the issue in the upcoming vote will be and it's not going to be perceived russian influence as some outlets would like you to believe it's going to be the donald but keep in mind he won't actually be anywhere on the ballot these are mid-term congressional elections but regardless the way american politics is developing it seems like the upcoming vote in november will be a referendum on one man able to mop and r t new york echoing that we talked to a former adviser to retired congressman ron paul who told us he thinks the current crop of candidates have run out of ideas this election like most but this one especially this midterm election upcoming in the united states is not can be about ideas it's up particular going to be about policy there's a very intellectual mood in the country right now there's really three parties in the united states right now there's the trunk party there's the. trump or non-tribal republicans which is sort of the remnants of the old george w.

bush reagan era party and then there's the democrats democrats have lots of problems and divisions among them but they're all united in their hatred and that's not so much an intellectual exercise as it is a referendum on him and this the device that mr we have in america. a woman wearing a traditional muslim full face veil in denmark has become the first person to be fined since a controversial new law came into effect there the ban came into force last wednesday and outlaws the wearing a full face veil such as the burka and the cop and public police also have new powers to instruct women to remove their veils or ask them to leave public spaces fines range from one hundred thirty euros for first time offenders to thirteen hundred euros in other cases muslims currently make up five percent of denmark's population. protests against the new law have taken place in a number of cities across denmark and the capitol hundreds gathered in solidarity with the muslim community wearing veils and face masks we're pushing people out of

homicide scenes that have integrating and making our society a goal too to absorb all kinds of people we're pushing them out the fact that you could actually make a law or. specifically targeted some minorities extremely scary and if we don't do anything about it now i don't know where you will in like what will the next will be i think we should focus more on trying to understand different times just. not allowing them to be proud of our society there are limitations on wearing full face avails and public areas and other e.u. countries as well france was the first country to impose a full ban in two thousand and eleven other countries including spain the netherlands and italy have introduced partial bans outside the e.u. turkey has a partial ban as well despite being a muslim majority country we spoke with a muslim woman affected by the new danish ban she thinks it will only arm salute the community even further. they argue that it's going to integrate into society

even more but the reality is that many of us we used to go to school we used to work as after this law we can't go to school we can't work any more weeks of possible for us to be a part of society now that we're criminalized we're actually criminals so we think it's a part of a bigger picture of the you pick use it in trying to discriminate against muslims take away the rights of muslims by going after a minority within a minority in the muslim community such as the women who choose to wear the new op as muslim women are from women in dialogue we've made the decision that we're going to keep on where the no up we're not ready to throw everything that we believe in in order to sit in that they're trying to make of what it in each person is the discrimination of the hate crime against muslim women is going to rise so much as a result of this law so not only is it not going to work in accordance to the intentions that it was made for which was inclusion but it's also going to further

hate crime against muslim women. after nearly seventeen years and billions of dollars the united states battle against the afghan opium trade has yielded more bleak results if your song has been taking a closer look. this is what an opium poppy looks like just ahead two of these is enough to produce enough heroin to keep an addict on the needle for more than five years now that i have your attention in afghanistan in the past year alone poppy cultivation levels swelled by over sixty percent to hit a record of more than three hundred thousand hectares with a farm gate value of almost one point four billion dollars this is the main revenue stream for the taliban's war against the us forces in the country and one recent study says the u.s. is putting this money into its enemies pockets itself in some areas development programs inadvertently supported poppy production one example of this was the

rehabilitation and development over again systems when the u.s. invested in afghanistan's agriculture and irrigation they hoped farmers would swap from growing poppies for more conventional crops and in some cases it worked their whole lot we felt that maybe they thought i would. get on a. voyage other spirits hold up. all their product or get a fact you know that they don't care enough to let out much the ferry. dock hotel is a product out there with the idea hunter normal. not afghanistan but i see the. point question but while some learned about growing grapes others took the chance to boost their poppy harvest usaid spent more than two billion dollars on going to greek culture since two thousand and two including tens of millions funneled into the taliban's heroin business.

and if these. some surprise you they shouldn't after all it's just a small chunk in the billions of american tax dollars frittered away waste which washington itself admits to as i.g.a. are has identified up to fifteen point five billion in waste fraud abuse and failed reconstruction efforts since its inception in two thousand and eight through december thirty first twenty seventeen when you look at an occupation that is spending hundreds of billions of dollars a year after year and you look at a couple billion dollars misspent on drug eradication and you can't really call that every effort you know ninety nine percent of the effort is going into the use of bombs and guns i would love for the united states to launch

a war on global peace sustainability happiness and joy maybe we would get more of those things certainly getting the opposite of the of the stated intention is the norm not an exception here the u.s. is waging many alternative wars the war on terrorism the war on drugs but in afghanistan they appear to be shooting themselves in the foot in both cases it's one step forward and two steps back for women's rights in saudi arabia with reforms coupled with arrests among our stories still heard after the break. you know world's big partners. a lot and conspiracy it's time to wake up

to dig deeper to hit the stories that made stream media refuses to tell more than ever we need to be smarter we need to stop slamming the door on the shouting past each other it's time for critical thinking it's time to fight for the middle for the truth the time is not for watching closely watching the hawks. so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy sunday shouldn't let it be an arms race is also a spear in dramatic development is only going to resist i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical time time to sit down and tom.

