and is what always finds the excuses for another war and all risk of a sit up with all kind of existential threats and and it's the fact that this war is inevitable and then when we analyze it make words we see another war of choice and another world choice and they gained of my stick politics was the main motivation to world war so this might repeat itself why or. how does having doubts from 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 the israeli occupation without any limits. israel has the. confirmation to go crazy to go viral to continue. and maybe even play next to the. wall light shine brightly behind me in the metropolis of television

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was. according to the national institute of mental health one point one percent of the population over the age of eighteen suffer from schizophrenia if you do the math that means that any any at any one time as many as fifty one million people worldwide are suffering from this devastating and tragic affliction bestselling author and environmental journalistic russell son franklin was diagnosed with schizophrenia at the young age of seventeen and the years that followed his son spent. i'm in and out of various hospitals and institutions and that one point in a particularly brutal bout with the illness even rejected russell as old father like most concerned parents russell exhausted all avenues and treatments that western medicine big pharma had to offer which usually means pills with side

effects to even more pills with horrible side effects and then finally pills with side effects for the side effects of the previous horrible pills. in desperation he turned to a very unconventional journey in means of potentially helping his son mr russell writes about those i and i opening and mind opening experiences and discoveries in his book my mysterious son a life changing passage between schizophrenia and shamanism which is out now in paperback and he joins us from los angeles thank you as always mr russell for coming on. thanks tyrrell great to be with you again today so so tell us what quickly you know what was the journey you took that is at the heart of your book my mysterious you know what are you and your son went to africa why were you going there. well first of all i want to say that i'm not anti-medication but as you said the side effects from these so-called anti-psychotic medications that are prescribed pretty much one size fits all for people are pretty severe and my son it

at one point in time put on one hundred pounds in weight because of one medication he was on zyprexa and to become very lethargic had been in hospitals in and out of group homes and you know i was pretty desperate as was his mother and a few years ago i threw a psychologist james hellman who's biography i was writing i'd come across a man named melodrama so maybe who was from west africa it worked with james hellman in the men's groups in this country with robert bly and michael mead in the one nine hundred ninety s. and melodrama when i interviewed him on the phone and said you know if you ever need to get in touch with me about your son feel free to do so and he was a solomon from so in west africa who had been in the u.s. for many years traveled all over the world very renowned person and i contacted him and went to see him in ohio california when he happened to be there doing divinations where he could where you basically would read the pattern that you made

with your hand and sort of talk to you about what was going on with the your questions and my big questions were about franklin it was a long journey but he had always told us i had done rituals in this country and i deduced franklyn to him but he said you know eventually you've got to go come to my country come to bring and bring franklin's mom who i had not been with from a number of years but bring her along and he said he had a holy man there have his own a shaman that he felt would be able to help franklin reduce substantially if not go off his medication so the. what we set out to do in the beginning of twenty sixteen and spent a remarkable month there that's incredible and as you said after spending that time there and you know what was that what did they have your son doing where how did they connect with him out of the you know essentially get him off this massive amount of pills because he said the book that eventually did you know reach the point where it doesn't have to take as many pills now today as he did that are correct. that's absolutely correct and we started over there we spent

a lot of time in a very small village outside of the second largest city in brooklyn a faso in west africa called bobo and we were there with a he's called a holy man he's an indigenous healer as well as a as a muslim priest and so we attended you know ceremonies are not ceremonies but you know talks that he gave in sermons in his little church there and and he didn't speak any english so everything was was translated into french and then into english for us from his native tongue and from the very beginning we had a people scribe he looks at the parents he looks at the young person and and he prescribed us african medicine which we came into in a big metal pot each of us had our own individually prescribed pots and we would bathe with this medicine twice a day and we'd also drink from it we replenish it with water every day it had roots on the top these long tubular roots that were contain some i don't know exactly

