was she forced into it at the end of the day do you think we should knew she didn't care this rough day for basically all sides and so she did so why did she do it. very good question and i think it's rather foolish because. i really don't think we should be fighting with the russians i think we saber rattling is not the best way to deal with this all over so we can have nerve gas or or poison chemicals being used on people and souls a very this is just absolutely an example and it's absolutely an example for it happened in duma but we have to find out who actually did it i think we're better off sitting down with the russians and talking to them rather than than being extreme about this matter we need to know who actually did it i mean it does not make sense for president assad to use. poison gas or anything like that at the moment he's already winning already one time that campaign so all those and run shows again i mean people he might well be one of the the isis or somebody what was the rush to go in and what's been the outcome of it nothing nothing to spectacular

by the looks of it. not really i think she's anxious to not combine front against this this issue of nerve gas it is have been chemical weapons are it is a very serious issue and this should not be used by anyone so you know i get her point but i think she just been railroaded into this quite frankly i don't think is smart i think present troubles a real road into into this is well by the people i think we should stop think and start talking to the russians or to reason may said the evidence quote of the guilt couldn't be shared with parliament in situations of such risk of magnitude short of this evidence should be made public when people run to try and work out where she's coming from no. one would say the same thing happened with tony blair and his weapons of mass destruction and that was

a scandal and something ridiculous which lost confidence in tony blair i mean tony blair was made to look foolish in the long term over not doing. so i think this is not very wise thing to do i think you need to share that information with lapsley she sweats on the various parties all the opposition leaders i think we've got to the point where we have to trust some of the people who may form a government in this country we saw it happen when players tried to get permission from iraq in two thousand and three cameron for libya the no fly zone there in twenty eleven and again in syria twenty thirty. that's why to resume a didn't go to parliament this time she wasn't confident enough that she get the vote and that would have been embarrassing but that's a bad president for the future is that you go ahead even well it's eleven o'clock today remember. well put it this way the british prime minister does not have to seek approval of parliament but it's become of recent convention since the problems

in the iraq war that people do go to parliament asked for these things of course there are problems getting a quick enough response and there may be reasons why she was worried about our air bases in cyprus and various other places being struck the could be reasons i don't know to be honest and i'm not privy. to that information any more than you or anybody else but i do think that. it would be best to at least talk to the serious people in parliament and get some sort of agreement with serious people and that there's always going to be people who don't want to work for any cost and they're just plain silly but you know as there are good reasons than always the second are there doesn't seem to be did theresa may do the right thing in our. i don't think so i think she should not go rushing into this but she may have been pushed into it by america and she has to to to support our ally. there are many things to be

worried but to be honest with you i don't think it's a good idea and she'd be better off talking the americans out of doing what they're doing at the moment you could. be alive for this much appreciated. all right there's a lot more reaction coming in throughout the evening to what happened in parliament treason may addressing her critics and giving a robust defense but come back to that later another story next italian photojournalist paolo barra met the says he fears for his life after receiving death threats from a number of mafia clans last week italian investigators say they obtained a phone conversation between two crime bosses in it one of them allegedly tells the of the murder the reporter or you will. leave the. this is. so he's now on the run the clock police protection from military police known as the curb an air raid the journalist says the crime bosses want him dead because he

runs a website detailing their activities he told us more about what it's like to be on the math he is at least. first i received warnings then letters containing bullets and then anonymous phone calls then one day i was attacked i was assaulted by two hooded men since then i've had an injured shoulder so. i've now been living under the protection of a caribbean area for four years i have launched fourteen criminal cases against almost thirty mafia bosses these mafia bosses tried to kill me anyway i managed to save myself from an attack thanks to the skill of the carabineers uk i know that at the moment there are five mafia clans the woman i live with five men five kara been hearing you follow me day and night i live far from my family from my loved ones these five carabineers the first people i see in the morning and the last i see at night before i am left alone with my conscience. investigative works reveal how

