you know monsters in the history of humankind you know and we just celebrated that with russia's contribution right 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 out 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 use think she is just cosmically organically intellectually bereft of any ability to make the connection of how silly this looks yeah that would 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 so much lionel here we have you back as we go to break aka watchers don't forget to let us know what you think of the topics we've covered on facebook and twitter fearful shows that are he dot com coming up dumbfound sat down with one of lo hillary author of hitchhiking in the axis of evil to discuss the epidemic of distrust during his round the world hitchhiking expedition on r.t. such a feat if that's if they continue to russian and white big island tuned to watching . and when else seems wrong. i don't believe. just don't hold. any

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one of us noticeable trends in modern politics is a renewed resentment of the outsider it may be logical under a logical and understandable as an explosive reaction to globalization is economic side effects are out of control migration but all too often. legitimate concerns and fears tend to devolve into rank as you know you know phobia which left unchecked or even weaponized turns into 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 one popular very you know to hear more about his experience on publicly useless for joining me today. i want to start by talking about to your hitchhiking the axis of evil book because this is like a fascinating 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 it was a psychology student. i.e. decided to go around the world with the precise idea of documenting hospitality in a subway to. counterbalance all this through types that were becoming. rome 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 this know how i'm trying to find the to do you say he tried to settle to get myself exposure to people in these countries and to show that a 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 time enough that for a year to research. even though i knew there was some. for risk 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 goes like finding hospitality and showing the ninety nine point nine percent of the people were able to give you this amazing and magnificent hospitality towards a stranger then you 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 what 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 are point 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 of you know was it was an antagonistic opposed to bashar assad or whatever people just living their lives so i have 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 i had met because i was a huge child and run them in meeting people from all walks of life so late teachers

farmers so 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. and it turns on both of 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 the syria install was on trucks on the way to such as the war that we're witnessing today they haven't even for the fact of a foreign power you know providing financial. assistance or at least a dozen for sure old people they made like you know they they were carry on they get old just normalized every day lives. keats respect in the early and just get gentle society around me and that's why

a holy man was 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 unfortunately on terrorism which has nothing to do with things like witness i mean of course they are the kurdish with the greek because i was trying to run the areas and they had some issues there but i don't think that which is going on now actually improves including 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 because they would rather you know i'm not saying that they do that out of love completely but they would actually they have witnessed what has happened in the 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 dissent so

people can know what they're risking to 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 they jane but they're still backing him because they want stability and they want their state to very exotic they're in fact matty and they want their they just want like safety and some of the around them and they know that is. 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 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 internet christian artists 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 didn't want to get us to get into their into their affairs but the revolution in any case should come from the inside on the chest one and two issues business from slows so they want to know are they expecting. an army from outside to come in so their problems are not something pretty consistent with all the tradition of the bush and some of the station because it's like a huge hole with no show gold this you know ability to decide this so this is a state that they're going through and i don't think by the way some countries which are actually not able to perform for democracy at home and the truth in turn

to 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 in the kid. to an audience and listen to that consists only of women so but 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 through and 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 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 and 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 they're coming from

a western country myself first it 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 at them i know what you're doing on the whole and they told me something like. yeah but you know like the closest we get the further. where you move from the planet 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 the perception of the cornish people there sort of the turkish people but then like i really didn't sense like sometimes i was being hosted by people 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 are fine in the 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 known injury from a third to represent occurred over the weekend on saturday a 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 splatters can weigh as much as a refrigerator and even some small pieces can kill and now there are part of the three hundred people at three different shelters over the weekend with more than two thousand evacuated from their homes actually were 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 it's not going to end in though we might be able back in a week. but the threat will be there for sure it's always there but it's even more severe of a threat. now 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 residents 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. my co-host i love you and tabitha wallace have a great day and night everyone.

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please . headlining tonight donald trump cards more confusion from next month's planned meeting with the north korean leader saying the historic talks may be delayed all take place at all we are working on something and you know there's a chance that it will work and there's a chance it's a very substantial chance it won't work out. i. had to this is the same just a few hours ago protests against government reforms turned violent for a bit in paris with demonstrators last week when these are a number of injuries. and the british government's plane for a lack of action almost a gear on now from that awful grenfell fire

a public inquiry is only now getting underway into why seventy two lost their lives in that month talib look. i don't think they're doing enough of that awful lot of government haven't done enough not nearly enough now actually even try as i could see. good evening you're watching artie's news at ten live from moscow with me kevin zero in thanks for choosing us first and tonight donald trump says his much anticipated summit with north korea on the twelfth of june might be delayed this. comment came during a meeting with the south korean president in washington is literally just wrapped up an hour or so ago both sides also previously floated the possibility of walking away from the talks so where are we tonight we're most trying to get a handle on it from washington correspondents america it's on it's off it may be on it may be off where do we stand tonight this summit does seem to be hanging a bit in the balance doesn't disappear. well according to trump the summit could

