well a sovereignty issue ignited back in december ninety ninety five when a turkish boat ran a greek vessel sure this was followed by a succession of turkish and greek attempts to move each other's flags from the islands even by journalists former belgian parliament and political expert load says he's not surprised by the row between athens and i. don't 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. all the countries are very poor it that this is my get out of hand you know that of course they do not like to nato members at war but needham has always survived 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 right i mean when needed was founded greece was

a military dictatorship and turkey was a military dictatorship they did not impede them nato membership so i think on the whole things will go on as usual just the only thing that we have to carry is that this does not get out of this can always happen. over to the united states where the crime ridden city of baltimore has called for a cease fire this weekend in an attempt to stem its skyrocketing murder rates last year saw a record three hundred forty three homicides in a city that is why its population is shrinking and the increase in violence has been linked to severe inequality the prevalence of illegal firearms i don't open order pedantic so your record 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 the 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 should many this morning as mayor catherine pew pushed out a press release at eight o'clock this morning i'm impatient we need violence reduction 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 baltimore law enforcement 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. now or 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. they left visitors pretty buffel dafter mosque the peace the pickton nude women was actually taken out of an exhibition.

some guys that have got to revisit this are all to criticize the decision called it an act of censorship. but in the column is to set a printing down in disguise as an opera form is wrong. i think you. can power over an artist right to. work within the law. because all the pages in the in the gallery then. why should this. 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 that jumping on the meat campaign to sort of have an appetiser to the gallery if that talking about the objectification of women then

there are hundred other paintings in the gallery. as well and some women actually fund that really empowering to facebook's new messenger kids after talk at six to twelve year olds parents and health professionals as well quite worried it will bring you the full story just after this short break. here's what people have been saying about rejected in the senate it's full on awesome the only show i go out of my way to you know what it is that really packs a punch. yampa is the john oliver of r t america is doing the same we are apparently better than nothing. and see people you never heard of love right back to the night my president of the world bank take. me seriously send us an e-mail. what politicians do. put themselves on the

line. to get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be president and she. wanted. to go right to be press that's what before three in the morning can't be good. i'm interested always in the why. should. welcome back to the program where israel spain described as a beacon of lights on hope in the middle east by the u.k.'s defense secretary got an williamson also stressed that israel had a friend for life in britain and it's the say it should come to 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 beautiful light on the whole. definitely not the us. put it this way i suppose i would think of lebanon where christians would. appear to work out a way of living together and sharing political power around perhaps he was talking about israel always 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 harm a two state solution do you think israel is a beacon of light yes. because you have the technology i think you can use i think the peace and that's hope 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 shot for children organizations of war and the social media giant at the out called messenger kids poses 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 kid started communicating on line. resign for children aged between six and twelve years old parents or guardians can control the settings from their own facebook accounts as well as approve and monitor contacts messenger kids functions include sending texts photos and using it for video chat as well facebook to find the platform they say 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. well critics of

the children's up argue that they're simply not ready for the dangers of the digital world those in favor think the app in heart says their online skills think and. emotionally and they're not ready to sort of go into anything like the need more time it's awfully 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 that most of their children's lives will be spent inside of the digital cosmos think perhaps to be an age limit otherwise. where is it going to end and i think children and just very emotional. to be able to cope digital cosmos is real it is a real place and it will exists 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 that from the age of thirteen that maybe we can solve a few future problems but i do you fear. we take them down social means here in. the u.s. defense department published its nuclear posture review on friday outlining america's nuclear strategy apart from strengthening its nuclear capabilities the doctrine takes a tougher stance on china russia and north korea as well claiming the states represent a unique and complex threat the review also points out u.s. diplomats would continue to speak from a position of strength and what 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. to twenty nuclear review is already being compared to barack obama's from seven years ago we discussed the document with the us politician as well as the director from the nuclear age peace. the vast majority of the nuclear issue is word for for the one from the 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 try and gauge with the united states because we have a strong and clear arsenal that actually is really dangerous thinking and it's almost like and 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. around the frozen wastelands of siberia an old soviet era cause you know that activity for the faint hearted that's exactly what one holiday group of russian drivers has been doing at the ice drifts modernists rice and the like bike i'll take a look. so

that's all for myself on the team here at r.t. for this hour my colleague you know neal will be with you throughout the evening some of the night as well you stay tuned for more global headlines.

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a million years i would see that end it's how it's happened. to you crim list for least one point two and shaming into an institution those included on the list are accused simply by a socio. being from russia or is no one except it cools for suspicion so doesn't criminalist really change it is. the fault is getting away from us dollar as wall reserve currency the one road in one fell policy linking up russia and china is out of the dollar every loss of trade oil away from the dollar countries are desperate to get out of the us dollar saw the dollar is going to lose value no matter what anybody says so here's the treasury secretary merely trying to make it look like oh it's our policy for a lower dollar don't really matter what he says a dollar is going lower as we've been saying for a number of years because the us dollar is

a kind see that other countries recognize as funding the war and the weapons and the poverty that they're trying to escape. oh no appetite i mean for conflict is very very low these days and public service much more eager to see economic improvement than they are to. actually get into a fight with a neighbor or or with other powers in the world. that image was quite culture going to show some people sort. as irresponsible some

people sort of dangerous threatening whereas other people including use or as a symbol of something very different was it. powerful. protecting. that is far from you know. that the people who criticize you what they're based. by right wing lunatic. eighteen years ago i traveled across the united states exploring america's deadly love affair with the gun i witnessed the grim results of these weapons in hospital emergency rooms morgues in the confused of to mass of mass shooting spree. after each new massacre the newspaper headlines were always the side why did it happen here. since my book was published in the year two thousand more than half a million americans have been killed by firearms in the usa five hundred twenty

seven thousand people dead and many more injured i decided to return to the subject to track down each gun owner who i'd met and photographed those years ago to understand why despite this death toll there is such fierce resistance to even moderate gun control laws in the usa. is fear was in there on the trigger that's not what the picture is about he's not trying to harm me. he's trying to protect me. i'm looking out for myself my family my neighbors.

