ukase defense secretary says he will counter russia and china militarily post-breakfast it as he delivers the plans and boost the british military is a global presence. with efforts to rebuild the warsaw iraqi city of mosul under way the situation on the ground remains grim locals told us the secy is a ghost town there's no reconstruction here all the reconstruction efforts are just

like the living dead we have a cemetery over there but here it's a cemetery for the living. and venezuela's president nicolas maduro initiated large scale military drills in preparation for a possible u.s. military and it's a venture. a very warm welcome to you wherever you are this is already international with me. now our top story the british defense secretary has been addressing national security ahead of britain's withdrawal from the european union among the things he answered kate says the deployments of more british warships overseas our london correspondent paula boito has the details well this was a speech and williamson on veiled his future plans and ambitions for the british military he. said that president is

a historic moment and an opportunity for the u.k. and he listed all the new gadgets and the state of the art toys and equipment that he has on order he spoke about the british military needing to increase its mass and lethality which led to questions about how he's planning on funding increasing this massive and lethality take a lesson which we've seen is the government has always been willing and ready to respond to the case for defense because we realize for pros and be important soldiers funding aside this speech sounded somewhat detached from reality in other aspects as well governor williamson spoke about bragg's it being a great moment in the u.k.'s history which is sound somewhat optimistic given the chaotic situation that the braggs it process is in right now it is. to seize

the opportunities that brics it brings we will build new alliances rekindle old ones and most importantly make it clear that we are the contrary that we act when required we should be the nation that people turn to when the world needs leadership he also spoke of britain being ready to intervene to protect the international rules based order which seem to completely gloss over the interventions that britain has taken part in that haven't quite gone to plan for example iraq afghanistan libya to name but a few we spoke to chris nineham from the stop the war coalition who says the u.k. is aligning its military missions with america's war the deputy leader of the u.k. independence party my coker believes the reasoning behind the plan doesn't quite add up. what williamston is doing is positioning our future foreign policy very much in close and tight alliance with washington's and if you read the you know

trends foreign policy. trumps cabinets foreign policy documents what they're really doing is they're trying to. assuage the u.s. military concern to trying to deal with china in particular which they see as their main competitor so i think it's britain's government kind of goes along with that train these kind of aggressive postures can only increase tension around the world they can only be seen as provocative in confrontational against great powers many of whom are armed powerfully than we are so this is a this is a this is a very old foreign policy posture and it's hopefully not one that will in fact be pursue why are we getting involved with any of this we shouldn't be getting involved with china or russia you know there are not a threat to us as far as i can see at the moment you know way should be looking at

building our own forces build our build in the air force up the navy the defense force you know looking after our unconscious in the last few years we can see what's going on i'll chop have gone out there and done their optional but never more sure the phrase lions led by donkeys you know we go out there and do the bidding of politicians and it's politicians let down the country and let down our troops. as i said to rebuild the water on iraqi city of mosul continue since it's two thousand and seventeen liberation the situation on the ground the main square experts claim that despite the flow of funds to rebuild the city much of the money is being pocketed by local authorities the author is he's denied the allegations the locals continue to complain. about widespread corruption we talk to some of those who have returned to mosul after its liberation gassy have has the story coming home should always be

a joy safety security but it isn't always so not when you're coming back to mosul there are no basic services in the city no jobs it's terrible we return to our homes a year and a half after the liberation there is no life here there are no decent streets we suffer from power and water shortage it feels so pathetic. we are here battling all the hardships we now regret that we ever came back. it was one of the biggest deadliest battles in the world in decades in the name of freedom they turned west mosul into this. a city of millions reduced to ash and rubble in an act they called

liberation i was there two years ago i saw tasted and smelled the city being freed that's an iraqi helicopter this is what the aftermath of a classic airstrike in mosul look like it doesn't matter way you do it looks virtually the same crumbled buildings bre airstrike craters two years and now things changed west mosul is still a wreck city of the dead. one can even imagine how difficult it is one hospital no schools no teachers we are like the living dead we have a cemetery over there but here it's a cemetery for the living. their spirit children orphans a clearing rubble in the absence of builders and construction crews they are what you call rescue crews the first to stumble on and dive from booby traps unexploded

