donald trump makes his first trip to the u.s. state department to swear in former cia director mike pompei was the country's top diplomat. and word like the president has. been awful that israel urges the u.s. leader to abandon the iran nuclear deal with prime minister benjamin netanyahu to run lied about its weapons program and violated that landmark agreement also had to . look at paris with protesters smashing windows torching cars and clashing with the police generally over the french president's labor reform.

hello good morning this is out international live just after midnight now here in moscow with me kevin owen the first american who has a new sex secretary of state former cia director payer has been sworn in as the country's top diplomat in a ceremony at the state department was indeed attended by president trump. i must say that's more spirit than i've heard from the state department in a long time many years we can say many years maybe many decades it's going to be a fantastic start a fantastic day and that spirit will only be magnified only with this man right here i know that for a fact the ceremony took place at the state department with trump president in fact it was the president's first ever visit but trump had nothing but praise for pompei of calling him a quote patriot with immense talent energy and into like an arguably the most

memorable moment from pompei speech was when he vowed to help the united states get back its whacker. i talked about getting back our swagger and i'll fill in what i mean by that but it's important the united states diplomatic corps needs to be in every corner every stretch of the world executing missions on behalf of this country pompei a speech was well received by everyone from the media to other officials some don't even wait to compare of the tillerson saying that he was more open than tillerson ever was pump a i did however stress the concept of american exceptionalism which is generally considered controversial in some circles at least i talked in my my hearing about the fact that this nation is so exceptional and so incredibly blessed this is a unique exceptional country russia is unique but not exceptional it wasn't always smooth sailing for pompei o his nomination was initially met with fierce backlash

from both ends of the spectrum mostly democrats but a few republicans here and there now democrats the sickly took issue with pump a is record of advocating for regime change and speaking of his views on foreign policy let's check out what pompei i had to say about north korea and iran prior to his nomination. i can't think of a thing that has put america in a better position as a result of this deal we're a year out from the agreement and every single act. and the iranians have taken has been bolder and starker than the ones they took before the agreement. 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 throughout this whole debate pompei i stayed pretty busy over easter weekend he met with the deep your case leader marshall kim jong un but it

might get a little bit more hectic now that things are getting tense with iran it will be interesting to see how pompei all handle that one given that he's openly pro israeli and pro saudi which could present somewhat of an issue when he's dealing with their mutual arch enemy so what is have to see if this leads to any changes and more importantly if they're positive ones. big time the israeli prime minister appears to be intensifying efforts to convince donald trump to drop the a run nuclear deal any minute claimed in that controversial presentation this last week that to run lloyd about its weapons program has broken the agreement the allegations come just ten days before the u.s. president is set to decide whether or not to walk away from the. so they're trying to bamboozle the entire world and very glad that president trump has. enough of that we're not going to be hoodwinked we're not going to be taken for a ride we're going to have to do a serious serious change or to make sure that iran does not have nuclear weapons

that means this deal was a terrible deal why give this speech in english and do it in such a big way well because i wanted the world to hear all of it while bibi may claim he's trying to convince the world that really isn't true the only person he needs to convince ease trump and given trump spots rhetoric that may not be so difficult to do donald trump made it clear he didn't like the deal back in the days of his campaign and netanyahu is presentation more showmanship than facts seemed to really mesh with trump tonight i'm here to tell you one thing. i think of anything what's happening today and what's happened over the last little while and what we've learned. has really shown that i've been one hundred percent right his presentation was largely in english and he went all out to prove that iran is developing nuclear weapons he presented thousands of documents c.d.'s as

part of his powerpoint presentation except almost all of it was old some of the stuff be presented as an indisputable evidence dated to nine hundred ninety three almost nothing beyond two thousand and three experts said john brennan cia director said netanyahu showed nothing that indicated that iran had violated the nuclear deal and the international atomic agency agrees the agency had no credible indications of activities in iran relevant to the development of a nuclear explosive device of the two thousand and nine the us the b.b.c. done said that this proves that iran quote has a robust plan this time nuclear weapons program a few hours later they changed it quietly to iran quote had a robust clandestine nuclear weapons program they blamed clerical error for that

one nonetheless they say iran is still dishonest iran lied on the front end they were dishonest actors so far it's been entirely unconvincing experts buying it u.s. officials skeptical pundits and convinced european allies urging trump to come to his senses and reconsider almost everyone else is too but benjamin netanyahu has his charms and he's done it before there is a question what's to it that's. and is working and is advancing towards the development of nuclear weapons no question whatsoever see how confident he was only an invasion and thousands of deaths later did we find out that b.b. had lied his charms never worked with a bomb and they didn't get along all that well but they got along great with bush