this is. relaxing. the thought that some people would want to take our guns away to me is so ludicrous because the bad guys thugs the murderers the ripest are always going to have guns and are you would be doing would be to take them away from the good guys from the law abiding citizens people in this country huddle in their houses and throw their dead but i was not succumb to this con that is out there. we were at our church

last sunday in our sunday school teacher mike asked the class how many people had a gun permits in i would say over two thirds of the members raised their hands. this is a thirty eight taurus and it five cylinder robot it's a concealed hammer. and it is concealed so that way it doesn't get tangled or stuck on anything when you try to pull it out of your pocket or your purse if a bad guy tried to. to get to one of my family member is he would have better lock with that better now i think it's fair and hardy when i have my baby's. clothes that is it will have to go in the state it was just in this neighborhood

were our venture a guess everybody in this letter i doubt anybody does not have a go. is a great sarah. oh absolutely i can promise you that's the reason they're not coming in stay away from me and they were my home and we will have their problems. well this is one of my favorite things to do. myself. with a bible in one hand and a gun in the other we can make this country one nation under god once again in the name of the founding fathers of this great country don't you ever acquiesce don't ever turn your weapons of war in safety don't ever turn those over to your government it is the great equalizer if two people have a gun they're equal or whoever has the gun they are supreme

every time they pass another gun control law they promise a safety do you know who did the same thing adolf hitler now there's already three hundred fifty million guns in america what are you going to do you go confiscate a will. you're going to make it more difficult for the criminals to get them they already have them they can get them faster than you can the problem with crime in america is recidivism the repeat offender if you want to go after criminals who misuse guns the first time you arrest him. go after him keep them second make sure that the law abiding citizen is ready capable and prepared to shoot back. you know my motto comes right from the movie cinderella last year is my favorite movie really the motto is in a really was have courage and be kind. to.

god. i want my daughters armed i want my wife armed i want my sons armed and i want them to be able to defend their families we never hurt anybody we don't want to. but at the same time we're not going to just make ourselves an easy target for those who would . rape robin plunder no no way. they have six machine guns in the house ten thousand rounds of ammunition in a closet with a license i have i could get on a phone today and get a i could order one hundred machine guns and here in two weeks if i could get anything you know i have a tank you know it is no and you know. two hundred guns is what i sell the a k

forty seven s n a r fifteen and i got everybody beat in time with the prices because i buy so many of the news people come in and i always blame the gun you know day asked me you know what happened why do you sell guns to kill people. for you so when i tell him i said all these guns were on the wall last night and i walked in this morning and nobody was dead. you know it's stupid you know god knows to kill a people look at the people kill the people and they just used a gun to kill people you know use a fork and knife a hammer a screwdriver you know why keep blaming it on the gun you know or ok just give me just give me forty dollars i want to. just say if you are so good if you started the church every time i spoke with mr griffin yes go on then you hear your theory that it's better. for my daughter who are you. with.

it's my birthday and i got a gun for my birthday like so i'm going to shoot it for the first time are today. we've seen just about everything and sixteen assault rifles a ar fifteen some models hunting rifles with homemade silencers these guys could have been used by anyone they could menus and robbers the message's and also

homicides there was nineteen years ago those words deal right. since the laws in the state of tennessee of chinese substantially you're allowed to carry guns in parks. guns in bars you know guns in your car or so from a police chief's perspective i would definitely say that probably prefer if we do not have guns in bars. i got a four a tin shack gun from santa cause last year. right now our best selling rifle is the better wesson it's just you know finding an issue that people just you know go to the range and go shoot them. have fun. is there also are there's a lot of. b.s.

thanking me around here are full. oh really seem fair on the article no. it doesn't. poor beam me you know. this as well right here the glock semiautomatic pistol is more of the biggest biggest movie guns ever. hear that they know what they're doing because i saw the movie. they're dangerous we have to go out there and stop them and i actually hate them on how to handle a firearm immediately ok one of our most popular self-defense rounds here it is one hundred twenty four grain. jacket whole point is it rapidly hitting organic material such as your for a couple of metals or else we also have. an a or if you have tank with.

huge seller there really is strongly accurate weapon for a very long run does he mean by that tension that i almost definitely i want by my bed for home protection my wife actually has a benelli and poor by her bed which in some automatic shotgun. was a little humming the next hill dead what does that do to your minds that does it does it not make you feel constantly vigilant pen oh i mean definitely prepared all the way but i also have a family that i love and care about very much so if you do watch the news you see it all the time home invasion here home invasion there highway shooting i mean it's pretty much it can be like the wild west out here so. it's.

most of shootings take place in domestic situations the sizable number of people who kill other people are so-called law abiding citizens the law abiding citizen produces a lot of the fatalities but a mistake in a or are by accident. several years ago there was a trauma surgeon here in memphis who did a study of murders in two different urban areas saying if the presence or absence of guns in a home was a trigger or a protection for murder and his conclusion was that the presence of the gun was more likely to cause a murder or death by gun then the absence of a gun in a home.