just. i. will eat eat. the. crusher in the united states ramp up the ballistic missile testing following the suspension of a cold war era control treaty. also the headlines this morning as well as syria's devastating eighty year long conflict begins drawing to a close a new r.t.

documentary it for you looks at the trauma suffered by the children began their lives in areas controlled by extremists. he. told. the church in spain councils a show jewel screening of a film about the horrors of life in occupied gaza claiming it received threats from supporters of israel we spoke direct to the film's director. the international community not entirely but most of it especially in europe and the us see this situation as legitimate which we think is totally unacceptable. good morning it's just a nine am here in moscow this thirty the seventh of february my name's kevin if the next thirty minutes with a live update from the r.t. international news center first in the u.s. is tested anew in. the continental ballistic missile launch used it was launched

from an airforce base in southern california and sailed of the pacific ocean landing near an asse almost seven thousand kilometers away just hours later than the russian military tested its own i.c.b.m. too. although the launches have been described as routine they come as fears grow over the potential of a nuclear arms race following the suspension of a key missile agreement on saturday r.t. senior correspondent candy of reports this morning the i.n.f. treaty was a pillar of global security not only because it resulted in the removal of missiles and launchers from europe but also because of what was removed short range

nuclear missiles highly mobile incredibly quick both to launch and their speed much cheaper than huge strategic nukes everyone was always on the edge with short range nuclear missiles around they could strike in an instant barely any warning for more than thirty years they were gone but now those missiles are coming back unless we get a new deal i hope that we're able to get everybody in a very big and beautiful room and do a new treaty that would be much better not everyone wants a new deal some see this treaty collapses an opportunity more funding more r. and d. more bad short range missiles. now the department of defense will be able to conduct these research and development activities banned under the i.n.f. treaty so the department of defense will start those taps i'm building they systems

they couldn't before you can forgive the order fish with more ambition than sense but the military industrial complex those guys that make and sell missiles oh they're ecstatic raytheon and lockheed martin wasted no time and soon going to be testing their prototypes precision strike missiles with ranges greater than five hundred kilometers. withdrawing from the i.n.f. treaty is a good start now this action must be backed by american firepower the united states must regain the strategic advantage by expediting the development and deployment of a new generation of ground launched missiles it's incredible they seemingly want an arms race a nuclear arms race and that's what they're getting russia which the u.s. accused of violating the treaty promises to respond the vell a new weapons it is all to say everyone's gone nuts there are still people with

sense people that realize a nuclear arms race isn't going to lead to anything good people who realize that arms treaties where the world removes a lot adds nukes is good for humanity i think it's stupid for democrats to be. on all issues and not wholly open the channel of nuclear dialogue i don't even know what's crazy and now days people cheering a nuclear arms race or people calling for dialogue some many want an arms race and you know why because nukes a pretty we see these beautiful pictures at night i am tempted to quote the great letter cohen i'm guided by the beauty of our weapons and they are beautiful pictures of fearsome armaments. elsewhere the smoldering while

syria's brutal eighty eight conflict is gradually drawing to a close for many the trauma is going to last a lifetime and your documentary put together looks at the trauma suffered by children who spent their early years in areas of the country controlled by extremist fighters and tells the harrowing stories the film's going to be released for your friday. the middle schoolers issue a. little of the. clippers condemned he. can as you read about and you can not about all of them ok. and. as i don't want to lug anything i can get it through nine o'clock that have. a lot on never having to visit later. as

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they want to use in the war a war a smile swore the other little boy not ask what news you know how. it was still mafioso. tone trumps declared that the final pockets meantime of i still held territory in syria will be taken by next week the us president made the claim to counter terrorism conference in washington d.c. dunn cohen reports on this morning with the u.s. led coalition to defeat isis met all day here at the state department president trump made a surprise appearance speaking to the seventy nine member group here is a bit of what you had to say the united states military our coalition partners and

