described themselves as reich citizens and since november of twenty sixteen around four hundred fifty of them have had their firearms licenses taken off them by the state but he was right citizens and dangerous right citizen is a catch all term for a loosely affiliated bunch who claim that the federal republic of germany is illegitimate and say that the pre-war weimar constitution remains in effect that's the same system that allowed out of hitler to take power well today's reich citizen groups come in several shapes and sizes but almost all of them have some link to why the neo nazi groups of far right ideology. the historical revisionism forms an ideological link that connects paris right wing extremist currents and right wing extremists among right citizens use those connections to cause confusion to provoke authorities and to create a social platform for right wing ideology it's estimated that there's around

eighteen thousand of these right citizens in germany and some are allegedly preparing for a day when they'll rise up and take their country back but these are just hollow empty threats eighteen months ago a policeman in bavaria was killed during a shootout between officers and a member of one of the sorites citizens' groups the number of these people is significantly significantly increased violence. has increased in number if the numbers go on to increase if these fever really used in britain hear themselves for opposing in resisting public reduced then indeed it is a challenge for the state opposition politicians have accused the government of trying to sweep the extent of germany's problem with far right violence under the rug first the federal government. plane the right wing terrorist groups can form

spontaneously and have a strong digital network but then many of their actions are not counted as right wing terror offenses the impression is that the federal government consciously accepts blind spots in the recent past berlin hasn't pulled away you from publishing intelligence findings that showed as many as seven hundred radical islamists could be in the country and a capable for pairing a terrorist attack but it does seem that they're less forthcoming when not threat potentially posed from elsewhere. since the end of. me and. of course rights in the radical extremists. protected the german state district. all the power in. germany has very strict gun control laws. so rare occurrence here but perhaps one way to keep it that way would be to allow people who the government considers

a threat to the public to have access to firearms. although the threat posed by right wing extremists in germany is reportedly increasing and the government say the overall threat level from the group remains relatively low. or right friend or his popularity knows with youngsters in the middle east i'll bring you details after a short break. with lawmakers manufacture consent to public wealth. when the ruling

classes protect themselves. with the famous merry go round be the one percent. nor middle of the room six. we've all gotten used to it the media hate trump and the president returns the favor in kind how is this mutually charged hate fest changed media and journalism just the corporate liberal media report the news anymore is a big profession in the service of partisanship. america is on buster to israel has been criticized after he was seen posing with

a rather controversial gift david friedman was presented with a photograph of one of the most sacred places in jerusalem but the image had been altered the dome of the rock shrine had been replaced with an image of the jewish third temple which has never been built well despite the ambassador being unaware of the changes he's still being lambasted by prominent muslim politicians some even called him rude and hypocritical the embassy sais the ambassador was the victim of us don't. friedman was not aware of the image thrust in front of him when the photo was taken he was deeply disappointed that anyone would take advantage of his visit to create controversy the u.s. policy is absolutely clear we support the status quo on the her arm i'll show you if temple mount. the organization the ambassador was visiting claims the gift

was an initiative by one of its employees and knox he had apologized already for the election just to get some background in this temple moment as one of the holiest religious sites in the world it's the site of two biblical jewish temples as well as one of islams holiest shrines for joining us live now on the program is dyker a political analyst from this really think tank don is based in jerusalem welcome to the program and this whole situation comes at a pretty sensitive time why give such a controversial gift. well it does come of a sensitive time when in fact is the united states embassy issued a. correction to the mistake saying that they support what's called the status quo in jerusalem which is exactly what the is what every israeli government since one thousand nine hundred sixty seven has also supported the status quo which means

sensitivity and respect and honor for the muslim holy sites the muslim holy shrines the jewish holy site which is the temple mount and of course the christian holy sites so we want to maintain the every israeli government has wanted to maintain respect and honor for all three religions and this was a unfortunate. reflection of that insensitivity that was corrected by the u.s. administration again upholding and supporting what's known as the status quo how seriously does the muslim community been reacting to this to your forsee any ramifications. you know the there is an awful lot of insiders on the on the temple mount plaza the islamic liberation party the how mass the even turkish insiders who came as recently as just weeks ago. to as well as mahmoud abbas who is the head of the palestinian authority

