has voted to halt refugee arrivals claiming it is reached its capacity to accommodate and integrate asylum seekers at a special town hall meeting on thursday the mare explained the decision. was we are not xenophobic which we are often accused of being we are dealing with integration we want to guarantee integration we have done a lot but when in the end there is no space what are we supposed to do however subtle and freiburg aren't convinced that the move is a good thing that no there are no problems i feel good. this is a general problem not just in freiburg but it has not affected me i have no problems with foreigners you hear it in the news sometimes but i don't have a liberal. at least four people have been injured into drive by shootings in the central italian city of much. the attacks are believed to be connected local media reporting that the victims were of african origin and suggests the instance may

have been racially motivated the suspect who police say is an italian national has been arrested it comes after this member body of an eighteen year old italian girl was discovered hidden in two suitcases near much rater and they syrian migrant was arrested in connection with the death we spoke to an italian journalist about how the country is reacting to the issue of immigration. at the moment we have a lot of arrivals and the. is not is leaving early in facing these issues if the situation is not managed to properly we will have probably. aggressive campaigns and of course this kind of aggressive campaign. can lead to more violence in the future. turkey and greece have reignited a decades long feud over the sovereignty of two small islands in the aegean sea and

grows even threaten violence against top greek officials if they travel there. athens will feel the anger of turkey we will break the arms and legs of any offices of the prime minister or of any minister who dares to step on to him even in the aegean unspeakable statements like these are elie into european political culture we have said this before each should know their place and additionally we would like to remind him that the legal status of the gene is clear and guaranteed by international law well viz are the all an inhabited territories being disputed turkey has become increasingly vocal of its claims and ownership of them well the trigger is thought to have been a greek court denying a turkish extradition request for eight men wanted in connection with a failed military coup back in twenty sixteen now the isles were originally part of the ottoman empire but have long been recognized as greek the sovereignty issue ignited back in december one thousand nine hundred ninety five when

a turkish boat from a greek vessel is sure it was followed by a succession of turkish and great good temps to remove each others' flags from the islands even by a journalist former belgian parliament member and political expert load of a new series he's not surprised by the rug between the two countries. turkey and greece have a past off military conflict i mean in the seventy's they were even at war at some point it's not a surprise that these two could nato member states. in such a situation for a minute it won't make that much of a difference of course did 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 nato 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 rights i mean when nato was founded greece was a military dictatorship and turkey was limited dictated that did not impede the

nato membership so i think on the whole things will go on as usual just that the only thing that we have to take care is that this does not get out of hand this can always happen of course. the crime ridden u.s. city of baltimore has called for a cease fire this weekend in an attempt to stymie it skyrocketing murder rates last year saw a record three hundred forty three homicides in the city despite a population that is shrinking the increase in violence sounds been linked to a police scandal the prevalence of illegal firearms on an opioid epidemic so your account picks up the story in maryland. this weekend activists are calling for a seventy two hour cease fire asking for a weekend without any violence whatsoever this is a third event of its kind of 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 they're events all over the city with a start what a weekend here we keep it is a weekend of 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. 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 the news continues in ninety seconds. the world is getting away from us dollars wall reserve currency. paul c. russia and china is out of the dollar every last trade oil away from the dollar countries are desperate to get out of the us dollar so the dollar is going to lose value no matter what anybody says the treasury secretary merely trying to make it look like. a lower dollar 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 and the weapons and the poverty that they're trying to escape. hello again israel has been called the beacon of light and hope in the middle east by the u.k.'s defense secretary gavin williamson also stressed that the nation has a friend for life in prison i was just asking if those thoughts chimed to longer. if you were the u.k.'s defense secretary which country would you call a beacon of light hope in the middle east jordan do you fly them to hold you should definitely not the us. put it this way i suppose i would think lebanon where christians and muslims appear to work out

a way of living together and sharing political power you're right perhaps he was talking about israel israel no 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 why because we have the technology i think you peace i think peace and let'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. we will be friends with everybody for. facebook has been urged to poll the plug on a so-called safe shot for children organizations have warned the social media giant that its messenger kids are poses health and safety risks here's a quick look at the probable forward. it's

a video chat and messaging app for families and kids and it's designed to give parents more control when their kids started communicating i might keep you know the app is designed for children aged between six and twelve parents or guardians can control the settings from their own facebook accounts and approve and monitor contacts the functions of messenger kids include sending text photos and using video chat facebook has defended the platform saying it's a great way for relatives 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 those in favor of the up think in hunts is their online skills in a rapidly involving world but critics argue that children are simply not prepared for the dangers of the digital age. i think and. emotionally it's a valid pairing and i'm 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 all 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 i think for have to be an age limit otherwise. where is that going to end and i think children are 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 photographed with where we're going with and i think education is the k. if we can train them on how to see that but from the age of thirteen. maybe we can

solve a few future problems but i do you fear. we tape and on social media here in. the u.s. defense department published its nuclear posture review on friday night lining america's nuclear strategy apart from strengthening its nuclear capability the doctrine takes a seemingly tougher stance on china russia north korea claiming those states represent a unique and complex threat the review also points out that american diplomats would continue to speak from a position of strength 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 a scare story about russia we understand that the ideas aimed at boosting the military budget with trillions of dollars. well the twenty eight thousand nuclear review is already being compared to brock obama is from seven years ago we

discussed the document with the director from the nuclear age peace fund ation an american politician who's been closely following this story 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 what the united states because we have a strong nuclear arsenal that actually is really dangerous thinking and it's almost like into 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. so we have to leave the news for no more grit our teeth programs right ahead and then at the top of the hour sean thomas is here with all the global news updates from r.t. h.q. in moscow. here's what people have been saying about rejected in the us actually just full on awesome the only show i go out of my way to find you know what it is that really

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following arguably another failed neoliberal privatization experiment is a good thing all the more 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 i livings in replace tourism a's deputy pm damian green who left because of covering up porn in his office computer living to new used to work at controversial 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 to capita all but collapsed while he spoke living did was first for us 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 teresa mayes government publishes stuff well replacing jeremy coleman for labor the shadow foreign secretary emily 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 but 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 return to our main 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 bonnie and betty my voice there i told the lady to wean herself off the high. bit of washed watching old versions of the flintstones on the run. away from the fence stones and

lowering the voting age a blairite member of jeremy cool beans palm and relabel body used b.m. cues to attack his own leader and arts funding in goldman's london constituency of his things and every year for over a decade one london borough to london. has received more arts council funding than the entire ritzy combined of the middle earns a northern ex coldfield 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 or 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 call been very 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 corbin coleman 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 since twenty 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 from a parliamentary under-secretary of state for the d.w.p. and disabled people just in tomlinson had this to say in this week's debate. one pip claimant experiences. only sixteen percent of claimants the highest rates of

benefit under it is twenty six percent if you have a mental health condition only twenty two percent highest rate it is now sixty six percent this is why we are spending three billion a year and rightly so jeremy corbin shadow minister for business energy and industrial strategy. at this to say back if there is an alternative reality presented by the side these are things these affairs these if it does diminishes the experience is if the shambolic system well going underground wanted to speak just some of the people affected by the changes made by the d.w.p. and minority government leaders juries amaze decision to reassess one point six million claims after the high court ruled it was a blatantly discriminatory system the why when you're going to be assessed never. going to. render the.

help. we fear. for. the pip assessment is the functionality test is about what you can do and not about your. impairment know about your condition know about what treatment naida what medication 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 denying that you've got a health condition to nine you need treatment you know i need medication there attitude you can improve it can get better just deny. when you have any kind of impairment it's all paper and twenty first thing they reassess me. last

twenty or twenty seven frame of what recessed. article are going to go for reassessment which is. really when it's not it's not a north wind the with the bill and it isn't if the closer you set it is the voice. of the medical evidence how hard it was that thick and the martha did not want to take it or have to prove the army and. the impression not poor arthur prove it every world for makes it pain sometimes it's three hundred eighteen months. with this one point six million i could look at me as i know we want to see you're going to say well enough if the model. of the person is only. 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 you're high on four to pay your electric bills with 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 if they've had to pay for their medication i have a prepayment prescriptions to fix if i lost my paper. that which mean i couldn't have the medication i need day to day so you're making life or death decisions stark choices can i hate cannot eat 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 due to our impairment we need equipment and additional support when you've lost your pet that supports taking away your mobility car which is your. legs your independence we are losing our independence have icici been right this they are abusing our fundamental here in knots this

country has got money it always has money for bombs wars we were money for that we found money for that way but we can't find money where kids are starving you know people are starving old age pensioners not here now we can't farm money for that of volunteer markel food bank and i can tell you now that over sixty seventy percent of people in work poverty they're coming for food but are working out a lady turn 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 and then all of them appear on paper as well. just food banks anything food bank should exist in a country which is a country. hundred twenty thousand people died on the streets to the cuts and i think that's confirmed and we are the first government as i saw you for the info we

played with. fable people. who were in c.r.p. they were published this week the world of our involvement. and then inside of the site our report is going there's another i go on the government got going well you can watch commission going on and on i thought that there's eleven point in. the eleven points they mentor and i was one and if you know this is us and you you've got you've got a new go this you've got or you go out for war you train yourself and disciple people this way this government is they want a welfare state on welfare states going unions i want you going i don't want any of that because then you've got roy i just want you to work. the cop with the tender that's all i want you to do this work for big boss and then you don't pester independence parents process assesses asking claimants who have

a history of overdosing and trying to type why you know that yet. that she said to my g.p. consultant if an after successor asked me why you know on seven di prescriptions dive to go to a chemist every week to get to stop me from harming myself my medication is supervised pharma family so i can overdose and i am high risk of harming myself that is what the consultant said if i couldn't if an atlas assessor asked me that. i could file and up on assessment i've told my sins so cartoonist. seriously distressed me i wouldn't be able to cope with it there end up ask me a question not that arcade and the guy i'm high. and take in serious money

medication and ended up a statistic when in africa. i don't go out drinking i don't go out you know gamble in life you know when. drinking you've got gambling you go with money go. now i haven't. got anything. but you know why i've got i have got. now for i will form. i will for x. we will some people. like hope 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 follow we will. we will win if in the end but. it's a war for food in a way that's what. they were this week was about and. it's been one. who went to war to. pick where when a war of all men award for wife. if we lose.

one. and i'm afraid this is what some people. come government care if i could have one would be best in the eye right now . is that you know what you've got blood on your hands for your day this government has blood on its hands the human rights abuses that human catastrophe of the cuts and this i will people's lives for the fasteners of people are no longer here i'm outside to disable people right now is. another organizations and groups out there get involved join in. daisy your rights these are your services you can fight back and do something about it it's not hopeless it might feel like it but there are people out there to support you to get involved when he can do

something about this and it's it rattles the m.p.'s when you go into parliament uncertainty by because you are living testimony of what they're doing and i can't run from that no matter how hard i try and deny that we don't exist we are here and i am here to say this is wrong and we will fight back. if you've been affected by any of the issues raised contact any of the following organizations which may be able to provide professional help and advice coming up after the break more from collective punishment or austerity britain the u.k. work a bedroom select committee's rules georgia m.p. claims the number of british suicides of those being assessed for disability is double oliseh more coming up in part two of going on the ground. that you criminalist for least by the point house to and shaming into an

institution those included on the list or accused simply by association. being from russia or is no one accepted cools for suspicion so doesn't criminalist really change. everybody's i'm stephen ball. task collingwood guy you'll suspect every proud american first of all i'm just george bush and r.v.'s to say this is my buddy max famous financial guru and we're just a little bit different i'm not a lincoln one of the well you know when those up with all the drama happening in our country i'm shooting the brood have fun every day americans. and we start to bridge the gap this is the great american to.

the wall that's getting away from us dollar as a wall reserve currency a one room one bell 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 euro. dollar saw the dollar is going to lose value no matter what anybody says here's the treasury secretary trying to make it look like. lower down really matter what he says dollars 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 the war and the weapons and the poverty that they're trying to escape. from. this little bundle of joy he would have no choice of surviving in the world mother is can only really one come at a time but usually give birth to. every year china puts

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back in the first half of the show we had for two people in different stages of an arguably kafkaesque assessment process that has been ruled by the british high court as blatantly discriminates the d.w.p. said we introduced pip to replace the outdated d.l.a. system pip is a better benefit which takes a much wider look at the way an individual's health condition or disability impacts them on a daily basis. twenty nine percent of claimants receive the highest rate of support compared to fifteen percent under the d.l.a. our next guest attended this week's debate on personal and about abatements ruth george labor m.p. and member of the u.k. work and pensions committee joins me now ruth welcome back to you are going underground so we heard a little earlier from some of those affected by these disability tests conducted by private contractors or appeared on the show apparently created a debate in parliament about this what are you hearing from your constituents about disability testing absolutely i think all them pays a hearing from their constituents about disability testing we're getting cases through often every week. particularly after i was first elected i agreed to meet

with a group of women who were survivors of sexual violence and abuse who wanted to tell me about how the benefits system had affected their i'm a member of the work and pensions select committee so they wanted me to be able to take that very harrowing evidence and try and use it change the systems but they're finding that because so many assessments are not allowed to be done as a home assessment then people have to travel often considerable distance to an assessment center somewhere in a in a big city very impersonal buildings often for someone who's a survivor of violence and is often and suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder then that's incredibly difficult thing to do and very traumatic again let alone to be faced with an assessor who simply wants to get them through a list of questions in the time allotted and they have a standard script to follow i mean i've heard from women who've said that they've

been curled up on the floor crying from the trauma of having to relive the experiences that they've been through and describe the impact that it's had on them with an assessor who simply repeats the question to them doesn't acknowledge their trauma and their grief at all and. this has a lasting impact on people who have to go through the process and he also said this at the. newton leaders abilities minister on saturday when said esther gray's department they want to give people a good customer experience will you make of the answer to what you just said when you said it in parliament what i asked them is a language that gives people a good customer experience it's very much the language of the private sector but i don't i don't object to the fact that if people in they they do you have to we do have to have some form of assessment for benefits we can't just have anyone who applies to receive benefit absolutely we all understand that on all sides of the

house but you want to make sure that it's a helpful experience what he means these words means tested before were they being means tested now why do you recognise the importance of mean. it's not so much means testing for income it's about testing what people are able to do what nasal of siebel bobbitt she can i mean the government say that they want to enable people to live a fulfilling life often there should be enough medical evidence from people's medical records to be able to ascertain what's the point where they're all knots they're able to work for some people there might be a need for them i mean my view is that there's far too many people having to undergo these assessments far too many are having to go to assessment centers and the private companies that are doing them are actually cutting the costs by particularly outsource or i.a.s. as they're now calling themselves say about sixty nine percent of their assessments are done in assessment centers whereas the other company capital it's only sixteen

percent down in assessment so it was members of the minority conservative government say the problem with what we're going through is you don't understand that we have to reduce costs there's no doubt this is reduced cost testing the most vulnerable in society to bail out because. the cost of bailing out the banks incentivizing bankers to go where this is what is what is important you don't realize it because. government is again still repeating even though they've changed their mind on the testing regime that its intention is to reduce costs by twenty percent absolutely that's the aim is to reduce costs but the government themselves are admitting that they're failing in that way the whole system is actually costing more than it did previously partly because we've got private companies involved so they're making a profit tearaway although maybe not as in people's hundred quid a week is a. disability benefit they're paying the disability benefit but i mean they're also paying for the costs of the whole assessment process where we're seeing so many

hundreds of thousands of people having to go to monday to reconsideration and then even more than that having to go to tribunals and appeal because the decisions are wrong that's costing the state millions almost a balance of sounds really add it added to the cost of the assessment process so if you are the costs to the government of rectifying the appalling decision that they made to illegally refuse people with psychological trauma support in order to get out of the house then that's going to cost three point seven billion pounds to reassess that make takes up all of the savings that they've made over a three year period they should have simply done these assessments properly in the first place in a way that really supports people with disabilities have to be made properly why are they being made at all i mean now the government has seemed center as well as you would have it and i just cited to to it now again reassess what point six

million claims. that the right decision list in government finally we've had the right decision that the government needs to reassess the claims of one point six million people to make sure that they're receiving the benefits that they need to make sure that they get the support that they need to get. the house to work if they're able to do that but certainly we on the labor benches would say they need to look very carefully at how they do that to try and make sure that they don't actually contribute. any more why are we testing them at who are even if one figure is seven hundred million pounds the cost to someone argue torture people out of one hundred pounds a week do you in the labor board who seem to believe there are a significant number of people faking mental illness no absolutely we're not certainly not saying that everybody needs to be tested by any means and only a very small number should actually have to go for any sort of assessment with no

suspects who is tested i'm certainly arguing on the work and pensions select committee and the labor party are arguing that the government ought to be bringing this back in-house so that we've got a proper system for training the assesses and proper system for making sure we haven't got targets in place that they have to meet the targets for the numbers of people who are refused benefits and that we've got a decent system that treats people properly not as we've seen from all the case studies that have come through give a general exam which labels only it's not german corwin's labor party policy to get rid of this it's not mean says you got income which means testing on health you're going to continue it if you're going to government what we're saying is that the vast majority of people can be assessed from their medical records and that their medical information should be made available to assesses and it should be clear is day for most of that medical records what a person is capable of or not in

a few cases because there are cases where people have graduations of a different disease then it may be that there's a few people need assessing but not the sort of ninety percent or so that assessed in assessment centers or at home as they are at the moment we're looking more like a sort of five or ten percent number who maybe do. five or ten percent is done in-house by the government in a way that supports people makes sure that they're actually getting the support that they need because that's part of it to some peers more return to blairism under the golden everybody that you are still going to means test this isn't this isn't about means testing it's about where it's absolutely necessary there will be cases where people have to be tested on abilities. in the vast majority of cases that is not necessary what people are being put through is not necessary it's not cost effective and all it's doing is putting money in the pockets of private companies you know only on the official work and pensions committee environment

here also in the committee regarding karelian the multi-million pound failure. of the large was going drag you're going to bring some of this experience you're having over a person depends very much disability testing to what you do on that committee i want to really i think it's absolutely relevant to look at the way that these huge outsourced companies which gain billions of pounds of taxpayers' money are actually using that money whether they're meeting quality standards and whether there's actually any competition in there to make sure they're not simply taking money for old rope. and driving their own costs down driving paying conditions for their own staff down to the lowest common denominator but simply using a system that takes more and more contracts and fees off the government to prop up an increasingly failing internal financial structure where you've got huge dividends of directors taking huge bonus pay because of ours as a the taxpayer is being mugged for hundreds of millions of pounds to. her these

people are trying to get around. i think that if we look at the way the system operates the system is mugging people for. a by putting them through so much trauma that often they don't feel able to go through an appeal process because they've been through so much as part of an assessment process already. and those people individuals are losing out this is what we can tell you that it wasn't meant to and you don't think the majority said rewarding their cases on appeal yet almost two thirds of people win their cases on the pale that's how bad the system is i would absolutely advise people if they have been turned down for a benefit assessment that they should go to a pail if they feel they can cope with that process but there's so many people in such a fragile state of mind that they really don't feel they can cope we've had some figures in the last couple of months from disability news service who said that the number of suicides the proportion of suicides had actually doubled the people who wanted to they were capability assessments that's an absolutely appalling statistic

that labor party have asked the government to go away and look at in the context of the questions on suicide that being asked in those assessments and it's very important that we protect people absolutely i would want to see people go to appeal if they will get what they need and what they deserve from that i would hope that they can also find support through that process because it is so traumatic but unfortunately support services are being cut as well and many people are finding that they're having to go through that whole legal a stick adversarial process with minimum support george thank you that's it for the show will be back on monday the dog dramedy code the british member of parliament who represent the richest constituency in the u.k. which includes the boy of kensington and chelsea she seeks a new government led by jeremy tabor you can get to god that was by virtue of media with your money fifteen years to the day u.s. secretary of state colin powell produced fabricated evidence to the un security

council to justify the illegal anglo-american invasion of iraq. seen years ago i traveled across the united states exploring america's deadly love affair with a gun if a bad guy tried to get to one of my family members he would have better luck with

that better and i think it's fair and hurting whenever my my baby says my book was published in the year two thousand more than half a million americans have been killed by farms in the us i had a thought to me as i did yes this is a middle school we go through drills and we cut ourselves some real scenarios it was interesting to see who actually got hit. and i decided to return to the subject to track down each gun owner who i'd met and photographed those years ago i don't know this but we are not. exists is harlan kentucky. with all of this group the boys you go through three families in.

