the nerve agent the foreign ministry foreign office still laying the blame squarely at russia what are the british public supposed to make of it. well it's very difficult to tell i mean i do think that this is only what i think i can't verify this i do think that many people were more sympathetic to cope and initial position of saying that's have some evidence let's have due process. but certainly yes it appears to be that the government has been caught in the back foot and now with them to engaged in some kind of damage limitation exercise i think where where does this leave the foreign secretary though. well i think just to be just to be set just to be precise approach the problem is boris johnson now is being blamed but the initial government statement on the poisoning was that scrapes and his daughter been poisoned with the substance similar to that all of

a kind of made in russia so the initial government statement was actually very very circumspect about the word didn't really say much but this didn't stop the government and the media building a huge political case against russia boris johnson then went a little bit further and explicitly said i thought down had kept the course he said it's from russia but you know this was already passive the government campaign as it was that's based actually on an initial quite faith statement the government over claimed hugely so it may be the case that boris johnson ultimately takes the fall for this but you know the broader problem has been with the government. rush to judgment and to construct a case on the basis of unavailable evidence as is now clear and how do you think this is going to be looked up from abroad we were listening to. most of the last

hour from the russian ambassador in britain and he was talking about the numbers. yesterday the ones who voted against he said the ones who abstained about seventeen of those were under pressure from the u.k. and u.s. led grouping in that we're still awaiting the un security council meeting there but he seems to think that there isn't a global consensus on this that if you look at latin america in asia and africa at best they're holding back worse the disagreeing. well i think one doesn't even have to go in america although it has been about this point that the. global community i mean it's simply not the case that within the e.u. there are various sort of blanket exceptions so for example as this become increasingly well known within germany there is a big kind of political disputes about what has gone on with many members of merkel's coalition saying that you know there are problems with the expulsions and

many prominent politicians saying where is the evidence. austria we know has authored one of there's no evidence here you know important allies or britain and america israel turkey and neither of those countries for example have gone along either with the british government's case so it actually isn't quite the case but even within the e.u. itself there is a huge. agreement i think many in the e.u. prioritises price and consensus above all that power. and sometimes that works out quite badly that but even you know but many of the e.u. countries expelled token numbers of diplomats and even america we see that what has not happened is the number of diplomatic. people has not been reduced it is individuals who have been expelled both in russia and in america those positions

will be refilled so it's not why even the case of an overwhelming kind of confession you know it seems more of a temporary gesture we'll see what happens at the u.n. security council breakfast time in new york so is going to be a couple of hours off yet for now though dr tara mccormick thanks very much for joining us. thank you. there's also been a tirade of criticism from britain's opposition labor party on twitter for boris johnson's assurances that russia was behind the poisoning one commented on boris johnson's now vilified t.v. interview asking if he wanted to delete two others stressed the need to check evidence while labor m.p. chris williamson called johnson out right dangerous and says the incident is being used as a diversionary tactic. it seems to me the government were indulging in political point scoring particularly boris johnson who raced ahead of the evidence and used this terrible incident not so much as a smoking gun but more of a smokescreen really it was a very convenient wasn't for the government to use this as

a way of diverting attention from their own difficulties of a. policy and you know at the end of the day it's pretty clear that boris johnson did not tell the truth he told the german insecure. scientists and it said it was without doubt that the agents had to come from russia so i think jeremy called him was absolutely right to caution to ask for clear evidence before we start to raise international tensions but we need to get to the bottom in the evidence and jeremy said this seems to point towards russia but let's be absolutely clear before we start raising international tensions in this way this is huge implications for more sensible to take a measured approach and be clear about the evidence and all the evidence as i mentioned russia's call for u.n. security council meeting later on this thursday over the recent developments and back on wednesday the international chemical weapons water tokyo p.t.w. met as well russia proposed a joint investigation but that idea was rejected. we will not agree to russia's

demands to conduct a joint investigation into the attack in solsbury because the u.k. has assessed that it is russian state is responsible for this attack and that there is no plausible alternative explanation there's no requirement in the chemical weapons convention for a victim to engage the wakely perpetrator in a joint investigation to do so would be perverse. unfortunately we didn't manage to get the needed two thirds of votes for the resolution to pass obviously the brits and americans voted against and then nato and some easy member states and u.s. allies followed suit they fear the truth they fear to take responsibility for their words blatant accusations for provocative statements from the head of u.k. diplomacy. you gave representative to the open c.w. set out more claims against russia at that meeting linking the script poisoning to the chemical attack in the syrian town of can't shake and last year that attack led

the u.s. to take military action against syrian government positions he claimed russia had called wednesday's meeting in the hague to make a political point. well the news now facebook has admitted that the scale of a data breach of its accounts that was used for political purposes has turned out to be far larger than previously thought the tech giant says that the profiles of up to eighty seven million people could have been shared with the data research firm cambridge analytical earlier estimates said it was fifty million becomes as the growing at cambridge analytical scandal which broke last month the consultancy firm stands accused of harvesting private information from facebook users for political targeting among the company's client list were donald trump hillary clinton and barack obama and it appears many politicians around the globe have also resorted to cambridge analytical services in an attempt to influence public opinion . in total we believe the phrasebook information of up to eighty seven million people mostly in the u.s. may have been improperly shared with cambridge and. cambridge analytical license

data for no more than thirty million people the firm that has been using this information it's called cambridge analytic and essentially it does data collection and polling and analysis for political parties political campaigns and groups they use this information essential to craft their messaging craft their campaigning in a way that would be persuasive they kind of create a psychological profile of vote potential voters based on what they have collected from facebook and social media they then use that information to craft their campaign advertising their messaging etc and now the data harvesting happened in a tacit agreement with facebook now facebook says they had no malicious intent. however this has really hurt their reputation the government of germany actually went as far as asking for a clarification from facebook for an explanation we also have seen the trend it

delete facebook all over social media with people you know tweeting out you know delete facebook calling for people to stop using facebook in response to this perceived you know dissemination of people's personal information that we do know that facebook is now in the process of changing their apps so that certain apps are more protected that the privacy of their users is more protected but as we see you know this call for for facebook to be deleted for people not to be used to using facebook is expanding so a lot of questions are being raised and it's certainly true that the reputation of this very widely used social media app is is severely tarnished. we asked internet no expert yeah cohen and media analyst timothy col for their views on the facebook data scandal general generally the guys denying the figure they claim there is only thirty million but i don't think it makes a lot of for the from the very thirty million to late a million i think is the principle behind the old story about but what about the

use of intimate robots as we call them boats in order to meddle with the u.s. election is now still stories seem a little bit out of there a little bit ridiculous nobody is talking about it but it was very interesting to hear his desire to beg only a couple of weeks ago. almost apologizing for allowing him to leave the boxes today that it was then being used to influence election is that if this story was about influencing election but by third parties. rather than access the news as they've done locally this is a company that routes so rapidly now the people who are managing facebook lost control of their creation and the whole business model of facebook is built on this idea that they they collect highly targeted data on their users and then sell that data to advertisers and others and i think there just wasn't enough oversight of

that process basement don't want to say that they can they can police themselves internally they can solve these problems with their own oversight but i think that you know there's a legitimate reason that that's not good enough that we need to look at a new regulatory framework that will protect the privacy of users of social media not just facebook but people go on google and other popular platforms. you know without say food giant nestlé is being accused of leaving people in michigan high and dry by taking more and more of that water supply to bottle up and sal all the details when we come back. when lawmakers manufacture consent to public wealth. when the

ruling classes protect themselves. the famous merry go round lifts only the one percent. nor middle of the room six. henry kissinger once said that russia in the united states went into the ukrainian crisis acting rationally based on mutual misconception with tensions heightened over the scruple case other sites guided by misconceptions were deliberate misrepresentation.

welcome back we've got some breaking news coming from turkey this out four people have been shot dead at the university three more have been wounded this is according to the local media that have been falling on this the incident happened in an institution in the western city of as you see here reports say the police detained the shooter who killed four staff members it's believed that the suspect also works at the university when we get any more information on that story from turkey we will let you know right yeah. next there's a david and goliath battle playing out in the us state of michigan despite widespread public opposition the food giant nestlé is being allowed to extract more drinking water can now extract just over fifteen hundred liters a minute that's five hundred more than was previously allowed now that sparked huge concerns about the environmental consequences of all this here's some of the feedback that the local authorities have been getting the state senator who's on the natural resources committee said she was just deeply disappointed by the

approval of the new permit and almost eighty one thousand people have contacted the authorities saying they were strongly against extending the amount of water extraction again to seventy five people who said it was a good idea but even that groundswell of public opinion has been ignored by the authorities who said it didn't apply to policies include transparency the majority of the public comments were in the position of the permit but most of them related to issues of public policy which are not and should not be part of an administrative permit decision opposition to this goes back to two thousand and one when nestle was first sued for potential damage to lakes rivers and streams as a result the company had to limit its water extraction people in michigan though are once again voicing their concerns this is when we moved here you can see that there is no or no growth on either side nestle has a reputation worldwide. go into her poor rural communities are free markets economic benefits to the community that never really of the to realize are

taking as much wire as they can care and one of the stream runs dry they believe nestle contractor has been given the permit says it will carefully review the agreement and will comply with all of its requirements but a good environmental council says the water extraction will be heavily monitored. if they do poke in the butt one of the water goes down so this is something that groups like our own could take nestle to court and have the courts and force the permit we make sure that no nobody takes too much water out of the river so that out so that it runs dry or everything so that's why they're going to monitor the flow and make sure that flow maintains a healthy glow and in cases where the stream flow starts to dry out then they're required to turn back their wells and turn them down so it's going to be very closely monitored withdrawal and if we do see that impact happening then what we're

asking the state officials to to avoid the curb it and make west make nestle turn the wells off. if you so the florida school where seventeen people were killed by a teenager in february is speaking out against new security measures that one survivor who joined the anti-gun lobby expressed her frustration at a see through backpack which is one of the school's new safety measures students say they want well thought out changes on useless quick fixes and samir khan reports it's been almost two months since the survivors of the deadly school shooting in parkland called on the government to take action what's more important is actual action and pertinent action that results in saving thousands of children's lives but some of the initiatives taken to curtail gun violence haven't been so popular like these clear backpacks made mandatory at marjorie stoneman douglas high and by the editor of bad intentions my new backpack is almost as transparent as the n.r.a. is agenda i feel so safe now starting over the last quarter i have seen

a year right with a good old violation of privacy now i can't lie about not having gum moving on to another state and another brilliant and this shift a middle school teacher in georgia after going through write a letter to congress demanding stricter gun control if i'm an enraged parents who complained that it was unethical to bring the issue into the school's curriculum pennsylvania. has its own rather unique solution if an armed intruder attempts to gain at princeton any of our classrooms they will face a classroom full of students armed with rocks and they will be stoned but apparently this is plan b. the district superintendent said that the rocks were his own suggestion after scrapping plan a which was wait for golf balls so it looks like those in charge of fixing the issue of gun violence seem to be using the debate to score political points and one of the best examples of this is senator marco rubio i respect their views and recognize that many americans support certain gun bans however many other americans do not support

a gun ban statements like this and makeshift solutions are perhaps not what the shooting survivors had in mind when they called for action samir khan r t washington d.c. . right that's it for now thanks for watching one is calling for i'll have your next news update in thirty five minutes see that. they've been waiting on this for a long time because it talked about the dollar back in this world reserve currency countries are tired of funding america's wars because ever there's got to be trained in dollars including oil to buy oil got to buy dollars first that means america gets a commission he's definitely a wage wars all over the world. over

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heightened once again over this cripple case either side still guided by the same misconceptions or perhaps deliberate misrepresentations of the other well to discuss that i'm now joined by you gave me bush and skeet a retired lieutenant general of the russian army and the chairman of the board of the peer center mr brzezinski it's great to talk to you thank you very much for your time thank you now you recently gave an interview it's you b.b.c. radio which carry the lot of people in that interview you said you want actually about russia and the west moving very far to a war and not just a war you said this would be a conflict that's. could be a worse than the cold war in fact the last war in the history of humanity for a military guy like yourself i think that's a pretty dramatic statement what made you reach that conclusion well first of all maybe i exaggerated a little bit and maybe i was a bit misunderstood a little bit but what i actually meant first of all comparing the present day

situation with the days of the cold war i say that the day of the cold cold war in the seventy's eighty's i was active military i felt more comfortable by the way it was everything was clear yes it was ideological confrontation maybe. extent military confrontation but still there were rules definite rules red lines the corner of the soviet union i said there is no containing the soviet union well. yes but no it's not containment no there are there wrecked threats to corner russia to isolate russia politically to strangle it economical it to to do everything possible even to well the latest the latest statement by the pentagon concerning syria to keep damascus if the syrian government allegedly

used chemical weapons which there was a very serious statement made by general direction of that and key the central damascus will be hip where the center for a consolation where the russian military russian policeman. russian federation will have to do to answer and now it will intercept the cruise missiles and carriers at what does that mean carriers since all the cruise missiles launched from u.s. warships that means there are russian air force will strike pretty serious yes. it's unprecedented in my. view make spear while i think what's also unprecedented. is an allegation of a heart from the united kingdom that russia actually used military grade chemical weapons that put civilians at grave danger. in the center of

a large community in the united kingdom i cannot recall anything of this or that was. similarly geishas during the times of the soviet union can you see i think first of all absolutely sure it's a grand provocation and it's so poorly organized that the well you see so many questions so many questions first of all it's a great it's definitely trying to be investigate the first question the investigate the investigator start the investigation who has the benefit but mr brzezinski i think it's very clear that there the british side is not interested in the investigation it's interested in the political response to that yes and i wonder i mean russians are often accused of you know making up all sorts of conspiracies and it's hard not to do that when you have so little information it's such a great great allegation but how do you explain that personally to yourself both

the use of the supposedly military grade chemical agent the miraculous improvement in the health of fuel escape all as well as the persistent denial of the russian access to its citizens well because you see i think that nobody in the west is interested in the even fight into the major effect that has already been achieved russia has been accused russia has been solidarity has been produced. it was developed it not the brics it derms not the financial compensation on the british bar on the. it is asian of russia of chemical effect of the civilized world and the west so. i think for any neutral observer it should be. do you think that's actually not because i'm obviously not a military person but from what i understand the claims of tourists amaze

government they're actually saying that russia attacked them by the use of military means and when you are attacked by the use of military means i suppose you would respond militarily do you expect that to come well i don't inspect the u.k. to counter russia militarily because well with all respect that the british military with all respect the united kingdom it's not the it's not the nation to confront pressure militarily at present but i think it's not it's not the probably cation organized only by great britain the u.k. will in these cases was used as a tool i think that it was at least carbonated because washington and the follow up reaction by watching the show that they did most interested but they expelled not just symbolically just to show solidarity a couple of freshman diplomas they expelled sixty people they close their consulate

in seattle so it's. what frightens me the spiral of confrontation between well we call it collective collective west but it's mainly the united states where the degree and been there for more than a year but. what i hear from my colleagues from my friends the degree of anti russian. president now speaking of just a few days ago president putin's foreign policy adviser euro shackle suggested that the russian president may actually be open to visiting washington add the invitation of don't all try. and that comes after all these expulsions that you mentioned after the closing of the of the consulate in seattle on what moscow believed to be a fabricated pretext why would the russian literature should be so open and so accommodating to the united states after such

a hostile act to meet them here can president on his own territory. well you see for me it's i can understand the what the americans are doing now because you said it was it has never been that the president says one thing and he's administrations he's key ministers says well say quite the opposite for example it turning to syrian president trump says will withdraw very shortly immediately make your set will it will reinforce the whole group of forces in syria what does that mean do you think that's a deliberate conclusion or just i think they're waiting around for i think that president trump i don't know how it comes but he's acting on his boat he says. it's good to cooperate with russia but his administration said come russia is our enemy is o.

adversary all the all the documents issued. during the last four months i mean a national strategy nuclear posture review national military review all national defense review there is written that the russia ellen said but china our adversaries now you mentioned that the fallout from this criminal case has so far been limited to mutual expulsions although on the a massive scale is that going to a fact of the quality of diplomatic relations and are there any diplomatic relations still left to be affected well of that very good question of course when and when they speak about the the spiral of confrontation if you see the classical the classical moves first message expulsion they expel sixty people more than sixty people so certainly five in december sixth the now also

around one hundred diplomats on the diplomats. so. what is the next step logical step the breach of diplomatic relations and after the breach of diplomatic relations what's the next step ensure usually now a few weeks ago they had a russian intelligence and security services visited washington to be of also just seen a former cia had being designated as the next secretary of state does it mean that spies or former spies are now taking over the roles that were previously have reserved for career diplomats well i don't like the war splashed. intelligence officers yes the people at the more correct i think it's normal that what one spreads the many challenges office is around. president bush be the junior the senior it said once that all decent people serve in the

intelligence services but they will also have made a good quality a diplomat so i think yes you're. joking of course but i think that the intelligence intelligence officers there are qualified people they're qualified diplomats if they serve in the. ministry of foreign affairs each country now can i bring you back to your initial statement about the war on our doorsteps i don't know if you would agree with me but i think the russians have a somewhat different attitudes toward the war even compared to the europeans let alone the americans because the americans have long been isolated or insulated from conventional calls like by their job or a few russians i think have a much more visceral reaction to a threat of war if that scenario of a major. conflict. were to transpire what are you seeing would launch the opening

salvo. not russia not russia definitely. seeing that all the logic of the. latest events testified to the fact that russia is getting ready is getting ready for anything i mean these are a form of the armed forces are weak wittman of the armed forces which actually started after. unique speech where he actually there it to challenge the so-called american leadership there was in my opinion the gist of that i'm not sure he even challenge here simply expressed his criticism or how that leadership transpires in the case of more in the middle east know the speech this speech was not know that that poli and he openly said that they want both the world that is dangerous but it's not

necessarily something that americans disagree with for example president obama in different words also express that idea that the united states does not have to dictate nineteen's will or to the other countries and present trying by the way also in he's special way articulated that idea to some extent i don't agree or read the national strategy or a bomb or nuclear posture review that they're merica united states is an exceptional nation and the united states should be in the elite eason billy should be in the lead and will be in the lead the being in believe does not necessarily mean being the. global cop i mean there is a degree of difference because. for me being in the lead means being the global cop and for the military people when a president or supreme commander says i mean believe you should follow that means that they should follow his example and they should follow his. orders and commands

and i devise and i suppose that would be unacceptable to many works people in russia why do you think russia of all the other countries cannot accept this kind of logic because you know their counter argument is that this is a relatively small economy this country has lots of its internal challenges why does it care about whatever the united states doesn't the world. for the military people this argument about about small small percentage of russian the quantum in the world economy well to me doesn't sound. well. doesn't sound to tall because. if any war. happens it will be a war like the second world war it will be a war they weeks maximal and the size of the economy and what you have to say as little bit go on the world with mr brzezinski we have to take

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russia meet this special one i was also appreciated me to just say the review the r.t. team's latest edition to make up a bigger need to look. back and back to worlds apart making again a brzezinski chairman of the board of the peer center mr brzezinski mainly in russia believe that this curious case of this great pals is connected to the syrian war theater the high concentration of the russian and american navies and their rather mediterranean sees the fear that the united states may strike syria once again do you see any connection there well well of course the the chemical issue is is in fashion i would say. well if has been always connected with

syria syrian government is using chemical agents against civilian population against children elderly. to me is nonsense since the syrian government actually. eliminated all the all the stock by a lot of chemical agents in its possession but of course some objects reach were not under control of the syrian government seven seven seven years ago they were in the hands of the islamic radical islamic groups terrorists so i seeing that all these provocations. again i say they were very a poorly organized and staged when for example the. latest

case of the electric used of chemical weapons which followed by the us try to remember that harshly when the interaction and yes. allegedly is there even was used that people without masks without the well proper clothing traveling just breezing. i'm sure you heard that just recently yes a defense secretary mr mattis said that the united states after having strike in stricken that country actually doesn't have evidence to support the claims that sarin was in there. you see it as a military to me even that strike was something extremely strange first of all south of the half of cruise missiles disappeared second the second you see the strike itself was. absolutely unclear to anybody just what was he actually three or four them

a syrian blades around the weight is not damaged no shelters them nothing was their mistake i mean it may sound funny but it actually i think is very very dangerous because it shows that you don't need much to strike another country with tomahawk missiles you don't even need that we fight to protect this way that's why i think general your estimate of americans again seven that they will strike the center of damascus. chemical attack happens in eastern guta general get i soon made that absolutely clear and you made it more clear as far as i know during the us follow up conversation telephone conversation with the. chief of general dunford and p. explained to you what may happen if they strike and this way i think they didn't strike now the u.k. government is now very loud about the so-called show of solidarity that some

european countries demonstrated in the aftermath of the cripple case but i think there was there's also a very interesting and very unusual example of turkey and they don't member siding with russia on this specific case and i think turkey is a very very special case because you mentioned all the provocations before that i think turkey did play a role in if not organizing some of those partitions and then at least covering for that why what's the significance of turkey being on the russian side this time around i think. turkey first of all is one of the major players in the area second for the turkey's old neighbor. their key is quite a strong country economically militarily and even. politically. to have the gun and to have turkey on our side is very important yes at the beginning of the

conflict and when the spiral of the conflict. develop we actually the peak was the when they shut down our aircraft and our people were killed afterwards sanctions afterwards well a lot of mutual. but then it seems to me that president putin explained the present or the gun that it's better to be to be together and to there that the unsuccessful attempt on president of the guns a life and president that are going to sure that that was your lead and with the assistance of the americans that of course. i would say to some extent bush. our door our side now the russian president just visited turkey and he specifically said there that is going to expedite the delivery of the f. four hundred air defense systems to. and as you were just said turkey is not

an easy partner for russia and i don't think anyone in the kremlin takes whatever a. government has to say at face value i think there still has a lot of mistrust between the two capitals don't you think that the deliveries of the asked for hundreds to turkey may backfire against russia i don't think it may backfire i think if i still have doubts that the delivery will be completed because the pressure on dorky on from from from americans from native from other european countries extremely strong you know as one of the years ago as one of the sectors of defense told me that there was a. russian try to sell. helicopters to turkey and the competition was between

a kind of and there goes the bell tower come of course help if he was faster stronger more better armed you know estimates were better but of course that then there was one by the across the belt and that guy told me general you see you may sell turkey rifles a c v's. if you are obese is even banks but you will never sell them aircraft helicopters warships and they craft systems because it's not just military sales but that nickel milter corporation it's public but for some reason our president the president there the one is very insistent on pursuing that politics why do you think he himself that's me makes me optimistic so since it seems to me that president of the guy wants to diversify he is it is especially

empty craft tests he doesn't want to be. purely dependent on the on the american the quick now turkey is also pursuing its own military offensive in northwest syria and north east syria rather and there are concerns about the humanitarian aspects of that operation as well as staircase long term plans for syria do you think russia has a control room or will you see. that i cannot second by president but when president putin says that care of this people is part of the syrian people and has all the right that there are in its own fate but syrian state should be united the territory and they're going to of syria is not a question by russia. it seems to me that in these huge story along between

the turks and the kurds there is a government that the kurds russia now takes time neutral position and by the way. as far as i can guess the what the what the russian we say to the carrots guys you have a choice you know lead with that you mean the american force now you mentioned already the just recently his intention to pull the american forces out of syria reach some have interpreted as sort of representation being had of another offensive or if that comes to pass what position do you think russia should take. well. i don't think russia with object if americans withdraw because first of all if they withdraw to attack iran or well. well that is to start a great war and to be at least not not in the middle east as well so they had the

conference the president the defense minister on set it's actually the part of asia it's not just middle east near east so it will be did the great war and they're part of the world and you see it's like it's like korean peninsula. ok and who is most to suffer or is there l.-i the. other you care that much about well you know here is a steal and here they strike around the core who will be the. well. come true we'll be suffering but i mean mr brzezinski there is a great difference between and i think the korean case the case israel and iran because south korea is doing everything possible to avoid any military confrontation it's actually mean to hitting between north korea and the americans the position of resume is very different israel is clamoring for some sort of

hostile action and i'm not talking about these around talking about also the arabia because. israel which is. mostly the actions. acting in concert i think we can agree on that no ok ok but not they can trade not be destroyed at one strike if if they strike iran it will be a war it will be a war and quite lengthy war and anything russia will remain neutral in that war or do you think it will try to you i don't think i don't think it'll interfere militarily on the side and i don't think because we don't have any legal treaty of mutual assistance i think russia may. take a role as maybe there and as but i don't think russia will interfere well mr brzezinski we have to leave it there it's been a great pleasure talking to you thank you very much for a time q. and to our viewers please keep the conversation going on our social media pages as

