look at about mars at the moment i'm talking about tremendous defense capability offensive capability it's in space so we're going to do the space force. but not everybody's enthusiastic about the proposed military space program the pentagon's lukewarm response to the president's plans is just one of a number of signs that there is perhaps a disconnect between trump and his military at the moment as you go sit down of explains. throughout his short political life donald trump has been taking an unequivocal stand that he is the biggest ally the u.s. military could ever wish for we salute their sacrifice or we salute the flag they fought to protect our great war for the men and women who paid the ultimate price for victory and for freedom. the women of the united states military these are our finest but just over a year into his presidency the commander in chief has been all but drifting further

away from his million strong core right now the white house and the pentagon are squabbling over donald trump's initiative to create an additional military branch a space force. the pentagon was unimpressed about this a year ago the pentagon isn't impressed now is the space force kids for soldiers we will you know if you're going to require legislation a lot of detail play i mean. we've not yet begun in the past eighteen months the pentagon started through trove of public embarrassment because of their want to be biggest fan for instance this march donald trump casually remark that u.s. troops would be pulling out of syria in the nearest future the bomb shell decision the pentagon was not only unaware of but also disagreed with apparently will become

another syria like very soon let the other people take care of it now very soon very soon it will come and i've heard rumors of people talking about the trial but it's not over what is the announcement this week changing anything in that sense nothing actually has changed fast forward next month trying to as he wants to deploy the national guard on the mexican border well let's just say the. pentagon didn't have too much fun when it had to take the rap for this we're going to be guarding our border with the military members who are likely to be involved this overall expanded operation so that will all be determined by the requirements that are given to us but i don't have any specific details on what support we could provide but they will provide us with the requirements and then from that will determine how many and what's the mission and how many want to play back in twenty seventeen trump went to france where he saw the iconic but still day parade wow

that's nice why don't we have something like this you thought some reports suggested no one wanted the parade but trump probably had reluctantly worked on it in a hands off mode the due date is just over three months away now the event is reportedly in the early planning stages and it's still unclear who's going to foot the millions of dollars bill some orders trump is giving out of all places on twitter last year he first tweeted that the u.s. would not accept or allow dot dot dot nine long minutes passed before he resumed. does anyone else in this room have any intelligence coming out of the united states government will not accept or allow transgender individuals to serve in any capacity in the u.s. military. there are some coffee this list of when trump pushed the pentagon right under the bus is nowhere

near complete so with the space force initiative the u.s. military's well apparently struggling to get its hands back on the steering wheel he says i but he welcomes the advice from the likes of of medicine and pompei o. and bolton who are all considered a war cabinet but he makes the ultimate. decisions when it's time for a decision but when it comes to throwing out ideas that doesn't necessarily mean he's consulted with anybody he came up with the idea before consulting with everybody he made it known publicly and then once he began to get briefed on. begin to understand that the space force per se may not be the way to go although i don't think he's ruled it out entirely. now it has been one year since we first reported on russian speaking children found in iraq in orphanages following the

brutal military operation there against islamic state after the report was there we launched a campaign to to find relatives of those children and several people reached out to us saying they recognized some of them well this allowed those orphans to reunite with their families years after their parents left with them to join eisel our correspondent dina court spoke to those families to find out whether they've managed to move on after the tragic experience. so. if. a year ago two small sisters high d's and for tina were brought back to their grandparents who at the time lost all hope of africa seeing them again they say

they feel safe here in this house the sister salue can behave like any other child of their age despite their traumatic experience their playground is now the two rooms upstairs that were once home for their parents their grandfather on of our hasn't changed a thing since they left and now the girls play surrounded by things that once belonged to that if a black fits perfectly well the oldest sister is open and active fight scene is quite close to often seeking the confort of her grandfather. she doesn't let me go anywhere she says her dad also left in the morning and never came back in the evening she tells me how the gas station where he worked with. tells me how the plane has arrived and then let. anybody to. unbar often speaks about the day in august twenty seventeen when they discovered their

beloved granddaughter sources in my life more than i could i thirty. three thirty. in may twenty fifteen both of fund our son secretly left russia to join i so his al distraught took his wife and two young daughters and never revealed his true intentions. that it's actually. about a week after they. i received a message from my son saying they are in turkey i replied what do you mean in turkey instantly i understood everything and felt terrible this sort of thing happened a lot of the time a lot of young people left some went to join militant groups others went to iraq or syria it's not. often called his father but the last time he got in touch was when the fierce fighting began in moscow a short time after he and his wife were killed in a drone strike leaving her and all alone weeks later they turned up in an orphanage

in baghdad scared and traumatized they were among the group of children who could speak russian args he reported from that orphanage the story spread and the children were recognized. that's years ago for the if i remember when the film crew arrived and they showed me the footage i could not believe it i could not believe that it was possible that my goes could come back home. despite the joyous the long awaited reunion this past year has been difficult for the family of our sas it's only now that some of the girls fear is being left behind i do you just keep their visa remembers how difficult and dangerous it was to go to get water so when they arrive it's a they were always thirsty i drank like five liters of water a day only in these past two weeks has not stopped and they no longer wake up at

night wanting to drink there are hundreds of families across russia's north caucasus just like and ours searching for grandchildren mainly fear they will never see them again. if there is anything one message one sign that they are alive you have to grab it run around fake ask for help there are good people in the world. mind you no question reporting from russia's republic of dagestan well that was the first in a series of reports on the fate of the russian citizens who fled with their families to join throughout the way when more stories too on how return easer adapting to life back home.