much your influence and activity is changing. many journalists do not publish names or photos of mafia bosses many of my colleagues do not do investigative journalism i do i publish names and surnames i publish photos and above all i try to follow their business schemes their money this is a business worth billions not millions we're talking about billions of euros the journalist has a fundamental role telling the truth talking to people and doing investigative journalism. to have the obvious that we thought the mafia was defeated we thought this because the bombings were over because arrests were made we did not understand the mafia was radically changing it infiltrated the state and public bodies something of the matter is just an italian problem but unfortunately that's not true the mafia has spread from italy to europe in the world coming up a political power play in a former soviet republic led to furious protests and an attempt to storm parliament

set ninety seconds away. join me every thursday on the alex salmond show and i'll be speaking to guest of the world of politics sport business i'm showbusiness i'll see you then. the u.s. led attack on syria is a gross violation of international law furthermore western public still have not been presented with evidence the syrian government used any chemical weapons a new phase of the syrian proxy war is need go sleep it opened up another war of choice. american sanctions would be damaging but i mean is this just us is a fair business all u.s. or would use a country like a tissue paper and when it thinks it doesn't need it anymore it just costs the way

i think it's very immoral. i get next two nights of clashes have broken out in the small former soviet republic of armenia where they've been for days now mass protests ahead of a long time former president being sworn in as prime minister or tuesday police reportedly used tear gas and stun grenades against opposition activists as they marched on and tried to storm the parliament building several people are said to have been injured the unrest has its roots in a twenty fifteen constitutional referendum which saw the country switch to a parliamentary system and reduced the position of president so essentially ceremonial role or the former leader who had held office for nearly

a decade and promised that he wouldn't seek the job of prime minister a position campaigners say he's broken in order to secure his grip on power surge as party dominates parliament and he's the only nominee for prime minister. elsewhere in europe there's outrage in germany after two rappers known for using anti semitic lyrics in those songs one of the top music prize there the controversial lyrics include comparisons to auschwitz prisoners and instead another holocaust despite that the rappers won the best hip hop album prize in germany's top music awards last week their latest relived sold more than two hundred thousand copies in the well after initially defending their decision organizers of their would have now backtracked germany's foreign ministers called the award repugnant while a group of holocaust survivors also voiced their outrage political commentator oren told us artists should not use freedom of expression as a free pass to say anything. of course freedom of expression is

a blessing i think we shouldn't restrict the freedom of the artist or dick creator to break any mold because this is how men kind of progress us but having said this there are a few sacrifices thinks we should be kept as such and of course for israelis or for jews all over and for people of conscience regardless of their faith or national that the holocaust shouldn't be broached in such. a cheap manner. a little over a week's time football showpiece torrence at the get underway russian anticipations growing in the eleven host cities readying for the fee for world cup with preparations entering the final stage of course as a shipmate anyway also preparing for the told when it is sergei courtesy of feel be

the first russian referee to officiate at the world cup in twelve years he spoke to us about the excitement of being involved in the competition on home soil. you might see those pictures i can't even describe my emotions because the shortlist process started four years ago and it's been a long wait for us so when we found out our brigade had been chosen it was just tiredness and relief how you would feel after finishing a very difficult task. as a rule at tournaments like this one your second wind kicks in and there are no thoughts that millions of people are watching and if you are thinking about it then you will definitely fail our work is to walk out and get into the zone which. searches for years and it all starts when you get inside football. players start to probe you especially young ones checking how you behave in certain moments if you

position yourself in the right way you won't have any problems during the game. you like or sort of the best for you we've got our own star studded lineup for all things football this summer we got. some great coverage for you already been checking out the host cities his latest stops but seven hundred kilometers east of moscow in some. of this. this is. a place for the.

this is where the world cup starts. keep in touch with all the news from the big round build up to the world cup and our team of course all the social media now kevin i want to thanks for watching maury just over half an hour's time. we've signed one of the greatest. but there was one more question 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 to come out you have to go meet the center of the beach with l.b.j.

