Hello youre watching R T International im words on a lockwood welcome to the program. Now the u. S. Justice department has charged 2 former twisted employees with spying for saudi arabia prosecutors claim the pair an american citizen and a Saudi National used their positions to collect Sensitive Information about users critical of the kingdom you know neal discussed the case with donald quarter. Well its 3 people being charged here 2 or former employees at twitter one being a u. S. Citizen and the other a saudi citizen and their 3rd accomplice also a saudi citizen now the duo are being accused of using their positions at twitter to access the personal information of thousands of twitter users in the interests of the saudi government and against to be used against critics of the monarchy now on wednesday the Justice Department filed a criminal complaint against all 3 involved the defendant did knowingly act in the United States as an agent of a Foreign Government acted within the United States on the direction and control of the kingdom of saudi arabia and foreign officials working on behalf of the kingdom of saudi arabia without prior notification as required by law they had access to proprietary and confidential to it or information including information about twitter users including the use of provided email addresses birthdates full numbers and internet protocol addresses now the complaint also said that these 2 former employees didnt have jobs that required them to have access to peoples private information now as for their payout they were given a designer watch that was priced at 20000. 00 and another at least 300000. 00 transferred into secret Bank Accounts that they had twitter security its users previous see clearly dealt a blow here but to what extent well just recently the american involved he was arrested in seattle for tampering with 3 twitter accounts but the real damage was done back in 2015 when over 6000 twitter users had their information stolen by the saudi coconspirator who now is all the way back in saudi hes believed to be back in saudi arabia safe and sound i mean this is twitter were talking about its its a major social media platform thats in countries all over the world and its a serious concern when just 2 people who werent even supposed to have the rights to peoples private information can get so much of that when twitter says this is supposed to be confined to a small team of trained professionals. We recognize the length. Of my nose service our company limits access to sensitive account information to a limited group of trains and visit employee. Twitter has agreed to cooperate with the investigation and we dont know how long saudi arabia may or may not have been conducting espionage in the United States but whats significant about this case is that its the 1st time prosecutors have ever accused saudi arabia of running agents within the United States and another interesting thing about this is that back when these moves were made against the monarchys critics the current king of saudi arabia was just coming to power after his father died so thats an interesting thing to know so far the Saudi Embassy has been silent on the issue but it certainly will be interesting to hear what they have to say if they decide to make a statement ben harris queenies the chairman of the conservative think tank the bow group and he told us that the immense reach of social media platforms represents a serious threat to society. The extent to which twitter and other similar social media platforms collects such a wide range of data for the pallet these companies that deal with my state somehow this is the power of cults that it exceeds the power of most governments they are able to not certainly know intimate details about their uses laws but also predict their behaviors in often more efficient ways than the uses themselves could pick their behaviors and that obviously has a potential very district pm outcome in the future when these organizations operate with the political bias that they clearly dont i think that should be concerned for all individuals that leave in free speech and Free Expression of democracy. Of riyadh has also been making headlines in another big story this thursday over a video allegedly showing a socalled secret weapons delivery in yemen well of all the details on that story and the possible implications a little like little later in the program. U. S. Democrats have failed to push through a bill to keep the identity of whistleblowers secret republican senator rand paul blocked the proposal accusing the democrats of spreading selective outrage the amendment was designed to both of the senates position which is that whistle blows should be protected from retaliation and the contribution of knowledged it comes as the president s son has tweeted the alleged name of the whistleblower who triggered the trump impeachment inquiry fast detailing reports on the fate of those who recently dead to speak out in america. For the democrats impeachment must now seem tantalizingly close all they need is the final piece of damning evidence to seal the deal and to Senate Minority leader Chuck Schumer he has come out arguing for the protection of whistleblowers only rother of one Intelligence Officer whose insider info could make or break the impeachment dream the calls to make public the whistleblowers identity are despicable whistleblowers should be protected period period thats quite the radical departure from his previous comments on those exposing government abuses and each day that snowden is allowed to roam free is another twist to the merits snowden is a one of the few picked up by the media he chose the path of raising his voice and going global unlike the hundreds of others who chose the path of least resistance you see they quietly launched official complaints hoping for the system to reform but they were out of luck because as a damning report from an intelligence watchdog shows the cia and n. S. A. When 189 out of 190 cases of whistleblower complaints by had to send you the link but the report was shot down i wonder if mr schumer praised even remembers all those