the to maintain it set of friends is the end of an election she's the future this campaign season with and yet that it becomes just she's a star a couple of years later like two thousand stories she's the first deputy prime minister and then in two thousand they come in with a new russian president yes to be transparent so what was his town like boswell modernization pushing the reset button on relations to. military conflict five days south since he was triggered by georgia. but. having finished his presidency effective switch because. it will work with the to be enslaved to start withdrawing russia's economic storms in the face of sanctions tumbling oil prices raising sanctions and salaries and benefits unless it's not a good mind to be slimmed down to see such a king live the closer you get when you might get hurt but you know michel you

might go to you know i don't know if you believe the such but if it is economic the overall numbers will be what are. some forty percent of russians said they trust the place though surely that she would not be looking to go it's the right to say do you want to say leadership is simply to get the good deal of that ship. and that's all you need to know about it your best bet in just a bit to manage. another news hundreds of interpreters who worked with the british army in afghanistan are facing the 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 tough. if they deport me back. there is only one tries for me to be killed he doesn't know when but the u.k. home office has informed abdul barry that he's going to be deported to come 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 in photos. he used to talk about there was only one chinese for me and i must leave the country. so can talk about the mean time to pose for me so if they 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 forma interpreters who had been given five year you tavi says 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 apply 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've 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. also 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 first directly from afghanistan through the ministry defense is. very strict. criteria that required you to be. working in helmand province and to be made redundant on a raft ninety percent or 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 he was working with him be

in kabul what he really care to the originators. 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 to return as far as the u.k. government is concerned i don't play with a couple who is safe cos i think the most dangerous place in the world at the moment because the bomb is exploding people are dying but i don't. the home office is saying a couple of days so i first met up till a couple of months ago since then his already fragile mental state has worsened for

surviving thirty five. time accommodations i'm are allowed to work so i can do nothing but. some have a very bad person so i bring to the many times some medicine that. 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 kaberle 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 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 a legitimate. the so-called elections in venezuela scheduled for may twentieth. will be nothing more than a fraud and there will be no real election in venezuela on 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 thing there is no way to guarantee a free fair and internationally validated result the trump administration blames the government of material for a deep recession and hyperinflation in the opec member state washington has also accused mr o. of causing food shortages and sparking a flood of migrants into neighboring countries william robinson person 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 this way either because it's trying to overthrow their 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 fund code 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 a sort of left which is aligned 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 with judo made it but another on another election that we haven't seen since from the government is going to ignore that demand is absolutely absurd and outrageous demands so. you give me a dual government system a very fickle beginning it's not going to succumb to this u.s. intervention but neither is going to take such such interventionist demands

seriously. tens of thousands rock to heavy metal superstar frontman serge tank in 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 a ministrations that have already forced op ex prime minister serge sarkozy and protesters are fuming that parliament failed to approve opposition leader nicole passion as the new premier despite pressuring him being the only candidate in parliament will vote again on tuesday with the ruling party pledging to back him this time around. now there's been a furious response in france over donald trump's mimicry of victims shot in 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 tongue and gun them down one by one. come over here boem boem boem oh but if you want an

employee. were just wrong how to do it. 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 save restrictive one hundred thirty people were killed in the attack and hundreds were injured it's momo his way its way by members of the largest gun rights lobbying group in the u.s. . with from they hit a very roll and then many 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. from 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. 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 france 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 knives. trumps remarks of course upset before in britain but this time the u.k. officials apparent have developed a thick skin and that is flight however across the channel many feel trumps twisting the knife in a deeply open wind. an annual ten k. race through the french capital won't be held this year due to the high number of homeless people many of the migrants camped out along the route it's

a problem many had hoped would have eased over the last year or two starlet even skate 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 paris 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 of set up camp along the canal in paris and fears that that could explode to around two and a half 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 it's to separate problems you

just do your race if your do your race and in the migrant problem is something else i think they should stick to help them or. 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 shell to seven hundred and fifty individuals far fewer than the number 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 toothless social exclusion but safety concerns meant that they couldn't we reach either. participants have been offered refunds 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 of both pilots were killed in the incident and their bodies have been retrieved from the site 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've been used by russian troops in syria since two thousand and sixteen and there were a cism 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 who did that sparked 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 is 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 you use a black model instead of seeing 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. did and vogue italy have of both apologized saying the photo wasn't meant to offend the magazine's that it had been trying to create a bronzed beach look 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 out of 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 website are to dot com for the details on all those stories and more. but hold his hands to do something to. put themselves on the line. to get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be president. some want to listen.