u.s. coalition bombs they are the first to reach the corpses under the rubble now estimated to be in the tens of thousands bodies left rotting for two years the have gotten holes are everywhere there are still corpses everywhere and if anyone brings humanitarian aid in the local officials to steal it they're all corrupt. corruption has its tentacles everywhere millions of dollars intended for rick. instruction apparently siphoned off stolen the u.s. led coalition which spent billions bombing mosul doesn't seem to have the cash or will to rebuild it the only thing that's being rebuilt the locals the bank accounts of crooked officials there's no reconstruction here all their reconstruction efforts are just on paper potholes everywhere streets filled with rubble and rubbish it's misery here i swear to god there are new clean officials here but no

we didn't refugee council's media coordinator in iraq tom pierre const is not convinced about how quickly mosul can be rebuilt. mosul is not back to normal yes and it won't it will not be the case for years if reconstruction is not being scaled up people cleared the houses and rebuilt with their bare hands and they are exposed to unexploded bombs we have seen many victims recently so clearly the situation is not back to normal yet there is a nerve agent need to rebuild and i'm going to tell you why for the simple reason that there camps were not designed as permanent structures the life expectancy of attend is supposed to not exceed six months and in camps in some camps they haven't been replaced for more than two years now people are exposed to winter conditions and floods we have big floods in iraq and even recently there has been many of the

. so it is clearly urgent to rebuild the people from mosul have been enduring life under islamic state groups for for three years and there are trustees but they are not suffering from the large cause of their support and this is clearly an inseparable. and as well as embattled president nicolas maduro has launched a huge military drills in preparation for a possible u.s. invasion made euro insists washington is leading a killer against him by backing venezuela's opposition leader. proclaimed himself interim president in january that as well a military is sticking with madeira said now despite some fifty countries officially recognizing why don't let the euro has one washington against crossing the line. we are a peaceful country but do not mess with us do not threaten us donald trump get out

of bed as well stop the threats and get out we must prepare to defend our sovereignty to rhetorical integrity and independence. madeira is also no sellout on u.s. aid to the country saying it's not needed medical professionals protested that decision there were a blockade a blocked bridge at the colombian buddha why don't i was being auditing the military to disobey with zero and let it through i meant food and medicine shortages and hyper inflation more than two million people have fled the country. the president of the international federation of the red cross has his head out of the situation saying aid should never be politicized. it's really easy really challenging fortunately he had a. top priorities are for us as organisation and on these of course we are we are trying to scale up our operation together with

when it's right on red cross. at the moment this is the big challenge of the humanitarian aid that's been. politicized that is dividing the political debate which shouldn't be. the international community can do more in not giving to the you money the real you money. to support the most vulnerable communities here in minutes right now or else where . the peaceful dialogue can prevail we hope that. the option now won't be on the table in the next day and they will find a way to sort out from these difficulties because he can only. do you monita and challenges in that case the us there remain storm to support towards the south. and with washington piling the pressure on nicholas madeira a sailor

a failure of the lights during one of his recent speeches proved an easy target. plan to. try. to work right now we're building up. is a little light show i have a hole in our intelligence agencies for the state just turned off so i must be intelligent say. there are jobs ok yes ok.

now an article published in a us college newspaper has the trying to control the scene as it is just surveillance of white male students as more on that after this short break stay with us. lead. lives. live . what politicians do something. to put themselves on

a line they get accepted or rejected. so when one of these. some want to be rich. if you want to be is what. are you to keep you. interested why. should. welcome back now it seems raise the issues on there's a far from the headlines these days i'm not so so true it's yale university off to a student published a column in the campus newspaper and it's she suggests keeping a record of racist and sexist behavior by white males for possible use later on.

