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. and we discuss them with the international committee of the red cross. chemical. group. on its controversial pesticide. warm welcome to all of us here in. the u.s. president has certainly facing a backlash after a number of prominent u.s. politicians received containing crude explosive devices. headquarters were also

targeted critics say divisive rhetoric and attacks on the media to blame the president and. the media polarizing americans and fueling hostility. as part of a larger national effort to bridge judd divides and bring people together the media also has a responsibility to set a civil tone and to stop the endless hostility and constant negative and often times false attacks and stories have to do. they just send a bomb to c.n.n. and the president doesn't say a word about that and then tells us we are to blame did you learn nothing from today. not a word for anybody not a word about himself. apart from the c.n.n.

headquarters hillary clinton barack obama and other democrats are among those two of being targeted with eight i could use an old intercepted and none of the possible death knight to new york has described the atmosphere as hate filled. this is a very painful time. in our nation. it's a time when people are feeling a lot of hatred in the air in addition to new york city mayor bill de blasio we have heard from the n.y.p.d. as counterterrorism chief and he has confirmed that four of the explosive devices that arrived in suspicious packages seem to have the same source the devices that were sent to barack obama and to the home of hillary and bill clinton the device that was detonated on monday at the home of billionaire george soros and the device that was found at c.n.n. headquarters all seem to have the exact same source they seem to have come from the same person the device was capable of going off these are pipe bomb like explosives

now we're also hearing at that at this point in addition to the package containing the explosive there's also been a package containing suspicious white powder discovered at the c.n.n. headquarters explosive devices had to have projectiles and that's or. excuse me that sounds like a firing. i'm here will keep you posted on that l. yong we evacuated the lights were turned out and as we got out. the end. of that we waited in addition to that we're hearing that at this point andrew cuomo new york city governor his office has had a package discovered at the office of maxine waters prominent democrat in california has been evacuated the office of debbie wasserman schultz former chair of the democratic national committee in florida has also been evacuated now hillary clinton has spoken up in response to today's events talking about divisiveness in u.s. politics this is hillary clinton but it is a troubling time isn't it. and it's a time of deep. divisions.

and we have to do everything we can to bring our country together hillary clinton others talk about you know rancorous you know the tenor of just like it's all over the place. and everywhere there is also on another wave if you will of rhetoric and that is various democratic leaders maxine waters in eric holder who are saying you know go out there and when you say you had trump's supporter in a restaurant and have at a gas station or or somewhere you get in their face when they go low we fight and this rhetoric granted not in the level of pipe bombs and white powder but this is what we've been talking about all over the place. meanwhile tensions are also heating up along the us mexico border as a large my current caravan approaches the front here and with midterm elections

looming politicians are certainly seeing an opportunity to score points i've been watching for weeks as the caravan came up i'm not letting them in and not coming in and they're not coming in. everyone in this room is an immigrant you know who in the white house and so a little bit of a different picture was talking about this caravan the caravan. there has been assured. immigration recently caravan of immigrants was stopped by a group of flag waving protestors ministration official say they're working as efficiently and as effectively as possible the u.s. government doesn't give them any necessity when they dropped off at the bus station . kuow to the challenge the trouble. in dealing with the crisis they inherited from the obama administration

who got a free pass from the media on causing this crisis what happened to the democratic party as one said bill clinton president obama understood that border security helps define a country you. better security and prevent people from entering this is a moral and humanitarian crisis we simply cannot allow people to poor into the united states undetected undocumented this is what we just got from president obama he writes immigration can be a controversial topic my administration acted to lift the shadow of deportation from these young people so we are a better country then one that shares families apart we turned it into a great political football and people are still all kinds of political opponents. did president obama really poured more people than any other president in total president obama had more than two point five million undocumented people by twenty

fifteen. immigration be found a political issue when there is obviously a policy on the table the reason she was. doing on this topic in this particular matter is being used on both sides and i think when we get you know it doesn't danger wait for on such a vital a large and it's not too surprising. and i think the question is what g.m. image in this kind of rhetoric from both the right and the last half hour we're not just those people but for the next time that this happened. i grow chemical giant monsanto is facing accusations that paid tens of thousands of euros to enlist the support of farmers across europe so lowkey against a ban on one of its pesticides greenpeace also says monsanto set up fake bomb was groups to promote the benefits of the product but its author saw to muskeg splay

some of the members of very real. an investigation carried out by greenpeace says it uncovered some startling truths about how monsanto a company taurus which controversial range of weed killers has been lurking will being its interests in the investigation alleges that hundreds of thousands of euros were spent in creating fake farmers' groups to promote the main chemical found in monsanto's products so fake farmers fake groups at least that's according to greenpeace but when. a little bit closer something didn't quite smell right greenpeace say that this lobby group in france isn't real but we ought to search for the people behind the names we have real farmers using. it's freaking news it's not good it's not true i'm real and i know other members

