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i think that there are ways that it can be done. but never in a way that betrays it is such a dark and desperate situation should be. i should be. the. way they do. we were clear that we didn't think it was going to be helpful but. says he. will still follow through with. the wednesday morning headlines from all of us here. very warm welcome to.

the u.s. government. declassify a report detailing allegations of child sex abuse. the report was concerned the legations of sexual abuse of children by members of the afghan security forces because it's classified much of the information on which the sego report is based the report is classified seeger has requested that declassify the report the watchdogs report more generally concerns u.s. funding and afghanistan and whether forces receiving the money comply with human rights laws it deals with how the u.s. military and state department are implementing the so-called leahy law is prohibited the government from providing aid to another nation's security forces if there is credible information that human rights have been violated the watchdog also cites the state department as staying that the afghan government has failed to meet human rights standards and that afghan officials are complicit in the sexual

abuse of children by afghan security forces. now the u.s. government is accused of turning a blind eye to one afghan custom in particular known as. this involves the sexual abuse of pre-prepared sent on adolescent boys and has been illegal in afghanistan since the start of this year. yeah. you. say. that a. little bit about this is. the city. that was. something that's there. not the first

time such allegations of afghan soldiers were raping young boys have surfaced back in two thousand and fourteen human rights groups claimed abusers were often paying bribes to hide their crimes and in two thousand and fifteen reports surfaced that american military personnel were being told to look the other way in order to maintain good relations with afghan units allegations of child sexual abuse by afghan military or police personnel would be a matter of domestic afghan criminal law there would be no express requirements that u.s. military personnel in afghanistan reported one possible explanation is the leahy law process through its u.s. government that's foreign security forces as well as defense training programs to ensure recipients have not committed human rights abuses in other words break human rights laws and there's no more money and that could prove tricky in afghanistan where over the last fifteen years washington's pumped in over seven hundred billion dollars and they're not planning to stop anytime soon twenty seven teams going to be another tough year for the value of afghan security forces and the international

troops moved good and will continue to stand shoulder to shoulder i do believe it will involve additional forces to ensure that we can. make the advise and assist mission more more effective a presence yet to define his afghan policy many hope human rights will trump war. r.t. washington d.c. we discussed the issue with a number of experts they told us that by keeping the report classified information is in effect being protected. turned away and as they have turned away what we are saying is various abuses various things sometimes just even the lack of success that the united states has inside of afghanistan is something that the american people don't see don't watch and don't even understand so the idea that sexual abuse may be going on it doesn't surprise me that the american people are just missing it and they are don't uncover it if you don't address those issues it

simply expands the potential for more crimes to be conducted against people and frankly when you see this happen when you see people being abused in theaters around the world and the americans are involved at least in the theater it provides the perception that the americans are responsible for. a new study has warned that online searches for suicide have spiked it's following the release of netflix is thirteen reasons why the series the controversial show tells the story of a girl who commits suicide has generated concern among parents and psychologists in several countries in new zealand a special rating was applied to prevent people under eighteen from watching the series and in austria two schoolgirls tried to kill themselves but the teachers managed to stop them at the last moment reports suggest that the suicide attempt was inspired by thirteen reasons why. they.

can't take her. family because i'm about to tell you the story of my life. my specifically my my life and. if you're listening to this tape. you're one of the reasons why in the u.s. two families blame the series for driving their children to suicide but we spoke to the father of a girl who just before her sixteenth birthday he says his daughter suffered from depression and the netflix program pushed her over the edge. this show acted. like there's a word in psychology it's called a trigger that means that you react to something in your environment and it triggers a response within you and it left my daughter. feeling worse than she had before this is not the way it's supposed to be my daughter should be alive today i should be able to hold her in my arms should be able to care for her i should be able to

hear her laugh but now i can't she's just gone she's gone from me forever. just reaction to a recent study on the impact of the netflix series. nineteen days after the program was released google searches for suicide related topics increased by more than twenty percent that means roughly nine hundred thousand to one point five million more than usual from phrases like suicide hotline or teen suicide or more worrying phrases like how to kill yourself all of them are on the rise i've seen multiple psychiatric admission knows that it detailed the presenting problem of why the teen is is there being one a couple of times them saying that they want to kill themselves in the way that the girl from thirteen reasons why did suicide prevention experts are warning that the show is kind of romanticizing suicide and unhealthy relationships all of which

could lead to copycat behavior among teenagers or teenagers who in general are still developing the ability to regulate their emotions and their desires for those teens and especially those who have already perhaps contemplated suicide a series like thirteen reasons why can be problematic let's ask people how concerned they are are you a parent i am a part now would you allow your son or daughter to watch this this new program with a company of apartments where you know if you put something to somebody's head and they already had that thought it might be encouraging but you can't control what people are going to do they might hear it on the street they might hear it in school you know that you never know i mean just because they hear from you doesn't mean it's your fault if you were a parent would you allow your child your children to watch that show louie i would absolutely because i want them to experience well life is all about the ups the downs the ugly the good all records should show the record that people should be able to and all. those types of the space to be honest ok are you

