just your shoes shouldn't for you shook the door from the one who was doing business. thousands protest in the haitian capital against economic hardship calling on the president to step down but there's been no reaction from washington unlike similar

unrest in venezuela just across the caribbean sea. the u.s. ambassador and then says chairman a should use its leverage to keep the kremlin and line that says a new poll finds most chairman says skeptical about relations with washington. the world has become more tense due to trans policies it's the politics of provocation we've lost some of the respect we had for the u.s. due to its foreign policy its. hands in the us not because asians of hate speech amazing against the author of their column in gal universities newspaper in which she calls all students to look out for sexist behavior among whites males. from the russian capital we are watching us say international. fennis whaler has

been making headlines for weeks ever since opposition need to why don't declared himself interim president now some fifty countries recognize him and support his bid to outspend us while in president nicolas maduro meanwhile just across the caribbean sea thousands have protested in the haitian capital against economic hardship as a woman's anti-government demonstrators are demanding that president of the island nation step down there's been violence loosing on clashes with police over the last five days we should also seen fooled us. thank. god that was not. the protests in haiti they have received a very different kind of reaction from washington than the ones in venice way.

explains. protests are turning deadly. in crowd wants to president to get the hell out of his office. they loathe his government for corruption for all kinds of cheating at the election . but enough that i thought the nation is not just poor it's starving. rich people in the country. don't. earn everything and yet the messed up place. comes to do something like a bit of polling trivia from the poorest country in the caribbean the last presidential election had to be rerun after claims of fraud but the follow up which

put president maureen's in power wasn't exactly a model of democracy the turnout was only a fifth every tenth ballot sheet was never counted for different reasons and some cases that would be more than enough to set off what i call the legitimacy radar alarm and washington not this time trump sent his people to congratulate the new leader his diplomat said they were proud of haiti the haitian people deserve to have democratically elected leaders today's inauguration of a democratically elected president and that is haiti to return to democratic and constitutional rule so what do you do with that kind of rapprochement show that you're a big fan of the man in charge there president trump and i own troops spent old and entrepreneur ones is results and therefore i hope to put everything in place to make sure we deliver from peoples but could such words of warmth ever end up turning into something like this how. venison.

donna true. venison the drum government is not going to side with the haitian people because they need that haitian government for its project of overthrowing the venezuelan government so back to news from haiti several days of protests put the capital on the brink of chaos a furious haitians are on the edge a group of you when powers including america came up with the communique i.e. condemnation of the escalating violence they want the president to speed up reforms well the only thing that came out of the state department in four days was this travel security alert security alert the security situation remains very unstable if you hear gunfire or protest groups seek shelter inside your house immediately and stay away from the windows and no one's yet picking

a substitute for the elected leader but of course this relative silence isn't simply about someone saying nice things about donald trump this is the nature of we can say american power in the world today it is filled with hypocrisy in haiti it is the vast majority of the population which is turning out to demand a job no movie uses a departure and yet not a word for mike pence not a word from home pay of the secretary of state not a word from donald trump so business double standard this hypocrisy is typical you can say u.s. foreign policy and venezuela neighbors on the map but it looks like they're nowhere near each other in the minds of those gurus of real democracy washington's effets in the south american country and led by elliott abrams he was recently made the u.s. special envoy to venezuela but his appointment has surprised many given his pain.

mr track record in latin america back in two thousand and two abrams was the suspect talk attacked of a coup attempt in venezuela while in the one nine hundred eighty s. then a member of the reagan administration he funneled weapons through iran to nicaraguan right wing rappel he was also accused of using humanitarian aid pains to disguise weapons shipments to malicious. assistant secretary of state elliott abrams has defended his role in authorizing the shipment of weapons on a humanitarian aid flight to nicaraguan rebels saying the operation was strictly by the book we have to consider that trump czar who is in charge of his venezuelan policy right now is elliott abrams who pioneered the strategy of using humanitarian aid as a disguise for delivering weapons to u.s. proxy forces first during the. wars and central america the proxy wars during which elliott abrams was overseeing several death squads and their genocidal humanitarian

violations the venezuelan see this aid delivery especially in the in the light of abrams history of using aid as a cover for delivering arms to proxy forces as a violation of venezuelan sovereignty as an actual us invasion of venezuela and so in many ways this is seen as a trojan horse for us invasion. the u.s. there remain staunch in its support of the self declared lead to one day and with washington piling the pressure on nicholas' madore a failure of the lights during one of his recent speeches proved an easy target. the lights are going off from the jury mafia in venezuela.

