stories here on the u.s. congress debates a new bill that would allow the american president to initiate a military. we've gone through seventeen years of. this proposal will have one hundred seventy more a loaded gun and a desk drawer of the president ready to take it out and shoot it whatever you want . wakeup call. house of lords. falling asleep during sessions to get reaction from. space. russian president vladimir putin holds.

it is just after. the seventh here in moscow if you joined us today a news team here rounding up the top stories let's get into it. the u.s. congress is about to decide whether to widen the war powers of the president among the changes proposed to the current war is allowing the head of state to conduct military operations without the approval of congress not against a country and the bill has met with fierce resistance. through seventeen years of war. this proposal will have one hundred seventy more a loaded gun in a desk drawer of the president ready for him to. take it out and shoot it whatever

it wants and it will put war making on autopilot do i want my sixteen year old going to war against al shabaab in somalia my boys have never lived in a country that has not been good for both of them my son probably can't find somalia on a map and probably very few people even in this room know who all shabaab is came for passes that there are no limits on war let it be known that there were at least some of us who warned that behind me you can see the list of the countries where the us is currently involved in military operations against our various terror groups one of the legislators who proposed the bill previously claimed that congress has extended the right to wage war for too long and some of the american media accused legislators of not being fully aware of the proposals content here's what authors of the bill were previously saying about president donald trump. the president has great difficulty but for a. moment he's proven himself. unable to rise to the occasion and

you know who i don't trust. i wonder donald trump. donald trump. so they say they doubted lee they like the idea of the president being some sort of the king go to war when he wishes but you're right what a disconnect here you have these two and many others in washington calling trump in a mentally unstable and all sorts of even worse things and then you want to give him the authority to go to war when he was crazy or is what washington that's made of war is washington's number one export discography officially throwing up its arms and saying you know what we give up it's all over we're just going to sit back sit in front of the camera collect our paychecks and do nothing. but the u.k. now where the house of lords has been stung with a new memo on their transgressions according to media reports the list includes

a shouting or double conversation and falling asleep alfie's polevoy co explains why a midday nap in parliament is such a sensitive issue. most members of the house of lords which is the chamber of the british parliament have been around the block for quite some time the average age in the lords chamber is sixty nine and from the breadth of their experience the last job is to scrutinise british law and that can be pretty tiring so much so that even the most hardworking and conscientious lords and politicians can get a little sleep paid. well

rumor has it that the lords have now received a quiet telling off for falling asleep in the chamber according to the times newspaper a conservative pay is have received an email telling them that their behavior and that isn't up to scratch and it said that the other political parties are sending a similar reprimand to their lords but according to established parliamentary convention perry is all allowed to quote rest their eyes so i mam with photos of sleeping lords all sleepy looking lords and i want london as to help me determine which of these are just resting their eyes on which all most definitely in the land of knowledge the definition so he might be resting his they've just been told off the sleeping too much in the chamber guys lost control of his neck so he's definitely sleeping but i think he'd be asleep and he won't be rescued when i don't know all right i'm just looking down his and i was just ok so you're not

guilty not guilty what about what about these to. the. rest of you guys you think they should be. allowed to have a little camp in the chamber that's lots of hard. scrutinizing measure and i would think in this place i would be let's have it and that if i went to work say washington i'd love to be paid for having a campaign in my office sitting there should be allowed to have a little kip in the chamber they can do whatever they want as far as i'm concerned they're all gentlemen and they deserve a little bit of respect. long day they're just listening to other people all day long so they get on a bit. and i mean time across that british channel the french parliamentarians are facing the opposite problem not having enough sleep during just one year in office president emmanuel macron has already pushed or five major reforms from education to rail industry changes and with the new president's reform drive some of the national assembly sessions have lasted far longer than usual that's according to

