have long been considered by to be greek by the european union now the sovereignty issue united back in december one thousand nine hundred five one a turkish boat ran a greek vessel sure well that was followed by a succession of turkish in greek attempts to remove each other's flags from the islands even by journalists visiting their former belgian parliament member and political expert load one who says he is not surprised by the role between athens and i agree the key increase have a past of military conflict i mean in the seventy's they were even at war and some point it's not a surprise that these two could lead to all member states. in such a situation it won't make that much of a difference of course. very poor it that this is might get out of hand you know that of course they do not like to nato members at war but need to mashaal a surprise these kind of skirmishes especially between greece and turkey we should not forget that all rhetoric aside need to it was never about democracy and human

rights i mean when needed was founded greece was a military dictatorship and turkey was a military dictatorship did not even pretend neutral membership so i think. things will go on as usual just the only thing that we actually care we said this does not get out of this can always happen. but crime ridden us city of baltimore has called for a cease fire this weekend in an attempt to me it's skyrocketing with skyrocketing murder rates or last year saw a record three hundred forty three homicides in the city despite its population shrinking the increase in violence has been linked to severe inequality the prevalence of illegal firearms and an opioid epidemic samir khan has more now on the initiative. this weekend activists are calling for a seventy two hour ceasefire asking for a weekend without any violence whatsoever this is a third event of its kind in the last six months but these cease fire weekends

began in august when baltimore's homicide rate reached a record high last year with three hundred forty three murders the highest in the u.s. people all around the city make commitments to just be peaceful and not be violent for three days and to celebrate life and do life affirming event so their events all over the city would distort what a weekend he would keep it is a week in no homicides the rise is partly attributed to a drastic drop in arrests made by the gun trace task force which is now dissolved as most of its members are on trial but there's been some damage control authorities have replaced its police commissioner baltimore police commissioner kevin davis was fired the notice shocked many this morning as mayor catherine pew pushed out a press release at eight o'clock this morning i'm impatient we need violence. we need the numbers to go down faster than they are however his appointment came as somewhat of a shock his name almost instantly brought back memories of police shootings back in one thousand nine hundred five nevertheless the new commissioner came out guns

blazing with a bunch of reforms including predictive policing a computer system that can estimate the date place and even the possible perpetrator of a crime that's yet to be committed he's planning to install more surveillance cameras and deploy more patrols to troubled districts but stepping up surveillance doesn't really sound like a new plan even the department of justice advised against it both tomorrow and for its most widespread constitutional and is current replace thing has exacerbated community distrust of the police particularly in the african-american community as court hearings continue here in baltimore many fear that there could be a problem much greater than one rogue unit and some of the latest testimonies. jenkins the indicted officer told me he had hand-picked the gun trace task force to be a front for a criminal enterprise he also said there were officers from other units working with him baltimore police provided security for jenkins when he met with the drug supplier from new york despite efforts to reform the system it seems that every

testimony undermines citizens trust in law enforcement and there are still weeks of trials to come samir khan r t reporting from baltimore. can be difficult to appreciate at times especially when classical works are actually removed this was the case at one gallery in the u.k. that left visitors pretty buff hold off for a masterpiece the picture nude women was taken out of an exhibition.

some visitors to the gallery criticised the decision calling it an act of censorship. but in the governor's decision set a printing down in disguise as an opera for mrs wrong. i think it. took him power over an author's right to. work within the law subset of the stupid this is beyond words because all the pages of go in the gallery then we do the multiply and why should this joe and i don't see why it should have been taken down again we're just saying that it's another example of the prevalent sexualization of the human form within. society today i think it's really bad that jumping on the me to campaign to sort of have an appetite for the gallery if they're talking about the objectification of women then there are

a hundred other paintings in the gallery that do that as well how and some women actually fund that really empowering facebook's new messenger kids out target six to twelve year olds and that school parents on health professionals pretty well have a full update on that just after the short break. join me every thursday on the alec simon show and i'll be speaking to guest of the world of politics sports business i'm show business i'll see you then. the world is getting away from us dollar as wall reserve currency the one road one paul c. linking up russia and china is out of the dollar every last trade oil away from the dollar and countries are desperate to get out of the u.s. dollar so the dollar is going to lose value no matter what anybody says here's the

