rogue regimes terrorist groups and rivals like china and russia that challenge our interests our economy and i have advice in confronting these horrible dangers we know that weakness is the surest path to conflict and matched power is the surest means to our true and great effects i was just a watching our mainstream coverage earlier in the only criticism that had wellies foreign policy wise was that he was apparently too soft on russia and you know the united states requires to have major enemies to justify the seven hundred billion dollar defense budget which is actually one point one trillion if you break it down so these are all important noises for the president to make the state of the union to sort of shore up support from the defense bloc as it were to chinese it does ring a bit cold war ish to russia however we're beyond cold in terms of the cold war

the rhetoric is much more aggressive much more ricin for us the agenda is much more pernicious and it's become a centerpiece of u.s. partisan politics the whole russia gate issue. also announced he had signed an executive order to keep the guantanamo bay detention center open and that is despite get more becoming a tourist for various human rights abuses including torture trumps the predecessor barack obama vowed to disclose the facility back in two thousand and nine but never delivered on that promise. in the past we have foolishly released hundreds and hundreds of dangerous. only to meet again on the battlefield including the isis leader. who we captured who we had who we released. so today i'm keeping another promise i just shot. prior to walking in an order directing secretary

to reexamine our military detention policy and to keep open the detention facilities in guantanamo bay i thank you when i came into power he said not only that he believes torture works he's going to fill guantanamo the only reason why i can say this is because there's no precedent for people being prosecuted for war crimes and i think it's important that this would praise the said the war crimes carried out in kuantan a move by graham and all the other detention for the cities by the americans in fact recently now for the first time i think in recent history the i.c.c. the international criminal court is finally investigating some of the abuses that the americans carried out in afghanistan and perhaps later in kuantan them and it's an unprecedented move so to be saying that at a time when this investigation is taking place that i'm going to keep want on

a more open is an affront to the very notion of justice. donald trump's a speech to congress contained rhetoric about was uncannily reminiscent of that of a previous president george w. bush or his killer martin as more. trump is working very hard to convince us that he's not a bush era neo con war hawk republican obviously the war in iraq was a big fat mistake they lied ok they said there were weapons of mass destruction there was none and they knew there were none there were no weapons of mass ok. when it comes to north korea his state of the union speech sounded an awful lot like the leader he had previously denounced no regime has oppressed its own citizens or totally than the cruel dictatorship in north korea this is a regime that has already used poison gas to murder thousands of its own citizens north korea's reckless pursuit of nuclear missiles seeking weapons of mass

destruction. these regimes pose a grave and growing danger i will not repeat the mistakes of past administration will not stand by as peril draws closer and closer we're going to read some key phrases to new yorkers and ask them was it bush or was it trump we need to look at the deprived character of the regime to understand the nature of the nuclear threat it could pose to america and our allies. actually trump talking about north korea. right i'll go bush. trump right that's trump trusting in the sanity and restraint of this world leader is not a strategy and it is not an option trump it's actually bush somebody talking about . bush also yeah. bush actually trump said that he wanted to stop toppling regimes and start putting america first but with words like these

a lot of americans have to be asking themselves are we headed for yet another big fat mistake this time with nukes involved tale of mop and artsy new york. the russian hacking group fancy bears is claiming the canadian olympic committee covered up a positive doping test of its national ball ball champion prior to the rio olympics earlier my colleague nicky aaron discussed the details with artie's in the interim . well it looks like an raising e-mail exchange supposedly between the people from the canadian olympic committee and also their national body that is responsible for sports ethics some pretty disappointing tactics in there it looked like attempts to play down an anti-doping rule violation and some quirky damage control around the summer olympics in rio and here is the athlete at the center of this what can you tell us about him well it's all of the case of the former pole vault champion from

canada his name is shawn barber prior to rio he had tested positive for cocaine but instead of being thrown out of the olympics after several and terminal disciplinary proceedings with that in canada he was allowed to go and moreover this case was hidden from the international olympic committee for a while the see you see he was not permitted to disclose sean sue wish and prior to or during the games we do not condone this behavior sean has apologized for his mistake and poor judgment. now for a moment just bear in mind all the treatment that the russian olympic athletes have been getting and listen to how shawn barber was cleared basically what he did was claimed at the hearings that he had inhaled or ingested the cocaine during a sexual intercourse with someone he called a professional woman she found him allegedly on

a craigslist ad and the cocaine was transferred when a kiss happened so canadian officials were happy to let him go and keep the i.o.c. in the dark about this by the way just for your information the pole vaulter came out as gay a few months after the olympics and said that he was proud of it very interesting i presume the i.o.c. has taken a saloon very seriously well i can tell you it was too late to take this seriously they couldn't do anything about that when they found out but apparently some people at the i.o.c. weren't so happy with the situation president thomas bought allegedly the called the ruling a decision that was influenced by national interests but in the meantime if we go back to the e-mails some top canadian sports officials appear to have been trying to do everything to make sure that this case doesn't get any further attention

