from the world cup to world war three foreign policy shares the spotlight with domestic issues during sixteen q. and a session with the public. u.s. congress debates a new war for isolation bill introduced by some of donald trump this critics that would significantly expand the president's power to launch military operations. we've gone through seventeen years or work. this proposal will have one hundred seventy more a loaded gun in a drawer of the president ready for have to take it out and shoot it whatever it was. wake up call britain's upper parliament the house of lords is berated over members for being asleep during sessions we get reaction on the streets of london the same basic i would be nothing if i went to work say washington i'd love to be

paid for having a kid in my long day just listening to other people all day long. hello again you're watching r c international issues come five o'clock in the afternoon here in moscow now the russian president wrapped up his annual televised q. and a session with the public in the last hour with questions ranging from domestic issues to the prospects of world war three. has been across what's been happening over the afternoon good afternoon she again just tell us what were the main issues that were raised. well it's difficult for hours and twenty minutes of questions and answers but some of the things that really stood out was what vladimir putin had to say about foreign affairs and here for example putin recently

presented a snoot of superweapons we're talking here about big a more powerful fos the nuclear missiles but they stick missiles as well as hypersonic missiles which travel at six seven kilometers a second through the atmosphere about nuclear powered missiles and one viewer challenge vladimir putin saying you know does this stuff really exist. there are those who doubt new russian weapons are soon going to be put into service back in two thousand and four they were doubting the guard system but now we see it in syria and that's not everything that we're planning to produce and put into service as i said in my address it's too early to talk about it but we will speak out soon. the president stress that this isn't about saber rattling or waving your guns around or measuring anything with anyone but this is

about parity this is about making sure that russia has a deterrent that new enemy no potential opponent can overcome russia. here another particularly worried. me a putin how close we are to world war three. among adults because you know you can recall einstein's words he said i don't know with what weapons world war three will be four but world war four will be fought with sticks and stone with the understanding of the fact that world war three maybe the end of modern civilization must deter us from extreme actions on the international scene. all this war talk and fears is no surprise given current tensions between the east and the west between russia and the united states and its allies and people are you know when is this going to end when is this division going to end these sanctions these restrictions and vladimir putin said that they won't until we will treat each

other as equals until nations learn to respect each other and to compromise to understand that there are differences and various countries have various interests he pointed out europe where you said winds of change and there is now open talk of lifting sanctions against russia vladimir putin stress that you know sanctions and restrictions they've never served anyone they always come back to bite whoever put them in place and he pointed to the trade war that has just erupted between europe and the united states saying that the new tariffs that washington has slapped on the europeans which of made them very unhappy those aren't so much tariffs as. they are sanctions. you know as minister for one of the french governments ministers recently said that the us shouldn't be allowed to become the economic policeman of

the world and he spoke about it publicly the former german minister of finance publicly said that germany hasn't been a fully sovereign state since one thousand nine hundred five but everybody can see what's going on but probably our partners thought it would never affect them that kind of politics is counterproductive the politics of limitations and sanctions which. now that was what vladimir putin had to say about foreign policy obviously most of what was talked about in this q. and a session was domestic affairs the mess the things things that worry russians such as salary taxes health care education corruption always always a big one but let me putin also spoke about the upcoming world cup jus to kick off in about a week in all over russia really andy said that the russian team lately hasn't hasn't played as well perhaps as some would expect and he said he

hoped that now that the world cup is here they'll really show what they've got. yeah and hopefully they will when they play saudi arabia in a week's time thanks mariah that was more aghast the air force. now in a bid to win back he says trust facebook is splashing out on a series of news programs exclusively for its video streaming service. i'm shepard smith on facebook live with the fact i love the full circle scene as a live nightly newscast you are in freeze the day i was coming out of this. morning including our public corruption is all around. well as you saw there the shows will be produced by us based media outlets from

different sides of the political spectrum from c.n.n. to fox news news reported that the social media giant has set aside a ninety million dollars budget for the project but despite its rapidly growing involvement with mainstream media back in april chief executive mark zuckerberg was reluctant to acknowledge the platforms pivotal role in the news industry which are you are you a tech company or are you the world's largest publisher or do we feel responsibility for the content on our platform the answer to that i think is clearly yes. but i don't think that that's incompatible with fundamental yet at our core being a technology company where the main thing that we do is have engineers and build products. ok well where we can get the thoughts now of neil wallis he's a media commentator and also the former editor of britain's news of the world so he knows what he's talking about when it comes to news neal good to have you on thanks for your time this afternoon what are your thoughts here about facebook's moved you

