Emerges allegedly showing us weapons being delivered to the Saudi Led Coalition in yemen as riyadh partners continue to prosecute a bloody campaign in the south of. I will welcome you watching r. T. International with me nicky aaron its great to have you with our top story this hour the u. S. Justice department has charged to form a twitter employees but spying for saudi arabia prosecutors claim that pat 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. Was 3 people being charged here 2 are 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 critter. 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 Governments 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 twitter information including information about twitter users including the user provided email addresses birthdates phone 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 privet 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 actors will go into a undermine our service our company limits access to sensitive account information to a limited group of trains and that employee at twitter has agreed to cooperate with the investigation and we dont know how long saudi arabia mayor. 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. Lets go live now to Ben Harris Quiney chairman of the conservative think tank bebo queer welcome to the program its great to have you with us now considering the amount of fire wall the north thought was that must go into the carriage of social media platform. Can we assume that the problem here on the other side with employee for care is here on background checks. Well i think the problem is when you have state agency is focused on what is essentially a public user solicited like twits who are also facebook there are always going to be ways it. The the issue i think is the extent to which twitter and other similar social media platforms collects such a wide range of data on their individual uses to the point that if a Foreign GovernmentIntelligence Agency or anyone else is able to get into a specific twitter account be able to find out an awful lot about the individual and their work. And do you think twice you will now face increased pressure from u. S. Lawmakers they have all this. Yes i think so and i think its part of a wider conversation really about the digital sovereignty of individuals and how we manage our early forays into the social media age and i think its quite likely that some of the past practices of allowing social media organizations and platforms to collect quite similar states around individuals will will face much much harder scrutiny in the future thats what is access to Sensitive Information if full trained and vetted employees only cannot really be trusted given what happened. No i dont think it can because as i say i think the problem is that they simply hold too much data on each of their uses that theres an ongoing debate about the extent to which is to say that its like Facebook Google and adamant are recording even interactions between people when theyre not using those applications so simple conversations between people when they happen to have their mobile phones on them and appear to be being recorded by a lot of these social Media Networks and if you combine all of that data and information and location interactions conversations and as i say its a huge and potentially hugely dangerous tool in an ability to build a complete profile of of an individual or group of individuals track their movements track their behaviors and garner very significant information perhaps that could be used by intelligence agencies but as i say that could be used by really any organization or individual witness various persons and there is quite an attempt at the conservative think tank a bow group thank you for your time. C. N. N. Has published it leaked video which it says shows American Made weapons being delivered to the sound Led Coalition in yemen it comes as concern builds over the United States its role in fueling the conflict which by some estimates this came 2100000 lives. Weapons arriving in yemen that is even as u. S. Lawmakers asked for an urgent briefing from secretary of state mike demanding on says on how the weapons got there. Find out more now in cross live to tell of lochley new york kaleb could see you whats known about the alleged delivery of weapons well the leaked video shows the gulf of aden port through the ports in the port of aden it shows the port of aden which is under control of the Saudi Led Coalition within yemen they control this port and the video shows u. S. Made military vehicles being unloaded there now so far we have heard from the pentagon which has not confirmed and will not confirm the accuracy of this video this is what weve heard we cannot comment on any potential ongoing investigations of claims of and to use violations. Now its important to note that u. S. Law does require end to use monitoring of weapons that are exported by the United States and does not permit for weapons to be used to carry out Human Rights Violations now to be fair saudi arabia has said they do not engage in the killing of civilians in yemen that they are only targeting who the forces who they are at war with however there have been much criticism made of saudi arabia by International Bodies many alleging that this man to death mass deaths and civilian casualties have taken place lets review what has taken place in yemen. 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 2009 teen 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 that are part of the Saudi Led Coalition in yemen seeking to fight and attack forces in yemen fighting in the war and that was also vetoed by donald trump so this new video seems to show u. S. Made weapons and military vehicles being unloaded at the port of aden handed over to saudi forces in yemen and that is something that Many Americans and members of congress dont approve but that the president of United States has made clear he wishes to continue. And it will think thank you for those details. The patients who piece stuff at a hospital in western england could receive lengthy bounds from using the n. H. S. The northwest ill health trust has launched a red card to Racism Campaign which could see treatment refuse 28 things to do say. Hard to avoid the question we are seeing you but. We do need to use it to save god all star and work with colleagues over the 6 of us mark or to be able to show this. Campaign aims to qatar a wide range of abuse that hospital staff face aside from racism the National Health service will apply as 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 sports like disciplinary system a warning or a yellow card will be given on the 1st incident a 2nd time and patients get a red card meaning treatment will be withdrawn once the patients condition is safe what is some of the reaction we got to the plan from the National Secretary for the English Democrats Party steve norris and wavin 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 both serious conditions i think a message to tolerance towards it would lead to a level of self control and h. S. 