you can see what i believe and trust is now lower than that it seems like america has already decided what the key issue in the upcoming vote will be and it's not going to be perceived to 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 idea 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 of trump's that's not so much an intellectual exercise as it is a referendum on him and this device that mr we have in america. a woman wearing a traditional muslim full face veil and 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 veils such as the burka and you 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 two for first time offenders to thirteen hundred euro's and other cases muslims currently make up five percent done marks population. now protests against the new law have taken place in

a number of cities across denmark in the capital hundreds gathered in solidarity with the muslim community bringing bales and facemasks. we appreciate people out of homicide scenes that have been too great saying 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 someone are you to say 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 countries and. not allowing them to be proud of our society their limitations on wearing full face veil in public in 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 and 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 isolate 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 anymore we said 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 kids it includes 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 new up we're not ready to throw everything that we believe in in order to fit this description that they're trying to make of what it in each person is the discrimination of the hate crime against a muslim woman is going to rise so much as

a result of the 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 your style of spin 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 u.s. 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 geishas 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 a whole lot we thought it maybe didn't. get on a. godmother through. all the protocol get a fact you know that they don't tell us how to feel about much of the ferry. dock or dollars a product out there it is. afghanistan but you can see there are a shotgun for an afghani question but while some learned about growing grapes others took the chance to boost their poppy harvest u.s.

aid spent more than two billion dollars on 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 reticulation 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 still to come russia's foreign ministry has attacked a white helmets rescue group saying they're working against the interests of the syrians the details on that after a short break. disinflation

very little inflation for decades interest rates have gone down for thirty years markets have rallied for thirty years now the whole thing is reversing interest rates are going up so is inflation so we'll see how that plays out if wages rise faster than inflation. as such then trying to wonder if wages don't rise as fast as a business and pleasure and then we got trouble. we put themselves on the line. to get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be president and you. want to be rich. to go on to be pros this is what before three in the morning can't be good. i'm interested always in the water

. question. welcome back russia's foreign ministry says the recent evacuation of the white helmets from syria shows the rescue 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 and the southwest of the country the group has been receiving funds from the u.s. and its nato allies are 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. let me tell you so 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 will suit just say whatever they needed. to syrian first responders who risked their lives to save others in war torn aleppo the face of relenting brutality heroes have emerged. have to tell you whenever food aid was brought into the white helmets and the rebels would take it all for themselves to give us nothing not even bread.

to give the full chosen. to risk their lives to save others. when you see that i'll be sure 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 or people they cared about they would leave the civilians the 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 the civilians. we've been able to catch these brave people and their families out of syria after the extraordinary work they've done saving lives the white helmets newspeople they held the rebels only did in save civilians the locals out for rebels.

so plenty of accusations are tales afshin rattansi put them to the head of the group on the latest upside of going underground. so me about. the boy whose photos were awards he was covered in dust and the white helmets of the bordley saved his life. the truth is as you know i'm running definitions home was bombed and he was extracted by our teams from under the rubble we did not photograph in the source of the photograph that was published was not to 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 and i'm reminded 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 bill much they primarily work with the press it's 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 i raise the subject of almer and can. the famous boy who was photographed covered in dust the white helmet. leader rather salah said he was never filmed by the white helmet the boy was saved by the weight of it as was the brother and his father's interview on this journal amongst other outlets was under duress from the syrian authorities he would never say the guy did things that he said to r.t. if the syrian authorities were not forcing him to again a very interesting sparingly but unfortunately full of holes when i went to the area and i met by from ron and his family it was in the attack was in the hell category area so i went and met other families from that area and what they told me was that it was not a syrian government asteroid or a russian air strike it was shelling from the terrorist factions because that area

was ninety inhabited by those who were loyal to the syrian regime and in fact throughout syria the syrian government and in fact throughout the occupation of the celebrity that area had been targeted various houses had been detonated destroyed and members of families had been kidnapped and tortured and then executed purely because they were considered to be loyal to the syrian government so the entire but granted the amount story that of course has been revealed after the liberation of eastern approach from the terrorist groups and the white house that reveals the fact that actually rides dollar is not very clear on his facts and. both of those interviews will be aired in full throughout saturday here on r.t. and can be found on our website and you tube channel. ten crews from seven countries are going all out in a tank biathlon at an international army games competition here moscow there

driving skills and shooting accuracy is being put to the test during the six day event. that's our wrap up of the day's headlines news for now and that's all for me as well or not my colleague you know neal will be here at the top of the hour with your global news update as always thanks for tuning in.

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here it is going to be a comedy show where americans in america covering american news are first some reason cold foreign agents imagine imagine this headline armed gunman at airports secretly follow around peaceful americans who are not accused or suspected of any crime and who aren't listed on any terrorism watch list i think a proper response if you were to read had longed to seeing that revelation would be so i'd rather have god on to germany shocked. what instead that headline could have been in our american newspapers this week a new t.s.a. program has been revealed called quiet skies it's existed since twenty ten and it or the federal air marshals follow ordinary american citizens collecting information about their movements and behavior. we're still like where's the line

in the sand when you go oh oh we're inside one of those dystopian military state horror shows. because for me personally like when i go to a quiet place and i really think about it and i really just take a minute i think about it that line is is when armed gunmen are following around peaceful unaware americans who haven't been accused of crimes like that's a lot like you right over that and you step over and over steps topi in military say. oh oh oh no. three good here why is guys three civically targets travelers who are not under investigation by any agency and are not on the terrorist screening database this means you are right this is you i'm talking to you guy at home sitting there going well they don't mean. they don't

