maybe out there about the organization the size the travel football violence etc. how is this world cup compared to the others that you've been to and do you think any of those concerns maybe have been justified have been the first world cup. been was in ninety four in the u.s. as a journalist and then on the last one was two thousand and fourteen i was involved to people and you know it's always kind of easy to say it's the best you cannot really compare you know but so far what i have seen is really amazing no accident no whatsoever no for problems security wise i hope it goes on like that it's not finished yet the stadium so already. as i said the only really kind of criticism if i can say is that you know it's quite hard for the fans in order to try and interact in the communicate with the even with the taxi drivers or the they hardly speak english but you cannot blame the taxi driver probably the

french or the learn a few words in russian and this is also with me i don't know and and so were. difficult kind of for the stars but for the rest and serving a fantastic so for a cast the world cup especially because the big teams are not here i mean of course germany spain and portugal and so on italy not even this year so it's kind of that the world cup of the so-called little teams the only big one is brazil let's say and maybe maybe england but i mean this is peter scald in our don't know if english is really a favorite colombia's a good now you mentioned of course the interaction between the locals and the people who are visiting russia this tournaments as dan said spread over eleven cities how important do you think that is they get to the distance that it's covering that might be a challenge for some but also to bring the world cup to some of the communities that may never have seen so many. coming into that ties they think it's very

important honestly. at least that the people the friends i have for you they really use this opportunity to go to see a part of the country because you cannot see russia of course but it was the same in brazil a lot of people criticize it before because you're four hours from let's say rio de janeiro at the time of my mouse or the muscle so they said it's a march but at the end of the day heavy body wanted to be all over and i think it's it's for the country who is hosting the world cup it's always good to just still showcase what they have for of course it's harder for reality but it's a it's a it's a it's good for everybody it was like so much for joining us here on r.t. great to get your take on the world cup on the game as well to go a consultant for future communications director.

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this country not really suitable when. you. think and think that one day and that can happen if you bend and take the next. one it. again from the r.t. new center in moscow now are the headline stories this hour now has stylists from new york has become the face of an apparently growing movement among american

liberals he released a viral video calling on others to walk away from liberalism and in particularly the democratic party once upon a time i was a liberal but liberalism has changed and i will no longer be a part of an ideology of the party that represents everything that contradicts my values let's meet people opportunity personal empowerment compassion. and. so i am walking away. and i encourage all of you to do the same. without video has generated a huge amounts of feedback and almost thirty thousand people have joined the movement since it was released last month with the hash tag walkaway trending over the weekend now it seems other liberals have been inspired to open their reveal their reasons for abandoning the politics they once believed them. when i so

i was instantly hooked to his message that democrats don't care about us not one bit they walked away from us a long time ago and it's time for us to do the same i'd rather walk away and be a part of. the right. and be scared of the left this is where the party is going and this is why i'm sure to watch oh. well we can now fix the man who started all that walkway campaign found on former liberal brandon strug and the struggling to be joining us on the program i'd love to know how you came up with the idea and why was it so important for you to start in the first place. well i i myself was a lifelong liberal democratic voter i would say kind of a democrat by default because i'm a gay man and i think that the expectation for a lot of minority groups is that we are supposed to vote democrat and that we are

supposed to be liberals so i found myself sort of in that tribe on the left most of my life but there were things for years that made me extremely uncomfortable as i started to see the identity politics and the politically correct culture just sort of take over common sense people were beginning to lose their critical thinking and everything kind of became about groupthink and it became very oppressive when we got to a point where it was like you know if you're a white person you shouldn't even be having this conversation if you're a man you shouldn't even be having this conversation and now they're starting to kind of demonize straight people it just became began to get more and more out of control and it was something that i could no longer tolerate i find this behavior very very oppressive so i decided to do something about it and say something about it and i sat down and i sort of just wrote out the you know like once and for all everything that's wrong about liberalism in the democratic party and i sort of just put it out there and i knew that there were other people who must be feeling the same way that i was feeling because people talk about this they you know they say

you know i mean. the cultural conditions have become so strange i knew other people were feeling this way so i decided to create a campaign and create this video to kick off the campaign and what i really wanted to do was get people back in touch with their voices and to to to push back against the narrative on the left to make these testimonials and video formal written form and just kind of tell their stories how do you be surprised by the response the movement is how do you expect all these bad outpourings of people. you know the the campaign is doing everything that i dreamed it would do but i didn't know for sure if it would or not i didn't know if i'd release my video and fifty people would watch it and those fifty people would hate me and that's all that would ever happen but i had hoped for the absolute very very best and i dreamed really big with it and it's absolutely doing everything that i ever dreamed that it would do and you know most importantly it's it's not only i think