take place or it might not even take place but the president has never really been one hundred percent sure we are working on something and you know there's a chance that it'll work out there's a chance it's a very substantial chance that it won't work out that doesn't mean it won't work out over a period of time but it may not work out for june twelfth i think it will be very successful but as i always say who knows who knows what's going to happen you know i often say who knows who knows a lot of good things could happen a lot of bad things going to happen we'll see how it all works maybe you a lot of things change everything can be scuttled everything can be scuttled speaking of mixed messages on one hand a special coin is being produced just ahead of the summit depicting the two leaders meeting and all smiles then there's trouble guaranteeing kim safety and promising that north korea will be a rich country but then on the other hand trump threatening the libya scenario. i

will guarantee his safety yes we will guarantee his safety and we've talked about that for the beginning. he will be safe he will be happy his country will be rich the model if you look at that model with gadhafi that was a total decimation we went in there to beat him now that model would take place if we don't make a deal most likely but let's quickly remind ourselves what happened in libya in two thousand and three i get off he renounced his nuclear program but despite that he was overthrown in a nato led campaign years later so not a fairy tale ending for gadhafi but it's not just rhetoric that could be jeopardizing diplomacy there's also joint military drills being held between the u.s. and south korea on north korea's doorstep but thankfully some are questioning the need to provoke young as specially considering the historic meeting that took place

last month between the north and south and this also comes at a very special time just as the u.s. is going back on its word to adhere to the iran deal pulling out of it entirely so i'm sure that north korea is taking all of these factors into consideration before agreeing to deal with the u.s. . meeting still rather up in the air as you say in this marathon as for now well although not withstanding north korea is nonetheless still gearing up to dismantle the nuclear test site located in the remote northeast of the country it's the only no nuclear side there's been six tests since two thousand and six. he is one of the few news channels that have been invited along to witness the destruction of the site he goes down off as a correspondent on route. 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 the test site that is set 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 riding 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. she's returning to a spring of discontent in france with fresh protests in paris a bit earlier against president macross social economic reforms that turn violent at one point shiela do bensky a correspondent there witnessed how

a peaceful rally descended quickly. the crowd is swelling here in paris this is just one of the around a hundred and thirty demonstrations taking place at cross fronts. cold cold cold during the day been joined by one of the mainline unions who votes which represents by point seven eight million people across the country as you can see the police here they're forming a line some barriers are trying to stop some people from moving forward towards those crowds but really in the last ten or fifteen minutes or so this protest which was entirely peaceful has a chime for the worst. was just cool to see in the middle of clashes between the police and the protesters the police have come and pushed the protesters back you might be able to see the crowds about one hundred fifty meters away from. the police of being

taking some of the slogans that were made by the protesters away from them we've also seen some protesters who appear to have been detained by the security source forces here today many of them out in force including some demonstrators who appeared to have been injured there was one man just sitting down a few moments ago with a blood a poor ring down his head the police are in the middle of this action now where they're all skinny as she moved away was. that. the. you know i knew he was getting the go to represent about five point seven million workers here in france but again that idea of voicing their concerns on the streets has been hijacked once more by the violence that we've seen from the small number of protesters. new in the

palestinian foreign minister. as calling for the international criminal court to launch an immediate investigation into last monday's violence on the gaza border the us opening its relocated embassy in jerusalem there last monday sparked a mass protest resulting in the deadliest clashes between palestinians in the israeli military says twenty fourteen the un is also set to start its own probe into whether israel committed war crimes. odd. little of that of course the good. work you know we. were out. there. with. us last week the u.n.

human rights council passed a resolution condemning israel's actions as wholly disproportionate and described it as an indiscriminate use of force britain was among fourteen countries that abstained there are also reports of them to where next the british diplomats planned to visit the controversial u.s. embassy in jerusalem despite earlier condemning the move the police of your kingdom is we don't agree with the decision of the u.s. to to move their embassy we continue to think that that's playing the wrong card at the at the wrong time but we remain absolutely committed to a two state solution yes a boris johnson is saying the visits on the cards from the u.k. diplomats or the newspaper for do indeed is a former british employee to syria hey there peter thanks for being with us tonight so the u.k. says it disagree just to recap here with the u.s. relocating its embassy to jerusalem but those diplomats are going to go in anyway we're not quite sure when but it sounds like it's going to be so i think at least

it should be more time before the visit where do you stand on this tonight as a former diplomat. well i think the british government are being very feeble with this they made what seemed at the time we could go through to be a principled position by boycotting the ceremony to mark the opening of what's described as the american embassy in jerusalem but then days after it appears to be business as usual. many people feel that this is hypocrisy someone like former diplomats former and that's a good jeremy greenstock argue the this is america you have to do business with america if you want to have any chance of influencing them. personally it would totally reject that i think it's laughable the idea that british diplomats.