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yes time is right what ships that. go to the palestinian boat that they started asking them to leave and. it's not clear we're trying to get closer and to see what's happening. in israel you want ships coming closer. and very close to the palestinian protester boats. and one wants to go back to the seaport. something happens now we started to feel that it's getting a bit dangerous. israeli forces said that hamas was using people to carry out quote a propaganda operation and to breach the blockade the i.d.f. said also ready to provide needed medical assistance to palestinians who like to be returned to gaza meanwhile the israeli parliament's debating a new law to ban the filming of his soldiers behind the bill say the recordings are often used to undermine the army's spirit military chiefs have repeatedly stressed
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that the i.d.f. is acting legally and with a restraint despite footage like this going viral. these amateur videos often should lay on aspects of the conflict 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 suggests tough punishment photographing i.d.f. soldiers with quote the intention of undermining spirit will but would get you five years behind bars intention to harm state security would land a ten year jail sentence and yet no explanations given on just how to decide intent
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experts told us that such punishments go against freedom of speach. this is an absurd piece of populist legislation just meant to limit the constrain the freedom of speech 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 right we do for its. soldiers. you can never take them to call you cannot go into figures there and they think this is this is. against this law of this of this motion because you know when you don't allow people to take pictures of solid generals it
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starts with the i'll tell you stop before the more free speech then your move to. taking photos off and or whatever this is the end of them across the. demonstrators have gathered on the streets of naples in italy they're angered by the president's torpedoing of a euro skeptic coalition's bid to govern protesters brandished posters the ball the slogan our vote is important leader of the five star movement one of the parties which tried to form a coalition he joined the march and made a speech. i thought it. absolutely they said no to the government chosen by talents and then they said yes to a person who doesn't have the support of italians all the parliament with all respect to course he really it seems you can run in the election and be voted for by the people and still be appointed. by the euro skeptic coalition failed to form a government after the italian president had rejected their choice of finance
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minister he was seen as anti european the president then appointed a pro your prime minister fresh election. as the now on the horizon and the failed coalition has called for the president to be impeached they've accused him of bowing to the pressure of also being calls for a petition to change the constitution to have a directly elected president. he's been looking at the track record of brussels when it comes to getting its way. you couldn't win an election create a coalition put together a plan for reforms and a ruling cabinet but turns out you still don't get to govern well that's if you're in the e.u. and you have a euro skeptic agenda if you're president i asked for the ministry an authority it's of political figure was not seen as supporting a line that could provide from the essentially this means that the majority of voters who between them opted for the five star movement and northern league two
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parties with an anti e.u. agenda in march actually don't get to decide the president awaits a red card because he doesn't like one proposed minister and q political crisis possible snap elections is this really how democracy is supposed to work. find to be a constitution the government can't commit to changing. this is a limited sovereignty it's a piece of democracy there is a way brussels hasn't shied away from warning the new italian government against disobeying the e.u. rule book and it looks like it's got its way no matter what the tally in voters want it and when has that happened before oh yes back in two thousand and five a referendum was held on whether or not to adopt a european constitution here in france as well as in the netherlands voters rejected the idea yet despite that clear unease the e.u.
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pushed ahead with branding it as the lisbon treaty three 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 in this bill treaty. that was salt 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 were supposed to jump for joy what about greece the mediterranean country drowning in
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a sea of its own that its voters decisively rejected the terms of an international bailout in two thousand and fifteen. i would like to say that the greek people made a historic and brave choice responds well to the existing john logan 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 and 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 court cannot just be ratified we have to take into account this no vote well despite their vote brussels went ahead and did it anyway so while many in the may vote against the blocs plans it seems that the e.u. prefers to have its own way regardless. another day another
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scare story ahead of football's world cup in russia british tabloids are claiming that russian hooligans are threatening to kill gay and transgender phones and this is their church and it takes up the story. as the world cup is just around the corner it seems to be scaremongering gold war from some of the tabloid newspapers here in the u.k. essentially spreading the message of don't go or else and discussing all sorts of possible horrific scenarios that could take place among the one of just many of the latest stories being discussed are legit death threats being made against the community and this is by far not the first time that something like this is being discussed we've seen headlines talk about things such as russia about to unleash its hooligans how the police are quote thuggish in russia how there is a threat of being whipped by cossack horseman during the world cup this summer as
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well as talk of racism in hopper's potentially breaking into your phones through wife i when you're there as a fan and while all of this whipping up a frenzy is unraveling we've been hearing officials from both sides really in russia as well as here in the u.k. say that everything is going to be ok among those people was britain's top football police chief who was speaking at a foreign affairs select committee hearing who said basically russia is on top of it and the same message came from the england football association but we've been engaged in no less two years in conjunction with the foreign office pool so the f.a.a. has said to try to seek those resources from the russian authorities without a great number of meetings with them but every time we've met them there is a consistent reassurance to the us the racial support to say that the chose. to the best of the disability or security team have been impressed with what they see on the ground in gaza city and particularly organizations went to the confederations cup last year the traffic. coach for the school well the foreign office has also
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been releasing certain instructions that have been playing down any worry about what could happen during the world cup they have said that among other things since two thousand. the sixteen five matches involving british teams have taken place in russia and those went without any trouble and of course the fact that british police and russian police have been cooperating ahead of the world cup and british police will in fact also be present on the ground as the world cup unravels earlier we heard from daryl teller's an england football fan and author of the book we're queer and we should be here he told us his experience with russian fans has been very different from what the tabloids depict well i'm a black gay football fan and have been for thirty years out here in britain and my personal experience was one of safety feeling safe and feeling secure during the champions league two years ago i was hosted by c.s.k.