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and left right sideways ride when it comes to covering the military industrial complex there are subservient politicians and their journalists cheerleaders because right when you think you've got things pretty well figured out they throw you that left hook you never quite saw it coming and can't quite believe like lasers yes laser. right when we are finally seeing the possibility of peace on the korean peninsula of the syrian war finally winding down and the only actual physical threat to the united states taking the form of our own political leaders an aptitude u.s. navy and our good friends at lockheed martin bring us laser. battleships no less. very dr evil of them yes it was recently discovered by journalists attending the twenty eight hundred sea air space expo at the national harbor in maryland that

lockheed martin's high energy laser an integrated optical dazzler with surveillance or helio's for short will very soon be making its way on to u.s. navy warships complementing or even downright replacing the current battleship the fence systems the our i am one sixteen and balance systems according to a long time supporter of all things laser defense systems mark guns inger of the center per strategic and budgetary assessments believes that this is clear evidence of progress telling the media quote we are talking about lasers that now have the power and beam quality needed to defend against you a unmanned aerial vehicles small boat threats and possibly some weapons like incoming missiles all over short ranges. you see this this is why peace in our time is so darn near impossible little boys and their deadly little

toy. let's start watching the hawks. that i got. limits on. the level of the watch in the hard sciences i robot and out of the tests lasers. laser oh ok so. here. we would need lasers to match they had at least two accidents that killed seventeen naval reserves and

infantry and enlisted men and women and i'm kind of wondering when in the region they release and they were all avoidable access because they weren't getting enough training because our people are not taking their jobs seriously those people at the top so maybe when you learn to drive them then you get to have lasers on them this is a bit like a team that's losing getting a new stadium right it's good point you know. thinking that that's going to turn everything around right now you know it's absolutely ridiculous to me that we're we're looking at lasers and i think like the the messed up mindset that a lot of military people have because the frame this way pentagon leaders will turn to us are all that is that well you fired you achieve peace through fire superiority meaning the bigger and better weaponry that we have means we're untouchable so no one messes with us therefore peace but that you know can you do that job in your opinion can we find peace through virus appear your. no.

no. it doesn't work because this is what we learn someone just makes a bigger and bigger weapon you get a bigger stick and a bigger second a bigger gun in a bigger this and you think oh well this idea that well if we just mutually assured destruction will somehow keep us safe it's not going to it's still going to kill people just because you're not put you know mushroom clouds over major cities doesn't mean you're not poisoning people killing people during these things with regular warfare you don't need lasers well apparently they do need lasers because let me see let me well and here's what you told when you talk about like kind of that idea of escalation that one country gets something that everybody's never got to get a problem with nuclear weapons it's what we learn from the batman movies you know the u.s. military is formally complained to china after blinding lazer. were used on u.s. aircraft coming in the land at the american air base of djibouti in africa in two thousand and sixteen apparently this is great china built its first overseas

military base just a couple of muscles down the road from the u.s. base and now as these guys are these guys are flying c. one thirty s and their complaint with our get a laser eye like we've seen heard reports of you know drunken college kids apparently that's that's what china's using their labor lasers to do i know you can figure out a print for the kid a letter well there's a reason well here's the part about why did they complain because they're not supposed to be using that yes there was a u.n. protocol blinding a laser weapons i swear literally it's the thing blinding the un's protocol and blinding laser weapons the u.s. and china are signatories to that so the protocol bans use on humans except for what they call incidental or collateral backs of the legitimate military employment of laser systems so we're decided on this protocol why they all think that while they are patting each other on the back about how great they were joy is what they said is pretty much like well i mean if we're doing our graus only happen on lag

