to be able to twist arms because of unpaid knots how does developing world nation leader today especially in the indian ocean let alone and it could be of course in the red sea org website 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 and down the other side you know i mean we wish you both india and china you know able to you know resolve their differences and not have small countries like maldives get caught in between you know it's very difficult for a small country not just the maldives but also for other developing and small countries in east asia and africa but you know we need development funds from somewhere and unfortunately in our u.k. or u.s. not providing that kind of development financing and saw many countries not just

maldives are being forced to go to china because those funds are available from china and you know when you have a democratic country where people's aspirations are high you know expectations have suddenly gone up you know of the constitution that you have you are entitled to you have a right to housing you have a right to safe drinking water then the government is forced to do something about it for a president. more from former president all these mohammad what he'd done after the break russian design of evian westwood in downing street to protest u.k. government energy plans that critics say will cause earthquakes in britain let alone lead to global destruction all the more coming up in part two of going underground.

seems wrong. wrong just don't. get to shape out. and engagement because the trail. find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground. welcome back with still with the former president of the maldives well ahmed why he'd mother would the why mr nasheed was so popular was his famous demonstration of climate change in the power of climate change i mean what is your opinion about the latest scientific evidence is adjust your country will disappear within eighty

years. unfortunately that's the reality we have to face but in the meantime you know in the immediate near future we are going to be experiencing rough weather third of the maldives islands ordered severely and you know as a politician you go around the islands and number one demand today is help us protect the beaches just recently one of the southern islands which is the only island at all in the world it's called formula it's is. below sea level but it has a rim around it. that protects the ocean from coming into the country that is eroding now and just last month they had major flooding and they have two of three freshwater bodies on the island they're all going contaminated now because of this so motives is threatened absolutely and it's not a long term trends because some have suspected that this is we have a desire for aid in that actually some islands there is they're getting bigger we

also have the technology to be able to expand islands and reclaim thence there are deposits of sand in the ocean that can be taken out and for building and grazing i dance and that we are doing quite successfully because that technology is in for was in china which is doing all sorts of climate change activities the greasing solar and so on whereas in washington president trump obviously has dissolved the paris climate change agreement do you think developing nations also will turn away from washington because of this key issue of climate change when it comes to the economics of developing world nations i think people are not stupid they know what's going on in climate change and people believe in it now paris accord was difficult it was it took a long time to get to paris accord and so you know us it's unfortunate that they're you know pulled pulled out of it but most of the nations are going to go ahead with the accord and you know india china all of them are. investing heavily in

renewables they have set high targets for adopting renewable energy so i'm optimistic i think we together we will be able to deal with this issue of climate change how invented is this competition between india and china over the maldives especially given that they are obviously in the brics movement the new trade to block if you think to an extent it suits the european union and the other major nations that there is this fight between these two massive piles it is definitely not healthy for motives i mean india and china may have had their differences over other issues for a long time. and saw no evidence in prime minister speaks fluent mandarin. but you know but they also cooperating on technology on economy affairs and so on and trade so i mean it's unfortunate that a small country like motives is seen to be taking sides when it asked for assistance from from either of those countries you know they said this is

a problem facing many small countries and i got to singapore but often i think they have the same kind of difficulty you know caught between big powers but that's something you know i think that heads of state from small countries need to also talk to each other and you know compare notes and see you know how do you how do you deal with this was your first question how do you deal with this kind of competition and i don't think there are any the soul is the a answers to that but ironically for those critics of washington foreign policy in latin america in africa in southeast asia it could indeed be the united states that destroys your country not through any kind of foreign intervention because it fosters climate change. i hope not because you know the private sector in the u.s. is not going along with president trump's policies you know many of them have said you know david. so our i'm not so desperate and hopeless i think the united