the syrian democratic forces have liberated virtually all of the territory previously held by isis and syria and iraq. it should be formally announced some time probably next week that we will have one hundred percent of the caliphate . but i want to wait for the official word and i want to say too early secretary of state mike pompei of spoke earlier in the day urging the coalition to commit to the full and lasting defeat of isis members of this coalition must be willing to take back foreign terrorist fighters prosecute them and punish them. to disrupt the flow of weapons and sensitive materials we will need to continue building strategic border security sharing intelligence and targeting terrorists financial networks wherever we find them as we saw secretary pompei or called on

the coalition to stop the flow of arms to al qaeda and isis however he made no mention of the report from c.n.n. that revealed that saudi arabia and the united arab emirates two of the closest allies of the united states have actually been transferring weapons made here in the united states to al qaeda and i says these of our of course the same countries that have sponsored competing jihadi groups in syria it's saudi arabia saudi to help with the well and the u.a.e. who helped create this who helped create al-qaeda who provided the financing who provided the logistics they were using u.s. supply arms in yemen and the defense department was asleep at the switch i mean i used to handle export controls as well and we would have caught. we would have caught countries like this in violation of reacts more it's what they've been doing is transferring the arms that they get to to the these to the to the other al

qaeda groups. and to the u.k.'s withdrawal from the european union at the end of march tensions between london and brussels are beginning to fray now the bloke's chief donald lashed out at his british counterparts wednesday saying there's a special place in hell and quote for those who campaign for breakfast had no idea that carried through is a europe correspondent peter all of. i've been wondering what that special place. looks like for those who promoted it was out even a sketch of a plan how to carry it safely the council president made the statement alongside the irish prime minister leo brussels as they were leaving the stage the microphones picked up a conversation between the two is the irish prime minister told the e.u. council president the press are going to give you a bit of stick for this they certainly have done that would put from the political side andreea led some the leader of the house of commons in the u.k.

said that donald tusk must apologize for his comments home secretary such a job but said that he was out of order but what we've seen is a whole host of the hard line breaks the talking heads of politicians in the british media clutching their pearls rending garments over what's being said by donald it is worth pointing out he did say that those that pushed brakes at those that back those that sold grades it not those that voted for brakes that as has been reported in some places in the united kingdom. has at times really play good cop in these negotiations from the european side this time around though it failed to show include younker the european commission president to try and raise the the mood a little bit but even then he could only rely on a bit of dark humor. that my good friend going to. be really strongly believed.

by opposite. i believe in heaven i have never seen you in the time i was. doing my job here. so that was wait and stay really a bit of a distraction from the business of bragg's it's down to brass tacks on thursday to resume a is in brussels for talks with john clode young and other senior. latest there's still no further movement on what type of deal if there will be any deal when britain alternately does leave the european union if britain does leave the european union on march twenty ninth and that is just fifty days away. isn't it just wild meat on the european parliament coordinators also weighed into a similar vein suggesting that the u.k.'s leave campaigners wouldn't even be granted a place in purgatory you spoke to a former deputy mayor of london roger evans he claims the e.u. is treating the u.k. unfairly and further the block is also to blame for the current impasse over brics

it well i'm not surprised by donald tusks reaction today because in all the time that i spent in europe it was pretty clear that the people in charge had this sort of dismissive attitude so it's been a long term problem as to his accusation that people didn't do proper planning around this i think there's a lot of blame on the e.u. side here as well remember the e.u. constitution was supposed to be able to allow members to leave when they wanted to they're supposed to be an article fifty process and it's really proved to be difficult to follow the process and to understand it's quite clear that they wrote all of that law without ever expecting to have to use it indeed it probably isn't worth the paper it's written on and i think no deal situation is going to be problematical for both sides but it won't be anywhere near as problematical as people are talking about remember we've got all of the agreements in place and just because we take over that day that says we're out of the european union doesn't

mean that all of those working process. and ways we work together suddenly come to an end unless one side wants them to or not and why would they. something different next the spanish churches council to share jeweled screening of an award winning documentary called gars a look into the eyes of barbarism the past it claims the decisions being forced by quote the jewish community the vicar called me on behalf of cardinal authority to tell me that the screen of the documentary had to be suspended and there had been a lot of pressure from the jewish community. that film which one spain's prestigious. go a warden stanley documents the lives of palestinians in occupied gaza as they struggle under israel's crippling blockade its director claim to us he also faced pressure from supporters of israel to. when i thought israel uses its jewish organizations which tried to censor a film they tried to do it at various festivals and sometimes they succeeded even

