this hour is headline story trade between turkey. with the president urged a one saying he will shift away from the u.s. dollar to more business in other words he's live reaction coming up on this in a few moments time. after the chemical. is ordered to pay nearly three hundred million dollars to a former grunts caper over claims that its best selling weed killer of course is. on the senator from florida say russia has penetrated the u.s. state's voter registration system head of the midterm elections but state authorities say there is zero evidence to support the claim.

live from our international news center here in moscow is your r.t. international my names you know neal good to have your company our top story the turkish president making economic moves to shift reliance on the u.s. dollar after impose punitive trade tariffs sending turkey's currency into a tailspin. looking towards countries like russia china iran on ukraine for currency alternatives. we are preparing to use our own national currency with our biggest trading partners such as china russia and ukraine if european countries want to get away from the us dollar then we are ready to set up such a system as well. the president heard one appeal to citizens to ditch their

u.s. dollars down buy up turkish lira the currency spiraled in the wake of donald trump declaring he was doubling import tariffs on turkish metal imports i have just authorized a doubling of tariffs on steel and on the menu with respect to turkey as the currency the turkish lira slides rapidly downward against our very strong dollar and a mini moon now b. twenty percent and still fifty percent our relations with turkey are not good at this time of the ra it traces back to turkey's refusal to release the american pastor accused of involvement in a failed coup two years ago a move that angered many in washington the countries are also at all over turkey's purchase of russian missile defense systems they have also clashed over strategies in the war against islamic state in syria and iraq well happy to see if we can go

live now to former turkish ambassador to the u.s. for luke lugo glue great to have you back on the show sir trumps targets they aren't only affecting the turkish currency others are having aftershocks too we saw this week do you think neighboring european countries might echo or to push to move away from the u.s. dollar. i mean look i think it is not just a turkish american problem but the look at what the president trump has done that. it's a major trading partners putting up a customs duties. not just a turkey not just regarding turkey but those from china and europe so it's a general general problem and i think i'll go to. the european union and also uncomfortable with these steps being taken by the united states but at the bottom

of all does i think what the what is. what these steps are telling us is that there is a need for a radical hops. very deep trance formation of the international trading system including world financial institutions like i have met world bank until four . thirty is part of the problem that is being highlighted the because that either my logical problems are big in turkey and america and these problems are here pushing out turkey in a sense. towards keeping most other alternatives and this means mostly getting closer. and as i mentioned closer links with the repression yet the question i've heard you were especially over the past twenty four hours is based solely a by trade or is there a wider goal in what trump is attempting to do here perhaps manipulate the turkish

lira and cause ructions within turkey your reaction to those accusations. absolutely i think this is not just. an economic problem that the u.s. is trying to apply pressure across the board to obtain the release of a customer for bronson and other american nationals and turkish nationals dirtying for. missions in turkey and this is. a top style approach zero four zero four demanding certain steps to be taken by the other side in this case turkey without the really. obeying any rules such as those of the true program they don't have a relationship between two friendly and two allied countries and disregarding.

legal considerations and legal sanctions so i think it is. the us approach is not just economic it is a professional political pressure. in certain items not just. economic gains. from a bites economics is this a full blown trade war that we are actually seeing on with that in mind how likely is it to escalate. i don't think it is looking at a full grown trade war certainly not between turkey and the us i think the president are gone and others a third have indicated that the possibility of trading in their national currencies but that's going to be that's going to take some time before and it's such an alternative system alternative to the dollar can be can be established yes

that is a trade. fight going on and it's not the pity and it hurts it certainly hurts the turkish interests but a lot of people in the us are also very them about these steps taken by the trumpet ministration earthing the american economy not in the short run certainly in the medium and in the long run it just it while we have you in the show in the overall situation here you've got turkey as a nato member on an important strategic middle east ally for the u.s. why do you think trump would want to jeopardize that. i don't think they would go there will block to go that far. but. what we are seeing from washington. in a truly rational steps turkey is now they're about to. leave nato

because of these american. missteps. and i manually need good relations with russia we need good relations with the u.s. and nato members if not. to mention them because turkey and that country like turkey relations hunger relationship russia is also to the benefit of. russia. or. cruel and not extraordinary. conclusions because of kurylenko and such and. all is meant for godly former turkish ambassador to the u.s. we thank you for your thoughts this hour. american chemical giant monsanto has suffered a major blow after losing

a landmark trial over claims its best selling weed killer causes cancer a u.s. court has ruled the company was responsible for the terminal illness of a school grounds keeper the jury unanimously agreed that monsanto acted with malice and ordered them to pay almost three hundred million dollars in damages the case could set a precedent for thousands of other claims against the chemical janet dewayne johnson who was diagnosed with non hodgkins lymphoma in twenty fourteen states his case is much bigger than just their personal victory. to begin this case i received a lot of support and thank you and a lot of. everything from a lot of people that i don't even know you know i'm glad to be here to help with this situation after i learned about. the same everything i'm glad to be you're able to help the cause is bigger than me. well the dispute over the cancer risks of