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fans going through racism we managed even to be interviewed on the pitch but the nice stadium of c.s.k. with a rainbow flag. oh i didn't need to hide my identity while i was there and i hope it will be the same for l g b t fans traveling to the world cup. polish defense ministry has asked washington to permanently deploy thousands of u.s. troops in the country poland says that is directly appealed to the u.s. and the nato ignored a similar request for almost twenty years. this is of great importance because the three. the only ones in the world to have the ability to defend their positions against the. actually the request came in the form of a document from the polish the defense ministry and it was titled proposal for a u.s. permanent presence in poland and now this document outlined the government's willingness
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to dedicate two billion dollars to the construction of a military base permanent military base there and it also suggested the location for the base as well as locations for military hospitals and housing facilities for the troops that would be stationed there now russia's already reacted to this the kremlin spokes person dimitri called the move expansionist basically he said that it would inevitably lead to russian countermeasures it's a bit difficult to see how this stablish min of a permanent us military base in poland would give the government there any more power than it already has because seeing is there's already four thousand nato troops stationed in poland and other ball and the baltic countries such as the stony a lot of the lithuania they're constantly rotating between these countries and maintain a centrally a permanent presence there another thing is that there's military drills going on throughout europe almost every month actually and a lot of them occur on russia's border one of which is called ball tops and it
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actually occurs in poland it's a u.s. led maritime exercise it encompasses troops from seventeen nations it's five thousand seven hundred troops in total forty two ships and two submarines but actually that's going to look like basically nothing in comparison to another military drill they have scheduled it's called anaconda it's supposed to be coming up in november it's happens actually every every two years it's also in poland but this year they have scheduled something different ten thousand troops are supposed to be in attendance from around ten countries allied to nato and that's all according to nato as websites. it's hard to see how a permanent military base in permanent u.s. military be simple and would give the government there any more paul with russia for example. a russian m.p. who was forced to miss a un general assembly meeting earlier this month after finding his visa rybin an old unstinting because the child who oversees foreign affairs in the upper house of the russian parliament was added to the u.s.
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sanctions this back in april two weeks later his visa which allowed him to take part in meetings at the u.s. new york headquarters was cancelled it meant that he actually had to sit out a discussion of a resolution that he'd coauthored the recent u.s. sanctions against russia targeted more than a dozen top government officials and seven of the country's richest men thanks as were linked to the ukraine crisis and moscow's alleged attempts to interfere in the twenty sixteen u.s. presidential race on sunday because the chief says that washington never explained why he was targeted. and actually up earlier with which you're with me because i was added to the think sions list with no explanation the only reason given on the u.s. treasury department's website is that i'm an official of the russian government it didn't affect any of my personal interests as i don't have bank accounts or assets in the us is made it impossible for me to continue my attempts to bridge the gap between our parliaments then i also had my visa an old which should allowed me to
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take part in the un meetings in the us it's a blatant violation by the us as the host of an international organizations h.q. it goes against international law and rules of diplomacy i'm assured that i was told it did for my beliefs and political activity which has nothing to do with the united states. as many as seven hundred mexican children have been separated from their parents or the us border with mexico since october and that figure came to light in a new office of refugee resettlement report and it's prompted accusations the trumpet ministrations been using excess force this image in particular of small children caged and sleeping on the floor went viral and caused outrage it was assumed that it showed the harsh consequences of trump's policies towards mexican migrants though they later doubt critics were a bit too quick in rushing to judgment.
