push them to play more than they're capable of so you see these kind of like you know this ingrained indoctrination are female athletes really given that much an advantage in sports or is mcenroe just kind of bitter about his eighty four loss to ivan lendl at the french open where does this all sit in the in mcenroe he's a bit of a hot on the court and off the court obviously so i mean i think i don't think they're given an advantage at all they put the same blood sweat and tears they practice they prepare the same you know they should be given equal pay for equal work you know just like in any other professions so but they definitely are getting you know i think. the short end of the stick here in terms of you know for me it's a systemic and a cultural problem i believe because from a young age you know women as girls are told you know play with dolls if you play sports you're a tomboy and that kind of as a stigma so from a young age boys play sports girls you know are told to do that and that's the problem i think where it all begins so you know stuff like basketball and you know

the sports like the popular ones tennis basketball hockey golf you know we see men dominating those because a lot of times from a young age they weren't available to little girls to start playing either because they were seen as not as marketable and that's another problem where they're not marketed or promoted like they should be which gives you know men the advantage from from the get go basically so oh yeah and yeah and that and that you know and they're still trying to play catch up that way which is ridiculous because they're performing at the same level yes let me ask you this in sports journalism is there some because we've seen a lot of things happening whether it's related to rape or things on the ground is it is a quality happening in the ranks for female sports reporters or do they also strapped just of how many female sports teams to just step over to just about i don't know if you really i mean. yeah it is sports journalism there's a big you know any quality there as well. i mean just from you know there's ninety

percent of sports editors who are men and that's you know that's amazing so you know women do that all right and we don't even care if it's actually so i mean that's the stigma again starting from the beginning from behind the scenes meredith vieira an example she was the first woman to host the olympics and that was only four years ago to those fourteen so that's amazing and you know we haven't come very far in that respect so regarding to women sports journalists they're at a disadvantage when they go to cover the games are rejected from even entering the locker room because there was an incident three years ago when the jaguars an n.f.l. team in jacksonville three sports journalists who were females went to go a locker room like they were allowed to and i sure who didn't know what he was doing rejected them from coming in and said no you're not supposed to be in here and so they were prevented from doing you know doing their job so it makes you it makes a really hard for there to be women's sports in all this when they can't even do their job. and you know talking about it she's been called sideline barbie you know

that is the thing i mean you know it becomes about your logs where they're the guys who part of to you that i think with this is something that will keep talking about without him this show more if nothing else to let you guys know about great women sports of that i'm sorry and i'm sorry a time thank you so much steve for helping us kind of understand all this and i think what you're going to little more thank you so much and then probably as we go to break court watchers don't forget to let us know what you think about topics we've covered on facebook and twitter surf all shows that are dot com coming up strong stone talks with secretary of state mike pale future of syria with former cia officer cia officer and intelligence analyst philip giraldi and then we celebrate the spring of the stay tuned for the. american man one. the second rate you alex.

of the bootstrapping anyone can succeed in america who works hard so this is a whole group of people all generation in america is saying that there is no melting pot we're not being assimilated there's no opportunities we can't live up so their response especially is to go into conflict and this is a measure of. the most expensive fish in the world each one is selling for tens of thousands of euros it continues to grow its entire life if it was thirty years old you might have a two ton fish out there and yet they don't get that big today because we're way too good at catching. it's only remnants of a much larger mission was once there and that was much more widely distributed we have politicians that are in office for a few years they have to get reelected everything is very very short term our system is not suited and is not geared for long term survival and that's why we have because. how does it feel to be

a share of the greatest job in the world it's as close to being a king as any job there is what business model helps to run a prison now we do or don't like nobody over the place and i don't no one comes anymore we don't have to serve them anymore it's cost effective that's what they want to do that at the moment they don't give a damn if you do towards a man there are actually paying us to put it back into. the louisiana incarceration rate is twice as high as the us same breach what she could is behind such success. the white house these days may often seem like a never ending game of musical chairs rumors of staff changes cabinet reshuffle and the absent flows of the president. ever changing favor have plagued this