and clued ng legal attention and if you look at the wording it suggests that anyone who's concerned or anyone who's just even trying to ask questions about this is doing something terribly wrong it does not seem right that this is being suggested publicly would have found an independent bruces determine the athlete was a new fools in this case. and the i.o.c. had the right to appeal the decision of the time and none of them did well this is a point where i once again want to mention all the russian olympic fans well everyone has their own understanding of the words double standards. we discussed the issue with a professor of sociology at aston university ellis cashmore he believes there is a double standard at work given that russia's athletes were banned even without testing positive for doping what is novel of course is this apparent

relaxation of the warders rule of strict liability warders premise with all its other kind of rules regarding drugs is that the individual athlete is soley responsible for his or her own bodies if you're in a bar and somebody spiked shore drink your responsible for it even if you'd left your drink on guarded while you went to the toilet or something like that or turned your back you or the perpetrator of the crime russian athletes have been banned from competing even without giving any kind of positive don't test at all being guilty by association so there is this kind of striking difference between the treatment that russian athletes are being given and those that have been afforded to north american athletes with the olympics looming only one hundred sixty nine russians will be invited to compete out of almost five hundred initially put on the list russian president vladimir putin has apologized to the athletes saying that

the country failed to protect them but you know better than anyone else how hard it is to gain victories and how much effort you need and it's two times harder when you score it is mixed with events unfamiliar to sport politics we apologize for not managing to protect you from that party spoke exclusively to a number of russian athletes who heard from the president. so you're going to there's a certain amount of pressure on all of us of course it's quite a complicated situation i really want to do my best one to overcome my anxiety and distance myself from all the sturdy media is causing around us now i want to address our fans i want them to be more kind and to keep supporting us no matter what i need to forget about our desire to win forget that everyone is against us and just continue doing our job. within ourselves we know what country were present it matters what we feel not what we wear just really look we have hard feelings for

those who weren't allowed to participate even though they were innocent and maybe we're still a bit angry about. us afghan as afghan and u.s. forces have increased in their attacks against militant strongholds in afghanistan civilians are finding themselves caught in the crossfire in their own homes. islamic state militants came here the government then dropped off a leaflet to warn us so we fled our village then the americans were martyred and destroyed these houses we demand the government help us. the three villages who were killed did not belong to i saw all the taliban they were in their houses during the bombardment a man a woman and their son were killed in that incident. we were on our way villagers said the u.s. forces were coming here then we continue our trip tour it's a central district during this time they bombed us there were eleven of us and

vehicle on the i survived theater ten people including my appearance in cousin were all killed the latest is to to take from the u.s. air force makes the situation abundantly clear during the last year the united states docked more than four thousand bombs on afghanistan and since august the u.s. has carried out twice as many airstrikes as in the previous two years combined american military forces insist they take every precaution to avoid civilian casualties robert naiman policy director at just foreign policy joined us earlier with his analysis. there's no way to do this kind of bombing without producing civilian casualties the main problem is the escalation the fact that the trumpet ministration has no political diplomatic strategy to end the war just more violence it's been sixteen years the trauma administration has decided by administrations before it to continue kicking the can down the road the thing that

needs to change nobody wants a no us politician certainly not the president it's one of the last one before want to take responsibility for the past the implications of acknowledging that the u.s. that taliban cannot be defeated militarily therefore there has to be a political diplomatic solution the status quo is guaranteed to produce more on a serious civilian deaths accomplishing absolutely nothing. israeli legal activists have filed a lawsuit against two new zealanders one of them is jewish that is because apparently influenced the pop star lord to cancel a plan to get in tel aviv. late last year the new zealand pop star law would announce that she was canceling a performance that she was scheduled to have given here in tel aviv in june of this year now it seems as if her announcement was made following an open publication of acorn by two new zealanders urging her to boycott the country lord posted her

response on her twitter feed noted been speaking with many people about this and considering our options thank you for advocating me i am learning all the time to now is really activists are suing those two new zealanders in what appears to be the first lawsuit filed under it controversial israeli anti boycott law the law goes back to two thousand and eleven and it could open the door to civil lawsuits against those calling for a boycott of his role including of lands it's occupied if it can be proven that that call knowingly a lid to a boycott now the noise part of the israeli government's way to try and deal with the boycott sanctions and disinvestment movement there has been growing traction against israel in recent years it does allow the courts to impose damages against defendants now critics of the law of course argue that it stifles freedom of speech

and freedom of expression. after much anticipation from football firms the english club leeds united unveiled its new badge only to receive floods of criticism quite quickly give them and is now living supporters trues a different design made public world.