that are real farmers who work every day i'm not fake i'm not a ghost i'm a real farmer i'm passionate about my work we asked greenpeace to detail why they believe the farmers were fake despite giving the organization five days to respond greenpeace said it didn't have the capacity to get back to us as stuff was swamped so the farm is definitely flashing but who's behind this organization supporting the chemical is it the new tourist monsanto dinny isn't sure why but you tube is really good if i can list the companies as i don't know them by heart but i understand why the industry and its farmers defend themselves everybody criticizes monsanto i don't want to defend them monsanto produces very little of the glyphosate in the world it's other countries and companies that produce the most. denise says he cares about the land they slant his product so why does he use

a product that's been labeled as. top sick to aquatic life and is described as a probable human carcinogen by the international agency for research on cancer. we thought that all the other and now assists in tests we're talking about eight hundred studies in the world confirm that this product is not dangerous why do we use glide for sait because it's practical because we use very diluted amounts you want to punish us by removing it all it's not considered dangerous. in a landmark ruling a judge in the u.s. awarded a former groundskeeper thirty nine million dollars after he developed cancer following exposure to the company's weed killer saying monsanto had failed to warn him of the risks monsanto denies the product causes cancer some countries aren't sold on the safety of the chemical and have already restricted its use but the pharma we talked

to is worried that a ban on the weed killer will do more harm than good if. we shouldn't forget that see if we're the only country just stop using it we will be disadvantaged the primary task of carbon emissions will increase will need to work the soil more and overuse the equipment more work hours instead of a little dose of driver seat which allows us to make the work easier and we shouldn't forget about that pharmaceutical group which now owns monsanto has dismissed claims that the chemical in question is carcinogenic of us despite repeated warnings made by the world health organization on this issue and i go cultural expert we spoke to south of environmental and health impact my only become evident over time. you know you don't see. animals non-target plants keeling over and dying. in an immediate manner the problems

are related to much more subtle effects on ecosystem. on human health that are linked to the sheer amount of blind society that is being used and i believe it is essential that more research is done the science is not clear but to turn around and say that the use of glasses containing how decides it does not sit with the overall science. of play ball still to come here on the program on today seems the start of nato's largest wargame since the end of the cold war of course right along russia's borders i thought and much more after a quick. they

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the syrian opposition forces is set to meet with the russian foreign minister. now the situation in syria will ultimately top the agenda of the talks the two sides will also discuss the launch of a so-called constitution committee for syria and this is seen as a key step towards finding a political solution to the crisis in the country now after seven years of war. is now the only remaining militant stronghold in the country there are an estimated thirty thousand. thousand. according to the united nations a deadline for militants to pull out of a buffer zone around the. brokered deescalation deal was recently extended

roughly three million civilians live in italy and many of them continue to flee the region. if you were living in a camp life was different there was no way no bread is no water everything was scarse your situation was terribly bad well up to the second there is barely any shelter in winter and in summer you would suffer from the heat stop was our life since the first dominic i still hot i director of operations of the international committee of the red cross has just returned from eastern guta you form a militant stronghold recently regained by the syrian government. just returned from east coast yesterday and. i have to say i was

completely overwhelmed by the scope of destruction in eastern i think i have never seen anything like this in my twenty seven years of carrier based international committee of the red cross the scale of the needs starts starts to emerge and definitely there will be a need for huge support for all those people who are living there in these areas affected by conflict as well as for those who are returning east. of moscow. approximately three even more than three million people used to live there and. only three hundred fifty thousand and in the place where i was nearly ninety percent of the infrastructure is completely destroyed you see entire neighborhoods that are at least roy houses that are become have become completely unlivable. is what i was talking about the people who are back and

people who are living there. they can fend for themselves. the basic needs we are distributing food on a daily basis together with the syrian arab red crescent what is now absolutely critical is to ensure that these people can regain access to some basics are such as water sanitation hales and here there is still a lot to do and again together with the syrian arab red crescent the i.c.r.c. . making a very serious contribution. well. particularly concerned about the possibility of escalation. of violence in libya there are up to three million people living in this. thing there would simply result in

a human need tarion disaster so very grateful for all the efforts that have taken place in the past few months and hopefully we'll continue to avoid escalation in lead because. as i said this would result in a very very serious humanitarian disaster. the whole war and has been watching the syria conflict for a force for seventy years and we have all known for a very long time that this is and continues to be the war conflict that we see very very long and yet there doesn't appear to be sufficient political convergence to bring this conflict to an end so i truly hope that we now see the end of that we will now see the end of this conflict so that humanitarian aid

can finally reach all the people of syria who are sold desperately longing for peace and need to be supported for a long time to come we definitely do all we can to convince. all those who are supporting the humanitarian effort been syria to continue supporting the people of syria as i said if anything needs are just going to grow in the coming months and years and really. as far as the i.c.r.c. use concerned to continue our effort at the same level as in the past few years because now people are also are all all also getting more accessible and therefore we can do more and we absolutely need to make sure that we can maintain the humanitarian effort at the levels of the previous years. thursday

sees the start of nato as the largest war game since the end of the cold war tens of thousands of troops as well as warships and planes are right for the drills in norway which of course shares a border with russia. but this is an important day because trenching sure is nato's biggest exercise since the end all the cold war.