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this is artsy headlining right now your script paul the daughter of the former spy who were both poisoned installed last month gives her first official statement on her condition saying the whole incident has been disorientating experience. facebook admits that tens of millions more people could have been affected by the data harvesting scandal than initially thought the data research company to use the information though disputes the numbers. plus food giant nestlé faces a tide of trouble after being allowed to draw more water for boxing in the u.s. state of michigan despite widespread opposition and environmental fears. that i see this thursday mornings call embrace r t international live from moscow we can stop some breaking news this hour the daughter of

a former russian double agent has given her first official statement after the poison attack on her father last month in the southern english city of salzburg he is making a quick recovery now it seems but does describe the episode as disorientating let's get more now from london our correspondent and us to see if i can is there. what else has been said in union statement to british police. well calling this was certainly a high. highly anticipated statement given that it's now been a whole month of the saga in raveling soon for paul and his thirty three year old daughter yulia were taken to hospital following this incident in salisbury where they were said to have been poisoned and now in this first official release of any information from hi there one of them indeed you could qualify was released a statement where she has said that she has now been in good health for a week she's thanks to people who came to the aid of her and her father when they were as she said quote prostituted and she didn't say and did say that she's found

the whole experience so far disorientating so she's asked for privacy and this is certainly something that neither you or serve. well despite the fact that they were in a coma given much of this whole month of course with allegations of all sorts of flying around and what exactly compensate them now it has to be said of course that's been worked around on the bench in all salzburg on march fourth and since then have both remains in a coma up until now that yulia is finally speaking out about what has happened to that now of course both yulia and syria is a russian citizen and we were just now at a press conference given by the russian ambassador to the u.k. where he talks about how she's basically of course a free to go back to russia whenever she chooses but it's highly likely that all eyes are going to be on yulia now that she's recovered from the exactly one more she will have to say now also keeping in mind the needs of sergei screwball and the

cousin of victoria is expected to be traveling to britain within some time we do know right now she's expecting a british these and and then will be making her way to the u.k. to see her relatives and with all of this i'm going the russian ambassador spoke today about how russia has tried according to him every single method in the book to come into corporation with british officials on this whole saga he's. it's about how it's important to see facts how russia would like to partake in invest in an investigation together with britain and the rest of the international community including the organization for the prohibition of chemical weapons where force russia put a draft suggestion work of those involved in this organization to work together and calling for transparency however as we know that did not go through at this press conference i asked the russian ambassador where this whole situation goes from here given the gravity of the accusations as well as the lack of cooperation between

russia and britain in this whole scenario because you from distance from the completion of. the team describe. are you are now going with some kind of feeling of peace keepers of the homes along the. eastern front benefiting. from the old region. and. pulling the only positive we can reach. through the bridges sites and we establish the truth together for the week because this is the bridges so in the russian citizens we need this. investigation and for my full interview this with the best results and the best outcome for us this whole time this whole month russia has been asking to be involved in exactly

what is going on it's been asking to see south poles it's been asking to partake in the investigation. to see some kind of evidence or facts or a sound of the nerve agent that was said to have been used in this whole incident however it still remains to materialize and we do know that in terms of where this goes from here for now the latest that we're expecting to come next is some kind of fine. from the investigators the police of sads any results could be not announced possibly before a couple of months or weeks or even months as they said and of course the investigation of the o.p.c. w. so all of those should be sherry should shedding more light but clearly there is a major deadlock right now not just diplomatically but in terms of how russian the u.k. see this situation in terms of moving forward and doing ok for now in west london outside the russian embassy in kensington. thanks very much for that of course those many questions mr c.

was pointing out that remain so but nonetheless britain's been quick to continue pointing the finger at russia with the investigation still ongoing u.k. governments being left slightly red faced off the inconsistency in their claims started to emerge and i guess to have takes up the story. it's a right old kid on drugs on the one hand you skip the trial screamed guilty and jump to the punishment part on the other your own guys come out and say hold on there's no evidence and now this is by we're living experts at the defense science and technology laboratory at porton down made clear that this was a military grade novacek nerve agent produced in russia we have not verified the precise source you have not been able to establish that this was made in russia as i said it's our job to provide you know the scientific evidence that identifies what the particular nerve agent is there to be clear you're not able at porton down to say where it is from we haven't yet been able to do that well that's

embarrassing all right keep calm first goo back on your word and just to be sure delete any old tweets then riposte experts who say the opposite of what you said our experts have precisely identified in their region as navi chuck it is not and has never been our responsibility to confirm the source of the agent now pretend that nothing happened which is hard to do in the end to that really the brits ended up having to explain themselves and conveniently scapegoated the poor fellow who transcribed the briefing one of the tweets was truncated and did not accurately report her master's words we removed this tweet you remember what i said about scapegoating he really did but barge johnson himself had said almost the same thing said it's on video you argue that their

source of novacek is russia how did you manage to find it out so quickly when i look at the the evidence i mean the people from from porton dogs. they were absolutely categorical and i asked the guy myself i said are you sure and he said there's no doubt wouldn't want to be in their shoes right about now yet they did find a way around it a simple statement saying that boris johnson didn't mean it like that what the foreign secretary said then and what putin donna said recently is fully consistent with what we've said throughout having taken things so far so far they can't afford to do a u. turn this investigation could end in two ways with proof of russia's guilt or with an uncomfortable silence and hope that everyone forgets until then boris keep doing what you do every day you're going to walk the finger on exactly.

where russian action. is the government russia. of surrogates creep is not an isolated case but the latest of reckless behavior by the russian state the russians the russians the russian the russia russia russia russian deny it i'm afraid the evidence is overwhelming that it is russia and some serious questions too about the claims on german television that this was a russian produced nerve agent and porton down and then examine it and said all they have to fight was not the truth they couldn't say where it came from. let's go live now to world affairs journalist neil clark a good news script is that we've got that first official word from her and she

makes her recovery from that awful incident to go. it's a fairly carefully worded statement as paramount she said of course quite seriously ill at the moment do you think there's any pressure on her on what to say what not to say. i'm sure they'll be pressuring her what to say column i mean just a week ago i remember reading in the british papers that she was on death's door and then the life support she was going to be switched off and now she's made this lousy restore recovery which is extremely welcome of course but the problem of the british government is quite now is their is their narrative is totally unraveling day by day hour by hour we already had this week the announcement from porton down that they couldn't confirm that the nerve agent the government said was used actually came from russia and we had to sort of backpedaling on that one from the likes of boris johnson and co and now we hear that you list for police is up there she's talking she's recovered well and so you know if this was not a chart which we're told we were told before don't forget is the deadliest nerve agent known to man it would kill you within two minutes probably. how is she

recovered and took a lot of questions to be asked here and of course we're now hearing told that the not the truck was probably on the door handle of the script was house but if that was the case then how come they were able to walk around soles where you have a meal go up or drive for the next five hours so this really this narrative really got more holes in it a large slab of swiss cheese isn't it and it's hard to see where the government can go from here really because you know everything they told us in the beginning is so far being contradicted when russia's try to get answers from the u.k. posing questions not only about the criminal incident itself but also about conscience around us to go script all over this now that's. showing signs of recovery do you think there's going to be pressure on the government to at least allow the relatives if not people from the embassy to have access to your lawyer to ask her what happened. i think they've got to call in after all she's a russian citizen the russian have the right to consular access and one of the

british heidi what are they scared of you know and i think it is quite suspicious really that they're not allowing the russians to come here and to to meet with her to interview her to talk to her what they got to hide because again it was so. clear boris johnson said he was he had overwhelming evidence that this was russia why isn't this evidence being produced we're told now it's back to the iraqi to begin decent or isn't it we're told that we have intelligence that points to russia well let's see this intelligence for goodness sake we just can't keep carrying on like this where we've got the political establishment in britain virtually saying in the same way that tony blair and his government said in two thousand and three look we've got the evidence iraq that we're back there again today i'm afraid a lot of people don't trust the government until they actually produce this so-called evidence they've got and as i said if they were so short was russia why haven't they done that yet the russian ambassador a couple of hours ago would have pains to point out that whatever is found by the o.p.c. w. or anything in this investigation appealing to britain please make it open make it

transparent not just to us tell everybody what the findings of this are to expect any international pressure when this gets to the un security council in the next few hours on britain to be able to open up a bit more i think there's got. i think there's got to be now i think the e.u. is split of course what we've had we've had these sort of salute of course claims that the international community stands behind britain well if i think it was twenty eight countries or one hundred ninety five actually expelled ambassadors so that's not much for the say thirteen percent or fourteen percent of the know so the international community doesn't really believe on this one but that's the reality and i think we need more international pressure now coming on the british government to actually open up to be transparent to actually i think we should russia should be involved in the investigation. and so i think it's very important africa other countries in the e.u. . like austria for example who haven't supported the british line i think these countries now should make their voices more loudly heard and we should now have hope for the un. we should get a resolution to work together that would enable

a fully transparent independent investigation into this and not just one where the british are carrying it out and saying look we can't share any information we can't produce any evidence for that believe us it was russia that is not very good guess we'll know in the next few hours it's only mid-morning in new york at the moment we'll find out what the most powerful body has to say about it in due course for now though thanks very much. there's also been a tirade of criticism from britain's opposition labor party on twitter over boris johnson's assurances against russia one commented on how his now over the pied t.v. interview asking if he wanted to delete that as well other stressed the need to check evidence while labor m.p. chris williams and called johnson downright dangerous and says the incident is being used as a diversionary tactic. seems to me the government were indulging in political point scoring particularly boris johnson who raced ahead of the evidence and used this terrible incident not so much as a smoking gun but more of a smokescreen really it was

a very convenient wasn't for the government to use this as a way of diverting attention from their own difficulties over. policy and you know at the end of the day it's pretty clear that boris johnson did not tell the truth he told the german incivil that. scientists poured out it said it was without doubt the agents had to come from russia so i think germany called it was absolutely right to caution to ask for clear evidence before we start to raise international tensions but we need to get to the bottom in the evidence and jeremy said this seems to point towards russia but let's be absolutely clear before we start raising international tensions in this way this is huge implications for more sensible to take a measured approach and be clear about the evidence and all the evidence. for the use now facebook's admitted that the scale of the data breach of its accounts that was used for political purposes has turned out to be far larger than previously

thought the tech giant says that the profiles of up to eighty seven million people could have been shared with the data research cambridge analytical earlier estimate said it was fifty million a consultancy firm stands accused of harvesting private information from facebook users for political targeting among the company's client list were donald trump hillary clinton and barack obama and it appears that many politicians around the globe of also resorted to cambridge analytic and services in an attempt to influence public opinion. in total we believe the phrasebook information of up to eighty seven million people mostly in the u.s. may have been improperly shared with cambridge and. cambridge analytical license data for no more than thirty million people the firm that has been using this information it's called cambridge and a little and essentially it does data collection and polling and analysis for political parties political campaigns and groups they use this information essentially to craft their messaging craft their campaigning in

a way that would be persuasive they kind of create a psychological profile of potential voters based on what they have collected from facebook and social media they then use that information to craft their campaign advertising their messaging etc and now the data harvesting happened in a tacit agreement with facebook now facebook says they had no malicious intent. however this has really hurt their reputation the government of germany actually went as far as asking for a clarification from facebook for an explanation we also have seen the trend it delete facebook all over social media with people you know tweeting out you know delete facebook calling for people to stop using facebook in response to this perceived you know dissemination of people's personal information that we do know that facebook is now in the process of changing their apps so that certain apps are more protected that the privacy of their users is more protected but as we see you

know this call for for facebook to be deleted for people not to be used to using facebook is expanding so a lot of questions are being raised and it's certainly true that the reputation of this very widely used social media app is is severely tarnished we often tonight know rex but cohen and media analyst timothy come for their views on the facebook data scandal. kember generally the guys denying the figure they they claim that it is only thirty million but i don't think it makes a lot of for the from the very thirty million to late a million i think is the principle behind it is the old story about what about the use of intimate robots as we call them votes. in order to meddle with the us elections now sibylle story seem now a little bit out of there a little bit ridiculous nobody's talking about it but it was very interesting to hear was designed to beg only a couple of weeks ago. almost apologizing for allowing them to leave the

boxes today that it was then being used to influence election is if this story was about influencing election but by third parties. rather than to see news as they've done locally this is a company that roots so rapidly that the people who are managing facebook lost control of their creation and the whole business model of facebook is built on this idea that they they collect highly targeted data on their users and then sell that data to advertisers and others and i think there just wasn't enough oversight of that process basement to say that they can they can police themselves internally they can solve these problems with their own oversight but i think that you know there's a legitimate reason that that's not good enough that we need to look at a new regulatory framework that will protect the privacy of users of social media

not just facebook but people go on google and other popular platform. for giant nestlé is being accused of leaving people image taken high and dry by taking more and more of that water supply to bottle up and sal all the details on that when we come back. it's.

no. friends. welcome back there's a david and goliath battle playing out in the us state of michigan despite widespread public opposition the food giant nestlé is being allowed to extract more and more drinking water it can now pull fifteen hundred liters of water a minute and that's five hundred or so liters more than previously allowed now that sparked huge concerns about the environmental impact that that might cause

a state senator who's on the natural resources committee in michigan said she's deeply disappointed by the approval of the permit and almost eighty one thousand people had contacted the authorities to say they were strongly against the corporation doing so and that's against just seventy five people who said it was a good idea but even that groundswell of public opinion has been ignored by the authorities who said it didn't apply to their policies include transparency the majority of the public comments were in the position of the permit but most of them related to public policy which are not and should not be part of an administrative permanent decision opposition to all this goes back to two thousand and one when national was first sued for potential damage to lakes rivers and streams as a result the company had to limit water extraction people once again voicing their concerns. this is when we moved here you can see that there is no no growth on either side leslie has a reputation worldwide of going to perp or rural communities are offering to all

kinds of economic benefits to the community that never really materialize and take in as much water as they can get and when a stream runs dry they leave unless they can track to who's been given the permit says it will carefully review the agreement and will comply with all of its requirements and michigan environmental council says the water extraction will be heavily monitored if they do pop up in the bubble of the water goes down this is something that groups like our own could take nestle to court and have the courts and force the permit we make sure that no nobody takes too much water out of the river so that it so that it runs dry or everything so that's why they're going to monitor the flow and make sure that that flow maintains a healthy well and in cases where the stream flow starts to drop then they're required to turn back their wells and turn them down so it's going to be very

closely monitored withdrawal and if we do see that impact happening then we'll be asking state officials to talk boyd to curb it and make west make nestle turn the wells off. so the florida school was seventeen people were killed by a teenager in february speaking out against new security measures there one survivor who's joined the anti gun lobby expressed her frustration at a see through backpack which is one of the school's new safety measures students say they want well thought out changes not used as quick fixes and samir khan reports. it's been almost two months since the survivors of the deadly school shooting in parkland called on the government to take action what's more important is actual action and pertinent action that results in saving thousands of children's lives but some of the initiatives taken to curtail gun violence haven't been so popular like these clear backpacks made mandatory at marjorie stoneman douglas high and by the editor of bad intentions my new backpack is almost as

transparent as the end i raise agenda i feel so safe now starting over the last quarter i have seen a year right with a good old violation of privacy now i can't lie about not having gum moving on to another state and another brilliant and this shit a middle school teacher in georgia asked to do is to write a letter to congress demanding stricter gun controls the assignment enraged parents who complained that it was unethical to bring the issue into the school's curriculum pennsylvania has its own rather unique solution if an armed intruder attempts to gain at princeton the work class terms they will face a classroom full of students armed with rocks and they will be stoned but apparently this is plan b. b. district superintendent said that the rocks were his own suggestion after scrapping plan a which was great for golf balls so it looks like those in charge of fixing the issue of gun violence seem to be using the debate to score political points and one of the best examples of this is senator marco rubio i respect their views and

recognize that many americans support certain gun bans however many other americans do not support a gun ban statements like this and makeshift solutions are perhaps not what the shooting survivors had in mind when they called for action samir khan r t washington d.c. . people have been shot dead and three more women did at a university in turkey according to local media the incident happened at an institution in the western city of s.k. here reports say the police detained the shooter who killed four staff members it's believed the suspect also works at the university. but there from last hour security services appear to think that the gunman is a member of the food organization considered by turkey as a terrorist group and responsible for the attempted coup in the twenty six day and when we get any more updates on that we'll let you know and i'll say. that's it for now though if you get the altie app you can get our news alerts twenty four seven i'll be back right ahead i mean thirty five minutes with the next world news from ati international.

