filed against us they don't have to prosecute the entire bush administration and beyond and of course that's probably not going to be possible there's a series here you've got. four presidents essentially that are all ruled america run america what's the torture program as either gone or gone on or has been allowed to get away with it and because there's no prosecutions the new president can come along and say i believe torture works a lot more water boarding is a great thing because there is not precedent if if it is in prosecuted for the crime that it is a war crime then he would never dare say such a thing so imagine that somebody from sub-saharan africa said that we thought. we. all were doing that its activities in our country imagine what would happen if they thought. another news even journalists have rounded on the ukrainian authorities for faking the assassination of

a russian opposition reporter in kiev a cardi bob cenk over the journalist in question has responded to one article in the british media slamming ukraine's action the article claimed the fake murder did more harm than good well carty left a comment on his own facebook page addressing the british press and using offensive language he said if the press wants more good than harm then give him a british passport and also protection meanwhile other international media and security watchdogs have also slammed the stands as to probable and regrettable the staged murder of journalists are cowards abruption could by the ukrainian security service is distressing well the reappearance of the reporter may be a great relief it is deeply regrettable the crimes of priorities have played with the truth no matter what the motive. relieved that are currently bob chinky was alive or deplored the decision to spread false information on the life of a journalist it is the duty of the state to provide correct information to the

public began when ukrainian authorities claimed they had found junco with gunshot wounds at his flat in the capital and said he had died on his way to hospital however less than twenty four hours later it was revealed the murder had in fact been staged ukrainian security forces claim that they'd done it in order to foil an actual russian plot to kill the journalist artist on quarter reports on the fallout now from the controversial case. when a russian journalist was pronounced murdered in the ukrainian capital it didn't take long for the ceremonial finger pointing at russia to begin he was only working on things that were critical and investigative of russia and of the russian government as well he said there was nothing that was critical of ukrainians of course that network and its boss placing the blame on the kremlin and on russia journalist known political leanings have led some to point the finger in one direction it was a calculated deliberate international terrorist crime committed on the direct

instruction of the russian authorities who can blame them when the story has all the perfect ingredients the russian totalitarian machine putin's regime going after the kremlin critic except the guy turned up alive and well imagine everyone's confusion what on earth is showing on fred all of these developments in just the last hour or so i know that absolutely gobsmacked what is second so what the heck actually have been here russia said it was relieved that are alive but also fiore us and understandably so after being falsely accused of murder questions of life and death in ukraine as well as the international community's trust in its politics are not thing more than a bargaining chip for the kids regime to stir up on t.v. russian hysteria fellow journalists were outraged too when a state says a prominent journalist who had received threats was murdered i think the media have to report it but with the fake news in ukraine have reduced all of our credibility

trump would be proud had learned not to trust ukrainian authorities on don't best warrant but assuming something like this official confirmation was solid apologies it's on wikipedia is most notable fake death so what gives while the murder was staged by the ukrainian secret service to foil an alleged kremlin plot they say they did it secretly not even his wife knew imagine what the poor woman went through. but one ukrainian lawmaker thinks this is ok because surely a comb successfully used the method of staging his own death to effectively investigate difficult and complicated crimes well if it happened in fiction must be good in real life to whether ukraine will produce evidence that there was ever a russian plot in the first place remains to be seen but after a stunt like this it's hard to imagine many will take anything he says at face value the taming is key i think just before we start the world cup in russia which

is a short piece of vent for any country that holds a little cup the horse won a cup and suddenly we're getting the story switches design which are designed i would speculate to discredit russia and discredit russia and the eyes of the world just as a supposed to host the world cup and so this is a very lamentable campaign it's been targeting russia because it's no interfering in areas in which all nations have in the past understood that they are off limits when it comes to using them for propaganda purposes such as trying to use a world cup to undermine the host nation that does no good to anyone specially at a time when we need to try and form an understanding. now brussels has hit back at us trade tariffs that have just been announced we'll have more on that just after the break.

