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welcome back we're still with the former president of the maldives mahmoud why he. had 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 that suggests your country will disappear it within eighty years. unfortunately that's the reality we have to face but in the meantime you know in the immediate near future we're going to be experiencing rough weather third of the maldives islands ordered severely you know as a politician you go around the island 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 but that is

eroding now and just last month they had major flooding and they have two three freshwater bodies on the island they all can contaminated now because of this so more lives is threatened absolutely and it's not a long term trends because some have suspected that the this is with a desire for aid in that actually so my limbs 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 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 so now we're 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 asks for assistance from from either of those countries you know they said this is a problem in many small countries and i got to singapore quite 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 in answers to that but ironic that 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 spot this is you know many of them have said you know they would buy it so 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. knowledge is a renewable energy in particular and just finally i must ask this because i know this goes out 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 india it is very much self regulated now we have a labor council for labor affairs which which listens to complaints that come from . really. yes yes you can i mean they have the power to visit any resort and see to try to go 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 going to fishing for president thank you thank you. well while climate change threatens the destruction of the mall beeves protesters were 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 ok. 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 varian westra joke or thanks for agreeing to this interview outside the house of the prime minister of tourism 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 my. reports about any of us any of us has the most fracking license is all paid licenses issued by the government.

seeks to become the biggest fracking company in the u.k. they're 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 player power their plants that makes plastics and turn the east into excellent excellent which is plastic. 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 our oceans an air environment last week all the

media was something. of that why oh yes they recognized by the government what we're asking series of today's ham 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 terms 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 there's even you here the writing on the wall is this government is an agent for this moms who is. giving them the right to frack for plastic i mean they're an agent of pollution even 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 amfi fracking has risen to about eighty percent is the gas spec difficult to calculate our government is empty paypal that's what i'm saying it's not it's pro rubbish a monster and it's anti 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 in the. the fracking industry alone plastics i mean any of the they have been gaming the british legal system in order to obtain this injunction 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 the do not specialist in human rights issues it's just one of the reasons why in your sim i 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 unknown now what that means effectively is it's against everything it's against the whole world these injunctions normally are used for as both type situation and stalking type 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 mail they have areas that cover millions of square of

countries so that if they give you steps on their courage to die even though there's 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. low here in this country that say 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 that predicament facing imprisonment on their hands anybody supposed to be aware of it so these days. injunctions fundamentally problematic with human rights that for example in the family eleven of the human rights allow you to sit down in the road make approach from if you long as you want to if you think all that supplies that you need to make yourself. that is the price we all pay for

having human rights and having a democratic society and vivian to julian of course on drug treated tension in west london or the ecuadorian embassy as determined by the united nations ignoring foreign minister now 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 connectivity and indeed some would argue it's calling charity to the outside world of our from his legal team what do you make of the people to blame are the british government for keeping julian trapped in the embassy because they have been completely he's committed completely framed and set up and what they do is they keep changing the goal posts i've come up with a term that is really flouting public justice throughout the world and it's called may first 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 within the stone that they can keep in there with they keep inventing. 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 america want him extradited and they don't want to deal with that you know they don't want. say all america you're our best friend but we don't want to extradite him do you mind know 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 op going to get him out of there with this much true love law i for the law means i for miss rule

of law and not for the law and not help get you in the song that i'm going to give free so why i'm going to get a pop group to start singing and i thought the law they already did you know public opinions got to be a against mr rule of law even restaurants joke or a thank thank you. but what's it for what are your favorite years of the season look at it is your favorite search engine where back for a season but with a difference of capital that comes about but it's actually easier. difficulty. coming up a bit. in the face. of this is.

