One minute. 10 pm in sydney 2 in the afternoon right here in moscow this thursday november the 7th hello and welcome to r. T. International. 2 former twitter employees have been charged by the United States with spying for saudi arabia claimed they were recruited to steal the personal data of users critical of the kingdom r t correspond to the quarter is across the story for us don what is known about the suspects what are they actually accused of well you know right now theres 3 people in total that are being charged in this case and 2 of them were former employees at twitter one of them is a u. S. Citizen and the other is a saudi citizen theyre both accused of using their positions at twit. Or to access the private personal information of thousands of people now and that was for the saudi government against critics of the monarchy now on wednesday the Justice Department filed a criminal federal criminal complaint against all 3 of them so lets take a look at what he had to say. The defendant did knowingly act in the United States as an agent of a Foreign Government acted within the United States under 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 the people in question didnt have jobs that require to access to private information of twitter users and that they were actually they also received rewards into secret Bank Accounts of numbering up to tens of thousands of dollars in designer watches. Just to be clear these were people critical or otherwise around the globe it wasnt just in saudi itself yeah absolutely. In terms of damage then with you know the question has been for a long time much information social Media Companies actually hold a. Users much damage has been done here do we know yeah well actually a large amount i mean these are social media accounts that could be from any country all over the world where twitter is used which is basically the whole world the american involved in this conspiracy was just recently arrested actually for tampering with 3 twitter accounts but that was not of course the bulk of the damage that was done that happened back in 2015 when over 6000 people had their private information accessed by these people stolen by the saudi coconspirator of the 2 who is now believed to be long gone hes back in saudi arabia and this is again like he said this is twitter its an International Company and its a serious concern when these when only 2 people were able to access so much personal information on the platform when twitter says that it should have been confined to a limited amount of trained personnel. We recognize the length but this will go into a on to my no Service Company limited access to sensitive account information to a limited group of trains and that employee. Now twitter has agreed to cooperate with the investigation into this into these charges and we dont know obviously how long. Has been going on at the hands of saudi arabia in the United States but this moment is still a significant one because its the 1st time ever. That the u. S. Justice department of the u. S. Government has accused saudi arabia of using agents within the United States and at the time that this happened its important to note that the current king of the current monarch of saudi arabia was just coming to power after his father had died so the Saudi Embassy has been asked for a response but they have yet to react on place for breaking that down for us im sure its going to develop down quarter r. T. Correspondent. Us there across the field to push through a bill to keep the identity of whistleblower secrets republican senator ron paul block the proposal accusing the democrats of spreading selective arbitrates the amendment was designed to bolster the senates position which is that whistleblower should be protected from retaliate their contribution acknowledged that comes in the heat of the trump impeachment inquiry that was sparked by anonymous testimony from an insider so i ask you to report on the fate of those who recently dared 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 all rother of one Intelligence Officer who is 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 to be uses and each day that snowden is allowed to room 3 is another twist to the mary snowden is a one of the few picked up by the media he chose the path of raising his voice and go in cologne ball unlike the hundreds of office 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. 189 out of 190 cases of whistleblower complaints by descent do the link by. The report was shot down and i wonder if mr hume appraised 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 bhalo worked for the cia now he found himself in a patriotic di lemma 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 Campaign 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 a 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 the i. D. s 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 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 shed light on state department mismanagement im waste in iraq what happens when youre thrown. Out of the government and blacklisted that use 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 nonmobile snowdens footsteps sure you might end up with your name on a packet and become the face of the fight for transparency but you might also find yourself behind 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 allies 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 anyone 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 are all on the cards unless 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. Across the atlantic from bare patients who abuse staff at a hospital in western england could find themselves without medical help the North Bristol health trust launched the red card to Racism Campaign which could see treatment refused when its safe to do so. The hard to avoid this no question we are seeing in the wrong but we really do need to use it to safeguard our stuff and work on from colleagues every 6 of us and i want to be able to say well heres whats been spoken about the campaign aims to cut out a wide range of abuse that our hospital staff could 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 face a sports like disciplinary system warning or yellow card will be given on the 1st incident a 2nd time and patients will be given a red card which means treatment will be drawn once a patients condition is safe. But some of the reaction we got to the plan from the National Secretary for the English