think it will return a certain amount of public trust into the company. no i don't see why should it all i think it's very revealing whether zuckerberg realizes outside he's u.s. bubble what he's doing here but he is actually putting his hands up and saying yes we are a publisher now that is going to have enormous ramifications for the company in the rest of the world outside the u.s. never mind inside it now the big issue of course is what is the track record his business know how his expertise go gain over a short life about the science the. industry of publishing you know what it's difficult it's hard it's very difficult to strike balances and where is he going to find the expertise that he's going to get guide him through it that is not simply going to be

a pale reflection of the classic north american politically correct soft left elitist metropolitan world i think it's going to be really difficult for him to do and i think it's going to be not a good thing necessarily for the facebook audience what you make of his choice then of channels that he says he's going to allow onto his platform many of them previously will look at c.n.n. very fake news if you listen to donald trump. well i had a brief look at the list i saw one mention of what you might call a right of center organization and the rest were unremitting the dole. american networks and the american networks are cursed by political correctness by being soft liberal metropolitan elite it's the curse of

american media what it doesn't do is reflect the views in germany in london in adelaide in pakistan and facebook here by looking at it my initial look at the lineup is simply thinking oh it's very cozy here in the rich southern sort of western states of america really new york will just reproduce some of the the same old stuff and everybody will be happy i'm a fate i'm afraid doesn't really work do you think he could be perhaps out of touch with facebook easy as he might actually agree with what you just said we get our news from elsewhere we don't want to be fed all the same stuff we get on our network back at home. well. it's a very good point apart from facebook in the main when it's not coming out what you could call fake news garners much of its material from standard if you like what

you might call old media it churns out what the new york times is presenting the washington post the london times the mainstream media they simply take their material from low because they're not run by journalists but what they are now doing is trying to create themselves wholesale into publishing it is a very very difficult trade publishing getting it right is very difficult and there will without question because if it happens in every single. news organization the world there will be a culture developed within it and it will be very powerful and that will affect what it's producing ok really good sochi really interesting but we have to leave it there appreciate your time today that was neil wallis media commentator and former editor of the news of the world in the u.k.

thank you. i will stay with news from the u.k. to because where members of the house of lords have been given a slap on the wrist say with their behavior a memo has reportedly been sent out complaining about shouting orders all conversations and also falling asleep while in the chamber artie's party boyko explains why parliamentary sneezes 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 law 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 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 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 rested when i don't know all right i'm just looking down his and i was just ok so maybe not guilty not guilty what about what about these to. the. rest of his eyes they should be. to have a little camp in the chamber that sorts of thing a nice scrutinising legislation i would think this place i would be about seven and that if i went to work say washington i'd love to be paid for having a campaign in my office think they should be allowed to have a little kid in the chamber they can do whatever they want as far as i understand their old gentleman and i deserve a little bit of respect. long day just listening to other people all day long so i get on a bit so i let them have. now some of donald trump's most vocal critics are handing over unprecedented powers to the president we'll tell you what they are why just

after the break. 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 some 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.

hello again now u.s. congress is set to decide whether to why didn't the war powers of donald trump the new bill would let the president to decide who and where to fight critics warning the capitol hill is formally giving away its control of the bill though met face 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 it will put the 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 them out and probably very few people even in this room know who all shabaab it came for browsers with no limits on. or let it be known that there were least some of us who were warned. the new bill thinks to replace the two thousand and one more authorization act among other things too it grants the president the right to include new groups on the terrorist list without informing the public some have expressed surprise the lawmaker behind the bill earlier claimed congress had been granting a license to wage war for too long u.s. media scoffed that legislators don't even know what's in their own bill and despite the bill extending the president's 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 rouse the occasional

you know who i don't trust. i wonder can all trump. donald trump doubted lee they like the idea of the president being some sort of a king and go to war when he wishes what a disconnect here you have these two and many others in washington are calling trump and a mentally unstable in all sorts of even worse things and then you want to give him the authority to go to war when he wants it's crazy war is what washington is made of war is washington's number one export. we throwing up the darn thing you know what we give it all over we're just going to. sit in front of a camera collect our paychecks and do nothing. for the german trucking pesticides company bayer will complete its biggest ever thoren takeover today it is buying up monsanto the biggest producer of genetically modified seeds and pesticides in the

