we're not going to repeat this morning and has tweets to go with it which i am not going to read because reading those tweets is what he wants us to do three even joy get a myth n.b.c. could have been a shining beacon of rationality for the rest of the media to look up to and not give trump exactly what he wanted but no president trump has seized on this new branding effort to discredit the discredit the russian investigators and i don't really know where. spygate and it just went on from there after running out of steam either supporting or contradicting trump claims little hint either way it still works for trump they went on spending air time defecting to semantics at play here we give you the great debate of informant first by what's your reaction first to the tweet and second to the distinction between a spy term on the president is using an informant there one in the same a confidential informant is someone who is informing confidentially in other words spying you may call this person

a confidential informant that sounds perfectly foreign right but what if it's a spot funnily enough and a breakdown of the coverage of translate this phrase by the washington post we were mentioned as having not picked up on it but you haven't said it yet with this whole time i haven't thought it ok well then spygate spygate spygate can we move on now the man at the center of the circle spygate is cambridge university professor stuff on helper who apparently contacted several of trump's aides legal a media analyst believes the real issues been lost in the media frenzy it's amazing how they focus on the word to spy versus informant when in fact the real question is what is the role that this gentleman was involved in what was mr helper . who cares is he a spy what you mean by that they also go through these great graphics of how many times you used the term and and did he needed in this context the same thing

happened when trump used the term wiretap they said there was no wiretapping and they kept it we were correct because they were focusing on the the age old wiretapping of your verses surveillance in the law i mean are they that serious did they miss the point the point is not whether this gentleman that by the way was out here by the media the question is now whether he technically falls under the the definitional rubric of spy vs informant question is what was he doing there in the first place why was mr trump the subject of this type of directed intelligence scrutiny in the first place. israel's turned back a group of palestinians ships trying to breach the gaza blockade and sail to cyprus

the main vessel was carrying patients wounded in recent border protests as well as students hoping to get an education a broad seventeen people were on board the vessel trying to reach the limit seoul in southern cyprus it was intercepted nine nautical miles off the coast of gaza that's the spartans that arsenal accords under which israel is obliged to let vessels travel up to twenty nautical miles from the coast local correspondent and could already was on one of those boats trying to get out. so now we're in the middle of the sea as you see there are expensive tens of goats take it to the sea turn out we know that there we are going to sail to eat out of the line of where and not at the wild that is the last point we can we can reach what at palestinians are continuing to create much of return events and they're continuing the protests but here today in another way this is more of it and that's not to break the seas that has been imposed on gaza strip for more than eleven

years. so now we're ensuring the for not a pullout that you start to see is right warships that. go closer to the palestinian boats that they started asking them to leave. would still not clear were trying to get closer and to see what's happening all we see is right you want ships going closer as being very close to the palestinian protesters both politicians one won't go back to the seaport unless something big happens with it now we started to feel that it's getting a bit dangerous israeli military said hamas was using people to carry out a propaganda operation and breach the brocades the audiophiles has said they're also ready to provide medical assistance to injured palestinians who will later be returned to gaza. while the israeli parliament is the base of the new law to ban

the filming all that soldiers thoughts offer a series of videos showing the brutal treatment of palestinian protesters went viral. these amateur videos are insured late 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 and the bill if passed will target people who attempt to undermine the spirit of israeli soldiers by taking pictures of them the offense will be punishable by five years in prison or ten years if there is intent to harm state security experts told us 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. it's. so. poorly they cannot. you can never take them to call who cannot do anything who's there and they think this is this is. me i'm against this law of this legislation because you know when you don't allow people to take pictures of solid jails it starts with the law to your stock before them all free speech then your move to.

taking photos off my hand or whatever this is the end of the marcos. crowds have taken to the streets of naples over the italian president's controversial move to block euro skeptic parties from forming a government protesters accuse the president of disregarding the results of the election the leader of the five star movement that's one of the parties to try to form a coalition join the march and had the following to say. i thought it no i don't look they said no to the government chosen by talent 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. to the euro skeptic coalition failed to form a government after the italian president rejected their choice of finance minister he was seen as too anti european president then appointed a pro europe prime minister fresh elections are now on the horizon in the country

the failed coalition has called for the president to be impeached they've accused him of bowing to e.u. pressure shot at the risk it takes a look at brussels track record of getting its own 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 and 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 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. i mean find the constitution the government can't change it. 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 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 this bill treaty. that was 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 they finally got the answer it was looking for. those who were supposed to jump for joy what about greece the mediterranean country drowning in a sea of. its vote is decisively rejecting the terms of an international bailout in two thousand and fifteen silly business i would like to say that the greek people made a historic choice they respond to the existing john logan europe but democracy worked

