about whether the tragic incident could be used by ankara for further escalation in syria i think that the turks the turkish president of russia. already intends to escalate so i don't think that this particular incident will be used as a kind of justification as we heard in his remarks you know he intends to go on to members and then go on elsewhere reaching up to the iraqi border but i think that he will face some very very huge monumental challenges because even in a free and. turks are encountering such difficulty. will be a different story that could threaten a potential showdown with the u.s. ally r. i don't think turkey is ready for that so i think that the turks are in a somewhat difficult position but. has climbed this ladder of escalation and i think the problem he faces is who can bring him down allow him to withdraw other

same time saving face it's quite a big predicament i think which he faces. the south korean president says he's ready to accept an invitation to visit pyongyang from the north korean leader if certain conditions are met this potentially sets up the first meeting between korea's leaders in more than a decade imitation was delivered by kim jong un sister who's attending the winter olympics in south korea she's the first member of north korea's ruling family to visit the south since the one nine hundred fifty s. she met with president moon the three hour talks and their big ceremony of the winter games also hinted at thawing ties between the states with both things marching together.

and while media attention focused on the v.i.p. section at the opening ceremony it was revealed not everybody was too happy about the unified korea team u.s. vice president mike pence made headlines after not standing up as the unified korea team marched during the ceremony reports say that he was one of only a few who remained seated and did not applaud prince later explained he came to pyongyang to cheer us attlee's still the recent friendly relations between the countries are widely seen as being a breakthrough and sort of the country's held their first talks in two years hong kong city university is joseph chang a political science professor believes that the presidential invitation is a major step forward this is a small break through president moon of seoul korea understands that his people

would like to see the escalation of tension in the korean peninsula conditions normally will be cessation of nuclear powers and. miss out on the part of north korea and north korea in turn will. terminate of large scale military exercises are on the par of career in the united states. while the two koreas were able to march into a single unified flag the russian from the as it's known entered the opening ceremony hundred neutral flag however although the russian flag was banned by the international olympic committee is still found its way into the stadium to explain all his aunties and patrik. no russian flags at the opening ceremony nation's

parade chang the i.o.c. said some very strict rules and promised no excuses for anyone who'd violate them so who would have thought the russian tricolor would still make it into the ceremony all thanks to a blogger by korean t.v. just as team france were walking into the arena a russian flag i can well while the zero eight our team were carrying the white a live big flag many russian flags flashed around the arena at the stands but it turned out that not only russians brought them there we spoke to one american fan who grabbed one too and i thought it would be nice to you know show a bit of support for them because they've basically worked for years for this moment to represent their countries and now they can't and so i was kind of trying to sort of you know help them feel at home i was trying to sort of send a message that they should be included because the olympics is for all countries i don't exactly know the particulars of the doping thing i don't know what the right

decision is really i'm just trying to show a sense of unity i'm trying to kind of put the politics aside i'm trying to support these athletes because we know for a fact that these athletes are clean there's no doubt about it but then they're being punished for what others may or may not have done and so that's collective guilt and i don't like collective guilt i think when you have all so many verses beth's athletes banned just before the games instead of you know just for the game so they can't appeal they don't actually have any they don't communicate directly what they did wrong but then all their best athletes are sort of banned. i think that is to much to be a coincidence. and the sun today has brought the first olympic medal to the way our team or olympic athletes of russia short track competitor simeon ellis strata for the bronze which he dedicated to all those russian athletes who were banned from taking part in the games. now you can universities preventing research studies into

transgender people who regretted the decision to change sex that story and others after the break. here's what people have been saying about redacted in. full on. the only show i go out of my way to. really packs a punch. is the john oliver of party americans. apparently better than. see people you've never heard of. the president of the world bank very. seriously send us an e-mail. the bond market will not crash this time it will continue to go even lower and negative you. increase from the trillion dollars worth of negative. now the even more. dollars of negative yielding sovereign debt and we're going to go down the

