mom. looks each year in legal consoles into the matter simply to maintain its head and says the end is an election she says the future this campaign season with and yet that it becomes just she's a star a couple of years later the two thousand parties she's the first deputy prime minister then in two thousand they come in with a new russian president yes dimitri. so what was his town like boswell modernization pushing the reset relations. military comes five days south since he was triggered by georgia. but. having finished his presidency a bit of switch is about to change it will work to see the to be enslaved to stand with ring russia's economic storm in the face of sanctions tumbling oil prices raising the nation's salaries and benefits unless it's not a good might be solace from the such living the king live

the closer you get when you like the summer but you know they shut your mind you live you know i don't think you believe that something good if it is economic the overall numbers will be what i think about it. some forty percent of russians said they trusted but i'm still sure that she would not be looking to go it does but it does say do you want to say leadership you simply get the studio with that ship. and that's all you need to know about the future and embedded in just over two million. hundreds of interpreters who worked with the british army in afghanistan are facing a threat of deportation from the u.k. that's despite a promise they would be allowed to stay we spoke to one of those potentially affected who says the only thing awaiting him in afghanistan would be death. if they deport me back there is only one times for me to be killed he doesn't know

when but the u.k. home office has informed abdul bari that he's going to be deported to kabul within the next three months abdul says he can't go back to afghanistan because he worked as a frontline interpreter for british forces from two thousand and eight to two thousand and ten my life was in danger my family lives in danger threatening me but all the time we know that he joined the infidels. he used to talk about there was only one chinese for me and i must leave the country. so can target but the mean time to pose for me so if they did catch me they would definitely just leave the country the british defense secretary gavin williamson has made headlines in recent days by telling the home office that afghan interpreters should be allowed to stay in the u.k. but that reassurance only refers to around four hundred form a interpreters who had been given five year you take these as they expire soon and

all the authorities have done in reality is say that they'll waive the costly renewal fees so those celebrator you headlines don't applied to the six hundred or so former afghan interpreter is still in kabul who have had their asylum claims rejected nor do they applied to the handful of complicated cases relating to former interpreters who were forced to flee and entered the u.k. illegally like abbeville all of us are delighted that those who for all the criteria and their families are here and will stay here and that nobody paid any money there are still people who are being looked at and we need to be careful that we don't better you fall through the debts we have a debt of honor to these people and what we mustn't do is leave someone who actually worked for us looked after. has helped us we mustn't leave someone like that in a position where they and their families will be at risk and we've got to be very

clear make sure we don't do that abdul says he didn't have time to apply for a visa through the official interpreter scheme while he was still in kabul that required months of waiting and his life was increasingly at risk now abdul's lawyer is appealing the home office's moves to deport him many interpreters got these fish directly from afghanistan through the ministry defense relocation was very strict. criteria that required you to be. working in helmand province and to be made redundant on or after the nineteenth of december twenty twelve a lot of people i missed the. word working in two thousand and twelve because they were threatened and targeted by the taliban hard to quit their jobs and flee it's not really fair to make this journey to the you care to escape. to be told actually go home they're saying it's it's there for him to read we have evidence from former

employees not just from the british army but they also use force within the in kabul what he really cared to the originator of. but evidence suggests he was threatened in kabul. and. the same will happen again he will be targeted when it comes to its own citizens the u.k. government clearly warns against travel to almost all of afghanistan even districts in the heavily guarded capital kabul it adds that terrorists are very likely to carry out attacks and methods are evolving and increasing in sophistication but that's apparently safe enough for abdul barry tarrytown as far as the u.k. government is concerned i don't play with. so you cos i think i'm always the most dangerous place in the world at the moment because the bomb is exploding people are dying and i don't. the home office is saying the couple has so i first met abbeville a couple of months ago since then his already fragile mental state has worsened

