they're promising to do what they think of trial not just what they think a trial do you plan to vote in the midterm election when they don't want to try to win again i don't like i don't like alan views so i'm not going to. but i'm definitely that person that you can say what i believe in and about this now i want to do 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 the 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 he will mop and r.t. new york well as we talk to a former advisor to retired congressman ron paul who believes the current crop of candidates have run out of ideas. like most but this one especially this midterm

election coming in the united states is not going to be about ideas it's not particularly 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. 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 that's not so much an intellectual exercise as it is a referendum on him and this device of the atmosphere we have in america. of members of the druze religious sect their supporters are protesting in the israelis city of tel aviv against the controversial new nation state. station which was adopted in july similar weight to

a constitutional amendment in the u.s. would be difficult to repeal it enshrines israel as the home of the jewish people on ses national self-determination is the unique right of the jews it also done grades are a big stripping the language of its official status well the law although largely symbolic has been widely criticized as it's believed it will legitimize the treatment of non jews second class citizens this out of this protest has been organized by druze community leaders the druze historically been considered vs released its most loyal minority with its members serving in the police the military as well as holding political office but they say the new legislation has driven a wedge through the special relationship one druze leader has even said the law paves the way to israel becoming an apartheid state. this nation state law is an

evil and sadistic law designed to allow the state of israel to become an apartheid state. or some members of the knesset including members of prying minister netanyahu his ruling could party have also passed that the controversial law but he's hit back calling its critics appropriate and claiming the law doesn't infringe on the rights of my knowledge. there are suggestions that we should change the flag and the anthem in the name of all that speak of the whole because the festival in the state of israel it is something that undermines the foundation existence of this reason to attack some leftists cause that define themselves as absurd and reveal the depths to which the left has stolen what we're not ashamed of zionism and we're proud of our state of it being the national home for the jewish people which strictly upholds in a manner that is without question to be

a jewel rights of all its citizens that what they're the national well we were joined by guests on both sides of the debate to discuss the changes to the law the state belong to the jews and of course all the citizens but it is the home and state the home and all state of the jews. why anybody would protest against this democratic decision that has been made by the majority of any population in any state and i you know i look on the flags of europe frags which we're speaking about flags of our. our our signs and symbols in the state you can find so many states with the cross on the flags nobody objected big states surrounding us are you saw many states nobody protest against it why is this wave of protect protest is is made against the jewish that is is that the only

democratic states in all this region mejor all answer me this question please well the whole thing is a controversy about this low there is nothing good actually about this law this law in first place doesn't include elements which is essential for having a proper a normal life in this country as it is more twenty percent of the society in israel is not jewish and the way it's transfer all those who are not jews to a second class citizens and after this law and that's where for this law doesn't suit israeli society doesn't the communities within the states who are part of the society and want to remain interferences rallies and therefore this low has to be removed burkas being worn in europe is the focus after the break stay with us.

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have to be right to be for us this is what before three of them all can't be good that i'm interested in the waters of politics. they should. seventeen minutes into the program welcome back a woman wearing a 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 laws that wearing a full face veil such as the burka and the kneecap in 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 euro for first time offenders to ten thousand a month thirteen hundred euro 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 the north in the capital hundreds gathered in solidarity with the muslim community wearing fields and face masks. we have pushing people out of our societies that have been too great seeing and making our society able to to absorb all kind of people we have pushing them out the fact that you could actually make a law and. specifically targeted some minorities extremely scary and if we don't do anything about this 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 cultures and . not allowing them to be a part of our society well there are limitations on wearing full well there are

limitations on wearing full face veils in public areas in other e.u. countries to france was the first nation to impose a cold bottle in twenty eleven all the countries including spain the netherlands and italy have introduced parcel bombs the e.u. turkey as a parcel bomb as well despite it being a muslim majority country we spoke with a muslim woman affected by the new danish ban she thinks it will only further isolate the community. 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 weeks impossible for us to be a part of society now that we're criminalized so we're actually so we think it's a part of a bigger picture of the pic you that 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 from women in dialogue we 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 fit this description 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 the women's. right joining us live from copenhagen i'm happy to say as a writer under less ingrid karl you're very welcome ingrid is this is this not a device of law that's that's likely simply to illian it's the muslim community and in a way those women who are at least are coming out into the community they will actually retreat into their homes and maybe not make an effort at all in the future. well

