things but at some point what does that teach a roomful of college graduates from an ivy league school standing there holding up this thing there are one hundred twenty nine russians and there are twenty nine million russians across the world varying amounts of like whether it was your ancestors or you live there and many ethnic groups what does that say to the world when we're up there making cracks about a half. especially by the way that hat symbolizes one of the reasons why we vanquish one of the worst serial of you know monsters in the history of humankind you know and we just celebrated that with russia's contribution where i forget that you know tolstoy said history would be a wonderful thing of only it were true well this woman's perspective would be wonderful if only it were true you know top of the i've asked a lot of my friends and we just reacted and you know we say almost without exception this is sad we're beyond the anger part let it go it's spiteful

and then we're going to find that the she's going to go to harvard to receive the i guess the second place participation trophy because because she was a part of this the radcliffe award for transitioning. for transition yes she transition a trump presidency so what we're seeing right now is my question to you and to the world to youth think she is just cosmically organically intellectually bereft of any ability to make the connection of how silly this looks yeah that it will be better just to move on absolutely and i wish we had more time but apparently don't even have time to talk about her work. thank you very much alive now to have you back as we go to break cock watchers don't forget to let us know what you think of the topics we've covered on facebook and twitter fearful shows that arkie dot com coming up confound sat down with one of low hillary other of hitchhiking in the axis of evil to discuss the epidemic of distrust during his round the world

expedition on our teeth and how to think it's best if they continue to russian and white big island. of watching you. spend your fight your consent to public will. when the right places. protect themselves. with the family merry go round be the one percent. we can all middle of the room sick. really. really really. in some american cities the police sort of build 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 police that. you can see something happening and this is like i don't want to call the cops. they would rather call the cops in the mood those young men lose their lives chasing the good with that same goes on the trigger you never know better safe than sorry i don't know that someone else is going to. get more cheaply around and around here we end up playing our guns on the dance to lead from such preclusion this place to be. one of us noticeable trends in modern politics as a renewed resentment of the outsider and maybe logical under logically

understandable as an explosive reaction to globalization economic side effects or out of control migration but all too often legitimate concerns and fears tend to devolve into rank as you know if you know phobia which left unchecked or even weaponized drones and outright violence and bigotry one author however has come up with his own remedy to this epidemic of distrust and writes about it in hitchhiking in the axis of evil johnstone earlier sat down with the author juan pablo very you know to hear more about his experience. on publicly useless for joining me today. i want to start by talking about your hitchhiking the axis of evil book because this is like fasting title and i know it's already been well over ten years over twelve years now since you had these experiences i think they're still relevant to what's happening in the middle east and just to start what motivated you to do this journey we leave from turkey to afghanistan yes unfortunately still in this sorry i

mean the book for this particular historical moment in context because of the old ongoing events and we all know so in the beginning i was a psychology student. i e decided to go around the world with the precise idea of documenting hospitality a some way to. counterbalance all those two types that were becoming. around countries like syria iran and afghanistan especially after the nine eleven on the axis of evil state of the union speech so i followed that because i haven't been to hitchhiking wrong many other countries and that i could take these knowhow try to find it to do so he said tool to give myself exposure to people in these countries and to shoulder the different angle us to lessen the levels of paranoia around these countries but make sense yeah of course and. let's start with a what were your expectations going into it so of course it was many people worried about my whereabouts and of my my trip by the well i had a time enough for

a year to research. even though i knew there was some goes to show for risk a serious risk involved in progress in certain regions such a central afghanistan for example or even northern iraq with me completely safe so in order to actually follow and be consistent with the premise that was like finding hospitality and showing the ninety nine point nine percent of the people were able to give me this amazing and magnificent hospitality towards a stranger. they need to go through these regions too so i was hoping to fulfill my expectations and didn't have any grounds on which to phone them but it seemed to me . that there had to be something pretty different from a we were being told on t.v. every day. and so when the when you got to syria men in the book you talk a lot about having a fondness for syria this is before the revolution before the civil war and all the internet well it's become an international war frankly where we know that the

saudis and others appoint money into the rebels and the you know the cia sponsored them and all this stuff so basically when you were there before all that what was your experience like which with syria which has a big middle had a big middle class before the war and what was the you know your experience of the police state and the you know the local feeling if you notice it was an antagonistic opposed to bush or whatever people just living their lives so i had to say syria was like them one of the most gentle countries and societies i have been to it was during this trip. i mean by the time of the country with an injury crying over the border from an invasion. so most of the people they had met because i was a huge child and run them in meeting people from all walks of life so late teachers farmers of the host i mean the bill each students were rather supportive of. presidency and even though i would i could point out to them that some flaws with things i wouldn't consider completely democratic from my own background where i come from they wouldn't actually. they wouldn't seem to be longing for