a coma any city with almost no coal mines left. the jobs are gone all the goal was to. live to see 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 in that it would become a ghost town but i never thought in a million years i would see that and it's happening it's happened. but you criminalist released by the white house to and shaming into an institution those included on the list are accused simply by association. being from russia or is no one accepted cools for suspicion so does the kremlin list really changes.

a rebel group the downs a russian fighter jet in the northwest of syria and executes the pilot also ahead. i think it's terrible you want to know the truth i think it's a disgrace a lot of people should be ashamed of themselves and much worse than that. their public and party memo is released claiming to show the f.b.i. and u.s. justice department abusing their surveillance powers as they investigated in two thousand and sixteen. and a rally in support of refugees in the german city of course but is held alongside a massive anti migrant protest.

are broadcasting live from our studios in moscow this is our national i'm john thomas glad to have you with us. and syrian rebel fighters have shot down a russian jet in syria as it leapt province and killed the pilot unverified footage of the incident has been posted online by militants. oh well. i'm open. to. the second video purportedly showing the rebels posing with the dead body of the pilot has also surfaced on the internet and a warning you may find the images you're about to see upsetting this clip appears to show one of the militants taking a selfie next to the victim others are also taking pictures and chanting jacqueline go-go has more on what else we know about what occurred. well the incident took

place in the northwestern village of mosques around in the province and that's one of the last remaining rebel strongholds in the country now according to the russian defense ministry the pilot did manage to eject from the plane and parachuted down to the ground in an area that's actually controlled by the terrorist group. he was then subsequently killed in a fight with terrorists again that's coming from the russian ministry of defense they also added that it's believed that a anti-aircraft missile system was actually used in the downing of the plane and very quickly after the attack took place videos and photos surfaced online most of them very graphic and disturbing showing rebels taking photos of the dead pilot and stomping on the debris of the crashed plane now. the group that has claimed responsibility of the tax say that they are part of the moderate opposition free syrian army but it's widely believed that they are in fact actually allied with the latest incarnation. they have in the past enjoyed support from washington and even

received weapons from the u.s. at this point russia did react quite quickly and has already carried out a number of persuasion strikes in the area with the ministry reporting that over thirty militants were killed as a result. the newly released u.s. congressional memo has ignited a. storm of controversy in washington the document written by republicans alleges the f.b.i. and the justice department abused their investigatory powers while looking into the trump campaign's links to russia some in the party have claimed it casts doubt on the federal probe into the allegations of collusion with moscow specifically the memo claims the justice department and the f.b.i. may have illegally obtained a warrant for the surveillance of a former trump aide to support the war in tampa cation the f.b.i. used a highly dubious dossier full of unverified claims about trump and russia that was partly funded by the democratic party and the clinton foundation the memo alleges

the dossiers democratic ties were concealed at the agency's request i think it's terrible you want to know the truth i think it's a disgrace what's going on in this country i think it's a disgrace the memo was sent to congress it was declassified congress will do whatever they're going to do but i think it's a disgrace what's happening in our country and when you look at that and you see that and so many other things what's going on in a lot of people should be ashamed of themselves and much worse than that. the democratic party was opposed to the memo being made public and the f.b.i. expressed grave concerns that it could be misleading the democrats now seem to be preparing to declassify one of their own files in an attempt to counter the document and delve further into the story. for over a year there has been an investigation by congress into donald trump for alleged collusion with russia so how did all start well according to the recently

declassified memo it all started with the foreign intelligence surveillance act a warrant issued allowing the government to spy on trump during his presidential campaign so how do you get a warrant to spy on a presidential campaign well you present the pfizer court with a da ca in this case it's the infamous steel dossier now the f.b.i. chief admitted that it was dubious but he still used it and the f.b.i. still relied on it i was speaking to him and briefing him about some salacious unverified material no surveillance weren't would have been sucked from the foreign surveillance court without the still dusty information so you present the court with a dot ca you pretty much don't believe because it'll help you get a warrant to spy on who you want now this is what deputy attorney general bruce or said about christopher steele the former british agent and his agenda steele was desperate that donald trump not get elected president and was passionate about him

not becoming president so why would a judge issue a warrant based on a dusty a that was pretty non-credible oh that's because the f.b.i. never told him that according to the memo this was intentionally left out of the report now trump tweeted last year tara who just found out that i had my was tapped in trump tower just before the victory nothing found this is mccarthyism so remember all those people that mocks trump's tweet and said oh federal agencies could never spy on people unless they have good reasons that couldn't have happened well it started to look like it did happen and trying to tweet is not so funny after all cable mop and r.t. new york the number of commentators we spoke to believe that there have been surveillance abuses. we could know what the their intelligence agencies are doing this must be protecting the american people from from threats but this one was

a case where they intervene in a political process that looks like and that's highly unusual and very disturbing this is how the f.b.i. does business they do it to surreptitiously they do it by stabbing people in the back they do it by setting people up by entrapping them by tricking them and that's exactly what they did with the place of court they played the fight as a court judge by not telling them the source of this deal they plead that judge by not telling them that this was a partisan. report and and they got their warrant they got their warrant anyway. campaigners have been a rallying in the german city of course in support of refugees there was also an anti migrant rally in the same city at the same time an increased police presence has been put in place for the weekend called located near the polish border is home to around one hundred thousand people and since chancellor merkel opened to germany's borders to refugees in two thousand and fifteen the city has given asylum

to over three thousand people our europe correspondent peter oliver travelled there for us. here and around one hundred twenty kilometers to the south of. they've said they can't take any more refugees the city's mayor is saying that the infrastructure was being stretched to its limits. we have to realize the in call books social systems including kindergartens and schools overstretched and under stress more is not possible we cannot do more now. since the beginning of the year the city has been plagued by violence between refugees and locals just last week a german couple were attacked just outside of the shopping center by three syrian teenagers one of those boys a fifteen year old has since been ordered to leave bourse and the surrounding area germany should start controlling its borders and stop the uncontrolled migration that has been going on for two and a happy years and america must go the government should change or it won't get any

better. but there are different reasons why people have to flee iraq but we have to distinguish those from economic reasons for those who truly seek refuge should be granted asylum office but we need to separate those who really look for shelter and those young strong in the wild man who managed to get all the way to germany things and listening isn't on new year's day a group of refugees were set upon by a gang of neo nazi thirds and just recently the right wing german national party were handing out pepper spray and a refugee fly is in the city the group were temporarily detained by police for not registering their protest. the town of freiburg has voted to halt refugee arrivals claiming it has reached its capacity to accommodate and integrate asylum seekers at a special town hall meeting on thursday the mare explained the decision.

we are not xenophobic which we are often accused of being we are dealing with integration we want to guarantee integration we have done a lot but when in the end there is no space what are we supposed to do however some in freiburg are convinced that the move is a good thing it's no there are no problems i feel good here this is a general problem not just in freiburg but it has not affected me i have no problems with foreigners you hear it in the news. sometimes but i don't have any problems. at least four people have been injured in to drive by shootings in the central italian city of. tags are believed to be connected in local media is reporting that the victims were of african origin and suggests the incidents may have been racially motivated the suspect who police say is an italian at national

has been arrested and comes after the dismembered body of an eighteen year old italian girl was discovered hidden in two suitcases near. in nigeria migrant was arrested in connection with the death we spoke to an italian journalist about how the country is reacting to the issue of immigration at the moment we have a lot of arrivals and the utopia. is not is leaving it alone in facing these issues if the situation is not managed to properly we will have probably. grass campaigns and of course this kind of aggressive campaign. can lead to more violence in the future. turkey and greece have reignited a decades long feud over the sovereignty of two small islands in the aegean sea has even threatened violence against top greek officials if they travel there. athens

will feel the anger of turkey we will break the arms and legs of any offices of the prime minister or of any minister who dares to step in the aegean unspeakable statements like these are early into european political culture we have said this before each should know their place additionally we would like to remind him that the legal status of the gene is clear and guaranteed by international law all these are the inhabited territories that are disputed turkey has become increasingly vocal in its claims of ownership of them lately the trigger is thought to have been a greek court denying a turkish extradition request for eight men are wanted in connection with a failed military coup in two thousand and sixteen now the isles were originally part of the ottoman empire but have long been recognised as greek islands the sovereignty issue ignited back in december one thousand nine hundred five when a turkish boat rammed a greek vessel ashore it was followed by

a succession of turkish and greek attempts to remove each other's flags from the islands even by journalists former belgian parliament member and political expert says he's not surprised by the route between the two countries. turkey and greece have a past off military conflict i mean in the seventy's they were even at war at some point it's not a surprise that these two could nato member states. in such a situation when it won't make that much of a difference of course. all the countries are very poor it's that this is my get out of hand you know that of course they do not like to nato members at war but neither has always supervised these kind of skirmishes especially between greece and turkey we should not forget that all rhetoric aside and made to it was never about democracy and human rights i mean when nato was founded greece was a military dictatorship and turkey was limited to

a dictatorship that did not impede their nato membership so i think on the whole things will go on as usual just the only thing that we have to take care is that this does not get out of hand this can always happen of course. the crime ridden u.s. city of baltimore has called for a cease fire this weekend in an attempt to stymie its skyrocketing murder rates 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 a police scandal the prevailing thought of illegal firearms and an opioid democrat who samir khan picks up a story for us. this weekend activists are calling for a seventy two hour cease fire 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. a week in no home the sides 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 pugh 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 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 citizen's trust in law enforcement and there are still weeks of trials to come samir khan r t reporting from baltimore facebook's new

messenger kids app is being targeted at six to twelve year olds and that has parents and health professionals were full story coming up after a short break this is our. the wall does getting away from us dollars wall reserve currency the one road one belt policy 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 so here's the treasury secretary really trying to make it look like oh it's our balls are far lower dollar doesn't matter what he says the dollar is going lower as i've been saying for a number of years because the u.s. dollar is a currency that other countries recognize as funding the wars and the weapons and the poverty that they're trying to escape. our welcome back this is our international israel has been called a beacon of light and hope in the middle east by u.k. defense secretary gavin williams and also stressed that the nation has a friend for life in britain on associate you're going to has been asking people in london for their thoughts if you were the u.k.'s defense secretary which country would you call it because of light and hope in the middle east jordan you floyd on

the whole you should definitely don't the us. put it this way i suppose i would think lebanon where christians and muslims appear to work out a way of living together and sharing political power thereat perhaps he was talking about israel israel no 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 how do you think israel is a beacon of light yes. because you have the difficulties you i think you peace i think of 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. we will be friends with everybody. facebook has been urged to pull the plug on a social so-called safe chap out for children organizations have warned the social

media giant has won the social media giant its messenger kids app poses health and safety risks here's a quick look at the promo for. 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 on mine. we are positioned for children between the ages of six and twelve parents or guardians can control the settings from their own facebook accounts and approve and monitor contacts the functions of messenger kids included sending texts photos and using video chat facebook has defended the platform saying it is a great way for relatives 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. those in favor of the app think it enhanced is their online skills in a rapidly evolving world but critics argue that children are simply not prepared

for the dangers of the digital age think and. emotionally developing and they're not ready to sort of go into anything right about the need for 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 the mother 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 i think there has to be an age limit otherwise. where is the going to end and i think children are just too young their emotional. 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 photographed with where we're going with and i think education is the k. if we can train them on how to see that from the age of thirteen. maybe we can throw a few future problems but i do you fear for kids if we take on social media here in. the u.s. defense department published its nuclear posture review on friday outlining america's nuclear strategy apart from strengthening its nuclear capability the doctor in takes a seemingly tougher stance on china russia and north korea claiming those states represent a unique and complex a threat review also points out that american diplomats would continue to speak from a position of strength we got the reaction of russia's ambassador to the u.s. . leppert of danielle in order to justify the increase in military spending and the growth in its nuclear capabilities america has come up with

a scare story about russia we understand that the ideas aimed at boosting the military budget with trillions of dollars and the two thousand eight hundred nuclear review is already being compared to barack obama's analysis from seven years ago we discussed in the document with the director from the nuclear age peace foundation and an american politician who has been closely following the story. vast majority of the nuclear issue is word for for the well 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 try and gauge with 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. good art is timeless or so they say but one masterpiece depicting naked nymphs may have fallen foul of changing social and political attitudes and was taken temporarily off display at a u.k. gallery the curator says the aim was to stimulate debate about the portrayal of women in art.

well some visitors to the gallery criticized the decision calling it an act of censorship. i think the government is just sort of printing and disguised as an opera form is wrong. i think you. can power over an artist's right to pursue result work within the law or subset of the stupid this is beyond words

because all the pages in the go in the gallery then we do not so why should his cello and i don't see why it should have been taken down again we're just saying that it's another example of the prevalence sexualization of the human form within . society should i say i think it's really bad that jumping on the me to campaign to sort of have an opera ties to the gallery if that talking about the objects implication of women then there are a hundred other paintings in the gallery that do that as well and some women not see fund that really empowering or either does or for me i will be back in about thirty three minutes with a full look at your news watch american internet. our

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loves watching the. you criminalist released by the white house to and shaming into an institution that was included on the list or accused simply by association. being from russia or is now an accepted cools for suspicion so does the religion really change. ok. ok do you know yet and was why overcovered you can shut up shut up you know hundred

ton of other things of the union so how do you want here's a quick highlight video and then we'll move on to other more important news. to dallas talk about the f.b.i. as you know the f.b.i. claimed they had accidentally lost text messages that a judge ordered they not lose in which two f.b.i. agents were apparently discussing their hatred of donald trump because they're human but then after a backlash the f.b.i. founded jackson messages. no this got me to thinking i believe there were other times the f.b.i. and cia have lost important evidence or documents so i did some research and here are your top ten times yes.

the young people are demanding more explosions on the show so we're going to have also they'll be some cats we have running around don't stop on i'm all right. number ten the j.f.k. files revealed the f.b.i. has misplaced oswald's fingerprints taken off the rifle this is this is serious because without those fingerprints how can they prove without chatter with a doubt that it was oswald who fired the shot that hit kennedy from both the front and the back of his head at the same time. ok. and in case in case any of you going away that's a conspiracy theory no it's only a theory if you don't have the courage of your convictions you're not a coward it's a conspiracy story. number nine more oz walt an entire volume of cia files on our wall that was supposed to be released has gone missing the cia

alternately explained volume five of oswald's security file and they never have existed. wow that's a given excuse right there do you want to if we keep digging on this whole j.f.k. assassination thing the cia will one day hold a press conference to go it's possible of john f. kennedy may never have existed. can argue with that. number eight following the one nine hundred ninety two ruby ridge standoff where the f.b.i. gunned down a mother holding her baby they later lost track of the resulting report about the bureau's wrongdoing alternately as agents did go to prison for destroying that report what accountability never heard of it number seven and twenty fifteen the cia's inspector general accidentally deleted it's only copy of

a senate report about the agency's history of brutal interrogation techniques cached steadily darn it. hate when you accidentally delete all evidence of the report of the cia's ongoing war crimes which we call print their. night with the girls this number six wives just lose small things like documents when you can pull a disappearing act with a whole pieces of crime scenes after martin luther king jr was assassinated the authorities misplaced the dense hedges between him and hotel back balcony and where the assassin pulled the trigger in the book the plot to kill king the author notes the former mayor of memphis told a reporter the day after the shooting some trees were brushed behind the rooming house from which dr king was supposed to have been shot were being cut down.

it sure does suck when you misplace half of a major crime scene and thereby make it all the first hand witnesses who said they saw smoke coming from the bushes instead of the boarding room sound nuts because there are no bushes. this was this is basically the analog version of wiping the hard drive all right this is back it back in nineteen sixty eight it was just called wiping the yard. you were young you would think i couldn't really claim wiping the yard with accidental but they did and they were lying we all know who cut down the bushes somebody just mistakenly believed on the lawn. number five waco texas as you recall in one thousand nine hundred three the f.b.i. laid siege to the branch davidian compound and during the assault a massive fire broke out the f.b.i. so vehemently denied that it had any blame for the fire that killed nearly eighty

people it was a coincidence and said when a happened to be driving tanks into a building that caught fire. the f.b.i. also said they couldn't find any audio or video tape showing what happened that day then in one thousand nine hundred ninety s. us small marshals impounded previously undisclosed f.b.i. tapes that reportedly include a recording of an f.b.i. commander giving the ok to fire incendiary tear gas. who's to say. we know you were asking about the bootleg tapes of the bon jovi concert at madison square garden number four that time the f.b.i. lost the laptops of hillary clinton's aides or rather agreed to destroy the lab in a kind of you scratch my back i'll wipe your hard drive can a deal. a month before the thousand and sixteen election we learned the f.b.i.

agreed to destroy the laptops of top hillary clinton aides after a limited examination of their contents let us see the evidence and we'll burn it for you. normal number three that time the f.b.i. lost the d.n.c. servers which were supposedly hacked by russians during the election oh wait no the f.b.i. didn't lose them they just ask nicely to see them and were told no. they said the democratic party when left them see the hacked email servers why that saw this is supposedly the crime of the year if not the decade and the d.n.c. won't let the f.b.i. investigate so where are those servers now well former d.n.c. chair donna brazil said the d.n.c. replicated the servers and then destroyed them. since normal i have proof of a major crime on this photo now i can tell you. that's horrible oh god that is

you know you can't see it now i can. tell you what i will draw a replica of this. give you that one that fits my story better and know you can says. the d.n.c. clearly has something to hide the one person who has even revealed some of the wrongdoing has been donna brazil admitting the primary was financially rigged in favor of hillary clinton and yet still. try it one of you ever see an interview with her but trying to get a straight answer out of donna brazil is like trying to train a squirrel to do card tricks like donald why did you guys not give the other servers well i have to tell you all from the guy who can make up the stats are you tell you is no hootenanny you know of saying no i have no idea what you're saying. you know. this time the cia lost control of their hacking

arsenal so we created the cia to spy on other countries then the cia ended up spying on us citizens then they lost their hacking tools they used to spy on us citizens and other countries are using their tolls to spy on us i stuff fair you know with the euro filed our ways via on us. how kids are passionate our jobs. and the number of the number one time the cia and then i have loved. that time the cia said it couldn't find its own regulations on how to declassify documents. the cia lost its own guidelines for how to decide whether or which documents to pretend it lost you know we we know there's some way to decide whether we should fake like we can find

something but we just can't find it gotta get it have you have you tried calling and i don't know if you look have you looked in the cab because it may be two hundred eight the real j.f.k. murder weapon if you looked over there come on the guidelines on how to disappear stuff and just disappear guys. you know i'm stop trusting these fellas do you want to see the day this is the day. because well certainly you can always take the news from behind venice trackers like fish spirits have accidentally revealed a highly secretive u.s.