toward what we building up. thank you is the light show going on and i have full faith in our intelligence agencies if they just turn off the lights or just say. they are ok yes ok to be together. i want you to go with. the. u.s. ambassador to germany has called tomato to be strengthened because says he put say it's russia is on the doorstep but as peter all of a report says comments and recent threats of sanctions against europe have not gone down well. washington's man in berlin and boss of the richard grinnell is being

hung out advice left and right to chancellor angela merkel over which direction she should stay in her country in the latest polls of wisdom that she should spend more money on weapons and that germany should use its energy connections with russia to put pressure on moscow the germans have the leverage with russia imagine if chancellor merkel stood up and said because of the russian behavior because of the malign activity and the increased offense we cannot give you more influence by buying your energy nolde stream to his top of the u.s. hit list when it comes to joint german russian projects that the u.s. isn't keen on with washington saying it doesn't want to become too dependent on moscow and busted a good l. also expressed disappointment with germany's military spending saying that commitments made to nato needed to be all that the u.s. is simply reminding its great german allies that now is not the time to undercut or weaken nato with the russians at the doorstep it should be clear to everyone that

nato needs strengthening this isn't the first time though that the us ambassador has handed out some quite of diplomatic advice. to the. german companies doing business in iraq should wind down operations immediately never tell the host country what to do. we're not a banana republic. a mix of one side tightening. the german people have taken

a dim view of u.s. policy in these areas the latest polls the in these areas latest polling shows eighty five percent of germans view the transatlantic relationship in a negative or even a very negative light with the majority saying they want to germany to give the u.s. a wider berth if we look at where german saw potential threats coming from less than two percent said russia right wing populism and protectionism was named as the biggest concern for germans i asked people in berlin why this view on u.s. german relations she listened a moment through a ship is difficult right now because the world has become more tense due to trust policies it's the politics of provocation we've lost some of the respect we had put us to its foreign policy but. the people themselves get along well with the addition sometimes fail turf like this they're having problems as an american president i think washington's hardline approach to it. doesn't seem to be going

down too well with the german people. it seems race issues never far from the headlines these days and this will set at yale university in the us published a column in the campus newspaper and it she suggests keeping a record of racist and sexist behavior by white males for possible use later on. everyone knows a why boy with shiny brown hair and a saccharine smile that conceals his great ambitions one day i'll turn on the television and i'll see him sitting down for his senate confirmation hearing i'll recall a message where he likened a woman's body to a particularly large animal i'll kick myself for forgetting to screenshot the evidence i can plant things led by i'm watching you white boy and this time i am taking the screen shot. what kind of a hate has yale become this is not progressive it's juvenile and malicious

pernicious yale paper prints racist guide on how to destroy a white boy lives like cavanagh this article proves two things first it is the left in the democratic party and its members that are racist and second if you go to yale you will leave more stupid than when you entered she just put into words what a lot of women are doing and have already done this is just trying times up out in multiple sentences and guys should be warned that whatever they type and post is being screenshot it she's probably doing them a service as you can see the article sparks controversy online with some accusing the author of hate speech i says davis marks the author of evil this banal is a senior at jonathan edwards college she studies philosophy the rights of regular column fail to a nice debate save the peace corps correctness at yale university a frequent. and i had one off international we debated the course of ailments of

young white males 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 point where if someone did this the opposite way if it was white vice versa if a white wrote this about some other people then he would get the insane amount of 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 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 and the mainstream media has has put this this label on white man and even white people in general on college campuses i'm in jobs even at

restaurants i'm clearly college student right now and i see this as this is the whole i guess clay coming to everyone's minds thinking that white people are bad white people she blames for their ancestors problems you know that shouldn't be happening 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 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 more news after a short break. when

you're talking about socialism cortez out of new york that congresswoman saying they all say that you know socialism is bad and we need higher taxes we need redistribution of wealth that's actually not the solution to some of the shortcomings of capitalism the solution is access to give people access to capital because fifty percent of the stocks in america are all by one percent of the population now that's an incredibly lopsided concentration of the greatest growth engine in the world by very small to me. seemed wrong. just don't hold. any belief yet to shape out. to educate and gain from it equals betrayal.