a change in the way that the west obsessor trying to impose on them they would like yeah point out to the fact that he belongs to that with a minority of islam which only represents fifteen percent of the people but creation but they were not i don't consider like syria and so was on trucks on the way to such a stupid war that we're witnessing today they haven't even for the fact of a foreign power you know provide them find them. so just because he isn't sorrels i don't for sure like old people they made light you know they they were carry on they get old just normalise every day lives. keats respect in the early and just a good gentle society around me and that's why holding members of syria which are hard to share because the people now control so you're just brings up images of like chaos and war and terrorism unfortunate on terrorism which has nothing to do with things like witness i mean of course they the kurdish with negrete because i

was trying to run the kurdish areas and they had some issues there but. i don't think that what is going on now actually improves improving things and that's why i still like the syrian armed forces which are like consist of eighty five percent of sunni. muslims are still blocking out assad because they would rather you know i'm not saying that they do that i'll go completely but they would actually they have when this what has happened in media on iraq with the so-called arab spring and that has already brought to that you know this peroration. has left you've got a vacuum in power but actually i don't know groups isis to bring to the center of course so people actually know what they're risking you know exactly so you're saying that even the syrian soldiers are mostly sunni even though assad himself is part of the you know this is a shia actually it's a sub sub group within the shia because the jane but they're still backing him because they want stability and they want their state to be exotic they report

matthew and they want their they just want like safety and study the around them and they know that in the course of events eventually it's going to end up well it has already ended up in a tree and with foreign powers siding you know against the government exactly and then i mean we'll talk about iraq and the kurds because obviously the kurds are a major factor in the region but first iran i mean that you went to iran and that's a country that now obviously. he is under more scrutiny and increasing sanctions but what was your experience like from the perspective of you know the people the government are the are the people really ready for a revolution if america is putting pressure and sanctions is that can actually help the revolutionaries inside the country the people that are free thinkers actually get you know actually get the revolution that they want or is it going to make things worse so i actually get to talk to a lot of people who are writers theater director of intellect or is an artist even

though the situation for then on the environment in the context of. a sort of these regime in a way can be challenging they're all they've made it clear to me that they don't want to get us to get into their into their affairs but the revolution in any case shouldn't come from the inside on the just one into their own issues business them selves so they want to know are they expecting. an army from outside to come in so their problems and that's something pretty consistent with all the tradition of the bush and so to the station because it's like a huge hole with no show gold this you know ability to decide on this so this is a state that they're going through and i don't think like the way some countries which are actually not able to perform for the most at home a lot of truth in terms of teach them how to bring things to life so. yeah i think you know. did you feel the police state presence when you were in iran i mean how much of

a police state did you sense that you that you feel the morality police and you feel like sort of this surveillance and the danger of speaking out or you know violating the laws was you know very serious in iran sure i mean like the people that however i was in touch with like a lot of them most of them writers and intellectuals they really had to take care of what they were bright in some other remember a girl who was like a punk rock singer or a wannabe punk rock singer and she wouldn't be able to perform. to an audience. consist only of women so i think it has a lot to do with their own version. of islam. and a lot of many other factors but i do think that the iranian society right now has to work through instance ups of criticism and go through that you know but not through you know nobody's affording torrential yes that's what i perceive. the

other way when you mention it right now yourself that there is this difference between islam as practiced from one country to the next that i know for myself from traveling and studying these things that there's a misperception that we have in many western countries that islam is monolithic almost like the catholic church as though there is one islam and yet you've seen yourself what is the main you know what are the differences that people would not expect when they think of it muslims as like well you know they mistreat women in the you know they have like very you know no there's no alcohol all there is no sexuality it's very like puritanical you know religion i'm sure terry religion you went to the all these different countries tell us about some of the impressions that you had along the way sure so that coming from a western country myself first i was a bit challenged by the differences but i soon they found they go this way there was a huge regional differences between countries whereas for example in turkey people were telling me like i was pointing to them all but you're doing it on the whole

