woman refused to shake a male interviewers hand when she gone for a job before the meeting was then abruptly terminated because she didn't however far ahead one thousands in compensation at the time when sweden's labor court ruled it amounted to discrimination the incident split social media i've warned about this for years they immigrate into our countries and refuse to integrate and then use our laws against us to impose their religious laws they shouldn't come to a country and expect everything there to change according to what they want or don't want to do if you come to a country you should respect their culture it isn't racist it's common sense well this isn't a law this is just a customary procedure she's not obliged to follow a custom that's against her and we just believe you don't have an argument. that you can't force anyone to touch someone if they don't want to she wasn't wrote the employer was rude and we've got reaction both for and against the swedish case.

you see if you're an employer in sweden like the guy who wanted to recruit a young interpreter and at interview disco refuses to shake hands she has difficulties to talk to him because he's a man because of our culture that doesn't work this guy doesn't fire her does not hire her and because of that isa blanche to pay four thousand euro to that girl one the swedes here that they say none of that here has a head that the lady in sweden smiled and made this question you have to know that even muslims should also add to their habits to the customs of the country they're living under shaking hands a suggestion of respect to do with it but if someone is not shaking the hand but on the other side showing me that he's respecting me he's smiling in my face peace is making a show of like it's like this with everyone so all we also take the tension of this

discussion away and try to find a way how we could deal respectfully with each other accepting each other talking future other and maybe trying to change some of these things in positively manner while they should stop talking about respect when they come to europe they have our respect they have had our respect for all the time but they should stop trying to influence society to attain what their bigotry insists is absolutely necessary you should adapt muslims should adapt they have adapted for decades this form of islam is not welcome in europe that's the perception of citizens and it's not only populist i think it's something like seventy or eighty percent of the population who believes that there are some values these values that are space that the freedom of speech the freedom of changing their faith the freedom to talk to have my own decision how i live but also the freedom of the. living on the freedom

of faith so these are values that in europe we should be proud of it and we should fight to keep them and not accepting any by the who is going to war and make any endangered for values and our democracy this issue with this young woman refusing to shake hands with a man this is so very much happening everywhere and it's not emotional the way europeans react this cannot continue like that either they adapt and they accept the way we live and date live with us and shake hands like everybody else or else they can go back to that country and the problem is look you're saying do and back to their countries and he can't just imagine that's what's thems are your opinions and they're living here maybe in the form of generation so stop to talk to us live this way go back to our captors all the comforts of our first clubface weave them i'll come to compete belgium it would be great britain. next to the war ravaged

iraqi city of mosul were locals up slowly returning since islamic state was defeated there but for many painful memories still a war those who survived the horrors of war. live this is the house the home we used to live in when i lost a child a daughter aged seventeen years old during the time of i salute the patient we lived in dread and fear no one was free to move no children were allowed to step outside the house they were frightened. and here in the operations to liberate the city we were under heavy shelling so my

daughter would not go out without her you. system for two days they would go out and come back together a monday the seventeenth of april twenty seventh saying the younger sister told the other one to go alone and she couldn't come with her when she left she was hit by mortar shell. in. the i approached her and found a covered in smoke and gunpowder from the explosion my relatives took her to the hospital but the nearest one turned out to be a hospital and the ice will control. they told my relatives either take her back to die or that they could only shoot her to end her life she stayed there without any treatment until she died the relatives brought her back from the hospital washed her body and took her to her final resting place at the local mosque. story well coming up next after the break in the news we're covering this monday we asked what future for greece now

that it's finally coming out of its bailout program but still has a huge millstones a debt to repay one of the stories that. we

have no idea what safety is doing on vacation but she will be back on air in september joining me every thursday on the alex salmond show and i'll be speaking to us from the world of politics sport i'm sure i'll see them. again pending an analyst claims he's been stripped of his security clearance after complaining about astronomical payments to private contractors who later turned out to have questionable connections. to the story. pentagon contracts are among the best ways to make big bucks and fast but even within the agency with a multi-billion dollar budget some deals stood out as outrageous for adam loven

german an analyst turned whistleblower he reported them to his bosses and believes was punished for doing so by having his pay cut and security clearances revoked there's a lot of players and entities in the story so try to bear with me here adam levin joe worked for the office of net assessment a small but evidently important department at the pentagon. in twenty sixteen loven to complain to the management about two contractors one is stephan helper and the other is a company called long term strategy group will begin untangling this with a helper the pentagon tasked him with writing up policy sheets for problematic

regions at least from the u.s. standpoint like russia or china or india this fact alone raised red flags for the whistleblower since the department of defense has employees tasked with just that while how her was an outsider what made things more suspicious is that helper was paid astronomically more than others. nobody in the office seem to know what hope or was doing for his money is some contracted out a good chunk of it to other academics he would compile them all and then collect the balance of his fee as a middleman that was very unusual for this type of work the pentagon reimbursed helper with more than a million dollars in the span of just under six years and a stranger doesn't get this kind of money in washington allegations of undercover spy games around how are they back all the way to the reagan years while more recently he was outed as an f.b.i.

