it is true north korea that to be entirely destroyed i'm not sure south korea would be even though it would suffer great devastation so you talk about total destruction as opposed to very serious harm in south korea i suppose in that sense the north has gained more but look for south korea north korea china russia japan the united states if we can keep on to this track it would be a big win for everybody the latest talks followed months of escalation in rhetoric and saber rattling between north korea and the us however the south korean president says donald trump deserves credit for making the talks possible so let's take a quick look back at the kind of diplomacy that according to trump himself eventually led to this breakthrough dialogue. totally destroying north korea that's called the military option the nuclear and ballistic missile programs of that regime require a determined response. little rocket man

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blue and welcome to cross talk we're all things are considered i'm peter lavelle a cursory glance at the media environment could easily give you the impression that the vast majority of journalists studied psychology at university so many are convinced donald trump is not mentally fit to be president or the same journalist suffering from trump derangement syndrome. crosstalk in the media i'm joined by my guests the mts we're going new york he is a conservative political commentator in bloomington indiana. kevin howley he is a professor of media studies and duval university and author of drones media discourse and the public imagination i love that title and in west palm beach we cross to dr jean allowed in she is a psychology expert and host of america trends with dr gina ok crosstalk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want i always appreciate it kevin let me go to you first here is the media suffering from trumped arrangement syndrome

because i did go through the things that we've had to deal with i mean i actually made up a list here you know from pussy hat marches to the comi stuff to steal dossier and its contents we have the motor investigation we have a shady lawyer don don jr being just a shady one then we have these long distance experts determining the mental health of the president of the united states and we can go on and there's a lot more to the media goes bonkers so are the media bonkers go ahead kevin. nothing new under the sun in many respects we've seen this before we can go back to any number of instances think about the clinton impeachment and how that became a national obsession over the o.j. simpson trial what we're seeing here i think is an application and intensification of a tendency that's been part of the media sort of the court of the d.n.a. of the corporate media for many years now ok steve but i do think it is different

because they're trying to unseat this president without any due cause and you know you know i'm a lay person will talk to jean in a second she has more expertise in this here but when i see people going on and c.n.n. an embassy in d.c. saying the president of states is insane and should be reviewed reviewed removed from office that's going too far i don't think anybody said bill clinton was insane ok he had a problem with his ip or not his mental health go ahead steve. no i mean this to me this is unprecedented it's a continuation of bush derangement syndrome notice it skips democratic presidents they hated bush they said all kinds of disrespectful things against him but not to this extent i mean i've talked to people like you know in the nixon white house who said they hated nixon but they've never seen anything like this what the media is doing now is more dangerous than anything they have done because they're telling the world you know they're so worried about donald trump's tweets they're telling

the world every single day and of course it's not true that our president is mentally incapacitated unable to perform his duties and that we're very very weak at this point and that we have a lot of enemies out there so they think they're playing this little game to get rid of the president and throwing journalism aside but they're actually doing severe horror to our country and i would say to journalism itself and we'll talk about that a little bit later jeanne let me go to uni west palm beach i mean you're you're a professional mental mental health i mean how do you react to seeing journalists on the on the cable stations talking about the health level of the president of the united states must be quite shocking for you because you are an expert was interesting because i don't think that they would diagnose the president you know without ever even talking to him in most cases or having a chance to speak with him clinically and so it really is it really does say a lot more honestly about their own obsession with overturning an american election

i mean that's what this really comes down to they really just want to make this whole thing go away they're not happy with the election result so they'll try everything they can to negate it and it says a lot more about their mental steadiness if you will than it does his if you look at the fact that he has functioned so amazingly well even despite all of the constant barrage of hate coming at him from the media and from the establishment and even some. fied says that he is a pretty mentally fit guy to be able to withstand all that and to be so productive you know kevin i was looking at some of the exit observe michael wolf's book i don't want to pay for it we can you explain it on online for free. they did more good there and i looked through some of the excerpts there and you know this is just trash ok i can't believe the lot of the things that he's writing there's no cooperation there the reason why i mention it and you know who cares about the

national enquirer ok but again it's polled on to the networks and they and the cable stations confirming their prejudice their blind hatred and it hurts the country it hurts journalism and i think gina just brought up a really good point i mean i've never seen anyone take so much pressure you know day in and day out and he's still going on i mean i find that actually quite remarkable not but i'm not saying i agree with everything he says or tweets i mean exasperated by a lot by a lot of it's like a lot of other people go ahead kevin. yeah couple things i think we have to again take a little historical perspective here of partisan press of the eighteen hundreds which is you know. vice of in ways that are very reminiscent of what we're seeing today so again i don't think that it helps to suggest that this is somehow an anomaly i think this has historical precedent particularly when you have a very partisan press whether it was back in the days of abraham lincoln or in

contemporary america as far as taking that pressure quite well i think that is definitely debatable ok it strikes me and i'm not alone on this right it strikes me that there are many instances where he seems. particularly. you know rattled by any sort of criticism and tweets storms are you know frankly embarrassing and so you have the president ited states lashing out at critics in ways that. undermines the legitimacy of the presidency now i'm not a psychologist so i'm not going to i don't know if you have sure at all i don't think that's true at all. well again here we need to isolate you you may not like go ahead jump if you've ever had we've never had a. i think charles anyway the that's ok look the fact of the matter is this president took the press to task from day one he told it

like it is he was the only person who could beat hillary clinton because he was the only person who would stand up there and scold the press and scold us or tractors and call them out for what they are that's what the people who voted for and love about him the fact that he tweets out these things there's nothing wrong with that it doesn't diminish the presidency it's who we is he's not a politician and people have to get used to that they never will and that's too darn bad he's going to i always wish and you're right i absolutely agree with that and that's that i think is part of the problem i mean he is in many ways a tabloid creature yet but it sure but at the same time it's ok lead to ok now we have to be back now we have just a creature. that we have yes that's true now we have symmetry because he's an anomalous president and i would say we have an anomalous media gina jump in you know all of these mistakes all of these a bad reporting that we've seen and never never a back story or a you know split nation you know the last one with don jr and the e-mails you know

the dates were wrong c.n.n. did receive the a.b.c. . they were good they were very good and they were and they held accountable for ok so so if i can just jump in here gene are going to journal this. this is a president who has decreased black unemployment to an all time low this is the president who has black housing more black families have houses than ever before certainly during the obama presidency who was supposed to be the so-called black president because he likes to chop people up and divide of that way this president is the president of all people he said he wants all people to be as rich as him and yet where is the heralding of that in the media he is that these declare january human trafficking month is slavery not an issue we can all agree on where is that. the media i mean you can see the bias written all over them and for anyone who wants to argue that his tweets are somehow not presidential that's how he

communicates his message because he has no other way since the press won't do it and we know that he's the counter puncher and you know what americans laid out here we are so tired of having a president that you know their hand up for us to the rest of the world and put america first this is not only this is not only not diminishing the presidency this is the president going forward steve do you want to jump in there before we go to the break peter that they. just they're putting this vote wolf character out there who admits half my book is inaccurate when people like ed klein and conservative authors can't buy a ticket to any of the shows when they write a book critical of hillary or obama their ignore their mocked as as you know jokes and inaccurate but but this well guy he's all over the place the double standard is just horrific ok kevin you know i think we all saw the segment with steven miller and jake jake tapper on c.n.n.

i mean you know we have steven miller he's invited on his program to talk about talk about what it was going on in camp david with the g.o.p. officials the weekend before he was asked to come on and talk policy i watched the tape jake tapper did not want to talk about policy geno does jeana just mention facts ok where is c.n.n. when talking about facts that was an ambush he was very rude jake tapper was very unprofessional go ahead that's the bias that i'm talking about. well again i think it's i think what you're seeing is a lot of corporate channels are chasing this story particularly the russia gate story you know whether or not that's a legitimate investigation not that remains to be seen what we need to keep in mind is that there are some substantive questions about this presidency. i think in terms of his twitter feed alone i think it would be. corporate media to

ignore that for a time in fact i'd like to see twitter suspend his account because he's breaking user agreement oh my god yes but let's get back to the let's go back here to me i think. we're we're all chasing this same ok no wow could have a conversation but we were all chasing this saying yes it's scandalous i asked for a conversation right now let's tone it down a little bit because i'm worried what one size are you can use the same even talking to people is do you want to do ricky out in life are you directing that to the president the united states or the liberal media you want to censor the hat in your are going to go along the shore and break and after that short break we'll continue our discussion on the media stay with our team.