who says there is no jewish connection to jerusalem at all and the hamas who just in gaza these last weeks these terrible weeks of violence down in gaza has said through jihad blood we will redeem so you have this tradition unfortunately of a lot of incitement coming from from muslim insiders and israel has done all its can from that from the jewish side to restrain those who wouldn't cite against the muslim shrine so again it's a very sensitive and explosive situation where where a delicate balance has been maintained by an jordanian walks together with the israeli authorities just on what. the embassy has come to say they weren't aware of what was happening critics are saying though done just looking at some reports that the i'm busted are actually like the photo your thoughts on he was seen as a big player and supporter wasn't he in the u.s.

moving their embassy from tel aviv to jerusalem he is quite hawkish. that i would describe the ambassador as a patriotic american who comes from jewish heritage and you know jewish heritage has three thousand five hundred or six hundred years of national history coins with the word yahud were just discovered very recently on the temple mount itself which shows the jewish commercial and administrative history on the temple mount in jerusalem so that the ambassador is a proud jew and a proud american and i think that whether a person is muslim christian or jew he is or she is entitled to have whatever personal religious faith commitment that he wants but i think it to the ambassador's credit he maintained the status quo is the policy of the united states and that is the policy that the jordanians that the hashemite monarchy wants to maintain as well for all their own people the status quo in jerusalem and that is

what the israelis support is well done thanks for coming on the program and sharing your if you've done your political analyst from this really thing talking to us from jerusalem. u.s. army general joseph say he's america will now shift its focus in syria to stabilizing the region and monitoring dangerous pockets that are left that's despite president trump saying this month that the u.s. would be pulling its troops out of syria quote very soon while the u.s. decides whether or not to stay in the region a survey of youngsters in the middle east suggests the majority view the u.s. has an adverse it also concludes that russia has cemented its position as the top nor about iraq as the it looks now at how america astrology has failed to win hearts and. you can see why trump wanted a new middle east strategy the old one wasn't working allies unhappy people aren't waving american flags forecasts failed remember for instance when they proclaim

that syria would be russia's and a new of kind of star russia will continue to. send troops home. in body bags these are hard lessons that the soviet union had to learn in afghanistan you have to dig back into ancient history to see how this is going to play out for the russians turned out it wasn't it was killing jihad ists and terrorists isis al-qaeda and all flavors thereof pointing case take this poll every year it asks arab youths who their biggest allies are in two thousand and fifteen america was voted second friendliest country by arab youth now it's eleven russia it's fourth despite or perhaps because of its intervention in syria but that's youth what about the older folks is an ally obviously

a strong partner certainly over the specter and a friend a nato ally and a friend of the united states in a very turbulent part of the world. of america i told you many times you are either with us or all of these terrorist organizations to disaster the united states is barely on speaking terms with a nato ally turkey they're withholding weapons there are syrian kurds the white b.g. who a turkey's sworn enemies this friendship is dying and turkey thinks it can unite and need the muslim world especially after trump stunt with moving his embassy to jerusalem that robida almost everyone the wrong way condemn the u.s. decision on jerusalem because of its great bias against the historical and permanent rights of the palestinian people see the united states the solution to

recognize jerusalem as the capital of israel is a dangerous one it will threaten security and stability and frustrates efforts to resume the peace process with trump. bleeding allies moscow is making inroads with ankara now turkey russia and iran gather regularly on syria and trump isn't being invited but they at least friends still buy american guns right we signed historic agreements with the kingdom this landmark agreement includes the announcement of a one hundred ten billion dollars saudi funded defense purchase. and we will be sure to help our saudi friends to get a good deal from our great american defense company that was trump boasting before saudi arabia saudi arabia america's chief ally in the middle east

