and some in afghanistan who would hope to america's presence would assure in a new period of peace and stability will they paid a heavy price mira can explains. back in august twenty sixth 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 off to the best politician and i hope he will become a politician like donald trump as well i gave my son this name to make him lucky and i want to see him is 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 party raise money to produce a special gift for donald trump to thank the state department for a toughened 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 isn't exactly body armor his friend who was involved in producing the medal for the bari 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 some air con martin washington d.c. where you were. the doctors who treated the x. russian spy service crew pilot is daughter following the poisoning in the british city of souls bree in march have appeared in a b.b.c. documentary and he's on the situation has been looking into what new things we've learned about the case. so b.b.c. newsnight program documentary has certainly highlighted some more curiosities about the whole script all saga adding just a little bit more mystery to this whole story if we didn't have enough already now this is a firsthand account of the medical staff doctors and nurses that were treating this compiles when they were admitted to hospital in solsbury following the poisoning and for starters some of the things described in this documentary were that

initially it was assumed that the script all had experienced an opiate overdose and there were no extra precautions taken in that regard there was no indication of the fact that there was a gent and therefore we take no more protection when any patient comes in which has no point taken any extra caution in terms of protecting ourselves the screwballs were found on a park bench back in march on march fourth on a sunday they were taken to hospital then by tuesday police officer nick bailey was admitted into the hospital and then only after it was that based off of red flagging from the scientific lab porton down that it was revealed that a nerve agent had been used and despite all this and all the talk of the harm that this nerve agent potentially being what it is could cause those who poles were sort of miraculously cured and this is something that

a doctor in this documentary described as well that it came as a surprise how quickly they had recovered meanwhile a russian chemical expert that we spoke to said that the symptoms associated with an opioid overdose would be very different from those associated with a nerve agent poisoning which most of them with police reports. grupo was swinging back and forth while seated on the bench and also raised his hands multiple times this description resembles a drugs overdose and the initial version was the scruples were suffering from friends a new point. total signs of military groups substance poisoning or rapid pupil constriction spasms and you really incontinence all the symptoms are absent from the initial reports and photos well certainly lots of curious details and to this day it seems clear that there are still lots and lots of details in this whole case to be addressed after the incident the u.k.

accused russia of carrying out the attack saying that only moscow had the means and the motive as well as the track record russia has repeatedly denied that it had anything to do with the soulsby poisoning it said other countries developed nova chuck and made clear that it traded scripts high profile spy swap and that the former agent posed no threat to the country's interests or skills or says that the fact is being denied access to your script our russian citizen is they say suspicious a former u.n. chemical weapons expert told us it's hard to fathom how the medical staff avoided toxic exposure themselves given that they weren't wearing protective gear for the first few days. well it seems to me that there was no. any poisons on the skin or on cloth of patients because they would be stripped of the cloth and they would be. patched to.

check and hard trade you know other stuff and of course there would be contact between the personnel and the victims so it seems that. raises more questions on how the agent was introduced in their bodies how they were disposed. failure was also exposed and look he actually contacted screwballs for just about several minutes and he was exposed but the personnel who dealt with scruples was not exposed as mentioned the u.k. government accuses moscow of poisoning scrip island his daughter and in some surprisingly blunt terms you could defense secretary wants even told russia to quote shut up and go away as later whether he regretted making that remark gather willing to try to dodge the question but i'd like to pay tribute to the health

service person sorry did you answer the mayor no no no no no no i'm you regret using that kind of casual language the world your world united behind britain and one more time would you please answer the question we came together with our allies and why not go to russia to interview terminated because you won't answer the question good luck with the african elephant for project. donald trump has repeatedly called the investigation into alleged collusion with russia a witch hunt but according to one democrat it's a move straight out of the kremlin's playbook artie's kilmore been explained. 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 that 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's hacked into a lot of things the criminal clan russia was meddling in our election russia undermined hillary clinton to over russian hacking operation these hacks have taken place by russians intelligence committee says that russia is behind this in some form it's goal to do with russia and of course the embarrass your russia is the 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 him intelligence committee looks poised to an. president trump's pick to head the cia gina haskell today this clears the path of 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 or women's rights so these are people that push gays austins of 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. the e.u. budget commissioner has apologized amid a backlash over his recent remark that italy should take its cue from the markets when deciding whether to vote for populists and about this morning expect ation is that the coming weeks will show that the markets government bonds and the economic development of italy could prove to be so drastic that this would be