whistleblowers who ruled against what the name for example rich barlow bring about now living in a trailer in remote montana with his hunting dogs back in the late eightys bhalo worked for the cia now he found himself in a patriotic dye llama when he uncovered what he said amounted to the u. S. Helping pakistan become a Nuclear Power including by selling Band Technology and though he followed protocol he became the victim of a smear come. Disgraced and discredited barely able to scrape together a living i was disgustingly patriotic and i thought the government is allowing pakistan to develop and spread Nuclear Weapons and i got destroyed for trying to stop it what about former u. S. Marine affronts gayo he thought hed found a way of reducing the number of u. S. Troops dying in iraq as a result of improvised explosive devices all that was needed was a simple swap of patrol vehicles and given that were responsible for over 60 percent of all american losses in the country between 20032008 surely the pentagon would have been interested the response was more of. An automated response hes not obeying our instructions hes hes gone off the reservation as we often say. And weve got to stop him from doing that and just as it took gail 7 years to restore his reputation it took just a few months to discredit Peter Van Buren raising 24 years of loyal Diplomatic Service done during found himself on the wrong side of the table when he shed light on state department mismanagement im waste in iraq what happens when youre thrown out of the government and blacklisted is that you lose your security clearance and its very difficult to find a grown up job in washington you have to step down a few levels to find a place where they dont care enough about your background to even look into why you washed up there the list of nameless faceless and unrecognized whistleblowers goes on and who to blame them for choosing to do to free fall their complaints because if you follow and manning will snowdens footsteps sure you might end up with your name on a plaque card and become the face of the fight for transparency but you might also find yourself. Bars and while youre sitting in prison think about how your brothers in arms only have a how to one and 190 chance of success whistleblowing protection should actually exist in all countries because it helps the country to have people tell the truth about corrupt officials United States pretends to have laws that protect whistleblowers but they often either dont work or they are deliberately sordid and certainly the government officials do not want anyone ever telling about things they do illegally the governments are basically wanting to control saying and control Public Opinion they put John Kiriakou in prison for telling that for instance is that the cia was torturing so they normally absolutely do not want to protect whistleblowers and they actually hate the one who tells the truth about their illegal activities schumer about him alongside the washington elite needs to clarify his position on whistleblowers if you are a whistleblower you need to accept that harassment prison selfimposed exile weve just been consigned to the forgotten pages of history all on the cards our mess of course you happen to be that rab breed of whistle blower who finds himself in the right place at the right time with just the right expose. Tending to grab a Headline News patients who abuse stone for the hospital in western england could be said to receive lengthy bans from using its services the North Bristol health trust has launched a red card to Racism Campaign which could see treatment refused when it is safe to do so. But the point to avoid is the question we are seeing in the moment we really do need to use it to save god our stuff and work with colleagues every 6 of us in our courts to be able to show they say the campaign aims to cut out a wide range of abuse the hospital staff face aside from racism there will be a 0 tolerance policy to sexism and offensive language and also inappropriate behavior malicious allegations and intentional damage to property patients found to be abusive will encounter a sports like disciplinary system a warning or yellow card to be given on the 1st incident a 2nd time the patients get a red card meaning treatment will be withdrawn once a patients condition is safe well heres some of the reaction we got to that plan from the National Secretary for the English Democrats Party Stephen Morris and Wayman Bennett of the stand up to racism pressure group. My mother was a nurse for for most of her life for the n. H. S. And nothing was done about the abuse that she see faced and theres no reason why she should have put up with the abuse of the nursing people in very serious conditions i think a message to tolerance towards it would lead to a level of self control is there to treat people they should treat people. Without question the issues of sexism racism is a massive can of worms because obviously the hospitals could be in breach of the only quality because obviously a female that he wants to be treated by a female will not be allowed to because it will be deemed a sexist or if you have certain religious views you wont be allowed because it be deemed racist or sexist in some form that if youre racist you will have a problem with this because you think its a normal discourse of normal wear behavior some framed in some ridiculous notion that youve got a freedom to insult and abuse people on to lock them up is serious actually most of these people will find that one state behavior is deemed unacceptable people realize they can no longer behave like that its not true that just clogging up the court system we say people should be prosecuted but you dont want to prosecute it because your actual words was it would only clog up the court system somebody who may have a feel philosophical or religious belief about being treated by women are being treated by a certain person then there are philosophical and religious beliefs have to be also respected and if the n. H. S. Are not going to respect their views then theyre going to fall foul of the courts the n. H. S. Was