donald trump threatens to will move the security clearance of several former intelligence officials they're accused of politicising and monetizing the information they had access to. a former trump advise that comes under fire off the he announces a new foundation to reportedly from meant of right wing revolution in europe we get reaction from a member of the european parliament. so we're live on your own who is going to be sure. that argument not be made to george shora says well you should know before him. and how a seventeenth century slave trader is remembered has defined divided britain still in the southwest of england. hold the plot is going to be so you because you've got

to put things into context of what was up you know so i know you will but yes this is mommy's already scheduled to run so that's what dr clarke i mean what. a very warm welcome you're watching r.t. international with me the care and our top story this hour donald trump is considering revoking the security clearance of several former top intelligence officials the white house press secretary said they had been making political and financial gains from the information they had access to but the announcement didn't go unchallenged the speech doesn't like it he wants to punish them for you know i think you are creating your own story there is the president doing exactly what you just said the president doesn't want all these people doing politicizing matters of national security by going after his political enemies people are politicizing

agencies and departments that are specifically meant to not be political and not meant to be monetized off of security concerns. six people were named including former heads of the cia f.b.i. and n.s.a. most of them are known for being critics of donald trump's policies if issues themselves say if their clearance is revoked it won't really change anything. the security clearance has nothing to do with how i or any of us feel about the president i don't get briefings i don't have access to any classified information it's more of a courtesy i don't go back for classified briefings won't have any effect and what i say all right. from u.s. intelligence officials have a history of speaking out once they leave office kelle of more pain reports the former heads of u.s.

intelligence agencies are now dabbling in politics the fired f.b.i. director james comey just advised the democrats to steer clear of socialism. democrats please please don't lose your minds and rush to the socialist left this president and his republican party accounts no need to do exactly that now this comes just after his recent tweet in which he said that the only way to support american values was to go democrat. all who believe in this country's values must vote for democrats this fall policy differences don't matter right now history has its eyes on us now james komi fits in with a big cast of characters these are former intelligence officers we're now telling us what we should be thinking about politics i know we're not nazi germany all right but there is a commonality there and fear on my part that we have standards we have to live up

to having some understanding of the levers of power that or available to the president if. he chooses to bear to size them i found this. downright scary and and disturbing there's a big question first of all in terms of those who are on mr trump's nasty team whether they can continue to serve in good conscience an individual who basically portrayed his name. now it hasn't always been like this former cia top boss george tenet became a private investment banker he left the public eye after leaving office and former f.b.i. director louis spray he launched a private consulting firm here's why it's kind of a big deal it turns out that former intelligence officials usually keep their security clearance. he's john brennan monetizing his security clearance is john brown and making millions of dollars they volunteered secrets to

the mainstream media with his attacks on going to trump so even after leaving office they've still got power and connections that they could use to further their agenda on the interrogations. so whatever happened to a quiet retirement now in the air pockets around but new forces emerging former top spy were turning to political activism they will come up and r.t. new york. at its defense on foreign affairs magazine gregory coldplay says that in any other country such behavior would be considered treasonable. but what we've seen lately the past two years is. the situation we're people like director of national intelligence clapper and the like brennan from cia and so on making it stream leak partisan comments designed deliberately to undermine

the current u.s. government now this is this would be treasonable under most governments around the world there are profound cases of damage to the united states' image to the united states' ability to function in a national security sense from what we've seen from this range of officials commenting in the last eighteen months to two years. president transformer advisor steve bannon has announced plans to spark a right wing revolution in europe he wants to create a new foundation promoting the ideology the plans were revealed in an interview with the news website the daily beast and balance says he aims to rival the impact of open society foundations set up by liberal billionaire george soros balance foundation is called the movement and is expected to have headquarters in brussels the organization would offer polling think tank research under device on targeting

european right wing groups these plans sparked outrage among some members of the european parliament. an attack on freedom and democracy in europe will not stand idle we will respond we have to fight now with good arguments confidence and true it's a frontal attack on the e.u. and european values. george soros has spent billions to promote leftist ideas for years for example funding pro e.u. campaigns by supporting a second bragg's it referendum we asked them a piece. from the series a party want he thinks of bannon's initiative. what is wrong with promoting an alternative does it not challenge views so you get debate you get conversation instead of name calling people of the united states. if you follow the money so where the money was going to finance the spew movement which so movement rather

