exactly i was just thinking about that i mean i don't make a fabulous you know them by the because. i get sean stone pointed out in his in his documentary hollywood do you see that they've been trying to generate something to you know paint this image that we being a perpetual war is a good thing in today's day and age but man twenty i mean when you look at this audit twenty different programs cost a collective thirty six point eight million in twelve sixteen alone the am argy response to all of this is that the audit ignores that marketing recruiting are separate activities and that they have a lack of marketing understanding or criteria for performance assessment lack of understanding to. this is rich super rich so what they're trying to say is that although their job is to increase recruiting the fact that recruiting has gone down should not affect our just our opinion about their job performance good boy. i'll speak go to break rock watchers tone for

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it put themselves on the on the big get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be president or injury. or somehow want to preserve. it's a good life to be for us this is what the forty three in the morning can't be good that i'm interested always in the waters of my. question. it's been almost fifty years since we've had human beings on the surface of another planetary body and i hope that we could actually put together an international lunar exploration initiative much like we have the international space station consortium and together the countries of the world cooperating with the private sector could afford to get back into real space exploration and i think that would that would create a real

a lot of excitement. when you go shoot what you could you know we're going to tell you the truth none of us i know what plane one million people died and died. he killed people even dangerous. now no one's income tooling agent that he's around in that and that's.

our politics often perk ludes us from seeing the struggles of those we disagree with for those who are anti-war like myself it can be hard to care about soldiers and what happens to them after the battlefield when they volunteered for a job that we may find a bore at but it is in that act. if humanity that we can heal the lasting wounds of war former brigadier general tony for the united states army and author of fiction thriller direct fire joined us recently to give his advice for servicemen and servicewomen adjusting keeling and succeeding after their military careers have ended. that's such an important topic of discussion i was getting ready to do a show when my first book and book came out about ten years ago and i called the chief of army nurses and because it was a night time a kind of like the frasier crane t.v.

show if you remember that it was a nighttime psychologist or psychiatrist i did an hour long call in show and he wanted me to address p.t.s.d. post-traumatic stress disorder and the first thing the chief nurses told me was tony don't call it disorder just call post manic stress because you can grow from that and you're doing exactly what we want every soldier to do you're writing books you found your creative outlet you're building really resiliency into your life and so how i would answer this question is before you leave find that passion of yours and whether it's you know music or writing or you know engineering or whatever but you always have sort of a side housel you go and where where you're where you're applying yourself in a way that you're not just a bread roll one hundred percent you know soldier and you know you want to be the best possible soldier you can but you're better soldier if you have i believe a variety of interests in your well rounded in your well in your and you have depth

in a certain area and to me that would be my advice is as you're on your journey in the military make sure you have other things because there's other things that you're interested in doing and do that because of the military at the end of the day will thank you very much for your service and then you're on to your your next thing. is it is it is a i mean we see the stories of things like that but but is that how hard is it is for super civilians how hard is it for that transition you know from from going from a very structured lifestyle. you know i know where i'm getting my food every day i know what i'm supposed to do over there at all of that to. civilian or even to if you especially if you're coming back from a battlefield but just in general you know how hard is that transition. i was talking to a marine wife and her husband the other day and they're making that transition and they were talking about how nerve wracking it was because in the marine corps in the army or any service you know that you go from private to sergeant sergeant to

staff sergeant staff sergeant a certain first class or lieutenant a captain etc and and in the civilian world there's there's no conveyor belt you know and so you're stepping off of that and you're stepping into uncertainty and there are programs to help there are lots of programs hire heroes usa those types of things that you give them your resume and then companies like the one i lead you know will war we're looking for people that have clearances that are have good skill sets and that kind of thing that good leadership skills and so we're i run a transportation and energy and defense contracting consulting company called tail attack and so we're looking for those kinds of folks and there's employers will hire and also sit on the board of a company that has a social mission this academy securities of in there in the finance sector and then they'll help young servicemen and women and post nine eleven veterans get

their financial certificates to be a trader and that kind of thing their social mission is to have fifty percent post nine eleven veterans that work from there about one hundred two employees right now and they're almost there wow that's great that's really good there's you know i did i have you here so i got to ask you interest too interested in whether as i go on i just came to me actually so there's a huge gun debate in this country where our you know we've received all the time and it's a good debate i think for the country to have and one of the issues is you know should we be allowing eighteen year olds to purchase you know like an ar fifteen or so and we maybe move that up to twenty one and that got us into a conversation we're talking about should the military age still be eighteen right or should we move that up to twenty one treatment where where should you know curious to get your opinion on this is where do you feel it is that moment of like ok if we say that we can't buy this assault weapon tell you twenty one which we consider to be an adult. you know can we can trust an eighteen year old with being