administration ever since its first days and though this rumor mill is very often nothing more than that recently the broken clock didn't strike correctly seen rex tillerson out as secretary of state and cia director mike pump aoe tapped as his replacement pump aoe with quite a contentious foreign policy record from his congressional tenure and his record as and as the rector of the nation's premier spy agency will no doubt take a notably different approach to diplomacy than as a political business executive predecessor how will those tectonic changes affect washington's policies abroad from the standoff with kim jong il into that quietly misstep metastasizing regime change campaign in syria for answers to these questions and more sean stone sat down earlier with former cia officer and intelligence analyst philip giraldi. phil thanks so much for joining me i want to start by asking you because you're a former cia man yourself what does it mean that president trump was appointed by pump aoe as the new secretary of state from being previously the head of the cia

well i think the appointment of pompei also sends a perfectly clear signal that trump in his next phase of governing is going to be wanting to take a much harder line in a number of places trump has. basically already indicated that places like iran are very much being targeted but pompei or has it has gone beyond that and essentially has taken a very hard lines with russia and syria and of course has supported a very aggressive line with north korea. so let's talk a bit about syria because i know you've been writing about it a plate the american people may not even realize that we already have ground troops in syria what is the actual number at this point that we know of. well the number of troops in syria is of course questionable the and they depends on how you count

them the the number that keeps coming up is two thousand that's what the pentagon admits to that's what essential is what the government is saying but there are also a large there is a large number of contractors in syria and nobody has ever come up with a number of them so i'm not sure whether we're talking about five thousand ten thousand or maybe even more than that and of course there's a fairly fluid battle line between iraq and syria since the fighting over there has originated with with going after isis which was in both places so that there's probably a high probability that these numbers are fluid that the troops move around and as you say the united states public really doesn't have very good insight into what's going on and indeed i would add that the u.s. congress doesn't have a very good insight either. and then it seems that president job actually

wants to expand the number of troops within syria somewhere around thirty thousand troops guarding this sort of so-called you know northern border but who knows where they'll all to be operating what is his plan looking like. well yeah the plan of of expanding operations in. syria has two aspects to it the first is they're talking about increasing the numbers and again the numbers seem to be loaded with contractors rather than actually serving soldiers. but we're talking about the numbers i've seen vary between thirty and sixty thousand now a lot of these sixty thousand might indeed be made up from the kurdish militias that are already under arms and being directed by the united states so these numbers these numbers are a bit elusive what seems to be the the plan is to more or less

control the border area between syria and iraq and this would require kind of a buffer zone that would run all the way along the euphrates river and up into the kurdish dominated regions in the north turkey of course is going to have a say in this and turkey has already indicated that it's not willing to put up with any kurdish zone of control in the north so we're looking at a confrontation with turkey as well as with the syrian government and all the teams to be in contradiction to what president trump had said when he was campaigning of course he had been opposed to us interventionism and excessive use of our military abroad what are the interests that are at work here that are promoting the syrian war. that's an interesting question i mean i personally voted for donald trump because he was saying these things he was a strong critic of the iraq war and also to

a certain extent of what was going on in afghanistan and basically committed himself to not expanding these useless wars in the middle east now all of a sudden he's on board so. my conclusion has to be that he's been convinced by some of his advisors some of the people he talks to he talks to john bolton quite often he's clearly very heavily influenced by nikki haley at the u.n. . so there are a lot of people who are conservatives who essentially are interested for various reasons in. going to war. on a larger scale in syria and of course the danger in that is that it could easily bring russia well it seems that russia has certainly been involved the syrian war since twenty fifteen they were invited to support the assad government and yet what sort of what shocks me is that whenever the assad regime seems to be making

progress in expanding its realm of the government within syria for example rolling back isis from iraq places like this they get hit with new allegations of chemical weapons since most recently about a month ago what do you make of these that new recent allegations that assad has been using chemical weapons and basing the russians have been allowing it. well i believe that assad has not been using chemical weapons i think that nearly all of these charges against assad's regime as using them have been fake i think they've been essentially well if you look at the record and the almost all of these incidents of course take place in areas that are controlled by the so-called rebels and they have the ability to both carry out the attack and stage how it is viewed. it said something like the white helmet that are also being used as a propaganda tool when you control the turf when you control the media that comes

out of it and you have a lot of fellow travellers in in the west and elsewhere that are essentially willing to to follow the line that this is an atrocity being carried out by the syrian government that's what you're going to get so is the justification for the u.s. presence and troops in both iraq and syria still supposedly to fight isis. that's an interesting question the justification for fighting or for staying in syria has been changing regularly it was initially to fight isis then it became more a question of of supporting the shall we say revolutionaries or rebels who are against the al assad regime with the justification be that al assad was quote killing his own people and more recently it has become i think

