if if. if. i'm. top stories this hour. the u.s. congress debates a new bill that would allow the american president to initiate military action without the approval of congress. we've gone through seventeen years a 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 wake up call. the house of lords. members falling asleep during the session we get reaction on the streets of london. and. say washington i'd love to be paid for having a. long day just listening to other people all day long.

and russian president vladimir putin hold his own you will cure in a session today which is expected to live audience for more tech savvy four. nine zero one thursday morning here in moscow this is the international we have top stories. 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 act is allowing the head of state to conduct military operations i should say that without the approval of congress so they can do it against a sovereign country the bill so far there has been met with fierce resistance we've gone 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 whenever

he wants and it will put. do i want my sixteen year old. or. 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 korver passes that there are no limits on war let it be known that there were at least some of us who warned. the new bill that seeks to replace the two thousand and one war authorization act among other things that grants the president the right to include new groups on the terror of this now interestingly one of the legislators behind the bill claimed that congress has been granting a license to wage war for too long and some us media mockingly allege that legislators don't know what's in the road bill and despite the bill extending the president's war powers here's what the bill's authors think about 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 a 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 wants crazy war 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. to the u.k. now with the house of lords has been stung with

a new memo on their transgressions according to media reports the list includes shouting or double conversation and falling asleep on t.v.'s pony boy who 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 that all 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. for in full. 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 peers 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 your 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 and which all most definitely in the land of knowledge the definition so he might be resting his eyes 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 the rangers are going down to me i was just ok so you're not guilty not guilty what about what about these to. the. rest of his eyes they should be. allowed to have a little camp in the chamber that's lots of hugs and nice scrutinising legislation i would think this place i would be let's have it and not before i went to work so why should they i'd love to be paid for having a campaign in my office his think they should be allowed to have a little kip in the chamber they can do whatever they want as far as i understand their old gentleman and they deserve a little bit of respect so long day just listening to other people all day long so they get on a bit let them have all to be fair britain is far from the only country whose parliamentarians tend to nod off though one exception might be france where lawmakers are facing the opposite problem of not having enough sleep during just one year in office president emanuel macron has already pushed five major reforms from education to rail industry changes and with

a new president's reform drive some of the national assembly session lasted far longer than usual the 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 a 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. so just a bit later in the day the russian president will field questions from the public in his annual televised q. and a at this year's session that will be a lot of effort and sixteenth and is expected to be a bit different from what we've seen in previous years as my dad goes deer explains . the biggest change this year is that vladimir putin will have

a huge screen in front of him on which ill see text messages as well as video messages and receive phone calls from russians from all over the country with problems that they might might have questions or issues and this year governors and regional authorities leaders have been asked to free their schedules because now the last of me or putin might call them up to. any problems that their constituents might be having so we should make for an for an interesting discussion these q. and a sessions generally turned into a marathon the longest one was in two thousand and eleven which lasted for four and a half hours is the shortest one was in two thousand and one which went on for about two and a half hours generally they're focused on domestic affairs problem is that russian sat in the social sphere with wages for example with health care taxes

sometimes corruption but every so often we'll hear international question and. generally though there was a quote where 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 is efforts though here to have been . and 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 normally france and germany they continue to believe this is the best route to preventing it because even if you want. despite that this unity among european leaders e.u. companies and institutions are playing to a different tune the european investment bank for example seems to be siding with

washington it's on your bushel explains. e.u. solidarity and nothing but a house of cards after europe giants from energy behemoths 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. of insists it 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 await 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 the european union wanted to avoid this situation you wouldn't want to be your accra right now since in the ranks as your top firms betray the party line or the world dodging bullets from the trump administration. so as excitement builds over which country would lift the world cup in the final in moscow next month are two years launched a new project with star football coach joe zimmer in year in which he makes his predictions as to how the tournament will. when the win go. here's the players of the road going to. be in the group be. alone also relate to the totally portuguese who are going to finish second in the world of more of the special ones

predictions you can head to our to dot com also if we feel like pitting your wits against the might of george zimmerman you know at a facebook or twitter and use the hash tag match marino to make your predictions meanwhile here's what happened behind the scenes when marino was making his predictions. so. you. will. just.

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join me every thursday on the alex salmond show and i'll be speaking to us from the world of politics or business i'm show business i'll see you then. this could have you with us today an eighty five year old pensioner from north western russia just had to give away all his money that he's been saving up all his life is aimed to help those whose lives are just beginning. their sheer. horror. very.

