[000:00:00;00] from from . the white house threatens to revoke the security clearances of six obama era intelligence officials accusing them of politicizing the public service and leveling baseless accusations that president trump. also this hour how it seventeenth century slave trader is remembered as divided bristol in the southwest in the. old terms with the plugs going to be so you because you've got to pull things into a context of what we. know you would guess which is money's already scheduled to run just walked up. and the former trump advisor comes under fire after he announces a new foundation to reportedly from and right wing revolution in europe he's taking

aim at liberal philanthropist george soros has been promoting the left for years. warm welcome to the program from all of us here at r t h q in moscow thanks for tuning in this hour. first the israeli army says it has fired two anti-aircraft missiles at a syrian fighter jet that allegedly flew roughly one and a half kilometers into its airspace it's been reported that the incident took place over the israeli occupied golan heights and that the plane crashed on the syrian side of the disputed territory it comes as the assad government pushes to regain full control of the southwest of syria close to go on heights. and other world news donald trump is considering revoking the security clearance of several obama era intelligence officials the white house press secretary said that they had politicized and in some cases monetize their access to sensitive information and may baseless claims about the president reporters were quick to

question the implications of the threat. because the challenge is in the light and he wants to punish them for that no 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 plans or six people were named including former heads of the cia f.b.i. and n.s.a. all of them have been critical of trump's administration and the president's policies and all of them were barack obama officials it's believed two of them no longer have clearance but they themselves say if it 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 frankly more of a courtesy i don't go back for classified briefings won't have any effect on what i say oh right. now takes a look at whether the move is a necessity or trump looking to clamp down on u.s. intelligence. 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 going to do exactly that now this comes just after his recent tweet and 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 who are 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 a fear on 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 a president if. he chooses to bear to resize them from those. downright scary and and disturbing there's a big question first of all in terms of those who are on mr trump's team whether they can continue to serve in good conscience an individual who basically portrayed his nation 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 freeh 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. is john brennan monetizing his security clearance is john brennan making millions of dollars they volunteered secrets to the mainstream media with his attacks on donald trump so even after leaving office they've still got power and connections that they could use to further their agenda on the intelligence. so whatever happened to a quiet retirement now in the air pockets around the new forces emerging former top spies were turning to political activism they will happen marty new york the editor of defense and foreign affairs magazine gregory copely says that in any other country such behavior would be considered treasonous but what we've seen

lately and the last two years is. the situation with people like director of national intelligence clapper and the like brennan. and so on have been making extremely comments designed deliberately to undermine the current u.s. government now this is this would be treasonable the most governments around the world there are profound cases of damage to the united states' image to the united states' ability to function. you know national security sense from what we've seen from this range of ok shows commenting in the last eighteen months to two years. a proposed plaque on a statue of commemorating a seventeenth century merchant is dividing locals in the english city of bristol i've heard colston was a prominent figure in the city's history but also the slave trade much of his

wealth was acquired through the royal african company which held a monopoly on the trade of gold ivory and slaves and some residents want to raise awareness of his past city authorities have announced plans to add a second insert inscription to the monument they propose including a paragraph explaining about the enslavement of africans around twenty thousand of whom are said to have died as a direct result of colston's involvement in the slave trade. some locals are now calling the move pointless and for the statue to be removed altogether we spoke to racial equality campaign or at least jasper and stephen morris from the english democrats why are we got the statue of a man who sold millions of africans into bondage and slavery ripped operate them babies from their mothers breast separated families killed maimed and murdered millions of africans but he gave 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 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 familiar it is part of the history but it really got to be shown in the full history of what was going on at the time and not just to be a scene to european issue against the slave trade when the slave trade was very predominant across the entire continents at that signing so for me you look at the history of but we've got to put it into context julie christie million people is a lot i don't know about and some could go on for what we know a redesign and find it that day he story ends of the tie are all consensual around that figure so i think as you need to get your facts straight it all depends what the plot is going to be saying because you've got to put things into context of

