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 feeds 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 but let's start watching the hawks. when you get the. real deal with. the bottom. like you that i got. with. this.

week so. welcome everyone to watch the hard science i robot and on top of the wallace so tell both of the national security state. has got a lot of harassment and abuse of women working there or do you are you shocked by these claims no theory and i can hear it again and again and again as i am every year it just builds up and i have to talk about it or we will go crazy but this is one of those things that just infuriates 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 for him. service because

in the ninety's it looked like a cesspool and apparently it still over the over two hundred women were 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 and twenty seven thousand in my opinion of a letter that they put declares that at the state department a female foreign service officer the officers enter at equal rates to their male colleagues yet with each subsequent promotion the numbers of foreign service women decline especially at senior levels and we're talking about is years the u.s. military which is the world's largest employer. already and i know you heard not the peace corps by the way it's not you know this is the word it's not

a charity it's not 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 while there is no growth 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 situations and countries talking time to tell women and other countries about gender equality and how they should run. it's not a good situation oh no 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 you know the security status here is as not has not been reined in leeds in years it's been completely out of control since nine eleven if not since debate john kennedy got killed and you know it's just been raging enraged. enraging and one of the aspects of that

when you're running this empire you know this invisible empire 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 going to talk about even just rank and file soldiers everybody's a human being they all make mistakes understand that but robert ingold 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 productively 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 work out you know all they all have sexual harassment policy everyone is 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 as you know journalists and activists can look at that stuff also mandatory regular training for all employees mansouri exit interviews for all women you know even 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 out men and women who need to be in a different environment is nuts. a bosnian war crimes convict is dead

after charging back a vial of poison during his appeal hearing at the united nations tribunals in the hague the former bosnian croat general drank the substance twenty seconds after substance seconds after his twenty year sentence was upheld with television cameras rolling artie's 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 hay 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 such as 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 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 you cause 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 with 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 and its beams to be epidemic on the creation and the bosnian muslims side the serbs have 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 along. 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 and now when it comes to this we're going to see hopefully in the near future they're going to say hey you know what yeah we did some bad things too as it stands right now they're playing victim so who exactly is this that is just a short explanation of what what he was accused of and what this actually relates to because i think now it's so far gone from the bosnian conflict that a lot of people don't even understand what what's going on i'll break it down for you this guy is actually an interesting character and listen he was a writer he was a film director of the t.v.

director he was well known in the former yugoslavia he was an artist really ended then he became a general for they they all as they call it in those parts of the world the commander for the defense forces in bosnia now we have a little mouth for you and this is what the christians tried to do at the beginning of this war so it's late one nine hundred ninety three that there's this entity that was this little republican called the republic of china and he was a part of that he was a pretty much meta general right off the bat he was in some a couple of battles but then the crimes came into play now you can't say that this guy was directly involved in the crimes he wasn't a guy going around murdering people like a leather a lot of other people were doing but he was in the high command and he didn't do some things that he was supposed to do so for example back in ninety three. a bunch of soldiers of bosnian croat soldiers rounded up some muslims that they were going to kill he did not stop that from happening so the those who are a part of his charges or you also fail to act on information that murders were

about to happen at the hands of his soldiers and that the his oldest were going to attack international peacekeeping forces so none of the above he did not react also the most are bridge which is a bridge that is really its iconic it's something that most everybody has seen in a picture at one point or another and bridge that. it was bombed by his force forces it was not right down it's been rebuilt since but this is an ancient bridge and again he did 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 in korea serbia and bosnia from your two to one who was a president there signed off on that and there went their little republic so if a lion 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 are still walking the streets that never went to the hague

even if you come here to canada i bet you'll find a war criminal or two that somehow snuck into this country probably into the states as well and these people will never be in front of a courts especially since this is courts closing down very soon and that's the next question i've got to ask is you know has this tribunals you know been successful in bringing people to justice got a little under a minute left you know what are they like you mentioned earlier all sides have problems about thirty seconds how the how how the but a successful look one hundred sixty one people have been brought to that court go somewhere and indicted somewhere not people say that was very heavily stacked up against the serbs more serbs than anybody else were brought there but then you have this guys like the like this person that there might have been there's a lot of scapegoats there are a lot of people got away with murder that were heroes in the in some nationalist eyes and that somehow walked away guys like this when that didn't have his head necessarily on a knife they paid the ultimate price so a did it work did it not work it's been around since one thousand nine hundred ninety three a lot of disappointed people in the big in the big picture and now it's ended

december thirty first of this year the courts gone wild horse they want to find out how he got that poison and so that's the next case they have to have sex to veil of it's thank you so much for bringing us an update on that very bizarre interesting story coming out of the hague thank you. as a red card watchers over get to let us know what you think of the topics of coverage of facebook and twitter see our full. shows that r t dot com coming up we talk the new call ization of africa with journalist and author robin and then c.n.n. versus trump takes yet another turn in the russian conspiracy theories state to the watchable. show seemed wrong. but old rules just don't hold. me to

