in response to hundreds of missiles being fired from. a new study that retired american soldiers in the so-called war on terror a struggling to find. a reason says she's ready. to. go despite. as a global threat. news

headlines live from moscow this is international a very warm welcome to you. is ready warplanes have unleashed a torrent of bombs hitting targets in gaza and this came in retaliation for hundreds of missiles being fired from the enclave it is the most intense escalation of hostilities in the region since twenty fourteen. israeli military says it destroyed over one hundred. t.v. station according to sources on the ground at least three palestinians were killed with many more wounded. israel says it was only responding to heavy shelling of its

territory. in gaza. what you just saw was the moment an antitank missiles fired from gaza hit an israeli bus five people injured in that attack one of them seriously all together militants in gaza fired some three hundred and seventy missiles into israel around one hundred of those were intercepted but some advantage in residential areas injuring fifty three israelis. now the events of last night were preceded by a covert israeli raid which resulted in the death of seven palestinians including a local commander and israeli special forces colonel was also killed that was a hyatt a law professor of international lawyer georgetown university told us the situation in gaza is fragile. these at that israeli

attacks is going to alienate the palestinian much for the day because anyone who would be injured would lose idiot one and loved one in the south facts would not harbor any good treatments would you do you as. the nation's in general and particularly this one and this president has been doing exactly what is it i would want what is a way to consider its own interest a chaos like this would lead to all kinds of unexpected things not in the best interest of the us on the long run and i think not even in the best interests of the jewish people in. the ladies in general but this is something that only the future would determine. a new study has found that u.s. soldiers who were a part of the war on terror are struggling to make ends meet they are facing

greater hardship than veterans of previous generations our correspondent philip mufon investigates that are. and so are the favorite cars of pundits politicians and anyone else who wants to appear patriotic across america there is no shortage of support our troops bumper stickers flag waving and praise for the military remember all those who made the ultimate sacrifice for our nation who gave their last breath dad a distant land fighting terror gave everything for family country god and freedom or you our respect our veterans are a national treasure their sacrifice will not be in vain but all that bombastic praise an expression of gratitude doesn't exactly translate to a good life studies show that veterans of the war on terror are among the least likely to be able to afford a home once they return to the united states that's right those who've risked their lives in conflicts around the world are among those who struggle the most for basic needs like shelter with housing obviously veterans are going to space you know

a whole host of related challenges combined with all the ways employment and legal situation do is but the general perception among the population when you have twenty thousand veterans suicides a day is that veterans don't make particularly good employees i'm tempted to stay stones in a crowd p.t.s.d. and in combat but it's really somewhat deeper than that in a big part of what my generation of veterans who speaks mean in the united states today particularly unique combination of mental health issues that come out of the unique nature of the occupations of iraq and afghanistan and the treaty that we get from the v.a. is i have experienced myself where bill hillsborough than actual effective treatments the trauma suffered by many veterans takes its toll on all of society just recently a former u.s. marine gunned down twelve people want to california bar here or we heard you may be

suffering from p.t.s.d. to crisis. and i thought that was i don't understand i was part of a discussion on the damp. when out of the call went the crisis team that felt he might be suffering from p.t.s.d. facing that the fact he was a veteran had been a macor the war on terror has had a massive humanitarian cost the latest study puts the death toll at around five hundred thousand half a million but the authors of the study admit that it's actually much larger an additional large number of people have died in these wars by indirect means researchers suggest that in recent conflicts for every one direct death there are at least four other indirect deaths not surprisingly among veterans many are starting to ask is all this bloodshed really helping a lot of veterans now we know are starting to understand this these wars was fundamentally illegitimate that the stack of spices the need were not made just in vain but not even in a righteous cause but who are the perpetuation of the current system of governance

of status in the middle of winter throughout the world where people in charge get to treat people who aren't like the perception of the wars in iraq and afghanistan has definitely changed over time you're in the united states and just. a matter of going oh yeah we get it now that we were lied to that we were taking advantage of it as a people so badly and being convinced to support these invasions and occupations many americans feel that during the vietnam war big mistakes were made and how veterans were treated that's why we see a huge amount of flagwaving and support for military families every time there's a pentagon intervention sense that however at this point a lot of americans are starting to ask if supporting the troops is really just about flags and bumper stickers a lot of americans are wondering if supporting the troops means that maybe we should be more cautious about sending them into harm's way so routinely and if we should be maybe more concerned about giving them a decent life once they return from conflict kaleb up and r.t.

