they are disturbed when we speak about nazi mentality but you do apply this type of mentality in germany. does you know it's a fact without question turkish nazis comparisons must stop unfortunately we see that these comparisons have not stopped. however when it comes to questions over whether german tanks are being used against the kurds. answers from the german government or the in on the ground there is no official stance from the defense ministry from the foreign ministry or from those who deal with exports at the ministry of economics here no tanks see no tanks speak of no tanks that's the lying coming from the german government at the moment but when it comes to the german people they don't seem convinced that they should be providing arms to turkey right now i don't think so why not. because morris.

has caused a disturbance in this region so i don't think we should sell him tanks but i think that's awful became from the turks a fighting against an entire people this should not be happening. it's terrible we should not be sending any weapons at all no matter who is behind them. now if somebody asks you where are you from would you be offended because that very question has to debate about racism after a social media campaign missile launched in sweden and he said it expects. well from sounds like an innocent enough question doesn't it but it could land you in trouble here's what i actually have to explain that i first need to tell you about an online campaign launched in sweden to help expose racism hash tag no stranger we hope to raise awareness regarding the extensive issue of racism that actually does exist in sweden although many want to believe that we live in the world's most

tolerant country there dearest shakespearean says of being subjected to racism and ten south asking why are you from rep some people up the wrong way even though i was born here people always ask me where i'm from i hate it when they do that nobody put are you decide where my home is where i come from doesn't concern you and it shouldn't matter i say shouldn't we either ask people about their country of origin to be on the safe side. well here's some advice from a man behind the hash tag no stranger campaign you can also question just make sure

you do it right it's ok to wonder about someone's country of origin but it should not be the very first thing to ask a stranger about because the reaction that follows is usually very stereotypical and racist like oh you're from viet nam i think it's quite terrible that you guys eat dogs. so its name first originated and no follow up question got it. ok let's go to a developing story in france at the moment because these are live pictures from a prison just that side of paris where guards are in a standoff with the police you can see police there guarding the prison exit where one inmate is about to be transferred to court to face trial in connection with the twenty fifteen paris terror attacks the jail staff are expected to try and disrupt that move prison guards have been protesting for more than two weeks now all across france after a string of violent attacks by inmates against them on tuesday today said that

regardless of the inmate they will try to prevent any transfers from happening even if those who are suspected of being behind the twenty fifteen attacks. before it's a trial that is followed by the media source of course there is going to be some overselling but after that you need to understand that except for his profile the group he belongs to there is nothing special that separates him from the other inmates he is someone that has to appear in court in a criminal court there will be no exceptions made but just because it's been there would you want. what we want the government to understand is that if tomorrow we don't get what we asked for we will be here again on the same principles like for the same extraction of the protests have seen two thirds of all prisons across france come under a blockade demonstrations began over lack of security after staff faced increasing incidents of violence from inmates.

they're going to. be watching out into national said ahead for you this hour we look at the findings of a new survey in the u.k. as people seem to fall out with social media that he tales after the break. it's. the. least. plausible warhawks

selling you on the idea that dropping bombs brings pianists to the chicken hawks forcing you to fight the battles they're going to look for new socks by to tell you that every gossip and tabloid lifestyles a little more news. on the market has been telling you are not pulling out and let's fight their products. these are the hawks that we along with our lives watched so. hello again you with r.t. you know new study has revealed that just one in four britons trust social media

people complain that it promotes fake news cyber bullying and extremist propaganda and therefore requires better regulation boyko has been looking at the findings it used to be seen as an innocent way of keeping up with friends and family but the love affair between the british public and the likes of facebook twitter and instagram has soured now less than a quarter of the u.k.'s population trusts what it sees on social media according to an international marketing firm seventy percent of britons believe that social media companies don't do enough to prevent illegal or unethical behavior the majority of those are think that more should be done about preventing the sharing of extremist called intent most think the same of how social media combat cyber bullying and then there's the issue of fake news over half of britain's surveyed worry about being exposed to it online so how to mend this broken

