first secretary of state mike pompei oh is normally approved to republicans and democrats in the senate over his nomination. can't imagine having someone. 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 in tight diplomatic to be the nation's chief to. describe kremlin controlled robots the u.k. real life online activists over ninety establishment. in the british government if 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 school and. chemical attacks.

scenes coming out of yemen showing the aftermath of an. earth strike on a wedding party many of the casualties are children. may day here in moscow welcome to r.t. international my names you know you have your company our top story president pick for secretary of state has been given the green light cia director mike pump 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 pompeo 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 be the nation's chief diplomat well the senate's committee chose to bike at mike pump ayos nomination after a narrow vote following a last minute reversal by republican senator rand paul he had been a staunch critic of the growing cia head over his hawkish thousands if not for polls last minutes which might pump a zero could have been on track for

a historic distinction the first secretary of state nominee the past the committee states samir recount the story. 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 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 me do real ball is a very special guy 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 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 twelve hearing where we assembled a war cabinet of john bolton and mike pump 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 john pale solely on his answers at that hearing we might think of 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. 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 that so very bad sign that keeps surrounding himself with with right wing inner hawks on foreign policy and now we have. 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 of a militaristic background he his policies and statements that he said at the cape 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 singled out over allegations that they're not

even real people but rather also meet has a concert run by moscow also known russian balls according to u.k. government analysis there are a kind of grew in popularity after skeptical posts on the sold spray poison attack on for their views on the chemical attack in syria being falsified one of the supposed had bought spoke out on british t.v. . you have consistently and prolifically taken an anti british standpoint the question is what does it mean by. all. this is me trying to trace a million. people or does it mean that. in is a political activist who often challenges western views on twitter now he sees accusations that he's a russian bot or a total fabrication and here's the other account that caught the eye of british

authorities it belongs to a well known a string and blogger of syrian the said when the u.k. government accused her of being a russian bought over her post on the script poisoning she made the point of proving she's in fact a human being. joined my colleague colin bray earlier in the studio where you look real to me you're sure you're not a russian bot. last time a 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 you is 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 check my

analytics and i've only posted nine hundred tweets in thirty days that number comes from the atlantic council's dia of our love it wasn't just me and it wasn't just who you just heard recorded from sky news it was actually a coordinated attack against a bunch of academics activists including vanessa dealey 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 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.

more devastation in yemen an alleged saudi led coalition air strike on a wedding party in the country has killed at least twenty people dozens more were injured it is feared that the casualty figures are even higher with some reports but as many as fifty people were killed a warning the following video has the strobing imagery a small child can be seen clinging to a body here the body is then removed many other people lost their lives during what was supposed to be a celebration. i want to know this is my nephew who was injured last night by the airstrike he's two brothers were killed.

humanitarian organizations have strongly condemned the deadly incident and are demanding an investigation a spokesperson for the saudi led coalition said they take the report very seriously and will be looking into the matter of the saudi led coalition intervened in the country almost three years ago to fight the rebels riya free guards them as terrorists that are opposed to the yemeni government which it box 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 say that saudi planes targeted a nun military area not for the first time. i visited a place in santa band where the where the wedding took place there this area. is very far away from any military positions. i met with the people there they talk

to me they told me that they have heard the war planes hovering over their wedding . different times but suddenly they have they had he didn't expect that the saudi arabians fighter jets would target a wedding at 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 describe the rebels from the areas they have already taken control. of the twenty fourteen. b. the situation continues to fall the deteriorate. i witness accounts of the moment a van plows into pedestrians in the canadian city of toronto after the break on war stay with r.t. . join me every first day on the alex simon show and i'll be speaking to guest of the

world of politics sport business i'm showbusiness i'll see you then. politicians to. put themselves on the line. to get accepted or rejected. so you want to be president. some want. to go right for us it's like a tree and people. are interested in the water. pressure . there are three trades that have been wrong for five years one is that the dollar is going to crash that goal is going to twenty five hundred in the very short term and that three the bond market's going to crash all those three trades a friend absolutely rod for five years and they have taken many people out on

a stretcher. fourteen minutes into the program welcome back and we begin again in north america where ten people have been killed and fifteen injured when a van plowed into pedestrians in the canadian city of toronto the reasons behind the instant 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

covering up shoes in damp green room. he just destroyed so many people's lives every single thing that got in his way or people who actually 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 the red coloring on it and always saw 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's a lady in there 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 still shaking i'm still dying

from this i can't believe this is happening this is like unbelievable this is on the level. i just you know it's not our son i saw here and i want to just go to find something wrong and you know so many people just shout stop the car not again just to keep moving and i needed some people and straight people like down there and they've you know. well it all happens us toronto is hosting the g seven foreign ministry is meeting of the world's most developed countries and russia is once again top of the agenda britain's foreign secretary so they're pushing for a joint efforts against possible but we decided was that we will going to send 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. well or

