treaty with russia gate. investigation of which after a year and a half we have no evidence whatsoever and now what we've got is actually evident. could a backlash on the democrats absolutely i think that's the primary that's the fundamental reason why they do not one to release it really puts in the question this entire investigation it shows at least indications that could be further investigated but from the initial appearance severe bias with senior levels of our law enforcement agencies i think what he's concerned about here i personally don't think anything in the memos probably is that embarrassing yes is that again will it threaten national security i don't think so so the classification is probably more because it's sensitive information and the president has the authority to release that. germany's domestic intelligence chief is

raising the alarm over children of islamic state fighters that have been brought to germany he says the youngsters are living time bombs that can be used in terror plots inside the country or disputer all over as more. well hun's the old muhsin said the children all german parents who went off to join isis in iraq syria pose a potential security threat when or if they return back here to germany in fact he went as far as to refer to them in some cases as a ticking time bombs they were confronted early with islamic state ideology learn to fight and were in some cases forced to participate in the abuse of prisoners or even the killing of prisoners we have to consider that these children could be living time bombs there is a danger that these children come back brainwashed with a mission to carry out attacks or mustn't also went on to say that there was a whole network of online isis headhunters looking to recruit and radicalize potentially vulnerable children islamic state uses headhunters who scour the

internet for children to can be approached and tries to radicalize these children were recruited children for terrorist attacks it's no wonder that germany is concerned the country has seen a number of mine is involved in terrorist attacks over the last couple of years most notably there was a case back in twenty sixteen when a twelve year old boy tried to blow up a christmas market in the west of the country and the german government figures showed that around a thousand people left the country to go and joy in isis now around one third of those have returned back to germany but the government also points out they have no way of knowing how many children are being born to those those germans that went off to join isis and how many potentially could come back to the country and pose a threat but that prompted mohsin to say that he thought that the security services should be given the right to launch surveillance operations against mine is in

germany that's anybody under the age of fourteen years old that though of course comes with its own issues a particularly sensitive topic talking about launching why it tops and other types of surveillance operation against children that young. concerns over the return of i sold children are also shared by a top counterterrorism officer in the u.k. he is warning yvette ignoring the risks may pose they pose may be a problem in the future some terror groups are training children to commit atrocities we need to not just understand the risk the mother poses but the risk that any child poses as well look at them on a keys by keys basis and they may be arrested we discussed this with stephen morris from the english democrats party and mohamed shafiq chief executive of the ramadan foundation who shared their views on the issue. we always have this like little cuddly thing of children where we can do no wrong and then obviously when they do

some wrong it's all we can do this we can do that to try and help them go to bear in mind these are children that are trained to kill they are not just good in a mock in a street bin antisocial these of a direct agenda agenda is to kill as many people as possible so we do have to clamp down on this our security services and police are doing a tremendous amount of work to a dentist five who those children are and what risk those children or their parents pause to the united kingdom and i think it's. it's too early to speculate about the circumstances of these children these are children they didn't make the choice. to call and live in syria it was their parents and we should not punish the children for the actions of the crimes of the parents i'm quite clear in terms of human rights universal of human rights that we should welcome them but of human rights

that we should welcome them back and help them rebuild their life where we can help them but we should help them over there we don't have to bring them here this is where the you and nato of really massively failed because they should have a buffer zone as they should have set up safe zones around the syria get these children into these areas look after them trying to reeducate them. but know what you've got a you've got to do want people to bring them over here let them walk free while the been assessed well know. the walking through it but we don't live in the law of the jungle it's not more brutal we live in a country where we value the rule of law and where we have people in this case these children who have been forced to syria by their parents these children haven't taken that decision and they're not in no legal state to consent to be sent to be taken to syria that they are british. since our we as a government as a society and as a country have a duty of care towards the children in the u.k.

anybody below the age of eighteen you actually classed as a child a fourteen fifteen sixteen year old or seventeen year old can just go around the streets with a knife. like anybody else you know so they are as big a threat is anybody you know you cannot you say just because they were under the age of eighteen this can go into the age of forty that they are no longer a threat because the us they in themselves are victims of isis and their crimes have been returned to do you k. i'm hoping that they'll get psychological help for the trauma that they've seen and the terrorism and oppression that they've witnessed whilst living in syria that they've gone through the process of the vertical position to see that they are a threat to anybody in this country and this state and if having been through that to process they are found to have recovered and cleared then then actually that's a good opportunity to welcome them back in the united kingdom so that they can make a positive contribution to our society if it turns out that they are revolving

extremism and they are very involved in terrorism then we need to do as much work as possible to develop a closed them and to protect them protect themselves from such an evil ideology. murder rates in the u.s. city of baltimore skyrocketed in two thousand and seventeen with fifty six killings per one hundred thousand people a new record in a city that already has a reputation for being dangerous and crime ridden. few cities in body american urban decay more depressingly than the city of baltimore baltimore struggles with a record high murder rate. murder is out of control. yes baltimore there is a robust active crime strategy.