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a lot of the news understandably missed a pretty significant story that might one day in history look much bigger than it did the week it happened and that is explain or china aims to challenge brant. oil with crude futures launch the launch of china's yuan denominated oil futures will mark the culmination of a decade long push by the shanghai futures exchange s h f e aimed at giving the world's largest energy consumer more power and price in crude oil sold to asia so some are saying the petro yuan is here and it's here to challenge the petro dollar yeah we've been waiting on the us for a long time because we're talking about the dollar factors world reserve currency countries are tired of funding in america's wars because ever there's got to be

trainers in dollars including oil if you buy oil you got to buy dollars first that means america gets a commission and they use that money to wage wars all over the world people are tired of it they're tired of war they don't want to subsidize or no more to china saying you know what here's the weak point is this dollar we're going to introduce of petro un and we're going to take over pricing of oil and we're going to get what well i mean you could prison as a conspiracy theory however it could be your conspiracy theory people die every day now i know it could just be practical part of becoming part of the global monetary an economic power china is on a purchasing power parity the number one economy in the world without adjusting for purchasing power it's the number two behind the u.s. so at some point they do have to join the game and allow their currency to float

it's not convertible at the moment you know it's it's. they control the exchange rate so at one point they will need to provide more of the quiddity to global markets there's no more market in the world perhaps gold is the closest to oil so if right now it's all traded in u.s. dollars and that's why every country in the world doesn't mind having a huge surplus of dollars on their books because they could use it to buy oil but you know it could just be china i'm just playing devil's advocate here to conspiracy theories because a lot of people say this is like a direct challenge and i think it is a challenge it will ultimately be perhaps they get the exorbitant privilege one day in a world of fear but here it could just be a practical thing of how to. you know how to make your currency part of not only the s.d.r. the i.m.f. special drawing rights but also a global reserve currency well why china name dollars

and why do they sell stuff to the us for dollars like into wal-mart because without dollars there in cable or participating in the global economy since it's all priced in dollars so to escape the yoke of being colonized by a dollar based economy they would seek to escape. possibly through the u.n. petro dollar contract as an expression of economic freedom. so this is something that we see in other countries russia for example is coming up with an alternative to the swift money transfer system they don't want to be colonized by the american dollar swift system they want in their own system so all these countries that are emerging now and multi-trillion dollar competitors to the u.s. economy need to figure out the dollar question or they will remain

a colony of the us well one thing of course that also happened is when trump was threatening all sorts of tariffs on steel and intellectual property six billion dollars worth of trade tariffs on there is that one there are many people in the communist party of china and one official did say oh we might not buy any more u.s. treasuries they didn't threaten to dump them but every single financial and economic analysts on earth said of course china is kind of stuck in a quagmire because they hold so many u.s. dollar treasury bonds and what are they going to do they're just going to ruin their own position so this is also a way to not have to accumulate even more u.s. dollars on their books because they need to diversify their portfolio because they're right now. you know they're not diversified they're not hopefully giving up

to some biopic relationship that people thought was unimpeachable and unbreakable between these two but china is signaling that maybe it is breakable that maybe they will attempt to go it alone so let's look at some of the risks that reuters says the people are concerned about and i'm just going to pick up on one matter that you are a special this on because it's about market making and market structure and price discovery and things like this and one of the issues they point out that people are concerned about is that the shanghai international energy exchange the unit of shanghai futures exchange running the contract has strict daily limits on the number of council orders allowed per account aimed at curbing spoofing this involves placing bids to buy or offers to sell futures contracts with the intent to cancel them before execution by creating an illusion of demand spoofers can influence prices to benefit their market positions for

a larger client placing orders of more than three hundred lots of quibbling to thirty thousand barrels of oil the limit is fifty a day users with smaller orders are allowed five hundred cancellations that's different to international exchanges like the c.m.e. which it uses a ratio based on an investor's traded volume so they're actually targeting spoofing this is an matter we've talked about for many years a lot of people who look at the markets in the west point to spoofing in many of the markets including from the high frequency traders all spoofing as a way to defraud markets and if china is a party that wants to get the u.s. defrauded to defraud a china trader from coming from china they would use spoofing to defraud them and to steal the money so china saying ok we want to be in this market and we don't want to be defrauded anymore we don't want to have our money stall in the way it's been stolen by the c.m.e. for years and years of impunity. so we're going to introduce our own contract then we're going to bring integrity to that contract to do some anti spoofing tweaks to

the way that these contracts are traded and they will become probably a lot of pop you know very popular contract because a lot of people don't want to have their money stolen by the c.m.a. you know that's a common thread again well with markets of course blocked chain technology could be used to remove a lot of this fraud rather than going through a complicated regulatory measures but another thing that some people are concerned about in terms of the this new shanghai futures contract is that you know the western markets are pretty much twenty four seven and oil but this one this particular contract they won't be open twenty four seven and also what will happen during china's national holidays well trading will stop for china's weeklong national holidays but the spring festival in golden week leaving the shanghai market out of sync with the western exchanges shorter trading hours with just three slots each day compared with almost twenty four hours on western exchanges means

that the market may sometimes play catch up with the rest of the world so there is a bit of an arbitrage and a weird it seems like it might be more chaotic if they're competing we see that within the big point market between us twenty four seven and then you have currency markets and gold markets shut down over the weekend and you see this huge catch up where you see e.t.f. so something like gold barry celebrates gold e.t.f. that on the weekends if the price of bitcoin falls by fifteen twenty percent then you know somebody in g.t.c. cancer cell with till monday morning yeah varies a bit going e.t.f. yeah that's true if they're going to have to expand the hours of training i think they need to roll it out slowly they're going to do it on a limited basis and then they've got to go twenty four seven for those very reasons within a year they will be twenty four seventh's. and before i know people leave comments is not see is not an e.t.f.

but it's close to it to say it's structured similar to it but who will use the domestic industry they ask in this article in reuters well china has opened more than six thousand trading accounts including the country's oil majors and about one hundred fifty brokerages ten foreign intermediaries have registered including j.p. morgan benz financial straits financial services and other hong kong based at philly it's of domestic brokerages it will likely attract however mainly mom and pop speculative investors who dominate the country's other often volatile commodity futures markets from dates to iron ore through although transaction fees for crude are relatively higher so they're predicting it's going to be the mom and pops speculating on this. enormous buying power and they do affect prices on the margin you know we know in japan for example the mrs wants an army the housewife prototype archetype is the one who drives pricing in that in those markets and for ex the so

here you've got an enormous population online traders who can on the margins to move prices up and down so this is and then enormous population of many hundreds of millions of traders by the way foreign investors can participate you have to open a nonresident bank account so if you want to compete with the mom and pop speculators in china you're welcome to go there apparently but you know they mention j.p. morgan and i want to turn to this headline and it shows again i had just mentioned block to you know what sort of transparency block chain could introduce to these commodity markets because j.p. morgan has this massive silver position and everybody's talking about it but do they really have a massive silver position we don't know however here's a headline from zero head and it's regarding john butler who is a well known. commodities guy and he's written many books and does

a lot of research while silver prices to surge j.p. morgan has acquired a massive quantity of physical silver j.p. morgan continues to accumulate the biggest stockpile of physical silver in history j.p. morgan now holds more than one hundred thirty three million ounces more than held by the hunt brothers according to john butler silver hoard owned by j.p. morgan has increased from zero ounces in two thousand and eleven to one hundred twenty million ounces today money managers showing more optimism towards silver through record buying near impossible to rule out an upside price surprise at any moment this is from marco burns. gold core outfit and they were posting on zero hedge so we need to get into this with some of the actual you know david morgan he's a guy who would know i think we're going to talk to him when the second half hour wait yes but i mean that this notion of of of whether or not these commodity markets and whether or not they could be rigged or whether or not they're going to drive prices or change fundamental outcomes or crash the dollar all these sort of

things a lot of it has been disproven by the fact that we're ten years into it and it didn't happen we had shanghai gold and futures markets the silver and gold futures markets there that hasn't seemingly changed anything silver and gold are still at the same price that they were when those launched in shanghai so whether or not this oil market futures will change anything to the u.s. dollar the petro dollar it's remains to be seen everyone loves a good story though and that's what separates us from the animals as you mentioned when we come back we'll be talking with david morgan about silver don't go away.

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on a politician. keep it or don't or don't let you come up to the group. on ten you're going to tell all i knew of them have a disagreement among the countries i'm. not there with them but oh november if i say i get them there is going to be like the ban on them but i have the beginnings of a. welcome back to the kaiser report imax guys are time now to turn to david moore again he's in the pacific northwest david morgan of the morgan report dot com david welcome back to the kaiser report actually

a character i have to be back thank you. yeah well let's get into silver now j.p. morgan our friend our nemesis j.p. morgan apparently they've got a whole lot of silver that's what we're hearing at least according to many headlines now how much do they have according to this headline that we've been rating and how much do they really have according to david laurie m. that's impossible to determine the absolute about what the fact is that they have about a hundred and thirty five million ounces of silver currently and that's basis for reporting requirements from the c.m.a. so right now as of today if you morgan has five million one hundred twenty two thousand ounces of silver in the register category the register category is what they own outright at g p or they can you know move in and out there will also have

in their warehouse one hundred thirty three a call eight hundred thirty four million ounces of silver which is the eligible category which is generally long term investors that have trusted j.p. morgan to hold their silver so you cannot sell any of the eligible category intil the owner of that silver signs with the form basically that says i want to so much silver put it on the markets all at this price or solid at the market or whatever so the total is one hundred thirty nine million ounces one hundred seventeen thousand five hundred eighty two out of silver own in that category j.p. morgan but again i wanted to find that most of that is the eligible category and most of us know that he knows what category. is long term investors in the us are larry owned by j.p. morgan now can j.p. morgan have some silver in the l a yes the can but i think it's an in afterward

assumption to think that all of that silver it's owned by them and no one has joined it's over in their facility how much of it in the old categories there is it's hard to say most of us think very little of it but it can't be proven winner one way or the right so this falls under the heading of are we at a flexion point in the price of silver in l.a. because my summer for many errors a traded from four to fourteen for many ersatz hang on hang on that sixteen eighteen arrangements for seems like an eternity and you've got the same thing morgan is out there apparently they're buying solver also the gold or silver a still is eighty two. which is historically a very very high is all this adding of. a bullish case for solar are we about to break out of the doll jones david morgan. i believe we are if

you look at the condemned to traders report which most of been. let's say have learned about how the commitment of traders reports are especially for gold and silver and we are in a unique case something i haven't seen since i've been looking at them for like twenty years or so which is that silver base is the c o two that can enter traders is at a level where there's basically nowhere to go but up that does not mean that it can go lower still but we're basically in a net short position which hasn't happened. in this category for since two thousand and three i believe it's been like thirteen years so we're an extremely well positioned area for silver to move higher just because the commitment of traders show. those that it's at this level doesn't necessarily mean it's instantaneous but the other factors what you mention max are over eighty on the

gold silver ratio which usually portends a closure of that which means a silver starts to outperform gold. the gold c o two is not nearly as bush as the slopes you normally the coincide pretty much but at this point in time that's not the case so one of the best traits i think you could use at this time would be to do a thread which means to short gold or go on silver and all that means is not that you dislike just expects over our form go as rather conservative trade and it also requires less margin to form structure i found out so now you know we've been talking to you for a number of years and the big bugaboo was talking about all the seller's allas the fact that the us dollar has got tremendous support and all us start and ahmed assets are supported and we've got special banks around the world and on the game and they love the dollar they had precious metals because they want to push the

theocracy and everything associated with it however now we've got in china launching an oil futures market priced in us many say this is the beginning of the petro us and the end of the pats dollar so this would paul possibly a leg under out from underneath that dollar as well reserve currency as a fair statement or what are your thoughts on the statement so it's very statement max the only thing i am of more public concern a little older doesn't make me any wiser although i hope it could i do figure it out will have an impact i'm just not willing to do is going to be immediate but they go over time it definitely will cut into the dollar hedging only the two dollars over time and what does that mean to even i guess you know six months to a year could be it's just leader very soothing only have one day of trading i've read some articles about it certainly the tree was robust. i use in the you want and there was a arbitrage opportunity which is interesting right from the get go so i do think

you have something the tide of gold that's a little bit of a stretch or did an interview with alister. from. gold anea we're friends are a chance see that there's a possibility of two traits but it isn't tied directly to old although those a trade in that parameter in this new on big picture dollar contract could if they elected to move in another contract go back but it isn't tied directly right south china lost a gold caesar's price and you add a year ago or two years ago and has this had any impact now it hasn't yet really i mean any time you take you know physical gold from the overall supply doesn't have enough fact and truth yes i mean it moved from one hand to another hand but what really did it affect the price would affect the price of stand surely and the answer to that is basically no china and russia particularly have been accumulating

wealth for years as the data guys like to say that there's been given that gift with the derivatives market getting a price at a level that they just keep buying and buying and buying so as far as the shift of physicals concerned it's been nasa of it's been it's in malaysia in for years and years that cannot be discounted and if you go to a gold backing and know the words how much curtseys out there versus i'm unschooling still by nation state russia has the best ratio so i think it's very important from that perspective or from a fundamental perspective but as far as does it you know affect the price the answers there are too smart to let it affect the price at this point in time that's my view they're taking advantage of data says what the derivatives market gives them as far as the price finding it can is. right you may get point there russia's been accumulating all china's been accumulating all the precious battles and as far

as precious metals as a percentage of their reserves and g.d.p. they're pretty well positioned going forward you know where the environment where there's a lot of rhetoric a lot of heated rhetoric something odd called war two point zero and is this type of a environment sansa favor gold and sell for david. well salut i mean the whole system is it's you know as we both know max game it's a confidence game and that's the problem because once confidence is lost then things break apart rather rapidly so right now the brics you know brazil russia india china and south africa four years ago the asian infrastructure investment bank they moved down the swiss systems late position themselves to basically. isolate themselves financially from a dollar collapse now whether or not that would hold or not i would say remains to be determined but obviously the effort is made and again to repeat the continue to

buy the one thing that's been trusted for a thousand years old so if you look at it as objectively as i possibly can and it speaks volumes and why would the central banks in these you know in the brics want so much gold i mean it's pretty obvious they don't trust the dollar so i think it's a continuation and when is the breaking point means to be determined i think we're ever closer especially with this the pet your situation that we just talked. all right and the big competitor for the precious metal buck over the past few years of cars as bankrupt the car saying because i had a huge drop and twice at a team that big pull back a twenty eighteen do you think is going to be rotation now from those are looking for sound money and alternatives to the u.s. dollar would rotate out of crypto as an enterprise just models and particularly into silver because the government seems to be a uniquely undervalued at this stage david. well added only

certainly it's a one day does make a market but a minute young man at the n.r. poker crop that's where i spoken i had suggested on one of the interviews that would be a good time perhaps take some coin profit moved into silver he did it one bit closer to seventeen thousand so he's pretty happy at that point in time. and i think the next phase could be again this is my bias where you start to see what we're already seeing which means more and more crypto currencies that are backed by gold or silver or both and you see more of those i think that could be the next leg of the currency or the distributed legit technology going forward there's been a lot in the because and world either like or in some of the better known ones are probably the most legitimate and there's been probably out on a large number that have been basically what's in it for me only type of things it's a great technology i'm not against the block chain i am a little skeptical of what the true anonymity of it is and also what is the long

term of bill ability meaning and i'll digress here moment x. but i was at the summer some in san francisco november of last year it was myself the case the agent in a couple other presenters and were asked ten years out if you could buy one asset bitcoin or gold what would you buy and all of us answered go. all right. while the nose attracted a lot of interesting heavyweights like ron paul in the big quiet space i was at the gym recently and one t.v. they had an ira first over and on the other t.v. was ron paul advertising iras with bitcoin so these two are battling it out but so most certainly is looking like it's like a big coin circa you know beef after the mt gox collapse it's it's been time for a rally and of course you're on the front line anecdotally are you starting to see

order flow and interest in so far we've got about five seconds david know very well what your main dealers here in the last week you know more still flat are still sellers in the market overall so it's still flat but are you growing no no never still looks like mark so you want to be all right fair enough never sell a quiet market thanks david morgan for being on the kaiser report thank you well that's going to do it for this edition of the kaiser report with three minutes guys or stacy everett want to thank our guest david morgan and you can find him over at the morgan report dot com is trying to find us on twitter scott as a reporter until next time you know. henry kissinger once said the brochure in the united states went into the ukrainian

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these top stories you hear script all the daughter of the former spy who were both poisoned in salzburg last month gives a first official statement on her condition saying the whole incident has been disorientating experience. facebook admits that tens of millions more people could have been affected by the data harvesting scandal than initially thought of the data research company. information disputes the numbers. the faces the tide of trouble after being allowed to. rest state of michigan despite widespread opposition and environmental for his. party international in moscow at six pm there's

a lot to update you on from the past couple of hours first off the daughter of a former russian double agent has given her first official statement after the poison attack on her and her father last month in the city of salisbury described the episode as disorientating more in her statement to british police and us to see . it was certainly a highly anticipated statement given that it's now been a whole month of the saga of raveling soon to paul and his thirty three year old daughter yulia were taken to hospital following this incident in salisbury where they were said to have been poisoned and now in this first official release of any information from hi there one of them indeed you use qualifiers released a statement where she has said that she has now been in good health for a week she's thanks to people who came to the aid of her and her father when they were as she said quote prostituted and she didn't say and did say that she's found the whole experience so far disorientated so she's asked for privacy and this is

certainly something that neither you or sergei well despite the fact that they were in a coma given much of this whole month of course with allegations of all sorts of flying around about what exactly happened to them now it has to be said of course that it worked on a bench in the hall salisbury on march fourth and since then have both remains in a coma up until now that yulia is finally speaking out about what has happened to them now of course both yulia and syria is a russian citizen and we were just now at a press conference given by the russian ambassador to the u.k. where he talked about how she's basically of course of free to go back to russia whenever she chooses but it's highly likely that all eyes are going to be on you we are now that she's recovered the exactly one more she will see now also keeping in mind that the niece of sergei screwball and the cousin of victoria is expected to be traveling to britain within some time we do know right now she's expecting

a british these and then will be making her way to the u.k. to see her relatives and with all of this ongoing the russian ambassador spoke today about how russia has tried according to him every single method in the book to come into corporation with british officials on the. whole saga he's talked about how it's important to see facts how russia would like to partake in invest in an investigation together with britain and the rest of the international community including the organization for the prohibition of chemical weapons where force russia put a draft suggestion word of those involved in this organization to work together and calling for transparency however as we know that did not go through at this press conference i asked the russian ambassador where this whole situation goes from here given the gravity of the accusations as well as the lack of cooperation between russia and britain in this whole scenario. thing do we pose do we reach.

the. grecian from the british sides and we establish the truth together for the week because this is the british and the russian citizens we need this. investigation and for my point of view this was the best results and the best outcome but of course this whole time this whole month russia has been asking to be involved in exactly what is going on it's been asking to see south poles it's been asking to partake in the investigation. to see some kind of evidence or facts or a sound of the nerve agent that was said to have been used in this whole incident however that still remains to materialize and we do know that in terms of where this goes from here for now the latest that we're expecting to come next is some kind of fact finding from the investigators who the police have sad any results could be not announced possibly before a couple of months or weeks or even months as they said and of course the

investigation of the o.p.c. w. so all of those should be sharing shedding more light but clearly there is a major deadlock right now not just diplomatically but in terms of how russian the u.k. see this situation in terms of moving forward to see the check. outside the russian embassy in london there in fact one of the other things that the ambassador talked about was having consular access to the script that's where if a foreign citizen gets into trouble or involved in an incident that embassies can help them repatriate with documents what have you and update in the past thirty minutes or so on this the u.k. foreign office has informed the script how that the russian embassy has offered her consular assistance but says that has not yet chosen to take up that offer there more development to come later as well this thursday because the u.n. security council is due to hold a meeting called by russia later on thursday over the recent developments in the poisoning case many questions of course still remaining unanswered britain's been

quick to point the finger at russia despite the investigation expected continue for many more months yet the u.k. government's been left slightly red faced after inconsistency in their claims started to emerge and i guess you have got more on that. it's a right old kid on drugs on the one hand you skip the trial screamed guilty and jump to the punishment part on the other your own guys come out and say hold on there's no evidence and i was his by were living experts at the defense science and technology laboratory at portadown made clear that this was a military grade nobby choke nerve agent produced in russia we have not verified the precise source you have not been able to establish that this was made in russia as i said it's our job to provide you know the scientific evidence that identifies what the particular nerve agent is but typically you're not able at porton down to say where it is from we haven't yet been able to do that well that's embarrassing

all right keep calm first goo back on your word and just to be sure delete any old tweets then riposte experts who say the opposite of what you said our experts have precisely identified in their region as not be chuck it is not and has never been our responsibility to confirm the source of the agent now pretend that nothing happened which is hard to do in the end to that really the brits ended up having to explain themselves and conveniently scapegoated the poor fellow who transcribed the briefing one of the tweets was truncated and did not accurately report her master's words we removed this tweet you remember what i said about scapegoating he really did but barge johnson himself had said almost the same thing said it's on video you argue that their source of

the chalk is russia how did you manage to find it out so quickly when i look at the the evidence when the people from from porton dollars. they were absolutely categorical and i asked the guy myself i said are you sure and he said there's no doubt wouldn't want to be in their shoes right about now yet they did find a way around it a simple statement saying that boris johnson didn't mean it like that what the foreign secretary said then and what putin donna said recently is fully consistent with what we've said throughout having taken things so far so far they can't afford to do a u. turn this investigation could end in two ways with proof of russia's guilt or with an uncomfortable silence and hope that everyone forgets until then boris keep doing what you do every day are you ready for the finger of blame on the earth

itself and we are rushing action. is the government russia. of surrogates creep out is not an isolated case but the latest in a pack of reckless behavior by the russian state the russians the russians russian russia russia russian russian deny it i'm afraid the evidence is overwhelming that it is russia and the parson has serious questions to say he claims on german television that this was a russian produced nerve agent and porton down and then examined it and said all they claimed to have to fight was not the truth they couldn't say where it came from. and there's been a tirade of criticism from britain's opposition labor party on twitter how over boris johnson's assurances against russia one commented on his now vilified t.v. interview asking if he wanted to delete that to other stressed the need to check

evidence while labor m.p. chris williams and called johnson downright dangerous and says the incident is being used as a diversionary tactic. seems to me the government were indulging in political point scoring particularly boris johnson who raced ahead of the evidence and used this terrible incident not so much as a smoking gun but more of a smokescreen really it was a very convenient for the government to use this as a way of diverting attention from their own difficulties of a. policy and you know at the end of the day it's pretty clear that boris johnson did not tell the truth he told the german interviewer that a. scientist and it said it was without doubt the agents had to come from russia so i think jeremy called him was absolutely right to caution to ask for clear evidence before we start to raise international tensions but we need to get to the bottom in the evidence and jeremy said this seems to point towards

russia but let's be absolutely clear before we start raising international tensions in this way this us huge implications for more sensible to take a measured approach and be clear about the evidence and let all the evidence a last hour i talked to world affairs journalist nick neal plock and he told me that britain stands on the nerve agent attacks being contradictory. just a week ago i remember reading in the british papers that she was on death's door in the life support she was going to be switched off and now she's made this lousy restore recovery which is extremely welcome of course but the problem of the british government has got now is there is that narrative is totally unraveling day by day hour by hour we already have this week the announcement from porton down that they couldn't confirm that the nerve agent the government said was used actually came from russia and we had to sort of backpedaling on that one from the likes of boris johnson and co and now we hear that you list for police is is up there she's talking she's recovered well and so you know if this was not a chop which we're told we were told before don't forget is the deadliest nerve

agent no into mine it would kill you within two minutes probably. how is she recovered until a lot of questions to be asked here no the course we're now hearing told the navi truck was probably on the door handle of the triples house but if that was the case then how come they were able to walk around solves for you have a meal go up or drive for the next five hours so this really this narrative really got more holes in it the larger so i was swiss cheese isn't it and it's hard to see where the government can go from here really because you know everything they told us in the beginning is so far being contradicted. to other news now facebook's admitted that the scale of the data breach of its accounts that was used for political purposes has turned out to be far larger than previously thought the web giant says that the profiles of up to eighty seven million people could have been shared with data research firm cambridge analytical earlier estimates said it was fifty million the consultancy firm stands accused of harvesting private information from facebook users for political targeting among the company's client lists were

donald trump and re clinton and barack obama and appears of many politicians around the world of also resorted to cambridge analytical services in an attempt to sway public opinion. in total we believe the phrasebook information of up to eighty seven million people mostly in the u.s. may have been improperly shared with cambridge and. cambridge analytical license data for no more than thirty million people the firm that has been using this information it's called cambridge and a little and essentially it does data collection and polling and analysis for political parties political campaigns and groups they use this information essential to craft their messaging craft their campaigning in a way that would be persuasive they kind of create a psychological profile of a vote potential voters based on what they have collected from facebook and social media they then use that information to craft their campaign advertising their messaging etc and now the data harvesting happened in

a tacit agreement with facebook now facebook says they had no malicious intent. however this has really hurt their reputation the government of germany actually went as far as asking for a clarification from facebook for an explanation we also have seen the trend delete facebook all over social media with people you know tweeting out you know delete facebook calling for people to stop using facebook in response to this perceived you know dissemination of people's personal information that we do know that facebook is now in the process of changing their apps so that certain apps are more protected that the privacy of their users is more protected but as we see you know this call for for facebook to be deleted for people not to be used to using facebook is expanding so a lot of questions are being raised and it's certainly true that the reputation of this very widely used social media app is is severely tarnished picking up on not

internet lower media experts we've been talking to say there's a lack of awareness about how people's data is being used and that's how firms like facebook make their money. kember generally the guys denying the figure they claim that it is only thirty million but i don't think it makes a lot of for the fans very thirty million to late a million i think is the principle behind the old story about but what about the use of intimate robots as we call them boats in order to meddle with the newest selection is not the bills there is the now a little bit out of there a little bit ridiculous nobody is talking about it but it was very interesting to hear his desire to beg only a couple of weeks ago. almost apologizing for allowing them to leave the boxes today that it was then being used to influence election is if this story was about influencing election but by third parties. rather than to see news as they've

done locally this is a company that route so rapidly now the people who are managing facebook lost control of their creation and the whole business model of facebook is built on this idea that they they collect highly targeted data on their users and then sell that data to advertisers and others and i think there just wasn't enough oversight of that process basement don't want to say that they can they can police themselves internally they can solve these problems with their own oversight but i think that you know there's a legitimate reason that that's not good enough that we need to look at a new regulatory framework that will protect the privacy of users of social media not just facebook but people who are google and other popular platforms and without a food giant nestlé is being accused of leaving people in michigan high and dry by taking more and more of that water bottle up and sat on the details on that when we

come back. it's. truthful. what politicians do something to. put themselves on the line to get accepted over checked. so when you want to be president or injury. or somehow want to press. you to go on to be press this is what the forty three in the morning can't be good good i'm interested always in the waters about how. things should.