able to be made the adult decision that i want to join the military or potentially fight and die for my country that's an interesting kind of a quagmire this country's in a void where it is that decision making i just curious of your opinion well you can enlist when you're seventeen and you can't deploy till you're eighteen that's the current law today and and you know the it's all volunteer force and the great men and women in list today or join the officer corps today are you know patriots and they want to. know more i want to join for education any that they know they're going to combat and to fight in defense of the country and i think the right thing that we've got what we've got happening right now is the right thing where you know you're it's a career as someone comes out of high school they can go be an auto mechanic they can go be a soldier they can go be you know whatever and then go be a trader on wall street if they get the right certificates and and so i think it's

the time that young men and women are stepping into the world and eighteen and then go to college saying do whatever and we shouldn't let one thing drive the other and my opinion and the debate on the age for i haven't a semiautomatic weapon and that's vailable for purchase in the united states is a whole different topic of conversation in my opinion than having a army navy air force and marine corps there and coast guard that can defend this country so they're in my opinion there are two separate debates i can see how they they might come combine in a conversation on the a r fifteen in age limit and all of that. i was a superintendent of the fifteenth largest school system in the country i know bob runcie down in broward county and very well actually and we've been communicating i've been trying to support of the best. i can there for school security and safety

you need the physical building needs to be impenetrable and that's one thing that the school systems have not been investing in that that individual should not have been able to walk into the school system as superintendent and white county i had to press a buzzer to get into my schools and then they would unlock the door even though they knew it was me they could see it was me but an analog part of it was i was sort of challenge them to see if they were going to you know. not not follow the rules because it was important the other thing is you need intel it's like any anything there are school security personnel and they need to get in the community they need to get in the schools and i would have my personnel do matrix on on the schools that we have and. identify and there's a little bit of judgment call here but i'd rather be a little too far in that way than have seventeen dead children in my right you know

and i'd rather apply my my skills as a leader and analysts to to make sure that children are safe if you think some of it is that we end up in the discussion about banning a gun or that it's the firearm because we don't want to have that really are discussions that we have it our schools are just the buildings themselves are not safe and we know this for years the twenty years i've heard you know drug dealers get in schools those kids and suppose you know what in most schools in an urban setting you have to go through a metal detector and everything else than when i go into schools like the you know sort of smaller schools also where in a little more suburban suddenly it's i just walked into this school and no one stopped me dead scary that is very scary and it should not happen to be thirty years because banks or children yeah in there and we wouldn't let children in our house right we are or are mean we would what just let us anywhere and arson in our house where our children are we would we would you know we lock our doors for art

at night and during the day and it's amazing how a simple thing just like that a little bit of security going through a door goes a lot farther than i would say arming a teacher or i mean just a little bit of planning preflighting a little bit of security could actually did make a world of difference in a lot of situations the you also were secretary of north korea department of transportation from the twenty thirteen to twenty fifteen and so i want to ask you why have your. infrastructure is a major problem in this country right now would be to failing grades at all levels it's something very passionate over the miko's very passion about fixing the infrastructure in this country if you were given the keys of the condemned with your experience what what part of infrastructure would you focus on fixing first that's a great if. you so in north carolina. eighty eight thousand miles of highway twenty two ferries and seventy two airports to seaports i had three. southern and

north carolina state road hundred transit systems and all of them needed massive amounts of upgrade and support and the sun tzu says if you defend everywhere you defend nowhere so you just can't throw money at everything so you as you say you have to prioritize and and you know really our highway system around the country and all of the bridges the bridges are the real key weak links in the in the chain and and those need to be assessed and upgraded we were doing that pretty aggressively we're putting a lot of money toward it and i think each state legislature dresses this kind of stuff differently but in north carolina we went to a data driven system and you need to leach the politics out of transportation money because i had a four not billion dollar budget it was one of the bigger budgets in the state government and so you know everybody's kind of poland and what we did is we say all

right reducing congestion is the number one criteria reducing travel times number two criteria safety is number three criteria and then there were two sort of alternate criteria is a multimillion all that kind of thing and and then we rank projects based upon whether or not creating jobs i was that was the fifth criteria and so i think what we need to do is nationwide have objective criteria and we ranked airports seaports you know every mode of transportation against the us and and nationwide i think we need a data driven system and then the and then what you'll see is your top priorities will fall out how are you reducing congestion and how are you increase in your modahl ety power how are you creating jobs and and those projects that do all of those things have. increasing safety the rise to the top and that's where north carolina we put our money are going to say thank you as always for coming in it's

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this is r.t. international coming to you live from moscow i'm kate partridge thank you for joining us. british police say they are treating an incident involving a former russian spy and his daughter as attempted murder the country's top counterterrorism officer says said gay and huge scrape our word deliberately targeted with a nerve agent they both remain critically ill london's assistant police commissioner mark crowley has given a statement on the case as ati's party boy reports. quite unusual was that he was with the country's chief medical officer as well dame sally davis giving you a bit of an indication how seriously they're taking this he said that this is a major incident and they have determined that it's attempted murder by administration of a new agent so was. it a position to be simply missed or is a result of exposure. will not be providing credit for most. of the executives of