because the government would like to take the money i pay taxes and bomb people defenseless people overseas and spend trillions of dollars they then come back and they tax me again something called obamacare they tax me again to provide the health services that they say they're providing for people can't afford health care now here's my one simple question since the tens of thousands of dollars a year we pay to offset the government's. ability to fulfill their requirement. why can't i write that off as a charitable donation on my taxes. so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy confrontation let it be an arms race off and spearing dramatic development the only move really exists i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical time to sit

down and talk. welcome back now the u.s. has announced it will slap you with tariffs on aluminum and steel imports with the measures coming into effect on friday canada and mexico will also be hates the u.s. commerce secretary dismissed concerns the move will impact. big. radars but i don't think the fundamentals. i think everybody will get over the course. ok when i say they have it so i get the latest now from samir economy washington samir we're hearing that america thinks it won't affect ties between countries but sport's been the reaction to this. well

firstly the secretary for coming commerce announced the terrorists just after a meeting with the french finance minister where they were all smiles but the terrorists reportedly threatened billions of worth billions worth of european exports to the u.s. and the e.u. is understandably outraged and the president of the european commission slammed the decision saying it was a horrible day for trade this is a bit. except that it come to me as you push you to look for measures when it comes to. create. thank. germany also commented saying it was illegal they also said that our answer to america first should be europe united now as for retaliatory measures a brussels has previously threatened to retaliate with twenty five percent tariffs

on u.s. products like motorcycles in jeans a cigarettes cranberry juice and peanut butter and these sentiments from the president of the european commission are new let's take a look at what he said before. so now we will also impose import tariffs this is basically a stupid process the fact that we have to do this but we have to do it we were never impose tariffs on motorcycles polly davidson in blue jeans levis. we can also do stupid we also have to be this stupid. and trump has threatened or tell you to retaliate to that for any attacks on european cars now the secretary of commerce a downplayed the tariff so it seems that it won't really affect u.s. relations unless the e.u. does decide to tell you. ok thanks smear smear a comment with the latest from washington. spain's prime minister

faces losing his job as parliament debates a motion to remove the under-fire leader a motion of no confidence has been filed by the main opposition socialist party it is now seeking to replace the prime minister with its own leader the debate is set to run until friday morning when a vote on but a whore will not like this. syria's president bashar al assad says that more u.s. strikes targeting the syrian government are possible his comments came during an exclusive interview with r.t. is more again as the if assad also explained why he thinks it's wrong to call the cut the conflict in his country a syrian civil war is some of what he said. the timing of this alleged strike was after the victory of the syrian troops in goodwill. let alone the fact that we don't have chemical weapons anyway and let the other folks that we're not going to use it against old people because the better

new theory was about winning the heart of the civilians the. and we want it so how can you use chemical weapons against civilians that you want them to have to be supportive do you think and if you go to that area it was very crowded by our means by factions in by syria and we never use such armaments or weapons that are going to harm everyone something that didn't happen and if you go to that area and you ask this if there was no chemical attack me or anyone. the word of it all is not according to what we have actually from the very beginning most and re syrians and foreigners being paid by the whist in order to topple the government this is the reality of the myriad of the very stark reality everything else is just masks to cover the real intention of talking about the

political differences more the peaceful. we don't have civil war in syria if we had civil or saw for seven years we should have been divided by now. even the sunni myself i have a long distant relative who came to syria to fight against you to resist you because he was told that you would target you with killing soon why is it that so many people in all these different countries in america in russia these sunni's these muslims they believe that you were president. because the first thought of when you thought i had interned internationally mainly in the with of course their plan was to created this rift within the society that we make things easier for them when you have thought your civil war kind of civil war between thinks or if

this city and they feel now the keep using the theme narrative at least to encourage thumb threaded the x. in different places in the world to come and defend their brothers. with regards to the united states relation to would you president trump was called you quote animal house at you have a nickname for the u.s. president. this is not my language so i came up through a similar language this is he's alone to prevent theme can be a very. you know in principle but what do you think he is or two or three wanted to prevent or to give birth. and you can actually watch the full interview with the syrian president there throughout the day here in r.t. it's also available for you at our website at r.t. dot com. now the u.s.

brand of cosmetics mack is under fire after releasing its utah rule for muslim clients and what make up to wear during ramadan apparently it is better to do it before the traditional priest sunrise meal. i can barely open my eyes were mac comes out was glamorous look what mike think. is versus what it actually looks like. no thinking back i'll stick with my nature traumatize folks look at your own soap or.

this would have been great for any stop or to look for a need me couple it's great that max medics want to diversify their marketing but come on please consult muslim women before running with the stuff. cosmetics do you mean tar because support is a three thirty am and now one of the it's like. a little bit humorous when you look at the exaggeration the disconnect that is existing between the public relations firms in these big corporations who are trying to kind of you know include include you know. christmas ramadan different religious occasions they're trying to be very much involved the grander trying to address their desire on a personal level. but at the end of the day sometimes it's a big. it's just very much just connected from what actually is going on and no they're not useful at all i did say ninety nine percent of the ladies who are waking up for school it's actually very laughable. that there are just two weeks to

go until the biggest event in football the fee for world cup and the national squads taking part as well as the official delegations are starting to make their way to russia. if you see hundreds of the pretty fans say who gathered to cheer that national team as it left the country before the official world cup i bring in moscow peru will pay to friendly's against saudi arabia and sweden abroad first match of the tournament set state by state russian capital on june fourteenth. so that's all the new safe today here not international going to have more news for you as usual in thirty five minutes.

