and apologize for printing it but the cartoonist. is defiant that the editors have apologized is their business i do not apologize the accusation doesn't ring true with me that the drawing can be regarded as anti semitic i did not mean it's that way i can criticize netanyahu policy even as the german in his work has mocked and criticized other world leaders as well though this cartoon drawing comparisons between turkey's president of the one stalin and hitler however for that work he was defended by the german media we heard from israeli journalist gideon levy he says the european media is trying to avoid criticizing israel to avoid being accused of anti semitism whenever it comes to israel not only to an attorney out to israel in general immediately the european media is scared of being accused and this image isn't why any other leader can do whatever you want

whenever you draw israeli states then whenever you criticize israel immediately it comes up all anti semitism and europe is afraid really scared paralyzed of being labeled as anti semite rightly so by the way the only problem is that this has nothing to lose and this time it isn't and i hope the german colleagues in the german media will raise their voice of protest against the scandal of firing this cartoonist. a mother of one of the victims of the texas school massacre has revealed her daughter had rejected the shooter shortly before the deadly attack but the motives of seventeen year old demetrius by courts who killed ten people on friday are still unknown of the girl who was one of the first two to get killed in the shooting.

never gives you the federal people down to florida and i. don't know we're not. going to be served if it is. not my friend got shot in our home and soon as the alarms went on everybody just started running outside and next thing you know everybody floats and you hear. just random think to the ears or is somebody get high. levels and that's according to some american media the number of people killed in school shootings in twenty eighteen is more than twice as high as the number of fatalities among military personnel however it should be noted that the number of us students is fall greater than the number of military personnel but inevitably the latest shooting has reignited america's gun control debate is kind of mufon

explains. in the aftermath of yet another school shooting the gun control debate is heating up again you know we have to do everything human we possible to keep guns out of the wrong hands they mention background checks for gun sales faster background checks ok our strategies to keep guns away from people like this guy i want to ban have a total ban on assault weapons anyone who carries that gun openly is willing to use it to kill someone it is a shame that the united states congress has not done anything anything to protect our students from gun violence there's all kinds of proposals in congress to stop and limit gun sales however is selling new guns really the issue at this point there's over three hundred fifty seven million guns in the united states that's more guns than people and at this point over four hundred thousand guns are stolen on average each year to put it simply the usa is awash in guns and the firearms

owners protection act makes it illegal to track them the f.b.i. can conduct criminal background checks on the people who purchase firearms but there's a catch the records of those background checks must be destroyed within twenty four hours so that no record can be kept of who purchased what gun congress now has for proposals on the table two of them are for tougher background checks another is an outright ban on the sale of assault rifles and in addition to that there's a proposal to lift the age for purchasing firearms from eighteen to twenty one all of these proposals impact gun sales but don't do anything about the millions of firearms floating around already every time there's a shooting there are discussions about gun control people going there any chance but then nothing happens because of the power of the n.r.a. the national rifle association because there are many voters to vote heavily based on whether a candidate supports gun control or not congress is just not the will to deal with

this problem and we have an epidemic. these shootings these types of school shootings and others and we need to get a handle on it it may be controversial but legislators have to have the courage of their convictions to sit to make it happen even with the first amendment which seems sank percent and there are limits that are place they call time place and manner limits this saying could be placed on the second amendment of course and we're talking just about. joining me every thursday on the alec simon show and i'll be speaking to guests of the world of politics small business i'm show business i'll see you then. twenty eight team coverage we've signed one of the greatest. but there was one more

question and by the way it's going to be our coach. guys i know you are nervous he's a huge star and the huge amount of pressure you have to the center of the. great. game you are the rock at the back nobody gets past you we need you to. go. alone. and i'm really happy to join. us for. this special. needs just like the radio. latest edition of the go. thank you joining us for the program today. in chile claimed the u.k. is leaving the region without clean water by installing more illegal pipes to

irrigate avocado plantations and the report says locals have to resort to drinking water with high levels of human waste. but it's a pretty dirty. point that they are one of the well so nobody goes. and that they can sign on with for us i don't know that oh well. and believe that there is the talk of problems is the country's largest avocado producing region and villages that accuse agricultural companies of illegally destroying water reserves the rivers in the region drying up and people being forced to use polluted water avocado farming requires a substantial water use locals say producers of violating their rights. we collect water from the bath shower dishwasher and here you can see the foam we