back there is a david and goliath battle playing out in the u.s. state of michigan right now despite widespread public opposition food giant nestlé is being allowed to increase how much water it extracts for bottling and selling it can now draw more than fifteen hundred liters a minute and that's more than five hundred more than was previously allowed that has sparked huge concerns about the environmental consequences of all that a state senator who's on the natural resources committee said she's deeply disappointed by the approval of the permit here's how the public opinion stacks up almost eighty one thousand people are contacted the authorities saying they were strongly against the corporation extracting more water that's up against just

seventy five people telling them that it was a good idea but even with that groundswell of public opinion was ignored by the authorities who said it didn't apply to their policies in full transparency the majority of the public comments were in the position of the permit but most of them related to sheets of public policy which are not and should not be part of an administrative permanent decision. opposition to all this goes back to two thousand and one when nestle was first sued for potential damage to lakes rivers and streams as a result the company had to limit water extraction people in michigan the one to get voicing their concerns he says when we moved here you can see that there is no or no growth on either side nestle has a reputation worldwide of going to occur for rural communities are offering the kinds of economic benefits to the community that never really materialized and taking as much water as they can get and when

a stream runs dry they leave and that's a itself says it will carefully review its permits in order to comply with all the requirements the met you can environmental council also said that it will be closely monitoring the company's water extraction if they do pompano but what will of the water goes down this is something that groups like our own could take nestle to court and have the courts and force a permit we make sure that no nobody takes too much water out of the river so that it so that it runs dry or everything so that's why they're going to monitor the flow and make sure that that flow maintains that are healthy and in cases where the stream flow starts to drop then they're required to turn back their wells and turn them down so it's going to be very closely monitored withdrawal and if we do see that impact happening then we'll be asking state officials to talk boy to curb it and make us make nestle turn the wells off. students at the florida school where

seventeen people were killed by a teenager in february speaking out against new security measures there one survivor who joined the anti gun lobby expressed her frustration at students being told to use see through backpacks which is one of the school's new safety measures the youngsters say they want well thought out changes not useless quick fixes as american reports. it's been almost two months since the survivors of the deadly school shooting in park when called on the government to take action what's more important is actual action and pertinent action that results in saving thousands of children's lives but some of the initiatives taken to curtail gun violence haven't been so popular like these clear backpacks made mandatory at marjorie stoneman douglas high and i did a bad intention my new backpack is almost as transparent as the end i raise agenda i feel so safe now starting over the last quarter i have seen a year right with a good old violation of privacy now i can't lie about not having gum moving on to

another state and another brilliant and mission if a middle school teacher in georgia asked to dance or write a letter to congress demanding a stricter gun control yes i'm an enraged parents who complained that it was unethical to bring the issue into the school's curriculum pennsylvania has its own rather unique solution if an armed intruder attempts to gain at princeton the work class terms they will face a classroom full of students armed with rocks and they will be stoned but apparently this is plan b. the district superintendent said that the rocks were his own suggestion after scrapping plan a which was great for golf balls so it looks like those in charge of fixing the issue of gun violence seem to be using the debate to score political points and one of the best examples of this is senator marco rubio i respect their views and recognize that many americans support certain gun bans however many other americans do not support a gun ban statements like this in makeshift solutions are perhaps not what the shooting survivors had in mind when they called for action samir khan r t

washington d.c. . for teaching staff have been shot dead and three more people wounded at a university in turkey according to local media the incident happened with an institution in the western city of ask which is not far from the capital ankara reports say the shooter didn't resist arrest and that the suspect targeted people who were linked to. the organization accused of being behind the twenty sixteen coup in turkey the university's rector told reporters that the gunman worked at the university and also said the staff members and filed complaints about improv to the incident. right that's it for now thanks very much for joining us when i'm called umbrella next global update from alta international and about thirty seven minutes or so as you know.

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fish this franklin has already been working all day as a city police officer. but at night he chooses to extend his work day in the unit that uses sydney's application for. my regular shift was two twenty five to eleven o'clock pm and then i go from sort of twelve am to six and walk a long day but it's worth it in the end. that there's overtime is paid for by the millionaire. before leading police officers of the task force collect their equipment. those tablets with the app. and the small electric cars. once the app is turned on they head to the french quarter. sidney torres is having dinner there with his son. but he's always connected to his phone.

drug dealing decatur and has been a right here. to do his apples. never ported the presence of a drug dealer in front of this bar. as a drug deal that they said was happening and that's you know i'm looking on the g.p.s. right now to see what the machine is because the machine should be on its way right now. less than three minutes after the warning car isn't already on site. but the drug dealers just left. back at the station. joey is in charge of dispatching the police. he has just received the picture that raises his concern. was the problem with the history and

that he's probably carrying it should go to scratch ok guys carry guns and f.h. it's hot out here look i want to long sleeve heavy duty shirt to cover up. short guys look at those pictures were probably the turn out if they found a god because. he immediately sends a car. but the men vanishes. a few weeks later. this man identified with the application or murder a nightclub bouncer. the killer is twenty two years old his name is terry mark he will be arrested for the murder a few weeks later. due to the large number of alerts received tonight. joy he decides to help out his troops on site.

now to. come out of the and hold his gun point on a drug. we decided to check the small streets around the french quarter the criminals often use them to escape the police. culture of. men with suspicious behaviors prostitutes in. the crowd that doesn't seem to enjoy the officers presence. the sunfish was gullible and. see

a guy who can cause trouble. he's got a fairly good that's for sure. at this exact location a man was beat up and robbed a few days earlier under the different eyes of the prostitutes. walk of the. mounted police city police. state police task force. everything is done to make sure that tourists can have fun and the city. they bring in six billion dollars each year.

the youth of new orleans has fun in a different way. and illegal. but the street races on a road under construction. clay is twenty four he never misses a run. every sunday of every week pretty much. what do. these various people. like the nose guard do strange to certain races of race. each weekend there are dozens looking for the thrill of speed. girls also take part

in the races when the brothers are coming up it was like you're going to ration is addition to this it's in your blood the media the female they were when i came. aboard if the cash money up front this is mine everybody hope you pay for it it's not so. good. after two hundred metres she reaches one hundred miles per hour. not enough to win the race. so a good. sort of escape the you know early. compliment you on it's the best place in the word come out. when the police are.

everybody sleep it's also part of the game. this is don't even bother chasing. they meet up a mile away. in a parking lot. but it's the one thing the beast if i just lob the want to sunday we still get one of us out in private everyone has intros about this is a private private bindis do not respect they should let him know that.

he did it so we have the two sides of the story. but as a cio they would be rather you be all you can in this day have an issue with us that it's just. no drama you know. only a few hundred yards away the twenty four year old man just lost his life the guitar to further went over a bridge fast on a crown and fall under the train. night because all. the biker was going too fast. coming down without something. about. fifty feet below the man's bodies laying on the ground he landed under the tree he died instantly.

each year in the easy and more than seven hundred people down the road mainly young people. so each night the sheriff's units. the accountant in. this now twenty three year old driver just passed she's going one hundred miles per hour. she doesn't seem to be in great shape. yet you don't yes you want to go. out that tell you like right. you can stand up straight. and the smell of liquor coming off your breath right i think i would say south for a bit you can stand right without wobbling back. when you come back or give me the

right back you start this. young woman is arrested. she faces a heavy sentence. in the united states drunk driving is severely punished. first offense it carries them on a seven thousand dollars so since she failed a field sobriety she can get george with the first offense. in the county jail. the tenants the rambo is in charge of her incarceration. as late as this closely the cult like it is about right now. you know what will you will start this off at the end where you have some of the young woman is going

to try to bluff her way out. never have a right of all a good bit annoyed this is all of her i know you've been all under immediacy but think about it you see it out you know very very rare and you feel that this is. you know so he actually goes on. she's sent to prison. to either pay bail seventy five hundred dollars she will stay inside so at least a month waiting for trial. you don't get a little show they go tonight as well the most dangerous nights of if they can use it to defeat may not be. just the fourth of july independence day.

and that one of them was so much that all of them mama. i don't. know. the old eagle of the fifty you took a look at it well what if there could be chilcote you know. the sort of. what i mean yanukovych with the he's going to get so but mostly to do with nightstick the question is still yes but all yes the chest but. here for everyone that is for you.

manufacture consent to public wealth. when the ruling classes protect themselves. with the fine. be the one percent. we can all middle of the room see. the real news is really. cranking gave americans a lot of new job opportunities i needed to come up here to make some money i

could make twenty five thousand dollars as a teacher or i could make fifty thousand dollars a year truck so i chose to drive truck people who rush to a small town in north dakota was an unemployment rate of zero percent like the gold rush is very very similar to a gold rush but this beautiful story ended with pollution and devastation a lot of people have left here i don't know too many people here anymore slow down so much they lost jobs got laid off the american dream is changing that's not what it used to be. and that's a tough reality to. paul

adams is the head of the patrol units tonight. he doesn't like the sound of fireworks somebody someone pretty hard. hard to distinguish now what's best if your role is in this for the very good you're kind of java beyond guard for anything you know oh because people do tend to polish our guns our rifles out and guns out and fire a lot so. it makes everything a little bit warmer. not you look at more data from your old tin of living our lives a little out of all these years on the radio that a man refused to stop a traffic stop he escaped and could be are.

the man fell into the trap. the sheriff's unit is in pursuit. quickly joined by five other cops. front tires are now waiting for the first part of vehicle doesn't this not be our last week so that's a car in front of us and just not be able to my car the truck. is almost done gang nancy. a few hundred yards later. the vehicle stops and the police officers quickly can come from.

our past but see the end of the hospital and the truck you tony. a crowd forms around the scene of the arrest everyone knows the suspect he lives in the neighborhood. they want the money that really. what kind of guy is a cool going to. play gonna miss that guy that was on medicine. oh he's on meds are you denying you. get it. we're going to the woman that was pushed back a few minutes earlier because the suspects mother. she tries to plead his case to paul adams. oh you want to see me go to see me you know from you know the

tell myself it's wonderful to. tell. so i just want to take him and i shot up the goals like we. won't want to stand him if you don't go. down. in the united states blacks are afraid of the police the police brutality against the community is coming. for paul adams he's proud to show us the suspects that were arrested by his unit yesterday even before their trial live pictures are published in the local newspaper central to the people who just arrested so they actually brought up the. u.s. . i'm sure have been involved with some of the what your year. guy did it starts with if you're arrested and i've been involved with this bozo margaretta . so you know if i. were going to this guy of the

woods or so to go around twenty arrests and twenty four hours but there are other dangerous individuals that the sheriff's men have to arrest. they are ferocious and . in the swamps surrounding the town. tonight rumble is the one dealing with. us to take care of the alligators. that's because. this young specimen was found in front of a garage door. to get angry. a roll of tape will be used as handcuffs. for doing just time his legs together then it gives us more control. for third mouth then they go come back after your couple you go watch the tape of

the field strongest thing. in the car the young alligator sits in the prisoner's spot. will be set free and join his peers everywhere this is. now a seventh you know. new orleans a swamp region also known as by. the alligators reign over the area. there are more than two.

things that one right if we want to tempt a good one why did. you think. you know early there are more alligators than people they are everywhere in the by us. so each year alligator hunting is allowed for a whole month. this morning charlie fifty five is preparing to go kill a few he hunts alligators for a living. this is my rifle it's a seven rimington seven mag and this is only when we need it for some big gators that might be for a swim and if we can't get to it we'll reach out this. way.

but there's both a few kilometers from there in the middle of the swamp. area has the highest concentration of alligators in the united states. on these field trips to charlie is always joined by a son. i'd much rather the country than a city in a bed i worked in a lot of big cities. that the nearby same and mad people people don't know how to be nice. charlie is checking his traps set up the previous day. the alligators attracted by a piece of meat on a big. well. today

a small specimen. but he's told. rappahannock that. good. yeah he might make six really taken in a plane even and maybe sailed. this in here myself for two hundred dollars. for the gator hunting can be profitable. but it's heavily regulated. this is a tag louisiana basically gotta have enough land to be able to get tags. along this river here is five thousand acres. and out of that i get thirty six thirty tags. today captured to allocate.

to defeat. back home charlie prepares a typical new orleans dish. fried alligator. this is the little tenderloin that cut out of the tail meat is the muscle that controls the tail of the gator that make him swing it like this. it looks like chicken but it tastes like fish. charlie shirt stands the school and in m. sixteen it. was right. christian motorcycle game. it played saying god. it's true he also

believes in the right to bear arms. they're not good or the or larger they leave this house they carry a gun or some kind of weapon they take and steal you know whatever you need to do to get what he wants so when you take it away from me then how can i protect myself how can i. a gun don't feel it's first music. in new orleans about eighty percent of victims are killed by gun violence. thank god i ask you to bring a stronger closer to. the black neighborhood trimming. getting ready for celebration. if. every. thing has to be really nice. because people.

that i am giving the fuel for. deserve the best of dignity. for thirty years aaron has been leading the band that plays at every funeral. as long as america has been america we have been. no this jazz funeral so it is a tradition that is. very much respected. he wears a black suit. and for his hair or should he needs help. somebody's got to tell me you know you only get just get out. of. his wife helps out. so that. you'll. hear

what is there. yeah oh wait. today the fuel is being very. fine because. these women were dancing for his daughters. once a man was murdered. there in the dancing gives the tempo of the sound. he's joined for a week to come in. new orleans is facing a precedented crisis every day young people die from gunfire it's.

henry kissinger. on the united states went into the ukrainian crisis the russian of the. tensions heightened over the scruple case. by misconceptions. misrepresentations. out of the. good obit in democracy and what about and i didn't do we will always be the good is it also. comes from oh no i'm going to go

home. on a promise he can. keep it or don't have the money you can come up with proof. on genyen mountain about the how i live and i'm mad at the government the minimum time because i'm. a member who wanted to but oh november a bit of a stick by them it is down to the point about on the limit i'll be on being as high as it and is about. yeah. they've been waiting on this for a long time because we're talking about the dollar back that is the world reserve currency countries are tired of funding the america's wars because ever there's got to be traded in dollars including oil to buy oil got to buy dollars first that

means america gets a commission to use that money a little world. about your sudden passing i've only just learnt you were a south and taken your last wrong turn. your attitude up to you as we all knew it would i tell you i'm sorry suddenly i could so i write these last words in hopes to put to rest these things that i never got off my chest. i remember when we first met my life turned on each fret. but then my feeling started to change you talked about war like it was again still some are fond of you those that didn't like to question our ark and i secretly promised to. never like it's one does not need a funeral the same as one enters the mind gets consumed with this one to. speak to you just don't know what they're trying. to claim that mainstream media has met its

make. for a world cup twenty eight team coverage we've signed one of the greatest goalkeepers of all children but there was one more question and by the way who's going to be our coach. guys i know you are nervous he's a huge star and the huge amount of pressure you have to meet the center of the problem here with you and we'll show you all the great british you are the rock at the back nobody gets past you we need you to get the ball going let's go. alone. and i'm really happy for joining us for the two thousand and three and world cup in russia the special one was also appreciated me just just at the reno theology team's latest edition to make up a bigger. book. closer

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headline news reporting victim releases her first statement on her condition as her recovery opens a new chapter into the investigation without the merging over russia being the source of the. facebook of tens of millions of people could be affected by the data . previously for data research company the information disputes the numbers. plus food faces a tide of trouble after being allowed to draw more water from the us state. widespread opposition and environmental figures.

seven pm thursday the fifth of april here in moscow my name calling bright welcome to news from international the daughter of a former russian double agent has given her first official statement since the poison attack on her father last month in the english city of salisbury said quote the entire episode is somewhat disorientating let's go live to london our correspondent across all the developments the last few hours is an associate a lot to get through of course bring us up to speed on. well colin if you know if this bit the starts to look like a puzzle that potentially the u.k. had pieced together a little bit too quickly as now some of the key pieces of it despite some of the denial seem to be falling apart now some may have hoped that this would be the spy story of the decade with some russian involved an immediate conclusion immediate

accusations and of course the media and the court of public opinion had shaped the opinions pretty quickly given the fact that politicians here were repeating the same words over and over like a mantra. it's highly likely that russia was responsible we do hold russia koku culpable culpable for the attempted murder is kate is culpable for calling preachings criminal and we think as a woman you're likely to do with his decision well of course the the attempted murder conversation is now potentially going to take on a different shape now that yulia screwball indeed has released her first official statement where she said that she's been feeling ok for a week now that she's woken up where she thinks for those who those who helped her out and her father when they were incapacitated as she put it and certainly lots of questions this is there about of course many times we have heard the lines about

the russia having a history of attempted assassinations with some of course questioning that possibly a new chapter will now open with potentially yulia and hopefully eventually sergei when he gets out of the coma could share some of the information about what it's from this major british web or tori that found that there is no proof that russia is behind this and in fact no particular source that they could name but the narrative has progressed so quickly and has taken up so much of a diplomatic attention throughout the world that it seems that at times newspaper had an article or nothing has changed but it gives is a lot of appreciation a masterful each of the information war propaganda war. and we'll clearly we're still waiting for the official results of an investigation that is going to be hopefully eventually announced already we are seeing some pieces of information that are indicating that could this could have been a story of

a boy who cried wolf. has to put impacting on another week away from the o.p.c. w.'s findings if we get them even by them for now they want to see a check and westminster thanks for that. well as we got details that you're now she's made this lousy restore recovery which is extremely welcome of course but the problem of the british government has got now is there is the narrative is totally unraveling day by day hour by hour we already have this week the announcement from porton down that they couldn't confirm that the nerve agent the government said was used actually came from russia and we had to sort of backpedaling on that one from the likes of boris johnson and co and now we hear that you list for police is is up there she's talking she's recovered well and so you know if this was an overcharge which we're told we were told before don't forget is the deadliest nerve agent no into mine it would kill you within two minutes probably. how is she recovered and so there's a lot of questions to be asked here i know the course we're now hearing told the navi truck was probably on the door handle of the triples house but if that was the

case then how come they were able to walk around solves for you have a meal go out for a drive for the next five hours so this really this narrative really has got more holes in it the larger so obvious swiss cheese isn't it and it's hard to see where the government can go from here really because you know everything they told us in the beginning is so far being contradicted as i mentioned russia has called for a u.n. security council meeting it will happen about ten hours from now over the recent developments in the poisoning case with many questions still unanswered britain those been quick to point the finger at russia despite the investigation expected to continue for months and the u.k. has been left slightly red faced after inconsistences their claim started to emerge as the of takes up the story. it's a right old kid on drugs on the one hand you skip the trial screamed guilty and jump to the punishment part on the other your own guys come out and say hold on there's no evidence and now this is by we're living experts at the defense science and technology laborde three at porton down made clear that this was

a military grade not be choked nerve agent produced in russia we have not verified the precise source you have not been able to establish that this was made in russia as i said it's our job to provide eight you know the scientific evidence that identifies what the particular nerve agent is there to be clear you're not able at porton down to say where it is from we haven't yet been able to do that well that's embarrassing alright keep calm first google back on your word and just to be sure delete any old tweets then riposte experts of what you said our experts have precisely identified in their region as not be chuck it is not and has never been our responsibility to confirm the source of the agent now pretend that nothing happened which is hard to do in the end to that really the brits ended