behind some civilians of our way of hers who just how we're this all goes back to military industrial complex stuff because back in january of this year just so you understand the money behind this the lockheed was awarded the contract to build just like two prototypes of the weapons system defense laser defense system and but that that was for about one hundred fifty million right but that came with the option to potentially build more which puts them about nine hundred forty two forty three million putting them close probably with everything out of together a billion dollar weapons system well that's just a block it does just lucky tell you this is going to say everyone is got one of the vendors that are the power of this lockheed sleighs about five hundred kilowatts of power. everybodys go loses the government want to maybe contract the bill almost as big laser as when the lockheed distinguishes one hundred fifty laser system demonstrator raytheon as one that's twenty five kilowatt laser that small enough to

put on the top of a humvee and not to be left out boeing has built a ten kilowatt laser that can be carried by soldiers on the ground or laser it's taking care of its great laser. laser wars. last april the forty fifth president united states told the press quote north korea best not make any more threats to the united states they will be met with fire and fury like the world has never seen what has unfolded over the twelve months since has been a cornucopia of juvenile retorts from trump and from insinuating mental health disease to comparing the size of their respective nuclear buttons the leaders have put their own ego ahead of their nation's safety and yet when north korean leader kim jong un met with south korean president for a legitimate peace talks that have led to the dismantling of equipment at the demilitarized zone and the possibility of a complete denuclearization of the korean peninsula many gave trump the credit some

even calling for him to win the nobel peace prize how very obama him but one has to wonder if an american is the right person to be given credit for bringing peace to a deed nuclearization of the korean peninsula considering nine states kind of the reason north korea even exists and has a nuclear program in the first place between one hundred fifty and one hundred fifty three of the united states dropped over six hundred thirty five thousand tons of bombs and over thirty two thousand tons of napalm on north korea they destroyed eighty seven hundred factories five thousand schools one hundred house spittles and close to six hundred thousand homes in the end the u.s. is estimated to have killed three million north koreans a full ten to fifteen percent of the population with these military action and here's the thing he says. and to be rewarded with a prize is it's what happens when the rights and wrongs of enemies are forged into faith faith and forgiveness but should trump for the united states take credit for

the end of a conflict we started in the first place. no provision to grow it is a yes we're very sorry restart of this conflict we're very sorry that we divided the crew were very sore that all this happened in the past let us make the now to do better the future but no we shouldn't we shouldn't be taking credit for theirs and in my opinion in my humble opinion because you know yes we played a role but ultimately i would turn out a political but ultimately it's the two neighbors that have to fight you know they have to be the ones to decide peace it's their neighborhood it's their region and all that it shouldn't be our job to roll it so you later let us know what you wrote and said you know north korea south korea its neighbors who actually are involved in the process i just don't think quite frankly we have enough to deal with at home i don't think our president and all of these of these people that have a million other things they should be working on the star is diplomacy you're sticking your nose about as far as i'm concerned you let china and north korea and south korea deal with this on their own that's that's my personal opinion if they

need something from us as allies that's fine but i think there is a point where you just say you can't go to the table making me think that the north korean new service actually had released a statement from a north korean official that stated that quote the u.s. is deliberately provoking north korea at the time the situation on the korean peninsula is moving toward peace and reconciliation thanks to the historic north south summit and the. operation so even they're saying like this is getting ridiculous like why are you taking credit why are you now again now it and this is on both sides left and right i have seen in the media both on your fox news and your c.n.n. both of opinion pieces about how it's all a trick it's all a trap north korea trap president though do a lot of star wars work and yes it's true that one of our we are solid too and i'm going to wait a minute shouldn't we. give peace a chance then of suddenly start anyways they're going to say oh it screwed up but to me it's like you see the warmonger that imperialism you know take hold of them.

i'm a little bit more we can't let him do this yet it's interesting because john the lurie an expert in north korean affairs at seoul's gone to university told oxy goes i do give one third of the credit to the trumpet ministration they ended strategic patience and ramped up sanctions then they ramped up the military threat because we all thought he was crazy enough to take us to war that essentially made you know can drive or force them to the table that's the idea being put out there that you know trump kind of did that mix only crazy nixon move like oh he's crazy enough to start a war so we better please clearly the south koreans this and china realize that our for even president united states was more a terrifying idea whether then kept on that's that's the theory there is but i think it's i think it's more about them a law that i think that unless you're worrying about all of this stuff i think what came to the table was that was a story.