to the european court of human rights was rejected he doubted he was sent back to algeria on friday following his conviction for provoking hatred towards jews shiites and also women and public speeches he reportedly made slurs against jewish people and also argued that women should not have the right to even leave their homes without permission while police had warned the man posed a significant threat and his speeches encouraged acts of terror we put the issue up for debate. people who come into the united kingdom you know france the european union have to sign up to the values of tolerance and respect respect for different faiths different ways of life it wasn't any kind of laws within europe freedom of movement of free speech he wanted to deny people that the issue is you can't be talking about freedom of speech and integrity and then silence people i will defend your right to free speech but when that free speech is the supreme oh the denying of all those their rights the nuts when the actual boundaries because stopped

because you cannot say to somebody you have free speech although in that free speech you're trying to deny all the people that right and one of the problems we've got is what we don't see our justice system being dealt with properly and dealing with what it always does this system get on with it that we see a number of extremists who are involved in terrorism or supporting terrorism now behind bars the justice system is working because those people are being caught and be put behind bars we've got the extremists here who we cannot deport but to their own countries so you seem inconsistent not if you demonize muslims if you denies muslims i mean sloan you call is a cancer and you call this cockroaches that sort of think should also be called out . now the sales of world cup tickets to russia have produced some interesting patterns at the moment america despite not qualifying has the largest number of foreign fans coming over while the numbers from the u.k. are surprisingly small despite being in tune booking their place at the tournament

a number of reports in the british media of late have claimed though that any fans who travel over won't be safe the reason given is the supposed threat posed by russian hooligans however a new r.t. documentary has been looking at the problem in europe itself football beasts premieres next week on the r.t. documentary channel. was was you never know what's around. never know what's in the company people use that excitement the fact now is that's where the adrenaline the most comes from. and the violence is a part of it and it's almost a schizophrenia gang culture if we can do all these things and behave quite badly. i mean a stabbing up i read storm. eleven

a young chinese self you know to participate in all the fights the fighting the street people to. tell us more sportsmanship. secondly get the up the mind is that we're saying the last few months of a little bit of. employing people are focused on the little. leg. of this party here but there are lots and lots of also some almost on a postcard with

a lot of photos of our broadcast. beautiful room the police i. mean it's like uninsulated feel honestly and in firm to rule and get on policies for the start. i mean these amazing feat if you don't understand all these constantly evolving and . good it's just coming up to quite a pos five here in moscow still ahead for us this hour could the u.s. state of texas be making a bid for freedom from the rest of the country but it's certainly trying see we'll have a look at the details on that plus of the stories in a couple minutes. because

if you go through st mankind it's been a cruel and destructive over and over and somewhat our cities have come back and many are quite beautiful and wonderful places. if you look in the middle east in places like syria it's it's i agree with you it's totally depressed. and i wish it was a political issues involved who it could be resolved but i think until that is done there's very little hope that the saudis will be able to turn the tide. of. what politicians to do something to. put themselves on the line to get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be president. to somehow want to be rich.

what's it like to be close to see what the full story of the more people get. interested always in the waters of our. city. welcome back it's come to light that the u.s. has been helping the lebanese armed forces in the fight against islamic state however it is feared that some of the money and equipment is actually ending up in the hands of hezbollah which washington does regard as a terror group the issue was raised in congress and levanon hezbollah a terrorist organization you just towns to see all its goals of tens of thousands of illegal rockets violent extremist organizations like isis or lebanese hezbollah . is a menace lebanese hezbollah a terrorist organization well figures to show that since two thousand and six the u.s. has provided nearly one point seven billion dollars to help the lebanese army the

security assistance funds were mainly used to provide equipment facilities and also training and after the disclosure a state department official said that the u.s. keeps track of all equipment handed over decreasing the risk of hezbollah using it however some members of congress along with regional experts there's no difference between the lebanese army and hezbollah which is supported by iran experts told us they're not convinced to not only put money with a lovely. security force is. that it suits power to remove this decision because those flow basically used to draw in the entire lebanese armed forces are destroyed that just drained from our source. those. major terrorist groups reported by iran and of course the conflict between the united states in iran knows very great conflict between u.s.

