it's going to affect our economy our people are security. you know so the. b. complexity comes in not in the bilateral relationship but in the overall. regional and world grieve agrees and in the world order so it's equally. challenging but we are speaking this frankly to our american counterparts and to the members of the u.s. congress who care about the philippines and we think to a frank discussion you know we'll get somewhere nowi just mentioned your talk at the council on foreign relations last year and in that talk you also suggested that the russians i beat cautious a bit to seeing a relationship the philippines because of the says deeply ingrained called war perception of your country as a very very close american associate not even an ally it would say i think more like an associate more and ate how far have moscow and manila gotten. have in

practical terms my perception is that both in moscow and manila there were policy makers who say you know take it a step at a time be cautious this just might be a connection between president that within and president that there are very good talks between prime minister medvedev and president there you know but from that time on you know we have had for example we were buying arms from the u.s. and because certain members of congress were making noises about alleged human rights violation you know when we need that the most it was in there but here comes china and here comes russia despite policymakers in beijing and moscow saying let's be careful let's see what's happening you know took a leap of faith and came to manila and don't get me wrong the u.s. also helped us in malawi and the australians the japanese you know and we appreciate. but what we're saying is that we want that much you're real friendship

we may be a smaller country well that that friendship also has a material benefit. is all it's not only friendship but we're not that far away i mean russia or not and i have a perfect question for you on the subject because i think you have some very funny amazing metaphors i heard you say that with ten million filipinos living abroad to you guys x. print in long distance relationships i think we here in russia and a bit more said that me time to develop stronger ties with those who are either close to these dos we can reach to territorially through land what could possibly breach the eight more than eight thousand kilometer distance bits bin moscow and manila will discovery i think the more we discovered russia and the more russian discovers the filipinos will find out that we have a lot of things in common. we both have

a strong sense of identity and are finding our place not only in society in the world but both of us just you know want to get along with the rest of the world have enough food that they will know we're also often misunderstood and our intentions are right that this is one that one of the things me because again the cold war mentality i mean again it's always spock aged in some western media that this is correct this is so wrong you know so we have to judge countries actions and leaders directives case per case you know you're going to everything us that is correct or you can oppose or say everything the u.s. is wrong so we need more objective but the reality is. you know media tries to give the facts but also leans towards their world view so this is where social media and direct communication comes in unfortunately it's sometimes called fake news is sometimes is but it's sometimes actually a different world view package just fine. fake news by powerful people now i know

that russian particularly is interested in marketing its nuclear power and transferring the expertise to the and to the philippines i wonder is that something that may be adventurous to you particularly the nuclear energy issue from what i understand it's quite a contentious subject in your country we are interested in everything that they saw russia and we hope that we can interest russia with everything that's filipino from our warm hospitality to our beautiful islands countryside mountains from your sophisticated military hardware to your transport that vehicle is exciting motorcycles you know i ask you specifically about. it don't you think this from what i knew if you actually built one nuclear power for but it never went into operation because building wind of that was infested with corruption we pay of

course u.s. . company under the guidance of international financial institutions the us which corruption has been exposed in the last few decades so the contention it's not the use of nuclear power itself or aid or help or fresh air or russian technology the issue of more of the location of where the nuclear power plant is that the controversy is more if we should build there because there are strong feelings given the history but in so far a scope or a shown in this map that we've signed agreements we're very our scientists are very excited that our department of science and technology our department of energy is excited that the way we work with your. agencies in atomic and nuclear fields ok well secretary we have to take a very short break now but he will be back in just a few moments. so

what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy loon foundation let it be an arms race in his own often scary dramatic development the only really i'm going to resist i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical time to sit down and tom.