this one way to look at it there is another way to look at it and he says that we don't want this in our countries we don't want people who follow a religion like that that they don't. that they are not able to dress like normal people and i think that if you had a referendum in sweden then you ask people do you want people to be able to to to hide their faces i think like seventy sixty seventy percent would say no we don't want aren't i. only in just looking at some of the figures only a hundred fifty women in denmark reportedly were burka or kneecap the question is is the i cry over this really worth giving more attention to this issue than really perhaps would have been garnered to it when i understand that of course i do maybe it's not so many but it's sort of there is sort of an important question because when we first started to see women with the job we said oh they're

not so many that's not a problem and i mean i see these women every day and they look at me like i'm a prostitute and i don't really like that being looked at as a prostitute in my own country and then we started having these with kneecaps and book us and now we say there are so few that's not really a problem i think it is a problem if we want to keep our countries western like we are we are swedish country and we really have you know all the equality between women and men we've had that also is the by kings. and i actually don't want this in my country there is another issue here as well as the right of the state dictating to people what they wear and to bridget certain types of dress does it not as you say your country is one of the most liberal countries in the world doesn't it so the dangerous precedent. well i do understand that point of view and i agree with you

that it could be really dangerous what if the state starts you know deciding how women could wear what they could wear but we are in a very dire situation in sweden i mean we are on the brink of becoming a minority in our own country and we really need to stand up for what is sweet is what we want made sweet the great country used to be and we remain in need to to save. these people know if you have come here to live you have to accept our own rules if you don't want to do that then you must go back to your own country this is going to add fuel to the fire though of those saying that there is growing islamophobia in europe that for instance people. cannot wear the kneecap muslims but. can wear their religious clothing on the streets for instance what's the difference. when the difference is that i mean we know that nuns do it because

they have married god and muslim women first of all they are not the tradition in sweden they are not the am indigenous population of sweden or the nordic countries and if they want to come and live here we have i don't know how many nuns can we have in sweden fifty or one hundred something like that of course that's not a problem because that is christianity that's what we've had in this country for one thousand years but it's a pretty new phenomenon phenomenon in sweden and they are now i'm sorry to say they are all over the place i don't recognize my country anymore and really really need to say no this is. a will say it's their country though that they have every right to to were you know prays with whatever religion they want in what is now their land as well if they're not affecting other people when they are

affecting other people they are. they are affecting our society all over the place i mean for example if we just talk about these women in the he job or the count all the votes that they are looking at me a swedish women in the swedish woman in my own country looking at me like i'm a prostitute that's not ok i don't want that anymore and there are so many other things about now we have you know the prayers the call to prayers from some mosques is waited their turn to changing our country and a lot of us we say no we don't want that anymore or are the thoughts of writer ingrid karl thank you for taking the time sharing your views thank you. all right that is all for now we have got an exclusive interview coming up in r.t.e. international though. in for it it's an interesting one it's coming up in one thousand

seconds time. so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy to confront a shouldn't let it be an arms race is often spearing dramatic development that only mostly i'm going to resist i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical time to sit down and talk.

and after a tense scene we're going on the ground as scotland hosts its annual military parade in partnership with austerity funded bank r.b.s. in the shadow of millions killed injured or displaced up the u.k. interventions in iraq afghanistan libya and syria coming over the show terrorists or humanitarian volunteers real video or fake propaganda or truth as our thoughts forces secure victory in the south of syria we speak to the boss of the white helmet. about allegations of links to isis and al qaeda in a going underground exclusive all the civil war coming up in today's going underground but first today is the one year anniversary of the landmark hezbollah peace deal in syria and is now syria's victorious but charlotte said aided by the international community wins his war against isis and al-qaeda linked groups who exactly with the british funded white helmets and we recognize the very important and valuable work that the white house mates are doing they always he says doing this in the difficult conditions they are incredibly brave the white helmets one

