you've seen going into groundwater and using it like on and planting it takes a lot of water so i think one of the things is moving over to more conservation agriculture i think you know talk of talked about it a lot i think one of the saviors of urban food deserts is having hydroponics and things that are grown and side because you don't lose water you can reuse water you can do tons of things out of it and i think doing those and more indoor environments and letting the land rafts and letting water replete you know repeat itself and clean itself to nature does that but we don't given enough time yeah it's interesting how much it goes back to kind of like big corporate interests you know the idea the we're going to just kind of go through and lay waste to the land because they have gone out of me and you know why it's because industrial farms i grew up around farms and i'll tell you what they don't do they don't rotate crops properly they don't take care of the water they don't care care of the land the way that farmers family farms a one person or a family running it they did they looked at the water because that was the water

they drank they save the land is that was their land they needed it for generations to survive they cared industrial farming companies don't care they'll just go buy something new and a lot of people like argue what about the ark refers there's tons of ocular there all right of the world as yeah that's the problem even the ones that like the super frac ing is putting things in america you know it's like you look at all of us there's things we're not keeping them safe either. the chair of the u.n. water report and all you know there's points out that up until now civilization is pretty much relied on human built great infrastructure as we talk about to improve water management and that in doing so it is often brushed aside traditional indigenous knowledge that embraces greener approaches and in the face of accelerated consumption increasing environmental degradation and the multifaceted impacts of climate change we clearly need new ways to manage competing demands of our fresh water resources i like where they're thinking here talk to people who've been doing it for centuries thank you their answers. don't forget to let us know

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america first bring the troops home and no more of hillary's regime change war as may have been the basic platform that donald trump ran and won on in two thousand and sixteen but it certainly hasn't been more of an empty slogan for his actual administration exhibit a syria where the trump white house has gone further than barack obama ever did and attack a government forces ordering airstrikes against russian troops and refusing to ever put the aim of regime change completely to rest and even as some opponents of intervention rejoiced in announcements by the white house that it would cease arming syria's rebels the only reason for that decision has apparently been that washington simply intended to replace rebel proxies with more and more of our own

very own american uniform wearing troops so to break down what these escalations may mean for the syrian conflict in the slowly dying prospects of peace johnstone sat down earlier with former cia officer philip. in terms of the actual. potential for world war because certainly within syria itself it looks like a world war with the russians on one side the americans essentially on the other and all kinds of disastrous weaponry and quitting chemical weapons being used and many people civilians included being killed and displaced it's just it's a horror but this could ultimately escalate something bigger because as u.s. presence increases in syria we've seen over the years the potential for conflicts with russia whether it be russian jets or actual personnel grows what is the what is the what is the ultimate outcome that we could see as trump escalates into conflict and could it ultimately escalate into

a full scale war with russia well i think your your concerns are correct i think that this could escalate i i would hope that there are sensible enough people both in washington and moscow to keep it from escalating into anything like a general conflict but i do i do believe that there will be. certainly smaller conflicts smaller fires in syria and also with iran i think this is in the cards i think the aggressive positions that the united states and let's not so not forget israel israel is a player in this and israel has made very clear that it's it's virtually on a war footing with with lebanon and with syria and the ultimate target is iran we have american soldiers for the first time based in israel and they would be. you know part and parcel of whatever takes place there. and speaking of

israel what what does the stablish mean of the u.s. diplomatic base in jerusalem going to mean for active sort of israeli protest across the region middle eastern activism potential more terrorism things like this . well i think the shift or the recognition of jerusalem as israel's capital by the united states will have ramifications but i don't think they've really started to play out for a much yet i suspect that we will see this as part of a bigger. series of scenarios let's let's perhaps describe it that way in terms of the u.s. interaction with the various countries in the region like jordan saudi arabia egypt and and also of course the frontline states like syria lebanon and iran but as i say it's not really it's not really developed yet i suspect of course that this

will not be good for us since this essentially only satisfies a certain right wing faction in israel and benjamin netanyahu it really doesn't do anything for us and it really doesn't do anything good for israel. still the final question really is about. president putin last week basically issued a statement about the the new weaponry that russia is unveiling basically very strategic long range cruise missiles that out there have a nuclear capability as well as some marines things that he believes would basically protect russia in the event of war and certainly as russia has been trying to buy the american anti-ballistic missile systems into form into nato and former soviet countries. do you think that putin's announcement of new technologies is going to potentially deter further gresham from the u.s.

