ceasefire fleeing civilians would mean less human shields it would be a p.r. blow 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 dying 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 evil person who is running an evil regime and they'd like to see it all and therefore stories about the suffering of syrians in damascus because that rebel or it meant 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 but also on thursday dozens of aid trucks were temporarily prevented from entering eastern said two to fighting on the ground on monday shellfire had forced another convoy to turn around and leave the own place the situation in the area remains dire. if.

the from for. that matter. a former russian spy and his daughter were poisoned with a nerve agent who according to police in the u.k. said gay and junior screwball are in a critical condition after being found unconscious in the city of sorcery on sunday

the country's top counterterrorism officer mark riley says the pair were deliberately targeted. this is being treated as a major incidents involving attempted murder by administration of a nerve agents i will not be providing credit for most of the state about the exact steps things that has been identified. will serve ghostscript well used to serve in russia's military intelligence in one thousand nine hundred ninety five he became a double agent passing information to the u.k. russia of course going to power in two thousand and four and 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 years before being released as part of a high profile spy swap with the u.s. he was later flown to britain the u.k.'s home secretary amber rudd says caution must be exercised in apportioning blame for the poisoning. the use of a free trip to a new case or is a brazen. act but if we are 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 motive for the. offense the first use of the room and spending two percent on the fence is not enough there will come a time for tradition 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 sergey 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 pollen 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. the pomp where they were drinking on sunday with their daughter and the

pizza restaurant west palm his daughter 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 offices where king around the clock trying to find out who it was that used that enough gas owns a script file on his daughter and why. more news after the break. join me every thursday on the alex i'm with you and i'll be speaking to us of the world of politics school business i'm sure business i'll see you the.

you are when you don't. teach. what they're not. supposed to. be. said. to know german do. you speak french. so. the thoughts. welcome back california is seeing a backlash against self driving cars a mint fears over safety in san francisco there have been

a number of attacks on autonomous vehicles with pastas by banging on their windows and bonnets underreporting going was taken out of service after a public outcry the security bought was given the job of moving homeless people from outside office buildings it was vandalized several times during its patrols and now a new report to kitchen assistant in a burger restaurant has also been slammed. well flippy the robot that has prompted the twitter hash tag rise of the robots with some complaining jobs are being stolen from people while others see automation as inevitable physicist mark cooper and says it's no surprise some people are angry . robotics is developing very fast and it's going to have big impact it's already

having big acts and so it's not surprising that you're already seeing these kinds of reactions from people when you start to talk about. of jobs 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 possibility is 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 if there aren't appropriate adjustments in 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 clean up the communities and to do so many sins and we in the end to make sure that people

benefit from technology instead of being dispossessed by technology. that russian member of parliament late it's not ski has been accused of power saying female journalists do the opportunity to apologize on thursday as the country want international women's day. details. the man in the spotlight is leonid slutsky 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 the polje end with a post celebrating the holiday i'd like to use this occasion to apologize to anyone who intentionally old norse 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 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 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 in another member of the duma that's the push she's promised to fast track in old bill enforcing gender equality and targeting sexual harassment in the government. when we watch cities around the world have been marking international women's day. in madrid crowds banged pots and pans in support of women's rights chanting slogans such as if we stopped the world stops people in south korea took to the streets of seoul in support of the need to movement calling for sex offenders to be brought to justice however the p.r. efforts of some firms meant to be in support of women being branded traumatising auntie's hamish assess he takes a look. it's a global commemoration of women's rights and child to right from wrong to some

companies with a top p.r. by showing their support for women although not always successfully take this french anti harassment campaign showing female passengers on public transport being preyed on by animals instead of people a metaphor which hit the buffers with a few fellow travellers. have never been bothered by sharks in the subway stop or a stop in the much of. the difference between a rule and then descent looking french dude is that i have never been harassed by a wolf and what about the people behind the retail as told to check it thought it be a great idea to make the civically for women so you know they could be more dainty ladylike women don't like to crunch too loudly in public and they don't think their fingers generously and they don't like to poor little broken pieces and the flavor into them are tense out there judging by their reaction online most women found that idea. just like with the edgy big company dog who expected female drinkers to

flock to them pink thea even if it was a bit of sarcastic stereotyping it fell flat. if you have to explain the joke maybe it's not a very good joke hope. is gluten free too otherwise we're really drink not the blue one it's for boys. it seems. it's a marketing minefield when fems try winning it the women take the safe pad for matching bottle to print politicising. were. battling out today as insulting so perhaps a mistake when the struggle for women's rights should be celebrated as maybe the p.r. guys let's face it they probably are guys should take some time out to change the pattern i think tank dropping the gender pigeonholing and remember that political

correctness doesn't wash with women in the set to have. joy in. it and the culture these brands are trying to become an activist in this culture of these it depends on how well it is done you sure the these companies have there are forced. motives. for at least for marketing their product in certain ways that. impacts consumers and make them more interested and rhonda and buying. well for more on these and plenty of other stories that go to our website dot com otherwise i'll be back with the headlines at the top of the the sea.