used the same water to water trees and to give a little life to the field because we don't want it to stay dry forever we hope one day the water will return. this river basically droid because the province of to talk of became the country's most important district called the production exports those exposed to being made at the expense of and in violation of the human rights with. wanting us jani there is a lot of anger pain and suffering from seeing that they accumulate large amounts of water while the rural community is drinking water from water trucks meantime avocado imports are on the rise seeing a one hundred million euro plus increase in the space of two years alexandra and yes pinto from the environmental group to publish the report on july says the water shortages that have existed now for almost ten years. life's going to be going to burlington if you're serious and you don't have enough water to really get your

plans and to raise your any money and then remember doesn't exist anymore is dr martin and then yours has become our god because people want the real now you don't have nothing of the last year and she explores more than a hundred. thousand tons of iraq. thirty two thousand more than two thousand and three the expertise is increasing that's because they're bracing the look at a convenience store there and the other the business it's not about you know about what got anything to you. in china last night group another group called the situation now that is a company that supplied its products to deliver water because the government invests in more than one hundred grain the median of all the euros in the last six years for what it is the place banks are. really key question who benefits certainly not. all the polls have closed in

venezuela and with almost all the votes counted the incumbent president nicolas maduro has been reelected with around sixty eight percent of the fired the vote however has been criticized with some opposition figures refusing to take part citing electoral fraud some nations including the u.s. also dubbed the elections illegitimate even ahead of the vote on friday washington impose sanctions on some of the top brass in the country's ruling socialist party accusing them among other things of drug trafficking the government in caracas fired back saying washington is frustrated i couldn't change the course of the election. you know look at what their declarations are just a show of desperation in the face of the participation and the developments of the elections in venezuela they don't have the minimum capacity to interpret in the stand the message that the new zealand people are sending they don't have the minimum capacity for dialogue they're only capacities to wipe out and threaten

venezuela has its own way. president obama has also promised to restore the economy and to counter the effects of u.s. sanctions a professor of global and latin american studies william robinson says the current poor state of the venezuelan economy isn't the fault of the madeira government alone. downplaying the mismanagement of the economy by them adore government by the venezuelan government but i want to point out that the us has imposed a financial blockade and economic strangulation on the country so that includes that venezuela cannot we negotiate its debt venezuela cannot get credit to invest in the oil sector or earn anything else than a swirly cannot import its medicines and other and other goods and then there is internal hoarding and we have all of the documentation and this is not new that the united states has encouraged the opposition business community to in turn to do economics have a choice to hoard in that cell in the black market so all of these different factors are coming together so again i think that the u.s.

strategy is to strangulate economically the country and that combines with the government's mismanagement an over reliance on oil there's also been a tolerance of corruption absolutely corruption should be cracked down on it is also a bureaucracy so all of these factors come together but again i want to highlight the u.s. role because for me that's the big biggest story here in these elections. you buy is aiming to become a leader in adopting cryptocurrency and the ruler of the emirates has pledged that heart of old bank transactions in the country will be conducted using block train technology by twenty twenty one earlier this month crypto gurus visited a crypto currency forum in dubai to discuss the future and artie's miguel from santiago visited the event for us. we've been building businesses historically centralized businesses historically but we're going to be moving from building businesses to building communities what differentiates the winners from the losers over time is the ability to put only and sustain

a community which means you have to put your community first and the ruler of dubai shaikh mohammed bin rashid has pledged that by twenty twenty one fifty percent of transactions on the federal level will be conducted using blocking technologies this is a part of dubai's initiative to become a leader in adopting law change we could miss the opportunity to go to one of the most anticipated events of the year presented by coins bank futurama block chain innovators summit and dubai which brought together some of the leading bloc chain talent investment funds and members of the albert family offices all under one roof to create a platform for developing the future no one has a choice actually i think no one should ignore the stupidest of customers lawyers and shareholders out of the linked little family system this business and this technology is going to do away with the banks there is no

way that is going that's why a lot of going out of interest to do this because all the big corporations who work at you have to go to the circus and this is really. the essence of civilization is that we all get the same chance it's fair to put you to this is excellent i'm very happy with this what made futurama really special is its support by people from all over the world the front runners a blotchy like you could tell billionaire brock here whose motto is the new definition of a billion someone who positively impacts a billion locks brock is the chairman of bitcoin foundation and a firm believer in the money free society of burning a cultural festival that. yeah new takes place in the bottom desert and gathers together some of the leading id minds and companies like google and amazon their very own burning man camps futurama incorporated some of that burning culture into the gathering in dubai burning man is obviously. something that comes up in my life

consistently as i like to say i'm always burning. and so any event that's incorporating burning man culture into this space is something that i care about most people don't understand why because they probably haven't been to burning man burning man is the are the beginning of the essential ization movement burning man is like the original bitcoin and it may again if you don't understand that culture you wouldn't understand that it's not immediately obvious burning man is like all of the culture of what we think about when we think about crypto currencies and whatnot. originates from burning them the block chain is the technology think of the book as burning and is the culture. or your monday program returns at the top of the hour. so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy

