civil war in africa country claims close to four hundred thousand lives according to a u.s. funded report prompting the question where has it be initial support for south sudan gone also ahead. america's nato ambassador scrambles to clarify herself after she threatened washington would take out russia's missile stockpile accusing moscow of violating a major cold war era treaty. and the struggle between empathy and the law unfolds in italy as a pro refugee mayor is placed under house arrest for allegedly helping illegal immigrants. people's republic of. a prominent conservative party politician in the u.k.

is under fire after making vatican sensitive quip about libya. for studios in that most of this is are. certainly glad to have you. write the number of deaths from the civil war in the central african nation of south sudan has reached almost four hundred thousand that was revealed in a damning a new reported that says the figure is almost eight times higher than previously thought it is also a long way away from the hope that surrounded the country's declaration of independence in two thousand and eleven the u.s. was quick to support africa's newest nation but how long did that help continue your comments. south sudan is the youngest country in the world and according to a new. a report from the u.s.

state department it's off to a pretty bleak start almost four hundred thousand people killed half of them killed in the conflict the other half dying of hunger and disease now previously prior to this report the estimates had only been in the tens of thousands but now it looks like the numbers of deaths in south sudan are approaching the number that have died in the conflict in syria pretty bleak but it wasn't always like this now in the one nine hundred ninety s. there was no south sudan sudan was one country and it was embroiled in the longest running civil war in the continent. however there were some perks at that point sadam had lots of oil to sell and china was pouring in investments and that is when the sanctions rolled in sudan was declared to be a state sponsor of terror bill clinton bombed a factory in one thousand nine hundred eight that he said was making chemical weapons our forces also attacked

a factory in sudan associated with. the factory was involved in the production of materials for chemical weapons but actually the factory was just making medicine no evidence of chemical weapons has ever been produced now the usa pushed for south sudan's independence in two thousand and eleven the usa hailed south sudan for breaking away and becoming a new country we may only go in the republic of south sudan and to think you have sovereign nations but the euphoria did not last long it breaks my heart to see what south sudan has become today country fell into a civil war between rival clans the president turned against the vice president and mass killings and hunger ensued and all this killing was a headache for the united nations so with the new administration now in the white house the u.s. role in south sudan is being. sassed the united states government will not continue

in a partnership with leaders who are only interested in perpetuating an endless war characterized by ethnically motivated atrocities the government of south sudan has lost credibility and the united states is losing patience yes south sudan is yet another example of the u.s. state department telling us that they're going to go rescue some or all press people on the other side of the planet and then they're left spending money to analyze results showing that the conditions overall are getting a lot worse to an extent the world seem to have forgotten about south sudan not too long ago it was the world that was running together to form this new nation then at the expense of northern sudan which was run by bashir and it would appear that petty politics between the chinese and the us in terms of the respective influences on those countries meant that for now at least the world seems to have forgotten

about the sudan crisis some saw forgotten about displacement of people women and children under spent of children across the nation and it is very much an impoverished states and i know of course we know that a lot of things do not work effectively in south sudan and for all intensive purposes the the west and the international community seems to of the blind eye. the u.s. ambassador to nato is denying she suggested carrying out a preemptive strike against russia she had earlier told a news conference in brussels about taking out missiles in development by russia claiming they are in breach of a cold war era treaty. the kunar me as yours would be to take out the missiles that are in development by russia in violation of the treaty so that would be the counter measure and eventually. commenting on the ambassador's statement of the russian foreign ministry spokeswoman said that public officials should be more

careful when it comes to aggressive rhetoric more details now from. what is essentially a warning from moscow the u.s. envoy to nato kay bailey hutchinson has said if russia does not put a stop to its covert development stop a band cruise missile system then the u.s. will seek to destroy it before it's operational the u.s. believes that russia is working on a ground launch system that would have the ability to launch a nuclear strike on europe on short notice now the development of such a system would be in breach of a cold war treaty this is the intermediate range nuclear forces treaty it was signed by president reagan and macao gorbachev in one nine hundred eighty seven and now we're all ambassador hutchinson's that the u.s. favors a diplomatic solution should any situation arise she also added that america is not against moving forward with developments not allowed by the treaty right now we can hear more for he had to say getting them to withdraw would be our choice of course