military base in these areas yet and not only revealed it but also gave the exact dimensions of the base or at least the area you can run around inside it. was sucked into thinking that a military look like pulls this should also remind us how much information there is about us out there if the government knows how you move what you do all day when you do it then they can also notice when you stray from that pattern stray from the order if you know the finally start that affair you've been considering. will fall off the wagon back into the depths of frozen yogurt addiction like a book that's why the only way to truly be free you got to do what i do you're every night you drive sporadically for about thirty five forty five minutes it's all over the place right then you stop your car turn off your phone stick that up

your ass. you sit and stare blankly into the middle distance for between five minutes and two hours all right then you drive most of the way back home but you walk the last three miles that is the way to remain free in america that's all you did. i don't tell my fact there speaking of the tracking you ice now has access to billions of license plate records the database built by vigilant solutions allows ice. to obtain historical data on the plates locations and by looking up an address of a crime see what vehicles may have been in the vicinity that's right folks we now live in a country where it's still legal just to be near a crime which is really terrifying for me because we taped this show to block from the white house all right. are you ok was.

committed inside that building holy scarface is measured in then. on live in shock outlined guys stays in the guest house because going back and forth by cab was costing too many taxpayer dollars. however despite the democrats claims that they're trying so hard to stop donald trump they along with the republicans passed a spending bill last week with language that pushes us further down the road towards fascism newbill removed the language requiring intelligence agencies to spend money according to congress's instructions this basically makes it so that any administration can take on covert activities without even congress's knowledge i mean soon the only oversight of the intelligence committee is going to be whatever we glean from their fit bits. breaking news trump probably getting ready to declare martial law and judging by the number of jumping jacks the f.b.i.

is doing all right. for a storm head does fit measure scratching because if so i imagine capitol hill is a lineup. july fourth up there but but i want to make it sound like trump is all bad all right he has begun letting in syrian refugees a very very compassionate move there are five point five million syrian refugees in the past three months the united states has allowed two of them to enter the country. not two million to two syrians has a regular jesus sense that's. true less than the number of endangered blue eyed lemurs we've allowed into the country. and let's start forget we all create a syrian refugee crisis we have created i said we have to strike syria. all the time you can hear somebody on the couch already i'm sorry you get this if

you're young to go home but can't stay here all right you do you call us to break things you don't call us to help people or i would would just call a demolitions expert to give you grandma sponge bath i don't think that's not our job. speaking of demolishing things many cities around america are being destroyed by the opioid epidemic new numbers just came out showing for example is what a fourteen alone the company miami lukin provided roughly six hundred eighty nine pills for every man woman and child in oceana west virginia. maybe four year olds it was virginia have a lot of back pain from working in the car we don't know we don't know maybe the little things are from from strabane the banjo so hard i. know this is this is horrific this is true this is drug companies manufactures distributors all working together to make billions of dollars just string the lives of millions of

americans this is what happens when you have an economic system based on death and profit instead of life and empathy thank you. but i don't want to end on an angry note so here's a palate cleanser rides and good. young people need all the flash you. can focus for two seconds. in a major victory for free speech a federal court has struck down a law designed to punish people who support a boycott of israel. this is what are you sure they're just boycott of israel or not you should still support this decision because any loss stopping people from protesting or speaking out on an issue is terrible and unconstitutional i mean if you were you were right for example if you were

boycotting you know a local take bank or a because there's strawberry short cake didn't live up to expectations and. i might not agree with your protest i thought the cake was fine but i would defend your right to do that you should be able to protest any day you want this post to me to pray in the home of the court all right. carol thanks guys come to cut by half we're going to spend our days which is the audio version of all of our shows plus explosive web content it's pretty every week on i tunes and stitcher we'll be back in ninety seconds. see we have a great team we need to strengthen before the free for world calls and you're better than a legend to keep it so it's at the back. in

one thousand nine hundred two that much more to fight for the european championships at the very last moment no one believed in us but we won and i'm hoping to bring some of that waving spirit to the r.c.t. . recently had a lot of practice so i can guarantee you that peter schmeichel will be on the best form since my last world cup i think the stories are asleep. in the euro zone here i come rushing. i strike. the left left left more or less ok stuff that's really good. backs geysers financial survival guide. housing bubble. oh you mean there's a down side artificially low mortgage rates don't get carried away that's cause report. appetite i mean for

conflict is very very low these days and public service 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. but the fact a falling tears with a group called no more deaths are facing jail time for leaving water for migrants along the arizona border here to discuss is our senior boundary violator naomi campbell. right now only what is so criminal about water. ok only unnaturally frizzy and curly haired person can understand just how dangerous water can be. one

drop in who birds are nesting on my head. but i'll always remember you analyse and thomas. they were my favorite mellor. shouldn't should we feel ashamed that were arresting people who don't know writing to save lives or to have their lives that's what they want you to feel they want you to feel shame shaming is the way of life for the sas you know when i read about no more deaths. i was so ashamed of myself for doing nothing i couldn't even enjoy my grapefruit infused pelligrino. for the shame shame i tell you you're of sent the what could they possibly charge these volunteers with volunteers right these super soaker snipers have been brought to justice for entering a wildlife refuge without a permit and abandoning property in america we take protecting wildlife very

seriously and less it's a good place for a condominium. building property you mean leaving water bottles behind for desperate immigrants in the scorching heat then yes yes finally we got those litterbugs. everyone knows that water bottles belong in the trash at the airport security line. you know whenever i see a badge i immediately surrender my water bottle to that man or woman you know just to be safe this is it. i get it therefore they're calling it abandoning property because there's no law against helping people to live there. this is a problem because we have these full land throw cripps in. the floor parks with jugs filled with ammo but then finally the border patrol strategic plan was written

with the help of experts from the department of defense center for low intensity conflict. so now we use that war training to get rid of these misguided people terrorizing our borders we seek human decency. you know only what exactly gets people into helping i just don't know i did it with . him a drugs is immigrants are basically getting death sentences if they're. quite not quite people who get death sentences still get lawyers. a minor who left under as age thirteen was denied asylum and was also denied the right to an appointed counsel but any one of those countries entitled to due process that's ok even if he had a fair trial say he said he left under is because he was threatened by gangs and the court did not deny that was true the court said it's not our problem it's give

us your tired your poor but not your children scared of violence. they only be us backs brutal leaders of course tons of weapons in honduras that the point was fleeing for his life partially because of ice and now he's being sent back to the danger he fled with well the asylum is only legally applied to people who are persecuted for one of five reasons religious or political persuasion race nationality or a social group they belong to which i don't understand if. you know it's like that buzz feed quiz i took which refugee are you and it turns out i'm an economic victim of nafta. so i don't get asylum either actually aren't you ashamed of yourself for doing nothing about this but taking some stupid quiz oh. you're one of them. you're

a humanitarian who won but you know there is hope for rehabilitation lee thinks i used to be a teacher. i got out of it you can too. was from the ministry was running out of governmental bodies to turn to rubble so they found another one redacted correspondent john of adonal breaks it down for us. i'm embarrassed to say that i'm very gullible and trusting so um khana susceptible to financial scams case in point i invested all my savings in the by colin i was told it's just as valuable as big corn but better because you can eat it turns out it was just a wheelbarrow full hanukkah gelt among many other reasons this is why we need

a strong consumer financial protection bureau the bureau was created as an independent agency after the financial crisis and was dedicated to helping consumers fight back when financial institutions ripped them off in its first five years it provided eleven point seven billion dollars in relief for more than twenty seven million consumers nice i think to see if p.b. is my favorite of all of the federal bureaus because they've run properly it actually has the teeth to hold wall street accountable unlike the federal bureau of octogenarians which does not have it see if they hold anyone accountable plus the c. a p b is the brainchild of this lady you enabled the spake account scam you got rich off it and then you tried to cover it up at best you weren't incompetent at worst you were complicit and either way you should be fired edith. yes i know she endorsed hillary and that sucks still. and now

it's all the more because this guy is actually the acting head of the c.f.b. be this particular bureau under the previous administration had gone too far over towards strangling access to capital by making it difficult for financial services to flow and as a result folks that we want to try and help or hurt were trying to fix that mold a new way folks that we want to try and help or hurt and we're going to try and fix that you're clearly we're furring to wall street and the financial sector ovate he said betsey if p.b. works for those. to use credit cards and those who provide those credit cards those who take loans and those who make them those who buy cars and those who sell them those who take loans and those who make them no dude it's the consumer financial protection bureau not the predatory payday loan lets trap poor people into debt for adverse financial protection bureau that agency would suck staff member comes

a week after mr moby made his most significant move the date at the bureau requesting no funding for the quarter from the federal reserve and freezing rules drafted by former cia director cordray that would have cracked down on the present story practices of payday lenders under mulvey me the bureau dropped an investigation into an installment lender with questionable lending practices which eventually that same company world except in score don't need to move easily congressional campaigns yeah i'm sure there's no conflict of interest there after all it's the world acceptance corps it's the corporation that accepts the world. as being recipients of shady high interest. so beautiful. oh here's an interview from twenty fourteen we're moving reveals what he really thinks of the consumer financial protection bureau it's a wonderful example of how a bureaucracy will function if it has no accountability to anybody it turns up

being a joke and that's what the c.f.b. be really has been in a sick sad kind of way yeah this guy has no place being the head of the c f p b it should be noted when he was a congressman obey me co-sponsored a bill to get rid of the agency all together having him in charge would be like having stopped pruitt in charge of the e.p.a. or rick perry in charge of the department of energy or green carson in charge of housing and urban development or betsy de vos in charge of the. barbara vegetation oh how i get it. totally get it now. reporting from washington john of o'donnell that.

cars are survival guide book station just like all the stores at. least you don't get a. good repatriations look at the rest the seventy years. philip the seventy s. kaiser report. eighteen years ago i traveled across the united states exploring america's deadly love affair with a gun if a bad guy tried to get to one of my family members he would have better a lot better and i think it's fair and hurting whatever my my baby's says my book was published in the year two thousand more than hoff a million americans have been killed by firearms in the us and we had a thought to me as i did this this is a middle school we go through drills and we put ourselves in real scenarios it was interesting to see who actually got hit by the gun i decided to return to

the subject to track down each gun owner who i'd met and photograph those years of god i don't know this but we are not. the few criminalist released by the white house to shaming into an institution those included on the list are accused simply by association. being from russia or is no one except it calls for suspicion so does the criminalist really changes. this is says harlan kentucky. over all of this group of them boys people were very funny using.

a co money city with almost no coal mines left. the jobs are gone all the goal was to. live to see 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 in the end it's happening it's happened.

a rebel group downs a russian fighter jet in the northwest of syria and executes the pilot also ahead. i think it's terrible if you want to know the truth i think it's a disgrace lot of people should be ashamed of themselves and much worse than that. they were public and party memo is released claiming to show the f.b.i. and u.s. justice department abusing their surveillance powers as in they investigated trump in two thousand and sixteen. and a rally in support of refugees in the german city of caucuses held alongside a massive anti migrant protests.

are broadcasting live direct from our studios in moscow this is arch international sean thomas certainly glad to have you with us sherri and rebel fighters have shot down a russian jet in syria's italy province and killed the pilot unverified footage of this incident has been posted online by militants. a lot of work about. oh more quickly. let's go i want to. write a second video purportedly showing the rebels posing with the dead body of the pilot has also surfaced on the internet and a warning you might find some of the images you're about to see upsetting this clip appears to show one of the militants taking a selfie next to the victim others are also taking pictures and chanting vulgar has more on what else we know about what occurred. well the incident took place in the

northwestern village of musser and in the province and that's one of the last remaining rebel strongholds in the country now according to the russian defense ministry the pilot did manage to eject from the plane and pair showed it down to the ground and an area that's actually controlled by the terrorist group. he was then subsequently killed in a fight with terrorists again that's coming from the russian ministry of defense they also added that it's believed that a anti-aircraft missile system was actually used in the downing of the plane and very quickly after the attack took place videos and photos surfaced online most of them very graphic and disturbing showing the rebels taking photos of the dead pilot and stomping on the debris of the crashed plane now. the group that has claimed responsibility of the tax say that they are part of the moderate opposition free syrian army but it's widely believed that they are in fact actually allied with the latest incarnation. they have in the past enjoyed support from washington and even

received weapons from the u.s. at this point russia did react quite quickly and has already carried out a number of persuasion strikes in the area with the ministry reporting that over thirty militants were killed as a result. a newly released u.s. congressional memo has ignited a firestorm of controversy in washington the document written by republicans alleges the f.b.i. and justice department abuse. their investigatory powers while looking into the trump campaign's links to russia some in the party have claimed it casts doubt on the federal probe into the allegations of collusion with moscow specifically the memo claims the justice department and the f.b.i. may have illegally obtained a warrant for the surveillance of a former trump aide to support the warrant application the f.b.i. used a highly controversial dossier full of information in claims about a trump some of them on verified and russia that was partly funded by the democratic party be and the clinton foundation the memo alleges the dossiers

democratic ties were concealed at the agency's request i think it's terrible you want to know the truth i think it's a disgrace what's going on in this country i think it's a disgrace the memo was sent to congress it was declassified congress will do whatever they're going to do but i think it's a disgrace what's happening in our country and when you look at that and you see that and so many other things what's going on in a lot of people should be ashamed of themselves and much worse than that. the democratic party was opposed to the memo being made public and the f.b.i. expressed grave concerns that it could be misleading the democrats now seem to be preparing to declassify one of their own files in an attempt to counter the document are these cables moppin has commentary. for over a year there's been an investigation by congress into donald trump for alleged collusion with russia so how did it all start well according to the recently declassified memo it all started with the foreign intelligence surveillance act

a warrant issued allowing the government to spy on trump during his presidential campaign so how do you get a warrant to spy on a presidential campaign well you present the pfizer court with a da ca in this case it's the infamous steel dossier now the f.b.i. chief admitted that it was dubious but he still used it and the f.b.i. still relied on it i was speaking to him and briefing him about some salacious unverified material no surveillance weren't would have been sung from the foreign surveillance court without the still dusty information so you present the court with a dot ca you pretty much don't believe because it'll help you get a warrant to spy on who you want now this is what deputy attorney general bruce or said about christopher steele the former british agent and his agenda steele was desperate that donald trump not get elected president and was passionate about him not becoming president so why would a judge issue a warrant based on

a dasi a that was pretty non-credible oh that's because the f.b.i. never told him that according to the memo this was intentionally left out of the report now trump tweeted last year terrible who just found out that bama had my was tapped in trump tower just before the victory nothing found this is mccarthyism so remember all those people that mocks trump's tweet and said oh federal agencies could never spy on people unless they have good reasons that couldn't have happened well it started to look like it did happen and trust tweed is not so funny after all cable mopp and r.t. new york and a number of commentators we spoke to believe there have been surveillance abuses. we could know what the their intelligence agencies are doing this must be protecting the american people from from threats but this one was a case where they intervene in a political process that looks like and that's highly unusual and very disturbing

this is how the f.b.i. does business they do it surreptitiously they do it by stabbing people in the back they do it by setting people up by entrapping them by tricking them and that's exactly what they did with the price of court they played the fight as a court judge by not telling them the source of this deal they plead that judge by not telling them that this was a partisan. report and and they got their warrants they got there weren't any way. campaigners have been rallying in the german city of kut bush in support of refugees there was also an anti migrant rally in the city at the same time an increased police presence has been put in place for the weekend called bus located near the polish border is home to around one hundred thousand people and since chancellor merkel opened germany's borders to refugees in two thousand and fifteen the city has given asylum to over three thousand people our europe correspondent peter oliver traveled there for us here in both around one hundred

twenty kilometers to the south of. they've said they can't take any more refugees the city's mayor is saying that the infrastructure was being stretched to its limits. we have to realize the in call books social systems including kindergartens and schools overstretched and under stress more is not possible we cannot do more now. since the beginning of the year the city has been plagued by violence between refugees and locals just last week a german couple were attacked just outside of the shopping center by three syrian teenagers one of those boys a fifteen year old has since been ordered to leave both and the surrounding area germany should start controlling its borders and stop the uncontrolled migration that has been going on for two and a half years and america must go the government should change or it won't get any better. but there are different reasons why people have to look but we have to

distinguish those from economic reasons for those who truly seek refuge should be granted asylum. but we need to separate those who really look for shelter and those young strong in the by a man who managed to get all the way to germany things and listening isn't on new year's day a group of refugees were set upon by a gang of neo nazi thugs and just recently the right wing german national party were handing out pepper spray and refugee fly is in the city the group were temporarily detained by police for not registering their protest. the town of freiburg has voted to halt refugee arrivals claiming it has reached its capacity to accommodate and integrate asylum seekers at a special town hall meeting on thursday the man explained the decision. we are not xenophobic which we are often accused of being we are dealing with

integration we want to guarantee integration we have done a lot but when in the end there is no space what are we supposed to do however some in freiburg aren't convinced that the move is a good thing it's no there are no problems i feel good here this is a general problem not just in freiburg but it has not affected me i have no problems with foreigners you hear it in the news sometimes but i don't have any problems. at least four people have been injured into drive by shootings in the central city of the attacks are believed to be connected local media is reporting that the victims were of african origin and suggested the incidents may have been racially motivated the suspect who police say is an italian national has been arrested this comes after the dismembered body of an eighteen year old italian girl was discovered hidden in two suitcases near my truck nigerian migrant was arrested in connection with the death we spoke to an italian journalist about how the

country is reacting to the issue of immigration at the moment we have a lot of arrivals and the. is not is leaving italy alone in facing these issues if the situation is not manage the properly we will have probably an escalation of aggressive campaigns and of course this kind of aggressive campaign. can lead to more violence in the future. turkey and greece have reignited a decades long feud over the sovereignty of two small islands in the aegean city has even threatened violence against a top greek officials if they travel there. athens will feel the anger of turkey we will break the arms and legs of any offices of the prime minister or of any minister who days to step on to him is in the aegean unspeakable statements like

these are elie into european political culture we have said this before each should know their place additionally we would like to remind him that the legal status of the gene is clear and guaranteed by international law these are the uninhabited territories being disputed turkey has become increasingly vocal in its claims of ownership over them lately the trigger is thought to have been a greek court denying a turkish extradition request for eight men are wanted in connection with a failed military coup in two thousand and sixteen of the isles were originally part of the ottoman empire but have long been recognized as greek the sovereignty issue ignited back in december one thousand nine hundred five when a turkish boat ran a greek vessel off shore it was followed by a succession of turkish and greek attempts to remove each others' flags from the islands even by journalists former belgian parliament member and political expert loads the news to says that he is not surprised by the route between the two

countries. turkey and greece have a past off military conflict i mean in the seventy's they were even at war at some point it's not a surprise that these two could nato member states. in such a situation when it won't make that much of a difference of course. all the countries are very poor it's that this is my get out of hand you know that of course they do not like to nato members at war but nato has always survived this 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 nato was founded greece was a military dictatorship and turkey was a military dictatorship that did not impede the nato membership so i think on the whole things will go on as usual just that the only thing that we have to take care is that this does not get out of hand this can always happen of course. the

crime ridden u.s. city of baltimore has called for a cease fire this weekend in an attempt to stymie its skyrocketing murder rates 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 a police scandal the prevalence of illegal firearms and opioid epidemic artie's american picks up the story. this weekend activists are calling for a seventy two hour cease fire 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 weekend of no home the sides 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 both tomorrow and for its most widespread constitutional and is current repricing 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 facebook's a new messenger kids app is being targeted at six to twelve year olds and that has parents and health professionals worried full story coming up short break this is our to enter.

join me every thursday on the alex 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. getting away from us dollars wall reserve currency. paul c. russia and china is out of the dollar every last trade oil away from the dollar countries are desperate to get out of the us dollar so the dollar is going to lose value no matter what anybody says the treasury secretary try to make it look like. a lower dollar or 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 and the weapons on the property that they're trying to escape.

i walk about this is our team trash israel has been called a beacon of light and hope in the middle east in my view case defense secretary gavin williamson also stressed that the nation has a friend for life in britain. has been asking people in london for their thoughts on that. if you were the u.k.'s defense secretary which country would you call it because of light and hope in the middle east jordan you floyd on the whole you should definitely don't the us. put it this way i suppose i would take lebanon where christians would. appear to work out a way of living together and sharing political power you're right perhaps he

was talking about israel israel no 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 difficulties you think you piece i think it is and that's what the banks 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 for. facebook has been urged to pull the plug on a so-called safe chat app for children were musicians have warned of the social media giant its messenger kids out poses health and safety risks here's a quick look at the promo for. it's a video chatting messaging out for families and kids and it's designed to give parents more control when their kids start to communicate online. and the app is

designed for children between the ages of six and twelve parents or guardians can control the settings from their own facebook accounts and approve and monitor contacts the functions of messenger kids include sending text photos and using video chat facebook has defended the platform saying it's a great way for relatives 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. those in favor of the absolute it enhances their online skills in a rapidly evolving world but critics argue that children are simply not prepared for the dangers of the digital age thing and. so emotionally it's of a pang and i'm 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 other 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 i think there has to be an age limit otherwise. where is it going to end and i think children and just very emotional. to be able to 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 photographed with where we're going with and i think education is the k. if we can train them on how to see that from the age of thirteen. maybe we can solve a few future problems but i do you fear for kids if we take social media

here in the. u.s. defense department published its nuclear posture review on friday outlining america's nuclear strategy apart from strengthening its nuclear capability the doctrine takes a seemingly tougher stance on china russia and north korea claiming those states represent a unique and complex threat your view also points out that american diplomats would continue to speak from a position of strength we got the reaction of russia's ambassador to the u.s. . in order to justify the increase in military spending and the growth in its nuclear capabilities america has come up with a scare story about russia we understand that the ideas aimed at boosting the military budget with trillions of dollars in two thousand nine hundred you clean review is already being compared to barack obama's analysis from seven years ago we discussed the document with the director from the nuclear age peace foundation and an american politician who has been closely following the story 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 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 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 in 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. good art is timeless or so they say but one masterpiece of depicting naked nymphs in may have fallen out of changing social and political attitudes and it was temporarily taken off display at a u.k. gallery the curator says the aim was to stimulate debate about the portrayal of women in art.

and some visitors to the gallery criticised the decision calling it an act of censorship. i think the column is the same sort of printing down on the skies as an opera form is wrong. i think you. can power over an artist'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 not so and why should his cello and i don't see why it should have been taken down again we're just saying that it's another example it's the. sexualization of the human form within. society today i think it's really bad that that jumping on the meat campaign to sort of

have an awful ties to the gallery if that's what he bought the objects of the case no women then there are a hundred other paintings in the gallery. and some women not see fund that really empowering and that there's a for me i will be back in about thirty four minutes and full of with.

