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 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 is 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 future cases 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 is that 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. thank you. as we go to break watch stuff or get a lot of snow what you think of the topics we've covered on facebook and twitter is here wolf is that r t dot com coming up the chief executive of symphony environmental michael laurie a join john stanton discuss the controversial world of oxo biodegradable plastic stay tuned.

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when you love to live in a world where plastic bags were not a threat to animal life water you man the planet everything the one company says 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 is a 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 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. looking like a plastic beat that beat 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 biodegradable materials and once you get to those prior to greater 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. absolutely will and will 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 shouldn't 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 great of all 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 plant 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 mumps has to self with the micro start consuming those biodegradable materials that would depend on nature depends where will it go would 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 process 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 countries so far that are working with you can read it scribe 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 and 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 all 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 time frame. 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 i did to find spider a quotation and what they defined is that they want to materials that would be good . for use to be able to reuse to be able to recycle to continue reducing but should it end up in their environment they wanted to be sure that it was not only got 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 symphony 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 being comes actually africa poor country is 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 this is a certain waste factor to these 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 it wonderful technology 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 are really ready to take that step. well 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 chicken and 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 per acre 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 is our d two w. technology which goes through a process of ox or biotech predation you actually release the carbon value of the plastic back into the a 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 telling their viewers 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 guarding our hundred things 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 learned not to. just not good to do we learn to not just demand respect but learn to respect ourselves above all because of our rita a message that more importantly brought love and life to the civil rights movement the queen of soul also put her money where her of their x. were and once offered to pay as much as it took a quarter of a million dollars to bail out black power activists angela davis from jail at

a time and 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 flooring and i leave you with some words of wisdom from the queen of soul aretha franklin who once said in jet magazine you got to 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 we're unloved on that so i tell you all i love you on top of the wall. keep on watching hearts and have a great day and night that they. are a. it's

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we travel to syria to witness how the country afloat he rising from the ruins after seven years of fighting terrorists and melissa. the scandal of a donald trump the alleged use of the racial slur to date hood though polls show that supports paul the us president among black americans is only up. a palestinian journalist is arrested by israeli soldiers for filming them and allegedly inciting violence ahead of friday's gaza protest we speak to a hip hop artist too short to fame with a video filmed at a previous border demonstration. m l l o.

no. and hillary clinton banks a young girl who now teen class during the national anthem in protest against social injustice we discussed the whole kneeling control received with all guests low girl needs to spend more time in a constructive manner trying to get what she wants it's not to say it's wrong for them to basically stand up for what they believe in that's what this little girl was doing that's all. a very warm welcome you're watching r t international with me becky erin we start this hour in syria years of war with terrorists sounds militants have left the country in ruins huge amounts of key infrastructure were destroyed including factories and hospitals we visit some of these signs to see how the rebuilding job

is going and how close people like getting their lives back together. if damascus is serious about welcoming back millions of its refugees well it has a lot to do first and foremost most of the country has been reduced to rubble by the war so a lot of people just don't have a place they can call home anymore secondly infrastructure is a big issue too because major transportation arteries have been cut and thirdly electricity so skies that anyone who has a power generator well is a very lucky person. that's why factories like this one are crucial most syrian cities have to survive amid a chaotic and unstable power supply we've been told is that when anti assad fighters captured this facility they looted it to clean for equipment and left it badly

damaged it's fully operational now but lack of power force isn't the worst that syrians have had to endure lie i swear we were dying of hunger one kilo of bread for one thousand lire you have to eat otherwise you starve to death and parents are truly rice and vulgar nothing that. we were living in hunger and poverty we would wake up in the morning not knowing how to manage to get our daily food children suffered malnutrition the ten year old girl looked like a two year old. throughout the war some parts of syria have seen well reflect famine but it would have been much much worse if it wasn't for the incredibly fertile soil and that's why you hear some branches of the trees actually broken under the weight of peaches advanced agriculture and international aid is helping to put food back on people's

