the u.s. congress debates. the president's. proposal hundred seventy. and a desk drawer of the president ready to take it out and shoot it when everyone. is. asleep. on the program we'll get reaction on the streets of london. space. and.

time the russian president will hold a. news on the. international. the u.s. congress is about to decide whether to widen the war powers of. the new bill as the president to decide whom and where to fight with critics. giving away its controls and the bill met with fierce resistance on wednesday. we've gone through seventeen years of war. you would drop 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

he 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 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 it grants the president the right to include new groups on the terrorist list though without informing the public interesting lee one of the legislators behind the bill earlier claim that a congress has been granting a license to wage war for too long some us media have scoffed at legislators saying that anyone know what's in their own bill 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 with for a. moment he's proven himself. unable to rise for the occasion and you know who i don't trust. i wonder donald trump. donald trump doubted lee they like the idea of the president being some sort of a king go to war when he wishes 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 all double conversation and falling asleep on his pony boy and how explains why it made a nap in parliament is such a sensitive issue. a nice members of the house of lords which is the outside chamber as the british parliament has been around the block for quite some time the average age in the middle of the chamber is take the nine and from the breadth of their experience to know one's job is to scrutinise british no zero and that can be pretty tiring so much so that even the most todd wacking 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 pairs 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 lest that eyes so i'm armed with photos of sleeping lords all sleepy looking lords and i want londoners to help me determine which of these are just resting their eyes and which are most definitely in the land of nod the stephanie sleep in 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 i think he'd be asleep and he won't be resting but

i don't know all right i'm just looking down as i was just ok so you're not guilty not guilty what about what about these to. see. resting his eyes they should be allowed to have a little camp in the chamber that's lots of hard. scrutinizing legislation i would think not misplaced i would be let's have it not before i went to work as a washington i'd love to be paid for having a campaign in my office 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 gentlemen and they deserve a little bit respect. long day just listening to other people all day long so they get on a bit. when i prefer britain is far from the only country whose parliamentarians note off their one exception might be from where little makers are complaining that the new president's energetic reforms drive is giving them no chance for enough. 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 function 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 in day we're not trying to tug on the heartstrings this is not a good way of legislating. low during just one year in office. and various fears from education to the rail sector some of the national assembly sessions of lasted far longer than usual and lawmakers say that's not a good way of going forward. so in an hour's time the russian president will field questions from the public in his annual televised q. and a this year's session will be putin's sixteenth and expected to be a little bit different from what we've seen in previous years as what explains. the biggest change this year is that lad to me a putin will have

a huge screen in front of him on which he'll 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 all 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 our answer for any problem that their constituents might be having so we should make for an for an interesting discussion these q. and a sessions generally turn into a marathon the longest one was in two thousand and eleven which lasted for four and a half hours the shortest one was in two thousand and one which went on for about two and a half hours generally there focused on domestic affairs problems that russian sat in the social sphere with wages for example with health care taxes sometimes

corruption but every so often we'll hear an international question and much more interesting themes for for the wider audience. the past three days israeli prime minister binyamin netanyahu has been on a european tour lobbying believers of germany france and the u.k. to drop their support for the iran nuclear deal is africa though appear to have been in vain. but i've been very consistent about my opposition to the. to this nuclear deal that we believe that the iran deal is an opportunity for a certain time it's better than what we had before. france and germany they continues to believe that is the best route to preventing iran from getting nuclear weapon i despite this unity among european leaders some companies and institutions are playing to a different tune the european investment bank for example seems to be siding with

the united states has done your bush. e.u. solidarity and nothing but a house of cards after europe giants from energy behemoths to the makers of persia and see paul 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 insists it supports the e.u. but ignoring sanctions is incompatible with its status of course and it gets worse brussels is stick a 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 their bangs automobile companies ip 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 e.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 dettori some steel and. 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 dissent in the ranks as your top firms betray the party line or the world dodging bullets from the trump administration. the world cup is just around the corner and football fans are already eagerly guessing who they think will make it through the group stage as is r.t. host and stark ocean jersey when you're here are some of his ex. i would say to the wife to sleep in the window. and the experience to play is that of the right thing to do. to wean the girl be. a little show relate to the saying so tell your fortune in this book because i wanted to finish second in the group. one of them or for the matter of the united manager's

predictions you can head to wate dot com but if you think you know better you can challenge him just head to facebook or twitter and use the hash tag match marino meanwhile here's what happened behind the scenes when marino was making his predictions. q. live let's listen. to a. little. but . i think you said.

