donald trump's candidate for secretary of state mike pump aoe is normally approved after republicans and democrats clash in the senate over his nomination i can't imagine having someone more qualified 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 hentai diplomatic to be the nation's chief diplomat. and then control bolts are by the u.k. blood. style bushman. in 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 the. school and syria's chemical attacks. i mean us are a force for you

a war in china and russia are ready to wage war in space washington state it's not for sharing the final frontier. for pm in shanghai and eleven o'clock this choose the morning here in moscow welcome to our international i mean o'neill our top story president trumps pick for secretary of state tells being given the green light cia director mike bump aoe is now 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 korea and 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 me the nation's chief diplomat the senate committee chose to. his nomination after a narrow vote following a last minute reversal by republican senator rand paul he had been a staunch critic of the outgoing cia head over his hawkish stance if not for polls last minute switch mike could have been on track for a historic distinction the first secretary of state nominee not to pass the

committee stage with more on all this. might prompt hailed washington's top diplomat well that's a 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 poured into 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 would have paved the way for what would have been historic now 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 real blow is a very special night as far as i'm concerned he's never let me just. i don't think you missed out here now it took some persuading since rand paul is known for his staunch anti interventionist policies and wasn't too pleased with trump's choice

someone who advocates for staying forever. afghanistan another iraq war bombing syria without permission so these are the advice you will get 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 about twelve hearing or we have a war cabinet john bolton and mike pump that are going to result in devastating consequences bypassing congress is authority in regards to the use of military force and perhaps engaging in another poorly thought through mistake like our war on iraq but if you judge on payoffs only on his answers that that hearing right now i'm a bit. 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. by hardly ever escape a day at 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 it do i say i would 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 very bad.

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 has policies and statements that he said that have been very hawkish so this is you know this is very ominous actually. the british government has branded a number of online activists russian stooges doing the kremlin's bidding to online personalities in particular have been single died over allegations that they're not even real people but rather automated accounts run by moscow also known as russian

bots according to u.k. government analysis there are cons of grew in popularity after a skeptical post on the souls paree poison attack and for their views on the chemical attack in syria being falsified one of the suppose adults spoke out on british t.v. you have consistently and prolifically taken an anti british standpoint the question is what does it maybe by theory. doesn't mean being a trial of each race of sixty million. people only does it mean that in the future government would be now doing. this little bit in is a political activists who often challenges western views on twitter he say's ickes ations that he's a russian bot or a total fabrication and here's the other icon that caught the eye of british authorities it belongs to

a well known history and blogger of syrian descent when the u.k. government accused her of being a russian bot over her posts on the script poisoning she made the point of proving she is in fact a human being. john my colleague colin bray earlier in this year. well you look real to me you're sure you're not a russian bot. 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 his 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 dealey tim is 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 a 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. talking

stellar issues not the u. s. seems to be staking its claim to the stars with washington making it clear that the final frontier is americas to me the u.s. air force has even released a video on the dangers of other nations waging war in space. the vision is the world towers have a new focus for their aggression their target space they don't have to dominate or just trying to. make here and as in the studio with the scuffing is a little bit further a very good morning to you know. very slick very dynamic video with the little part of it that we've just seen it goes on for longer doesn't it something out of a hollywood blockbuster or something is it real indeed this is a military defense hollywood style i guess you can say it comes hand in hand with the u.s. is latest plan which is was invalid. excuse me the u.s. has just unveiled its latest plan to fit satellites to to fit sensors to its

satellites are going to start again the u.s. has just unveiled its latest plan to fit senses to its satellites and it's not just its own satellites it's going to be doing that too it's also its allies satellites and satellites key for communication navigation and intelligence that in these days especially in the scenario of war and the fear all reasoning is that potential adverse to reserve the u.s. may be capable of hacking or even disabling these satellites so by sharing that situational data with its allies the idea is that this will deter any potential attacks now this plan was unveiled last week at the national space symposium in colorado and it really is just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to spending in space because in case you weren't aware of space warfare is the big defense trend right now is the new black and if you don't want to take my word for it here's the for secretary. i cannot think of a military action that does not depend on space russia and china are developing

keep abilities to disable our satellites now the big incentive all russian knowledge if you like for such a focus seems to be the capabilities or perspective capabilities of countries seen as potential adverse rooms of the us and this idea of a space war is being promoted as something not to distinguishable from a video game also leaving as little doubt as to which countries the us views as its biggest space threats we're going to take a look at this clip now let's see if you can guess which countries those are and also see if you can spot the difference between the actual air force space come on promo video and a video game or the united states air force has bombed its high ground space predicting other nations other air forces only dream of making such a claim but what if their dream became reality never expects something trust to turn against you. millions feel the effects. airports

infrastructure. scale it. will compete and will grant. i'm pretty lucky that you put the other structures on the screen there because i would have been able to distinguish between a video game and what is now a reality by the u.s. air force what's the big grand plan here for washington well if they're pouring billions into this new space technology roping in space with kids such as space that long must be won so they can not only deliver he can do it quickly you know no need to wait around years and years for a prototype any longer and while the jamming of satellites is one concern and the question now is you know when are we going to see or how long is it before we see actual physical attacks in outer space and some reports say this is already. a possibility in fact speaking in february the u.s. air force chief of staff said that it was just

a matter of years before we're going to see american forces fighting from space now regardless of whether this is the case or not the u.s. is definitely determined to be a leader in this field to take a lesson the curator of war for has changed vision a constellation of man our satellites always the predator never the pre and in his own inimitable way the president of the united states also expressed his excitement at the militarization of space. space is 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 we have the army the navy and seamless things seem to be steaming ahead record here in you know people might be wondering why the law was all resolutions

