tantrums and i'm getting a lot of people who are saying it seems like temper tantrums what do these temper tantrums what kind of blowback could not have economically on the united states on people in the united states because we know that sanctions you know castro never went without a meal because of sanctions you know clinton is not going to be without a meal these aren't things that hit the people at the top they have the people at the bottom so what what hurts us by doing this both to ourselves and to people around the world correct to say the theory involved here is that the united states believes that by putting enough financial pressure economic pressure on various countries the people will rise up and get rid of their governments or make their governments change their policies i think that's clearly what we're seeing in the case of iran the threat that the united states is going to put pressure on the iranian people and force them to rise up and get rid

of their government we're seeing something like that in turkey a nato ally we've seen this played out over and over again the only thing that's unfortunate about this theory is that doesn't seem to work ready if you if if if you start attacking someone the government and you're an outsider the people in that country are going to rally around the government so it's actually a counterproductive policy but yet it seems to be the only thing that they think will work because the apart from a straight out military threat the only thing that seems to be effective but getting a response from some countries who are fed up with the united states saying do what i tell you is is to apply these economic pressures that the u.s. can indeed come up with because it controls such a large part of the financial system the global financial system. it's sort of wild because well on the one hand this week we're looking at all of these a sanctions and watching diplomacy just be i guess put into the garbage disposal and sort of

walk away we also report as i talked about earlier this week that in two thousand and six while george w. bush was criticizing al-jazeera for criticizing his decisions about the war when they were very vocally criticizing the west. they we find out now that during that exact same time that al jazeera was being targeted and that the n.s.a. was was sort of hacking i guess you call it or running surveillance on the news organization i find it terrifying because i think everyone from c.n.n. to our t. this is a dangerous precedent to set and i understand there are security concerns but where or. how do we how do we how do we make sense of. without is there well it's actually pretty it's pretty simple the works for the government work for the president the president decided and the white house decided basically that al

jazeera was collaborating with the enemies of the united states in afghanistan and iraq and so they want to head with this scheme i would basically i'm not surprised by it at all they had they they considered them the enemy they wanted to crack into their secure communications system and find out what they were up to so i'm not terribly surprised by this see the u.s. government is is basically still obsessed with the idea that everyone out there is a potential enemy and acts accordingly this is one of the tragedy of our times i mean the while they were doing this of course they were also tapping into the private communications of of millions and millions of american citizens illegally right and what's so interesting to me is that this al-jazeera story despite the fact that it shows a grave threat to journalists and journalism a news organizations here in the united states as well as abroad because of these things never just say with international stations these are things that are always

going to be used for somewhere another and i wonder what you think about the fact that the mainstream media is completely ignoring the threat like that and ignoring something so big and while they obsess about you know the guy who created the you know the architect of the kill list john brennan listing security clearance why do you think they're so obsessed with it what is really a non-story like the john brennan losing his security clearance when there is a there's an actual threat to democracy and free speach. yeah i agree with you have saluki but see the the irony is that the john brennan story is is a big story except that the media is choosing to look at it in a in an odd way they're choosing to say oh this is the president attacking this poor man john brennan who did nothing but the fact is this that this gentleman was colluding with other foreign intelligence services to get dirt on on donald trump

and his associates and he was also involved with a british an expert intelligence officer again obtaining information derogatory about the president elect donald trump so this guy is a is a major criminal there is a lot on this guy but the media's reporting it as if it were oh poor john brennan so this is this is exactly what's wrong with the media and they should be focusing on the fact that all right the n.s.a. has has broken the puter cations of al-jazeera and i'm sure it's broken the communications if you have secure communications of our t. and you know this this is a tragedy because. it wasn't even hillary clinton who said at one point she said gee if you really want to find out what's going on in the world you better turn on al-jazeera right now it's not a strange turn and i know that if everybody knows that yeah it's never everybody

knows if you want to get on this news you go to our t.v. or go to al-jazeera well thank you thank you so much i wish we had more time i can't wait to have you back on again and and i think it's good we can finally have these conversations and really talk about details that make more sense thank you so much former cia analyst alex are already thank you. as we go to break top archtop forget to let us know what you think of the topics we've covered on facebook and twitter also that arkie dot com coming up the chief executive of symphony environmental michael. to discuss the controversial world of oxo biodegradable plastic stage. hot.

