urging of major us instance that have been conspicuous bravely coming forward and telling their stories of security here in the united states who jointly signed and publishing that they too have been picked up not just a problem in hollywood solutions are born of imbalances of power in environments the permit such practices while silencing and shaming their survivors one of the co-authors of the letter retired ambassador nina hachigian stated assault and harassment are just as much as a problem for women working the night shift cleaning offices as it is for diplomats . you know from the maybe's tailhook scandal one thousand nine hundred ninety one to the marines united social media scandal last spring i think it's about time the national security state and the military industrial complex that believes it finally be forced to answer verge sexually abusive past and present so that we can better protect the future of women in service of our country now let's start

watching the hawks. out of. you that i got. this. week. or on the watch of the hawks i say well that and i'm having a wallet so it's out of the national security state. is got a lot of harassment and abuse of women working there are you shocked by these claims now here and i can hear it again and again and again as i am every day it just builds up and i have to talk about it or we will all go crazy but this is one of those things that just in. period's me this this is what puts us at risk this is

the kind of stuff this is the exact same kind of garbage that put us at risk in our nation's military at risk and kept good people from being in the military when we decided the don't ask don't tell was the problem and we do all this we pushed things to the side there was many rape and sexual harassment problem as you said since tailhook i was a teenager in the ninety's and i have to tell you watching the tailhook scandal is why i was like i'm not going anywhere near the military or foreign service because in the ninety's it looked like a cesspool still of the over two hundred women are barely a whisper of this oh yeah. barely a whisper do we not believe our military women do not believe the women in national security and that's the gender disparity that i want to talk about because what it does is it keeps an entire gender out of this work and it keeps good talented people out so the women comprise about thirty percent or thirty percent or fewer of the senior leadership roles within federal agencies that's across the board that's

unacceptable in twenty seventeen and in my opinion of a letter that they put declares that at the state department a female foreign service officer officers enter at equal rates to their male colleagues yet with each subsequent promotion the numbers of foreign service women declined especially at senior levels and we're talking about is yours the u.s. military which is the world's largest employer bridgeport or already i know you heard some the peace corps by the way it's not you know this is the word it's not a charity it's a company that does good for things like every look at it bombs bombs and violence so here we have the u.s. military which is the world's largest employer in the world and only about fifteen percent of its one point three million active duty workforce is women but then if you don't have women as diplomats there i'm sorry but other countries have don't have such gender disparity in their diplomatic role so what you have is a lot of men going into a situation. and country is talking time to tell women and other countries about

gender equality and how they should run it that it's not a gets into a yeah and that's just one part of that i mean look at the end of the day when you really look at the violence begets violence the mare you know the security state here is is as now has not been reined in in leaps and years it's been completely out of control since nine eleven if not since today john kennedy got killed and you know it's just been raging and raging and raging and one of the aspects of that when you're running this empire you know this invisible empire and you're invading and doing all of these horrible things under the name of the flag. you're going to create an atmosphere that's not going to be very friendly to people inside of that community it's not and i want to talk about even just rank and file soldiers everybody is a human being they all make mistakes understand that but robert engle an expert on gender in the military a professor at the swedish defense university told courts media that quote an extreme form of masculinity develops when you are allowed to mix it with violence and an all male environment there is no lid on it it's not like regular when you're

in an all male environment in the military and there's not enough women to balance that out or in the state department or in the n.s.a. or over you know and all of the national security state when it's predominately males you create that environment that's not right and checked by women but that's not then forcing people to keep between their you know p.'s and q.'s not be you know raging maniacs and terrible that's why you have such high levels of things like rape and sexual assault and low numbers of women joining one they did put forward the letter authors also pointed out that you know the institutions where they were cabs you know all they all have sexual harassment policy everyone plays but there would but they're under and force and oftentimes possibly you know at all sometimes favor the perpetrators of it as opposed to the victims make up but they did put forth some ideas to help fix this one being clear leadership from the very top that these behaviors are unacceptable to being creating multiple clear private channels to report abuse without fear of retribution. and then having things like

