alten coalition to stop the war thank you. and other news donald trump faces a major test of his presidency later this year in the midterm elections they're widely seen as being a vote of confidence for any administration that's artie's kill him or put explains but it's republicans or democrats u.s. politicians seem to know in advance who is to blame if results don't go their way. with so much division on capitol hill the democrats and republicans have finally found something that they can agree on both parties now agree that the russians are coming more specifically they're coming to interfere in the twenty eight teen mid-term elections this is president trump i'm very concerned that russia will be fighting very hard to have an impact in the upcoming election based on the front the new president has been tougher on russia than me they will be pushing very hard for the democrats they definitely don't want trump and this is his old arch nemesis there are some tax experts in silicon valley valley with whom i have met who say

that you know maybe what they'll do this next time is to really disrupt the actual election shut down the servers that you send results to interfere with the operation of voting machines because still too many of them are linked to the internet so there we are still very vulnerable russia's meddling in the midterm elections may just be a hypothesis at this point but the trumpet ministration from the department of homeland security to the secretary of state are ready to fight the two thousand and eighteen mid-term elections remain a potential target for russian cyber and influence operations i think we should be absolutely prepared to assume that they will try to interfere in all fifty states we will not tolerate russian interference in our two thousand and eighteen elections we are planning and preparing as if they'll try again this fall and beyond now it hasn't happened yet but the retaliate tory sanctions to be imposed on

russia are all set up by congress we're going to pursue russia's energy and financial sectors which oligarchs it's parastatal entities it is my go along with senator graham to make sure that we're protecting the united states the spending the united states folks in washington d.c. are manning their battle stations all prepared to face an on coming onslaught but what are they worried about. well it could be the twenty sixteen presidential elections let's not forget that james clapper the former director of national intelligence said that in the twenty sixteen supposed intervention none of the vote tallies were in any way affected they did not change any kelley's or anything of that sort i mean you know we had knew we had no way of gauging. the impact that some of the intelligence community can't gauge the impact it had on the choices the electorate made furthermore it's not exactly clear who russia is supposedly going

to be supporting now the democrats say that russia is going to be supporting donald trump but trump says that the pending kremlin subversion will be in support of the democrats why would he say that well because it makes just as much sense as what the democrats it was a trope everybody wants to blame another country for the problem you know the reason why thirty million americans don't have health care has nothing to do with russia that has everything to do with the enemies of america which by the way are in america acts on the military industrial complex these are the enemies of america are tired government is bought it's legal bribery and they steal and cheat right out in the open americans car gobbling this up it's amazing you know we used to be afraid of russia because they had a communist ideology they're just kind of pressing that button on americans because we've been conditioned to be afraid of russia and their communism even though they're not communists anymore this will all be cleared up after the election whichever side loses can blame russia for it and after all it worked in the twenty

sixteen presidential election for hillary clinton there is no reason that donald trump can't use it to his advantage ok with mop and r t washington d.c. . the leaders of the five brics emerging economies are holding a summit in south africa of course one has to get done off reports on day one of the gathering. now thursday the main day of the bric summit was packed with action and of course to an extent you can use the word action in regard to a political summit well russia's president vladimir putin arriving early in the morning he kicked off his streak of face to face conversations with a meeting with a south african with the south african president now that's way late into the night followed by a face to face with the chinese with his chinese counterparts and then all of that wrapped up with a tete a tete with india's prime minister now in between all of those talks of russia's

president vladimir putin met with the leaders of other countries who are not part of the brics block among those was the argentinean leader and the turkish president recipe and putin's meeting with erdogan kind a hinted at the potential bromance the two leaders could be having. the. kind of. to. look. for the. remains. were live in special times and with donald trump and the white house being so keen on trade wars wall that of course couldn't go on noticed here that's was the focus and i talked about this to quite an extent with ministers and experts who attended

the summit the leaders of bricks are very clear that we will not be in the position to tolerate what is trade protectionism like we're seeing from the u.s. but also we're also looking at alternatives to say that i mean you have brics which is a conflagration almost forty percent of the world's population it's a huge pay. look at how politics has changed in the states they want to make sure that. products somebody fractured in america for americans and not get goods manufactured outside the united states and brought back again exotic prices back to the united states the emerging markets are starting to see the dangers of. collateral damage. suffering is. not the cause of anybody's problems but we're all being affected so we're not very happy

about it. so what we see as. the intended a distillation which is to rekindle the multilateralism in favor of. that this is a signal that we need to strengthen. huge number of areas so with all the damage that right now america's trade policies are dealing apparently to the economies of the brakes nations well every cloud has a silver lining you know and here it is the fact that the brics nations are now encouraged to work closer with each other also. encouraging other nations perhaps emerging economies to work with the breaks with other states of reporting from johannesburg from south africa. the five brics leaders gathered for a group photo but not everything went to plan.

