yeah. after yet another round of musical chairs at the white house the media starts to question whether donald trump's administration is in. turmoil inside the white house is real for displayed for him to of sanity obscenity and humiliation. french government is too open to new migrant centers near the port city of cali this comes less than a year after the infamous jungle camp was cleared. three members of a notorious street gang of being killed in a shootout with police moscow courthouse.

thanks so much for joining us this evening ten pm here in the russian capital my name's neil harvey this is our international. white house is facing claims that it's in meltdown after the new communications director was the latest to fall on this sought after just ten days in the job that hiring and firing on the president has prompted speculation that this chaos in the cabinet but there could be another reason behind the changes. expect. the never ending drama coming out of the white house has recently been bolstered by a number of shake ups in the west wing staff and each time another employee bites the dust the media cries that chaos and disaster are reigning in the white house the turmoil inside the white house is real and on full display the torrent of profanity obscenity and humiliation this is a recognition that six months into this presidency it is a fail of

a failed presidency we've been seeing trump repeatedly attack members of his own staff often on social media causing headlines to erupt questioning the president's sanity these insane tweets some of donald trump's most insane tweets you know trump is completely insane a growing number of democrats are openly questioning president trump's mental health and listening carefully to donald trump and i think he's a narcissistic maniac but man this though it may be is there a method to it garcia says that maintaining. it's no secret that democrats hate trump he ran on the republican ticket so frankly one can expect no less but the thing is the president's own party also fosters a fair amount of opposition to him what was proposed yesterday is not what this party stands for i worry about the president's understanding of some of these issues. he's a race baiting zina phobic religious bigot and i am not going to get it done a. lot of the future on the other hand continues to defend his administration and

the choices he makes the with the democrats against him and his own party is not exactly solid support term seems to be trimming the fat leaving only those he can rely on reduce warren general kelly he will do a spectacular job i have no doubt thank you president elect for the confidence that you have shown and donald trump understands the problem with readiness of our military and is committed to restoring that readiness to have someone who's never done. this was actually created real jobs donald trump is doing just that he speaks from the brain he speaks from the heart i mean all these trump insanity claims perhaps the president is simply used to running himself but those are very few he truly trusts jaclyn who go r.t. washington d.c. earlier we gauged reaction to trump's decision to suck down to the scot and we. the law the ridicule all mind of this but should we be more serious about they switch

talking about the people who are basically running the country here we've been distracted the last forty eight seventy two hours by you know the the arrival and departure of mr party and i think it's really important that we get promptly back to business and we have a north korea exploding we've got you know lots of things going on here it's not as if our relations with us and russia are going that well at the moment i mean there are a lot of problems much bigger then you know converting about you know temporary decision to let somebody who probably would have been more comfortable the bot of being called you know the soprano's in there as the communications director what we really need is a silvertone order. we're not even talking about that north korea russia china we're talking about potential theoretical world war but now we're talking about anthony the move c.n.n. is playing this do you think they hate each other missing the point altogether

donald trump has been under intense media pressure he's been warring with them effectively for six months is the precious starting to show because we're seeing him now let go some of the people who got him into power the likes of ryan spree this shore inspires people you would have thought were trusted the being of being ushered out now is that the pressure starting to show or is it something else if we think through the campaign period right when trump trump announced the immediate reaction of the mainstream press was he's it's a joke he's never going to fill out his financial forms they have been wrong about every significant aspect of dollar trump's campaign his general election campaign and of his presidency today they haven't gotten it right so again i don't really put a great stock into what they're saying it's start from the morning and they just keep repeating this and it all it's tends to create its own path and pretty soon people say well you know there's there's chaos who says there's chaos you know during. no more till george marshall one of our great generals fired people every week that

was called leadership of that's called doing what's right mindset of it is kind of doing his general flynn was fired jeff sessions is being attacked and now scary movie is out so if you are a person with considerable talent so the kind of people now who are going to be applying for jobs in the trump white house are going to be mediocrities they don't really have any talent they don't have much going on so they are they want to be close to power so they'll think i'm not giving up nothing if i get fired is this white house in chaos is this a traveling circus always this always how strong was going to roll it's classic white house the psych in emergency room i merge the room seems like chaos but that's what it deals with it deals with chaos and when in rome do as well you know the rest of the story white house is relatively steady shape with a lot left to accomplish for the benefit of most americans of those people who cherish freedom and economic growth around the world well it's the opposite of business as usual trump is trying to change the system and he's being backstabbed