it all comes as baltimore has been rocked by the ongoing trials and one of america's biggest police corruption scandals the gun trace task force an elite group of plainclothes officers who were supposed to be reducing violence and crime however it now seems that they were actually adding to it six out of eight members of the group have pleaded guilty to charges of organized crime including extortion and a drug dealing are to use as. commentary. the

baltimore police department is now involved in one of the biggest scandals and u.s. law enforcement history for months now the court system has been trying to investigate corruption within the city's police force eight officers are on trial over drug trafficking racketeering robbery and planting fake evidence like drugs and. we would create false reports to cover up the robberies we were involved in. it was like a way of life were got to weigh with a lot of things if proven guilty the officers and may face twenty to one hundred years in prison and six of them have already pleaded guilty and are now acting as witnesses in hopes of softening the moving verdict and their lawyers claim the officer spilled guilt over what they've done mr jenkins is extremely remorseful he's been remorseful for a long time even before these charges were brought and he's relieved that today finally he was publicly able to accept responsibility are their clients sorry for

what they did or should. be so you see regretful of what what happened i really don't have any comment meanwhile officers cases continue to be dismissed with hundreds under review and most of them involve incidents of officer switching off their body cameras to plant drugs or guns and then reenact seizing the evidence they had already planted the man whose family was killed in the nato bombing of libya is talking the excuse me taking the airlines to court we've got that story much more for you after but international.

stay or imposing their sanctions we just start developing our domestic capabilities topping our internal resources member how during the previous u.s. administration they said that the russian economy will be in. but pointing to falling oil prices and sanctions and all that stuff. are we in shambles now quite the opposite. of the mac this is our international pentagon has acknowledged that it conducted an

unsuccessful missile defense test on wednesday the missile was launched from land and failed to intercept an incoming target launched from an aircraft over hawaii pentagon spokesperson confirmed the incident yesterday during a press briefing it did not meet our objectives but we'll learn something all the time with these tests and we'll learn something from this one and will continue to improve our capabilities earlier i was joined by michael maloof a former pentagon official he said that creating a workable missile defense is an extremely challenging task and have to be improved . they have a lot of bugs and you've got to consider too that when you're shooting and shooting a missile like this it's like to hit a bullet with another bullet and even these tests that they did occur were under very controlled conditions and the yet there were failure this is the second failure since june i believe and if the north koreans for example were to do a swarm approach with four or five missiles at a time it would absolutely overload the system so something's going to get through

the system itself needs a lot of work and we're talking about technology levels that are still in the infant stage so they're going to they have a lot of tweaking to do a lot of research and development that needs to be done and it may include technologies and involve technologies that are not quite ready to be to be made operational and frankly this is extremely expensive and given the budget constraints that are coming from the other end so policymakers are really going to have to double down and figure out a plan and execute that plan and it's not happening right now. in libyan man who lost his whole family in a nato air raid is planning to take his fight for justice to the european court of human rights he says the lions have dropped two bombs on his house and during its military intervention in the country in two thousand and eleven. now we demand that

we need to explain why our house and houses were showing all the military targets i don't understand why nato targeted our house sadly my dear wife died as well as my cousins my innocent children our neighbors our friends were there with those it was a monstrous crime that nato has the latest equipment and technology which allows them to accurately determine the targets. across struck specifically at night when people were in their home they intentionally hit civilian targets hospitals schools gas stations they destroyed all the infrastructure while they were killing civilians and destroying civilian infrastructure apparently knowing there were no weapons though. we can see on the map where the nato attack took place as mentioned thirteen people were killed in the bombardment including three children and he says his house may have been targeted because his father was a general who served under libya's former leader moammar gadhafi but says it was

just a family home and not a legitimate target he began his battle for justice back in two thousand and twelve but has faced an uphill struggle to actually get his case heard in court nato which enjoys a degree of legal immunity in such cases argues that it had no intelligence suggesting civilians were in the house at the time of the strike however he says his lawyers have now found a way of challenging the protections afforded to the alliance and he hopes his case will set a precedent for others who also lost their families. when we gathered our families in different parts of libya we found a man whose wife and daughter and son as well as his mother died during the shelling there were other families in other cities a lot of families we compiled a report from all identified victims after having documented in photograph the materials so that this case could become a historical precedent. all right because of for me and i will be back in