when the film was already on the shortlist we received many threats. to meet the fish to make that the. win to make the guy with it look at everything to make the. money we cannot. just get you know getting rich. if you have money and you don't come on until it's. done we can. we started planning to make this film after the last israeli army invasion when lots of people in gaza were killed but the town was all over the lot of the followers know. all the judge of you know that he was in the heart and only of us

are there. i'm also a biology professor and we used it to get in we got permission to research agriculture in gaza that's how we got there but that wasn't easy at all the jewish community in madrid meantime thank the church for suspending the showing of the film about life in gaza and also alleges that the documentaries one sided and they said it will launch an appeal with a go a film festival the direction though claims he frequently encounters this sort of response and says it's part of a campaign to whitewash israel's actions. they're going to nothing at that the thing is that there's a total legitimization of israel's actions and israeli apartheid the international community not entirely but most of it especially in europe and the us see this situation as legitimate which we think is totally unacceptable they do it in different forms through political recognition for example viewing israel as a close ally. coming out right here after the break the venezuelan government

claims to have intercepted an illegal arms shipment at one of the country's airports tell you all about that when we come back. put themselves on the line to get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be president. wanted. to go on to be close to what. three of them or ten people. interested in the water. if said suddenly that we recognize nancy pelosi as the president united states that we're not going to talk with donald trump the world to be you know outraged but of

course the u.s. has the stereo exceptionalism. so they can do whatever they want but by the central banks buying gold as they are they are now coming to the conclusion that america has lost its mind and then when they run out of gold to buy i guarantee you they're going to start fishing around the clock mark. good morning this is off the international venezuelan government is claiming to have intercepted an arms shipment coming from the u.s. according to the interior ministry the stuff includes rifles ammunition and communications equipment they were allegedly flown in from miami the authorities say the bust was part of a broader crackdown on organized crime political and this group has kind of told us these could be linked to an opposition request for u.s. a pool. she is very alarming you should consider that c.n.n.

reported just a little while ago that they didn't benefit from military officers outside of the country calling on the trump ministration to provide them with arms and training in order to topple mother i mean of course this rick brings us back to the u.s. in support of the contra war to the naked eye when mercenaries were bitten and i was and i created under elliott abrams as secretary of western hemisphere now they're brought back to oversee that as well as a democratic transition in the trumpet ministration moreover we think the morningstar reported just today that the british military navy in particular the ducting military exercises both of and as well and additionally. indicated that u.s. military intervention and as well that remains quote unquote an option on the table for the white house meantime other things to brief about with this the venezuelan military is barricaded a bridge on the colombian border to try to block a delivery of humanitarian aid seeing these pictures coming up to shipping

containers tonka truck in place along the highway a convoy of a donated by the u.s. is currently on its way from bogota according to the colombian government but as well an opposition leader one goh i don't know is said that these supplies are going to test the military's loyalty to the government but prism a duro has rejected the he says the people of venezuela are not beggars and such shipments would be used simply to justify foreign military intervention as for the red cross they're stepping up their own aid efforts in venezuela doubling the budget for the country but the group for the says that its policy of neutrality means it cannot take part in the u.s. a deliveries colombia. according to the fundamental principles of impartiality neutrality and independence the i.c.r.c. cannot take part in the initiatives to hand over assistance for venezuela from colombia it is the us that's the principle party. responsible for the economic crisis and it has been intensified in the last two years just last year the medical

ship that venezuela had ordered from abroad to actually actions for children for insulin for all the inflamed and patients of venezuela and several other medical needs were completely blocked by the us in ordering from accepting penicillin money then us will have the money and the resources but it's been strangled by the united states so the us carries out an economic war for years and then comes with crimes as a theatrical act to say that they want to help the venezuelan people from starvation. story to watch this one too with people becoming increasingly sensitive to the intrusion of politics into their everyday lives it seems some companies institutions will be taking a more cautious approach to the messaging this year most recently though for me part of an apparent trend it seems it was announced that this month's oscars are going to be without a host for the first time in thirty years donald quarter reports. after all the