a push for the united states to have rebel relevancy in the peace talks that will eventually decide what syria is going to look like and of course it will also include regime change and getting rid of al assad so the the the just because you keep shifting and we have nikki haley at the u.n. saying horrific things like we don't care what the rest of the world says but we have a right as americans to do whatever we want in syria i mean that's a ridiculous faves. yes syria reminds me a mixture it's a mixture of vietnam and afghanistan where on one hand you have the u.s. advisers that are on the ground as the early days of vietnam and again a lot of justification about this idea of fighting against a tyrant at that time it was men and then in afghanistan where you're bringing in troops with the free syrian army being comprised of many foreign jihadists who've been brought in like the mujahideen war in the eighty's basically to overthrow sort of a russian friendly regime do you think that this ultimately will end in

a will fashion or similar to afghanistan or vietnam. that's a very good question it's a question of what kind of defeat will it. i suspected it's going to be have its own unique characteristic we've been on a trajectory downward or we since we started with afghanistan and iraq of course is the perfect example of how bad it can get the century all you've done is is weaken the one state in the middle east that was strong enough to resist iranian had yemeni iran not being a country friendly to us and we've basically turned that country into an ally of iran so that was a real dumb move i think that syria centrally will survive what we are doing to it and syria will then be a country that will be quite interested in doing mischief to get back from what we

were doing to it so it's it's i think we would just kind of add at a certain point all of this will go away but it will be a tremendous disaster for the united states in terms of people killed by on both sides and also the money that we wasted the money the money could be catastrophic. vernell is the latin word for spring equinox is latin for equal night the vernal equinox is the time right after day and night are of equal amounts of time and i march twentieth the twenty eighteen vernal equinox will commence marking the beginning of spring and a time for new beginnings celebrations of life and rebirth at stonehenge each year druids which is an pagans alike meet at the site where first century nature worship or celebrating the arrival of spring by drinking dandelion and bird are cordials to cleanse the blood and in china the cold flowers have bloomed bringing tens of thousands of tourists to the area people gathering at the fields to dance and celebrate earth year or the second day of the second month on chinese on our

calendar it is seen as the day the dragon raises its head and awaken spring. so whether you celebrate the vernal equinox but could sing your body dancing with dragons and fields of flowers or spring cleaning your home it is the time of year when we honor the earth the warm breezes and the possibilities that bloom in a time of renewal because the spring them beauty is a joy forever i'll know this but i'm happy that spring is finally here for everyone places and with the warm out with the cold right now and now we can move on to complaining about how hot humid it put it what are you to move all the other great things it was we have to remember is that every change of season even if you have a place where you don't really see the seasons change is that opportunity to start over and maybe we can see that in washington d.c. or other political capitals around the world a good time to start over and over russia just out there are elections so let's see what the new year brings us right new summer we all are winter let's see what

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this hour's headlines on r.t. international prove it or apologize moscow tells britain over accusations regarding the poisoning of a former a double agent in the city of souls brain russia has reaffirmed that it had nothing to do with the attack. tuesday marks fifteen years since the united states launched what a cold operation iraqi freedom also known as the iraq war we speak to four might detainees of the infamous abu ghraib prison. after i was released whenever i saw americans on the street i would be terrified they would send me back to that place and torture me again and it still keeps me up at night remembering the torture. and the government the raid on the secret service headquarters and the firing of its chief spock's political turmoil in austria.

your world news on the hour every hour of every well welcome to you this is the international. demands of the u.k. either prove or apologize for its accusations over the poisoning of a form a double agent in the city of souls brave moscow has reaffirmed that it had nothing to do with the attack the foreign minister reminded that all chemical weapons in russia were destroyed under the supervision of the global watchdog the organization for the prohibition of chemical weapons adding that brussels on london's accusations of putting the internationally recognized body into doubt. now on monday the e.u. issued an extremely cautious joint statement over the incident something picked up on by moscow artie's even to turn off has more on the european reaction be you issued a joint in the very careful statement on the whole case of the poisoning of the