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mainstream media has met its maker. welcome back to cross like we're all things considered i'm peter letterman you were discussing trump and the media. ok let me go back to west palm beach where it's probably the warmest on this program gina you know i consider myself a midwesterner i grew up in my childhood in colorado so i know that the heartland you know and you know we can talk about all of the intricacies of the campaign who did it who did it did it right who did it wrong how much money was paid but you know it was really the deplorable statement and i think that really brought home to

the voters you know who they are the voters in this in the country and where they stand in the eyes of the media because i still contend that the media elected donald trump because they took they have contempt for the public the media has absolute contempt for the public and donald trump stood up for them i mean again i'm not going to carry water for the president as it's a very complicated man and he's done and said things that i really don't like ok but the fact of the matter is he the way that the media treated him actually helped him and i and the media continues to help him because of the way they're back their bad treatment of him in the end and in the heartland they feel it every single day go ahead gina. yeah that the trump russia conspiracy theory that they just cannot seem to let go of it is is helping him every single day that that's still in the news because it is going to come out mark my words i said it right here and i

promise you it is going to come out that the only collusion that took place was on the democrats' side we will see this and all of the people who have been beating this drum so relentlessly for so long are going to look like fools that they are and furthermore it's going to expose them the more that they talk about him being insane or anything other than policy as you said earlier the more they talk about how he shouldn't tweet or how he's not mentally fit or any of those things the more it exposes them their lack of mental fitness their collusion and their own problems within their party the bottom line is they don't have policy issues to run on they don't have candidates unless it's oprah and even she has yet to determine as anything viable and so it just really they have themselves in a really bad place and they're just spare is what is showing you know kevin you know one one one couldn't you know call the president the united states deplorable i mean now we know that there are high officials at the f.b.i.

calling the president of the united states a. food in saying you know what that's all fine that's all your opinion and i think people have a right to say that here but you know in the media hold itself to a higher bar because it's not getting them anywhere they're the people have very little regard and trust in the news right now c.n.n. goes from one blunder to another and brushes it off like move on we don't take any responsibility so i wonder who has to be held up to a higher bar i mean all these sophisticated people on the coasts are better than donald trump they don't show it on a daily basis go ahead ken. well again i think we need to put this in a larger perspective. journalist make mistakes oftentimes usually they they they own up to it c.n.n. c.b.s. n.b.c. made. a mistake last week and they weren't held they weren't held

accountable and they weren't holding themselves accountable that's that's a problem i agree one hundred percent on that score. but to suggest that the news media should take an adversarial position to people in positions of power and authority is to give way to authoritarianism and this is not the way we need to conduct or what i want you to do have how come i don't hold a press that's not afraid to ask tough questions and to hold people who listen to our countable ok i don't know that. they have like this i mean are well suited to do that ok i mean this gets down to it i'll dress this is how i let me hang on here let me see even just this to both of you stephen do you know here i mean what happened to the idea of a loyal opposition because this the media has abandoned that ok asking hard questions is fine oh for eight years barack obama was never asked one hard question u.k. not one he was given a complete free pass atelier you know and i kevin is right i mean this should be

adversarial but the they treat him is the enemy ok that is very different than the how they treated like nixon or even bush go ahead steve. look they said nothing to hillary about they about the women for years and years and years that accuse bill clinton and then how hillary help treat them and that never would have been an issue today if hillary had won you're absolutely right look barack obama stood by and watched putin take crimea he stood by and he watched putin go into syria he stood by and watched you know uranium one go to putin he stood by and he did nothing. nearly as much as he could have done when it came to cyber security with russia and he said on the hot mike tell vladimir i'll have more leeway after the election yet it's trump who is the pool it's trump who is in bed with putin that's because we don't have an adversarial media when it comes to democrats we just plain

don't because they have democrats. they're all democrats are there and we go to jeanne i mean most people working with mueller are democrats too and gave the democratic candidates ok go ahead gina. yes you're absolutely right and that's why that's why this president is such a threat because he has come in and said he's going to clean house and as the elite who have enjoyed their very luxurious cushy lifestyles their access to the white house right the bureaucrats extend beyond the media as part of those in choying that whole cushy lifestyle and so that's when the when the president came along and said he was going to drain the swamp you couldn't say more paralyzing frightening words to the elite establishment in washington d.c. than those and that goes all the way to both coasts to the banking industry to you know to wear that to the real money in the united states and that's why as you mentioned early in the conversation they want to deal in fact if they could just

make the electoral college go away it's of the only votes that count where those in the financial centers on the coasts and just overlook the heartland altogether they would do it in a heartbeat because that would mean they could get away with the corruption that this president is cleaning up. the eternal college is really interesting i did say to our viewers here if they get rid of the electoral college then we have to get rid of california washington and oregon ok and that'll create a little bit of a bounce there or else it'll be it will be democrat forever ok just these little archipelagos on the east and west coast will that dominate the country's politics or you know kevin you know with what does the media have to do to get its credibility back because as we've pointed out on this program so many gaffes. or is it just a business model interest built in right now i mean you write these trashy salacious stories and you get hits and eyeballs and you know that's your true model i mean you know that there's there's nothing wrong with making money for your shareholders

but i thought journalism was how to hire cars like informing people go ahead. well want to take on a i think we need to start with trying to avoid taking on very difficult complex nuanced questions and doing it in such a simple minded fashion you know and i think that's a large part of what's going on you know. to take just one example the whole notion of trump coming in to drain the swamp if you look at the man's cabinet if you look at his policies at the look at what he's done over the past year clearly this is a textbook example of crony capitalism there's no such thing as draining the swamp he's what he's done is he's putting people people in positions of power to dismantle the government to dismantle regulations and to invite you know take the tax package that just passed this is a giant giveaway this has very little to do with the middle class and certainly nothing to do with working class to get taxpayers to give away this gift to the moneyed class ok what do you say that if. you are not

overwhelming that had fair jena go ahead jump in go ahead. yeah i his words don't even make sense to most people normal deplorable types like me out there when he says that he's eliminated regulations that is the limit needing government that is quintessentially draining the swamp when he says that he's eliminated whole vast parts of departments making government smaller is bringing it closer to the people that was the intention of the founders of our constitution and the president is restoring that in record time with more than eighty accomplishments in his first year and repealing more than eleven of obama's rule by even act and he is eliminating this one it's systematic and you know you can say that his his cabinet is comprised of i mean you can label people have you want but the the actions speak

a lot louder than the words my friend ok well you know steve i mean you're an actor this is speaking speaking quite loudly in terms of whether words whether it's environmental policy or whether it's. tax policy. any suggestion that this is nothing more than a handout to the well to do is wishful thinking ok well we're getting out we're going into the weeds here ok as i want to talk about the media so we have two more minutes in iowa steve i mean the problem is is that the media is so damn elitist in the end and they cannot they cannot see outside of their ideological bubble they simply can't comprehend how other people live ok and you know donald trump like him or hate him he traveled the country back and forth back and forth even went up to the blue the blue wall no wonder it fell ok he saw how the american people live this is one of the things that i i admire him for actually getting his hands dirty

and actually talking to people in that the democrats don't have a message they don't they're not connected with the people this one man is i don't know about the g.o.p. one minute left go ahead steve. yeah peter the media doesn't care they're in their elitist bubble and their purpose is to ruin the presidency of donald trump and them in the meantime it's to get the congress back in the hands of the democrats and the first thing they'll do is impeach the president that is there a whole purpose when you have the s.p.n. anchors calling the president f. and stupid and when you have. on two separate occasions saying over and over in the same separate shows the president's a b.s. artist but he says the work and nothing happens and there's many examples of that throughout the media they have a goal they don't care about middle america they don't care about anything their management is on board they're on board room the presidency of donald trump at all costs to twenty seconds go ahead i chose to support this president when i saw him stay after a very early on in the campaign while all the other fifteen republican candidates

ducked out after they talked to the alphabet soup media i watched this president stay for two hours and answer questions from every little citizen journalist blogger that's how much he cares about the people that haven't had a voice in america including the low level media. we've totally run out of time many thanks to my guests in new york bloomington and in west palm beach and thanks to our viewers for watching us here don't you see you next on and remember crosstalk. in the heart of the swiss alps this is a place probably more secretive than the pentagon more mysterious than the cia and better guarded than for knox swiss customs are here permanently all the site is controlled by them and they impose the opening times. opposite it was abducted from

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minister after leaks recording involving his son for just spend two minutes in new york who helped push through a twenty billion dollars deal the benefit of a gas tight. a warm welcome you're watching us in international broadcasting live from the russian capital and karen good to have you with us i could or is pushing to resolve the case of wiki leaks editor julian songs he's been holed up in the country's london embassy for more than five years now and faces a rest if he leaves now ecuador's foreign minister says his country may seek outside help lower smith joins us live now with all the latest details on this the so you can you tell us more about what ecuador is saying. so the ecuadorian foreign minister has come out and called the situation of ourselves living in the embassy

here in london unsustainable and for the first time she raised the possibility of as you say getting an outside help mediation as a way out she is with it we are not the person can't live in those conditions. we're considering the option of mediation. they don't have that but that could be done virus that country or individual. no solution is possible without international corporations or without that of the u.k. which has expressed interest in finding one. in terms of the u.k. expressing interest in finding a way out the government here has reacted and it's pretty awesome suede says that the government of ecuador knows that the way to resolve this issue is to have julian assange as leave the embassy and face justice for their part songs his legal team have welcomed this new initiative they're saying if the u.k.

wishes to show that it's a nation that respects its human rights obligations and its commitments to the united nations then it should. walk free and when they refer to the united nations that talking to about a two thousand and sixteen ruling by the organization that was being held in detention meanwhile the media here is speculating that what ecuador really wants is to push out of the embassy to get rid of him they are talking about an incident where a source clash with the ecuadorian president because of course his presence in the embassy has not always been a very conducive to their working environment in september last year he tweeted in support of the catalan separatist movement in spain of course at code or our allies of spain and the ecuadorian president was quite angered by that he tweeted that he should stay out of commenting on the issues of ecuador's allies i phones of course didn't take that lying down here he is if president marina wants to get my

reporting on human rights abuses and speed he should say so explicitly together with a legal basis. there are other issues at play here as well several days ago the ecuadorian foreign minister also said that our soldiers' health situation is very delicate staying inside for five and a half years will do that to a person she added that he is receiving medical help but there is only a certain amount of help that he can receive from inside the embassy he really needs to go to a hospital and that's something that's been said about him for quite some time now she reconfirm though that ecuador is guaranteeing his protection he has been living in the embassy in knightsbridge here in london for five and a half years now since two thousand and twelve and there have been several key moments during that time not to the least of which was last year when swedish prosecutors said that they were dropping investigation into rape allegations that he had faced people thought possibly that he would then be able to leave the

embassy but the police here reiterated that if he does set foot outside the embassy he will be arrested for being in breach of his original bail conditions and wiki leaks has always voiced fears that he would then be requested for extradition by the united states so at this moment he still lives in a small office inside the ecuadorian embassy which is being converted into rudimentary living quarters several months ago ecuador and officials said that they were going to call on the u.k. to guarantee him safe passage to ecuador but that's something that the u.k. as we just heard doesn't seem to be any closer to doing so for now despite this little bit of movement on his fate still hangs very much in the balance and it's very unclear who or which country might step forward and offer to be that mediator there is with that speaking to us live from london thanks for those details were. well meanwhile five a week now followers of the wiki leaks editor have been left scratching their heads over a cryptic new year message left on twitter a song posted

a seemingly indecipherable code and a link to a popular rap song since then he's remained silent online is generated debate about what the tweet could actually me.