but i think the question was what would you do. if this continues to a point where we know that they are capable of delivering and if they're performing we would then be looking at the capability to take a missile that could hit any of our countries in europe and america in alaska it's not the first times that accusations have been made and moscow has consistently denied any such violations meanwhile nato secretary-general un stoltenberg has also weighed in he's spoken of concerns for what he calls russia's lack of respect for its international commitments but such finger pointing we should point out is nothing new when it comes to violations of this treaty reports in the telegraph almost a year ago claim that the u.s. has already. paying its own ground based cruise missile in breach of the historic

accord. a prominent m.p. for britain's a ruling conservative party is under fire after he made a joking reference to libya chica but recently called the african state of the people's republic of germ jar or something his party's annual conference. growth work. so. this is quite a bizarre comment to be heard from a well known politician referencing another nation this was indeed hard line breaks a tear in tory m.p. jacob riis more speaking on the sidelines of the annual a conservative party conference and what he was actually referencing was the great socialist people's libyan arab jamahiriya which is roughly translated as state of masses and that's what the north african nation of libby used to be called under more market duffy

yet he chose those words instead and reaction was very swift to follow deary me jacob reese more your first attempt at global diplomacy has failed in a bit of casual racism did you and boris johnson have the same job if you teach or at eton college maybe now is the time to learn some respect for other countries little englander jacob riis malk shows his disdain for the rest of the world this tawdry tory government has had its time bush it deserves better than this inward looking bunch of unworldly has been and never were this sort of remark is becoming too common from the bracks it is coming as it does in the wake of boris's recent jibes insulting other people is not the way i want my country represented and the public see it for what it is petty politics the reason those boris johnson burka jibes and where is john. and in general get mentioned in a few of those reactions is because the former u.k.

foreign secretary has himself come under fire on many occasions for quite controversial comments for the burkas he had just recently compared women wearing them to letterbox is causing quite a bit of controversy here in the u.k. but with these latest comments on libya they do seem quiet strange indeed especially given the role that britain had played and the destiny of libya as a nation. hundreds of people gathered in rome earlier in support of the mayor of a small italian town after he was arrested for allegedly helping immigrants remain in the country illegally demonstrators said the mayor had broad support among the population despite the government's charges against him protesters also claim his arrest endangered the freedom and future of italy and sang anti-fashion songs here is our correspondent. nicholas yano is the mayor of the small town of and so then it's really now he came to prominence after he well opened up his

town to refugees and migrants taken as many as five hundred into the town of just eighteen hundred for this he was awarded the dressed in peace prize and twenty seventeen he was also in twenty sixteen named as one of the fifty greatest leaders in the world in fact he said that helping refugees in migrants was his calling i have a strong mission to understand the difficulties people face who arrive here and i have to say that those people who have arrived are probably a product of the unfair world well he's now found himself the targets of the the a different. they are the italian government's federal law enforcement authority when it comes to financial crimes and they've charged him with a number of well of offenses he's charged with. having sorted out sham marriages for refugees and migrants with citizens of his village in order to allow people to

stay he's also accused of not to tearing to the procedures the correct procedures when it comes to handing out police stance when it comes to refugees and migrants has changed in recent times they've moved away from the policies of the said to right government that was operated under mettie or renzi and the new coalition government certainly has picked up a populist and more well anti migrant view this coalition between the five star movement and the league headed up by the prime minister just seppi can take they've really changed tack in put forward a far more well stronger view and stronger politics when it comes to refugees and migrants from italy that we've seen in the past. russia has completed the delivery of it as three hundred air defense systems to syria with the intent of protecting russian service personnel stationed there earlier my colleague combray of the details from our correspondent and we are trying. so it took russia

just two weeks to ramp up syria's air defenses with the s. three hundred system the russian minister of defense has made the official announcement he says that the deliveries are done and dusted and he also shared some technical details of that for the ones we have consider re strengthened electronic warfare capability we dispatched additional equipment in there as a result we control a short range zone within a fifty kilometer radius and a long range on the main direction from where incursions were conducted within a two hundred kilometer radius. a total of forty nine elements of hardware have been handed over to the syrians and most importantly for launchers the s three hundred is designed to protect the airspace it's not the state of the art system but it is still in active use by the russian army so what prompted this delivery