states also has a keyboard to play especially you know technologically the united states is able to contribute much enormously to. new. technologies and renewable energy in particular and just finally i must ask this because i know this goes out in the in all some of the maldives and some of those twelve hundred islands what about trade union rights and rights of workers in all these different hotel complexes because how on earth does the central government in mali keep tabs on worker rights when it seems like big multinational hotel chains are running those islands it is very much self regulated now we have a labor council for labor affairs which which listens to complaints that come from . really what this is all these are yes yes you can i mean they have the power to visit any resort and see to. yeah unfortunately because of the geography many of our workers have to stay away from their families their families and their

inhabited islands but they have to come and live on the. resort island so that's a huge disadvantage but many resorts allow them to go back to their resorts. but still the pay is so good in the resorts most of them prefer to work in resorts even or we're going to fishing for president thank you thank you. well while climate change threatens the destruction of the maldives protesters are out in force here outside the house of minority government needed to raise them a on world environment day this week fashion icon vivienne westwood and their son fashion designer jo cora. came to the heart of government to deliver planet in the yours which they say is a representation of armageddon caused by plastic pollution and climate change we spoke to them about what they consider to be the tory do you predict facto coalition governments hypocritical policies on fracking and plastics then westra

joke or thanks for agreeing to this interview outside the house of the prime minister to raise a may you got into downing street this time around last time there were problems what have you come here to do today while we're here on world environment. to deliver some important reports to the reason why. the reports about any office any of us has the most fracking license is all paid to licenses issued by the government. seeks to become the biggest fracking company in the u.k. there are already impulses. of. propane gas from the united states and eighty seven percent of any aussies business is in manufacturing plastics eighty seven percent if they want to frack

the gas to use the gas both to our the power their plants that makes plastics and turn the east into excellent poly isolation which is plastic. and we're here on world environment because the united nations to does in fact. again. you know put up the warning flank about the amount of toxic plastic waste that is infesting and oceans in our environment last week all the media was something. of that why only yesterday recognised by the. government what we're asking to raise its values hair over the last five six years we've been sold this idea that we need fracking for energy security is making millions of tons of more polluting plastics helping our energy security this is about making millions

of times more polluting disposable plastic and we were asking the government why you can't do that and finally say saints see the writing on the wall and stop this madness it's crazy living you hear the writing on the wall is this government is an agent for this mom's home is. giving them the right to frack for plastic i mean they're an agent of pollution given the right to a monster to frack for plastic that is the writing on the wall since joe started complaining against fracking the number of people in this country who are fracking has risen to about eighty percent is the gas spit difficult to calculate our government is empty paypal that's what i'm saying it's not it's pro rob a show monsters and it's empty paypal any of us didn't get back to us in time for

the specific allegations made here what is now happening about injunctions and law against protests against this industry the fracking of plastics i mean any of us. have been gaming the british legal system in order to tying this injunction you know and their injunction that they. brought in a secret court hearing where no one was able to go and represent themselves no one was able to put a different point of view they were managed to obtain through the chant so we call the business call. they're not specialist in human rights issues which is one of the reasons why any of us in my believe took the case to the to the chancery division. they. convince a judge to effectively give them the most draconian interim injunction in british

legal history one of the reasons why it's so draconian is because it's against persons are not now what that means effectively is it's against everything it's against the whole world these injunctions normally are used for as blood type situations stalking sites situations where you have a clearly identifiable culprit and you say to that person if you come on this land again if you do any of these actions again then you're going to be subject to the terms of this injunction. they have areas that cover millions of square riker's of countries so that if they give you steps on their courage to die even though there is no fence around it there's no signs in wouldn't know where you are you are potentially putting yourself in a position where you could face two years in prison and have all your assets. your law here in this country the same you should be aware so that you have

the choice to decide whether you want to step on that piece of land and put yourself in the tradition of facing imprisonment or not now has anybody supposed to be aware of it so these. injunctions of fundamentally problematic with our human rights that for example in chapter two thousand and eleven of the human rights allow you to sit down in the road and make a protest on this you as long as you want to if you feel that supplies that you need to make yourself that is the price that we all pay for having human rights and having a democratic society and vivian to work julian. of course of grub treated tension in west london of the ecuadorian embassy as determined by the united nations ignoring foreign minister saying it's not complied with agreements to not intervene in the internal politics with third party countries it's not a matter of censorship that he has lost all his into that collectivity and indeed