so since that tweet a song hasn't posted anything else although he has made a small change to his account adding a small firms time and moji to his name. to his ear has been indulged in violent protests with thousands rallying against rising prices unemployment and tax hikes police used tear gas to disperse protesters who burns tires and hurled stones with at least one protester reportedly killed there on the rest of up to around the same time as the demonstrations in iran but went largely unnoticed artie's paula slayer has more. well these protests intern is here started after the new year and they came in reaction to the two new zealand government introducing a new budget plan for two thousand and eight that included amongst other things

a rise in fuel prices and tax hikes the response from the trinity and street was one of anger and what we've seen is protests taking place in several dozen cities around the country with us out there one person has been killed and several people have been injured now it is familiar to protests happening in another country namely iran what you're saying we have here are two countries with protests taking place on the street by people who are unhappy with the economic situation. the root of it is just a canard it's the problem of youth unemployment i personally haven't been able to find a job for a long time but if people have a job they don't have any problem with the government about the demands of the following suspend the twenty eighteen finance law returned to the original prices of goods and high of one member from every poor family these are in short. realizing petrol prices this time is huge we have a lot of privilege and have to pay a lot of fines it's only acceptable that we pay for this government's mistakes. but

we are protesting here because of how bryce's and employment we were the growth in these and we have been subjected to violence by security agents now the two mr prime minister has said that there is no place for violence and the sentiments echo the words that were used by iran's leader what happened yesterday is a violation of the law since a state of emergency has been declared in tunisia these protests are the result of operations that aim to review social unrest that we are a free nation and according to the constitution and human rights the people are absolutely free to criticize the government and even protest with the. this should be in such a way as to aim to improve the situation in the country we the government will definitely not tolerate some protesters who want to destroy public property will disrupt public discipline and create turmoil in society western leaders for example

the french president are crying and the e.u. highway present mahoney were quick to condemn the ukrainian protests even have the american president donald trump calling for regime change iran is failing at every level despite the terrible deal made with them by the bammer ministration the great iranian people have been repressed for many years they are hungry for food and for freedom along with human rights the wealth of iran is being looted time for change but when it comes to the current potest that are taking place in tunisia while here they've kept mum and now it might be that two lives here was the first country back in two thousand and eleven at the start of the arab spring to ask a dictator in a move that was widely akun by the western world as being one of democratic change but since then there have been no this government in place intern israel all of whom have been unable to get a handle on the economic situation the question of course is whether or not we'll

see these cause for vision change and condemnation and criticism against tunisia like we've seen for example against when sociology professor. says that the different approaches to the similar protests in tunisia and iran could be explained by the fact one of these countries is viewed as an enemy. is on the move three it's a small country not many people know about the inside american. society. who many in america have been the. major obstacle for american policy since its new pollution month in seventy nine this all to you on the very happy to look at any small detail that happens in a small port this inflicted look as if this is the end of the regime so it is really the front porch covering. the port the totally different. pressure is mounting on the israeli prime minister benjamin

netanyahu after a controversial recording involving his son was leaked to the press the prime minister's lawyers reportedly tried to prevent the broadcast of the tape but nonetheless it still made it to air on israeli television. hala forgive me it. was half my sky. because. i was unified. as i was doing others and i was just. going to go marching in that recording reportedly made in twenty fifteen ya it could be heard chanting to the son of israeli gas tycoon coby my man outside a strip club cutting my money is a shareholder at a gas company that allegedly benefited from a controversial twenty fifteen or i'm not sure gas drilling rights legislation pushed by netanyahu government concerns to massive newly discovered gas fields off

israel's coast it essentially gave corporations control over the development of the deposits with the government arguing it would stimulate investment however critics slams the proposal as corrupt giving too much power to corporations and demanded nationalization of the deposit. following the release of the controversial video yaya netanyahu denied any actual knowledge of the proposals details saying his conversation was nothing more than a joke under the influence of alcohol. i regret the remarks and apologize if anyone was hurt by them in addition the things i said to my mom were a dumb joke and joking around with him as anyone could sell prime minister netanyahu is already being investigated in two separate corruption cases they only gave receiving bribes and negotiating favorable media coverage the prime minister strongly denies all accusations but in the meantime he's pushing for

a special immunity law which could allow him to avoid prosecution we discuss the latest controversy surrounding the netanyahu family with regional experts. it looks really bad for the prime minister and it doesn't look like you know someone who wants to be a leader of a country to have his son running around in a government vehicle doing things you know don't look so complimentary and is not the kind of why the prime minister would want to do whether it's a danger to the prime minister or undermines no i mean it's a self undermining thing and the reason he did it is because it looks bad but you know in a democratic country and as long as. he's living in the prime minister's residence i may have to answer some questions this is not the first case that we're speaking about corruption in the family of binyamin netanyahu as the prime minister of israel for these really is it's may lead to draw all of confidence and that's the

main threat for binyamin netanyahu that's why they're trying as a family to play with words showing that it's not. a fact but it was just a matter of a guy who was hanging around with his friends and he was just chatting about different things but this is not the matter of fact. the german army is recruiting an increasing number of minors according to figures from the country's defense ministry over two thousand teenagers are now volunteering for germany's armed forces that's three times more than six years ago germany is one of the few countries worldwide that allows under eighteen's to volunteer but only in a non-combat role teenagers can apply if they are seventeen and have parental consent the german military is currently conducting a recruitment drive sending officers to give talks in schools across the country the campaign also features an online reality show.

excuse. me. the program follows army recruits for twelve weeks that is one of germany's most popular online projects however its role in making the military more attractive to young people has drawn criticism the united nations has concerns that they recruit and drive specifically targets children the german army has defended its methods insisting that the training is done under strict supervision well earlier we spoke to a regional m.p. from germany's left party martin doul he's against the idea of focusing on under eighteen's on the recruitment had been a huge campaigns in schools even in kindergartens. to.

make the army more attractive to young people there have been some schools who have been working together with the army to put the young students in some kind of camp we support some initiatives called don't corner bundeswehr for example which say that's where that education should take place without a qualm this where the people who are under age to they shouldn't be to. get into the army the united nation already in two thousand and fourteen. the german government to stop this and erase the h. of soldiers i think this is a problem. but the main problem is if you do a foreign culture policy with this which is based on dialogue you don't need such a strong army all so many soldiers i think that is the main problem behind it. the b.b.c. is being accused of censorship by its own stuff we have all the details for you

after the short break. the story goes that we're seeing a real geopolitical impact a bit going on a g. twenty country g seven countries japan actually spending power the culture the rise

of big going in the millions of people who are buying it in japan the multi billion dollars that they have appreciated in value is causing a genuine fact in their economy and this is going to be the year twenty eighteen where big point the currencies have the geopolitical implements. welcome back north korea and south korea have held their first official talks in over two years the negotiations took place in the demilitarized zone between the two countries the two sides agreed on the participation of north korean athletes in the south korean a lympics they also discussed the potential reunification of families separated by the korean war and in a significant breakthrough the two koreas agreed on talks between oh me officials in order to avoid dangerous military incidents. so that you have two points of view one is that buying time to perfect military capability the nuclear capability the

other is that instead of comfort enough no there except to the nuclear power they can then become acting as a normal state and start negotiating with other states can do alone as one north korea has won the democratic people's republic of korea as one no i think this is very very welcome news that there is a constructive dialogue going on between the two koreas and i hope something comes up and i mean that when all said and done the political arrangements on the peninsula between the two countries are paramount here and if they're talking i think that leaves a lot less room for other countries notably the united states to complain about things i think really everyone benefits here it's very hard to say who benefits most i suppose in one sense it is north korea because if there were a new war on the korean peninsula it is true north korea that to be entirely destroyed i'm not sure south korea would be even though it would suffer great devastation so if you talk about total destruction as opposed to very serious harm

in south korea i suppose in that sense the north has gained more but look for south korea north korea china russia japan the united states if we can keep on to this track it would be a big win for everybody and i just talked follow months of escalation and rhetoric and faber rattling between north korea and the u.s. however south korean president says donald trump deserves credit for making the talks possible let's take a quick look back at the kind of diplomacy bounce according to trump himself eventually led to dialogue. totally destroyed during that call the military option the nuclear and ballistic missile programs of that regime require a determined response. little rocket man is a sick puppy. a lot of people said

a lot of people have written that without my rhetoric and without my tough stance and such a stance i mean this is this is what has to be done if it has to be done that they wouldn't be talking about olympics that they wouldn't be talking right. the b.b.c. is being accused of says the ship by its own staff some claim they have been prevented from talking about equal pay following the resignation of the b.b.c.'s china editor of alleged salary discrimination carry gracie work to the b.b.c. for thirty years and open less as she accused the network of managing a secretive and illegal salary system however the residents over her case met unexpected stumbling blocks as polly boyko explains. after news of this story broke the head of news at the b.b.c. center polite reminder to all the staff saying that because of impartiality rules

