the university of oklahoma thanks very much. now the u.s. president donald trump's controversial pick for cia director has been grilled at a senate confirmation hearing over her alleged involvement in the torturing of terror suspects the session was interrupted by protesters denouncing the nominee. i. was. i. was. resisting my rights. to. the city as stop her. when the second person who was on the video. the ground there by security and then escorted out is seventy nine year old cia veteran ray mcgovern he served at the

agency for twenty seven years but then became a political activist to protesting the use of torture programs mcgovern is a staunch critic of jena high school we contacted his lawyer who told us the activist spent a night in jail. well the cia's enhanced interrogation program was the main focus of agency had no many hospital senate grilling she's been accused of being directly involved in torture practices in the past and the house bill promise that under her leadership the agency wouldn't restart the controversial program. for some ducking and diving at the hearing. you believe the program in terms that you program was consistent with american values we have decided to hold ourselves to a stricter moral standards are they consistent with american values senator i believe very strongly in american values i want to trust that you have the moral compass that you said you have i have conducted myself honorably and in accordance

with u.s. law do you believe that the previous interrogation techniques were immoral what i believe sitting here today is that i support the higher moral standard we have decided to hold ourselves to answer the question. and i think i've answered the question if not torture and morality were the main topics of discussion at today's hearing there was some very clear opposition to haskell but those who are skeptical were concerned about her prior involvement with the cia's enhanced interrogation techniques which many describe as a torture program first some background on the controversy has full reportedly ran a cia prison in thailand where these techniques were used and she's accused of destroying tapes that documented these interrogations human rights organizations have even called upon the public to reach out to their representatives and oppose her nomination but president trump seems to have no qualms with her questionable history in fact he's even praised her for being quote tough on terror so it's

unclear whether or not trump's support will be enough for easy confirmation but one just have to see what happens if gina housefull has had practically every senior position in the cia's headquarters she's currently the acting director of the cia i knew her when she was the chief of staff in the. counterterrorism center she's been in the senior intelligence service for decades but i think that she's not qualified to lead the cia because the actions that she took during the dark period of the cia's torture program disqualify her she has been doing literally everything she can think to do other than telling the truth about the cia's torture program to get this job gina haskell had the opportunity to say the right thing that this was a dark period in u.s. history people made mistakes the program was immoral it was illegal it was unconstitutional she never said any of that well the most recent post to you

suggest that only a third of americans believe that the alleged involvement until what she does render hospital unfit for the post of cia chief paper on the street well i think. no no no please so. immoral it's pretty cruel and wrong i don't think it's morally morally right. so i was going to stop a terrorist attack it would be all right i don't like them. but i don't claim to understand why it's done or how it's done sometimes social might be necessary if it kept americans you know here safe from terrorism or information leading to any any terroristic activities of course. international celeb few israel has kicked out the director of human rights watch for the country will tell you why just off the brake .

job was selling you on the idea that dropping bombs brings police to the chicken hawks forcing you to fight the battle for food still. produce talks for the tell you that would be gossip and probably less file for the most important. off the bad guys and tell me you are not cool enough to buy products. of the hawks that we along with all will watch. so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy fun fun day shouldn't let it be an arms race based on often spearing dramatic developments 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.

welcome back now israel has revoked the work permits for human rights watch is director in the country authorities explained the decision was based on a dossier that was compiled on omar sheikh is activities over the course of the last decade sheers work involves reporting on israel and the palestinian territories he has held his post since april last year when israel has given him fourteen days to leave the country we spoke to the ousted director who told us that the real motive behind the decision is to disturb his organizations work. their reality is all of the allegations in the dossier relate to human rights activities

many of which took place years ago before i joined human rights watch when i was a student in university and the reality remains that even according to the interior ministry neither i nor human rights watch promote boycotts human rights watch is an organization that covers over ninety countries across the world we've won a nobel peace prize you know for efforts we document abuses not only by israel but also by the palestinian authority and by hamas this is the first time of course human rights watch that israel has ordered human rights official out of the country who've been working here for nearly three decades i made a fifty plus year occupation characterized by systematic rights abuse and institutional discrimination so their real name is clear it's to muzzle dissent but human rights watch says this is not about the director himself but about shuttling the organizations activities in israel it also said that it supports the director