this is not what is fictitious but the lessons we learn will be real also the russian defense minister has expressed his concern about nato has increased military activity right near russia's borders he said that it's a reached a level not seen for nearly three decades well the. need to use military activity at the borders of russia has reached an unprecedented post cold war level the scope of operational military training and our borders is expanding and becoming more intense bloc countries are engaged in offensive drills the aim of all this is increased capacity to swiftly deploy troops across europe. gates has been aggressive towards many countries as in wars with a number of countries right now has military in about one hundred seventy two countries has about twenty times the number of foreign military bases as all other countries combined and i see these new war games close to russia as

a furtherance of that aggression in this case towards russia the united states made a promise after the fall of the soviet union that it would not go into knots in nato into the warsaw pact countries or the former soviet countries and today it's in thirteen of those countries so it never abided by that pact and this is clearly an aggressive move on the part of the united states and nato in my opinion. now the program for this hour here on international though many more stories for you at the top of the hour the next program then we will see.

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welcome into the alex savage you to these are majors not tougher problems to seek building support for bricks and strategy in the house of commons last week we explained why the unsolved irish border problem has left her with eye to majority elect a chamber for anything resembling her checkers plan today we examine whether dining street's position is about it's become picketed further by a legal challenge from scotland and from that traditional any of bricks it in the house of lords but first your tweets your messages and your e-mails we hear from yearly he says alex salmond interviews and analysis are the more serious political objective insights in the brics it process thank you ali michael says the tories threatened to scotland voted yes on independence that would be a hard border between scotland and england yet they're fighting desperately to have

no border between northern islands and republic of ireland makes says a peg such as are so confident that the u.k. population is behind them why are they so afraid of a second referendum on e.u. membership interesting question mick jones says i find it quite humorous that we scotland are just size for wanting a second draft random but a course of conservatives want to second vote on bricks that clearly a hot topic this week james says the d.p.i. holding us all to ransom john says this is the best political program by hand by a thank you very much george sean goes on to say labor don't have a clue what they want and finally sue says only a general election can solve the situation not. at the end of last month there was a potentially crucial development in the brics it drama the court of session in edinburgh was no less than the lord president presiding the first to case an article fifty to the european court of justice and luxembourg this case was brought

by a cross party group of any peace m.s.p. s. and one m.p. to ask for a ruling on whether the infamous article fifty by which the u.k. government signalled its withdrawal from the european union last year could be reversed by the fighting the keys to europe the scottish judges opens up the possibility that m.p.'s may by law have a new choice on breaks it to revoke article fifty and go back to square one this ruling arrived in the middle of the party conference season and it is fair to say was little reported in london news outlets however its potential significance is far reaching and just in case a prime minister was in any doubt joanna chatty of the s.n.p. the sole m.p. supporting the case reminded her of it last week thanks mr speaker it's reported today that the prime minister wants the meaningful bullshit take place on the train two sets of november the twenty seventh of november is the same day as the european

court of justice will hear the scottish court's referral on the question of whether article fifteen can be to latch really revoked my question for the prime minister is is she afraid of m.p.'s knowing the answer to that question before we have a meeting can. thirty three on the latest making assumption about the data meaningful version of course mr the negotiations and secondly no because the point about the article fifty of whether a lot of cool fifty can be withdrawn result is that this government will not be revoking article fifty we're going to keep politics but the prime minister may not have been as complacent about the court of session ruling i ship in the commons a mere three days later the government lodged a last minute appeal. to try and stop the defile to the european court of justice the government clean confidence that is of the view of many political and legal observers one person with a fit in both of these counts is a form of scottish justice secretary kenny macaskill alex spoke to him from

edinburgh kenny welcome back to the alex i'm unsure thank you pleasure to buy this case that has been to the court a session and there's no been saying to the luxembourg court of justice this could be a really big deal could you explain it to us well it's almost unprecedented retired cases that have been sent by the scottish court to luxembourg for clarification minimum unit pricing on alcohol was one and there's been other things but i write my brains i can't think of anything that wasn't restricted to the scottish to distraction and that's something where scotland's going to be pivotal for the whole of the new key source a fast track procedure that will clarify the law in scotland but the law in scotland will have application across the whole of the u.k. now as i understand that the six parliamentarians from the european parliament the scottish parliament and crucially the westminster in the form of join the charity the the s.n.p. spokesperson who have taking this case on the cross party basis.