mean maybe i haven't done anything wrong here i'm talking about you know that's you know i like wipe the idea of wrong out of your head there do you have any idea how many people who haven't done anything wrong or in our jails our prisons our court systems millions millions here is some of these suspicious activities that the documents show air marshals are looking for when observing someone subject was abnormally aware of their surroundings observing the boarding gate area from a far excessive fidgeting excessive perspiration rapid eye blinking rubbing ringing of a hand strong body odor sweaty palms using the bathroom a lot. using the bathroom have you seen airplane food all right we're showing where oh i use. the last little walk

even in the airport even at the airport if you want to score like a piece of fresh broccoli you have to like meet a guy in a dark corner but between a brookstone and a mcdonnell's or he opens up his coat or a veil of vegetable of some so orange and. then once you agree on a price he puts it inside a toblerone box just so the world you know just so just so the world doesn't find out that there's a black market leafy greens loose in the airport. toblerone the choc'late no one once in less it's duty for a year. and then it's worth its weight in gold. and excess in fidgeting they literally sell devices at airport kiosks just for. i could. even the air marshals know this is utter horse in late may an air marshal complained to colleagues about having just surveilled

a working southwest airlines flight attendant as part of a quiet skies mission subject wearing too much make up she's clearly hiding something all right so subject passing out cans of liquid to passengers could be toxic fluid subject stayed on flights for multiple trips from back and forth from chicago to new york and i thought suspicious i don't know what is subject seems to concerned about whether people's feet are in feet or in the aisles so you know one could say it borders on obsessive compulsive tendencies taken down to go down. these with hundreds who trained in how to shoot things in a plane like this this is a real image of the trip it's completely unrealistic this is the fraud that the mannequin would be currently. guy got beat by step down. and secondly you look at that leg room or you. it was. all you know.

is that she's reserved for the queen of england mother because. i mean the u.k. to get your gun out when your new year's against your chason off. anyway this douchebags also find it suspicious when a target has a cold penetrating stay there or wide open staring on this why the open staring eyes that's interesting because a few weeks ago and i'm not making this up i happen to be on a flight with congressman adam schiff. now if that guy is not a terrorist i don't know what one is. but don't worry don't worry though nancy pelosi has her eye on it all right she is monitoring the situation something else these gunmen are looking for is

a telltale sign that you're getting ready to blow up fellow human beings exaggerated emotions. exaggerated emotions though i'm sure our mass media hacks and con artists have something to say about that babies and other young children. we are. living in the one nine hundred thirty s. all over again. folks in a very dramatic development. even sisters who were. i. think ryan did a lot of duvall i. don't love it could. go viral. but i will say this c.n.n. and the other networks did cover this story about quiet skies they did not fail to

reveal this insane invasion of privacy during the quick march toward a totalitarian state take a look there's absolutely no intention to surveil ordinary americans instead its purpose is to ensure passengers and flight crew are protected during air travel no different than putting a police officer on a beat where intelligence and information presents a need for increased watch and deterrent no different than putting a police officer on a beat yeah yeah it is cobb's don't follow random people around who aren't suspected of a crime and see if they're blinking all right. i'm not saying no cop has ever beaten someone for going into my store for using the bathroom too much but they're not tasked with taking notes about bathroom habits d.s.t. difference i mean it's tough to overstate this are two men who literally follow us around to make sure we behave ourselves. it sure is

a free country and this is at the airport i'm free to use the bathroom no more than once. i'm free to have body odor if it's the appropriate amount i'm free to be aware of my surroundings to a certain extent. i believe it was founding father patrick henry who said give me liberty within reason. the words of washington university law professor john turley had this to say there may be indeed constitutional issues here depending on how restrictive or intrusive these measures are intrusive all right we we've got not so bright guys with guns ready to fire at a moment's notice because i happen to look a bit fidgety yeah maybe i am fidgety all right because maybe i'm going on two

hours of sleep and maybe i've already had three cocktails and maybe i was just at airport security all right. so. the guy got into the exchanges aims with me i mean i don't care if the mother is an intrusive i don't want him following me well despite all my anger about this you may feel differently once you hear how impressively effective the program has been requested by congress to twenty seventeen report noted that the agency which spent eight hundred million dollars in twenty fifteen has no information on its effectiveness in deterring attacks wow. good arguing those got a result. all eight hundred million dollars for a veritable lot of no information. could all agree that's a bargain according to the government's own department of justice standards there

is no cause to be can. doctoring these secret missions well at the conclusion of that c.n.n. segment that i just heard after bring it on the former inspector general for the department of transportation who seemed downright excited about the whole thing i'm sure the c.n.n. anchor will point out this is a horrific abuse of law enforcement it makes a mockery of our freedom and it puts us firmly in the category of military surveillance state take us home so you know i will say that any time anyone talks about rapid eye rapid blinking arrival and i feel if i find myself blinking quite a bit more it's just lovely in response mary thank you so much i appreciate it. i'm having a problem loving response right now blinking segments like this which is pretty that's i mean pretty similar to all the mainstream coverage of this new revelation this week or more insidious.