again says palestinian families are facing segregation and inequality in their daily life because of the barrier the fence. neighborhood around seventy seven families from their schools from the. from their universities from their neighbors we call their gate and they're all going to get it and equal it all because that road. from the main street is that. they walk on the mean street and living there they walk on the side of that old you know we have twenty two checkpoints one hundred movement in one kilometer square in the city center of people. the issue of illegal migration a shaping chancellor angela merkel's top of africa germany sheltered

a vast amount of migrants and is now struggling to resolve the problem of failed asylum seekers because many lack basic identification papers our europe correspondent peter all of the reports. migration policy in germany is firmly in focus right now but what to do when it's been decided that the person doesn't have the right to be here and should be deported well at the bizarre end of the spectrum is the case of one man in frankfurt who the city's office of public order confirm to r.t. has had a whopping five hundred and forty two criminal investigations against him the man who doesn't have a passport can't be deported because the authorities can't prove which nation he originally comes from oh and by the way this has been going on since ninety ninety eight over the last twenty years most of his offenses have involved drug charges driving offenses driving without a license and violations of the residency act but who year is remains

a mystery we have a loose biography that suggests that he was born in one nine hundred fifty nine in north africa in the past he said that he was from morocco and also from algeria it could be that he is from one of those two countries or it could be from somewhere entirely different opposition figures say that this case shows the flaws in the current system in germany but i'm not surprised this is the most extraordinary case the most ridiculous case so to speak it's a failure of the system it's a failure of the government i think if the government really wanted to extradite people they could do it but they don't dare to do it because they're afraid of the left wing media. protest and their. so-called human rights organisations they protest against of even try to prevent physically the extradition of people the most recent statistics for this year show that more than

half of deportation orders were carried out the most common reason for this is that when authorities turn up at the door address where somebody was supposed. live they're not there and they can't be found however this year we've seen a sharp rise in the number of people who've avoided deportation after they physically resisted repub three ation of people that don't have the right to be here in germany is on the list for angela merkel as the chancellor makes her current tour around the for we have a situation now we're not all problems have been solved especially the british ans are still a big problem but what the chancellor has left behind violent scenes in the city of ken that's this is after a thirty five year old german man was stabbed to death last weekend police half a syrian and in a rocky man in custody in connection with the killing and that has sparked angry reaction and pitched left against right over who has the right to stay in germany

i i peter all over the in fears over us best us have seen residence in the australian city of melbourne order to stay in their homes after a factory placed it on our stories on our well news continues after the break. join me every first week on the alex simon show and i'll be speaking to us from the world of politics score business i'm show business i'll see you then. chose seemed wrong. wrong just don't call. me.

yet to shape out to stay active. and engagement equals betrayal. when so many find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground. truth and trump you know it's all about a toxin getting along with the greatest ally and friend russia there is no place to get to the kids and you know if you open up there's other things and there's a. proceed here in the first half i'll just see what let's go. out again an israeli lobby group has allegedly staged an anti palestinian protest in the united states a leaked extract from an unreleased al-jazeera documentary is said to show people who were paid to take part in the demonstration we spoke to the investigative

journalist to obtain the video here's what happened. if you happen to speak with any reporters just stay on message what is that message that's t.p. it's a secret you're going to know that all that shit is that has to be in tarsus. terrorism and. the protestors are on a fellowship program run by a conservative think tank called the things to do you should just ignore the whole i'm going to be out there these charities because of the suicide bombing at a campus you have to stop searching to get here no pollack is at the center of a neo conservative prone likud political network in washington that represents the right wing of the pro israel lobby he has collaborated with neo conservative think

tank in washington and the hoover institution to basically pay fake protesters to make it look like people are coming out and protesting palestine activity in washington doing my worst that there is. a photo of to go on and i together were just like early identifiable and like all of this for traders and sold out to the jewish conspiracy for money because of two thousand dollars plus benefits to our way of putting out a sound like house for it's a no no this is out now is exactly the best possible yeah astroturfing is when corporations or political movements basically pay for grassroots support this is what is so revealing about the israel lobby in america is that they basically pay for congressional support for their donations they even are willing to pay low level people to go out in the streets that make it look like

common americans actually support the israel lobby is goals. when they really dealt with. resistance child. killers. they killed children they don't care about any great. distress to find it all investigation into america's pro israel lobbyists may represent the most important this year it's over al-jazeera is independent and whether our network still has space to thrive in ms the unjust blockade against our good tare host. we've contacted al-jazeera to ask why the film was never broadcast we've also approached the emergency committee for israel and the hoover institution for their reactions if we hear anything back we'll tell you what they say. a raging fire has triggered several explosions at