to draw a line and you know how far people can take this whole space was idea well actually there is almost a decade ago there were one hundred seventy eight countries that voted on a u.n. resolution to prevent a space arms race there were only two countries that abstained from votes and that was from that resolution that was the u.s. and israel also washington blocked a joint russian chinese effort to ban all weapons in space so perhaps an inkling that almost a decade ago that the u.s. had designs on the militarization of space then was perhaps already as you said staking its claim to the stars well that's the thing isn't it because you think we have enough wars going here in planet earth without thinking of other non existing conflicts are there. more questions for you later thank you very much for now though thank you. ok moving on to other global news this hour civilians in yemen are once again during the saudi made coalition strikes the latest had

a wedding there at the weekend leaving at least twenty dead other figures say much more than we've got the story for this. so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy foundation let it be an arms race. scary dramatic probably the only mostly i'm going to resist i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical time to sit down and talk. apply to many clubs over the years so i know that. the ball isn't only about what happens on the pitch to the final school it's about the passion from the families it's the age of the super money. and spend each image of the twenty

million. it's an experience like nothing else because i want to share what i think what i know about the beautiful day great chance for. the banks. are back with our to international a saudi led coalition or a strike on a wedding party in yemen has killed at least twenty people dozens more were injured it is in fact feared that the casualty figures are even higher with some reports saying that as many as fifty people were killed a warning the following video has the stripping imagery.

i want to know this is my nephew who was injured last night by the airstrike he's two brothers who were killed. it just in bach run to this the saudi led coalition intervened in the country almost three years ago to fight the rebels riyadh regard them as terrorists that are opposed to the yemeni government which it backs the conflict brought the country to help the united nations the scribes as the worst humanitarian crisis in modern history we heard from a local journalist who say is that sunday planes targeted a none military area and not for the first. i visited a place in santa band where leeward who are willing to talk place there this. is very far away from any military positions. i met with the people there they talk

to me they've told me that they have heard the word plays hovering over their wedding. different times but suddenly they have the hair the didn't expect that the saudi arabians fighter jets would target their wedding at that time it's not the first of its sky under to take place since the beginning of the saudi led coalition's war in yemen in order to drive out the describe the rebels from the areas they have already to taken control. of the twenty four to. be the situation continues to father deter eight or. ten people have been killed and fifteen injured while a van plowed into pedestrians in the canadian city of toronto the reasons behind the incident are still being investigated.

there was a man lying in the road 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 covering up she was endeavoring. he just destroyed so many people's lives every single thing that got in his way the people who witnessed the incident have been describing what they saw. the man was walking through the intersection and 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 hit more people there and just kept going i see no reason of i seen a white van with film with red coloring on it and all i saw was that he smashed

into someone over there he just went on the sidewalk he just started hitting 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 i saw i just stopped and i looked the night went after it again all i see is this crumbling up one by one and one by one dragged on and there blood is all over a young empress is really bad. haha and i'm still shaking i'm still dying from this i can't believe this is happening this is like unbelievable to so on believable. i just you know it's not our son i saw here you know what you're just going to find something wrong and you know so many people just. stopped the car lot of it just a good living and live some people and straight people like down here and they've you know yes i'm harling testimony they're trying to is also hosting the g seven foreign ministers meeting of the world's most developed countries and russia is

once again top of the agenda britain's foreign secretary is there pushing for a joint efforts against moscow what we decided was that we will going to set 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 ses britain is willing to take any action possible to back it so i can say actions against russia say things. britain is in a difficult position no. because they have made accusations against russia gotten screw pounds would also do well and therefore if they don't do anything if they then just allow it to die way britain would be seen as very weak so that's why i think the british government. thinking about what could they do.

punish russia. we are getting closer there's just fifty days now until the twenty eight hundred fifty four world cup finals kicks off in russian and legendary goalkeeper peter schmeichel is on the road again for r t checking out the host cities you're covering bird's eye catching venue is where he stopped that today and it looks like he's managed to strike gold on the right court. this is the arena and it's one of the story now you then used to hold world cup matches this. now i'm going to use my. performance a little bit like a football player as

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name is elvis some are saying i built tiny houses for the homeless. see is back and they are here why do these guys down for me a tiny house is not a solution it will be a free for off. days now. it's safe conditions to live and. to sooth opponent renna the city of los angeles. always good terrorist and. nobody should be homeless anywhere but especially in one of the richest countries in the world.

i build everything with stories because i make a lot of mistakes. and it's easy to back out your mistakes in compton south central l.a. a pint sized idea has some as in a battle with city off already so when you have nothing in order to go. you know having something like this may as well be a castle. the mayor of los angeles has declared the city is in the midst of a homelessness crisis. is trying to solve it one tiny house at a time the tiny house idea is very simple it's shelter. food water and shelter are not optional they're required for human survival so it's a. temporary solution and like the first stone

a foundation if you will to helping people who are homeless. according to elvis these cheap and portable tiny homes meant to be on the streets of l.a. . and they need to fix. but right now they're not moving anywhere because city authorities banned them so they used to belong to somebody yeah yeah. and now they're being used no now they've been sitting here for better part of a year collecting dust. and people are you know struggling and suffering. so yeah it's really sad i mean it's you know this is human life here you know. los angeles authorities have accused his tiny homes of threatening public safety. elvis has seen the tiny house movement go viral online with support coming from right across the world so with the help of the.