well almost immediately after the downing of the russian military twenty plane in the mediterranean the russian army and also the president made it clear that moscow will come up with a response that everyone in the region would feel the twenty plane was shot down by a syrian missile that was launched by the s two hundred that's the system of an older generation but the russian generals blamed the israeli air force for the tragedy the i.d.f. jets were conducting air raids in the area at that time and they were the original target of syria's air defenses so the deliveries could be aimed at limiting israel's airspace activity over syria and it has been reported that in the last eighteen months israel has conducted some two hundred air raids targeting iranian targets in syria today what's the reaction been surprisingly enough when it

comes to what the pentagon said their reaction was literally it doesn't change anything so they couldn't be bothered when it comes to the reaction from israel for now there's been none but previously when washington now and they were going to deliver the f. three hundred to syria the israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu warned president putin that providing advanced weapons systems to air responsible actors will magnify dangers in the region. well some of the other initial reaction the u.s. state department says that russia's air defense deployment to to syria could escalate the situation in the region. now sexual assault allegations against u.s. supreme court nominee brett kavanaugh are polarizing public opinion like never before more on that coming up after the break stay with us.

join me every thursday on the alex simon short and i'll be speaking to guest of the world of politics sports business i'm showbusiness i'll see you then. as a zombie bank plague that spilled over to zombie corporations what is a zombie bank is on the bank of the bank best technically insolvent it's kept alive by bailouts continuing rolling bailouts from the central banks because of their friends in the other the banks the commercial banks the lawyers the ages p.c. b.n.p. the citi bank they're technically insolvent they're going to live even though i'm a zombie today perpetual rolling a bailout they call quantitative easing or some other name they come up with every few months. america is a house deeply divided and that division only continues the entire brett kavanaugh saga has turned into a blood sport demanding each and every one of us pick

a side we're in new territory and that place is called winner takes all. this is our team international and the scandal surrounding donald trump's supreme court nominee is not cooling down with of the president receiving an avalanche of questions about his nominee but kavanagh is that facing sexual assault allegations from several women with some people suggesting he may not have told the truth when he denied the claims that a senate committee hearing trump says he agrees of that nobody should give false testimony to congress. lying to congress. that. i don't think you should lie to congress and there have been a lot of people over the last year that have lied to congress and to me that would not be acceptable. to judge cabot is doing pretty well it seems to be over the last

twenty four hours a lot is going to depend on what comes back from the f.b.i. in terms of their their. number seven investigation but i think that judge kavanaugh is doing very well right. well cavanagh was nominated by a trumpet to a seat on the u.s. supreme court in july after an initial round of senate hearings three women came forward in september and accused him of sexual misconduct while in high school and college is trying to asli it denies allegations trump agreed to the request of republican senator jeff flake who holds a key vote on the judiciary committee for an f.b.i. investigation. the dispute over the credibility of the witnesses is dividing the country and now it seems holding the wrong view can cost you your job a dean at catholic university in washington has been suspended over a tweet that was deemed to have degraded one of the women who accused kavanaugh and

a professor at georgetown university said cavanagh deserved to die which caused an outcry among some students however the university has stated that it was the professor's personal view and doesn't represent the school's opinion we spoke earlier with republican official john griffin who thinks political discourse has sunk to a new low. i don't support a society that wants to eliminate people's right to express opinions and eliminate due process saying that we should kill each other over political disagreements accusing someone of horrific acts just to other political process from happening i'm sorry that's. it's sad the fact that someone has been able to baselessly destroy a man's family and character simply because they don't want a republican nominee on the supreme court it's shocking to me that the same people on the left that say they care about women and their her in their pain are the same

people judging whether or not someone's emotions are real or authentic give me a break. french authorities say they have frozen the assets of iran's intelligence agency that after alleging tehran planned to bomb iran ian opposition groups rally near paris and the u.s. state department has backed the move we've seen what iran has done in syria we've seen right iran has done in other countries we see iran's devastation that it causes around the world as the world's stop top sponsor of terrorism. that comes after iran's ambassador to the u.n. accused saudi arabia of sponsoring terrorism during his address at the recent u.n. general assembly meeting held in new york everybody knows very well that saudi arabia supports terrorism and a very blatant and widespread manner in the framework of we keep the x.

