tariffs on steel which were a disaster and everybody recognizes that this whole battle about america and steel is as i say is twenty years old is twenty five years old we're resolved you know americans are we retooled we have new products new industries new service industries that have replaced a large part of what was outsourced and then in the one nine hundred eighty s. and one nine hundred ninety s. we're already done with this battle it's almost like you know it's like rumpelstiltskin like you woke up after a quarter of a century is that right what's happening to us tilt industries there is no good that can come out of this and we've seen what happened i mean his best advisors are resigning people are fleeing the white house republicans are in revolves. you know every newspaper in america's against every intelligent intellectuals against what's happening there's a consensus in america on the left and the right and really across the world free trade is better than trade war there seems to be one outlier donald trump and

a handful of special interests and this is the result and i consider it truly tragic and insane that i'm speaking for for millions and millions of americans jeffrey appreciate your time and your thoughts jeffrey took as my guest editorial director at the american institute for economic research a pleasure. onto other news militants in the syrian rebel enclave of these thing going to have shelled a civilian convoy according to russia's defense ministry three hundred families were in that convoy trying to flee the area multiple casualties have been reported but i guess the looks into the story. according to the russian military the three hundred families had allegedly gathered together to leave eastern ghouta crossing the frontlines is always dangerous so it's best done when there's a safe window with the agreement of both deliverance the syrian government was waiting for them the rebels in this he knew what was going on and shelled them they

reportedly shelled the procession of civilians i mean a kilometer before they were out of east ghouta and then to top it all off they shelled the relatives and journalists waiting in the syrian side at the end of the corridor nothing's changed they aren't allowing civilians to leave just like the islam islam is brother and did in aleppo. and then. that started to you know. these you got to. look at. what they said about even anya's it seems arsenal. yet here in washington tell it they don't mention that they think it's joke like russia has called for these jokes like humanitarian

corridors russia needs to just do what the united nations had agreed to and voted on and that is a countrywide ceasefire fleeing civilians would mean less human shields it would be a p.r. blue people don't want to stay with the rebels they'll talk say all sorts of horrible things about life and the jihad ists they'll challenge the narrative why let them leave too many problems take also rebel shelling of damascus blind aimless shells peppered damascus daily for years now so many dead and still die. sighing still to die yet you won't see any hysteria about that in fact you won't hear much at all they won't admit that rebels are keeping people hostage because that justifies assad's operation as do those that died in rebel shelling so why mention

it it ruins the narrative it's so much simpler when it's all black and white but most of the united states press is clearly on the side of the rebels they believe that assad is an evil person who is running an evil regime and they'd like to see it fall and therefore stories about the suffering of syrians in damascus because that rebel argument don't make much impression and occasionally they get through the stories but they are they're not they're not the overriding story which is that this is a brutal regime and refuses to make compromise and it's leading to a very lopsided narrative and that happened just hours after dozens of aid trucks were temporarily prevented from entering eastern good to do to find things on the ground a monday shellfire fourth another convoy to turn around and leave the enclave the situation in the area remains dire. i.

feel. that. former russian spy and his daughter were poisoned with

a nerve agent according to u.k. police. a scrip hour in a critical condition after being found unconscious in the city of soulsby on sunday the country's top counterterrorism officer says the pair were deliberately targeted . this is being treated as a major incident involving a tentative. administration of a nerve agents i will not be providing further information. about the exact substance that has been identified so i guess group i used to serve in russia's military intelligence in one thousand nine hundred five became a double agent no passing data to the karine a sikorsky file in two thousand and four and later convicted him of revealing the identities of russian secret agents in europe he was sentenced to thirteen years in prison but he served only four of those before being released as part of a high profile spy swap with the united states he was later flown to britain is what the u.k. same secretary said earlier on thursday in parliament. the use of a. song is

a brazen. act but if we were to be rigorous in this investigation we must avoid speculation and allow the police to carry on the first occasion well that was her updating the house of commons on this case and she cautioned against speculation and not just speculation in the media it's something that now the politicians are doing as well many of them have pointed the finger of blame squarely at last and some are even using it as an opportunity to push for more defense spending take a listen to the circumstantial evidence against russia very strong who would harm. the. defense if the first use of the row and spending two percent of defense is now not enough there will come a time for us to be sure and there will be consequences and there will be further information that follows but now i'm concerned about the incident and the consequences around and actually speaking in an interview this morning the defense

