you've had a chance to sort of understand what's in this doctrine now what do you make of it as an american do you feel safe. well the first thing i would caution is that donald trump has said many times that the united states under the drop administration is not going to telegraph its plans so if we're expected to get you know a precise forecast of what the trouble ministrations going to do militarily it's not in that document i think that document as you correctly point out is an argument for more budget authority and as a taxpayer and a concerned citizen and the numbers person i look at the number of five hundred sixty two billion dollars in spending and that's the public number we don't know how much additional money maybe you know off the books that is an enormous amount of money for a nation as small as ours in terms of people we're a quarter of the size of china roughly twice the size of russia and our you know stated defense spending is a mammoth sum of money given all the cost overruns i've seen in the past you know i

am uncomfortable just throwing more money into a black box here and i'd like to see some real accountability for what we spend i mean that's after all more money than the gross domestic product of i think all but about twenty countries over two hundred on the planet so i start there i also just you know i don't have access to classified information but i think you know russia and china clearly have to defend territory whereas the islamic state what's left of it and radical islamic terror and terrorism do not so i would disagree just as a citizen and not a military expert with the notion that you know we have little we don't have as much to fear from radical islamic terrorism i think we do i think that if you elegy has not yet been fully discredited it could spring up again and so you know that those are be my headline reactions ok there was a point understand during the speech where james mattis made a threat let's have a listen to what he said. and to those who would threaten america's experiment in democracy they must know if you challenge it will be your longest and your worst

day so it was pretty clear but when he says you know anyone who challenges our democracy that makes me think they were making that claim of russia interfering in their elections so it could really be applied to anybody they want what your interpretation of it i think it's a blanket statement i mean the ability of i mean or who was at the rumanian the hacker area known as spare time out when he wasn't gardening was able to penetrate into the most secret parts of men you know various other washington insiders so the threats you know the cyber cyber threats i think emanate from all around the world from the poorest corners on earth that are connected electrically so i don't know that was necessarily a specific threat against russia and more likely just simply putting people are not as we will not you know we we will run the internal affairs of our country and outsiders better not try to interfere yeah that was kind of general bit more specific was the statement that is an intention to counter ran by setting up

a regional coalition what kind of fruit do you think that strategy might bear. well you know in iran i'm somebody who cut it was in university nine hundred seventy nine i vividly remember what happened then in iran indeed my own family was going to move to iran prior to that when it was possible for americans to flourish in iran. so you know i look at the last almost forty years now arabian experimentation as a disastrous period not simply for the iranians but for the neighbors and and now elements within iran are you know interfering throughout the middle east even in south america and i think it's a good thing actually that the united states is standing up it's a was a we're just not going to tolerate this anymore and by the way instead of wasting all this money on your military and your adventures how about taking care of the people who are rioting in the streets so i think that's fair frankly for us to

point out charles appreciate your time i guess political analyst charles alltel. on to other news a teenager has attacked a school in eastern siberia injuring six people including a teacher. the man into the class inflicted injuries to preschool children any teacher to the next challenge received a blow to the face and then went on the back and another girl. the girl soon choose to do text messages from the through town who think she should not go to class morning. number that someone i knew more.

than superficially. but you. now let's admit a string of similar attacks throughout russia this week counties jacqueline booga has the story. the past five days have seen a frightening trend creeping up in russia with three different attacks occurring at schools. and all of those cases the young perpetrators used basic weapons not an axis as that was likely all that they had at their disposal and a disturbing online trend may also link these incidents our sources believe that violent online groups that center around tragedies like the columbine high school massacre may also be a common factor that just to remind you the columbine tragedy took place in the u.s. back in one thousand nine hundred ninety two students armed to the teeth killed twelve of their classmates and a teacher and that horrific massacre is apparently inspiring violence and children

who weren't even born when it happened it's so popular that the followers of such groups even have a name for themselves columbine years now russia's version of facebook called v.k. has dozens of these pages open to all we did a simple quick search and found scores of them with posts that promote violent behavior things like describing the power someone feels when they have a gun in their hands one of the alleged perpetrators of monday's incident has been confirmed to be a follower of such pages and today's and wednesday's instance are being looked into see if the same is true for them as of today russian officials have announced that they will begin shutting down pages with extremist content the communications watchdog groups and social media which call for violence in schools it will be undertaken under the criteria of terrorism extremism and then. to commit suicide but the question remains if closing pages will really be enough in the long run especially given that a number of students have already taken the next step and used violence against their classmates. a growing number of us republican congressman

a demanding the release of a top secret intelligence document they believe that it reveals political bias at the very highest levels of the f.b.i. the justice department did how they handled the investigation into alleged ties between the trunk campaign and russia. i had that same shock feeling i was like wait a minute this actually happened from our justice department and this f.b.i. that's how serious this is that there has been a real attempt to undermine this president and it is come from the scariest of places and it's the type of information that we need all americans to see immediately. correspondence american just me live from washington now it sounds significant do we know what is in the memo what it means well republicans are calling it a scandal worse than watergate and reactions have ranged from sickening to drop jaw dropping and some say that it raises serious questions about the highest ranking