the clear that it is buying russian s. four hundred missiles which turkey is also doing that's a new low for u.s. policy and things aren't looking up you can bet there are no one filled russian bass or ships in countries that matter it's moscow's doris day almost unbelievably vacant american posts in egypt jordan libya could tar saudi arabia syria turkey and of course iran where we have no embassy america's policy has been simple divide red versus blue sheer versus sunni friends versus enemies problem is the world isn't black and white there are grays greens browns and purples which washington needs to recognize to talking here about. states or a region that has been heavily dependent on the united states in pretty much

everything defense economy cars technology everything and now people are thinking you know this is not reliable anymore this is not an ally anymore this is becoming more of an adverse or definitely the shift or the huge shift in rhetorical between the obama administration and the trumpet ministration has played a role to agitate people we need to understand the policy that hasn't been much change. all right you can find analysis and reaction on valve's story on r t dot com plus plenty more besides more great programs right ahead here in r t international i'll be back in thirty. for a world cup twenty eight team coverage we've signed one of the greatest goalkeepers of all time but there was one more question and by the way was going to be our

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were terrible but not on. one football will be here not. across europe victims are starting legal battles demanding at least some compensation in two ways first will the physical damage itself as well that the constant mind that the people who actually perpetrated this crime has never been able to justice and there has been a couple. this is boom bust broadcasting around the world from washington d.c. i'm bart chilton thank you for joining us coming up today on the program we talk about the china and u.s. phrase war with author and international investors jim rogers and alex mann highly

looks at the enormous amounts of energy use for mining crypto currencies plus the president of the u.s. cuba trade and economic council john catholic church helps us take a look at the new leadership in cuba and how the cuban economy is doing all that debt ahead but first let's if you had. to supreme supreme court of the united states has ruled that arbitration clauses can be used to prevent workers from taking collective legal action against their employers the five to four ruling written by chief judge by justice neil gorsuch president trumps nominee to the high court effectively overhauls the terms of employment for roughly twenty five million workers in the us preventing them from bringing class action suits a critical tool for individuals harmed by general patterns of employer abuse and the absence of class action as a remedy any of the twenty five million workers seeking to sue their employers would now have to file a separate legal case on their own and assume the cost and risk as individuals

justice ginsburg read her dissent from the bench on a rare in a rare strong disagreement the result of the new precedent she wrote will be a huge under enforcement of federal state statutes designed to advance the being well being of vulnerable workers and other business related arbitration news over is facing their first sexual harassment discrimination lawsuit after rescinding their policy requiring binding armor to. aeration for individual cases which they announced and we reported here last week to be clear still requires that all class action suits be yours all through arbitration the former uber software engineers claim that she was sexually harassed paid less and suffered retaliation when she expressed her concerns about corporate culture and related news nine members of congress wrote to oberon monday demanding more information on how hoover handle sexual assaults that occur in their employees vehicles. and more positive gender

and business news the new york stock exchange is welcoming their first woman president stacy cunningham the appointment was a promotion for ms cunningham from her previous role as and why he sees chief operating officer as coming hands assumption of the n.y.s.e. presidency also makes it the second major exchange with a woman as president after nasdaq where friedman took over in january of last year ms cunningham is credited with merging n.y.s.e. is former five trading platforms into one universal system outgoing president tom farley who i know i've respected for years took the reins of n.y.s.e. after the intercontinental exchange purchased the trading platform in twenty twelve mr farley will be moving on to become head of far point a private investment firm and we wish him well.

hear discussed u.s. china relations and a foreign trade war could it be avoided is the author an international investor jim rogers jim welcome and thank you let's cut to the chase here president trump has been shouting about major tariffs on china and china says they're going to institute their own tariffs in response but is that a real possibility or are we just seeing major trading powers blowing a lot of hair hot air what you're to what your take at the moment it's there but and they say they're going to avoid it but bart what's going to happen is later this year or next year when things start getting bad in the world economy and the u.s. economy mr trump's going to have a start a trade war he's got trade war in his blood he's been talking about it for years and the people around him think trade war is good but it will come later one of the major turning points in this whole story occurred yesterday after secretary stephen the new chin announced that the u.s. was going to suspend china terrace pending the negotiations with china is this good