we have no idea what safety is doing on vacation but she will be back in september . when you love to live in a world where plastic bags were not a threat to animal live water you man the planet everything the one companies that is they have the answer and any environmental claims to produce

a kind of plastic oxo biodegradable that they claim can biodegrade faster than any other kind of plastic big claims that some scientists and critics are contesting so it's just another plastic bag with a problematic relationship to the environment or is it as symphony environmental chief executive michael lawrie it claims the future. like the laurier thank you so much for joining me today i understand your company's symphony environmental has something called oxo bio degradable that basically it's able to create a technology that makes plastic essentially biodegradable case plain what this process entails and how you can convert plastics into biodegradable so. absolutely it's a very easy very simple process that is an upgrade to ordinary plastics. by that you mix in the manufacturing process one percent i must about

looking like a plastic beat that b. is a control it's like putting a smart chip inside a computer it allows the plastic to go for a process of oxidation. where you break the molecular structure of the plastic. and that plastic completely converts back into degraded materials and once you get to those particular materials it will then organically recycle it so back into the system so essentially this is a form of organic recycling. the technology globally is used in eleven countries around the world by legislation other countries are considering it but it's definitely an answer for reducing and then eliminating plastic pollution from drinking straws to plastic bags. and we'll get into the bigger issue of

plastic pollution but currently i've seen the u.k. parliament has given you some resistance basically saying that your process is not fully biodegradable and so it should be labeled as such what is your argument to the idea that actually the process is not fully biodegradable and how long does it actually take to biodegrade. well the u.k. parliament doesn't have a position on this but the european parliament. has said in a statement that products described as oxo to create a ball in other words products will only care for a process of oxidation that don't go for a fine nor process of by a decoration products that should be avoided and those are normally normal plastics because normal plastics will go over a very very slow process of oxidation. so as for speed we can make the technology go within matter of months we can convert it from

a plastic material to biodegradable tearless in months has to self with a micro star consuming those biodegradable materials that would depend on nature depends where will it go will it be in a desert will it be in the waters will it be in the open environment will it be in a forests what sort of microbes do you have but for sure we've proven by years and decades of study is these this technology does go for a full press s. of oxygen and then by a degradation and that is what the european parliament itself instructed the european commission. to do a report to examine. oxo degradable leading on to biodegrade of course. and certainly in terms of. the countries that have

adopted this you mature loving country so far that are working with you can you describe which countries the art they are because i think people be surprised to find it it's not countries you'd expect like america for example in england. while america in england up to just two or three years ago took the view that they could collect all of their plastic waists they could pick it up they can recycle it they can incinerate it they could do many many things with it and it's only in recent months if you lie or most wanted two years we realise we can pick it all up and it is a serious problem and it's a serious problem in the oceans and there's a huge debate how do we resolve the plastic pollution problem from drinking straws to shopping bags to garbage bags to food wrap how do we resolve that that's the debate that's going on and you have a lot of arguments and discussions in relation to or let's move away from plastics

at the moment that's all we really got in terms of it being the best material available in terms of lifecycle assessment or low cost does help to preserve food does stop cross contamination it's there it's established the only issue with it is it's so good it could last in the environment for more years than we would ever want so using this technology allows it to be programmed you can set the time for it to degrade as a plastic and then biodegrade within a defined timeframe saudi arabia was the most recent country to put legislation in and they put criteria they put criteria on top of the international norms which defined toxicity and had to find spike rotation. and what they do find is that they want to materials that would be good. for use to

be able to reuse to be able to resign call to continue reducing but should it end up in their environment they wanted to be sure that it was not only going to degrade but it was organic it's going to organically recycle itself again so they put the restrictions on all materials that are manufactured all short by plastics. both imported and manufactured inside of saudi arabia but they follow the u.a.e. the u.a.e. put that piece of legislation in in two thousand and nine they had no alternatives to plastics it was cheap they had materials and available it was helping with managing their food supplies it was helping grow their crops it was helping in the hospitals clinics the food processing plants but they wanted to fix the plastic pollution problem because they can collect it all so in two thousand and nine united arab emirates put in this piece of legislation we simply environmental were

the first to introduce it into their region and to corporate with the authorities to set standards so that people would actually put in the real product a product that really would go for a process of full oxidation leading to by decoration. then you have other countries as poor countries pakistan pakistan. has a huge problem with plastic pollution and they put in legislation in the last two years which is started with shopping bags which is an every day product that everybody uses and they made it compulsory that those should also be made from the same technology. and it goes on to the point of being actually africa poor countries the point being that as you point out that you have essentially the need for plastic that you can out of a scape necessarily there's certainly the abuse of plastic we see obviously plastic