treasury secretary really trying to make it look like oh that's our lower dollar and what he says the dollar is going lower as we've been saying for a number of years because the u.s. dollar is a currency that other countries recognize as funding wars on the weapons on the property that they're trying to escape. to the program israel has been described as a beacon of light so i'm hoping the middle east by the u.k.'s defense secretary govern williams said also stressed that israel has a friend for life in britain and has been asking people in london if they agree. if you were the u.k.'s defense secretary which country would you call it because of light in the middle east jordan do you fly on the whole you should definitely know

the us. put it this way i suppose i would think of lebanon where christians would. appear to work. away living together and sharing political power you're right perhaps he was talking about israel israel now i don't agree because of the palestinian troubles i don't subscribe to that they're not very good at adapting to other people i think it's just going to home a two state solution but do you think israel is a beacon of light yes. because you have the typical issue i think you peace i think peace and that's all for the best he's also said that britain is going to remain one of the closest and best friends to israel so what's your take on that i'm sure we will be friends with everybody. a facebook has been urged to pull the plug on a so-called safe for children organizations of war in the social media giant that

they are called messenger kids' health and safety risks here's a quick look at its promotional video. it's a video chatting messaging app for families and kids and it's designed to give parents more control when their kids start to communicate online. or the app is designed for children aged between six and twelve parents or guardians can control settings from their own facebook accounts approve and monitor contacts messenger kids functions include sending texts photos and using video chat facebook has defended the platform saying it's a great way for families to connect. families will be better off because it exists my daughter uses it on a daily basis now it has enabled me to be more in touch with her. a critics of the children's up argue that they're simply not ready for the dangers of the digital world or those in favor though think we happen hans's their online social skills think and. emotionally and they're not ready to sort of

go into anything like the need more time softly hypocritical for a generation that created facebook to turn around and say that their kids shouldn't be on facebook because it's making them of happy i do think parents need to be aware that the future is is real and it's happening and most of their children's lives will be spent inside of the digital cosmos i think for have to be an age limit otherwise. where is it going to end and i think children and just their emotional plea to be able to cope digital cosmos is real it is a real place and it will exist in the future for these children and so we need to help them understand how to navigate the digital world part of that is understanding what the rules of engagement are so keeping kids keeping themselves safe while they're online and understanding what information to share and what information they should keep private we need to be folk with where we're going with

and i think education is the k. if we can train them on how to use it from the age of eighteen that maybe we can solve a few future problems but i do you fear for we take social means here in. the u.s. defense department published its nuclear posture review on friday outlining america's nuclear strategy but from strengthening its nuclear capability the doctrine takes a seemingly tougher stance on china russia and north korea claiming these states represent a unique and complex threat review also points out that u.s. diplomats would continue to speak from a position of strength and we got the reaction of russia's ambassador to the united states. in order to justify the increase in military spending and the growth in its nuclear capabilities america has come up with the scare story about russia we understand that the ideas aimed at boosting the military budget with trillions

of dollars. and the twenty eight hundred nuclear review is already being compared to barack obama's from seven years ago we discussed the document with a us politician as well as the director from the nuclear age peace foundation. the vast majority of the nuclear issue is word for the will probably obama administration however the underlying tone of it is a throwback to the cold war what president trump declared in his state of the union address was that we need to ramp up our nuclear capability and make us so strong that nobody would be even willing to engage in or even trying to gauge what the united states because we have a strong nuclear arsenal that actually is really dangerous thinking and it's almost like into the amateur hour it's a little bit of everything sure it's a throwback to some of the cold war more explicit nuclear threats between the u.s. and russia and between the u.s. and other adversaries namely china and north korea but it's also

a continuation of u.s. nuclear policy from past decades this is not that much different than what president obama had in his nuclear posture review in two thousand and ten this is more aggressive it does lower the threshold for possible nuclear weapons use and it calls for additional unnecessary types of nuclear weapons but in general this is much of this is the status quo. now hurtling around the frozen wastelands of siberia and old soviet era colleges site not something for the faint hearted it's exactly the one holiday a group of russian drivers has been doing at the ice drift madness rice lake baikal take a look. that's

all for the self for myself the team here at all t. you come back six pm moscow time for more global headlines.

here's what people have been saying about rejected in the night the senate is full on awesome the only show i go out of my way to punch you know what it is this really packs a punch. yam is the john oliver of r t america is good to see we are apparently better than boobs and see people you never heard of love redacted the night my president of the world bank paid. for it fiercely you sent us an email. that you criminalist released but the boy tells into an institution and those included. the list simply by association. being from russia is now an accepted cools for suspicion so does the criminalist really change its.