and do so with all the great the great the good you are the rock at the back nobody gets passed to you we need you to get going let's go. alone. and i'm really happy to join that for the two thousand and three in the world cup in russia meet the special one come on both appreciate me to just say the radio bianchi team's latest edition of make up is bigger than you better just look at. the local wal-mart selling you on the idea that dropping bombs brings police to the chicken hawks forcing you to fight the battles they don't. produce offspring of tell you that will be gossip and probably myself most important. often advertising

telling you i'm not cool enough to buy products. on the hawks that we along the border will want. four men are sitting in a car when the fifth gets shot in the head. all four different versions of what happened one of them is on the death row there's no way he could have done it there's no possible way because they do not shoot around a corner. los angeles the city of luxury and free but also an alarming number of people living in the streets. the simple fact in l.a. is there is just not enough shelter even if people on the streets right now decided

to come in there's nowhere to come in and it's been a struggle. this man from his own response to the problem and constructed dozens of tiny homes for people in need of shelter when you have nothing in order to go. you know having something like this may as well be a castle but do the authorities accept such solution tiny house on a city parking space is not a solution you craft someone wanted touring the site otherwise it will be a free for all the news there a better alternative to end the homelessness crisis. welcome

to sophie and co and sophie shevardnadze the longstanding alliance between pakistan and the united states what washington accusing islam about of supporting terrorism . serious is this bad and what will that mean for america afghan war while i ask him what i'm conmen. pakistan's national assembly and the leader of pakistan meant for justice. never ending. with. militants in american security. forces to go to china and saudi arabia for help what effect will the pakistani american quarrel have in the war against the taliban. around can remember of pakistan's national assembly and leader of pakistan movement for just as welcome to the show it's really great to have you with us today. mr han

pakistani prime minister abbas he has just paid a visit to kabul now they of afghans like former afghan intelligence chief. are saying that pakistan views of ghana's stand as a weaker state and its relations with afghanistan are driven by shared great americans. how can you strike deals with couple if they view pakistan this way. this is very unfortunate the remarks of the of one intelligence chief to. define pakistan's relationship with an oval honest on these terms is actually very unfortunate because one is the needs bug is done and bug is done needs peace stability to afghanistan otherwise by this time gets affected especially along the border the what is called the tribal areas on the border of lot of stun so if you have problems in afghanistan instability which sadly that has

been for sixty vias by just on gets affected so it's in pakistan's interest that this piece of afghanistan the is a problem the unfortunately that the american policy of using a one dimensional. military solution to problems in afghanistan. has led to not only the longest war but it does cause immense problems. because the drug the the the border with afghanistan. is very porous. it is free movement or there was free movement of people and so what happens in of honest on affects by just on so we are and i don't i find these very sad i hear you talking about american policy back in january donald trump ordered billions of dollars in security aid to pakistan to be frozen accusing it of

inaction in the war on terror former head of i.s.i. asaad you're on a tell me pakistan's dependence on american aid ended a long time ago so why then is your country's defense minister calling on the united states to reconsider the cut my point of view this american it has been very costly for pakistan. for for getting whatever aid we we did get in these. as the damage done to pakistan and participating in the u.s. war on terror has led to almost seventy thousand people dead it has devastated our tribal areas the border areas where half of the population we're talking about three to four million people who were internally displaced and the loss to the economy is over one hundred billion dollars so this small aid has been very costly and the lesson learned from pakistan point of view is never never fight someone

else's war. and people like us always opposed it. and donald trump does don't understand he does not understand the history of honest on one is done as a history with the do not except foreigners they have always resisted foreign invasions. and if if he had even drawn any lessons from the soviet invasion of understand before that the british in the nineteenth century there of invasion of understand he would nor that this military solution which donald trump also has dried is going to fail the only solution the only way to bring peace and afghanistan is all the neighbors to sit together and then come up with a political solution there is no other solution apart from that so his government is saying that anywhere from fifty to seventy percent of the eight cents to pakistan was misspent wasted on kickbacks. even stolen meanwhile the

pakistani foreign minister says that the country is ready to account for every single penny in your opinion once again should there be more to this spat i mean should americans put forth proof of corruption should pakistan follow up and show actual accounting. given a proportion to the damage done in pakistan by participating in the us war there is no comparison the war this is about twenty billion dollars maybe twenty five billion dollars by just on is lost over one hundred billion dollars. economy suffered investment suffer. the damage done to terrorism meant that foreign investors and this is one come into pakistan are tourism collapsed in this country even today of foreign cricket teams do not come and play in pakistan sports teams