up having to explain themselves and conveniently scapegoated the poor fellow who transcribed the briefing. one of the tweets was truncated and did not accurately reporter and past his words we have removed this tweet you remember what i said about scapegoating he really did but barge johnson himself had said almost the same thing said it's on video you argue that their source of shock is russia how did you manage to find it out so quickly when i look at the the evidence i mean the people from from porton down they were absolutely categorical and i asked the guy myself i said are you sure and he said there's no doubt wouldn't want to be in their shoes right about now yet they did find a way around it a simple statement saying that boris johnson didn't mean it like that what the foreign secretary said then and what putin donna said recently is fully consistent

with what we've said throughout having taken things so far so fast they can't afford to do a u. turn this investigation could end in two ways with proof of russia's guilt or with an uncomfortable silence and hope that everyone forgets until then boris keep doing what you do every day you're going to walk the finger on the earth certainly a russian production. is the government going to accuse russia. of surrogates creep out is not an isolated case but the latest in a pack of reckless behavior by the russian state the russians the russians a russian russia russia russian russian deny it i'm afraid the evidence is overwhelming that it is russia and ourselves and has serious questions to upset the claim from german television that this was

a russian produced nerve agent and porton down and then examined it and said all they claimed to have to fight was as. they couldn't say where it came from. the labor party m.p.'s have been rounding on boris johnson on twitter the shadow home secretary said that perhaps mr johnson might also want to delete that now vilified german t.v. interview other stressed the need to check evidence while labor m.p. chris williamson called johnson downright dangerous and says the incident being used as a diversionary tactic. seems to me the government were indulging in political point scoring particularly boris johnson who raced ahead of the evidence and used this terrible incident not so much as a smoking gun but more of a smokescreen really it was a very convenient wasn't for the government to use this as a way of diverting attention from their own difficulties over economic policy and you know at the end of the day it's pretty clear that boris johnson did not tell

the truth he told the german insecure that. scientists poured out of it said it was without doubt that the agents had to come from russia so i think jeremy called him was absolutely right to caution to ask for clear evidence before we start to raise international tensions but we need to get to the bottom in the evidence and jeremy said this seem to point towards russia but let's be absolutely clear before we start raising international tensions in this way this is huge implications for more sensible to take a measured approach and be clear about the evidence all the evidence. of the news now facebook's admitted that the scale of the data breach of its accounts that were used for political purposes has turned out to be far larger than previously thought the web giant says that the profiles of up to eighty seven million people could have been shared with the data research firm cambridge analytic or earlier estimates said it was fifty million the consultancy firm stands accused of

harvesting people's private information for political targeting among the companies client list were donald trump hillary clinton and barack obama and it appears many politicians around the world of also resorted to cambridge analytical services in an attempt to sway public opinion. in total we believe the phrasebook information of up to eighty seven million people mostly in the u.s. may have been improperly shared with cambridge and. cambridge analytical license data for no more than thirty million people the firm that has been using this information it's called cambridge analytic and essentially it does data collection and polling and analysis for political parties political campaigns and groups they use this information essential to craft their messaging craft their campaigning in a way that would be persuasive they kind of create a psychological profile of potential voters based on what they have collected from facebook and social media they then use that information to craft their campaign

advertising their messaging etc and now the data harvesting happened in a tacit agreement with facebook now facebook says they had no malicious intent. however this has really hurt their reputation the government of germany actually went as far as asking for a clarification from facebook for an explanation we also have seen the trend delete facebook all over social media with people you know tweeting out you know delete facebook calling for people to stop using facebook in response to this perceived you know dissemination of people's personal information that we do know that facebook is now in the process of changing their apps so that certain apps are more protected that the privacy of their users is more protected but as we see you know this call for for facebook to be deleted for people not to be used to using facebook is exposed and it's certainly true that the regularly used social media

app is is severely tarnished and i coming into the lower media experts we heard from say there's a lack of awareness about how people's data is being used and that's how firms like facebook make their money. kember generally the guys denying the figure they claim there is only thirty million but i don't think it makes a lot of for the fans very thirty million to late a million i think is the principle behind the old story about but what about the use of intimate robots as we call them boats in order to meddle with the newest selections now so the bill stories seem a little bit out of there a little bit ridiculous nobody is talking about it but it was very interesting to hear his desire to beg only a couple of weeks ago. almost apologizing for allowing him to leave the boxes today that it was then being used to influence election is if this story was about influencing election but by third parties. rather than access the news as

they've done locally this is a company that routes so rapidly that the people who are managing facebook lost control of their creation and the whole business model of facebook is built on this idea that they they collect highly targeted data on their users and then sell that data to advertisers and others and i think there just wasn't enough oversight of that process basement to say that they can they can police themselves internally they can solve these problems with their own oversight that i think that you know there's a legitimate reason that that's not good enough that we need to look at a new regulatory framework that will protect the privacy of users of social media not just facebook but people who on google have all the details on that when we come back. the.

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hi again moratti world news now there's a david and goliath battle playing out in the us state of michigan despite widespread public opposition food joint nestle's being allowed to increase how much water it extracts for bottling and selling it can now drop more than fifteen hundred liters per minute that smaller than five hundred more than was previously allowed that sparked huge concerns about environmental consequences a state senator on the natural resources committee of michigan said she's deeply disappointed by the approval of the new permit and that almost eighty one thousand people had contacted the authorities saying there was strongly against the corporation extracting that much water that was up against a seventy five people saying that it was a good idea but even that groundswell of public opinion was ignored by the authorities who said it didn't apply to their policies in full transparency of the

majority of the public comments were in the position of the permit but most of them related to shoes of public policy which are not and should not be part of an administrative permanent decision opposition to this goes way back to two thousand and one when nestle was first sued for potential damage to lakes rivers and streams as a result the company had to limit water extraction now people in michigan to once again voicing their concerns. he says when we moved here you can see that there is no no growth on either side nestle has a reputation worldwide of going to occur for rural communities offering all kinds of economic benefits to the community that never really materialized and taking as much water as they can get and when a stream runs dry they believe nestle says that it will carefully review its permit in order to comply with all of its requirements and the michigan environmental

council also said that it would be closely monitoring the company's water extraction. if they do call open the one of the water goes down this is something that groups like our own could take nestle to court and have the courts and force the permit we make sure that no nobody takes too much water out of the river so that oh so that it runs dry or everything so that's why they're going to monitor the flow and make sure that flow maintains a healthy glow and in cases where the stream flow starts to drop then they're required to turn back their wells and turn them down so it's going to be very closely monitored withdrawal and if we do see that impact happening then what we're asking state officials to boil the curb it and make us make nestle turn the wells off. students of the florida school where seventeen people were killed by a teenager in february speaking out against new security measures there one

survivor who joined the anti gun lobby expressed her frustration at students being told to use see through backpacks which is one of the school's new safety measures the youngsters say they want to well thought out changes not useless quick fixes samir khan reports it's been almost two months since the survivors of the deadly school shooting in parkland called on the government to take action what's more important is actual action and pertinent action that results in saving thousands of children's lives but some of the initiatives taken to curtail gun violence haven't been so popular like these clear backpacks made mandatory at marjorie stoneman douglas high and by the end of bad intentions my new backpack is almost as transparent as the end i raise agenda i feel so safe now starting over the last quarter i have seen a year right with a good old violation of privacy now i can't lie about not having gum moving on to another state and another brilliant and this shit a middle school teacher in georgia after going through write a letter to congress demanding

a stricter gun control yes i'm an enraged parents who complained that it was enough . to bring the issue into the school's curriculum pennsylvania has its own rather unique solution if an armed intruder attempts to gain at stanley or class terms they will face a classroom full of students armed with rocks and they will be stoned but apparently this is plan b. b. district superintendent said that the rocks were his own thing just after scrapping plan a which was great for golf balls so it looks like those in charge of fixing the issue of gun violence seem to be using the debate to score political points and one of the best examples of this is senator marco rubio i respect their views and recognize that many americans support certain gun bans however many other americans do not support a gun ban statements like this in makeshift solutions are perhaps not what the shooting survivors had in mind when they called for action. on r.t.e. washington d.c. . for teaching staff have been shot dead at

a university in turkey with reports saying that three others have been wounded the incident happened at an institution in the western city of s. because they here not far from the capital ankara reports say that the shooter did not resist arrest universities recta told reporters that the gunman worked at the university and targeted people he thought were linked to the twenty sixteen who were in turkey he also said that staff members had filed complaints about the suspect prior to the incident a few hours ago. but that's it for me thanks very much for watching kevin i was going to be here in the coming hours keeping updated on what's happening at the u.n. security council which is doing about three hours from now you're watching r.t. international.

yeah they've been waiting on this for a long time because i'm talking about the knowledge that there is world reserve currency countries attire to fund in america's wars because ever there's got to be trainer in dollars including oil to buy oil got to buy dollars first that means america gets a commission he's that line of wage wars all over the world. apply for many flips over the years so i know the game inside guides. the ball isn't only about what happens on the pitch to the final school it's about the passion from the fans it's the age of the super manager billionaire owners and spending two to

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the end about i live in the mad at that game and the money on his i'm. not dead was wounded him but oh november they'd have i say i give them their identity like about an army and the down the alley only has it and it is about. greetings and salutations privacy is dead watchers i wish i was speaking metaphorically but since the rise of the security industrial complex in the aftermath of nine eleven we've graduated seen our constitutionally protected rights to privacy evaporate like punks after the latest football match tragically some folks are perfectly comfortable with this batting an eye when the n.s.a.

scoops up their metadata phone calls all for the sake of national security you see those folks prefer safety over privacy but would you feel just as comfortable and safe if a foreign government rather than your own was listening in on your private calls and reading your texts. that's what citizens living here in washington d.c. are now asking themselves after u.s. authorities have acknowledged that authorized cellphone spying devices are potentially being used on the good folks living here in the nation's capital and a letter to u.s. senator ron wyden the democrat out of oregon the department of homeland security revealed that the d h s national protection programs directorate has observed anomalous activity in the national capital region that appears to be consistent with international mobile subscriber identity captures what all that godly group means is yes foreign or criminally operated sting rays have descended upon

washington d.c. and quite frankly i wish i was talking about the cartilaginous special no i'm talking sting rays and devices like them you may remember simulate cell towers in order to capture mobile device signals and the devices these sting rays depending on their sophistication can do everything from eavesdrop on your calls to plant malware on your phone now if that upsets you make sure you're sitting down because the united states government as of now isn't planning to do anything about it let's find out why as we start watching the hawks. it's good to see. you that i got. this.

week so. well that we're going to watch the hawks i am to roll with them to have the law and where probably being listened to and i would imagine i get this feeling that i got like thousands upon thousands of people watching and listening to me right now why would that be. norbi anyway but why do you see rays all over the place of her. i don't know that i'm couldn't entirely shock i mean it isn't as if this is a farm town so it's a good court procedures and for that is a very good point yeah i mean one of the bigger things when you look at it is you know this this is a city that is full. of soldiers active duty military you know we've got the pentagon the n.s.a. the cia the f.b.i. and pretty much all of the contractors from within that apparatus and all the pieces of it so it's not that odd to understand that there are a ton of people in in this city that are very tech savvy that are savvy of their

own privacy even if they don't think about of a large scale so they probably do have two phones or they do have certain things but for the rest of do you see sort of unsuspecting masses. who knows and we don't know that this is just spying on some sort of foreign policy issue like you say you know embassies we don't know that it's it's just as this is criminal organization through and who knows when suddenly your credit card or whatever is an intercepted yeah you know and there can be faffed and if you're talking to the banker on your phone and you're giving up your of the social security number or at least something that someone is recording it then they have the and they said that you are you know they said we were talking about earlier today that a lot of these things they can't pinpoint who's doing it or where but they can say that you know most likely it would be you know at an embassy so they could monitor calls and people walking up to the embassy or something like that would be actually reasonable depends invasive but you could you could make an argument for it but

what's really interesting is you know why isn't the united states taking action why are we seeing an outrage over this you know why are we seeing people say why homeland security have covered that there's you know these sting rays they're scooping up some of the overtime the cell phone towers all over town well they're not shutting down the sting rays and devices like them because one it's a very expensive process for the major wireless network providers to upgrade their systems in order to combat this problem and so the phones don't do all the thinking that you know the listening devices the cell tower. yes there are business doesn't like the cost so much the other big pushback comes from our own law enforcement intelligence agencies because they use the same technology here is stateside and if suddenly the so-called towers and all those industries upgrade to where the it's up to. the law enforcement loses their ability to spy on those so it's ok to soccer players are privacy to foreign governments as long as we keep the ability to spoil

you as well. as the logic of play here and there's the idea that if you know he said when it comes to your to your security what will you give up you know what will we give up and this in the idea of security so now here you're sitting you know looking at these options and as you said it's why does everyone else get to do this. or i can you know put a bunch of cameras up and protect myself in a way that i want to but they're allowed to and shady corporations and possibly shady governments that have embassies all of this stuff well according to a.p. lawmakers they've been inquiring about the use of these to graze for quite some time in washington d.c. i think we've even talked about it on this show over the years of them doing because security company researchers a security company researchers back in twenty fourteen had conducted these sweeps and found an authorized devices these on authorized sting rays and they weren't just anywhere it wasn't just a it was around the corner from my house it was around the corner from the white

house like it was literally near the white house's pre-court commerce department and the pentagon so there was a twenty fourteen if you remember the federal communications commission started the task force into the illicit use of sting rays nothing has come from that there offend no reports there's no memos there's nothing maybe someday it'll go to what the task force. that's taskmaster. good work later well we got nothing but. another. great job. there's no guarantee of a successful prosperous career quite like a four year or a better yet graduate college education that was the an arguable promise of college boosting programs like the g.i. bill and is the foundation of both modern college prep school curriculums and the stunningly profitable college test prep industry and now not only has college enrollment ballooned to historic levels and the most basic office assistant

positions on linked in requiring a bachelor's degree at minimum we have allowed an entire generation of americans to shackle themselves to an ever growing college loan bubble now totaling over a trillion dollars but we're pushing young students more and more forcefully into the college that system and entice ing them with a loan package is worth more than your average home mortgage are we forgetting about their much more basic survival needs it appears so as a recent study finds a thirty six percent of us college students struggle to even afford food while thirty six percent can't afford a place to live or face the constant risk of having to sleep on the street is the question hogwash is a college education really worth putting a third of generation on the brink of homelessness and hunger who know what but as a college occasion. if you have to. star. starve and be homeless because you can't pay the rent just so you can go to

school there's something inherently wrong with that there's something wrong with the system that and we've talked about a couple of days now in a row or so they're talking about teachers not getting paid why would you grade teacher and why would you not paid educated teachers that silly why would you do that now here we are the next day going and. you know education. thirty. it's not like overturned first serve as well now and that's really you know this is the third that's that's that's a big slice of the poem i don't know if you know this but you need food to make your brain works so you need sleep to make your brain works the can learn a really crazy idea. who are at risk of not having a place to live what you're going to school what they want you to live out of your car well that's illegal now in california believe it right if you got it live out of about your car there anymore it is really incredible yeah and then when you look at it wasn't just this sort of ambiguous because i know a lot of times with these reports we talk about these studies where the number is like all this thing at risk and it's really not it's pretty ambiguous no no they

went down to the tiniest portion of this and they didn't just qualify quantify just the idea of risk they showed that reports that ninety percent nine percent of u.s. college students found themselves homeless and the past year that's almost ten percent of college kids and six percent were first forced to go at least one whole day without food now if you're going to set or a got while you can go a day without food you do it you know go through your whole day don't have any food then go to work. and then come home and get up and do it again and see how long that lasts the idea of the you have these are young adults their brains are growing this is where you're supposed to be learning and it's at its big parts because it's expensive you have a choice do i pay my tuition or do i eat or do i pay the book costs and write about my books or do a yeah i mean i didn't go to college all admitted year of dollars and i didn't go to college and i love coming out of those zero nine out of the

closet on the greek laws under. five to the school hollywood with the. man when you when you look at this is really jarring because when you consider the fact that colleges and not just harvard yale but even the more modest ones as well are sitting on like tax exempt the dolphins were billions of dollars billions for look what we just saw happen at howard university here in d.c. where you have all of this money that ended up getting shuffled off to somewhere else you know that would do you street like street. tire around it and then would you would you see like when you say you know the money is there it's in the system there's a lot of you know in these there's money from all those jets and i was sorry but when you stack the deck it gives because if they're already broke trying to get the better education to try to better their life but then they're going to get out of school and they've got great student loan debt hanging over their heads they're not going to be able to survive if you already don't have the money you know no and

that's the thing it's you know we have one of these two situations and i was one of those people who had to work and put myself through college and i was still a paying off those student loan debts from from my undergraduate degree you know you do have to make the choice you make the choice whether to have a social life you make the choice whether to you know how many hours can i work how much how much can i borrow or how much can i pay now so i don't have to how much money can i put away for after graduation and when i was up happening is that you know a lot of people and foregoing a decent meal. or going a social life or going the actions about college that sort of help you go sort of learn how to enter and you know the adult world and bags you don't get to do it you don't get to be a regular person and have a life because you're worried about whether you're going to end up having to sleep body or car and whether or not your financial aid is going to cover something and then you're eating ramen noodles it's not a fad it's a survival for a lot of mean. to the square where you also work to restructure it because that's

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it was announced that facebook c.e.o. in silicon valley rock star mark zuckerberg himself will stand tall before congress on april eleventh her answer for the facebook cambridge analytic a data mining controversy but there is always more than meets the eye when the corporate worlds of big data social media and governments collide sean stone recently discussed these matters and more with journalist and author enough these are mad here is part two they're fascinating discussion. and towards this end of obviously collecting information and ultimately creating sort of you can create a sense you can create false narratives you can create false dichotomies and antagonism as you pointed out we have this whole issue of cambridge analytic on whether or not it through you know the election to. words trump but with with analytical it's it's strange because we're basically there there's the this

discourse that sort of attacking the idea of data mining as a whole which is just the nature of business and how businesses are going to target people whether you're running for politics or trying to sell a product right you're still trying to sell some things you need to know the consumer what they want but on the morning farias side they do they've done tactics or allegedly that have done tactics like bribery and blackmail of politicians and others that sounds very innocent of cia tactics. well absolutely i mean the cambridge analytical what's interesting is we did a big investigation into facebook and cambridge analytical december two thousand and seventeen we published quite a long piece on our platform in search and we brought together a lot of things that are only now being caught up in kind of the mainstream press so for example the fact that came with analytic a former major ministry of defense contractor that used to have this tax

classification which means they had access to high level security so that a high level security clearance that gave them access to classified information i mean we had reported this back then and only now we've got the b.b.c. asking these questions but what these kind of issues show is that came with analytic and it's mek it's methods of the century trying to profile. population behaviors using online technologies and other types of technology building them into a predictable model these are techniques that were developed in the bowels of the military industrial complex in the u.k. specifically and they were also passed on to the united states and they've been fine tuned in that context and our investigation showed and again people have been asking questions now these techniques were used in iraq and afghanistan for example they had contracted out to private contractors some of these techniques so now they're being used in weaponized against our own populations in the united states

and britain and it's very alarming and what we're seeing here is that these sorts of techniques and so on the one hand of course there's this question of law and finally now questions are being asked on both sides of the atlantic as to what extent when you use these sorts of tools do they really violate our election laws in terms of manipulating public opinion but the other thing of course is that these techniques are being used on a day to day basis by lots of different parties all. time business is governments. any kind of any kind of entity that essentially wants to reach an audience is or are using platforms like facebook to kind of to reach different publics and to try and influence opinion and so we're always being subjected to this form of influence in some way except cambridge analytic of course had really fine tuned their techniques and now only now we know that he did that on the basis of

essentially. kind of illegally taking vast amounts of private data which they shouldn't have been able to do. and that of course is quite extraordinary but the question isn't really being asked i mean to day the narrative we've had is that these have some sort of nefarious connection to russia for example and there are legitimate questions to ask about cambridge analytically his relationship to russia however the fact that came as a letter has been born from the establishment in britain has only really been coming to the surface from recent reporting and it's something that really needs to be looked at much more closely and we're now starting to see evidence that we were reporting last year being discussed in the mainstream press about cambridge analytical connections to the conservative party. from to the extent to which you know they had really establishment connections not just obscure military

connections but connections across the party and connections to people who gave very large amounts of funding to the conservative party over several years one of the connections that hasn't been looked at to date is a connection that we reported on related hand hanson asset management so one of the founding directors of s.c.l. election which is the u.k. incorporation of cambridge analytical is a guy called christian to road christian patrick to. rohde who was a director and is a director now he was a director with jesse elections raw a year and he's currently director with hanssen asset management which is a. that was the excess of the hanssen p l c which was set up by lord james hansen the well known industrialist who has huge connections to tobacco to big coal in the united states and so on and so forth what it was a major donor to the conservative party and also had a very close connections to the vote leave campaign in the u.k.

people who worked for hanson at the time went on like dominick cummings went on to run vote leave so we have all these sorts of very very direct connections to very powerful figures in the establishment and questions aren't being asked about why those establishment figures wanted to use an n.c. like him which analytical in order to manipulate public opinion this really raises the question with this massive shift to the far right that we've seen in mainstream politics in the united states and in europe wasn't really just this accident wasn't really just this thing of angry people being angry about the migrants that there were actually very powerful elites in the united states and britain people who outside the deep state the people who represented sections of the state who wanted this to happen they wanted to see this big shift to the far right and that is a very very alarming scenario. and that is that's all time we have today but

certainly are analysis reminds me of jeremy bentham zz assessment of creating a pent up tick on this idea of basically completely all seeing eye that watching us move more of sultan into been the orwell's big brother in a sense and potentially will really potentially all this information their money from us could ultimately be serving toward some kind of artificial intelligence supercomputers but i think at this point we'll have to leave it for today and hopefully pick up the conversation at a future date. when you think back to your grade school lessons about dr king you likely recall his most widely cited speeches for example i have a dream or i've been to the mountaintop there's a reason each of these works are important to teach to our youth and there's certainly a reason those words have stood the test of time but while it's necessary to remember king's message of racial justice and equality there's a deeper more revolutionary king we rarely hear about m.l.k.

