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 ice is 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 going become more and more difficult to apply extraordinarily high standards for the things that we're doing although we will try for some reason this time around they seem to be avoiding any mention of who it is that controls east ghouta all but the same job ists when these limits blindly shelled damascus every day and 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 will

security analyst charles sure bridge told me he believes a truce could play into the homes of rebels in eastern get it this is how i explained it. a ceasefire at this stage may well actually in the short term produce some benefit to the civilian population but it would probably long to problem in the long term because then it would allow the rebels to recruit it would allow. formations to reorganize ammunition to restock and so on and so even though it sounds brutal to some no doubt but from a military perspective this is better to be gotten over with quickly and to end the suffering as quickly and painlessly as possible and of course this kind of situation is never going to be painless for civilian population if we go back to the days of the british an american led as it was called bombardment of mosul plus of course the u.s. led bombardment of rock in syria there were no calls of course for

a cease fire to take place there were no cause amongst the western media like most western politicians and very few aid agencies but some of those that did call for a cease fire in those circumstances where the u.s. led bombardments and sieges of these areas was causing immense suffering and loss of life and like celine populations the response was that no this would help the terrorists who occupy in that area and that applied then they were being accurate. to another headline stories this hour a senior figure in the anti immigration i'll turn to for germany party has launched a scathing attack on chancellor angela merkel prompting her to storm out of the chamber. as more 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. first off we heard from alice vidal 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 garland 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. 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 off 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 well shortly after the incident peter was describing german lawmakers debated a motion the e.f.t. to ban islamic face coverings. the book. work is the oath for the

manifestation of islamic culture the tour and so women being veiled would be a fateful sign that our constitutional state is falling back under the cultural colonisation of radical islam our fundamental values i adhere 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 even polygamy. 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 as a measure against the culture of color and ice age as is the often quoted if your proposal is successful the women who are up until now forced by their families and husbands only to leave the house while fully covered what in the future 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

. is evil and the other way it is true when you don't want to hear these arguments because they come from the wrong facts you're aware i no longer belong to them but the need for action in this matter is still as it was before the value until i got to go about their religious freedom belongs to germany to politicize this not and we're going to turn against this and average work where this politicized islam attempts to restrict our way of life because if usual state will stand opposed to this. the portuguese island of turkey in the atlantic ocean is in desperate need of contamination decades of us are forced activity have left polluted but wasting killing heavy metals and islanders say they're worried about the prevalence of cancer.

but back to twenty thousand this is not constant it oscillates of some releases and not a constant one now that's eighteen twenty twentieth's he announced twenty thousand tons to. the music and it started snowing away from here as well ready of states to long. for we have 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 sense copper and zinc molybdenum all of them having metals that in certain concentrations can cause to realty concept arrhythmia and neverending amounts of problems associated with an

excess of these substances. all my family in that area both of my parents died of cancer and my mama frescoes her and my dad with 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 ah six why is this happening why is the private story on the road so 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. well the u.s. has maintained

a presence on the island since nineteen forty three to syria it serves as a stopover for transatlantic military flights it is home to the sixty fifth based group although it's not known how many personnel are currently stationed there or there are one hundred sixty one has is to accommodate them one former employee told us about the health risks that workers at the facility say they have been exposed to. going to were meant there was also a senate commission that came to check claimed a legal process from some members of the american military who died of terminal cancer and were exposed to radio to v.s.e. on to say they were here for a week and june this are not found out that we are doing here they were here to confirm the existence of radiation on the island. of contamination with. well the dire environmental situation on the island was first acknowledged in a classified report written in two thousand and three it's since been leaked it

details seventeen major fuel spilled in one fifteen thousand gallons of jet fuel released when a pipeline pump was on intentionally activated that was in one thousand nine hundred four and there has been no cleanup since the report stresses that the island's inhabitants are at risk from contaminants in this sort of air and water here's what local experts have been telling us. there and 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 source especially regarding the rare occurrences for example i can say with thirty three percent of the cases being in prior divots or and while the area has only eight point five two percent of the population. and we will. this is the repeat 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. a lot of issues raised there so we contacted both the u.s. and portuguese governments but as yet i have received no responses to the specific questions that we asked the us government did however afford us a press release from last december it states that the two countries are aware of the situation are seeking expert advice on how best to proceed. clashes have erupted in the northern italian city of children around the fascist activists rallied against the nationalist casts a pall and party police used water kellen to break up the protests.

and the protest came as the leaders of tass upon launch their mother fest two candidates for next month's general election it's. the world's biggest sporting event is coming to russia in less than four months from now millions of fans will be heading to the twenty eighteen world cup and for the organizers keeping everyone safe is the top priority the security chief of russia's football union spoke to r.t. at a country terrorism seminar in one of the eleven host cities but of course he's not sure look we have invited our colleagues so they can share with us the methods used to european football for this workshop aimed at countering and preventing terror

threats these stadiums built for that certain amount have been designed in accordance with all security requirements supplied by the union of european food will associations as well as russia security here is very good for all experts who were present in russia during the confederations cup last year have noted that we had the highest level of security that the. russian pleats have been stripped of their a limp big bronze medals in curling by the court of arbitration for sport after one of them tested positive for a substance and leave a tranquil as the latest now from saw at the korea where the winter games are ongoing. so cas is officially saying that the first ever russian medal in curling that was won by the oh 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 be rules violations when the presence of a prohibited substance was consumed by to 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 cause 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.a.r. athletes but if they do so the court of arbitration for sport provides the opportunity to relaunch the arbitration later the concentration of mill dony and these two don't bring test samples pointed to 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. only a lighter note they've called each other names threatened each other with and i

have lation another they finally made it albeit not quite the real thing. and you can't quit are you going to get a. man nobody uses twitting will be one of the students. yeah there you go donald trump kim jong un's impersonators of course appearing together in a little earlier in the day artie's crew is actually look we've got a special something for you in the making check box for reports all right. so that's where we leave the news for another show on syria at the top of the hour more global headlines in the meantime it's time to catch up with max on the latest report.

there is now three hundred trillion dollars of wealth in the world today but i look at how much money we spent on the world the military. we just talked about a few more billion. save the lives of people around the world in doing this such a way that doesn't create dependency it was that much wealth in the united states that much well. the rest of the world is the nice useable for any person in the world today you know today. you don't. got security interests that's russian security interest ok not just a thought we want to be able syria and we want a stable lebanon and you can't just send planes every week to bomb a country and disrupt the political process in this way it's unacceptable.

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scuffles telling me of some simple tasks that unify if all of them yes will some want to be social. oh hello again max to as or here was days. as a reporter oh it's going to be some interesting. and i threw a mispronounced my second name hair 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 that 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's 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 the home of grandma's house is just two hours for the whatever they have over there delicious stuff jim so my guess grandma's got the best in time of all yeah so here we have america's needed an infrastructure plan for the last twenty years a lot of it you know 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 through 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 a pub over the rail you can't go anywhere and interact with. every single day and try to 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 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. 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 the two hundred billion dollars said 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 us infrastructure maybe two billion will make it to the

ground to paying some laborers to paying for some tar for the makah 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's the state. directed infrastructure projects 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 yes they are going to hear it that the

private companies their would number one obligation is to their shareholders or their investors. 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 and instead 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 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 would create an intel 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 by my. 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 the subway line with 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 and 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 to get sort of out there 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 she's like 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 the railway to the north you know 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. the chinese are saying you know what we're going to grow the economy by actually making it inclusive economy and building infrastructure.