in an unexpected way despite the greeks say no to a sturdy their 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. if you could 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. blocks plans it seems that the e.u. prefers to have its own way with god less. russian journalist has been killed in the ukrainian capital kiev our goal was shot in the back in his own apartment he moved to ukraine last year and was known for his criticism of the

russian government the case was discussed at the un security council and the russian ambassador voiced his alarm over ukraine's failure to investigate the killings of russian journalists. musician with independents who position sports in journalism motive in ukraine and these crimes are not being investigated the russian citizen journalist. who was killed in kiev we expect the ukrainian government to blame russia for this is they didn't previous cases. when you scare stories making headlines ahead of the russia world cup british tabloids are claiming that russian hooligans are threatening to kill gay and transgender phones unnecessary should begin to look for the claims 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. centrally 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 l g b t 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 cossacks horsemen during the world cup this summer as 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 engaging the last two years in conjunction with the foreign office also the f.a.

and this to try to see those reassurances from the russian authorities with a great number of meetings with the military so that the. consistent reassurance that the aspiration is to call a safe that shows. to the best of it a disability or security team have been impressed with what they see on the ground aggressively. approach me all the organizations went to the confederations cup last year and. you know in coach for the school well the foreign office has also 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 twenty 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 we spoke earlier to

daryl to 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 was very different from what the tabloids are depicting well i'm a black gay football fan have been for thirty years and out here in britain and my personal experience was one of safety feeling safe and feeling secure during the champions league two years ago hosted by c.s.k. 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. and the polish defense ministry has asked washington to permanently deploy thousands of u.s. troops in the country opponents as it's directly appealed to the us off the need to

ignored simple requests for almost two decades. this is of great importance because the three. of 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 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 has a ready 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 lithuania they are constantly rotating between these countries and to 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 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 permanent u.s. military base in poland would give the government there any more pull with russia for example. as many as seven hundred mexican children have been separated from their parents at the u.s. border with mexico since october figure came to light in a new office of refugees resettlement reports. the trumpet ministrations being using has been used excessive force this image in particular of small children caged and sleeping on the floor went viral that caused outrage it was assumed when it showed the harsh consequences of trump's policies towards mexican migrants though as it later turned out critics were a bit too quick in rushing to judgment. this

is happening right now with the only debate matters is how we force our government to get these kids back to their families as fast as humanly possible. i said from the r.t. team for this i would join us again in thirty minutes for the latest global news updates. join me every thursday on the alex salmond sure and i'll be speaking to us from the world of politics sport i'm showbusiness i'll see you then. china says they're going to buy a lot more stuff from the u.s.

. so trump is having a fact i mean is that weighing into the minutia of trade deals which you know president has done that i can recall the usually they just paint a broad stroke and hope for the best so he's actually getting into the details of trade deals that. four men are sitting in a car when the fifth gets shot in the hand. four different versions of what happened one of them is on the death row there's no way he could have done it there's no possible way because the list did not shoot around a corner.

greetings and salutation. all the world is a stage talk watchers especially in the wild and woolly world of western politics where more often than not the bigger that the actrix equals the higher yield from the proverbial box office of political power points and defense spending and nothing nothing brings out the spending more than the classic tale of good versus evil and thankfully the united states who curiously always cast themselves as the action movie good guy has built for itself and its plucky wise cracking european allies some classic the ones to choose from these days you've got kim jong luna north korea iran and the ayatollah always a big box office draw for our allies in the middle east like saudi arabia and israel and of course there is our classic old foe russia and our bond villain in waiting president vladimir putin. since the alleged d.n.c. hack in the election of donald trump russia has been put back in the billing

spotlight stoking age old fears at home and abroad as well take poem for example where it was recently discovered that they offered the united states a two billion dollar box office of exchange rate a brand spanking new u.s. military base yes because that is truly what the world needs right now yet another u.s. military base in a document obtained by the polish news portal outlet the polish depends ministry states poland is a stud fast ally of the united states and is committed to advancing our shared interests and values which are increasingly being threatened by russian interference a permanent us presence in poland will ensure that both nations can continue to advance strengthen and protect these values and interests and this we know nothing plays to the heartstrings of the pentagon and the u.s. congress more than shared interests values and two billion in military industrial

