every day downwards. looking at the latest the. see the thing. with friends like that. the rift between the e.u. and the us is deepening as block leaders push for greater independence from washington. with numerous probes into alleged russian interference in the us election republican senators concluded russia did help get elected ultimately contradicting the findings of an earlier republican. report accuses the tanzanian government of violently evicting thousands of indigenous people. so all of that to make way for so-called luxury tourism.

to thursday may seventeenth at nine o one in the morning here in moscow this is the international a very warm welcome to. the european union has come up with an action plan to keep the iran nuclear deal alive after the u.s. read the agreement it includes counter measures to protect european trade with iran from sanctions and the president of the european council donald some pretty harsh words for the u.s. leader. looking at the latest decisions of for them to try. someone could see them think. that the news. about frankly speaking to europe should be great for a pervert. because of that if you knew the hoping and. you will

find one of your. it's not just being donald tusk that's been well handing out the zing is towards donald trump we had angle of merkel speaking in the book of the stock on wednesday she was well it was part of her budgetary address where she sets out where she sees her government right now and where it stands and she took part of that speech to directly look at the transatlantic relationship and she said that you ripped right now sell for the crossroads and we didn't listen to them on the multilateralism is under great pressure at the moment and because it's under great pressure europe must take its fate in its own hands more than before therefore we need to european answers almost certainly the biggest strain on that relationship at the moment is donald trump's decision to pull the united states out of the iran nuclear deal it's this whole well of non consultation with allies policy when it comes to diplomacy that really isn't winning donald trump any friends in europe but

then there's also the well extreme possibility of the likely possibility he doesn't care about winning friends in europe if we look back to his campaign he was incredibly dismissive of europe on his way to power he had to be dragged into jolt and poked into getting on board with nato by to resume a we also saw what could at best only be called awkward relations between donald trump and angular merkel whatever they've met in public and then we've got to remember when it comes to our money will he come well he publicly supported marine le pen against him in the election there so all of this is led some people watching this relationship to suggest that should it continue this way then europe may well start looking in another direction. we look forward to working with russia and china to see to deal that is important part right now we are hoping for both moscow and beijing to act as responsible international players but it's watching the

relationship suggesting that america first could well end up with america alone when live in a globalized. and three it is very very important and if he actually end up by still a thing america. a good idea can he be it is like that for a second he's a question mark i made at the rift with the e.u. washington's new top diplomat is promising to bring them all direct approach to foreign policy during a closed meeting with stuff the secretary of state might pompei o talked about bringing swagger back to the u.s. state department in our case it's america's essential brightness and it is aggressiveness born of the righteous knowledge that all causes just special and built upon america's core principles i don't think it is that's unique to mr pompei i think you have an attitude throughout the political class here in washington that's almost like like a real recrudescence of the view of the soviet union we are the vanguard of all

progressive humanity peace progress is socialism archy's peace progress and human rights and then we're right and everybody else takes their cue from us i think that kind of arrogance unfortunately is pretty standard this goes beyond in my opinion just simple patriotism love of country and even a sense that our values are something that are dear to us this seems to set up a kind of amount to limit this attitude that we set up on high end judge everybody else and unfortunately this isn't all too familiar not certainly just a little bit astray should but i would say at least since nine hundred ninety one when the cold war ended through the bill clinton george bush and brought to bob and mr. republican u.s. senators on the intelligence committee have added more confusion to the already existing. multitude of investigations on the alleged russian interference in the u.s. presidential election despite the house intelligence panel confirming there was no

collusion back in april the senate intelligence panel now claims donald trump did get elected with the help of russia the russian effort was extensive sophisticated and ordered by president putin himself for the purpose of helping donald trump and hurting hillary clinton so we've heard this story countless times but at this time the bipartisan republican led committee found that there was collusion you know how is this different from every other story well republicans on the committee actually agreed with fellow democrats that not only did russia interfere in the election but the implication head was apparently directed by president putin himself to elect donald trump however just three weeks ago the house intel committee also a bipartisan republican led committee found that there was no collusion rushes active measures campaign achieved its primary goal of inciting division in discord among americans for more than a year us politics have been consumed by busy recriminations charges and