and they told me something like. yeah but you know like the closest we get the further. we moved from the let's say the most from them into the ocean and of islam actually the closer we get to the actual spirit of the ground that was of the perception of the cornish people they're sort of the turkish people but then like i really didn't sense like sometimes i was being hosted by people of farmers or people from all walks of life and it was a live being late inside their homes. it's hard it's a it's a complicated matter but you can't expect like the world just to obey to your own concept of freedom so i wouldn't see just women you know crying number of being whipped around the house or i personally i had this impression of of a gentle you know environment within the houses but of course then when i'm coming coming back to the issue of artists and intellectuals and then i think it's for their present regime should be able to provide more spaces for individual you know

expression so that i think we should come to terms that with a compromise solution between the business of the people who actually don't require that there's a lot of people who have observed this cultural guidelines and or find ways in their own way of observing islam. another threat is plaguing the residents of hawaii's big island this is residents are growing weary being away from their homes for weeks now artist natasha has the latest from a west coast bureau. smoldering hot lava has now injured one person from the volcano and now after lava has made its way to the ocean officials are warning residents of lay's lays since plumes of hydrochloric acid and steam as well as find gas particles into the air officials are now asking coastal residents to evacuate and avoid the area and now the first no injury from a third to represent occurred over the weekend on saturday homeowner of naani farms rose shattered his left leg from his shin to his foot when lava struck him

according to hawaii county mary harry kim's office a spokeswoman confirmed that lava spatters can weigh as much as a refrigerator and even some small pieces can kill and now there are hardly three hundred people at three different shelters over the weekend with more than two thousand evacuated from their homes actually we evacuated twice in the last two weeks and then when it took a slight turn we decided to come back home and. here we are so hoping for the best hoping that it in some. kind of scary times you know to be quite honest. there's not a whole lot else we can do but be here and just wait it out along the estate's sits in a zone the u.s. geological survey deems to have the highest risk of lava flow so far more than four hundred structures have been consumed while evacuated residents are allowed to return during the day to check on their homes and now the lava has shut down a four mile section of the highway one thirty seven and this blocks one of the main escape routes for coastal residents will be on edge possibly for

a year or more it's not going to end though we might be able back in a week. but the threat will be there for her it's always there but it's even more severe of a threat. at least twenty three fishers have formed along the north east south west line in the red zone and as uncertainty remains over what the killer whale volcano will bring presents from maine on alerts in los angeles and suites. and that is our show for you today remember everyone take care of each other out there. as my co-host always says i love you on top of the always have a great day and night everyone. we are now experiencing the end of a thirty year bull market in bonds which means are entering

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the. protests against government reforms turning violent in paris with demonstrators clashing with police there are a number of injuries reported. also coming up in the program the u.s. vice president warns north korea could share the same fate. if it doesn't make a nuclear deal young young is expected to start dismantling its test sites in the next few days. this will only and like the libyan model ended if kim jong un doesn't make a deal and the british government is blamed for a live action almost a year on from the felde fire

a public inquiry is only now getting underway into why seventy two people lost their lives in the london. i don't think they're doing enough to pull out of government haven't done enough not nearly enough no that's not enough so as i can see. around the clock across the world this is r.t. international from the team and myself you know neil welcome to the program our top story it's turning into a spring of discontent in france with fresh protests in parys siggins president mccollum social and economic reforms some protesters were seen smashing a shop in the capital while police have resorted to using tear gas. the to cut.

cut. cut. cut. cut cut. cut cut. cut. cut cut cut. cut cut. short a difference he is there for a charlotte when we went back to last about forty minutes ago it was a riotous out miss for what's it like not. what it feels much more of a festive atmosphere people clapping behind me and shouting their slogans that let me tell you that the law is some of the violence that we've seen in the last hour as harshly as the broken out between some of the protest is a very small number of them and the p.c.

in paris this is meant to be a peaceful protest day to see the servants to come out to the streets to boost their concerns about to the civil service to those decisions about salary you know it's about the fact that the president going is probably. he will cut one hundred twenty thousand jobs in his first five years in office that change to massive complan tracings between the police and protesters which started with a protest this smashing up shops as you might have seen that smashing up bus stop school feet seeing then they were letting has such a good diet she beings and then throwing some sort of fireworks into the crowds the police responded with cheap gas and we got cool tell him not to you yes. oh ok. oh ok