a chemical storage warehouse in melbourne in australia causing a potential threat to nearby residents of the buildings reportedly constructed of smoke from the blazes billowing across the districts residents are being told to stay inside and keep their windows and doors shut some nearby schools have also been closed as a precaution the authorities say the cause of the fire as yet unknown and there are also some unidentified chemicals in that building fire started on thursday shortly after five am local time. u.s. military drills with south korea which doubled from surprisingly councils following the north korea summit in singapore. we will be stopping the war games which will save us a tremendous amount of money unless and until we see that the future negotiation is not going along like it should as you know we took this step to suspend several of the largest exercises as a good faith measure coming out of the singapore summit we have no plans at this

time to suspend any more exercises in the last large scale drills in the region when august twenty seventeen they involve ten days of exercises with about fifty thousand south korean troops and seventeen and a half thousand u.s. military personnel. north korea has repeatedly said it's being targeted by the military games calling them a provocation and donald trump decision to restart them has enraged the u.s. maintains its acting within previous agreements we suspended several of the largest exercises but we did not suspend the rest so there are ongoing extras all the time on the peninsula the region you've not heard much about the mid north korea could not in any way misinterpret those as somehow breaking faith with the.

we spoke to analysts about how difficult the situation could once again become. mr pugh julian has made it very clear. the publication of the drew will continue to reactivate me so a nuclear test and i don't think peace is good direction at least from the point of view of south korea and i think it's going to pass the interests of south korea to step in eve this situation continue to escalate and if there's a conflict what he's sort of saying is you better show me some steps which i can then say we're moving in the right direction he's putting pressure on north korea he's also in a sense putting pressure on south korea because of course the south korean president is due to meet women in september south korea wants to open a liaison office on the border at once in a way probably to regenerate new economic contacts and so the warm

a relationship in south korea and north korea has been a sense of positive aspect of trumps diplomacy but now of course it begins to raise the question of a split possibly trungpa want to go back to a more aggressive posture to pressure north korea and the south korean government may say we have perceived benefits from a calming of the atmosphere and improve the atmosphere the pentagon was always on happy with any suggestion that it would scale back its maneuvers it wanted to maintain the military pressure of the military readiness of u.s. forces in and around korea. so that says trump has been moved to the pentagon position rather than the pentagon never really been happy with transposition ok that's the way look for now on colin bray in moscow thanks for checking in with r.t. this hour on back with more in just under forty minutes i hope to see that. but

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string you don't really don't t.v. . phone welcome twelve's a part of much of the twentieth century of rising levels of organization it came hand in hand with rising incomes moving to a big city more often than not a ticket to a better life that still holds true but not everywhere the majority of people leaving for big cities in the global south particularly in africa may actually see their fortunes worsen rather than improve is there a been a station turning from a blessing intercourse well to discuss that now we're joined by robert buckley

senior fellow in international affairs at the new school in new york mr barclay it's a pleasure talking to you thank you very much for your time thank you now almost every country in the world has a version of the breakfast at tiffany's movie about a young man or young women moving into a big city attracted by its opportunities but i understand it from your writing that it is a rather miss all the driest perception of what urban a station is like more and more people are moving to bigger cities. not because they want to not because they're attracted by big lives but because they have no choice is that right that's right no let me qualify that it's not. the general sentiment or how it's start of is that indeed cities grow more rapidly and urbanization happens as incomes increase and so in some countries and

particularly in sub-saharan africa we've witnessed a phenomenon in which people move to cities because the conditions in the countryside are to their conflict or drought and so they're moving to cities in a situation where their income is an increasing but that doesn't mean their situation isn't improving relative to where they were they were in dire straits in the countryside and came to the city so urbanization is not correlate it with increases in income but it doesn't mean that it's causing their situation to cure i heard you say that many cities are now. prepared for the kind of and the flagstaff new residence and they're planning on making planning changes only after the occupants have arrived rather than before as was the case with let's say new york or barcelona in the nineteenth century. and that in your view leads to the proliferation of slums i wonder if you consider slums a kind of c.d.'s in the in the broad sense of the world i think the sense of. kind

of the mythologies of how urbanization fits into an economy was generally the notion that as urbanization increases societies become richer and that people coming to cities would often come particularly poor people and say in a slow as a way station on their way to becoming integrated into the city but no we're finding that in many african countries this is the third generation of families living in the same slum and they're not integrating into the society and so and slums are increased. according to u.n. data in most african cities its majority of the population indeed lives in slums without taishan facilities and often without clean water he said before that moving into a bigger city it does not necessarily mean that doesn't mean at all that the your life fortunes are going to worsen but i think. at least here in russia we associate

living in a city with higher living standards down in the countryside high levels of hygiene high levels of health care but from what i understand of living in very high downs communities like slums for the proper access to health care are sometimes felt knocks us to health care at all what actually increases your likelihood of contracting disease it sure. is that do we understand at this point how those communities even function how do they address those kind of challenges not extremely well for example. one of the issues that. continual motive tension to is the provision of said taishan and one reason i did is that in sub-saharan africa for the past twenty five years which has probably been their most rapid period of economic growth there's been almost no improvement in access to urban center taishan that's forty percent of the population has access so when you have figures that low the evidence suggests that no one benefits from