by republicans i've long said the greatest threat to donald trump is not the d.n.c. it's actually the r. and c. so what appears to be chaos is mainly a civil war going on with republicans who want to put america first versus republicans who want to be globalists. has been a busy twenty four hours in washington along with a reshuffles interim cabinet new sanctions rule so imposed against venezuelan president nicolas maduro after he claimed victory in a controversial election for a new constituent assembly. dictator dictator as a result of today's sanctions all assets of the door subject to u.s. jurisdiction are frozen and u.s. persons are prohibited from dealing with him other than him but i do know it's a big imperial orders i do not obey foreign orders of government neither today nor ever will obey imperial orders i am free independent president but also the

imperialist i'm against american imperialism. or the sanctions targeting duros sits as well as those of venezuelan officials they also ban u.s. firms and individuals from doing business with the president however there is one economic restriction the united states seems unwilling to use in this diplomatic war. stations against oil it seems we all knew about this toxic relationship. is a dictator who disregards the will of the venezuelan people not having any such feeling this to me that they know that it shall be destroyed on a part of the of the not knowing what order they mean teed up to put them into it probably did the government. is violating its own constitution. limits. but pump oil into the equation and politics is brushed straight under the carpet his facts of how black gold unites them. for decade this out american

states being the third largest exporter of crude to the us and numbers are growing up seven percent to around six hundred seventy thousand barrels a day but will it stop that absolutely not the citgo petroleum corporation based in texas belongs to wait for it but is wait state owned oil company which means the country has access to these refineries the total capacity of about seven hundred forty nine thousand barrels per day so far the sanctions that have been a mention have been against refined venezuelan oil products and against individuals in the venezuelan government they have not been for the importation of crude the fact that they are not including crude speaks to that interdependence and the fact that us all producers and export are don't want to up the market and potentially that ten percent extraction of venice on oil could spike us gasoline prices as well

so i think that that is the concern. france will open to my grandson to snare the port city of cali after a court ruled that the government must provide humane conditions for refugees who are trying to reach the quay the new migrant centers a set to be built in bayeux twaddle now both of those are about an hour's drive away from cali that's where the infamous jungle count was situated on correspondent david ski has more. this comes after the french government seems to be backed into a corner by the french courts which had ruled that. decision to not provide clean water and sanitation facilities to the migrants in cali was wrong and they described that as degrading treatment now that's because the french government and the interior minister said they were trying to avoid the stain mistakes again we don't want to repeat the mistakes of the past but we also want to handle the

problems in cali the reference there is to the new tourist camp in cali which was known as the jungle and when it started around a thousand migrants were housed there in temporary accommodation such as tents but it grew and it grew it became a mecca for people who mainly were trying to reach the u.k. from by the time that camp was eventually properly cleared around ten thousand people were living there in some really schooling conditions it was basically a camp that was out of control and when the authorities did to close it down last year there were violent scenes as ati's polly boyko witnessed this is the front line of the part of the jungle that's meant to be evicted today now we don't know how close we can get but you can see the riot police here in their shields with their mosques ready for any sort of action that might take place all of these

settlements these hot say have been marked for demolition and the bulldozers just in the distance over there are making their way quite quickly through this part of the camp that you can see those fires burning and over there just in the distance there are a number of refugees who are stood on top of their tents they are refusing to leave and that's why there's a heavy police presence here as we know despite the attempts there to completely close down that camp it hasn't quite worked because there are. estimated to be around three hundred fifty to four hundred migrants who are living in cali and that's one of the reasons why they will be moved to these new centers the problem is though that there's no guarantee that these new centers would themselves become a mecca for migrants and that we could see some of the conditions that we saw in cali reemerging for example here in paris a center that was opened in the last year has become such a mecca for migrants that every night it's completely full and many migrants are

yet again forced to sleep on the streets with every few weeks the police having to clear it yet again when they clear more migrants come and there is nothing to stop that from happening at these two new centers while there is also nothing happening to stop any migrants going back to cali basically this is a cycle that nobody seems to be able to break. the deputy mayor of cali told us that another massive migrant camp could spring up at any moment. a new jungle could emerge any time if we're not careful we refuse anyway what the call to say that we should ships in cali because associations are claiming we should fix in kind of facilities the year off going i was experienced already everything shy was toilets . and we see all the time it's a disaster but on our cousin of before when he was. mr said that.