in the region basically it does merely surround russia including syria. i think that the vladimir putin announcement about the new weapons systems is a game changer i think that's true to a certain extent. i assume he's speaking the truth when he describes the capabilities of the systems it will basically know the protective missile systems that the u.s. has been putting it in eastern europe and elsewhere and it means that the the u.s. cannot even contemplate a some kind of first strike or a limited war against russia which i think is a good thing but on the other hand it also raises the threshold for people to get involved in situations like in syria where someone makes a mistake or there is some kind of conflict that escalates from a minor incident and this is we're getting to divert

a dangerous ground i think putin's call for the u.s. to again start negotiating ballistic missile treaty he's like we had in effect until the bush administration is a correct call. phil thank you so much for joining me today. ok thanks for having me on. members of congress are expected to introduce over two dozen bills aimed at ending the opioid epidemic in the near future after a recent push by the white house to highlight the issue and make it a legislative priority the public health crisis has struck many communities across the nation over the past decade but new york city stands out as the highest profile metropolis struggling with addiction and overdoses the big apple is come out as a battlefield of ideas and approaches when it comes to fighting opioid abuse but the race to find solutions proving to be a political challenge for new york's mayor and governor who both reportedly harbor higher ambitions for national office in the future artie's twenty chavez reports of

some of the local developments in this national crisis. new york lawmakers are seeking new alternatives when it comes to fighting the ongoing opioid crisis that is sweeping the nation from opioid intervention options to better access to treatment programs no idea is too big or too small when it comes to tackling this deadly epidemic the opioid crisis is in cities and it's in rural areas it's in big small states and small states on the east coast and on the west coast and everything in-between. there's a national crisis the opioid crisis continues to plague the city killing hundreds of new yorkers every year in an effort to combat the problem mayor bill de blasio announced an additional twenty two million dollars to go toward the city's efforts to combat the opium crisis i think it's a good thing it's a lot of money spent but when you think of how much money in iraq is a cost to society whether you put him in jail or or treatment programs it should of

course aside regardless so treatment is a great thing i applaud it as a ward foresman official i applaud treatment the new services calls for expanding impatient programs at hospitals establishing a specialized training institute by the spring expanding crisis response services and distributing five thousand overdose reversal kits to affected homes to be handed out by the new york fire department the four year plan is expected to save approximately four hundred lives we believe that some of these tools are really working and as we continue to see evidence that it's working we're going to keep investing meanwhile the brooklyn d.a. has initiated a plan of his own eric and solace with the help of new york city's police commissioner james o'neal announced the launch of a pre-arrangement diversion program to assist people who suffer from drug dependency and misuse under project clear individuals arrested for misdemeanor possession of a controlled substance will be offered the opportunity to receive treatment and other community based services before their initial court appearance if they

meaningfully participate in the d.a.'s office would then decline persecution of their cases before they ever appear in court and their arrest would be sealed if the drug cartels asserted dopier and it's nobody by it's worth nothing. so treatment for treatment is that is key to this we lock up the big guys we lock up drug users to federal government but it's key that the we draw up the user side and there are many people get to because these really ruthless bit people can't make any money while the president said that his administration is looking into the problem of overprescribing drugs and reducing the supply of illicit drugs he is also calling for tougher penalties for drug traffickers saying that if one person in the u.s. can get the death penalty or life in prison for shooting one person a similar punishment should be given to a drug dealer who potentially kills thousands reporting in new york one of the charges are to. on monday september fifth one thousand nine hundred eighty seven at