Democrats PartyStephen Morris and women bennett of the stand up to racism Pressure Group but 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 after nursing people in very serious conditions i think a message to 0 tolerance towards it would lead to a level of self control is there to treat people it 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 there who wants to be treated by a female will not be allowed to because it will be. Or if you have certain religious views you wont be allowed because it be deemed a racist or sexist in some form but if youre racist you will have a problem with this because you think its a normal discourse of normal behavior some framed in some ridiculous notion that youve got freedom. Insult and abuse people want to lock them up as it 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 word was it would only call got the court system you may have a feel philosophical or religious belief about being treated by women are being treated by a certain person then their philosophical and religious beliefs have to be also respected and if the n. H. S. Are not going to respect their views then begin 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 and my god oh here we go you have no ideas and build it on the trees dont use the oil because it wasnt built just on the 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 been a race isnt a philosophical view its just plain wrong only those people who believe it should be tolerated actually resist any kind of basic principles. Because all the way it. Prosecuted youre talking about people under normal circumstances these are not normal circumstances where people go into a in a. In their wanted us so these are an absolute wide range of circumstances just to say can you calm down a bit the can ask you like the situation you want to use a little coward to tell people off i say lets get him prosecuted you didnt want to do that because you said it blocked 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 who are a racist need to be challenge to and has to be done in such a way as they can simply understand that their behavior is unacceptable what you need to do is make sure you get them treated get the. Reports and then get prosecuted if need be afterwards very simple if you look in the hospitals that school. People more. Still ahead on the Program Takes a tough line on migrants clearing hundreds from the make shift in paris the details of a for the short break. Seem wrong. To me that you get to shape out just days after. And in. The trail. When so many find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground. So what weve got to do is identify the threats that we have its crazy confrontation let it be an arms race. Skeery Dramatic Development that only. Exists i dont see how that strategy will be successful very critical time to sit down and talk. Again for toughening up on immigration on thursday authorities started to migrants from 2 makeshift camps in the suburbs of paris several 100 people have been cleared from the areas it comes after the french Prime Minister said the country needs to take control of my gratian its also planning its 1st ever quarters on new comers as well as restricting their access to the health care. Tax or closer look. Corner was catapulted into the french presidency on a ticket of not being from the right nor the left it was a poor enabling him to attract votes from across the political spectrum and it was a successful tactic off way through his mandate and it seems to still not show i about pinching an idea here all that from his political enemies in order to pepper the french governments policies for some theres a feeling that maybe dipping too much into the pool of ideas from the right with a crackdown on immigration high on his agenda takes the. Host everyone if it wants to host people well that seems a bit familiar. Right now were demanding him our time. Migration because friendship is sinking and what about shingle in the very machine again area in the ruins of dublin regulation does not work anymore if we have to suspend immediately the French Public have been given more and more teasers of policies to come policies that many feel wouldnt look out of place had they been announced by Marine Le Pens National rally the countrys Prime Minister has outlined 20 measures for tighter controls these include making it more difficult for migrants to claim benefits and health care under these new rules let me say claim asylum would have to wait 3 months after launching the claim before being able to access procedures universal health care france is also looking to introduce for the very 1st time economic quotas setting quotas is a u. Turn from mad corn during his president ial campaign he had ruled it out so this is a clear attempt to appeal to right wing fotis for whom migration without limit is a huge issue that comes as recent figures showed france had received nearly 123000. 00 asylum requests last year not only a record high but an increase of 22 percent compared to the year before mcallen himself has admitted his party just cant ignore the problem of immigration the bush was you have no problem with migrants because they dont see them but the working classes do and they have been seduced by marine le pens and to immigration far right machinable riley. May have thrown down the gauntlet in his attempts to pry voters away from the National Rally but lappin isnt backing down either shes warned corn may want to act tough his party is somewhat softer than its leader. Proposals to prevent abuse of the salem system virtual shutdown by his own Party Members although mcewans attempts to reach out to right wing voters comes ahead of nyssa pull elections its clear this is about something bigger much bigger in fact 2 and a half years before the next president ial election in france polls are showing that kwames only competition will likely come in the form of le pen the indication is that the race could be a tight one and in a bid to stay ahead hes having to pull out all the punches even if that means possibly alienating many of those who put him in power in the 1st place. R. T. American cash to boost roads rail and other infrastructure appears to be getting lost on route the us is planning instead to plan transport and to asia competes with china even though americans back home are still contending with crumbling roads creaking real ways dated her ports all despite Donald Trumps election promise to sort it out here but. Chinas one belt one roa