welcome back to worlds apart peter thomas secretary of foreign affairs of the. secretary when mentioned the situation in. before and i think it would be fair to say that both the attack on that c.t. and the long destructive siege that followed deep fears among asian countries as well as across the world that isis may seek to expand in other locations after suffering defeats in syria and iraq just the other day we heard the devastating attack in indonesia perpetrated by a whole family including four children who returned from syria do you in the philippines understand how to deal with that issue how good you are first of all our hearts go out and we express our condolences to all the victims of terrorism worldwide even here in russia you are no stranger to. extremism and acts of terrorism. it was a painful experience you know fighting. your own countrymen and fighting

extremists you know it was the first time that there was fighting in the city in an urban setting it's usually outside. usually they say that you know if they're religious undertones or society or historical differences but here it was just filipino against filipino in the name of a pervert dead. and already you say on the one occasion that there was a real danger at one point of time. forming from being a battle between terrorism and the. war the danger is there the president is in the best position because he's seen this he was going around the camps already saying watch out keep a keen eye you know it will just take it's like gasoline spread all over and it just takes a spark and he knew at that time that syria and iraq would soon stab allies and the

diaspora and isis would be defeated and where we'll go the couple hundred or a couple of thousands of southeast asian jihadist fighters who joined where will they go how do you think these people should be dealt with because the it's not only the fighters it's also the families it's also the children again the engine asian recent internation example shows that children could also be used as he said bombers well you know. it should be dealt a no nonsense father the firm hand but the open heart you know no one wants to scold or put in jail or stand in the corner his son or his daughter you know but if you look surely lad these people back into your house and you know that they present a potential danger if they are. you know then they are a trip to all nations to all people having said brothers in the govt have to communicate that to us there's need for rehabilitation there's

a need to communicate to their families that they have been rescued and not captured you know but there's so much to be done from intelligence sharing from. taking out the. fertile ground for recruitment of that kind of mentality so poverty and crime and drugs put together just creates that fertile ground of breeding extremists and this kind of ideology now you mentioned already did that the united states and the philippines have just. joint military exercises to build on the lessons of the moroccan siege involving some eight thousand troops from both sides as well as a small contingent from australia and japan is that a sign that your political relations with the united states to be restraint as you sad over the criticism about the war on drugs. is it a sign that that relationship isn't proving well additional term military to military. relation you know never suffered. it is fact friends that you tend to

side that there is an exercise this would be suspended we suspended all of the exercises in the south china sea and with regards to certain aspects of the eight thousand you mentioned today it was more for disaster prevention so yes we focused on that and he's keeping it that way what i'm saying is that if people two people the relationship is still strong military to military relationship be strong and you know russia and china have never said to us and never interfered with our relationship with the united states so that they don't have such close to the million tires yes but that makes the relationship strong when you respect the bilateral relationship with your friend with the other friend you know this isn't grade school or high school where you if you fight with a friend you want all your other friends to fight with him or to you know you have to have much your relationships and that includes security and defense arrangements now speaking about maturity and leadership present to terence's personal style his

temperament his sense of humor sometimes compared to that of donald trump do you find that comparison flattering. you know they're both authentic. speakers they say or day tweet what what they want but you know in the philippines he's been compared more with president put in political determination political will a vision of what to do in the country remember the problem with the there is just not only who and what they do in the direction but also the circumstances at home you know it's very hard to judge a president donald trump he's a good friend to the philippines but he is in a political circumstances where there are you know challenges in all fronts so we have challenges with the u.s. congress challenges with the n.g.o.s who are using human rights as a political weapon challenge just sometimes with the state department but we're trying to build those bridges you know but in the meantime president that there

that this is really care who sees compared to you know he just wants to do a good i understand very easy for the leaders to publicly shrug that kind of shrug off that kind of criticism and i think it gets to you and when your country's being maligned over and over again it's it's not pleasant especially if you're dealing with some real life but president that they're the best and care as far as he's concerned he likes president trump they have a good connection they talk frankly but this fire as the president that is concerned he very much like see he's called the president within one of my idols you know so and he says it's none of your business if i like him or not now incidentally president trump also has his own druck epidemics to tackle and correct me if i'm wrong he has not only refrained from criticizing the philippines over the conduct of the war on drugs he actually sat and praised president for the quote

unquote deliverable job joe job on the drug problem does the philippines a sas chomps efforts to address the american opiate crisis in the same way do you even. analyzed but the end of the demo the president has said that he's very supportive he has empathy he understand what the americans are going through unfortunately the e.u. the us and western media do not understand that there are different challenges when it comes to drugs. now a president is talking about opioids but in the past it was about more of cocaine and cocaine and methamphetamine have different effects in cocaine it's a health issue with the person but that person doesn't go around raping people killing people raping two years old shooting their father met them felt the means had that effect and that's what they were trying to. do you can counter that with