twelve fifty six coordinated universal time voyager one launched from earth with a mission to explore jupiter and saturn on august twenty twelve voyager one made universal history by becoming the first human made spacecraft to enter interstellar space aboard it was a radioactive clock in time capsule in the form of the now famous golden record with paul sarmast and by an area bad for our neighbors and space to eventually find amazingly eight avoided for once make ten main instruments are still in working order for off to save power but are operational and only into the plasma science system in the photo polar riveter subsystem are off due to degraded performance however while voyager has been sending back data it's the rosters have been out of service since the one nine hundred eighty that is until the team at nasa jet propulsion lab decided to test the backup thrusters on voyager want to try what they call a trajectory correction maneuver as

a testament to voyager one stuffiness those work extending across mission well into twenty twenty five when its power source is expected to be depleted and so it is since it is also a national poetry day this week i'll leave you with a verse by william wordsworth of. space this stars are mansions built by nature's hand and happily there the spirits of the blessed well clothed in radiance they are mortal vest huge ocean show within his yellow strand habitation marvelously planned for life to occupy in love and give a little space and a little poetry to kind of bring our show to a close. up a moment steak and i'm sorry for those that may have missed star trek the motion picture it back in one nine hundred eighty when i came out spoiler alert the voyager one was like the main clerks about plot because i was but the idea was that it just kept going into space eventually became sentience for all the information that it like accumulated and that's why it was so late when i heard like no we're

just doing worse yes incredible well had been something that little bits of information but you know they can do anything about moving and there's only so much power on it so it's like what we got is what we get but i mean i think most of anyone who can grow is made seven is the haven't oh like myself very tough i mean it's like old muscle cars man make it in america you make it we're going to do you and the boys have a lot to live up to because they're all going to they're going to be if they're going to start shooting stuff up into space that they'll be out come back in like twenty five thirty seven years i mean i've got to ration all the new stuff is great the the what the the stuff like voyager and voyager two accomplished is miles and miles beyond where where the new sort of things have gone but that's having respect for that it's out there giving us pretty amazing affirmation of well everybody that is our show for today speaking of amazing information to remember everyone in this world we are told that we are loved and love so i tell you all i love you i robot and i'm talking lots of those talks of a great day in the. well

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split into which we form different names how do you view that. complex web of passion. violent clashes in paris where police have used water cannon against stone throwing protesters amid a nationwide strike against president reforms. because prime minister says the russia is a threat that doesn't respect borders again accusing moscow of poisoning of double agent as she arrives in brussels for the european council summit. as

the son of libya's former leader moammar gadhafi runs for president to speak exclusively to saif gadhafi is a lawyer. the situation you have in libya now is the result of the destruction of the state institutions not only the toppling the regime libya back to its road become a democratic sovereign state. great to have you with us this evening my name is the harvey watching r.t. international. now france is facing nationwide strike action with more than one hundred forty demonstrations occurring across the country public sector workers students and railway workers have taken to the streets protesting various issues from low wages food to job losses have been cancelled schools have been closed in paris clashes between protesters and police have turned violent.

was. the. guy that. was. new on the boat at one of your we are not here to be violent we are here to protest democratically against the liberal politics of macron wanted by the car because under market we disagree with the government we can accept this reforms that's why we are always here with us which is the most like of course the promises he made i think have absolutely not been fulfilled. and the clashes between police and protesters in paris have been getting more violent as the days gone on protesters threw rocks at officers who responded with water cannon artie shaw the devinsky is at one of the sites. thousands of people have been marching in paris on this day over national strikes they converging here now at the past steel where they're

trying to make a voice is heard to the government of president michael saying they're unhappy with many of the ideas of his the ministration including that she cuts a hundred and twenty thousand jobs in the five years if he's a president see people say they're unhappy with the working conditions and they want to make sure they're poor he says loud and clear there haven't been some violent confrontations during this day of strike in paris now where police clashed with the protesters some suggesting that the police had used extreme violence and some of the protesters had been injured this is a nationwide day strike through the many parts of the country getting both from the civil servants to the railway stuff just students who are here to voice their concerns with this current administration this is actually on so the first over