because surviving thirty five pounds a week and it time accommodations i'm are allowed to. so it can do nothing but all so i have a very bad person so i've been to the g.p. many times and some medicine from them. doesn't work. i'm still struggling i ask him about what he wants to do if and after all this he wants to work he'd read economics at university and capital he wouldn't mind resurrecting his professional boxing career either but his talk is tentative working and living here sounds like a dream one that any day now could come crashing down with the arrival of a final deportation letter. the united states has sanctioned the three

venezuelans and twenty companies said to have ties to president nicolas maduro accusing them of narcotics trafficking activity u.s. vice president mike pence called for other nations to join in increasing pressure on venezuela he also slammed the country's upcoming election as well as a legitimate. the so-called elections in venezuela scheduled for may twentieth. ok nothing more than. there will be no real election in venezuela may twentieth and the world knows it will be a figure that we think. the us has been calling for venezuela to delay its presidential election since february saying there is no guarantee of a free fair and internationally validated result the trump administration blames the government of madeira for a deep recession and hyperinflation in the opec member state washington has also accused of causing food shortages and sparking a flood of migrants into neighboring countries william robinson professor of latin

american studies at the university of california santa barbara says the new sanctions are part of a u.s. plan for regime change. these new sanctions have absolutely nothing to do with drug trafficking and they have nothing to do with the lack of democracy or electoral fraud in venezuela the united states specifically targeting out that is whether because it's trying to overthrow that government the u.s. strategy for these elections coming up in venice well it's very important to note this there is an opposition candidate running and we found cold and in fact he's increasing in the polls who knows he might win these elections but the u.s. strategy and of a jar to the right far right wing opposition into syria left which is along with the u.s. policy of overthrowing the revolution is boycotting these elections this is a boycott strategy because it does not want the venezuelan government would just have made it by another rule another election that it sends from the government is going to ignore that demand is absolutely absurd and outrageous demands so. you give me a dual government has made very frequent beginning it's not going to succumb to

this u.s. intervention but neither is he going to take such such interventionist demands seriously. tens of thousands rock to heavy metal superstar frontman serge tank and as he arrived in the armenian capital to support massive opposition protests earlier the system of a down vocalist called for rallies to stay peaceful after more than three weeks of vast demonstrations that have already forced out xx prime minister serge sarkozy and protesters are fuming that the parliament failed to approve opposition leader nicole passion yann as the new premier despite passion and being the only candidate parliament will vote again on his candidacy on tuesday with the ruling party pledging to back him this time around. there's been a furious response and france over donald trump's mimicry of victims shot and the two thousand and fifteen paris terror attacks the president's remarks came in a speech to the u.s. national rifle association they took their time and gun them down one by

one oh come over here bone come over here blow but if you want to employ. we're just one case is how to get the terrorists would have fled or been shot. yes that was president trump suggesting the terror attacks in paris in two thousand and fifteen could have had fewer victims if god knows when so restrictive one hundred thirty people were killed in the attack and hundreds were injured it. was his words where laptop by members of the largest gun rights lobbying group in the us the ok with france so they hit a very wrong and there are many sounds trumps remarks is disrespectful and insensitive to the victims and their families while the foreign ministry and least perhaps the harshest criticism of trump since micron took the presidential reins

i'm a common trump those two a tight. expresses its firm disapproval of prison trumps comments about the powers to tax on november the thirteenth two thousand and fifteen and demands that the memory of the victims be respected. trump could have abstained from his comments about the events that shouted all french people he might take back his words and express regret for them. but prong isn't the only u.s. ally to be prodded by donald trump at the convention trump believes the u.k. is suffering from a problem of its own they don't have guns they have knives and lives. trumps remarks of course upset before in britain but this time the u.k. officials appear to have developed a think again and that flight however across the channel many feel trumps twisting the knife in a deeply apron wind. and then your ten k.

