where does this all sit on the america road 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 in 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 the popular ones tennis basketball hockey golf you know we see men dominating those because a lot of times from a young age they were unavailable to little girls to start playing either because they are 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 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 raise third gender or things on the ground is it is equality happening in the ranks for female sports reporters or do they also struck just how many female sports minister step over to get this job 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 you know i don't even care if it's actually so i mean that's the stigma again starting from the. getting from behind the scenes meredith

vieira an example she was the first woman to host the olympics and that was only four years ago two thousand and fourteen so that's amazing 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 in the jaguars an n.f.l. team in jacksonville three sports journalists who were females went to go in locker room like they were allowed to and i'm 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 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 they don't think i mean you know it becomes about your logs where they're the guys who part of that i think with this is something that will keep talking about well that my on the show more if nothing else to let you guys know about great women

sports and that i'm sorry and i'm sorry a time thank you so much steve for helping us kind of understand all this and and i think once again total 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 see our full shows at our team dot com coming up sean stone talks with the 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. twenty eight team coverage we've signed one of the great just kill people. but there was one more question by the way is going to be our coach. guys i know you on the list is a huge star two months and the huge amount of pressure you have to put me in the center of the beach i probably would you. and do so with all the great game the

great game you are the rock at the back nobody gets past you we need you to get down knowing let's go. a low as i want to you know and i'm really happy to join the team for the two thousand and ten world cup in russia meet the special one come on zulkifli she needs to just take the radio beyond the team's latest edition to make up the figure so i need to just look. american man one. the second is the radiologist a mess. of anyone can see that america 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 so their response essentially is to go into conflict and this is a measure of. the most expensive fish in the world each one selling for the 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 to catch it. it's only women themselves are much larger population was once there 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 this is.

the white house these days may often seem like a never ending game of musical chairs rumors of staff changes cabinet reshuffle and the ebbs and flows of the president's 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 pompei o tapped as his replacement pump a zero with quite a contentious foreign policy record from his congressional tenure and his record as and as director 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 the. 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 pompei zero as the new secretary of state from being previously the head of the cia . well i think the appointment of pompei o 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 o 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 out as of late 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 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 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. 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 basic 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 it is a vietnam and again a lot of justification about this idea of fighting against a tyrant to that time it was hold the 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 for what we were doing to it so it's it's i think we would just kind of end 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 both on both sides and also the money that we wasted and 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 read twenty eighteen vernal equinox will commence marking the beginning of spring and a time for a new beginning celebrations of life and rebirth at stonehenge each year druids which is an pagans alike meet at the site where first century nature worship first

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 well. 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 air from sun put it what are you to move all the other great thing to which 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 all rather just have there are elections so let's see what the new year brings us right new summer we all are winter let's see what happens i'm ready can't wait oh alright well that is our show for today remember everyone in this world we are not told that we are loved up so i tell you all i love you i am i robot and time capsule i keep on watching those hawks another great thing about it. 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 just do it oh my guess is nobody you know visitation they don't no one comes anymore we don't have to sarge anymore it's cost effective that's what they want to do that knowing they don't give

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the headlines and germany and france side we think you can ask russia to prove his innocence in the poisoning of former double agents to. moscow has once again reaffirmed though that it had nothing to do with the attack noting that the presumption of innocence is being violated also if you come tuesday marks fifteen years since the united states launched what it called operation iraqi freedom also known as the iraq war we speak to form it is how nice at 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 it still keeps me up at night remembering the torture and the way the protest marked the saudi crown prince his visit to washington with donald trump mohamad bin sound man set to

discuss the rand nuclear deal and the bombing of yemen. hello there welcome you're watching at international this tuesday afternoon which just turned three o'clock a remorse now on a show of solidarity with the u.k. germany and france have asked russia to prove its innocence in the poisoning of former double agent surrogates going to pile amid the escalating conflict to reason may's convening. a national security council meeting on tuesday to discuss her next move let's get more details now of marty's down hawkins is here with me. we're hearing them that further reprisals could be a next expected to be announced by the u.k. after this meeting and what further details are there we'll of course of the full updates on the results of further action will be taken so far over the last fifteen days it's very much been a predictable different tit for tat the expulsion of those russian diplomats and