relationship the british public thinks that tougher regulation is key to restoring trust this time these companies set up and listened the public wants action on key issues related to online protection and to see their concerns addressed through better regulation these findings present a major shift in attitudes towards the internet when it started the world wide web was open free and unfettered that was its appeal but two thousand and seventeen was the year of fake news. and the public is now where e in britain and the us politicians have put pressure on social media giants to disclose evidence of russian interference. sure this house but the government and the election commission will examine these

reports very carefully we must be open eyes about the actions of hostile states like russia. i was concerned first of some of the social media platform companies did not take this threat seriously enough to get these ads and posts were a very small fraction of the overall content on facebook but any amount is too much . facebook will now prioritize so-called trustworthy media outlets and downing street has announced the creation of a fake news rapid response unit if there is now that any subsequent complaints about censorship could be dismissed as the will of the people.

another nice the suicide attacker has detonated a car bomb next to the office of the humanitarian group save the children in the afghan city of jalalabad local journalist has the latest at least twelve people were wounded some of them include afghan employees of the organization but none of the injuries are life threatening the afghan special forces or attacking at least three attackers who are armed with rocket propelled grenades heavy machine guns and hand grenades we also know from very worried family members who are waiting outside and some of them in touch with me clued in my own relatives that there are a lot of people who are stuck inside save the children would invite their afghan employees from the districts in the would train them they would invite them for seminars in these are afghans do very important work in many of the districts of of

our province outside of the city of jalalabad be it where the health education or shelter for refugees or internally displaced people so obviously a major source of concern is how could this attack of taking place because the office is only two hundred or three hundred meters away from a police station and i think that's what you're looking at for two thousand and eighteen as well these security and intelligence breaches continue to really undermine the confidence of the afghan people in the afghan government. at a time when major cities have been attacked time and again well that incident in jalalabad has come just days after an attack on a hotel in the afghan capital kabul the u.s. state department has confirmed that several americans were killed in that with local officials saying twenty people died in the overnight stage by taliban

militants. those people at the mercy they were anybody here in front of them destroyed and. that's basically it it was the fourth you know most of. the exact number of american casualties is not yet known victims also included citizens of ukraine venezuela kazakstan and germany a mostly working for private afghan airline political consultant lou rockwell believes that the u.s. military presence is aggravating the situation in afghanistan. already talked about

sending in more troops and more planes and other weapons so i think this is just a further unfortunate back down from the campaign promises he made he said some very good things about getting out of afghanistan that the u.s. had no business there and then of course as soon as he was elected he switched and is now stepping up the war in afghanistan the afghan government itself said that it would only last a few months if the u.s. pulled out there's a hint that the afghan government maybe they ought to go with the u.s. troops and have new people come in so that why why is the u.s. killing all these people spending trillions of dollars in afghanistan to have a very unpopular government in power. terrible these people were killed i don't think we have any idea how many afghan civilians have been killed in the seventeen years with this war the u.s. needs to get out get out of afghanistan get out of syria what the needs to be done

here at home leave other peoples alone leave their countries alone stop killing people all over the world and expecting to be loved. now in a sculpture by an american artist to commemorate the victims of the twenty fifteen paris terror attacks is drawing heavy criticism in france not only over its meaning but also in shape and choice of location to is planned to be in stillwater next to take a modem art museum in paris and as you can see it is that giant and holding up by the lanes however it will block the view from there of the iconic eiffel tower in response artists and activists have written an open letter demanding that the project is scrapped. the final look of the peace for me has nothing to do with what happened to the but for me it's going to be used only that people will may selfies in front of it and i don't i don't see the visually for me when i look at it i know that this was

a hunch to victims i don't feel that at all it's not even in the area of that but a glance or shall have been sleeping gauging public opinion in the french capital. this is where the sculpture would be installed there would be a huge hand for truth out of the ground grasping at twelve to lips with this view of the eiffel tower behind it which some say will be ruined as a result and while it's clear that some in paris do not appreciate this gesture what's the view on the street so colorful it's nice to be different really stand out other markets so it's a modern horrid europe under the artists is showing his vision why not it's a good thing cheerful and full of color it's better than the stuff you memorial for the dead than the gesture is very very kind of fits and whether or not that school is fit for the people that lost their lives it's

