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 it sometimes is but it's sometimes actually a different world view packaged as 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 of interest 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 you could see for but it never went into operation because building wind of the us that 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 or russian technology the issue of more of the location of where the nuclear power plant is 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 matter we've signed agreements we're very our scientists are very excited our department of science and the. ology our department of energy is

excited that the way it works 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. zia's says harlan kentucky. boy says it was very funny. a ko money since he was almost no coal mines left. the jobs are gone all the coal was asserted. that it was a love to see these people the survivors of

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tall the last room told them to sophie and co-ops as the sheriff not said today we've got lots to talk about in our program and our gas to move good luck to. welcome back to old apartment alan peter thomas secretary of foreign affairs of the . secretary we mentioned the situation in. before and i think it would be fair to say that both the attack on that 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 you know 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 a city in an urban setting it's usually outside and sunni they say that you know if there are religious undertones or society or historical differences but here it was just filipino against filipino in the name of

a perverted. logy 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 seeing 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. that belies and the diaspora and isis will be defeated and where will go the couple hundred or a couple of thousands of south asian jihadist fighters who join dice were will the 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 really recent internation example shows that the children could also be used as he said bombers well you know. it should be dealt like

a no nonsense father with a firm hand but then 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 lose surely lad these people into your back into your house and you know that they present a potential danger if they are terrorists 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 to 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 sat over the criticism about the war on drugs. is it a sign that that relationship isn't proving well i don't know the term military to military. relation you know never suffered. it is fact friends they do tend to sad that there is an exercise it would be suspended we suspend 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 but they don't have such close to the million ties 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 a great school or high school way and 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 tears his 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 do a 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 it is compared to you know he just wants to do a good i understand that it is very easy for the leaders to publicly shrug that kind of 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 agree but president but there are debates and kerry as

far as he's concerned he likes president trump they have a good connection they talk frankly but this fire suppressant that this concern he very much like see he's called president putin 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 dress them up. an opiate crisis in the same way do 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

. 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 fit the means have 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 the you end up with duis said there's no evidence that this kind of drugs need to violence so even with

a mentally disturbed person you know you identify the 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 with respect president trumps efforts but we also recognize 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 you much and 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 seven. 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 against crime so that leads me to conclude that people support the goal but they are

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 fallout 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 but there at this directive and with us now by modern day quick meant 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 precedent that there has told president trump and president has listened carefully

that we don't shoot people in cold blood but what did the american media report that precedent that there 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 bass and to drive campaign 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 ronnie where we care about the filipino we care about the philippines and we know that we would have would open up to a 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 that 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 of five minutes in the philippines have 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 specialise 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 politicize it that's their problem but we'll deal with the real problem secretary unfortunately we have to leave it there i really appreciate your time very late to shape this approach and if you think you and i know courage of yours to keep this conversation going and our social media pages and i hope to see you again same place same time here i will the party.

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going to. do. it. in the stories that shaped the week on our feet canada acknowledges a. chapter in its post-war history when thousands of single mothers were forced to give up their babies we spoke to one of the victims. i asked my daughter i actually have three times and then the last time that i asked i had to yell and then they were. black i started to get i started to pass out and then they took her away from me. and is used by terrorists in syria has been traced back to nato countries including the u.s. . means hacking and spies are the first american democracy faces from russia during the upcoming midterm elections that's according to the u.s.

intelligence community. joining us you're watching the weekly here on r.t. international. the canadian government has acknowledged a disturbing practice back to the postwar period when single mothers were forced to give up their babies the children were then given to married couples in a bid to promote traditional families some women were even tricked into giving up their children we spoke to one of the victims. as 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. the healthy one 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 right i was isolated from my family as my community my sisters 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 didn't follow the. what the government wanted at maternity homes mothers were routinely denied their right to see holder feed their babies there are still some mothers who do not know when their day delivery a boy or girl being told well that'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 they 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 the room went. black i started to get i started to pass out and then they took her away from me. i met my daughter she for she actually found me so she phoned me. and she said. you don't know who i am and it's an issue he 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 trust she needed to feel safe because our children were told that there was something wrong with us they were told an

alternate story that we were drug addicts prostitutes. three soldiers have been killed in a suicide bombing in afghanistan today local journalists reports from kabul. a suicide bomber on foot across a nato convoy in north of kabul in the middle of the city of charcoal are. called colors i.e. and detonated his explosive laden vest killing a least three and nature service members according to results of. statement three have been killed and three more have been wounded one of the wounded is american and two to rest or afghan police forces local prevention spokesperson confirmed the attacked saying that there are those civilian

casualties but it has been a very vulnerable area nearby bagram air base so this is have been vulnerable because it has diminished your number of the u.s. forces based in there so taliban have been launching attacks sometimes mortar attacks and sometimes the planned i.e.d. or improvised explosive device and they usually commit suicide attacks against these forces. the soldiers killed in the attack with check nationals as army from the center for conflict and peace that he believes that a lasting peace in afghanistan looks increasingly unlikely. well i think it is realized by almost everyone all sides of the conflict that you know military solution in afghanistan is not a solution to this war there has to be a political solution taliban is still the largest in the strongest militant group

in afghanistan fighting against the americans fighting and we have one government and its other international partners but if we see. if a lot of people argue that ok if there is a species deal with the taliban so while and still completely come to an end i think it's still unrealistic because you know we argument here is in our assessment here in kabul is that even if the taliban stop fighting completely some of its hard core elements or those taliban that are fighting for profit or money well switch to groups like. weapons discovered in the form of terrorist stronghold of eastern aleppo in syria have been traced back to western manufacturers renowned war correspondent robert fisk identified their origins through the serial numbers and then tried to find out how they ended up in the hands of islamist militants is details from. 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 mortars i remember the 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 vague and 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 oil production off to the bulls and wars under the control of the americans. who are always coming home 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 wack.