new york. the british prime minister says she wants better permissions with moscow in the same speech though delivered in london she described russia as a global threat adding that any improvement in thai would be conditional. we remain open to a different relationship one where russia desists from these attacks that undermine international treaties and international security and we hope that the russian state chooses to take this path if it does we will respond in kind this all comes against the backdrop of the year of degraded relations between newquay and russia especially in the wake of the incident in salzburg which source the former double agent and his daughter a union poisoned with a substance thought to be no recharged and of course in the wake of that incident

the u.k. government laid the blame squarely at the feet of the russian government who in turn denied any involvement in it whatsoever and offered to help in the investigation an offer which was rebuffed by u.k. or thora teas and the reason may again repeating in the course of her speech that she held the russian state responsible for what happened to the script we could not turn a blind eye to the threats we face. this is open economies and free societies we needed to increase our collective resolve to tackle the most pressing lee those threats emanating from russia now last year to reason may also gave a speech to the lord mayor's created tradition for the prime minister to address the event every year and on that occasion she too took aim at russia although then she was accusing the russian government of involvement in meddling and hacking into a number of elections in western countries sustained campaign of cyber espionage

and disruption. this is included meddling in elections and hacking the danish ministry of defense and the put them to stark among many others it is seeking to weaponize information now it remains to be seen whether this year's speech will result in better relations between the two countries there are some who are skeptical and say about to resume a speech focused squarely on russia and put the onus for more open relationships on their shoulders and had no mention of issues of concern to russia like the ongoing expansion of nato towards russian borders things like nato troops taking shape and carrying out exercises in places like poland or what russia say western attempts of destabilization and meddling in places like the ukraine and until all of those concerns are also addressed it's perhaps somewhat skeptical to think that this speech could lead to better relations between the two sides we discussed how

to resume his remarks with political analyst john white and the u.k. independence party m.e.p. david coburn. theresa's. this speech was awful. her reaching out to russia was in the form of the mother reaching out a constitution child then promising says that it will be forgiven if it was to change its ways this is not the way to affect any countries and less western governments start to see the world through russia's eyes and understand how russia sees things then there will be no meeting of minds and this will just go into the box marked in question governments must start to learn sooner rather than later they must also listen as well as speak we should be every two to make keep friendship with russia and make sure that the three were appropriately bought in the future rather than make things more difficult if you try and try and lose all

the scenes quite without shaving your big statewide we need to be more sensible in our dealings with roger we need to do trade with russia that's the way to to move forward quite talking is probably better in shanxi to get to. singapore is hosting the thirty third asean summit which are world leaders exchange views or regional and international concern a china is looking to upgrade its positions on russia's president vladimir putin is thought to be seeking to seal some arms deals and u.s. president donald trump is conspicuously absent from the summit also on the agenda as what's built to be the world's biggest free trade pact reporting for us and singapore's artie's encroached on. well one of the key things everybody's watching out for here in singapore is the fate of the so-called regional comprehensive economic agreement and comprehensive indeed it would be if it comes into fruition of course because it would make the largest free trade bloc out there it is being

spearheaded by china and it is said to income to encompass all sorts of economic realms of economics. it is of life but it does meet some opposition from countries like india for example who do not want to make concessions to when it comes to their importing tariffs that their economy for example enjoys right now now another thing in the spotlight here is the aggravating rivalry and hostility i should say between china and the united states and indeed the two countries of a lot of things they don't see eye to eye to each other it is the south china sea where china wants the united states to stop conducting military drills in of the united states pretty much ignore this it's the trade war and lots of other things and other countries that are present here at this summit they fear that maybe we'll have to pick a side between china the regional powerhouse and the united states that views