script poisoning they did not pin the blame on russia but the expressed grave alertness the grave worry about the whole thing they've said that the are treating the incident very very seriously and they've said that the use i quote of chemical weapons by anyone under any circumstances is completely unacceptable and they've demanded some more information from russia effectively because everybody's a lot of countries are the blame on russia for it french president manuel mccall and even included one into his congratulatory message to lattimer putin nato also weighed in on this have a listen we continue to call on russia to provide the complete disclosure all the program. expectations for russia to address the questions raised by the u.k. and international community to provide disclosure of. its children to

the w britain is to actually this with our obligations under the treaty on chemical weapons and i would contrast that with how the russians russia has been expressing its eagerness to cooperate with the investigation they've repeated a number of times they've officially asked the filed an official request for samples of the nerve agent used to poison scruple to be provided to russia for analysis to find out what it's where it's coming from where it could be coming from who may have produced this sample none of the official requests of russia have been fulfilled instead there's been a barrage of accusations and of. dumond's russia explains itself despite the probe into the poisoning of sort of a script file and his daughter still going media were extremely quick to blame russia has already struck one of. the west is in no doubt russia tried to poison

one of its ex agents on putin's orders but if true that's actually a bit embarrassing professional assassins cover their tracks they don't leave their fingerprints all over the scene yet that's what using a nerve agent produced only in the soviet union essentially amounts to at least if it was the russians on top of this this last nation bid looks like it was a botched job with collateral damage and it's attracting an intense amount of global scrutiny presumably that was not what was intended and not what you'd expect from a slick all powerful secret service russian or not and yet outrageous an illegal act on british soil an attack on the united kingdom new generation against the west the increasingly violent erotic approach of the right use its content to bring content to the rule of law and content of our values so which is it bumbling idiots or super spies if we look back it seems that answers that question can be tailored to fit the situation take the alleged hacking of the us presidential election

washington call the operation sophisticated and attack the likes of which have never been seen before russia's blatant interference in the united states twenty sixteen presidential elections any have said this is actually the crime of the century you have really don't russian interference. is driven by himself no doubt and yet those sophisticated attackers didn't make the slightest effort to hide their locations and he tom dick or harry can throw their ip address to make it look like they're based anywhere in the world and yet all the ip addresses were russian a similar situation was seen in germany not long before their national election took place again the conclusion was that moscow was behind the hack because the ip address. says originated in russia however we've seen the exact opposite as well when south korean government computers were the targets of cyber attacks during the winter olympics the ip addresses used were from inside north korea but it was determined the hackers were russians they were simply masking their locations this

time around them if you do damned if you don't you know everything that goes wrong must be russia we have our police saying that actually it's going to take months to try and find up trying to work out what happened build the evidential chain and yet on another hand as well we have the british media immediately stampeding to say it must be the kremlin it must be russia so this strange mishmash of speculation is very distressing to someone who used to work on the inside i would say as well that people like me have been challenging this narrative in the u.k. media for the last two weeks ever since the attack happened and the list could go on but the point is the western narrative doesn't care if russian intelligence is smart or dumb or anything in between it only has to be one thing and that thing is guilty. it is exactly fifteen years since the united states began the operation it's called iraqi freedom commonly known as the iraq war and what began as a promise to liberate a country from

a dictator turned into years of conflicts across the region is a reminder of how it all unfolded. less than a teaspoon full of dry anthrax in an envoy load shutdown the united states senate arac declared eighty five hundred liters of anthrax cut i. mean iraqis can hear me tonight in a translated radio broadcast and i have a message for them the tyrant will soon be gone. the day of your liberation is near .

as a night i am announcing that the american combat mission in iraq has ended. up there but. it will take time to read a case of cancer like i said we will conduct a systematic campaign bear strikes against these terrorists. play the to. the touch. what's concerning is people who popped fire those innocent people of mosul are the

ones who get it on our humanitarian assistance. one of the darkest pages in the war was the exposure of the torture of iraqi detainees at the abu ghraib prison and warning you may find the following images disturbing.

he has spoken to former abu ghraib detainees who describe their ordeal. when the americans arrived with their tanks we thought they would read us of the harsh regime everyone would have their own house and car just like in the wealthy arab countries or in the west but it turns out to be the opposite. they would hang a prisoner on the metal door of the cell and subject them to electrocution or urination they would stick a rifle into sensitive areas where they would use a broken broomstick causing internal bleeding prisoners would need surgery.