encouraging people to walk away from the left and talk about and see what's going on but people on the right are also making their own testimonial videos and they're telling their own stories about who they really are and taking the narrative back from the left which for so long is controlled this narrative saying that all people on the right are racists bigots homophobes whatever now we have people on the right that clip that you just played gave me chills as i was listening to it because there are people telling their stories and saying look you know i'm none of these things that i'm accused of being i'm actually a very good person and furthermore for the people on the left who are black people who are gay people whatever we want you over here on the right with us please come join us you're welcome here there's a place at the table for you it's actually creating a lot of healing and it's very beautiful. and liberal allies that reacted to this story if they said the response to a campaign has been a mostly from people already conservative is this an exaggeration to say that many people have walked away from the left. no.

my campaign is not mostly can pro comprise of people who are conservative and in fact anybody who's saying that i encourage them to go into the paper this is what so brilliant about the campaign if i don't say so myself you can't love like the video testimonials don't lie those aren't russian bots if you will and these are you know these are manufactured stories these are real people telling the real stories so for anybody who is skeptical please go to the page and see with your own eyes and listen with your own ears to the stories of real people who have really walked away from the left because they're completely fed up with what's happening on the left. campaign founder and former liberal and brandon strike thank you for your time. and well the democratic party faces the walkaway reason it's donald trump's enjoying a little popularity boost a recent poll suggests his approval rating those two points last month to forty seven percent and perhaps surprisingly support for the u.s.

president seems to have been growing among mainly hispanic voters in explains. monday june wasn't too good for the white house and the court of public opinion lots of media raked over the coals for the treatment of migrant families along the u.s. border now in the denunciation of the donald latino americans took center stage we saw the president just a few moments ago on twitter tweeting again that this was the democrats' fault and not acknowledging at all that he has the ability to stop it with perhaps just a phone call it's not right it's immoral it's inhumane and we need to stop that and we've known since donald trump came down those stairs calling mexicans rapists and criminals we've known that we as american citizens would be on watch but according to a harvard harris poll thirty five percent of americans who identify as hispanic either approve or somewhat approve of the trumpet ministrations policies now that survey was conducted after trump signed an executive order ending the separation of

illegal migrant families back in may those numbers are only twenty five percent in a single executive order to really explain a spike in approval this time now fifty seven percent of hispanic americans according to another poll approve of donald trump's economic policies we decided to speak to some folks in the local latino community to see if they can explain these poll numbers have no explanation and definitely not my kind of people. because the people. at least listen to gloom trump a new believe what he says it makes no sense at all because it's mostly hispanic that the border that are being denied entry with their children so i can't speak for them do you think maybe there's other issues that are important to them i think that they're probably unaware of exactly what's going on as most of us are but would be some reason that that people in hispanic communities would support trump i mean what possible reason could there be tom i guess i mean he's smart financially much trouble his reaction perhaps specific to you to say in his words to say you

know that they do want to cut into town ways again and they want to make a civilized process that. yes there's a lot of pros and cons which go over all you want to make america great again now the media is very good at telling us how we should be feeling however a more nuanced look at the data can sometimes throw up some surprising results it would happen r.t. new york. at least forty secondary schools across england have banned peoples from wearing skirts some have deemed them unacceptable putting them on the same list as facial piercings even more on now reportedly considering switching to more gender neutral uniforms girls will now have to wear plain trances just like the boys well it seems that the reasons defer from school to school some hope to implement a more gender neutral policy while others hope to make life easier for the small

but increasingly increasing number of transgender students at one school the reason is citing says over the sexualization of young women. this illustrates the length that we want a lot of the students are wearing skirts too short and that is why we are moving towards just trousers for girls in september not everyone has accepted the new policies though one parent we spoke to was furious that the school didn't ask the parents opinions before making changes to the uniform or three shell. there is no colorful way that a parent so. well nation hold the power for no reason to get the ball so. i can speak for and a number of her classmates and i know the children at school to know what to wear trousers all the time they should be given the choice to take away the choice is

wrong a position has been launched against the uniform changes that that particular school arguing that there is nothing offensive about girls knees done but again thinks children should be free to choose whatever uniform they want to wear. if boys were dressed. and go to dress like boys well that's fine but what is wrong with that's what it. says that school has been go a good deal but will. quite a lot going on at the moment about changing the rules full time was good and children and adults well let's bear in mind that they are a minority and the majority say we can't. ever be faulted all the time like.