no one would be able to report on the story if they had expressed a view on it but the problem is that plenty of women at the b.b.c. have to eat their solidarity with carry gracey over this issue and they are now accusing the b.b.c. of trying to keep them quiet and of trying to censor them the rules of also resulted in a situation whereby effectively because of this you've got the story being reported almost exclusively by men now the b.b.c. won't comment on the controversy however they have referred us back to their guidelines take a listen to what they have to say when dealing with controversial subjects concerning the b.b.c. your reporting must remain julie impose sure as well as accurate we need to ensure the b.b.c. is impartiality is not brought into question and presenters all reporters are not exposed to potential conflicts of interest the b.b.c. might have to get used to reporting on itself or to referring us back to those

guidelines because this looks like an issue that isn't going away and there are likely to be more high profile resignations over this issue of gender pay inequality and we discussed the issue with independent journalist martin somers. i think with b.b.c. in particular because it is a public service broadcaster they've got a to show that they're being fair about pay and be the go to show that they're being open about how these decisions are taken and i suppose i would argue that frankly they should let people have their opinions and just say the b.b.c. you know except some people with different opinions about this even when the b.b.c. is the center of the controversy it's going to be a tricky one whatever happens i think by her resignation what she the she has done is brought all this into the open and no doubt the debate will continue. hell is other people especially on twitter which might be why the devil has taken

an interest with the church of satan i count fast becoming a twitter beast. well

tell us what you think about today's stories by getting in touch on facebook and twitter i'll be back in about half an hour with the headlines i'll see you then. here's what people have been saying about rejected a night this year was actually just full on awesome the only show i go out of my way to launch you know what it is that really packs a punch at least yampa is the john oliver of r t america is going to say we are apparently better than blue nothing's better than the c.

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discretion you will discover the most secretive place in switzerland. in the middle of a warehouse complex a stone's throw from the border with france the geneva freeport. watched by surveillance cameras and surrounded by barbed wire fences this complex is traditionally a custom zone where merchandise is stored before being exported abroad. but today it has become a permanent storage site with sixty thousand square meters of space rented by the city of geneva to transporters or to private individuals to safeguard their assets . behind these anonymous double locked doors there is gold and diamonds.

it is also the largest wine cellar in the world with three million bottles laid to rest. bottles worth five hundred thousand two thousand dollars quietly maturing and gaining in value at a constant temperature and humidity. these buildings are anti earthquake and the doors resistant to explosives. and to protect these treasures from fire a special room houses hundreds of extinguishers that can be activated at any moment . another reason the freeport take so many precautions is because behind its gates rest priceless works of art thought to be worth tens of billions of dollars. perhaps the world's largest museum but a museum no one can visit. the geneva freeport

is one of europe's best kept secrets it stores works by picasso rembrandt leonardo da vinci and thousands of antiquities a treasure the size of which nobody knows the scale or the value. of photos i'm not at best while the case all before say this i. mean cos i mean another secret is the name of the owners of the works. don't. i guess he said. recently a number of cases have tainted the institution's name the looting of jewish assets money laundering tax fraud it's hard to say if it was hidden or not but it was kept very discreetly in the freeport. the geneva freeport is an eldorado for art dealers wealthy heirs and fraudsters it's where they do their business hidden from view.

one man agreed to open the doors of the freeport to us eve movie with his managing director. he runs the world's biggest company in the transport and storage of artworks that will see it was really sad to see a little one streets just fall out and also that the. streets they did so after. they all don't this is a it. it is from is all plus support your daughter for the percivale go up. every day dozens of priceless artworks enter or leave the store rooms managed by eve bouvier's company. there's even a special workshop to pack and prepare the. works for shipment. that lost it on the hook because i'm both on the. bus from exposes to an unknown

greed dozens in and three. that are good enough for me to so mr because he said to me. well why do you appear. on the. estate would it be a sequence to. what degree and. just put it out of the. form and you could not question the company don't want to give it. to us if i. look at the olympic cycle a sample data. for people to. look for missing. jennifer about within the sun for her sake if you don't see it as a coffee don't see it think of it to do the nickel for don't give. her the watchword is secrecy. eve bouvier was originally a shipper but he transformed his old shipping company. look cute founded in one thousand fifty nine into an art market multinational. it is now present in geneva

luxembourg and singapore. the man nicknamed the freeport king had a great idea to earn client loyalty his company would not only pack and ship artworks it would provide in geneva twenty thousand square meters of storage space along with framing and restoration workshops. it also offers its clients special rooms in which to admire their assets or negotiate sales dealers gallery owners and buyers can thus meet in total discretion . today the former shipper has become a multimillionaire. we meet him again in paris in the high class eighth district a stone's throw from the palace. eve movie the shipper of the geneva

freeport welcomes us to his paris home a richly decorated and furnished apartment. so i don't. want. to. tolerate just because you foresee a day visit but i want to hear that moment get the boat unable to do and you will still get keifer that the keeping it is said and designing is any more it gives. you billy always it doesn't feel as though it's one of the year of course you keep your more. to suppository. by storing and shipping his client's artworks eve bouvier gradually learned another much more lucrative trade as an art dealer.

just because he felt. demanded album quick witted pretty quick to leave office in a low shape quick witty come a function a quick wit it is a restaurant though. he's right there that it is his who got his a vehicle. get to have almost without us toss your way giving us the whole book of the the my just be you know what to take it. upon. for thirty years eve movie has been in the ideal place to learn the secrets of the market. a little beaut the shark. somebody made it out. the it is awful mr weaver it is awful miss you. so walk at the root of all it. gets on a cute since you yeah so why did they do. enough to

look at the. same pop on the streets or lesser sort of all to do more good enough. thanks to the network he's built up the businessman has even opened a gallery on the cable ten the antique dealers district one of paris's most prestigious addresses he takes us there. he wants to show us how well established he is and how he buys and sells some of the most renowned names in painting and sculpture. and they'll sell you retire. because if i bet i'd try to do all. the gallery director greets us. the gallery houses significant and very expensive works this marble sculpture of eve is by or done it's already been reserved by an

asian client. so as you know on that bomb the it is when you have preserving zone. it's. australia did a scapegoat or dealt with you only. if you just it's good they get to see them your diet is good he said prison what about a lot of shit to me that this question isn't one. i look all straight taking in what it does then most of it is nominally father on more famous signatures and in drawing by salvador dali. i should go. he didn't. just sit and listen to him he. didn't rule. out any reason to get to know miscues usually the six inches that he cared to.

shoot the person in the street is only a crime and discussed forcefully and discussed shocking discussed on the scale seeing this question oh or fit of a bubble or was it they don't. even look at this and both complete and you just ever see a feeling of prophetic. to truly peace acacias key piece of. this gets us to go see. the fish out of a clear is on a quest for the needy in the community of us weekly. according to inside information these works are worth several million dollars. an art gallery with a view of the louvre quite a showcase. at it. but yves bouvier's good fortune is today soured by

a series of lawsuits. in may two thousand and fifteen an article about him appeared in luke one entitled desire on the billionaire and the cursed because. it was a look into some of the darker practices of the art market. the allegations made by low point were such that the magazine was found guilty of infringement of privacy. the hard hitting article tells of a violent clash between movie and one of the richest men on the planet a russian dimitry. seen here in this photo taken in his living room in monaco. unfortunately it appears that once people learn that you for reporting a sexual assault or may have been involved in an incident that they become scared

of you instead of being scared of the perpetrator. the two thousand and eight economic crisis turn some countries into pigs these are the countries with weaker economies that needed austerity policies if you are in a situation no flow gloat even the recession austerity is a very bad idea it doesn't work it makes millions of people very unhappy those who are unemployed see their wages decline almost a decade how good are the results. by the people gathered in greece to watch people with your daughter julie. the beautiful blue she was i mean to for legal. challenge must. think they see something. while the same mission is still in place to one of the consequences to we.

will first. of this is the truth the consumer is the consequences are actually quite acceptable to the decision maker. seemed wrong. just don't call. me. yet to shape out of disdain it comes to advocate and it. equals betrayal. when so many find themselves worlds apart. choose to look for common ground. i've played for many clubs over the years so i know the game inside out. football

isn't only about what happens on the pitch put the final school it's about the passion from the fans it's the age of the super manager killian erroneous and spending two hundred twenty million on one player. so it's an experience like nothing else on to because i want to share what i think what i know about the beautiful guy a great someone more transfer. and thinks this minute. hey everybody i'm stephen bach task hollywood guy you know suspects every proud american first of all i'm just george washington and r.v. to suggest this is my buddy max famous financial guru and well he's a little bit different on the day. though no one knows up with all the drama happening in our country i'm hitting the road have some fun meet everyday americans

whom i've known and hopefully start to bridge the gap this is the great american to each. book. a cursory glance at the media environment could easily give you the impression that the vast majority of journalists studied psychology at university so many are convinced donald trump is not mentally fit to be president or the same journalist suffering from trump to arrangements and croak. list story goes back to two thousand and three when eve bouvier met the russian billionaire a close friend of prince albert. is the owner of the soccer club a s. monaco. movie and rebuild of love hit it off immediately. they are at a costume party on the billionaire's private greek island. for ten years eve movie

help his friend put together an exceptional collection of paintings and sculptures as compiled in this catalogue. he acquired works by woody jani. go gung. ho down. good luck. and even leonardo da vinci. plus some picasso's. in all thirty eight works for. a mind boggling sum of just over one billion eight hundred million dollars. but their friendship would come to a brutal and during a meeting in monaco in february two thousand and fifteen eve bouvier's attorney david b. don't explain. the many us obviously not all. but we. all do

know that people should meet three people of live in that unit so. you don't even know you're that. they when they go there. after. the weekend. the russian billionaire had filed charges against he. used him of making exorbitant profits of a billion dollars and his own personal loss. claimed to have paid double what his collection was worth. take for example this painting number six by mark rothko. we managed to get a hold of the documents of the transaction. eve bouvier bought it from wealthy landowners in the border region for eighty three million five hundred thousand dollars. a few weeks later as this invoice shows the painting was sold to an

offshore company accent delight which belongs to the russian billionaire. acquired for eighty three point five million dollars the rothko was sold for one hundred forty million. profit on the deal almost seventy million dollars. with this picasso flute player with a naked woman the profit was even more staggering. purchased on october seventh two thousand and ten for three and a half million. sold on to dimitri the very next day for twenty five million a profit of twenty one million in twenty four hours. eve movies profits were colossal. but his attorney sweeps the accusations aside he believes there was nothing illegal in his clients' profits and that the russian billionaire should have been shrewder. whole pushed out.