a parent. now if you were a parent do you think you would allow your son or daughter to watch that show or have a different view if i was a parent the producers of these shows need to be socially and ethically responsible for what they're putting out and. bare minimum that means that for if it's netflix for example before and after each episode in the series they need to put places for where they can get help such as the suicide prevention lifeline they need to be doing that at a bare minimum so that if it challenged well there will child gets triggered during the episode that they know where they can go to turn for help we asked netflix about the study's findings and told us that the show was intended to promote discussion of a difficult subject over the father we spoke to told us there are other ways to highlight this issue and i think that there are ways to show that i think that there are ways that that it can be done in a positive note but never in

a way that was that like this never in a way that richard is it is such a dark and desperate situation the fact is that netflix does not care what the medical profession has to say they don't care what educators have to say they don't even care what parents have to say on netflix cares about is making money from this show is not acceptable and this needs to stop we still have a voice as consumers or just as citizens we have a voice and we do have power to make change. the u.s. secretary of state says both he and president trump do not support the new sanctions against russia. so there are actually bothered by the congress to put these sanctions in place in the way they did not of the president nor i are very happy about that we were clear that we didn't think it was going to be helpful to our efforts but that's the decision that i made that made

a very overwhelming it was a president accepts that the u.s. congress voted last week by an overwhelming margin for fresh sanctions against russia but they also affect u.s. allies in europe there are structures tog mining metal and energy industries moscow has already reacted to the move by reducing america's diplomatic commission in russia by seven hundred fifty five workers and seizing two properties the secretary of state noted that relations with russia are under considerable stress however he remains hopeful all indications are he will sign that that bill and then we'll just work with it on that's kind of my view is will work with it we got it now we can't let it take us off track of trying to restore the relationship well i think it signals a dysfunctional president the president not only is that war with congress his own party has turned against him in congress the neo cons of turn him again against him in congress he's fighting is now is old in the stray shouldn't that the people that

he's appointed to senior positions fundamentally disagree with him on foreign policy should know what so completely lopsided that his options are to look at stream lee week by vetoing it and having an override or to simply accept his fate and be boxed in by his own party in congress talk about a humiliating situation that the president has and the new sanctions bill comes amid shake ups in the white house president trump appears to be still forming his team and working to pick people most loyal to him. we could use some more loyal to. the hard truth almost everyone. serving the president has been the honor and privilege of

a lifetime. doing a spectacular job i have no doubt i think we were in pretty good shape. president. bush the right. to carry out his vision of a strategy. canadian human rights activists are calling on the government to review a multi-billion dollar deal with saudi arabia that's off the obligations of most in local media to canadian vehicles are being used by riyadh in his crackdown on the.

town of mia the canadian prime minister has promised to look into the claims. we are looking at these claims very seriously and have immediately launched a review of the above mentioned crackdown by saudi authorities as being taking place in a mostly populated area in the east of saudi arabia this muslim religious group is a minority in the mostly sunni kingdom. media allegedly shows a canadian vehicles being used by saudi security forces here's what a local resident told us about the plight of civilians caught up in the violence in . their food to form. a war which. almost all the.

moves we should warn. you more it used. to be really hoping. for. saudi arabia ranked among the top destinations for canadian exports this was and twenty sixteen military purchases totaled one hundred forty two million canadian dollars and human rights activists we heard from say profit seems to have prevailed over the concern for human rights in the case of saudi arabia. it's the prefer rather than the human rights what do you expect from the saudi government are they going to buy a vehicle and put them in a museum for example of course they are going to use them whether inside or outside and unfortunately they are using them it's a busy day for us here on r.t.

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shape out. active. and engaged equals betrayal. when so many find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground. good to have you with us today for your news a group of police officers has been accused of using excessive force after being caught on video repeatedly tasering an inmate and warning you may find some of the following video distressing the allegations are part of a lawsuit filed by the victim's family against the cheatham county jail in the state of tennessee the inmate claims to have been tasered in several instances and

for great lengths of time after being arrested on drug and weapons charges last year we understand that the surveillance footage shows the chair at one point gagged while being tasered photos taken afterwards also appear to show the extent of some of the teen's taser burns he says that he was left with at least forty across his body the sheriff's office says he will be conducting a review of the incident which has already led to three deputies being suspended meanwhile we also spoke to the president of an activist group concerned by police brutality. and people end up in the jail who've been brutalized and then that brutality continues in the jails and into the prisons it's kind of like a whole system from beginning to end that is dominated by brutality and the only issue is in the prisons of the jails we it's not as visible we can't see it as well and so we don't typically get access to these types of videos jailers have enormous power the head jailer which is the sheriff in this case has to be

a vailable and watching his staff at all times he has to be monitoring their conduct because you know people with absolute power abuse it absolutely and so it's really he the that the sheriff is saying that he wasn't even knowledgeable about what his own staff was doing i think it's reprehensible he should resign. the french president. calls a summit notebook for the holidays it includes all the main issues that were part of my. program such as are. even a test on how it ecologically aware you but also contains one of my favorite phrases make up on it. and if you know french you can test it if you speak the same language as the president has shot it. was something that is spot if. the politicians. use all the republican manual.