itself as the globally dominant power so and really neither the president trump nor president xi jinping is said to arrive here none of them are attending this summit so with both leaders absent is the hopes that these differences could be resolved while pretty much futile and another the person from the united states who is coming here though well he's expected to only if it makes things worse because it is vice president mike pence and he is what he's been saying about china not so long ago china has initiated an unprecedented effort to influence american public opinion the two thousand and eighteen elections and the environment leading into the twenty twenty presidential elections china wants a different american president so he isn't the nicest person one comes to china's viewpoint his remarks have been compared to the remarks he made during the cold war and so there is no solution in sight here in singapore to this rivalry. still to

come here on the program on t.v. how much do i sold terrorists get paid for their atrocities our sister channel because on a couple of documents on pay and benefits that story in just a moment. you know world a big part of the movie lot and conspiracy it's time to wake up to dig deeper to hit the stories that mainstream media refuses to tell more than ever we need to be smarter we need to stop slamming the door on the back and shouting past each other it's time for critical thinking it's time to fight for the middle for the truth the time is now for watching closely watching the hawks.

make this manufactured to send to the public well. when the ruling class is protect themselves. in the final. lifts only the one percent. can all middle of the room see. real news. stories here on out a newly released u.s. intelligence memos on alleged russian meddling have failed to produce the smoking gun that so many were hoping for. by. being the land of the free and all the

u.s. freedom of information act is a beautiful thing promising to keep citizens in the know about their government but it doesn't always work out so well in practice one request followed by buzz feed and a transparency group netted a top secret letter sent by u.s. senators to then president barack obama who wanted to know more about claims russia meddled in the two thousand and sixteen election so what information came out of the request well we're not totally sure the information is big surprise heavily redacted we've actually known for almost two years that the letter existed but now we can see a bit more of what the senators were demanding apart from the redacted bits of course. we write to request to the extent possible you declassify and release the public additional information related to the russian government and the us election despite the broad national interest in the topic this new information has not been provided to the american people now it turns out obama himself never responded but

the acting director of national intelligence did get back to them two months later and that letter is amazingly not redacted at all but maybe that's because it contains no actual information essentially it thinks the senators for their concerns but makes it clear that statements and reports already made public by the intelligence community would have to suffice but the thing is those past documents weren't exactly i opening stuff for one the lottery refers to a statement made in october of two thousand and sixteen that concluded with confidence that the criminal order of the d.n.c. e-mail hacks and that conclusion was apparently based on the fact that the leaks were done in russian style the recent disclosures of alleged hacked e-mails are consistent with the methods and motivations of russian directed efforts these threats and disclosures are intended to interfere with the u.s. election process such activity is not new to moscow the russians have used similar tactics and techniques across europe and eurasia if it acts like

a red. and it plots like a russian it must be a russian you may also remember a report that was released in january of two thousand and seventeen to which the letter referred the senators ickes ations of nefarious deeds by moscow are based on high confidence and the assumption that nothing in russia has changed since the fall of the soviet union the only other thing we got from the freedom of information request were some talking points put together by intelligence agencies but it simply it's all just more of the same varying degrees of confidence in russia's guilt fill the document and variations of the phrase consistent with the methods and motivations are russian directed efforts can be found five times that one surprising bit is the answer given to the question of whether moscow was working to get trump to the white house no direct response is given even though collusion with russia is treated like an established fact by many despite a lack of evidence and that's all folks the rest meaning any sort of concrete proof is left to the imagination things to the thorough censorship of uncle sam. the big

question is is there any real such evidence and i have great skepticism as to whether there is any i mean when you're looking at these documents it appears that the intelligence community essentially came to the conclusions that they wanted to on russian interference without having the evidence the democrats obama you know being the head of his party at an interest in keeping this story a lot so they didn't want to release information that frankly would lead to the conclusion that there was no basis of support. to claim that russia interfere in the election. party arabic has obtained documents detailing money and rewards paid by islamic state to its militants for the carrying out of various terror attacks for example of two hundred dollars for the capture of anyone deemed an infidel and fourteen hundred for destroying

a tank so while i still terrorists appear largely to be motivated by ideology they're also largely motivated by money. remember nine or.