and will fight for the decision to be referred to and i hear again says they will going to ization will push on with its with this of the alps the course barring me from operating here will not stop our reporting will continue to document rights abuses and be vocal about the right situation on the ground but i think it's a very worrying signal guarding where israel is and is going we intend to challenge a decision before an israeli district court and we intend to continue to raise pressure not only to reverse this decision but also to rescind the law that calls for banning entry of activists with fully anticipate that that decision over your first and then i will be permitted term in the country. now over a million people to a regiment. on wednesday he event designer and commemorate those killed in the great patio to cool a miss first held back in twenty eleven since then though it has become

a key pos of the truth day celebrations around the world many family in russia was left unaffected by the great deal sequel in which around one in every six soviet systems lost their lives losses in the frankie march to but the cracks. the biggest and the most emotional event perhaps on the calendar in this country is making moscow cheer and cry at the same time i can tell you that this as a feeling that makes your heart so it is truly incredible the people are carrying the portraits and i can tell you that three years ago i made myself a promise that if the next four years every year i'm going to be carrying a portrait of one of my four great grandfathers and here we have evidence of that is my mother's grandfather he won

a medal during the second world war for liberating konigsberg which is now known as cullinan drag the thing is that there are heartbreaking stories behind all the portraits that you can see around me and again there are hundreds of thousands of them and some people are carrying posters like this but i saw elderly people who can barely walk holding tiny photos that are so small but they are here too and it is very important for them to take part in this march as well back in the days there were no e-mails no watch sabse no chatting apps they were lying writing letters to their relatives during these massively difficult times of the war.

there was no. comeback to this mark so i shouldn't have them. live at the remote desert the loop on the star long. before it was. first. footprints wasn't with them our kids ship each. given them. just over to the. purple and. fourth quarter script that they were minutes or home and it was at the side guild. ticker version of. the north shore course folks but.

spoke. to her over. a boat from. cook folks. that go in there. to her crib and. yeah if i shoot off faster than the procedure. and i know how now i come to that not sure i'll. put a top one. well during the vacation day celebrations one veteran was almost knocked out. but was ultimately helped by the president himself have a look at the pictures because a war hero was seen being forced out of the way by members of the present security

here on the right plane and putin thought was happening and immediately stepped in and invited the veteran to war with him r.t. caught up with a ninety four year old and he told us his story. because he didn't the president was there he has two bodyguards two big lads i was walking behind them the president knows me we've met before and he gave me a sign to come over i went the guards wanted to push me back but the president didn't let them they didn't touch me any more they understood that the president knows me and i know him well so we went together to the tomb of the unknown soldier and to the kremlin my rank is major general i was called up to the army before my seventeenth birthday after six months of training i was sent to the front line when i got there moscow had already been liberated so i was sent to small units i took part in the battle for somalia i was just a soldier for that battle i got the medal for bravery. lazing story now

the spokes person for america's first lady has lashed out in the media for unfairly attacking melania trump the u.s. president's wife was lampooned after she unveiled her initiative aimed at helping children. today i'm very excited to announce the best an awareness campaign dedicated to the most valuable and fragile among us i was teaching. to announce the best. this is this is a first lady who was not culturally american and the best is because i think you must be a bloke mystery writers got to do. is either going to be the best or do good

a stand they went with i. you watching us international that's your updates and i will be back with more for you in thirty five minutes. join me every thursday on the alex i'm unsure when i'll be speaking to get off of the world of politics sports business i'm show business i'll see you there.

the way is anti american and anti-democratic and he can look at that quite plainly by understanding the stock price approach rather it was that response so it's trading i think there are three hundred thousand dollars a share so the message from charlie munger and warren buffett's americans is unless you've got three hundred thousand dollars to buy one share of berkshire hathaway you're a player you're a peasant here you know they are the neo feudal lords that are building the system milking the system abusing the system and aggregating wealth as raunchy a coupon clippers and nickel and dime are they add nothing to the economy. it is forcing them to milton's i would say i'm not american but americans helped out really. world war two cures through a depression force united states is concerned prosperity for word from store.

for the for us the whole world what it what and. historical really ever since world war two to foment the cold war against russia against communism and. socialists mishmosh you it was so you call me out you all close to strike we were so used to call the little. boy i think world war two has been the story credibly by the anglo-american media and that's because they wanted to minish the role of russia. and stalin who actually defeated hitler.