what was in them but we trusted it and then we also later went through and there were other westerners there too there were about twenty some other people who had come over there with melodrama in january of that year to go through their own healing process of these and we didn't i mean every day was a mystery we didn't know what was going to happen next it was really dusty we were traveling from this little village to melodramas village two and a half hours further south dano and we went through also a series of rituals which involved animals and sometimes we would just be with the animal but there were chickens there were go. it's vengefully a cow and there was ritual sacrifice involved it may be hard for some people to relate to but we went through it all as prescribed and toward the end of the journey franklin began to reduce his medication and you know it wasn't just the fact that i think that they had the alternative that that was happening there with the adjunct to western medication i would say but also the fact we were doing it

together and we were doing it as a family unit and we were in it we were in it to see what could happen and in a pretty desperate situation and it did pay off i mean it it worked by the end of the well over the next year and a half. franklin reduced his medication substantially now i don't say that what we went through over there was a cure all. it wasn't a miracle cure or anything i mean once he finally went off his western medication entirely with his doctor's permission he did have a relapse and had to go back on medication but a lot less than he was on before so i consider it to be a remarkable experience we went through together in a real success and it also brought as you mentioned you did it together as a family which which interpersonal relationships and the building of that i think we kind of overlook a lot of times in western treatments because it's kind of like hey you know here's the pill go home get better when you know we don't look at the psychological process of that we don't look at the bodies and things like that that human beings

as social animals meed to also heal us aside from just the chemical injection. but it's absolutely true you know they found in programs because not everybody can go to app to west africa like we did and my son's biracial so that also was a factor in the importance of it but you know there's a program in finland for example called open dialogue where they've found they're trying to duplicate it now in the us there were more of these programs back in the seventy's before big pharma kind of took over everything with medication but they found that through these programs of interaction. where they bring together so you know practitioners of medicine with with the peer group especially in the immediate days after someone may have had a psychotic breakdown it really works it works but you know to rip people to talk together about what they've been going through and and they found that after five years of that program in finland eighty percent of the young people who had an acute breakdown no longer need to be on that very much medication they're going back to work they're going to school and it's it's

a pretty remarkable thing and there should be a lot more of it in this country there should also be more emphasis on vitamin therapy and on diet and the things that unfortunately have been overshadowed by the medical model of everything and you know and then that that's all about money really i mean the abilify which is one of the medications my son was on as a seven billion dollars a year business and they often prescribe it now for people who don't just have they say that you know if you have depression you should take this because you might be bipolar i mean you know there's a there's a big and the pills are very very expensive unless you have s.s.i. or some kind of benefits so you know it's and now they're prescribing these medications more and more to younger and younger children as well as as older people who are in nursing homes i think the figure i saw was like fifteen thousand people in nursing homes who've been prescribed and are psychotic have died as a result of taking those medications so let me again emphasize i'm not against medication i'm not saying you need to go off it entirely medication has its place

but there's a real overemphasis on it in our western society i would agree and i think that you know one of the big problems that we see too is that we go our direction of medicine western society is directed war towards you know kind of putting the band-aid on the problem or treating after the fact as opposed to preventative would you say that some of the things that you learned in africa through this through the shopman through that you did was you know more of that kind of preventative healing whether mental mentally spiritual or even physically. oh yeah i. i think so i think in every respect and you know it gave it gave franklin a belief that there was something you know the besides medication that could be of benefit to him and that we were in it together as a family and with other westerners that he became more and more comfortable with i mean i would say that today he's living with his mom again in baltimore and he's more social most socially oriented than he's been i think since before he had his

breakdown and he's doing his art again very regularly he's going to a day program there interacting with people on a social level i mean it it means the world and and you know he was a very talented and still is young person before this happened and you know he's beginning to find himself again in his own way and what he wants to do and in the future so it's all about relationships and the fact that you know we were able to find something that would take him beyond just the western medical model two to five be able to find more of who he is that's so true and you know schizophrenia and mental illness again is one of those it's one of those afflictions i think that or it's far too easy for people to kind of push off and usually say oh well you know for depression oh well that's their fault or oh it's beyond our control and things like that and i think that your book does a fantastic job of really showing you know how a family can not only deal with this but also you know keep their minds open and keep your eyes open to new things that could eventually bring help but always be

