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Watching our 2 international bring you your live news update from our studio here in moscow welcome to the program. Donald trump says he called the 1st strike a strike on iran with just 10 minutes to go he tweeted there were 3 targets and called off the attack only when he found out the number of possible casualties however trump doubled down on his military and economic threats against tehran it comes after iran shot down an American Military surveillance drone over the strategic strait of hormuz on thursday the president said that that was a serious miscalculation by the Islamic Republic. Made a big mistake and made a very bad mistake ok you want to get it out i think youll find out and youll get maybe youll find out youll find that i believe there are obviously obviously you know were not going to be talking too much about it youre going to find out they made a very big mistake it marks the worst escalation between the 2 countries since washington last year with the Iran Nuclear Deal been reports. In terms of words he seems to have indicated it could have been a human error he pointed out that it could have been a general or some other official who made the mistake of ordering for the drone to be shot down i find it hard to believe it was intentional if you want to know the truth i think that it could have been somebody who was loose and stupid now iran has said that the drone did indeed enter their airspace and violate their territory and that they intend to go to the United Nations in order to prove this they say that it was in the southern part of their country that this drone entered their airspace and that they shot it down for violating their airspace at this point weve got the Iranian Foreign minister condemning the United States for what he calls economic terrorism the us wages economic terrorism on iran has conducted covert action against those and now encroaches on our territory we dont seek war but was jealous lead to fend off sky land and water as well take this new aggression to the u. N. And show you that the u. S. Is lying about International Waters now the u. N. Secretary general antonio gets here as is calling on all parties to remain calm and exercise restraint i strongly hope that. The situation will be contained because as i said and i repeat the world does not really needs any measure confrontation with russian president Vladimir Putin recently said that an attack on iran would be potentially disastrous which id like to say straight away that a military conflict between the u. S. And iran would be a disaster at least for the region it would be an outburst of violence with terrible consequences its very hard to predict what would happen in the case of military force being used now many observers have noted that it seems that the white house is toward iran has been rather consistent this is how the United States has approached iran during the trumpet ministration threat their neighbors are spreading instability or terror everywhere we go in the middle east its a rare. Major destabilize. Employees to the middle east spread death destruction and chaos to try to. Get. Like. Now the United States recently sent a 1000 new troops to the middle east region in response to a supposed threat from the Islamic Republic of iran now on june 13th when 2 oil tankers were attacked the United States blamed iran for the incident however iranian officials to those accusations outright and said that it was actually their ships that were on scene to rescue the sailors who had been hurt and take them for medical assistance so at this point all eyes are on the middle east region all eyes are on the u. N. Where International Bodies will be hearing and taking up this issue and all eyes are on washington as a response from the United States could be very possible after withdrawing from the nuclear deal the u. S. Imposed sanctions on iran and waivers for countries that import terence oil and response iran went back on some of the deals commitments the tanker and the drone incidents happened in one of the worlds most Important Oil routes the strait of hormuz to iran has threatened to close the strait if sanctions stop it from selling oil. Were joined live now by Daniel Mcadams executive director of the Ron Paul Institute for more on this now what do you think was trump bluffing about being 10 minutes from striking iran. Its a good question and i wonder what the sources are it was reported by the New York Times we dont know where they got their story i think its very possible that it was indeed a bluff it would certainly serve the purpose of having a psychological impact on iran that we were about ready to strike you so i think that certainly is one possibility that its all made up was leaked by one of trumps a right to try to let iran know that were close to war well we did have trump actually tweeting putting posting on twitter 10 minutes before the strike i stopped it now proportionate to shooting down an unmanned drone so do you think he was sort of dramatizing the incident or is that really how it went down with him i think its very possible that he realizes finally that a war with iran would have enormous consequences he just kicked off his Reelection Campaign and all of a sudden nobodys talking about the rally it has enormous kwanza quinces its not going to be a cakewalk like his advisors are saying and i think or i hope that he realizes that the rest of the world is most definitely not with him on this even our closest allies with a couple of exceptions so do you think in the future trump could actually attack iran and what would the consequences be if he did decide to move forward with Something Like