until polling day sure ok thanks but it was a party over there. now in other news this afternoon donald trump has appointed a new commander of u.s. and nato forces in afghanistan the u.s. led mission to help afghanistan get rid of terrorists started in two thousand and two shortly after the nine eleven attack lieutenant general austin miller becomes the eighteenth commander of the seventeen year campaign and that means on average the afghanistan mission has had a new command every year but the latest u.s. watchdog report does say that the campaign has brought little good to afghanistan.

or someone afghanistan who had hoped that america's presence would assure a new period of peace and stability have paid a heavy price with more on that his r.t.c. america. back in august twenty sixth teen an afghan man named his son after donald trump but that was before trump's top television for the white house now after being inspired by trump's business achievements outlined his books the afghan man hope that giving his son the same name would bring about the same sort of luck but we're very happy to name our child after the best politician and i hope he will become a politician like donald trump is well i gave my son this name to make him lucky and i want to see him as smart and mindful as donald trump but that's backfired miserably the family was driven out of their hometown because his community took issue with the child's non muslim name now he's proportionately fled afghanistan

after seeing the reaction to my son's name and also the taliban directed assassination of the man who awarded president from the medal i don't feel safe this comes after the taliban assassinated one of the afghan men who minted a gold medal honoring the us president back in january cold in the b. and his friend a far hot bari raise money to produce a special gift for donald trump to thank the state department for tough into stance on pakistan we are suspending security assistance security assistance only to pakistan at this time in till the pakistani government takes decisive action against groups including the afghan taliban gombe was killed by the taliban and that's according to a taliban spokesperson sadly appreciation for donald trump it isn't exactly body armor his friend who was involved in producing the medal for a party now fears for his life and he blames that washington for failing to protect them. the americans are all friends and can help us in fact we would deceived

because we thought the americans really appreciates all work and our intentions we thought the u.s. is a superpower and values friendship but it doesn't nearly seventeen years ago the u.s. invaded afghanistan to eradicate terrorism but after all these years to even those who still have trust in washington. seems that it can't be protected samir khan park city washington d.c. . now accusations are being flung after a russian journalist and kremlin critic was killed in the ukrainian capital car he was shot in the back while entering his apartment more details now from the. it was a forty one year old russian journalist who died from gunshot wounds in ukraine's capital kiev it was felt in his apartment by his wife who called the emergency services but he later died from these injuries was a war veteran correspondent he worked for

a number of russian media outlets as well as being a contributor to the b.b.c. and the guardian he was well known though for his criticism of russia's actions in syria and ukraine and took part in many opposition movements as well off that he left russia in february last year he moved to settle in ukraine to work as a t.v. host now local police in kiev believes that his journalistic activities are probably one of the main reasons behind his killings pap's judging his criticism of the kremlin in the past now they also say though that he never reported any threats to his life or asked for security assistance now ukrainian m.p. anton publicly stated that putin's regime is targeting those who are unbreakable but russia's foreign minister sergei lavrov has said before this investigation has even started the thing that is quick to be pointed out to russia. this is becoming a trend for example the scruples unsubstantiated accusations but let's investigate

them late the use of a chemical substance and duma they said was responsible investigation hasn't started yet but that's bomb. and another tragedy last month's russian journalist. was shot in his own home. prime minister says that was carried out by the russian security services the investigation hasn't even started yet the russian foreign ministry has also underlined the alarming number of violence against journalists in ukraine that's cost our minds back to some of these where russia has been falsely blames. was a crane in russian dies in two thousand and fifteen now russia was immediately blamed for the death but he was killed by ultra right at. for his pro russian views a moving one to share a method a russian ukrainian gymnast who was killed in two thousand and sixteen not by the russians but by a bomb detonated by ukrainian security services and in two thousand and seventeen then the spot on and cough the former russian deputy was killed but was russia

behind this night was closer to home his wife's ex-boyfriend would it the killing now. they can't police have ruled out suicide but now the russian investigative committee have opened up their own investigation and have aged authorities to look closely into the matter and assess the value watching r.t. more news continues. to make its manufacture consent to public wealth. when the ruling class is protect themselves. with the fine merry go round if. we can all middle of the room see.