bags that are in excess plastic straws plastic bottles everywhere there's a certain waste factor to these things but then you have the essentials of how plastics are in everything from our space program our cars our manufacturing our technologies and it's a very pliable tool it's very you know good wonderful technology in itself so the idea of utilizing something like symphony to basically make plastic biodegradable seems like a nice marriage but obviously you're going to get a lot of. conflict controversy would seem to me from some people that are diehard anti-plastic they want to ban entirely not realizing that we as a civilization aren't necessarily ready to take that step. well if you just have to look at it in this way don't you plastics itself is used to preserve food if we don't wrap food in the supermarket shelf cabbages to meet chickens to our fresh fruits in

a plastic product we find that we either have to put more preservatives into those products to make them last longer which is not so good all the way small so the plastic itself. does a lot to preserve and reduce the amount of food wastage as well as protect cross contamination. then if you move across to growing food growing across whether it's in the banana plantations where they grow bananas under plastics to protect it from sunburn to protect it from bugs that will attack it or you move into the growing of crops itself it's proven that we get far more crops. and use less irrigation by using plastic to grow it under the not using it the only issue is if it was this technology this. technology which goes for a process of ox or biotech predation you actually release a carbon value of the plastic back into the consistent. and that's what people

don't understand they don't understand because this technology isn't fully understood in united states because it's still invisible is fully understood in europe because it's still invisible and is only when we can communicate to programs like yours which is interested in turning their view is that there is an upgrade and an easy upgrade available is the only way to get this message out. the queen of soul aretha franklin moved on from our mortal coil this week she brought voice to some of the greatest feminist anthems ever and was the most charted female singing artist in history earning over one hundred think on the billboard charts born in one nine hundred forty two to a preacher and gospel singer in memphis tennessee she eventually found her self found her way to detroit trained to sing gospel the by the one and only mahalia jackson one many forget when celebrating

a wreath as her pop songs were more than just a nice to know her voice more than pretty she preached to us women and when she preached we listened and still do we learn not to just nodded to do we learn to not just demand respect but learn to respect ourselves above all because of a wreath a message that more importantly brought love and why. to the civil rights movement the queen of soul also put her money where her of their expire and once offered to pay as much as it took a quarter of a million dollars to bail out black power activist angela davis from jail at a time when then president nixon was calling davis a terrorist forty one years ago today on the same day we lost the king of rock n roll all this presley and now we say goodbye to the earthly body of a wreath of flowers but i leave you with some words of wisdom from the queen of soul aretha franklin who once said in jet magazine you gotta disturb the peace when you've got no peace and that's our show for you today remember everyone as my

co-host always says in this world we're not told her love done that so i tell you all unless you i'm tired of the last. week on watching the honey and have a great day and night every day. join me every so sleep on me all excited i'm sure and i'll be speaking to get us through the world of politics or business i'm sure. i'll see you there. the headlines this hour away by a bombing at sweden just weeks before parliamentary elections intense speculation

over who started the well organized attacks. also gunmen storm a military intelligence sensitive coupled with the city still mourning facing four people killed in wednesday's suicide bombing at the school by the make states. cannot make standoff between and washington gets west texas spends their anger by destroying that i think. it's an eighty seven year old woman cutting flowers is tasered by police in the u.s. state of georgia after she failed to follow all this is all there to drop ten eyck . costing lives from moscow this is all teens national good to have you with us. more than one hundred cars have been set ablaze across sweden three weeks heads of the

september elections it's believed the fire bombings were quartered they say it. takes a look at the timing of the arson attacks and how they have stoking tensions ahead of the electoral race. it's not even dark people look up their windows and see this . the first tree and it's gone locals are just completely baffled and can't squeeze out a word a few moments later the year wrapped in sheer fury and they scream. their next dog isn't even safer to leave their homes no. the hooded thugs smash up and burn mostly cars they know what they're doing they know how to do it the our team