a possible signal for voters not to vote for populists and the left all right. that's going certainty in italy's shocks the financial markets worried about italy's possible exit from the euro however one of the leaders of italy's failed coalition knows that no such measures were ever in the program. if the markets are worried italy could leave the euro that's because someone has been saying this government wants out of the euro despite that never having been our plan. when the euro skeptic coalition failed to form a government its leaders blamed pressure from the e.u. on these peter all of as more on the role brussels has played in italy's ongoing political crisis on sunday night when sergio meltzer reality italian president vetoed the proposal of a euro skeptic for the role of economy minister he essentially scrapped a coalition between the populists of the five star movement and league and nord

what he also did was he said he sent a tally and voters back to the polls he sent the markets crashing down and he sent accusations flying that the e.u. had put a bit of pressure on him to do just that whatever but i mean i'm wondering if we are in a democracy and if in italy the italians decide for the germans to sign the french decide it's incredible sensually these comments from they played right into the hands of the euro skeptics because they're now getting ready for new elections which could come as soon as september they can now say to their voters look we said last time they were trying to take your sovereignty away look what they did when we tried to put in place a government in italy so it was ultimately left to the european commission president to try and smooth things over between the populists and euro skeptics in italy and the commission in brussels italy's fate does not lie in the hands of the financial markets regardless of which political party may be in power italy is

a founding member of the european union that has contributed immensely to european integration the commission is ready to work with italy with responsibility and mutual respect italy deserves respect as i said those elections in italy could come as soon as september and between now one polling day will show to be a lot of people keeping an eye on what comments are coming out of brussels with regards to which feet which direction it to the should proceed in the future. seven years on from the start of the war in syria is it finally coming to an end and does the country's president have a nickname for donald trump artie's smug as the of sat down with bashar al assad to get the answers to those questions on a variety of others here's a preview of that exclusive interview. if anything the syrian civil war is growing hotter on the ground of bashar al assad is winning the rebels and

islamists are in retreat unlike their backers forces from five nuclear powers are now directly engaged in military action in syria each determined to win with salvage what they can on the ground which makes the perfect ground for an escalation an escalation that no one wants but one that nobody would be able to control in the exclusive interview with r.t. syrian president bashar al assad has shared his thoughts on the coming future on the precarious dangerous and fragile months ahead and on the endgame of this devastating war with regards to the united states relation to would you president trump was called you quote animal asset to have a nickname for the u.s. president. this is not my language so i cannot through similar language this is his

loan it to prevent him thing there's a very. know in principle that what you see is what you are three wanted to prevent or to leave. anyway. you didn't move anything in between this kind of language who did anything. in full for for anyone the only thing that moves you if what people who trust people who are liberal headed people who are thoughtful people or. if because that would move anything to do with a positive or negative somebody like tom we will not inform. the full version of that interview with the syrian president premieres on r.t. on thursday morning the times on your screen coming up it will also be available from thursday on our website that's our dot com.

london police are going after rap music and one type in particular in a bid to curb the disturbing rise in street violence officers think that the genre known as drill is behind a surge in stabbings and murders and of even a huge cheap to act often and we've seen this in london we have gangs screaming drill videos in those videos the taunted shot there and see 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 to glamorize in violence serious violence video sharing giant has already deleted some thirty videos following police complaints drill music originated in chicago and gained its name from a slang term for automatic weapons it's been picked up by performers in britain the lyrics often get a reference to the tough side of street life we spoke to rap artist nova who says

that removing rap content from the internet is hardly the best way to fight violence i think they're fun to paint a picture of young black you as being criminals and trying to villainize them and take away the responsibility from themselves perhaps take away the responsibility from the from the system from the government. but 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 and it's a look at those communities see what's going on to see what help they're actually in the address a story addressed privately and give them more support music is actually saving lots of these children's lives. music's not the only thing being blamed though some video games are now being targeted over recent school shootings first person shooter games are stirring much of the outcry critics now insist that they should be restricted rap artist novara gates says people should decide for themselves what's acceptable. i've never experienced any incident where we're at music

instigated violence and i've witnessed violence i'm actually from the same kind of communities these young and i have witnessed violence i've witnessed lots of the things these are young rappers are talking about and violence was never the music was never the reason any of those things happened will any of us were involved in that is worrying how far i could go because what was next hoot who gets the decision to say this one is too violent this one is ok when those things are taken out of our hand and definitely if they put in the hands of the police who have already been proven to use braces tactics to target those communities. ok i'll be back with the latest news headlines and more stories for you would often now see that.

