years later which contained many of the changes the constitution had attempted to introduce but this time the majority of the public didn't have a say because parliament simply ratified it island the only e.u. member which stuck with the referendum rejected then there's been treaty but that was old didn't go down well with brussels but i believe we should not rush to conclusions believe the truth is a lie and we should now try to find a solution and despite a clear fifty three percent no vote the irish will back at the polls just sixteen months later for what must have felt like day finally the e.u. got the answer it was looking for yes you are supposed to jump for joy what about greece the mediterranean country drowning in a sea of its own right it's a vote is decisively rejected the terms of an international bailout in two thousand

and fifteen still efficient i would like to say that the greek people made a historic and brave choice they respond to the existing dialogue in europe but democracy worked in an unexpected way despite the greeks saying no to a sturdy government venture did agree to a painful bailout plan but what about the dutch who rejected plans by the e.u. to sign an association agreement with ukraine back in two thousand and sixteen. the accord cannot just be ratified we have to take into account this no vote. well despite that the vote brussels went ahead and did it only way so while many in the may vote against the blocs plans it seems that the e.u. prefer to have its own way with god less the elite made a decision and now it's sixty to seventy years ago that in one nine hundred fifty

four you know this started the whole thing was the european union and there is nothing you can do against the european union is it's gotten it's got nothing to do with democracy because it's not decided by the people there's no european people european union worries as part of the governments of the e.u. governments you know they get together they make the solutions and i don't think there's even a. democratic spirit behind it you know it's your stuff this is what we feel leaked it's not we the people. in the u.k. supporters are now claiming there's a secret plot to keep the country in the european union after a demotion the government has set aside money for next year's parliamentary election but officials say the money is only there in the case of an emotion saying it's a precautionary measure so that we have the necessary funds to deliver our functions as a european parliamentary election in the unlikely event that they do go ahead. elections

for the european parliament will take place next may two months after the u.k. is supposed to have left the e.u. and yet the u.k. has still put aside some eight hundred thousand pounds for those elections now it's been almost two years since british voters narrowly chose to leave the e.u. since then the negotiations between london and brussels have encountered numerous stumbling blocks including over the irish border and while there's still no solution that satisfies all sides the e.u. says it needs more clear proposals from the british prime minister. we want to numb bush's partnership with the united kingdom but for that we need realistic proposals from the u.k. and they cannot be a game of hide and seek one downing street spokesperson said terrorism is simply trying to get the best possible deal for both sides but margot parker a member of the european parliament for the pro burke said u.k.

independence party says the british people have been left frustrated the british people if voted for this referendum have full expectancy to leave we're frustrated with our government being so slow in their negotiations you know we we find it very annoying very upsetting that they seem to be so slow every time i think they come to brussels brussels perhaps asks for something more and i'm afraid our government appear to be full of capitulation and they appear not not to be putting the british people first think this is a load of nonsense and i think if you were to put this back two years and say that would be this position people would say no. so they need to sort themselves out but i do think the british public are getting very very fed up with this lack of moving forward. israel's parliament is now discussing a new law which would ban the filming of soldiers those behind the bill say that

video of the i.d.f. activities can be used to damage the israeli army's reputation and the i.d.f. is frequently accused of using excessive force or something it denies. these amateur videos often should light on aspects of the conflicts that might otherwise not get brought up in the public debate here in israel and it's very important that we have that debate on the conflict the bill include some tough measures for example for photographing i.d.f. soldiers with quote the intention of undermining spirit one can get jailed for five

years but if the intention is to harm state security maximum sentence ten years we discussed the proposed law with several experts who say it goes against freedom of speach. this is an absurd piece of populist legislation just meant to limit the constrain the freedom of speech and freedom of protest in israel something that contradicts the founding principles of this country and by the way this is very hypocritical as well because members of the right whenever settlers are evacuated they also filmed i.d.f. soldiers this is a time honored tradition in this country in this legislation goes against that value of life we do freeing deaths. so. poorly they cannot. you can never take them to cold you cannot go into figures there and they think this is this is. i'm against this circle poses a lot of this legislation because you know when you don't allow people to take

pictures of sort of jails it starts it was thought to be a stalled the for the more free speech then you're moved we've been taking photos off the cement or whatever this is the end of the marcos there are still to come on the program here when i see around eight hundred people reportedly killed in a month of anti-government protest in nicaragua about story and much more after the break. join me every thursday on the alec simon show and i'll be speaking to us from the world of politics sport that's less i'm show business i'll see you then. twenty eight team coverage we've signed one of the greatest. but there was one more question by the way who's going to be our coach.