that. Well apparently at least according to the york times he has his military advisers that are telling him this thing could escalate this could involve american troops it could be extremely dangerous theres no telling where it goes on the other hand he has his neo conservative advisors most of whom were able to avoid service in the military for a variety of reasons telling him no problem its going to be easy but the real problem is that the u. S. Has no strategy toward iran if trump believes that his quote maximum pressure policy will either cause iran to keep it capitulate and do whatever the u. S. Says or the or the regime to simply implode neither of those 2 things are going to happen theres a real incoherence here its extremely dangerous now the same time Mainstream Media are talking of a split at the top in iran could washington exploit that and how likely do you think that that really is. Well whenever you whenever you feel that youre being threatened you circle the wagons so i doubt that would be the case there certainly are im sure a varied response because there was a lot of Political Risk taken by moderates in iran to negotiate with obama in the 1st place and contrary to what President Trump says and i frankly dont believe he understands what the original j. C. Deal was at least according to how we sweeting about it it was a very good deal and it was working very well and by canceling it you know problems things get better and in fact you are getting much much worse. And when it comes to that deal at this point in time with everything thats going on is there any way to save it anymore well not from the u. S. Because the u. S. In short its not to be a bad actor you know and it actually makes it very difficult for future american president s to make any kind of International Diplomatic agreement because frankly no one trusts the u. S. Anymore and thats a real disaster thats the real disaster and that will be one of the negative legacies of the of the donald Trump Presidency Daniel Mcadams executive director of the Ron Paul Institute thanks for your time and your comments now while the donald trump is flexing americas military muscles in front of iran it pentagon document shows the u. S. Military believes a nucular war is in the world is winnable and could be a good thing to tell you more on that later in the program. The speaker of the Georgian Parliament has resigned after mass protests in the capital the Russian Foreign ministry accuses georgias radical opposition of using the visit of a russian delegation to provoke protests 240 people have been injured including 80 Police Officers georgias interior ministry labeled the unrest a massive coup and reported over 300 people to tamed you may find the following pictures to surfing. I. Was. Just vocal critical doggo the situation goes theyre easy to use there was some brisk winds and then the crowd kid out for another storm stone sticks in both holes was thrown from the side of the crowd to miss Russian Forces fired rubber bullets and deployed to gas. As dawn broke on friday police appear to be in full control of the city center but the opposition has announced a new round of protests on friday night theres a song attempt to storm the Parliament Building an estimated 5000. 00 demonstrators rallied against the participation of a russian delegation in a Parliamentary Assembly one of the russian lawmakers satine the georgian speakers chair further angering protesters georgian authorities have called on the demonstrators to refrain from break the law. The georgian president is blaming russia for the situation saying the protests only benefit the kremlin shes not cut short a visit to belarus to return home moscow meanwhile condemned the actions of georgian officials during the protests in a statement the Russian Foreign ministry accuse them of using the protests so anti russian sentiment. Protesters erupted after a russian m. P. Addressed a problem in 3 assembly of lawmakers from Orthodox Christian countries the protests come amid ongoing tensions between russia and georgia a decade after the conflict in south ossetia. Protesters are now demanding the interior minister resigns as well he said hes ready to do so if needed but demanded the protests stop at the same time we spoke to a former acting president of georgia you know she believes the government in tbilisi has been fermenting anti russian sentiment. The rushing toward generalizations are really very difficult and sensitive for you against a site and most of the population now receive the same message the russian m. P. In that year of door again speaker is this something which is just creating a problem what stability of the country or something which is the just touching independence and sovereignty of that country and it was easy to predict from the side of the government. Excellently and be livable how im competent is the government and its absolutely sure from the clear for me that the government did nothing poorly implemented or crushing georgian relations during the last few years so there was no any kind of positive in this the direction 2 the political parties. Themselves as a pro western and that right now 2 years they seem. To say so you see a plane upset people in their Political Goals and to just strengthen these 2 russian really exist in the serious part of the georgian population back to only one could be blamed for the recent shouldnt be absent and be irresponsible. Government and stability of this government. European Commission Leaders have failed to agree on who will take up the reins of the box top post a summit for june 30th has now been announced in another attempt to break the deadlock the Commission President Council President