secretary gavin williamson pulled that thread as well he refused to say whether or not he thought moscow was behind the attack on sergei script but almost in the same breath he also referred to russia as an ever greater threat despite the home secretary's appeal for everybody to keep a cool head about this news stories about sergei script pollin the therese just keep on coming one media report has even linked him to the intelligence that came up with that so-called dodgy dossier on donald trump so some pretty wild theories swirling around in the meantime the police are getting on with the police investigation somewhere where they might actually on a few facts it's now been divided into three separate sites that investigation the script files. home the pub where they were drinking on sunday with their daughter

and the pizza restaurant where sergey script and his daughter are thought to have eaten and the police say that they're combing through all the c.c.t.v. footage that they have and they're building a detailed timeline of events they've got hundreds of officers working around the clock trying to find out who it was that used that nerve gas on sergei script powell and his daughter and why. racially motivated crimes against germans in berlin are becoming more commonplace according to the comfortable cities security chief peter all over explains. the berlin interior minister has had some pretty unexpected things to say about how native germans treat in the nation's capital i have heard it's not the norm but it is becoming more common to keep quiet about it would be wrong a recent survey has shown that where is this time last year around two thirds of the said they felt safe in their city that's around just over half these days while

those that said they felt very insecure it risen from nine percent a year ago to around sixteen percent right now as for what is fueling those fears or sort of pointed towards the influx of refugees and migrants into areas like this . district the local integration officer here says this well refugees don't fear arrest is they know that they'll be instantly released by the police should they be caught breaking the law does is the i don't think crime has decreased on the contrary it's actually increased i'd say ninety five percent of the crimes here are committed by foreigners that's way too much i think in general due to social media people start to panic way earlier and this is way news spread quite quickly and. i would say that berlin has gotten more dangerous

than any pain i think it's just because of all the new stuff like the spread all over berlin they just make a big deal out of every time the crime that's committed. this is you and so political our politicians should be made to commute using the underground for one week and then made to hang out in this neighborhood that way they would see what the situation is really like it's become very hostile and aggressive not nice at all. some of the politicians who represent the area say the perception of danger could become the new reality if a majority of the people have the feeling that they don't feel secure in the more than there is some some basics for that many things that are not even declared to the police as crime or as harassment or whatever you can call it because you know well the police cannot do anything about it because our justice system is like that well they come in for maybe five hours and then they let them off again punishment is something that evidently or apparently in berlin context isn't there anymore and

perhaps it's the thing that things could get worse that's driving public opinion to feel that the german capital has become less safe peter all of. it in california seem to be getting more annoyed about automation for example in san francisco there been a number of attacks on self driving cars passers by banging on windows and bonnets in the same city robotic guard was taken out of service after a public outcry at the security port in question was given the job of showing a way homeless people from outside business offices was vandalized several times during its patrols and now a new robotic kitchen assistant to the burger joint has been slammed as well.

the robot as it's known has prompted the twitter hash tag rise of the robots some are complaining jobs are being stolen from people others see automation as inevitable one expert told us it's no surprise that people are angry. robotics is developing very fast and it's going to have big impacts and it's already having big act so it's not surprising that you're already seeing these kinds of reactions from people when you start to talk about. half of jobs are being threatened by the introduction of ai into the economy. fifty percent unemployment ok that is a crisis that is a social political economic crisis and one of the possible outcomes and one of the likely possible outcomes is is massive violence and you know a lot of this kind of vandalism and sabotage i think you'll be seeing you'll be

seeing even larger scale disruptions here there aren't appropriate adjustments in our political and economic arrangements we need to start redistributing things more fairly we need to start to pay people to take care of people and to clean up the communities and to do so many things and we in the end to make sure that people benefit from technology instead of being dispossessed by technology. has to have a russian politician who's accused of harassing female journalists has been making headlines this week by denying those accusations the n.p.a. decided to apologize jack if the guy has details. the man in the spotlight is leonid a member of the russian duma and the scandal actually erupted in mid february when the first accusations of sexual harassment surface by female journalists and since then it has snowballed with more and more women coming forward one of those has been

a reporter from the b.b.c.'s russian service and she joined the group saying that she has a recording of an instant worse lidsky made inappropriate advances and also groped her as well at this point that recording has yet to be released in full and throughout all this has denied the claim saying that it's actually just a smear campaign that was until today today is of course international women's day and he used the opportunity to mix in apology and with a post celebrating the holiday i'd like to use this occasion to apologize to anyone who intentionally all noise and have caused any emotional stress believe me there were no bad intentions amid the wave of accusations against the speaker of the duma came out casting doubt on the claims and also making a suggestion to women that infuriated many is something to consider what if it's the this was all just a provocation if you have someone you should apologize but if you provoke you should be held accountable is it dangerous for you to work in the duma if so then