or bad thing at this point given the trump administration's abit of saying one thing and doing the other for example the president was pretty harsh with regard to eat follow his announcement last week that they were going to work on actually lifting. sanctions and as opposed to what the commerce department wanted to do what do you think. well it's always good when you don't have a trade or even if it's just delayed yes this is better than what was going on before but also what has happened bart is this to try to suddenly realize oh my gosh that child is by a lot of our agricultural products he won the election because of agricultural states and if he makes the agriculture of voters unhappy he's not going to win anything and that chinese have an ace that they buy a lot of american agricultural products it's particularly true with with soybeans it's our largest export and china is our our major

a customer there you're we're absolutely right jim the financial times reported that the chinese had cultivated mr minutiae as sort of their go to person and in the meetings that they had yesterday they asked him to stay back secretary minu shit and then ask robert light hisor the. sidelining him the trade negotiator and actually it led to what's reported a we don't know this but reported to be an argument after the meeting between light hisor and mr minutiae with some profanities and a lot of this may just be inside baseball and much ado about nothing but some are asking whether or not this was potentially even bought out by the chinese jim you know let's get in with this guy and then maybe they'll be a conflict or are people just thinking on it too much i hope i mean maybe the chinese are that smart i certainly don't know but we do know that lie houser lie has a very very strong on trade wars he thinks they're good he thinks he can win he doesn't

know history and even if he knows that no trade war has ever been good he thinks he's smarter than history. by the find out yeah history is an important thing you what you want you don't want to only use your rearview mirror as marshall mcluhan said but you you need to look at it for sure last week jim there was a star story we covered it but only peripherally and it was about a chinese state owned construction firm put. five hundred million dollars into trump hotel and golf course and indonesia and when we covered that we just sort of gave the facts just like the old dragnet series right just the facts ma'am but i'm wondering if you think there's any more to it than just that is that the chinese potentially trying to create some favor with the president. i have no idea if that happened you should watch r t t they find out what's going on but if they put five hundred million dollars into a truck project obviously they're trying to trying to make friends somewhere yeah

they said it was part of this you know belton road initiative jim and let's move to bed a little bit do you think the chinese might be worried about these tariffs cutting into their long term plans for the belton road initiative you know they are making all these great moves with with sort of in a vacuum of the u.s. right with south america with europe trying to to some extent i guess you could say co-opt them a cynic would say co-opt them into being part of this one belt road initiative but do you think they have that in their mind in dealing with the trade war. what we should all be worried about trade wars trade was have never ever been good for anybody even the people who are not in the trade or have suffered because trade wars have negative ramifications all over the world we should all not just the chinese not just we should all be worried about trade war all of us except mr trump in a satellite houser and a few other people but trade wars are not good for anybody and they never have that

jim. market afficionado watch this all the time international investor in and we do see the markets moving mightily based upon you know every day until with regard to trade wars and positive signs coming in the last twenty four hours markets went up but additionally whatever month that have two months ago when president trump announced this markets took a tumble are global markets not just u.s. markets jim but are global markets strong enough to withstand a frontal trade war if it ends up turning to that. no hope i would pete no one is ever want to trade war trade was have never been good for anybody never ever in the history of the world so no of markets many markets barter near all time highs america europe many markets are near all time highs and so they are vulnerable if we have a trade war in the other kind of problem so of course if we have

a trade war you should be worried you should be very or you should learn to protect yourself well that's exactly why we had you on to to give that warning it to enlighten our busting viewers we thank you so much jim rogers the author and international financial investor thank you so much for your time jim show of art anytime. and time now for a quick break but hang here because when we return there is an enormous amount of energy being used for crypto currency mining and alex hyla but you take a look with us plus there is new leadership in cuba how's that working out and how was the economy doing john cavil which the president of the u.s. cuba trade and economic council joins us with the latest as we go to break here are the numbers the closing bell bitcoin is down and soar stocks oil as the only green arrow on the board today will be right.

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