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to get the stories that made stream media refuses to tell more than ever we need to be smarter we need to stop slamming the door on the 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. again there has been a major explosion near bologna airport in italy and police authorities say that a traffic incident is to blame these are the pictures images captured by passers by do show a situation of chaos this incident here around lunchtime after a gas tanker reportedly caught fire on a busy highway police have closed off the area where firefighters are still trying

to bring the situation under control media reports claim at least twenty people here have been injured of course we'll stay across the story and bring you more updates as we get them. now a british man who worked as an inspector in the american military base in germany suing the u.s. army david patterson and his colleagues were unknowingly exposed to a high concentration of a toxic form of cadmium with the u.s. army sending a warning later only letter warning letter only a year after the job was done back in twenty seventeen he was overseeing the cleaning of contaminated army equipment. a couple of minutes from head to should i was part of this white powdery substance but like talking very fine variable and not flaws show we actually started cleaning these boxes were. any truly information. early any knowledge of the danger or what we're

actually doing with those boxes what will go well in its warning letter sent a year to late the u.s. army said that skin and eye contact should be avoided it also recommended to that so you should wear special protective gear while standing near the contaminated boxes one of the risks was that the cadmium could be covering the equipment could become airborne and then be breathed in cadmium is a highly toxic substance that can cause cancer and it can affect the central nervous system and can also cause kidney failure acute inhalation may even cause death on receiving the warning letter david patterson contacted the u.s. army the a reaction was one of the they are treating it as though it was a just not. dangerous just before the inspector arrived from the german authorities they ripped out every case of the fifty cases then what they did

they actually got all these fifty cases and then the policeman one era opened to the sun the wind the rain and it was only three meters from a dream which system when unions in germany have reportedly already raised the alarm over the working conditions that the u.s. military base urging the authorities to take action but the army says the equipment was mishandled in june some equipment was cleaned incorrectly this was done by eight employees in one department we get the boxes. we work on the boxes we clean the current. i'm leak it the believe that we are responsible for everything why the box is not locked dangerous i've been on no or was there working for the same company sixteen months until i don't lie most and asked until i demanded that we have some type of action on these boxes i was sent from m. and e. global resources and i am taking them to court for

a legal sakhi and gross misconduct then we shall stalk about your ass eagle and the army well we have requested comment from the u.s. army and also other therms involved in the contract for life so far we haven't received a response that's how the news is looking so far today we're back with more in just over half an. hour.

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very. busy morning able to thrive all are. welcome to so if you go and serve the chair or not that white supremacist movements are back in the headlines in the u.s. and my guest today knows about it he found a hate group that grew into one of the biggest skinhead groups in the u.s. before renouncing the movement and now working to counter its message of hate how do you contain the appeal of right wing extreme well i ask our number kelis. author of my life after hate. the political extremism. the rise of the

us the far right groups grow number removed and by the fire accompanying rhetoric of president donald trump provoke it is uncompromising reaction from the left with clashes between the two sides becoming ever more violent is radicalism threatening to split america into again the message of hate groups be effectively countered shouldn't just be banned for good. artemy caylus welcome to the show great to have you with us. art of the recent white lies matter rally in tennessee created a lot of hype police were on alert people praise for brawls bloodshed like the one in charlottesville back in august but why power protests were actually outnumbered by counter protesters and bystanders are white supremacists going out of fashion or is it just the calm before the storm. i think any type of promise

really that happens in the states the words of promise are going to be numbered they're ready for the actually helps to fuel their victimhood narrative that there is there are facing these extreme odds so fight for their people. whether they're old number or not the attention they get is really what they are. well at the same time the number of hate groups have been on the rise in the u.s. for two years with over nine hundred in total acting now in your country that's according to the soudan party a lawless center another we search suggest hate crimes rose up to twenty percent in two thousand and sixteen why is this happening how to explain the trend. i think because of the current political climate where it's not only accept the war but being put in a policy that immigrants are a threat to the muslim people or a threat gives a car launch to disgruntled white people in the united states to act out on those

same sentiments often results in actual violence and certainly fuels the rising membership of hate groups in the united states well during the rallies and shallots filled back in august white supremacists where eagerly you know talking up their support for trump does he make them feel emboldened is this related yeah absolutely since before the campaign. white supremacy groups in the united states have been huge supporters of trump feel they have an ally in the white house is anti immigrant anti and was alone. at times. again rhetoric is really the same talking points that groups like the ku klux klan and the national socialist movement have been using for years so as much as he may say all the wise the policies that he enacts would should include atrocious things like