some would argue it's going to receive the outside world of of his legal team what do you make of the people to blame are the british government for keeping julian trapped in the city because they have been completely completely framed and set up and what they do is they keep changing the goalposts i've come up with a term that is really flouts saying public justice throughout the world and it's called rule of law and the british government to practice mis rule of law they have no legal reason what so ever to keep in there there's nothing sinister on that they can keep in there with they keep inventing a ruse just for the sake of keeping in there why this is all to do with america because i think britain would actually like to say to julian ok you can step

outside the door we have nothing to arrest you for police you can go but if they do that then they've got the trouble of america want him extradited and they don't want to deal with that you know they don't want to say oh america you're our best friend but we don't want to extradite him do you mind no they don't want to do that they don't want to be in that position you know so i think that's what's going on and i'm going to get him out of there with this method of law i for the law means i for miss rule of law and not for the law and that helped get you in the sound there i'm going to give free. so why i'm going to get a group to start saying enough for the law they already did you know public opinions to be against mr rule of law even restaurants joke or a thank you thank you. well that's it for what are your favorite shows

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by midday moscow time wednesday the twenty second of august as it is my name is kevin zero in this is art international live the news room here at r.t. h.q. first then the first part of the most recent u.s. sanctions against russia come into force today they focus on exports of american made electronics used in the aircraft and space industries moscow says indeed those measures therefore won't affect ordinary people however in november moscow could face a second wave of restrictions described by the u.s. state department officially as more draconian they may include more limits on trade and banking and also cuts to diplomatic relations the measures under consideration may also ban russia's state airline from entering u.s. airspace now washington says the new sanctions are in response to the poisoning of the russian double agent at his daughter in britain in march this year investigation into the case is still ongoing no hard evidence of russia's

involvement has been provided thus far moscow has slammed the sanctions now it's slow witted saying they're based than on a false pretext. as usual washington provided no evidence of justification while only throwing out vicious innuendos it seems they are following the principle worse is better we will counter the united states' slow witted blinkered and aggressive approach with sober minded orderly work on a constructive agenda it seems washington's grip to a sanctions favor been numerous debates in the u.s. capitol on how best to punish russia. on capitol hill it was all about sanctions three high profile events subtle differences but the main thrust in all of them was punish russia the u.k. foreign secretary even flew into town to make his case those who don't share the

values need to know that there will always be a serious price to pay if red lines across and today the united kingdom asks its allies to go further by calling on the european union to ensure its sanctions against russia a comprehensive and that we truly stand shoulder to shoulder with the u.s. to different hearings on capitol hill about russia's supposed one line actions now the two things named are u.s. alexion meddling and the poisoning in britain of surrogate and yulia scream paul with nova chalk now no proof has ever been presented ongoing efforts to interfere in our sacrosanct election process seize and those of our allies are just some of the unacceptable behaviors of the putin regime putin wants to break apart the american republic russia's attempts to interfere in the two thousand and sixteen u.s. presidential election are well and widely known russia has undertaken a campaign of malign activities in its attempt to compete with us our allies and

our partners and cats up to thirty one gives us more tools with which to respond now all the voices agree that russia has never yielded in the face of sanctions in the past however they say that the answer is more sanctions just because they can the bread and brazenness of russia's malign conduct demands a firm and vigorous response our actions are imposing an unprecedented level of financial pressure on those supporting the kremlin's malign agenda and on he sectors of the russian economy now the second round of sanctions is due to be imposed in november why well everyone knows that russia will meddle in the upcoming midterm elections the same thing. spinning spurious narratives about meddling in the past are now predicting the future when we talk about russian interference it's not just past elections now we're worried about clearly the russians know that the us is on guard at this point and they were successful to

