the hands of rebels in eastern gooda. a ceasefire at this stage may well actually in the short term produce some benefit to the civilian population but it would probably longer 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 ceasefire to take place there were no cause amongst the western media like most western politicians and very few later agencies but some of those that did call for

a cease fire in those circumstances where the u.s. led bombardments in sieges of these areas was causing immense suffering and loss of life unlike certain populations the response was that no this would help the terrorists who occupy in that area and that applied then they were being accurately . a senior figure in the anti immigration alternative for germany party has launched a scathing attack on chancellor angela merkel prompting her to storm out of the chamber artes bureau of reports 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 do to 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 all loath them alternative for germany have the votes 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. truly after the incident peter describe to german lawmakers debate in a motion from the f.t. to ban islamic face coverings. the book. 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

colonization 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. 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 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 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 faction you're aware i no longer belong to them

but a need for action in this matter is still as it was before the value until i got to go about it religious freedom belongs in germany by the politicized there's not going to turn against this and average where this politicized islam attempts to restrict our way of life because if usual state will stand opposed to this the us military is being blamed for a health crisis on a portuguese island vaster much more still to come start international. it's. political blogs telling you on the idea that dropping bombs brings peace to the chickenhawk forcing you to fight the battles that local thank you socks for the tell you the celebrity gossip the tabloids by trial for four years they. talk about telling you are not cool enough to buy their products please.

leave all the hawks to me along with all the gold watch. me a. little. thank . you. thank you welcome back you're watching our team international portuguese island in the atlantic ocean is in desperate need of decontamination decades of u.s.

air force activity has left it polluted with waste including having heavy metals and i understand that they are worried about the prevalence of cancer. the marine commute back to twenty thousand this is not constant it's also like this if this is releases and of a constant is the one now that's eighteen twenty twenty eight hours and twenty thousand twenty days of. the them freely and it's done so in a way from here as well ready to stay too long. 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 and copper zinc molybdenum all of them having metals that in certain concentrations can cause the realty on cancer arrhythmia and neverending amounts of problems associated with an excess of these substances. oh 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 like when i was thirty three i was diagnosed with breast cancer. the. most confusing the more cancer cases there are the more they will feel ation asks

why is this happening and why if private soria are the roads 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 your. u.s. has maintained a presence on terror island since one thousand nine hundred three it serves as a stopover for transatlantic military flights and is home to the sixty fifth air base group although it has not known how many personnel are currently stationed there there are one hundred sixty one houses to accommodate them one former employee told us about the health risks that workers at the facility say they have been exposed to. are you going to have meant there was also a senate commission that came to check a legal process from some members of the american military who had died of terminal

cancer and were exposed to radioactivity on to so they were here for a week and june this is on i found out what that will do and here they were here to confirm the existence of radiation the center island radioactive contamination with . the dire environmental situation on the island was first acknowledged in a classified report written in two thousand and three and has since been leaked now it details seventeen major field spills in one case of fifteen thousand gallons of jet fuel released when the pump was unintentionally activated that was in one thousand nine hundred eighty four and there has been no cleanup since the report stresses that the island's inhabitants are at risk from contaminants in the soil air and water here's what 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 divots or area than the rest of the

source especially regarding the rarer cancers for example i can see with thirty three percent of the cases being in prior divots or a while the area has only eight point five two percent of the story in population. and. this is 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 contacted both of the us and portuguese governments but have received no responses to the specific questions we asked the girl in the united states did however forward us a press release from last summer in states that the two countries are aware of the situation and are seeking expert advice on how best to proceed.

clashes have erupted in the northern italian city of eternal where anti-fascist activists rallied against a the nationalist pound party police used water cannons to break up the protests. the protest comes as the leaders of concept town to launch their manifesto and the candidates for next month's general election. to russian athletes have been stripped of their olympic bronze medals in curling by the court of arbitration for sports after one of them tested positive for a banned substance are she's really trying to go as the latest from south korea

where the winter games are taking place so cas is officially saying that the first ever russian medal in curling that was won by the oh they are mixed deal well now have to be taken away from them the announcement comes just about fifteen hours after alexander crucial lead ski who was 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 rude violations when the presence of a prohibited substance was consumed by two don't insist 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 cons hearings and 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 on a lighter note may have called each other names threatened each other with nuclear annihilation and now they finally met albeit not quite the real thing. gave him a good twitter twitter you got to get on the twitter thing now nobody uses twitter anymore instagram. donald trump and impersonators appeared together and chang earlier crew is with them we have a special something for you in the making. for our report later on. and that does it for me i'll be back in about thirty four minutes of the full look at you know as you watch our two international.