running race through the french capital won't be held to thier due to the high number of homeless people many of the migrants camped out along the route of the problem many had hoped would have is over the last year. reports president michael had pledged that by the beginning of two thousand and eighteen no one would be sleeping rough on the streets of france let alone her and yet not only did he fail to deliver on the promise but it's getting worse much worse it's believed that up to one thousand eight hundred migrants have set up camp along the canal he in paris and fears that that could explode to around two in a hundred thousand in the next few weeks has caused the organizers of the great race to graham paris to cancel the annual event.

the ten kilometer race between paris and song to me was to take place in just over a week's time but this is part of where the run is supposed to come through and as you can see it would be virtually impossible for them to navigate this section of the racecourse these makeshift camps are growing day by day the route is impossible it is disturbing to have to run the race in the middle of a refugee camp at last year's race around six and a half thousand people took part it was also adopted as part of paris's bid to host the twenty twenty four olympics embodying a couple of the games key objectives solidarity and ecology this cancellation so close to race day has disappointed many you know it's kind of unfair or because of

improvising for one time and then you just cancel it last minute just. like they should have reworded it down that's what i think so as to separate problems you just do your race if your do your race and the rider problem is something else i think they should fix that they help them more. you know when you walk in the street you can see that all the people live on the sidewalks despite pledges to help migrants off the streets the greater paris region currently only has room to shelter seven hundred and fifty individuals far fewer than the numbers already here a number said to be growing in the hundreds each week organizers say they didn't want the camps to be cleared just so that the race could go ahead reluctant to be seen as a tool for social exclusion but safety concerns meant that they couldn't we reach either. participants have been offered refunds or a place in next year's event assuming of course there is one.

aussie paris. the russian defense ministry says a russian military helicopter has crashed in eastern syria during a routine mission according to the ministry both pilots were killed in the incident and their bodies have been retrieved from the site tech to technical malfunction is being suggested as the reason for the crash the aircraft was a k a fifty two attack helicopter also known as an alligator they have been used by russian troops in syria since two thousand and sixteen. and the racism scandal has hit the world of fashion that's after the cover of vogue italy featured a famous model with a noticeably darker skin tone the normal here's the photo of supermodel gigi how did that spark the controversy on social media people pointed out that her skin hair and facial features were photoshop to appear darker than they actually are but others say the photo was a piece of art and there's nothing racist about it instead of just hiring someone

of a different culture they transform a white girl change her skin and even does a makeup to make her look more ethnic change hair color etc oh ok this is normal why couldn't she was a black model instead of saying black face honestly so ignorant and disgusting disappointed in the modeling industry these days there's literally nothing in black face about this people can't even look tan anymore without others making it something it's not you're making a race problem out of everything even when it's not she doesn't look black here she looks brunette i think the intention was to show a power of transformation and he wanted to do it on a red a very famous model known as blonde it is art it's magnificent some people just don't deserve vogue. meanwhile gigi had dede and vogue at only have both apologized saying the photo wasn't meant to offend the magazine said it had been trying to create a bronze to beach look for her political commentator steve malzberg believes the scandal is a fuss over nothing. here you have a beautiful blue eyed blonde model one of the top models in the world and they put

some bronze on her and they photoshop the picture and now she looks i mean you could say she looks black or african-american she looks bronze to me but this is a whole big issue now where people take offense and they call it cultural appropriation in other words you're stealing their culture so it's really at a hand and we have to get over this in our society or it's going to do a very very much harm so i see nothing wrong with the shoe i think people are too sensitive and i think it's getting out of hand political correctness is getting at a hand. that's a wrap up of the day's top headlines for this hour but don't forget you can always head to our web site r.t. dot com for the details on all the stories and more.

