a literal human shield made of civilians to protect themselves fighters from strikes these same people jihad ists who say they're fighting to free the country from outside then turn their guns on protesters when they day complain about the jihad ists themselves. these infamous incident being one of them a crowd of demonstrators fired upon by rebel fighters john kerry himself once called the rebels holding east ghouta a subgroup of isis and i. remember what the u.s. led coalition did to isis in mosul.

one of its kind of as of yet. they leveled and then ties city thousands of civilians dead yet they say there's no choice the terrorists were sponsible by using human shields a sad fact of war civilian casualties are a fact of life in this sort of situation do you agree that some of the the high level of i think ridiculous standard that we had previously is now created this. behavior by isis that they now realize if they take human shield they're going to avoid being struck and that actually this is adding to the problem congressman i do believe they understand our sensitivity to civilian casualties and they're exploiting that and i do agree that as we move into these urban environments it is in become more and more difficult to apply extraordinarily high standards for the things we're doing although we will try the summer. reason this time around they

seem to be avoiding any mention of who it is that controls east ghouta all but the same job when the islamists blindly shelled damascus every day and then slaughter more and more civilians well that's war when the syrian army responds suddenly it's an atrocity remarkable isn't it how the rules change entirely depending on who's calling the shots. former u.k. ambassador to syria under raines peter ford say the western media has largely a minute the terrorist from their reports. the russian ambassador made a fair point. blatant with through media. totally brush out of the picture literally the jihad the naive view might imagine that it was worth bombing civilian for the hell of it because we. are

totally absent from the picture and of course the picture literally provided by the jihadi themselves. through one reason for the misunderstanding willful misunderstanding because the diplomat. of security council countries know the reality be. turning our attention to germany where a top representative of the nationalist e.f.t. party has launched a scathing attack on chancellor merkel he told a parliamentary session on thursday that her policies are a failure and that she is part of a push to impose multiculturalism not just on germany but on all of europe peter all of us been following developments for us. finger pointing and a walkout by the chancellor is this the new normal of german politics it was a very heated session in the bundestag on thursday morning here in berlin. merkel

was outlining how she see some of the challenges facing germany and europe and what needed to be done on that but it was really the performance from the political new kids on the block alternative to germany well certainly true a lot of the attention first off we heard from alice vidler who's one of their co-leaders she said that the e.u. no longer represented the german taxpayer in fact going as far as to call it pure socialism well that resulted in a lot of groans and a few boos from her fellow members of the bundestag she also called for a reduction in the e.u. budget post breaks it but then it was the turn of her co-leader alexander gallant to speak he hits out directly at angola merkel's support for the proposed e.u. refugee distribution system that would see an overhaul of the dublin treaty that would see mandatory quotas for e.u. nations saying that they have to take set amounts of refugees you know countries

want to decide for themselves who they take in there is no national duty with regard to multiculturalism and this last remark goes especially to the greens here well that prompted this reaction from the chancellor angela merkel clearly having enough decided she was often not going to stick around to hear mr cowen say that he supported cooperation between the e.u. member states but not the formation of the united states of europe well is this the new normal in german politics because like them or loath them alternative for germany how are the folks there in the parliament we've actually seen them growing in the polls of late but one can't really presume that every time they say something that mrs merkel doesn't agree with she's going to decide she has somewhere else better to be. it's been an eventful day in the german parliament shortly after the incident peter described m.p.'s plus during

a debate on bowling the video proposed by the f.d.a. . the book. work is the oath for the manifestation of islamic culture the cholent so women being veiled would be a fateful sign that our constitutional state is falling back under the cultural colonization of radical islam our fundamental values are here to people who are free and equal the full covering is a signal that there isn't a will to participate in our open society legal colleague and. dear colleagues a wolf in sheep's clothing sits in our bundestag this proposal isn't motivated by the stated reasons but rather as the applicant has already claimed to the press before we had it on our desks and how it's just been confirmed to be that as a measure it against the culture of call an ice age as the often quoted if your proposal is successful the women who are up until now forced by their families and husbands may only to leave the house while fully covered what in the future it's no

longer be able to leave the house at all therefore you're not helping these women rather you're robbing them of the last morsel of freedom and participation in our society it could be seen as evil and yeah the idea is true and you don't want to hear these arguments because they come from the wrong in your eye where i no longer belong to them but a need for action in this matter is still as it was before the billy goat until i got to god about their religious freedom belongs in germany the other politicized there's not one and we're going to turn against this and we have a right where this politicized islam attempts to restrict our way of life because it usual state the polls to this side. the windswept portuguese island after syria in the azores in the middle of the atlantic ocean is in desperate need of decontamination decades of a us or a force activity have allegedly left it polluted with iraq carbons but heavy metals and islander say they're worried about the prevalence of cancer and other serious