u.s. by a believes the move will strengthen its portfolio but given monsanto's legacy something you say it might not be that easy this america explains one of the world's biggest brands and most controversial agricultural companies monsanto will soon cease to exist 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. i. think the fact that man. santa will no 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. you know at the center of all of those lawsuits monsanto's leading herbicide round up and its main ingredient like a fake according to the international agency for research on cancer it's quote probably course in a general human their study has also found strong evidence of a link between life estate exposure and lymphoma. you know david what provokes me about some stories that can sell is poison year after year nobody cares what provokes meant is that there is only us here today one sensor 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 site based up the sides 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 players right here fix our aim to deepen our garlic 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 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 that roundup is so. well they've been doing 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 group studies they ghost wrote opinion pieces documents all sure showed that they had their own man inside the e.p.a. working quietly and be here for months and blocking additional research that might have indicated it verified that 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 monsanto products is not the only issue bothering the public there are fears that to try and companies will form a monopoly that farmers are. they're looking at a very big conglomerate now because month santo was a giant and there is a giant in help in 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 but it will affect all of us in the long run. british clergyman has been cleared of paying islamic state to release sex slaves after a two year investigation and three white denies paying eisel saying he held for the several women using connections he made while serving as a church fake in iraq clergyman has reportedly paid a role in the release of at least six women earlier we spoke to mr white who told us that police refused to believe him. out job is to ensure that terrorism finishes reading and by giving terrorists monley you actually perth to treat people not stopping it the problem was they didn't realise that all i knew is some of the people who the commanders of the kidnapping groups and i had done dawes

things for them many years before well earlier we debate with mohammed defeat from the ramadan foundation and also the political commentator david that. 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 build relationships where the number of people you thought through vision shifts 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 have possession of some information that led them to suggest that money is how we hear those moments to this incident did have to be looked into it would have been remiss to have ignored by the see him talk and i think he meant need to move on and focus to closer to the priorities i'm just a bit concerned it took him two years to go to reach

a conclusion on these clouds and you know kind of wonder white would have caused immense pain for him and his family it was a very brave man he evaded to back that i don't time when you know it because the christians in the middle east terrorist want to want to do how it's i have a good record my admiration for what he has gone through in their rock invited down . you know the guys bravery is beyond beyond dog what else can somebody do what all of the action can the government take to release slaves of islamic state in terms of i see it's very difficult as they were very barbaric it was no room for negotiation there was no treaties to have a dialogue you just bury you don't negotiate with you you don't appease them and you sure as heck don't pay them or who have created but that's the lesson of syria and it's one the words americans would not wish to be the case it is the key of your c.r.t. internationalists just coming up to half past five in the afternoon here in moscow

good to have you company we're back with more news in the headlines in half. radially reinforced rammed earth bricks is what they really are. she. lives more than seventy houses about one hundred forty people with families living here. it's really a way of forming say a man. police their sons coming in and heating their house and being stored in massive walls. sagebrush is the natural

environment here but as we're containing the sewage and using to plant stuff to process the sewage we create our own little way system here. so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy going foundation let it be an arms race based on off and spearing dramatic development the only move really i'm going to resist i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical time to sit down and talk.

hey it's there this is the cause report. max i'm going to introduce you to the mideast family and it's important to know about them in case you don't know anything about history and many of us don't but they are in our news today because we have something called the made cycle happening here in america but first remember they are the house and the d.c. the were in the republic of florence they ruled the republic of florence and then expanded their power across europe they installed family members and as like katherine did in france the queen of france the pope's in italy. you know they became powerful in the first half of the fifteenth century because they were a banking family who were first to really use the power of double entry bookkeeping so they were the ones that became very powerful from that which is interesting in

today when we have big queen and triple entry bookkeeping so they became powerful through that they brought us the likes they were patronage of the arts they had some from davinci to raphael they financed these guys so you know they did bring us some good stuff but the warning on it is coming up really they were fantastically wealthy at the time and what happened then well america the media cycle in the corporate powers and politics a recent paper by luigi zingales of the university of chicago titled towards a political theory of the firm deals with the issue of rent seeking behavior by monopolistic firms through political influence neoclassical theory assumes that firms have no power of any different from ordinary market can try. acting thus a fortiori no power to influence the rules of the game rights and galleys in the

real world firms have such power i argue that the more firms have market power the more they have the ability and the need to gain political power thus market concentration can easily lead to a mid vicious circle where money is used to get political power and political power is used to make money so you obviously see that across america now you see these giant corporations spend enormous amounts on lobbyist but they spend even more enormous power amount on funding campaigns funding super pacs citizens united the supreme court allowed for these corporations to spend unlimited amounts of money and why do they spend why are they spending more and more money in america well because the likes of occupy wall street because of all these activist groups because of people starting teachers striking across america as they're starting to straw.