the expulsion of british diplomats likewise from moscow what we do know is of the wider fallout the support u.k. has received merkel one major european power leader has been in consultation with the polish prime minister mr. mori work where she has condemned russia and avoided russia provide proof of what she describes as its involvement in this case proof of its innocence this is what she had to say goodbye you know what we have both today on the same level condemned the use of a nerve agent in great britain i have also spoken with the prime minister of great britain and we stand on the side with them we are of the opinion that there are very serious indications there russia has something to do with this now it's up to russia to show this is not the case the president of france joining in the chorus cloying that russia may have stockpiled or perhaps even lost control of some of

those alleged chemical weapons chemical agents it does possess calling on russia to reveal any of those to the w this is the statement from the french. the french president has called on russian authorities to should light on their rule in relation to the unacceptable attack in salisbury and to take back full control of any programs not to clear to the organization for the prohibition of chemical weapons further to those talks in warsaw the polish government also saying unconfirmed sources at the moment but saying they are considering expanding russian diplomats in solidarity with the u.k. also considering apparently bringing in sanctions against certain russian government officials and certain companies as well the whole. onus here of course being on russia to prove its innocence and prove. evidence of a lack of involvement in this case as opposed to the other way around the u.k. provide evidence of direct concrete russian involvement. to these countries that cetera very much as

a lot of things perhaps likely being turned on their head here short of what has been the official russian reaction and to all of this initially of course moscow denied any knowledge any involvement in what exactly happened to mr script while the presidential spokesman saying that confirming once again that russia the russian federation has not developed such nerve agents has not stopped while such nerve agents and indeed destroyed its chemical weapons stockpile last year in twenty seventeen i believe we covered that story on r.t. as well as confirmed by the o.p.c. w. stating that any insinuation to the contrary is effectively undermining that international body which in itself confirmed that russia did get rid of its chemical stockpiles last year the actual investigation itself into this is been going on now for two weeks what's the latest on that it's been it's been two weeks of course since the former russian double agent with the script now obviously. in the u.k. now in hospital as well as his daughter you were. poisoned allegedly by

a nerve agent there in critical condition several other people witnesses a police officer as well had symptoms of poisoning by that subs. one of them sergeant by the remains critical in hospital as well in a very serious condition since then that investigation has been ongoing what's what's key here is there is a criminal investigation it's in its sheer complexity it's the largest investigation of one of the largest of its kind in caldera policing in the u.k. two hundred fifty police officers working on the case detectives thousands of hours of c.c.t.v. hundreds of pieces of evidence witnesses being questioned as well and what's perhaps kids remember here is so far the police have said there are no official suspects names there are no persons of interest named there has been no blame assigned by the way as to who. could be behind this individual act the state actor or the police haven't released a statement still very much an ongoing investigation nevertheless that diplomatic

route has occurred the russian diplomats who were expelled twenty three of them by to reason may today have left or in the process rather of leaving london presumably the british diplomats who've been expelled by moscow will leave as well so the diplomatic fallout really shows no sign of abating despite a lack of suspects officially as of yet announced by the investigating officers ok all right we look thanks dan that was artie's down hawkins there with the latest thank you. well despite the probe into the poisoning of powell and his daughter still being ongoing the media were extremely quick to blame russia is r.t. . reports. 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 the assassination 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 and attack only you know it came to new generation against the west the increasingly violent erotic approach of the right. content to contempt of 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 many have said this is actually the crime of the century you have really don't rush and the fear. 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 addresses originated and 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 damned 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 of. that leave you there now it's been exactly fifteen years since the united states began an operation it called iraqi freedom commonly known as the iraq war 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 lope shut down the united states senate

arac declared eighty five hundred liters of anthrax. many 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 . us tonight i am announcing that the american combat mission in iraq has and.