near unanimous praise from britain's arguable stenography of a power media during british support for militants trying to overthrow the syrian government is the u.k.'s channel four news explaining the context of why a legacy set up for murdered labor m.p. joe cox funds the white helmet white helmets joe cox wanted them to get the nobel peace prize to save one life is to save humanity that is their mortar but that's not the way some see it mr clyde. members and that's proven on the same members of killing. or celebrating although did bodies of the humanitarian heroes. now arguable the enemy of donald trump and president assad hollywood though doesn't see it that way at all thank you to the white house. sadly rides along the head of the white homeless is not able to join us tonight the white helmets being celebrated there at the oscars and while the head of the group

couldn't make it to receive other wardrobe has been able to make it to talk to going underground ahead of the group that has been nominated for the nobel peace prize for its work in a conflict that has killed wounded or displaced millions joins me now via skype from istanbul in turkey. welcome to going underground so how many lives have the white helmet saved. since the establishment of the white helmets in syria at the beginning of twenty thirteen and until now we have saved more than one hundred fifty thousand people from under the rubble during the aerial bombings by the syrian regime in russia and his arms. and who from foreign governments have supported you know misnomers to like all other humanitarian organizations that are working in syria like that arab syrian red crescent all the other humanitarian organizations like the agency that are affiliated to the united nations that receive international funding from all countries we don't have any exclusions in

terms of funding we accept funding from america great britain holland denmark canada france and other countries by japan and qatar and we also receive very large public financial donations from the arab people and people from different countries that is through the donation campaigns that we launch through our websites or social media the british prime minister talks proudly of british funding for the white helmets britain give more than the united states. yes britain is one of the largest supporters of the white helmets and that can't be hidden from anybody the british government announces publicly the financial amounts that it offers to the white helmet and we also have a true partnership with the british govern. at the service of humanity in syria i want to get into the humanitarian issues in a second but did you feel a bit abandoned by the dollar trump who appeared to try to stop funding by the u.s. government for the way helmet. lawyer knew and i think there's been some vagueness

on this issue is there was general funding which included funding for the white helmets and after that came to a stop it was restarted again in the funding for the white helmets began again in a normal way there is currently no reservations or residence on the amounts that are donated to the white helmets on the contrary the budgets that are offered by the united states of america have in fact increased in order to sponsor the search and rescue operations that's we do in syria during the bombings and raids are done by russia and the syrian regime and the white helmet still are in syria because there are reports that white helmets are being evacuated to other countries. those that have been evacuated are ninety eight volunteers and their families escaping the revenge operations that they were subject to by the syrian regime and the militias that are affiliated to it that word advancing towards the syrian golan heights however we currently still have around three thousand seven hundred volunteers who are working in the areas that we are able to access and are

providing essential services to the communities that they work with where did the ninety six go. currently they are still in jordan right so the none in britain or israel or france as being reported they are still in jordan ok i don't know what you thought of this with the british broadcasting corporation's panorama program said british aid is going to terrorists they made a program call in jihad these the jihad is you pay for what do you make of allegations that aid money from britain is actually going to terrorists the program that was presented by panorama was not in relation to the funding that was received by the white. helmet's there has been some reservations about some of the funding that went to certain organizations however the truth was later revealed as this was merely propaganda and a promotional action by the media that was aimed at distorting and ruining the reputation of civil syrian activists eventually the work of these organizations was

restarted and continued once their innocence was proven through an investigation that took place in britain with the sponsoring parties so you've never worked with the free syrian police an all white helmet volunteers are always other throughout the throughout the conflict. no no i have never said those words what i said was that the b.b.c. report was concerning other organizations i've not said that we do not work with the syrian free police we do work with the free police and with all the civil organizations that work in the areas that we are able to access what i said is that the program was talking about other organizations and not the white helmets organization in syria since you have been involved in the white helmets have you ever seen any evidence of infiltration in the way of helmets by islamist groups national and. when we established the organization there were rules and regulations in relation to the international humanitarian norm and the management