lawmakers in recent weeks we've sat for eighty hours per week we've sat for the last seventeen days consecutively this is not how our parliament normally functions it is not allowing us to really carry out legislative work to make good laws we are exasperated and for some of us exhausted this isn't the normal life of a parliamentarian staying night and day we're not trying to tug on the heartstrings this is not a good way of legislating. for the past three days israeli prime minister binyamin netanyahu has been on a european tour a lot being the leaders of germany france and the u.k. to drop their support for the iran nuclear deal his efforts though appear to have been in vain. you know i've been very consistent about my opposition to the. to this nuclear deal that we believe that iran deal is an opportunity for a certain time it's better than what we had before. france and to take in used to

be the best route to preventing it. if you want and i would just to remind you back in may u.s. president donald trump decided to withdraw from the iran nuclear deal a move that's been roundly condemned by e.u. countries the european investment bank though seems to be siding with the u.s. is daniel bushell explains. e.u. solidarity and nothing but a house of cards off to europe from energy behemoths dot to the makers of persia and c toy in a bit this scrapping billion euro iran projects to brute the european investment bank owned by yes the twenty eight members of the e.u. itself in supports the e.u. but ignoring sanctions is incompatible with its status of course and it gets worse brussels is painful new u.s.

tariffs on europe's metal however some see all this as a calming plan business these days especially european union in american business is whether they have bangs automobile companies i t. companies any other business they're so interconnected that america will continue to use that leverage to try to penalize some of their european companies who may be doing business with iran charmer tehran again breaking up the transatlantic marriage e.u. ministers write an angry open letter demanding america exempts them from iran's sanctions as close allies we expect that the extraterritorial effects of u.s. secondary sanctions will not be enforced on a u. entities and individuals and the united states will thus respect our political decision and the good faith of our economic operators within the e.u. legal territory. and while we're away it's washington's reaction there's the small

matter of friday's g seven or is that g six plus one it will be a g six plus one the united states have decided to raise to a response to. that decision is unjustified this is very unfortunate it is unfortunate because it will. cause a lot of damage to our steel and aluminum industry it is unfortunate because this is further weakening the transatlantic relations even union wanted to avoid this situation you wouldn't want to be your accra right now descent in the ranks as your top firms betray the party line or the world dodging bullets from the trump administration. later in the day the russian president will field questions from the public in his annual televised q. and a though this year's session will be a vladimir putin's sixteenth and is expected to be somewhat different from what we've seen in previous years that i get more details now crossing live to what is

what are the goals via good morning to you what is a what's new about this year's q. and. well this is a this will be vladimir putin's latest q. and a session and these generally turn into a marathon basically russians from everywhere in the country can send a text message or a video message or just call call the organizers up on the telephone and ask the president whatever it is that they want to ask generally these issues you know domestic issues such as health care wages problems social problems corruption and then vladimir putin can answer them all this year he can call up the governors and regional officials who are waiting to be freed up their schedule so that they are ansel you live on there about these problems that people bring up but generally as i said these turned into a marathon the longest this is going on as four hours four and

a half hours in two thousand and eleven the shortest is two and a half hours so it's generally about four hours these last few years nevertheless as i said generally they're focused on domestic issues but occasionally occasionally we hear of lots of me or putin asked about international issues you know much more interesting themes for the wider audience and sometimes he gives a quote worthy onsides. hideout is what i will be covering the whole speech life thank you. well as excitement builds over which country will lift the world cup in the final in moscow next month r.t. as world cup host and star football coach ensures a merino is made as a predictions as to how the tournament will play out. i would say. to them when they do. their feet instead. of the right and. they.

will be. a little show relate to the totally portuguese who are going to finish second in the world well for more special ones predictions you can head to our website hottie dot com also if you feel like getting your wits against the might of george zimmerman you had to facebook or twitter and use the hash tag match merino to make your predictions meanwhile here's what happened behind the scenes when marine year was making his predictions.