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those included on the list are accused simply by association. being from russia or is now an accepted cause for suspicion so does the criminalist really change it. timex kaiser this is the kaiser report still a los angeles city of angels and no more angelic angel then. you talk to an angel in the second half is well known we prince and you know what charlie's angels except max's angels we just see one more angel you know what she is often talked about steve and steve minucci in our treasury secretary and the headline he's a horrible angel he's a horrible he's. seen in the new.

nexus angel show steve minucci and he's the treasury secretary of the united states of america and well he was over in davos last week and basically altered the past thirty years of u.s. policy regarding the dollar of course they have not mind at the dollar going lower lower but they always have this fake you know a strong dollar policy and he's changed that over in a minute chin comment surprises financial markets turns dollar decline into one way bet the dollar already on spiral lower sank to a three year low after treasury secretary stephen when you said a weaker dollar was good for u.s. trade the comments depart from the strong dollar policy of treasury secretary speak for him going back to robert rubin and the clinton administration but fit with the trump administration's america first message that we dollar policy could backfire

and make us assets like treasuries less appealing and drive up the cost of foreign goods for businesses and everyday americans. while this is a policy around the world beggar thy neighbor by trying to drive your currency lower to help your exports and grab global market share and china's been the king of the. for a long time so this is a take in a china directly saying oh yeah you think you. will make the dollar even cheaper so it makes us you know higher value versus a dollar which may it's more difficult for them to export their way into global domination so now our currency wars venturing a new phase you know donald trump obviously has a lot more understanding of how to fight this currency war than anyone coming before him barack obama was really a novice coming into office knew nothing about finance he was financially illiterate as he proved over and over again and the shop knows the rules of the game whether he's successful or not we'll see well you know in the second half you do speak to know me prince who has

a new book out called collusion how central bankers rigged the world and in it and in your interview she does talk about the fact that china does view american policy whether it was the obama administration or otherwise the trump administration that they are in policy is and saying towards global trade and the dollar so they already of us as kind of insane steve going to switch is kind of a sort of meeting pushing globalization in fact francois. krohn from france from france was there saying you know france is ready to lead the way where they had a globalization this is kind of an anti clopas ation message is part of america first message so it's you know it is a beggar thy neighbor policy is anti-globalization but yeah yeah exactly and you know the question is is the lower dollar the result of really

a policy initiative or is it a lower dollar inevitability of policy failure and now the policy makers are saying all it's our policy for a lower dollar i don't think it makes a difference whether see a miniature in your home or else describes the dollar as their policy going lower the dollar was going to go lower anyway because the world is getting away from you . u.s. dollar as a role reserve currency the one road one belt policy linking up russia and china is out of the dollar everyone wants to trade oil away from the dollar a 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 merely trying to make it look like oh it's our policy for a lower dollar doesn't really matter what he says the dollar is going lower as i've been saying for a number of years because the u.s. dollar is a currency that other countries recognize as funding the wars and the weapons and the poverty that they're trying to escape. steve newton standing in front of the globe's reporters standing in front of the world's reporters and saying that the

dollar his policy as treasury secretary. the guy who signs the dollar bills the new dollar bills that he wants it to go lower according to this headline here they said that basically opens this up as a one way bet for traders and traders will keep pushing it in keep pushing it said one strategist there is a possibility that it could be a spiral that it gets out of control luckily we did hear on kaiser report tell you a few weeks ago to load back up on gold because of course we're going to get into that in the next headline buy gold has obviously done very well against the dollar as the dollar's been tanking it in the openings weeks of twenty eighteen i see the world through gold colored glasses because stacey has been pointing out for a few months now the rotation back into gold is well underway getting three year highs and you said and i agree that gold could hit

a new all time high in twenty that are over two thousand dollars an ounce i mean solar would be fifty sixty seven dollars an ounce and crypto currencies are on the back foot lot of money that was in the multi hundred billion dollars of those spaces down flowing into gold we know that from watching the trade patterns and the reports you're getting back from the exchanges so yeah this could be gold year so but before i move on to the next headline about gold and silver coin and other things and how they've responded to consent dollar falling and how that reminds us of the past well on this new chin's comments they say echo statements by president donald trump who famously helped turn a market trend of a stronger dollar last january when he said prior to his inauguration that the dollar was quote too strong and that u.s. companies can't compete because of it particularly against china. needs the dollar index has lost more than ten percent since then and after we knew since comment

last wednesday morning it sank to a new three year low he said that obviously a weaker dollar is good for the u.s. and good for trade i'm not so sure if you don't actually produce that much other than weapon system it's not like. you know there was any problem selling weapons systems that's one of our biggest exports i'm not sure it definitely improves the profits. of big u.s. multinationals like apple and i.b.m. sell things overseas so that their profits if they're booking their earnings and euro's which is now at one twenty four where it was only about ten just a few months ago so they're booking profits in these foreign currencies so of course their shareholders are quite happy but whether or not it benefits the workers in america i don't know. the prices for stuff like oil are going to go higher you know oil still priced in dollars predominantly in price of oil last i checked above sixty you know heading higher and people start paying back five six

seven dollars a gallon again at the pump that's going to cut into their economic activity for sure now i want to go into another bit of this story about the dollar tumbling into twenty eighteen in just the first few weeks and this brings us back to some stories where max keiser is quite well known from the one nine hundred eighty seven crash because you were working on wall street in one nine hundred eighty seven you remember those days and it was fun fun fun but first we're going to look at this take by zero ahead of the steve newton story when he was in the minucci and massacre precious metals surge amid dollars worst start in thirty years the dollar was smashed with the ugly stick as comments sparked chaos and foreign exchange markets and as precious metals. urged and bond yields jumped and stocks actually sank briefly we were reminded by the mainstream media that

a falling dollar is great for america so i bought the dip in stocks with all your money on the sidelines so it was the worst start to the year. for the u.s. dollar since one nine hundred eighty seven and we actually have a little chart here this is one nine hundred eighty seven the dollar into the first month of one nine hundred eighty seven right here is two thousand and eighteen it's looking as bad as one nine hundred eighty seven right so eighty seven crash it was long overdue in this particular market going back to these charts the dollar heading into eighty seven started to you know we you know a lot of weakness here you've got in this market a huge concentration of money in the so-called fang stocks facebook app all netscape and google and apple's kind of been weak in the last couple of few few weeks there's a lot of weakness in that stock so the fang the fang group of stocks let's say they

start to lose favor after having this enormous run amazon is also in that group and amazon ok it's trading at something like over one hundred times forward earnings so that's stocking could drop fifty or sixty percent and still be on a chart basis in a bull market i mean these stocks are trading on some incredibly lofty valuations and like eighty seven you could see a twenty twenty two percent crash in a day which would be you know that would be quite quite a move down wouldn't stacey so let's look at the chart that they provide that interestingly stocks soared just as they are now as the dollar crashed just as it is now in one thousand nine hundred seventy before things went pear shaped so that's the chart the green line is the s. and p. five hundred the red line is the u.s. dollar index and as you saw the dollar started out twenty nine hundred eighty seven decline. rapidly that sum the s. and p. five hundred soaring in one thousand nine hundred seven max you were there for that

to hop that was twenty percent in one day is that still possible well theoretically no because the circuit breakers they put in but i don't really have confidence in those going to work and the helicopter money. after money will come in and they will try to mitigate any huge losses but i think that overwhelmingly the system will not be able to handle do you want and you'll have another kind of computer aided crash you know in front of computer aided design cad this is computer aided crash to catch its own entropy everything must. chew toward chaos. that why is that your explanation that's the law of the universe the multiverse if not miss universe that a parallel universe you know there's a guy like me living in a parallel universe saying the inverse of what i just said who is having lunch with billy bob thornton right now i'm going tops out at the marquis hotel sunset marquis

in west hollywood yeah i saw you mention the apple and that was another interesting story that's happened while we were here in california is that the california based company reported that they apparently the rumor is that they're already going to get rid of the i phone ten the next update that they do in the next year this is a rumor started by a guy in china who always has the top info he's usually right on his rumors about what's happening i phone eight sales i phone ten sales disastrous like fifty percent less than they expected an i phone ten we did note that i remember tweeting from an apple store before christmas so there was nobody at all at the i phone ten basque and i noted that that doesn't look very good i was surprised when eighty seven you had the masking effect of so called portfolio insurance. so the market was trading well above its real fundamental value thanks to the aid of derivatives

here you've got the market trading at these extraordinary levels thanks to the ada stock repurchases fueled by zero percent money so if you start taking that away and it's trying to go up that apple could clearly drop thirty forty percent well if you look at the chart of history rhymes or even repeats it looks like we could have another few moments of these ever rising stock prices so all those millennial that we cover diving in via their schwab and t.d. ameritrade accounts could ever another few months and then they could have a sort of october november surprise. that looks a lot like one nine hundred eighty seven speaking of repeating this cop sounds repeating on me right now hey stay tuned for the second half exclusive interview and no need friends in her new book.

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actually get into a fight with a neighbor or or with other powers in the world. welcome back to the guy's report i'm max kaiser time to turn to nami prince author of soon to be released collusion how central bankers rigged the world only welcome. great to see in this hotel the sunset marquis you develop the pitch over twenty four hour binge is that correct that's right i had the idea spoke it out in my mind and sat in a room here for twenty four hours and then go off to my publisher and here we are a couple years later about to be as good bob thornton in the book. might be i'd be out the way by the but ok section of your book starts in a different area the world but always in the same year two thousand and eight which

is ground zero for collusion so what evidence do you have for the collusion or what do you mean by collusion we're talking about collusion between central banks yet so basically the fed is the central collusion meister and in the beginning of the financial crisis they decided to save our banks the u.s. banks because they basically caused the crisis and they did it by manufacturing money and so the things over the past decade but they also did by reaching out to other central bank of friends throughout the world particular leave the area p. and central bank the bank of japan on sort of euro banks and they said look we need your help but this was all done in the background what was happening publicly publicly they acted as if they save the system in a period of losing colluding against their. the general public but they colluded with each other to rig rates to keep money at the average zero levels that we have today to buy trillions of dollars worth of bonds from governments and from banks particularly banks that allows them to value all of their bonds up so they

basically artificially rigged the entire bond market stock market because all of these institutions now have access to cheap money with which they buy their own shares and effectively just totally change the financial system but what i did was i went country by country that i called to the countries in the book so i did mexico i did brazil and to china to japan i went throughout europe and. as a pivot areas where i looked at how they colluded over time so i was going back to two thousand a ground zero and seeing how they dealt with their own country's issues relative to the united states and also what the fed wanted them to do and what they wanted to do for themselves so there's always a little tension and there's also a lot of collaboration from the standpoint of major central banks so this is an interesting historical development central banks walk us through because you've written a number of books in covering banking and the history of banking and historically central banks are set up we know to be the lender of last resort to be a backstop to the banking system to prevent things like bank runs from getting out of control exciter so when you have different central banks and different countries

in operating up until what you're suggesting here they're operating independently of each other and their role in these economies was to as we were saying be a backstop to the banking system so what when when they collude as as you're talking about that it would we answer kind of a post a post market economy in other words they pushed central banks started to participate in markets you know from the one nine hundred seven crash alan greenspan and the plunge protection chain which included ronald reagan and robert rubin they started the central bank began to become a player now here's a central bank of switzerland is buying aggressively buying stocks so these central banks how do they fit in the global banking system what are they doing that is so the lender of last resort or the buyer of first order what exactly are they doing

what are they doing this and they become massive hedge funds for one thing but instead of borrowing money or going to investors and sid and using their money to and to find things that they are creating money that they're fabricating electronic money they're going through the financial system to basically get it out there and it collectively got about twenty one points. trillion dollars worth of assets on their books through connotative easing which have been used to purchase corporates if you're the european central bank equities and the bank of japan mortgage assets and government bonds if you are the fed and they have become the market they've not just become a buyer in the market and a lender of cheap order to all of the major banks they have become affectively the rigor of the market so everything that's going on now is is a fabrication at the hands of the collusion that the fed began and used its counterpart central banks around the world to manifest it's kind of like financial warfare it's we had a g. seven situation come after world war two when there was a collaboration between like the major seven countries in terms of geopolitics and

what we have now is in terms of the monetary system in terms of currencies in terms of asset evaluations and skyrocketing assets we have that illusion amongst the same central banks and we have the ones on the outside looking in mexico brazil china and so forth trying to find their spot in this new monetary system and this new artificial marketplace to be independent so that's where the shift is changing that's why china for example has risen so much as a superpower their central bank was very vocal and i have a lot of this in the book about going against the fed and saying look at the fed's doing is insanity they're creating bubbles they're fabricating money this will not and will and what they've done is decided to find a different way around that which is create trading partnerships and all over the world start to actually finance development which united states doesn't do with the money that they're creating in order to basically people away trees away from the u.s. from the dollar and from this federal reserve policy what do they say they're doing

how do they justify this you say collusion has a negative connotation but of course they don't consider themselves to be colluding in anything they think of themselves as coordinating policy but what do they think they're doing exactly they think well what they think they're doing and what they actually say they're doing on two different things. they say they are doing is stimulating economies so the federal reserve supposedly by injecting four and a half trillion dollars into the financial system buying bonds and have valuating on the back of that those securities upwards they said that would create real growth we know it hasn't created real growth it hasn't really grown the economy it's grown the markets it's grown the asset economy but not the foundational economy they believe they have and so what's happening now is all the central banks are talking not really doing tapering so the fed is saying are going to raise rates a little bit we're going to shrink our booker a little bit but in actuality if you look at it on global basis which is where the collusion comes into play the european central bank has as a seesaw fact on the other side saying our old still keep rates at negative we're

going to increase our corporate bond asset portfolio just because we can these are institutions that have absolutely no accountability no responsibility no rules and no regulations for themselves they can do whatever they want because all they're effectively doing is creating ledgers within amongst themselves and amongst the financial institutions to which they provide this cash in return for assets and keep rates low to keep that game going that's that's their game ok so ron paul the people who follow ron paul they had a huge movement out there one point audit the fed and this was probably going back ten years is part of the instigation for these central banks to collude response to audit the fed in other words in the united states with the federal reserve bank they started to talk about possibly tapering or tapering a little bit you know in response to hey you know this audit the fed is getting out of control we need to throw them a bone so what you're suggesting is on the back and they made a call to european central bank or japan and said you know we've got to appease

these ron paul guys. so we're going to say we're tapering but can you please step up your purchases on a global basis and we can keep the party going with this zero percent interest rates to help out the oligarchs that's exactly right and european central bank is the key in this right because what they said for two years now is they want to stop their buying program and then he. they got to the end of their buying program deadline they extended it so the end of last year they said are we're going to we're going to really taper this time we're going to decrease the amount of assets we buy per month but then they extended the amount of months they will buy assets by a year so when you do the math on all of this there is no tapering this is ongoing collusion to keep cheap money and asset evaluations up within the entire system again with no accountability partly though they have this thing where they want to be perceived as effective so they are scared that all of this has not been effective or that the u.s. or emperor will take its clothes off or have no clothes or whatever and sort of the wake of this and so they want to provide hatchway this idea that economies have grown on the back of this and governments are happy to do this this is sort of the

external collusion element of it yes it's government is perfectly fine whether it was a bomb or whether it's trying to say look at the economy's growing it's growing under my watch but it's not really what's rolling are the amount of assets that can be purchased at the money in there for the valuation of these assets therefore mega amounts of debt corporate debt public debt throughout the entire world in massively high share values because corporations are issuing debt to buy stock and so forth that's not effective management and they also have no exit plans thing i talk about through the end of the book they don't they don't have a way to really taper to really get out of this because they never did what they said they were going to do to begin with which is stimulate growth all they've done is stimulate the financial system for the people at the top of it created a magic money tree by buying back assets that they own with the money that they print and it's a ponzi scheme that is like the definition of a ponzi scheme they're just they're making the money themselves they're not even getting other people in on the money they're actually creating money and then doing that as you say so it's all separation of their role being instrumental in having

a responsible role in the economy they go on the road and they're just buying assets and printing their own money to buy those assets that's right their day job is to be regulators to the banking systems in their respective countries that is what they are supposed to do and there's some language in some of the central bank to say ok you have to make sure there's. a decent amount of employment is full employment some numbering system there's a certain level of inflation and so forth they have abdicated that entire sort of role except for just talking about it as if they were doing it because all they are really doing is yes fabricating money purchasing assets and keeping that going amongst let me tell you let me ask you a theoretical question here that the amount of stocks actually traded in new york has been reduced because through mergers and acquisitions funded by all this zero percent money is there a possibility that effectively central banks and occlusion they talk about take public markets private take the majority interesting stocks that are out there that

could be bought by the public to participate in growth and have a nice decent retirement account disappears and we enter a post market economy because all of the stocks and bonds have been purchased by these colluding central banks with their two hundred thirty eight being the public's private but not just a company deciding oh let's take ourselves private but they've colluded to say let's take the global stock markets private both actively because by providing that she money most easily to the the small amount of financial institutions that sort of control the gateway to the markets they have affectively control the markets i mean that that's the whole idea of why i say they rig the world they really rigged the financial so the question so if you say oh markets trading at twenty five times earnings three times earnings or x. per cashflow those metrics are meaningless it's they're meaningless it's like saying you know the the people can't possibly work for the slave wages talking to the king and saying no i'm the king and you can work for slave wages are all you

know put you in the way there's no there's no democracy there's no of dynamism there's just a massive takeover there has been asked to because all the levels that we see today are not levels that are sustained by actual growth at a company level to wage level at you know on an individual financial security level they are simply. created by the clean. of central banks all right so your book is called pollution it out in may may first. workday workers revolution day thanks for being on the show thank you all right and that's going to do it for this edition of the kaiser report with me max kaiser and stacey i would like to thank our guest now he pranced the new book is collusion there's a link to preorder below check it out it's going to catch us on twitter it's kind of a report and so next time. everybody i'm stephen both. hollywood guys you know suspects every proud american first of

all i'm just george bush and r.v. to say this is my buddy max famous financial guru just a little bit different. no one knows up with all the drama happening in our country i'm shooting the brood have fun meet everyday americans. and hopefully start to bridge the gap this is the great american people. seen years ago i traveled across the united states exploring america's deadly love affair with a gun if a bad guy tried to get to one of my family members he would have better luck with that better and i think they are encouraging when i buy my babies says my book was published in the year two thousand more than home for

a million americans have been killed by following to the us how to saute me as i did this this is a middle school we go through drills and we put ourselves some real scenarios it was interesting to see who actually got hit. and i decided to return. to the subject to track down each gun owner who i'd met and photo off those years who god i don't know this but we are not. you criminalist released but the point else to and shaming into an institution those included on the list are accused simply by association. being from russia or is no one except it calls for suspicion so does the criminalistic really changes.