the profession if you increase from forty to forty two no one benefits because you still have people desiccated in ellie's and you still have feces everywhere and so the sense of the health effects of something like that could be extraordinary and then if you compare it with many african cities are in dire straits already and there urbanization rates are at some of the highest levels ever so you compounding a problem that's already severe with an influx that. could create really nothing short of the catastrophe i think well i thing the one of your viewers or did describe it as a looming catastrophe on our hands do you think. their world community at large is well aware of what i don't think why not i don't know i think there is attention to it but i think things like sanitation it's a topic that a government official wants to discuss it. something that you don't get

a lot of ribbon cuttings for opening up a new sewer system you know that you would with redesigning the bolshoi or something like that. that's one conjecture about why that's the case but frankly i don't know but there is don't let me overstate it there is attention to it but i don't think the resources correspond to the need the argument that is often used to persuade donor countries to. provide resources for that kind of effort is the theory for migration if you don't want people coming into your cities you need to spend some money on making bad lives more livable do you think that is a persuasive argument. and it's one that as you say it's i think. a myth that's been held by many officials in. public officials and indeed international agencies that the sense that you can prevent people from coming to the cities i know in some countries they in fact subsidize people to take

a bus back to the countryside and they get on the bus and they go back and visit their relatives and then come back to the city and so it goes to my earlier point the one the way you are take you laid it is the cities throughout history have offered bright lights and learning and occupations cities are a great thing and it's just how do you deal with this demographic movement is has always been a difficult process but i think right now in some countries it's a particularly difficult process i heard you say that almost all of the world's next two billion people will leave and they celebrate islam saturated. communities given the scope of of their problems already do you think the problem of slums will ever be resolved is that even possible given where we are at this point of time. you know and so i think you know there's a joke in economics where people said this is unsustainable and if it's. sustainable it indeed will stop. so i think. given

the potential problems here you could get people not moving to cities at nearly the rate that has been interested you could get a reaction from government. and so economists tend to be cynical and they tend to believe that in the long run things work out and so that's one view but i think there is a need to prompt people to react to this so that you react before the problems occur but i mean the problem of migration especially from the south saharan africa is i think has been in the making form over a decade i mean it precedes the war in syria and if you think about billions of people moving to very poor conditions regardless of whether they provide sanitation there or not it seems that the only way out of that situation is not the op not. to build more housing there but actually it's you going to.

it's and you see you know the thousands dying crossing the mediterranean into europe and the world probably hasn't had this many migrants. in fifty years since world war two i mean it's it is an incredible situation in that we see a lot of the news about international migration but the same thing is going on within countries and there's a rapid movement to cities in the same kind of phenomena now if you're alluding to the fact that not many. politicians are policy makers. very key in. the problem or perhaps do not take it as the first priority and. there is a i think a very romantic. urban circles that c.t.'s will find solutions to all the world's problems since it is not nation state is that they'll do that do you subscribe to that point of view so i don't think they care and i think cities have

been far more innovative the national governments and i do think there's a sense in which cities are becoming politically more important and the ideas that are generated in the world are you know i think so much of our culture and ideas come from cities and the comes from just as one writer jane jacobs talked about the only place where you can see some stranger or other traveler by going to a city and so there's just so much going on ideas are generated and so cities are i think are a fulcrum of change like that but nevertheless central governments are still important very important in terms of addressing larger issues like income distribution and climate change you know what makes me concerned about this kind of discourse is that is the fact that they have long seen a gap but then politics and policies you know ideally politics is supposed to be a facilitator of policies but i think they're increasingly diverging especially in

the western countries and my concern is that if we think this way of cities you know leading the way we will essentially leave all the major issues of life you know war and peace of life and that the politicians. do you have that sense and i wonder if you believe that politicians. care enough about the things that you supposedly care i think there's an awful lot of politicians talking . about ideas that are clearly not only not evidence based but based against evidence and that community i don't fully understand but i do observe it a lot and it's quite distressing. i don't know how to explain it but it is a it's a real danger and i think measures to. policies that are shown to not be effective is but create political value in some way.

is quite peculiar i don't want to make this into a political ad strictly about the city's bread where obviously recording at that a time when there is said major fear over confrontation between in our countries between the united states russia over syria and you know it just strikes me that. so much attention is paid to delivering a strike on a country whereas as you say we have millions possibly even billions of people living in squalor conditions and nobody ever would even discuss that on on television how often do you get that chance to talk about things that warry you so i think there's. an active discussion it's just there's not much action that's going to depressing and there's a lot of action. as as i said things that are clearly not only not evidence based

but against the evidence. they're used there's a famous old conservative economist milton friedman who said that economists roller to provide the information and people like the right choice what we see today is something quite different and that information is provided in actions are taken that have very little to do or in fact are the opposite of what mr buckley we have to take over. short break but we'll be back in just a few moments stay tuned. and

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