but it's just the tip of things to say something somebody. that's published it's somebody. that you games to tease to keep them busy over the summer holidays. speak to that a little. and then get going again. so we asked people on the streets of paris today speak up don't say what's the information that some are saying. if. i don't know i don't know what it is. now i don't know yet. if i did know. i think this is

a song or remakes. to my mind this is something related to madame bovary. maybe this is related to madame bovary. i think that's a french literature correct so this is a desert something to eat. he does not speak to seem language he's adopted but he does not speak to seem language this is very difficult for my generation basically you don't speak my call. i don't. know i don't stick. i don't speak my problems. in the booklet so i took a bit of a fierce when it appeared online. the

world aquatics championships were a success for russia with swimmer i should say. winning four medals we spoke to the . gold. i don't like to take revenge at all while my father always tells me that i don't have enough of the so-called fighting spirit and i should be more competitive and i've actually never thought about it i just know that the two hundred meter breast stroke is my thing i should be working on my

one hundred meter performance though i want to have both of them that will be great . but it always i realize there should have a different attitude this is just the process of training and participating in competitions i just enjoyed my coach used to tell me enjoy the competition the reason you do all that and the reason you swim and train he said because you really like it and i've started to enjoy competitions and competing of course it's always better to win and then you have even more emotions but you really should be able to simply enjoy things enjoy your life your theme of his road to success has not been easy she was suspended for doping and twenty thirteen then tested positive for me and in two thousand and sixteen however the provisional suspension lasted only four months the international swimming federation banned her from the rio olympics by diffame of a healed the bad and won the case but only after the games had begun however she had to put up with pretty significant a wave of criticism. you wave your number one finger and you've been called

a drug cheating i'm not a fan i think lily is right i think something needs to be done cheaters or choosers if you are has tested positive and she's gotten their way or is it that's just not fair or despite all the stumbling blocks are your frame of us so she is content and will remain positive. at my first olympic games when i was sixteen i finished in fourth and i suffered a real nervous breakdown i remember well how the u.s. team tried to comfort me he was shocked asking my coach what had happened he said i was that disappointed because i came in fourth and they were puzzled telling me that i was only sixteen and i had come in for that their lympics why she crying they asked why was because our sports officials were quick to criticize me for my results saying it was awful but now i finished third at the world championships and bearing in mind all that has happened to me and over hard training and everything i can say that's really great i wish everyone could feel like that and take the

bronze that would be good i think for joining us here at r.t. international today more of your world nears and half an hour. is an american inspired attack on north korea in every bull one certainly gets that impression listening to washington's war hawks is north korea a growing military threat of course it is but it is also under threat is there still time for diplomacy. what politicians do you should. put themselves on the line they did accept the reject. so would you want to be president and she. wanted. to go right to the

press this is what the three of the people. interested always in the water. should. here's what people have been saying about rejected in the us is it just. the only show i go out of my way to you know what it is that really packs a punch. is the john oliver of r t america is doing the same. apparently better than. i see people you've never heard of redacted tonight president of the world bank take. it seriously send us an e-mail. greetings and salutations you know sometimes when you're when you're paying

attention to the world around you life has this very curious way of dropping little warning signs of an impending doom sitting just around the corner if you don't radically alter your current plans like being off for a ride from a friend or just drop the tab acid on three tequila shots or are finding that life's bedding spray in someone's bathroom. telling you that you probably shouldn't take that riders spend the night very cheap another example for those of us who've been following world events lately are headlines like this one from the wall street journal pentagon offers plan to arm ukraine yes apparently now that we've allegedly moved on from our. the rebels in syria because we know how well that all turned out the u.s. is now it's going to pour a few weapons and explosives into ukraine according to the wall street journal american military officials and diplomats say the arms which they characterized as defensive are meant to deter aggressive actions by moscow u.s.

officials say they worry that the conflict has intensified with a rising number of cease fire violations as progress on peace efforts has faltered because yes yes nothing d'un tense the five the conflict and brings peace to a region faster than a good influx of arms. i think we all can remember i mean look it all worked out so well in vietnam in the early sixty's or afghanistan in the 1980's or or syria today arms in places that are a little bit warry. work so well i wonder if the state department pentagon also believe that pouring gasoline on the campfire is the best way to prevent forest fires yes my friends this is the backward logic that is your pentagon and state department even smokey the bear agrees with me almost makes you wonder if the new.