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 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 freedom to insult and abuse people 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 call got the court system somebody who may have a feel a philosophical or religious belief about being treated by women are being treated by a certain person then they have their 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 quality of the n. H. S. Was built on immigrant a migrant labor from all over the world where you actually was your many people yes in and my god oh here we go you have no idea its a bill that said on the please dont use that because it wasnt built just on that this is ridiculous if somebody says i dont want to be treated like 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. Of 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. Way in pain they wanted us so these an absolute wide range of circumstances just to say can you come down a bit the can ask you like the situation you want to use a little coward 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 are 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 the people the racist need to be challenge to and it has to be done in such a way 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 card records in the hospitals thats going thats going to a people more. When its coming up after the break. What politicians do something to. 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Welcome back us democrats have failed to push through a bill to keep the identity of whistleblowers secret republican senator rand paul blokes the proposal accusing the democrats of spreading for elective outrage the amendment was designed to boast of the senates position which is that whistleblowers should be protected from its highly ation and that contribution acknowledged it comes as the president s son has tweeted the alleged name of the whistleblower who trick at the trump impeachment inquiry saskia tend to report on the fates 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 rather 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 room 3 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 clone ball 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. Would 189. 00 out of 190. 00 cases of whistleblower complaints by had to send you the link but the report was shot down i wonder if mr schumer praised or 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 boller 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 from pure and found himself on the wrong side of the table when he should 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. And 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 things and control Public Opinion they put John Kiriakou in prison for telling for instance is that the cia was torturing so they normally absolutely do not want to protect whistleblowers and they actually hate anyone who tells the truth about their illegal activities schumer about him alongside the washington elite needs to clarify his position on whistleblower as if you are a whistleblower you need to accept that harassment prison selfimposed exile just being consigned to the forgotten pages of history all on the cards are less 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. A quaint seaside town in the southwest of england has been swept up in a storm of controversy over the suggestion its longstanding nickname smacks of White Supremacy and left many of the locals a little long list. This wording is not removed the town council could be classed as a racist white supremacist therefore this dish it should be rectified immediately. Travel through the delicious scenery of north devon must needs know the little white town a bit if it. Cant imagine why it wouldnt. Shock. Everybody is how i was talking for. Everybody to. Get stupid. Little what is the right time for the oval office if i did watch most of the rush its unbelievable political correctness. Thanks for taking off the International Web back at the top of the hour with the latest. Imagine being a 635 and you have a career and a career involves using your i phone in your computer and things like that in an office and perhaps you sort of getting hit circulars for t. V. 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So what weve got to do is identify the threats that we have its crazy confrontation let it be an arms race is on the scary dramatic developments only going to exist i dont see how that strategy will be successful very critical time to sit down and talk. Well consider alex im unsure where with the starting gun fight in the u. K. General election we look at how the political process has dealt with some issues beyond breaks it over the last 3 years with the entire political bond with absorbed by breaks that some one piece at westminster have still managed to pursue issues close to the hearts of the people today we look at Animal Rights and in particular the seasonal which is regulated the sale of poppies t. V. That might abraham explains have a campaign developed across the parties to make a legislative change and why that change makes a difference we used every tool available and more to finally get this loosies or over the line which which we achieved last year and genuinely cant thank every parliamentarian to their party member the public and now for making that happen but foster your views on our political pundits take on the upcoming general Election Campaign this is how our famous bonnell start to god of the election i predict over tortie for the conservatives on the size of that majority is dependent on one binary question does he do a deal with the back supporting. For arsenal not if he does the deal big majority if he doesnt hell scrape through this consider the conservatives are going to lose their seats in scotland theyre going to lose quite a lot of seats in the south to the lib dems possibly include the oxbridge constituency occupied by the Prime Minister seriously forecasting the Prime Minister themself is in danger here absolutely i think he is i think theyre going to do theyre going to lose seats in london again to lose seats in the southwest theyre going to lose seats in scotland the question then the whether that the mythical working class vote the brics vote in concert up in the North Eastern in the midlands theyre going to come over abandon labor and go on to the conservatives lets see its a massive gamble i think at the end well get to a positive result from the point of view there simply will get a big increase in seats and well get a mandate for a new independence referendum and no for your responses to the program terry says peter or bob is excellent never really saw much of him before i must admit his ballance and satan mama refreshing perhaps a show of his own is coming perhaps as early and then donal gillis says hello i like looking forward to your insight in the political shambles that is black sort of james grieve of something of the same theme says great show again were on the type