seven hundred migrants have stolen through a border fence into a spanish and clave in north africa we'll have that story when we come back after this break. join me every first week on the alex salmond show and i'll be speaking to guest of the world of politics sports business i'm showbusiness i'll see you then.

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around six hundred migrants of breached a border fence that separates spain's north african territory and morocco. i. spanish police say that the migrants mostly from sub-saharan africa turned violent throwing molotov cocktails at least thirty people have been injured it's in the cities or so to the leader of the e.u. is only land borders with africa and hundreds of migrants trying to jump the fence is that every year the latest incident comes just hours spain's foreign minister raised the alarm over the situation. this is more serious than the euro crisis the migration problem must be solved on the ground and the countries of origin otherwise we're just shifting pressure from one place to another people now see spain as a better bet than italy who's trying to close its borders completely this

again as always and this is been going on for years and years and years without a successful resolution and it is because the e.u. collectively in the member states have been unable to come to a proper equitable burden sharing of how to deal with migrants coming into europe a lot of these states are not pulling their weight. british home secretary has commissioned a study into the profiles of child abuse is among the factors to be considered is the perpetrators country of origin. my fishers have been working with investigating officers in relevant cases to establish the particular characteristics and contexts associated with this type of offending we are looking at what this data set can tell us about characteristics of offenders victims and the wider context of abuse all of which have a critical bearing on the effective targeting of prevention activity. child grooming scandals that are a topic that have attracted

a great deal of emotion controversy and debate in the u.k. public and media as well rather on rossdale bristol peterborough the list is endless and will be familiar to many here in the u.k. this is the first time though that many would say a government in office indeed the home secretary in office has ordered an investigation specifically into the ethnicity the racial background of both the victims and the perpetrators involved in these crimes it's not the first time investigations of happened it's not the first time the issue's been raised just last year in fact a labor m.p. and former minister sarah champion wrote an article in a paper in which she unequivocally condemned pakistani grooming gangs and said the issue must be debated openly and honestly the backlash she received the criticism she received from many quarters in the end caused her to resign from her position and indeed received death threats after which she had to receive extra police protection what strikes me about this whole debate is that we've reached

a point in this country and possibly in the west where we can't really talk in a relaxed way about race so this would write something which a lot of people would say is a statement of the bleeding obvious and ends up losing the job now the media and public outcry has stemmed from the understanding that a sense of misplaced political correctness or fear of offending of racial backlash of stoking ethnic and community tensions had previously prevented law enforcement social services and local government from taking the necessary action to stop and prevent these horrific crimes i think there was a culture of not wanting to rock the multicultural community bode if i may put it like that this has also come from the horse's mouth just quite a number of years ago there was a police report released under the freedom of information act in which the police themselves had said often there was a very lucky that it's a hesitancy to take the necessary action because precisely of the slow. of racial or ethnic tensions over the years the discussion about the racial ethnic background

of perpetrators and victims of these crimes and that specific link has been quite to boot it's been discussed with a great hesitancy or been confined perhaps to the margins of the political spectrum now though with the home secretary's investigation given of course sergeant javal himself has pakistani roots that discussion seems to be going more mainstream education spokesperson for the u.k. independence party david kirton thinks this move by the u.k. home office is long overdue. this is something that needs to be dealt with and it needs to be dealt with with brutal honesty it's good that job it has commissioned this report but honestly this is something that should have happened twenty years ago because it's been going on for at least twenty years people have known about it in various arms of the state it's being covered up but more importantly people have been afraid to talk about it because of the culture of political correctness and