informant scooping for dirt on the trump campaign working against the current us president makes helper trumps enemy and anyone who's a trumps enemy is hillary clinton's friend and clinton's name weaves into this story and now the contract to love and your flag the long term strategy group to him the companies stood out for an obvious reason see the head of this group and hillary clinton's door to chelsea. jackie and i are still best friends she was in my wedding and i was in her leaked emails from hillary clinton server indicate the then secretary of state actively promoted the interests of the long term strategy group with the dio di dio secretary clinton thank you again for all you encourage went on how. we had a productive discussion about iran and developments in night and asia but also just

got going took the girls and mapped out what we need to do so that you can go to work love injure wanted his bosses not only to look into the likely conflict of interest there but you also question the quality of the job done. on the issue of quality more than once i have heard our contractor studies labeled derivative college level and based heavily on secondary sources one of our contractors studies was literally cut and pasted from a world bank report that i just happened to have read the week before even the font was the same long term strategy group and the pentagon both denying that clinton's involvement had anything to do with the contracts the same people in the pentagon who compensated helper and the group had love in his clearances and pay reduced to nothing months after his complaints citing official reasons that have nothing to do with the whistleblower yet loving ger is doubtless his downfall is ritchie buescher for crossing their own people. footnote to this we've asked the pentagon the

department of justice coming to mr levin just case in his allegations so far nothing about from them about it. big differently finally exiting the bailout program brought in over the country's huge debt crisis and the biggest rescue package in global financial history the e.u. and the international monetary fund and to greece more than three hundred billion euro but it's a huge impact on the country's economy more than four hundred thousand people have moved abroad pensions are down taxes are up and athens is still expected to be repaying those loans until twenty sixty it crosses provoked serious tensions between greece and the e.u. peaking in twenty fifteen when brussels demanded greater austerity measures to deal with the debt mountain most greeks at the time voted against further restrictions in a referendum yet the government still implemented and it meant the e.u. unlocked another eighty six billion euro in aid the bailouts triggered countless protests over the years.

i. was. in return that it wouldn't be. drastic reduction of the debt to make it sustainable in two thousand and ten it wouldn't require a lot of restructuring in order to make the deck sustainable but at that time neither europe nor the united states or the world economy was ready to deal with their debts effectively and that's why people view it with some relief in the sense that they were not. be under the same strength of the world as they were in

the past eight years on the other hand greece will still have to continue with an austerity regime which is going to make life difficult for the majority of greeks and that's the latest now to news or so far this month i think so watching it kevin on here in moscow but with the next updates in thirty five minutes time for another half a day. they gave this man show camera. roughly once they showed some leave for the. uncool videos and someone with the broken string of hats. down more on

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welcome to sophie and killing sophie shevardnadze don't trump has locked horns with his own intelligence and law enforcement how damaging can the rift between the white house and the american intelligence get well i asked him a decade ca veteran groff larsen. wants the american spy agencies are mired in a public scandalous political cycle with the investigation of president trump putting intense spotlight but his national fame. agency. the professionals at the cia and f.b.i. escape the polarization of politics. public and will therefore a radically changed the situation in the country. we're all from out larson former cia veteran who served as moscow section chief along other politicians welcome to the show it's really great to have you with us. now wolf the american intelligence community has been accused of being politicized many times in

a bush sheriffs to politicians use it to justify iraq now agencies are again the world in a political scandal i know you pride yourself on your colleagues for being patry arctic nonpolitical but can you really be about politics in this line of work i mean that sounds kind of like fairy tale almost i think it's a standard you have to strive for i've been a lifelong political independent for that reason that you outline that it's crucial for intelligence officers to be independent and objective and serve the country not just the president and the government but we are also all citizens. now they. are taxpayer funded they have no private sector competition appointments there are made by politicians how can all that not be politicized. actually the in the intelligence profession all of our officers are career professionals we spend our entire career inside the agency in my case i was undercover for my twenty

three years in the cia living abroad for most of those years and frankly i really felt it was not that difficult to me maintain my impartiality and and i think you have to do that whether you're collecting information or analyzing it or disseminating it which is this whole mission of intelligence you have to maintain an ability to tell your policymakers the truth in other words speak truth to power so is it right for an intelligence professional to be vying for a high political office for instance the media in the u.s. are saying that director of the cia mike pumpin maybe replacing secretary of state rex tillerson singh is it steering too much into political territory. there's always a healthy discussion about the idea of particularly former intelligence professionals getting involved in politics i personally don't agree with that as

a principle for the same reason for military officers getting involved in politics but peo was a representative who and often are cia directors or they are political appointees point he's and he's in a long line of cia directors who are political appointees and that is the way our system operates just like many of our ambassadors overseas are aligned politically always with the president so i don't find that worrisome or disturbing i think it's much more important that the the ranks of the intelligence officers remain professionalized how much freedom does cia have the means to sessions i mean for instance bush administration ran torture prisons and then obama came in and closed them does agency has the power to decide for itself whether it needs things like that and whether it's ethical to. that's a great question sophia i feel the intelligence community has