a degree in two thousand and sixteen we think that they're adopting this as they're looking at new ways to divide americans is there any concrete plan in place for addressing the threat that's actually posed by russia and our intelligence agencies stop them from doing it again now some members of congress are calling for paper ballots to make sure the vote is transparent and it's not digitally hacked americans need paper ballots marked by hand until the system is adopted every election goes by is yet another alexion that foreign governments hostile foreign governments including russia can hack but why bother russia could probably hack papers and pencils anyhow caleb r.t. new york journalist you laurie believes u.s. politicians are using the so-called russian threat as a destruction from internal problems the whole thing is quite a conundrum for me why they continue to try to politicize this issue and use sanctions in some way to help them domestically except that they're trying to cover

up their own shortcomings their own short changing of the american people and to try the blame our divisions an article on the crisis in our racial divide here on an on an outside power which is the oldest trick in the book going back to the beginning of civilization if the democrats lose or do not do as well as they hope in the november election having used rusher again as their as their main talking point they may have to readjust and realize that the progressive wing of the party is growing and that the american people don't give a damn about russia and that they have to finally address the real issues here and leave this russia issue alone and get back to normal relations with this country that is that it's imperative for. for world peace essentially. two donald trump's former associates have been found guilty of federal crimes in separate cases lawyers say the president is implicated to a little kids across this let's get the latest i'm so down what are our transformers staffers or associates accused of here it's a bit of a double whammy today for donald trump all matter for his former campaign manager

who ran the campaign for about five months during twenty six the he's been found guilty of very serious charges eight of them to be precise tax fraud bank fraud and failure to report foreign bank accounts he could face decades in prison model current transformer that's where the link really is he's also been found guilty rather pleaded guilty to various charges of bank for tax fraud and also campaign violations now what that means in english effectively he made payments to trump's former lovers playboy model stormy daniels rather pornographic actor actress stormy daniels and play more model karen mcdougal allegedly at the request that the order of trump but that's all kind of history want to get i mean for the president now well i mean these are very serious felt federal crimes here if trump wasn't president no doubt he would be charged he would be indicted for these because he's president that's unlikely to happen what the risk really is for don't trump is this comes at a bad time it's midterm election time the democrats are looking for any reasons any

sort of material on trying to win as many seats as possible if they win both hours if they also get support from segments of the republicans trump is at risk of being impeached because of these scandals in other words trump is now being linked by markel cohen as formal or to committing these federal crimes and this is an impeachable offense there is i think a lot for the president to fear with michael cohen who. is probably likely quite frankly. this will be the first time if this does happen after midterms that a us president is successful impeached of course was still a long way off if that fails to happen if the democrats fail to win seats. will have dodged the bullet on this one where is the link to the alleged russian collusion here that along the way i was not all tying in or not does give a short there's no link which is what trump has been saying all along these charges laws relate to pass the misdemeanors by paul minor for markel cohen aside from the

payments to trump's mistresses the investigation has been going on by robert mueller now for quite some time along with a series of other investigations and so far as trump himself has said no link has been found specifically to the question of russia collusion. fake dues are the right here which we got our big company where is the draw loser you know there's still looking for closure where is the closure it finds a loser. in a way this has been a mix they put on trump on the one hand he's too staffers have been convicted of guilty or pleaded guilty or very serious charges linked to him as well on the other hand it's a show it's a chance for trump to say i told you all along where is the collusion there's no evidence of that investigation is still ongoing things could very well change you'll keep an eye on that thanks to bring us up to date there. has the specter of alleged russian meddling looms still over the us the american journalist is published a new investigation exposing washington's efforts to interfere in the internal

affairs of external countries around the world and to undermine rival governments most brutal went to an event organized by the national endowment for democracy that is a nonprofit n.g.o.s founded in one thousand eight hundred three supported by both the democratic and republican party candidates currently and operates in more than ninety countries while the national endowment for democracy says its work aims to help non-governmental groups promote democracy in those places blumenthal couldn't help notice some parallels here great 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 maximum of thought. once again.