this has been identified he said that public safety remains a priority and for any concerned locals in the area of souls bri where this all took place he says that at the moment there's no evidence of any widespread health risk the new development that we got through what he said was that a police officer one of the first responders at the scene once again script powell and his daughter were found unconscious on this park bench that police officer is now also in a serious condition in hospital earlier on the home secretary amber rudd she chaired a cobra meeting which is a highly unusual step in itself that normally only happens in response to the national crises like terrorist attacks or things like major floods and she just everyone in this situation to keep a cool head take a listen to what she had to say we need to keep her cool and make sure that we

collect all the evidence we can and we need to make sure that we respond not to rumor but to all the evidence that they collect and then we need to decide what action to take you could have thought she may have been speaking to the country's newspaper editors because they certainly had a field day with the speculation on this story before we had any facts to talk tabloids and talking about furious boris getting tough with. there's one about headline and one newspaper. talking about putin swearing revenge on this former double agent so the investigation is clearly a foregone conclusion for many in the british media a number of tabloids were speculating about the fate of the world cup and a potential boycott of it that was sort of hypothetically floated by the foreign secretary went on urgent questions about this in the house of commons coming back to the police investigation and the facts in this story well they've said that this

is now in the hands of london's anti terror police said the investigation has been stepped up to the top level it could be at say that they have hundreds of detectives working on this now around the clock trying to establish how so and his daughter came to be poisoned by what we now know was a nerve agent sixty six year old powell used to serve russia's military intelligence in two thousand and six he passed the identities a russian secret agency in europe to the u.k. he was later caught and sentenced to thirteen years in prison in russia but in twenty ten he was released as part of a high profile spy swap with the u.s. and flown to britain political commentator john white believes the statements coming from the u.k. government are creating a dangerous situation. when it comes to britain's foreign secretary borders johnson we're talking on an entirely different level of stupidity and when he stood up in

the house of commons a few days ago when this incident first came to weigh. the opportunity to engage in some anti russian hyperbole he did not do so or speaking as britain's foreign secretary i suggest but as the foreign secretary of the times newspaper the daily mail the daily express and sure the u.k.'s stablish in media that has been engaging in this anti russian hysteria and for whom it is no become religion i'm in full agreement with britain's home secretary amber rhodes when she says that we need to keep our cool head and let the authorities conduct an investigation with enough time and space to do so professionally and thoroughly everyone's pointing the finger at the russian government of course what we do know is that the russian government has the capability to carry a attack of this nature that has the capacity the question is does it possess a record that stupidity because and i think of this nature at any time especially

this time on the part of the russian government would constitute a monumental act of political self harm resulting in severe and significant reputational damage across the world. france has laid out a new plan for tackling the spread of islamic extremism in schools prisons and on the internet as part of the drive counseling will also be given to the children obviously a big state fighters who've returned to far france following the collapse of the terrorist groups the so-called caliphate artie's shiela do bensky reports from paris. they just children born innocent into a world of brutality. but while most children are playing with dolls and because these are being taught to play with guns and knives and some have even been trained to kill. well i mean it would depend on

each individual to be up to the caliphate the cool would be actually trying the guns knives and how to kill people and not only that we have seen people being killed and of course that makes it some form of normality for the bitches because that means when they do that will be. a lot like to go do something very similar to the real threat to society it's impossible to know just how many children have been brainwashed by myself but they have already started to return home to germany belgium the netherlands meanwhile in france the authorities putting together a plan to reintegrate the returning children of john hardy the prime minister has said that sixty eight have already come back and many more are expected to follow. programs to help these children readjust have been announced by governments across

europe but is it too late to reverse the damage already done. videos like this have emerged showing children carrying out mock executions. the little children are not only victims but they're on the cusp of being forced into being perpetrators but in the video that we just saw are you see the sadism of the adults being played out through the children so there are destroying the mental capacity for the child to differentiate between reality and fantasy in normal lives a murder the road ahead for these children she says is difficult and while there's no guarantee the therapy they've received will be successful she is hopeful if the child had a fairly good our emotional experience early the child will tend to be more

resilient in coming through very severe traumas. that's one thing the other thing will be very much dependent on how well trained the therapists are governments in europe hope that by offering care and support to the children who return they can help them cast off the horrors they have in do it or even carried out and yet the risks still high that it might be too late to right the wrongs of children brainwashed and raised as i saw fighters shola deep in ski r.t. paris. britain's rolling out the red carpet for the saudi crown prince who is arrive for three day visit but a lot of protests are also planned against saudi arabia's deadly bombing campaign in yemen which has been going on for three years r.t. cæsar ali was at one of the demonstrations. there are around three four hundred

people here at this protest against the visit of the saudi crown prince mohammed bin cell but the protesters from back radio position activists protesting against saudi arabia's continued involvement since they helped to suppress the revolution of two thousand and eleven to those opposing the arms trade and the war in yemen one of the people we spoke to was the labor m.p. chris williamson the british military advisors to be involved but sixty two a whole new level and frankly trampling on britain's presentation. as a nation the stance of the human rights we've got no place it seems to me selling arms to saudi arabia and certainly we should not be participating in facilitating the role why having military advisors there now since the saudi bombardments of yemen began in two thousand and fifty the u.k. has sold over.