was not concerned only with race he saw class struggle in economic equality as central to the cause of civil rights in one thousand nine hundred sixty seven report to the southern christian leadership conference he declared quote we must recognize that we can't solve our problem now until there is a radical redistribution of economic and political power this means a revolution of values and other things we must see now that the evils of racism economic exploitation and militarism are all tied together you can't really get rid of one without getting rid of the others the whole structure of american life must be changed america is a hypocritical nation and we must put our own house in order. king recognized justice would never truly be achieved in the united states without addressing economics and in one nine hundred sixty five address to the negro american labor council he announced quote something is wrong with happiness and according to tang

that system which is responsible for economic hardship and war in one of his lesser known speeches king denounced the u.s. war in southeast asia making it very clear what he believed plagued american society most i am. the three giant triplets of racism materialism and militarism these were the evils king sought to defeat in his book where do we go from here chaos or community king targeted the military industrial complex declaring quote a nation that can take. to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual do these views are consistent with what may be described as the heart of king flossy we may have all come on different ships but we're in the same boat now when he was assassinated king was planning a march to take place here on the nation's capital dubbed the poor people's campaign its purpose was to unite americans behind the message of economic justice

and the eradication of poverty regardless of race fifty years since his assassination just read giant triplets of racism materialism and militarism he warned us of our standing as tall as ever in this country and for that reason so should the radical message of dr king. five decades after a smarter on april fourth one nine hundred sixty eight martin luther king jr and his legacy continue to propel us forward to never slow down and most importantly to always remember that the greatest troublemakers and the most prolific peacemakers are most often one in the same and martin luther king jr is a legacy taught us to always keep our eyes open and to never assume the fight is over since one thousand nine hundred sixty eight and king's work that helped destroy jim crow laws the civil rights movement has done much to level the playing field of life for african-americans but what's particularly disturbing is how far we truly sit from a place of racial equality and the proof is in the numbers according to the bureau

of labor statistics since one nine hundred sixty eight rates of unemployment were twice as high for african-americans meaning being poor and whites is twice as lucrative as being poor and black studies have revealed a job applicants with surnames that are perceived as black are fifty percent less likely to get a positive response than white sounding surnames but this is america right anyone regardless of race should be able to grow rich if they just try hard right or wrong the. urban institute come data from a survey of consumer finances and found that the average wealth of white families was over seven hundred thousand dollars higher than the average wealth of black families shortly before his assassination in one nine hundred sixty eight martin luther was in the midst of organizing the poor people's campaign which hope to march on washington d.c. to demand a standard living wage poverty programs and housing for the nation's poor the passion for helping less fortunate does not weigh in in the moments after king's death in fact poverty rates for african-americans have been declining steadily for

the last decade however african-americans are still nearly twice as likely than whites to live in areas below the poverty line and this stems in part from the act of residential segregation in never has with higher medium poverty rates meaning over thirty percent black children remain about sixty percent more likely to live in those neighborhoods than white children but on a positive note it seems that the work of desegregation and the fight to improve public education has had some gains since the march in selma since nine hundred sixty eight the gap in completion rates in american high schools between white and black students has almost been closed and that brings us to tomorrow what will be done tomorrow and the next day and the next week to improve the lives of our neighbors our fellow human beings i think martin luther king jr said it best there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe nor politic nor popular but he must take it because

conscience tells the misra. powerful men powerful words of the truly amazing legacy that we have to honor and remember each year whether it's the fiftieth anniversary of the fifty first or the you know sixty seven or seventy fifth we have to always remember the work of dr martin luther king jr and carry on his work for him with great great beast what was it was good stuff all right everybody that i'm afraid is our show for you today remember this is the world your . told that we're above the cops or tell you all i love you a little bit and on top of it keep all the bottles walks up to the bridge.

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souls free poisoning victim yulia scruple releases have first statement on the condition of her recovery opens a new chapter no into the investigation without so much ignoble russia being the source of the nerve agent. also this hour a campaign for israeli women to keep their seats only. plates instead of switching with ultra orthodox jewish man is blocked by authorities and. facebook admits that tens of millions more people could be affected by the data harvesting scandal initially thought they'd research companies use the information disputes the numbers.

this is r t welcome i'm kevin owen it's just a day pm here in moscow now this thursday our top story again tonight than the latest in the script of a fair we can bring it to date with the daughter of the former russian double agent scruple has given her first official statement today since the poison attack on her and her father last month and the english of his soul's brain said quote the entire episode is somewhat disorientating london correspondent part of our team in the u.k. and us to sit as the latest. this starts to look like a puzzle that potentially the u.k. had pieced together a little bit too quickly as now some of the key pieces of it despite some of the denial seem to be falling apart now some may have hoped that this would be the spy story of the decade with some russian involved an immediate conclusion immediate accusations and of course the media and the court of public opinion had shaped the opinions pretty quickly given the fact that politicians here were repeating the same words over and over like a mantra it's highly likely that russia was responsible we do hold russia koku

culpable culpable for the attempted murder is kate is culpable of calling putin's criminal as a woman you're likely to do with his decision well of course the the attempted murder conversation is now potentially going to take on a different shape now that yulia screwball indeed has released her first official statement where she said that she's been feeling ok for a week now that she's woken up where she thinks for those who those who helped her out and her father when they were incapacitated as she put it and certainly lots of questions this is there about of course many times we have heard the lines about the russia having a history of attempted assassinations with some of course questioning that possibly a new chapter will now open with potentially yulia and hopefully eventually sergei when he gets out of the coma could share some of the information about what happened to them and of course the ports of down revelations were huge but. for

some reason not really changing lots of minds they were highly anticipated findings from this major british wellbore atory that found that there is no proof that russia is behind this and in fact no particular source that they could name but the narrative has progressed so quickly and has taken up so much of a public and media and public political of course in diplomatic attention throughout the world. that it seems that it's a little bit difficult now for this whole story to potentially slow down especially with situations which are we have seen where for example the times newspaper had an article on where they said it would might be hard for to reason me given the latest porton down revelations to keep the alliance against russia and those kinds of statements are not welcome at this point because the so-called completely wrong there should be nothing has changed what it gives is vladimir putin a master of politics or fire information or the propaganda war and will clearly

we're still waiting for the official results of an investigation that is going to be hopefully eventually announced you know world affairs journalist little clarke told us britain's struggling to keep its claims on track now just a week ago i remember reading in the british papers that she was on death's door in the life support she was going to be switched off and now she's made this last restore recovery which is extremely welcome of course but the problem of the british government is god knows there is the narrative is totally unraveling day by day hour by hour we already have this week the announcement from porton down that they couldn't confirm that the nerve agent the government said was used actually came from russia and we had to sort of backpedaling on that one from the likes of boris johnson and co and now we hear that you. is up there she's talking she's recovered well and so you know if this was an overcharge which we're told we were told before don't forget is the deadliest nerve agent no into mine it would kill you within two minutes probably. how is she recovered and so there's

a lot of questions to be asked here no the course without having told the navi truck was probably on the door handle of the triples house but if that was the case then how come they were able to walk around solve for you have a meal go up or drive for the next five hours so this really this narrative really is got more holes in it that a large slab of swiss cheese isn't it and it's hard to see where the government can go from here really because you know everything they told us in the beginning is so . being contradicted or meantime going to be more developments tonight in the coming hours russia's now called for u.n. security council meeting over the souls very instant that's two to get underway in the next few hours probably around about an hour and a half from now britain's been quick to point the finger at russia but has been left slightly red faced after some claims are beginning to unravel more on the city of now it's a right old kid on drugs on the one hand you skip the trial screamed guilty and jump to the punishment part on the other your own guys come out and say hold on

there's no evidence and now this is by we're living experts at the defense science and technology laboratory at portadown made clear that this was a military grade nerve agent produced in russia we have not verified the precise source you have not been able to establish that this was made in russia as i said it's our job to provide you know the scientific evidence that identifies what the particular nerve agent is but typically you're not able at porton down to say where it is from we haven't yet been able to do that well that's embarrassing all right keep calm first google back on your word and just to be sure delete any old tweets then riposte experts who say the opposite of what you said. our experts have precisely identified in their region as novacek it is not

and has never been our responsibility to confirm the source of the agent now pretend that nothing happened which is hard to do in the into that really the brits ended up having to explain themselves and conveniently scapegoated the poor fellow who transcribed the briefing one of the tweets was truncated and did not accurately report her master's words we've removed this tweet you remember what i said about scapegoating he really did but barge johnson himself had said almost the same thing said it's on video you argue that their source of is russia how did you manage to find it out so quickly when i look at the the evidence when the people from from portland they were absolutely categorical and i asked the guy myself i said are you sure and he said there's no doubt wouldn't want to be in their shoes right about now yet they did find a way around it

a simple statement saying that boris johnson didn't mean it like that with the foreign secretary said then and what putin donna said recently is fully consistent with what we've said throughout having taken things so far so fast they can't afford to do a u. turn this investigation could end in two ways with proof of russia's guilt or with an uncomfortable silence and hope that everyone forgets until then boris keep doing what you do every day you're the one thing on earth. is the government russia. of surrogate's free power is not an isolated case but the latest in a. reckless behavior by the russian state the russians the russians of russia russia russia russia russia tomorrow i'm afraid the evidence is overwhelming that

it is russia and some serious questions to answer he claimed on german television this was a russian produced nerve agent and porton down then examined it and said all that to five was not a true they couldn't say where it came from. when they were the labor party m.p. has been running on boris johnson on twitter to the shadow secretary said that perhaps mr johnson might also want to delete that now vilified german t.v. interview other stress the need to check evidence first while labor m.p. chris williams some called johnson downright dangerous and says the instance being used as a diversionary tactic. seems to me the government were indulging in political point scoring particularly boris johnson who raced ahead of the evidence and used this terrible incident not so much as a smoking gun but more than a smokescreen really it was a very convenient wasn't it for the government to use this as

a way of diverting attention from their own difficulties over bricks economic policy and you know at the end of the day it's pretty clear that boris johnson did not tell the truth he told german interviewer that. scientists poured out of it said it was without doubt that the agents had to come from russia so i think jeremy called me was absolutely right to caution to ask for clear evidence before we start to raise international tensions but we need to get to the bottom in the evidence and jeremy said this seem to point towards russia but let's be absolutely clear before we start raising international tensions in this way this is huge implications for more sensible to take a measured approach and be clear about the evidence all the evidence. other news tonight israeli authorities have blocked adverts urging female passengers not to switch seats with ultra orthodox jewish men on airplanes billboards in tel aviv

airport were due to go up during the passover holiday saying ladies please take your seat and keep it the campaigns aimed at highlighting that gender seat swapping is a legal traditionally ultra-orthodox jewish men refused to sit next to women because of their religious beliefs and it can cause delays the director of the israeli religious action center told us about the campaign. and what we wanted to do this that's a risk this month is passive aggressive because of the here in israel and a lot of people are traveling to. hand the person which is basically a public service announcement letting women know of their greatest passenger and we were denied by the israel airport authority. the city and they just said that the campaign was not after raise. and when we turned to the media when we asked them they said that it was now inflammatory but it was a controversial campaign and they didn't want to be in the airports. in recent

years the number of conflicts between ultra-orthodox jewish men and female passengers has indeed increased this religious group known as already men's already rapidly in israel and putting many passengers in a difficult position some women affected by the tradition demand an apology but then occasionally the row ends up in court a year ago a case was ruled in favor of a woman who said she'd been humiliated after being asked to move she was eighty three year old ronnie rubin of it say holocaust survivor and lawyer she sued israel's national airline for its discriminatory policy the court ordered airlines to instruct staff to stop the seat swapping or face compensation bills of eight hundred dollars the israel religious action center again released a video explaining what rights women have in this situation if they come across it . there's a growing trend of ready men who simply refused to sit next to women on planes the demand that the female passenger will move or else he won't sit down instead of

telling the men to sit down the woman is dealt with severe pressure by fellow passengers and the flight attendant until she gives up and moves from her seat first i want to make sure that we don't generalize this not. this way but some do we've had several reports of a case where. an altar of the man who was refused to sit next to women you had the boarding. boarding pass with the seat just next to a woman didn't arrange the head a time and there was no place for him to move and the woman next to him didn't want to see what he does he doesn't want to sit down if he refuses to sit down then he delays the entire flight and the flight attendant and other passengers begin to pressuring begin pressuring the women to move and that's basically what we're opposing we think that's doing things that the airline should be very very clear saying if you have not arranged you're sitting with this for. the forwarding

then you have to either take your seat or get off the plane and you're not going to be compensated. facebook has admitted that the scale of a data breach of its accounts that was used for political purposes has turned out to be far larger than previously thought the web says of the profiles of up to eighty seven million people could have been shared with data research firm cambridge analytical however the company that's now accused of illegally using the information doubts that saying its reach was much less in total we believe the facebook information of up to eighty seven million people mostly in the u.s. may have been improperly shared with cambridge in a way to get cambridge analytical license data for no more than thirty million people. the consultancy firm stands accused of harvesting private information from facebook users for political targeting among the company's client list were donald trump hillary clinton and barack obama and it appears many politicians across the

globe of also resorted to cambridge analytical services in the attempt to try to influence public opinion internet lore media experts we heard from say there's a lack of awareness about how people's data is being used these days and that's how firms like facebook make their money. haemorrhaging at least you guys you know i have to figure they they claim that it is only thirty million but i don't think it makes a lot of for the from the very thirty million to late a million i think it is the principle behind it's the old story about what about the use of intimate robots as we call them books in order to meddle with the newest selections now still stories seem now a little bit out of there a little bit ridiculous nobody is talking about it but it was very interesting to hear his desire to beg only a couple of weeks ago. almost apologizing for allowing him to leave the boxes today that it was then being used to influence election is the this story was about influencing election but by body. rather than access the news is they've done

locally this is a company that roots so rapidly now the people who are managing facebook lost control of their creation and the whole business model of facebook is built on this idea that they they collect highly targeted data on their users and then sell that data to advertisers and others and i think there just wasn't enough oversight of that process basement to say that they can they can police themselves internally they can solve these problems with their own oversight that i think that you know there's a legitimate reason that that's not good enough that we need to look at a new regulatory framework that will protect the privacy of users of social media not just facebook but people go on google and other popular platforms. off the brake if nestlé is being accused of leaving people in michigan high and dry by

taking in more or more of their water supply to bottle up and sell on. join me every thursday on the alec simon show and i'll be speaking to guest in the world of politics sports business i'm show business i'll see you then. for a world cup twenty eight team coverage we've signed one of the greatest goalkeepers of all but there was one more question by the way was going to be our coach. guys i know you are nervous is a huge tournaments and the huge amount of pressure you have to the center of the beach but how would you. agree. you are the rock at the back nobody gets past you we need you to get down there we have to go.

alone. and i'm really happy to join their father two thousand and thirteen world cup in russia meet the special what was also appreciated needs to just take the real p.r.t. teams latest edition to make up as we go. again thanks for watching out international with me kevin zero in tonight so there's a david and goliath battle playing out in the u.s. state of michigan right now despite widespread public opposition food giant nestlé is being allowed to increase how much water it extracts from local sources to bottle and sell its products it can now draw fifteen hundred just more than liters per minute which is over five hundred more than previously loud and it's causing problems it sparked huge concern about the environmental consequences now and where

people going to get their water from is too much of a draw it seems a state senator who's on the natural resources committee said that she was deeply disappointed by the approval of the permit and that almost eighty one thousand people contacted the authorities saying that they were strongly against the corporation extracting more water with just seventy five saying it was a good idea they thought but even a groundswell of public opinion was ignored by authorities who said it didn't apply to their policies. in full transparency the majority of the public comments were in the position of the permit but most of them related to shoes of public policy which are not and should not be part of an administrative problem and decision. opposition goes all the way back to two thousand and one when nestle was first sued for potential damage to lakes rivers and streams as a result the company had to limit water extraction people in michigan are once again voicing their concerns he says when we moved here you can see that there is

no or no growth on either side nestle has a reputation worldwide. going to occur poor rural communities are offering all kinds of economic benefits to the community that never really of the to realize and take in as much water as they can get and one of the stream runs dry they believe for its part mostly says it will carefully review its permit now in order to comply with all the requirements of the michigan environmental council also said it would be closely monitoring the company's water extraction. if they do pump in the the level of the water goes down this is something that groups like our own could take nestle to court and have the courts and force the permit we make sure that no nobody takes too much water out of the river so that it so that it runs dry or everything so that's why they're going to monitor the flow and make sure that that flow maintains a healthy well and in cases where the stream flow starts to drop then they're

required to turn back their wells and turn them down so it's going to be very closely monitored withdrawal and if we do see that impact happening then we'll be asking state officials to to void the permit and make west make nestle turn the wells off. she was at a florida school where seventeen people were killed by teenager in february a speaking out against new security measures there one survivor who joined the anti-gun lobby expressed her frustration at students being told to you see through backpacks now which is one of the school's new safety measures the youngsters say they want well thought out changes not useless quick fixes as they put it as samir khan reports. it's been almost two months since the survivors of the deadly school shooting in parkland call them a government to take action what's more important is actual action and pertinent action that results in saving thousands of children's lives but some of the

initiatives taken to curtail gun violence haven't been so popular like these clear backpacks made mandatory at marjorie stoneman douglas high and by the editor of bad intentions my new backpack is almost as transparent as the end i raise agenda i feel so safe now starting over the last quarter i have seen a year right with a good old violation of privacy now i can't lie about not having gum moving on to another state and another brilliant and this shit a middle school teacher in georgia after going to write a letter to congress demanding stricter gun control because i'm an enraged parents who complained that it was unethical to bring the issue into the school's curriculum pennsylvania has its own rather unique solution if an armed intruder attempts to gain at princeton any of our classrooms they will face a classroom full of students armed with rocks and they will be stoned but apparently this is plan b. the district superintendent said that the rocks were his own suggestion after scrapping plan a which was great for golf balls so it looks like those in charge of

fixing the issue of gun violence seem to be using the debate to score political points and one of the best examples of this is senator marco rubio i respect their views and recognize that many americans support certain gun bans however many other americans do not support a gun ban statements like this in makeshift solutions are perhaps not what the shooting survivors had in mind when they called for action samir khan r t washington d.c. always much more from us from the top of going to our site dot com for now it's kevin i would hear moskos saying thanks for watching this live updates twenty three minutes past eight mosco time the programs continue feed right after the break. henry kissinger once said the brochure in the united states went into the ukrainian crisis acting rationally based on mutual misconceptions. tensions heightened over

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there are some was so much at all of them mama. i don't want. to try and look at it but. you know. sort of. to let me know when you come with the news going to so for us to do that that's still the question is still yes but no yes the chest. they're for. and that is for you. but.