external independent mechanisms to collect data on claims and publish them anonymously a so that journalists and activists can look at that stuff also mandatory regular training for all employees mansouri exit interviews for all women leaving federal service we need this is the kind of thing where we need to get a handle on this because this is the this is just unacceptable we have a generation of women coming up men and women who need to be in a different environment as well it's. a bosnian war crimes convict is dead after chugging back a vial of poison during his appeal hearing at the united nations tribunals the hague the former bosnian croat general drink the substance twenty seconds after substance seconds after his twenty year sentence was upheld with television cameras rolling arches alex smile of it is following the story in toronto hello alex. hello there always a pleasure alex this is a bizarre story that i'm still kind of picking up the pieces of what can you tell us about what happened today at the hague dramatic scene i mean that's that's an

understatement to say that they had today around eleven thirty am this guy was with six other bosnian croat former military and politicians they were all wanted to basically appeal their sentences of this he had twenty years they had to the different said it's a pending on who it was and for what they did so he's actually served a bunch of the sentence but around eleven thirty it came through that the sentence was going to be upheld and this guy didn't want to hear that his name slobodan pla yok and slow but imply it was a general in the bosnian croat forces so when he heard the sentence go down basically for standing already he said project is not a criminal i reject your verdict and out comes a little brown bottle and down the throat it goes so that he goes i just drank some poison and that's what he told the judges and after he said that pretty much they shut down the hearings there mergence personnel came in and ambulance was sent he was taken to hospital and that is where he died now the situation is you know that

this guy obviously in his mind was not a war criminal but it was upheld in a lot of people people's minds he's not a war criminal polluting the prime minister of croatia and here's a quote from him so when the prime minister said as his act which we regrettably saw today mostly speaks about a deep moral injustice towards six croats from bosnia and the croatian people we voiced dissatisfaction and regret this verdict now this is something that we're hearing time and time again come from the balkans it's beans to be epidemic on the creation and the bosnian muslims side the serbs of already kind of said yeah you know yes we're we are going to take responsibility for what we've done with these other two groups they're playing victim a lot not to. say that there weren't tons of victims but this was a war and all three sides had criminal elements to it and all three sides should be treated equally now when it comes to this we're going to see it hopeless that he

was a writer that was this little republican called a republican head cigar and he was a part of that he was a pretty much made a general right off the bat he was in some a couple of battles but then the crimes came into play was directly involved in those that they were going to kill he to another and each a bridge in bosnia and repeated absolutely nothing about this so this whole entity this is a this croatian entity that they tried to create it fell apart in one nine hundred ninety six after the peace deal the dayton peace accord was signed by the nationalists and crazy serbia and bosnia from your two to one who was a president there signed off on that and there went their little republic so it's a lie and says during that war were changing quickly i was on the ground there i've talked to people who've been accused of being war criminals and i've seen tons of war criminals there that house does you know has this tribunals full well look one hundred sixty one piece scapegoats there are a lot right so a did it work did it not to take it well it's relevance thank you so much for bringing us an update on that very bizarre interesting story coming out of the

hague thank you. as we go to break court watchers all forget to let us know what you think of the topics of coverage of facebook and twitter see our poll shows that are t. dot com coming up we talk to a new colonization of africa with journalist and author robin hill pot and then c.n.n. versus trump takes yet another turn in the russian conspiracy theories stay tuned to watch it with. mark twain's. what politicians do sometimes. they put themselves on the line and they get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be present and you. know some want to listen. to the right person this is what the muslim three of them or people that. i'm interested in the ones in the. west.

palestine is getting international recognition with the help of israel at least in the world of zoos. this should leave you if you believe this is my complicity is going to sell you know maybe if you do. you go over there you should be the only palestinians who gets the most hope from its jerusalem counterparts i do things is of those who in the world under the old vision they're going to do this. and that is unfair that is different to this lady of the muscle that you have i don't want you to continue me doesn't seem to do more in the middle so last don't presume. that. when nato led by expert interventionist barack obama and hillary clinton lead the