of each year lease office to give him a all there so could all call point to a part of the world over this is food really did you know anywhere you want i mean you at your level. it is of course. there. and if you wish to fit the. form do post said i don't he she small do you view this is really. we tried to contact the russian billionaire dimitri ruble of love. preferred not to comment. eve bouvier was indicted in monaco in february two thousand and fifteen for fraud and complicity in money laundering the investigation is still ongoing. but in the collection there were two other paintings that would cause trouble. in september two thousand and fifteen the billionaire posed with these two cautious

which like the rest of his collection he bought from eve bouvier the russian is beaming with joy. he thought he had done good business with these two portraits of checking because his last wife spanish woman with a fan and woman arranging her hair. but an unexpected figure came along to spoil the party. katherine. one of the causes heiresses jacqueline's daughter. she. found a complaint for theft and suspected each movie of being involved in the fencing of the two paintings sold to rebuild of love along with fifty eight drawings. a judge in paris issued an international warrant for bouvier's arrest. the art dealer was suddenly being sought by police forces all over the world.

years gathering with pablo picasso and her mother. back then they lived in the south of france on the hill of an old farmhouse called know today. because i lived in painted there for twenty years or so. in the fourteenth district of paris we're going to meet peter dupont. this former journalist was jacqueline picasso's comfy don't she wrote about their relationship in a book and she witnessed the scale of the artist body of work. to cook who do you think then ended up in the high position there john there is so worship was it like this judge i came she may think that this seemed very gentle and. limited pradelle because she could be identified and he yelled all this left he did back it then we'll have it. on the artist's death in one thousand nine hundred

seventy three then on jackson's death thirteen years later almost two thousand paintings seven thousand drawings and one thousand two hundred sculptures were officially recorded. you know order to pay the inheritance duties part of the work was given to the state something known as payment and you. know this you don't play this dice on deck into guesses that he getting it done all the little mall in. the city. it's a political. book. watch the co we don't use of these. men and we don't. often sell but i'm. sure that the better than

a shift just. because body of work was enormous. some of his works went unrecorded after the painter died they were probably hidden away during the inventory for the inheritance. but that is what this report suggests by the director of the picasso administration who represents the families interests. it is likely that escape the inventory as they had been hidden by. this is the ought to be the case for the two disputed paintings. accused of being involved in the theft of the two portraits. defends himself and declares that he did indeed pay catherine you don't. apparently asked him to pay money not directly to the but heiress but to a trust fund and offer a company based in

a tax haven. because to understand science. and have to benefit the job you. don't want this if it is if there's a fear of it. says. you know. the disk in support. of us adults on the promises we should chance or the cost. to prove his claims he show. does this document which is apparently the receipt for payment for the two portraits. m b i invest bouvier's company paid eight million dollars to nobody oh trust based at the central bank investor who's capital of lichtenstein. the name of catherine who done doesn't appear. but investigators discovered that no below trust belonged to

a certain katherine blake living at rouge black in paris. the address was no longer her residential address but play was none other than the married name of katherine you've done. behind the offshore company it was indeed the because so heiress who received the payment from eve movie and in front of our camera the art dealer went even further. someone does sophisticated good of what he's got a set idea. in society killed off before on a call over. on demand for. people with no one to and who may tune out of i suppose they keep on a vote have biased though as you don't the second would initiate series offset of almost one out which century also reset it off without a tough business up on anything just a plank of wood if you sit in that bus and he was f.s.s. is there blah said yup a system on organising play to fit in such a terrible dipping following the supposed to go smoke is gonna be left of his gun.

eve bouvier had to pay several million dollars in bail to have his international arrest warrant lifted. off the sammael and mo is shall want to set up for the. eve movie sold this because so drawing painter and his model to catherine. once he was paid to an offshore company in panama this time out to my oh well the drawing turned up at the geneva freeport. of also. it. as a never before and then we. kid we should. means he can moan. no roof i will use you just was bs no wonder i should. never.

see what your exit is going to. say. we contacted katherine u. turns lawyer for response to serious accusations here is her reply. does not wish to communicate or to participate in any sort of broadcast. in two thousand and sixteen the panama papers show the world with the tax haven secrets two trillion united states dollars passthrough most are conseco in the amount of time that we've been in panama papers exposure that's what it shows for a lot of money it really is. journalism it's a fact of journalism looking at things that people want to keep secret and asking why would they want to keep these things secret. millions of most like fonseca

documents were examined. me all the people which basically have tried to get an advantage out of this sort of. newspaper. and probably other politician which were attacking other politicians the media were quick to find targets such as the kings of morocco in saudi arabia the president of argentina several prime ministers. and russian president vladimir putin of course. oh my god i've had so i have sued so many newspapers for defamation some things don't just happen by chance it was very striking there were no more americans to go especially oh lots of people from the brics countries specially brazil russia and china that this special project reveals what was missed in the media coverage. the panama chronicles. this is

an amazing story because there were say real geopolitical and. back to back going on a g. twenty country g seven countries japan actually the spending power the culture the rise of big going in the millions of people have of buying it in japan the multi billion dollars that they've appreciated in value is causing a genuine effect in their economy and this is going to be the year twenty eighteen where bitcoin cryptocurrency is have this geo political influence. i had a great education a good job and a family that loved me. i never had to worry about how i would eat somewhere i would sleep. but i'm facing christmas alone out on the streets of london. well you know to be honest. i thought the world of the bully like you going to school you know too soon to still give up food for the both of. her.

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ecuador is considering getting outside help to resolve the case of wiki leaks editor julian assange has been holed up in the country's london embassy for five and a half years. to his ear widely praised by the west as a model for the arab spring isn't gholston economic protests which fail however to get the same attention from western leaders or similar unrest in obama. the u.s. announces it will spend one hundred fifty million dollars on rebuilding iraq is pretty devastated by the war on islamic state a figure dwarfed by how much the pentagon has requested for operations in iraq this year.

as i will welcome you watching r.t. international coming to you live from the russian capital and the carriage. i could or is pushing to resolve the case of wiki leaks editor julian assange he's been holed up in the country's london embassy for more than five years and faces arrest if he leaves now ecuador's foreign minister says his country may seek outside help artie's laura smith has more. so the ecuadorian foreign. minister has come out and called the situation of our sons' living in the embassy here in london unsustainable with the person can't live in those conditions or rather. we considering the options of mediation. that could be done virus that country or individual. no solution is possible without international corporations or without the heart of the u.k. which has expressed interest in finding more in terms of the u.k.

expressing interest in finding a way out of the government here has reacted and it's pretty awesome swayed says that the government of ecuador knows that the way to resolve this issue is to have julian assange as leave the embassy and face justice for their part song his legal team have welcomed this new initiative they're saying if the u.k. wishes to show that it's a nation that respects its human rights obligations and its commitments to the united nations then it should. walk free and when they refer to the united nations they're talking to about a two thousand and sixteen ruling by the organization that was being held in detention meanwhile the media here is speculating that what ecuador really wants is to push out of the embassy to get rid of him in september he tweeted in support of the catalan separatist movement the ecuadorian president tweeted in response saying that science should keep his nose out of the business of its allies if president

wants to get my reporting on human rights abuses in spain explicitly together with a legal basis there are other issues at play here as well several days ago the ecuadorian foreign minister also said that our soldiers health situation is very delicate he added that he is receiving medical help but there is only a certain amount of help that he can receive from inside the embassy she reconfirm though that ecuador is guaranteeing his protection he has been living in the embassy in knightsbridge here in london for five and a half years. now since two thousand and twelve and there have been several key moments during that time not to the least of which was last year when swedish prosecutors said that they were dropping investigation into rape allegations that he had faced people thought possibly that he would then be able to leave the embassy but the police here reiterated that if he does set foot outside the embassy he will be arrested for being in breach of his original bail conditions and wiki leaks has always voiced fears that he would then be requested for extradition by

the united states several months ago ecuador and officials said that they were going to call on the u.k. to guarantee him safe passage to ecuador but that's something that the u.k. as we just heard doesn't seem to be any closer to doing so for now despite this little bit of movement on his fate still hangs very much in the balance and it's very unclear who or which country might step forward and offer to be that mediator . for over a week now followers of the wiki leaks that is a have been left scratching their heads over a cryptic new year's message left on twitter and songe posted a seemingly indecipherable code and a link to a popular rap song since then he's remained silent online it's generated debate about what the tweet could actually meet.