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when nato led by expert interventionist barack obama and hillary clinton led the humanitarian mission to assist the arab spring movement in 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 target process practice for nato or 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 affectively 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 it for answers 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 to 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 in his policy and i think if we're looking for the future just policy was. any aid 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. 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 don't those countries like france don't want to give up that easily give up you. united states 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 that an empire does not like that you know 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 recall in addition 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 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 independently 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 just an issue of the market after it 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 hands on their own conclusions and where they need to go rather than having once again more colonialism 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 libby was his worst mistake and i think he deserves to get a lot more and more heavily than are probably saying i made. you make a mistake then you've got to say or 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 say we love nelson mandela no and for that we were very close and they had this african vision one dream so that we got together from north and the principle was. the independent country but independent economically you do have africans just in other words i would say the first thing we do is put an end to the international criminal court it's a case of i read it together 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 are i would say. any aid has to be of aid to the economy in the country it is destined and not an aid to the don't so-called donors countries and if you looked at if you're carefully examined all the projects in the so-called coming from donor countries they are done to help the donor countries own economies and i'm story that just doesn't work that way that you know either one of the other you're going to if there's going to be a pain then it has to be towards developing economic independence of these countries and not dependent which is has been the case for as long as i know i remember. so did your three points one is justice you said african justice both are going to be going to me i now feel secure everything security you start

counting and i know i lost count of the. different places in africa where there are european american troops in mind of truly is a bit definitely is a new see the about a bases and all of you have taken place there and again u.s. military presence and other other militaries were aboard also still you know there are that kind of new colonialism i think we could all agree to work or should be left to find its own future rather i want to thank you so much for coming on today and talking about this with us and look forward to having you on again them in the future to talk about the issues facing africa today. thanks very much and it's an image that. 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 send 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 putin otherwise how could he have no money about it stows own as if the law in 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 two thousand and 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 fifth. twenty seventeen according to which the possibility of recognizing foreign media acting in the territory of russian federation by foreign agents can become a factor 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 stifle 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 effect on freedom of speech as if americans have some magical ability to withstand threats to free speech i mean unless they'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 russia's fault and the russian phobia we are currently mired in and the damage it has 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 and

november that the level of socially acceptable anti russians you know phobia in american is specially democratic party politics quote is all just politics and hypocrisy is the mother's milk of politics and what do 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 of the finger pointing and all of these things talking about trump improving tied together trying to change the world is just a puppet and all that kind of thing i'm also know i'll say this even being on our do you know syria just to prove all the critics wrong that i actually disagree with the russian government's move so i don't think that they should have passed a law you know and did the you know the when it's iran iraq and iran i don't believe in the know they're going to have a because i think what they should have done is to come out publicly. we believe the russian people can decipher the difference between foreign agent propaganda and i've heard from large enough to figure out the bit for exactly you know are a lot smarter than our governments give us credit for that is to the people of

russia and the people of the united states stop letting government tell us that we're all too stupid to think for ourselves. or us a better person over the day i don't remember everyone in this world we are not told we love them oh i'm not so i'll tell you all i love you oh i rolled in and i'm top of the wall people are watching those hawks and have a great day but. the wealth concentration the bureaucratic concentration is sapping the economic vitality from this entrepreneurial nation called america and the machinations and the costs associated their way of keeping the serious prison population in place are draining money away from all aspects of society and you've got the problems that you would normally associate with the ghetto like people nodding out in the

middle of the day in the middle of the street. with manufactured consent to stoop to public will. when the right wing closest to protect themselves. with the crime and merry go round to listen to the wimps and. the time we can all middle of the room sick. really. really really need to. die and is getting international recognition with the help of israel. at least in the world of zoos i'm in billfish was dismissive to do you like him this isn't my cup of tea is going up local study hall maybe

a bit. old shot so about. the only palestinians is who gets the most help from his jerusalem counterparts i don't think there's some of those who in the world under the oak vision of not only could give us. and the earth does all of us not just to have this lady of the muscle that you had i not going to compete in the doesn't seem to do more most also don't piss off. whenever you buy a russian product you're not just getting excellent quality. but a little bit of function so this will.

help. the russian ministry of justice placed the american media outlets on a foreign agents during a move made by the us regarding america. also ahead this hour the former yemeni president is killed by rebel fighters close to the capital some finding in the country intensifies the united nations is now calling on all sides to and hostilities. on d. day for team rochelle's the international olympic committee prepares to give its verdict on whether the country can compete at the twenty eighteen winter games but moscow questions the political nature of the doping investigation. i don't pretend to stumble.