the national endowment for democracy it is a nonprofit ngo that was founded in one thousand eight hundred three and is supported by both the democratic and republican parties currently operates in more than ninety countries and actually done for democracy says it's work a means to help non-governmental groups promote democracy in those places now blumenthal couldn't help notice some parallels here but i covered the ceremony because these organizations are doing exactly what congress accuses russia funded media outlets control farms of doing in the united states they interfere in other country's politics and with foreign money. the only difference is they do it openly and in the name of spreading freedom. lotty spoke to journalist behind the report most blumenthal he told us more about his findings. so once again. i'd like to express our sincere gratitude to bipartisan. support and also u.s.

congress people as well and u.s. citizens eventually we are doing this work with the u.s. citizens tax americans have no idea that they're funding an organization that's explicitly dedicated to meddling in other countries affairs interfering in elections toppling often democratically elected leaders and spreading public relations campaigns to sow chaos against countries that resist washington's agenda but here you have kind of open acknowledgement from this korean activist who is behind the transitional justice working group which is responsible for a lot of what congress states and knows about north korea's suppose it human rights violations so basically the united states is paying for its own findings to ramp up sanctions and hostility against north korea and what's really interesting about this event that i attended in capitol hill is that it was timed to coincide with the trump him summit it was essentially a u.s. government backed event undermining a u.s.

government initiative to foster peace between north and south korea and that to me seems like almost and in a form of internal interference you think that the national endowment for democracy if if there is a peace treaty that they should cease funding civil society groups that seek a transition or regime change and i think i don't know that that's what they do but i do know that they promote human rights wherever they and then i mean for example if russia were funding civil society groups inside the us and that going into the hype i support to work they do i think it's pretty obvious i mean two things are going on there first of all you have. these activists and organizations that are funded by the national endowment for democracy. see the u.s. regime change arm in south korea who are dedicated to regime change in north korea really worried that the money's going to stop rolling in from washington if there is

a peace treaty so basically conflict is an entire industry and it's part of this fake human rights and democracy promotion industry so pelosi wanted to duck that issue and then the other issue she wants to duck is the sheer hypocrisy of supporting an organization that funds civil society groups and opposition media to topple governments and so chaos and sovereign countries while complaining that for example this network r.t. does that in the united states and that's exactly what nancy pelosi and her colleagues in congress do every day when confronted with the issue there's nothing they can do but deflect and run away as palosi did a lot of what we do today was done covertly twenty five years ago by the cia it's even more the case since the color revolution model has been introduced. and what the any does is what the cia might have done to salvador allende inchy late but they do so overtly and therefore avoid a lot of the scrutiny from congress it looks like they're funding democracy and

legitimate protests but they're directing their resources exclusively against countries that resist washington's economic and political agenda it's an extension of the cia but it seems like it's pushing human rights and things that americans can get behind and that's why they receive so little scrutiny from the public it's very clever actually. people who have long been banned from having one child but now in a push to try to improve the country's demographics there's a proposal to tax people under forty who don't have children.

i'm forty years old now i wanted to have a second child because i wanted my firstborn to have company.

haven't had a second child or someone else says that's what i'm saying politics at twenty years ago you were forced to pay because you had children twenty years later you're forced to pay because you don't this life is responsible for paying taxes and reproduction bang through experience i do that now a days a lot of people don't want to have more than one child the older generation has already got used the idea that they can only. i have one child so even if they have a mission to have a second one they don't want to be this size it's extremely expensive to rent an apartment in beijing or shanghai as well as provide education it's simply can't afford to have more than one child enough to propose the taxation is foolish the government asked change policy in the first place to encourage people as happened

with one child. in times in china to internationalise wednesday on the front line of help of migrants in europe the brussels center volunteers who voted up about the real dangers they say they're facing each and every day while just trying to do the job one of the stories ahead. seems wrong. just. to shape our. outlook. and in the. trail.

one song find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground. join me every first week on the alex simon show and i'll be speaking to us from the world of politics sports business i'm sure i'll see you there. i gave her a good morning around two hundred fifty protesters at the university of north carolina at chapel hill pulled out a controversial confederate statue monday night the one hundred five year old monument known as silent sam had long been

a symbol of white supremacy i . erected in nineteen thirteen it commemorated those who died fighting for the slave holding confederate states in the american civil war the monument had polarized opinion on campus for decades and had been vandalized in the past too although many saw it is still racist in the face of others argued it was part of the south's heritage and therefore should be preserved for the university for its part condemned the toppling of the statue was unlawful and dangerous but did acknowledge the monuments divisive nature at least one person was reportedly arrested during the demonstration and police are investigating the act of vandalism is the term it the instant forms part of a growing backlash though against confederate symbols across the country.