what politicians do. put themselves on the line they get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be president. some want. to be right. this is what. real people. understand why. they should. welcome back now donald trump has repeatedly called the investigation into alleged collusion with russia a witch hunt but according to one democrat that is a move straight out of the kremlin's playbook with more his. according to

a top democrat in congress if you use the term which on to and you say it over and over and over again which of which are and which you may be a dupe of the kremlin listen to maxine waters talk about trump he's a lying about which but you notice he says which over and over again he has learned some of the russian tactics about how you you know deal with getting people to believe you you say it over and over again so repeating something over and over and over again is a russian thing that may not be the wisest thing for the democrats to say they've had the same song on repeat for roughly two years russia has hacked into a lot of things the criminal clan russia was meddling in our elections russia undermined hillary clinton to overt russian hacking operation have taken place by russians intelligence committee says that russia is behind this in some form its goal to do with russia and of course ian brown sugar rush is a russian so if trump invented the term which why did the democrats use that exact

same term back in the one nine hundred ninety s. when bill clinton's sex scandal was all over the headlines smells like a double standard to me speaking of double standards remember how the democrats pounded the podium against gina haskell the new cia chief there are two reasons that i oppose this nomination miss haskel support for torture and her willingness to destroy evidence of the cia's use of torture and i have serious concerns about. her confirmation and what kind of signal sent this lady is the real do i'm telling you we're here with everything we possibly think she answered didn't flinch at all well it turns out that while this controversial interrogation program was going on democrats in congress were getting briefings the entire time and did nothing about it and now after the dog and pony show at the hearings is over gina haskell is getting the job and why is gina haskell the new cia chief because two democrats voted for her to an intelligence committee look spoiled. to indorse president

trump's pick to head the cia gina haskell today this clears the path for her confirmation of cia director if she gained support from democrat senate democrats back when she was secretary of state hillary clinton was always criticizing countries around the world for their human rights record she even pushed obama to send cruise missiles to libya back in two thousand and eleven supposedly to defend human rights yet at the same time her personal foundation the clinton foundation had no problem getting donations from the very countries that she was criticizing and sooty arabia giving twenty five billion dollars are all of these countries you talk about women and women's rights so these are people that push gays office buildings these are people that kill women and treat women horribly and yet you take their money so the democrats talk one way and act another i'm not sure where we're finding all these russian tactics they're constantly making reference to because they seem to be practicing double standards all along. r.t.

new york. a british financier wanted in russia for tax fraud has been briefly detained in spain before being released checking viggo as more and that story. in december of last year bill browder was sentenced by a moscow court to nine years in prison for fraud and tax evasion now back in the ninety's browder was one of the biggest foreign investors in russia but everything eventually went south and his firm was investigated for tax fraud earlier today he tweeted that he had been arrested by spanish police in madrid showing a picture of the arrest warrant which listed fraud as the criminal charge shortly after however he posted that he had been released claiming interpol advised the spanish national police to not honor the red notice which is essentially an international arrest warrant and accused russia of abusing the international police organization but for their part interpol has said there never has been such a notice for broader and spanish police said the warrant they have on file simply turned out to no longer be valid adding browder was not arrested today simply

detained rather may have been making assumptions based on past situations where interpol refused to enforce russian warrants for him doing them politically motivated something moscow denies there's a long history between russia and broader and he is the man behind the u.s. magnitsky act a law that blacklist russian officials accused of corruption or human rights violations it's named after sergei magnitsky who worked for broader corporation and was arrested and found dead in his moscow prison cell in two thousand and nine ever since broader has condemned the russian government and sought to hold as many people responsible for magnitsky death as possible. now as crime is on the increase in the u.k. sparking debate on how to counter it the judge has chimed in to calling for a ban on the unrestricted sale of long pointed nine maj says that long pointed knives should be sold only read to find circumstances of the also thinks that the police should launch a program to modify knives purchased legally says his proposals will reduce the

number of life threatening injuries caused by stabbings the latest police figures to show that over the last four years knife crime in london has almost doubled earlier debated the issue. ridiculous suggestion isn't it what we're going to do is we're going to basically printing lies the decency on a majority for the for all the close and let's put it the right the downright criminal where we need to be doing these dishing out proper sentences for the. reestablishing proper family values and teach them proper moral codes my twenty five years of experience as a forensic psychiatrist again and again i would come across impulsive unplanned home signs where arguments in the home setting would simply goes out of hand no i don't i'm not aware that enormous because i got a minute for hours or i was there was a case. there was a case just recently where somebody to read the source point are you going to be

calling for frying pans and solves problems to be banned next if you can identify high risk households people on bail for example and say look here's a real alternative to a sharp knife or this is something the reduces the risk. just how do you describe oh did i describe if you can the clinical psychologist what a high risk household is because if it's a high risk our house or whether somebody in there who might grab a knife now it's a bit i think there are a variety of different ways of identifying places where this might be useful intervention if you think somebody is a threat to somebody they're living with all that person has to be removed or you are playing russian roulette but not with a loaded revolver but with a key change or full of no lives it just doesn't make sense tomorrow is no logic. like we had earlier one of the things driving a knife as well as gun crime in britain according to police is