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down there russian fighter jet in the northwest of syria and executes the pilot also ahead. i think it's terrible you want. the truth i think it's a disgrace a lot of people should be ashamed of themselves and much worse than that republican party member was released claiming to show the f.b.i. and u.s. justice department abusing their surveillance powers as they investigated team trump in two thousand and sixteen. and a rally in support of refugees in the german city of columbus is held alongside a mass anti migrant protests.

and broadcasting live direct from our studios in moscow this is our national incheon thomas glad to have you with us and syrian rebel fighters have shot down a russian jet in syria's italy but province and killed the pilot and verified footage of the incident has been posted online by militants. look at a lower court. and look about. let's talk about something. the second video purportedly showing the rebels posing with the dead body of the pilot has also surfaced on the internet and warning you might find the images you're about to see upsetting and this clip appears to show one of the militants taking a selfie next to the victim others are also taking pictures and chanting has more on what we else we know about what occurred. the incident took place in the northwestern village of muster in an province and that's one of the last remaining

rebel strongholds in the country now according to the russian defense ministry the pilot did manage to eject from the plane and pair show didn't down to the ground and an area that's actually controlled by the terrorist group. he was then subsequently killed in a fight with terrorists again that's coming from the russian ministry of defense they also added that it's believed that a anti-aircraft missile system was actually used in the downing of the plane and very quickly after the attack took place videos and photos surfaced online most of them very graphic and disturbing showing rebels taking photos of the dead pilot and stomping on the debris of the crashed plane now. of the group that has claimed responsibility of the tac say that they are part of the moderate opposition free syrian army but it's widely believed that they are in fact actually allied with the latest incarnation of. they have in the past enjoyed support from washington and even received weapons from the u.s. at this point russia did react quite quickly and has already carried out

a number of persistent strikes in the area with the ministry reporting that over thirty militants were killed as a result of. a newly released u.s. congressional memo has ignited a firestorm of controversy in washington the document written by republicans alleges the f.b.i. and the justice department abused their investigatory powers while looking into the trump campaign's links to russia some in the party have claimed it casts doubt on the federal probe into the allegations of collusion with moscow specifically the memo claims the justice department and the f.b.i. may have illegally obtained a warrant for the surveillance of a former trump aide to support the warrant application the f.b.i. used a highly controversial dossier full of unverified claims about trump and russia that was partly funded by the democratic party and the clinton campaign the memo alleges the dossiers democratic ties were concealed at the agency's request by. it's terrible if you want to know the truth i think it's a disgrace what's going on in this country i think it's

a disgrace the memo was sent to congress it was d. plus and congress will do whatever they're going to do but i think it's a disgrace what's happening in our country and when you look at that and you see that and so many other things what's going on. a lot of people should be ashamed of themselves and much worse than that the democratic party was opposed to the memo being made public and the f.b.i. expressed grave concerns that it could be misleading democrats now seem to be preparing to declassify one of their own files in an attempt to counter the document artie's came up and comments to how do you get a warrant to spy on a presidential campaign well you present the pfizer court with a da ca in this case it's the infamous steel dust ca now the f.b.i. chief admitted that it was dubious but he still used it and the f.b.i. still relied on it i was speaking to him and briefing him about some salacious unverified material no surveillance weren't would have been sent from the foreign

surveillance court without the steel dossier information so you present the court with a dot ca you pretty much don't believe because it'll help you get a warrant to spy on who you want now this is what deputy attorney general bruce or said about christopher steele the former british agent and his agenda steele was desperate that donald trump not get elected president and was passionate about him not becoming president so why would a judge issue a warrant based on a dasi a that was pretty non-credible oh that's because the f.b.i. never told him that according to the memo this was intentionally left out of the report now trump tweeted last year. terrible who just found out that i had my wires tapped in trump tower just before the victory nothing found this is mccarthyism surrender all those people that mocked trump's tweet and said oh federal agencies could never spy on people unless they have good reasons that couldn't have happened well it started to look like it did happen and trust tweed

is not so funny after all cable mop and archie new york you number of commentators we spoke to believe that there have been surveillance abuses we could know what the their intelligence agencies are doing this must be protecting the american people from from threats but this one was a case where they intervene in a political process that looks like and that's highly unusual and very disturbing this is how the f.b.i. does business they do it surreptitiously they do it by stabbing people in the back they do it by setting people up by entrapping them by tricking them and that's exactly what they did with the place of court they played the fight as a court judge by not telling them the source of this deal they plead that judge by not telling them that this was a partisan. report and and they got their warrant they got their warrant anyway. campaigners have been rallying in the german city of course

bus in support of refugees there was also an anti migrant rally in the same in the city at the same time an increased police presence has been put in place for the weekend called post is located near the polish border it's home to around one hundred thousand people and since chancellor merkel opened germany's borders to refugees in two thousand and fifteen the city has given asylum to over three thousand people our correspondent peter oliver traveled there force. here in court both around one hundred twenty kilometers to the south of. they've said they can't take any more refugees the city's mayor is saying that the infrastructure is being stretched to its limits. we have to realize that in cote bush social systems including kindergartens and schools are overstretched and under stress more is not possible we cannot do more now. since the beginning of the year the city has been

plagued by violence between refugees and locals just last week a german couple were attacked just outside of the shopping center by three syrian teenagers one of those boys a fifteen year old has since been ordered to leave bourse and the surrounding area germany should start controlling its borders and stop the uncontrolled migration that has been going on for two and a happy years and america must go the government changes or it won't get any better because it's on a script there are different reasons why people have to flee but we have to distinguish those from economic reasons for those who truly seek refuge will be granted asylum. but we need to separate those who really look for shelter and those young strong in the wild man who managed to get all the way to germany things and listening isn't on new year's day a group of refugees were set upon by a gang of neo nazi thugs and just recently the right wing german national party were handing out pepper spray and

a refugee fly is in the city the group were temporarily detained by police for not registering their protest. the town of freiburg has voted to halt refugee arrivals claiming it has reached its capacity to accommodate and integrate asylum seekers at a special town hall meeting on thursday the mare explained the decision. we are not xenophobic which we are often accused of being we are dealing with integration we want to guarantee integration we have done a lot but when in the end there is no space what are we supposed to do however some in freiburg are convinced that the move is a good thing it's no there are no problems i feel good here this is a general problem not just in freiburg but it has not affected me i have no problems with foreigners you hear it in the news. sometimes but i don't have any problems. at least four people have been injured into drive by shootings in the

central italian city of much other the attacks are believed to be connected local media is reporting that the victims were of african origin and suggest the incident may have been racially motivated the suspect who police say is an italian national has been arrested that comes after the dismembered body of an eighteen year old italian girl was discovered hidden in two suitcases near much of the nigerian migrant was arrested in connection with that death we spoke to an italian journalist about how the country is reacting to the issue of immigration at the moment we have a lot of arrivals and the utopia. is not is leaving alone in facing these issues if the situation is not managed properly we will have probably. grass campaigns and of course these

kind of aggressive campaigns. can lead to more violence in the future. turkey and greece have reignited a decades long feud over the sovereignty of two small islands in the aegean sea has even threatened violence against top greek officials if they travel there. i feel the anger of turkey we will break the arms and legs of any offices of the prime minister or of any minister who days to step on to him is in the aegean unspeakable statements like these are early into european political culture we have said this before each should know their place and additionally we would like to remind him that the legal status of the gene is clear and guaranteed by international law well these are the uninhabited territories being disputed turkey has become increasingly vocal and its claims of ownership over them lately the trigger is thought to have been a greek court denying a turkish extradition request for eight men are wanted in connection with

a failed military coup in two thousand and sixteen now the isles were originally part of the ottoman empire but have long been recognized as greek now the sovereignty issue ignited back in december one thousand nine hundred five when a turkish boat rammed a greek vessel ashore it was followed by a succession of turkish and greek attempts to remove each others' flags from the islands even involving journalists former belgian parliament member and political expert load one who says that he is not surprised by the route between the two countries. turkey and greece have a past off military conflict i mean in the seventy's they were even at war at some point it's not a surprise that these two could nato member states. in such a situation filling it won't make that much of a difference of course did all the countries are 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 nato has always survived these kind of skirmishes especially between greece and

turkey we should not forget that all rhetoric aside and made to it was never about democracy and human rights i mean when nato was founded greece was a military dictatorship and turkey was limited to a dictatorship that did not impede the nato membership so i think on the whole things will go on as usual just the only thing that we have to take care is that this does not get out of hand this can always happen of course. the crime ridden u.s. city of baltimore has called for a cease fire this weekend in an attempt to stymie its skyrocketing murder rates last year saw a record three hundred forty three homicides in the city despite the population shrinking the increase in violence has been linked to a police scandal the prevalence of illegal firearms and an opioid epidemic artie's american picks up the story for us. this weekend activists are calling for a seventy two hour cease fire 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 weekend of 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 pugh 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 trouble districts but stepping up surveillance doesn't really sound like a new plan even the department of justice advised against it both to more law enforcement widespread constitutional and is current repricing 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. facebook's a new messenger kids' app is being targeted at six to twelve year olds and that has parents and health professionals were full stories coming up after a short break that was. when lawmakers manufacture consent to public will. when the ruling classes protect themselves. with the fine merry go round lifts and be the one percent. we can all middle of the room sick.

room. oh no appetite i mean for conflict is very very low these days public service 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. and welcome back this is are to me international now israel has been called a beacon of light and hope in the middle east by the u.k.'s defense secretary

william cohen also stressed that the nation has a friend for life in britain parties on associate you're going to has been asking people in london for their thoughts on that. if you were the u.k.'s defense secretary which country would you call it be kind of light open the middle east jordan beautiful larger than the whole you should definitely know the us. put it this way i suppose i would think lebanon is where christians and muslims appear to work. away living together and sharing political power you're right perhaps he was talking about israel israel no 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 and i think this is going to home a two state solution but do you think israel is a beacon of light yes. because you have the difficulties you i think you piece i think 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. we will be friends with everybody. facebook has been urged to pull the plug on a so-called safe chat app for children organizations have one of the social media giant it's messenger kids and poses health and safety risks is a quick look at the problem. 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. on the app is designed for children between the ages of six and twelve parents or guardians can control the settings from their own facebook accounts and approve and monitor contacts the functions of messenger kids include sending texts photos and using video chat facebook has defended the platform saying it is a great way for relatives 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. those in favor of

the app think it enhanced as their online skills in a rapidly evolving world but critics argue that children are simply not prepared for the dangers of the digital age i think and. emotionally it's evolved 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 all 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 i think the have to be an age limit otherwise. where is that going to end and i think children are just very emotional. to be able to 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 photographed with where we're going with and i think education is the k. if we can train them on how to see that from the age of thirteen. maybe we can solve a few future problems but i do you fear for kids if we take social media here in. the u.s. defense department published its nuclear posture review on friday outlining america's nuclear strategy apart from strengthening its nuclear capability the doctrine takes a seemingly tougher stance on china russia and north korea claiming those states represent a unique and complex threat review also points out that american diplomats would continue to speak from a position of strength we got the reaction of russia's ambassador to the us.

in order to justify the increase in military spending and the growth in its nuclear capabilities america has come up with a scare story about russia we understand that the ideas aimed at boosting the military budget with trillions of dollars. all right the two thousand thousand new car review is already being compared to barack obama's analysis from seven years ago we discussed the document with the director from the nuclear age peace foundation and an american politician who's been closely following the story the vast majority of the nuclear issue is word for 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 try and gauge with 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. well that does it for me the style be back of top next hour with looked news it was.

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think including you store as a symbol of something very different what was it you. powerful. protecting. us from our friend of. the people who criticize you what a very sick. or 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 and the confused of the mass of mass shooting sprees 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 us. 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 us. is there was a man on the trigger that's now at the picture is about he's not trying to harm me. he is trying to protect me. i'm looking out for myself my family friend 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 belts but i was not succumb to this gown that is out there. we were at our

church last sunday and our sunday school teacher mike asked the class how many people had gun permits in i would say over two thirds of the members raised their hands. this is a thirty eight taurus and it five so under robot it second sealed 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. it to my to my family member as he would have better lock with that better not i think it's a grizzly bear and herding when i have my baby. close and this is going to sit it was just in this neighborhood wow i would venture

a guess everybody in this layer 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 stay were my own 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 their equal or whoever has the gun they are superior.

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 give them 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 it's 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 the phone today and get 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 e a r fifteen and i got everybody beat in town with the prices because i buy so many of the news people come in and they always blame the gun you know day asked me you know what happened why do you sell guns to kill people. well you know it's 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 i was stupid you know gun i was a killer 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 or ok just give me just give me forty dollars i want. just to see if you are so good if you study the church every time i spoke with mr griffin ok to go off here you carry that over. for i don't know where you. are.

it's my birthday and i got a gun for my birthday you so i'm going to shoot it for the first time are today. we've seen just about everything m. 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 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 for it in stock 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 don't. have a phone. is their answer arthel as well oh. yes thank you ma'am i'm terrified.

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of tank with. huge seller there really is strongly accurate where a very warm room is. still a lot of tension in the way almost definitely i want by my bed for home protection my wife actually has a benelli improved by her bed which is an automatic shotgun. more mobile does it do a home in the next hill bed what does that do to your mornings that does it does it not make you feel constantly vigilant peden no 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 a sizable number of people who kill other people are so-called law abiding citizens the law abiding citizen produces a lot of the fatalities bama stake in aig or our by accident. several years ago there was a truck a surgeon here in memphis who did a study of murders in two different urban areas. seeing if the presence or absence of guns in our home was a trigger or already protection order then 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 good in a home. then

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this little bundle of joy he would have no chance of surviving in the wild the pandas can only win one cup at a time but usually cubist to. china puts a lot of effort into making up for this cruel mistake of nature. it was. china's penda breeding has become something of a production line. it's almost as though they've been copied three d. printed and put on show for the public. several cups of bone here each year. but only less would buy dedicated scientists will be for nothing if panda enough can't be encouraged in captivity it's not as though they don't practice a tool but in the same way they do everything else this proud to twins and

has no idea that a special love potion was formulated just for the. oh no appetite i mean for conflict is very very low these days and publics are 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. the protest held against the owner a convention took place ten days after columbine. what happened at columbine on april twentieth one thousand nine hundred nine was that two two young men who were intent on killing as many students as they could they opened fire on

students outside and then went when when confronted with a police presence they went inside the school began shooting there went into the library that's where they they they killed and injured the most students and that's that's where my son was then went worse as the day went on. no word from him being asked by the police if we could provide a description of him and what he was wearing at one point asking for dental records and being told at one point that there was one last school bus bringing students. back from. when you're waiting for forty five minutes for a bus that should have only taken a couple of minutes i then began to realize that there was no last school bus.

how old was daniel when he thought fifteen. seventeen years ago when we last met i think it ended in tears for me because i realized again what i what i would do if they came to take my gun and that would be the end of it for. this country for sure and i'm not willing to hand

that over. or. no i'm able to do it and i know i would do it. protect my rights. the rights of my friends the rights of my loved ones the rights of this country. you believe in struggle you know that therefore i don't think so. i wouldn't let it go easily and probably not while i'm living. i feel like there are a lot of gun owners out there who don't take the responsibility. owning guns carrying guns storing guns i don't think they take it seriously enough why the resistance to regulation. because it leads to more regulation. that's too slippery of a slope we can have laws to protect people from their own stupidity. one

hundred eighty degrees backus guys he's a word sexy when they talk about guns i'm not going to but they're all mantic. they're emotional. no no no. no. no no no no. no. no no no no no no. no with. a well regulated militia being necessary for the security of a free state comma the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed. the second amendment in every state constitution guarantees my right to keep and bear arms why for my personal safety and to

preserve liberty that's why it's called america. i run with solicitation i've heard him say you need to call i think for somebody shooting in here. mass shootings in america have become almost commonplace but the sandy hook school massacre was six and seven year olds were targeted by gunman reached a new level of horror and cops the rule of the american gun debate. today cause me to want to strengthen and absolutely not i think if one of those teachers the principal who never had had a gun. that young man possibly would not have killed anyone or. do you think it's he. i think a properly trained teacher. and. just the need to deal with

i think is friggin fantastic certain school districts are training their teachers so they can carry a weapon. and school. we go through drills and we put ourselves in real scenarios it was interesting to see how fast we get on the buses how fast we do this who actually got hit by the paintball gun. and straight cool but pretty. scary too the swat team comes in our room and they're like ok everybody out you know put your hands up and we're all put our hands up we're terrified and takes us out so. we had his thought to him yes we did. yes this is a middle school. so. that possibility of oh yeah we can be prepared.