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welcome to the alex on ensuring the second deny cds and ship boating of all the great names of british shipbuilding perhaps holland involved is the most famous of all a century ago the belfast spaceship boater also has shipyards on the quite and liverpool type out there and in derry and things up play as well as no less than six here on the river thames. it's not the largest ship builder in the world it's certainly built the world larger ships with the olympic class including the titanic partly launched in the belfast jetty before the great war the decline of the country much thought to british shipbuilding as a whole with effectively the entire industry not confined to military orders with little presence at any commercial shipping markets a world market now worth some two hundred fifty billion dollars at its peak crowded with employed nearly forty thousand people in building and appeared in ships not consolidated back in belfast it employs little more than one hundred people and has a boat to ship for more than

a decade and specializes in stead in making bridges and offshore turbines however i new management is planning a comeback and in today's show we examine whether holland and both can recover to demonise one's pride boast of being the ship builder to the world the first over to alex with your treats your messages and your e-mails. before stop this week is tony burke because commenting on the in ward all of the the shipyard unions interview last week says in wardour talking good sense on the lead for government to support u.k. ship boarding on the isle examined shore and the smiling and then doug bendel says really enjoyed today's show brought to life the reality of ship building in scotland on the best of the u.k. the guests were great bringing passion hope and honesty the supply ships contract must stay in the u.k. and kate says yes watch the shore and was impressed by what you had to say working for the shipyard workers my daughter lives and governments to the shipyard they

need to work to keep the community going as we are putting the work abroad will really help them and finally kind of the kansas says. whatever you're paying it's no enough she's lovely a brilliant politician you should get along the shore with doing some more interviewing i think we i mean kind of i should be doing less we'll see what we can do belfast skyline is still dominated today by hollande and will spain miss twin ganti crean's. built in one nine hundred seventy four and one thousand nine hundred ninety spec to flee but the days are long past and this famous company dominated while chipping however there is a new hand at the tiller and see your jonathan guest is stealing a course toward survival in one of the great shipping means but is it really possible that this venue bullshit built in company can evoke the comeback kid of the twenty first century alex has been finding out with yards across these islands

how on the wolf was once the dominant force in world ship building the list of vessels completed reads like a compendium of the most famous vaults of all time. iconic ships built by how in the world from could the olympic castree or titanic olympic botanic their own navy section as belfast throw male lines on this shore several southern cross union castles and amassed pendennis castle and pianos campbell no one believes the hound a move can reclaim all of this former glory that accompanies no back building to build ships once again. jonathan guest is the new chief executive officer jonathan welcome to the alex salmond show me what's it like to be the new chief executive officer of one of the world's most famous companies it's still sinking in to be fair alex i actually started in harland and wolff in one thousand nine hundred six as one of twenty five graduates in one hundred twenty apprentices all started in the same year as an experience for

a young man as an engineer myself coming out of university you couldn't think of anything better shipbuilding was still in its boom we had three and a half thousand employees and the experience you got as a young man coming through it was just amazing unfortunately things changed all the way through and i had left for a period of twelve years and went to work in other industries in construction. in countries all around the world i came back about three and a half years ago and i think the one thing people had said was you know has to change much johnson and of course there were familiar faces there were familiar places so i said no what hadn't really but of course it had because we weren't the seam scale or size of company that we had been back in those days so you say but three thousand employees when you started but i mean how little for that forty thousand employees in the one nine hundred twenty s. and now just over one hundred can you really make a comeback into shipping from that sort of level i think we can as i explained to customers as i have to do because they question of course ourselves i said we still

have the capability just not the capacity currently. mean we used to have a drawing office of three hundred people a team of twenty of architects and steel engineers and outfitting and piping and electrical no i we have only a handful of each of those disciplines but we still have them and those people still have the ship building experience and the wealth of knowledge that is there we have honed those skills in the commercial environment so i think we are very very well placed to be able to take that forward and look at the next chapter of ship building but what i will say is that this current round of certainly a naval ship building programs and things. if if we miss out if we don't get part of that the next round isn't for another ten or fifteen years there won't be the guy still left to understand and where they're building ships you know we love lost forever and that's a generational thing so this is your group back in those as part of the consortium so if you can describe how little black building building ships again i think the key thing alex certainly from our perspective is it's not necessarily just the

