decisions about the war when they're 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 a 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 over 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 a threat like that and ignoring something so bag and while they obsess about you know the guy who created the you know the architect of the kill list john brennan

losing 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 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 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 you know i yes i reported to those yeah that or 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

op watched out for get a lot of snow what you think of the topics we've covered on facebook and twitter also that are coming up the chief executive of cincinnati environmental michael laurie a join john stanton to stop the controversial world of oxo biodegradable plastic stayed to. cut.

i. one you'll love to live in a world where plastic bags were not a threat to animal life water human planet everything the one companies that they have the answer and any environmental claims to produce the kind of plastic octo 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 the 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 keys 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 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 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 stick 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 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 degradation 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 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 get it scribe which countries the are they are because i think people would 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 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 kind tom nation 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 or 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 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. but imported 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 fun oxidation leading to by take rotation then you have other countries 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 shocking backs 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 comes actually africa poor country is the point being that as you point out that you have essentially been need for plastic that you cannot of escape necessarily there's certainly the abuse of plastic we see obviously plastic bags that are in excess plastic straws plastic bottles everywhere this is 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 it 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 are really 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 meat 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 by a decoration 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 dot 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 going up there hundred think was on the billboard charts born in one nine hundred forty two to a preacher and gospel singer in memphis tennessee she eventually found herself 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 are 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 they are explore 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 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 elvis presley and now we say goodbye to the earthly body of a wreath of learning 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 from love done that so i tell you all i love you on top of the wall. it's on watching the honey and have a great day and night that.

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coming up this hour. special report from syria on how the country is slowly rising from the ruins after seven years of conflict. palestinian journalists is arrested by israeli soldiers for filming them and allegedly inciting violence meanwhile as more protests erupt on the gaza border we speak to a rap artist who shot to fame after filming a video at the demonstrations. and hillary clinton backs a young girl who noting clashed during the national anthem in protest against social injustice we put the issue up for the. little girl needs to spend more time in a constructive manner trying to get what she was like to say it's wrong for them to basically stand up for what they believe in what this little girl was doing that's

all. well can you watching out international this friday evening which just gone ten o'clock here in the russian capital and we start with syria where years of war with terrorists and militants have left the country in ruins huge amounts of key infrastructure were destroyed including factories and hospitals we visited some of the main sites is rebuilding start some people try to get their lives back on track . 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 because major transportation arteries have been cut and thirdly electricity is so scars 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 that when anti assad fighters captured this facility they looted it clean for equipment and left it badly damaged it's fully operational now but lack of power of course 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. only 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 a riff experiment 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 two small pot. 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 see with this bridge destroyed of commuters had to gamble with their lives taking long detours through hardy's territories 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. reporting from syria forty. well amid the massive reconstruction there is also room for artistic work these artists who once lived in a refugee camp near damascus but had to flee when it came under attack with pace returning though they've now returned to depict the aftermath of the fighting they

say they want to leave a record for future generations of what happened at the camp and what they went through. now a young girl from maryland who was reportedly reprimanded for kneeling during the pledge of allegiance at school has won the support of hillary clinton the former presidential candidate tweeted that it does take courage to express disagreement with injustice eleven year old mariana taylor hopes more people will join her. it's important to stand up. for. what it is that you know about the people making. mariano there said that she was inspired by an american football quarterback who notes during the national anthem before a game in twenty sixteen to protest against racial inequality and also police brutality his silent protest soon spread among other athletes to a miss provoked

a foreign political debate which reached all the way to the white house but you love to see one of these. when somebody disrespects. to say get that son over the field right now our this guy that was not against our anthem or our flag that was actually kneeling is a reference position when responding to the girl's move to the american civil rights you know all married in schools to guarantee students the freedom of speech without punishment meanwhile the girl's school has issued a statement saying it's not aware of any students being disciplined for such behavior but mariana says her teachers shouted at her and she left the classroom in tears when earlier we discussed the issue with john roden former missouri republican and also richard goodstein he's a former advisor to the hillary clinton presidential campaign. football is about football schools about school and if you have a protest protest in

a constructive way this girl can write letters to the editor she can arrange a little march but protesting in your classroom to irritate your classmate mates and virtue signal and that's what she's being taught mom's teaching her mom is so proud you're taking to the streets is that bothersome to people is that annoying to people when you get when you get arrested disproportionately when you get shot disproportionately when you get put in jail just proportionally that's not just annoying that's totally ruining your life so the fact you're taking to the streets is not merely disruptive you're trying to make a point in less you have a goal and something that you actually have a path to accomplish then you're just disrupting you're just being an antagonist to your fellow athletes or the fans or in this case to her classmates what is she what's going to make her stand peace on earth and you know will we ever get to the point where there's no discrimination no there are bigoted people let's stipulate that there are people who are bigoted they will be bigoted forever donald trump is

giving them a voice but the fact of the matter is 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 the democratic party the united states gets her power on dividing people and separating us versus them there's class warfare gender warfare they want to show that everybody's got a reason for injustice and they need to vote democrat to war in order to fix it and that's all this is it's just it's pure politics and hillary hillary clinton got millions more votes than donald trump did and her campaign theme was being together not dividing people she wasn't mocking handicapped people she wasn't telling punch him in the jaw and i'll pay your legal bills that's not what her theme was thirteen was about bringing people together. now it's come to light that i pennsic anonymous to to strip. security clearance after he complained about how you could have contracts were given to staff and how a man who turned out to be an f.b.i.

informant with his kind of. viewers will recall stefan helper at the university of cambridge helper met with an individual from the trump campaign carter page and this meeting took place roughly three weeks before the f.b.i. launched its investigation into alleged collusion between trump and russia it was later revealed that stefan helper has a long history as an f.b.i. informant he's worked with the cia what we're also learning is that an individual named adam a lot of injure has been stripped of his security clearance now adam levin sure is a twelve year pentagon strategist he has worked with the pentagon he raised why it was that stefan helper was receiving over a million dollars over the course of six years and different contracts and it wasn't exactly clear what work he was carrying out now adam levin sure raised this complaint and he was then stripped of his security clearance now he filed a whistleblower retaliation complaint and his attorneys are pointing out kind of an

interesting chain of events this is what his attorney has to say. rick to keep pope was drugs very close to the vest and nobody seems to have any idea what he was doing. he. did out a good chunk of it. he composed them and then collect the burmans as he's free. is it possible that adam a lot of injure was fired simply for asking about the money that was going to stefan help or in these contracts that these allegations are being raised there's a lot of talk about when is it proper to strip someone of their security clearance and when is it not it indicates that there seems to be quite a bit of disagreement within the halls of power in the united states as we head up to the midterm congressional elections. and i for the protests have erupted in the gaza strip demanding a return to what they call the hunted and the crowds can be.