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i want to show people in russia that there is a knob there a point of view of this is the goal of my complaint i know you can't win on the elections where only point it always wins for there is no thought of talking what would be if i would win i will. never win on the elections like. where covering a week. they were going on the ground as top e.u. officials hosts an extraordinary session in brussels to discuss donald trump's plans to got aid for vital u.n. programs in palestine coming up in a show that's tourism

a arrives in beijing today tory groan the u.k. lord select committee member board flight welcomes the government getting off its backside to forge a new post for exit opportunities in the communist people's republic and what is the u.k.'s role in this month's massive civilian death toll in afghanistan we speak to form a new political advisor in afghanistan words about the catastrophic legacy of decades of anglo u.s. war there plus in the headlines if you want to find a secret u.s. military base just follow the dog and the man from the feds who's run out of time although some are coming out today is going underground but first who are the black cats and who are the white hats the u.s. and u.k. intelligence agencies and governments want us to be against and for thousands have been killed in the conflict between british baqir forces and those living in donetsk in the hands following the nato backed coup d'etat in ukraine in twenty fourteen and just hours before the pope appealed for peace in the eastern ukraine

there has been renewed fighting in recent days one journalist who has tried to illuminate the real foundations of nato powers defacto backing fascism in europe's largest country is bob kerrey he died on saturday after a series of strokes and the founder of consortium news was always clear about ukraine. in being one of the front lines of what new i am chomsky calls the manufacture off consent i've been to a journalist in the city since one nine hundred seventy seven. i worked for the social depress the newsweek and public broadcasting's front line as well as starting consortium news dot com and as an investigative website. and i have to say that in all these years i can't think of a time when there has been a group thing as single minded as the one we've seen over the past year or so in the ukraine crisis when accepting the i.m.f.

stone medal for journalism at harvard perry was clear that after the pentagon papers and watergate successive u.s. administrations devised a strategy to combat so-called vietnam syndrome using black hatted villains to cajole a war weary us public and so wars would kill maim or displace millions across the middle east let alone us backed contra death squads attempts in the karada to exterminate the sandinistas black hats and white hats much of these same techniques used to create the black billons continues to the present everybody is how we treat everybody now saying was good we're seeing it with the saw it was you who we see it over and over and over again where there are people saying well yeah there are real problems of the part. there it is the whacked out turned out it was much easier for blacked out some people white because why

that sort of easy. part is for instance these guys aren't white. but it was easier to even artists and nice. than it was to me pointers and angels in the manichean world given to us by elite media some stories are decontextualized for instance this one's my. slaughter in afghanistan catalyzed of a decades by nature of nations and their backing for islamism the mojahedin white hats would you don't we become blackouts when morphed into al qaeda after nine eleven today on the last day of january twenty eight hundred the black hats communists of china will become white hats because u.k. minority government needed to resume its flying there to find out more on why she's going to beijing i'm joined now by britain's former tory shadow paymaster general lord flight lord flight welcome back to why is it taken prime minister to raise a may so long since the referendum to actually visit china and start talking about trade when i put it the other way around and i'd say that brics it has stimulated

her. to actually get on their bikes go out there meet the people and get some trade giving. briefly the superpower of the century i think she's had quite a lot on her plate as you will obviously be aware but i think the key point is that brics it is a sort of huge stimulant to the city and other parts of the british economy to actually get out there and see what business they can do what we don't obviously gossip like other programs like individuals particularly you have already written about something pretty concrete suggestions are going for china style or short term reasons visa free transit why are we not hearing this from the front bench but help . them actually rather agree i think is simply crackpot we we haven't put it into practice you just as lonely figure in the let's talk about china can do it we can do it all i would say i'm constructive in the. hope that my having raised it will

get it done is it because they just don't understand how business is done i think that they've got lots of things on their minds you said what about hong kong style new visa requirements for a short visit so the british you can do it and you can do it a number of different ways it's obviously need. it is and i hope it will be something that comes out of the china visit is the real reason why actual concrete proposals suggestions like that are coming from you a member of to all of the delegated powers regulatory reform committee in the north the reason why we don't getting this kind of information is i spent forty years in commerce i went all through china in seventy seven i even saw about a mouth so my history of commerce is perhaps a little wider than some others ok but why david davis liam fox these are people that arguably understand the point of bricks in the first place and that should be part of part of the liam fox agenda i mean david davis is doing