countercharges about the attacks now the democrats completely dismissed the committee's assessment saying that it was incredible that republicans couldn't see collusion. throughout the investigation committee republicans chose not to seriously investigates or even see when in plain sight evidence of collusion between the trump campaign and russia and guess what democrats have pledged that they'll continue to investigate this collusion so now there's three separate investigations all contradicting each other and we're not even taking into account investigations conducted by the department of justice homeland security other congressional committees and of course the infamous muller investigation all of those who found collusion or something whoever found there to be something could not explain what it was so you have to give you an idea of the ludicrous nature of this a number of organizations or tribunals that found no evidence of wrongdoing some

that found attempts desires and the ones that said yes we found something could not tell you what it was that they found. both democrats and republicans on the senate intelligence committee have also with the same time agreed to by trump's nominee to lead the cia again a hospital has been accused of being linked to the torture of terror suspects with trump praising her for being tough on tara also saying that torture works to reportedly run a secret prison in thailand back in two thousand and two with which so-called enhanced interrogation techniques were used the intelligence committee cather to see with ten votes to five now during her confirmation hearing police twice to forcibly remove people protesting her nomination of possible involvement in torture and one of those was a cia veteran ray mcgovern he shared his views on hospital appointment with us the

record is very clear that she supervised waterboarding of alanah shiri at that like say in thailand she pretty much admitted that but then she classified the information so that it would be kill help from the public the senate committee that sent that recommendation up to the full senate today is the same one that brought into this charade about russian interference in our election this is a committee that defends the intelligence community defends the torturers defends the people who eavesdrop on all americans this is me that is sort of joined at the hip but the intel issues people that is supposed to supervise the mission most americans appreciate our abysmally ignorant with respect to what's going on and most of them have been led to believe that russia and fear to cheer in our election in two thousand and sixteen for and i daresay is very little i would say no

significant evidence that has been reduced to show that that is the truth that is very sad that. the tanzanian government is accused of evicting. communities according to an oakland institute report this began in the two thousand with the alleged aim of making way for safari tourism on the land by september twenty seventh nearly six thousand the homes had lives allegedly been damaged or leaving some twenty thousand people homeless here is the author of the report and some of the affected villagers. we got to come out of the fight. of the week about what was cut up like that across up because i want my lover to forget that a woman of him was when i met. about thirty. on the what that there are no we don't but i've got that while you're. on the the go with

a come on he's in there not to get on a lucky lucky. you know the puns are. those and yes there was a sob. caught on why do. you need to know my cousin. not to know who caused it when i. can do to those. who are mom when one visit to one is all good people he says come on in the one village is alleged and there is the doubt any milk is then suddenly the homes that. it is not the companies the supply companies themselves in a burning got the homes usually the rest and these are regions that carried out by government officials at the park employees and last year the statement was that this was happening to protect the environment and to promote tourism the head of the thomson so far is group strongly denies being involved in the infections or

thompson says that his company works with local communities and the government improving access to water but here's another metal again. to legislation inland numbers in the name of conservation the government tanzania has been dispossessed in the indigenous. these legislations have been used to be simply denying them aside their access to grazing lands that axis to water holds but not just that it is allowed some of the safari companies that are operating in the area to conclude that the officials who have intimidated who have been arrested and beaten. in the villages because they're trying to use their ancestral lands more specifically we have two companies going to you know one is times you know conservation limited which is operated by our wants to be. owned by and wants to. have constant supply ready the other is u.a.e. babies or business going to ration we. basically operates hunting

excursions literally family of. the president or francaise national union of students has been condemned to for appearing on t.v. wearing a hit job or she was slammed on social media with people tweeting that it wasn't possible to stand up for rights while wearing the head covering. reports. the debate over women no wearing a hit job in france is getting fired up once again why well student union president miriam push to you was in the news recently talking about the ongoing student protests here but instead of lighting a fire in support of course she became a target just for wearing a hijab the sun meant a field day on social media questioning how a woman wearing a hijab could possibly be the president of

a leftwing progressive student association and that it was a sign that the movement had been hijacked by religious zealots. a response to support mariam hash tag has a pit with a lot of people highlighting how france is a multicultural country and that wearing a head. is an acceptable form of attire as it doesn't cover the face which is of course banned in france.