what do every single mass shooting have in common gun free zone. i mean there was i think it was a color blind. from my cold dead. you know i think that part of the problem is that that the gun lobby has been very successful in getting their message out much more so than those who want to see reasonable gun laws they control the narrative that you're either for the second amendment or against it you're either for freedom or against freedom the surest way to stop a bad guy with a gun is a good way that god. you're after these mass shootings gun sales do tend to go up just because people start

getting freaked out people think that the government is gonna take our guns i mean i hate seeing the shootings happen but it is definitely it is good for business. this is a smith and wesson n.n.p.c. fifteen in is our best selling weapon right now will it pretty tough. here. as. a sole weapon since a truck control facility. what is that this is a semiautomatic rifle. is it is in all an assault weapon no one else. semiautomatic one pull the trigger one shot and that is what differentiates is it in your eyes the fight the ones fully automatic and the other isn't right while

they can survive so that. because the media and the left wing politicians one meg bogeyman out as. a tool plesiosaur russell i mean this is by even about what it is i know i know and i should even call them an assault rifle we're going to it's a military style weapon that's what they want me to say a sporting gun you know you know different names but it's the same thing it's a military weapon. not a reason to buy an assault rifle is if you're going to make an assault on an enemy position and you need a lot of bullets because you've got a lot of people in the position you're attacking the assault rifle was near. it seems to me you don't need an assault rifle to kill a deer this this ongoing debates that some people have about whether things like the a k forty seven and the a r fifteen are so weapons are not that whole

discussion is absurd that the s.t. greatest friend and a mass shooter can't half. that they can have it on one. day on one of the. right. to two killers. went out in search of guns they were under eighteen they got an eighteen year old to go to the gun show to a gun show with them to make the purchase they purposely sought out a private seller that's the so-called gun show loophole where you can go to a gun show you know one table for the licensed dealer you have to go through a background check table of a private seller no background check. there's guns that i sold and everybody sells every gun dealer that i found all around the united states in crimes they should have you know mandatory registration nationwide

everybody owns a gun it should be registered and i am and they're responsible for that weapon why should you let some kid walk in a gun store buy fifteen guns and be able to give him to fifteen of his friends with no receipt even sold them and everything's legal that means guns could be shipped in from the east coast in the west coast and sold in a newspaper to it to anybody that kit that can't pass a background check that's how the criminals get guns. about forty percent. of all gun sales are private sales they don't go through a background check and these are not going through a licensed dealer imagine going to an airport and have to go through security and they said ok we're in have sixty percent of the people go through security and forty percent can bypass it when you get onto that airplane. i think.

i can take you right now thirty three miles from here and buy you anything you want on the side of the road to do something in the black market dealers it's out there facebook for example you can buy guns on. you know but just privately they privately and that is still legal in tennessee you can as of now you can still be product sales in tennessee but without them without a background check you can't so you can so that any one yes so to sort of introduce the law. that shouldn't be made out. without. should he shouldn't be. you know a little. after her not so well there needs to be some things done to people where they're back to working again and not being given money by the government to run

around and do whatever they will but there's a lot of things we could there dressed maybe that's not the only problem could be some mental health issues could be drugs cause of it for all i don't know that but we are not the problem. it's. going to be. should anything be done. now. the national solution take it's course. young no. no no no no no no no no. no.

thank. you. this is says harlan kentucky. we moved them boys it was very funny using. a co money city with almost no coal mines left. the jobs are gone all the coal miners the said i'd. love to see these people a survivor 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 the million years i would see that and it's

happening it's happened. a few criminalist released by the white house to and shaming into an institution those included on the list or accused simply by association. being from russia or is no one except it cools for suspicion so does the criminalist really change it. runs up the close to the best out of the jaws of. the concepts to pain to perform i had actually prepared myself to die. said he'd was. sorry cus when i asked him. as most are. you a slow and homo stuff how do you narrow.

this continent was. good so don't say. so we'll see if getting. that he could with us he was just up yes get more time to finish it so i thought ok thank you commissioner you know this thing. b.s. get. up. i seen years ago i traveled across the united states exploring america's deadly love affair with a gun if a bad guy tried to get to one of my family members he would have better luck with that better and i think it's fair and hurting when i apply my babies says my book was published in the year two thousand more than half a million americans have been killed by the files of the us side how to saute me as

i did this this is a middle school we go through drills and we put ourselves in real scenarios it was interesting to see who actually got hit by the plane and i just saw i did to return to the subject to track down each gun owner who i'd met in so few of those years you got i don't know this but we are not.

the rebel group or downs a russian fighter jet in the northwest of syria and executes the pilot also had. i think it's terrible you want to know the truth i think it's a disgrace lot of people should be ashamed of themselves and much worse than that the republican party memos released claiming to show the f.b.i. and u.s. justice department abusing their surveillance powers as they investigated trump in two thousand and sixteen. and a rally in support of refugees in the german city of quote this is held alongside a mass and tide of migrant protest.

they're broadcasting live from our studios in moscow this is our new international and sean thomas glad to have you with us. now syrian rebel fighters have shot down a russian jet in syria as it made province and killed the pilot and verified footage of the incident has been posted online by of militants. look at a lower court. and look about for not the. right thing a second video purportedly showing the rebels posing with the dead body of the pilot has also surfaced on the internet no warning you may find of the images you're about to see upsetting this clip appears to show one of the militants taking a selfie next to the victim others are also taking pictures and chanting jacqueline volga has more on what else we know about what occurred. well the incident took place in the northwestern village of mosques around in the province and that's one

of the last remaining rebel strongholds in the country now according to the russian defense ministry the pilot did manage to eject from the plane and pair show didn't down to the ground and an area that's actually controlled by the terrorist group. he was then subsequently killed in a fight with terrorists again that's coming from the russian ministry of defense they also added that it's believed that a anti-aircraft missile system was actually used in the downing of the plane and very quickly after the attack took place videos and photos surfaced online most of them very graphic and disturbing showing rebels taking photos of the dead pilot and stomping on the debris of the crashed plane now. of the group that has claimed responsibility of the tac say that they are part of the moderate opposition free syrian army but it's widely believed that they are in fact actually allied with the latest incarnation of. they have in the past enjoyed support from washington and even received weapons from the u.s.

at this point russia did react quite quickly and has already carried out a number of persuasion strikes in the area with the ministry reporting that over thirty militants were killed as a result. a newly released u.s. congressional memo has ignited a firestorm of controversy in washington the document written by republicans alleges the f.b.i. and the justice department abused their investigatory powers while looking into the trunk campaign's links to russia some in the party have claimed it casts doubt on the federal probe into the allegations of collusion with moscow pacifically the memo claims the justice department and the f.b.i. may have you legally obtained a warrant for the surveillance of a former trump aide to support the warrant application to the f.b.i. used a highly controversial dossier full of unverified claims about trump and russia that was partly funded by the democratic party and the clinton campaign the memo alleges the dossiers democratic ties were concealed at the agency's request. i think it's terrible you want to know the truth i think it's

a disgrace what's going on in this country i think it's a disgrace the memo was sent to congress it was declassified congress will do whatever they're going to do but i think it's a disgrace what's happening in our country and when you look at that and you see that and so many other things what's going on. a lot of people should be ashamed of themselves and much worse than that. the democratic party was opposed to the memo being made public and the f.b.i. expressed grave concerns that it could be misleading the democrats now seem to be preparing to declassify one of their own files in an attempt to counter the document artes and delves into the story further to how do you get a warrant to spy on a presidential campaign well you present the pfizer court with a da ca in this case it's the infamous steel dossier now the f.b.i. chief admitted that it was dubious but he still used it and the f.b.i. still relied on it i was speaking to him and briefing him about some salacious

unverified material no surveillance weren't would have been sought from the foreign surveillance court without the steel dossier information so you present the court with a dot ca you pretty much don't believe because it'll help you get a warrant to spy on who you want now this is what deputy attorney general bruce or said about christopher steele the former british agent and his agenda steele was desperate that donald trump not get elected president and was passionate about him not becoming president so why would a judge issue a warrant based on a dusty a that was pretty non-credible oh that's because the f.b.i. never told him that according to the memo this was intentionally left out of the report now trump tweeted last year. terrible who just found out that i had my wires tapped in trump tower just before the victory nothing found this is mccarthyism so rember all those people that mocks trump's tweet and said oh federal

agencies could never spy on people unless they have good reasons that couldn't have happened well it started to look like it did happen and trust tweed is not so funny after all caleb mop and archie new york. number of commentators we spoke to believe that there have been surveillance abuses we could know what the their intelligence agencies are doing this must be protecting the american people from from threats but this one was a case where they intervene in a political process that looks like and that's highly unusual and very disturbing this is how the f.b.i. does business they do it to surreptitiously they do it by stabbing people in the back they do it by setting people up by entrapping them by tricking them and that's exactly what they did with the place of court they played the phase a court judge by not telling them the source of this deal they plead that judge by not telling them that this was a partisan. report and and they got their warrant they got there

weren't any way. campaigners have been rallying in the german city of called posts in support of refugees and there was also an anti migrant rally in the city at the same time increased police presence has put been put in place for the weekend caucuses located near the polish border and it is home to around one hundred thousand people and since chancellor merkel opened to germany's borders to refugees in two thousand and fifteen of the city has given asylum to more than three thousand people are your question and peter oliver travelled there for us. here in court both around one hundred twenty kilometers to the south of. they've said they can't take any more refugees the city's mayor saying that the infrastructure is being stretched to its limits. we have to realize there in court bush social systems including kindergartens and schools are overstretched and under stress more is not possible we cannot do more now since the beginning of the year the city has

been plagued by violence between refugees and locals just last week a german couple were attacked just outside of this shopping center by three syrian teenagers one of those boys a fifteen year old has since been ordered to leave khat bourse and the surrounding area germany should start controlling its borders and stop the uncontrolled migration that has been going on for two and a happy years and america must go the government should change or it won't get any better. but there are different reasons why people have to walk but we have to distinguish those from economic reasons for those who truly seek refuge should be granted asylum status less but we need to separate those who really look for shelter and those young strong and wild man who managed to get all the way to germany in a sling isn't on new year's day a group of refugees were set upon by a gang of neo nazi thirds and just recently the right wing german national party

were handing out pepper spray and refugee fly is in the city the group were temporarily detained by police for not registering their protest. the town of freiburg has voted to halt refugee arrivals claiming it is reached its capacity to accommodate and integrate asylum seekers at a special town hall meeting on thursday the mare explained the decision. we are not xenophobic which we are often accused of being we are dealing with integration we want to guarantee integration we have done a lot but when in the end there is no space what are we supposed to do however some in freiburg aren't convinced that the move is a good thing you know there are no problems i feel good here this is a general problem not just in freiburg but it has not affected me i have no problems with foreigners you hear it in the news sometimes but i don't have any

problems. at least four people have been injured into drive by shootings in the central italian city of much errata the attacks are being relieved to be connected local media is reporting that the victims were of african origin and suggest the incidents may have been racially motivated the suspect who police say is an italian national has been arrested it comes after the dismembered body of an eighteen year old italian girl was discovered hidden in two suitcases near my truck. in nigerian migrant was arrested in connection with that death we spoke to an italian journalist about how the country is reacting to the issue of immigration at the moment we have a lot of arrivals and the utopia. is not is leaving italy alone in facing these issues if the situation is not managed properly we will have probably and this. aggressive campaigns

and of course these kind of aggressive campaigns. can lead to more violence in the future. turkey and greece have reignited a decades long feud over the sovereignty of two small islands in the aegean sea has even threatened violence against top greek officials if they travel there. athens will feel the anger of turkey we will break the arms and legs of any offices of the prime minister or of any minister who dares to step on to him in the aegean unspeakable statements like these are early into european political culture we have said this before each should know their place additionally we would like to remind him that the legal status of the gene is clear and guaranteed by international law these are the uninhabited territories being disputed you can see them right there turkey has become increasingly vocal about its claims of ownership over them lately

the trigger is thought to have been a greek court denying a turkish extradition request for eight man wanted in connection with a failed military coup in two thousand and sixteen now the aisles that were originally part of the ottoman empire but have long been recognized as greek and the sovereignty issue ignited back in december one thousand nine hundred five when a turkish boat ran a greek vessel ashore it was followed by a succession of turkish and greek attempts to remove each others' flags from the islands even by journalists former belgian a parliament member and political expert load the news says that he is not surprised by the route between these two countries. thank you increase have a past off military conflict i mean in the seventy's they were even at war at some point it's not a surprise that these two could nato member states. in such a situation for a minute you won't make that much of a difference of course the old country very poor it that this is might get out of

hand you know that of course they do not apply to nato members at war but the need to rationalise surprised this kind of skirmishers 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 nato was founded greece was a military dictatorship and turkey were limited to a dictatorship that did not even pretend nato membership so i think on the whole things will go on as usual just the only thing that we have to take care is that this does not get out of this can always happen of course. the crime ridden us and city of baltimore has called for a cease fire this weekend in an attempt to stymie a skyrocketing murder rate last year so i record three hundred forty three homicides in this city despite its population shrinking now the increase in violence has been linked to a police scandal the prevalence of illegal firearms and an opioid epidemic artie's

american picks up the story for us. this weekend activists are calling for a seventy two hour cease fire asking for a weekend without any violence whatsoever this is the third event of its kind of 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 says celebrate life and do life affirming event so they're events all over the city with a star what do we care if we keep it in so we see. 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 to more law enforcement widespread constitutional and is currently placing 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. israel has been called a beacon of light and hope in the middle east by the u.k.'s defense secretary gavin williamson also stressed that the nation has a friend for life in britain and he's honest r.c. a church going to has been asking people in london for their thoughts. if you were the u.k.'s defense secretary which country would you call it because of light and hope in the middle east jordan beautiful light on the whole you should definitely don't the us. put it this way i suppose i would think lebanon is where christians

and muslims appear to work out a way of living together and sharing political power you're right perhaps he was talking about israel always no 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 difficulties you think you peace 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 from. facebook has been urged to pull the plug on a so-called safe chat for children organizations have warned of the social media giant its messenger kids app poses health and safety risks here's

a quick look at the problem. it's a video chat and messaging out for families and kids and it's designed to give parents more control when their kids started communicating on line. on the app is designed for children between the ages of six and twelve parents or guardians can control the settings from their own facebook accounts and approve and monitor contacts the functions of messenger kids include sending texts photos and using video chat facebook has defended the platform saying it is a great way for relatives 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. there are those in favor of the app think it enhanced as their online skills in a rapidly evolving world but critics argue that children are simply not prepared for the dangers of the digital age. i think and. emotionally involved and i'm 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 the mother 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 the house to be an age limit otherwise. where is the going to end and i think children are just very emotional. to be able to 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. with where we're going with and i think education is the k. if we can train them on how to see that from the age of thirteen. maybe we can

solve a few future problems but as i do you fear. we take them down the social means here in. the u.s. defense department published its nuclear posture review on friday outlining america's nuclear strategy and apart from strengthening its nuclear capability the doctrine takes a seemingly tougher stance on china russia and north korea states claiming that those states represent a unique and complex threat review also points out that american diplomats would continue to speak from a position of strength we got the reaction of the russians ambassador to the u.s. . 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. all right the two thousand eight hundred nuclear review is already being

compared to barack obama's analysis from seven years ago we discussed the document with the director from the nuclear age peace foundation and an american politician who's been closely following the story the vast majority of the nuclear issue is word for for the rope 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 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. good art is timeless or so they say but one masterpiece depicting naked nymph may have fallen foul of the changing social and political attitudes and was temporarily taken off display at a u.k. gallery the curator says the aim was to stimulate a debate about the portrayal of women in art.

some visitors to the gallery criticized the decision calling it an act of censorship. i think the going to see some sort of printing down disguised as an opera form is wrong going on for i think. taking power over an author's right to pursue result work within the law to subsidize the stupid is beyond me because all the pages of go in the government then we do not so why should just go and i

don't see why it should have been taken down again we just say in that it's another example of the prevalence sexualization of the human form within. society today i think it's really bad that they're jumping on the me to campaign to sort of have an opera ties to the gallery if they're talking about the objects implication of women then there are a hundred other paintings in the gallery that do that as well and some women not see fund that really empowering and it does it for me i'll be back in just under thirty six minutes with a look at your headline you're watching r t international. and

. the world is getting away from us dollars wall reserve currency the one road one bell all see linking up russia and china is out of the dollar every last trade oil away from the dollar countries are desperate to get out of the u.s. dollar so the dollar is going to lose value no matter what anybody says so here's the treasury secretary will you try to make it look like oh it's our policy for a lower dollar going to matter 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 the wall. on the weapons on the property that they're trying to escape. that you criminalist released by the point to and shaming into an institution those included on the list are accused simply by association. being from russia or is no one accepted cools for suspicion so does the criminalist really changes its.

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of us to quote them out put it somewhere you are not above the lip bill brought up locals are ready to stand up for the basic human rights of access to water it's about water but it's also over much more than water it's about the hurt and the redistribution of all or was to this day or date down towards the window. it's all to see we have a great team we need to strengthen before the free float world cold and your bets have been a legend to keep it so it's at the back. in one thousand nine hundred two that much qualify for the european championships at the very last moment no one believed in us but we won and i'm hoping to bring some of that waiting spirit to the aussie team. recently i had

a lot of practice so i can guarantee you that peter schmeichel will be on the best fall since my last will come from that steroids are asleep. thousand zero zero zero zero zero zero i call rush hour. drive. left left left more or less ok stop that's really good. that image was quite controversial so a lot of people some people sore as irresponsible some people sort of dangerous threatening whereas other people are going including use or as a symbol of something very different was it. powerful. protecting. it as my friend of.

the people who criticize you what the base. a 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 the mass of mass shooting sprees 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 that your was in 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 that custom bad guys thugs the murderers the ripest are always going to have guns in our 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 belts but i was not succumb to this gown that is out there. we were at our church last sunday and our sunday school teacher mike asked the class how many people had 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 for its second sealed 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. it to my to my family member is he would have better lock with that better not i guess the grizzly bear and hardy when i have my babies. close and this is going to sit it was just in this neighborhood were our venture a guess everybody in this player i doubt anybody does not have a. great sarah's. oh absolutely i can promise you that's the reason they're not coming in stay away from me and stay

were my own we will have that problem. 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 give them 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. 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 the phone today and get 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 end you know two two hundred guns is what i sell the a k forty seven s n e 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 they always blame the gun you know de 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 are on the wall last night and i walked in this morning and nobody was dead. you know it's stupid you know gun us 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 or a screwdriver you know why keep blaming it on the gun or ok just give me just give me forty dollars i want. just to see if you are so good if you started your finger time i spoke with mr griffin ok go on then you hear your theory that it's better. for you i don't know where you. are. it's my birthday and i got

a gun for my very face so i am going to shoot it for the first time are today. we've seen just about everything m. 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 and also homicides there was nineteen years ago those words feel 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 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 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 their answer arthel is a lot of. b.s. thank you ma'am i'm terrified. oh really seen federal the animal no. it doesn't you know where beam me you know.

this special right here the glock semiautomatic pistol is more of the biggest biggest movie guns ever. hear the thing they know what they're doing because i saw in 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 r fifteen with. a huge seller here really is strongly accurate for a. very long is. still a lot of tension in the way almost definitely i'm going by my bed for home

protection my wife actually has a benelli improved by her bed which in some automatic shotgun. was a little humming gun next hill dead what does that do to your minds that does it does it not make you feel constantly vigilant ted you know 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 first. most of shootings take place in domestic situations a sizable number of people who kill other people are so-called law abiding citizens the law abiding citizen produces

a lot of the fatalities by mistake. or by accident. several years ago there was a truck a sergeant 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. you

criminalist released by the point health turned shaming into an institution those included on the list or accused simply by association. being from russia or is now an accepted cause for suspicion so does the criminalist really change. this little bundle of joy he would have no chance of surviving in the wild mother pandas can only read one cub at a time but usually give birth to. every year china puts a lot of effort into making up for this cruel mistake of nature. is just. china's panda breeding has become something of a production line. it's almost as though they've been copied three d.

printed and put on show for the public. several cubs are born here each year. but only left work by dedicated scientists will be for nothing if panda love can't be encouraged in captivity it's not as though they don't practice at all but in the same lazy way they do everything else this proud mommy gave birth to twins and has no idea that a special love potion was formulated just for the. the protest held against the owner a convention took place ten days after columbine. what happened at columbine on april twentieth one thousand nine hundred ninety nine was that to two young men who were intent on killing as many students as they could they opened

fire on students outside and then went when when confronted with a police presence they went inside the school began shooting there went into the library that's where they they killed and injured the most students and that's that's where my son was then went worse as the day went on no word from him being asked by the police if we could provide a description of him and what he was wearing at one point asking for dental records and being told at one point that there was one last school bus bringing students. back from. when you're waiting for forty five minutes for a bus that should have only taken a couple of minutes i then began to realize that there was no last school bus.