what was going now you all the guest is just going on a complete. whatever whatever point he was trying to put forward whatever argument he was trying to put forward is actually been lost and he's actually learnt now you're the guest is this man is a racially ground so that's what i. want to be trying to put forward i'm going to pluck their. 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 you can go in and all the order of colonial aspects and really of the past can go in but i don't worry it should be could check july's as the book to refute period in bristol you cannot george historical events by today's standards you have to look at what was going on at the time more blood was enslaved by blacks than there were by the europeans so he needs to know. why when i

was a critical why why r t why do you subjecting me to the most ignorant based racist. rewrite of the street a week early but obviously. the name of the white man who's got no idea how we all believe in marriage to. more blacks was enslaved by blacks than they were by the europeans so he needs to needs to actually look and stop being very hypocritical. steve benen present terms former chief strategist is looking to ferment a right wing revolution and europe he's announced plans to create a new foundation that when unite and empower the continent's populace the plans were revealed in an interview with news website the daily beast bannon says he aims to rival the impact of the open society foundation set up by liberal billionaire george soros valence organization will be called the movement and is expected to have its headquarters in brussels the foundation will offer polling think tank

research and political advice for european right wing groups the plans have sparked outrage among some members of the european parliament. an attack on freedom and democracy in europe we will not stand idle we will respond we have to fight now with good arguments confident and true it's a frontal attack on the e.u. and european values. for years george soros has spent billions promoting open and transparent democracies recently he has funded pro e.u. campaigns and supported a second referendum we asked a former from greece's seriously party what he thinks of bannon's initiative. what is wrong with promoting an alternative does it not to challenge views so you get debate you get conversation instead of name calling people in the united states. if you follow the money so where the money was going to finance the. 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 that money comes from they've got to fly in those themselves but they've they're financing their of sims for what they're in favor of the reste. you know called the privilege list would be your priest yes well that's not really on the working class tell 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 in many countries it's not the left they need an alternative well yes. this is

a. 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 that's mr soros or the scapegoat is the recruiters are you why workers are going to be excluded right we didn't you guys that settled in britain would have breakfasted but now that a group 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 know well of eve you see so many people are coming from different places you have to we will ask why yeah and the people who you know they're coming from the. middle east that we started the people out of all of these are record yes there are

people that we united states great britain and enough other people have bombarded you know they destroyed the congress and now they are a good man and he started going and political responsibility and this is the same and it is same goes for the people know that it was just by immigrants coming from africa one devastated i forgot color of the cagers centuries you know that reads european governments they kind of can take their responsibility part of the mine is after shot back. camera. monthly once they showed some leave for them. her. own cool videos and so on with the broken string that. down more on

string i don't roughly don't t.v. . i've been saying the numbers mean something they matter to us is over one trillion dollars in debt more than ten light colored timestamping each day. eighty five percent of global wealth he longs to be all for rich eight point six percent market saw thirty percent just last year some with four hundred to five hundred trade per second per second and bitcoin rose to twenty thousand dollars. china is building a two point one billion dollar a i industrial park but don't let the numbers overwhelm. the only number you need to remember is one to one business show you can't afford to miss the one only. you're watching are to international welcome back to the program nordstrom 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 the strike you've given up all of your strength i think it's 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 euro venture between russia and five international companies it

runs next to the original nord stream pipeline and will double the amount of gas being transferred north rim two is set to be fully operational next year economists i commerce 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 needed in germany without being able to be blackmailed by the countries in between every american foreign policy is the duty they have to change a closer relationship between russia and germany the u.s. is not in the position anymore to make big aims because germany now after the sanctions and after the not occur like behavior of america against germany we have

to look for better opportunities are out of that unity and therefore it is no possibility at all anymore to separate germany or europe. from russia anyway he just wants to be the first he just wants his company to make the deal and make your being suspicious of the germans to wait a little bit longer until the american companies are allowed to make the year in russia i think this is all about he's a business that. the theme of alleged russian meddling seems to have touched a multitude of areas in recent times from presidential elections in the u.s. to rebellion in spain's breakaway region catalonia and with nasa celebrating its sixtieth anniversary it's apparently gone into orbit. looks like we've had fifty two american astronauts launched by the russians what's interesting is not