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greetings and salutations since the tragic mass shooting at marjorie stoneman douglas high school in florida that left seventeen dead and a community reeling the debate over the second amendment of the united states constitution and gun violence has once again come to the forefront of conversations and debates on television's social media channels and dinner tables across the country on one side of the american spectrum you have those arguing on the side of gun owners and the constitutional right to bear arms on the other you have the many victims of gun violence and their supporters who feel that the united states' obsession with firearms is creating more problems than protecting citizens from them and in the middle pouring gasoline on the fire and doing more to buy them to unite like always is our wonderful lek that officials there are big money donors and the click bait driven news media take c.n.n. is big town hall entertainment extravaganza or this week featuring students and

survivors of the parkland florida school shooting senator marco rubio a few more scattered politicians a local sheriff and the n.r.a. spokeswoman slash apologises dana loads over yeah and jake tapper was there too wearing his you know newsman with a can with compassion wardrobe that you know well the circus was serving its purpose and c.n.n. was counting its ad buys under the cover of national dialogue and serving the community it was senator rubio's response to student cameron cascades question about not accepting a single donation from the n.r.a. to which rubio shifted about stumbled and stopped pawed and finally replied the answer to that question is that people buy in to my agenda. wow well that's the secret it's out the bag now we know how just trust how politicians sleep at night campaign donations are not legalized bribery they're just good corporations and rich folks buying in to a politician's agenda except no one thought to ask little marco just how much of

his agenda is formed by his quest for campaign dollars i guess we could call it the aura borroughs of modern politics now let's reject these agendas and start watching the hawks. at the bottom. like you know that i got. this. robot on the watch of the robot for and that's happened. this is that if they that well not and no it's that no one ever actually has any real dialogue about knowing

about just. how it hurts and i want to get out the way and say i'm happy to see these kids out there getting involved in new political process i'm happy to see them out there speaking of their minds and getting involved whether one agrees with what they're saying or agrees with their viewpoint or not it's good to see the youth taking action yeah i love that i loved it when black labs matter did it i loved it when these kids did it yeah you know though i will and an interesting point though the i'm going to be very it's interesting that the the celebrities live news media and the celebrity endorsements and the big deal the big checks five hundred thousand i think from george clooney all the. never saw that happen with black labs matter despite both of those kids in baltimore that didn't even plan a protest. but we're called thugs that's it there is definitely a different oh that's moving the same goal to same thing you're talking about tragedy and tragedy involving guns involving guns but i guess you know the gun violence in baltimore. that state sanctioned so those so we can't quite call that

tragedy. but that's that we've got our city life and that oh you know why i'm trying to have a conversation about this for so long has been so difficult i mean we have it i don't i'm i have no desire to abolish the second amendment but. that doesn't mean that we don't have to find solutions to this problem if you you know these are young adults let's be real these are young adults who are going to be voting age either in the next year or two years definitely most of these kids before the next election so pretending as if they're just kids is the problem right and we've been warning everybody millenniums are going to be the ones to make you force this this question yeah they're going to force a lot of questions about their voting power i think you know i like the way you're talking about is that if the money i mean i think it's a ridiculous story i always know they're buying into my agenda yeah your agenda meets theirs which is sellable gone but how much of your agenda marco was formed

based on what you know how much money you would get every day i started looking at this race and all titians to be honest the debate is that a job interview long right now because look at it is going to want to ask for a d. rating from the n.r.a. as a republican that's not how you have the same as. their you know little pet projects and. you know the same thing i mean but let's get to the real gun control problem in this world every time you hear anyone say we need to control guns on the streets of america i will always say will great let's start with the united states government i mean the u.s. state department set a new record in twenty seventeen last year clearing weapons sales clearing weapons is around the globe seventy five point nine billion cleared by the department i mean that's incredible in arms sales around the world so we are the provider of guns and violence to the rest of the world and we make money off of it you know and so the but then they're going to turn around and say well no and that's democrat

and republican how they are both big on the arms sales around the world you haven't seen polos you haven't seen schumer and they don't will stand up saying we need to rein in the mystery illness over our republic or are just you know they're republicans when it comes to war but that doesn't let the gun lobby off the hook because at the end of the day what i. there you know their dollars going to their i don't see them really defending the second amendment as much as you know because they would have stood up what was murder great point they would of immense my problem with like they're not standing up for gun rights they're standing up for gun sales fine but don't say don't don't say that you're standing up for gun owners when they didn't stand up when full and still was shot illegal gun owner he seattle license got a concealed carry had every right to have that weapon the police shot him for it murdered him there's a video so you know it's a little like it's a little hypocritical yeah look you know when you think when you talk about gun control numbers i mean you go. total lobbying for money for gun rights and just