everyone knows a white boy chinee brown here in a sack or in smile that conceals his great ambitions one day i'll turn on the television now see him sitting down for his senate confirmation hearing her member racist remark that he had an unintentional utterance that he made when he had one drink too many at a frat party during stuff more year recall message that he accidentally left open and computer when he forgot to log out of a message where he likened the woman's body to a particularly large animal kick myself for forgetting to screenshot the avid and i can let things slip by i'm watching you white boy and this time i'm taking this screen shot i says davis marks they all thought the pace and title of evil is banal is the senior jonathan edwards college she studies philosophy of what is a regular column for yale daily news she's published other controversial articles

in the past including one called white news we're now joined by political commentator kathy jew and political analyst a perkins to discuss this story great to have you both with us now is this author was hoping to call control a station is definitely achieve that but what do you think was the main point of this column let's go to dave first place. it strikes me that throughout my adult lifetime leftist impulses have become less and less restrained in the media and especially in college campuses where they're leading the way and i'm not sure whether this marks an occasion of desperation for leftism or opportunities a sense of blooming opportunity or maybe both but the idea that one ought to restrain oneself and conceal one's intentions when one wants to initiate say the surveillance state that she seems to be talking about when she brings up the stasi

the secret police in east berlin seventy five years ago it strikes me that all attempts to restrain and veil and understate are now gone that they're coming out they're completely exposing who they are and left wing thought to lead directly to totalitarianism ansen dictatorships and and restraint of ordinary people doing the best that they can do in life are just unlimited government and it's terrifying to me that so many young people have such clean pure instincts to go in that direction i judging by that's why i saw a lot of this pays it seems to imply that white males are a source of evil is that sad cafe it is so unfair i mean the mainstream media has has this this label on white men and even white people in general on college campuses i'm in jobs even at restaurants only college student right now i see this is this whole i guess quake coming to everyone's minds thinking that white people

are bad white people she going for their ancestors problems you know that shouldn't be happening. as a white male you south dade how do you feel about that i feel old when i was young and strong and and had a future as a white man in america things weren't this bad for me i honestly as much as i am prone to speak my mind and get myself in trouble by being on a stand and accountable for what i think and say i find myself sensing that edge of nervousness where if i say one thing too far take one syllable too much distance for myself in slightly the wrong situation that something could go very bad for me and fortunately i'm old enough that i don't really care what happens to me that it's been a good life but i feel really bad for young white people who were not brought up to be these beasts that the left is now trying to establish that they are a friend of mine dennis prager who's a very good philosopher american dark radio guy said you're not really on the left

unless you're a victim and in order to be a victim you have to have an oppressor and they appeared to have settled all the different causes all the different angles of less doesn't appear to have settled on white males for racism sexism bigotry and homophobia and that is the great evil of america and we are going to be made to pay for that one way or another even if we're innocent and of course most of us are i carry on nodding in agreement to that the great evil of america like dave says absolutely this article just shows how extreme people are about this this isn't even just attacking white people it's the fact that they're trying to attack successful people who have careers who have jobs family they're taking them for their house and people if they apologize people understand what they've done wrong in the past that's a passion be brought its future let's say they say it was on the others so it's less a mountain it was a white man on the right the same thing about african-americans or a christie and perhaps slicing about jews would gain the same public reaction. i

would think that the public would react just as badly at that as they're reacting to what this person has written because it's fundamentally unfair and untrue they're creating an oppressor so they can be victims because you can't question a victim you can't challenge one so they have to create an oppressor and if the old fashioned klansman of which by the way there are about one one hundred thousandth as many as there were one hundred years ago there were six million klansmen in one nine hundred twenty there's about six thousand now that's about one hundred fifty per state they almost don't exist anymore so really the complaints that are raised in the victimhood that is claimed and the oppressors that are pointed at by the left no longer exist they're talking about a time from before i was born and that was a long time ago i can say do you think that i was sorry continue plaguy yes so i think that the hate of white people right now is being so normalized on on educational campuses and where the media and it's become so much the quite where if