a form of rap music known as drill they've asked now to delete videos which they say glamorize violence. often and we've seen this in london we have gangs screaming drill videos in those videos the taunt to shudder and say what they're going to do to each other and specifically what they're going to do to who very quickly you will see these are socially with lyrics which are bad glamorize and violence serious violence and to give you some context real music is a type of rap originating in chicago concerns about its message originate from the fact that the word drill is a slang term for a weapon it's lyrics are also often containing a reference to the shady side of street life we spoke to rap artist who says that removing rap content from the internet is not the best way to fight violence. i think they're trying to paint a picture of young black you as being criminals and trying to villainize them take away the responsibility from themselves perhaps take away the responsibility from

the from the system from the government. i don't actually believe that the intention of this is even to remove violence because removing music videos from the internet is not going to remove violence we need to look at those communities see what's going on to see what help they're actually in the address of your address and give them more support music is actually saving worth of these children's lives . music isn't anything that's being blamed some video games and i thought to be the reason the recent school shootings most of the control of the city's being stirred up by first person shooter gangs many say they should be restricted rap artist again says that people should decide for themselves what is acceptable. never experience any incident where we're at music instigate violence and i've witnessed violence i'm actually from the same kind of community as these young youth of my witness when i witnessed lots of the things you're talking about and violence was never the music was never the reason any of those things happened will any of us

were involved in this worrying how far could go cause what was next who gets the decision to say this one is too violent this one is ok when those things are taken out of our hands and definitely if they're put in the hands of the police who have already been proven to use braces tactics to target those communities. international thank you company this afternoon i'll be back with more news in the headlines at the top of the hour. choate's seemed wrong on one old quote just don't hold. the old you get to shape out these days you can stick up to it and gain from it because betrayal. when so many find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground.

the american political soap opera widely known as russia gate appears to have no wind well no evidence has been revealed the trump campaign colluded with russia there is mounting evidence the intelligence community or should i say the deep state monitor or even spied on trump world. four men are sitting in a car when the feds get shot in the head. all 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. this

is boom bust broadcasting around the world from washington d.c. i'm part children thank you for watching coming up on the program today the fun nominally huge farm bill has failed to pass congress it's hit a snag why is it important fred kaufman author of bet the farm joins us from new york to bring us into the loop plus the philippines is heavily reliant on coal and other fossil fuel to power their growing country but how are they trying to distance themselves from that r.t. correspondent alex but i love it brings us up to speed joins us from toronto to discuss and later we'll be joined by the report which the founder and c.e.o. of drill marks who joins us to discuss breck's it and all of the calamity that has

ensued as we approach the two year anniversary. for exit referendum all of that and more coming up on today's show but first let's get some headlines pretty fast at a hard world one of wall street's largest computer driven kuan hedge fund and that is headed by called chin ski and manages roughly five billion dollars and is offering another fund and this fund will be open to outside investors world point currently employs more than six hundred fifty people one hundred twenty are ph d.'s with offices and twenty six cities in fifteen different countries. while investigators have not yet reported on the southwest airlines flight that took the life of one woman there are increasing calls for enhanced inspections since it's been determined that there were warnings about the suspect plane engine nearly two years prior to the accident lawmakers and regulatory officials at the u.s. federal aviation administration are considering increased inspections to date limited budgets and staffing at the f.a.a.

have focused inspections on the greatest areas of need and threat airport on the southwest accident is expected in several weeks. and wal-mart says they will continue but on their buying streak as they endeavor to compete against amazon reported on the program before that wal-mart recently purchased eight hundred seventy eighty seven rather percent of the indian company flipkart which is india's largest e-commerce company and at the end of april wal-mart merged with u.k. based asda grocer with their are larger rival j. sansbury while warmer currently operates in twenty eight countries around the world more appear to be on the way as their strategy shifts to owning or at least partial ownership of additional global retail companies. and now we move to talk about the farm bill a huge eight hundred fifty six billion dollars piece of legislation the numbers

matter here while we don't talk about every. bill time a bill passes the house or senate this one is different not only because it's huge and taxpayers foot the bill but because the farm bill impacts so very many people and a lot of people that you may be unaware about here discuss a fred kaufman offer a bet the farm fred thanks as always for being with us this is huge money program and it's paid for by taxpayers but what does the farm bill actually do why is it important. the farm bill has been a signature piece of legislation and bipartisan legislation since one thousand nine hundred thirty three bar every five years it has been passed into last monday and there is parts in it for everybody in this country the farmers get their price supports they get their insurance that's for the rural population in the urban population we get school lunches we get assistance for food everybody is a part of this bill that also happens to be the largest conservation bill in the