humanitarian mission to assist the arab spring movement two thousand and eleven libya was supposed to have been the late for the western world's military coalition having set their sights on a dictator readily painted by the mainstream media correctly as corrupt and brutal and with the right side of history talking points at the ready the libya project seemed to be a target process practice for nato but perhaps a few alarm bells might have gone off when freedom fighting militias and ghazi burned down the u.s. embassy and killed four americans but perhaps when libya now cut off the list and rudderless became effectively a wild west beach resort for both isis and al-qaeda or perhaps finally now as video emerges showing genuine all too real slave auctions yes slave auctions taking place in libya with refugees migrants and non arab libyans sold off like cattle for just a few hundred dollars so who benefits from this mess and why did washington take such an active part in creating that transfers to that and more we were joined earlier by publisher and regional expert robin. one of the things i ask you is if

their goal was to remove gadhafi from where he wanted to bring africa together and make it a more unified continent with some for currency and things of that nature now you have this chaos and you have the blowback happening and all that since the fall of gadhafi and now you have the slave trade in libya was was that in your opinion and your research and your expertise was that was that chaos of this kind of destabilization of africa was that on purpose and how does that benefit places like the u.s. the u.k. why would that benefit them to create this much chaos of africa well i mean the benefit is that nobody can tell their president you know africa and get up. in one of his speeches i was just going over it in preparation was interview he kept pointing out the well. but very little of that well actually remains in africa. a lot of natural resources and his policy and i think if we're

looking for the future if policy was. any aid that has to lead to increased wealth in africa that means. value out of you know like a secondary tertiary transformation of natural resources and if you look at the way . the countries i mentioned operate in africa. their so-called aid is only to aid their economy. and so that these removal. i mean you look at the trenches. they were able to create a currency an african currency and that after you had the means to do so it would have taken the whole of what west africa french speaking west africa. out of the french zone and i was those countries like france don't want to give up that. give it up you. are going to fix operates in the same way it

does not want to have strong states who operate independently and so whether. on purpose nobody i don't think was actually aiming to create slavery again that was not part of the goal the goal was to ensure that. american british and french interests. would be protected and would be continued to develop really without. a state which was saying well no we don't can do that maybe we'll do away with china maybe we'll deal just with ourselves and. an empire does not like that no it does not that sounds a lot like colonialism to me. in fact if you look at the title of a book that i wrote in which it's not particularly about libya but no never got longer and the new scramble for africa we are. in the process of what you could

call a recon edition of africa and i'd like to mention very one of those things in the future really we have to start respecting national sovereignty respecting the will of the country to work independently you have a case of grooming a very small country but has decided to follow the international criminal court and to be independent to work in the bentley and the spokesman for the present a wider view to on a radio program i do in french said where we are. currently watching an attempt to recall not exactly. and that's what i think the story will story though want to become that as well so you could say that. the libyan the overthrowing the. initiative that ascii was

a major step in this. recall in addition it may not be the standing of the same. image that it did in the after eighteen eighty five when the scramble drafted and divided up but essentially that is what's going on. what do you feel as you know when you when you i want to ask two like where where does this you know what can we do basically you know we were seeing a lot of these. underlying problems. aside you know what could the u.s. and others do watching this program things like this to try to help you know bring that sovereignty back to africa and i think i think you're right i think we're all going to sit here and agree and say you know what at the end of the day. those countries should be allowed to reach their own ends and their own conclusions and where they need to go rather than having once again more colonialism put a put upon them what can viewers do to help you know kind of style me those efforts

even in their own you know i'm looking saying wow we've got the clintons and we have you know other people involved in this kind of thing we were politicians pushing one sort of agenda what can we do to kind of curb that if we want to allow advocates on the chart on the future. well among other things that what they could do is follow on what. president obama said libya was his worst mistake and i think he deserves a should get a lot more and more heavily than that from saying i made. you make a mistake then you've got to state where do we went out of the correctness well i would say the place to start is just see what. your market of the. said back. imagine ninety nine and what you said with very close consultation with nelson mandela now we all certainly love nelson mandela nolan for that we were very close and they had this pan-african vision one dream so that we got together from

north up and the principle was you be independent countries but independent economically you do have africans just in other words i would say the first thing you do is put an end to the international criminal court it's a case of it's a get african court it's essentially been that. if they want to go up to justice the people they have to go after are can then from you create a circle of ephraim and obama and hillary clinton they're the ones who created that they were the ones who created the situation in libya actually hurt so you know that i would say. has to be of aid to the economy and the question to that don't so-called donors countries and if you looked at if you carefully examine all the projects in the so-called coming from donor countries they are done to help the daughter and i'm story that just doesn't work that way you know