ten or. some in the united states are complaining of i suppose it of war on christianity at universities and one incident a student at northeast wisconsin technical college was allegedly stopped handing out cards containing the words jesus loves you she sued claiming how freedom of speech had been violated but a court threw out the claim siding with the college which argued that she was stopped only because she was in a staff only area. in another incident a christian student who buckley university is facing calls to resign after she abstained from a vote on a resolution supporting the l g b t community and librarians at simmons college

published a guide warning christians to the phrases merry christmas happy easter and god bless you all so called micro aggressions against muslims we discussed the whole issue with legal analyst lionel than at its dave lindorff. if this were any other religion or any other situation nobody would have any problem with this nine that would be it would be up understood it would be it would be tolerated there would be diversity it would be understood but if it's christianity if it's jesus on college campuses today no go there this is open season in this country especially on college campuses he can go through the litany of complaints regarding christianity no i'm not speaking up beehive of somebody who was overtly christian i personally i'm a religious doesn't matter one way or the other what i'm telling you is that there it is anathema it is considered not in any way tolerate hoebel it is not

a diverse atheists agnostics no problem we understand we tolerate we get christians you're on your own that's a fact and that's just really not true i mean i my wife teaches at temple university in philadelphia and there are christians all over the campus handing stuff out all the time no problem. there's bigger problems i think with with muslims because there's some harassment of them by other students but you know in general i think in general it's live and let live with religious on campuses it's a huge exaggeration and it's it's being used to promote. this notion that everybody is becoming intolerant. a statue of a sikh soldier on those from the indian subcontinent who fought in the first world war has been vandalized in the u.k.

it happened less than a week after the monument was officially unveiled. the incident happened in smethwick in the west midlands the statue was put up one week before centennial commemorations for the end of world war one the phrase sepoy is no more was sprayed along its base a member of the u.k. based sikh foundation explain to us why that's offensive this could be racist. because one of the words. it's called. actually was a british used drugs describe people. truly

trained from the indian subcontinent so this actually does know something of. indian history a member of the town's neighborhood watch expressed concern over the vandalism he assured the community that a full investigation will be conducted now that have been several recent cases of hate crimes against sikhs in europe in august the doors of a temple in edinburgh were petrol bombed in february this year a sikh man was assaulted outside parliament in london while made waiting to meet an m.p. a man try to pull off his turban before shouting muslim go back home and i've enjoyed it saying again told us the british police sometimes turn a blind eye to incidents like this. we carried out a survey in two thousand and sixteen of the brits that we asked if they experienced hate crime in the last twelve months when we all speak where they've

experienced discrimination often train from things like police offices teachers a school. immigration officers at the airport so it seems to be people in positions of responsibility all right actually the very people who should be trusted but won't that carrying out this form of discrimination the way they treat you quickly turning into a busy tuesday if your world wide news headlines hope you can join us for the next program at the top of the hour. join me every thursday on the alex salmond show and i'll be speaking to guests of the world of politics small business i'm showbusiness i'll see that.

what politicians to do something to. put themselves on the line to get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be president. or somehow want to. have to go right to the press this is like the before three in the morning can't be good. i'm interested always in the lawyers in the house. questionable. that. move. to.

the us. it is. greetings and salutations. the united states of america celebrated betterness day this past sunday november the eleventh and everywhere on newsfeeds from sea to shining sea u.s. citizens thank their fellow citizens who served in the united states armed forces and while the parade of online banks along with a few actual parades is a kind showing of respect to our veterans who according to the u.s. department of housing see roughly forty thousand forty thousand of their brothers and sisters homeless on any given night maybe maybe maybe just maybe it's time we

start actually showing them a little bit more than kind words and camera time and a professional sporting event you know call me crazy but maybe maybe it's time to stop creating new better news given we can barely care for the ones that we already have and that starts with ending the seventeen year long generational boondoggle of blood the united states war on terror the costs of war project brown university's attempt to pull back the curtain on the real expenses of the u.s. war on terror not just the financial ones but the physical and emotional issues as well they just released a sobering report on casual. sees from the almost two decade long war right in the time for veterans day they found that somewhere between four hundred eighty thousand over five hundred thousand people have been killed in the united states post nine eleven the wars in iraq afghanistan and pakistan and they go on to make very the.