in two thousand and nine hillary clinton is said to have stated that saudi arabia is the greatest you know to terrorist groups around the world. according to those documents obtained by wiki leaks events secretary of state hillary clinton called saudi arabia the most significant source of funding to sunni terrorist groups worldwide she also allegedly names saudi arabia a critical financial support base for al qaeda the taliban and other terrorist groups let's cross live now to. who is a political scientist thank you very much for being with us here march international as always. so if we get right down to it why did the iranian ambassador to the u.n. decide to mention the statement allegedly made by hillary clinton i mean it was a long time ago but does this lend more weight to his claims. by duce you were referring to the differential move today against the iranian assets and yes yeah. ok well.

you know we do speak to the developments today very disconcerting and. unwise decision by the french government because as the foreign minister. quickly said this has all the markings of a false flag operation. israeli intelligence footprints all over it and the israelis openly boast of having broken the plot and so forth and israel is very desperate to torpedo the current progress made between iran and the europeans to preserve the iran nuclear deal the j c p o a and there's been a negative backlash against the israeli for prime minister netanyahu with his latest claims against iran that was soundly rebuffed by the. tomic

agency just today in the statement by the director mr armano so these are desperate times and the sinister attempt to attach the terrorists label on iran one day ahead of this very crucial interim decision by the judges in the international court of justice and detaining iran's campaign against the u.s. and the u.s. as defense has been that well iran is a terrorist state and so forth that's why we engaging in these courses of sanctions that search without being able to show any proof and now all of a sudden they're french becoming willing complicit in this thickening plot against iran undertake this effort and lend their souls to iran's enemies by leveling these thought only answer. and easily refutable charges. in the

process well trampling on the diplomatic immunity of a. diplomat against the charter and the vienna convention on diplomatic immunity well so about the you mentioned the charges against iran but there are allegations against saudi arabia there have been the allegations against saudi arabia for a long time as sponsors of terrorism how do you how come do you think that these allegations fail to spark such international outrage. well you know the saudis are also on record supporting this fringe opposition group that owns freely in france the m.e. k. and their recent reports are but hard the saudis are funneling old watches and so forth to them to continue their activities against iran and this is a group that was in bed with saddam hussein when it invaded iran and as

a result this is despised by the majority of ukrainian people they have absolutely no chance no future in iranian politics as a result of that so why are the saudis not targeted and all the focus is on is on iran while the answer is very obvious saudi arabia is a us client state that purchases billions and billions of dollars of arms and you know furnishes all to the western governments who in return protected and immunize it from criticism we saw a very recent you want to report lambaste in saudi arabia for the trust cities in yemen and the humanitarian catastrophe there without anyone including the french diplomats raising an eyebrow and we know that some french special forces are actually involved in the campaigns against the who things in yemen that has gone

norway or so far so you know the french government which has made a habit of lying and we saw that we do speak today april the hoax of the chemical attack in dumas that was refuted by the way. chemical weapon prohibition organization has now reenacted its bad act and try to appease the us and israel by these across charges of our right to cover for c.r.b. unfortunately we are running out of time i'd love to talk about this all day thanks for being with us here on r.t. interest rational. my pleasure when it does of mailbags top the hour with more news is art international. when lawmakers manufacture consent instinctive public wealth. when the room in closest project themselves. with the famous merry

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fifteen movements an estimated two hundred fifty thousand regular u.s. employees at amazon and whole foods supermarket as well as one hundred thousand seasonal workers will benefit from amazon's concession workers in amazon's u.k. facilities outside of london will be paid nine and a half pounds up from fifty one did workers will receive an additional pound per hour due to high cost of living in the city amazon also says they will support an unspecified increase in the u.s. federal minimum wage moving their stated position closer to that of their chief critic senator bernie sanders senator sanders spoke about the ways earlier today in washington. it is no secret that i have been a harsh critic of the wage and employment practices of amazon and its owner jeff bezos it has been my view that the middle class and working families of this country should not have to subsidize disobeys those the wealthiest person on earth

because the wages he has paid his employer on a solo on the many of them afford to go on food stamps medicaid and subsidized housing and other governmental programs today i want to give credit where credit is due. and i want to congratulate mr biggs holes for doing exactly the right thing. in june to c.n.n. as to made that if the median worker's salary at amazon is twenty eight thousand dollars as the company claimed then amazon owner and c.e.o. jeff bezos makes that amount every nine seconds mr basis was named by forbes magazine as the world's richest man in twenty eighteen with an estimated fortune of one hundred and sixty five billion dollars a notable elements in that vast fortune is the one.