in the last few days there were almost identical scenes everywhere you see a flame i can swedish media say at least about one hundred cars are now burnt out pieces of metal police have made a number of arrests but basically the country still in the dark about who's behind the menace was overthrown for it. you can. get from there. in about three weeks swedes will be voting for their new parliament well now politicians there have more things to worry about than stuff like their election promos for the most any custom have the question has to be asked of those people out of this one the fact who are you doing what do you think you are born as you destroy the whole area for the neighbors for the children on their way to greece we have to see turns out cause we're going to be hard response from society any of us somewhat strong words but not as emotional as society which clearly wants

the ones in charge to get it sorted. such neighborhood disasters don't come out of nowhere when it comes to all kinds of street crime lately sweden's been getting less and less safe because i was attacked by five people and they took my wallet by. phone and there are increased number of shootings it's gotten worse in every way the police man said that he had never experienced anything like this or changed i think. it is not this week. and when the years of ignoring the trends backfired literally with flames some of the swedish elite chose not to talk about this. date rather the came up with conspiracies or in other words pointed the finger at right wing extremists some quote unquote dark forces. they want the elections to be about arsons they

want to fuel discussed and fear i hope the whole thing is not orchestrated by the dark forces that threaten our democracy and our independence. last night's events with my mom flat before the election while well organized would not surprise me if the extreme right were involved in some way a false flag by the extreme right version is popular among some journalists to. visit inside desperate to resteal explain the attacks including blaming them on precious trying to foment unrest before the election. sweden democrats sympathises of running around in the suburbs burning cars in a coordinated action to direct criticism of the suburbs population in the hope of favoring s.d. to make sure sweden can dodge any russian efforts to screw up its election stockholm has even splashed out on the media so that they could wipe out the

neverending fake news that was only to be hit by a wave of homegrown conspiracies before the police had at least something solid for the public ilya patrolling co r.t.e. swedish place a similar attacks have happened in several towns in previous years but on a fourth smaller scale we spoke to swedish democratic campaign kents akaroa whose party has sparked controversy with his anti immigration stance he says people are starting to realize their country is not as safe as they thought. the situation in sweden they started to seep out in the international arena when people suddenly realize whoops sweden is not nice little this is a country we thought it was but now realize what the hell happened to sweden and so this has been on for a long time we have made your arse and wired many you i just saw some statistics

that. are still. in cars with intent. has gone up from twelve to thirty percent from nine hundred sixty seven to one thousand five hundred cases a year or something and i mean it's been going up in actual numbers to us president says us president donald trump says economic sanctions against a key will remain in place even if and curb releases an american pastor being held on terrorism charges both sides have imposed a fair the tariffs on each other as a standoff between the two countries continues the u.s. has drastically raced u.t.s. on imports have take a shower the minium steel meanwhile some text have chosen to splash up their i phones in protest at washington's economic warfare. the no zero point one of.

our own they have not proven to be a good friend they have a great christian pastor there is a very innocent man. stepping in on turkey's side is qatar which has just approved fifteen billion dollars in aid to prop up the tech aisha khan m e r t s don quarter has been looking at how the decades old alliance between the us. is being tested to breaking point. she was built the entire entire roof so no leading goes to great tree do you as opposed to the horrible food tree deals the drawing heritage as your president of the country should not be allowed to come in and steal the wealth of all great you any move what countries could he mean or stealing could it be turkey

the country's lira shed a quarter of its value against the dollar in just one week after trump's tweet about doubling existing tariffs investors are running away screaming inflation surging and turkey's leadership is bracing for an all out trade war the reason for such a calamity against an old nato friend was ankara's refusal to release an american pastor accused of both terrorism and espionage it's punishment time for a rebellious ally that tariffs that are in place on seal would not be removed with the release of pastor bronson and president heard a wand lashed out in defiance calling the u.s. move an attempt to force turkey to surrender and make them a slave to the greenback but turkey's just one example of how the trumpet ministration treats longtime allies in fact many of america's friends have already been forced into the fray in a war of tariffs and sanctions canada had heavy steel and aluminum tariffs imposed

earlier this year and trump perhaps thought the stars and stripes needed some protection from its northern neighbor who didn't take too kindly to it that it's kind of insult to move forward with retaliatory measures on july first applying equivalent tariffs as if that wasn't bad enough the us president went and slapped tariffs on europe today i'm defending america's national security. by placing tariffs on foreign imports of steel and aluminum brussels tried to hit back with restrictions of its own tried to appeal to the transatlantic solidarity special relations bonds of friendship but to no avail and it begs the question with such a long list of enemies the us is currently fighting from iran to north korea russia china why kick your allies we have to move with talks about putting america first because he's.