. oh ok. well this is one of around one hundred thirty purchases taking part in nationwide in france only state over solidarity between the unions know i need means getting involved to represent about five point seven million workers stay in front but again that idea over voicing their concerns on the streets has been hijacked once more by the violence that we've seen from a small number of protesters some of those protesters we've also seen being taken away of by the security services here they feel handled monthly pushing us today we saw some of the protesters actually being injured in some of this conscious one man parts an hour ago was sitting down inside street she was receiving medical attention because he had blood dripping down his face as he said a number of people have already been detained this protest looks like it's

a no win me it's a completion and the police are in the streets out in force surrounding waiting to clamp down once again if any move violence happens here yet does. following a similar pattern in recent months starts peaceful then turned into the scenes that we've been looking at charlotte dubin ski live in paris blank charlotte. now in the latest in a series of diplomatic breakthroughs on the korean peninsula the north is preparing to destroy its only known nuclear site later this week but the u.s. is still making grim predictions for the north korean leader if it doesn't sign off on a deal painting he could follow the fate of the late libyan leader moammar gadhafi . this will only like the libyan model ended if kim jong un doesn't make a deal some people saw that as a threat well i think it's more of a fact referring to libya let's remind ourselves what happened to libyan leader

colonel gadhafi in return for economic aid and sanctions really he agreed to abandon his nuclear ambitions back in two thousand and three but within a few years he was overthrown and killed as a result of a nato led bombing campaign this is being somewhat of a warning to p.r. and in fact it's not the first time washington is drawing a parallel between kim and gadhafi yeah i think that's what denuclearization means and we have very much in mind the libya model from two thousand and three two thousand and four the model if you look at that model with gadhafi that was a total decimation we went in there to be to know that model would take place if we don't make a deal most likely it's not just this threatening rhetoric that's jeopardizing progress in the negotiations with north korea another spoke in the whale was the u.s. and south korea moving forward with a military trail in north korea's doorstep since then north korea has threatened to

call off the summit many observers are asking questions on why they would need to provoke after we saw that historic meeting between the leaders of the north and south last month for many that was the sign of big change coming the white house military office even produced a special queen ahead of trump's planned meeting with kim it shows the two leaders smiling at one another and describes the meeting as peace talks but with such an unpredictable man in the oval office who can get their hopes up i think it will be verging sessile but as i always say who knows what's going to happen you know i often say who knows who knows a lot of good things going to happen a lot of bad things going to happen you know it all works. a lot of things change everything's going to be scuttled everything could be scuttled washington signals that it's ready to scrap the peace. talks the news the military option coincides with the us if the station to abandon their own nuclear deal and its commitments under that which will surely be no it is n.p.r.

currently north korea is publicizing its promise to halt nuclear tests and launches as the country announced it will dismantle its nuclear test site its north korea's only known test site turns located in the north east of the country the first nuclear test was conducted in two thousand and six with fixed path being trialled in total our channel is one of the few invited to the ceremony now it took us about two hours to get here from beijing that's where we got our visas that's where we got our plane tickets as we took a regular charter flights into north korea not many people on board only twenty journalists or so were invited many more wanted to come but well couldn't right now we're in the city over once and it's a south eastern city in north korea and it is a resort site we ourselves are housed in the complex that is a holy site for fighter jet pilots apparently we were said to head to the nuclear test site tonight but the trip was called off apparently because of the bad weather

you can see it is raining right now and apparently it's even worse in the mountains the test site that is said to be dismantled it is lays some six hundred kilometers away from here and we will be taking an eleven hour train to get there and then we will be writing for four more hours by car and hiking for another hour but we're being told that the spectacle is well worth it the whole site will be razed to the ground technical buildings reduced to rubble tunnels in the mountains also blown up right now we don't know when this trip or when this is going to happen exactly but definitely in the upcoming days. should nominate with the report all we have talked to a former u.s. envoy to the united nations who's negotiated with north korea before he say's that it's highly damaging to make threats especially when it's so close to the summit

between the two leaders. the administration speaks with too many voices on north korea you've got national security advisor bolton bringing up the qaddafi issue with north korea they get very nervous because gadhafi gave up as weapons and then was killed that's not a good thing to talk about before the summit and i think secretary pompei oh the secretary of state has handled the issue well he's dealt with north korea has met with kim jong moon twice he established an intelligence channel with the north koreans i think the president needs to prepare substantively he needs to have a strategy but he needs to leave the details and the message to pohnpei oh too many in the administration including the president are speaking i believe the administration made a colossal mistake in getting out of the iran deal because iran was complying they were going to for several years not develop a nuclear war.