do you plan to vote in the midterm election when. you want to try to win again i don't like i don't like alan views so i'm not going to. definitely that person and you can say what i believe in and about this now i know 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 yeah echoing what killer was just saying there we talked to a former advisor to retired congressman ron paul who believes the current crop of candidates have simply run out of ideas. this election like most but this one

especially this midterm election upcoming in the united states is not going to be about ideas it's not particularly going to be about policy there's a very anti 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 trump 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 device of the atmosphere we have in america. isn't all of members of the druze religious sect their supporters are protesting in these really city of tel aviv against the controversial new nation state law the legislation which was adopted in july has similar way to

a constitutional amendment in the u.s. and would be difficult to repeal it in trying to israel as the home of the jewish people and say this national self-determination is the unique right of the jews it also done grades are a bit 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 known jews as second class citizens this saturday's protest has been organized by druze community leaders the druze historically been considered these really state's 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 wage 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. while some members of the knesset including members of prime minister netanyahu that ruling party have also asked that the controversial law but he said by calling its critics hypocrites and claiming the law does not infringe on the rights of minorities this quote there are suggestions that we should change the flag and the anthem in the name. but first of all in the state of israel it is something that undermines the foundation of our existence for this reason the attacks on leftists that define themselves as. the depths to which the left has fallen from we're not ashamed of science we're proud of our state of being the national home for the jewish people which strictly. in a manner that is without the individual rights of all its citizens that we were

joined by guests on both sides of the debate the changes to the law you state belong to the jews and of course all the citizens but it is the home and state the home and of the 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 i mean 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 the states surrounding us are you storming states nobody protest against it why is this wave of protect protest is is made against the jews that this is the only democratic states in all this region mejor 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 almost 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 the israeli society doesn't those communities within the states who are part of the society and want to remain interferences rallies and therefore this lho has to be removed there is a new assessment of the united states a lengthy and costly war and afghan narcotics on it makes for great reading we've

got the details coming up. 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 time to sit down and talk. shows seem wrong why don't we all just don't all. get to shape our disdain becomes active. and engaged equals betrayal.

when so many find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground. on. your back with our to international turkey house followed to retaliate against the us after washington impose sanctions on two officials an uncle or a over the detention of an american pastor. sure. with these measures the united states has shown a real lack of respect for turkey we've shown patience until yesterday evening turkey will not be disciplined with this understanding and approach. on wednesday the trump administration slopped economic sanctions on two senior turkish officials

said any property they have in the us will be blocked in response turkey has said it will introduce sanctions of its own targeting to get to all named u.s. officials besides blocking their assets and grow also see that those targeted will be prevented from doing business with turkey the pastor at the center of the dispute is under brunson he was detained in twenty sixteen in connection with an attempted coup against president earlier ones government. he's accused of espionage . terrorist groups a deal between the u.s. and turkey to secure the evangelical pastors release broke down last month brunson was then transferred to highest arrest over health concerns but he still facing thirty five years in jail if the president. and the turkish government i have a message on behalf of the president of the united states of america release pastor

andrew bronson now or be prepared to face the consequences we will not bow down to any threats it is unacceptable for the united states to use a threatening language against to keep using an ongoing case as a pretext. let's go live now to bring peace to maher dean of the faculty of political sciences at marmora university in turkey always a pleasure to have you on the program how significant are these sets of sanctions for both sides in essence how will they impact on the alliance between washington and crown of course more broadly on nato. actually if you have bigger problems than this branson pastor branson trial but this is some kind of symbolic issue between the two countries and this. doesn't affect

a lot of stock issues for american economy but over this i am proud economic problems in turkey especially. lira against the law or issue it affects of will because the cost of turkish give us what otherwise there is no effect because these two ministers have no any connection any financial issue in america or united states and also. to american ministers nothing in turkey that's right this is a. symbolic issue back to this is the you know people love to make sure between turkey and united states related to syria today to fight a lot to learn issues it comes from you know mostly from ninety's after iraq invasion by americans than a serious problem and then. you know make of the united states

to be y. d. or p. k. k. in syria these kind of things are more important issues as well especially a coup attempt by fattah like you learn but this is the tip of their problems i think and that's how many points right yeah double thread a point isn't it if we can just concentrate on this one because it has got the interest of washington of course there are reportedly more measures that donald trump is willing to consider how do you think that's going to unfold how much further you see behind its roots again regressing. ok we just got a little bit of a connection issue there with. we'll try and get back to gain peace to ask a few more questions about this topic thank you for. ok it's been almost seventeen years since the united states speak its battle

against the afghan opium trade billions of dollars have been spent during the time but what results have been in course the donald's 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 of variegation 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 called up. all the protocol get a fact you know that they don't turn up out of. the ferry. dock or dollars a product out there at the. head by him without afghanistan. or a shot of him 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 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. ok moving to the west coast of america now where police in portland oregon are preparing for a violence a far right group known as patriots her trip her is to rally in the u.s. city let's take a look at what's happening right there in a moment. ok so this is a scene. oregon hundreds of demonstrators are expected to march to the.