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. this special one come on. me to just say the radio. the latest edition at this week a. look at. ratings and salutation the united states of america has a violence problem there is no if ands or buts about it far too often we as a society and government use of violence to solve our problems both real and imaginary like an artist uses a loyal paints and like any intelligent clear headed problem solving community does when confronted with the unwanted manifestations of using violence as a problem solver namely when mad men open fire on schools or concerts we blame

rightfully. the video games yet as a parent we blame the video games they hold the mysterious key to a mass murderers motivations at least that's what united states president donald trump is determined to uncover in this thursday's white house meeting on violence in video games the meeting features not only two titans of the video game industry in strauss's zelnick the c.e.o. of take two interactive of grand theft auto fame and robert altman the chairman and c.e.o. of his an emacs media company behind the billion dollar fallout franchise and of course on the other side of the table will be melissa henson of the parents television council known for such hits as hashtag me to fails to address hollywood's penchant for marketing sex soaps t.v. the kids and the regressive and degrading billboard music awards as well as the pied piper of kill ology himself retired lieutenant colonel dave grossman

through the wonderful book assassination generation video games aggression and the psychology of killing and of course never ones to miss any nanny state big brother photo op us congressional members senator marco rubio and representatives vicki hartzler and the roby these another will hash out and ponder whether the ultimate cause of violence in society or the video game is based on society's violence meanwhile all the rest of us will be ignoring the scapegoats and watching the hawks . it looks like a real thing. as if you were to fly out of. your. like you're like i got. to.

sleep except. for the walk to the park so i am told that and on top of the law last night i played video games for like twenty five years and there's going to be with my you now would be a it would be able rod sword or about a laugh or with some sort of magical thing attached to it and surnames because you want or both serious gamer goes full disclosure i'm a serious gamer his serious gamer i don't think and him either one of us would have i haven't shot up a school or a concert or thought about going to get them out with that assault rifle to take out a bunch of people no moat i don't think i've met many people who you know play a lot of video i mean look we're generous as we grew up were busy deals were recalled now but we grew up you know video games are part of our lives i remember paul and i remember you know pac-man i remember all these things and i was for a long period of history and i don't see the connection at all between people that

play a lot of video games i can see like bad hells lego people play a lot of video games don't get out and work out a whole lot again you know what you do it too much right it's whatever it is but people the same people who are saying well we should have less video games because they're making people violent their answer to violence is to give more guns to other people to stop the violent people now it's the video game so that's the there isn't a straight line for me to be on their thinking and i wonder you know while we look at like the. research doesn't really show this constant idea that video games and hard rock music that everything is going to make we've been hearing out since are kids are very generous they're living somewhere and presently there is a man that i mean i don't know if there's a university york a bum or whatever than support the theory that no you game players makes them more violent they did a series of experiments with more than three thousand participants and found

a video game concepts do not pry players to behave in one way or the other there's nothing to it no i think they call that boot camp you know i mean even the federal government them selves in security waves yes. they conducted a review in two thousand and four and it was the secret service the service the people who protect president you know money and stuff is conducting a review in two thousand and four and it was aimed at identifying whether or you know causes trying to figure out those causes of mass shootings you from columbine on and found that twelve percent five out of the forty one incidents that they looked at the person responsible the attackers and only about twenty percent expressed interest at all in violent video. only interests that's not even saying like oh the violent burgers maybe do it there's a i played call of duty a little bit of the real the most violent video games that are out there are ones that are recreate sions of world war one world war two vietnam these are the ones

where you're sitting there going go carol the japanese and let's go that to me is real life situations those are the ones that get that are that are considered the most popular. because my fantasy world i don't wanna live in world war two i want to go to it's great to because even the supreme court weighed in on this of what was a seventy two this was interesting two things it was a seventy two decision which was this california law to ban children from buying violent video games it was interesting is that the majority opinion against against the idea of banning it was justice antonin scalia so even he didn't. see more conservatively i know but that's the thing it's this idea that it usually comes from conservative politicians that people like marco rubio's conservatives want less government why do we want another nanny state and i assume remember tipper gore was pushing you know she was from the violence anti rock music thing back when the clintons were in office so this is not