and 4 other top jobs were meant to have been chosen by the artist peter over as more. Well this deadlock in the European Union over who will fail a number of the e. U. Institutions top jobs including the european Commission President and president of the European Council those jobs currently held by junk load younker and donald the moment and theyve been heading up talks to try and pick their replacements essentially however those talks have broken down one of the reasons that were hearing that theres no solution so far wealth comes from leo varadkar the irish Prime Minister he said that it was easy of picking a pope than using the system thats used in the e. U. To pick a Commission President as well as other Top Institution posts its called the spits and counted method method or system basically preferred candidate in germany is what it is it means that if you look at all of the different parliamentary groups in the European Parliament whoever gets the most seats well theyre just bits and candidates their preferred candidate gets looked at 1st by the e. U. Heads of government if they like that candidate well they put them forward to majority votes for them they put them forward to the European Parliament parliament then votes on them and if they vote them through they become the next european Commission President if they dont the whole system starts right over again with whoever came in 2nd as we understand it well so far the heads of government werent that impressed with month who is the candidate from the p. P. Who got the most seats in the most recent european elections and also they werent that keen on france timmons from the socialists the European Socialist Group who got the 2nd highest amount of seats in the parliament so we really are all up in the air at the moment we are looking at a split though between key power brokers inside the e. U. Over this money were mccrone in france hes not a fan at all of disputes and condit method well and on the other side. Merkel the german chancellor who wants to essentially see her man put into play as the next european Commission President now money with. What hes being while hes been speaking out against the system thats in play at the moment hes also you said the hot angler merkel throwing her hat into the ring it would have been inclined to vote for her have nothing against a german candidacy i said it and wasnt a joke had the chancellor been a candidate i would have supported her because i think she has the qualities the skills to be a very good president of the commission it is not what she wants i respect that very deeply well im glad merkel has dismissed 80 chance of her running to be the european Commission President she was speaking on friday she also tried to calm down rumors that baena a serious rift between bolin and paris over who should get the European Commission top job. And i still say no and i want to add that im a little bit sad that my words which ive said so often and apparently not respected at all were respect each other i do not want to make a decision against france and i believe that france doesnt want to make a decision against germany of the very latest it does seem that money isnt getting the amount of votes and needs from heads of government to be put forward as the next president of the European Commission that hasnt stopped the german chancellor though for saying that she still bucks. In repeat what i said and to avoid any unnecessary questions we stand by our lead candidate the p. P. Candidate Manfred Weber others stand by their lead candidate obviously those are quite tired looking young who addressed the press after this meeting broke down hes searching for his own replacement however he did allow a joke his own expense. I know to the satisfaction museum and yes pleasure that it seems is not easy. To replacement. So with no decision from the heads of government of the states over who they want to see appointed as the next european Commission President theyre all going to have to come back again next week on the 30th of june for another round of talks in the go ca sions to try and hammer out a solution shocking allegations of mistreatment by a facebook contractor come to light the details after this short break. Join me every thursday on the alex simon chill and ill be speaking to guests of the world of politics or business im show business ill see that. What theyre calling the coin is magic the new type of Digital Currency decentralized digital scarcity chancellor. 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Welcome back facebook is under fire again after a Technology Website report through the spotlight on the way it treats staff the verge also details of the death of one of facebooks moderators at his workstation the revelations were made by staff from a facebook contractor in florida called cognizant who are paid to filter extreme images that appear on the site they disclose poor working conditions among other issues they describe having to work through as many as 200 graphic videos a day including footage of animal cruelty and extreme violence stop state theyre forced to work in unsanitary conditions which include bedbug infestations they also face bodily waste issues at work stations on a regular basis as well as numerous verbal and physical fights another allegation raised with sexual harassment. Facebook itself says it handles all challenges related to the working environment there will inevitably be employee challenges or dissatisfactions the cool our commitment to this work and our partners the employees into question when the circumstances warrant action on the part of management we make sure it happens this is the media giant is under pressure to clamp down on what it allows online one incident in particular was the circulation of extremist content after 51. 