there would be no way to accept you comes we know that all the experiences that i've been. by the past. will be successful. top us watchdog is urging the trump of ministration to investigate potential links between the record production of opium in afghanistan and america's harrowing crisis. it's kind of in the movie mostly comes from a gun is stone used we use a. well this statement comes amid reports from a watchdog in the united states showing that as the usa pours eight point six billion dollars into counter narcotic efforts in afghanistan the poppy fields are growing and cultivation of narcotics is spreading across the country now furthermore the report goes on to point out a kind of contradiction between the statements of u.s. officials and the facts according to u.s. officials in the drug enforcement agency only one to three percent of the heroin in

the united states originates in afghanistan however according to the special inspector for afghanistan reconstruction it could actually be much larger according to ham u.s. heroin comes from canada and most of the heroin coming in from canada originates in afghanistan this is the contradictory statements we're hearing about drugs in the united states meanwhile the states of maine the states of massachusetts the states of the state of new hampshire the states of new york the government have declared opium epidemics this point heroin related fatalities in the united states are reaching historic levels between one thousand nine hundred nine and two thousand and fifteen the number of people in the usa who died from heroin overdoses actually tripled at this point approximately fifty two thousand people are dying annually from heroin. this bring in brian that can now from the anti war coalition good evening brian millions of dollars

a pumpkin to counter-narcotics in afghanistan into this report it has no effect whatsoever a poem opium production how is that possible do you think. there are numerous factors that have led to an increase in opium production and heroin. when you look at the years two thousand and four five six seven in afghanistan there was more opium poppy produce. there than in any single period during the rule of the taliban starting in the mid one nine hundred ninety s. as the country splintered as warlordism became dominant as insurgent groups wanted to raise money essentially and perhaps as the afghanistan government as it's been alleged a very close to the karzai family itself was also benefiting from profiting from the production of opium and then you have the problem of poverty many many many poor farmers after the u.s. invasion in the nato invasion in two thousand and one the afghan economy collapsed

so what are farmers to do if they're going to grow export crops cash crops opium in other words so there's a multitude of factors that have led to the current crisis i would do have to say though that the reason people are going to heroin in the united states is not because of afghanistan it's because they're addicted to opioids because of over prescription by u.s. pharmaceuticals and doctors who are pumping open into poor communities and then when people can't afford opioids they go to heroin which is cheaper in the united states than there over the counter or i mean prescription drug medications that's the reason we have this huge spike in opium in opium or heroin related deaths in the united states is it possible to properly trace the opium trail and hence try and stop the drugs from getting in if they go in viral the country such as canada. no i don't think so i don't think there's actually a military solution to heroin or to opioid production the taliban at

one time declared to be a fatwa in one nine hundred ninety nine to make it against islam to grow opium and and that's because the country had descended following the soviet union leaving a soviet troops leaving in the old socialist government for failing in the late one nine hundred eighty s. the government splintered and warlordism led to huge to opium production again impoverished farmers are going. do what they need to do to live and then you have warlords and big networks of drug drug traffickers who make a lot of money by the way every u.s. bank i'm not joking every u.s. bank has been convicted of drug of laundering billions of dollars of drug money none of those bank executives go to jail they just get fined but another words profit drives this industry there's no military solution yet honest fact about the bank is very very sad and you know the tool surprising what does surprise me is the fact that the d.n.a. and the government watchdog doesn't agree she's vol the worrying of whether drugs

are actually originating from how is that happening. well i mean you have to parse it i mean the issue though isn't really again i don't think the source of the drugs and it's certainly not about a policeman or military strategy if people cannot feed their families if poor farmers cannot live as they cannot live because afghanistan has been completely fragmented after seventeen years of war there's going to be no military force to be able to actually exercise that kind of control moreover the united states controls less of afghanistan than it did in two thousand and one when it defeated the taliban and the television controls more territory and other insurgent groups also control more territory the problem in afghanistan is really the problem of war in peace the problem of drugs is the problem of war and peace and it's also the problem of economic justice of war as creating poverty the real need is for afghan to get back on its feet and not be the source the place the location for endless

war. can something be done to stop the opium flowing into the us or is it as i'm suspecting from what you said that the actual challenge is to focus more internally in the us and make sure people all dog subscribed on medications that get them involved in the first place. indeed we have half of the united states living in or near poverty people don't have jobs or the jobs that they do have don't pay a living wage they can't feed their families they can't go to the doctor when they're sick or take their kids so what do they do they're getting addicted to drugs and pharmaceuticals and doctors are overprescribing and then they can't afford those medicines because they're so poor so they start to take heroin illicit heroin because it's cheaper because there's such an abundant supply of heroin i mean that's a crazy system but it is the system in the united states and so if you want to stop heroin addiction and fifty two thousand deaths last year from heroin it's not just about policing it's not about afghanistan it's about the system in the united