saying that even when you have a mentally disabled person committing a crime you do you put him through an assessment and that's what we're doing but this human rights groups wants to legalize prohibit the drugs and it's making it appear there's an even do you end up with two and said there's no evidence that this kind of drugs need to violence so even with the mentally disturbed person you know identified a dangerous dangerous to himself or herself then just to family and do remedies so we are just remedying the epidemic of drugs illegal drugs in the philippines respect president trumps efforts but we also recognize to say said that human rights and drug issues have become so politicized you know that we're not discussing it in the level to solve it but to criticize each other and helpful. secretary i notice that the war on drugs is pretty much the only thing that the western reporters ever ask you about and i don't want to focus on too much as that

but i do want to ask you one more question on on this issue i came across a poll from last year we suggest that seventy three percent of filipinos worry about becoming. victims of extrajudicial killings and that's about as high as the general public support for the crusade again against crime so that leads me to conclude that people support the goal but they're a little bit apprehensive about the math do you share because it depends on the question in the poll so if you ask do you support so for example if you say do you support nuclear power and you get eighty percent and then a fall out happens somewhere and you ask the same question are you concerned that the fallout will happen of course your answer will be you know but look at the later polls nowadays you know people are seeing that we have safer streets people are seeing that yes there are abuses but this was because of fund abuse of police

force not because of precedent that there is this directive and with us now by modern day quitman more surveillance more c.c.t.v. cameras there more assurances to the public that you know this drug is precisely against those who violate the law and those who are violent you know president there has told president trump and president. listen carefully that we don't shoot people in cold blood but what did the american media report that precedent that they did not discuss human rights so you know they're focused on the form that on the substance they did discuss human rights in a manner of a friendly nations respecting each other sovereignty what would you say today's who claim that they detect administration has been a bit blinded by this and to contain and overcommitted police and army resources to counter the drug problem at the expense of other security challenges which. could have the situation we describe discussed previously in romney well we care about

the filipino we care about the philippines and we know that we would have would open up the day that we were narco state if we don't do this so we don't really care that much about the people who has the luxury to provide solutions of didn't work or were given the chance to solve the problem and didn't in order to problem so any country with an existential trap is always criticise that they focus too much on that trip but precisely why you call it the next the stench of trip it's a threat to your existence so if we don't believe that if we didn't if the president didn't put that focus will wake up one day that the all the families in the philippines have the problems with drugs with violence and a narco state that we've already seen generals we've seen the politicians we've seen hype officials we've seen billions millions thousands of past us in drugs we've saw a cache of cash and drugs in mirali so i think we prove our point that it is

a real danger to us and if other people want to ignore it if other n.g.o.s want to politicise it that's their problem but we'll deal with the real problem while our secretary and forces do we have to leave it there i really appreciate your time very late to shape this the fraternity thank you and i'm courage of yours to keep this conversation going in our social media pages and i hope to see you again same place same time here on worlds apart.

top stories here on the weekly has acknowledged a quote disturbing chapter in its post-war history when thousands of women were forced to give up their babies here on the program we speak to one of the victims. i actually had to ask three times and the last time that i asked i had i started to pass out and then the. weapon used by rebels. in syria have been traced back to nato countries including the u.s. an independent investigation tracking. numbers on various missile i. mean. those are the threats american democracy apparently faces from russia during the

upcoming midterm elections supporting to the u.s. intelligence community. welcome to the weekly here on r.t. international the sunday program with the top stories of the day and off the week the canadian government in its report called quote the shame is ours has acknowledged a disturbing practice dating back to the postwar period when unmarried women were forced to give up their babies those babies with and given to married couples in a bid to promote traditional families we understand some women were even tricked into giving up their children and so we spoke to one of the victims. soon as they found out i was pregnant they marked my records b.f.a. baby for adoption.