a short bit after a short break with more news stay with us. turkey's decision to invade northern syria has foreign policy implications far beyond the middle east what are anchor his objectives in syria and the region does it to silicate or hinder a final peace settlement to syria's proxy civil war and what is turkey's future in nato. this is says harlan kentucky. boys if you go very funny. a co money city it was almost no coal mines left. the jobs are gone all the coal

miners are said that. these people the survivors of a world disappearing before their eyes. i remember thinking when i was younger that if anything ever happened to the coal mines here that it would become a ghost town but i never thought in a million years i would see that and it's happened it's happened. ratings and salutations this week as memos or the baited e-mails argued over and we come to the cold harsh realization that soon we will no longer be able to

watch the shape changing gray creature sitting atop representative trey gowdy as head. of the mist creature let us not forget and all the fun that according to the bulletin of the atomic science of the doomsday clock well we are just two minutes from midnight the closest we've been to potential nuclear war since one thousand fifty three which was the peak of the cold war and while many and while there are many factors that play into setting the time on the doomsday clock one of the biggest has been the rising tensions between the united states and north korea and fittingly the war of words and militaristic posturing continued this week as president the donald took the stage for his first state of the union address on tuesday evening after laying out the dire threat to the u.s. homeland and the rest of the world that north korea represents from declared from the day s. we need only look at the dupré of the character of the north korean regime to understand the nature of the nuclear threat it could pose to america meanwhile on

the other side of the world north korea and their leader kim jong woon release their white paper on human rights violations in u.s. in two thousand and seventeen the paper essentially calls out some of the bigger problems facing the united states today from homeliest homelessness to health care to president donald trump and his cabinet of billionaires from conglomerates pointing out that the racial violence that took place in charlottesville virginia on august twelfth is a typical example of the acme of the current administration's policy of racism. so as the clock ticks closer and the rhetoric cuts deeper i think it's time to start watching the hallmarks. but what if you get the. real thing with. the bottom. like you know that i got. this.

week six. welcome to the watch of the hawks i have a tie rope with her and on top of the law. it's a hard it's. to sit and see i have to sit there and go yeah you're right it is not entirely wrong it's tough it's really hard because it's like when you know you don't want to sit there and we all know that you know north korea is bad we know the dangers of kim jong il and we know the horrible news for you know while people wept and you know people live there and things like that right isolated and and all of that we know all that sure but when you know north korea releases a paper like this and you're going down the list of you know grievances and trust of these they say the u.s. committed and

a lot of things on that list. you know you talk about on a nightly show or you've discussed with your friends or you know have come up in conversation before and you realize wow kim jong un is wrong about this particular about these particular issues these are real issues that the u.s. is facing the that we should be. realistic. but this is it's not just about being ashamed and i think that's the problem is that american diplomatic policy for quite a while has now been shaming we're just the same police we run around should you should be ashamed of yourself have you no shame you know it's all of this well there are worse there is this and in the in the instance of the russian federation i think that a lot of bigotry gets allowed because it's a white country so it's ok now when you look at somewhere like north korea it's kind of amazing how easy it has been for both right and left wing media to dehumanised them down to just a little dolls it's like even use we're all caught inside north korea is bad. and

we catch ourselves like why did i say that what do i really know about north korea do i care about the people because what i hear is it's all about kim jong un and i think there was kind of brilliant even if it is a form of what about islam for him to say. you have problems i have i have problems we're not denying we have problems but. i think what he's saying is are you the country to be making decisions about this you're going to drop bombs on me for what i do but. how can you point the finger at me when there were. and when you look at. some of the things that they listed out. build important posts in his administration with billionaires and their mouthpieces who had contributed to his election campaign. that's not just that's that's pretty much everyone. going back and that's what i mean diplomats are actually people who are public servants. in the diplomatic corps that are not their political appointees.

in this white paper point out the intervention in the crackdown on the press has grown more intense as it has intensified over the past one year i would say the government. crackdown. that's not just a one year thing that has a history that has a presence that's something that we can point the finger at without saying who were little guilty ourselves and that's the thing is that's why we do the show i think one of the many reasons look i don't the united states i want to make the united states a better place i believe in the country that i was born and i live but what i see these things i hate the fact that. can point to the u.s. and say you do this and i can argue with you. i guess that is what about it but it's factual it's not as if you're saying well what about this and it didn't happen this isn't one of the situations he's listing things that are an issue things like twenty seventeen the homeless population in the numbers five hundred fifty four

