candidate first secretary of state's mike pump a zero approved to republicans and democrats in the senate over his nomination. one more. i think is not the right person for this position what nominee would you vote yes for i don't want to vote for people or entire diplomatic to be the nation's chief diplomat. or u.s. air force video warns that china and russia are ready to wage war in space washington say it's time for sharing. and ten people were killed and over a dozen injured one of those into crowds in turn to the motives of the driver are yet to be identified.

she's the morning ten am here in moscow you're with our international my names you know neil welcome to the program our top story president trumps pick for secretary of state has been given the green light the now former cia director mike pump aoe is no one step closer to becoming america's top diplomat however his candidacy sparked a heated argument in the senate so let me just say i can't imagine. i can't imagine having someone more qualified. b. secretary of state unfortunately i do not believe director pompei was someone who will always prioritize diplomacy over conflict particularly in the context of the aggressive foreign policy voices growing around him i'm particularly concerned

because of his past comments on regime change in north career in iran for example he will be speaking for the president when he travels he's the appropriate person for that it's critically important that the secretary of state be an independent voice in the white house i'm concerned about that i think is not the right person for this position what nominee would you vote yes for i don't want to vote for people who are anti diplomatic to be the nation's chief diplomat the senate committee chose to pay those nomination up to a narrow vote following a last minute reversal by a republican senator rand paul he had been a staunch critic of the cia head over his hawkish stunts if not for polls last minute switch and mike pump could have been on track for a historic distinction the first secretary of state nominee not to pass the committee stage with more on the story here similar account. mike palmdale washington's top diplomat well that's as soon as he is confirmed by the u.s.

senate but after the foreign relations committee confirmed his nomination he's one step closer to having the state department who according to the floor in a positive manner want to thank you remember this committee for the diligence they've displayed i think we've done the right thing now it was tense up until the very end but one republican senator kept up the suspense rand paul could have paved the way for what would have been a historic snow by the committee but a phone call from donald trump seems to feel good deal i will say this about rand paul he's never let the river flow is a very special night as far as i'm concerned he's never let me just. i don't think you know as to how to do it now it took some persuading since rand paul is known for his staunch anti interventionist policies what's going to please with trump's choice someone who advocates for us staying forever in afghanistan another iraq war bombing syria without permission so these are the advice you will get out of and i

guess that's my biggest concern with your nomination is that i don't think it reflects the millions of people who voted for president drum who actually voted for him because they thought he'd be different that it wouldn't be the traditional bipartisan consensus to bomb everywhere and be everywhere around the world and he wasn't the only one with reservations at that april twelfth hearing where we assemble a war cabinet john bolton and mike pompei of that are going to result in devastating consequences bypassing congress is authority in regards to use of military force and perhaps engaging in another poorly thought through mistake like our war on iraq but if you judge on pale soley on his answers at that hearing we might think of a bit tame. it's time to call out wiki leaks for what it really is a non-state hostile intelligence service often abetted by state actors like russia . i can't think of a thing that has put america in a better position as

a result of this deal. a very real danger. i hardly ever escape a day in the white house without the president asking me about north korea and how it is that the united states is responding to that threat it's very much at the top of his mind they are ever closer to having the capacity to hold america risk with a nuclear weapon now the harvard educated veteran is a firm believer that the u.s. is truly if we embrace the regime change in other nations we can hardly say but this is something that only the u.s. gets to do that i must say i don't i don't find the i don't find the moral equivalency there that this is a this is a unique exceptional country russia is unique but not exceptional and with that attitude you into the job at the overall level it is it's a very bad sign that trump keeps surrounding himself with with right wing inner hawks on foreign policy and now we've got

a secretary of state who is not known for being a diplomat is no one to be a hawk on foreign policy and he doesn't come from a diplomatic background he comes you know for a with more militaristic background he his policies and statements that he said advocated have been very hawkish. so this is you know this is very ominous actually. moving on the u.s. seems to be sticking it's clane to the stars with washington making it clear that the final frontier is america's dimmy the u.s. air force has even released a video on the dangers of other nations waging war in space. the mission is to ours have a new focus for their russian. their target space they don't have to dominate it

just struck. here and joins me in the studio to talk a little bit more just a snippet of the video slick production may be something out of a hollywood blockbuster i would hasten to add is all this a reality they say is military spending hollywood style you know and this is to become the latest plan of the u.s. military unveiled at the national space imposing symposium in colorado last week basically the u.s. wants to share its space situational awareness data with its allies by fixing it satellites with sensors this is that supposedly to better protect its military spacecraft from an enemy attack now satellites as we know are key for communication navigation and intelligence and absolutely crucial in the case of a war situation the fear is that u.s. adverse to raise with their own space programs might be able that might be capable

of disrupting or even disabling these satellites now this whole space wars idea in my still quite far fetched to some people but really it is the big defense trend at the moment take a listen to the air force secretary i cannot think of the military action does not depend on space russia and china are developing keep abilities to disable our satellites and it seems like the big incentive for such a focus seems to be the capabilities of these potential adverse arrays with their own space programs of course it's china and russia and there's this idea of a space war being promoted as something not to distinguishable from. a video game but it sounds as if it's almost happening right away and this is the fear this is the threat but what does that mean let's just look at this latest piece here what was being said. the united states air force has owned this high ground space brigade other nations other air forces only dream of making such