they've been waiting. for a long time because it talked about the dollar back to this world reserve currency countries are tired of sunday and america's wars because there are there's got to be trainer in dollars including oil to buy oil got to buy dollars first means america gets a commission to use that money or wage wars all over the world. welcome

to the alex salmond who having completed our chile in the future of islands and you dip we now turn our sights on the two other celtic nations in these islands scotland and wales in the last half century scottish politics has been transformed starting with the victory of that very special lady when a friend margaret ewing in a byelection how with and and one nine hundred sixty seven from having no parliament and little distinctive scottish voice the united kingdom is calling this move democratically to the very brink of independence i was the special guest if he could be not to in politics the right that p.d. and i'm not from only one vantage point but from out of three different political parties. none s.n.p. member of the scottish parliament alex's interview with alex new demonstrates that he's lost none of his ability to rebel from the party line and see chart three forward for scotland but first let's have

a look at your tweets your messages and your e-mails gillie says alex salmon share with political perspectives is very important in order to analyze in a critical way very serious issues we then heard from honey harper who says watch my first show this week and i'm not likely to miss one in the future please to hear that heidi then a couple of emails first from david sharp who says i love the show alex it's good that you've got a good diversity of people who appear all the paste and finally from in bruce hi alex i'm really enjoying the show how about an interview with david taman apart from being a great actor he's been an avid supporter of independence for many years and it's also the kind of spirit aid which is you know as a well run charity doing good work in scotland and across the globe keep up the good work well and i'm delighted to say that very soon alex will be interviewing david heyman on the show now the parts of the scottish parliament are still in the news these are the scenes from just two weeks ago when campaign issue rallied to protect the twenty years old institution from

a brics it inspired per grab by westminster. but this is a story which in terms of major political developments stretches back half a century closely involved for all of that p.t.o. to even longer than alex salmond himself has been alex neil one time key member of scottish labor sometimes break with party organizer scottish government secretary and the s.n.p. backbencher in the scottish parliament out of caught up with them in scotland's capital city of at imbra. ballot deal member the scottish parliament form a government minister in scotland you cut your political tif and they are sure one of the hotbeds of of socialism in scotland and originally a member the labor party so growing up in that tradition you came to prominence pretty early moved enough i don't hundred rating the labor party manifesto away by them well one thousand nine hundred six was the first elation i was ever involved

in it was fourteen years of age and i was very inspired by your hero hartle wilson and i actually met them for the first time when it came to even one thousand nine hundred sixty address and the late rally and i was also that year the labor candidate for dell meddling to the high school mock election and i won it right because i was brought in i'm aiming community and if you were interested in politics assured. you wouldn't have too much troubles away because of the. problem that you lose the main community if you're interested in politics in those days then it was a labor party or snore the party you could join and of course i joined the labor party young social as i was the chief of the labor club at university i was the first chief of the scottish and then the national organizationally bassoons then the first research officer for the labor party in scotland this was the first ever fool time research officer of the labor party in scotland that's all it was the

scottish consul of the labor party it was. kind of very limited they will give of course because of the s.n.p. success of the favorites and before the election and subsequently in the seventy four awaken the rule of my job in the role of the scottish labor party became much more important and for once we were listened to in london devolution was forced on this course labor party well they wanted or not the labor party were persuaded of scotland to go for devolution against their will which is a fascinating irony absolutely held the s.n.p. more or less at bay and told them to four and you of the research officer had a hand in an achievement that result is underwriting the manifesto promising a powerhouse problem and then a year or two that you had decided that that wasn't going to happen and you were off to pass just knew what happened well we're two things first of all the way in

which the labor party ottilie really done its promise to the skin scottish people because the keel it misstated of the first white paper on the scottish same plea was for that a bit of control of the scottish development agency described in our manifesto as the media for the regeneration the scottish economy that was issue number one in scotland brazil regeneration of the economy the assembly wasn't going to get was powerless and that was a major betrayal as far as i was concerned there were other betrayals but that was a major one and this was the first muti scottish assembly as it was there in modern times in the one nine hundred seventy s. being considered by the labor government because of the upsurge of support for the scottish national absolutely and the second issue was just the general wilson government under healy's chancellorship basically i think sold to jail season a lot of the promises that had been made to the i.m.f. to the i.m.f. and the it didn't need to because the figures were falls presented on what would be

made even worse as a habit of the treasury absolutely which still goes on today. so that lead me along with themselves and john roberts in the then libor m.p. for peacefully to decide that the time had come to jim summers or as the labor party member for sophie. a john roberts in for paisley and you were the research officer of the labor party so you were you actually employed by the labor while you were plotting i. would describe a breakaway no i resigned immediately for never be decided to do it i resigned within a day or two from the labor party be a part of it of all of them to do well we were plotting anything until the white people came out which was the let must test the litmus test and therefore it was very quick i mean we met in jim's host with mobile phone who you knew who was the p.r. advisor to the labor party in scotland at the time very highly respected journalist in scotland and they resigned from the labor party but well two things happened one

of the wasn't a general election. and secondly your party drifted into some trouble and waters the problem was two fold number one obviously came along and therefore the wasn't election and by the time the election came the s. and p's credibility had condoned we suffered from a lot and also the international markets had by then infiltrated the s. and p. and b. sickly as an organization that losses and effectiveness and the seventy nine election which of course margaret thatcher triumphed and yet the labor party were defeated the assembly legislation which had gone through the commons albeit fairly heavily butchered and then had a had a majority vote in favor of the one nine hundred seventy nine referendum and settlement but that was just not to be in a large enough majority because of an amendment put forward by george coming i'm a liberal m.p. as we were subsequently found tripped up by robin cook

a very famous labor. m.p. was a blocking mechanism and margaret thatcher's government decided that they could they could afford politically to the effect of the vastness of the end of ironic these days where we're told that fifty one or fifty two percent referendum a sacrifice yeah yeah it wasn't so and ninety seven i know it was totally wrecked the rules were wrecked demean forty percent included people who were tagged because it was such a high threshold the way the electoral register was done in those days that effectively dead people voted against the same plea that was the native fate of this is because they were ordered the register and in fact the winter of discontent added to that so you had to be removed for that i had exactly and people would be registered twice that in up the it wasn't a not that the postal vote registered and so on and so forth there's a lot of people who couldn't vote for perfectly legitimate reasons either because

they were registered in the wrong place didn't get a post of all as you say were dead well that effect of the counted as being against those i absolutely i mean a these days if you had an electoral commission and there was this new way that would have passed the only two commissions taste of a field where or whatever some people are going to jail under the circumstances that we saw there you know in the aftermath of the one nine hundred seventy nine election you're basically looking at what resembled a political desert it all and that is to say that they're simply lost or some protested being cut back to two m.p.'s so as a lost his seat and so fierce the s.l.p. was a factor with the front yard to margaret thatcher was into the commons of a healthy majority leader and no sign of progress towards scottish of government so what it all it will do then yeah you can refile before i actually joined the number of years before i joined the same people because. i actually through a stage of losing interest in politics and certainly losing interest in active

politics and also at that time there was us there so there. space of the s.n.p. didn't appeal to me i think it's been transformed from easiest one to your own leadership and therefore it took me longer before i joined i also had moved job and it was actually difficult for me job wise to become a member of the s.n.p. certainly transparently a member of the s.n.p. but eventually i did join the s.n.p. not just joined but by ninety eight i your demands there's an s.n.p. candidate a byelection glasgow glasgow central byelection and that was an experience i'd never for inhalation in glasgow before if i went on national audience it should be a law that glasgow but thirty or forty miles apart but what is a part of costs often bought in the same political that actually up and vote left of center that doesn't mean of the same place does or not talk glasgow politics is

unique to glasgow and so the time of the ninety ninety two election you were playing quite an instrumental role in the s. and p's co you'd promoted me to be in charge of the party's publicity whether you know it i don't know but difficult sessions of. that it was it was a very interesting campaign always because it was a campaign night in eighty two which promised much delivered much less not promised a lot still the campaign never been able to find in history with a political party managed to put on fifty percent of the resort absolutely but lost the seat exactly absolutely to be fear the one of the seats where most with the seat who of course hadn't stood or won the election as an ace in p.n.p. but obviously going to this government which was a big loss psychologically and the success of the election in increasing a seat of the vote from the previous fourteen percent to twenty two percent of

course was lost in the media but that form the basis in the platform for building up you know the. party organization and by the time we moved into the late ninety's we were now much stronger position i know looking back i think we would be used the phrase that i did in the we are dead than when the for you by ninety three everybody to forecast the authorship of the three but if i defeat its president under an illicit us phrase absolute was actually one. not alexai it absolutely and the context of that was an answer to a question about the single market single european market because my view as an economist boy is that if scotland didn't get a power meant at the very least it was very strong and free to forward so an economic policy going into the single market with those tools at our disposal would present real challenges the scottish economy so we might roll on to the one thousand one thousand nine elections where the s.n.p.

mounted. probably substantial absolutely schilens to the labor party in a general election this case a scottish genelec someone to ninety nine and your rival in the in the scottish parliament a list member for the wessel school for central scotland. to arrive as one of that group of i think about thirty seven s.n.p. m.p. it was thirty five but it was fun task because this was the fust ever democratically elected scottish parliament and to be a member of it i think is something that well you but only one of one hundred twenty nine so it's a very unique club to be n. and of course of no say of the nearly eighteen year olds in the scottish parliament so you're one of the original members there's a tenuous membership from the. well let's choose the. the winner using phrase census reconvening yes in one thousand nine thousand nine and yourself continuously for it to this point but that was

a marvelous time how confident were you. that things would progress to the stage where the s. and p. will go i do think at that stage anybody would hopeful and we will say it lee walking full but i didn't think anyone would have said what i'm so lonely sure it was going to be the kind of progress with that and potentially the ideal of being able to have an independence referendum organize the fate of me by the scottish parliament by two thousand and fourteen i don't think anybody would have confidently predicted that would happen having sayed it became very clear i think ileo and as far as the people will consent the focus changed from being at westminster to the scottish parliament to the scottish parliament. on the twenty first day of march in the year seventeen hundred seven is here by reconvene.

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preached. to going to be press it's like them before three in the morning can't be good. i'm interested always in the waters about how. things should. which. was. the. you was. that. you didn't was. going. to be. welcome back and forget i like neil about his career in scottish politics we'd reached

a point when he arrives in the scottish parliament reconvened off the free hundred years in one thousand nine hundred ninety. the s.n.p. won the two thousand level actions by a majority in a p.r. system now were you surprised that that was possible straight question no the answer is i wasn't because i tried to keep my told me before so i tried to keep my ear very close to the clones as you know. and the feedback from the grassroots and by that i don't just mean a same piece supporters but from people who were traditionally but voters i thought it was possible i would have predicted that because the thing was a top p.r. system but i have to say by about three weeks before polling day i was convinced that we could not necessarily would but that we could actually be the magic number to become a majority government and of course what happened i didn't tell you didn't tell anyone else that that was my feeling then want to say takes potations running but

my view right along in that campaign was there we could do it and b. that in the run up to the scottish referendum of twenty four year in every respect with the benefit of hindsight how well was played or one of the mistakes that we can there simply can learn from in the future you can always layer from mistakes but that's no you know i think we plea we ran an exceptionally good campaign i think we went from you know below theft in terms of support from independents and by pooling day with the top to forty five percent and that was against all this the entire media both the written and a lot of the television media and others being against is. clearly. the big boys all come up from london in the last week to try and promise the voters so-called value that we're going to deliver big powers if we voted against independence which had an influence in the campaign and you think that was

influential because many commentators say it wasn't it was it it was influential was the for. to the bees the fate of lee delivered by gordon brown a new biter for the s. and p. thinks of gordon but iron he does have influenced will others did it that time with labor voters or enough leiber voices gordon brown the former my mum sent us by then in retirement you came out of retirement to back a no vote yes or no and to underpin this new commitment to scotland exactly for what sometimes called devil max a lot suppose a bit short of a depression and i think he did boards he swung maybe three or four percent leiber voters were equivalent to three or four percent of the link to it but the five percent to the most but that was enough photos to turn the tide in the light of flame to turn the tide in the last week otherwise i think we may a done it so the aftermath of the twenty fourteen i stepped down as the first

minister i resign or leave the field clear for nicol sturgeon and there's a most enormous success in the twenty fifteen in general election year the momentum from the referendum colleagues forward and sweeps absolutely the unionist parties aside when you're fifty six out of fifty nine scottish seats did you have a figure that was possible. i don't think anybody thought that was possible including the unionist parties. and the other thing is i think we all need to missed the others and the unionist parties of thinking that that was scottish politics say for the next twenty years that you know these protests or the labor party could make any of a comeback in that we were going to be able and i think looking back you know we that was too presumptuous because obviously the subsequent l.h. and we lost twenty of those seats so i think i was our sound neutrally some foreigners but then something's happened when we muted the point during the.

referendum it was possible scott could be taken out of europe against his will is it we put the point forward with campaign said that was impossible the only way to stay within europe was to avoid or eleven end of below and behold david cameron as prime minister gambled everything in european referendum and lost so the situation we'd ventilated as being a classic illustration of scotland's inability to control its own destiny as other great examples the five submarines or the the war in iraq came to pass years in two thousand and sixteen. were you surprised that that did not cause the sea change of opinion towards independence given that the indications are that independence support a state roughly put it was in the early forties much much higher than previously but not subject beyond the fifty percent mark i wasn't surprised in fact and the

political cabinet just after mikell had taken over where we were discussing the prospect of this possibly happening newbie wanted it to help particularly because clearly the s.n.p. didn't want to come out of europe but. at that discussion i specifically made the point that i did not believe that if we ended up with a differential between scotland the less the uki then that would automatically lead to a stampede for independence or anything like it but in particular your emotional attachment may be less than the s.n.p. is and there's been suggestions that you personally voted against voted no in the european level and of is those the opportunity to clear up one way or other for all time i've been on is about i voted no i didn't campaign in the referendum presented just leave the government and i thought it would was a great quickly to go against government policy because it would have been no seen

as a tactical move on the issue of principle the issue which you put your finger on many many years ago in the run up to the one thousand nine hundred two election and then a u.k. coming analysis the one that wasn't meant to be the leaked. week of two but you're showing that the u.k. government's own yeah but excedrin analysis is the single market in economic terms is hugely damaging maybe not the armageddon that george osborne was committing yourself to but nonetheless a substantial chunk of g.d.p. . analysis by breck's at the partner of government in these circumstances hey are you in the same position as you were back in may the right to accepting the preeminence of the single market in terms of the health of the scotia carnival two things first of all i've never seen any government economic forecast in fifty years that was and if we had leave i kill it i mean if you look at recently the your father that's not going to get one right through for the national office of

statistics has produced an analysis recently not of a forecast but the growth rate for last year and they got it saw. the were forecasting less than one and a half percent growth of the u.k. and it turns out it was two percent growth so they can't tell as what's just happened let alone forecast was going to happen it will do you think the. scottish government were forecasting a major economic impact from below the years ago market and the pro but government who are also forecasting a substantial impact the fingerboard from coming from different opinions will not come from different opinions because it's very clear that the u.k. the forecast is coming from civil servants who are wanting this to the in the european union the scottish government obviously that's their policy but the important thing is we have to be and let me just see one of the big faults of these forecasts since they do take account of the behavioral changes that will happen particularly in the business community if and when breaks it actually happens or

doesn't happen because business is a dumps and there is nothing in these forecasts to analyze how business will adapt but the history of the economy going back hundreds of years as whether it's wars whether it's revolutions for ever as business as adults we don't know hundreds of you will have to go back twenty five years. since alec nero was telling the scottish national party we must get to independence because of this huge importance of the single market place. played as i think neal quarter of a century later having got all of the rest of opinion no seem to disregard the membership outside of market as such an important economic economic the first thing is the e.u. has changed dramatically i'm not. sure but let me give it a single market or single market and the e.u. have changed dramatically in that period of time but more importantly looking to the future and this is a thing we'll agree in terms of scotland independent scotland i think in fact

actually george osborne recently has made a statement saying that the u.k. should do this as well but i think we've the best way forward for scotland which avoids the don't states. you know it's a balance but also allows us to keep an access to access a single market as important as the dog was called the norwegian solution to join the european free trade association and that means that we're not going to be tied into a federal going to states or europe which i think is going to happen and certainly not leave school and dependent we are as if we don't something like the north we solution then we've been a much stronger position all right so let's employ your fifty years' experience of politics having started a very young age what's going to happen what's going to happen at westminster what's going to happen to scott. well like economic forecast of i've always

cautious in terms of forecasting for will happen but i think louis freeh by twenty twenty three it will i think there's a good chance that we will be if no end entirely independent sent much more independent than riyadh at the present time i think in the short term a number of things out of this number one is i think the least of me mate survive just to see the brakes a deal done and it talk of the shia but the inches are going up so there will be a change of leadership in the two. party that's been going to have consequences which could be good or bad for the tory party and you know i think any tour to come is bad for the country anyway there's the possibility they will have another general only option either in two thousand and nineteen or two thousand and twenty particularly if i'm right and there's a new leader and that will have consequences secondly i think the brakes deal will be done i mean i just no matter which way you look at it no matter how optimistic

or pessimistic you are as an interest of the e.u. as well as a huge key to how he deals and i think the deal will be done and we need to see the shape of that deal before we can then forecast puts likely to happen the laughter but i think some things are very clear maybe it's going to go at some point fairly soon but i think we believed up with a deal including a transition period and after we have got to try and shape our own future and know our endowment for the approved breaks i want to place whether we should be allowing other people to decide the future of scotland i don't want it decided in brussels don't want to decide to london i wanted to say i did by the people in scotland i like neal thank you so much pleasure now this is a very revealing sure not least for me personally for much of the last generation i found a number of political differences of alec neal of course of corporator on many occasions for scott was a benefit and indeed i have appointed him to the highest ministerial offices in the

land but was seldom been in total political agreement. now how about it's difficult to have his contention that definitive way forward for scotland is beckoning in membership of efta the european free trade association an organization which would allow a country to retain its european economic and social connections before the danger of being absorbed into the perspective of a federal continent in a sea of political uncertainty it might well unite the country and be the key to scotland for the constitutional progress from thais to me and all of the team at the alex salmond show good bye for now.

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a size it again is about. so the proposed new victim union square of hope releases a first statement on the conditions of recovery opens new captain owen to the investigation the doubts emerging over russia being the source of the knowledge of nerve agent. of the sorry campaign for israeli women to keep their seats on airplanes instead of switching with ultra orthodox jewish man was blocked by the authorities. and facebook admits that tens of millions more people could be affected by the data harvesting scandal than initially thought the date research company used the information disputes the numbers.

by the society welcome i'm kevin zero in it's nine pm now here in moscow this thursday our top story again tonight the latest in the script the daughter of the former russian double agent yulia scruple knows given a first official statement since the poison attack on her and her father last month in the english city of souls bery yulia said quote the entire episode is somewhat disorientating all of the correspondent part of our team in the u.k. and us to sit as the latest this starts to look like a puzzle that potentially the u.k. had pieced together a little bit too quickly as now some of the key pieces of it despite some of the denial seem to be falling apart now some may have hoped that this would be the spy story of the decade where some russian involved in immediate conclusion immediate accusations and of course the media and the court of public opinion had shaped the opinions pretty quickly given the fact that politicians here were repeating the same words over and over like a mantra it's highly likely that russia was responsible to the poles russia

culpable culpable culpable for the attempted murder is kate is culpable quarrel. preachings credit as a woman you're likely to do with his decision well of course the the attempted murder conversation is now potentially going to take on a different shape now that yulia screwball indeed has released her first official statement where she said that she's been feeling ok for a week now that she's woken up where she thinks for those who those who helped her out and her father when they were incapacitated as she put it and certainly lots of question this is there about of course many times we have heard the lines about the russia having a history of attempted assassinations with some of course questioning that possibly a new chapter will now open with potentially yuliya and hopefully eventually sergei when he gets out of the coma could share some of the information about what happened to them and of course the porch and down revelations were huge but. for

some reason not really changing lots of minds they were highly anticipated findings from this major british web oratory that found that there is no proof that russia is behind this and in fact no particular source that they could name but the narrative has progressed so quickly and has taken up so much of a public and media and public political of course and diplomatic attention throughout the world that it seems that it's a little bit difficult now for this whole story to potentially slow down especially with situations which we have seen where for example the times newspaper had an article on where they said it would it might be hard for to reason me given the latest porton down revelations to keep the alliances against russia and those kinds of statements are not welcome at this point because the simple are completely wrong there should be nothing has changed what it gives is one of the pieces of a master solidify the information war propaganda war general clearly we're still

waiting for the official results of an investigation that is going to be hopefully eventually announced. well the first year of this little cloud told a sprig of struggling to keep its claims on track of. just a week ago i remember reading in the british papers that she was on death's door in the life support she was going to be switched off and now she's made this lousy restart recovery which is extremely welcome of course but the problem of the british government it's got now is there is their narrative is totally unraveling day by day hour by hour we already have this week the announcement from porton down that they couldn't confirm that the nerve agent the government said was used actually came from russia and we had the sort of backpedaling on that one from the likes of boris johnson and co and now we hear that you list for police is up there she's talking she's recovered well and so you know if this was not a chart which we're told we were told before don't forget is the deadliest nerve agent no into mine it would kill you within two minutes probably. how is she

recovered and so there's a lot of questions to be asked here and of course we're now getting told the navi truck was probably on the door handle of the triples house but if that was the case then how come they were able to walk around solve for you have a meal go up or drive for the next five hours so this really this narrative really got more holes in it a large slab of swiss cheese isn't it and it's hard to see where the government can go from here really because you know everything they told us in the beginning is so far being contradicted well developments are likely again tonight now in the coming hour or so russia has called for a un security council meeting over the sols princedom to get underway in the next hour we think just to we'll take you to and it happens when the relevant people britain the u.s. russia speak britain has been quick to point the finger at russia but has been left slightly red faced after some claims are beginning to unravel with more of the next . it's a right old kid on drugs on the one hand you skip the trial screamed guilty and jump to the punishment pot on the other your own guys come out and say hold on

there's no evidence and i was his by were living experts at the defense science and technology laborde three at porton down made clear that this was a military grade nobby choke nerve agent produced in russia we have not verified the precise source you have not been able to establish that this was made in russia as i said it's our job to provide eight you know the scientific evidence that identifies what the particular nerve agent is but to be clear you're not able at porton down to say where it is from we haven't yet been able to do that well that's embarrassing alright keep calm first goo back on your word and just to be sure delete any old tweets then riposte experts who say the opposite of what you said. our experts have precisely identified in the region as

novacek it is not and has never been our responsibility to confirm the source of the agent now pretend that nothing happened which is hard to do in the into that really the brits ended up having to explain themselves and conveniently scapegoated the poor fellow who transcribed the briefing one of the tweets was truncated and did not accurately report her master's words we've removed this tweet you remember what i said about scapegoating he really did but barge johnson himself had said almost the same thing said it's on video you argue that their source of the chalk is russia how did you manage to find it out so quickly when i look at the the evidence i mean the people from from portland they were absolutely categorical and i asked the guy myself i said are you sure and he said there's no doubt wouldn't want to be in their shoes right about now yet they did find

a way around it a simple statement saying that boris johnson didn't mean it like that what the foreign secretary said then and what putin donna said recently is fully consistent with what we've said throughout having taken things so far so fast they can't afford to do a u. turn this investigation could end in two ways with proof of russia's guilt or with an uncomfortable silence and hope that everyone forgets until then boris keep doing what you do every day you're the one on the. russian production. is the government russia. of surrogates people is not an isolated case but the latest in a. bricklayers behavior by the russian state the russian the russian the sort of

russian that russia russia russia russia tomorrow i'm afraid the evidence is overwhelming that it is russia and some serious questions so he claimed on german television this was a russian produced nerve agent and porton down and then examined it and said all that to five force sinatra he couldn't say where it came from. or the labor party m.p. has been running on boris johnson on twitter meantime the shadow home secretary said that perhaps mr johnson might also want to delete that now vilified german t.v. interview stressed the need to check evidence while labor m.p. chris williamson called johnson downright dangerous and says the instance being used as a diversionary tactic. seems to me the government were indulging in political point scoring particularly boris johnson who raced ahead of the evidence and used this terrible incident not so much as a smoking gun but more the smoke screen really it was

a very convenient wasn't for the government to use this as a way of diverting attention from their own difficulties over bricks economic policy and you know at the end of the day it's pretty clear that boris johnson did not tell the truth he told the german interviewer that. scientists poured out of it said it was without doubt that the agents had to come from russia so i think jeremy corbin was absolutely right to caution to ask for clear evidence before we start to raise international tensions but we need to get to the bottom in the evidence and jeremy said this seem to point towards russia but let's be absolutely clear before we start raising international tensions in this way this is huge implications far more sensible to take a measured approach and be clear about the evidence all the evidence. other stories tonight is really authorities have blocked adverts urging female passengers not to switch seats with the ultra orthodox jewish men on airplanes