well since that tweet a song hasn't posted anything else although he has made a small change to his account adding a small sometimes moji to his name. turn is a has been and gold in violent protests with thousands rallying against rising prices unemployment and tax hikes police used tear gas to disperse protesters who

burns tires and hurled stones with at least one protester reportedly killed there on the restaurant today around the same time as the demonstrations in iran but whens largely unnoticed artie's paulus leah has more. well these protests intern is here started after the new year and they came in reaction to that a new zealand government introducing a new budget plan for two thousand and eight that included amongst other things a rise in fuel prices and tax hikes the response from the trinity and street was one of anger and what we've seen is protests taking place in several dozen cities around the country with us one person has been killed and several people have been injured now it is familiar to protests happening in another country namely iran what you're saying we have here are two countries with protests taking place on the street by people who are unhappy with the economic situation. the root of it is

just a canard it's the problem of youth unemployment i personally haven't been able to find a job for a long time but if people have a job they don't have any problem with the government a lot of the demands of the following suspend the twenty eighteen finance law returned to the original prices of goods and high of one member from every poor family in short i didn't see a. rise in petrol prices this time is huge we have a lot of privilege and have to pay a lot of fines it's only acceptable that we pay for this government's mistakes. but we are protesting here because of high bryce's and employment we would judge the growth in these and we have been subjected to violence by security agents now the tunas been prime minister has said that there is no place for violence and the sentiments echo the words that were used by iran's leader what happened yesterday is a violation of the law since a state of emergency has been declared in tunisia these protests are the result of

operations that aim to review social unrest that we are a free nation and according to the constitution and human rights the people are absolutely free to criticize the government and even protest with the. this should be in such a way as to aim to improve the situation in the country we the government will definitely not tolerate some protesters who want to destroy public property will disrupt public discipline and create turmoil in society western leaders for example the french president are crying and the e.u. high represent me were quick to condemn the ukrainian protests even have the american president donald trump calling for regime change iran is failing at every level despite the terrible deal made with them by the bammer administration the great iranian people have been repressed for many years they are hungry for food and for freedom along with human rights the world of iran is being looted time for

change but when it comes to the current potest that are taking place in tunisia while here they have kept mum and now it might be that two lives here was the first country back in two thousand and eleven at the start of the arab spring to ask a dictator in a move that was widely akun by the western world as being one of the democratic change but since then there have been no less than my own government in place intern israel all of whom have been unable to get a handle on the economic situation the question of course is whether or not we'll see these cause for vision change and condemnation and criticism against tunisia like we've seen for example against when sociology professor science sadegh says that the different approaches to the similar protests in tunisia and around could be explained by the fact that one of these countries is viewed as an enemy. tunisia is on the mediterranean it's a small country not many people know about that in american society of on

who many in america have been and the enemy i mean. in a major obstacle for american policy in the middle east since its new pollution one hundred seventy nine in their case all to you wrong they are very happy to look at any small detail that happens or any small portis to inflate it in the media to look as if this is the end of the regime so it is totally different pool which in covering tunisia. protest totally different. pressure is mounting on the israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu after a controversial recording involving his son was leaked to the press the prime minister's lawyers were portably tried to prevent the broadcast of the tape but nonetheless it still made it to add on israeli television. allah forgive me if. i was asking if god. was unified.

something was. going to do all that knowledge and. well in that recording reportedly made in two thousand and fifteen you know you could be heard chatting to the son of an israeli gas tycoon coby my mother outside a strip club cutting my money is a shareholder at a gas company that allegedly benefited from a controversial twenty fifteen law on natural gas drilling rights legislation pushed by netanyahu governments concerned to massive newly discovered gas fields off israel's coast it essentially gave corporations control over the development of the deposits with the government arguing it would stimulate investment however critics slams the proposal as corrupt giving too much power to corporations and demanded nationalisation of the deposits or following the release of the controversial video lesson yahoo denied any actual knowledge of the proposals

details saying his conversation was nothing more than a joke under the influence of alcohol i regret the remarks and apologize if anyone was hurt by them in addition the things i said to my mom were a dumb joke and joking around with him as anyone could sell prime minister netanyahu is already being investigated in two separate corruption cases the allegations include receiving bribes and negotiating favorable media coverage the prime minister strongly denies all accusations but in the meantime he's pushing for a special immunity law which could allow him to avoid prosecution we discuss the latest controversy surrounding the netanyahu family with regional experts. it looks really bad for the prime minister and it doesn't look like you know someone who wants to be a leader of a country to have his son running around in a government vehicle doing things you know don't look so complimentary and it's not

the kind of line that the prime minister would want to do whether it's a danger to the prime minister or undermines no i mean it's a self undermining thing and the reason he did it is because it looks bad but you know we're in a democratic country and as long as. he's living in the prime minister's residence you may have to answer some questions this is not the first case that we're speaking about corruption in the family of binyamin netanyahu as the prime minister of israel these were you may lead to that would draw a lot of confidence and that's the the main threat. that's why they're trying as a family to play with words showing that it's not. a fact but it was just a matter of a guy who was hanging around with his friends and he was just chatting about different things but this is not the matter of fact still to come the german army is recruiting a record number of under eighteen's with all the details for you after this short

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good. i'm interested always in the waters of the. first six. welcome back the u.s. embassy in iraq has announced that america will spend one hundred fifty million dollars on rebuilding iraq is cities that were devastated in the war on islamic state but that's only a fraction of what the u.s. is earmarking for iraq and he's my guest you have has more on the story now. what does this look like mad max resident evil no this is

all rather what's left of it called the sea of thousands of airstrikes we feel most a few weeks ago and nothing's really changed from when we were there last. this is what the aftermath of a classic strike in mosul look like neighborhoods that numbered in the thousands have been reduced to a handful. the iraqi army and the u.s. led coalition seem to make sure to not leave a square meter on scorched earth it took a press season i've been to have seen a single house and moon still untouched by fighting the neighboring street all but destroyed the street across rubble the street over there it's the same story wherever you look. in cities and towns that house millions

and now devastated hotfix and even now in mosul you are never far from the stench of rotting bodies one exploded bombs help reconstruction no one seen any of that. but i sit in your heart now it's been six months since the liberation but even if sixteen months have passed nothing would happen because the rebuilding efforts are limited and small there's massive destruction here as if it was here regime and nagasaki in japan. there's rubble in the streets and we can smell the corpses of islamic state critters there's no electricity or water no and geo came to check honest so you see the debris my children are in sixty fourth and third grade but they haven't opened any schools a medicine how strange the us others have pledged to undo what their bombs did and already helping fund reconstruction iraq says it needs one hundred

billion dollars to rebuild but the united states is doubled its pledge to one hundred fifty million dollars or about north point one percent of what iraq needs no one seems to have seen any of that. yeah. i did they enter a little when in which. she's a little hungry alice get a little gina to go to school and the citizen. what else is there to do in mosul watch the servants and just a little hollow questions. it's a chip that. the numbers are in entirely different leagues what the united states spent on burning isis out

of iraq and what the u.s. has pledged to repair the damage it did or entirely in comparable numbers the average cost of a u.s. strike in iraq at the beginning of the operation very roughly counting fuel time flight time cost of bombs made in and send military pay was hard for a million dollars for one their strike they carried out fourteen thousand their strikes in iraq alone and after helping turn a rocky cities into these only completed his one hundred fifty million dollars the equivalent of two midsize passenger jets that isn't going to change many lives in iraq. reporting there well let's delve a little deeper we'll go live to our guest now jonathan steele international affairs commentator mr still i welcome to r.t.

international state as we just heard the u.s. government is spending one hundred fifty million dollars on rebuilding iraq do you think as a fact contribution. well it's not enough but i mean obviously the iraqi government has to pay for it if. it's not very good for the claimants of the country in a big way and destroyed cities like mosul took over to create and. so the iraqi government does have oil revenues so they should be putting in money as well not just the u.s. but the u.s. would certainly put in more if it does seem like such a fraction of the total price considering this estimated one hundred billion dollars is needed to repair iraq that's estimated by the world bank now the u.s. says the ice flow has been driven out of iraq so what has the pentagon requested over a billion dollars on the train and equip program for the country. has been given our very could always come back again. ridgeley because of social and

economic and political problems in iraq usually they were welcomed in the city like mosul because mosul felt neglected very limited and even on a sort of kind of foreign occupation. administrators from baghdad so there were big political reasons why the isis came in and was initially welcomed that had been driven out become less these political problems to solve they could make a comeback concerts important to the iraqi army is strong enough to resist them in a better way than they did three years ago when isis first turned up in mosul and the iraqi army just basically fled lay down their weapons and fled. why do you think the u.s. is spending way much more money on this train equip program than on rebuilding the country do you think it's got its priorities right here. well it is a bit balanced as you pointed out but i mean both are important it's important to strengthen the iraqi army but not just by giving them more machinery and more

weaponry but getting more sudanese into the army so that it isn't perceived anymore as a shia force and therefore subject to all kinds of sectarian suspicions that it's really an occupation force and i think they are making some effort baghdad is making some effort now to get more sunnis into the iraqi army and certainly into the police so that that should help to deal with in some ways with the suspicions but let's not forget that five million iraqis were displaced as a result of the i ask i'm paying almost one hundred percent of them are sunnis all the victims of the people killed by i asked for sudanese and so it's really important than money goes into the sunni communities and new programs political programs to develop to use to see iraq as. baghdad is the ally and not the enemy. considering its military role in iraq how much of it do you see do you think america has when it comes to rebuilding iraq.