change your jobs all this has prompted outcry especially among journalists who are demanding the appropriate steps be taken and today a protest was even held outside of the state duma where many of those participating were members of the media at this point the ethics committee has already opened an investigation into the situation and soon will be required to submit answers to all official accusations and if those are found to be lacking he could eventually lose his immunity now the one good thing coming out of this we have seen from another member of the duma that's on the push she's promised a fast track in old bill enforcing gender equality and targeting sexual harassment in the government people around the world were marking international women's day. this was the scene in madrid where crowds banging pots and pans in support of. slogans such as if we stop the world stops. people in south korea took to the

streets of seoul in support of the movement they were calling for sex offenders to be brought to justice meanwhile the p.r. efforts of some companies to be in support of women of are actually being branded products or noise or to some interest or it takes a look. it's a global commemoration of women's rights and child to right from wrong to some companies some top p.r. by showing their support for women although successfully take this french anti harassment campaign showing female passengers on public transport being preyed on by animals instead of a matter for which the buffalo is a fellow travelers. have never been. in the match. the difference between the rules and dissent. is that i have never been harassed. and what about the people behind the retailers. who felt it be a great idea to make

a civically for women so you know they could be more like women. and they don't. and they don't like to pull a little broken. into them are tense out there judging by the reaction online most women. just like with company expected to. be clear even if it was a bit of sarcastic stereotyping that. if you have to explain the joke maybe it's not a very good. good. otherwise we're not the blue one it's for boys. it seems that it's a marketing minefield when winning a for women take for matching different politicising.

battling out today as in faltering so perhaps the next day when the struggle for women's rights should be celebrated maybe the p.r. guys let's face it probably our guys should take some time out to change the pattern i think peg dropping the gender pigeonholing and remember that political correctness doesn't wash with women at least to. read. in the culture these brands are trying to become an activist in this culture of these and it depends on how well it was done you sure the these companies have their horse financial motives. for at least for marketing their product in certain ways that. impact and make them are interesting and. appreciate you joining us this evening here on our international my colleague

part which will bring you right up to date the latest news headlines top of the. government this march eighteenth vote with your remote to zante for special coverage of the russian presidential election exit polls opinions real time results monitoring and much more. oh i'm actually guys are most of the guys are report stamped has not yet responded to our invitation to appear on the show but we're still going to try in the meantime let's talk about the things that affect your life and my life stacey

lambert what do you get your tires the right. way you know they're. like a flying nun the flying host. fly around the village and help people by insights into their souls i can see enters soul i'm sally field who. well you know you brought up in the last episode donald trump taking on the n.r.a. bizarrely like this is one of the only lobbyist groups that you cannot take on the third rail of american politics it is you're never allowed to mention them maybe eyes and how it was the last person and he did it exiting didn't take on the n.r.a. but certainly took on the same sort of military industrial sort of weapons industrial complex but here just that it like in front of this bipartisan group of lawmakers and stunned everybody and they were like. what what what what how do

we respond to that but the reason why this is important is because of course it's there are midterm elections coming up and. you know the theory always is that the incumbent party i.e. the republicans lose big time in the midterm elections the first of the new administration and he should be losing big time so don't trump however is a wild card and of course nobody ever knows what sort of impact he has on things but this one is quite remarkable as g.o.p. tax cuts take hold dems struggle for a line of attack so this is from the washington post and they go to indiana where basically there's a democrat and a senator their first term and he's up for reelection against right now there are three republicans competing to be the nominee for the republican ticket to take him on and donald trump won indiana of course so they're looking at this race and

seeing how the tax cuts are impacting the race there democrats predicted a political backlash for republicans in december when the g.o.p. pushed through a deeply unpopular tax cut that added more than one trillion dollars to the federal deficit and disproportionately help the wealthy but at the outset of the twenty eight hundred campaign season democrats early optimism appear is less well founded here where democrat joe donnelly is facing a tough senate reelection fight so the new law is apparently before the vote took place and before it became law people were listening to the news and thought they weren't going to see anything in from the tax cuts that i would all go to the wealthy but all these nonstop headlines of thousand dollar bonus apples going to create new jobs wal-mart is going to create new jobs while markets every thousand dollars like all the sort of headlines are actually trickling down so now support