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not. our plan. this is happening right now in the only debate that matters is how we foresaw government to get these kids back to their families as fast as humanly possible. and i'm going to ride up today do you join me in half an hour's time for the light .
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so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy confrontation let it be an arms race. spanning dramatic developments only personally i'm going to resist i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical time time to sit down and talk. fifty years ago pregnant women to come together as a sleeping pill and does this is what i believe because our to. the side effects were terrible but not on known. one for. the war. across europe victims are starting legal battles demanding at least some compensation in something two ways first will the physical damage itself as well there's a constant reminder. that the people who actually perpetrated this crime has never
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been before the justice and there's been a couple of. small seemed wrong why don't we all just all. to get to shape out this day comes to educate and in detroit because betrayal. when so many find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground. to. unlock skies or. this is the kaiser report hopefully so sick i just want to follow up
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a little bit on the last episode we did because here's a headline related to dead unicorns why the end is coming soon for the biggest tech bubble we've ever seen expect to see more dead unicorns unicorns of course in this context are companies startups worth more than a billion dollars there's like one hundred couple hundred of them in the united states but he says about over half of them are actually fifty percent overvalued this is keith wright a professor of villanova school of business so we should be seeing that uniform and saying well you know the change for returns over the past ten years as i just read i remain zero migrated into the startup space on the unicorn space but the liquidity never came to the aftermarket never came the cash flow never came so now they all have to go over the cliff of the abyss big proving once again the world is flat of course there are eighteen these are dead unicorns held by silicon valley investors they have deep pockets and of course they could afford to perhaps lose
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all of this but they're competing with china which has i guess a bigger market but also more capital to work with and you know they're in the race to see who can create more monopolistic sort of positions of course these unicorn holders from silicon valley have donald trump to crush competition like which was crushed and now that brought. china to the trade table they're supposedly negotiating trump keeps on almost getting a trade deal with china and then backing out by a tweet so we don't know but we do know that trade war averted china vows to buy more from the u.s. but truce will take time the consensus follows two days of negotiations between teams led by the chinese vice premier lew he and u.s. treasury secretary steven chu and so time is agreed to by more u.s. agricultural goods. and energy products and this is supposed to close that what two hundred a three hundred seventy five billion dollar trade gap with the united
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states there's china refer to these startups as unicorns or maybe dragons of the unicorn as a global thing i wonder you know it's middle class italy have to at least on something but you know i'm not sure but yeah ok so china says they're going to buy a lot more stuff from the u.s. and so trump is having an effect i mean is that weighing into the minutia of trade deals which 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 with echoes. you do have to recognize that in the west we're not seeing the coverage the media coverage and the actual power that china has on the ground over in asia because i have seen reports that the reason why why did why did trump to the extraordinary thing of saying we need to come to the table because he lost all these jobs we don't want to destroy seventy five thousand jobs and we
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don't want to destroy c.t.e. and they apologized well apparently there were also u.s. goods piling up at the ports over in china and china has a huge buying power and exporting power and all these u.s. companies have massive factories over in china so they have a lot more leverage than we can possibly see here because of course our media doesn't cover it because they have a more important story that their little conspiracy theory that they're focused on nevertheless there are you know that china apparently has a lot of negotiating power in terms of twenty eighteen elections midterm elections coming up in just a few short months is places like iowa and nebraska where they were really squealing about the impact on their agricultural exports some of these places you know their their number one. destination is china they also live four to five trillion dollars in reserves more than a trillion or so in dollars the dollar still world reserve currency so yeah they've
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got a lot of operating leverage on the ground but a macro economically speaking the u.s. federal reserve bank bank of new york still has the ability to crush them at a moment's notice if we so choose their basically their equally powered the world's largest debtor the world's largest creditor they are equally powered they're equally powerful and that is a great huge fight that is the fight of the next few decades what is not a great power which is no longer a great power is the united kingdom versus germany fighting the euro european union versus trying to come up with the brakes a deal i have to headlines here this is from bloomberg and they often to this i actually printed another article but they change the headline at all the time but boris johnson warns may to get on with it and deliver brags that so he's warning that she has to get on with it he wants to become the new prime minister which