i. think that. maybe already given this african-american. political activist stunts in a raja's white conservative radio host dave perkins joins us to talk about the

implications of the move and how society should deal with the vestiges of the confederation period. everything that happens here in the public square and public view is political it's a political plan involving street activity designed yes to divide us because there is an election coming up in just a couple of months a midterm election here where all congressmen and one third of senators are up for reelection it is divisive because it is designed to be divisive because it's designed to activate the political base of the democrat party to get them out to vote in as high a number as possible to this it is forcing people to look at something to have two or three symbols but when it's a frenzy when they're going to school they're abandoning the historical context they're forgetting why those statues stand there who it was that put them there what the thinking was at the time and what the statues represent the history that led up to this or that person being remembered in

a statute those statutes were not me this route they were made to hold but it's a courtesy it would be great to see more conservatives concerned about fighting slavery write your vote you have a president who is incited by the us against people of color whose dog whistles that racism have become. forms which have led to people like our sister heather being killed in charlottesville last year we talk about prudence when you're more concerned with this actually than you are and if there are players having their rights and you need to stand up to resist the white supremacy that run this country the campaign against the statues as i see it as a way to get young people out and make them feel like they're doing something when they're really not accomplishing anything because the ghosts that they're fighting against is disappearing more and more every year we have to know where we came from so we don't do what the young people are doing today which is look at the present and see all manner of unfairness and injustice and feel like they need to riot in the streets and destroy things to make things right if they just saw history they

would see how right everything is it's a matter of perspective destroying history ruins your perspective and that leaves you subject to being told what to think and having to believe it because you don't have anything else. elsewhere in the world for the staff in migration center their brussels claim that they're abused and attacked by migrants on a regular basis police have also confirmed that last week there arrested three refugees because of violence there with a national takes up the story when workers signed up to help at a migrant center near brussels they knew the challenges they could face but now there are green allegations of abuse and violence as stuff come pouring with their stories they have no respect for the volunteers they take drugs in the morning and some say they might attack the women working at the center as soon as something happens everything is done to protect the refugees they always have an excuse because of their difficult past many refugees and sold to threaten the stuff but

nobody says anything on condition of anonymity workers also complained to local media that a colleague was attacked with a chair leg when we reached out to police brussels for clarification they confer and they'd been called by the center but stopped short of giving any details we. yes indeed we have already intervened at this center the response teams were called three times over the past week in situations like these there are issues either between migrants or between the migrants and the organization itself they do not respect the rules or that sort of thing and that sparks conflict. the angio running the facility in sea so they haven't received any complaints from the workers at the center and says it fulfills its mission well. i've been working on the ground for three years now and i really truly have never seen anyone attack a woman they're only asli mentally ill people who insult others then the tension

rises it's true but i have never heard any threats its own history i have no idea to where this sort of information could have come from our team is eighty percent women. this belgium case isn't an isolated one a volunteer group here in france that helped migrants claimed they had faced similar issues they oversaw the distribution of food go into makeshift refugee camp in paris for some twenty months until one day they decided to quit things got too dangerous for those volunteer in the because from the beginning our mission was to serve hot drinks and bread and we've done this for twenty months every day during the last month or so we started questioning our mission is we don't want to volunteer to be put in danger they have nothing not even tents they sleep on the ground and sometimes woken up by the police in the morning they keep them unused take us to move them so when they come to us they're stressed and nervous twice

last week we had to stop serving food to let the tension calm down this is something new for us so yes we are stopping officially some sixty two thousand refugees have crossed in mediterranean to arrive in europe this year it's not quite the crisis numbers of twenty fifteen but the problem still exists and isn't going anywhere soon and with volunteers troubling to help all given up entirely and even greater burden will fall on the authorities as they struggle to get a handle on the issue. after. all that's the way some of the news is putting out this morning get so much more right to your mobile twenty four seven by downloading all right. mobile device i'm kevin i have a great wednesday. in

a world of big partisan lot and conspiracy it's time to wake up to dig deeper to hit the stories that mainstream media refuses to tell more than ever we need to be smarter we need to stop slamming the door on the back and shouting past each other it's time for critical thinking it's time to fight for the middle for the truth the time is now for watching closely watching the hawks. to get. something up and. in the. us it will be reviewed to see that this is the only talking to this. get it right. and that

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water for themselves rather than let it run into the common reservoir. and so the reservoir which is used to serve the village only around is now only hall full by the time the heart is spring months arrive it's already dried out. she doesn't have anyone to look after her baby at home so she takes him to work with her. with other women she's working on deepening the pond to collect water once it finally rains. and one hundred twenty rupees a day. they need this money to buy water. the villages have been waiting for over a months for the big rains to come and for free water to start forming from the skies but only invade. barack. obama's.

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