illnesses. but back to twenty thousand this is the constant lawsuit like this if some releases are never constant someone now that's eighteen twenty twenty go down some twenty thousand twenty days down. to them freely and it's done so in a way from here as well ready of states to long. most what we have is a series of locations with extremely high levels of pollution caused by heavy metals the hydrocarbons there are very high levels of lead in some zones copper

zinc molybdenum all of them having metals that in certain concentrations can close to reality in cancer arrhythmia and neverending amounts of problems associated with an excess of these substances. all my family lived in that area both of my parents died of cancer my mom of breast cancer and my dad was a different kind of cancer when i was thirty three i was diagnosed with breast cancer. much confusing the more cancer cases there are the more they look elation asks why is this happening why if private soria of the road says that on one side all houses have a had at least one case of cancer and on the other side it's almost every other house

that is not normal yours. well the u.s. has maintained a presence on the island since nineteen forty three cirrus serves as a stopover for a transatlantic military flight and is home to the sixty fifth base group although it's not known how many personnel are currently stationed there there are one hundred and sixty one hoses to accommodate them one former employee told us about the health risks that workers at the facility say they have been exposed. to were meant there was also a senate commission that came to check the legal process from some members of the american military who die enough to cancel you were exposed to radioactivity on to save our lives they were here for a week and during this time a found out that we are doing here they were here to confirm the existence of radiation on the center island the radioactive contamination with if you can start

from well the dire environmental situation on the island was first acknowledged in a classified report written in two thousand and three which has since been leaked it details seventeen major fuel spills in one fifteen thousand gallons of jet fuel were released when a pipeline was on intentionally activated that was in one thousand nine hundred four and there's been no clean up since the report stresses that the island's inhabitants are at risk from contaminants in this soil air and water here's what the local experts have been telling us. we found in the data that was published referring to the two thousand and seven two thousand and eleven period a higher number of certain cancers in the prior to victoria area than the rest of the years or so especially regarding the rare occurrences for example i can say with thirty three percent of the cases being in prior different sort while the area has only eight point five two percent of the story in the population of. and we

mean this is how the repeats itself on various islands occupied by the americans this is almost a scorched earth policy where the problems accumulate and the local government doesn't react the population has no capacity to take a stance maybe as a result of scientific illiteracy or lack of knowledge on the cause effect relations we've contacted both the u.s. and portuguese governments but have received no responses to the specific questions we asked the us government did however forward us a press release from last december it states that the two countries are aware of the situation under seeking expert advice on how best to proceed. i. clashes have erupted in the northern italian city of children who were anti fascist activists rallied against the nationalist cast upon party police use that water kellen to break up the protest.

of the protests comes as the leaders of cuss apollo launch their mother festival candidates for next month's general elections that takes place sunday week. to asia where to unpick athletes from russia have been stripped of their bronze medals in curling by the court of arbitration for sport after one of them tested positive for a balanced substance reporting from scythe korea where the games are being held here's the trend go. so cas is officially saying that the first ever russian medal in curling that was won by the o. a are mixed deal will now have to be taken away from them the announcement comes

just about fifteen hours after alexander crucial lead ski who's both doping test samples turned out to be positive formal dhoni chose not to proceed with the court of arbitration for sport hearing that was planned for thursday afternoon. it's silly to do don't they don't pee rules violations when the presence of a prohibited substance was consumed by two doping tests i'm ready for the verdict which is predictably the same in all cases and i weigh the pros and cons and decided to withdraw from the class hearings i think in this situation it's useless and senseless so the russian curler has admitted that there was an anti-doping rule violation formally but he maintains that he is not guilty and that he has never taken the pills on purpose today we found out that alexander crucial needs and his wife are not giving up the legal battle completely the russian curling federation

will be looking to help them through trying to prove his innocence eventually and also they will try to get back these medals for now they haven't been able to obtain the c.c.t.v. footage or any other possible evidence that could play in favor of the o.e. our athletes but if they do so the court of arbitration for sport provides the opportunity to relaunch the arbitration later the concentration of the mill dony and these two don't bring test samples pointed to a single use and we heard from the man who invented the drug that taking the pills once or twice is absolutely useless besides this we've spoken to the coaches experts other curlers who had suggested that there may have been some sort of sabah taj that someone could have spiked alexander's food or drinks although if the curlers want to get their medals back they will obviously have to prove that

and that is a very difficult process just on a lighter note they've called each other names threatened each other with nuclear war another they finally meant albeit not quite the real thing take a look. oh want to tax attorney that would be donald trump and kim jong impersonators of course appearing together in. our tease crew is actually. something for you in the making to check box for a special report tomorrow friday. all right back to russia where the national football union has hosted an update terrorist seminar ahead of this summer's world cup finals. we have invited our colleagues so they can share with us the methods used in european football this workshop