a good set of guidelines it starts with a given set of authorities we have in other words we can conduct certain activities are we call our mission without special authority for example the mission of espionage is a core intelligence mission of all intelligence services we can do that without seeking approval when we do something like interrogation or enhanced interrogation or have prisons that requires actually what we call a covert action finding that if you have requires a a finding from our department of justice that we can do that activity as well as some very strict legal guidelines that are laid out in writing for the agency to follow and that the times when we we run afoul of that when we when we are accused of crossing the line we're held accountable by whatever standard has been laid out by our department of justice and our other authorities that are above us you know the involvement on government agencies in this presidential election someone starting from the f.b.i. role in a clinton e-mail is now the trump investigation investigating both candidates and

being quite public about it. it's unprecedented unprecedented isn't it i mean why has the intelligence community taken on this risible and political role this time around. i agree with you actually i find it very regrettable very concerned about the politicization of intelligence i do agree it's happening to some extent i think the f.b.i. and the cia are still very reliable organizations that that are following their their guidelines i still have complete trust and confidence in the organizations but you're right there's the questions do arise and it's because of the highly politicized nature of our domestic politics right now between the republicans and democrats and between those who support the president those who don't support the president so i agree it's a very concerning time and i think it's going to be a time when we in a way redefine our limits you know what is the proper role of the cia and the

f.b.i. in the in our domestic affairs and we've learned in our history from the past that we should stay out of american politics. and the house intelligence committee has released a republican newness report which contains allegations that f.b.i. misled the judge in obtaining permission to spy on trump's presidential campaign this report has already been branded inaccurate is it part of the blame game or is there some substance to this. personally i think it's the blame game that's my personal view the new paper in my view is a republican version of cherry picking the facts as they choose to present them and now i understand there's another version circulating the democratic version i frankly find that whole process to be regrown also not something i'm proud of as an american i'd prefer to see both parties sit down this and discuss these things not in the public eye without declassifying or releasing classified information i think

all of that is not something as an american citizen that i would dorsey or say is a good thing especially with trump's election things haven't been like they used to be before like from what i understand about the american system the nation's foreign policy is largely decided in the white house and the state department and then there's a congress in the senate and they're more preoccupied with internal matters this time congress is so active in pushing its foreign policy vision on the president why. well i think that's true generally sophia and of course we also have the national security council and unlike russia and some other countries china and others that have a more continuity in foreign policy work and making we we don't do largely through the political nature of our system we were in for a year cycles for a large a large part of that which is consumed with electioneering and campaigning i think that's a weakness of our system i still of course believe in the representative government

idea that we that we sacrifice this continuity of stability in our policymaking but it is it is a vulnerability or a weakness and you can really see it right now because. largely because we are dealing with unprecedented issues that we've never had to consider and we've never had such an aggressive intelligence attack if you will on the american democratic institutions and our and our election process that we just had in the previous election that has caused a great deal of this i think soul searching inside the u.s. so we've come now to the. the trump russia story you said yourself there's no hard evidence yet yet of trump straight on collision with russia so why does the public believe it to be a fax and the media in america reports that as a fact of also. i hope the american people or the media don't believe it as a fact sophie i i see it as the facts are clear

that for whatever reason and i question why the russian intelligence services. attacked our system so aggressively but i think that as a fact i don't i don't think that's the nihil the question then is what did that do and what impact did that have on the results of the election and for what reason did russian intelligence conduct that activity i don't have the answers to those questions and i won't speculate because i think that would be irresponsible i think we have to determine what happened and then decide what happened on the basis of the evidence and i don't think we're there yet but that's the thing i don't know that anyone has presented the evidence and then the facts have been presented to the public by intelligence agencies and i can probably has been misled intentionally or not by its intelligence community many times like i am i'm thinking w m d's in iraq for instance since the consequences of that are still felt

fifteen years or so why every wholehearted face in what the intelligence is telling them about russia now especially what you're saying it's a fact but every time russia asks to show them the facts they they they they are unable to provide them. just like with iraq i think that's a legitimate i think that's a legitimate accusation sophie to the extent that it puts pressure on the u.s. intelligence community to do something it's hard to do which is to present the if you will the secret facts or the story i don't even know frankly the secret story because i don't have a reason i need to know that as a retired cia officer however if they do present the facts there's a risk of of compromising what we call sources and our methods which would of course not not be good so the question is how much evidence should be provided to the american people i'm personally and i stress this is my personal view an

advocate of declassifying as much information as possible and presenting it to the american people and to present it. to the russian government i think we really need to initiate a process that we negotiate an end to this kind of aggressive cyber hacking and interference in our one another's domestic affairs if president putin believes the u.s. is interfering in russian domestic affairs or internal affairs it's not a good approach to interfere in our affairs in order to get us to stop doing it so i think it's in the interest of both sides a sit down and and talk this over and try to avoid a repetition of what happened in two thousand and sixteen in the future. ok let's take a short break right now and when we're back we'll continue talking to cia veteran ralph larsen discover a spy agencies position and it's today's squalls tensional states and.

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