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hawks that we along with our loved ones. the imaginary time here we're going underground is edinburgh's the annual general meeting of the bailed out majority nationalized royal bank of scotland and a possible tory government privatization coming out of the church with the murder rate in the austerity hit british capital overtaking new york city is police censorship of music videos on you tube a sign of desperation we speak to someone who represented one hundred twenty thousand cops steve white former chair of the police federation and taking on liberties that's watched growing them see mostly for the exist newest track but claims inspired by successive trays are made scandals from when drudge to grand

fell to the creation of a british hostile environment all the civil coming of a days going underground but first as the e.c.b. desperately tries to prop up italian defacto junk bonds after the imposition of an i.m.f. man as prime minister austerity in britain is arguably leading to bizarre threats to freedom of speech sadly i have had to look at quite a lot of drill music you can access it sadly also very easily not so easily now thanks to her who is the boss of britain's largest police force because you gave police have repeatedly had you tube delete more than half their catalogue of drill music videos while multi-billion dollar corporate hollywood films arguably glamorize violence there is no room for art alleged to articulate u.k. in a city violence by independent musicians well as british police try to get to grips with the u.k. violence on the streets by censoring music videos i'm joined now by the former chair of the police federation representing one hundred twenty thousand police officers steve white steve thanks for coming back on i'm going to ask after your

cable going underground last time explaining very forensically what was wrong with government policy. why you're no longer cheering the police federation oh well i've moved on we move on in our professional careers and you know i had a great experience being the chairman but i felt as though there's more that i could give to the rest of policing and that's what i'm doing now because it seems so sudden and the papers are full of stories and speculator freemasonry holds of things i think it's given me an opportunity to talk a little bit freer about some concerns that i've got within the culture of of policing the culture of prisons got to change it's got to change to keep pace with the new way of policing and of course the new massive new wave of different types of offenses that we've now got to deal with and of course you know drew music is one of those issues and we've got to have a culture in the police service that can respond to that and so you know it's enabled me to speak a little bit freer about about issues such as that which is really important if the police are going to continue to evolve and to professionalize and to be able to

address those issues we're going to drill me sick it is good but you did feel presumably when you were chairing it that your concerns were shared in the main by the rank and file of officers oh yeah absolutely and of course we've now got a new home secretary who's going to have quite a challenge in terms of delivering what he spoke about at the recent police federation conference and i think it's going to be interesting to see how that that thinking within government may have changed i'd like to think that i played a part in that in the three and a half years that i was the police federation chairman rebuilding those links with government because you know you can be antagonistic towards government if you want and it's relatively easy to do that but it's a bit hard to restructure the work with them to say these are some of the real issues that need to be resolved some of that is about resources some of it as i ses around the changing culture and some of it is actually understanding what it takes to police the u.k. in the twenty first century and of course the rank and file are absolutely the

people that you need to be speaking to malaysian to that before you get to the new job if you go. after the disgraced home secretary on the road had to resign who proudly said that is brother was a police officer just take us back remind us what has happened to law and order in this country since terrorism into the government as more of a home secretary and and of course now minority government prime minister well of course we've been through a huge tranche of austerity for for seven or eight years now which has meant that there hasn't been the money in some public services that perhaps we could argue and i used to argue should have been putting in those resources i think the interesting thing is that as new offenses now come online and as the government is now beginning to look at issues around cyber crime and digital offenses which is really coming to the fore now i think they're beginning to realise that the changing nature of crime means that we've got to start reinvesting into the surface and