a counter and prevent the threats to the police said it was built for the tournament have been designed in accordance with law security requirements. of european football associations as well as russian security here is where to get it all experts who were present in russia during the confederations god last year have noted that we had the highest level of. those games fast approaching of course the middle of june is kickoff for fifa world cup twenty eight here in russia next to the program that we stay with us for a mux. kaiser report. elliston is getting international recognition with the help of israel at least in the world

of zoos and nimble fish sticks mission to do it for you like a movie this is my compass he is going up the study hall may be a bit. old john one of. the only palestinians is who gets the most help from its jerusalem counterparts i don't think there's some of those who in the world under the bush didn't know who could get it. and know it is unfair advantage to have this lady of the most of which he had i'm going to compete in the gaza machine to do more commitments last time piss off. oh hello again max to as or here was day zero. as

a reporter oh it's going to be some interesting. i threw a mispronounced my second name hare bet and it's actually hurts my god but you know on the ride over to the studio this morning you mentioned that during the last vacation period in america which is thanksgiving the bait the great migration of america you know when everybody goes on holiday they go visit their family they have thanksgiving dinner they usually fly that actually went from twenty three percent took road trips like last year and twenty sixteen and then in two thousand and seventeen it was something like thirty nine percent and why did they take road trips instead of flying to their destination well they didn't want the hassle of the u.s. dilapidated airports and the t.s.a. you know the whole security apparatus which is now kind of defunct because nobody actually even talks about the war in terror anymore everybody's forgotten that because now we have russia gate so what like why we have this remnant that's the last remnant of the last fake hoax scare was the whole war on terror but you know

in order to. you know fix the infrastructure of america trump has proposed a one point five trillion dollar infrastructure plan two hundred billion of that is going to come from the u.s. government and the rest is supposed to come from the private sector so the therefore mostly charging tolls any plan that might be able to recoup their income back from the users of the infrastructure so it's going to you see where it will go will go to the richer areas they don't even need the funds as much as the poor areas of america so i'm going to compare this to china where they also they don't have these grand announcements of infrastructure plans and hope that in twenty years that might come true maybe the private funds will come from somewhere they just do it and it's quite remarkable because bullet trains are transforming the world's biggest migration millions of chinese cram on to train to make the annual pilgrimage home for the lunar new year holiday as a crowded and often uncomfortable experience that is rapidly being transformed by the country's push into the world of high speed rail china already has the globe's

longest bullet train network but it is plowing three point five trillion un or five hundred fifty six billion dollars into expanding its railway system by eighteen percent over the next two years to one hundred fifty thousand kilometers or more than ninety three thousand miles i don't know if there are thousand miles of the two years that's amazing those chinese people are ready to rock n roll the twenty first century high speed trains home of grandma's house just two hours for the whatever they are they're delicious stuffed him so my guess grandma's got the best in time of all yeah so here we have you know america's needed an infrastructure plan for the last twenty years a lot of it some of the network actually has not been replaced for one hundred years if you look at new york subway system like the train under the hudson the tracks under the hudson they are one hundred years old so nothing's been touched so

. this infrastructure plan that we have in america is just to replace some of the old stuff not to expand any sort of high speed rail like they're doing here and remember that just ten years ago they had almost no bullet trains at all in china and here they have the biggest network in the world suddenly within ten years and we're still twiddling our thumbs trying to determine whether or not we can afford it. part of it is that railway building is local and you have to pay people big wages real wages not minimum wage to build stuff locally in america is an economy that's been created by financialization of everything and outsourcing manufacturing to countries like china totally ignore asian just made that word up means to ignore something. of your local infrastructure build now trump saying we want to do infrastructure we've got to go borrow a trillion or two trillion dollars from who our biggest creditor would be china

again showing as owning all the cards now in the twenty second century in america can't even get from point a to point b. because amtrak is just going to skip over the rail they can't get anywhere and interact with. every single day and do real good deals again because it's junk well but we also have a plunder class so no plan no national policy like china has industrial policy we've come to that before we have d.n.a. policy here and it is a plundering like how to plunder any of the assets that are there this is the private equity model it became popular on wall street while you were there in the eighty's and now it's our national economic policy is to plunder as much as possible and you know a few guys get to keep it and then the rest gets you know whatever their needs are the plunder class whatever their needs are they just outsource it to china to make in the meantime vast fortunes are being made in china here we have even the policies that are being presented by donald trump's administration you see their