and it looks like it's working with trump great friends those two they've both claimed well a potted history of the deal the iran nuclear deal was struck back in twenty fifteen broke at the time by the us china britain russia france and germany and hail to at the time as a huge diplomatic success those negotiations took a long nine years in all in exchange for some sanctions being lifted to round agreed to strict limits on its nuclear program and to open up its facilities to international experts we got coming from daniel mcadams of the wrong paul peace institute he told us he believes the israeli leader is trying to manipulate the u.s. president right now and it is looking for confrontation with iran. netanyahu knows very well that he cannot take on iran on its own bibi is playing trump like a fiddle but look around trump is good all the same losers that were in power in two thousand and two who lied us into going into iraq or we're supposed to believe

that somehow just a week or so before trump has to make his decision on iran that all of a sudden it come into this amazing information here let us rush to share with you this information telling you how evil they are it's all purity after it's just like is ridiculous bomb thing at the u.n. it's just a desperate ploy to lie us into another war. legs an old story and rub it around for years but new developments on it the boy scouts of america changing their name and more after more than one hundred years of history and debate over this now is the organizations allowing girls to join it the word boy is said to be dropped. we wanted to land on something that evokes the past but also conveys the inclusive nature of the program going forward we're trying to find the right way to see we're here for both young men and young women the boy scouts along with the girl scouts of the usa were founded in the early twentieth century the two groups were set to teach life skills and aid character development huge successes along the way for boys and girls separately was the original plan and the girl scouts have said

indeed they will be keeping their name girl scouts is a premier leadership development organization for girls we are and will remain the first choice for girls and parents so now that in a letter to boy scouts of america last year the girl scouts accuse the movement of trying to up end the paradigm that serves both boys and girls so well through the years they say right now relations are frosty between the two main time twitter users have joined the debate with plenty of people criticizing this name change. priority list move forward i've been impressed by the boy scouts and eagle scouts their focus on acquiring confidence confidence and real life skills always wished they had something as rigorous for girls as a form of boy scouts i see this is a terrible idea boys need to be with other boys at times without girls being present to be boys most girls would not want to do what the boys do and it is wrong

to change the boy scouts and this week the boy scouts are opening the doors to girls due to losing membership and money the girl scouts organization are completely against it because now the girl scouts will lose membership feminists are loving the boy scouts move not realizing it may destroy the women run girl scouts. francis is dealing with the fallout of was pretty scrod was the worst made a violent imperatives nineteen sixty eight on tuesday over a thousand so-called black bloc has turned up to a peaceful union organized protest against president macross labor reforms that began clashing with the police hurling smoke grenades destroying cars and property officers arrested more than two hundred of the master anticapitalist activist half of them are still reportedly in custody tonight with more on the unrest that gripped the french capital and charlotte who've been skiing this come over here and you'll be able to see the boards here of the first food restaurant that have been put up that was completely and utterly destroyed yesterday restaurants further

behind down the street were also destroyed and basically the police did very little in fact nothing for a long time when this destruction was happening it was only further only into the demonstration the violence took place at little bit further on that they actually did something now they've said the reason that they didn't react as quickly as some people say they should have is because they were trying to avoid collateral damage there's also been criticism criticism of president he's currently on the official tour of a stray here some people saying the president. shouldn't have left france when there was so much social and ease here he has hit back saying what did you expect me to sit at home and watch it on t.v. but the violence by the black books as a say some of the worst that i've seen in paris take a look at what unfolded on may day in the middle of cashews now starting when the police want to say we're looking for you'll see the tear gas is coming up to us the police move again and that's because just behind us there is

a fire going on the demonstrators have put fire chief of recall and a motorbike and as you can see smoke ok. well as you might have gathered we've just been in the middle of what was quite a large clash between the police and the protesters just look behind me this is one of the trucks with the water cannons and you can see the gendarme now coming down and you can see some of the water in the foam that's been on the ground to try and push these protesters back take a look behind me and actually trying to barricade themselves up now that's off to they set fire to what looked like a g c p the fact it's still own fire over there in the distance the process is to it is if you just turn around a little bit more what we have a look at this you may see this big pulling me over dog smoke coming up here on the

protesters what they did is they lit fire to what seemed to be some sort of motorbike and a car show at the penske. paris that pretty testy there at times of the right let's go by the story we're talking about just a minute ago the boy scouts of america changing the name of the more than one hundred years of history they are going to action is now going to allow girls to join in the wood boys said to be taught good idea let's talk to political activists case weight and legal and media around this line of things for time today let's talk about this for a few minutes we're going through this both first if i may lionel is political correctness gone mad surely boy scouts of for boys and girls coats and for girls or should it be that way. ok this is one of the most insane moments in the history of the human species there is not anyone other than a few i guess theoretical academicians perhaps for some as j