you've got a situation where even some of the more traditional crime types which i have said for quite some time has been on the rise now i think the government is either recognising that that type of more traditional crime whether it be around knife crime whether be around acquisitive crime property crime burglary robbery unfortunately they are on the rise and we've got to be able to tackle that now it's not just a case of throwing money at the service but it is certainly a case of the service understanding how it's going to use its resources better in the future the service has got to continue to evolve in the same way as any business has in terms of responding to demands and at the moment we're lacking a little bit behind there's a little bit more hope and just a bit of this in context obviously crime in london murders of golar by forty four percent that is more dangerous than new york city we've had sixty killed in twenty eighteen you're this is really traditional because this got the world to dig to

recognise what you say about a reduction in police violence is resorting to stopping you tube videos seems a bit. bridges strange reaction to that occurring the level of increase there's there's a huge issue facing the british police service in terms of where we're where we're going to put our resources and what the priorities are launching said if everything's a priority the nothing's a priority and of course over the past few years quite rightly so there's been a huge increase in focus around terrorism and an issue such as that and of course we have been incredibly successful but nothing key is entirely successful and we've seen those awful attacks that we had over twelve months ago in manchester and indeed in london in london bridge. very resource intensive those resources are going to come from somewhere and i think what you're now seeing is that as as those resources have been diverted from one priority to another now we're beginning to see the effect in terms of the service reporting an increase in these crimes it's

very complex it's not as easy to give you an arab or visa on the beach because of terrorism or arguably. foreign policy well that simply aren't as many police officers now as they used to be so you know there isn't as many police officers aren't used to be yeah exactly and so that's pretty that's pretty straightforward some will say yes but actually you know bodies on the beat want to they actually contribute to to reducing crime will certainly they contribute to a certain extent in making people feel safer but strangely enough if you see a lot of arm places around the city certainly do in london say oh i'm going to board reasonably well but but but the point is we want to see a lot of police officers carrying guns and it actually alarms people rather than reassures the able i think people who are more police on the streets don't want them i would like machine guns and i would probably agree perth course now we've got certain parts of the u.k. like devon and co for example talking about routinely arming police officers

because they have a huge geographic area not very many police officers and they need to be able to respond to the threat whatever that might may be in a timely manner so they're now beginning to talk about actually police officers carrying sidearms perhaps now i don't think anyone particularly wants to see a fully armed police service in the yard natural during the summer visit to london where we're oh yeah well we'll see what donna says but this is you know this is for us to decide in this country but you know going back to my original point the police service has a whole tranche of responsibilities a whole tranche of new things that he's got to respond to and if everything is a priority nothing's a priority so whether it be obvious on the p. whether be responding to knife crime whether be responding to the murders that are happening. and whether be responding to you tube videos we've got to decide what the priority is and make sure the resource is there to be able to deal with it see the twenty sixteen move or winner deborah a purveyor of drill music said that all this kind of stuff with you tube let alone

would your saying about emphases budget is so very huge it was a distraction from things that affect schools youth clubs social housing the cuts in all of these aspects of society civic society at large. i mean do you think the you tube videos for instance of the big reason why we've seen an upsurge in murder well i'm certainly not an expert in that area but of course i think there is a huge amount of material on the internet which i think a lot of people could interpret as being you know offensive. that probably could this is the words in medieval times in the inner city loved well absolutely but it but i yeah and look at the record there in terms of keeping people alive i suppose yes but of course you know the issue is whether or not large companies such as you choose can self police to a certain extent you know i would probably tend to think that it shouldn't be down

to the police service to be going to an organization such as you choose and saying you want to be taking this down one would hope that they would have the understanding in the morality to be able to turn around and say actually that it's not appropriate now i'm not making a judgement on the genre of jerome music at all because quite frankly i don't really know it and we have a huge of to go on yes there has to respond to that right and draw music to me was when i was a was a police recruit marching on the parade ground to liberty bell very difficult to argue on the shores of london but i don't think it's for the place to say whether or not a joiner is right or wrong but it is the job of the place service to do though is to uphold the law and if the law says that you're not allowed to put some of this stuff out incite violence then the service has got to respond to that i'm sure their freedom of speech concerns then i should say south london or chicago where which also has it influence what about the fact that sajid javid supports the increased use of stop and search which we know disproportion.