confrontation let it be an arms race and of his on off and spearing dramatic development only personally i'm going to resist i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical time time to sit down and talk. in some american cities the police have built themselves cling to refutation of people who walk on the streets of the united states who are at risk from the very people who are supposed to protect that were people are no more afraid of the police than of us from the most. you can see something happening and this is why. i don't want to call the cops let that happen rather than call the cops in and those young black men lose their lives chasing the with their fingers on the trigger you never know better safe than sorry i don't know that someone else is going to pull a gun so yes unfortunately around around here we end up playing our guns off the

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time after time here we're going underground as venezuela these stabilized first centuries by washington unveils results that will decide the fate of the bolivarian revolution coming up in the show ahead of u.k. defense secretary gavin williamson's nato war committees are more a we investigating reports of the defacto nato backed conflict displacement all around the world and even if tereza may adopt a defacto jeremy corbett and visit on the customs union what will rx it mean for ireland westminster's newest m.p. all of begley of shin fein gives our first international interview to this program on the heels of a meeting with britain's recently appointed secretary of state for northern ireland karen bradley plus for the other side of the story we talked to sammy wilson shadow breaks it spoke about some of the do you pay that keep strays a main power in britain all the support coming up in today's going underground but

first today the un security council debates libya seven years since britain bombed the country and destroyed all hinge of civic society in what was africa's richest capita country in two thousand and eleven an international coalition including the us france and great britain to military action in libya later that year mortgage after it was ousted from power until british prime minister theresa may supported the war and then later on saturday british forces went into action over libya the first british cruise missiles were fired from h.m.s. triumph at seven pm subsequently r.a.f. tornadoes were deployed in several missions echoes plain to see there for some of water then home secretary would do in power this year for tornado g.r. falls no. storm shadow missiles at a military facility some fifteen miles west of homes but what of libya now that

syria is instead being bombed by british armed israel well jerry corbin doesn't mention it much now though he did during britain's destruction of the country and coalition forces britain france and the nato forces said it was a no fly zone in reality it has been the bombing of infrastructure targets as well as military targets throughout libya and there's been considerable bombing going on in tripoli itself and what we've done is involved ourselves in a civil war between the sensational government and the gadhafi regime in tripoli and i suspect this is going to run for a very long time and incredibly nasty practically and there are human rights abuses being reported on both sides including the treatment of african people by the transitional government as well as the treatment for opposition people by the government to market the thing yes the treatment of african people since the british bombed libya a man addressing an unseen. big strong voice for fun one for four hundred.

seven hundred. eight hundred numbers zero eight these men are sold for twelve hundred legal pounds four hundred dollars apiece. and you are watching an option of human beings yes the voting of britain's prime minister tourism may not only help create the largest refugee crisis is the second world war not only help catalyze isis diagonal the mediterranean but turn back the clock in africa's richest country to one like when britain used to trade in slaves tourism a supported that war which the u.k. parliaments foreign affairs select committee would judge is symptomatic of failures in british leadership intelligence and bureaucracy the consequences of our actions certainly have been catastrophic well as catastrophic numbers of civilians are forced from their homes due to the factor u.k. back cause. inflect i'm now joined by the director of the internal displacement monitoring and exam dr bill a whose new global report on internal displacement is

out now under welcome do going on to graduate tell me about your report which clears eighty thousand people were displaced by conflict or disaster each day in twenty seven yes indeed our report shows that there were thirty point six million new internal displacements across the world by conflict violence and disasters and it's true that the conflict figures in particular are quite alarming the highest numbers that we've recorded in over a decade with eleven point eight million new displacements by conflict most of these displacements have been caused by ongoing violence and high levels of violence actually in attacks against civilians in syria iraq and the democratic republic of congo and now for syria and iraq the high levels of new displacements were actually linked to government offensive in certain cities like mosul in iraq or in syria to retake areas that have been controlled by by previously

so that led to repeated displacement of people who had already been displaced previously so we're looking at people i.d.p.'s internally displaced people who became displaced again throughout two thousand and seventeen and in fact we've got even reports of people families who have had to flee up to twenty five times over the course of the last few years of conflict in syria syria iraq given in libya britain is involved obviously britain bombed syria britain bombed iraq britain bombed libya and britain is arming the saudi coalition against yemen when you research as a working on these reports do you see these correlations well i mean it's obvious that a lot of conflicts across the world are a complex mix of national and international factors you know that that will determine the levels of security of the conflicts and the amount of time during which we are reporting these high levels. displacement yemen actually didn't have we weren't able to report good numbers there's insufficient data right now in yemen