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just turned eighty five and so we decided to get to know him. now this is out international a british clergyman has been cleared of paying islamic state to release sex slaves after a two year investigation and her wide denies paying eisel saying he helped release several women using connections he made while serving as a church vicar in iraq and the clergyman has reportedly played a role in the release of at least six women we spoke to white who told us police refused to believe him. how'd job to ensure that terrorism issues were known by giving terrorists monley you actually perpetrate it not stopping it the problem was they didn't realize that all i knew some of

the people who the commanders of the kidnapping groups and i had donned laws things for the many years before so i went to a. lot of help to you when you had nothing i want you to it nice keep me back some of the people you've taken. away were brought up the issue for debate with mohamed shafiq of the ramadan foundation and political commentator paper advance 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 when a number of people and he used those relationships to use that influence to get civil thaws slaves who were captured and held by isis 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 simple i think the met need to move on and focus to closer to home priorities i'm just a bit concerned it took him two years to reach a conclusion on this cloud hanging over kind of nine hundred white would have caused immense pain for him and his family it was a very brave man even to back that i did time when you know it was the christians in the middle east terrorist want to want to do how i have a good record my admiration for what he has gone through in their ask him by a downer. you know you guys bravery is beyond beyond dogs what else can somebody do what all of the action can the government take to release lives of islamic state in terms of what i see it's very difficult still very fabric if there was no room for

negotiation there was no all that she needs to have a dialogue you just bury you don't negotiate with you if you don't appease them and you sure as heck don't pay them all who is really that's the lesson of syria and it's one that many of us would not wish to be the case it is the kids. german drug pesticides make closes its largest ever foreign takeover on thursday of monsanto the largest u.s. producer of genetically modified seeds and agricultural chemicals the german giant is hoping to strengthen its portfolio in the health and nutrition sectors with the acquisition but given monsanto's legacy that may not be you so you say has some merit on one of the world's biggest brands and most controversial agricultural companies monsanto will soon be there 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. to. fight the fact that monsanto will no longer exist bayer will be inheriting each and every lawsuit that 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 had better. it's products could cause cancer for decades. at the center of all of those lawsuits monsanto's leaving herbicide ground up and its main ingredient like the fake according to the international agency for

research on cancer it's called probably carcinogen a human their study has also found strong evidence of a link between life estate exposure and lymphoma. what disgusts me about monsanto is that it can sell for as new year after year and most people don't care it disgust me is that we aren't the only ones here to day. one since it has been implicated in the scandal in various ways court documents released last year showed that monsanto manufactured scientific studies and derived scientists to publish them but at the same time the company claims that ground up is a good life was saved based herbicides are supported by one of the most extensive worldwide human health and environmental effects databases ever compiled for a pesticide product. monsanto's new owner has provided assurances that the merger would make things right as they are great here but 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. 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 life was a probable human carcinogen they created an entire plan to 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 monsoon tim and blocking additional research that might have indicated verified it was a core synergy so i don't know exactly what their 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 the tukang companies will form a monopoly that the 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 specialize in one or maybe two of the functions of bayer so it's going to affect farmers but it will affect all of us in the long run. by just having a twenty five minutes past the hour here in the russian capital a busy day for worldwide headlines we have more for you at the top of the hour.

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welcome to the alex salmon show from ferguson radiant heat in port glasgow on the lower quite and miss the last of our city's amber to ship building we look at this potential phoenix rising from the ashes a british ship building can a yard safe from the sea a ship in twenty fourteen be part of a bigger brighter future for the industry in our first two programs in the c.d.'s we've looked at the credibility of so john park a strategy for shipbuilding and in particular whether the government is committed to supplying the junk beat of military orders or to provide the baseload which will enable a large to launch competitive bids into wild commercial shipping market with the order book now tops two hundred fifty billion dollars here in fact. it's in meridian engineering they've been living the dream of a viable in ship building over the last four years with an investment program designed to make them competitive in the commercial freddy markets at seoul and abroad and the successful launch of the first of their new jewel fuel ferries the

m.v. clay and sonics today we look at this wonderful yard received from closure and speak to the management and the staff about the hopes and dreams for the future. so let's have a look at this week's tweets emails and messages and first stop this week is a statement from the ministry of defense reacting to the first program in the series they say all out war ships are built to the u.k. and with the take twenty six frigate securing four thousand jobs and twenty years of work in scotland and british industry peer preparing to bid for a new tape therapy one week last we are witnessing i remember songs and national shipbuilding since twenty ten this government has invested more than six billion and shipbuilding u.k. securing phones and secure and twenty eight hundred nineteen we expect to spend the next set of seven hundred fifty million pounds supporting the fleet and then an email in from tim bevan whose could be catching up on the shores online is straight's me how interesting your choice of interview eases from a very detailed interview with carlos push among the president as was of catalonia

a fascinating present of lebanon recently a feel fairly important people from ireland and northern ireland and that's a time when amanda term that you can catch up with all the alex salmon shows online and then from hilda who's emailed us to lisp on style requests for suggestions to the future sure as hell the suggests weaving and point so that scotland's weaving connections around the globe and particularly in rural scotland is a traditional skill the still a very important one and there are an email i think from india from from stephen keith who says he wishes us continued success with the after show a breath of fresh air and thanks everyone involved thank you for that stephen and finally this week for from patrick from glasgow who's tweeted it to say that scotland glasgow generally need to be competitive with the rest of the world and stop standing by the traffic lights with a cardboard sign and an empty coffee cup and of it be creative or die that is evolution says part of the.