so this country took a heavy punishment by participating in the war and the money as i said the money coming from it is britain's compared to what it cost the people of pakistan so you have said that trump is briefed by and working for the agenda of pakistan's animates those that jan that would that be. awarded by. the things that donald trump asserted he's actually applauded india's role in the war on terror and he's actually blamed pakistan for the u.s. not winning in afghanistan no to blame and that he's blamed pakistan for terrorism this is exactly what india says about pakistan and so therefore it was extremely hurtful for people of this country that participated in a war that was not pakistan's war. there were no pakistanis and waldron nine eleven

there was a nevada song there were no militant taliban in pakistan how did we end up in a war with seventy thousand pakistanis have died we still have risen in this country we're still having the effects of this war on terror mr haas are you saying blame the is do you think that american who has a friend in the way decision i don't know war. where he's come up with but it's quite clear that the things he has is saying is praising india whereas india don't give any second fison the war what what role does india play in this war it's pakistan that took the battery the suffering and so to raise india this shocking for all of us what has india contributed to this war on terror and to give india to rule in afghanistan india does not have a border with of lot of. pakistan's foreign minister says that the united states has turned islamabad into a whipping boy to destruct from its failures in afghanistan do you agree is

washington looking to single out pakistan to deter criticism. sooty i agree with that not just look at the facts of one point there were one hundred fifty thousand nato troops in afghanistan. and then the of one army is anything between two hundred fifty thousand to three hundred thousand so you're talking about almost a half a million forces and of august on board the u.s. blimps pakistan is that do or three thousand insurgents coming from pakistan to afghanistan are the reason why afghanistan could not win the water in afghanistan can the drop in american aid be countered by deals with pakistan's newest friends like china or saudi arabia or expecting their influence to rise now that the united states is on a collision course with pakistan. what would firstly what would the u.s.

do to be on a collision course with pakistan the maximum leverage the us has is to stop the aid . by to stanch to try everything to. keep the us happy but the problem is when the u.s. expects pakistan to win it's the message has made in afghanistan it expects pakistan to somehow win the war which they are of they're badly lost and of honest and when i salute the last i mean they haven't won all the taliban have to do to win the war is not to lose so what the u.s. expects by just one to do is what it has not been able to. succeed in afghanistan and clearly pakistan has limitations. and if pakistan what they want to do is to take action against these taliban groups. supposedly operating from pakistan

well then they should tell us where are these groups they're talking about the hakani network at the at its peak the haqqani network would have maximum two thousand two and a half thousand men in pakistan that surely cannot be the reason why they've lost they have not been able to win in sixty years what i feel is that the american policy of military actions gradual damage i don't know whether you have seen and can do the bond madrasa killed one hundred children not that one hundred children killed by american bomb means that this will. raise hatred and of understand and hatred means more recruits and so it's an ongoing circle actual damage hatred more recruits and an ongoing war so the answer is that the u.s. has to change its strategy and that's going towards dialogue political solution said a lot. of u.s.

a may not be a catastrophe for your country but now americans are considering provisionally putting pakistan on the international terrorism sponsor list the so-called gray list you may think it is not fair to pakistan but how damaging would that be for the country and dangerous i think it's very unfair on pakistan. you know a country that disappeared in the u.s. war and i repeat a country that had nothing to do with nine eleven and a country that lost move people than any other country i mean by just on the last whoa human beings almost seventy thousand dead the last number of them handicapped because a bomb blasts of helping the american for joining the american war board the heaviest cost and in the end for the americans to then blimp august and put sanctions on it i think this is the greatest travesty of justice i think. you

know it is something which is inconceivable that the u.s. is for its failure and of a lot of blame but how damaging would it be though how damaging well it will be done i mean for pakistan unfortunately i cannot make situation as. strong right now . the country is actually going through an economic crisis so american sanctions would be damaging but i mean is this justice is it fair is this. country. and when it thinks it doesn't need it anymore it just. i think it's very immoral mr han we're going to take a short break right now when we're back we'll continue talking to member of pakistan's national assembly and leader of pakistan movement for justice discussing

tensions where that can stand and how this effects to power balance in the region stay with us.