monsanto products being going on for decades the main focus being on one key ingredient. no widespread herbicide it was discovered by a month chemist back in one nine hundred seventy but in march twenty fifteen the world health organization says agency for cancer research concluded that lifeless eight could be carcinogenic monsanto for its part claims the product safety has been backed up by scientific research however some reports allege that the chemical giant money fuck should research in an attempt to discredit the negative findings its claim the company paid scientists to publish studies affirming roundups safety monsanto has pledged to appeal the court's decision cancer is a terrible disease but when you asked me about the verdict today the verdict doesn't change the science. to say it is safe it has been used safely for more than four decades around the entire world it has been studied with and there are more

than eight hundred published peer reviewed studies that demonstrate a safety. claims over monsanto products a possible risk sparked numerous protests to run the world in recent years take a look. all right let's say get more on this and cross live to zen honey who founded the organization moms across america which aims to move away from g.m.o. products are very welcome to the program what's your thoughts just on this the courts the station first of all could thoughtlessness of others as we're hearing

now come forward and actually sue months some to absolutely actually they already are there's four thousand waiting to sue monsanto there's another trial that will be happening in st louis soon where they'll be able to hold actually the employees to the stansell that will be very exciting and there are the lawyers expect ten thousand waiting in the wings and there could be many more considering this when this is a huge win for all of humanity and for life on the planet we are so excited that the jury actually saw the truth and ruled in favor of the plan and it's a very. credible amount of legal cases proposed months some two argues that run dop is harmless if used properly they have scientific research to back it up i believe then that your child had health issues regarding bly food safety fund in the product what would you say about the research that say that it's harmless. well i

would ask where that research came from and was it ghost written by monsanto which evidence has shown there to be many cases of that and also you know just what it what about the science that does show harm and that's what i'm concerned about is that the science that clearly shows harm that it's not only a carcinogen ik that it's a neurotoxin and a criticism after it causes liver disease at very low levels it's a key later in an antibiotic the the amount of evidence is overwhelming that it does cause harm and this is incredibly important because it's not just rain on parks and playgrounds it's sprayed in our food and we are consuming it at very high levels and every day meals specially if you're not eating organic so this is very concerning and very big and for us just looking at other the props in a slightly different way glad i got to fetes on this product roundup was called sufficiently responsible in the u.s. trial could you not say the same thing for thousands of products on props why not

just avoid them as you say go more organic clee if you can or indeed this person who is getting close to three hundred million dollars. he apparently had sprayed the thing and it broke and it went into his body some way the question would be would you not wear more protective gear there's a lot of different angles to this is there not. oh yeah absolutely well you know first of all he was wearing protective gear and it got through anyway and in the trial monsanto's own documents actually said that they have size that the workers wear protective waterproof gear a mask over their face and chaps you know cover their legs and entire body and that's not what they show in their commercials i mean they show women in eskridge rolls and men without gloves spraying round up in their backyards that is very misleading information and irresponsible so it's not just the use of it it's the

entire part we should just get away from the use of ground up and toxic chemicals altogether there are other alternatives alternatives how much trouble are month in if sales plummet in more cases and you're talking cases are already being brought against them do you think that the figure i've just mentioned almost three hundred million is excessive if you're talking about so many cases not being brought to the court well that how they work that out financially really is their problem now they caused this i went and spoke in front of them four years ago at the mine center show a shareholder meeting and asked them to go in a new direction and they clearly didn't they are just trying to sell more and more around and if they are continues there that's now owns monsanto continues to this direction they're going to continue to see as same problems consumers will no longer be tolerating this poisoning of our pets and our peers and our planet so they are in trouble and they brought this on themselves yeah i just point at them

on something say they will appeal the case but for now it looks like a big victory for people like you and those who fought against the product is then when they cut moms across america funded thanks for coming on the program thank you we're thrilled ok we're back with more news and ninety seconds.

we're back with our to international a democratic senator from florida hoping to keep his seat in the upcoming midterm

elections say yes russia has the state's voter registration system but the local authorities say there's no information to. claim my pain has more on the story. bill nelson democratic senator from florida has some alarming news he says that russia has hacked its way into the state's voter registration records they have already penetrated certain counties in the state and they now have free rein to move about well time demand the battle stations this is big news except for some reason no one in florida has ever heard about it there are revelle from the florida department of state says that no law enforcement is aware of anything of this nature she says they have received zero information from nelson about his claim and that the f.b.i. the d.h.s.s. and all the florida law enforcement have is observed nothing of the kind the department of homeland security in washington d.c. has now confirmed that they've never heard about it spokesperson sarah sendek says