of the search and rescue operations teams based on which this organization was built that it began to expand and prosper and became an international humanitarian entity working for the service of the syrian people and to save them from under the rubble after the aerial shelling done by the syrian regime and russia we have not seen any case of infiltration having said that there has been on some occasions certain areas that we have had to evacuate in a sudden and quick manner and therefore we left behind some clothing or equipment that have been used by some groups to distort the reputation of the civil defense the photographs and fabrications that have come out as a result are not necessarily truthful or generated by the syrian civil defense the white helmets in fact in regards to all the issues that have surfaced if they were ever related to that organization we produce an official statement and we announce our stand regarding the mistakes that's might take place. so are other organizations responsible for the alleged fake videos and photos allowed up but i

believe that the main motive for the forgery in misuse of the photographs comes from groups that are active in social media and that are affiliated to russia and the syrian regime they are constantly working on ruining our reputation in order to refute the facts regarding what we offer to the united nations community concerning the violations that have been committed by the syrian regime against the civilians which includes the use of chemical weapons as well as the violations that have been committed by the russian army during their operations in syria tell me about. can each the boy whose photos were awards he was covered in dust and the white helmets bordley saved his life. the truth is as you know i'm running definitely she's 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. 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 mohamed. told r.t. the photograph was used to exploit him with regard to the white helmets 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 and 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 lines were in any way helmet also evacuated to a glib this year as part of the evacuation plan to northern syria you know yes the evacuation of some of them yes the volunteers have been evacuated with their families to the city of italy what was it like for them traveling in the russian buses i understand with isis and al qaeda linked groups on libyan they want transported in washing buses the buses were sponsored by the evacuation process or sponsored by the red presence and there was a deal between the opposition parties and russia however when they were moved to

the. did so on the names that were different from their real names and they didn't explain that they were volunteers with the white helmets by fear of the revenge that they could have been subjected to they were afraid and worried we were in direct communication with them throughout their journey and they were afraid during their journey until they reached a safe place which was the point where they were received the syrian government says it's just plating. linked groups and al qaeda linked groups british government in a freedom of information request said that you document war crimes for the british government is that what you send the british government done out of the city in truth the syrian war is a global issue it's no longer the issue of the syrian regime alone we know that the party that negotiates in syria in support of the syrian regime is russia and the parties that negotiate in other areas are other countries this issue is no longer syrian in syria the issue is also an international one and it now needs an international trial and an international court in order to hold accountable those who have committed violations in syria from all sides as everybody knows this the

regime has used chemical weapons in syria on the fourth of april twenty seventh seen. as that is according to the report that was produced by the joint investigation committee wherein constituted by the decision of the security council that stated in its report dated on the twenty eighth of october twenty seventh seen that the syrian regime has used sarin gas in her home and resulted in ninety one dead and five hundred thirty nine wounded because of this we are in need of an international trial for the judgment of those who have committed violations in syria in order to reach peace and stability in syria yes the o.p.c. w. hasn't said whether it was the way helmets the syrian government the russians the british who used the chemical weapons and i didn't say that the o.p.c. w is the one that made the statement i said the joint investigation committee which is constituted by the decision of the security council in twenty fifteen is the one that produced the report on the twenty eighth of october twenty seventh and said that the syrian regime is the party that stands behind the attacks. that took place

on the fourth of april twenty seventh you can refer to the report it's available on the security council website and it was published on the twenty eighth of october twenty seventh seen ok just finally about documenting war crimes the journalist vanessa believes the daughter of a former senior british diplomat who are attention to the beheading of a twelve year old the neural. in july twenty sixth abducted near a white helmet base in ireland sorry why is there no white helmet documentation of the killing of this boy. first of all vanessa bts not a journalist that makes reliable reports because she knows that she is not truthful and she does not work in an unbiased way when russia stop the o.p.c. double teams from going to do much to check the place for the use of chlorine gases in the last few bombings vanessa beatty was present there herself the russians allowed her to access that particular place when they did not allow the international teams to do the same for this reason we cannot confirm any news that

have come.