he's a huge star and. you have to be the center of the. great . game you are the rock at the back. we need you to. go. alone. and i'm really happy to join. this special. needs. latest edition as we go. in for the program today here on the seven hundred mexican children have been taken from their parents to the u.s. border with mexico since october that's according to

a new office of refugee resettlement report and the issue has sparked public concern with people now accusing donald trump and his administration of violence in particular this image of small kids caged down sleeping on the floor caused shock waves and went viral it was assumed to show the harsh consequences of policies towards mexico however in reality it has nothing to do with as it dates back to twenty fourteen happens when barack obama was the president. i. have. this picture of immigrant children sleeping on the floor of a cave to be forcefully ripped away from their parents should be the defining image of trump's rage is trump's vision of making america great again concentration camp spoiled with children torn from their parents' border it's tough parents from

bringing children. doesn't care about kids and so these kids made it even last time and. this is happening right now and the only depraved matters is how we forced all governments to get these kids back to their families as far as humanly possible. the u.s. attorney general has said that the policy of separating children from their parents prevents child trafficking and was reportedly implemented more rigorously after that remark and responding to criticism said that the democrats are in fact to blame saying it all started long before he became president. put pressure on the

democrats to end the horrible law that separates children from their parents once they cross the border into the u.s. catch and release lottery and change must also go with it and we must continue building the wall democrats are protecting emmas thirteen thugs trump came out and said the other day bye bye once again just information and chaos tar this that this president is so happy to so really what's happening is they're trumping ministration is now doing something it's against international law by taking away the rights of parents to be with their kids and blaming it on someone else which is the active that's where he does all that unfortunately president obama has been the president that has the forty most people from the united states and that is a very shameful fact along with his secretary of state hillary clinton at the time it started so in two thousand and fourteen we saw when the families came through when when the first crisis happened in two thousand and fourteen the needy the

children were sent to these centers and the parents they had school and go through a process of searching even if the kids and they had to go through this scrutiny of trying to find out if the family supposedly was really their family or not and if if they were unable to find out if the children actually belong to those families those kids had to stay in foster carers. millions of children in the u.k. and are living in poverty with teachers reporting they have to feed and clothe their pupils instead of teaching them the red push media company has released the first part of its report on the worst hit areas you can watch the whole video on the website of red fish or on you tube or facebook. once upon a time the british government pledged to make child poverty history. and change and you see just as an electrician. and it's just a case. it's written in two

thousand and eighteen place where millions of pounds of public money has just been spent on a lavish royal wedding but while inside this bubble fifty thousand pounds spent on a royal wedding cake outside of it the number of food banks to feed hungry kids is growing britain is also a place where the dream of ending child poverty has been shattered london and birmingham are the areas hardest hit by child poverty here in the child poverty rate is fifty two percent twice the national average mr ali is in a wheelchair and lives on the tenth floor of this council estate this is his fifteen year old son hussen learning disabilities yet in the absence of proper care workers he's his father's main care. willing. school no one ever came to this country and.

i tell my dad we're american home. to the bone. father of five martin moved to the u.k. along with his family in search of a better life but they have found themselves living in poverty and in overcrowded accommodation thanks to the stigma attached to living in poverty martin and his wife rachel tell their relatives they are doing fine at their request they have changed their names and blurred their faces. cleena school is very difficult but a family with five children. the most important. is this house problem. this. recording to housing charity

shelter more than one million children in england live in bad or overcrowded housing the charity also estimates that one hundred forty families become homeless every day at the same time more than two hundred thousand homes lie empty at a combined worth of forty three billion pounds kids like joseph dream of a better future. for. homeless. because they might be facing. west thinks that house problems so. it's the right thing to do. to give. to give. to live. have to right to have a good life. i live.

almost eighty people have been killed in anti-government rallies and. broke out a month ago. said to be using live fire against the protesters the people on the streets of demanding the country's leader daniel ortega steps down and the demonstrations erupted in mid april off the president him posed various austerity measures. joining us on the program here on r.t. international much more to offer you though at the top of the hour. china says they're going to buy a lot more stuff from the u.s. . so trump is having an effect i mean news and weighing into the minutia of trade

deals. president has done that i can recall usually they just paint a broad stroke and hope for the best so he's actually getting into the details of trade deals that. have been saying the numbers mean something they matter to us is over one trillion dollars and. more than ten timestamping each day. eighty five percent of global will to the rich eight point six percent markets thirty percent a year some with four hundred to five hundred three per circuit first and bitcoin rose to twenty thousand dollars. china is building two point one billion dollars a . but don't let the numbers overwhelm. the only number you need to remember it was one business show you can't afford to miss the one and only thing.

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load i. still. there's. still. that. while the two thousand and eight financial crash drives america into recession and unemployment will descend a small town in north dakota. experience is a genuine black gold rush. thanks to a drug fracking to case boyle is discovered in this tiny town in fact it turns out the williston is sitting atop one of the largest shale oil fields in the nation

companies restaurants point this new energy resource period thirty two miles below the earth's surface oil soon flows freely and news spreads the wildfire for the ones left behind by the crisis of two thousand and eight relisted seems like their last chance for human life with an unemployment rate of zero percent and wages it three or four times more than the national average the promise of prosperity in desperate times is too great to ignore cheered by a common hope thousands of men and women throw themselves once again into a desperate rush towards the mythical american tree and at any cost. history repeats itself in the midst of his new book no doubt the most impressive in u.s. history. they need there's more work out here than they got able to do it. i don't believe. i still believe there's a dream i want you to get you still believe.