by the voter is above fifty percent down to below zero zero zero down avails you know. or not resent but i question and i don't question. i'm curious about your cynicism regarding trump and gun laws i mean maybe he was moved by the sight of all these young kid is getting gunned down with these weapons of mass destruction and decided to do something for the country you know that would be my take on it now as far as the democrats' inability to understand trump at every turn i can sum it up in two words financial illiteracy this is common on the left they want to do good but they have no idea how the economy works how finances work how capitalism works and they simply want to do good they just keep repeating that be fair do good but they never have any as america's economy that's like a multi-trillion dollar economy that's competing in the in the world you know if we

don't have the luxury of just you know twiddling our thumbs and being good to me we have to be competitive or we shrink down in the global table of competitive countries and we would lose our ability to supply a standard of living across the country that people in america have grown accustomed to so there are a lot of ways you can modify policy and economic reform that would diminish the parasites in the economy like a jamie diamond yes of course but to simply say that well the tax breaks are going to cause x. and we're completely wrong about it and then we're probably going to lose in the twenty midterms because they're financially illiterate is part and parcel with the long term tradition of the party knowing nothing i'm not sure they're going to lose in the midterms perhaps in the senate these. i don't know if they're going to like it doesn't look that they're going to lose certainly the democrats have

a good chance in the house of representatives it's the senate they're talking about here about whether or not this is going to impact them but the point is that even now nobody understands trump because one tweet one he speaks whatever is on his mind even to take on the third rail of u.s. politics which is the n.r.a. . we don't know if he planned that or if it just he just uttered these words that everybody there is owned by the n.r.a. and they can't do anything nobody knows but the fact is that the democrats rely on traditional pollsters traditional analysts traditional advisors traditional consultants who only know traditional sort of politics and so they seem totally flabbergasted and stumped and surprised constantly by trial them the leadership know who and how do you look at the data but you have to make a decision ok just say or go run by the data and let the data run our lives you have to make a decision based on the data that's what trump does he's

a leader nobody the democrats will stand up and do something well he leads with his mouth and he's his tweets let's say that but here the politics in america has always been that the republicans always say we can't have deficits. don't let the government run up these deficits they're running up these definite deficits in order to take care of all these welfare queens and the reason why we don't want these deficits as your grandchildren and your children and all the great grandchildren are going to pay for this and you don't want to leave your all these debts your grandchildren that's the republican since ronald reagan have said that sort of thing well now that tax payers are receiving thousand dollar bonuses and sometimes just twenty thirty forty fifty dollars more a week or every two weeks and their paycheck here is what the democrat in indiana joe donnelly is saying to that to this reporter at the washington post. that's a great thing that people are getting some benefits the low key donnelly said in an

interview at a coffee shop in downtown indianapolis last week but the first term senator contended that the voters understood the full implications of the legislation they might be inclined to turn down those one thousand dollars bonuses or retirement account contributions from midwestern businesses such as a health insurance firm and fifth third bank or here's the proposition that they're not saying but that's the truth so donnelly will have a thousand dollars out there and you'll get that in return and this is the part that goes unspoken he said we're going to send your children and grandchildren and great grandchildren the bill for that they will pay it with interest repeatedly year after year after year much of it is going to the chinese and others so not only did he use the deficits they that the republicans do but then he uses a racist slur that it's a chinese you're going to get is i mean when i was white people i am gobsmacked that's a democrat yeah that's it i regret them across who never said no to

a spending program that comes down the pike ever believes in keynesian economics that debt fixes everything that bernie sanders is like just current creates the debt more debt that's now their response to trump putting cash in a people's pocket from a democrat is that you've got to look down the road here because all this debt you know in the back right again financial illiteracy if they knew what they were the words you know people can hear the words coming out of their mouths you know this is not in a vacuum we know what they're saying and we hear that they're financially illiterate and morons well i don't think it's financial literacy or economic and literacy i think it's just a complete failure to understand basic humans voters people like they live in a bubble. where of of washington d.c.

which is a true genuine bubble of ideas and ideology but also economically here a thousand dollars or even fifty bucks and some guy's pocket is changes their perception of the world around them and that's just the simple it's so obvious and simple and like bill clinton got it i don't understand why these people can't get it is just that people don't care about the deficit the republicans have been saying that over and over and over but they you know the fact is the ordinary person doesn't care about that as long as they have money in their pocket as the washington post says here it had polled abysmally amid forecasts that some voters will pay higher taxes in years to come and the democrats believe those polls just like they believe the polls that hillary somehow despite the obvious absence of any you know passionate support for her they believe the polls that house still she would miraculously win here they believe the wrong polls that people would be

against.