time for a quick world cup update before we go england have taken the lead against colombia from the penalty spot hurricane has cooled three from three at the tournament is one nil with about thirty minutes left to play all the highlights on the now this is from not game with are expected at the top of the out that mr. you've. arrived are going to go around are down on their mind and not out of the bloody out of the house out of the amount of the money that only managed to

make. this was a good time to. try to move there i don't know mongul. time on not wanting to not have enough money now. why not act and then again why exxon and the whole people who believe this of the year. bottom of my case i don't want them up aside johnny horrible the moment on account of mother having a little accuser there are a lot of on the bottom of the white community old enough to want the pimp i don't want to put out a lot more party with i don't know the mother was going to. join me every thursday on the alex i'm unsure when i'll be speaking to guest of the world of politics sports business i'm show business i'll see you there.

i've been saying the numbers mean something they matter the u.s. is over twenty trillion dollars in debt more than ten thousand dollars fine stamping each day. eighty five percent of global wealth you long for the old bridge eight point six percent market saw a thirty percent raise last year some with four hundred to five hundred three per second per second and that we rose to twenty thousand dollars. china's building two point one billion dollars a i industrial. but don't let the numbers overwhelm. the only numbers you need remembering what one does that shows you can afford to miss the one and only.

greetings and salutation is an imaginary worlds of science fiction most often the primary untag and is standing in the way of the euro's journey is the giant evil all powerful corporation from wayland you tanita cyberdyne to my personal favorite the tyrrell corporation these iconic trans world conglomerates often stand as a stark warning to the dangers of unchecked corporate power and greed but sadly no one seems to be heeding the warnings and now too of what some people feel are the biggest of the big bad corporations on the planet amazon and goldman sachs are expanding their reach into our lives and bank accounts recently grocery stores were put on notice when jeff bezos online giant got into the food market business with their acquisition a whole foods now amazon is ready to take on big pharma yes with their recent one billion dollar acquisition of the online pharmacy start

a pill pack amazon is now in the pharmaceutical industry because what better business is there to get into when you've got cia ties to the tune of six hundred million and you own the newspaper the newspaper of the nation's capitol. but not to be outdone in the department of the diabolical our good friends of goldman sachs just announced that they are getting into the non collateralized personal loan business yes the vampire squid of wall street under the banner of marcus by goldman sachs now wants to give you a personal loan or as wall street on parade elegantly pointed out a bank that received a cumulative total of eight hundred fourteen billion in bailout funds during a planned turn the financial crash it helped to create wants to charge interest rates as high as twenty five percent to americans. so goldman sachs you used our money our tax dollars to stay afloat and now you want to loan them back to

us at twenty five percent wow well and you tanny in their alien cyberdyne in their terminators they got nothin on goldman's loans and amazons pills now let's start watching the hawks. get the. real deal with. the politics it's. like you know that i got. rolled over on the watch of the hawks i am tired robot and i'm tired of the law. and. lower a shipping. large. yeah i really though

the whole thing with the goldman lunch thing is very unsettling because there's this idea that you know predatory behavior is supposed to be illegal it's best to be frowned upon here in the united states whether it's economic or physical predatory and you know here we are on the same day that harvey weinstein gets predatory assault charges put against him by the the new york da and at the same time you've got who predatory party happening over at. a goldman sachs i mean those are payday loans. gusting their stance of outlaw these kinds of law it's really crazy i mean you know the personal loans are your goldman's offering range from like thirty five hundred dollars to forty thousand and these are the kind of loans where you don't to give them collateral it's just basically interest based loans right in the interest rates range from like six point nine nine to twenty four twenty five percent and nobody's getting six point

nine yeah and it's a letters to me because again like i said earlier they were bailed out by the fed using our tax dollars so basically you're taking money that you that you took from us and are not going to loan back to us but we have to pay the interest we're going to pay you back that loan it's like you know that we're basically printing money paying back a loan of our own money one hundred years go back but it wondrous give us the money but if we come up and ask the same and i need like forty grand you just give it to us because you pretty much took it from us anyway i just thought that out there he really just said yeah eight hundred fourteen billion in that tax dollar bailout during the two thousand and i can figure out a way to not see only way they can stay afloat yeah i don't know who marcus is but marcus but go you must meet a marcus loan in order to afford all your pharmaceuticals but you know amazon's there. well keep getting bigger right so this company called pole pac which