a left or right issue and let's look at it again like the bigger overlarge cause we . are everything in our society it's an excuse and the fact that like we're sitting here having a debate about violent video games while x. is happening over at the un doesn't even matter and recently while there's nothing we have eight hundred bases around the world we have wars going on for fifteen years you wondering where societies violence problem runs from when you look at the un they the united nations the united states behind closed doors has a very different opinion about saving women and children. than they really do outside and part of that was that there was the u.n. anti-violence resolutions that came up with this idea to sort of curb violence against women and children and anonymous european told foreign policy that we had a pretty absurd discussion on the convention for the rights of children they want to speak of unlawful forms of violence against children implying there are a lawful forms of violence against children and you want to know why that is

because corporal punishment hitting your kids is legal in twenty states and they're going after bitter games this is absolutely ridiculous absolutely ridiculous. international women's day got off to a rousing start in spain this year with a full day of strikes and rallies commenced under a manifesto of change saying quote today we claim a society free of oppression exploitation and sex this violence we call for rebellion and the struggle against the alliance between patriarchy and capitalism that wants us to be docile submissive and silent and palestine a land under rocky. haitian women marched a defiance of israeli troops to thirteen. and the demonstration wasn't just for women's day either it is the beginning of a six week long tent city protest for their freedom. even in syria a country torn apart by war women took to the streets to celebrate their lives loves and the strength of women standing side by side to lift each other up even in

the most difficult situations women by and large are the ones who bear the brunt of wars famines and political turmoil years of economic sanctions have oppressed the lives of countless women around the globe increasing rates of human trafficking near conflict zones even in disaster zones we found that people meant to save lives reusing underage trafficked women for sex and here in the united states women are watching a regression and national policy and all that twisting has led us to a totally useless internal battle of women against women fueled by patriarchy that is pitted us against each other democrats excuse the sexual predators and their minutes while republicans focus on reproductive health to an extent that legislation now questions women's ability to make our own decisions. this international women's day take a moment to learn more about how we can all women and men make the world a better place by helping to lift women into true equality so we stand by side side

by side and take on the world's most definitely most definitely i couldn't agree more now get over there and sit down and read someone. or know this is a duty of pi international women's there's an incredible day and i'm glad it should be celebrated every day i've been here if not i'm going to be a little united states just steer clear and i'm glad i never said it's not a big but you know you know when you when you look at the problems that women are facing in the well thought there was a really brilliant pointing out look you're seeing people you know marching in war zones or people seeing people marching in occupied lands or see people marching in the suburban neighborhood on trees and it was a glorious the going to need to happen me to do all of this is a start of that i mean look we've got to remember medically women are behind the eight ball eight hundred thirty women die each day around the world from pregnancy complications that should have you know being in two thousand and eight and the death that death rates highest among african-american women even when they have a higher income that is absolutely ridiculous in this day and age part of it is

actually it's interesting because the way i'm sister when she got pregnant recently had issues and one of problems she had was communicating durant doctors where they don't trust women and especially black women doctors will question what they have to say when they say they have problems i mean you look at some of the numbers that you've you've compiled these are important numbers that remind us why we have to celebrate these days why do we have to take that pause twelve thousand dollars is the average yearly salary of women around the globe twelve thousand dollars it's ridiculous we have to measure average just twenty one thousand that's even more it's just flip the number yeah man that upsets me that upsets me yeah i mean there's a couple of things to be one. there's this idea. this double standard that i want to talk about and one is this you know you have on one side you have politicians the other side you have businesses and on one side is the corporations that said you know it's like mcdonald's they don't is like hey it's international women's day

it's awesome we're going to flip the arches so what it meant men all the other day all ladies we got that one day a year we can go to mcdonald's and then you have politicians who are also just the sort of silly hypocritical because mcdonald's doesn't treat its female workers very well and they don't have a lot of maternity leave so what's maybe spend that money flipping a sign on something a little more productive that you have politicians you have someone like nancy pelosi was one of the most powerful women in the country it took her over a week or two to call a male colleagues who were found to have absolutely committed sexual improprieties while in office or before or after whatever so you conyers it took her what ten days to say something and she was just really didn't do a whole lot and they all hemmed and hawed over al franken because the truth is if it was a republican they want to even stop they would have said all there is the picture it's done zero zero but it wasn't that way and then it was suddenly the russians did it these people did it crazy whatever did it.