park in the city center here saying a sizable police presence there we've also heard there's going to be sniffer dogs on checkpoints as well ahead of the protest they had these groups to bear arms it's also expected to be met by self described fascist activists as well it is the third patriot prayer rally in portland this summer alone similar scenes were seen before this particular rally but also the sended into violence with its members clashing with police on protesters at police say they'll be screening people for weapons and seizing illegal guns this is a story we'll be keeping a very close eye on through the day here and you're watching live pictures from portland oregon all of a march by a far right group on t.v. the self described left this group also coming out to confront them.

all right thoughts are stories from here on our national who wins from the trump trade wars if any will not stand for this question next on the.

i'm going with a post some of this because of this but i. just before. last time we chased. each one of them carrying twenty kilos of drugs this is a first offense. for that they just stepped right through. it's very real i mean they don't want to comment then they have this is the this is for me. like it was. i don't know maybe they'll get a make or. break. for now well.

you know world's big partisan movie. and conspiracy it's time to wake up to dig deeper to get the stories that mainstream media refuses to tell more than ever we need to be smarter we need to stop slamming the door on the bad and shouting past each other it's time for critical thinking it's time to fight for the middle for the truth the time is now for watching closely watching the hawks. i am asked times are this is a cause a report the star all so easy sometimes things are difficult days max i know the second half you're talking to miss shed lucky you're continuing on this theme of

the trade war because in the last episode karl done under said well trade wars can actually be a good thing especially in the situation whereby the united states has been losing for the past twenty thirty years against china in a trade war that is then one sided michelle we know from his website. talk dot com that he is totally against a trade war so we'll see what happens in the second half about that but one group of people who are very happy with the trade war and as it's been happening so far happy with tariffs steel industry emerges as trade war winner president donald trump's medal tariffs have sent steel prices surging and sparked blockbuster profits for steel manufacturers reliance steel and aluminum hauled in record sales thanks to eighteen percent spike in prices nucor recorded the best second quarter in its history its profits more than doubled steel companies are very happy with this and looks like they're winning yeah well let's call them inflation so inflation is coming in

a big way we've had this inflation 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 and so is inflation so we'll see how that plays out if wages rise faster than inflation. such then trying to wonder if wages don't rise as fast as this neal inflation and we've got trouble well at the end of the article they do mention your point of view so they do first talk about the gains the winnings how happy the winners are in the steel industry they're making more money their profits are going up their shareholders are happy their workers are happy but in the other side of the equation they do mention that of course still customers are less than thrilled material costs have risen by as much as fifty percent jay pharoah brooklyn company that fabricate steel used in manhattan skyscrapers still companies may have record profits but it does hurt the mom and pop shop said joe kesse kooky f.d.m. pharaoh's founder and c.e.o.

so the people in manhattan where there is a construction boom going on they need a lot of steel and they're not happy with that there's one major theme they're going to compass is all this is called globalization for thirty years will post world war two is all about globalization yet all the globalized is to sions like the i.m.f. the world bank the un world all these things but now they're all being challenged by trump and we're entering into a period of to globalization which would mean higher prices inflation across the board and if wages follow suit then there will be peace in the valley if wages don't follow there will be lots of problems ok so we're going to tie it those together into other segments here where they talk to some of the guys from the steel companies that are winning. trump impose twenty five percent steel tariffs that has seen the price of steel in the united states soar by forty one percent tire the benchmark price of u.s. steel has assumed forty one percent higher and nine hundred seventeen dollars per

short ton so nucor is seizing on the amount momentum however a new core i said is gaining they their stock prices soaring their profits are soaring and what are they doing well they're seizing on the momentum to plow one billion dollars back in two. it's business a huge increase that will mostly go towards expansion quote what will happen to our great country if we continue to operate with a massive trade imbalance said the c.e.o. we agree with the administration's efforts to address this issue. well that is so new cars saying we're going to take the huge savings and we're going to build factories and we're going to hire people they're going to make it more money than they were before and inflation's back the big losers in all this and you will know that trump ism in the trump economic model has really hit hit hard when the bond market starts on ravel because you can't have a rising bond market and inflation at the same time so when the bond market starts