dollars so with nato advancing russia getting typecast to the united states collecting allies checks i think it's time to start watching the hawks. but that's. the bottom. you know that i got. this. week so. welcome everybody to watch the harks i am a robot and while it. was years ago and. twenty eight. maybe nine hundred eighty five bodies. that's

where we're at you know it's all right so poems offering two billion dollars joint kind of funding to kind of lure to build a permanent military base there because they're so afraid of evil russia they need a military base there. yet the u.s. is the one to invade countries the u.s. is the one to build a global empire like all of that so it is always off to me. on the other hand to have them kind of happy that like they're offering to help pay for it i mean you don't see that very often you know usually we're the ones attacked u.s. taxpayers are the ones like clip in the bill for all these bases but they're pleading telling you to have their plead this letter reads like a love letter they're just like please please we love you look great we are looking a well we get along it's like you know it's like you know they're asking their uncle to come over and build the garage that you know to store their car in but not like wanting to just bag and play and all as. the defense ministry pleaded that they are committed committed to share the burden of defense spending making the

decision more cost effective for the u.s. government and allay any concerns for congress in uncertain budgetary times seems like it's like buddy roemer we used to play red light green light together we grew up together we're buddies i help you pay for their plead and yet it seems it's a bit. like. i hate. conflict two things that make this the sports metaphor of all things but this feels like we'll build you a stadium and then you can come here and win win more war winning war winning yeah i don't i find it very odd first of all as you said we don't need bases i find the idea that this somehow having a military base there will will help. work together against interference which was apparently some facebook ads so i'm just a little confused over how a military base with guns and bombs and takes and french writer jets and missiles

is going to help keep the russians from posting facebook i guess they have fears of russia's going to just invade poland when what this is saying it's like why would why would they do that. that's the big that's the kind of you know they always point to well look at like crimea look at this look at their runs in the crimea either right i love how again how the north say it's again bringing up crimea like she just it's suddenly because desire again because they need something but here's the deal you didn't care you didn't care while they were going on the care about i was actually happening to people and they never do until it's news where they where where were all the great inside reports from crimea the russians dragging be able to the. stories run on right as if in some sort of would go as. if they were relatively peaceful their motives

a little bit i mean why was made out of the united states who pays what it's all just gross i think it's really a disgusting situation and nobody on and you side is right from my perspective because they're literally sitting there there's this two percent that everyone has to pay. but it's a bit like you know. say you. to his son of whatever you like and you know will make sure you're protected if there is a war. i find that a little weird it is and this two percent is suggested the agreement that they'll pay those spend that much on defense. but twenty seventeen according to sign magazine just five of the twenty nato members actually had met that required and here's the thing trump has been saying the administration is saying this you know we're you know. or else or else i visit all of those in

a kitty it's like orals to what. what you what are you going to do close bases that would actually be a good idea. threatening i don't understand why you would put threats into this thing to say that's ridiculous that they go spend two percent of their gross domestic product. on war which means bias in the united states so everybody at raytheon can make america executive bonuses. for good you know the u.s. has got military bases with countries around the world pirates who want to book your boat. for about three years to researchers in the u.k. went about studying the facts of a thousand person office while they were transitioning from a traditional workspace to a newly designed open office plan lead author dr allison hurst found in the study that called doing gender in the new office that women in particular felt anxious about the idea of being constantly watched and felt they had to dress in a certain way however there was also evidence that workers felt more equal as

everybody was more approachable in an open space it was also seen by some as a chance to dress more smartly and fulfill a new identity now this study didn't really find anything particularly new and in two thousand and eight australian study of open office plans and concluded that research evidence shows that employees face a multitude of problems such as the loss of privacy loss of identity low work productivity various health issues over stimulation and low job satisfaction when working in an open office planned work environment and yet the headlines following the u.k. studies release claim that they study proves the quote unintended sexism of office open office spaces asked if they encouraged sexism and even framed the alleged sexism subtle openoffice plans have a lot of problems for all workers male or female but is using sexism to explain the open office plans failure is just another way to paint women as

a weak sensitive and paranoid. well top of the wall is you're a woman who has worked in the workforce over the years is in open office wildly sexist and there's a does it like invite you know sexist remarks and like going in like that kind of thing no more than just you know being around and have we've all been around it's out there being around i mean i've never found that i've i haven't had that experience i do find it funny there was a that the idea of the male gay yeah i'm not saying that men don't watch each other or that women don't watch each other we all watch each other but. because you know there's like i you know the study is that ok when you have an open office environment like you're seeing like is all that friend and like silicon valley and places are like ok nobody has an office it's all open chairs everyone can see what everyone is doing or sometimes they put videos.