built on immigrant a migrant labor from all over the world it was you many people yes in ireland my god oh here we go you have no idea its a bill that said on the dont use that because it wasnt built just on that this is ridiculous if somebody says i dont want to be treated by some of these black or asian theres no reason to respect that at all being a race isnt a philosophical view its just plain wrong only those peep. Believe it should be tolerated actually resists any kind of basic principles where you saw the way it was closer to prosecuted youre talking about people under normal circumstances these are not normal circumstances where people go into a in a theyre in pain they wanted us so these an absolute wide range of circumstances just to say can you come down a bit the can escalate the situation you want to use a little card to tell people off i say lets go and prosecuted you didnt want to do that because you said it blocked up the Court Systems im not against prosecute them i think its easier its easier for Health Professionals to give people a warning about their behavior and challenge it without necessarily bringing in the police and the courts i think that people who are a racist need to be challenge to and that has to be done in such a way as that they can simply understand that their behavior is unacceptable what you need to do is make sure you get them treated get them out reports and then get prosecuted if need be afterwards very simple if you start issuing yellow cards red cards in the hospitals thats going thats going to a people more. C. N. N. Has published a leaked video showing American Made weapons being delivered to the Saudi Led Coalition in yemen well have details on that story when we come back. You know world big partisan lives and conspiracies its time to wake up to dig deeper to hit the stories that Mainstream Media refuses to tell more than ever we need to be smarter we need to stop slamming the door on the shouting past each other its time for Critical Thinking its time to fight for the middle for the truth the time is now for watching closely watching the hawks. What politicians do you suppose to. Put themselves on the line they did accept it or reject it. So when youre the president should. Do something wanted. To go right to the press this is what the 3 of the 4 people. Interested in the war. Welcome back c. N. N. Has published leaked video which it says shows American Made weapons being delivered to the Saudi Led Coalition in yemen and this all comes as concern builds over the United States role in fueling the conflict which by some estimates has claimed 100000 lives. Made weapons arriving in yemen and that is even to u. S. Lawmakers for an urgent briefing from secretary of state mike demanding a long says on how the weapons that it shows the port of aden which is under control of the Saudi Led Coalition and u. S. Made military vehicles being unloaded there now so far we have heard from the pentagon which has not confirmed the accuracy of this video this is what weve heard we cannot comment on any potential ongoing investigations of claims of anti use violations now u. S. Law does stipulate that weapons that are exported are required to have end use monitoring to make sure theyre not being used for the violation of human rights or the killing of civilians however the kingdom of saudi arabia does maintain that it is not killing. Civilians in yemen that it is simply fighting a war against the who is the forces however there are Many International bodies and observers that strongly disagree with that assessment and say that civilians are dying in yemen so lets review some of what has taken place since the saudi led military campaign in yemen began. Now there is widespread disapproval of saudi arabias activities in yemen in the United States and there have been multiple attempts by the u. S. Congress to stop the sale of weapons to saudi arabia and 2019 there was the war powers resolution which was approved by the u. S. House and senate however it was vetoed by u. S. President donald trump and in july of 2019 there were a trio of congressional resolution aimed at banning the billions of dollars worth of weapons that are sold to saudi arabia the United Arab Emirates and other countries and that was also vetoed by donald trump so this new video us seems to show u. S. Made weapons and military vehicles being unloaded at the port of aden handed over to saudi forces and that is something that Many Americans and members of congress dont approve of but that the president of the United States has made clear he wishes to continue. With some analysis that this we can now cross the line to sara flounders shes head of the International Action center sara thanks for joining us why is the u. S. Sending alms and equipment to the Saudi Led Coalition as we had the been a lot of International Criticism over the coalitions comdex of the war. Well theres been an enormous amount of International Criticism and criticism within the u. S. Speak asis is start to finish a u. S. War thats going on in yemen it wouldnt be possible not one day of it without the billions of dollars in u. S. Aid to saudi arabia and this is everything from satellite reconnaissance to refueling and air to the Armored Vehicles that you show being offloaded cnns expose confirms so every step of the way its hundreds of millions and actually billions 400000000000. 