for the division of europe and north korea the unit you're right could that argument not be made to george soros says well why shouldn't these parties and groups who have support of large swathes of the population get some help from the outside the same way that the left has been getting help from soros and other like minded billionaires this is not the point where yes if we know where the money comes from they've got to finance themselves but they have their financing their of sims for what their example for the roots of free will you know called the privilege list would be your creased yes well that's not really on the working class telling us is that there's a lot of working class people who fear that their jobs are being taken by possibly by immigrants possibly by other forces at play and they are voting for who they think will be able to solve those concerns and at the moment across europe and many

countries it's not the left they need an alternative well yes. this is the. sort of the left hold so you admit that there is no you know it's but it's very easy to be a democrat you don't use a. scapegoat whether. mr soros or the scapegoat is the recruiters are you why workers are voting for the excluded right so we couldn't because that settled so in britain we breakfasted but now that that's true that's the reason you don't have to be an extreme right winger to have views on immigration do you when you're seeing so many people coming from north africa and sub-saharan africa into your nation that they did not vote for. so you see so many people at. different places you have to be wise you know and the people who you know they're

coming from or it's those middle east that we started all of the people out of all of these are reduced there are people we you know it's those group of people are bombarded you know they destroyed the crowd and know their. story go and political responsibility and this is the same it is those same goals for the people not the recruiters where immigrants come from operator would be overstated or forgot or of decatur essentially you know the reach european go to this they have their response would be the people of the. people in bristol in southwest england are divided over a plan to add a plaque to a statue that can then race a seventeenth century merchant involved in the slave trade and would colston is a prominent figure in the city's history for his philanthropy however much of his wealth was acquired through the royal african company which was involved in the slave trade residence

a people need to be made aware of coast ins possum doesn't mind being a plaque mentioning his role in the slave trade with many now also calling for the statue to be removed altogether we spoke to racial equality campaign only jasper and stephen maurice from the english democrats why have we got the statue of a man who sold over millions of africans into bondage and slavery ripped opera come babies from their mother's breast separated families killed maimed and murdered millions of africans but he gave the money to charity so we should have a statue of him in our town square we have to look at the full history of the of the slave trade this was going on for thousands of years before europeans arrived where africans were enslaved africans and. selling them to the arabs way before we got there and it's actually quite unfair to judge the past by today's standards and today's models so for me it's it's part of the history but it really got to be

showing the full history of what was going on at the time and not just to be a scene and to your opinion. against the slave trade when the slave trade was very predominant across the entire continents at that time so for me look at the history of but we've got to put it into context our chile the fifty million people is a lot more than a ransom. for what we know and redesign and find here that the historians of the time are all consensual around that figure so i think is you need to get your facts straight all depends what the platts going to be saying because you've got to put things into context of what was happening at the turn now your the guest has just gone on a complete. whatever whatever point he was trying to put forward and whatever argument he was trying to put forward is actually been lost and he's actually learnt now you all the guesses this man is a racially so that's what i. wanted before i move trying to put forward and i'm

going to pluck there then you have to make sure that you put it into context of what was happening around the world we shouldn't be imagining and celebrating colton it should be either a bristol museum of shame which he can go in and all the ardor colonial aspects and relics of the past can go in but i don't way it should be contextualize as the most horrific period in bristol's history you cannot george historical events by today's standards you have to look at what was going on at the time more blacks was enslaved by blacks than they were by the europeans so he needs to tell us all in law why when i walk eagle why why r.t. why you subjecting me to the most ignorant and based racist. rewrite of the street a week early but obviously. the name of the white man who's got no idea no not only in rich city comments i'm with girls leave me more black shoes and slow by blood