country in the country for land conservation the last when we saw it on monday that all that funding had been cut but it didn't pass the bill did not pass and congress is looking at a major impasse right now fred you and i both know about the farm bill and you know i worked on it for the several of the many many years but for our viewers the boom busters who don't let's talk about just a little bit more of sort of the table setting here you say that it includes the food assistance program but we still have millions of people on food stamps food assistance why is that if we're paying to support them well really what we're looking at here in terms of the snap program that's supplemental nutrition program is that before the commodity crisis of two thousand and seven two thousand and eight we had about twenty six million people in the program that shot up after the commodity boom of two thousand and eight and twenty eleven till about forty nine

million people it is now back down to about forty two million people on food assistance and what we're looking at every year here is roughly a sixty five billion twenty billion split in terms of in terms of the money sixty five going to the herb in the supplemental nutrition and the school lunch programs and the twenty going too far farm assistance but the thing bart that's important to see is that in the past we could. see these coalitions they were all in the urban with the suburban in the middle that has completely collapsed that is no longer the political reality of this country i want to get to that in a moment but i want to hit on a couple other basic issues in the farm bill first you mentioned earlier the and environment a lot of people hear the phrase they say well the farm bill produces pays producers farmers for not producing and one of those reasons is for environmentally sensitive areas so explain that

a little bit more well one of the this is this legislation allows farmers to put aside and conserve great parts of their acreage so that it can remain natural its it is the largest single program of this kind is the largest conservation program but also what we're looking at here is legislation which is taking away any kind of oversight for using pesticides that could conceivably harm endangered species it is taking away funding for clean energy programs and in farms and rural populations this is why all along with the work requirements for snap that it did not get one single democratic vote just crazy and i want to move on to sort of the politics of this but before we do i just want to say it also includes a farm bill real development programs and that is rural housing assistance. programs if you're a member of a rural electric co-op a lot of those grants and loans come from the farm bill u.s.d.a.

and it also has a rural business programs to help fuel inject a smaller business in rural areas so if there's a whole wide wrath of programs that are included fred now let's talk a little bit about the politics here because it's so important this has been a bipartisan bill one of the reasons that i liked working on it got to work with republicans and democrats but it's broken down in a pretty big way why. well that's a really interesting that's a very interesting question look the politics in this country is broken and so what we're seeing is this extreme partisanship and that what we're seeing in the news is this idea of the far right the republican caucus is no longer following in lockstep with paul ryan that paul ryan the speaker of the house has lost control of the scheduling he's lost control of his party and we have the freedom caucus saying we are not going to vote for this bill until we see an immigration bill and

effectively taking themselves out of it now what is really going on here what's really going on here is we have a lame duck speaker of the house somebody who everybody knows is no longer going to be the speaker of the house and we're seeing a lot of political positioning who will be next in fact the freedom caucus just today demanded that mark meadows the far right of the far right throw his hat in the ring to be speaker of the house here's a guy who voted against funding for hurricane sandy here's a guy who led the efforts to shut down not just the farm bill but the entire government in two thousand and thirteen mark meadows i've got to watch out for these guys absolutely i mean my experience for as i jokingly say in government for too long a part of the problem perhaps is that trying to work across the aisle is the best way to do it and these outliers on the left or the right by the way really aren't the way to get things working and government to too many politicians say they campaigned against government how it doesn't work and they get to washington and

they seek to prove it let me ask you this before we leave what do you think will happen in the midterm elections that's important we don't talk about politics on boom bust a lot but that's important because the tax cuts because the transportation infrastructure bill what do you think's going to happen. you know i am not a soothsayer i am. i'm going to call the democrats bart i'm going i'm going to hope democrats they control the house and the whole question of who will be the next speaker for the republicans will become immediately moot and absolutely fred we will also be looking at the senate i work in both the house and senate and the senate tends to be a place where cooler heads do prevail there is only one hundred of them so they will try to work in concert with each other we'll see that maybe we'll have you back after the senate passed the bill fred kaufman author of bet the farm thank you fred for joining us thank you bart. and time now for a quick break but hang here because when we return we'll talk rex it and to help us

break down where the process stand will be joined by the c.e.o. and founder of strong market we're which the latest development but first we'll go to toronto where alex higher living will join us to talk about the philippines and their fictions the mole and what they're doing to move to clean energy back in a flash they took. in july twenty second team on an attempt a freelance journalist working with a. militant shelling in syria. to only his second finest quality has established a photo such as memorial they will recognize more reporters who often risked their lives with the sake of the truth and through that peace you can submit to your published works in a video or written form until june the twelfth those who will do it on t.v. don't come. with will make this manufacturer come

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