it. is like a gold rush it is very very similar to a gold rush. palmer is fresh out of cincinnati in two thousand and twelve after being unemployed for months he hears about the boom happening in williston. think of me. at first he works for an oil company but soon his desire for independence takes over and he sets up his own serious company. bought the company and we had us. her truck and the situation and then went from a manageable situation where i always get like some sleep at night and i could like keep up with like daily activities like taking showers every day to like an all out

sprint trying to like keep up with so much work it was amazing go from one job to the next to the next to the next to the next as it is now i have not right now i have not taken a full day off in over nine months and i'm very thankful i'm here and not complaining one bit very thankful for the money an opportunity here was like someone who had been starving for years for like money like all of a sudden there's like. all you can eat. buffet a and all you have to do is go out there and get the work done and people give you money to do it was amazing this year i'm probably going to be making around two hundred fifty thousand dollars is a lot of work involved a lot of work it's twenty four hours a day seven days a week. well i guess i should get back to work. here in an inhospitable handful of contrasts before the boom willison was a small conservative agricultural town and in many ways this aspect seems untouched

everything has its own place including florida emptiness and silence the streets are practically deserted it's a town that has motion this within its history and past. then you have another town the one that needs to welcome this new wave of residence oil company settling down a large numbers of extracting at least a million barrels of oil a day. this is the one we unpacked like a raft gift. without going up with a kind of uniformity copy and paste prefabricated never custom made. investors are right and everything based upon a population that should be multiplied by four. hours. first came up and this rang of two thousand ford saying i worked at a neighbor's they did a hydraulic fracturing and i was looking at how much it will not cost me to stay somewhere you know if i was just going to stay in

a hotel it was like one hundred dollars and i was an ok hundred dollars a day seven days a week that's seven hundred dollars on a course of a whole week and so i just came to the conclusion you know what i'll give me a van fix it up so you know i can be comfortable in it it makes financial sense because i get to keep the majority of my money versus just just going away on housing and stuff like that. is my first and then. it works. and that's because the. jury cannot survive very long it is van where winter temperatures sometimes drop of the minus twenty. for the time being nothing is ready everything has happened so quickly it's very hard to find a place to. makeshift housing known as man camps mine up by the hundreds on the edge of town for close to two he said it's . these dormitory towns built by necessity and empty

lots after respect me one hundred and one hundred fifty dollars a night two meals included. by two thousand and twelve the population living in these men camps was estimated to be over ten thousand you have guys from an hour florida nevada chicago cleveland you name it i've seen the license plate. every week you know this is the best thing for single men you know i mean that's what i mean as far as wages and. to be everything you know the whole country should be this way oh. i'm. going to. because. this place will put like a stress on you it will put a weight that you'll be carrying around on you and you won't really realize it and

when i went home i came back i noticed it that way then that pressure that whatever you want to call it it builds up over time for me and. you you wouldn't come up here unless there's some reason for you to come up here you know nobody was moving up here into thing in two thousand and one i was moving up here in two thousand and one or two thousand and so it wasn't until ok i can gain something financially i can i can improve my situation i can better my status my situation or on the level that i met in life now and that's that's what the whole fill up here really brought to a lot of people who were smart about it and save their money. because i'm tell you man i was asking a lot of folks question. there's not much help here to do to keep you busy focused on something you know you know keep you time occupied you

know is really allowed me to save all of my money and i'm in a position where you know i can go back home and buy your house. i just like the sound of it i can go back home and buy me a house a cash for a house not a car not a car but a house. alone with just in the lease it's footprints on the landscape the fast as it please your coverage we could buy these horses for as far as the eye can see sweeney slowly to extract the black calls from the subtree in temps. to build surely highways all around town in order to accommodate the lines of trucks trance pretty tight. pipes beams sand and water using fracking. nothing was planted advance everything was done in a hurry because of the immediacy of the work at the enormous influx of workers

investors and the unemployed rushed in chasing their dream to grab a piece of the pie. german gun austrian gun tell you in an american and my rifles just in case i need to kill someone. most americans have guns in their house. and at the foot of my bed is a bible. most of my adult life was spent in universities doing teaching or research i went to the university of maine and got several degrees there in agricultural engineering information systems then i worked for mit on the human genome project. there came a time when there was a recession there was high unemployment i spent a lot of time reading the news on the internet and i kept reading about the williston the oil boom the bokken shale. i wasn't doing anything i was going into

debt so i decided to go from an area that had almost ten percent unemployment to an area that had less than one percent unemployment so. i came looking for work but i didn't know what kind of work to take. so i fell into wireline it was very difficult at the beginning i had. accidents while pulling a trailer i could have been killed there were explosives in the trailer and it's fun three hundred sixty degrees and the explosives came out the back. but my boss didn't fire me they gave me another chance. after the first year i was very pliable i had a marketable skill. it pleases me that i had a hand a small hand but nevertheless i changed my career late in life and involved myself in american energy independence and in weaning this country of our foreign

oil dependency. you know america would sell its own mother for energy. i live in st george utah. have my families down there i needed to come up here to make some money to pay off debt and stuff we're getting there. i went to school and became an teach school elementary school i could make twenty five thousand dollars as a teacher or i could make fifty thousand dollars a year and drove a truck so i chose to drive truck.