ally israel. the us administration. quite bluntly. puts it as if it has all. only one objective in delivered on in the syrian lebanese indian jordanian area and death is the defeat of isis they do not care about all the rest of course they don't want the conflict ration between israel and hezbollah but as long as they believe that deliberately is on forces are helping them against isis. they would rather ignore all the rest for israel it could be helping bella in directly and contributing to further bloodshed if a new round of fighting. starts. the lebanese government though takes a different view on the group with its president praising has been laws work and

saying that it helped avoid a civil war is a bluff fight is also joined the country's army in auntie's amec state operations. now a group of texans is fighting for the lone star state independence from the u.s. the even a new book see that explores the practicality of texan self rule we spoke to its author he claims that momentum is actually building for so called tax it if you really want to drill down to why texas has had such an increase in support over the last decade it really boils down to one thing texans are sick and tired of being governed by one hundred eighty thousand pages of federal laws four hundred forty separate agencies in two and a half million unelected bureaucrats at the core texans believe that the best people to govern taxes are texans this idea that somehow this political and economic union called the united states of america can be fixed is a myth it is

a fallacy what we have seen is in any attempt to repair reform the federal union has been met with nothing but lip service and outright insult and outrage here in texas well this texas nationalist movement has formed back in two thousand and nine and it has since going more than three hundred fifty thousand supporters they are actively campaigning for an independence referendum and want restrictions too on government spending to further reduce economic integration with the us according to the polls more than half of independent supporters are actually republicans we took to the streets of texas to see what locals think about a potential tax it. i. think it's ridiculous. now. that's a good idea when the parents i definitely agree i know. i. think we are independent but we rely on the rest of the country you know some

people our rights get taken from us harder. you know really like you know we've had this discussion about texas and goodness. for years to many people who gave their lives for us here your hard work i mean because you have so many. you know ethnic groups of religion you know as well as you know in california you think they said that. it's not going to happen it's not going to happen in california. they'll get over it will all be good. now i think it's a production in germany has come under fire for offering free tickets to spectators willing to wear swastikas the offer was made ahead of the premiere of a play based on the youth about off hitler being staged to mark the anniversary of his birth. oh no the subway i. was.

was. they were. telling us. this and you did this to this because i think it is disrespectful and clearly beyond the limits you don't present of play dealing with that of hitler on hitler's birthday literally insights and people with far right views to come to the theatre i think that's wrong because it fixed soon enough i would not do it like that i think it's very provocative i would have done something like that but we should not restrict freedom of speech or the arts now that i wouldn't wear a star of david or

a swastika just because someone tells me to. want to that stand kind of i think i can show solidarity without a davis star and show compassion for the victims of the holocaust as for those who take as swastika i find that outrageous but generally i like the idea behind this performance beneath the hockey gods if i choose to wear a swastika which i think i will do my motive will be to see how people react. my. well local authorities have actually denied it breaches german laws banning the display of nazi symbols but the show has sparked a rather among residents the local action group has described the production as an acceptable and also called for a boycott the place director says he only wanted to create an environment for debate also we need more awareness and we cannot treat this awareness with simple discussions but through action i want to provoke

a discussion and get people arguing and that's exactly the idea behind this production. that more than one hundred protesters have been detained in armenia on saturday a former soviet republic located between asia and europe in fact this is the ninth day of anti-government protests there after the former president was nominated for prime minister armenia recently changed to a parliamentary system where the president has a relatively symbolic role the prime minister gaining more powers than stepped down as president this month before being nominated by parliament prime minister approached i think a very cool to his nomination was confirmed and demonstrations have only grown after he took up his post the rallies erupted across the country and tens of thousands of opposition supporters are blocking roads calling for the prime minister to step down and a new government election they say their protest a peaceful however there have been clashes with police and more than three hundred have been arrested. finally time magazine has released its annual

list of the top one hundred most influential people in the world although it has missed one main most media to talk about. criminal clan russian influence trump afraid to say a single negative lord above the blood of the pope. is highly likely that russia was responsible the juveniles russia culpable culpable culpable for the attempted. escape is culpable quarrel is with. overwhelmingly likely that it was his decision.

he watching i say thanks for company this evening don't forget plenty more stories for you too in our social media pages and you. forman are sitting in a car when the fifth get shot in the head. all four different versions of what happened one of them is on the death row there's no way you could have done it there's no possible way because all this did not shoot around a corner. most definitely wasn't a victim. of any kind of racing or at that from the russian side because that would really destroy the person could be beneath you as far as exchanges that are

concerned and they are dependent on the because they certainly have to get their people back if they get into trouble. well there i'm mary skies or this is the kaiser report. oh so sick max in the second half you have mitch firesign who has lots of charts but in the first half we have lots of data you know the empire state manufacturing survey came out and it looks like for the next six months looking into the future many factors in new york are not so optimistic but actually the i.m.f. who is also meeting in washington d.c.