volume on this on the stand on the quantity of work that for example type thirty one would give us it's the longevity of the contract we operate and a fast commercial environment where big projects come and go we still employ or picks anything up to fourteen or fifteen hundred people on the site but it's gone in six or nine months so therefore it's very hard to get continuity it's very hard to bring young apprentices in and see them through their three years of their time into you know this is the skilled trades it's hard to develop graduates when you're going through whatever the commercial pressures of trying to keep the yard going in between contracts is so difficult so that your route back in very much though i mean working in along with other big companies the likes of bob cock who have the yard and recite an awful door and ferguson's in ourselves looking to see how we can really and act what sir john parker put on the national ship building strategy to distribute build to retain the skills to work together as a consortium of u.k.

shipyards which i think hasn't been done a lot in the past like so that we've always been very adversarial and almost cutting each other's throats rather than coming together in this consortium type thing because it's certainly something that we need within the heart of the wolf because we whilst we have the as i said earlier they capacity is a big issue for us for building a ship the capability is there but it's about how we do that so this seems to be a very good route to market for us so john parker one of your last his predecessors have wolf of course you're fully behind his strategy of building up a base load in order to compete in other markets as well very much so and i think some of the what's or jump. market has maybe missed or it has been missed from his report is the element of doing this so that we can have a competitive ship building industry it's not just about farming out work to yards across the u.k. to keep them alive and keep them afloat because as we know from past history that doesn't work we have to be able to compete with the europeans on a worldwide basis on a much better footing and we do that by having centers of excellence we do that by

having high skills automation but all those elements require investment on us we all know investment has to come through a good business case which you can only generate if there is some level of longevity of work and of contracts it's very difficult for your like ourselves who are dealing on a contract project a project basis to make those long term investment decisions to up skill the workforce and also to be up to in our infrastructure even though. as probably as well known hollowell has one of the the best and biggest infrastructures within the u.k. and certainly in the top in europe also we have not been doing nothing since she built you know your last. decade ago been what was of activity has been engaged well since we launched our last ship which was the anvil point and ship number seven hole number seven hundred forty two we've been involved predominantly and the energy industry as i would call it so oil and gas and most latterly offshore wind

so the renewable industry and certainly the drive within the u.k. to promote the renewable industry has been a very very good one so that's the market that we have played and we have three a number of times doing logistics type projects assembling and bringing the components that were built in other countries and latterly we're actually manufacturing and putting the components together cells but we have to do that with partners that we have all around the world and i think that's the case and certainly i see it as the key for our success trying to do everything yourself trying to do it all from scratch is a difficult thing to do nice so why can't we use the best practice from that bad. cos from different areas and from different countries and bring it together to bring good u.k. content and u.k. prosperity but not at any price now but what are you recently of course as a link with the tell us a bit so as there's no magic was at the vessel that titanic was built on the scale of it in those days alex was it couldn't actually enter into any of the french ports had to pick up the passengers it would send people out through onto the

vessel that had been lying and was like a packaged package yes very much so but it had been lying and a desperate city it off the french quarter was a restaurant on a mover and being repurposed a few times and finally was saved with help from a charitable trust that was set up in an amount of trust and was brought back to belfast a knife forms an integral part of the titanic exhibition it was the package it was it was the same look julia started of the titanic was that much more work a day shift i have to say not quite high ever lots of the fixtures and fittings and if you're ever lucky enough to get on board the ship you will see a lot of period features that are of the ilk of titanic i wouldn't say so much they first class may be more the second or third class fittings and fixtures more wooden benches than plausible or states but the concept of getting this floor military work as part of a can soft it would not make you more competitive in for example the old sure top buy in the structures for the. blast again with great facilities so having an area

dedicated to block or fabrication building for ships an area and are in dry dock with our two koreans something to live to actually assemble large scale turbines which we're doing at the moment the job we're doing for scottish power on their offshore wind farm of the east anglia one we're sending it hundred thousand tons of steel in to finish jackets and putting that out in a space of about nine months so that's the skill and the ability that we have but the problem is after that's finished there's no continuity of work so having the allied that work coming and decide that. allies us to keep a mentee and skills running through the yard and you can certainly predict the size of offshore turbines is going to get larger much larger them which will bring you sort of space and capacity and deplete it very much so and we're seeing it already you see a turbine sizes and i push in ten megawatts i'm going beyond that so the infrastructure is now.