but whatever the decision is the russian sport cas and the i.o.c. will never be the same again russian space skater although first call in there didn't receive an invitation to the games despite being cleared by the court of arbitration for sport a week ago she thinks the i.o.c. is penalizing rusher after their success at their home games in sochi. it is sad for me to see other russian athletes posting videos and photos from korea clearly the first explanation which comes to mind is that they want to get rid of the strongest competitors maybe they were upset because we were ranked first at the saatchi winter olympics they give no explanation do not share their reasons that's why the fear of losing seems the only plausible motive behind the decision i saw those looks from my foreign colleagues i heard them sneaking around some foreign athletes even took pictures of me it wasn't a pleasant feeling when other athletes refused to enter in the elevator with me and i felt helpless because there was no way for me to prove them wrong. a lawyer

representing some of the athletes appealing against the i.o.c. is banned says all legal channels are being explored i believe necessary to take all legal steps available to us to ensure participation or arsonists in the uk . we hope that the independent panel that was composed will truly and stories at the facts and of the law in front of them and. to the right decision. the i.o.c. has almost plenary power to even ignore what the court of arbitration for sports has decided and i think nations would probably say we don't want the i.o.c. making arbitrary decisions that what may one day affect our athletes international sports community and member nations really need to get together and create a body that can enforce rules fairly and across the board equally because we do

not have that right now. clearly of the i.o.c. issued a strict rules regarding closing for russian athletes and they're only allowed to compete on the unusual flags the uniform should ban the words and then pick athletes from russia all the abbreviation a zero and any color combination should not represent russia's trickle of red white and blue while russian flags are not allowed. and the russian design company is showing its support for the athletes and all with a touch of humor they've launched a line of t. shirts carrying a pun on the acronym. design at the me cheapish called thinks the ban is political and wanted to back his country's one please. with. it's stupid to deprive people of their own country and identity because whatever uniform athletes wearing we all know that their own russian athlete is and that's why we came up with the project using the strange name for a little bit teen for the olympic athletes from russia. we want to say that for us

and for athletes truth and sport it would drive us and all these bonds and sanctions is just political gain because we've really seen huge number of these prints for noncommercial use their intent to the foundation we have it will encourage our athletes and they'll see that we support them and we need their records and victories. well meanwhile north korean delegates arrived in pyongyang on tuesday including over two hundred channels as they arrived in south korea dressed in red and black wearing their national flying and so on to this journalist the entire delegation is almost three hundred strong making it one of the largest ever border crossings between the two countries north korean leader kim jong un's father is expected to attend against the north and south have agreed to march together under one flag at the opening ceremony seen as a sign of improving relations but while the north is on the trauma offensive u.s. vice president mike pence is also going to the game has

a very different message. i'm announcing today that the united states of america will soon unveil the toughest and most aggressive round of economic sanctions on north korea ever we will continue to intensify our maximum pressure campaign until north korea takes concrete steps toward complete verifiable and irreversible denuclearization a video of libyan children playing out a mock execution has gone viral were not after the break. when lawmakers manufacture consent to stick to public wealth. when the ruling class isn't protect themselves. when the final merry go round be the one percent.

we can all middle of the room sick. delusion the real news is really the way. the war hawks selling you on the idea that dropping bombs brings police to the chickenhawk forcing you to fight the battles they are going. to stop spreading tell you that what we gossip the public by file for the most important news. off of advertising tells me you are not cool enough to buy their product. these are the hawks that we along with our loved ones. welcome back a disturbing video has surfaced online showing young children in libya staging

a mock execution. yes. the day. when the boys in the enclave are reportedly under the age of nine they appear to be mimicking real life mass execution which happened in benghazi in january in that video which we're only able to show you a gunman is seen shooting blindfolded prisoners in front of a mosque where a deadly bombing had just taken place. our panel of guests had contrasting views on the story and the troll more experienced by children growing up in a war zone what we see now is just a mocking video actually seen actual videos where children has been used to be had

