fear with the internal affairs of countries around the world and undermine rival governments like spokesman phil went to an event organized by the national endowment for democracy it's a nonprofit and cio that was founded in one thousand nine hundred three and is supported by both the democratic and republican parties currently it operates in more than ninety countries the national endowment for democracy says its work to help non-governmental groups promote democracy in those places and blumenthal couldn't help but notice some parallels 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 to 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. activists at the meeting were quite clear on their agenda as they explained to max blumenfeld. 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 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 can i mean for example if russia were funding civil society groups inside the us and that going into the hype i support the worth 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 and i'm fourteen am mosco time still ahead one of the world's most recognizable sport bruns is in a hole water over the release of some new trading get will tell you all about it and more coming up.

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again welcome but so nike is facing a backlash in the u.k. after releasing a controversial garment with some are saying the company's actually cashing in on gang culture with it it's about a club her it's going to touch with the fact that could be clipped away for easy transit the marketeers say it's also got a pocket that some say could be used as a holder for a weapon britain has seen the backdrop to this a surge in knife crime in recent years. there's multiple stabbings every day around the country a massive gang problem that's getting worse by the day and night he has released this seventy pound balaklava are they dumb nike are using a black guy to promote about a club with straps and pockets where there is blood there is money now nike are endorsing gun and knife crime as well isn't forcing racial profiling well done why

exactly are you promoting a baloch lover in july if this was in winter at least it's hard to criticize. the been thirty five thousand recorded knife crimes in the u.k. over the last two years the highest amount since they became available and more than a fifth of those arrested for carrying a knife are youngsters but a social media comedian. who posted a video on instagram bashing nike for this controversial headgear. listen to midnight nike whatever we offer pronounce it listen to me yes it is that thing no way yes so tell me a sad joke because right now it looks like you're targeting the young people who are involved in junk and with these recent studies that we've been seeing right now in london this is definitely something we know after c c o's people call right know we need to protect what you what's. explain the you know night dawn you eat garlic bucky. i'll even saw you get in the lots of these killings that have been happening

recently i like ten minutes away from my hawks they came up with the wrong timing with this not only that is this something appropriate they should be making because yes this by the clubbers we notice by the club is right there's many stores you can go into and buy it by the club but this one just seemed to be more military look i don't think this was a great idea you should get stuck why would this upgrade why you have better we place what are you hiding from us army. well suppose reactions like his new training garment for people in london to. could be sort of a sportsman like a climber. could be also a terrorist my immediate reaction is terrorists first it's a bit scary. but at the same times i do scary might be just sports equipment to find a menacing. now the problem is i'm from canada so all i think of is someone being

warmed to me it could be a good winter outfit. is that appealing to me at all i don't think you'd be allowed in banks and. it's not just so much that what's going on. here is as if these could have i don't know you can see them with weapons as well as guns pulling something like that so why the trying to cover the faggots by. i don't see why you what. you wouldn't want to have to face that you're not inviting is not going to make you to buy you know the you know the branded name i don't think it's really a fashion police i think they might have changed to cause the little details to charges. but i think it's good to. make profit on the back of that kind of image it was encouraged more gangsters and stuff you think so yeah of course that's nothing to do with nike if they don't get

it from making they get it from something else it's nothing else to make out where seen around with people wearing. the company says new products available to multiple markets around the world adding that it does not encourage gang culture in any way it's also no remove the sold out item from its website use and violence activist for mckenzie told us companies like nike though should bear more social responsibility. they're worn by skiers and snowboarders i agree and i fully agree with that but they're also being warned by gangs in london and they're also be used to cover the faces of known gang members a lot of the young people i work with are now buying these baloch lovers and i'm actually seeing these baloch lovers on a day to day basis and i'm seeing them being worn by children who do not ski or do not snowboard they actually go out and use those in their crimes and the way that young people look at the use of a ballot club now as part of a gang or part of getting a tie in my opinion these brands need to be

a little bit more socially responsible when your brand is so desirable and when there is a trend at the moment of young people killing themselves in london who are using figures like baloch lovers to hide their faces on a day to day basis. a similar overnight around two hundred fifty protesters at the university of north carolina at chapel hill pull down a controversial confederate statue the one hundred five year old monument known as silence long been seen as a symbol of white supremacy in the u.s. . put up in nineteen thirty to commemorate those who died fighting for the slave holding confederate states in the american civil war the monuments polarized opinion on that campus for decades though it had been vandalism the past of the many saw it as a racist and offensive thing others argue it may be but it was nonetheless still part of the south heritage and should therefore be preserved university for its

part condemned the toppling of the statue was unlawful and dangerous and did acknowledge the monuments divisive nature at least one person was reportedly arrested during with demonstration police investigating what they calling an act of vandalism the incident forms part of a bigger picture here a growing backlash against confederate symbols across the country. thank you democratic experiment that energy for goodness african-american and brown

