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free trade country is not a capitalist country by believing in competition it's a monopolist country that believes in monopolization and their like to use the dollar as their bludgeon to beat people into submission and if you try to get out of the dollar whether it's syria iran libya or iran that just actually said they're getting out of the dollar to go to europe you get bomb bomb bomb bomb bomb bomb bomb bomb bomb bomb bomb why because the dollars collateralized by violent culture by.
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ukrainian court has ordered that russian journalists killed be detained for two months mission ski who heads the bureau of the ria novosti news agency was arrested on tuesday for alleged treason he was arrested in kiev then transported to a city in southern ukraine more than five hundred kilometers from the capital his relatives have heard nothing since his arrest the wife says that the journalist has a medical condition and needs medication. it's a new malls a yard i learned about his arrest from the internet i then contacted his driver and he told me that it happened in the car park five people in civilian clothes came up to him grabbed him and bundled him into a car and left no one contacted me no one from the ukrainian services have official informed me about their arrests more than that i haven't heard from my husband since monday i can't get my head around this i don't understand why this treason charges and what journalism has to do with treason. left visions he was arrested
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ukrainian security services also broke into the offices of reason obvious to you karim the search lasted more than eight hours and the houses of journalists working for the agency were also searched there's already been high level condemnation against peers actions many organizations are accusing the ukrainian government of an attack on media freedom there were so demanding of course is released human rights watch is calling on ukrainian authorities to provide evidence to back up its charges made against a journalist and we discuss the case with the organizations deputy director for europe and central asia rachel demba. under no circumstances should the government be criminalizing speech and media activities that groundlessly and ukraine i think this is out of line with ukraine's these raids and the detentions are out of line with ukraine's obligations to protect media freedoms there's an obligation to provide some kind of transparency about what exactly is grounding treason charges that are extremely serious serious charge that carries
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a hefty prison sentence so they better continue to come forward with what it is that causing the grounds for this charge because working for ria novosti or having a russian passport or not grounds for treason charge we and other organizations have been expressing i think more frequently concerned about media freedoms in ukraine and judge him based on the fact that their world view the website down of last year and journalists who were either banned or were expelled because of the views that they project a couple criminal cases that are ongoing on you for example against what i did and others you know based on things that people have said or written so i end up there you know cases of killings of journalists that have that remain unresolved and far so i think we're probably quite what concerned and we were saying last year. the u.s. national security advisor john bolton has said that the summit between north korea's kim jong un and president tom will go ahead as planned despite pyongyang
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having friend to cancel the meeting if washington pushes for the denuclearization of the korean peninsula without offering anything in return or court has been looking at the issue. 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 is to fast 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
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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 and building for new and horrific nuclear weapons nuclear deterrence is our number one
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priority defense mission forces war here three people and infrastructure it's all part of the deter it is time to buckle down and get after all of it 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 card 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
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his nuclear power listen speech in march he talked about the entire bill istic missile treaty that back into russia it was categorically against our withdrawing from me what it is that cornerstone of the national security system and so here we you know. that was in two thousand and now that race is on so well we don't get along then certainly the other countries are and. we 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. . u.s. activists fighting against police brutality is claiming to have been the first victim of a secret f.b.i. surveillance program. took part in several protests and also campaigns for the
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rights of african american girl known as he was recently released after five months in jail says the protests he took policy would never violent. part of different coalitions in campaign. we turn out to. be are you know the way to go out to the. legal charges to. must prove as well as you know better shockey require a large change in you know when we go to produce already will work and queiroz the rest to. to look down there is. a lot. but the goons lawyers believe that he was prosecuted under a new f.b.i. program that focuses on so-called black identity extremists according to several
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released documents the bureau's carrying out a special investigation into those deemed to be domestic threats driven by police brutality perceptions was first noted back in twenty seventeen in a report sent to thousands of police stations the activist claims that the program singles out black people who simply disagree with the government but. this is a way for. her to simply. he. may disagree with. sol sure they're. policies. my case he says the crew have the word terrorist is. loose. with little. we asked the f.b.i. to clarify the links between his case and the alleged black identity extremists program the agency said it has no comment to make.
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finally this hour with less than a month to go until football's biggest tournament starts in russia another world cup recently occurred it was one that raises awareness about children who are sleeping rough around the world more than two hundred homeless young people representing twenty four nations came to moscow for the street child world cup r.t. host former england striker stan collymore was there. those kids while here they stunned themselves supportive they are not alone and this is a very big opportunity for them to see how the other worlds leaves and what's opportunities they can get from.
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these on odrick kids these are kids are little mysteries these up kids without birth certificates so just to get here they backed up birth certificates they have to be somebody for the very first on they've never travelled out of a country people have representing their country at a world cup so when i was a world cup look it's a bit on the streets to change the way the streets of the scene change the way the streets of new treat it we've been welcomed with open arms washoe have hosted the most vulnerable children the world of the streets i woke up and know that will host a brilliant people woke up because they go because they don't also jealousy and they were already well the well. ok i will be back with headlines for you in just over half an hour. seventy four design submissions. seventy thousand pilings.
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to join judges. and eight hundred sixty nonstop days of work. a russian w.b. a champion of it. and a russian pop stuff. show you how. the crimean bridge was built. witnessed the construction of a unique transport on terrain that will help the cause of crimea. faster most of those yeah well go for more familiar a bit by trying. to apply for many clubs over the years so i know the game and so i got. the ball isn't only about what happens on the pitch pull the funnel school it's about the passion from the fans it's the age of the super money killian erroneous and spending two
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hundred twenty million on one player. it's an experience like nothing else i want to get close i want to share what i think what i know about the beautiful game played great so one more chance for. a nice minute. manufacture consent to public wealth. when the plus is protect himself. the final. six.
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welcome to the alex salmond show where it's dead and dining straight 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 the 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 policy that almost two years after that fateful e.u.
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referendum which brought them into power to govern is to choose but there's a no fated. gun able 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 surely 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 to go out into this world and make the changes happen for all our six outlets i'm told he's a brilliant host bob says i think maybe trump lives on feedback he tweets something outrageous and then reads the feedback then tracks to marry and after working the mumbo jumbo through his heads what scotty says medea benjamin we love your three wishes.
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