well there they've revised their forecast to look more optimistic for u.s. growth they've increased the u.s. growth rate for twenty eighteen by point two percent so they're saying everything's looking good through twenty twenty through the next elections but we're going to get to that in the next episode this episode i want to focus on the tax cuts so who's right the empire meant state manufacturing survey or they i.m.f. well wage growth well short of what was promised from tax reform the latest employment situation report from the bureau of labor statistics shows weekly employee earnings have grown seventy five dollars since tax reform passed well short of the four thousand to nine thousand dollars annual increases projected by president and house speaker paul ryan so the tax passage basically americans have seen on average six dollars and twenty one cents increase in their weekly earnings which obviously falls it's like three hundred twenty three dollars

a year they had promised forty six thousand nine thousand dollars that was also good now they know it's all about optics sounds good but you know there's a lot of gatekeepers and intermediaries in those generally are the big corporations that will always glob the majority of possibile gains by anyone at any time that's right and we'll actually get into that so in a in the next headline about how basically all the tax cuts indeed did inject well over a trillion dollars and it cost over a chilean dollars the most of it is gone to the top but back to the bottom we're assuming a full fifty two weeks of work the six dollars and twenty one cents in. priest and weekly earnings would result in a three hundred twenty three dollar annual increase nowhere near the minimum four thousand dollars promise and a nine thousand dollars potentially annual increases projected by president chum and speaker ryan of significant cuts were made to corporate tax rates whether it out that's going to lead to anything we don't know but there were those thousand

dollar bonuses that doesn't count those things that happened like from the likes of wal-mart gave one thousand dollars to every employee american airlines delta airlines all these airlines gave a thousand dollars to employees so this doesn't count that as well to me it's a weekend beer you know party but other than that it's meaningless and i've said all was now for many years that the way the system should work is that every stock bond security underwritten by wall street or any bank in america one percent should be carved out and put into social security so that americans whether they have a job as minimum wage workers or whether they're c.e.o.'s all across the spectrum everyone gets to participate in this thing called the american economy because if you don't own stocks you're not part of the american economy that's true most of it is owned by the top ten percent but let's go into one of the specifics so you know there were a lot of headlines that were captured in the first few weeks of the year and that

was that you know thousand dollar bonuses that was the big number right so let's just show how paltry that actually was compared to the savings that these companies had so they talk about navvy and they announced that it would be giving a thousand dollar bonuses to ninety eight percent of its six thousand seven hundred employees paying out nearly seven million dollars in bonuses while that may seem generous it pales in comparison to naveen potential tax savings using navea its two thousand and sixteen net income is twenty sixteen effective tax rate estimated annual tax savings of nearly two hundred million dollars and it it's announced bonuses week out. late that announced bonuses represent less than four percent of navvy dance potential tax saving so we give them you know hundred million and they give four million away and i was in my teen years to do magic in times square and to watch the three card monte guys very carefully and the tourists would come in

and they'd lose thousands of dollars but it's very important when you're doing three card monte in times square to avoid having a tourist beat you up to let them win once you know particularly at the end so they may lose five thousand bucks but if they win twenty bucks at the end in their minds they're thinking see i'm a winner i'm a winner i beat the guy same thing in this instance they take millions and billions of dollars worth of fraudulent tax engineering but they give you one thousand dollars and in your mind you're saying see i'm a winner on the big winner at the table and it's sad that they use such base psychological tricks to fool millions of americans into thinking that they're not getting completely wrecked over the coals but it does work well it's also not a thousand dollars to most americans remember we know that something like sixty five percent have less than four hundred dollars in savings for an emergency well you know it's on a relative basis then that might be a lot of money but the fact that the likes of nobby and her collecting ninety six

percent of a bonus and only four percent go to the bottom ninety eight percent of their employees well that's the income gap and that wealth gap and america that's the problem not necessarily how much money you know when you when you talk about all the billionaire that that wealth and income gap people say well the poorest americans are doing better than the poor you know the richest africans in somalia or something like that so i think it's well within the society and that's the that's the problem i think in the long term for economic growth is that income gap but in terms of just how much of those tax cuts over chile. in dollars and tax cuts are going to the top well tax cut savings float to company stockholders trickle to hourly workers and the first three months of twenty eighteen investors received one hundred nine point two billion dollars in dividends more than eight percent