third martin mccauley you see britain is willing to take any action possible to back its accusations against russia and say face. britain is in a difficult position no. because they have made accusations against russia gotten screwed. and therefore they don't do anything if they then just allow it to. be seen as very weak that's what i think the british government. about what. the u.s. appears to be sticking its claim to the stars with washington making it clear that the final frontier is america's to me the u.s. air force has even released a video on the dangers of other nations waging war in space. this inescapable

towers have a new focus for their impression their target space they don't have to dominate them just from. a very slick presentation and i discussed what appears to be a new space race with ortiz nikki earlier 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 it's also its allies satellites and as we know such lights kafer communication navigation and intelligence that these days especially in the scenario of war and the fear all reasoning is that potential adverse series of 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 and it really is just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to spending in space because in case you weren't aware space warfare is the big defense trend

right now is the new black and if you don't take one. take my word for it his the air force 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 but 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 too distinguishable from a video game see if you can spot the difference between the actual air force space c'mon promo video and a video game 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 never expects something trust to turn against you. millions feel the effects. airports infrastructure. skilled immigration will

compete and will win. i'm pretty lucky to keep the other structures on the screen there because i would have been able to distinguish between a video game and what is now reality by the us or force what's the big grand plan here well that pouring billions into this new space technology roping in space with kids such as space that long must who can show that he 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 us 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 dead. determined to be a leader in this field the curator of war for has changed we invasion a constellation of man our satellites always the predator never the prairie 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 as soon as things seem to be steaming ahead record speed here in you know people might be wondering why the law is 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 they voted on a un resolution to prevent

a space arms race there were only two countries that abstained was the us 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. there are just fifty days now until the twenty eight hundred fifty four world cup kicks off in russian legendary goalkeeper peter schmeichel is on the road again for r.t. checking out the host cities you cut the bird's eye catching venue is where he stopped today looks like he's managed to strike gold on the right chord. this is their arena and it's one of the story mary venues to oppose world cup

matches this. now i'm going to use my old gold. performance a little bit like a book will play as a professional athlete. the

multitalented peter smikle in action now in a war zone it's not only be enemy that can kill you but the decisions made by your own commanders delayed deny hope you die is the story of the notorious issue of burn pits that's unfocused next on r.t. international. so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy foundation let it be an arms race based on often spearing dramatic development only mostly i'm going to resist. i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical time time to sit down and talk.

shows seem wrong. but old rules just don't call. me to get to shape out these days comes to the ticket and engagement equals betrayal. when so many find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground. los angeles the city of luxury and fame but also an alarming number of people living in the streets. the simple fact in l.a. is there's 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. to get this man found his own response to the problem and constructed dozens of tiny homes for people in need of shelter when you have nothing and

nowhere to go. you know having something like this may as well be a castle but do the authorities accept such solution. me house on a city parking space is not a solution your craft to have someone monitoring the site otherwise it will be a free for all and is there a better alternative to end the homelessness crisis. and is getting international recognition with the help of israel at least in the world of zoos i'm in milf it was dismissive to do you like it this isn't my cup of tea is going up the study hall mediated you know chango it up just open. the only palestinians who gets the most helpful is to roost on counterparts i don't think there is a lot of those who in the world under the oak vision to know only could give us.

and the earth is all of us knowledge gather this lady of the muscle that you had i don't think it'll give you in the doesn't seem to do more. don't piss off. i don't think the numbers mean something they matter to us as over one trillion dollars in debt more than ten white collar crime stamping each dish. eighty five percent of global wealth you want. to be ultra rich eight point six percent market saw thirty percent rise last year some with four hundred to five hundred trades per circuit first checketts and bitcoin rose to twenty thousand dollars. china's building two point one billion dollars a i industrial park but don't let the numbers overwhelm. the only numbers you need to remember is one one just shows you can afford to miss the one and only boom bust.

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very. little ability to flirt with an exploding very. vocal. since. this concept of burning trash and war is not new it is all this war itself the difference here was that this war was lasting for a decade and included tens of thousands of troops and personnel to support the invasion of iraq and the war in afghanistan. where they were alleged rash and these huge open air heads. they burned everything creating this black plume of smoke that had been just bursting are settling over is small the word of five cities. and you had people living in paris right next to this clune people working right next to it and now working with

it with no protection whatsoever. and the receiving more blasting the fire and we're going to have to make it instigated this way is a catastrophe in the making. at the start of the war in afghanistan the military commanders on the ground realized that they had a big problem with the trash that was accumulating from the war each soldier was accumulating approximately nine pounds of trash a day on a battlefield they didn't know what to do with it so they came up with the idea through centcom which is central command decided to create and burn pits to burn the trash that was being accumulated. over.