a specific different job but i'm sure it will be part of the fox agenda is the reason we're not hearing about it is because philip hammond injuries may remain oh i don't think so and i don't actually think the reason is really remain or how much i think he is but i don't think she is just free trade need a treaty at all i understand the point you're making which is just get on a straight in to an extent and a lot of areas you can and you know it's interesting that america gets on a list of stuff to the you about the single market because it's not retail goods and if we ended up going to be a route we could simply go what do we want to call to that but i think the the basic underlying point to your question is that while it's free trade it still needs to be healthily policed and you don't want treat cheating going on and therefore you need some rules. ok because to some the issues of sovereignty issues of free trade they don't seem to be discussed much at the moment it all seems to be about various elements of britain trying to get some kind of deal

norway canada deal i mean sure it is basically issues that are behind break even there it's the other way around which is that while we are a member of the there are various countries that we actually can't do free trade with because the the we're bound by the e.u. rules and they're actually preventing us getting on them and free trade with a number of different countries i think there is going to be huge scope to increase economic activity with other parts of the world as a result of brics it now i know you've been been very optimistic about the city of london in the post-breakfast future for britain what did you make of this kind of revelation that the city were promised some sort of paper by the government by david davis as to what would happen to the city of london now there's not even a date for c.e.o.'s of a bailed out city of london getting a position paper on it you'll find that nearly all businesses of any size city of

london are doing their own homework and employing their own experts to set out what the options are provided you leave the country and then also to all actually to actually how they should structure their business i mean the comment i particularly make to you is that when at the time of the referendum i was doing about fifteen different city seminars and things and i'm not surprisingly the organizations that j.p. morgan's were in they remain kept everything small them that was in the bricks at camp and they are being squeezed out of the single market quite deliberately because they can't afford the overhead costs of the regulation j.p. morgan and others who would remain exactly they can in the end i think was a nice older couple. ok well we're going to have jeremy call been much about saving the bailed out city everything that is really strange you really don't have anything from the labor party at all doesn't it a longstanding position of his as regards sovereignty to leave the european union

how do you know that there isn't a great secret breaks it unsaid. memo going around the city must not be allowed to zero tariffs it's coming from brussels as part of the brics and to go she asians after all these big banks all want to remain what the city will get is not yet clear and i certainly accept that my expectation is that it will ultimately be based on arrangements that are pretty similar and there's a lot of regulation in place for that to be the case already the christmas regulations you will get taught one way talk the other way the french will say you know we're not going to wait in the city you have single market privileges i might add actually if you look at the city's business in the you completely misunderstanding i mean the single market is only relevant to retail management industry everyone is already set up with luxembourg funds anyway it's certain aspects of banking but not particularly institutional banking and some aspects of

insurance but it's quite a small proportion of the total amount of city business where it is wholesale just like america today we trade with the e.u. just as america trades with the ok well either way we're going to hear much from as i said from the cold and from bench we also hear quite a lot about the european court of human rights however. find that surprising given that the left wing position i believe it the european convention on human rights as people must enjoy their property because court is exactly one of the first people to be asking about nationalizing yeah my point is that b. is that the court of justice we didn't struggle to have our own democracy for a thousand years of executing a monarch to be told what to do by european institutional majesty is what i should say this is no main. reason the main reason for brics. so you're saying basically i'm saying must get through i want to are i want talk to i don't see it as

appropriate for the u.k. to be bound by the findings of those courts we need our own courts to do that job david cameron of course announced recently that he's made his biggest career move and it's a chinese one billion dollar fund do you think he'll be helping drazen mailed a visit to china today will it be the other way around because apparently there were problems and it's fun to know i would actually think that he will help. i'm. sure that people go and i mean i think he's a very decent guy as a matter of fact and i think he also is a great believer of the national interest and i think he will do all he can to help around to help the country but how he's looking to raise a may negotiate with leaders within the chinese communist party if some people reporting that overeating please point to be a correct decision major is a major delay that chinese investment into that and it's being accused of not fully endorsing the belgian silk road initiative nothing two hundred billion dollars of infrastructure projects in europe and africa by the chinese communist party and

then she is appearing in beijing trying to say look i think i'm very i mean bluntly they can talk about it and she can tell them what we can afford and what we can't afford i mean my perception is that the u.k. has supported that project where america hasn't particularly we don't have bottomless pockets. in terms of the point. it certainly i think needed some looking at it from the chinese perspective as well i think that you are doing what the media is doing trying to stir up negatives the whole time and the good news and. what i want to say this that the brits have been educated by the british media to think that trump was a complete nutter and had to be removed as soon as possible having actually seen him on t.v. over the weekend they suddenly realize that he's already achieved a great deal and that he's got some enormous positives and i actually think that he and the reason may have the ability to have a partnership someone.