a claim but what if their dream became reality you never expect something trust to turn against you. they don't have to dominate it just struck. millions killed the effects. airports infrastructure. will compete and we'll win. it certainly wouldn't be out of place in a cinema screen coming near you six yeah you mentioned just earlier there but you know wanting to share information with its allies the u.s. but it seems everybody else be where is not the case. basically the u.s. wants to be a leader and they stay and they want its allies on board billions has been poured

into this new technology they're working with kids musk you know the space they found that he has proven he can deliver not only quickly but at a cut of the cost so no longer do it does the u.s. need to wait around to years and years for a prototype to be developed and while the jamming of satellites is one thing you know people are now asking questions you know how long is it before we see actual physical attacks in space and some reports say that this is already a possibility for some countries regardless of whether this is the case or not the u.s. as i said determined to be a leader in this fails take a listen the character of war for has changed vision a constellation of satellites always the predator never the prey. and how can we forget the u.s. president also. excited about the prospects of the militarization of space earlier this year bases a war fighting domain just like the air and sea

we may even have a space force develop another one space force with the air force one of the space schools with the army the navy and while it still seems to be rapidly moving in a very concerning and questionable direction a lot of people might be asking why are there no laws in place no resolutions to you know regulate what happens in outer space well actually almost a decade ago one hundred seventy eight countries voted on a u.n. resolution to prevent such a space arms race only two countries actually abstained from that resolution the u.s. and israel there was also a joint russian chinese efforts to ban all weapons in space washington also blocked that this is almost ten years ago or so perhaps an inkling of how america had its sights set on the militarization of space even so much as almost a decade ago when as you said staking its claim to the stars you know all of

a sudden those stories don't seem very far away doing that here and bring us up to dates with. developments shall we call it thank you very much. more global news this hour ten people have been killed and fifteen injured when a van plowed into best friends in the canadian city of toronto the reasons behind the incident are still being investigated. there was a man lying in the road hit by a car his shoes were one hundred feet away up the road. he started going down the sidewalk and knocking people down one by one. have passed multiple dead bodies

coming out she was endeavoring to. be just destroyed so many people's lives every single thing that got in his way or people who witnessed the incident of the scribes say. and was walking through the intersection at young encounter it was just one of the middle of the intersection and the van just went right into one plowed right into him and then apparently he drove down further and he went on to the sidewalk by the next building and he had more people there and just kept on seeing the scene of i seen a white van with film with the red coloring on it and i always saw it was that he smashed into someone over there he just went on the sidewalk he just started shooting everybody man he hit every single person on the sidewalk anybody in israel you would hit the bus stop everything was shattered there was a lady in there and i saw i just stopped and i looked the night went after it again and i see this crumbling up one by one and one by one. dragged on and there blood is all over the young empress is really bad haha and i'm so shaky i'm still dying

from this i can't believe this is happening this is like unbelievable this is so on believable. two words. i just got marks and i saw the u.s. and i want to just go do. something wrong and you know so many people just shout stop the car but he didn't just give warning and he did some people and straight people like down here and you know i don't think it's on purpose because if the car doesn't work he should like the. car or something and stop but he just pulls out of this i'm not going. to is also hosting currently the g seven foreign ministers meeting of the world's most of the of countries russia is once again top of age and britain's foreign secretary is pushing for a joint efforts against the mosque with a meeting. what we decided was that we were going to set up

a g seven group that would look at russian malign behavior in all this money for stations whether it's cyber war whether it's this information assassination attempts whatever it happens to be and collectively try and call it out or third martin mccauley sees britain as willing to take any action possible to get psyches ations against russia and say face. britain is in a difficult position now. because they have made accusations against russia regardless repels and also knew were and therefore you think don't do anything if they then just allow it to die away britain would be seen as very weak but i think the british government. are thinking about what could they do. to in fact punish russia. civilians in yemen are once again bearing the brunt of saudi led coalition strikes we have the story of

a wedding there that was hit by a missile at the weekend leaving at least twenty people dead that's on route to. join me every thursday on the alec simon show and i'll be speaking to guests of the world of politics sports business i'm show business i'll see you then.

trades that have been wrong for five years one is that the dollar is going to crash their goal is going to twenty five hundred in the very short term and that three the bond market is going to crash almost three trades and absolutely wrong for five years and they have taken many people out on a stretcher. seventeen minutes into the program welcome back a saturday led coalition strike on a wedding party in yemen killed at least twenty people dozens more were injured it's feared the casualty figures are even higher with some reports many as fifty people were killed a warning the following video has this stirring imagery the wedding was being held at a private house when the missile struck the bride and many children were among those killed forty six people were injured more than half children many of the wounded