than they were by the europeans so he needs to need to actually look and stop being very hypocritical. and not stream to pipeline which is currently under construction is set to deliver natural gas from russia to germany the project has been widely criticized by the u.s. which wants to supply its own liquid natural gas instead trump has also warned that the pipeline will make berlin too dependent on moscow but according to a recent poll it seems the majority of germans don't see it that way. i think it's a horrible thing that you have a pipeline coming from russia and i believe that germany is going to be getting fifty sixty or even i've heard numbers of seventy percent of their energy coming in from russia. and how can you be working for peace and working from strength when somebody has that kind of power of your country i don't think it's good you're not working from strength you've given up all of your strength i think

is very bad for germany very bad for the german people the pipeline will be about one thousand two hundred kilometers long it's a multi billion euros venture between russia and five international companies that runs like to the original stream pipeline and will double the amount of gas being transferred north stream two is said to be fully operational next year economist icon the says the project is the best way for germany to meet its growing demand for natural gas this is a matter of a great opportunity for germany to have another infrastructure that supplies us with natural gas which is very needed in germany without being able to be blackmailed by the countries in between every american foreign policy is one of the duty they have to get a closer relationship between russia and germany are the u.s.

is not in the position anymore to make a big ace because germany now after the sanctions and after the not to collide behavior of america against germany we have to look for better opportunities or out of that unity and therefore it is not a possibility at all anymore to separate germany or europe. from russia anyway he just wants to be the first he just wants his companies to make the deal and make the your base especially the germans to wait a little bit longer and the american companies are allowed to make the year in russia i think this is all about he's a business that. greece is in the grip of a deadly of deadly forest fires on is also in the e.u. for help we've got the latest for you on that off this quick break it's.

what politicians do something. they put themselves on the line. to get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be president i'm sure. some want to be rich. but you're going to be for us to see what before three of the more people. interested always in the logs in the. first six.

welcome back forty nine people are confirmed dead in devastating wildfires near the greek capital athens one hundred fifty others have been injured.

a german football star of turkish descent time has quit the national team saying he feels unwanted in his own country mesut ozil was subjected to widespread criticism after posing for a photo with the president of turkey and the run up to the feat of world cup. there's. your infuses chantelle in national lampoon's pulls out along the president and lets himself important parameters from the mic to the information such as someone to tell me that i don't know the term and someone that i should not play football for the germans national team such a photograph has a symbolic value and it is definitely not what is needed at the moment this is clear when you break your journey you represent the contours of the german values.

which i also without a plan was a mistake for you still a mistake is not you say the reason is because you would go if you don't convince me so i can speak speak should respect that raises the question of how it is respected here for the big tragic battlefront to call the sacred perspective john isner in prison because they have done that go. is a busy business you know a chance to homelessness you because it was in high seas it was it is it was you know he's a great he has done a lot for the national food good intentions but he has now made a decision that must be respected and it's going to sleep turn in any case the truth is on the case which most facet of the germs is not well because it's to

witness to us all having his picture taken the president's i don't want us. chinese president xi jinping is in the wonderous parts of a four nation trip to africa to a stop in trade ties he only a visited some ago which is the first west african country to be involved in china isn't. belt and belt and road infrastructure project beijing has been expanding its presence in africa in recent years and in twenty sixteen alone china invested thirty nine billion dollars in the continent bringing the total sum more than two hundred billion. but the initiative hasn't been without its critics the u.s. think the countries are not perfect prepared for such huge investment and may end up deeply in debt to china however recent offensive remarks from donald trump have strained relations with the continent the president of the united states is racist he really is the devil this is an actual quote from the actual president this is

the gift that he decided to give the american people there not whole country for one donald trump isn't there for us that. political analysts we spoke to think that countries in africa are turning to china because of u.s. government policies. the united states has a very small outlook towards africa and the rest of the world they do not want to best interest truck which is a long term investment improve their economy and they have basically add it to the united states especially whichever i know well is to make one to make double digit profits overnight they're not interested in the long term development of the country that's why the united states and the west don't know all the square root to china still china has built a new energy to energy plants china's built a new ports and there's many more things that they're working on in the course