. to behead people in syria and in iraq and iraq as well we heard stories when terrorists groups using the young people to be a spy on their families the individuals that are actually carrying out terrorist attacks and in particular suicide attacks often have been escaping chaotic lives. but actually that the gauge will with what we call extremist material it doesn't happen until many years down the line you know and often substance misuse was a big problem and if we understand that the reasons that people engage in substance misuse is because of childhood trauma and if we understand that if we've got a large number of young guys children who have experienced that kind of trauma could they is it possible they were partially through follow they started out or not the whole truth that's not the murders well i'm talking about example in the bible as if you're up on a terrorist attack and it could be this could be extremism but but the idea behind

this those kids are copying what they seem like like when they do when they watch you know. a war time movie or when the play a game of you know and then somebody was going on fighting game because this kind of stuff if they're mirroring in their executing their friends mock executions what they'd been what she was it online or really with they watching it first hand and if they watched it first hand guaranteed they're going to have struck going to struggle with mental health they could have a great number of issues and i think. very. clearly the something under also calling i really. believe that all causes not that you know first of all if you look into the history of islamist terrorism recently in a country where i was mauled by like this you will see most of the terrorist attacks in the capital of dark i was carried out by youths who in fact came from

affluent families they had very good life in fact they were brainwashed by this islamist terrorism not only by videos but by theological understanding of it and when it comes to children children are not being able to be children because of the upbringing they are getting because they are of the islamic extremist ideology in fact do you know. of any kind of creation that children can will need to grow up with all that happiness in all the everything highball culture is not like ours some of the education in some of countries they educate the the younger kids on radicalization only extremism right from the young age so we that's what we calling for because from regulations to prevent such a behavior even though on online videos or watching you know we have to regulate the education curriculum some of the countries require to be looked into and see how the education curriculum is being taught in schools. and new antibiotics it

party is about to be launched in the u.k. and it's finding its first support from across the channel french m.p.'s belonging to emanuel macklin's on marsh party not only back the idea but have reportedly being given advice to the party's founders r.t. show a day when he has more. this is really a brand new political party that's about to launch in the k. its goals are quite ambitious pledging to transform british politics and reverse brigs it it wants a second referendum on it i think there's no chance of bragg's it being reversed the brave people have spoken and that's an end of the matter they can bash their head against a brick wall although gas is a sore head while the party is launching in the u.k. it's getting advice from a course can all hear it from the helping hand coming from

a manual michael's party the republic of wash with advisers said to be at a recent meeting consulting about tactics and its norms one of your girl friends was glad you came here like us and like many other countries looking for hope because it was feeling despair i think and today drew increasing you can look at the future of musical and i think the movement of christian authors i mean with when you use the future you can embrace. burring the ideas of mcewan's which invited in every day people regardless of their experience in politics were new also calls on everyone to join and those behind it hope it'll work for them too we don't have much time the only way of winning is by the same miracle as michael. the u.k. electoral commission says there is no issue with the british party receiving advice

from a foreign political party providing it receives funding from it sounds fair enough but what the reaction be if the advice was coming from a russian party world would be a great outcry as there would be if politicians from any political or from any other country were trying to advise politicians or tell them what to do but i mean what we should all be doing of course is talking to politicians from other countries not to get advice from them not to be told what to do but simply to find out what's going on in those countries we are streaming for an interview to discuss the party but they said they were too busy however they made their feelings about our year saying that r.t. would look to undermine them it also accused the channel of being a propaganda to answer jested that russia had interfered in the briggs's vote dividing the u.k. from europe despite

a lack of concrete evidence. when you clearly doesn't have a problem when it comes to seeking the advice of a foreign power such as france when it comes to reversing brigs it a referendum in which the majority of voters or pleased to leave the you so it seems that for a new meddling is ok it just depends on the country involved jollity even ski ati paris. a man interrupting a woman to explain feminism may not be the wisest idea but that's what canada's prime minister has done just in trudeau told a woman to correct her supposed gender biased language and is now being called sexist himself. i am a feminist being a founder of the feminist and i will keep. it there is repeating i.