thirty seven days of strikes by the railways these strikes are going to take place over the next few months until the end of june the way we work is saying this is the only way that they can get a voice is heard and they won't speak directly with the government about changes that are proposed in their line of work they've also been mass cancellations in terms of planes today and of course many schools have been closed as have been affected hospital service because of this strike charlotte r.t. paris paris isn't the only french city that saw major clashes between protesters and police on thursday in nonce water cannon and tear gas will say used as demonstrators smoke bombs and flares police officers. you could defense ministry has now found is solved. on into the scandal surrounding cambridge analytic and i just to remind you the firm allegedly harvested the

personal data of tens of millions of facebook users and exploited that information for political gain now it's been revealed that cambridge analytic is parent company the s e l group used to be on the payroll of the u.k. defense ministry provided the ministry with psycho social research that was at a cost of almost two hundred thousand pounds and it was even granted access to secret government files. chris nine m who's the vice chair of the stop the war coalition joins me on the line now very good evening to you chris what's your reaction to these revelations are you alarmed by this or not. what i am and i think the so much that could be wrong here i don't really believe the ministry of defense should be involved in a company that has been the engaged in this so many. apparently so many malpractises including harvesting all sorts of data potentially illegally but also

a company who one arm of which at least is in gage in a series of campaigns around the world of propaganda manipulation apparently and political interference so many different levels i mean that's a problem in itself secondly i don't really see why the ministry of defense is in any case spending huge amounts of money on. the kind of propaganda work i mean the ministry of defense is presumably in the business of trying to. make britain safe from foreign invasion and i don't know whether this work was being done domestically or whether it was a question of interfering in public opinion or trying to shape public opinion in other countries either way it seems to be something that would be and finally the question of. secrecy i mean apparently this company was given access to top secret information and this is

a company as i say one arm of who has been specifically involved the. abuse apparently of. data on an industrial scale so on all those different accounts this seems to me to be an extremely. worrying revelation it strikes me chris that this is the kind of. company that would have been very useful for example when trying to win over public opinion going into for example a war like the iraq conflict does it worry you that if the defense ministry of got this kind of information and facility available to them that it could be used in the future to win over public opinion going into any kind of military situation. well that may well be the case and of course that would be very wrong if that is the case because. you know the ministry of defense is supposed to be nonpolitical and the question of the wars we fight in should be something this determined democratically by parliament and it shouldn't be any role by the defense ministry

or any other section of the civil service in trying to shape public opinion and we do know we ourselves have had leaks from the ministry of defense over the last five or six years saying that they're very worried about british public opinion which is anti war and is concerned about these disastrous foreign interventions so clearly they they were concerned about this kind of thing and it that makes it seems to me quite likely that they've used this propaganda company mystically but it's an absolute scandal if they have another concern must be that you've got a you know government department that may have purchased possibly harvested information about u.k. citizens potentially to use it against them to manipulate them do you think they'll be a serious investigation to see if anything like that's occurred. what they definitely should be a serious investigation. no the light from french people are calling for one. and absolutely the stop the war coalition would be behind calls for

a complete transparency as to what has gone on here because as i say on the whole number of different fronts. if any of these allegations are true. then we're in big trouble if we've got a ministry of defense that is there is basically going rogue and trying to manipulate what people think about war either here or abroad if it's if it's involved in stealing. if it's involved in sharing secrets with extremely dubious private companies all of these things are very very serious allegations and they need to be investigated as a matter of urgency yes indeed they may have done nothing wrong the minister of defense but the only way we find out is if there is an investigation really appreciate your time chris chris not him i guess vice chair of the stop the war coalition. now britain's prime minister has branded russia a threat that doesn't respect borders she's in brussels for an e.u.

security council summit where the poisoning of a former russian agent in the u.k. is of course going to be high on the agenda with more speed to all of. well tourism a would have been looking to the summit around two weeks ago thinking break that and crucial break that deadlines were going to be negotiated here all of that still on the agenda put russia and the fallout from the attempted murder of surrogates go to file his daughter yulia the former spy in the cathedral city of soulsby certainly taking president to reserve may trying to drum up support for a united statement condemning russia and she had some very tough words as she entered that summit in brussels russia staged a brazen and reckless attatched against the united kingdom when it is tempted into the murder of two people on the streets of seoul spring i'll be raising this issue with my counterparts today because it's clear that the.