a little bit weird also to be donated by in america an architect maybe maybe it should be a french one and remembering those people is. a really good idea but probably was something a little bit different if you saw a major what would it make you think of disneyland i think this better way have a membrane people have died and then terrible attacks and that's not the scope i would say for controversial reasons it's a nice culture but when you want to associate it with that day and what happened then. yeah i probably wouldn't leave no bones of the artwork include the u.s. ambassador to france who's been spearheading this gift idea and the mayor of paris however so far it seems that the french on scene and many people on the streets of paris just don't appreciate this piece of american martin aunt charlotte

even ski auti paris. thanks for the company this afternoon will be back with more news for you the top of the next hour don't forget plenty of stories to look at so you on our social media pages and you can. then you don't. see the teacher try to get a court to do. what can you not through only ten space. left alone kelly said. claiming to know servant is messy that a. few speak french. most. of the family think he was sent down for what's new this morning. exposing them to accept his calls. on.

a plate for many clubs over the years so i know the game inside guides. the ball isn't only about what happens on the pitch for the final school it's about the passion from the families it's the age of the shaper money kill you narrowness and spending to get the twenty million one player. it's an experience like nothing else not to because i want to share what i think what i know about the beautiful game played great so well with. the base it's going to. as you read the stand and hear from us and. move from one. of our good armor on our show i think there are rather tough it out before for them

to get it out. i'm going to let him but i don't cut him then you cut and kick and. i don't think is a childish troll fault that it. was then our modeling on the show little subtle it does show that they owned model. number set up around the hey fun of doing. good for its whole food place choice the i knew you haven't failed to chime in syria has said. is she ought to give up somewhere else for that in africa will fuck around with mr hate for jim and then boil for hope that our family. feeds them.

hello and welcome to cross talk where all things are considered i'm peter lavelle days ago the u.s. secretary of defense james mattis updated and revived america's global defense strategy it is a dark vision of the world and calls for a massive defense spending what he calls a defense strategy critics say is a blueprint for wars without it. cross talking endless wars i'm joined by my guest michael de la hosts in washington he is a professor of strategy at the johns hopkins university also in washington we have christopher he is

a former army police sergeant iraq war veteran and contributor to the hill newspaper and in personal we crossed to philip giraldi he is a former cia counterterrorism specialist who is now executive director of the council for the national interest or a generally girls in effect that means you can jump in anytime you wanted i always appreciated philip let me go to you first and percival i read the report and i and i will repeat what i said in my introduction i found it to be rather dark vision of the world is less about defense strategy then preserving or advancing had gemini around the world and i find it remarkably lacking in any kind of discussion of international law go ahead philip. well yes i mean international law did not enter into it yeah it is not a as it describes itself a defense strategy it's an often strategy and essentially what it does it takes away any genuine threats against the united states and against the american people like isis and it's it shifts the defense burden on to being competitive with other

countries in the world most specifically russia and china and the centrally it creates. a case if you want to call it that for spending vast amounts of more money on defense basically to promote american interests which have nothing whatsoever to do with defending the country ok well that was my reading as well michael weigh in on that ok of course that i think we would all agree that the united states has the an adversarial relationship with russia and china i can accept they all have their own national interests and they will pursue them however the way shifting away from terrorism taking away even talk of the climate i got this feeling reading of what we're going back into the nineteenth century of great power struggles here but difference is these powers have nuclear weapons go ahead michael. well this is

primarily an exercise in strategic rhetoric and as such it lays out a kind of highly aggressive ceremonial strategy what you might call a fierce face strategy and that is simply because the u.s. has entered a historical period where its leadership is declining and will eventually find itself say like spain did in the early seventeenth century in a position where it can no longer orchestrate the kind of hedge i'm on expand this that hit had come to define itself on and so my sense is the u.s. is staking out highly aggressive histrionics and theater in order to maintain others fear and in order to cloak the increasing insecurity that we feel because as as you said peter

although we are pursuing a kind of endless war strategy as spain found out in the seventeenth century endless war feeds on itself and at the very end of that you're kind of used up and that's where we are now we're entering into a kind of twilight period that may last as long as it did for spain as long as forty years before we finally give up and say well we can't do this anymore ok chris or let me read some of the words from james mattis when he was introducing the report here but i found quite bewildering here to those who threaten america's experiment in democracy if you challenges you it will be your longest and worst day so what does this have to do with national security i mean who is attacking america's democracy other than the democratic party cheating bernie sanders and possibly the d.o.j. trying to undermine in