scandals this year the oscars found an easy way around of the threat of political controversy they did having a single host the host of this year's oscars will be no one after comedian kevin hart suddenly bowed out now on the side and it's a little darker because the conversation is about nicholson askers conversations about kevin hart's tweets ten years ago and homophobia super bowl ads were similarly bubble wrapped in anything but social commentary dyspepsia that is pepsi ok pepsi ok corn syrup is just a live aid that's not ours we don't do but like with corn syrup. what a difference from twenty seventeen when so many super bowl ads had political axes to grind.

what do i tell my daughter julie telling despite her education drying her skills teligent. she will automatically be valued as less than every minute she meets. so why are companies suddenly hitting the brakes social justice cash and can bring in big bucks it works for nike when there was a boycott of their ad with colin kaepernick the n.f.l. quarterback who outraged conservatives by kneeling during the american anthem. all that indignation brought and extra six billion dollars in revenue however playing politics sometimes backfires like when gillette tried to make its primarily male consumer base woke to toxic masculinity. let me tell you how many against

actually. is this the best a man can get and other times just trying to stay relevant gets twisted out of proportion the video game company ubisoft attracted heavy criticism when trying to promote this post-apocalyptic game. the thing is you'll be soft jokingly reference to the u.s. government shutdown and that warranted an apology and maybe you aren't even trying to be political or relevant maybe you were just betting on sports fans pride for drinks company guinness that led to accusations of racism even so you'd still better apologize the billboard was meant to show the competitive nature of the guinness six nations we were aggressive the build would caused offense or confusion slowly but surely advertisers are learning that in an era where feelings come first and foremost everything is political. democratic party in the u.s.

state of virginia has been plunged in a political crisis this week of the claims of racism and sexual harassment were leveled at three of its top officials the first of its governor relf northam is facing calls to resign after a racist photo was found in his medical school yearbook northam was denied being in a photo but did admit to wearing blackface to a party on a separate occasion. it is definitely not me i can tell by looking at it i have had friends also look at it and tell me it's not me that same year i did participate in a dance. in san antonio in which i darken my face as part of a michael jackson. i look back now and regret that i did not understand the harmful legacy of an action like that. but a few other headaches too for those in power of a journey right now the attorney general mark herring recently acknowledged that he

also. blackface back in the one nine hundred eighty s. the left and the governor of the state just in fairfax is also faced allegations of sexual misconduct claims he denies there's a commentator rivera told is the slew of allegations against powerful democrats in the state of jeopardizing the party's legitimacy that. virginia has become a national disgrace and it's become a disgrace to the democratic party. right now the situation is certainly unprecedented if all three of these politicians that are and world in controversy wind up resigning then it was actually have the republican leader of the legislature as the governor now so this state can actually flip into a republican state virginia is a state they have borders you know the nation's capital and there's a lot of political animals in the area you know it's very embarrassing for the democrat party and quite frankly shocking. that's the picture from moscow so far

this thursday morning it's nine twenty seven. always so much more. a teamwork at r.t. dot com round the clock for you to bring you the latest headlines up getting straight to mobile device i'm kevin zero in for me and the rest of the morning team so watching and have a great day. ah . the.

so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy to. be an arms race. hearing dramatic developments only. exists i don't see how that strategy will be successful. to sit down and talk. with. another. justice. human dignity and so on but if you look at what is going on in egypt right now most of the people have the feeling that. it was even better. they don't speak hindi i mean. mission of the

situation. greetings and salutation was with the government shutdown finally in the past in the internal revenue service finally back to work many of us here in the united states are nervously gritting their teeth the pace the cold harsh reality of taxis and once again well not all of us see this because according to matthew gardiner a senior fellow at the institute on taxation and economic policy our good buddies at netflix have themselves a pretty successful tax season than two thousand and eighteen he writes that the popular video streaming service netflix posted its larger.