. political activist entourages white conservative radio host dave perkins joined us to talk about the implications of the movie what happened and how society should deal with the best news 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 of white supremacy 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 statues were not me this route they were made to hold white supremacy it would be great to see more conservatives concerned about fighting slavery right here at home you have a president who is inciting violence against people of color whose dog whistles that racism. which have led to people like our sister i'm heather being killed in charlottesville last year we talk about prudence where you're more concerned with this actually than you are and if players having the right sitting in need to stand

up services in 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 they're 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 in just just 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. perspective and that leaves you subject to being told what to think and having to believe it because you don't have anything else and the huge debate goes on you can have your say on all our stories on our site has just hit the comments section tell us what you think dot com that's the way some of the stories are putting out so far this late wednesday morning in moscow i'm kevin zero in thanks for watching.

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climate change mean the complete destruction of this country within eighty years we talked with former leader ahmed one about why the whole believes is emblematic of all the serious issues facing the planet ahead of elections attracting the attention of india china nato and the e.u. and fashion i go on vivienne westwood goes to downing street as u.k. minority government he did tourism a browse on the with her plans to frack the british countryside unsustainable energy oliseh more coming up in today's going underground but first straight to our top story in a nation that arguably encapsulates the fragility of the world from trade wars to call been emissions the old leaves it's twelve hundred islands a famous for dream holidays but today it's in the eye of a storm on monday deposed leader mohamed nasheed criticize chinese into. and in the region this after britain's foreign secretary johnson voiced concerns to some it appears that nato nations what machine in president abdoulaye i mean out elections

this autumn well joining me now is the maldives former president mohamed why he doesn't he's just been recognized by the center for international competitiveness and research as a member of its twenty eight hundred power brands hall of fame former president we're going to going other god right now what is the strategic importance of your nation because we're hearing all manner of things from press releases from different foreign offices whether it be in the e.u. nato nations there's a reef in china and whether it be from india see more devices strategically located in the middle of the indian ocean and so anyone who wants to have influence in the indian ocean region would want. more divs on their side so this is where a more diverse is important but survived for thousands of years without being involved in any global strategic conflict so i believe that maldives is going to continue to twelve years old what is it twelve hundred islands i want to

get to those specifics a bit later but let's take us back to arguably the beginning of the most current concerns take us back to the night of february seventh was the day of every seven twenty twelve and the coup you became president what would happen if i was vice president at the time and there was mounting opposition against the president for various reasons economy and political president came in in a coalition together with me and other political parties but this coalition fell apart and so many of the coalition partners turned against him and so the mountain of. their smash hit who is currently trying to get back. there is trying to come back but you know he made a mistake. went on a stake in the arresting serving judge chief justice of the criminal court without any you know the proper legal process. so that is wanting him today because he is

now under a sentence for having abducted a serving judge. the constitution doesn't allow this kind of acts anymore now living in sri lanka and now living in sri lanka and also he was seen as a hero of the environment but of course what you're alluding to there is that these twelve hundred islands we have got over the whole history of islam militia group called rule that over over centuries the the critical cover between judiciary and the executive yes we've got a new constitution in two thousand and eight yes which for the first time in more diverse guaranteed fundamental rights of the people and also for the first time separated the three powers of government my sense of it is that we came out with a constitution that is mostly theoretical you know without a basis in the practice of politics in the motives of a country that has gone through years and years of authoritarian rule with the

patronage playing a very important role and now suddenly you have a constitution that looks like you know you were in the u.k. or u.s. in fact it was a hybrid constitution or with elements of an executive presidency and the parliament system westminster palm tree system so there was you know inconsistent and so you know you have a country where the president was all powerful and so on and suddenly his powers have been taken away as anyone from the global elite lucky enough to visit the movies would say you arrive on one of these twelve hundred islands it's a five star hotel the manager is greatly the dictator in the head of personnel is the sheriff there is it doesn't seem to be any lower there at all no motives you know the results in more divs operate very independently and they have you know all the. room to function effectively as a five star seven star what else there's really very little law no interference