this is full bus broadcasting around the world from washington d.c. i'm bart chilton coming up today we look at five g. the fifth generation of mobile networks why is it important and are there some

public relations games being played as we look at the media mergers going on our teams millet chan takes us a long look at it plus we'll take a little trip to miami where r.t. correspondent nicholas o'donovan tells us how climate change and rising sea levels are reshaping one of the nation's largest housing markets plus nestle's the food companies candy company is paying billions of dollars to starbucks r.t. correspondent alex my haleigh bitch will tell us why and we talked tesla's terrible troubles and other auto news with the car coach lauren fix all of that on our righteous road ahead but first let's get to some as. a rising u.s. dollar has caused the worst two week loss of capital emerging economy bond markets since two thousand and sixteen nearly one billion dollars exit at the bar. in markets for emerging economies in just the last week according to the financial times the us dollar is recent strength particularly relative to currencies and

developing nations is believed to be driving the move away from debt in emerging markets a significant portion of developing nation debt is denominated in dollars adding a significant multiplying factor to their debt burden when the dollar rises some emerging economies has take taken more dramatic measures to support their currencies as we reported here last week argentina raised interest rates three times in just one week to prop up the argentine peso. ems workers at air france walked out on monday pushing their worst workplace action into a fourteen day and putting the last making airline survival in the balance according to a french economy minister last week the c.e.o. of the company officially known as air france k l m insisted on putting a previously rejected pay proposal to a vote among the workers and staking his c.e.o. position on a yes vote well it went down and then it's now it's lacking

a leader as it continues to seek settlement economy minister bruno lemaire told reporters the survival of air france is in the balance the union that represents air france is demanding an immediate five point one percent pay increase with future boost versus a proposal from management for a two percent raise. the kilo way of volcano on hawaii's big island is producing massive rivers of lava toxic gas and sprouting jets of molten rock over three hundred feet high the eruption has also led authorities to order evacuation for at least seven hundred residents that we went to air so far the lava has caused millions of dollars in damage and has destroyed over thirty homes lava began creeping across the island on saturday the day after a six point nine earthquake the worst to hit hawaii in four decades last year visitors to the island spent more than. sixteen billion dollars and according to the hawaii tourism authority visitor spending this year in q one is already up by

more than ten percent the airlines are not reporting flight cancellations to hawaii and tourism dollars are expected to continue to flow even if the lava flows far away from resort related areas. and now we turn to the fifth generation of wireless technology five g. there is a race to develop five g. in the leaders seem to be china and the united states but there's more to it than simply incremental speed the media merger mania is playing right into the five g. race artie's mobility explains. currently americans have four major mobile network operators or m.n. nose to choose from when selecting cell phone service that slim selection is about to get even slimmer if regulators permit number three m. n. o. t. mobile to acquire the number four company sprint in a proposed twenty six point five billion dollars deal the c.e.o.'s of team mobile

and sprint appeared in a joint commercial to announce their plans for today were announcing that t. mobile and sprint have reached a definitive agreement to come together and form a new stronger company a company that will super charge the on carrier strategy and create robust competition and lower prices across wireless video and broadband a company that will create thousands of new american jobs and the only company with the capacity to quickly create a broad and deep nationwide five g. network the two exacts focusing on the union creating new jobs and bringing nationwide service and expanding access across rural america laguerre even playing the china card saying that america is falling behind china as a leader in five g. technology as the only card left to play after a previously failed bid presented to antitrust regulators just a few years ago. the risk of rejection by the department of justice will play an important role in the number of choices consumers will have talking points are

catered to the ears of president donald trump whose administration has outlined a desire to outpace china in the world attack but according to former f.c.c. chairman tom wheeler playing the china card may backfire since the trumpet ministration has already weighed in on issues of national security when broadcom acquisition of qualcomm was blocked behind the bluster of saving face over china's five g. capabilities the real reason behind this merger according to business experts is simply that neither team mobile or sprint have the capital to compete against a t. and t. or verizon independently in building out their five g. networks eighteen t. and verizon have shelled out twenty two billion and seventeen billion dollars respectively to invest in modernizing their networks in two thousand and seventeen while t. mobile and sprint only spent six billion combined this merger makes great business sense for the number three and number four carriers but are burdened with proving to regulators that this will not hurt consumers the current four company