marion's student union is also backing her saying it's each individual's right whether or not they wear headscarves and that as a woman she has a right to choose we strongly condemn the way her for a cyst sexist in islam a fool be hatred of which merriam is a victim of but that isn't stopping the run for reaching the upper echelons of the french government the gender equality minister is in now wading in condemning the online trolls for targeting marian but at the same time questioning whether a woman in that role is setting the right example by wearing a head job. as you can have a supposed to be a feminist progressive student union whereas a veil is proof of the grip of religion the promotion of political islam in a sense instead of just using the right the minister's contribution is added yet

another layer to this decades long debate can you be a feminist a progressive on it's a hit job wearing muslim charlotte devinsky r.t. paris so the walk up is starting very soon here in russia we understand that england france have been told to do the national flag when coming to the world cup we're trying to shed some light on that in just a moment. free trade country it's not a country. believing in competition it's a monopolist country that believes in monopolization and the dollar as their bludgeon to beat people into submission and if you try to get out of the dollar whether it's syria iraq libya or iran that just actually said they're getting out of the dollar to go to europe you get bump bump bump bump bump bump bump bump bump

bump because of dollars. so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy. let it be an arms race. dramatic. only. to sit down. with us today u.s. national security adviser john bolton has told reporters that he is the summit between north korea's kim jong il and president will happen that's after pyongyang

said it may reconsider the meeting if washington demands north korea totally rigid old nuclear weapons technology. looks at the. as washington pats itself on the back for pushing north korea to hit the brakes on its nuclear program america itself is going in the opposite direction in fact on the very same day that donald trump proudly announced he plans to meet kim jong un in june his officials at the pentagon rolled out their nuclear expansion plan. an evolving and uncertain job political landscape calls for the united states to recapitalize its defense plutonium capabilities this is the savannah river site in south carolina a nuclear refinery built at the start of the cold war which the pentagon now wants to bring back from the dead it was intended to produce materials for nuclear weapons but was left half built and riddled with structural problems after the cold war though the plan was to flip it from being a bomb resource center to

a peaceful energy producer. the savannah river easy a key department of energy industrial complex responsible for disposition of nuclear materials we still management environmental cleanup and environmental stewardship so the pentagon wants to weaponize a facility which was intended to be a nuclear arms burial ground but what exactly do they plan to produce pates bombs that when armed with nuclear warheads can create a blast to one thousand times stronger than that of hiroshima it's expected to produce fifty each year and the u.s. has been crystal clear as to why they need to pay it so badly back in two thousand and ten the obama administration's. we would misplaced hope that quote russia is not an enemy it is increasingly a partner close quote anyone who watches the news today knows that this is not the case if it ever was president putin announced that russia is developing building for new and horrific nuclear weapons nuclear deterrence is our number one priority

defense mission forces warheads in c three people and infrastructure it's all part of the deter it is time to buckle down and get after all of its nuclear weapon. are popping up on both sides of the fence the u.s. and russia both saying they're responding to threats from each other although trump got in their first months before putin unveiled russia's new weapons we must modernize and rebuild our nuclear arsenal hopefully never having to use it but making it so strong and so powerful that it will be pure any acts of aggression by any other nation or anyone else the whole world has just signed a treaty to ban nuclear weapons they were one hundred twenty two countries except that the nuclear powers and that's where we are and russia actually ratified the comprehensive test ban treaty we never did now economists never voted for who made