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sell you take. from the balloons to the marching bands to the elaborate floats and maybe the occasional creepy clown or two who here doesn't love a good parade you know who else loves a good parade apparently the president of the united states one donald j. trump yes the washington post and others are now reporting that the brand name in chief has asked the pentagon's top brass for a big time military parade like like the kind the nation of france features every year on steel day according the post they have begun planning a grand a military parade later this year showcasing the might of america's armed forces this would mark a pretty significant change here of the motif here in washington d.c. which has not seen the likes of this since just after the first iraq war back in

one thousand nine hundred ninety one when close to nine thousand soldiers in the weapons of war were celebrated for their victory in the gulf a list to say many congressional democrats and some critics were livid and crying dictator senator dick durbin the democrat my joint minority whip out illinois told the media that trump's parade would be a fantastic waste of money to amuse the president. and retired general paul eaton a senior advisor to both vets told the guardian quote unfortunately we do not have a commander in chief right now as much as we have a want to be banana republic strong man. but you don't want to talk watchers you know what i'm all for this parade the bigger the better i'm i'm talking full on huge massive parade nuclear missiles predator drones apache gunships and the entire lockheed martin dance team let's truly put on a display and let the american people see the massive ugly violent power that

trillions upon trillions of their hard earned tax dollars have paid for and the thousands upon thousands of children and families living in places that we don't like to talk about at parties have had to live in fear of. ra ra sis boom bang star watching the hawks. it's like. it's like. as if you are the blood of. the day like you that i got. this. week so. one of them are on the watch for the hearts i am to roll them for and joining me today to talk popcorn parades and bombs is conservative

commentator steve malzberg steve always a pleasure thanks for having me great to be here so i got to ask where do you sit on the parade issue the dominated the talk waves you know will it end up being this kind of self aggrandizing display of military military fetishism or or the you know the heartfelt unifying display of respect for current and former u.s. military personnel were it where you said well i think it's it's a great thing i mean donald trump loves the military i don't think anybody can doubt that even the media which you know despises every time he opens his mouth can't question his love for the military and i think this is his way of honoring the military as the white house has said i mean he was at a steel day in france as you alluded to he saw the displays saw the fanfare the pageantry the honor and he you know was in fact weighted with it you want to bring that to our military here now. to what for those who want to read into this that

he's this is a dictator wannabe bob a blah it does doesn't matter what they say because even today when they reached a budget deal in the senate both party leaders praised the military be. because the budget will address the military needs and expenses and the budget both of them schumer and mcconnell heaped lavish praise on the military like it or not the military is loved and adored and respected by i don't know ninety five percent of this country and believe it i believe it's actually about seventy two percent. who have faith in that institution where all the other institutions like congress and even the presidency in the media down around like ten now but they are going to be great this is going to be great i this is going to be great i mean you know that those who want to be negative about it will always be negative about it but i see nothing wrong with this let me ask you this based on our last kind of military

parade which was you know all the way back first iraq war drums parade counting inflation and i think i saw numbers around you know early twenty million dollars or somewhere in that range twenty twenty four million and and that is the big criticism coming from congressional democrats is that you know it's wasting money but steve isn't that rather how we say rich given that most mainstream trump resisting democrats in congress routinely vote to pour money into the black hole of spending that is the pentagon i mean currently the u.s. military budget twenty eighteen is eight hundred twenty four point six billion twenty million for a parade seems kind of like a drop in the bucket compared to what they constantly vote i mean if any be military program comes along it's like here throw money at it. well i disagree with your characterization of throwing money into a black hole i think it's whatever it takes to support our military and give us the defense that we need. i'm all for it and i think again most of the nation's soul

for it i find that it's rich to use your. term there because there's so much waste in social programs waste and fraud and abuse and they're crying over what is a drop in the bucket in terms of the overall us spending of this country a few million to honor our military i think they're being very selective in their outrage i would agree but i disagree i think the we could use some accounting at the pentagon a little bit better than we have a mean just kind of throwing money over there is you know you have to have proper accountability there and so i'm with you and really spend more money on our military than what the next six seven eight countries combined i think that we could actually look and say you know maybe maybe it is lockheed martin and boeing and all the others kind of bilking the public trough and putting in the hey this hammer needs to cost eight million but you know this hammer needs to cost seven hundred dollars compared to the four ninety five that we pay for let me ask you