are in a critical condition it is the third strike to hit yemeni civilians since the weekend . all the saudi led coalition intervened in the country almost three years ago to fight rebels who oppose the current government the conflict brought the country to what the u.n. describes as the worst humanitarian crisis in modern history we heard from a local journalist who says that some of the planes targeted a nonmilitary area not for the first time. i visited a place in where you are willing to talk least they're. very far away from any military positions. with the people there talk to me they told me that they have heard the warplanes holding over the wedding. different times. suddenly the media and expect that reveals private jets would target

a wedding that time it's not the first of its kind to take place since the beginning of the saudi led coalition's war in yemen in order to drive out the disquiet the rebels from the areas that have already taken control. of the twenty four. the situation continues to fall the deter. the british government has branded a number of online activists russian stooges doing the kremlin's bidding to online personalities in particular have been singled out over allegations that they're not even real people but rather automated the current run by moscow also known as russian bots according to the u.k. government on their analysis there are a kind group in popularity after a skeptical posts on this solsbury poison attack and for their views on the chemical attack in syria being falsified while of this supposedly bought spoke out

on british t.v. you have consistently and prolifically taken an anti british standpoint. what does it mean by. all. the interests of a million. people. in the future. ian is a political activist who often challenges western views on twitter. he say's accusations that he's a russian bot are a total fabrication and here's the other account that caught the eye of british authorities it belongs to a well known strictly and blogger of syrian descent when the u.k. government accused her of being a russian boats over her posts on the script poisoning she made the point of proving she's in fact a human being. to join my colleague colin bray earlier in the studio but he looked

real to me you're sure you're not a russian. last time i checked it's only real human being. you know. the british government they can't even confirm that i'm not an automaton how can we believe anything they have to see about the evidence they have who are scruple and syria's chemical attacks the u.k. government argues that one reason to doubt us being a real activists is that the number of posts that you wrote or repos did more than two thousand tweets in just twelve days and that's around two hundred posts a day where did you find the time to do all that how can you explain that large number. well i can explain it because the number is in fact full so i took my analytics and i've only posted nine hundred tweets in thirty days that number comes from the atlantic council's d of our love it wasn't just me and it wasn't just ian who you just heard recorded from sky news it was actually a coordinated attack against a bunch of academics activists including vanessa dealy tim as

a professor as well anyone who is basically coming up against the mainstream media lies and the u.k. government lies the lies that they are using to start wars overseas so it's clearly a smear campaign to try to intimidate people into silence and to try to smear anti-war activists as somewhat of a biased voice you know related to russia and expect things to get worse and i know seen the censorship i mean i have been shut down my facebook account has been shut down they've tried to shut down my youtube account so i'm not sure how long i'll going to be staying online but i'm going to continue as long as i can. switching gears for four phones it's time to get excited because there's just fifty days now until the twenty eighteen fifa world cup kicks off in russia and legendary goalkeeper peter schmeichel is on the road again for r.t. checking out the horse catherine bergs eye catching venue is where he stopped today

and it looks like he's managed to strike gold on the right court. this is their arena and it's one of the story mary venues to host the world cup much of this. now i'm going to use my old gold. so a good performance a little bit like a football player as a professional athlete.

he had lots more to come from peter in a lot less than two months until the world cup matches kickoff next week forecast looks a gloomy for the global economy but when are the dark days predicted to get here knox gets into that in the kaiser report.

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hello imax guys are home. cars are. this is the cars a report kaiser report kaiser you know sometimes i hear the doppler effect i don't know what that's all about we won't go there but we're going to talk about some good news first but that good news is actually leading alternately to bad news as a bad news on the back of the good news but we're going to start with the good news first and here's some good news for our gold bugs out there because i know they have been kind of sad or you know morose these last few years as gold has like traded within a tight range for four or five years doing nothing while bitcoins stolen all its glory well it could be back to bitcoin like days soon bond king jeff gold lock says gold could rally a thousand dollars of course bill gross is the bond king but this guy also now goes by the boss. but the c.e.o.

of double line also known as the bond king is once again attracting the attention of gold investors as he sees the yellow metal at a critical juncture quote we see a massive base building in gold massive as a four year five year base in gold if we break above this resistance line one can expect gold to go up by like thousand dollars he said during the twenty teen model and economic strategic investment conference according to a recent recap from steve blumenthal chief investment officer at c.m.g. that would take it up to twenty four or twenty five hundred dollars an ounce and i saw that he jeff was reading up with peter peter schiff just a few months ago they had lunch jeff house in los angeles they are talking big old things there yes peter schiff he likes is a gold cufflinks he wears those a lot oh as men may go i you know i order somebody say that they saw peter schiff on. a cruise recently trying to sell his twenty four carat gold cup flanks to

people on the cruise so he were really is a personification of always be closing peter never stop selling he never stops closing that's what makes him great where i promise you some bad news i like i know max likes them bad news in there in every single headline so the bad news behind why this so-called new bond king jeff. gold rising by thousand the most prominent factor behind gun let's bullish gold outlook is a weaker u.s. dollar in his presentation he said he sees the u.s. dollar continuing to push lower in twenty eighteen there are other economists out there also seeing the dollar is going to weaken you know it's broken out of a trend it's going down again and it looks like it will go continue to go down well there are three trades that have been wrong for five years one is that the dollar is going to crash.