well as well as there's always an argument the two arguments one is that if you broke it you have a responsibility to fix it and clearly the americans broke iraq by the initial invasion in two thousand and three but there's also another course of argument which is if you broke it and you've made a mess of rebuilding it then get somebody else to do the rebuilding so it would be better if there was an international consortium that was helping out in that the u.n. took the lead in all the sea construction programs of course the u.n. takes the lead in the immediate humanitarian relief like. for refugees and unicef for children and so on but maybe there should be an international consortium the to help to rebuild iraq so it's not just for us. operation is that something you see likely an international consortium. growth of the year and of course doesn't have very much money and for true is for the violent very much on us funding and

trumpets we've already seen has cut back some of the funding because of other issues like the palestinian question and so on so we really need more help to the un from some of the rich countries in the world that in addition to the u.s. to. the gulf arab states trying to russia should all be helping put more money behind the u.n. . jonathan steele international affairs commentator thank you for your time. and have your say on the day's stories by following us on social media i'll be back in about thirty minutes with the latest headlines on c.n.n. . a cursory glance at the media environment could easily give you the impression that the vast majority of journalists studied psychology at university so many are convinced donald trump is not mentally fit to be president olusegun journalist

separate from the rage in central. the two thousand and eight economic crisis turns some countries into paix these are the countries with weaker economies that needed austerity policies if you are in a situation of flow bloat even the recession austerity is a very bad idea it doesn't work and it makes millions of people very unhappy those who are unemployed see their which is declining almost a decade how good are the results she saw in new york city's will by the people gathered in greece to watch the world get people to see what i've. been in full view she was i mean if a legal. challenge was doing with this she was always think it she something. while the same mission is still in place who one of the consequences to.

libor. will first be. this is the truth the consumer is the consequences are actually quite acceptable to the decision making. unfortunately it appears that once people learn that you've reported in a sexual assault or may have been involved in an incident that they become scared if you instead of being scared of the perpetrator. readings and salutation who knocked me over with a chainsaw watchers because despite all the ranting raving and twitter tough guy talk that we've had to endure since. first start of their biggest bully on the

block. the olympics of all things may just. bring us a first step closer to peace on the korean peninsula since the reopening of a d.m.z. crossing hotline between the governments of north and south korea just after the new year the new york times is now reporting that in talks held at the border bill of negotiators quickly accepted south korea's request to send a large delegation to the winter olympics and that south korea also suggested that the two korean teams marched together during the opening ceremony of the olympics and and with that simplest of geo political maneuvers you know actually talking with their neighbor north and south korea's new diplomacy can only be considered a a blow to the trump neo liberal foreign policy agenda of fear war profits and empire and i kid you not as bizarre as this sounds this break in the usual war rhetoric has even brought whispers that trump could turn this into his very own

version of the historic nixon china reapproach myth. so hawk watchers is this indeed a breakthrough for peace on the korean peninsula or just an olympic pause in the beating drums towards another world war. let's find out by watching the hawks. what. it looks like. it's like. last week the bottom six. with the like you know that i got. to. look at. this. week so. welcome everybody to watching the harks i am tired robot run joining us today to discuss all things trump and north

korea's conservative commentator author radio show host a man of many trades and talent steve malzberg thank you steve for coming. thanks for had me tear up the sheet it so steve what is your take on north korea's talks with south korea over the upcoming winter olympics is this actually going to cool down tensions in that part of the world. no not in the long run i think this is very calculated by kim joan i think we should look at the statement today that came out of the talks the south korean representative said that denuclearization of the region was discussed when the north korean representative heard that he said he shouldn't have said that and then he made it perfectly clear we have no none of our major weapons nuclear weapons atomic weapons i c b s nothing aimed at japan or south korea only aimed at the united states and i think that's what this is all about that was the message and that's

a very telling message and that's was very interesting because it seems to me the you know kim jong room in his government you know kind of making these inroads into south korea you know releasing a spate of saying look we're only really concerned about the united states our weapons are only pointed in that direction does that help him kind of paint the united states you know as the aggressor which if you follow the twitter wars we we are coming across as an aggressor as as they are. well i respectfully disagree i don't think we're coming across as an aggressor we've had test after test after test by this. nad man who's done like a fox in violation of every kind of international agreement and he's been sanctioned sanctioned heavily for it and i think that's what's prompting all the things we're seeing now but i think that it's not true what they're saying if we're to believe that their weapons aren't pointed it at the south as they've been

pointed at the south every kind of weapon they have has been pointed at the south for decades and to think that they're not pointed at the south that a longer you know we'd have to be pretty stupid to believe that so they could say what they want this said the north koreans are still the north koreans and now i think we're going to find out very soon you know these joint exercises between the south and the united states have been postponed till april i think kim is buying time i think he's going to eventually test missile intercontinental ballistic missile with a warhead that's not loaded and launch it into the south pacific and if it reenters the atmosphere and doesn't burn up then he's going to have proof that he could reach the united states and that's the ball game he's a threat to the security of the united states of america can i ask you this let's say this plays out the dominoes fall tragically and we see you know and kim jong un

is removed in one way or another in north korea when you're talking about a people there who really have no real outside contact with the world have kind of grown up and almost a cult like status who's are going to fall apart and you know in terms of rebuilding that community you know if this happens if it goes down the way up in many many i'll be honest warmongers kind of see it go going rather than peace will go to war will get rid of this guy we've heard that kind of talk who can help you. rebuild north korea who who acclimates not society which is a bomb well let me make it clear i think i don't think there's anybody who would welsh and say that i certainly don't i don't think donald trump would like to see war i think we'd like to resolve this peacefully but that means the denuclearization of north korea and kim wants to be accepted as an equal player a nuclear power but to your question if this does result in war i don't see it as getting rid of kim i see it as an as basically

a severe annihilation of most of the country i don't see how you you pin prick and pin point you know will do this and will take out kim and will do that i mean they have nuclear weapons all they have to do is flip a few switches and the missiles launch to the united states so this is going to be an attack this is going to be a massive attack and the question of you know who would succeed is something that would be way way way way way down the list. i think we can both agree with that i mean i don't think anybody wants to see war at all they're going to want to see nuclear war for that matter and i think that's what makes this such an important part of foreign diplomacy here and you know let's remember it's hard for us to stay on as the u.s. it's hard i think for us to kind of stand being the world the only country that has used nuclear weapons so it's hard for us when it comes to nuclear policy to say don't have those oh you know we used them before you know i mean that's not so hard negotiating point i would hope that we could all just remove nuclear weapons that all countries would would say i'm not because and we don't want to use weapons are

going to destroy the world three times over in just one exchange. well i don't hold it against us for using the atomic bomb when we did i think we saved american lives we saved many many lives that war had ended and we ended it and our first concern was saving at thout tens of thousands of american lives if not hundreds of thousands in the long run but the world is never going to be that kind of place if i mean we've got to steve we've got to fight for the for the world. be that kind of place you know we go to how do you do that when you don't sacrifice you're miss you don't sacrifice your nukes and hope that the bad guys will then do the same i mean there's bad guys are going to be bad guys and they're always going to be bad guys and you have to have defense against that i just i just don't see that when you have a country like iran who doesn't know usually assured destruction there because there are more laws believe armageddon will send them to heaven well you don't even have the old soviet union mutually assured destruction chemical weapons if iran iran

doesn't want to see that kind of violence because they've watched us do that in afghanistan and iraq we try to do it in syria they don't want to see that at the end i got them all odds now that i look at all as the religious one i meant a lot of a lot of folks here believe that it should be the end times and that they're waiting to get up and they have and you can't you can't make foreign diplomacy based on religious beliefs you know what i'm saying about well well wait wait what when when the people who control the missiles have that kind of belief you do have to take it into consideration corps and maybe people here who believe in armageddon and want to see it but they're not in the government and they're not what you know about what you know of steve that we've got to be on the lookout out of that i was a pleasure talking to you will go back and forth all day long on this but it's good always to have the good argument thank you but it is for crank you thank my pleasure. technology can be both mankind's greatest savior and greatest villain depending of course on how we humans wield it this is especially true in the world of medicine and health care medical technology can and will bring us closer to

curing major maladies with each passing year but the cap but but the capitalism we practice may forever condemned those to put those too poor to afford the cure for example artie's david miller looks at a possible cure for a form of blindness but it comes with a very controversial price to. spark therapeutics has developed a new gene therapy which has the potential to treat l c a disease that causes rapid visual degeneration were blindness the drug name less. tarn it is a huge leap forward in finding the cure for blindness however the transformative genetic treatment will come with a price tag of four hundred twenty five thousand dollars per eye or double that for both after approved by the u.s. food and drug administration sparks said it will offer discounts based on whether or not the drug works initially and remains effective for the estimated one thousand to two thousand patients in the united states with this rare form of i disease caused by a mutant gene and sparks shares continue to experience gains in the stock market

and the company has formed multiple agreements with insurance companies on how to best provide those who suffer from this rare form of blindness a potential cure with what approach is fairly straightforward and eye surgeon makes a small incision in the eye and the treatment is infused onto the retina and the hope is that they'll take a single treatment to stop the degeneration several of the thirty one patients tested in the clinical trials of the therapy said that they saw unexpected and dramatic improvement in their vision very quickly and sparks is rolling out several programs to spread out the cost over the years or give rebates to payers if the benefits decrease with time sparks has also proposed selling the gene therapy directly to insurance companies or pharmacies and this process would sidestep the current one m. place that requires hospitals or health care providers to buy expensive therapies upfront gene therapy has made tremendous advancements globally and now the question

remains are insurance companies ready to cover a potential six digit medical bill when according to a recent survey most americans can't handle an unexpected five hundred dollar medical bill reporting from washington d.c. david miller r t america. david joins us here on the talk about his report always a pleasure to use it with the most americans come up for even a five hundred dollar medical bill let alone the price to you talked about that with oil. how are they just applying this allows this layer in a time they just fired from the c.e.o. standpoint he says this is a science and revolutionary science and they're saying that the breakthrough is and a plain investment so we keep going with this gene therapy you know technology in that therapy so they're saying that you know these breakthroughs lead to investment in the costs of initially would go down eventually would go down now the other interesting play at this is also you know health insurance you know there used to kind of paying for medicine that happens over the course of a long period of time or all report patients entire life but this is basically