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welcome to the alex i'm in show from scotland and today we're here in the city of edge about where behind me you'll see the iconic image of edge and back asos but we're not here to discuss in the brave but scotland the brand last week we discussed the importance of soft power and how the u.k. uses it internationally today we're going to talk about the importance of a brand to a nation and how that image can contribute to the success of an economy but first tier treats your messages and your e-mails. now shows on gibraltar generated a lot of interest in advance of that when they made the announcement puna graham

said while this will be really interesting the show is covering so many interesting issues that others are not well thank you very much been we want to continue to do that john says create citizen gibralter we heads up the t.v. so automatically generate subtitles they need to be broadcast with the show thanks very much sean for correcting me on that we are definitely going to continue subtitles susan says another corker of a show from alex salmond first of three and lightening the place to both a place in the prick's circus again thank goodness tad and he are setting the political commentary pace with inspired production watch out and watch it well says alex i'm unsure what a fascinating series and you brought a lovely funny place where's your time alex or we can ask him and finally for my new he says if you watch this relative to the gibraltar she was just thank you both it's actually fun but mind you if people treat him to say it really is that thanks for your comment anyway now belittling the scottish produce has been the subject of some controversy over recent months and has been the campaign keep scotland the

brand alex i speak to martin hannan was a journalist involved in leading that campaign. among the hard and the national newspaper but for the purposes of the campaign for the scotland the concept both writing about the controversy sweeping the country and also campaigning to instigate even more it does seem to the observer the likely issue to be starting up so much political controversy well so let me just explain what happened was the leader of the national. who at the same tame a lovely woman called with swartz and was starting her campaign keeps cope with the brand's readers were sending in examples of what had happened and this is local shops and in the supermarkets where things were starting to be. in there with the union flag rather than the sole tie. so being the flag assault having the flag of scotland and pockets of food would say things like made in button and then on the

meter it would see. it all in an angus and so on as an angle spot a scar on the skull in this part of the well the problem problem is that by not accepting the unique scottish blinds the supermarkets and the retailers and jandals of actually reaching the product because scotland is seen with many many pools many some of these of showing that scotland food and drink in particular is seen as high quality very high quality and the problem with recall the union jackie is that you diminish the scottishness of it and in turn that diminishes the attractiveness of the food and drink they want to be possible for people to put more flags on the produce assault time one side of the union flag and the other formula well actually that is happening with quite a few companies and that's not a bad thing. it just actually with the big problem is but exit no one had them

but certainly affecting what companies speculate on the projects any particular that is a real problem for scotland because scotland high's several items. which have. what is called protected geographical indication not a member of us when i was first minister campaigning for whisky to get one agreed by the chinese well good for you we won not one and scotch whisky is probably the best known certainly our biggest export but probably the best known export it don't mean british whisky i know they tried and i have very good authority that the sales of the british whisky. just were non-existent and they've gone back to scotch and this controversy actually ridge then to the committee rooms of the house of commons that it didn't need to and. gave evidence and she's one of the key campaign

especially one of the key campaigners know and it all came from the grassroots such a thing people should realize this complex decided that it was wrong that scotland's brand was being weakened among the any academic or empirical evidence to show that putting an assault on your projects actually increases the sales quite remarkably and within the last few days that has been the result of a sunday by an organization called quality meat scotland they say that industry body for all meat producers they brought out some of the following their campaign to promote scorch beef scotch beef eyes protected geographical indication status and no one else can produce coach beef anyone know what the americans might like to because part of what they're wanting is to get rid of all of these p.d.i. isas we call them but scotch beef over the last year and england know this isn't

england this is not in scotland in england the sales of scotch before the resin by seven percent because of the campaign organized by quality scotland to promote scotch beef and what's even more extraordinary is that on average scots beef in london is ten percent the other than english but irish beef yet people have been queuing up to buy it sales are up and it's a recognition that scots beef is a high quality product and must remain so after the break that if we lose protected status for we said to be a disaster for the industry the success of branding products the scotties doesn't actually speak to something more fundamental what people are saying it is not just scotland but what scotland represents and you think is part of almost the international desire for things to be the strength of the province to have assurance to have. quality is that is that was behind us absolutely as well but what is behind this whole thing is to promote scotland as