w or somebody who thinks this is a good idea this is insane and by the way scouts b.s.a. what you think the b.s.a. is is like here in the states k f c we know what it is this goes to show you how there was an absolute determined effort to destroy whatever was left of this thing called the gender it's now considered almost like racist or inappropriate to do anything to distinguish boys from girls carry it is over with this is the most stupid thing i've heard and i don't know how long but i'm sure it will be top very far i don't think you think about this smurf way what's your view good idea or bad people should be made to feel comfortable if they want to join it why no. well it's a really interesting situation actually if you look at the kind of science of it where do young people do best it turns out perhaps surprisingly perhaps unsurprisingly the girls seem to thrive better in single sex environments for

things like that but boys actually seem to thrive better in mixed environments it seems like having some girls join in maybe takes away some of the sort of culture if you like it's not entirely clear why these things are true personally i think there's a lot to be said for giving girls a kind of space of their own we know that there are differences in the kind of for example the kind of role models that boys and girls are exposed to so when we do get mixed gender groups what can often happen is that the boys have more confidence they've been brought up on action heroes and the girls can get sidelined a bit so i guess i have a lot of sympathy with the girl scouts organization who are saying hey you know this is worked well for us in the past and what i don't want of course is you know for the girl scouts or to do something and knitting and the boys to get to climb mountains i mean i think that is very much an outdated construct i think we all know that there are plenty of girls who'd like to climb mountains but for me i'm not sure that the perfect solution is just to put them in the boys' club i think what we should be doing yeah of course ultimately is working towards

a culture where we don't need to separate groups but but in the meantime i think there's absolutely nothing wrong with giving the girls their own space you know and making sure that they have a chance to thrive and they have a chance to be the leaders of that raul a band boy and in a mixed group where they're at risk of of being treated as a secondary group within the us where there's a lot of other boys as long. well what about the boy well what i'm saying is first of all i am line of if girls are that sorry i can answer your question lionel if you let me talk the research suggests that actually boy you've been talking to us five years and that that that's just when you asked me a question and then you wanted me to answer as i was answering your question the research has blown i ask you what class horse it was until our night when i see it was my time to speak or oil and let me ask you this question i'll keep times out of a promise i know everybody's lesson in the what are we just don't know if my great

big sky grew for the boys or the girls will be wrong with that idea now let me get this straight apparently according to this this scientific study which you just made up on the fly girls do you hear in terms of the arms of young girls but boys do better are you going to let me finish are you going to let me finish boys do better apparently with girls but girls do better with a girl giggles those who are the girls who are going to have to be she's doing it again go ahead dr go ahead i think it's a sound delay line or. let's just let's just bring this back in the not be quite say to the about it what is wrong with the idea of schools in the us they don't segregate boys and girls so you know isn't isn't this the way for that maybe everyone should be coming together. i think it's really measures here in the states . well in the bigger say that the reason why is that the enrollment here is

dwindling because one of the biggest problems are that kids who are so i guess either because of their a.d.h. d. medication or fixated on this don't really see the need to be joining any groups with any people outdoors or otherwise so that's the biggest problem girl scouts here in the states are doing much better primarily because of their cookies boy scouts are trying to do something to stay ahead but what you're seeing is the worse if it came in of just boys and girls and how we are just turning them men to just these these i don't know these hominids are these kids who don't play who don't enjoy doing things like i did like we did being a boy and roughhousing i don't understand it to do stuff that the scouts used to do to go out into the woods remember when lord baden-powell did remember the the the

source the initial source of the scouts going out and actually using his is his work and in warfare of all of these to go out and do things work you're perhaps dare i say hyper masculine that it's all been diluted that's over with the girl scouts yeah the girl scouts you could see you kind of praising it just now that they have their stance the kind of a bit more conservative here they say they don't have any gender policies but yeah there's a bit of a frosty relationship where they don't like the boy scouts dropping the name boy is it the fire going into the boy scouts of the bills should the girl scouts simply move with the times. well i think that the girl scouts have a good point in that it really seems like it's almost a turf war in that they're kind of saying well you know we're going to let the boys in you know we'll let the girls in in order to boost numbers but i'm i'm kind of concerned with the idea that it's somehow great to encourage boys to to fight and be super super rough and super violent with each other i think that this is two