a legally elected president of united states i find it really quite galling that the defense secretary is talking about democracy when one can make the supposition that it's very challenge in the u.s. itself go ahead chris. sure i think that you know secretary madison is a marine he understands war i understand war and i think that taking this position he's asserting himself he's establishing a tenner on the on the global stage and we're just sort of stating the obvious that these are global powers on the on the end of a long history i mean post world war two the main power players have in some ways stayed the same but the u.s. role has expanded i actually look at this a little bit differently in reverse and i think we want to the u.s. is focusing on nucular deterrence and the idea of this strategy is focused back on deterring nuclear powers namely north korea from continuing to be aggressive while reducing endless war i think we've seen i think russia and the united states as both seen the experience of endless combat with forces that are sort of magic

things like isis you know we there's ways to control those without having those endless conflicts so it's a recalibration focused on principled security networks in asia and preventing those kinds of conflicts and yes china and russia are powerful nation states they're sovereign and and those who are the traditional you know sort of power players and so we're just focused on the basics ok you know philip can i read to you some more own words from the from the secretary quote we will develop it during coalitions to consolidate gains we have made gains i repeat gains we've made in afghanistan iraq syria and elsewhere to support the lasting defeat of tears as we sever their sources of strength and counter bear about iran i mean gaines i don't know what he's talking about whatsoever the candidate trump said that he didn't want to go down the path of nation building well the united states now is involved in nation building in part of syria ok that it path is being continued here i can't

see any gains in the countries that i just mentioned i don't know what he's talking about. you know i don't either i think that he's completely delusional if there's another comment in the report or by mattis where he said the report basically says and confusion by the russians chinese and iranians between civic issues and military issues now what country in the world has has confused civic and military issues more than the united states so i really don't get this i think that there's certainly have been no gains nothing but disasters in those countries that he cited and there's other stuff in this report i'm sorry it's not a conventional allaying gallup of american strategy moving forward. it's this is more so a a a ticket for mischief on the part of the. administration and if there's a if we go to the issue of nuclear weapons obviously nuclear weapons should be

a major issue and there's a common here that basically says that to you in the report that the united states . when confronted with with the issues of national importance like the standard of living of americans will be able to use nuclear weapons in a first strike capacity and this is quite incredible stuff and that's a good in that kit includes countries that do not have those kinds of weapons i would like to point out is well ok michael you know i'm really kind of confused here is that and i want to ask the same question of christopher is it is this donald trump's foreign policy because it's very it's stark contrast to what he ran on ok everything that's going on right now from from yemen to syria again. in being targeted here i mean it seems to be such a continuation there doesn't seem to matter who's the president to be united states

it's the deep state that decides who our enemies are and how those they will be dealt with a. ok because i discovered i can't the contrast is so great that i've never seen it from a candidate to a president in my lifetime go ahead michael. well candidates get captured when they move from the campaign and from their own voice however authentic or inauthentic it is and then they get a subservient into the imperial worldview of the imperial city and the courtiers or the deep state if you want to call it that instead reshape their worldview and in many ways the over arching sensibility in washington today in terms of strategy is one of tremendous anxiety and insecurity now and so a grandstanding strategy a grandstanding strategy that looks like it's doing things that looks aggressive like the war on isis it's all a wonderful kind of demonstration and display the u.s.

is not going to risk a big war with either china or russia but it will grandstand hence the ten thousand or so barrett fifty caliber sniper rifles to ukraine is grandstanding the same with rocket man in north korea it's a way of the u.s. boasting forcefully but what i would bring home i think is the contrast between forceful boasting of trump and the very much more successful forceful boasting of teddy roosevelt and the difference is that teddy roosevelt was announcing america's debut on the world stage and america had forty percent of the world's manufacturing today it's absolutely the opposite in terms of trends and direction ok let me go to christopher christie year in iraq war veteran i mean if i could just ask you personally i mean it seems like we have a continuation of this many.