what is seventeen was ten million dollars pretty small number compared with your seventy nine eleven some of these are all obvious for gun rights of citizens they are for the rights of gun manufacturers they should not be just it's not a gun owners association it's a gun manufacturers association well that's what they're lobbying for that's where the big money they are right. now is rifle association about five million the national shooting sports probation three point three mashable socialisation for guns right about eight hundred thousand dollars. you know it's interesting also when you look at the amount of weapons in the united states today we don't have a lock of god there's plenty of guns the idea that you're going to ban a gun and that's going to take care of the problem is ludicrous when we have about it's estimated we have between two hundred seventy million and three hundred ten million guns in this country we've got guns we don't need to make more and that's pretty much one close to one firearm for every man woman child baby infant and in twenty seventeen about forty two percent of u.s.

households had at least one god and possession and i mean so there are there we have to learn how to live with but there is not evidence that you were taught and this is my double standard when it comes to the right to bear arms as a woman right now as a woman the ability to protect myself i've been acutely aware of my own same. my entire life it is my second amendment to bear arms it doesn't mean have a gun and yet and i'll tell you this what. they are restricted and what kind of non-lethal weapons i can buy. where i can defend myself and how i can defend myself with non-lethal weapons so you go down the list stun guns are illegal to carry and at least eight states and at least four major cities and cleaning new york city chicago and baltimore all very unsafe places to be walking around as a single woman mays is the legal in five states self-defense key chains like the ones that shaped like cats already legal also in most states and restrict and this

is a regulated so weaponry exactly were you loaded so go exactly you know that's it it's you know it's. everything so when we talk about think the point is if i have to go through hoops to protect myself with a non lethal weapon a stun gun a. retractable steel baton that if i have to have that there should be at least for lethal weapons or make it easier for me to carry a non-lethal weapon so that i have a chance in a situation where that someone with a weapon would report just saying. according to the united nations international covenant on civil and political rights no one shall be imprisoned merely on the ground of inability to fulfill a contractual obligation and yet according to a new report from the american civil liberties union it suggests that thousands and thousands of people are being incarcerated or threatened with incarceration for just that unpaid bills so despite the fact that debtors prisons were abolished in

eight hundred thirty three by congress private debt collectors are getting judges to issue an arrest warrants for unpaid civil debt judgments in one case and the elderly maryland couple were arrested and jailed for not showing up to a hearing regarding twenty three hundred dollars in unpaid homeowners' association figures the seventy eight. world wife was thrown into a jail cell and her eighty three year old husband to he eventually had to be taken out of the hospital after the stress of jail made him start vomiting blood the kicker the reason they didn't show up to court in the first place or address the debt was because the process server had given the notices to the wrong people forty four states allow arrest for unpaid loans or bills and scott glee of the northwest justice project was recently in washington state courtroom when he observed the judge signed roughly thirty arrest warrants in about ten minutes all defendants with latino last names setting bail at the alleged amount owed can the school of law professor alan white explains in a fact people are being incarcerated until they pay bail and bail is being used to

pay their debts then they're being incarcerated to pay their debts and if you're wondering how the u.s. can get away with violating the united nations international covenant on civil and political rights it's because while the u.s. signed it congress never ratified it once again leaving americans without the personal liberty the constitution promises them who've always always you see that over and over and over again i think hearing this thing over and over again where well we signed it but we didn't really ratify or. that's why we can use chemical weapons we don't really use we can use you know see all sorts of figures that are banned in other countries during war but we get to use them because. that to me is this is where their lives is disgusting i'm sorry but but debtors prison is you know is illegal when the comes to include. and we shouldn't be allowing this to happen people have to pay us let them pay their debts but how are they going to pay

back their debt of jail i've never understood that logic like the ones who go to jail you care were good jobs you're not good now do it right you get paid well you know bottom hour making license plates if you're lucky and what about school pay off your student loan but no it's going to be if you're a couple of packs of roman at the commissary and maybe one phone. go home what's interesting is how many people about actually yeah you turn it over if you swallow it and understand this there's about seventy there's an estimated seventy seven million americans have debt that are in collection are being run by a collection agency sort of out there if you're in collection on anything bad your we all have in your there's your brothers in arms are here exactly so you like you said the person falls behind on their bills they go into collection the collection agency takes them to court so what happens is most of the time they don't get the they don't get the notices or like i said they get sent to the wrong people or they're not aware that this is happening and so in the case of the all the early couple the notices were.