had this convenience you put in all your prescriptions as many people go online because you can sometimes get a better rates on it by buying it online but what they did is they created these little pill packs so it told you it was great for socially older people lot of medications it would say here's your name and what time of day you're supposed to take it out so here's your morning pack whatever pretty cool idea right so after starting in boston it was and twenty thirteen was not a long thing about twenty five years ago it had raised less than one hundred twenty million and this makes this one billion dollar acquisition a pretty big victory because they didn't have that value little didn't value the company that high but amazon did so what's interesting is so here they buy this home medication delivery company and their response to it what ends up happening is right a their value plummeted eleven about eleven point one percent today walgreens fall

nine point nine and c.v.s. dropped six point one all over the announcement so they knocked twenty three point five billion dollars off of the biggest drug companies and amazon's market capitalization or its value essentially its value on the market of it's sold shares are held shares five point five billion dollars you know we know the the amazon fresh thing not as great as it could be the whole foods thing is so great is it could be want to replace all their workers with robots because they don't get hated stroke and. stuff you know it's amazing like how we just allow these companies to eat up these smaller companies we just kind of let it happen with you know barely knows this isn't capitalism you know this is this is this is monopoly this is the board game you know at the end of the day i mean because you see this more and more i mean disney taken over fox nobody expressed. groups for sixty seven billion you know it's basically consolidating wealth and consolidating businesses under one

umbrella you know i mean hey great amazon wants to get the pill business like they need more bad press because big pharma was like you know doing great right now. you know but it's incredibly is been two trillion dollars worth of mergers and twenty already know that's a record pace and if this pace holds that could easily produce the all time record of four point seven trillion deals that was set back in two thousand and fifteen absolutely ridiculous we're alone resolder. many a kid growing up in the snow covered states of the american midwest like myself often spent much of our time california dreaming on a winter's day but for many of those dreams of surf sun and stardom may change with the news that california the fifth largest economy in the world has a major poverty crisis on its sunkist hands despite valiant efforts by local and state governments the sacramento bee reports that one in five californians lives in poverty the highest rate in the country according to a new data from the u.s.

census bureau now one nor normally california's poverty rate so it's around fifteen percent or about seventeenth in the nation according to the u.s. and spiros official poverty measure which is based primarily on income levels but when you factor in the census bureau supplemental poverty measure which includes the cost of food housing utilities clothing as well as non-cash government assistance being counted as income california's actual property ray climbs to about twenty point six this means that one out of every five golden state citizens are living in poverty the local governments are fighting back stockton california has announced a radical plan to combat poverty in this cash strapped city no strings guaranteed basic income of five hundred dollars a month for its residents but will this be enough for the dreams of surfboard sunglasses and palm trees be replaced by cardboard. boxes food lines and desperation that's a good question and it's

a hard question because man when you see california is like the bright shining state on the hill you know and you think everybody germs to go there it's famous it's money it's movie stars it's ever there you know it's redwood trees like i mean you know the whole of california silicon valley but then you realize the like one out of five in the state technically are living below the poverty line that's crushing you know what's your dream to be poor mother to go for and you know right yeah that's just income going to go to just kind of fit in with that idea you know this you know a lot of people go there seeking fame and a lot of people go there seeking jobs for people who want to be famous concerns the up and jobs in that city but honestly it's it's very expensive. and california in general is kind of people are getting working class is being priced out oh yeah and it was in the you know everybody goes are california gold rush the expansion west it's part of the very light fabric of you know u.s. culture and exactly and this also connects with you know senator sanders had. our

u.n. representative nikki haley when she sort of scoffed at the idea of studying poverty because we're the richest nation the world well what makes the california poverty rate so interesting is that perplexing is that. the state's per capita g.d.p. increased twice as much as the us average over the five years and then in two thousand and sixteen twelve point five compared to six point two sexes so their growth rate is twice as much and yet people at the bottom are getting poorer and poorer so who do you think is profiting in the great state of california i wonder my big sucking sound of all wealth going up and i noticed a theme on the beige show right in other one of the things i think that people don't like to talk about is the housing bubble and that's prime display in california i mean the median home prices jumped eight point four percent just in march a year earlier setting an all time high sale but sales alternatively fell by six percent so how is president up in sales is falling right that's ridiculous the

median home price in california is over five hundred twenty nine thousand dollars one hole that's across not a median that i didn't like the average out of everything and granted they have a lot of like eighty million homes but now the median rent for a vacant apartment this chump five percent and is now at twenty four hundred dollars a month that's across the state that's not just in l.a. medium reparable people cannot live being paid enough even if you raise the minimum wage to fifteen dollars an hour that's still not going to be enough to afford twenty four hundred dollars a brand now you know that is ridiculous well this is a california history too that i think i'd be surprised at what states are next to california on this on this list the top five the supplemental poverty states who are living even with help are still living in the under the poverty line so california at twenty florida and then louisiana era.