how old was daniel. fifteen. seventeen years ago when we last met i think it ended in tears for me because i realized again what i what i would do if they came to take my gun that would be the end of it for. this country for sure and i'm not willing to hand that over. no i'm able to do it and i know i would do it.

protect my rights. the rights of my friends the rights of my loved ones the rights of this country. you mean struggle. or i don't think so. either of these two i would let it go easily and probably not while i'm living. i feel like there are a lot of gun owners out there who don't take the responsibility of owning guns carrying guns storing guns i don't think they take it seriously enough why the resistance to regulation. because it leads to more regulation. that's too slippery of a slope we can have laws to protect people from their own stupidity. one

hundred eighty degrees back as guys he's a word sexy when they talk about guns i'm not going to but they're all mantic. they're emotional. you know when. you know when you don't know you. know one of them. you don't know. you don't know you in. a well regulated militia being necessary for the security of a free state comma the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed. the second amendment in every state constitution guarantees my right to keep and bear arms why for my personal safety and to preserve liberty that's why it's called america. i run with

swordfish and i've heard him say school i think there's somebody shooting in here. mass shootings in america have become almost commonplace but the sandy hook school massacre where six and seven year olds were targeted by gunman reached a new level of horror and cops the rules of the american gun debate. today cause me to want to strengthen and absolutely not i think if one of those teachers the principal who never had had a gun that young man possibly would not have killed anyone or. do you think it's he. i think a properly trained teacher. and. just the need to deal with it i think is friggin fantastic certain school districts are training their teachers

so they can carry a weapon. and school. we go through drills and we put ourselves in real scenarios it was interesting to see how fast we get on the buses how fast we do this who actually got hit by the paintball gun. straight cool but pretty. scary to the swat team comes in our and they're like ok everybody out you know put your hands up and we're all put our hands up we're terrified and takes us out. and we had a thought to him yes we did. yes this is a middle school. so if we could do. that possibility of oh yeah we could be prepared. what do

every single mass shooting have in common gun free zone. i mean there was i think it was a color blind. from my cold dead. you know i think that part of the problem is that that the gun lobby has been very successful in getting their message out much more so than those who want to see reasonable gun laws they control the narrative that you're either for the second amendment or against it you're either for freedom or against freedom there's surest way to stop a bad guy with a gun is a good way that guy. here after these mass shootings gun sales do tend to go up just because people start

getting freaked out people think that the government is gonna take our guns i mean i hate seeing the shootings happen but it is definitely it is good for business. this is a smith and wesson m m p fifteen it is our best selling weapon right now now a pretty tough. fight here. and. as. a sole weapon seem to control the city yeah. what is that this is a semiautomatic rifle. is it is it not an assault weapon no one else. semiautomatic one pull the trigger one shot and that is what differentiates is it in your eyes the fight the ones fully automatic and the other isn't right why are

they called survivor so that. because the media and the left wing politicians one meg bogeyman out as. a tool. all of these assault rifle i mean this is a fight even about what it is i know i know and i should even call them an assault rifle we're going to it's a military style weapon that's what they want me to say a sporting gun you know you know different names but it's the same thing it's a military style weapon. not a reason to buy an assault rifle is if you're going to make an assault on an enemy position and you need a lot of bullets because you've got a lot of people in the position you're attacking the assault rifle was mere farm salt it seems to me you don't need an assault rifle to kill a deer this this ongoing debates that some people have about whether. things like the a k forty seven and the a r fifteen are so weapons are not that whole

discussion is absurd that it's the greatest friend a mass shooter could have. been having on one. day on a. night up. to two killers. went out in search of guns they were under eighteen they got an eighteen year old to go to the gun show to a gun show with them to make the purchase they purposely sought out a private seller that's the so-called gun show loophole where you can go to a gun show you know one table for it's a licensed dealer you have to go through a background check table of a private seller no background check. this guns that i sold and everybody sells every gun dealer that i found all around the united states in crimes they should have you know mandatory registration nationwide

everybody owns a gun it should be registered and i am and they're responsible for that weapon why should you let some kid walk into a gun store buy fifteen guns and be able to give him to fifteen of his friends with no receipt even sold them and everything's legal that means guns could be shipped in from the east coast in the west coast and sold in a newspaper to it to anybody that kit that can't pass a background check that's how the criminals get guns. about forty percent. of all gun sales are private sales they don't go through a background check and these are not going through a license dealer imagine going to an airport and have to go through security and they said ok we're in have sixty percent of the people go through security and forty percent can bypass it when you get onto that airplane. i think.

i can take you right now thirty three miles from here and buy you anything you want on the side of the road in the black market dealers it's out there facebook for example you can buy guns although. you know but just privately proud of it and that is still legal in tennessee you can as of now you can still be product sales in tennessee but without them without a background check you can't so you can so that any one yes so to try to introduce the law is. that shouldn't be. without help do you should we shouldn't. you know a little. after her not. maybe there needs to be some things done to people where they're back to working again and not being given money by the government to run around and do whatever they will but there's

a lot of things we could there dressed maybe that's not the only problem could be some mental health issues could be drugs cause of these pro i don't know that but we are not the problem. it's. going to be. should anything be done. now. the national solution take it's course. oh no no no no no no no no no. no when.

so all this getting away from us dollar as wall reserve currency the one road one belt policy 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 so here's the treasury secretary really trying to make it look like oh it's our fault there for a lower dollar dollar matter 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 the wars and the weapons and the poverty that they're trying to escape. exists is holland kentucky. boys you go through three families or you do. a coup money says he would almost no coal mines left. jobs or grow all the coal

mines of said. that it was a laugh to see these people the survivors of 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 happening it's happened.

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timex kaiser this is the kaiser report you still a los angeles city of angels and no more angelic angel. you talk to an angel in the second half is well known we prince and you know what charlie's angels except max's angels we just see one more angel you know what she is often talk about steve and steve minucci in our treasury secretary and the headline he's a horrible angel he's a whore while he's around. in the new. nexus angel show steve minucci and he's the treasury secretary of the united states of america and well he was over in the last week and basically altered the past thirty years of u.s. policy regarding the dollar of course they have not mind at the dollar going lower lower but they always have this fake strong dollar policy and he's changed that

over in a minute chin comment surprises financial markets turns dollar decline into one way bet the dollar already on a spiral lower sank to a three year low after treasury secretary stephen minucci said a weaker dollar was good for u.s. trade the comments depart from the strong dollar policy of treasury secretaries before him going back to robert rubin and the clinton administration but fit with the trump administration's america first message that we dollar policy could backfire and make u.s. assets like treasuries less appealing and drive up the cost of foreign goods for businesses and everyday americans you know well this is a policy around the world beggar thy neighbor but try to drive your currency lower to help your exports and grab global market share and china's been the king of the . for a long time so this is a take in a china directly saying oh yeah you think you. will make dollars even cheaper so it

makes us you know higher value versus a dollar which may it's more difficult for them to export their way into global domination so now our currency wars venturing a new phase you know donald trump obviously has a lot more understanding of how to fight this currency war than anyone coming before him barack obama was really a novice coming into office knew nothing about finance he was financially illiterate as he proved over and over again and this trump knows the rules of the game whether he's successful or not we'll see well you know in the second half you do speak to know me prince who has a new book out called collusion how central bankers rigged the world and in it and in your interview she does talk about the fact that china does view american policy whether it was the obama administration or otherwise the trump administration that they are in policy is and saying towards global trade and the dollar so they already of us as kind of insane steve going to switch is kind of

a sort of meeting pushing globalization in fact francois. krohn from france from france was there saying you know france is ready to lead the way where they had a globalization this is kind of an anti clopas ation message is part of america first message so it's you know it is a beggar thy neighbor policy is anti-globalization yeah yeah exactly and you know the question is is the lower dollar the result of really a policy initiative or is a lower dollar inevitability of policy failure and now the policy makers are saying all it's our policy for a lower dollar i don't think it makes any difference whether stephen it's in your home or else describes the dollar as their policy going lower the dollar was going to go lower anyway because the world is getting away from you. us dollar is rolled reserve currency the one road one belt policy linking up russia and china is out of

the dollar everyone wants to trade oil away from the dollar a 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 merely trying to make it look like oh it's our policy for a lower dollar doesn't really matter 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 the wars and the weapons and the poverty that they're trying to escape stephen nutrition standing in front of the globe's reporters standing in front of the world's reporters and saying that the dollar his policy as treasury secretary. i the guy who signs the dollar bills a new dollar bills and he wants it to go lower according to this headline here they said that basically opens this up as a one way bet for traders and traders will keep pushing it and keep pushing it said one strategist there is a possibility that it could be

a spiral that it gets out of control luckily we did hear on kaiser for tell you a few weeks ago to load back up on gold because of course we're going to get into that in the next headline buy gold has obviously done very well against the dollar as the dollar's been tanking it in the openings weeks of twenty eighteen i see the world through gold colored glasses because stacey has been pointing out for a few months now the rotation back into gold is well underway getting three year highs and you said and i agree that gold could hit a new all time high in twenty that are over two thousand dollars an ounce i mean solar would be fifty sixty seven dollars an ounce and crypto currencies are on the back foot lot of money that was in the multi hundred billion dollars krypto spaces down flowing into gold we know that from watching the trade patterns and the reports we're getting back from the exchanges so yeah this could be gold year so

before i move on to the next headline about gold and silver coin and other things and how they've responded in saddam are falling and how that reminds us of the past well on this minucci his comments they say echo statements by president donald trump who famously helped turn a market trend of a stronger dollar last january when he said prior to his inauguration that the dollar was quote too strong and that u.s. companies can't compete because of it particularly against the chinese the dollar index has lost more than ten percent since then and after we knew comment last wednesday morning it sank to a new three year low. he said that obviously a weaker dollar is good for the u.s. and good for trade i'm not so sure if you don't actually produce that much other than weapon system it's not like. you know there was any problem selling weapons systems that's one of our biggest exports and i'm not sure it definitely improves

the profits. of big u.s. multinationals like apple and i.b.m. who sell things overseas so that their profits if they're booking their earnings and euro's which is now at one twenty four where it was only about ten just a few months ago so they're booking profits in these foreign currencies so of course their shareholders are quite happy but whether or not it benefits the workers in america i don't know. the pressure for stuff like oil are going to go higher you know oil still priced in dollars or dominantly in price oil's last i checked above sixty you know heading higher and people start paying back five six seven dollars a gallon again at the pump that's going to cut into their economic activity for sure now when i go into another bit of this story about the dollar tumbling into twenty eighteen in just the first few weeks and this brings us back to some stories where max keiser is quite well known from the one nine hundred eighty seven crash

because you were working on wall street in one nine hundred eighty seven you remember those days and it was fun fun fun but first we're going to look at this take by zero ahead of the steve newton story when he was in the minucci and massacre precious metals surge amid dollars worst start in thirty years the dollar was smashed with the ugly stick as comments sparked chaos and foreign exchange markets and as precious metals surged and bond yields jumped and stocks actually sank briefly we were reminded by the mainstream media that a falling dollar is great for america so bought. the dip in stocks with all your money on the sidelines so it was the worst start to the year. for the u.s. dollar since one nine hundred eighty seven and we actually have a little chart here this is one nine hundred eighty seven the dollar into the first month of nine hundred eighty seven right here is two thousand and eighteen it's

looking as bad as one nine hundred eighty seven right so eighty seven crash it was long overdue in this particular market going back to these charts the dollar heading into eighty seven started to you know we you know a lot of weakness here you've got in this market a huge concentration of money in the so-called fang stocks facebook app all netscape and google and apple's kind of been weak in the last couple of few few weeks there's a lot of weakness in the stocks of the fang the fang group of stocks that say they start to lose favor after having this enormous run amazon is also in that group and amazon ok it's trading at something like over one hundred times forward earnings so that's talking to drop fifty or sixty percent and still be on a chart basis in a bull market i mean these stocks are trading on some incredibly lofty valuations and like eighty seven you could see a twenty twenty two percent crash in

a day which would be you know that would be quite quite a move down wouldn't stacey so let's look at the chart that they provide that interestingly stocks soared just as they are now as the dollar crashed just as it is now in one thousand nine hundred seventy before things went pear shaped so that's the chart the green line is the s. and p. five hundred the red line is the u.s. dollar index and as you saw the dollar started out twenty nine hundred eighty seven declining rapidly that some the s. and p. five hundred soaring in one thousand nine hundred seven max you were there for that to hop that was twenty percent in one day is that possible. well theoretically no because the circuit breakers they put in but i don't really have confidence that those going to work and the helicopter money. after money will come in and they will try to mitigate any huge losses but i think that overwhelmingly the system will not be able to handle do you want hers and you'll have another kind

of computer aided crash you know in front of computer aided design cad this is computer aided crash ative the cac it's on entropy everything must. she you toward chaos. that why is that your explanation that's the law of the universe the multiverse if not miss universe that a parallel universe you know there's a guy like me living in a parallel universe saying the inverse of what i just said who is having lunch with billy bob thornton right now i'm going to tops out at the marquis hotel sunset marquis in west hollywood yeah i saw you mentioned apple and that was another interesting story that's happened while we were here and california is that the california based company reported that they apparently the rumor is that they're already going to get rid of the i phone ten the next update that they do in the next year this is a rumor started by

a guy in china who always has the top info he's usually right on his rumors about what's happening i phone eight sales i phone ten sales disasters like fifty percent less than expected on my i phone ten we did note that i remember tweeting from an apple store before christmas so there was nobody at all at the i phone ten desk and i noted that that doesn't look very good i was surprised when eighty seven you had the masking effect of so called portfolio insurance so the market was trading well above its real fundamental value thanks to the aid of derivatives here you've got the market trading at these extraordinary levels thanks to the eight us. purchases fueled by zero percent money so if you start taking that away and it's trying to go up then apple could clearly drop thirty forty percent well if you look at the chart of history rhymes or even repeats it looks like we could have another few moments of these ever rising stock prices so all those millennial that we cover diving in

via their schwab and t.d. ameritrade accounts could ever another few months and then they could have a sort of october november surprise. that looks a lot like one nine hundred eighty seven you know speaking of repeating this comp sounds repeating on me right now hey stay tuned for the second half exclusive interview and no need friends in her new book. that you crim list released by the point house and shaming into an institution those included on the list are accused simply by association. being from russia or is no one accepted cools for suspicion so doesn't criminalist really change its. own appetite i mean for conflict is very very low these days

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. welcome back to the kaiser report on maximizer time it turns the nami prince author of soon to be released collusion how central bankers rig the world only welcome. great to see you in this hotel the sunset marquis you develop the pitch over twenty four hour binge is that correct that's right i had the idea i spoke it out in my mind and sat in a room here for twenty four hours and then got off to my publisher and here we are a couple years later about to be as good bob thorn in the book. might be on the way

by the book ok. your book starts in a different area the world but always in the same year two thousand and eight which is ground zero for collusion so what evidence do you have for the collusion or what do you mean by collusion we're talking about collusion between central banks yes so basically the fed is the central collusion meister and in the beginning of the financial crisis they decided to save our banks the u.s. banks because they basically caused the crisis and they did it by manufacturing money and other things over the past decade but they also did it by reaching out to other central banker friends throughout the world particular leave the area p. and central bank the bank of japan on sort of euro banks and they said look we need your help but this was all done in the background what was happening publicly publicly they acted as if they save the system in a period of losing colluding against their. the general public but they colluded with each other to rig rates to keep money at the average zero levels that we have

today to buy trillions of dollars worth of bonds from governments and from banks particularly banks that allows them to value all of their bonds up so they basically artificially rigged the entire bond market stock market because all of these institutions now have access to cheap money with which they buy their own shares and effectively just totally change the financial system but what i did was i went country by country that a couple of the countries in the book so i did mexico i did brazil and to china to japan i went throughout europe and. as a pivot areas where i looked at how they colluded over time so i was going back to two thousand a ground zero and seeing how they dealt with their own country's issues relative to the united states and also what the fed wanted them to do and what they wanted to do for themselves so there's always a little tension and there's also a lot of collaboration from the standpoint of major central banks so this is an interesting historical development central banks walk us through because you've written a number of books in covering banking and the history of banking and historically central banks are set up we know to be the lender of last resort to be

a backstop to the banking system to prevent things like bank runs from getting out of control exciter so when you have different central banks in different countries they're operating up until what you're suggesting here they're operating independently of each other and their role in these economies was to as we were saying be a backstop to the banking system so what when they collude as as you're talking about that it would we actually kind of a post a post market economy in other words they put such a bank started to participate in markets you know from the one nine hundred seven crash alan greenspan and the plunge protection seeing which included ronald reagan and robert rubin they started the central bank began to become a player now here's a central bank of switzerland is buying aggressively buying stocks so these central

banks how do they fit in the global banking system what are they doing that is so the lender of last resort or the buyer of first order like what exactly are they doing what are they doing i mean they become massive hedge funds for one thing but instead of borrowing money or going to investors and sit and using their money to and to find things that they are creating money that they're fabricating electronic money they're going through the financial system to basically get it out there and it collectively got about twenty one points. and trillion dollars worth of assets on their books through connotative easing which have been used to purchase corporates if you're the european central bank equities and the bank of japan mortgage assets and government bonds if you're the fed and they have become the market they've not just become a buyer in the market and a lender of cheap order to all of the major banks they have become effectively the rigor of the market so everything that's going on now is is a fabrication at the hands of the collusion that the fed began and used its counterpart central banks around the world to manifest it's kind of like financial

warfare as if we had a g. seven situation come after world war two when there was a collaboration between like the major g seven countries in terms of geopolitics and what we have now is in terms of the monetary system in terms of currencies in terms of asset evaluations and skyrocketing assets we have that dilution amongst the same central banks and we have the ones on the outside looking in mexico brazil china and so forth trying to find their spot in this new monetary system and this new artificial marketplace to be independent so that's where the shift is changing that's why china for example has risen so much as a superpower their central bank was very vocal and i have a lot of this in the book about going against the fed and saying look at the fed's doing is insanity they're creating bubbles they're fabricating money this will not and will and what they've done is decided to find a different way around that which is create trade in partnerships and all over the world start to actually finance development which united states doesn't do with the money that they're creating in order to basically people away countries away from

the u.s. from the dollar and from this federal reserve policy what do they say they're doing how do they justify this you say collusion that has a negative connotation but of course they don't consider themselves to be colluding in anything they think of themselves as coordinating policy but what do they think they're doing exactly they think well what they think they're doing and what they actually say they're doing it two different things. what they say they are doing is stimulating economies so the federal reserve supposedly by injecting four and a half trillion dollars into the financial system buying bonds and have valuating on the back of that those securities upwards they said that would create real growth we know it hasn't created real growth it hasn't really grown the economy it's grown the markets it's grown the asset economy but not the foundational economy they believe they have and so what's happening now is all the central banks are talking not really doing tapering so the fed is saying are going to raise rates a little bit we're going to shrink our booker a little bit but in actuality if you look at it on global basis which is where the

collusion comes into play the european central bank has as a seesaw fact on the other side saying our old still keep rates at negative we're going to increase our corporate bond asset portfolio just because we can these are institutions that have absolutely no accountability no responsibility no rules and no regulations for themselves they can do whatever they want because all they're effectively doing is creating ledgers within amongst themselves and amongst the financial institutions to which they provide this cash in return for assets and keep rates low to keep that game going that's that's their game ok so ron paul the people who follow ron paul they had a huge movement out there one point audit the fed and this was probably going back ten years is part of the instigation for these central banks to collude response to audit the fed in other words in the united states with the federal reserve bank they started to talk about possibly tapering or tapering a little bit you know in response to hey you know this audit the fed is getting out

