they cant they cant afford for people to hear alternative voices to the. News that they want the message that they want to get get out there the operator responded by saying it was just following orders why would they give such a very good explanation. The orders im sure coming from the government or the oligarchy who owns the station. And support of the coup government what we have. Is a president who has no legitimacy whatsoever no legal legitimacy is the head of a party that has what 4 or 5 seats in the bashful assembly. Party Movement TowardSocialism Party has over a 2 thirds majority in the legislature the new leadership after the coup. Government force the coup leaders forced the the people who are in the line of succession for presidency to resign theres a legitimate president. Bolivia. Evo morales who was elected on october 20th so. Strong plurality of the vote. All of this is just part and parcel of. The beginning of a dictatorship and. So 1st it was actually. Now. Is it just a coincidence though always seeing the beginning of a trend here. Oh i was sure that this is all part of us play and cooked up in foggy bottom at the state department. To try to. Think. Of countries were electing. If not socialist governments governments that were moving toward socialism out of the us sphere of influence. Now that. The us is has less of the. Ministration on as putting less attention on the middle east their attention and study recovering gemini over america which im sure youve heard called us as backyard. Livias the former Vice President he links this to the the new interim government why would these last american nations be concerned about various networks and i coverage of the political crisis that because they have to have control of the message. People can you know if people have free access to information theyre going to say that other people or country are are suffering in the way that theyre suffering and theyre going to to know that the reason for that suffering is this. The sole legitimate government. That is big imposed on them and there is a sense will continue on and grow to a common National Coordinator of the alliance for global justice thank you for speaking to us today thank you always take a look at why after this. What politicians do something to. Put themselves on the line they get accepted or rejected. So when you want to be president or injury. Or some want to be. That youd like to be for us this is what the 43 in the morning cant be good. Im interested always in the waters in the house. There should. Be no one of the things we talk about on the show if you read the Financial Press about the latest scandal its just a new name for a recurring scandal like theres only 3 or 4 ways you can rip people off changes is the name they call to repeal the law. Much of a powerful and strong the study then you have the records and what we have done is to try and identify something by that happening in the brain where the expression of the ripples corresponds to the depths of your consciousness. Because ozzy international the director of Human Rights Watch for israel and palestine has vowed to continue his work as off the big expelled on monday from israel tel of eve accuses a mostly kid of supporting a band Boycott Movement on the country which it sees as a strategic threat. Israeli government has been trying for 3 years to expel Human Rights Watch their rationales have different have differed most recently really government claim that we call for boycotts of israel and their focus has been our work on the illegal settlements we do not take a position on boycotts of israel what we do across the world is document abuses by all actors including businesses and call for actors to refrain from contributing to rights abuse in order to comply with their obligations under International Law and when we applied that universal call to the illegal settlements in the west bank israel said it was a call for a boycott and under a new law called revoke my work permit and then deported me on november 25th Human Rights Watch has long been critical of the Israeli Governments rights record and the construction of settlements in the west bank is the 1st time a Human Rights Watch staff member has been expelled from israel in the organizations 30 years of operating in the country and mushy care believe they were willing as part of a targeted campaign against rights advocates. Clearly theyre trying to do you by throwing out a representative of one of the Worlds Largest human rights organizations is to say to others that you know your work documenting rights abuses could result in you facing a punitive sanction this move shows the degree to which israel has lost even the pretense of 1st specked for basic International Norms if israel despite criticism from much of the world for its me as it did earlier this week for my Rights Advocacy how would ever stop abusing rights are the reality here is the Israeli Government feels emboldened and the world spoke out against this and they still did ordered me so i think the message is quite clear here that the government intends not only to continue with systematic assault on human rights organizations but intends to continue its abuse of policies that weve been exposing and playing to light. Sculptures of whistleblowers judy in a song Chelsea Manning and that would snowden have made a rare parents in central lead more than 3 years after they were 1st unveiled and titled to anything to say they sculpt has now returned to his place at the Brandenburg Gate after world tour the artist behind it devotes to mino says it represents those who dare to say no to global surveillance or who make a stand against lies that lead to war i think spoke to sorrow while good next from the German Left Party she told us they are peace brings to life hypocrisy when it comes to freedom of speach. So. This culture attracts attention to this incredible scandal it is to journalists and whistleblowers who uncover crimes are sitting in jail today while those who committed these crimes are not held accountable this has nothing to do with the rule of law and therefore it is very good though we are now so close to right because here is the federal government which could have started to act on this issue a long time ago and for example could provide a sound or snowden asylum in germany. Returns to germany as there are serious concerns over wiki leaks editor Julian Assange and a u. K. Prison earlier this week more than 60 doctors wrote an open letter to the british home secretary saying assad could die in prison they base their assessments on eyewitness accounts following his october Court Appearance it was reported that a songs couldnt record his date of birth at the herring and when asked whether he could understand what was happening the australian replied that he could not think straight but wiki leaks cofounder has also complained about the conditions of his imprisonment on multiple occasions to recap a songe is currently being held in Londons Belmarsh prison where his 3rd in a 50 week sentence for breaching his bell conditions in 2012 separately is also fighting a us extradition request over wiki leaks publishing classified information on american political and military dealings i reporter on torture in knows melds are strongly claims that this isnt just about a songs but about the integrity of governments and safeguarding the future generations. 6 years ago already a medical doctors and i sent a clear examination. And conclusion to the government asking for immediate measures to be taken for his protection and delineation of the pressure on him the government sent me a tweet the next. 4 or 5 months to any response whatsoever and when they did respond to set me a 2 paragraph response just rejecting all or not. Theyre not at all indicating the readiness to engage in a dialogue and do what they need to do dr said if the pressure is not alleviated rapidly that situation will deteriorate dangerous level we have seen this happening within 10 days of our visit and since then i am seriously concerned for his life this is not really about a sanjay or snowden or a man and this is about us its about our governments their integrity the rule of law and the future of our. So far as Human Dignity and our children thanks for joining us here on r. T. International were back at the top of the hour see you that. Seems wrong but. Just dont call. 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By the Federal Reserve since i won the election 8 increases in total which were in my opinion far too fast an increase and far too slow a decrease. By continued tax from president the Federal Reserve has signaled that it will not flush Interest Rates again this year barring a serious incident hall with a bomb attack in london to handle that if you break down the feds plan and how the economy may fare during the holiday season. In the wake of the Venture Capital is looking to safer investments for returns on their spending investigative journalist and one is back today to tell us the future for Silicon Valley and whether hes been a client just a fairy tale and later we take you to new york city where streaming has managed to save a movie landmark in the big apple but what consequences could this have for the Film Industry as theaters and production mergers arties Trinity Chavez is on the ground in new york to bring us the latest on netflix to dive into the screening sector we have a lot on board today so lets get right to it. You noted states Federal Reserve chairman powell on monday insinuated that they would be no changes in federal Interest Rates in the coming months comments came here which took place during an address to the greater problems chamber of commerce in rhode island come as the fed has cut rates by a quarter