own appetite i mean for conflict is very very low these days and public servant much more eager to see economic improvement and they are to actually get into a fight with a neighbor or or with other powers in the world. i'm after ties here by going underground as echoes of the twenty zero eight failure of western capitalism resoundingly on the british capital the people's assembly against austerity today holds a demonstration against the policies of tory minority government needed to resume here in central london coming up in the show as competition as collapse after

profit warnings this week we speak to a labor m.p. and member of the karelian inquiry brute julia about whether tory welfare reform is driving people to suicide and to claimants in different stages of the disability testing system tell us whether reassessing one point six million britons following arguably another failed neoliberal privatization experiment is a good thing only similar coming up in today's going underground but first since u.k. pm theresa may was hold not being with communists in beijing it was left to a man called david living didn't want to questions that this week's pm queues in london and i'm a celebrity please get me out to. livingston replace tourism a's deputy pm damian green who left because of covering up pull on in his office computer living to new used to work at going to. szell mining company rio tinto was called mr clean by the tory daily telegraph will emerge that he wanted u.k. taxpayers to pay for his toiletries anyway as the share price and u.k. government private contract a capita all but collapsed while he spoke living did was first forced to say that

a previous multi-billion pound failure karelian was being addressed would be publishing proposals later this year to stop directors being able to siphon off pension funds in any way that he described the message to directors of u.k. taxpayer funded monopolies could be interpreted then as siphon the cash out of pension funds now before tourism is government publishes stuff well replacing jeremy corbin for label a shadow foreign secretary any thornberry just some identity rather than class politics questions before the speaker had to intervene the order i'm sure it will no obvious kate public notice and it is rather a sad day that when a woman is addressing the house quite a lot of noisy berish and in one case rather stupid individual out trying to shout the right honorable lady down the. hall mary returned to i mean questions about rights of sixteen year olds to vote when change is right it cannot be

resisted for ever and this is a change whose time has come to its living to name checks fred wilma barney and betty my advice the right old noble lady is to wean herself off the habit of watching old versions of the flintstones on the right and away from the fence stones and lowering the voting age a blairite member of jeremy corbin spot them into labor body use b.m.p. is to attack his own leader and arts funding in london constituency of his things and every year for over a decade one london borough the london borough is willing to turn has received more arts council funding than the entire route c. combined of the middle earns a northern aches. caulfield community yes the big issue of our age is arts funding in areas represented in westminster by jeremy corbin's front bench no wonder living in was confused i'm not sure whether that was mentors an attack directed on the

right old member for islam to north pole for islam to the south is a good south is the constituency of the shadow foreign secretary and livingston went on to defect to defend both corbin thornberry it seems as if the real battle in parliament is now not between tories and labor it's arguably between the red tories of blairite labor and the largest socialist movement in europe led by jeremy corbyn corben certainly does not favor means testing private contractors and the arguable perfect storm created when the conservative government decided on mandatory testing of disability for those too sick to work personal independence payments or pip were brought in by the coalition government in twenty thirteen to replace disability living allowance as part of austerity cuts to bail out the bankers in the city of london assessments once carried out by the british government were outsourced to private companies capita and i toss the independent assessment service sincerely thirteen nearly two hundred thousand disabled people

who previously receive disability living allowance were denied pip with over sixty percent of cases winning on appeal former parliamentary under-secretary of state for the d.w.p. and disabled people just in tomlinson heard this to say in this week's debate on pip claimant experiences. only sixteen percent of claimants the highest rates of benefit under it is twenty six percent if you had a mental health condition only twenty two percent the highest rate it is now sixty six percent this is why we are spending three billion a year and rightly so jeremy corbyn shadow minister for business energy and industrial strategy laura pitt gok had this to say back if there is an alternative reality presented by the side these are thing. the use of these figures diminishes . experience if. well going underground wanted to speak to some of the people affected by the changes made by the d.w.p.