rabbit hole even further but it certainly smells like what the panic. in places like china and west off and all these various markets and what the oil price is climbing higher. than we've got here. welcome back with less than a month to go until a general election in italy tensions boiling over one hundred seventy factions protesters are gathering in the central city much. was. this this thursday hundreds of supporters of the far right party clashed with police that we could go much around

to so for the racially motivated shooting that left six people in. the shoot it was africa. migrants' police found a copy of hitler's mind count in his apartment as well as a flag with a far right symbol the shooter said he wanted to avenge the death of an italian woman allegedly killed by a nigerian asylum seeker. and the incident has feel concerned about the rise of neo fascist forces in italy national as well as foreign media have weighed in on this the shooter's lawyer told journalists that his client was greeted as a hero when he arrived in prison police say that racial and religious violence has soared in recent years and here is a shocking numbers that have come in from the italian police force they say that hate crimes have jumped up ten fold in just four years the issues raising concern at the very highest levels as well italy's justice minister revealing he was threatened when he visited the match arar to shooting victims in hospital. i received threats against me and my firm belief that i was the first is to go away

when the time comes to take action so when you look. in one of videos appeared in the media it shows the match around to shoot shaking hands with the leader of the right wing legal nord moreover the shooter stood as a candidate for that party in local elections last year and i debated this issue with a league ignored council. if this guy did what he did he became a creaminess so we are very strict. and. we pons and sit in the next election the people will use it to vote in this is the only way we act any violent act carried out by by an immigrant it seems like the response is is also considerable surely this is not good for the country as a whole how do you feel about what's been reported the rise of nationalism and

fascism in italy we are just telling you the people we need the law we need contour of account to be. we cannot lose our identity because italy if this mood of immigration will rise and we will lose. the ally of your party the former soviet bellus going to he's called migrants a time bomb now is fairly aggressive rhetoric it's only going to further divide people you said your weapon is your your pension shouldn't be trying to bring people together we've found always the right way to act together and when we have been in the government the last time in two thousand eighty two two thousand and eleven we practically stopped the arrival of illegal immigrants in two thousand and eleven we had only four thousand in one year in last year we had the more than one hundred forty thousand arrival of illegal immigrants in it and so you

can see the difference and this is a bomb because at the most of those people are illegal they will never go get the. paper. refugee because just the five maximum ten percent of them is a real refugee. a psychotherapist a gender specialist in the united kingdom is challenging a university which is blocking research into people who regret undergoing gender change james caspian claims that the move by bad spy university is an attack on free speech has been extremely stressful to find myself in broad in these proceedings which i think should be of great concern to anyone who values free speech in knowledge i deeply believe that the research i proposed is important to the well being of the transgendered community the research proposed by mr caspian was initially approved by academics back in two thousand and fifteen but then dropped in december twenty sixth in high court judges ruled in the universities

favor goods mr caspian the university dropped the research because it feared there would be a backlash on social media r.t. discussed the issue with what higher who reversed his decision to become a woman. i've been back now to my birth gender for twenty five years i've been married for twenty years and you know when i discovered. that this holds that this whole transgender thing is built solely on feelings there's absolutely no objective proof that anyone is a transgender except by no self identifying it's a transgender is no better call proof that anyone is a transgender and there's no proof that anyone benefits from the surgery over the long term some people like myself feel like we had a good time while it lasted but when the truth rears its ugly head and you want your life back you want to live in reality and not in. you know surgically made

transgender life i found out in my many years of working with transgender people that there is a groundswell of people be transitioning i'm working with them all the time now more and more letters from around the world from people who after five seven twelve maybe fifteen even twenty years they wanted to transition back calling their surgery and their gender change just pure folly and foolishness and totally unnecessary so they want to help the transition just as i've done we asked about spa university to call and on its decision regarding mr caspian's research mr caspian sea research proposal was not true feast on the grounds of topic but on the message a logical approach to invest he was not convinced the press would guarantee the anonymity of his participants and the confidentiality of data the researcher lost the first round of his legal battle leaving him to cover the university's court costs and set up a crowd funding page to cover the expenses and to mount

a fresh legal challenge against the university and so far right almost fourteen thousand pounds has won't hire again he believes that the university is being politically motivated in its decision. i think it's political absolutely i think it's totally political airfreight of the l g b t which is so powerful it would probably overwhelm university if they start studying this like james caspian who wanted to do at the university what they would find out is there's a basque number of people who are already transitioning because they regret having changed their gender so i think they're fearful of the truth coming out and this is their way of preventing research from being done with it now rats are said to far outnumber parisians in the french capital over the years the authorities there are tested a number of methods to try and improve this problem but now the city's resorting to quite literally revolutionary tactics.