greetings and salutation united states president donald j. trump has showcased his dealmaking savvy once again and pulled the united states out of the iran nucular deal further pushing the dial closer to world peace said no headline anywhere whatsoever yes not even on barry weiss's new dark web safe space for her and her fellow big media platforms no fix would you see a headline that ridiculous yes the fallout since the brand name in chief has been fast and furious with european cosigners on the iran deal now scrambling to keep the agreement alive french foreign minister told friends a r.t.l. radio that quote the deal is not dead there's an american withdrawal from the deal but the deal is still there and while france germany russia china and the u.k. fight to keep the deal alive for those of us here in the u.s.

watching and hearing trump and his cabinet starting to feel a little like deja vu all over again for anyone who is paying attention during the old run up to dick cheney's iraq war all those years ago with iraq invasion architect and cheerleader now national security advisor john bolton dramatically declaring this week quote what president trump did by pulling out of the deal is get back to what the real objective should be stopping this dangerous regime from threatening us and our friends around the world with nuclear weapons. so while the war harks speedo's the same lies we heard fifteen years ago iran actually appears to be making moves to keep the deal in place iran's president hassan rouhani has stated if we achieve the deal's goals in cooperation with other members of the deal it will remain in place so will ron become the new iraq or world president trump and his gaggle of chicken hawks pale when their efforts for yet another us war

let's find out by watching the hawks. not knowing. the fact. that this would. actually get to the bottom. of. what it looks like you know that i got. this. week that i. got the watch of the hard science i wrote for i don't have a blog. and you know that. it's very it's it's. you you watch for years as scientists and experts and diplomats and politicians work to make the sale

happen you're right and then you watch and you know fifteen minutes of blustering you watch somebody sort of take it over and decide well we're just going to make the whole deal go away except that's not how that works that's not how deals work and someone who you know wrote the work on the art of it should probably understand that's not how these things work and that's what's so frustrating for me at least because it is it tells you davenport is the director for the clip per floor refrigeration sorry policy at the independent nonpartisan arms control association pointed out in time magazine that even critics of the deal said. secretary state my pompei i have admitted that there is no evidence that iran is in violation of the agreement in short there is no legitimate basis for trying to re impose sanctions so what they're what you're looking at now is so we're pulling out of the deal as a country and then imposing more sanctions on people who are part of that deal. are wrong not the one who's in violation of the deal the united states is we are now in

violation of the peace accord that our country was supposed to be like democracy and peace around the world that we were supposed to be the center of it and that we did this and now it's just the man we don't we don't trust you know and that's what's so ridiculous about it and the problem with that mentality is that. by tearing up the deal you know even though the deal is still in place people we're going to keep it but if you know in trump's mind said we're going to tear up the deal begin a new there's only between us it's between the united states right iran and all the allies the problem with that you know hate to say it but you know the washington post and many others are actually reporting the most experts believe that the end of the agreement would actually make it easier for iran to develop nuclear weapons in secret because right now you have the international atomic energy agency is getting like unprecedented access and has been watchdog in iran for years now since the deal was signed into a fifteen to make sure they were developing nuclear weapons right now that the

deal's gone it makes it to iran can basically you know they don't know our back and if they don't if iran decides to throw them out and then they can make the deal to go so actually it does more danger to end the deal then to actually then keep it in place which is ridiculous not to mention the fact that i've never quite figured out i don't want nuclear weapons at all but i've never figured out why why we the only country use use nuclear weapons on this or get to decide who does and who does not get to have them well in this is where it's strange because you have bolton. who is saying this you know we're going to get back to stopping them from you know i guess waving the nuclear weapons they don't have yet are apparently developing the secret except nobody has proof of. that's what we're supposed to stop them from doing sponsor an accessor ackerman who's our national security reporter for the daily beast tweeted out a very interesting possibility because what you are saying is that the around

provide substantially more provision for verification of denuclearization and ongoing monitoring of such than will exist in the new poster randell reality watch arguments for war in the coming months take the shape of we can't be sure iran isn't building a bomb which was the reason for the deal in the first place and i'll say this again what you're doing is putting us all at risk because you're going up against every single one our of our. who does business because of that deal is now going to be including the e.u. especially is going to be at odds with the united states. because they're part of a limb doesn't want to be a part of that that's where this smells a lot like iraq back in twenty five you know so i can you know fifteen years ago because look now they have the excuse right well we don't know what they're doing over there so they could be making a bomb we have to look out not to mention that this deal actually now puts a potential peace with north korea in jeopardy because i was pulling out of this a deal that everyone agreed to now we're saying no no no no how does like north