plates so now with the fighting contained. small pockets syrians can treat themselves to something nice this ice cream plant has even had a go with its own interpretation of the oreo recipe yet all of this is great on paper but doesn't help much of delivery trucks have no routes to drive on. this just over forty kilometers between the cities of holmes and hama a trip that should have taken somewhat thirty minutes would stretch up to six hours with this bridge destroyed of commuters had to gamble with their lives taking a long detour through due hardy's territory's this newly paved highway has brought the drive back to well under an hour this market in homes is more than two thousand years old it has seen many things in this civil war is not the worst of those it

has survived through and it is hoped that the rest of the country will follow its model amigas drawn up reporting from syria forty. amid the massive reconstruction there is also room for artistic work these artists once lived in a refugee camp near damascus but had to flee when it came under attack with peace now back to the area they've returned to depict the aftermath of the fighting they say they want to leave a wreck or for future generations of what happened at the camp and what they went through. the scandal over donald trump's alleged use of a racial slur has seen a hail of accusations of racism flung at the u.s. president a former aide claims that she has a recording of him making the derogatory remarks though this recording has yet to

emerge that hasn't stopped the media rounding on trump for alleged racism. but at the end of the day we don't need a tape to know that donald trump is racist i was at the unite the white rally in washington d.c. on sunday i didn't hear anybody say the n word but i'm pretty sure those guys were still racist we were curious about what he could possibly say that might dispel some of the animosity the black community has toward her after all of these years of her being complicit in clearly racist policies and actions however at the scandal a new poll shows that support for the u.s. president among the black community has almost doubled since last year samir khan picks up the story. according to this poll trump has more support among african-americans than republican candidates of the past but african-americans are still the most politically homogenous voting bloc consistently voting for democrats rubber kanye west who has recently made headlines over his support for trump says that going against this trend makes you

a pariah in the community everyone around me tried to pick my candidate for me and then told me every time i said i like trump that i couldn't say it out loud or my career would be over i get kicked out of the black community because blacks are supposed have a monolithic thought we can only like can only be democrats though it's unclear whether such statements from black celebrities have a positive effect on donald trump's popularity a leading civil rights group says trump trotting out his black surrogates to woo voters has little impact as the majority of african-americans disapprove of trump trump's strategy of trotting out black people to support him is not working if it is intended to inspire african-american support for him or his policies a majority of black voters say these celebrities have no impact before trump set off on the campaign trail in twenty fifteen black rappers and hip hop artists felt a little differently about him in the ninety's they often mention trump in their

music boasting of his wealth. good luck to them you know we have to xerox money for the bill gates. money. so why are african-american starting to think this way we just around to find out do you think african-americans support what you want to guess a percentage. going to say not a lot of them support. thirty are you kidding thirty six thirty six. not even close to what i thought about. six percent. to actually thirty six percent true are you surprised by that at all. why is that because i don't own a black trump supporters why do you think some african-americans support trump by some i mean one third i'm going to say probably because they thought that he was

the best chance for our economy instead of thinking about where we are as socially there is a chance to be heard which hasn't been there before i think those that do probably are looking for from an economic perspective he's a businessman right so more americans including black americans are finding job opportunities and by that i mean it's not just you must take the one job you find you're seeing that there are multiple opportunities people are now getting to buy a car for themselves or truck for themselves for the first time in a long time last summer we set a record among americans including black americans who went on vacation for the first time and it looks like we're gonna see another record breaking activity with that in that regard a lot of black americans are experiencing this and it's no surprise that they

understand it's the policies of president donald trump that they that they accept that they had knowledge and that they're very appreciative of. a young gal from maryland who was reportedly reprimanded for nailing cheering the pledge of allegiance has won the support of hillary clinton the former presidential candidate tweeted that it takes courage to express disagreement with injustice eleven year old marianna taylor hopes well people will join her. it's important to stand up for a little. bit like you know to overwhelm a kind of grid fire if you do that you read it but it will just make you feel it makes. marianna said that she was inspired by an american football quarterback who knelt during the national anthem before a game and twenty sixteen to protest against a racial inequality and police brutality his solemn protest soon spread to among

other athletes this provoked.