minority government leader tories m a's decision to reassess one point six million claims after the high court ruled it was a blatantly discriminatory system the why of never nine when you're going to be assessed neven i'm in that brown and it's going to land on your door. renders the parliament to work and. help us bring it on how we fair we do through it and that's the frame that we get the pip assessment is a functionality test is about what you can do and not about. impairment know about your condition know about what trade me in nature what medication you're taking it can you pick up that cup can you get out of bed can you get dressed can you talk to people can you travel on public transport is about functionality it's not about your impairment it's about disability denial is to know on the eve i

health condition to know i need treatment you know i need medication their attitude is you can improve it can get better just denying you have any kind of impairment until. twenty first thing they reassess me. twenty twenty seven fame. i'm. going to go for assessment which is. really how. it is and if the. medical evidence of. it was that thick and the martha did not want to. or have to. through the army and . our impression not our to prove it every world for makes it plain sometimes it's three hundred eighteen months. with this one point six million i could look at

means i know we want to see you're going to say well enough if i know i'm all still going of the person anxiety but you still got to go prove that you deserve your eye hundred pound a month when you lose your support or your suppose being cut you can't afford to say your high card for to pay your electric those who castillo's you're in a freezing cold house you can't afford eight c. or relying on the food bank to eight we know people who have. cut back on their medication and i've had to pay for the medication i have a prepayment prescriptions to fix if i lost my paperwork yet afford that which mean i couldn't have the medication i need to eat it i see you're making life or death decisions stark choices can i hate cannot eight can i pay for my miti cation cannot pay for my equipment that i need and to pay

a disabled person we have additional costs to to every impairment we need to quit and then an additional support when you've lost that supports taken away your mobility car which is your legs your independence we are losing our independence have icici been right city to this they are abusing our fundamental here are not this country has got money it always has money for bombs was we were we have money for that we for money for that the way what we call for money where kids are starving you know people are starving old age pension is not here now we call for money for all of volunteer mark a food bank and i can tell you now. over sixty seventy percent people in in work poverty they're coming for food but they work. not a lady turned up in a carriage and four. and pushes come into a food bank because she cannot afford to eat. and when you see you see things and you talk to him and you just see him in all of them

a problem pip as well. is just food banks anything not a food bank should exist in a country which is a country which an affluent hundred twenty thousand people died on the streets through to the cuts and i think of that's confirmed and we are the first government as i saw you for the info we. heard fable people. un c.r.p. they were published this week the world was involved in it. and then in the shadow side our report is going there's another i call on the government got fam get we're going what do you watch question going on and on i thought that there's eleven point. the eleven points then went on for an advance of one and if you know this is the winds and you've you've got you've got a new go do this you've got or you go also for why you train yourself and disabled people is why this government is they want

a welfare state on welfare states government unions i want unions gone i don't want any of that because then you've got rights i just want you to work to do in the capitalist agenda that's all i want you to do this work for your people and then you don't pester independents parents process assesses asking claimants who have a history of five or dicing and trying to tell you right now lives why you not dead yet. that she said to my g.p. consultant if the nats are success asked me why you know i'm on seven di prescriptions dive to go to the chemist every week to get to stop me from harming myself my medication is supervised by my family so i can overdose and i am high risk of harming myself that is what the consultant said if i couldn't if that's a success or asked me that. they could. all end up

on assessment i've told my sins so karcher just. seriously distressed may i wouldn't be able to cope with it there in doubt ask me a question not that i could end up buying high. and takin serious money medication and another statistic will never grow and yes. i don't go out drinking i don't go out you know gambling not i you know when. drinking you've got gambling you go with money got the best clothes now i haven't. got anything. but you know why i've got to go. now for our forum. where we are some people are what. they call for as well as alex and i will fight for them and that is what we do this is what we do it we will for we will. we will win if in the end

but it's a war that we filled in a way that's what just i was about this week was about and. it's been one. where we went to war to save people we pick will win awards of all men award for wife. what. i want. and i'm afraid this is what some people. come in government i don't care if i could have one word with estimate right now. you know what you've got blood on your hands or your during this government has blood on its hands the human rights of the human catastrophe of the cuts and people's lives for the fasteners of people are no longer here. disabled people right now is. another organization. out there get involved join in.

your rights. you can fight back and do something about it it's not hopeless it may feel like it but there are people out there to support you to get involved when he can do something about this and. it rattles when you go into parliament because you are living testimony of what they're doing and i can't run from that no matter how hard i try and you know i. exist we are here and i am here to say this is wrong and we will fight but. if you've been affected by any of the issues raised contact any of the following organizations which may be able to provide help and advice coming up after the break more from collective punishment or austerity britain the u.k. working better select committee's rules.