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so my mother and entertainment have become a believer that in our culture we have children grow up playing playing war games on the computer this war has somehow been to mystic rated as entertainment to russia just there's nothing funny about it is so serious russia will be the last to get the weapons because russia regards nuclear weapons as the bow. against inflation the works by the superior come on this.

show where americans in america talking about american news are called foreign agents. as you surely know this week the stock market at its worst single pull day plunge into history sixteen hundred points down in a single day and all your corporate media whores ran around trying to tell you that everything will be ok no panic don't you know you'll still get your own men who want to pay you whatever you still use your b.g. unfreezing a will still be able to afford it many petty ok it's all fine and as they tell you that they're not telling you the censored side of the story all right they're not telling you that this is an economy added score which is based on dad and misery and hardship it's not based on the health and happiness and life when it's humming along perfectly when it's all when all going well it means or a blitter ration of the planet is running full steam ahead and the average and the

average workers are appropriately. asked and held down and hoping to just you know make it through their day and collect enough food stamps to paper maché a cast on to their broken arm. in fact the washington post admitted admitted that much this week and they acted surprised when they said it many analysts pointed to a seemingly unusual cause for the turbulence rising wages no that's not unusual alright that's not unusual all you oblivious to change when we start when we start doing better when wages are still going up wall street themselves are right that they only celebrate we're. what it is when workers don't have the ability to demand better wages to demand better treatment to demand healthcare and

coffee breaks and last hand the boss is all right that's when the stock markets around the world panic is when workers are strong the stock market is not it's not for the rest of us the richest ten percent of americans now own eighty four percent of all stocks it's like a game of monopoly except the regular people or the little pieces doing all the grunt work run around the board going straight today jail right work at work and on the working on the pennsylvania railroad just coming home to nothing but a thimble full of stoop for dinner you know. and then the rich or the giant flashy hands that come and grab up all the money and flick your house off the board. over over the past year as the dow broke twenty four thousand and then twenty five

then twenty six and every news anchor was out there with the other and on their party hats and they're just right you know robin or napoles on. rhino horn is off outmanned old. trunk weighted down rises five thousand points on the year for the first time ever maybe there are going to. during all of that it wasn't a rally for ice it was not a rally for the planet or the animals it was only a rally for the parasites at the top the regular humans work there is off and the viruses are the ones reaping the benefits and not even paying taxes. to thank god. and i'm pretty sure i'm i to mix my metaphors there but still i think viruses should pay taxes and i think i think tapeworms should do jury duty also. no more proof in a two thousand five internal leaks citi group memo the parent company of citibank

they said the world is divided into two blocs the plutonic me and the rest futon a meets our economy is powered by the wealthy there are rich consumers and there are the rats the non rich only accounting for small bites of the national pie we should worry less about what the average consumer is doing when that consumer is less relevant to the aggregate data then how the wealthy feel and what they are doing this is simply a case of mathematics not morality morality that matters to them as much as. they have in skid marks on their underwear and then they toss it off to the side everything about it again. and then the memo puts the nail in the coffin of the three levers governments and societies could pull on to and plutonic me are benign citigroup is saying the levers of the state cannot stop us the rich from doing what

ever the we want because we own the government there are gimps on a chain in the basement all right in the case. and in case you've forgotten it came out in the wiki leaks e-mails that citi group chose nearly all of obama's cabinet and trump also has surrounded himself with citigroup and goldman sachs makes it makes you wonder if citigroup had really tested out their power you know. for secretary of housing and urban development we need you to choose carrot top surrey. tax to be carrots. and then that night they're all just get going to themselves in a boardroom in new york city get it. so right. so right about now some of you are probably going to believe when the stock market goes down and hurts productivity it hurts g.d.p.