deporting ten year old girls in the hospital who are there for surgery back to mexico that that's the kind of stuff that it's a promise like to see and i think that they really believe they have an ally in the why those so do you think trump has a thing for those kind of groups i mean he refused to specifically shame they white supremacists for the violence in charlottesville where an anti rashness protester was killed media to get that last trump supporting the far right do you see that way as well. or is a lot of file facts to say that while adjusting for one president drones actions he is very quick to condemn football players for peacefully protesting and he calls them sons of bitches and says they should be fired like within hours of them protesting what was going on season ku klux klan members are marching under swastikas in an american city and somebody gets killed it takes him days to respond

to that i think that speaks volumes for how he feels about these situations i don't want to put words in his mall but i'm just going by what he says and well he doesn't really say much but like his actions the way he didn't say anything or shame the white supremacists that day does do you feel like he. he has an inner affiliation with those people like he feels the same way they do. or maybe he counts on their support who knows. i honestly i feel the president trump has some severe psychological issues that have not been dealt with his actions are are those of somebody who has a very drastic insecurity complex he seems to just be looking for whatever phrase he can get it he doesn't care where that phrase comes from so i i

think he's well aware that it's a promise fans of his and i do believe that he doesn't want to. lose their support and that could be a reason why takes him so long to. do you announce a groups were as he has no problem condoning football players of color who want to make a statement well in all fairness right after shallots feel he didn't sign a resolution condemning hate groups that espouse racism extremisms in a phobia and white supremacy so you feel like he maybe has one thing on a paper and other and he's had it's hard had sorry to say where is that because he's been very erratic. throughout this in the early days of his presidency and he's been all over the play is as his cabinet is completed numerous times about his tweeting. the people around him wish they could get more

of a handle on him and obviously he refuses to do that so yeah he's all over the place and i know that he is probably condemned to hate groups and that's fine but when you condemn hate groups and then you enact legislation that deports families just because they're the wrong skin color or they came from mexico i don't think he's really busy deporting people who came from eastern europe or people who came from canada it seems that all of his actions are focused. people with darker skin so when all of that happened then charles philip traum blamed both the right and the left for clashes he also felt some animosity towards yourself from the left rights are anti side and other similar movements becoming a part of the radicalization problem. that's one issue where i do see president drums and i have also been very frank

about my condemnation of the far left in the end the four groups i do believe that they are a part of this problem i think the fact that the united the right rally could cone on overall from the and really help swell their membership i recall in my days as a white supremacist we would drive six hours of them as they go and fight and so the violent resistance that in the folk prisons through new nazis does nothing but serve their purpose it also drives people from the political center further right i think charlottesville is instigated by the far right that used to be front and center that needs to be acknowledged but the far left certainly played their part in that melee and unfortunately they will continue to do so the fire red and white supremacist groups claiming that they are a reaction to movements like black lives matter to the new loud and somewhat radical if they will write scripts do they have

a point to stand against them. yeah i think the more radical all the leftist groups become in the more they emerge themselves and identity politics the easier it is for the far right to recruit there have been leaders of all right who make no bones about the fact that they do identity politics for white people and in our universities in the united states and in europe. basically if you're a white kid you can either confess your privilege and condemn your whiteness and. what you have to do to be an ally to people of color and anyone else who's oppressed or you go off to the all right there's really no middle ground for anyone who existed anymore and i that i believe that that is largely because of the militancy of these for a claim radicals on the left so what they're doing does serve the purpose of the

far right and vice versa every time the far right rears their heads the left goes oh see that's why we need to do what we do and we're going to double down on it and it becomes a cycle and they both kind of feed each other while most. people in society who just want to live their lives are kind of caught in the middle you know i also heard that several universities in the us have been offering housing gang creating learning communities for black students only by california state and the university of connecticut favor explained this. down to to the need to actually create safe environments for students of color what is that supposed to mean is this the comeback of segregation. i am not a fan of that approach i understand the reasoning behind it but. to me it really it takes agency away from black students it's saying that you don't have.

the ability to exist in this society and have a voice in the society and determine your own future so here we're going to create this little safe space for you where you're not going to be subject to the white supremacy and it's done under this guise of compassion but what it really boils down to is separatism and it doesn't serve the students a color that they're working with and it certainly doesn't help to mend any of the wounds in our society that we're definitely still reeling from after five hundred years a white supremacy i truly believe and i've seen this in person many many times over the past eight years as i've been working in peace building efforts is that people have every capability to calm and connect and recognize each other outside of the construct of race outside of other social constructs and have the ability to define their relationships about how they see other people when we retreat and say oh i

can't be safe unless i'm around people who think like me will like me act like me if you're centrally going back to the same mindset that the neo nazis and you're just setting up a different camp and i don't think there's ever a healthy thing for human beings and i don't think it's going to help anybody on these colleges anyway and take a short break right now when we're back we'll continue discussing what's behind rights of premises and movements in america with former school hat are now mcallister stay with us. on the.

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