careful at the end of the day i'm sure any last thoughts russell as we wrap up here . well you know just that in traditional societies indigenous societies like in africa there's often a relationship shamans are often considered to be fairly close to the so-called mental illness spectrum i mean they don't they don't look at mental illness the same way that we do they're they're considered people as i consider my son to be those with special abilities with psychic capabilities that most of us don't have and a world health organization study a few years back found that that in. so-called poor countries that didn't have access to medication like we have in the west but the success rate actually over time when there was just a lot of social interaction with people was a lot better than it is with our western medical outcomes so for you and i say and i don't disdain it all but well but i think it's very important to look for alternatives first sure thank you so much for coming on once the mr russell always

a pleasure to have you on thank you thanks so much kyra. when we hear of the so-called resistance movement in the u.s. these days threaten to tear down walls and instead build bridges we may very well laugh the chance off as naive idealism but there is no better time than now to remember that sometimes these chants grow into something much greater. than that and that to people who feel arbitrarily classified unfairly divided there was no desire more burning than that to tear down that wall yes hauke watchers this week marked a dividing line in modern history with the years since the berlin wall dividing east and west germany came crashing down out numbering its own considerable lifespan and setting aside for a moment all the political and exercise problems modern day germans may be facing now let us commemorate this turning point in history that is perhaps best captured by the most famous piece of artwork now adorning it saying many small people who in many small places do many small things can alter the face of the world.

and that latent gentlemen is our show for you today remember everyone in this world we are now told that we are loved enough so it's all you all i love you. keep on watching those talks and have a great day and night. across europe municipalities are taking their water supply back from private companies. this is what. elsewhere they invite private companies to take over their utilities anybody tell us. that so miss you guys you got. to go. this is. the quote them out. of the lift. locals are ready to stand up for the basic human rights of access to water it's

a bill that will. but it's also over much more than war it's about to hurt and the redistribution of all of west birds on their debt downwards the ones our. fears of people have been saying about rejected in the us a full blown author well the only show i go out of my way to not see a lot of the really packed a punch. fleet yampa is the john oliver of r t america is doing the same. apparently better than two thousand and six and see if anybody had ever heard of love jack the next president of the world bank hate. writing seriously send us an email. despite its title and history the soviet union has dominated international sport however this was not about the lives of those champions from the. right moment you're worth.

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can we. just. before the opening ceremony. holding out hope of being allowed to compete in the game with a ruling from the court of arbitration for sport. with norway's. u.s. led coalition. forces reportedly killed one hundred. group.

of video of libyan children. on the program. really. here in moscow you're watching r.t. international from all of us here thanks for joining. dozens of russian athletes still holding out hope of competing in the winter olympics which get underway on friday forty seven of them have appealed to the court of sport to overturn and. they are now awaiting its ruling among those who are. most celebrated for

example the. gold medalist and. ship coonan well. joining me live from the olympic host city appealing china for details on this it must be a pretty a nail biting time for the athletes involved earlier. henri hello again for almost two and a half hours the court of arbitration for sport was listening to the russian side which have left led by the lawyer so these people won't get another chance to give their arguments to the court and now it's all up to the cost members and they have promised to announce some sort of decision before two pm local time on friday. and of the on the phone we continue to defend the caspar

listen to our arguments and the decision will be reached within twenty four hours. so the things won't be decided until a few hours before the opening ceremony on wednesday the ca secretary general hinted that even in that case there may be a delay so that of course puts extra pressure for these dozens of russian athletes now there are three scenarios possible here either the international story either cast does nothing about the international olympic committee's move not to invite dozens of russian athletes who have never been caught cheating and these people never specified why they're not being allowed to come to pyongyang or casts give the green light to the russians and this would be a massive blow for the i.o.c. because that would mean that the international olympic committee discriminated against the russians the third scenario we found out about from an online leak but