a place that produces high quality food and drinks like scotch beef scott salmon scotch whiskey and we have been very very successful in recent years and increasing the amount of exports that. have gone to school and particularly food and drink the more that we can prove that we have a distinct identity based on. things like quality food and drink the more we do that the more i think that the people school on to become confident about their own future and of course as a representative of the only dealing newspaper in scotland that supports independence you can bet i welcome that it would be better if scotland were well known as the book called an american off of the country which invented the modern world as opposed to the country which produces good beef and decent whisky i think we can be i think we can both be both i think that we have a record second to none of producing inventors scientists. per head of population i

think we've probably got more nobel prizes than any other country i think it's only norway has more had a population that you would certainly advocate as people look at this desultory political scene that they should be driving the sort of quality scottish projects absolutely and i would forward to the day when we are independent and we can say scott simon scotch beef scotch whiskey probably french wine. well i can't i can't recommend french why even this but they were sceptical but if you want to use her delight for the interview good title to the alexander mcqueen ah thank you very much indeed ali thank you very much. i know from talking to a campaigner for scott in the blind i thought we'd talk to a practitioner somebody who actually produces the stuff the people want to see the scholars but i and on german fairly foster the nation farm and i was pretty unusual mostly fourth generation of the survivor. i came into the industry i was born and

bred in the town. industry when i was eighteen. absalom a lot everything about it as got to me it's. a sense of purpose you go in the morning you walk in the stock there's a profession it's not just about looking after the stock is about your contribution to the environment that you're living in a context being to that to the food chain that we all that we all want to eat from . and it just feels of the property office when you produce and stop the one of your purposes is to stay in business which is not always easy primary producers so can you point to who but i'm being your rogers what's your beef with a scottish identity actually help share in the bottom line. the scotch brand run by call in scotland the do annual. promotions and all the rest of it and they'll target specific parts of the country so they've been very strong for more

beef in london so you'll see big forster's going and they'll they'll tell you about growth between. six percent of growth of beef consumption there in the brands what whether anybody see it we been accused through the whole process where the brand has been. let's say dilute it could have tried to dilute this brand. if you want to open a burger stall and you can get it big yeah will aim over the top of it the response will be futile quick and decisive because your brand matters so whether it's the scotch but on with the germ theory beyond whether it's the whatever the brand is if you get your brand rate it is the most crucial thing you have in your business your argument would be in the same way a mcdonald's would want something. that scotland should be jealously protecting our one hundred percent jealously particularly when if you go back to the where this actually started after the referendum in twenty fourteen you hides in duncan

standing in a room with a great britain campaign and it was all very low key but what you had was iconic scottish brands with union jacks all over them that little problem of the union flag with the union flag on a product if people want to see as a but i think a product that's fine but when you've got product as one shell was what she should be uniquely scottish if it's come from pair of long come from fashion health then why would you put a union flag on it if you we've already got that. bit. ahead. just the national food drink policy which a lot here gives them scottish farming most yes he was the agricultural rule of the as minister he introduced the the national food drink bowls for scotland and he set up the scotland things and that's no the chief executive guy called james whether he was a fantastic guy and they have done an enormous amount to walk to grow the economy to grow the food industry as the fastest blue insect that i know to corner me and they've just released their new document which is

a mission twenty three after and the whole point of invention twentieth it is that the farming community and the food industry have to collaborate what together to meet at the most dynamic diverse industry in the country if they get it right and turn if they have to it will mean that a step to a billion pounds a year of time know what and the food and drink in the street and we will employ. a million people a population of one five point four million one million people will be involved as a friend of a country the supermarkets compute whatever lake on or on a packet and if they've got a union flag and i don't believe it's because they've got any kind of agenda again scott i believe it's because they believed that that would increase their sales and it would the school and food and drink. over that they've done i should clear indications in scotland that the saltire sales more than what it would get any of the life of the soul to sell this all to ourselves because we know that sells it and they want if you go any of them on the net and a backpack. if you've got

a soul to jack of all scots and they want to talk to you. why would be a low that to be sufficient why would we want to do anything other than promote the death of a semi consolation a period of time when i represented the largest fishing community in europe and i used to think they were fairly set there with a till we discovered that selling a product the scores like. meant at least a ten percent premium and selling it as prawns i have never seen such a rapid conversion to the what language. do not be that your your fellow farmers second third fourth fifth generation if they could be persuaded to but the bottom line will be queuing up to support the bill we have to maintain the brand and we have to sail around with all the visions of this you know hills and lands in mess and this iconic feeling of comfort that people get from scotland.