this republican congressman justin amash tweeted i'm all for a parade if it's to celebrate bringing our young men and women home from these unauthorized wars overseas steve i want to ask you are we not risking the honor and safety of our servicemen and women by continuing these seemingly endless wars that congress has not authorized or is using like you know there was a map from way back in the bush days shouldn't we do that proper procedure to to give the soldiers respect to say here these are the proud we're given your full authorization to go fight these wars or we're taking you home and getting out of harms way. well i think if you ask those who were there they would say that they're there are appropriate circumstances they belong there they believe in the mission and i think what donald trump has done to make our troops safer has taken the handcuffs off of our men and women in places like afghanistan and they can now defend themselves and not have to have rules of engagement that are worse and more restrictive that police officers have in this country in a war zone so i think down shop has got

a long way and making our men and women safer i don't think any of the people who are there voluntarily view themselves as being another illegal war in an illicit war or a life that they shouldn't be lastly you know it seems to me that military parades especially in washington and the folks that usually put them on are less about honoring soldiers and veterans that might be what they kind of put up on the you know on the banner and more about kind of cleaning the conscience i believe of many of the washi of many in washington especially defense contractors think tanks and politicians who pound the drum a war all the time whether we need to pound it or not are these parades really all about the photo op rather than than the actual care especially when it comes to politicians and honoring our soldiers you know they get up there shake their hand but then forget about veterans for the rest of the year. well like you said we haven't had one since one thousand nine hundred one so how this one will work out in its aftermath i don't know and plus it's going to be

a nightmare of logistics because even some of the tanks that we would roll off can't with a concrete streets can't maintain or survive the weight of the tank so i don't know how they get to work that but look again i don't have a good way to bring up infrastructure actually like hey remember redo our infrastructure we can't even get the abrams down the street but i believe that donald trump. and the congress has got a long way veterans are going to have if they don't already have a choice of health care not just have to go to v.a. hospitals so donald trump is reaching out to veterans in many many ways and i don't think there's anything nefarious about this at all he wants to on of the military bring them the respect that he thinks they deserve and the pageantry because yes at heart he is a showman in addition to everything else and i don't think there's anything evil intended here whatsoever steve i think that we might disagree on a lot of things but the end of the day we will agree on taking care of the bedrooms we come home and i can do a lot better than just parades good good spending that thank you as always to you

for coming on my pleasure. well what's yours according to the old saying only two things in our lives are certain and that would be death and taxes but after decades of deliberation we can probably say tragically had another war chaos and bloodshed in the middle east yes despite many attempts a grand bargains and many more attempts of quick and easy regime change solutions that we've been sold it is safe to say that violent turmoil is tragically guaranteed for the region's inhabitants probably ranking and certainly slightly below death in a few steps above well in force texaco the turmoil continues as donald trump's entry into the world stage in an increasingly confident israeli government seek to impose their terms and neighboring syria and lebanon along with the palestinians or as poised as ever to push back for some of the ground. for some on the ground coverage we go to our to use on your pahrump on television it was. israel's northern border with lebanon may not be the only front to experience

a military escalation in the near future just down the coast from where i'm standing here in tel aviv the gaza strip is currently experiencing an unprecedented humanitarian crisis in fact israeli army chief of staff got the eyes and caught warned in this week that situation has the potential to boil over into all out war this is the view apparently shared by hamas leadership which recently determined that scenario has a ninety five percent chance of playing out however hard line israeli defense minister avigdor lieberman has said there is no humanitarian crisis in gaza suggesting he doesn't plan to address it at all i spoke with renowned israeli journalist and columnist at haaretz gideon levy about the prospects for war. the history teaches us that israel is going to war for five six years this is it might go food and is what all the excuses for another war and all.

kinds of existential threats and. the fact that this war was in a vent to a group and then when we analyze it we see another war of choice and another war of choice and again going to stick politics was the main motivation who will. buy. how does having donald trump in the white house impact the situation here. he really put an end to the masquerades he declared officially the united states is the support of israel. without any limits. israel has the. confirmation to go crazy to go viola to continue. and maybe even put the. light shine brightly behind me in the metropolis of tel of eve the

un warned today that in the coastal enclave of gaza which israel holds under siege fuel keeping hospitals running and will run out intending in tel aviv this is on your part for r.t. . as we go to break our quarters don't forget to let us know what you think of the topics will we cover on facebook and twitter see our poll shows at our dot com coming up author russell wonders of the hawk's nest to discuss his heartfelt journey to find answers to his son's mental health outside imposed boundaries of western medicine and big pharma stay true to. should.