that however it cannot be verified the report suggests that there may be a split decision on the russian athletes so we are awaiting that and i'm going to be here trying to get any message from kathy at any time in the air but you're going to live in pyongyang thank you. now however some athletes whose participation in the winter olympics is not in question and now embroiled in controversy often always in state run broadcaster and alloca published a list of drugs the norwegian team doctor brought to pyongyang and noted a suspicious amount of asking the medication which contains bad banned substances approximately one six thousand doses that's ten times more assman drugs than for example finland brought to south korea on the ways anti-doping agency has conducted an investigation into the possible over use of medicine concluded there was no evidence of wrongdoing however the head of the agency admitted that the use of

asimo drugs is common practice and no. way even when there was no specific diagnosis all of. the latest revelation comes after the release of a documentary that alleges the existence of an organized doping system in norway ski federation and we spoke to one of the journalists behind this film the duration is very angry about this and they don't. talk about this problem and that's very sad i don't think this is keen to see there are. also in this competition we've asked the international olympic committee whether it will investigate these doping allegations we are awaiting its reply however one sports lawyer we spoke to told us it's wiring the i.o.c. has not publicly commented on the issue but it's interesting as you heard the outcry in the media about these allegations you haven't seen any action by wada as

it currently stands i don't see there being an investigation which you know is in the light of everything we've discovered with regards to the russian doping allegations is troubling everybody where there is a problem should be investigated we need to understand the doping is in fact a global problem is raised by this documentary we need to understand that doping as happened and occurs across the world and that this is not an incident slated to russia this is a global problem it's a continuing problem and it's something we need to address seriously right now even be the greatest anti-doping experts in the west as a lot of cannot currently detect doping in athlete that's a problem. the u.s. led coalition has conducted as strikes against pro government forces in syria reportedly killing over one hundred u.s. central command described it as a defensive measure. in defense of coalition and partner forces the coalition

conducted strikes against attack and forces to repel the act of aggression against partners engaged in the global coalition's defeat. the coalition said the alleged act of aggression targeted the so-called moderate opposition now of course going back to twenty fourteen at all the u.s. led cole is that assad must go america's focus in syria then changed to battling i still however with the terrorists now effectively defeated the u.s. officials now say the pentagon is preparing to dig in even further. our military policy in syria has not changed our priority remains to defeat of isis whether it's in iraq or in syria that is our intent to defeat isis and not do anything more than that the united states will maintain a military presence in syria focused on ensuring that isis cannot real merge total

withdrawal of american personnel at this time would restore assad who continue his brutal treatment against his own people to put its ability to the lack of a fundamental commitment to our agreements is typical of current u.s. diplomacy including the reasons why the americans stay in syria rex tillerson pete at least stated that the only goal in syria was the defeat of ice so now they've got far more ambitious plans for a middle east expert abraham believes the u.s. has shifted its agenda. we started seeing the u.s. more interested in remaining and maintaining power and the u.s. has over seven. north eastern provinces of. syria who are over kurdish militias are in control of the bases for the long run to stay for much longer after the defeat of lysol. but you are sort of in syria to counter the influence of iran and the middle east they are in syria

they will not leave before the political solution is reached. up will create some kind of power transition with inside syria and this is a very long term goal and a very far goal with no different. timeline and the us is not going to leave and call these political agendas are met and the few thing i saw was only part of these are embers and not all of those are. today the body of russian military pilot rob and fairly powerful be buried in his hometown of what an ash at the major died fighting in syria after his plane was shot down by better terms commemorations are being held across russia including in the far eastern city of light of austar near where the major was stationed a pilot of the plane supporting phillipe off the share details of their lost communications. his voice remained calm when i want him there all the you get out of this maneuver yes i see that was the commander's reply and then he said so evenly as if it was something ordinary and unimportant i got hit hard the right is

on fire moving south the lift slowing down too and about twenty seconds later he added the search and rescue team then he ordered me to gain altitude of course i didn't do it to leave my commander is the last thing i would do i always tried to have his bag during flights and now i had to do it on the ground while he was fighting i stayed there and made several attacks. two vehicles that were getting closer to the olive groves where room on touchdown i stayed until the fuel was extremely low i barely made it back to the airfield. after the pilot was shot down he was alone and surrounded by militants so he had a gun and did shoot back and unverified video of what happened later appeared online a warning you may find the following images disturbing. major

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