i was a fifteen year old girl pregnant i was pregnant from a sexual assault. and. there was no conversation about with me about how i got pregnant all they cared about was the fact that i was. pregnant and that i had a baby that they could. take. a healthy born haired blue eyed beautiful baby. you will forget the child go home get married and have other children or if not get a puppy. that is what i was told get a puppy. it was a very abusive in there. we were isolated from our i was isolated from my family is

my community my sisters and my parents i was completely left alone. my parents were not canadian citizens they're there from europe and my parents believed they would get deported if they did it followed. what the government wanted and maternity homes mothers were routinely denied their right to see holder feed their babies there are still some mothers who do not know when they're delivered a boy or girl being told well it's none of your business to hold my daughter i actually had to ask three times and i that first i said it quietly and then i said it a little louder and then the last time that i asked i had to yell and i had to yell bring me my baby now. and then the nurse stopped looked at the doctor for

permission and i was quite surprised but the nurse would have to ask for permission for me to hold my own daughter since i am her legal guardian and my daughter in my arms and. and then they really went black i started to get i started to pass out and then they took her away from me. i met my daughter she actually found me. so she phoned me. and she said. you don't know who i am and as soon as she said that i knew who she was. we talked on the phone for about six months getting to know each other getting

familiar with each other building some trusts she needed to feel safe because our children were told that there was something wrong with us they were told and alternate story that we were drug addicts prostitutes. but use of weapons discovered in the former terrorist stronghold of east in aleppo in syria have been traced back to western manufacturers and we're now in a war correspondent robert fisk identified their origins through their serial numbers and then trying to find out how those weapons went straight into the hands of the most militants more details now from our. this is a weapons factory located in bosnia most likely you have never heard of it but it's

here that the weapons were manufactured for one of the bloodiest battles in syria lots of homes were destroyed and lots of civilians were killed in western aleppo by those questionable rebels now most of those rebels are tied to the al qaeda linked al nusra a terrorist group but let's focus on those weapons that they used robert fisk an investigative reporter was able to trace those weapons back to that very factory in bosnia he was able to get a hold of the factories logbook and getting in touch with the former weapons control director the director recognized his signature in the logbook and from there was able to determine who the buyer was it's a warranty for the hundred twenty millimeter shell this is standard it went to saudi arabia it was pulled to the supply of five hundred malts as i remember the so the shipment whoa the saudis came to a factory to inspect the weapons at the beginning of twenty sixteen the response from saudi officials was pretty much

a denial they said that the investigation was vegan undefined however their response seemed pretty vague as well so do you rabia is a leading voice within the international community in support of a diplomatic solution to the conflict in syria while at the same time working with our neighbors and allies to counter the growth of forces of extremism but it's not just saudi arabia the former weapons director says that nato and the united states pretty much run the show at the weapons making facility or low production off to the bulls and wars under the control of the americans. who are always coming whom and they know each and every piece of weaponry that leaves a factory. we also asked nato for a response but they didn't have any details to share even though the weapons were actually made to the nato standards and they did does not own or transfer arms or ammunition for any further questions we would refer you to national authorities now

another trace from the basement of this former terrorist base in aleppo is the markings on the casing of a missile now if you take a look the first number here this represents the type of missile the second number however is the stock number you'll notice that it contains the figure zero one now that's the nato code representing the united states it turns out that this t o w anti-tank missile was manufactured at a facility in the united states by the raytheon systems company this is not the first time this has happened syria is actually littered with weapons that are made to nato standards and some of which have actually been manufactured in the united states the question now is how much do washington and nato know about their weapons falling into the hands of the very terrorists they claim to be fighting there is a deafening silence a purposeful lack of interest a purposeful apathy and the reason for this is simple the us government and the

military industrial complex and the corporate owned media that functions as an echo chamber for the military industrial complex actually does not care the us government prosecutes those who they say aid and abet terrorism well guess what american war contractors are aiding and abetting terrorism but the us judicial system the justice department the long arm of american law enforcement will not be used against the same military corporations which in fact are subsidized receive a form of welfare from american taxpayers every year. a russian mole inside the us embassy in moscow it is salacious stuff and britain's guardian newspaper has been reveling in its group but old is not as it seems it's easy quick to offer points. everybody loves a spy drama mystery suspense and a russian firm for.

the name of the engine. song my name is evident then you are a russian spy. this guardian story had every ingredient for a thriller recipe the u.s. secret service as quite clearly stems from the very name is one of the most enigmatic agencies of the u.s. government its main function is to protect the lives of u.s. presidents ministers the top political brass and that is where the russians according to the guardian planted a mall the russian spy had been working under texted in the heart of the american embassy in moscow for more than a decade she had plenty of time to gather intelligence without supervision the source said the guardian's head of investigations that claims she was operational for a whole decade in that time through.