the russians and the chinese to try to kind of find you we are kind of the mountain brushes that so without the player of course we've yet to hear those reactions from china russia some of the european players you mentioned are going to be interesting time for geopolitics dr shaw he u.k. university of bradford thanks for joining us today great to get your take today here on r.t. international. a former us presidential candidate hillary clinton has attended a graduation ceremony at galle university she followed the tradition by wearing a pretty unconventional hat. a russian. i think it can be done today i know. i was on the way to winning. combination. over twenty eight

and russian wiki leaks i inherited nothing from the democratic party. i mean it was bankrupt it was on the verge of in three areas still a very large proportion of the population that is uneasy with women positions of leadership. this just shows how frail hillary is i think she gave a speech to the democratic women leadership convention i think a couple of days ago in washington and more or less admitted she just can't let it go and i think i think it's worrying because the u.s. needs a strong opposition right now and hillary clinton really isn't it over and over again we saw these kind of cackling hyena like and then putting out the shank of just just now i mean over and over again she shows that she's not fit she has a very polarizing effect on american politics the democratic party has sold in

america and without having somebody some giant figurehead i don't think will really see any great change right now and i think it's likely that trump will will forge ahead in the next election and the trump twenty sixteen campaign already being investigated from so many angles one more us but now in the crosshairs the u.s. department of justice announced it will probe whether the campaign was in appropriately infiltrated by the f.b.i. . anyone. in a presidential campaign inappropriate purposes we need to know about suits and action the stakes are getting higher in the ongoing spat between donald trump and the intelligence community this probe has opened up in response to a request donald trump made on twitter is favorite media called on the department of justice to investigate this and furthermore to find out if the obama administration are the ones that actually ordered the f.b.i.

to infiltrate the trump campaign before trump's tweet we did see media reports indicating that it was likely that the trump campaign had been infiltrated and let's remember that when trump came out and said that he had been wiretapped a similar claim he made about a year ago the media responded rather harshly where did trump get these ideas where is he getting his information that anyone here disagree he wasn't going to hold anybody radionic where is the proof what the president charged president obama with wiretapping him it's not true now this time the american mainstream media has outed the mole people are pointing to stephen hall per he's a seventy three year old professor at cambridge university in the u.k. he's american born there he's got longstanding ties to both american and british intelligence agencies and apparently infiltrated the administration of u.s. president jimmy carter on behalf of the ronald reagan campaign the department of

justice and the f.b.i. will not deny they there was somebody in the campaign however they have quibbled about the wording they've said this was not a spy this was rather an informant they refused to name whether or not it was stephen helper but the question is if it was steven help or this is somebody with a well known reputation links to the cia british intelligence so revealing his identity wouldn't exactly put people's lives in danger or be some kind of huge threat to national security or if it is it's not exactly clear why that would be they have a communique. that this is just the latest episode in the ongoing spat between the trumpet ministration and the intelligence agencies showing that there is a high level of division and insecurity in washington d.c. . now it's a new coalition government has put forward a political novice as prime minister to formally bitter rivals the current five star movement and right wing northern league came together in a populist alliance and president for europe shot up to the ski has the story. two

no half months since the italian election and we finally have the name of the next italian prime minister he has been approved by the italian president and his name is just said be content he was put forward as a candidate by five star movement and the league who both said that they wanted him to be the next italian prime minister what do we know about him well not very much we know that he's a professor of law and he's also the author of the five star movement justice program during the election but he is the man that will now lead italy possibly over the next few years where the two parties a five star movement and leg came together despite many differences during the italian elections to form what they want to see as being a coalition government government changes how they described it in their manifesto some almost sixty pages long which they approved on friday well what do we know