a one time kind of american treatment how does this present a challenge to you know the health insurance was and those who can afford the drug that's where it comes into play so much time because it's such a rare disease it doesn't cure all blindness you know thousand people in the united states it would benefit right now from this drug so the companies working with medicare and medicaid programs throughout the united states or china to figure out i guess an installment plan but they can't tell you how many installments what's the full cost of this price going to be and this drugs in an orphan stage right which means you know so much that eventually the consumers are the one taking on this burden and the government and the insurance companies are just counter in their hands up and saying here you go and part of the problem with this too is because the united states sits in this kind of what you know capitalized version of health care you know capitalism version of health care as opposed to you know single payer opposed to social health care because like the government health care

that's also plays into that plus you know as you said this only affects a small amount of people but a bad surely this is the kind of thing that could have breakthroughs in the long run for more people exactly i mean we're talking about a breakthrough that can cure blindness you know our generations past generations we didn't think we'd see this now so why not invest more if you're the government if you ensurance companies to cure blindness for the overall global health and to see united states this could be a global phenomenon now again it's an orphan stage drug so we don't know all the events. but you know leading up to that it does have an immediate benefit right now and you've also reached out to people who would see that benefit as well you know sufferers of those who said you know this we you could please help us figure out the way to do this and give us all that now are insurance companies also worried too about like you know always a one time payment for us and then suddenly this person could just suddenly leave and go join another insurance company i don't like that's where that greed comes into play and that's why viewers love the time because he you can see right through you know you can switch a provider and also an insurance company's stock with all this coverage you know or

hundred twenty five thousand for one i double that if it works for two and again if it works it kind of work with you with payments if it doesn't use still kind of stock it's for such a tremendous drug it's up in the air yeah well david thank you very much a club report always a pleasure all right as we go to break court watchers don't forget to let us know what you think the topics we've covered of facebook and twitter see our poll shows that are t.v. dot com coming up we want to know only max woman paul interview oxalis to discuss the latest details it's israel's move to deny entry to organizations and activist groups who support the b.d.s. ruled with can't imagine that will be controversial to scupper fish cup so stay tuned watching it all. i had a great education a good job and a family that loved me. i never had to worry about how i would eat and where i would sleep. and i'm facing christmas alone out on the streets of london. well you

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the pushback against the boycott divestment and sanctions movement picked up momentum over the last year among u.s. based supporters of the israeli government's settlement policies the government of israel is now taking this opportunity president of level however stealing the ass out of sanctions and imposing some of its very own and not as one might expect against suspected terrorists who could be considered national security threats against anyone in the world at billy gaited with one of the twenty organizations promoting a boycott of israel over its controversial human rights record so hawk watchers what to make of this are we facing an entirely new assault on free speech or is this simply the harsh reality of real politic to help us answer that i'm joined

a baby by max blumenthal senior editor alternate gray zone project always a pleasure max. so you know the headlines on this issue almost make you do that double take you know just how far reaching is the scope of this decision by the israeli government well for years and years israel has denied entry to hundreds and hundreds maybe thousands of arab american. it's simply because of their ethnicity they're suspected of you know ideologically being opposed to the state of israel and so many prominent activists intellectuals' and regular arab american people with family members in palestine have been humiliated upon entry at ben gurion international airport in other border crossings detained for long periods interrogated and then deported that's also happened to many americans who are not of arab heritage who are just activists but it's happened in kind of an arbitrary fashion now israel's formalizing its plans to deny entry and one of the

organization that they're targeting through the ministry of strategic affairs which is this new ministry aimed at countering the b.d.s. movement which it views as an existential threat to the survival of the state of israel is jewish voice for peace which has fifteen thousand members is a jewish peace organization that's almost two decades old and most of those members are jewish so israel has formalized plans to detain and deport thousands of jewish american and so the opposition parties which are pretty far from pro peace i would hardly describe them as you know left wing have made some noise about this proposal or this new policy guideline and that's because the labor party which used to traditionally rule israel until the rise of likud is more concerned about israel's image internationally and about currying favor with you know the liberal democracies of western europe and the united states but we've seen through the kind

of trump netanyahu axis that israel no longer feels like it even needs to be concerned about its image among you know jewish liberals and you know the mainstream american media it's going for an entirely different constituency internationally christian zionists and the european far right and so this policy really is of no concern to the leaders of israel how you or the other question every. you hear about the b.d.s. movement and things like that it has a better than successful enough to warrant this kind of response i mean really really think about because you see a lot of people you know hey they forgive a lot of people just go to israel they don't protect you know they don't participate in the movement as the movement as big of a threat to justify this kind of reaction yeah i think obviously it has and you know there's a psychological component to b.d.s. as well getting the new zealand pop singer lord to drop or a trip to tel aviv is a major triumph because it sends the signal to israel that it's not

a normal country and that it's you know educated cosmopolitan upper middle class that wants to have concerts like these can have them as long as they have an occupation and a system of apartheid now look at jewish voice for peace is a jewish based organization that's increased its membership by something like five thousand in the past year since it really made its call for b.d.s. more open and that really tells you where younger american jews are going they're going away from the right wing israeli government and the right wing israeli government is in a state of panic i mean there are these reports that have been issued by government linked think tanks like there are a huge institute which call for actually applying a price tag to b.d.s. and targeting activists with surveillance style measures and black operations and that so this is part and parcel of that it's designed to intimidate american jews who might think of joining jewish voice for peace but who also want to enter israel palestine and i think they need to understand that this can't be fully enforced and

that they shouldn't be intimidated one less the question also true is how do you implement there so i mean i can't imagine that a policy like this is easy to implement and what happens you know what happens when that first person is detained you know what what what happens there i mean it's this i was it's so such a weird ludicrous response to words to a political movement an activist movement. out of dangerous violent you know can this be even be inforced jewish voice for peace at the rabbinical board as a board of rabbis one of them rabbi alysa wise was detained not in israel but actually before she even got on her lufthansa flight by israeli security agents who prevented her from entering and i think that might have been the first time it happened to a jewish person certainly to a rabbi. now we have to ask how that makes israel look at they start doing this regularly to jewish base jewish member based organizations it means they're seeking to define judaism along the lines of support for israel's project of apartheid and

that is going to deep in the international crisis that israel has as it attempts to define itself as a jewish state while it finds itself in conflict with growing numbers unprecedented numbers of left wing liberal and humanitarian minded jews that's really i think a fight that israel has never wanted to have and that's what they face now is incredible do you think we're going to see this reverse to resist the kind of. you know because i'm also thinking what becomes mine too is the amount of surveillance it's going to take you know to you know in their mind keep all these people from across the border that's a lot of surveillance and that's a styles are relevant here we're going to look at your place but media post got a look at those what organizations do you belong to you know do you support this did you ever do you know someone who supports us a lot of surveillance so how do they know that you're a member of any of these organizations well that means that that people in the palestine solidarity movement are already being surveilled possibly in their own

homes possibly in coordination with the f.b.i. we don't know they're being surveilled through facebook through twitter and so people need to keep in mind that their social media postings are going to alert israeli authorities to what their ideological guidelines are and what their intentions might be in israel has used facebook previously to detain people who. planned to come in as a group to work with refugees in bethlehem for example but we also know that the n.y.p.d. had a demographics unit which coordinated closely with israeli intelligence and was run partly by a former cia officer and that demographics unit was actually surveilling students muslim students who were not even in the n.y.p.d. jurisdiction at yale and rutgers at places like that going after their social media postings so israel has a very wide net and the fact that they can implement

a policy like this suggests that they're confident that they can surveil people on a grand scale that that's another extremely troubling aspect of it all just most of family is going to want to get through to is let's talk about the u.s. reaction to this i mean you know you're going to be talking about you mentioned you could be talking about you know american jews going over there and suddenly being detained by a foreign country or you know flown out of a foreign country if they're already there you know how do you expect the state department to react to you know you don't even can even be able to have an advocate for affected americans considering the relationship between trump and you know who oppose point what i think of a dog a reporter might go to one of the state department briefings and ask that very question it's an excellent question the state department has in the past did refused almost across the board to provide consular services and legal services to americans who have been detained by israeli. security at border crossings particularly arab americans and this is really i think an act of discrimination

against arab americans and now it's going to be put to an additional test as israel seeks to apply these same guidelines to american jews who are members of jewish voice for peace and to mainstream peace activists from groups like the american friends service committee the quakers who save jews saved thousands of jews during world war two and are now an official target. and the israeli state that's was pretty incredible too when you look at some of the groups on this list like you mentioned you know you i think code pink is on this list of the quakers the breakers you know it's like these are like you know hardened criminals that you don't want entering your society these are people who just simply disagree with what you're doing and there's a lot of people in this world that do do that but what do you see is going to be the end result of all this you know long game how is this going to play out in your mind next israel is no longer going to be perceived as the only democracy in the middle east i mean it isn't already there's tunisia and other countries but that

deve the image of israel is going to suffer massively it already is and we saw david rothkopf yesterday in hearts this is the publisher of of foreign policy magazine one of the most mainstream foreign policy minds in washington say that israel is an illiberal thaw gawker see that he can no longer support. bank you as always were coming out also thanks so much for having to thank you. judging by the twitter feed of a certain real donald trump the first instance of light snowfall in december is all the science we need to once and for all banish that pesky global warming hoax so hawk watchers perhaps a a quick thought experiment is in order what would be the logical inverse of that golden rule is to prove climate change is real well don't think too hard for us because australia has apparently stumbled upon the answer. chris christie squirrel

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