from the one hundred point nine billion received in the same period a year earlier according to s. and p. dow jones indices in fact the s. and p. five hundred quarterly dividend payments set a new record and on top of that j.p. morgan has come out with an estimate of what the share buybacks this year will be and that will be a new all time high which is eight hundred billion dollars eight hundred billion dollars and share buybacks about a trillion dollars in tax cuts financial part whether it's the way interest rates are structured to penalize the poor or a why their dividends are structured to enrich the coptic rat it's for financial apartheid we live in an apartheid state here in america engineered by wall street so eight hundred billion dollars a share buybacks this year five hundred twenty seven billion was the number last year this also by the way you know reduces the amount of shares outstanding that

the public can own so it's taking more and more stock off the stock markets. by the way we're also your pension funds have to invest so there's less and less available for anybody to participate in the public stock of this the stock market's being taken her rivage with the help of artificially cheap interest rates and after this capitalist failure comes neo feudalism and on top of that by the way they're also they're not just buying their shares back with cash they're buying back with debt and part of that is tax shenanigans like apple has hundreds of billions of dollars overseas but the only way to get it back without being taxed on it is to issue debt here and buy share backs they want to alternately go it goes from bank day to bank bay to bank say to bank data foreign bank to bank to bank you all where the federal reserve bank how did they get multi trillion dollars' worth of debt oh is it

financial engineering and financial part time who will bail out the federal reserve bank oh it'll be a bill in that's right all of our savings will be given to the new federal reserve chairman because otherwise there would be a humanitarian crisis we need to avoid any humanitarian crisis so another story. to put into this context of workers' hourly wages not increasing and i'm not seeing any benefit to the tax cuts but the tax cuts will add to the deficit and the national that in a big way but here's another story out from truth in accounting and they're looking at the us if they had to provide accounting like all other humans and corporations and and tities do and that is u.s. government spending may exceed sixty percent of g.d.p. us federal government spending is expected to bloat to over four point seven

trillion dollars during fiscal two thousand and twenty according to congressional budget office data released this week however aggressive accounting may be hiding a far worse situation total spending by the trumpet ministration this fiscal year may be more than double what the nonpartisan cabo admits worst overall us federal state local government spending may exceed sixty percent of g.d.p. and will go into how this is calculated but basically all those social security and medicare payments actually are are not counted now but the debts the they actually cost now but the debts are written they create debt which doesn't isn't paid off until what a couple decades from now so they pretend it didn't happen this year all right they say that the federal debt is twenty twenty one twenty two trillion dollars but if you account for the total debt picture it's sixty seventy eighty trillion dollars so donald trump i have this message mr president tear down that wall that wall

being the interest rate apartheid wall i think you are saying that well the debt that wall of jet you know just the internal financial apartheid state first and then go address these other problems in mexico and syria and all the others form. adventures that the founders warned us against so the warning comes here from sheila weinberg and she's the c.e.o. of truth in accounting government budgeting works on a cash basis she says that enables them to leave many of their expenses and liabilities off the books so they calculate her group calculates that the federal government's unrecorded social security medicare and other debts have increased by four point seven trillion dollars a year on average for the past decade that's on top of the unfunded liabilities and then there's the national debt and then this the national deficit so right now they're saying the deficit that our budget shortfall per year is four point seven

trillion but in fact they're saying this truth and accounting is saying that actually it's closer to ninety billion a year that we're spending which is almost like what our g.d.p. is thirteen trillion ok so to be clear this is talking about the deficit yet not the debt the debt which includes unfunded liabilities that i made reference to is many more chileans of dollars then we are led to believe yes this is attacking the deficit but you're saying the deficit is many more chilling of dollars more than we're being told the deficit is your annual budget how would you go over your annual budget at the end of the year if the year has ended and a new year starts so you put the four point seven trillion or there in this case nine chile on top of the debt the national debt so that goes back on to that pile that keeps on going higher and higher in terms of the unfunded liabilities and total the national debt what they say is that is one hundred or one trillion at september twenty seven eighteen less fifty four point two trillion when calculated

on the same basis at the end of twenty seven so the debt the deficit is rising the debt national debt is rising rising rising right and a candle in the other and the payment on the even of these low rates is hundreds of billions of dollars an escalating incredibly anyway we got to go to a break don't go away stay right there. pyramid bang. bang. bang bang the philippine city of angeles when the u.s. military moved out the six tourists moved in. and now a whole generation of fatherless children is growing up here. my dad and i've been in one mom put up with them for the ankle. high but did.