that's largely due to the fact that there's not enough access on the ground so our data collection our data providers are not able to access many of these extremely vulnerable populations so even though yemen's the figures for yemen are relatively low compared to syria and iraq and other countries in sub-saharan africa it doesn't mean that the situation there on the ground has improved and in fact where emphasizing this point to make sure that yemen still gets the international attention that it deserves which it which is very much lacking well the british government is certainly very heavily involved if we go to syria then the report clearly states and i quote directly from it that russia turkey and iran the deal they struck in a stalin or on syria could greatly improve the lives of a large number of people. in the corporate mainstream media we don't hear about the astronomer agreement we hear about other agreements involving major powers

why is the astronomer agreement important in alleviating the displacement in the number one country in europe but i think it's important to consider that peace building effort saw necessary right now to at least stabilize the situation in syria we're looking we're talking about a number of people now possibly considering returning to their areas of origin whether it were the syrian refugees or syrian i.d.p.'s themselves and in order for those returns to be sustainable for them not to lead to more displacement in the future there needs to be a minimum level of security and stability and we concerned that if returns happen without that degree of security. they will they could lead to further further destabilize the british government complains of interference from russia and iran usually in syria if we move onto another country here what has been going on in congress recent. the situation has become worse it intensified already in two thousand sixteen when conflict new conflict erupted between local militias in the

province of congo that was a new development and it was very difficult to respond to that humanity what became a humanitarian crisis because it had been largely. humanitarian agencies had been largely absent from that region up until then now the conflict the political tensions that of that of continued throughout the year have also led to renewed armed attacks throughout the eastern provinces of north kivu and south keyboard all the way down to the tank in inca so there is where we're looking at a very dynamic situation very volatile where people are having to flee often just like in syria on a repeated basis they're fleeing their homes they're moving from one place to another simply to escape the imminent danger is caused by these armed groups you know you have to be dispassionate the ngo but the pentagon the cia of poured weapons since the nine hundred ninety s. into congo to paramilitary groups using them as

a base with rwanda and uganda and others to attack neighboring countries and within it do you not feel that some of that funding from washington has contributed to what you just explained agung well i think that just like in many conflicts across the world there are of course a number of international factors at play but i think right now many observers would agree that the crisis that's unfolding the humanitarian crisis that's unfolding in the east is very much a congolese crisis is the reticence in your report about displacement because of your funding from usaid the australian government the european commission all of which are involved in major wars in the countries you know our main objective is to advocate for better responses for national governments to also take their responsibilities in dealing with this issue at the national level that's of particular relevance when we. disaster related displacement where we have positive examples of national governments developing because of all of. it and i know

because in the report you advocate countries themselves playing a leading role in solutions with the international community but in congo as is known very well president kabila is pivoting to china. does that mean the help because he is for a country like run by mr kabila and the international community is the brics community not. i think not is a traditional international the recommendations that we're making in the report about national governments taking more responsibility in addressing this issue is very much directed at governments that are in a more stable position right now it's true that a country like the d.l.c. or syria that's still in the throes of conflict it's hard to put that forward as a as a realistic recommendation at this point in time but there are other countries for example in sub-saharan africa like nigeria etc that have want to take ownership

over this problem and they want to of course they acknowledge that they need extra help from the international community but they want to address the issue of internal displacement as an integral part of their national development plans for example to try and find longer term solutions so there are positive examples out there and we'd like to build on those positive examples as a model for the future because we could do an interview with the about each country that would really libya which is one of the top five in terms of new displacement in twenty seventeen the british government here is proud to bomb libya. believed it was doing this for freedom what is a failure in terms of conflict displacement numbers in europe well libya actually you mention libya alongside syria iraq big because you were looking at the middle east actually libya has a relatively lower number of new displacement. globally as compared to other countries so why are people being displaced from libya is it because of british

policy. no it's not directly because of british policy or just a number of. violent events in libya i would have to check exactly which ones have led people to to be displaced is a very uncomfortable being the head of this institution when that when it comes from the state department as i say each one of the countries that are named it is nato nations that are deeply entrenched and involved in campaigns or so so their critics would say destabilization campaigns using covert militants our mandate is to report on the scale of internal displacement in countries to try and understand the patterns to try and give a sense of how these situations are going to evolve over time so that we can give the right kinds of tools to governments to policymakers to international agencies to better respond our role is not to carry out geo political analyses. of conflicts across the word.