thousand and eighteen and the idea that it somehow good for young men to be thrown into some sort of boxing ring i think that we should offer young people boys and girls a whole range of activities and there are definitely arguments in favor of allowing them to do some of those activities and violent there are definitely arguments in favor of allowing them to do at least some of those activities environment. and i think they are and sometimes you know this is a when you've got a mixed group sometimes the girls are trying to get their point across and they can be loudly shouted down by the boys which i don't know if you said in the recent examples of that but it feels a little bit like maybe that's happening right now line with this whole scotto thing boys and girls which is certainly the word that this. look this is the most ridiculous thing there was for there was a time and i will tell you this and i don't know about the rest of the world but i can go anywhere in this country most people think that this is absurd there's a problem it's not just boys and girls kids are not allowed to be kids anymore

we're playing it so safe we've got a helmet there was a time when if you were a red blooded american man that's not how maisons have canceled his writing and cried i read here and there he means fine and there was nothing wrong with it but now i want it all from the listeners on boys to sit around and this is horrible this is called a gender nala fixation look at salo part of this complete and total ridiculous idea that people are afraid that there are genders and that boys like to do boys stuff and men drill has little to do and that he wasn't actually does if they want to believe me there. that there isn't a great deal of evidence to suggest that only boys want to do traditionally male activities and only goals want to do traditionally female activities there really is very very obvious there are a lot of soccer like climbing trees and there are lots of knowing there is like baking cakes and to try to say to young people you have to only do this what we

should of course to is give them a range of activities that he let me know not to encourage them to try new stuff because that's what they usually are it is what it is or i'll file that's not what this is about and you know it what it has how to say not to be about a randomly shouting at me when you haven't really got a point line guys what about children. traditional the little you typically avi's what about children that our economy is going through and kevin troy don't worry or what approach children that come from traditional you're not one of. these they don't want their kids to go to. schools goes but i've got a point as well. well i think that's a very very interesting now in there kevin on the one hand i'm absolutely against you know religious organizations that operate a sort of full on gender apartheid i think that's absolutely not ok at the same time we have to accept there are communities where that is kind of annoying even to do it and it's very difficult if we close down these you know female only spaces

rather than encouraging people to join the mc spaces what can happen instead is that then girls from those communities end up not being allowed to go out and take part in these activities at all so i think we have to be very careful in encouraging you know people people to be happy mixing and people to be around with a whole range different people without make it without ending up with people from minority communities you know being stuck at god's will live on a positive thought political activist. line or about you know of the scopes line or were you can tell me off. good night. thanks kevin or perhaps the news of the day we got no for the u.k.'s defense secretary is calling on journalists specialist to enlist in the armed forces known to tackled this information and online propaganda you made the comment as yet published interview with the house politics magazine r.t.d. goes down off the explosive. he is a rising star

a fireplace salesman turned defense secretary he is gavin williamson and he summons you my fellow british geek it's battlefield world wide web and the u.k. army is ready to charge at the enemy in this age where there's so much this information we're britain's enemies will use every angle they can do to change the narrative people who have traditionally thought about joining reserve forces we want them to come in but actually it's looking to different people whether it be journalists those people with amazing cyber nighty skills those people with the ability to really understand about getting messages across their worst nightmare is coming true with the enemy has infiltrated but your id skills are a game changer. we are living in the fake news and competing narratives the government will respond with more and better use of national security communications to tackle these interconnected complex challengers fake news and

adverse are you worthy of a call to arms from the military chief himself by his standards that's a pretty big deal to realize that it's enough to look at his voting record from the time when he was a conservative m.p. the investigation into the iraq war for instance was below the worthy attention bar for williamson in twenty sixteen he voted against an inquiry into the contrast between the public statements and private actions in the run up to the war human rights and equality i'm also not something worth fighting for according to williamson like when he voted against outlawing discrimination on the basis of cost you know the situation when you can be written off as scum for your whole life simply because you were born into the wrong family but what williamson voted consistently for though was foreign bombings from our surveillance and bulk data

collection we've come a long way from churchill's we shall fight them on the basis of weight to the point we're going to fight them on twitter and we're going to fight them in facebook and the rest of social media so i think that the very suggestion that this is a priority for our armed forces is is very disturbing if you're looking at journalists. join up with the armed forces i find really peculiar and very strange as you say a journalist can do a perfectly good job discovering truth and exposing things that need to be exposed through the normal channels so why would they suddenly become puppets of if you like a particular aspect of government but of course with fake news being such a hot topic now a feast we can be sure the british army will stay trendy at least while williamson is in charge. indeed that's news right so far this morning from moscow i'm kevin

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