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cool. we have no idea what safety is doing on vacation but she will be back in september . when a loved one is murder it's natural to seek the death penalty for the murder i would prefer and if we will in the death penalty just because i think that's the fair thing the right thing research shows that for every nine executions one convict is found innocent the idea that we were executing innocent people is terrifying news just knew it hasn't and that we were here even many of the times families want the death penalty to be abolished the reason we have to keep the get tell here is because that's what murder victims' families what that's going to give them peace

that's going to give them justice and we come in and say. not quite enough we've been through this this isn't the way. headline stories. federal crime the special counsel. to investigate with russia so far. where is the closure you know they're still looking for where you're. going to lose your. base. to respond. even more aggressive measures

against. this you're also ahead. in morocco. from our international news center this is our welcome to the program. our top story there's been plenty of talk this within say over donald trump's presidency which appears to be in a precarious position less than two years two of the president's former associates have pleaded guilty to federal crimes it's put trump in hot water as his ex lawyer

has implicated him as the orchestra campaign and financial violations and the media is already getting in a spin over his possible impeachment and he be impeached with this i think the. beginning has to be said and mark right now and wolf we're in a watergate moment there is i think a lot for the president to fear impeachment then listen to you discuss the mainstream media discourse today it seems became a little more realistic for trump although it's not exactly what you might think nefarious links the russian agents or collusion with the kremlin something far more mundane as his former lawyer michael cohen pleaded guilty to franken tax fraud he also admitted guilt in campaign finance charges allegedly paying off former mistresses of trump for their silence on the orders of the now president in a double whammy trump's former campaign manager pulled out of fort was also found

guilty of numerous personal fraud charges potentially facing years in prison but what about those russian links after all that's what the attorney general authorized special counsel miller to dig up coordination between the russian government and individuals associated with the campaign of president donald trump they found buying ten tax fraud evasion lies to the f.b.i. hush money but no russian collusion they could use the right here in which we got our big. where is the closure you know there's no looking for collusion where is the delusion finds a delusion it's a day of embarrassment for trump and bad timing too with midterm elections approaching and democrats looking for any i mean if they can find the president though will view this as a vindication a year and a half later after several investigations the russian leak story still seems dead in the water although who knows what else the ongoing investigation will find the

fact that they haven't come up with anything and that the all they've managed to claw back with paul metaphor is mis filings and some bank fraud charges in the same with cohen in violation of campaign. regulations finance regulations that proves there is no russian collusion or they've wasted two years to find fairly pedestrian violations sure if you went into any of the campaigns including hillary clinton's and spent two years with an investigation team in the grand juries i'm sure you'd find a lot more than this filings and maybe some violations of campaign finance laws well donald trump has given his first direct response to his former associates allegations against him the us president went on twitter accusing michael cohen of making up stories and warning people against using his services if they want

a good lawyer. the first parts of the latest u.s. sanctions against russia are set to come into force today whedon's they they focused on exports of american made electronics used in the aeronautical and space industries moscow say's the measures won't affect the russian public well in november moscow could face a second wave of restrictions described by a u.s. state department official more draconian this cut than clued more limits on trade banking on cuts to diplomatic relations the measures are under consideration and may also be on russia's state earline from entering u.s. or space while washington say the new sanctions are in response to the poisoning of a russian double agent and his daughter in britain earlier this year the investigation into the case is still ongoing and no evidence of russia's involvement has been provided moscow islam the sanctions

a slow witted saying they're based 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. well it seems washington is gripped with sanctions fever with numerous the baits there and 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. values need to know 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 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 survey and yulia screen 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 that's a two thirty one gives us more tools with which to respond well 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 heath sectors of the russian economy now the second round of sanctions. due to be imposed in november why well everyone knows that russia will meddle in the upcoming midterm elections the same people 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 that we're worried about clearly the russians know that the u.s. 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. r.t. new york a recent gallup poll meanwhile indicates fifty eight percent of americans think it's more important to improve relations with russia instead of taking strong steps against small scale which is there by just over a third of those asked veteran journalist jill dougherty it believes u.s. politicians are using the so-called russian threat as a destruction from to mystic problems the whole thing is quite

a conundrum for me why they continue to try to politicize this issue new sanctions of 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 ago. and 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 the russian president vladimir putin has slammed washington's latest sanctions against moscow kuntar productive he made the remarks during a joint press conference.