yes. keep. it. simple you just. so much else you. know what is it. you need. to see. people to come here one hour to international scandal riddled with g.m.o. make up monsanto today is taken over and absorbed by. something the rebranding is

doomed to fail more on that after the break. join me every thursday on the alex simon chill and i'll be speaking to us from the world of politics small business i'm show business i'll see you then. i think the last to the interventions military interventions schol to those who usually be to listen to be learned in the regime change will suffer from upset and take to iraq with saddam hussein take the duffy and leave but i think this is a b. to listen and i think we should we all should tell people exactly these nation

listens so regime change is the those who should accept our limits but i think the ideal for regime change military into the issues from outside this is mostly all that. thanks so much for joining us today a german drug and pesticides make a closes its largest ever forward take up on thursday of monsanto the largest u.s. producer of genetically modified seeds and cultural 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 so easy is america world's biggest brands and most controversial agricultural companies monsanto will soon be there as we know it will be bought out by payer 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. i think. that's right the fact that monsanto will. longer exist there 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 had bet its products could cause cancer for decades.

at the center of all of those lawsuits monsanto's leading herbicide round 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. you know david what provokes me about monsanto is that it can sell as poison year after year nobody cares what provokes me is that there is only us here today monsanto 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 round up the. glacier state based herbicides supported by one of the most extensive worldwide human health and environmental 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 for the south aim to deepen our dialogue with society we will listen to our critics and work together where we find common ground agriculturists. ideological differences to bring progress to a standstill. you're talking about progress to try to 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 that roundup is safe well they'd. doing the leaked documents showed 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 route studies they ghost road opinion pieces documents all showed that they had their own man inside the e.p.a. working quietly on behalf of months into and blocking additional research that

might have indicated it verified that it was a course in a gym so i don't know exactly what their means by progress but it doesn't look good . but dealing with the eleven dangers of monsanto products is not the only issue bothering the public there are fears the two china 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. puerto rico's government will release all the death certificates since hurricane maria hit in september as people say the official number by the territories health

ministry is far too low a newly released report says the actual death toll is more than four thousand. and with the new hurricane season looming donald trump has promised a rapid response however the consequences of the last big storms are still being dealt with the u.s. government accused of wasting aid money is our correspondent and he says having.

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 melanie 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 the 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 something his response to the hurricane. center. is to me it's almost like. the federal response once again was at 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 put the rico providing some one point three billion dollars in support to survivors

however some many allocations are 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 survivors 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 comment of the full use of a ship for an extended period of time whether or not fema was go into the 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 the ricos not. we asked the u.s. federal monetary emergency management agency f.e.m.a. to comment on the issue they said they will as soon as possible but it is also international about half an hour's time the russian president's i knew address to the public you can join us we'll dip in and out of it but the key highlights of his statements for the meantime though we are back in about half an hour just before the russian president speaks. i. thought. it was.

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code of welcome to worlds apart just a few years ago they feel you are filling ambivalent about the united states and reopening for business but russia has seemed like a crazy talk in some corners it's still nice but it's donald trump continues to spread to europe with tariffs and secondary sanctions can lead to push and seize the moment while to discuss it on knowledge joined by a woman she's a former chancellor of the australian and former president of the european council chancellor it's a great honor talking to thank you very much for your time and now you're heard my introduction and that's far fetched as it may be i feel like there is that. a bit of a competition for europe's hearts. you have a new american administration treating europe with less subtlety and europe is used

to now your house russia which is quite plainly asks let me in how do you see me europe really will. so that. was sort of the american side that don't see really a competition for hearts disease more. fight because they believe they have you already but this is maybe a little bit maybe a little bit wrong. or wrong sided and. tend to be full to to because i think we should those who protect our interests and we are a good partner economically trade we respect international law and international norms and by the way it was crazy first thing good here if you primakov readings police and tools away in the indian. soup and the speaker and used to go she said after world war two we created impale from norms and this is truth by the way this made us read all of us that it was really

a win win situation and sticking to the norms and respecting the international this is a precondition it will be seen now from some parts of the american administration that exactly d.c. international norms are not to speak to and this is a pity now there was an interesting exchange last week and the same to spark a kind of make foreign when the french president emmanuel mccraw and i was kind of complaining about the diminished u.s. interest in european security to which president putin responded by saying that don't tortilla russia can provide that security for europe and maybe take that as a joke as a kind of chutzpah but i think mr putin has actually meant to do you think there is still any chance of europe recognizing russia not only as a major security thread but as a major security partner good russia is a major part of for peace and security.