someone did this the opposite way it was white vice versa if a white wrote this about some other people then he would get the insane about a backlash and it would be much worse than if this person this woman wrote this about white men and i have to say that it isn't the surveillance that is scary it's the fact that it's intimidating they're creating a system that intimidates white men and pushes them down and makes them look over their shoulders and makes them worry and that is the tactic of a totalitarian state and they seem to not be able to wait until they can inflict a want to bondage well having said that do you think that pace is like they say should be not allowed in calling today's papers or said freedom of speech prevail kathy please. i mean of course you can't really print it free speech people are allowed to write whatever they want in whatever they may think but of course we can't promise that there's not can be backlash so of course there's going to be people like me and. you know this everyone else who read this they're all going to

backlash or give backlash person because they're you know the idea is completely wrong. i'm all for free speech the arena of ideas throw your idea out in there and do battle with it and see how you come out these kind of ideas do not stand up well under public scrutiny common sense people who are too busy just making a living and living their lives tend to draw themselves up and say what the heck is that person saying and then they get involved and then the discovery is made that much of the country is against this kind of idea and i think that clarifies it's always good to have sunlight on any kind of what you might consider to be an infectious problem so the more they talk i think the better off common sense is and the more it prevails it's a fascinating topic thank you for joining us and aussie internationalists dave nameplates calloused dave perkins on political commentator cathy day. and is a mistake or a face he is being found schooled on a jewish bagel shop in the french capital something quick to point the finger at

the yellow vests amazement us only do bensky reports outrage if they get another empty semantic attack in paris the latest twists in the fourth decent of the city the german wood for jews was sprayed across this bagel shop me the old jewish quarter. anti semitism indignation anger after yesterday's discovery of a vial and the semitic tag on the window of a bagel stein shop and x. that recalls the darkest hours of history the anti semitic graffiti was discovered at the weekend many have likened it to the anti semitic inscriptions that were targeting jewish businesses in germany in the one nine hundred thirty s. and some have already decided who the culprit is. today in the streets of paris the work you didn't jews was printed on the window of

a bag and restaurant this act thirteen by the yellow vests has precedence attacks against institutions and semitic acts how far will it go. act thirteen youden in paris act twelve insults in front of a synagogue in strasbourg act nine the anti semite ricin in the yellow vest everywhere the same thing is happening and it's a tragedy it's not the first time that the yellow vests have been accused of anti semitism during the six week of protests known as act six a series of anti semitic incidents were reported including a group of protesters singing a song popularized by an anti semitic comedian another group was accused of insulting in auschwitz survivor on the metro so what have the yellow vests themselves got to say about it. the yellow vests are not racists they are peaceful they believe in the republic they're peaceful tolerant and want to live

better in their country it's possible that among the yellow versts there are some crazies and racists that's no different than the rest of french society the goal of the government is to tarnish the yellow vests first they try to identify yellow vests with hooligans but that didn't work because ninety nine percent of the yellow vests are peaceful and unarmed we took to the streets of the capital to find out who locals think are responsible when it's mostly likely minus lee i don't know if there is any connection to the l. of the us it's easy to just blame everything on them there is just a lot of anti-semitism in friends and in other countries. i don't know i don't think is the yellow vests at all it's not something they want to be connected to i think this is just racism. it's shocking for me and for a lot of people as the media talking about it all the time but i don't understand how it could happen. it is disgusting and i live in the moment and then i thought

we would in france. however the restaurant owners have dismissed the link same incident probably occurred several hours before the yellow press protest this does though come at a time when anti semitism in france has been reassuring its head last november the french prime minister said anti semitic acts in france have increased by sixty nine percent in the first nine months of two thousand and eighteen while the government has promised to crack down on this surge of anti semitic attacks it's clear that some have decided to wrongly jump on the bandwagon and blame the yellow vests at least when it comes to this latest incident do you can ski r.t. paris well those are the headlines for this hour thank you for joining us on r.t. international will be back in thirty minutes with the latest.

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