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fire right now a quarter past the hour here in moscow a british clergyman cleared off paying terrorists to release best sex slaves a story a much much more personal. level for hard sell you on the idea that dropping bombs brings police to the chicken hawks forcing you to fight the. battle of. the new socks for the tell you that every gossip the tabloids are shall. i tell you. all the hawks that we along. with.

manufacture consent to public wealth. when the ruling class is protect themselves. in the final. we can all middle of the room. thanks for joining us so far today the british clergyman has been cleared of paying islamic state to release sex slaves after a two year investigation andrew white denies paying eisel saying he helped release several women using connections he made while serving as a church in iraq the clergyman has reportedly played

a role in the release of at least six women earlier we spoke to white who told us police refused to believe him. out job is to ensure that terrorism finishes writing and by giving terrorists money you actually perpetrate. no stopping it even though i had never said i have been paying to get this takes the days back but they presume that presume any way to recover them the problem was they didn't man law is that all i knew some of the people who they've come on does of the kidnapping groups and i had donned things all the many years before so i went to them. all i have helped to when you had nothing i want you to it nice give me back some

of the people you've taken. a report of the issue for debate with how much i think of the ramadan foundation and political commentator david ponce. was it a fair was it a justified investigation. i think it was slightly unfair because canon was based in iraq and he would have built relationships that were the number of people we used those relationships to use that influence to get some more thoughts slaves who were captured and held by iraqis to be released you know it would be remiss of scotland yard if they had possession of some information that led them to suggest that money somehow been paid to islamic state in this incident didn't have to be looked into it would have been remiss to have ignored by the c. of dog and i think the men need to move on and focus to closer to home priority i'm just a bit concerned it took him two years to reach a conclusion on this plot and you know we're kind of wondering why would have

caused immense pain for him and his family it was a very brave man even to back that i don't tell you when. it comes to christians in the middle east terrorists want to want to do how i have a good record my admiration for what he has gone through in iraq in baghdad. you know you guys bravery is beyond beyond dog what else can somebody do what other action can the government take to release slaves of islamic state in terms of i see it's very difficult as there were very barbaric it was little room for negotiation there was no opportunities to have a dialogue you just bury you don't negotiate with them you don't appease them and you sure as heck don't pay them or who have created that's the lesson of syria and it's one the many of us would not wish it to be the case it is the case. puerto rico's government wants to release all death certificates issued since hurricane maria hit the territory in september and released report says the official u.s.

figure is far too low and in fact exceeds four thousand. i while the u.s. government seems to be satisfied with the level of a puerto rico says it still has not recovered from the last hurricane season help has been insufficient meanwhile with hurricane season looming again donald trump

has promised a rapid response. as we enter the hurricane season again here we go right here ready. we're entering this is it we are marshalling every available resource to ensure maximum preparation for rapid response that's what we had last year however the u.s. government is accused of wasting money according to a recently released documents that spent more than seventy million dollars on hiring a large ship to accommodate aid workers that had double the housing capacity needed critics say the money would have been better spent on direct aid and looks into the story. put there rico is still reeling from last year's devastating cataclysm but it's already time to plan for the new hurricane season and that's why donald trump has arrived at the aged care of the federal emergency management agency with money as the parents alongside him all gave drawing more attention first lady maloney in

trouble just made her first appearance before the media for the first time in twenty six days first lady malani a trump attended a fema briefing with her husband today her first time in front of a camera nearly a month the first lady malani a trump was with her husband the president this afternoon for a briefing about the hurricane season it all comes as where expecting the release of all death certificates following hurricane maria which will shed light on the real scale of the tragedy is thoughts the fischel death toll of just sixty four has been severely underestimated nevertheless has that changed the high opinion the trump administration has about the way it dealt with a disaster just the this is still faces response to the hurricane. there's a center for us to meet say almost part. of the federal response once again was a historic proportion we're continuing to work with the people of puerto rico do the best we can to provide federal assistance particularly working with the

governor there in puerto rico and will continue to do so while the mayor of san juan in puerto rico believes the u.s. response to the hurricane was a historic failure the fact is that the trumpet ministrations bureaucracy and neglect created a climate of inefficiency that cost lives their inability to meet our needs and their lack of empathy continues to be responsible for the slow pace of recovery. the federal emergency management agency actually did spend significant sums to aid puerto rico providing some one point three billion dollars in support to survive this however some many allocations there raising questions in particular a cruise ship which was books to host female workers and first responders the so-called floating hotel docked in the virgin islands the main island of puerto rico cost some seventy five million dollars for a four month runs and that's actually more money than the money dished out to help