states. bryan great as always to get your views thanks so much for coming on brian beckett from the antiwar coalition thanks. to the news now three members of a notorious street gang have been killed this was in a shootout with police in a moscow region called house three were trying to avoid trial for ambushing robbing and killing drivers on streets auntie's around culture of reports. shooting at sac as happened here in the moscow reagents a day when c. gunshots were heard by one lawyer witness in this terrifying shoots out right here inside a courthouse near the russian capital at two pm and five suspects from the savage g.c.a. street gang were being marched to the courtroom going up the elevator on the third floor when they suddenly viciously attacked the guards grabbed their weapons and began firing their lips were apparently broken in that shootout says well but the

suspects managed to pry open the doors and open fire on officers while trying to flee police fired back killing three of the suspects and the wounding of the rest but officers sense of one member of the national guard were also injured by the gunfire the grim g t a gang first headline says they sparked terror across russia viciously ambushing and murdering some seventeen people in moscow region motorways back in eleven very few managed to escape their brutal tactics alive back in twenty fourteen as the hunts for the gang gained full force are it's easy to try and go join the vigilante raid with a local activist to catch the dreaded drug mistake of the killings happened in places like this i'm surrounded by forest trees in the traffic it's fairly quiet here at night the criminals spread by the long yeah then there's a loud bang and one of the drivers stop to change their tires the criminals go in for the kill. you may get into trouble i mean the kind of trouble of will be the

last in your life. really make it kills i'm being open about it so please bear that in mind anything can happen where we're heading to right now the man behind me is giving out orders to the people who actually have guns with them there are ten to fifteen people with real live ammunition so part of the plan is to watch out for cars parked on the side of the road but that doesn't bear any fruit the vigilantes also think sudden inspections could help find the killers traces they surround cars that gas stations bombard people with questions check plunks. if i were a driver i'd be really upset if i ended up being like that. wherever we arrive i keep hearing all clear but the leader looks a bit downcast innocent drivers being scared off seems like almost the only result of the sweeps but the hidden wrong killers are still at large. r t.

aid groups operating migrant rescue ships in the mediterranean have been outraged by a new code of conduct this being forced on them by it's really. goes against our mission which is to save lives it goes against it this really goes against our hearts what we are as a medical and humanitarian organization and it's not something that. actually says that those refusing to sign will no longer be covered by the system of sea rescue and that they will face the consequences ok so let's take a closer look at the rules under this new coat first of all it obliges groups to allow police officers physical to come on board a boat also take migrants to safe ports to themselves rather than transferring them on to other vessels phone calls or flows coming from n.g.o.s that outbound today it's thought could signal to human traffickers whether it is safe to send a boat to say we spoke to representatives of aid groups both those who support the code on those who oppose it they shared with concerns. not many young.

in the pencil you want to read to me one thing one of those it was not the need for these goals we only organisation to the norm whatever the operating under all the laws on the legal framework just means i was ahead more people and it's totally against our limited home wanted to marry and same thing or be in heaven or society if you moved the story points off this. sunday it will be hard to say and so the let's just point out all the against international law against. years ago reaction from the defend your grief which is against mass migration to europe and is trying to put a stop to the work of aid n.g.o.s. because we are gainst message to europe we want to stop this madness this n.g. all madness. because everybody is just trotting in the what is acting feeling

you're stepping in what you're doing going to do is you're going all watched and you also and i think what they're doing there is it's nothing good because they're actually a support factor and basically the out a reason for mass migration yet to receive people twenty ends up making a fortune for this human trafficking rings in libya destabilizing the country i think the future for actually good europe the future of europe cannot become second africa. meanwhile more than sixty migrants a violently force their way into spain hundreds attacked the border guards with sticks and stones wounding three and they used cutting tools to try and cross the razor wire fence from morocco to the spanish autonomous city of soter sixty seven immigrants are said to have got through although over a dozen were injured and they've been taken to hospital african migrants make regular mass the terms to cross the six metre high fence on the north african coast . how because of the meddling in american electoral

systems the game this time though nobody's pointing the finger at russia because it was part of a cyber security challenge participants even managed to get one of the voting machines to sing. while the hackers had fun they also demonstrated a serious point as they were unleashed to crack more than thirty electronic voting machines the majority are still in use across the united states and it only took ninety minutes for the first vulnerabilities to emerge experts say that the defcon challenge shows that hacking electronic voting machines is easier than was thought . this software just isn't up to modern standards it's not even as strongly protected as a p.c. it just took us a couple of hours on google to find passwords that let us unlock the administrative functions on this machine there's plenty of new machines available for purchase

they're not being purchased because states don't want to spend the money hopefully with all of the controversy around this election. we will see either in the states or in the federal government allocate money to upgrade in and buy new machines that are much more secure and where we can at least write off the the theory. of the unproven theory that our election can be hacked. thanks for joining our team to national they saving up about the latest news headlines see you in around half an hour's time.

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