korea them say well how do we trust your assurances that you won't make a denuclearization deal with us and you won't walk away from it you know ten years right or less than three absolutely ridiculous it over it's terrible term. marijuana legalization in states across america has led to a host of issues the police the drug enforcement have had to face during the acts of reform colorado has had to contend with lower teenage drug use reductions in crime and even and flocks of cash from sales tax of that sticky icky bug known as pot and as another state illinois considers expanded it legalization of marijuana one of their rich i'll be a temporary sheriff howard buffett middle child of warren voiced concern for the state's drug sniffing dogs stating quote the biggest thing for law enforcement is you're going to have to replace all your dogs so to me it's a giant step forward for drug dealers and it's a giant step backwards for law enforcement and the residents of the community now

despite the fact that buffett's comments put legal medical marijuana dispensaries and the cartels on the same level the use of what has dog lovers ready to buy a girl's it was the statement of illinois macon county canine training academy chad warner claimed that quote because many canines are trained not to be social so their work might be affected a number of dogs would likely have to be euthanized. here's the thing the military outlawed the practice of euthanizing military dogs almost two decades ago when it was clear that these animals were perfectly capable of living safe productive lives after their canine service and so what is it really going on here in illinois is it your concern for animals or is it about all the cash you see through those roadside stops with your canine friends that is a great point that you just made the gloves it's like holding the dogs as hostage you know we're going to kill the dog you know the police dogs if you don't if you legalize it decriminalized over one hundred you along with the it like on the level

of what is wrong with you that you would say. my question is those all right well let's look to the states that have you know legalize the sailing or are just struggling colorado. what it what what colorado do with all their drug sniffing dogs down the road all across the border oddly enough no no they didn't maybe have some marijuana they have in colorado but they actually just retired when colorado drug sniffing dogs were no longer needed they were retired and also helped train the other new cops that were coming in to be retrained one of the reasons was that their trainer said it would take in order to retrain them it would take a lot of negative reinforcement and i'm not a big fan of that so in colorado you said hey we don't want to hurt these animals we don't want to make it more stressful they've been trained a certain way based on positive in force meant i'd have to force let's just let them retire in previous more than care of so that works here's the thing about drug

sniffing dogs they don't work very well no offense to the dogs the dogs are great but they're not actually that great so two thousand jobs so two thousand and one investigation of drug sniffing dogs related stops in the illinois suburbs of chicago the chicago tribune found that in three years only in three years only forty four percent of the alerts by these dogs. led to discoveries of actual drugs or paraphernalia and get this one for hispanic drivers that rate dropped to twenty seven percent so this is what this means it means that the cops in illinois are using their dogs bringing in drug stuff and does more often with hispanic drivers despite the fact that ultimately those alerts that the dogs are given are false so this is the thing your handler the whole thing is making your handler happy that's what the dog knows is make you happy by noticing or are doing and it's not careful handlers can cause false alarms you know false positives and drug by leading them

around too slowly or you'll see at the walk the dog around again and again and again hoping they get something so well because i'm sorry but if you know if your hand if you're a hammer and you want to euthanize a dog because we need it is legal maybe the we. maybe because weed is legal in europe it's a it's a bad it's not the way to it's here your data handler that's what i'd also let's not forget that the only reason you know as the evidence points to it to me it looks like very clearly that what they're using the dogs for is not so much the actual finding of drugs but as an excuse to get a you know to give them probable cause illinois a lot of money yes they have on marijuana. and the sergeant down wives came in and you know the supervisor decatur illinois told the local paper last year quote the cost of the entire unit is run by drug seizures it is paid for by the jurors but these dogs are participating in seizing they play a large part in these seizures so illinois the law enforcement agency that makes

caesar's gets to keep all the cash or proceeds of it auction it was profits right. it will allow the prosecutors office gives ten to twelve percent as well for drugs and so there is some good hard cash again maybe on when you got to pay the publicist you got to do because i want to look at the numbers two thousand and five the twenty fifteen years result games of the. this more than three hundred nineteen million dollars for illinois police department share of state attorneys and other law she's now you're going to take a big chunk about money away if you legalize marijuana there and they're going to use the they're going to try to use any and anything they can to get you to vote against that like threatening to kill dogs yeah but i think the thing is you have to look at the data. that's really important because we're trying to say let people go all but they got that drug money out of the great no in eighty percent of the cases by the way of the civil forfeiture asset forfeiture it means that.