that it didn't happen to she says we have not heard any news of compromises by russian actors of the election infrastructure build nelson however says he has obsessional inside information about russian hackers in florida but he can't tell us the details because it's classified he can't tell us which counties have been hacked because it's classified and he can't tell us who told him this you guessed it it's classified nobody in florida has heard of it the department of homeland security has not heard about it but let's take bill nelson at his word let's say the russians actually have hacked into the voting records don't you think that bill ought to be giving whatever information he has to the d.h.s.s. and to florida officials shouldn't he be telling them before he tells the media if they haven't heard about it yet shouldn't they have heard about it now and shouldn't they now take that information and stop the breach why is bill not swing into action getting all the local and federal officials involved well that's

classified so classified that bill is holding all the cards and leaving the rest of america in the dark talk of russia is certainly a headline grabber but this time no one is rushing in to see. of the unnamed counties in florida and that's what makes it a bit too fishy it sounds a bit like somebody isn't telling the truth and that somebody is a lot closer to miami than the moscow. passenger plane stolen by an apartment lease suicidal airline employee house crush near seattle in the northwest united states there were no other people on board when the aircraft was taken video of the plane flying low or radically over residential areas was posted.

what is happening right now. yes. q four hundred one. should never be again. we're just trying to find a place for the ransom. that's going to. there's no indication that this was an attack of any kind or a terrorist act of any kind of parallel he was somebody who did something wrong did

something foolish and may well have paid with his life exactly the circumstances of why this person was flying a small commercial plane with props i have no idea. you know a lot of questions still on what we do know is that the plane was in a lot. of four hundred capable of walking up to seventy six eighty passengers the monk who still it is thought of died in the crush but no body has been recovered an independent aviation expert we spoke to believes or a company should have a stricter of vetting process. report says that he's an employee so he already has access. this is what we call an in and inside the risk is being highlighted over the past several years by various sources including i.r. . you know with all the security measures that we have around with because the passengers it has been warned that we need to start looking into employees but

unfortunate that's not a very popular subject within the industry people need to realize that look flying an aircraft is not flying it correctly is the heart so i understand that there's a ton of they know that there's astonishment by people have put this guy on pilot the aircraft but this is not the first time. in the sixty's we had a u.s. u.s. air force mechanic stealing a u.s. air force transport aircraft and ending up crashing so this is you know this is nothing new to the industry. or just stay stateside a little bit longer because the company at the center of the long running scandal over polluted water supplies in the city of flint in michigan is a portly lining up to be a private supplier in nigeria a country where millions still do not have access to clean water picking up the story for us this hour igor shit out of. nigeria is

a country going up against all sorts of hardship poverty corruption the resurgence of terrorist groups but there's an even more fundamental one water about forty percent of the country's population almost seventy million people live without access to clean water for the eighty thousand people who live here there's only one borehole for every sixty households he used to walk miles to fetch water by the river now we fetch from this bore hole nearby and have time to cook and wash the all the uses the water for cooking and the laundry of course. we don't drink it so we had to look for tony lake package the water that's all we you know we drink because of how the water systems pipes have decayed now a quarter of all supplies literally seep through the cracks three major companies have been shortlisted to seize control of nigeria's water by privatizing it healthy

competition or so when you think but actually it's a choice between the bad the ugly and the really ugly the first company i'm going to talk about is france's veolia it could be known for many things but it's not tori's for just one oversaw the quality of water in the u.s. city of flint michigan which turned into a major disaster. yes it's fascinating in its own way but in response to be only a shrug it off saying some are just too sensitive competing with it is a company. called i've been goal which took

a shot at facilitating water privatization in bolivia and let me just show you how that turned out i. not only did it triple the price of water i've been go imposed fees on collecting rain awards which world was the last straw and the final company i will look at is a dubai based through its largest shareholder it's linked to the infamous decoder access pipeline which was accused of ignoring heritage and putting business before people.

well frankly nigerians don't stand to lose much when it comes to water supply it's so scar's activists have called for a state of emergency but with business sharks calling the shots of the country's crisis kind of down the drain entirely so good investors are ready to call in and then this. will be two to one million people so for deliberately good means it is just purely business commodification of what our financial as it will of the cycle i did little beautiful work blue to revolt we were all glued to accept it because each wheel. he will who will be in. the grave a lot of the world will be a busy gay human rights it will be a lot of conflict in these growth rates wow what they were created in the public what used to go a little more do

a. deal even little the the politico will deliver. one of the world's richest people amazon the founder jeff bezos is in the kaiser report spotlight next to this is mark international. first. of all those. georgia shows don't google so diageo at least first thanks.

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i am asked as or this is a report you know the secret of good television is never sleep and never sleep. this is apparently the secret to keeping the population happy with the situation at hand the economic situation at hand that is rigged as the atlantic said as we covered in the last episode is to have potemkin villages essentially you have a potemkin regulator in the united kingdom and you have potemkin money operating around the world which is called the u.s. dollar standard if we are to believe these headlines today so actually this is from last week and remember we're doing the summer solution series where we're looking at the.