to unravel you know that trump is a trump economic model has really taken hold i mean that workers get higher pay the prices go up but your wages go up so you're going to feel richer main street will benefit wall street will get kicked in the teeth well certainly you and i can recall in the one nine hundred seventy s. when inflation was very high but member wages used to be paid to that inflation i remember my mother getting a price increase or her wage was increased every year like seven eight percent based on the inflation that was similar so we still get our incomes more pegged to the rate of inflation of course now there is not what happened in the eighty's with that or in reagan deregulation or they separated the functions of wall street and capital raising from the economy at large so that companies and the privileged elites on wall street could engage in financial engineering or deregulation that allowed them to make huge amounts of gains personally for their yachts and chateaus and park avenue penthouses but that the money that they were the gloaming from the

central bank would bypass wages and they did this through world trade organization outsourcing to china and essentially outsourcing all kinds of ecological cost all the extra nowadays of running a business where x. outsourced to china ok now that period of globalization as it's called is being reversed is dig. globalization higher inflation i mentioned the seventy's and wages used to increase with inflation that's because a lot of people in the audience are probably too young to remember that we used to have a gold standard and thus these huge trade imbalances were not some thing that happened because of course the united states didn't want a massive trade imbalance because that meant they had to ship their gold to the likes of france and then when the united kingdom asked for their three hundred million dollars worth of gold the u.s. said no nine hundred seventy one they went off the gold standard so because of that . during the seventy's we had that monetary it was very unstable and lots of

inflation because and best years were doubting whether or not we could have a total system and nevertheless the workers were still aware of what the value of money was so i don't know wages were tied to the inflation number and of course in the seventy's you have the discontinuation of the gold standard but you also have the oil embargo of the seventy's was shot the price of energy and that meant the price of wages were had to be tied to that increase in prices as well so workers are benefiting until then the eighty's you know that we just covered a moment ago but you're right that way workers have great wage parity they are of the issues they understood the terms so this is what i'm saying is another way to get rid of this massive trade imbalance of course is just what they hate and john maynard keynes said and predicted just as he predicted world war two and then he predicted this moment in time that if we didn't have some sort of global trade unit where by all that we would have massive trade imbalances the trade surpluses in

germany and china are just as dangerous and destabilizing to economies around the world as the massive imbalance the trade deficit that the united states has so any country who chooses to be like the united states that they do have an exorbitant privilege of the u.s. dollar as a world reserve currency but it does. at the cost of their workers so to get back to new course a new core is a company when there are now policies that are driven by the ministration policies and the change in steel pricing and what this is happening to workers there that's kind of the cutting edge to what's happening in industrial merica and on wall street's kind of interesting are we seeing a rotation out of the fang stocks or the network stocks like facebook and twitter and apple are we seeing a rotation into industrials like the new cores i mean this is so that the wall will market have a net kind of rebalancing and not a crash effect i mean that could be the possibility that's

a bit of an understatement to say rotation out of the shares because of course facebook and twitter have had a complete collapse not that twitter is kind of in that market of those online you know monopolies and all got police but again going with this u.s. dollar issue. you know our frequent guest jim rickards has said that he believes there will be an s.t.r. standard special drawing right that the i.m.f. special drawing right that's kind of what keynes had kind of suggested similar to that with the bank or of a global trading unit a currency not issued by any particular national government but it's a trading unit to avoid the situation of trade imbalance is another thing jim rickards said about the u.s. dollar system is that. after twenty thirty years of since the collapse of communism the soviet system the us history supposedly ended and there becomes a point where an empire gets hubris and they start wielding their weapon of saying

you can't access our u.s. dollar system so i want to turn to a quote which came last week from vladimir putin when he was at a conference i think it was in south africa and he was asked about russia's dumping of the u.s. dollar treasuries he said you know we're not getting rid we're not going to we're not against the u.s. dollar system but just you know where we're protecting ourselves from these sanctions and stuff like that and the sort of hysteria in the united states says no plans to reject dollar but risk should be stemmed russia has no plans to reject the u.s. dollar even though washington has undermined trust in its currency by using it as an argument in political disputes russian president vladimir putin said putin also said the united states undermines trust and the dollar as a reserve currency by imposing restrictions on settlements and dollars this prompts dozens of countries to consider other options putin said adding that the chinese

yuan is now obtaining more of the qualities required for the role of reserve currency you know the u.s. acting as a bully regarding their u.s. dollar financial system could ironically end up helping workers in the united states that's right do u.s. dollar being dropped and as a reserve currency and so you titanic shifts are tectonic shifts i should say in the global economy and one of those would be use of alternative currencies again i think it's end up being better for the average person if any letters protected this predictive us but what i'm saying is that i have lived in europe and i could witness with my own two eyes the life the lifestyle the the quality of living of the ordinary european is vastly superior to the lifestyle of the ordinary american and part of that they used to have as miserable an experience you could see that in europe before you know when they had empires.