his nuclear power listen speech in march he talked about the end temple a stick missile treaty that back into russia with categorically against our withdrawing from me what it is that one stone in the national security system and so here we you know. that was in two thousand now the race is on so well we know get along then certainly the other countries are and. we've we've got a sceptic there so even though the u.s. has been pushing hard for iran and north korea to ditch their nukes it's hard to imagine who's going to a bay if the u.s. can't lead by example donald corder r.t. . the us activist fighting against police brutality who was released after five months in prison claims to be the first victim of a secret f.b.i. surveillance program. logan took part in several brutality protests and advocated

for the rights of african american gun owners he claims he's been secretly monitored by the f.b.i. since twenty fifteen overs and the police statements the f. reportedly alleges that balogun made facebook posts in support of one man who killed police officers however prosecutors failed to establish that he posed a threat. you know due to the very. different coalitions. we are you know the way to go out under legal charges tomorrow. as well as you know we're shockey we require. changing you know what i mean is already lou we're. out to eat we don't really hear. a lot. but logan's

lawyers believe he was prosecuted under a new f.b.i. program according to several released documents the bureau is carrying out a special investigation into those deemed to be domestic threats it focuses on so-called black identity extremists and in the case of below gun police confiscated several weapons from his home the activist himself claims his protest was never violent. but. serious this is where you are true. or too silly. he. may disagree with. sol sure from now on our way of life my case and the crew know how the word terrorist is if you lose. with the unit you know it's a minor. we sent a letter to the f.b.i.

asking them to clarify the links between the case of our blog and the alleged black identity extremists program the agency replied saying it doesn't have any comment on the matter. so now with less than a month to go until football's biggest tournament kicks off in russia another world cup recently took place in moscow one that raises awareness about rough sleeping children from all around the world.

so with the world cup almost upon us the u.k. has issued advice to those traveling to russia england fans have been told to avoid displaying the country's fly which shows the same george cross well the head of british football policing suggests it could be seen as a hostile and then period listed by russians a lot easier trying to put that view to some russian football fans some english fans who have issues with their behavior can be a headache for the hosts abroad and also for the police at home too they have to come up with guidelines to keep the supporters on the straight and narrow those coming through russia have already been warned to avoid public why fight to keep away from child whole again all kinds of scary things well check out some of the

latest advice from british police chiefs it's about this. well known symbol the british police are absolutely serious about this but will russian fans believe this is no joke. thank you i would say b. and c p s no but you know. krishna maybe they're probably too nationalistic but action. imperialistic imperialistic. yeah but it's going to snow that's ridiculous you gotta want nazi and yet most of the stuff like one of the fans want to show their flags or not is up but they will be safe and welcome in russia.

being recklessness perhaps some kind of inappropriate behavior and you know she drinking too much and losing control of bluntness to buy new they shouldn't drink too much and start fights you think if they behave themselves there won't be any trouble all the while cup kicks off here in less than one month old across russia i hope you can join us for our special coverage for the meantime we are back in about half an hour. seventy four design submissions. seven thousand islands. to join judges. and eight hundred sixty nonstop days of what. the russian w.b. a champion of it. and

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welcome to the alex salmond show where it's dead and dining street as this week the cabinet split into two to ponder the talent of approaches to but accent and the customs arrangement with europe two groups of three senior ministers have been bubbling the midnight oil studying respect of plans the sole point of agreement according to environment secretary michael gove is that neither model is absolutely

perfect so in the absence of perfection can the prime minister unite the watering factions to produce a coherent policy on but almost two years after that fateful e.u. referendum which brought them into power to govern is to choose but there's a no fit into any chance one said to be unable to choose is to give the appearance of being unable to govern this week we'll look at may's customs conundrum the fuss over to tasmania if you tweet jenny emails and your messages. well we've had a terrific response to last week's show particular in a way shoot our fantastic young american activists from the u.s. we me says what amazing articulate mature and intelligent young women i hope the go out into this world and make the changes happen for all our sakes alex let them talk he's a brilliant host bob says i think maybe trump lives on feedback he treats something outrageous and then reads the feedback then tracks to mayor and after working the mumbo jumbo through his heads what scotty says.