from the government. which is the maldives is an old order society you know people have lived there for almost two thousand years in american history goes back hundreds of years so. there are cultures there already there are that takes a little bit of time to evolve and adapt to new new systems so i mean i become president but i don't have the powers of killing so if people want things from me i can't just you know hand out money there are systems now in place but that's one of the issues because it could become a very very rich country it's interesting because when when the coup happened indian media were condemning you as far as i understood it or some elements of it the u.s. assistance actress take the robert blake said it was ok for you to become president i don't know i don't have what beijing said at the time you listen to all these different i was actually quite busy you know listen i couldn't even i wasn't at all

prepared for it and therefore it was the united states didn't want you to be president but i think the united states knew exactly what was going on in motives you know they were following the situation so it wasn't really a coup in the you know traditional sense in the u.s. but the u.s. has a military base south of motives in get of us here in the. book is technically leased from the british. that's what i do know what the defense would say about that. so when it comes to foreign interference then as you became president very soon afterwards there were voices i think you yourself were saying there's a degree of interference coming from the commonwealth and there was a threat to leave the commonwealth. well you see at that time there were. countries that were calling for immediate elections but you know the president in models and the new constitution don't have the power still called for an election it's like the american system the president or any reason leaves the office the

wise. president completes the top of the situation motives was quite difficult at the time and also to not only does what i just said a ten point good to london or to washington and say i'll do whatever you tell me and maybe they can be learned from the i.m.f. you didn't know i didn't do that i didn't do that you know we tried to manage the situation and i didn't arrest people you know it was not there never arrested he was free to continue to do his political work and. so it was a difficult situation i try to manage as best as i can and then we had elections the difficult elections but never this. it was free and fair election day there were difficult for you there was some controversy because you hired baron a scotsman gordon brown's attorney general we had our advice on how to deal with particularly some of our international partners because there was a misunderstanding there you know they thought that you know how come this very popular guy who is you know first democratically elected president you know

suddenly resigns and then the next day he comes out and says it's a coup and that i held the gun it is a head i mean it was too much for people to you know deal with and so it's very very indigenous this isn't some cia back you know this is a structural changes with this there were people who were unhappy with the way things were going and the opposition because you know a lot of the coalition partners had now become going on to the opposition they were coming out in the on the streets and the religious element of father inflated it and in december of i think it was two thousand and eleven there was a huge demonstration against the government you know there was a really a turning point for people were you conscious then of outside forces are going to hire some pretty controversial p.r. firms of tourism so important in the mall lives as a. foreign exchange we are very conscious as president i was very conscious that we

have to really maintain the we have to maintain stability because tourism is the lifeline of the country but if it stops then people will stop overnight so this is why i thought it was really important to try to calm down the situation and be as tolerant as possible and form the government of national unity i invited all the people all the political parties to come of all the people from is why pick on a single route router for him somebody came up with the suggestion of. you know this company. and we hired we didn't know who actually to hire in google. because they did israel's el al which caused. element of. disquiet with against population and then of all the things to do you choose china for a contract you know what over and you know what. the first lawmaker meant with chinese bank was done by. himself i mean the infrastructure project actually rather

than the law yeah the loan was for infrastructure projects it was for the airport upgrade it was for housing projects the first billion dollars or is taken from chinese exam backed by nasheed for housing projects and then later we took some more money from this government actually took money for that because i'm not criticizing you for doing really i'm just saying i go imagine what we're doing in whitehall here in washington but it is the little brussels i don't say that is what was wrong in taking that money we needed the money because we want we didn't have the money to be able to meet the rise you expect ations of people in a democratic society. newly democratic country people want housing they want to. say that somehow it's become the people's republic of. this is this is misleading it is misleading and i think you know motives economy strong more this will pay its debts and i i don't think we will fall into

a situation where you know china will be able to twist arms because of. how does the developing world nation leader today especially in the indian ocean let alone in it could be of course in the red sea or web so the caribbean managed to pivot between these huge trading blocks which are in effect actually at the moment in the in the global trade war we are caught in between the big powers in the region. india on one side. down the other side i mean we wish you both india and china were able to you know resolve their differences and not have small countries like motives get caught in between. it's very difficult for small comes not just for motives but also for other developing and small countries in east asia and africa but you know we need the development funds from somewhere and unfortunately in our u.k. or u.s. not providing that kind of.