what's in that manifesto well first of all many things that perhaps other countries in the european union may not like too much including the idea that they would like to scrap the sanctions against russia they also want a flat tax in italy they want to curb migration and perhaps most controversially they want to renegotiate some of the. policies the e.u. commitments they've already been warned by a german minister and the french finance minister that they need to keep those e.u. commitments but these are two parties who have never shied away of saying exactly what they think to the e.u. . choice to tell him people have made is a step towards freedom for the whole of europe away from constraints and insecurity we want to rebuild europe based on people not bureaucracy we want to be listened to otherwise all these sectors and industries that are suffering from injustice because of european treaties and directives who have. to be reimbursed well some

say the reason that they won that election they've been able to join to form this coalition ideology is because they were both euro skeptic parties and that seems to have gone down well with the italian electorate and they still popular recent polls showing that they are getting still sixty percent support from the italian population what we've been asking people in italy why they do or don't support this governing coalition to do something about immigration because the mass and the color of course who want lower taxes especially for business sense so it's going to harden immigration a. five star and the league are going to make good on these promises it will be difficult because the powers that are strong. well now the new prime minister has approved these two parties well now sect to form that government but the manifesto that they've prepared this

change of this government for change still needs to be approved by italian new makers when the i's are dotted and t's are crossed and the dust all settles on that it will mean that italy will be the only country in western europe with the euro skeptic governing coalition at its helm. now the last terrorist enclave south of damascus has now been officially liberated from islamic state leaving all areas around the syrian capital officially under government control state television footage shows the army celebrating victory firing rounds in the area of the retaking the. district and also the adjacent alist syrian refugee camp areas seen intense fighting between terrorists and government forces over the last few weeks. of who's been covering the conflict for us on the ground in syria has more of a development. outside has won the battle of the or more. he in that

area he's now victorious but it did come a huge price and we must understand that other than being a symbolic victory this is also a strategic victory because this is a huge weight off the syrian government of the syrian government's shoulders was isis against al qaida against islamist against rebels against the syrian government with the shifting alliances you know temporary temporary cease fires but. honestly i've been to many places in syria and from what my colleagues who then now tell me your mood is one of a kind. many of my colleagues locals international journalists some of whom i knew some of the most killed some of them quit wounded in the move because of how vicious and

rendered the fighting there was it was originally a city founded by palate built up by palestinian refugees but to be honest with you it's very difficult imagining many people coming back anytime soon they simply nothing left to come back to the city has been annihilated over the last seven years and add to that will be booby traps the mines the unexploded munitions and honestly difficult to see anyone coming back and starting from starting from scratch but there is there is a bright side to all of this damascus is now secure so people in damascus millions in and around the city will no longer wake up in the middle of the night to deafening explosions for the first time the mosque this is free of rule. of villages in chile are locked in a fight for clean water claiming farm supply and u.k. supermarkets are depleting. local resources you see on the right is what the main

river of village in chile now looks like previously a favorite with swimmers it's now fully dried up through years of used to irrigate avocado. environmental group mother dina has raised concerns before the issue hit western headlines. in their entirety thirty. yellow pursuit of nuclear winter they are when it will so not only those cattle and clapping. but adding that out. in the believe that these. put a province is the country's top producer of the fruit villages there accuse companies of illegally destroying water reserves rivers in the region of dried out people now are forced to rely on trucks carrying contaminated water for supplies that's because of a car a farming requires a massive water use locals say producers are violating their rights. with them

while our we collect water from the bath shower dishwasher and here you can see the foam we use the same water to water trees and to give a little life to the field because we are wired 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 in avocado production exports with those exports the being made at the expense of and in violation of the human rights with. wanting us here on there is a lot of anger and pain and suffering from seeing that they accumulate large amounts of water while the rural community is drinking water from water trucks. meantime e.u. avocado imports are rising fast up over one hundred million euros in sales in just two years alexander part is pinto from the environmental group model t. must says there have been water shortages now for several years. life's going to be

going to burlington if you're prisons you don't have enough water to really get your plants and to raise your any money and the river doesn't exist anymore is dr promoted and then two years have begun our garbage is done people one of the river now you don't have nothing of the last year and she explores more than one hundred sixty thousand tons of iraq. thirty two thousand more than two thousand in the city believe the expertise is increasing there to be causing a brace of another kind of convenience for them and the other that if it's out of my end of our car and you were in china last there is a group another group who benefit from this situation now that is a company that supplied its products to deliver water because the government invest in more than one hundred twenty the median of all the euros in the last six years