billboards in tel aviv airport word jew to go up to her during the passover holiday saying quote ladies please take a seat and keep it end quote the campaigns aimed at highlighting that gender seat swapping is illegal traditionally ultra-orthodox jewish men refused to sit next to a woman because of their religious beliefs and it can cause delays on planes the director of the israeli religious action center told us more about the campaign now . and what we wanted to do this that's it. this month is passive aggressive because the here in israel and a lot of people are traveling to. a person which is basically a public service announcement letting women know of their greatest passage and we were denied by the israel airport authority to pay for it. because of the they just said that the campaign was not after raise. and when we turned to the media when we asked them they said. it was now inflammatory but it was

a controversial campaign and they didn't want to be in the airports in recent years the number of conflicts between ultra-orthodox jewish men and female passengers indeed has increased this particular religious group known as heredia men is growing rapidly in israel and putting many passengers in a difficult position some women affected by the tradition demand an apology but occasionally the row ends up as far as going to caught a year ago you may recall that case ruled in favor of a woman who said she'd been humiliated after being asked to move she was eighty three year old renee rabinovich a holocaust survivor and lawyer she sued israel's national airline for its discriminatory policy the court ordered airlines to instruct staff to stop with the seat swapping and to pay eight hundred dollars in compensation the israel religious action center again released a video explaining what rights women have in this situation. there's a growing trend already men who simply refused to sit next to women on planes

because the demands of the female passenger will move or else he won't sit down instead of telling the men to sit down the woman is dealt with severe pressure by fellow passengers and the flight attendant until she gives up and from her seat first i want to make sure that we don't generalize this not. this way but some do we've had several reports of a case where. an altar of that man was. refused to sit next to the man you had the boarding. pass with the seat next to a woman didn't arrange they had a time and there was no place for him to move and the woman next to him didn't want to see what he does he doesn't want to sit down if he refuses to sit down then he delays the entire flight and the flight attendant and other passengers begin to pressuring begin pressuring the women to move and that's basically what we're opposing we think that's doing things that the airline should be very very clear

saying if you have not arranged you're sitting with this for. the forwarding then you have to either take your seat or get off the plane and you're not going to be compensated. sixteen facebook has admitted that the scale of data breach of its accounts that was used for political purposes has turned out to be far larger than previously thought the web giant says that the profiles of up to eighty seven million people could have been shared with data research firm cambridge analytical over the company that now accused of illegally using that information figure saying its reach in fact was much less in total we believe the facebook information of up to eighty seven million people mostly in the u.s. may have been improperly shared with cambridge and. cambridge analytical license data for no more than thirty million people. the consultancy firm stands accused of harvesting private information from facebook users for political targeting among

the company's client list with donald trump hillary clinton and barack obama and it appears many politicians across the globe of also resorted to cambridge analytical services in an attempt to try to influence public opinion but facebook's now saying that cambridge analytic are is not alone in attempts to breach private information and in fact it could be that all two billion accounts on the facebook platform could have been exposed into the law and media experts we heard from say there's a lack of awareness generally about how people's data is being used and that so firms like facebook make their money. kember generally the guys denying the figure of eight they claim there is only thirty million but i don't think it makes a lot of for the from the very thirty million to late in the year and i think it is the principle behind it it's the old story about what about the use of intimate robots as we call them votes. in order to meddle with the us elections now sibylle story seem now a little bit out of there a little bit ridiculous nobody is talking about it but it was very interesting to

hear his desire to bag only a couple of weeks ago. almost apologizing for allowing him to leave the couch where bucks is the date that it was then and you're doing election is the the story was about influencing election but by body. rather than access the news is they've done locally this is a company that routes so rapidly that the people who are managing facebook lost control of their creation and the whole business model of facebook is built on this idea that they they collect highly targeted data on their users and then sell that data to advertisers and others and i think there just wasn't enough oversight of that process basement to say that they can they can police themselves internally they can solve these problems with their own oversight but i think that you know there's a legitimate reason that that's not good enough that we need to look at

a new regulatory framework that will protect the privacy of users of social media not just facebook but people go on google and other popular platforms. thanks very with artie tonight and next we're going to over the david and goliath battle playing out of the u.s. state of michigan and it's another sensitive issue over water to. a lot of people despite that widespread public opposition food giant nestlé is being allowed to increase how much water it extracts from local sources to bottle and then sell its products that's the catch that's selling a lot of people that come out draw fifteen hundred liters per minute which is over five hundred more than previously allowed and it's been four years since others in michigan have even had access to drinking water bear in mind you may recall the story about the city of flint the crisis there with led contamination well that still dragging on a state senator who is on the natural resources committee told us that she was

deeply disappointed now by the approval of nestle's latest permit and that almost eighty one thousand people had contacted the authorities saying there were strongly against the corporation extracting more water seems just seventy five said it was a good idea but given the ground swell of public opinion nonetheless it seems to have been ignored by authorities who said it didn't apply to their policies include transparency of the majority of the public comments were in the position of the permit but most of them related to sheets of public policy which are not and should not be part of an administrative permit decision or position to all this goes back to two thousand and one where nestle was first sued for potential damage to lakes rivers and streams as a result the company had to limit water extraction people in michigan are once again voicing their concerns. this is when we moved here you can see that there is no or no growth on either side nestle has a reputation worldwide of going to occur poor rural communities are offering the

kinds of economic benefits to the community that never really materialized. and taking as much water as they can get and when a stream runs dry they leave well for its part the other side of this nestlé says it will carefully review its permit now in order to comply with all the requirements and the michigan environmental councilors also said it would be closely monitoring the company's water extraction if they do pompano but well all of the water goes down this is something that groups like our own could take nestle to court and have the courts and force the permit we make sure that no nobody takes too much water out of a river so that it so that it runs dry or everything so that's why they're going to monitor the flow and make sure that that flow maintains that are healthy and in cases where the stream flow starts to dry out and then they're required to turn back their wells and turn them down so it's going to be very closely monitored

withdrawal and if we do see that impact happening then what we're asking state officials to talk boyd to curb it and make west make nestle turn the wells off. saying in a state students at the florida school where seventeen people were killed by a teenager in february speaking out against new security measures there one survivor who joined the anti gun lobby expressed her frustration out students being told you see through backpacks which is one of the school's new safety measures partly the others to say they want well thought out changes not useless quick fixes as they see it samir khan reports. it's been almost two months since the survivors of the deadly school shooting in parkland called on the government to take action what's more important is actual action and pertinent action that results in saving thousands of children's lives but some of the initiatives taken to curtail gun violence haven't been so popular like these clear backpacks made mandatory at

marjorie stoneman douglas high and by the editor of bad intentions my new backpack is almost as transparent as the end i raise agenda i feel so safe now starting over the last quarter i have seen a year right with a good old violation of privacy now i can't lie about not having gum moving on to another state and another brilliant and this shift a middle school teacher in georgia asked to dance to write a letter to congress demanding stricter gun control yes i'm an enraged parents who complained that it was unethical to bring the issue into the school's curriculum pennsylvania has its own rather unique solution if an armed intruder attempts to gain at princeton any of our classrooms they will face a classroom full of students armed with rocks and they will be stoned but apparently this is plan b. the district superintendent said that the rocks were his own suggestion after scrapping plan a which was great for golf balls so it looks like those in charge of fixing the issue of gun violence seem to be using the debate to score political

points and one of the best examples of this is senator marco rubio i respect their views and recognize that many americans support certain gun bans however many other americans do not support a gun ban statements like this in makeshift solutions are perhaps not what the shooting survivors had in mind when they called for action samir khan r t washington d.c. . review around the world of get so we're going to the u.n. probably in around about a half an hour to an hour or so to see what's being said that the a security council rather get the latest from us money as kevin knowing who's watching this update more about half an hour. yes they've been waiting on this for a long time because we're talking about the dollar back that is the world reserve currency countries are tired of funding the america's wars because ever there's got

to be traded in dollars including oil to buy oil got to buy dollars first that means america gets a commission to use that money to wage wars all over the world. then what bargain that he will go back to will go on. for years will pull you out of the . good open ended mouth and those who would have it and i didn't do it we will always be the goodies it also. helps home. own income if you can. keep it or don't have the money you can come up with a group. on ten young men about the law and they have been demanding that government the minimum time has

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welcome to worlds apart if you years ago henry kissinger sad that russia and the west full speed into the ukrainian crisis while acting rationally based on their misconceptions of the other tensions heightened once again over this cripple case either side still guided by the same misconceptions or perhaps deliberate misrepresentations of the other well to discuss that i'm now joined by gainey bush and ski a retired lieutenant general of the russian army and the chairman of the board of the peer center mr brzezinski it's great to talk to you thank you very much for your time thank you now you recently gave an interview it's you b.b.c.

radio which carries a lot of people in that interview as you said you want actually about russia and the west moving very far to a war and not just a war you said this would be a conflict that would be worse than the cold war in fact the last war in the history of humanity for a military guy like yourself i think that's a pretty dramatic. atic statement what made you reach that conclusion well first of all maybe i exaggerated a little bit and maybe i was a bit misunderstood a little bit but what i actually meant first of all comparing the present day situation with the days of the cold war i say that at the day of the cold cold war in the seventy's eighty's i was active military i felt more comfortable by the way it was everything was clear yes it was ideological confrontation maybe. military confrontation but still there were rules definite rules red lines the

corner of the soviet union oh i see right now containing the soviet union well the only and yes but no it's not containment no there are there wrecked threats to corner russia go isolate russia politically to strangle it economically to to do everything possible even though well the latest the latest statement by the pentagon concerning syria to keep damascus if the syrian government allegedly used chemical weapons which there was a very serious statement made by general direction of that and key the central damascus will be hip where the center for a consolation where the russian military russian policeman. russian federation will have to do to answer and now it will intercept the cruise missiles and carriers

what does that mean carriers since all the cruise missiles launched from u.s. warships that mean there are russian air force will strike a pretty serious yes or you can see it's unprecedented in my. you make spirit well i think what's also unprecedented is is. an allegation of a heart from the united kingdom that russia actually used military grade chemical weapons that put civilians at grave danger. in the center of a large community in the united kingdom i cannot recall anything of this or that was. the similarly geishas during the times of the soviet union can you see i think first of all absolutely sure it's a grand provocation and it's so poorly organized that well you see so many questions so many questions first of all it's a great it's different in trying to be investigate the first question the

investigate the investigator start the investigation who has the benefit but. mr brzezinski i think it's very clear that the british side is not interested in the investigation it's interested in the political response to that yes and i wonder i mean russians are often accused of you know making up all sorts of conspiracies and it's hard not to do that when you have so little information at such a great grave allegation but how do you explain that personally to yourself both the use of the supposedly military grade chemical agent the miraculous improvement in the health of fuel is cripple as well as the persistent denial of russian access to its citizens well because you see i think that nobody in the west is interested in the even if i didn't to the major effect that has already been achieved russia

has been accused russia has been solidarity has been produced. some it was developed it not the brics it durham's not the financial compensation on the british bar on the. of russia of chemical effect the civilized world of the west so it's a. i think for any neutral observer it should be. do you think that's actually now because i'm obviously not a military person but from what i understand the claims of tourists amaze government actually saying that russia attacked them by the use of military means and when you are attacked by the use of military means i suppose you would respond militarily do you expect that to come well i don't inspect u.k. to count the russian militarily because well with all respect to the british military with all respect to the united kingdom it's not the it's not the nation to

confront thresher militarily at present but i think it's not the it's not the probably cation organized only by great britain the u.k. well in these cases it was used as a tool i think that it was at least carbonated because washington and the follow up reaction by watching the show that they did most interested but they expelled not just symbolically just to show solidarity a couple of fresh and diplomas they expelled sixty people they closed our consulate in seattle so it's. what frightens me the spiral of confrontation between well we call it collective collective west but it's mainly the united states where the degree and been there for more than a year but. what i hear from my colleagues from my friends the degree of russian he is president now speaking of which just

a few days ago president putin's foreign policy adviser euro shackle suggested that the russian president may actually be open to visiting washington add the invitation of donald trump and that comes after all these expulsions that you mentioned outside the closing of the of the consulate ins in seattle all. what moscow believed to be a fabricated pretext why would the russian leadership be so open and so accommodating to the united states after such a hostile act to meet the american president on his own territory well you see for me it's i cannot understand the what the americans are doing now because he said. it was it has never been that the president says one thing and he's administrations he's key ministers says well say quite the opposite for example returning to syrian president trump says will withdraw very shortly.

immediately make your set will it will reinforce the whole group of forces in syria what does that mean do you think that's a deliberate conclusion or just i think they're waiting around for i think that president trump i don't know how it comes but he's acting on his boat he says. it's good to cooperate with russia but his administration said come russia is our enemy is over the story all the all the documents issued. during the last four months i mean. national strategy nuclear posture review national military review all national defense review there is written that the russia ellen said but china are reversed arrays now you mentioned that the fallout from this cripple case has so far been limited to mutual expulsions although on the a massive scale is that going to

a fact of the quality of diplomatic relations and are there any diplomatic relations still left to be affected well of that very good question of course when and when they speak about the the spiral of confrontation if you see the classical the classical moves first message expulsion they expel sixty people more than sixty people so five in december sixth the now also around one hundred diplomats on the diplomats. so what is the next step logical step the breach of diplomatic relations and after the breach of diplomatic relations what's the next step it's rort. usually now a few weeks ago they had a russian intelligence and security services visited washington to be of also just seen a former cia had being designated as the next secretary of state doesn't mean that

spies or former spies are now taking over the roles that were previously if reserved for career diplomats well i don't like divorce but. in intelligence all evidence surfaces yes the people at the more correct i think it's normal that what one spreads the many challenges office is around. president bush be not the junior the senior said once that all decent people serve in the intelligence services but they will also have made a good quality diplomat so i think yes you are. joking of course but i think that the intelligence intelligence officers there are qualified people that qualified diplomats if they served in the. minister for and affairs each country now can i bring you back to your initial statement about the war on our doorsteps

and i don't know if you would agree with me but i think the russians have a somewhat different attitudes toward the war even compared to the europeans let alone the americans because the americans have long been isolated or insulated from conventional calls like by their job or a few russians i think have a much more visceral reaction to a threat of war if that scenario of a major. conflict. were to transpire what you're seeing would launch the opening salvo. not russia not russia that clearly but. seeing that all the logic of the. latest events testified to defect. russia is getting ready is getting ready for anything i mean these are reform of the armed forces very quick month of the armed forces which actually started after. unique speech where he actually there it

to challenge the so-called american leadership there was in my opinion the i'm not sure he even challenges you simply expressed his criticism or how that leadership transpires in the case of. more in the middle he know the speech this speech was not know that that poli and he openly said that the one ball the world that is dangerous but it's not necessarily something that americans disagree with for example president obama in different words also express that idea that the united states does not have to dictate nineteen's will or to the other countries and present trying by the way also in he's special way articulated that idea to some extent i don't agree or read the national strategy or a bomb or nuclear posture review them erica united states is an exceptional nation

and united states should be in the elite eason billy should be in the lead and will be in the lead the being in believe does not necessarily mean being the. global cop i mean there is a degree of difference because. for me being in the lead means being the global cop and for the military people when a president or supreme commander says i mean believe you should follow that means that they should follow his example and they should follow his orders and commands and i think vice and i suppose that would be unacceptable to many works people in russia why do you think russia of all the other countries cannot accept this kind of logic because you know they're caught. her argument is that this is a relatively small economy this country has lots of its internal challenges why doesn't care about whatever the united states doesn't the world. for the military people this argument about about small small percentage of russian economy and the

world economy well to me doesn't sound. well. doesn't sound at all because. even. if any war. happens it won't be war like the second world war it will be a war they use weeks maximal and the size of the economy and what you have to say as a bit on the table and went ok well mr brzezinski we have to take a very short break now but to be back in just a few moments stay tuned. it's the cradle of jazz. colors america is the america we have. the

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russia. this special one was also appreciated me to just say the review the r.t. team's latest edition to make up a bigger. book. welcome back to worlds apart making of guinea brzezinski chairman of the board of the peer center mr brzezinski mainly in russia believe that this curious case of this great pals is connected to the syrian war theater the high concentration of the russian then american maybe's in there rather mediterranean sees the fear that the united states may strike syria once again do you see any connection there well well of course the the chemical issue is is in fashion i would say.

well all disconnect it with syria syrian government is using chemical agents against civilian population against children elderly. to me is nonsense since the syrian government actually. eliminated all the all the stock by a lot of chemical agents in its possession but of course some objects reach were not under control of the syrian government seven seven seven years ago they were in the hands of the islamic radical islamic groups terrorists so i seeing that all these provocations. again i say they were very a poorly organized and staged when for example the latest the latest

case of the electorate used of chemical weapons which followed by the us try to remember that harshly when the interaction and yes. allegedly is there even was used but people without messed with. well proper clothing traveling just breezing. i'm sure you heard that just recently and yes the defense secretary mr mattis said that the united states after having strike in stricken that country actually doesn't have evidence to support the claims that sarin was in there. you see it as a military to me even that strike was something extremely strange first of all south of the half of cruise missiles disappeared second the second you see the strike itself was. absolutely unclear to anybody just what was heap actually three or four them aged syrian blades around the weight

is not damaged no shelters them nothing was their mistake i mean it may sound funny but it actually i think is a very very dangerous because it shows that you don't need much to strike another country and with tomahawk missiles you don't even need that we fight to protect this way that's why i think general your estimate of americans again seven that they will strike the center of damascus. chemical attack happens in eastern guta general get i soon made that absolutely clear and he made it more clear as far as i know during his follow up on the station telephone conversation with the. chief of general dunford and p. explain to you what may happen if they strike and this way i think they didn't strike now the u.k. government is now very loud about the subtle show of solidarity that some european

countries demonstrated in the aftermath of the cripple case but i think there was there's also a very interesting and very unusual example of turkey and they don't member siding with russia on this specific case and i think turkey is a very very special case because you mentioned all the publications before that i think turkey did play a role in if not organizing some of those partitions and then at least covering for that why what's the significance of turkey being on the russia side this time around i think. turkey first of all is one of the major players in the area second turkey is our neighbor. there key is quite a strong country economically militarily and even. politically. to have the gun and to have to work in our side is very important yes at the beginning of the

conflict and when the spiral of the conflict well. developed we actually the peak was the when they shut down our aircraft and our people but killed afterwards sanctioned again as sure that that was you len with the assistance of the americans that of course. i would say to some extent bush. or do our side now the russian president just visit the turkey and he specifically said there that is going to expedite the delivery of the f. four hundred air defense systems to. and as you were just said turkey is not an easy partner for russia and i don't think anyone in the kremlin takes whatever a. government has to say at face value i think there still has a lot of mistrust between the two capitals don't you think that the deliveries of

the asked for hundreds to turkey may backfire against russia i don't think it may backfire i think if i still have doubts that the delivery will be completed because the pressure on dorky from from from americans from native from other european countries extremely strong you know as one of the years ago as one of the undersecretary of defense told me that there was a. russian try to sell a helicopter still to turkey and the competition was between a come of and there goes the bell tower come of course gulp a fifty was faster stronger more better armed you know estimates were better but of course that then there was one by the across the belt and then guy told me general you see you may sell turkey rifles

if he's. don't feel are it pieces even banks but you will never sell them aircraft helicopters warships and they craft systems because it's not just military sales but that nickel milter corporation it's public but for some reason president present there the one is very insistent on pursuing that politics why do you think he himself that's me makes me optimistic so since it seems to me the president of the guy wants to diversify his craft tests. now turkey is also pursuing its own military offensive in northwest syria and ne's it syria rather and there are concerns about the humanitarian aspects of that operation as well as turkey's long term plans for syria do you think russia has a control. or will you see. i cannot

second by president but when president putin says that care of these people is part of the syrian people and has all the right that there are in its own fate but syrian state should be united the territory and they got the of syria is not a question by russia. it seems to me that in these huge story along between the turks and the kurds there is a government that the kurds russia now takes some neutral position and by the way. as far as i can guess the what the what the russian we say to the carrots guys you have a choice reach say that they teach you. or gain the league with them you mean the american force now you mentioned already the just recently u.s.

president donald trump announced his intention to pull the american forces out of syria reach some haven't term. but as sort of a representation being had of another offensive or at least some sort of pressure on iran there are also. israel and saudi arabia returned clamoring for some sort of action against iran if that comes to pass what position do you think russia should take. well. i don't think russia with object if americans withdraw because first of all if they withdraw to attack iran or will. well that is to start a great war and to be at least not not in the middle east as well so they had the conference the president the defense minister on seven it's actually the part of asia it's not just middle east near east so it will be did the great war in their

part of the world and you see it's like it's like korean peninsula. ok and who is most to suffer or is there the. care that much about. here steele and here they strike around the corner who will be the. well. come true we'll be suffering but i mean to mr brzezinski there is a great difference between and i think the korean case advocates. israel and iran because south korea is doing everything possible to avoid any military confrontation it's actually mean to hitting the north korean the americans the position of resume is very different israel is clamoring for some sort of hostile action and i'm not talking about these around talking about also the arabia because . israel which is. mostly the

actions that acting in concert i think we can agree on that i don't know ok ok but . still still iran is not not they we can trade not the country we should be effect and destroy one strike if if they strike iran it will be a war it will be a war and quite lengthy war and anything russia will remain neutral in that war or do you think it will try to you i don't i don't think will interfere militarily on the side and i don't think because we don't have any legal treaty of mutual assistance i think russia may. take a role as maybe there and as but i don't think russia will interfere well mr brzezinski we have to leave it there it's been a great pleasure talking to you thank you very much for a time to you and keep the conversation going on our social media pages as for me same place same time here on worlds apart.

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waiting on this for a long time because it talking about the dollar back to this world reserve currency countries are tired of funding america's wars because ever there's got to be trainer in dollars including oil to buy oil got to buy dollars first that means america gets a commission to use that money to wage wars all over the world. and

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