the village an island survive this as of march first more than seventy million in themis individual assistance has been distributed there actually to survivors so how them get back on their feet to make matters worse the floating hotel remained hot and see the contract that has been defended by carnival the company which owns the fleet it stresses the way the ship was to be used was never part of the obligations we come into the fuel use of a ship for an extended period of time whether or not fema was going to you this ship or not or feel that with relief workers that wasn't part of our obligation this time around with the new hurricane season approaching fema may now be more prepared for the storms the troublous put the ricos knots we asked of the u.s. federal emergency management agency to comment on the issue they said they would respond as soon as possible. but german drug and pesticides make a closes its largest ever foreign takeover on thursday of one son to the largest

u.s. producer of genetically modified seeds of the german giant is hoping to strengthen its portfolio in the health and nutrition sectors with the acquisition but given monsanto's a legacy that may not be so easy has some erica. one of the world's biggest brands and most controversial are cultural companies monsanto will soon be through this well as we know it will be bought out by bayer the german pharmaceutical giant and the company has announced that it will be shedding the monsanto name one which used to make headlines as thousands of protesters hit the streets across the globe. losing by no not. quite the fact that monsanto will no longer exist bayer will be

inheriting each and every lawsuit that taps the company around four thousand of them in the u.s. alone on top of that approximately two thousand legal hearings are still pending and one of the biggest trials to come this month is based on accusations that the company hid that its products could cause cancer for decades. at the center of all of those lawsuits monsanto's leading herbicide round up and its main ingredients like the safe according to the international agency for research on cancer it's quote probably curse of the genic to humans their study has also found strong evidence of a link between life estate exposure and lymphoma. you know the vote would disgust me about monsanto is dead it can so spores need year after year and most people don't kid it disgust me is that we aren't the only ones here at the. one sense who has been implicated in the scandal in various ways court documents released last

year showed that monsanto manufactured scientific studies and bribed scientists to publish them but at the same time the company claims that round up the state. based herbicides are support. by one of the most extensive worldwide human health and environmental effects databases ever compiled for a pesticide product. month as new owner has provided assurances that the merger would make things right as they are breaking here but it's how we aim to deepen our dialogue with society we will listen to our critics and work together where we find common ground cultures two important time ideological differences to bring progress to a stance to. you're talking about progress to try and find new herbicides that simply hasn't happened and they may have reached the end of their life if you're talking about progress to try and convince americans and the rest of the planet round up is safe well they've been doing their leaked documents show that when they knew that

the world health organization was going to declare glyphosate a probable human carcinogen they created an entire plan to quote orchestrate the ghost wrote studies they ghost wrote opinion pieces documents all sure showed that they had their own man inside the e.p.a. working quietly on behalf of months and blocking additional research that might have indicated it verified that it was a course image and so i don't know exactly what they are means by progress but it doesn't look good. but dealing with the eleven dangers of months santa products is not the only issue bothering the public there are fears that you can companies will form a monopoly that farmers are. they're looking at a very big conglomerate now because month santo was a shy and and there is a giant in health and agriculture and now you're combining those when you create a giant company that controls all of these assets it makes it harder on the smaller

companies that just fresh allies and one or maybe two of the functions of bayer so it's going to affect farmers if i did it will affect all of us in the long run. just about wrapping up the program for this hour here on r.g.p. international there are plenty of stories coming your way in about twenty five minutes. if your family was engaged in massive political financial corruption which led to concentration of wealth and ultimately the downfall of that country so in america a similar corruption playing out we call it money in politics and people try to get rid of the lobbyists and this cycle is being played out all over again and so the question is is it inevitable.

i think the last two interventions military interventions. to those who usually be to listen to this in the regime change those who perform upset and take. them will see take a leave. i think this is to listen and think we should we all should. go talk to these a nation that listens to changes will those who should accept our limits but i think the idea of regime change military into the shoes from outside this is mostly . greetings and salutations just a few short years ago during the height of the.