original plan. it's already kind of they were created by wilbur ross and one of the guy from the administration long ago like a few years ago and it's basically a way to plunder because hundred billion dollars from the u.s. government just like that two hundred billion dollars sent to afghanistan or iraq it just disappears it evaporates into thin air into the pockets the offshore bank accounts of some of these guys and then trickles down so of the two hundred billion dollars going towards the u.s. infrastructure maybe two billion will make it to the ground to paying some laborers to paying for some tar or for the macca dam roads out there for that you know that's that's all that will make it to the ground so there's a huge you know you have to throw a lot of money just to get a little tiny bit to the ground here because there's middlemen all along the way taking their cut you know same thing in the medical industry obviously it costs the most expensive any in the world because of all the middlemen the administrators the administrators of growing exponentially the doctors are not as same thing and infrastructure built so china is

a state. directed infrastructure project from the state america would like to bring in private enterprise but private enterprise unfortunately is unregulated there are no laws that apply to private enterprise of particularly in the financial industry so therefore the cost skyrocket even compared to the government famous five hundred dollars hammers that we hear about at the pentagon if you throw to private equity all they're going to do is extract all the money and send it off shore so. they're going to hear it on the private companies there would number one obligation is to their shareholders or their investors and. it's way more profitable just to plunder like why actually the cost of buying the steel paying the workers finding the workers to lay the track to fix the that's like really expensive and time consuming we could just like throw a piece of old steel out there and hope it doesn't and the train driving over it doesn't they're real and said just take the billions of dollars we have the same

system in hollywood that's why our films here cost two hundred million dollars because there's a thousand middle men many of them rapists apparently that they're like they're like plundering that system our every single system in america has like thousands of middlemen just the education system it's now the cost of education university has exploded like a thousand percent since you and i went to university because we have now a whole bunch more administrators not new more teachers not more professors a lot more ministers. look i mean the united states at a state directed infrastructure project under eisenhower the interstate highway system which set the stage for the american century we haven't now put a man on the moon which was created in tel google apple i.b.m. you know created america's technology superstars but you know the government is now gun shy about doing anything for two reasons it's broke and there's no talent there . yeah you might say he was general eisenhower so

a military man republican right wing and the highest tax rate at that time was ninety percent so it was you know a different sort of time and we were compete like we weren't yet clearly the empire because that was after world war two and you know. britain still kind of had like the remnants of empire they still had some of their holdings but back in china here or there you know there their infrastructure is like a quite amazing the numbers are amazing almost nonexistent in china a decade ago high speed rail has exploded with more than half of the twenty five thousand kilometer network built between two thousand and thirteen and twenty seventeen the plan is to expand it buy more. than fifty percent by two thousand and twenty five with eight main bullet train lines running from east to west by twenty thirty chinatowns have another eight main lines running from north to south as well and actually the cost is very competitive that's why more people this this past chinese new year has just traveled by high speed rail rather than the conventional

rail but you compare that to like new york city which has been trying to build that subway line what the number two on for about seventy eighty years and it went like ten times over by and it was just like a mile long it was like hardly anything and it took years and so many layers of administrative you know like they went over the cost was a great article recently where they went over the cost of why it was so expensive to build in new york city and they had to have like three people who operated the elevator but there was no elevator there there's no actual there was a elevator a lift but it was automatic so there was nobody at that actually needed to press any button but they had to have them by law in these three guys that were elevator attendants who just stood there all day making one hundred fifty thousand the air. so that's not a very efficient way to run an economy that is for sure and so. competitively this is you know we've put a. price ok that was good on china's not too concerned about that but yeah because

putting a tesla into outer space makes a great extravaganza but those extravaganzas like hyperloop and the private sector is only going to deliver to billionaires like mosque who have no money to blow and sending tesla's into outer space here china national you know they have the industrial plans they have five year plans they have they don't want to leave. the entire rural class abandoned because they know they have to include them into their economy to sustain and and maintain their position at the top of the global economic infrastructure so the. they need to include these people then and it costs you no money to bring them in just like western we had to bring in east germany and spend a trillion dollars here china is also a mercantile estate just like germany and they have to include all these people america where should abandon those people out in the rust belt out in the middle of america's like let the fend for yourself dude well i mean the u.k.

is kind of similar right the whole northern area the country they keep discussing should we build a railway to the north twenty years include the people from manchester and birmingham and sheffield should we include them into our economy in london and for twenty years i've been having this debate and there's still this division going on so the chinese are saying you know what we're going to grow the economy by actually making it inclusive economy and building infrastructure appropriately yes so they're basically there they're bringing in the west and a lot of naysayers and the western world the western economy the likes of you know the. academia economists from new york have always liked their plan for high speed rail but they've been building across china saying the peasants will never be able to afford it but apparently according to the data from this past year that they peasants are affording it so it is actually becoming viable and people are using it because their incomes are going up because we've outsourced all our jobs there.