a single one of them with an african-american none of our african-american astronauts have ever been launched by the russians is mean since two thousand and eleven no african-american astronauts from nasa have been in space is had the opportunity you know it does raise the question what's going on are the russians were fusing to launch african-american astronauts. if that is the case i have never heard that. certainly i will start asking that question now that you meant that but i have not heard that and i am unaware if

that's the case. i seriously do not believe it was the russians our russian colleagues partly because them i've been through the training with them and i think. i was able to develop really good working relationships with everyone there and. you know a testament to that it was that i think some of the people there may have known that nasa the speaking of doing this but they were adamant that i had to complete all of the training. we heard from an aerospace engineer professor who explained it was likely medical restrictions that prevented apps from taking part in the expedition. you know i wasn't there to hear the statement but i can tell you that i have africa. i've been accepted quite well by my colleagues from russia like people from our ross cosmos

and that killed us we should sort of applied mathematics and i personally as an african-american of never experienced any sort of discrimination from any of my russian colleagues if nasa decided to pull astronauts. you know from from flights i don't we assume that there is some sort of physical reason. you know why that happened i'm not i'm not privy to her medical. information. chinese president xi jinping is in rwanda as part of a four nation trip to africa to establish deeper trade ties here earlier visited senegal which is the first west african country to be involved in china's belt and road infrastructure project beijing has been expanding its presence in africa in recent years now it's the largest trading partner to the continent gifts in two thousand and seventeen alone china invested thirty nine billion dollars there bringing the total to more than two hundred billion. but the initiative hasn't been without its critics the u.s.

thinks the countries are not prepared for such huge investment and may end up deeply in debt to china however we sort of 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 they're not whole country for one donald trump isn't their president. johnson from news site viewpoint africa believes countries are looking to china because of the u.s. government policy is the use united states influence on africa was already doing well before don't want to show came into the play i need to continue to do because of some of his comments he's attitude towards africans and he's position on africa in general he's only interested in basis and african so i'm afraid i'm very much

interested in your partnership and those that take them seriously and i know school is like a liberalized continent it's voting with his return is changing the united states in every sector that i know of in favor of the chinese of course china already had a huge presence and influence and that includes i've just grown to levels for which even if the americans were to try now likely to ever catch the the chinese in my lifetime. a football player of turkish origin has quit the german national team saying he was abused for a photo with the turkish president and used as a scapegoat for germany's poor two thousand and eighteen world cup performance the turkish president has given his backing to star player message said the treatment he has received is racist and unacceptable the german football association has emphatically rejected claims made by isil that they have been racist and disrespectful to him but the footballing body did accept. that it could have done more to protect him critics lashed out at him as

a for his poor performances at russia two thousand and eighteen and which germany went out at the group stage there's. your infuses chantelle a national lampoon closing out a long time ago and enough to sell departing from their strongest link to the muslim congress leader someone down that is not a german and someone that should not play football for the german 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 play for germany you represent the country the german values. also with the plan was a mistake it is still a mistake to say the reason the president also gave did not convince me so he

speaks of respect but that raises the question of how is respect for the victims about a bunch of policy perspective journalists who are in prison because they have done that job. or. is he just as you know the chance who holds mr president in high esteem he's good he's a great he has done a lot for the national football team he has now made a decision that must be respected and in any case the truth is on the pitch the fact of the germans is not tops of the world cup has little to do with mr having his picture taken with the president i don't see that's a global news update for this hour but don't forget you can find us on all of your face. but social media platforms are up to the minute reports thanks for turning it

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but. 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 commerce but to national security we'll 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 and 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 of 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 manila 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 of the state savard 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 us 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 bore trillion dollars in total g.d.p. which can result in