00 in military equipment and sales to saudi arabia its because its profitable this war is profitable for wall street for Lockheed Martin martin for the big weapons sellers and it has devastating consequences for the people of yemen especially the civilians the children where there are 2000000 children facing severe malnutrition theres been cholera epidemics all of this caused by a war that is an attempt by a come lately reactionary monarchy and saudi arabia to impose its will because its threatened by any form of popular government and actually the u. S. Is also threatened by anything that isnt an absolute monarchy as you mentioned some of the sort of business and economics rationale behind it well come back to that lets talk a moment about laws because u. S. Laws do not allow the use of weapons to violate human rights without much but as you said that has been multiple reports and instances over the side Like Coalition inflicting harm on civilians theres been civilian casualties is the United States thereby violating its own laws by still providing the own homes. U. S. Is absolutely violating its own laws in the most reckless dangerous and criminal way. Were talking about legislation thats gone through both houses of congress were talking about investigations were talking about the photo images after school buses are borrowing and hospitals and marketplaces and we have and so again and again the very fact that its us weapons doing this the popular outcry against it the legislation against it is being intentionally ignored it means and that is whats criminal and it is a war that is now in its 5th year so both administrations have played a real role in this but certainly the trumpet ministration at this point is ignoring every possible. Piece of legislation and in that way as is completely criminal in this war on terror flounders head of the International Action Center Thanks for your time. In other news this hour the french president has said he believes nato is in terminal decline describing the once Robust Alliance as experiencing brain death consequently according to manuel mccrum europe needs to start thinking strategically a must its certain self as a geopolitical power europe is now dealing for the 1st time with an american president who doesnt share our idea of the european project if we dont wake up theres a considerable risk that in the long run we would disappear geopolitically or at least that we will no longer be in control of our own destiny i believe that very deeply. Well that stark warning was made during an interview with the economist magazine the french president also cast doubt on the reliability of nato as article 5 which requires Member States to come to one anothers defense if attacked he suggested that the deterrent has been undermined by washingtons faltering commitment to the alliance and it doesnt seem that all of microns allies agree with his assessment the comments have drawn several responses since they were published. Frances president the french president used rather drastic words to express his views this is not how i see the state of corporation with nato so i dont think that such a sweeping judgment is appropriate made to ease in our interest its all security lines obviously we have to take our destiny in our own hands but the Transatlantic Partnership is absolutely indispensable i agree with the chancellor merkel need to stream. United States North America and europe we do more together than were done for decades we have implemented the strongest reinforcement so collective the friends since the end of the cold war or writer and broadcaster Jonathan Fryer told us that chancellor merkels remarks dont help to clarify her position. There is a certain contradiction i suppose in what she was saying in that if europe is going to be more responsible for its own military as well as Economic Future event obviously that would suggest a weakening of the link with the United States but on the other hand she was basically urging the americans discreetly not to pull away and we have to remember that shes addressing those remarks basically to donald trump who has given several indications that he would really prefer america to be america 1st america alone as far as possible and really has undermined to a degree natos integrity and indeed is very critical of the European Union which he sees as a competitor rather than as a colleague. Well thats your update for now im raised on a lot quit now ill be back here in around 30 minutes time with more news from around the world see it and. Thousands of american men and women choose to serve in the countrys military and the decision. Every song came to a complete. The day that i was very. You know told a shot to kill me and i see how it destroyed my life any screamed at me and he made me come in and he grabbed my arm and he write me. If you take into account that women dont report because of the extreme retaliation and its probably somewhere near about half a 1000000 women have now been sexually assaulted in the u. S. Military is a very very traumatizing tat happen but ive never seen trauma like ive seen women who are veterans who have suffered military sexual trauma reporting rape is more likely to get the victim punished the offender and almost 10 year career which i was very invested in and i gave a sex offender who was not even put to justice or put on the registry this is simply an hour and violence male sexual predators for the large part of target whoever is there to prey upon whether thats men or women. 30 years ago the berglund wall fell the cold war had essentially come to an end the fall of this cold war symbol was heralded as a new spring of nations and the end of communism decades on what is the legacy of this historic event the promises of 989. 00 been fulfilled. For 1. 1. Thank. You. On may 3rd of 2003 the ambassador of switzerland to turn around delivers a letter from iran to the United States. In that letter the iranians essentially offer negotiations to open up the Nuclear Program for full transparency. The proposal came in i happened to see its because it was also given to a member of congress that i worked for at the time. He sent it over to the white house and called rove called rove called back he said that he found the proposal intriguing he wanted to know if it was genuine and were they promised to put it in front of the president i would call karl rove a dear friend. Ive seen made a far sighted courage put america on a war footing. And protect us against a brutal enemy in a dangerous conflict that will shape just to century no formal response was given to the iranians. Im grateful to have been witness to history. And the argument was that whatever could come out of a negotiation with the iranians. Even more could be achieved by simply removing the regime in iraq. In a way to sum up the argument
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