of control we need to throw them a bone so what you're suggesting is on the back end they made a call to european central bank or japan and said you know we've got to appease these ron paul guys. so we're going to say we're tapering but can you please step up your purchases on a global basis and we can keep the party going with his zero percent interest rates to help out the oligarchs that's exactly right and european central bank is the key in this right because what they said for two years now is they want to stop their buying program and then he. and they got to the end of their buying program deadline they extended it so the end of last year they said are we're going to we're going to really taper this time we're going to decrease the amount of assets we buy per month but then they extended the amount of months they will buy assets by year so when you do the math on all of this there is no tapering this is ongoing collusion to keep cheap money and asset evaluations up within the entire system again with no accountability partly though they have this thing where they want to be perceived as effective so they are scared that all of this has not been effective or that the you know sort of emperor will take its clothes off or have no

clothes or whatever and sort of the wake of this and so they want to provide hatchway this idea that economies have grown on the back of this and governments are happy to do this this is sort of the external collusion element of it yes it's government is perfectly fine whether it was a bomb or whether it's trying to say look at the economy's growing it's growing under my watch but it's not really what's rolling are the amount of assets that can be purchased at the money in there for the valuation of these assets therefore mega amounts of debt corporate debt public debt throughout the entire world in massively high share values because corporations are issuing debt to buy stock and so forth that's not effective management and they also have no exit plan saying i talk about sort of the end of the book they don't they don't have a way to really taper to really get out of this because they never did what they said they were going to do to begin with which is stimulate growth all they've done is stimulate the financial system for the people at the top of it created a magic money tree by buying back assets that they own with the money that they print but it's a ponzi scheme that is like the definition of a ponzi scheme they're just good they're making the money themselves they're not

even getting other people in on the money they're actually creating money and doing that as you say so it's all separation of their role being instrumental in having a responsible role in the economy they go on the road and they're just buying assets and printing their own money to buy those assets that's right their day job is to be regulators to the banking systems in their respective countries that is what they are supposed to do and there's some language in some of the central bank to say ok you have to make sure there's. a decent amount of employment is full employment some numbering system there is a certain level of inflation and so forth they have abdicated that entire sort of role except for just talking about it as if they were doing it because all they are really doing is yes fabricating money purchasing assets and keeping that going amongst let me tell you let me ask you a theoretical question here that the amount of stocks actually traded in new york has been reduced because through mergers and acquisitions funded by all this zero percent money is there a possibility that effectively central banks in the collusion they talk about take

public markets private take the majority interesting stocks that are out there that could be bought by the public to participate in growth and have a nice decent retirement account disappears and we enter a post market economy because all of the stocks and bonds have been purchased by these colluding central banks with their two hundred thirty eight being the public's private but not just a company deciding oh let's take ourselves private but they've colluded to say let's take the global stock markets private both actively because by providing that cheap money most easily to the the small amount of financial institutions that sort of control the gateway to the markets they have effectively controlled the market so i mean that that's the whole idea when say they rig the world they really rigged the financial so the question so if you say oh the markets trading at twenty five times earnings three times earnings or x. cash flow those metrics are meaningless it's they're meaningless it's like saying you know the the the people can't possibly work for the slave wages talking to the

king and saying no i'm the king and you can work for slave wages are all you know put you in the gulag now there's no there's no democracy there's no dynamism there's just a massive takeover there has been asked to you because all the levels that we see today are not levels that are sustained by actual growth at a company level to wage level at you know on an individual financial security level they are simply. created by the clue. central banks all right so your book is called pollution it out in may may first. workday workers revolution day only thanks for being on the show thank you already and that's going to do it for this edition of the kaiser report with me max keiser and stacy never looks like our guest no he pranced the new book is collusion there's a link to preorder below check it out going to catch us on twitter it's kaiser report and so next time i.

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welcome to worlds apart shamy has long been depressed for tool of american foreign policy but the new kremlin least released by the white house gives it a more institutionalized form formally speaking those included in the lease have done nothing malicious they're just guilty by association but at a time when being from russia is already an accepted cause for suspicion and perhaps even discrimination does the publication of this least really change much well to discuss that i'm now joined by eric ferrari a washington based defense attorney specializing in functions but securities good

to talk to you thank you very much for your time thank you i'm happy to be here i think it's fair to say that when these so-called kremlin list was published the wealthy russians breathed a collective sigh of relief they certainly expected something both mauled by ding and more precise i wonder though if you believe these relief may be a little bit premature do you think the worst is yet to come oh yes i do and i think that is reflected in secretary nugent's comments to congress earlier this week that this list could be a preview for future sanctions as the nation's now many observers have pointed out that in compiling this report of the trumpet ministration has essentially called pasted both the kremlin's phone book and the forbes magazine sleestak wealthiest russians what do you make of these wholesale method of complacent well so it's not uncommon for the treasury to you. unclassified and open source material to prepare such a reporter a list and the point about the forbes list and the copy paste from the list is

interesting because if you notice and you are paying attention some of the same spelling mistakes that were contained in the forbes list have also been carried over into the treasury report well as you say it's not uncommon to rely on public's materials but at the same time i think this report the sensually makes no distinction between people who are friendly to the kremlin and people who have been it could be argued persecuted by the kremlin so is there any substance to it because from the russian point of view it's just publishing. at least about who is who in russian politics and in russian business you know well if you take a look at the report it sets out what the designation criteria is and to your point you are correct in that some of the criteria is related to senior political officials in russia and some is just based on net worth and therefore you could have that latter group of people not have any ties to the russian government whatsoever and still find themselves in the report but then one should ask what's

the point of compiling this report in different places and i don't know if you would agree with me but that i think there is a certain degree of i think charlie and even read to kill least targeting not so much russia but the congress do you think the way this report has been compiled ease it in keeping is it in compliance with the congress requirements i think they did their best to comply i think they actually added more information than i even expected them to add. to your point though this is the design of this report was to be a name and shame list and the effects of the practical effect of it is that people business partners people in joint ventures banks that are engaged in transactions with these parties would move away from them or enhance due diligence in regards to their commerce. activities and give a higher higher level scrutiny to those activities well and this is what many years

officials have suggested that this least was designed to be some sort of a psychological tool and if you take into account the amount of fretting on among the russian business elite on the eve of the opiates release i think that objective was definitely mad but given. you know the preexisting conditions they already existing environment with regard to the russian companies doing business in the united states do you really think it changes much because from my understanding the environment had already been pretty toxic even before the release of this report now i think that's a good point the environment was already rather toxic what i have heard is that certain banks are now including the people identified in the report on their political expose persons list and subjecting them to enhance due diligence and there is potentially going to be some of those parties off ordered from their financial institutions so i do think it's going to have some practical effect but your point there was already a toxic environment and many of those parties were already there sanction or

subject to such enhanced diligence now mr fry just a technical question i know that the how being your clients to navigate various sanctions regimes and. formally speaking of these are not sanctions this is some sort of quasi i official document a little bit like a wikipedia page verified by treasury secretary what's the right way of thinking about this report in legal terms does it actually compile the american the financial institutions to do anything about the people who are listening no it doesn't and treasury stated right in the report this is not a sanctions list which is why it was so surprising when later on in the week treasury and secretary minutia mention that this report could be a preview of potential future sanctions targets after heavily caviare in the report saying it's not a sanctions list and there are no legal restrictions so nobody has any lead. labile geisha to do anything with respect to this report but i think you'll find that when you work in sanctions long enough you see that the private sector does respond

sometimes severely even when they don't have to when you get into this area of law well i guess it's better to be saved in syria. there are two main strategists as far as i can understand that the wealthy russians can employ in the situation one is to rely on the law based in washington and try to secure that capital as an investment and another would be to liquidate american holdings altogether we do you think is more prudent at this point of time i think the latter strategy i think divesting from the us and moving your assets abroad particularly when they're stating that some of these people may be designated at some point in the future under sanctions program is probably the right way to go i don't think there's a lot of political will in washington right now to revise the law or request an amended report be put out. by treasury so i think the latter and smarter strategy is actually to divest and i would also suggest that these parties who have been identified get in front of the treasury department and provide evidence to them as

to why they are not they should not be considered as central sanctions designations now it's interesting you say that because regardless of how tense the relationship between our two countries has been i think up until recently there was a strong belief at least here in russia dead in the united states businessmen regardless of their country of origin are protected by the rule of law from these kind of political arbitrary and this. i wonder if you can still constantly say dad died is the case that the american justice can protect companies that are connected to russia russia is a country rather than the kremlin. can still be protected from politically driven whether it is prosecution of even discrimination yes so there is an old saying here that in america the justice is. mind and i think that's true and it cuts both ways though it can both be a good thing and in certain circumstances it could be counterproductive in this

idea that america will turn a blind eye and protect business interests in the face of the rule long is inaccurate and if you need to ask anybody about that you can ask the number of iranian iranian americans that have been prosecuted under various sanctions statutes for the last ten to fifteen years about protecting business interests so again i go back to this point justice is blind and it cuts both ways and we're seeing it play out here well it's it's an interesting turn around especially again when the united states is concerned because i think it is preceded internationally as politically a low risk country it's clearly no longer the case as you point out for the russians but i wonder if arbitrariness at this point is contained only to russia what about the other wealthy individuals from other countries do you think they should take notice of that yeah i think they should and i mean there was

a report just yesterday from reuters about france now turning to the euro to do trade with iran and i think we're going to see that more and more often as people will turn away from the u.s. financial system of the dollar because sanctions at this point are being overused and this is something that many sanctions experts including former treasury officials have stated so i think. the message is worldwide to wealthy businessmen that if you are engaged in con you bill or the u.s. believes you're engaged in conduct you could potentially become subject to some sort of sanctions restriction or u.s. sanctions law in the future but the question is can you fully divest from the american economy in a way that you know you would be still conducting business in countries and it will not get into the crosshairs of a dam. regulators is it still possible in this day and age to do business around the world and not be subjected to the american oversight possibly yes very

difficult also yes. you know the fact is that most trade is done in u.s. dollars there is u.s. persons involved in senior and managerial positions at many multinational corporations in the us to your point yes it's very difficult to completely avoid the us if you're doing international business on a global scale but it is possible and i think there have been examples out there you know i've seen my own clients who were unable to use the u.s. system engage in an activity outside of the jurisdiction the united states successfully to your point it's very difficult now necessary the united states is believed to have pretty strong anti discrimination and libel laws do you think daddy's a promising requires for companies or individuals who have been denied service because of their national origin no i don't think so not in this context and this

is something that we've researched often we've represented many people on the list and once we've been able to take them off the sanctions list they've always wanted to bring suits against the united states for the damage that was caused as a result of the designation but you have the u.s. government acting pursuant to legislation and if they're not doing anything outside of their authority and outside the color of law then you're no court is going to find the u.s. government to be liable for that activity i think the smarter route here particularly for those people on the report is to seek a determination from u.s. courts that their placement on the report and in fact the report itself may have violated the due process mandates of the administrative procedure act which is which is a law that governs federal agency actions but admission for. as you pointed out putting an individual or a company on on death least does not necessarily compel anyone to take actions

against them if let's say a financial institution denies a service to some russian individual can he pursued discrimination case simply because he as a russian was discriminated. for no reason draw that and being a russian right so well there is that what you said at the end is the material term if that's the cause is because he was a russian the action was taken then certainly you may have a case for discrimination but the banks response in that case would be we're not doing this because he's a russian we're doing this because he was identified on a report of people that have close ties to the russian government and also or is a potential future sanctions designee so i think that this rumination case in this regard would fail well mr ferriter we have to take a short break now but to me we'll be back in just a few moments stay tuned. for. the

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public service much more eager to see economic improvement than they are to. actually get into a fight with the neighbor or or with other powers in the world. welcome back to worlds apart with eric feder idea of washington based defense attorney specializing in sanctions and mr ferrari at the heart of this fleets least as well as the katsa law lie the allegations of precious meddling into the american elections and these allegations may have become accepted as a fact of a broader american political and media discourse but at this point at least they

haven't been proven in the court of law and they haven't been substantiated by any findings so for example the miller investigation and i wonder why there within the american legal framework it is even necessary to to prove charge before meeting out punishment to selected individuals right well you have the court of law and then you have the court of public opinion answer your point i do think that the court of public opinion has made up its mind i'm a lawyer and i respect the court of law and what the opinion is of the courts of law and the juries that are impaneled in this country. so i think there are. as far as the public's concern there something was afoot and something did occur but you're right nothing has been proven yet and the point as to whether or not it's unfair it's to take action in respect of this i think it's important to keep in mind that sanctions are often view. as a tool of strategic communication and that the evidentiary standards are very low

for bringing the sanctions those that nations sanctions are often utilized when there are there is not sufficient evidence to bring a criminal prosecution so all of that leads. to the situation now well they essentially what are you saying is that no it does not have to be proven in the court the floor before those sanctions are introduced against any particular individual that's current now we just had a very interesting development in the year of the quarter of arbitration for sports overturning the suspension of russian athletes for doping essentially saying that the burden of proof has not been triggering an avalanche of allegations against the court and i think this is not the interesting case when you have a big gap between the court of public opinion and the actual court and the difference of it in standards for one another how big is the challenge do you think for the judges to deal with such politically charged cases it's very it's very

difficult for judges to deal with this particularly i myself have brought numerous lawsuits against treasury for sanctions those nations and when you're in this area of law and you're dealing with federal agency action the courts what they've refer to themselves as extreme deference to the decisions of practicing lawyer as you said you often bring cases or argue cases contrary to the american government position do you encounter that kind of argument that kind of attitude in. opponents that a certain party the party that to be do not like doesn't just deserve the same legal standard that is. suggested by the law absolutely so two points on that the first point is that the u.s. constitution doesn't protect foreign nationals abroad who are targeted by certain us at. actions and then the second point there is that the us doesn't view sanctions as an action against the targeted party but rather as

a policeman of restrictions on u.s. persons who may transact with the party so they don't view it as we've determined this person to be guilty or innocent of a crime they view it as we believe or we have a reason to believe this person is engaged in certain activity and therefore we are going to prevent our citizens in our businesses and our permanent legal residents from engaging in transactions with them now there is one interesting pattern that i think emerged in the court of arbitration for sports ruling and may manifest itself in the american courts as well that both the doping allegations and the actual interference allegations made against the country but the courts have to deal with individual cases as far as you know does dan merica law allow any possibility of punishing an individual as a proxy for his or her country of origin no not for their country of

origin has stated that way i don't think that's right they're certainly built within the various sanctions regimes subsections of certain authorities which state that if the party material assists a designated party then they themselves can be subject to those particular sanctions prohibitions but it's never defined simply by the fact that someone is russian the only parallel you may be able to draw is with the north korea and the cuban sanctions program where the authority itself blocks anyone who is a person of those countries and their automatically blocked because of the nature of the authorities deployed now mr ferrari going back to the or in the fifth cations of the kremlin list i know that you believe that those named in the least may face delays in financial transactions as international banks. subjected them to more scrutiny and i think many people in russia would actually welcome that because the elicit capital outflow from this country still significant according to

russia's central bank it was around thirty one billion dollars last year could that possibly be a silver lining in this whole controversy that the western financial institutions will no longer turn a blind eye to money being siphoned off from this country right so it's an interesting point and many of my clients often say once they've been put on the list they'd be happy to have everyone look through their books and and through their businesses and see that nothing a list that is ongoing so that's an interesting point that you raise and one that i hear myself quite often now i know that there are a lot of russians both individuals and companies who are now trying to be in washington and trying to secure their holdings in the united states but i wonder if there is any little being going on on the part of western financial institutions because as i said they they they mount of money going out of russia into whether it is london or new york is is pretty substantial so i assume that business would also

be damaged if russian money and no longer flowing in i haven't heard her the opposite which is that they were putting these persons on the. exposed persons listen and hence to diligently i've been in touch with a number of bankers this week on a variety of matters and of course this was the scuffs on all those calls and i hadn't heard that but i suppose it would be a possibility given the financial interests of the banks now i heard you say before that you believe that economic sanctions are an indispensable tool in the us foreign policy kid that they have proven their value time and time again and i think that would run counter to the conventional of popular opinion here in russia because none of the countries that have been subjected to you can sanctions have actually changed their policy if anything they grew more defined that applies to cuba. it applies to north korea that applies to run and i think that may play into russia as well so can you give an example of sanctions not only causing pain i'm

sure they did that but actually succeeding in changing the policy of the country that has been subjected to so two points on that i would note that sanctions are a tool they are not a strategy increasingly in the us we've been using sanctions as the strategy and that's the wrong approach we need to use it as part of a tool kit in support of diplomacy the second point i would make on that is i agree with you that sanctions are not that effective against countries targeted sanctions against particular organizations and cities and individuals i have seen to be very effective because it's much harder for the entire world to turn away from a russia or an iran than it is for them to turn away from one individual so i don't agree with the efficacy of country wide sanctions programs like we've seen in the past but the targeted sanctions i have seen to be very effective well i think

it's also a philosophical argument whether you influence people more by engagement or by ostracizing them and i think the american experience historically presents a much stronger case for economic engagement be in japan or let's say germany of downforce non-engagement but even if you believe that smart sanctions could be effective do you think the united states at this point of time is capable of smart policy whether it is under the trumpet ministration or even more generally well i don't want to criticize any administration or how they're using sanctions well what i will say is that over the last several years both through the obama administration as well as the trump administration we've seen a lot of the institutional. knowledge and brainpower of the agencies involved in sanctions ministration leave for the private sector. so there was a period of time where many of the architects for example the iran program were all

there working together and they had years and years of sanctions experience and now they've all gone and so you have new players coming in and new officials that are looking at these issues so i think if there is been any kind of shift that we've seen in recent years between both administrations i would say it's probably more than that so that than any kind of broader policy decision in the way sanctions are implemented well i also heard you say that in recent years particularly following the events in ukraine american sanctions have become more narrow in scope for they are often referred to as micro sanctions but also broader in application and i wonder how does it balance itself out does it make sense to use when there are sanctions but on a broader scale i think it does and here is why the whole idea of sanctions you have to look at it as you look at advice the idea is to pressure the targeted party

to change certain behavior that they're engaged in and so if if you start with putting the most severe restriction on them at the beginning turning the device as tight as possible and they can survive that then they have no incentive to change their behavior they're already surviving this spite of the pressure that's been applied but if you start the pressure off more slowly it gives you more room to ramp up sanctions and then increase that pressure to see if you can compel a change in the behavior absolutely but they hear it mr ferrari are making the case for microsite actions but the second part of my question was also about the over using a sanction mechanism as such because money is a persuasive argument but it's not the only one do you see any downside to using trade in monetary restriction so often because i would think that it may also encourage not only an illicit trade in illicit money transfers but it would also be undermining the free trade. a system that the united states they used to care so much about absolutely that's absolutely correct and i've said that many times as i

do think we're overusing sanctions i think a lot of sanctions experts would agree that we're overusing sanctions and this point about pushing people into alyssa networks to move money informal value transfer systems is absolutely correct there was a statement several years ago that was made by a then senior official of the u.s. government who said we've successfully pushed iran into the backwaters of the international financial system and the argument i made at the time is if you believe iran is engaged in all this illicit conduct do you want them in the back waters of the international financial system again sanctions cut both ways and since i've made it a theme of this talk to bring up sayings there's an old saying that you don't want to cut off your nose to spite your face and sometimes sanctions do do that and there you should be more. mediated ok well mr ferrari unfortunately we have to leave it there but i really appreciate both your perspective and your time thank you for being with us today and charlie rose please keep the conversation going in

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