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probably makes more sense of a clown and charge like theresa may is this ineffective you might as well have an ineffective clown because we have a clown here italy has clowns everybody has clowns this is new policy but. the u.k. has admitted that they're going to have to pay a huge divorce bill and this breaks it exit if it ever happens this somebody they break the deal is figuring out how to op back in to various deals that the break sort of gave them the right to opt out rights just then added something i thirty thousand more civil servants in the u.k. and that's the whole point of bragg's it is to increase the size of government under thatcher the mandate was to take g.d.p. and address it so that government was a less a percentage of g.d.p. braise it just reverses that whole trend it makes the government now a bigger part of g. pay which is highly anti-growth so i mean i'll read you some of
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. the exact quotes he's the foreign minister foreign secretary for the united kingdom some a is the prime minister in case you don't know a lot of people may not hear much about the united kingdom but he said that outward free trade in countries what they want to hear from us is that we are getting on with it with confidence and breo in zap. so over that's not a clown does he know these that's a given what's going on. squirting water so i like your idea that the u.k. needs a clown station to compete with the berlusconi's and then only the trump clownish behavior in america and other global clowns i mean to compete in this global economy you need a clown force johnson's caliber he's a world class clown well if you don't have the authority in the power to be a state's person then you might as well be a clown because you've got to compete for global attention right so johnson's comments however are his strongest since teresa mayes team agreed last week on a controversial compromise that could keep the u.k. tied to e.u.
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trade rules for years after the divorce the proposal got a frosty reception from brussels and prompted jacob response to commands enough conservative lawmakers to engineer a leadership challenge to say he was losing faith and treats them as a book the united kingdom is part of the body of the european economy as a seventy three trillion dollar trading block you know the whole brags it is like your liver deciding to separate from your body and to say we're no longer part of the body were the independent liver and by the way everything that comes in and out of the liver we now have to introduce another organ called the deliberate exit blipper attacks and then oh wait a minute that doesn't make any sense so we have to reverse all that there's no way to separate the u.k. from europe it cannot be done it will not be done if it does it's in name only they may chain. the color of their passport but that's you cannot you cannot separate the two boris johnson in their delusional when we were just in the york there were
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two guys walking behind me downtown you know the financial district and i heard them one guy complaining that his office was moving to frankfurt because their office in london was closing down because of this break set thing so i'm killick at another headline here about the u.k. economy it is it has been hit definitely by this whole breaks during two men who knows what's happening whether or not breaks it happens i think people will still be talking about pricks in twenty thirty years' time when it won't have actually happened nevertheless landlords left with four shards skyscrapers worth of empty space in the high street bloodbath this big companies like jamie's italian all of these chains. they have a whole bunch of them listed here but the fact is that in figures compiled for the evening standard colliers international forecasts that the blood bath and the retail restaurant sectors will leave at least six point two million square feet in
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the u.k. vacant this year of that six hundred thirty thousand square feet isn't london of the property agent examined statistics from the local data company and goad portal it looked at stores which have closed either because firms have collapsed or restructured using a company voluntary arrangement a move which allows businesses to quit stores or seek rent cuts so they using the c.v.s. as they're called so what is it called company voluntary agreement and they're able to get out of all these leases and landlords are left holding the bill on these overpriced properties and in a shrinking economy and with huge business rates on these small companies that the u.k. government is no longer going to be able to collect the whole. this idea being independent it defies one hundred years of integrate. and then to europe it's absurd i understand that everyone likes to be independent but it's never ever ever going to
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happen in any meaningful sense. it's just ever going to happen of course these new rules came out in the e.u. regarding privacy for example and all these tech companies had to change everything and i just noticed that over the weekend because we've lived in the united kingdom for so long i have had dozens and dozens and dozens of e-mails from all these british companies saying to to new european privacy directives here's our new policy on privacy so it's like there are all these just online about people throwing their computers out the window because of this hassle but nevertheless they're having to abide by these european regulations anyway in order to stay part of that you're the customs union better member of the new passports of the new color has been manufactured by a french company well we're going to take a little bit of a break here don't go away much more coming your way. from
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twenty eight team coverage we've signed one of the greatest goalkeepers of all but there was one more question by the way who's going to be our coach. guys i know you on the us he's a huge star among us and the huge amount of pressure come out you have to be the center of the problem here we do and we will go through all the great the great good you are the rock at the back nobody gets past you we need you to get the ball going left go. alone and doesn't want to you know and i'm really happy to join for the two thousand and three of the world cup in russia. the special one was also appreciated me to say the review beyond the team.

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