thousand people that's half a million people that we've just forgotten about. school expenses. plunging student loans which is something that a lot of places don't understand why we have things like that you would have to pay in a free country. where it's public education it's a public university but you can afford to pay for it and. i would w. suggest go out and take a look at what they put out obviously you know it's a war of words between donald and kim jong least look at it so you can say you know what i need to know what other people are saying about my country and it rings true if you've seen those problems to then you have to start working to make them go away work to stop them work to get rid of the five hundred some odd almost we have your. according to the very institute nine hundred seventy there were a mere eight thousand women incarcerate in the united states in two thousand and fourteen that number has increased to approximately one hundred and ten thousand an

increase of one thousand two hundred and seventy five percent while men's incarceration rose only two hundred percent and now the world prison report by the burbeck university's institute for criminal policy research in london has found that we in the us are number one again in female prison incarceration which has risen around the world by fifty three percent since the year two thousand worldwide the countries with the largest female prison populations are the us right at the top with over two hundred eleven women in prison china with over one hundred thousand that was suspected to be much higher than reported the freshened federation with forty eight thousand brazil with forty four thousand and thailand with forty one thousand women incarcerated the twenty five jurisdictions with the highest rates of incarcerated women are all american states in addition while five percent of the world's female population lives in the last the us accounts for

nearly thirty percent of the world's incarcerated women twice as many as china and four times that of russia so have women become more violent has the scourge of feminism driven females across the world to become hardened antisocial criminals actually according to the very institute report overlooked women in jails and the air of reform. more than eighty one percent of incarcerated women are locked up for nonviolent offenses thirty two percent of women in jail are there for property offenses twenty nine percent for drug offenses and nearly twenty one percent for public order offenses they also concluded that women often become involved with the justice system as a result of efforts to cope with life changing challenges such as poverty unemployment and significant physical or behavioral health struggles including those related to past histories of trauma mental illness or substance abuse so if the world looks to america for moral and ethical guidance then why are we in the u.s. telling the world that poor sick victimized and oppressed women don't deserve

a fair shot at life. that is a great question i want to look at the report. you listed up the numbers of incarcerated people look at that again that was amazing the amount of around the world when you really see the difference that i think was the use of the us was two hundred eleven to honor and i let out as many women incarcerated. one hundred seventy five of roger forty four that boggles my mind that many people and certain areas of the world there's a reason for that in places like brazil and in central and south america there are a lot of. abortion laws or a lot of female reproductive laws that women get to prison for having a miscarriage. understand that there is some really ridiculous laws yes that end up putting women in prison for these nonviolent ridiculous offenses or a lot of it has to do with they didn't couldn't make bond or didn't have the money to get to an appointment with their parole officer and then they're sent back at

most the time spent and for misdemeanors for not showing up at a parole violation. in a perfect world you know jailing people would be the last resort but i think what we're seeing both federal and local jails and prisons are increasing the incarceration numbers of. the private prisons. plays a huge role. you know what's really interesting though having to research. there's a rose august i believe pardon me teresa of in a geo called clean start in kenya she actually has the experience of being incarcerated herself and she told the nation magazine the quote it starts with a lack of economic opportunities which pushes these women to the petty survival crimes the broken health system the bro criminal system the broken social justice system of any of these poor women fall through any of these cracks the bottom of that chasm is a prison and that's and that someone who's looking at that from the time she spent

in one jury and prison so we're looking at the same issues ultimately at the core and when you look at the women who are in jail we're not talking about serial killers and violent offenders and rapists people that yes ok we will put them in jail because but we're talking about you you bring it up small like petty so this is really patty stuff that shouldn't be there and what we don't realize is what an effect of how you forget that seventy nine percent of women in prison are mothers or mothers with children there is little to no prenatal care in prisons and if they do have it it's not good in addition pregnant women in most states are shackled during the labor process if they're in prison and their children are with the babies or return them twenty four to forty eight hours after they're born and that's it they don't have contact with them and because of the cost often of traveling to and having visits it's hard for women to have been see their children on top of it most prisons have rules about no touching so you can't touch your child even though you know you're doing this this has a long term effect on families eighty six per cent of women in jail report having

experienced sexual violence in their lifetime these are rape survivors molestation survivors nearly half of all single black and hispanic women possess zero or negative net wealth and those make up the majority of women in prison and i'm slacking to make sure that women are tolerant to is and it's all over the races that it's classic. entire system is absolutely racist in classes when you tell me that when the largest number of women are for misdemeanor crimes and they're mostly black latino or hispanic and then they're sitting there in this situation and getting put in jail for a ridiculous reason and i think people got to pay attention to that number the women's women are being put in jail and a higher rate than men right now that's a number that needs to change and i think that's a number that needs to be investigated get a follow up even more on that in the future a little right as we go to break watchers don't forget to let us know what you think of the topics you've covered on facebook and twitter to your full shows at r.t. dot com coming up we welcome the one.