well first of all average americans are not benefiting from the productivity gains in one hundred sixty eight the minimum wage was a dollar sixty according to the center for economic and policy research if the minimum wage had continued to move with average productivity after nine hundred sixty eight it would have reached twenty one dollars and seventy two cents per hour in two thousand and twelve in two thousand severus at seven average annual incomes of the top one percent of households were forty two times greater than the incomes of the bottom ninety percent up from fourteen times greater in one hundred seventy nine wall street stills more and more money and gives less and less to the bottom ninety percent who then fight over the scraps and we all start to hate each other for a while yes why did you get health care where. i don't get how can. you teach are good you ever done for society all right i voted for

whoever taking health care away from the teachers that you are going to bomb. the gave color to the top while the stock market is. so ordered forty one point two million americans are food insecure meaning they are forced to skip meals or eat less at meals and that includes twelve point nine million children how can you say we are a successful country one eighth of our population is food insecure sounds to me like you don't know what words mean. i mean. how do you how do we rating success here we looked at g.d.p. right gross domestic product how much we're producing g.d.p. doesn't measure how many kids are drinking lead water or breathing toxic air it doesn't measure how many dolphins or choking down plastic we're ranked right it

only measures how many beers you and i chugged down that day it doesn't matter how many trees were planted it measures how many trees were cut down to make the cardboard for coffee cups and condom boxes and i said it is the right house the environment is just how much stuff you buy to keep to. buy a dildo good for the economy throw out a dildo into the ocean get stuck in wells blow hole g.d.p. don't get. do you don't care about bill don't blow it does not. that's going to ask you. to agree they are. going to name my next album. don't blow a hole. in china the government builds coastal cities massive cities where no one lives because the act of building them is good for g.d.p.

of course it's disastrous for the environment but who cares you could be eating all bald eagle road and stand with your. bacon wrapped around it but as long as you bought it at the store a good pretty big. and besides in fact our factory farms are basically government subsidized pig and cow concentration camps are two sides that. even if norrington had animal agriculture is the number one cause of greenhouse gases more than cars so the number one thing you can do for the planet is to not eat as much meat you recently recently applied to eat less meat and find a half a million people around the world it doesn't even say you know meat it just says take up bread are sorry. for the love of his life the last here my heart did all the way before your life away to the next one is just given a second creative gallons of oil or something. or

a country one for one country does it differently the country a blue taunt they measure of gross national happiness here's the thing the stock market is a life blind it's also death blind it's misery and starvation and destruction blind it doesn't see people or happiness or art or beauty only profit only profit the trees it is experience for all of our system of value to feel like a guy driving a car and only seeing speed completely blind anything else to have to what he's getting how many people he was runnin down there just flying over it just turns on the windshield wiper pieces of the car flying off and any it gets to his destination in record john and he says to the townspeople who have all had their family members run over by this maniac he says we did we got a record we should celebrate i gather. right of the country

is tell a break it's time to do things differently. do you want to be. ok . well go home on leave can allocate the newsroom to the british peals court refused to extradite accused hacker lowery love the way a ok ok it's a big win but they didn't do it because they claimed he was innocent no they refused because they said us prisons are for torture the courts the court ruled it would be oppressive by reason of his physical and mental condition the u.s.

prison system is so horrible countries are finally declaring that sending people here would constitute cruel and unusual punishment ok well i guess a week sooner send them to siberia nothing but a banana hammock right in other good news good prison news a florida ban on felons voting was ruled unconstitutional. because the right this isn't because the whole point of prison is that that's your punishment prison and. not your guy afterwards all right you did it and furthermore the idea that because you committed a crime in your past you are able to vote if you have any idea what kind of freaks we have boating in this country like the horrible horrible human beings could still vote rocks tell.