for what it is the play banks are nice and really key question who benefits certainly not. the british retail consortium representing supermarkets who import a lot of fruit say all stores are now aware of the allegations representatives promised the problem will be addressed and they insist the welfare and safety of people and communities is paramount to them how to fish all the inquiry into the ground felt tower fire has begun in loveland with seventeen seconds of silence to mark each victim of last year's tragedy a two week hearing will give us have a chance to speak about their victims but everyone though has managed to make it an inquiry as artie's polyploid have explained. well the focus of the inquiry is on what caused what's bred the fire that took place almost a year ago now and the lives of seventy two people and one of the most moving accounts that we've heard from the public testimonies that were taking place

today today was that of a man who lived on the twenty first floor of red cell tower and at the time of the blaze his wife was seven months pregnant take a listen to his heart wrenching account of what happened. hoping it's. we should pray. for any kind of miracle. that you just. because. she's made the hardest. it will for sure. some of the relatives of the victims of this haven't been given visas to come here

in time for the beginning of what's taking place one moroccan man named karim. who lost his sister in the fire he applied for a visa to come to the inquiry in december but he said he was crushed after having to wait for months for it to be processed and now the home office have said that the visa had been issued on wednesday and that all visa applications are looked in on a case by case basis so he is finally getting his visa but if by the time that you arrives it will be at least three days in to the inquiry and the opposition labor party says that's not good enough and that the government is continuing to fail the victims of the grand tragedy the grandchild families had to look behind even to get a partial panel although tourism a said she would leave no stone unturned in this inquiry she also promised victims would not suffer irrespective of their immigration status but is now firmly in the family wants more so the scandal

surrounding the fire hasn't died down a hole and the burns house shell of the building is still standing in the middle of the bar of kensington and chelsea it's become a bit of a symbol of government failure isn't a housing inequality and social injustice and there are still big questions surrounding whether ultimately someone needs to go to prison but the inquiry aims to oncet those questions it's going to take a while. although public inquiries are by their nature a very slow moving beasts and this one is no exception. the doors to hell that's how locals at least describe this huge molten cavern in turkmenistan central asia is filled with flaming natural gas it's been burning day and night now for more than forty years of video agency ruptly sent in a drone to take a close look. well

so for this hour for myself a team here at all to join us in the thirty minutes for the latest global news up but.

the transatlantic alliance system is whether the number of storms during its seventy year history we are told this is because of sustained american leadership but can the same alliance system survive the storm named truck.

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 reported the defacto nato backed conflict displacement all around the world and even if tereza may adopts a defacto jeremy corbett in business on the customs union what will brics it mean for ireland westminster's newest m.p. all of begley of sion fein gives her 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 jato breaks it spokesman for the do you pay the keep strays i'm a in power in britain all the civil war 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 per capita country in two thousand and eleven an international coalition including the u.s. 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 echo's 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 and 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 soundsystem 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 of market basket yes the treatment of african people since the british bombed libya a man addressing an unseen. big strong voice for fun one. four hundred. seven hundred. eight hundred the number zero eight these men are sold for

twelve hundred local pounds four hundred dollars apiece. you are watching an option of human beings yes the voting of britain's prime minister of 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 home. flecked i'm now joined by the director of the internal displacement monitoring the exam drop below a 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 conflicts 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 in 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 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 of. this basement 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 we're emphasizing those points 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 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 all peace

building efforts are necessary right now to at least stabilize the situation in syria we're talking 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 on to another country here what is be 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 conflicts of the political tensions that of the 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 two paramilitary groups using them as a base with their rwanda and uganda in their lies to attack neighboring countries and within it jus not feel that some of that funding from washington has

contributed to what you just explained a goal but 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 are. 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 a mr kabila and the international community is the brics community not. i think not is a traditional into that 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 accenture 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.