either one of the other you're going to if there's going to be a thing that has to be towards developing independent of these countries and not dependent which is has been the case for as long as i know i remember because in africa where there are european and american troops in mind of truly hasn't that definitely isn't you see the amount of bases and all about you know taking place there and have and again u.s. military presence and other other militaries around the world are also still there and that kind of like new colonialism i think we can all agree to but africa should be left to find its own future rob i want to talk about the issues facing africa today. i don't you're not going to hear much. this weekend a law was passed in russia by the federal council and by the state duma finally signed into law by russian president vladimir putin the law itself states that media receiving financial assistance from foreign states or organizations can be

recognized as foreign agents it also states that it will be handled on a case by case basis by the russian ministry of justice now cnn's brian stelter decided to use the event to spend yet another conspiracy theory involving trump and russia he claimed that twitter had revealed the deep the conspiracy between the two he cracked the case you see it seems that because trump tweeted about c.n.n. international within hours of the law being signed it must be proof of a conspiracy with buton otherwise how could he have known about it so his own as of the law and retaliation by the russian government was a big secret as if coming out of the blue it didn't fact because i know the facts actually do matter on november sixteenth twenty seventeen the russian ministry of justice informed all relevant members of the press and the public that quote in the near future the amendments to the legislation of the russian federation adopted by the state duma of the federal assembly of the russian federation on november fifteenth twenty seventeen according to which the possibility of recognizing

foreign media acting in the territory of russian federation by foreign agents can become effective and quote this was widely reported for some time here and in english language russian press and many other international outlets the timing of the tweets is no more significant than the fact that i have been on the air and so does putin u.s. state department spokesman spokesperson other new art stated expanding the foreign agents law to include media outlets opens the door to onerous requirements that could further siple freedom of speech and editorial independence in russia in their mind the use of foreign registrations act by the us government will have no adverse affects on freedom of speech as if americans have some magical ability to withstand threats to free speech. i mean unless you're on facebook of course the really sad part of this kind of rhetoric is that it just works to excuse trump's behavior by claiming that it's all russians fault and the russian phobia we are currently mired in and the damage is caused our entire world is noticed even by putin's most vocal

critics david satter a journalist who was banned by putin from entering russia told newsweek in november that the level of socially acceptable anti russians you know phobia in american and specially democratic party politics quote is all just politics and hypocrisy is the mother's milk of politics and you know it's i was i'm really tired of seeing the constant you know yelling and hollering from the left and the conspiracy theories and the finger pointing and all of these things talking about trump improving tied together trying to change the world is just a puppet no that kind of thing i'm also and i'll say this even being on our t.v. and i'll say it just to prove all the critics wrong that i actually disagree with the russian government's move in this i don't think that they should have passed a law you know and did the you know the take with iran i know i don't believe and i don't think that should happen because i think what they should have done is to come out publicly and said we believe the russian people can decipher the difference between foreign agent propaganda and i think smart enough to figure out

the differ exactly you know a lot smarter than our governments give us credit for that is to the people of russia and the people the united states government to tell us that we're all too stupid to think for ourselves. all right i think that is her story today i mean remember everyone in this world we are told we all love the month from now so i'll tell you all i love you i am i rolled into it and i was out with a lot of people are watching those hawks and have a great day and night everybody. understands . on is not so is not i could place is not good to country. children yes it is the minister they live bunch of among us well above the scum. of any of those but that's a distro that is. just over the co-chair. of the cult of

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michael flynn admits lying to the f.b.i. the reaction of russia gators and the liberal media is jubilation but why when submission in fact deflates the now popular conspiracy theory. graphic and disturbing video emerges showing the body of that yemen's former president ali abdullah saleh he is understood to have been killed by fighters after an alliance between them collapsed last week. president of the mali contradicts the french account of an airstrike in northern mali in october saying the killed soldiers. and another retraction from a major us media outlet over coverage of the scandal surrounding the white house and alleged collusion with russia. my colleague you know neil will join you for a look at today's top stories coming up next on our to international it is

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