africa and so the problem is that the west expense is not really thinking how to. think in terms of how do we make some fast boxes in the united states the use united states influence on africa was already doing lng well before don't want to sean came into the place and it will continue to drink because of some of his comments he's attitude towards africans and he's position on africa in general he's only interested in the basis and africans i'm afraid i'm very much interested in in partnership and those that take them seriously and the north was like a liberalized constant it's voting with the chinese changing united states in every sector that i know of in favor of the chinese or i'll force china already had a huge presence and influence and that influence i've just grown to levels for which even if the americans were to try now unlikely to ever catch the the chinese

in my lifetime. carried out he would love to hear your thoughts on all of our stories so do get in touch by following us on social media i'll be back at the top of the hour with all the latest headlines i'll see you don. sex drives us by the national survival. when customers go by you're disappointed. well reducible our. that's undercutting but what's good for market is not good for the global economy. so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy foundation let it be an arms race based on often

spearing dramatic development only mostly i'm going to exist i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical time to sit down and talk. so for. you and.

this is both broadcasting around the world as you can see from washington d.c. where important policy and money decisions are made there on capitol hill i'm bart chilton and thanks for joining us for what is the first installment of our infrastructure deficit special we're glad you're on board what will focus on the u.s. this time we'll have a few comparisons with other places around the world there's so much to cover much of the things that you would expect like roads bridges airports and rail but we also take a more complete and comprehensive look at other important infrastructure critical to not only palmers but to national security will look at energy including pipelines and the electrical grid and communications including broadband and even specifically how trucking fits into our deeply textured transportation network there's so much that we couldn't do it all just us in one program and i'm pleased that will be doing so with a little help from our friends some of the arctic correspondents and others who are

lending their expertise to it for most all i'm really looking forward to it and i hope you are too. so we're going to jump right in and start with a bit of an infrastructure place setting and then look at rail for that we turn to our to correspondent manilla chan. president truck campaign for months and months on repairing america's crumbling infrastructure from the roadways to waterways railways to the airways and has recently unveiled a plan to bring america up to speed we're here today to discuss the critical need to rebuild america's crumbling infrastructure and one understands and the people in this room really understand better than most probably hopefully better

than anybody that the problem the states have and local leaders have with funding the infrastructure is horrendous and we will build we will maintain and the vast majority of americans want to see us take care of our infrastructure. infrastructure is the backbone of the u.s. economy and a necessary input to every economic output those are the opening lines in the most recent report from the american society of civil engineers their study aptly called the failure to act a report minces no words in their frustration with the budget shortfalls in infrastructure and highlighted that america is consistently at about a two trillion dollar short ball when it comes to infrastructure according to the a.s.c. if this investment gap is not addressed by the year two thousand and twenty five the economy is expected to lose almost four trillion dollars in total g.d.p. which can result in a job loss of about two point five million people across the country u.s.

railways once connected the entire country from sea to shining sea much of america's goods are still pulled along by rail millions of cargo loads of coal chemicals paper goods new cars agricultural goods all the way down to other consumer goods like the i phone you may be watching on all get moved as train cargo every year every day tens of millions of americans rely on public transportation to get to and from work without it america's economy would come to a crashing halt but without proper repairs to america's infrastructure the country stands to fall behind to places like china tens of millions of passengers use various forms of rail transit every year from amtrak to their local metro but with frequent delays electrical failures and in several extreme cases both amtrak and local commuter rails have experienced deadly human error catastrophes and although

president trump promised to fix infrastructure problems such as these former congressman jim moran is doubtful that he'll keep his campaign promise. and washington really believes that it will have a that's going to happen is going to have to be done by states or localities and he just took away the money from theirs from the states. that needed that state local tax deductibility p.t.c. or positive train control was mandated by congress back in two thousand and fifteen following a deadly amtrak wreck which killed eight in philadelphia but after lobbying efforts by train companies congress pushed that requirement by three years to twenty eighteen places like europe and japan have not only had p.t.c. on their tracks for more than a decade providing a safer and more secure ride but now china has launched their most ambitious bullet train project that will also cut commute time by nearly seventy percent will america be able to catch up if we bring the.