welcome back to the program russia's foreign ministry says the recent evacuation of the white helmets from syria shows the rescue groups have been quote foreign agents working against syrian interests for huge amounts of money israel helped them flee to western countries last month over fears they could face persecution as the syrian government recaptures territory in the southwest of the country the group has been receiving funds from the u.s. and its nato allies but critics point to multiple controversies surrounding the white helmets among other instances its rescuers have been seen at executions and even waving terrorist flags with extremists some syrian civilians have also offered damning testimony against them.

gabby at all you saw with no they would bring cameras and explosives something to destroy for example this building here that find people in the streets and promised the money or food to say whatever they needed. to syrian first responders who risked their lives to say about theirs in war torn aleppo the face of on relenting brutality heroes have emerged. to tumble and yet whenever food aid was brought into east aleppo the white helmets and the rebels would take it all for themselves they give us nothing not even bread . they have all chosen to risk their lives to save others. when you see that little beach

when we go out to buy food we'd see them if there was a collapsed building after a shilling they cordoned off the area and save rebel fighters people they cared about they would leave the civilians same happened not far from here a building was destroyed in shelling and they came just to pull their own out as usual they lift civilians. we've been able to get these brave people and their families out of syria after the extraordinary work they've done saving lives the white helmets those people they held the rebels only did in save civilians the locals out for rebels. so plenty of accusations artie's afshin rattansi put them to the head of the group on the latest episode of going underground tell me about. the boy whose

photos were awards he was covered in dust and the weight helmets of the bordley saved his life. the truth is as you know me she's home was bombed and he was extracted by our teams from under the rubble and we did not photograph the source of the photograph that was published was not of the white helmets but a journalistic reporter we saved him and his brother who stayed in hospital for several months until he recovered we were surprised at the way he was used and exploited by the russian government to speak in the media. that me she's father been given the safety and been taken to a safe place he would have spoken differently than he did under the threats of the syrian regime he knows well that's we saved his son and his brother who stayed in hospital for several months until his full recovery because mother. told us actually the photograph was used to exploit him with regard to the way till much they primarily work with the press is a professional tool they are using we had

a pulitzer prize winning journalist seymour hersh on the program telling us the way the helmets were a propaganda organization in truth a man's father is obliged to speak in that way and he's not in total safety under the regime that has announced the assassination of eleven thousand convicts in the prisons over the last few weeks alone he is obliged to speak that way and i understand his position however we know that we have fulfilled our duty when we rescued his two sons from under the rubble after they were bombed by the syrian regime this is our duty and we do not expect thanks from anybody for fulfilling our duty towards our own people in syria as for the other journalists i don't know who they are the journalist that you are referring to those who have come up with such talk unless they are part of those journalists that create propaganda against the white helmets which have become known by the name we do not feel the need to respond to them because they are aware of the fact that they are lying and we know that they are lying. the full interview will be aired throughout saturday here on

r.t. and can be found on our website and you tube channel. human rights watch and amnesty international are reporting that two prominent women's rights activists have been arrested in saudi arabia the arrests of some are we and the cmos to signal that the saudi authorities see any peaceful dissent with the process of present as a threat to their order crowd a group this unprecedented level of persecution of human rights defenders in saudi arabia is a disturbing sign that the crackdown is far from over the activists were protesting against laws that compel women to get permission from men to study travel abroad or marry the steam is a long time campaigner for women's and shia minority rights the other arrested activist some are badawi who is also a veteran activist for women's rights in saudi arabia her brother rafe is a dissident and activist who's serving a ten year jail term for insulting islam online some are receiving the two thousand

and twelve international women of courage award from then u.s. secretary of state hillary clinton. so matt you are a human rights activist a monitor of human rights in your country of saudi arabia thank the saudi government began cracking down on women's rights activists just over two months ago the official reason for the latest arrests are not known but previous detainees have been accused of having suspicious contact with foreign entities back then saudi officials had warned that further arrests could be carried out as the investigation proceeded even so saudi crown prince is eager to show a different side promising reforms and even lifting the ban on women driving vehicles all said stuff at the u.n. human rights commissioner's office have grave concerns over the crackdown. we are

concerned about the continuing arrests and our parents apparently arbitrary detentions of human rights defenders and activists in saudi arabia including women's rights activists since the fifteenth of may at least fifteen government critics were detained we understand that eight of them were later temporarily released until the completion of their procedural review political activist medea benjamin believes that saudi arabia is using its vast wealth to get its own way with the u.n. can see old pictures of somewhere else but with michelle obama hillary clinton and she was celebrated in the state department now that she's arrested we don't hear anything from the state department calling out the saudi government for this terrible act of arresting her for absolutely nothing so we have seen a crackdown in recent months on human rights activists women activists and this is another example of what. it is that the crown prince as

a reformer because he is sending the message to the saudi women you will not get any changes by your grassroots activism i am the only one that will decide every time the u.n. does something to speak out against abuses in saudi arabia so to arabia then turns around and blackmails the united nations saying we will stop giving you money let's face it it's a very wealthy country from all of the oil that it sells and it uses its wealth to not only by friends and by silence from governments like the united states but to buy silence at the united nations. ten crews from seven countries are going all out in a tank biathlon at an international army games competition near moscow or driving skills and shooting accuracy is being put to the test during the six day event.

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