competition has driven down wireless plan prices by thirteen percent in just twenty seventeen alone the only burden antitrust lawyers have to prove is that there's any possible chance these two corporations may monopolize the consumer the burden only need to prove the possibility not intent. and joining us live to discuss the subject is the intrepid moodle with chad manila you've been monitoring this whole thing but tell us why it's so important why is this an important story you you come up with something that i think a lot of people may not have see well there are i think there are a couple reasons why this is a big story number one on the national or international front this is a story where the carriers t. mobile and sprint are trying to pander to president trump because he. he knows that china and the u.s. are sort of frenemies so they are telling him that hey we'll get ahead of all this and we'll make the whole country five g.

ready if you allow if your administration allows this merger to happen and on the second front is that they're saying that they will be able to spread the five g. all across the us into rural communities and in fact in dead zones where like you and i have talked about before you should be in the middle of a suburb and find a dead zone you know it's somewhere in north carolina you're not out on a farm you're sitting in the middle of a subdivision why are you in a dead zone that makes no sense t. mobile and sprint say that they are going to fix those gaps in all those various communities so there's two things here just start with the substance of it connecting people whether or not it's four g. or five people don't have four g. right that's right and as we talk about on the show all the time and you talked about on this show and other places having that connection is important for education it's important for business and economies so getting more connection

where the next forty five years important but what you said is very interesting you know we've got this controversy with the a.t.m. the time warner merger that's been in the news that the. the government just rested in the it's in the hands of the judge now but now with regard to t. mobile and sprint there actually is you you say making a public relations ploy really to an audience of one donald trump really in the case of eighteen t. and time warner they say that's vertical integration in the case of sprint and t. mobile which we have here you're buying out your competition so i think they're they're big hurdle is going to be with the f.c.c. and with the d.o.j. because regulators are going to say you're just trying to monopolize the market now there's going to be three choices so you know fewer choices are usually kind of bad for the consumer but you know with all these guys and the. millions and tens of billions of dollars into expanding their networks anyway i think we're going to be able to get over those dead zones and roll of communities and the connectivity that

you say that will help education health commerce will be able to get over those pretty soon in the in the very near future great analysis mill i think you're right they may be playing on hoping that president trump will hope that he's going to be president five g. that's right all the f.c.c. on this that's right militant thank you for being here you're a shit. and now we go to miami where climate change and rising sea levels are reshaping one of the nation's largest housing markets here with more is r t correspondent nicholas o'donovan. miami is known worldwide for its speeches and beautiful weather millions of cheeriest come here to stay at seaside hotels wealthy locals invest in luxurious villas overlooking the bay and the up income in urban areas a home to a vibrant an international community of young professionals. so miami is growing at a fast pace cranes and construction sites have been part of the city's landscape

for years and home prices have been growing steadily since the recession but real estate isn't the only thing rising here in south florida sea level rise and floods are already a reality here and they're starting to reshape one of the country's largest housing markets according to a new study published in the journal of environmental research letters single family homes closer to the say are appreciating slower than those higher elevations while some properties near the ocean will lose value flood insurance could get more expensive as entire. remapped is high risk zones in miami dade county some areas flood even on sunny days especially during high tides known as king tides for example the frequency of flood in increased significantly in miami beach between two thousand and six twenty thirteen with tide induced events soren

more than four hundred percent so the impact on homeowners is already real and some studies making grim predictions of up to five feet of sea level rise by the end of the century others suggest in the up to twenty three billion dollars of existing property state wide could be underwater by twenty fifteen with these predictions in mind the city of miami beach has embarked on an ambitious and expensive defensive program that includes elevating roads and installing powerful new pumps the city has also raised the. heights of newly constructed homes to one foot above base flood elevation experts underline the importance of these infrastructure plans in order to combat sea level rise the city of miami beach has set aside a four hundred million dollars to put in pumps and other flood control infrastructure.