intelligence officials in the obama administration now the memo was put together by the house intel committee and it was released to house members on thursday since then republicans have been calling for immediate public release now it supposedly contains evidence that top ranking officials of the justice department illegally spied on the tram campaign and warrants to monitor the communications of a u.s. citizen can only be obtained if there is reason to believe foreign powers were involved according to reports u.s. intelligence officials use the dossier to improperly obtain a warrant under the foreign intelligence surveillance act or fisa now democrats voted against the release of the memo saying that it's be used discredit the intelligence community and the ongoing russia scandal so yes i guess democrats are now defending the intelligence community but representative adam schiff called it a profoundly misleading set of talking points now which he leaks has offered a one million dollars reward for it and some of said that the memo will not be released to the public but regardless this alone reveals partisan bias so we'll

just have to see what happens and he thanks american reporter for from washington d.c. . in other news the turkish defense minister's announced his country has launched a military operation in syria's kurdish controlled african region starting with cross border shelling on his pulis lear has more on how events unfolded. we're hearing from the turkish defense minister that a de facto turkish military operation has begun across its border now this is been corroborated by the syrian kurds the y.p. who say that since those day night some seventy shells have been fired by the turkish military on to their villages now it's one of the only a statement by the turkish president and the one in which he said that the united states had admitted to establishing a terrorist army on the turkish syrian border any chord on the united states to deal with that terror at its infrastructure and these comments by the turkish

president so infuriated could see living in the afan region that earlier they took to the streets also they were protesting against what we see happening slowly on the ground which is turkish tanks moving towards full this is what citizens of africa have to say. our freedom will be the ones graveyard today hundreds of thousands are protesting to tell him that the people of our friend will never leave their land. the international community should send a message to turkey telling them to stop we have bought the white b.g. and so we can depend on what sells. well this comes after the statement that the coalition forces were working closely with the syrian democratic forces to establish and train a new syrian border security force but what we've seen happening is the american administration backpedaling now on plans to establish such a border force essentially after it created such

a huge and furious backlash from america's close ally turkey the u.s. secretary of state rex tillerson has said that the entire issue has been mis portrayed and mis described the u.s. state department has this to say is he saying that when the pentagon says we're going to try to commit forces because the people that took that long we see just disappearing i wouldn't i would have to refer you to the department of defense on that i think they. we're clear in the statement they put out so let me just refer you to them. but i'm asking about mr thomas yesterday he said there's no or disagree or says that's not what it is like i have to refer you to the turkish government about what they became so concerned about and the fact that somebody misspoke and i'm not going to name any names and neither is the secretary but somebody clearly just misstated their policy it's as simple as that the situation is extremely tense on the ground and it has the possibility of igniting into something much bigger so i think what it does so us is that words have the potential to ignite

a potential war as we discussed the latest tensions between the united states and turkey with international relations professor jamal wakim he believes that we're currently seeing damage control being carried out by to listen and the trumpet ministration is trying to limit the damage that was caused to the american relations were new american movie establishing this border that are to me under the pretext of protecting the border the border with iraq and with. reason to be worded the. national security of turkey specially consider themselves as allies of the united states or wherever the united states is doing what the. an infringement on national security so i believe that this is a critical issue for the. i don't believe that the. naacp against such an american step. french

riot police have fired tear gas at prison guards from europe's largest jail striking over dangerous working conditions including attacks on staff and the latest incident at a different jail on corsica two guards were injured in a stabbing attack by an inmate reportedly being radicalized inside is what a french prison union told us about the incident. oh unum is a well that's a serious incident to police in borger bruson ridiculous in meat brutal to a far colics french prisons have suffered several similar attacks on god's recently just a week ago three security staff were injured following an inmate attack attacking them with scissors and a razor blade on monday at yet another jail seven guards were attacked by an inmate in that case according to the justice ministry the perpetrator had again been radicalized in prison inmate violence disobedience and radicalization they've triggered a nationwide strike of french prison guards in turn clashed with riot police.

the striking guards are demanding that the authorities do something about the dangerous conditions in french jails r.t. france spoke to a representative of the prison guard. said laugh. the government our representatives are to blame they don't want to discuss the problem how to find a solution to our poor working conditions we demand an increase in the number of prison guards and also the creation of a special high security wing radicalize prisoners on.

the right leaning alternative for germany or f.t. party has proposed verifying the age of all migrants coming to the country it's an idea that's been roundly condemned by all other parties in the bundestag to all of our reports. well if the right wing populists alternative for germany thought that getting into the bottle was going to be the hard part they've certainly been brought back down to earth with a bump over the last couple of days since the german parliament convent on friday the f.d.a. of put forward changes they wanted to see two laws relating to asylum and refugee status here particularly when it came to the ages of those claiming a reflection of status in germany now the alternative for germany say that between thirty and eighty percent of those that have applied in the past have.