00 people were killed in the christchurch massacre in new zealand earlier this year facebook and its contractor are now going to introduce changes including sour boosts and health care for staff but the issue up for debate. I think i think facebook take need to take more responsibility for their contractors this is as much about the law around working conditions in a particular offices and around the responsibility that facebook takes for its supply chain the the issue here is actually treating them better giving them better working conditions paying them more and and possibly keeping on top of the supply chain and making sure the cognisant arent cutting corners and giving them enough budget to run it smoothly so that they dont have to cut corners intensive. It is a matter of all the Internet Companies this case since response to. These results is the race but the other important thing is 2 first we need greater cooperation between social Media Companies so for example google may have 1 a much better with officially teligent straight to video contained because of its experience tribute to their ups and to Share Technology we trace groups and the 2nd thing is to create Greater Transparency to allow for an external body to go into facebook all the. Its process in terms of moderation i dont think the technology is yet sophisticated enough to be the solution quite yet and the moderators themselves can identify the type of content that needs action to be taken and action has been taken in some cases it hasnt been taken in all instances and we need to understand what the level of investment is where the think things are falling through the cracks whether that is the cold recent and what its reported to facebook what its passed on to the authorities we need to have a password or a more attractive means of doing this but were not going to get away until we Technology Improves dramatically were going to go away from the need for human moderators the moderators the to be able to look to leverage and with great really great real. Civil i think this is this is. The 1st to do this much much more. Money. Into the recent protests facebook needs to be investing far more in the technology to assist some of these moderators and you could pixelate out places you can do certain veges to make it more pleasant for the employees are having to do this moderation. The u. S. Military claims the use of Nuclear Weapons could create decisive results and restore strategic stability it comes from a document recently made public but was then classified artist on a quarter picks up the story. Bombers submarines and Ballistic Missiles the pentagons triad of Nuclear Warfare usually atomic weapons are considered a means of deterrence but now classified documents suggest the war hawks in washington may have other ideas using Nuclear Weapons could create conditions for decisive results and the restoration of strategic stability specifically the use of a Nuclear Weapon will fundamentally change the scope of a battle and create conditions that affect how commanders will prevail in conflict the 60 page document came out in early june only to be classified a week later by the pentagon its a surprise it wasnt a secret to begin with the fundamental principles underpinning washingtons Nuclear Operations are laid out for the world to see and they dont exactly correspond to some of president Donald Trumps past talk of nonproliferation between russia and china and the us were all busy making. Hundreds of millions of dollars worth busy of weapons including nuclear which is ridiculous i think with that leader i think were always going to be the leader we have to be the leader i think its much better if we all got together and we didnt make these weapons so i think thats something that could be a phase 2 after this is done but then again trump himself hasnt been very consistent on Nuclear Posture either he called for talks with both the president s of russia and china just last year to put an end to a socalled uncontrollable arms race several months later trump accused russia of developing missiles prohibited by the 1907 i. N. F. Treaty although moscow denied violating the agreement signed to specifically prevent an arms race the u. S. Withdrew the United States will therefore suspend its obligations under the n f treaty effective february 2nd and its no secret the pentagons long been on the anti russia bandwagon in 2018 its Nuclear Posture review accused russia of producing more nonstrategic and i n f banned weapons. But a recent article by the American Federation of scientists about d. O. D. Exaggerations pointed out Something Interesting that the Nuclear Posture review contradicts itself their own statistics indicate that russia had between 3 and 5000 nukes in 2009224000 in 20112000 are less than 2018 exaggerating the threat from russia only justify spending more money on weapons that can annihilate humanity and with the risk of nuclear war in a tie if since world war 2 theres no time for war games these seeming double standard is to present trump and as someone who is reluctant to go to war the document i believe was a message you know fear not only to probe the current belligerent rhetoric oh the trumpet ministration but it is a will to buttress his Foreign Policy which is aggressive aggressive in south america aggressive in the middle east aggressive and. Thats a global news update for this hour but dont forget you can always had to our website r. T. Dot com for the details on all those stories and many more. We had. 3540 years old. In the water. 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