when so many find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground. welcome back to the program syria says demanding action from the u.n. security council after accusing the u.s. led coalition of killing sixteen civilians and injuring schools more in a bombing attack on the border with iraq. online fabric twenty nineteen the u.s. led coalition committed a new crime against innocent syrian civilians is war playing targeted a civilian camp in the village of who's in the countryside of the governor of there is or sixteen civilians including seven children were killed and seventy civilians most of them women and children were injured syria again calls on the un security council to stand up against these crimes and attacks and to shoulder its

responsibilities in the maintenance of international peace and security the coalition the supporting attempts by the rebel syrian democratic forces to seize final i said areas in the country the coalition spokesperson says it's looking into reports of civilian casualties. the progress is slow and methodical as the enemy is fully entrenched and are still fighters continue to conduct counter attacks we are aware of open source reports of alleged civilian casualties we take all allegations of civilian casualties series. to discuss this further we can cross live to middle east experts and not think tank director cath welcome to the program now is the u.s. coalition really doing everything to stop civilian deaths as they seem to keep happening that may. be where they do and this wasn't really unexpected the american president did say that you know

a final victory over diana would be announced within a few days a week at the latest and with that it was expected that you know an escalation of military operations would take place and perhaps to make true of the president promises some general might have less regard for civilian casualties but what is happening this time around is that previously they would say you know we would launch an investigation whenever a large toll of civilians lives were lost nowadays they seem to have a pre preset justification so for example yesterday they bombed a mosque in the same village halls and they've issued a statement that we bombed a former mosque which lost its status because he was turned by a dietitian to a command and control center so now they've come prepared for whatever criticism they might face well the u.n. security council or the international community respond to syria's call for action

. i don't think they would. you know if this was the case if this was expected to leak would have happened a long time ago but we don't think that this acuity council will will take any step that the united states is not alone in this sort of illegal. presence in syria there is france there is britain as well and they are very much slightly to support whatever the united states version of events would be. so the city council is perhaps rendered useless in such cases and how precise all u.s. attacks is they claim if they keep causing civilian deaths. how can you prevent such development using these. we're using they're using precision weapons all the time they have high sophisticated munitions but sometimes you know you could argue that sometimes with that warfare situation or military operations situation you get

certain intelligence wrong. there is another argument that might say well this is probably it to intimidate. the enemy into submission so it could be both ways or probably in between. so what we know for sure that the americans showed disregard for human life and for infrastructure both in iraq for example and in mosul in mosul there are still picking up bodies you know quite a few quite a long time after it was liberated from die and this was all because there was a lot of indiscriminate bombing perhaps the people on the ground who are allies to the united states are not very much to be trusted in the soft targets perhaps the united states pilots are trigger happy we don't know there is no real investigation on why mosul was was you know and sustained such heavy losses and such

heavy. the human life losses as well and looking ahead could lie for tense and normal in syria once eisel fully defeated. there are quite a few challenges beyond i saw i saw was always going to be defeated because it's not an intrinsic you know states within the syrian society was always going to be you know people who probably at one point said ok i could cope with these even those people now perhaps realize that this was a bad choice and that they should have taken weapons against the advances of but there are other challenges ahead there is the economic challenge there is the national unity challenge and we have places like. that is still outside the state control eastern you're for eighty's still outside state control under an umbrella under an american umbrella. and you know it will take time to reunite the

country and also with a lot of pressure coming from the united states and the western front in terms of economic sanctions to keep the didn't they keep updating day after day and week after week it will be very hard for syrians to go back to normal but you know there is one way ahead in life which is forward for you that's what's going to happen well thank you for your thoughts on the current situation and challenges ahead and also think director thank you. thank you very much. the disputed territory of kosovo has been snubbed by the u.s. image a row over terrorists washington has pulled the plug on the high profile visits by one of its army generals to push chain us up to one hundred percent levy on goods from neighboring serbia washington says lifting the taxes a precondition of the visit but the cost of one prime minister says the tariff will

remain in place until say be a recognizes kosovo's independence. christian a declared its independence from belgrade in two thousand and eight tensions are still high. over a full. blown out of the we're probably. professor of political sciences cullen believes the u.s. will keep pressuring kosovo. those of us trying to be clearing one hundred percent tariff on serbian goods on goods coming from both of those are being. instigated further conflict between the two states this is

a. primarily. to control its creation is trying to give both of them into the e.u. as member states by twenty twenty five where they can't have to still believe rivalries going on they can have a fight going on between their two clients day and get them into the e.u. by twenty twenty five if this tariff war used to go on here not today it's with the latest news small top stories in half an hour's time see that.

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show and i'll be speaking to guest of the world of politics sports business i'm showbusiness i'll see you then. what politicians do you should. put themselves on the line. they did accept the reject. so when you want to express. some want to be rich. to go right to the press this is what the three of them did that. i'm interested in the why is it.

greetings and sal you say we love we love our democracy here in the united states watchers we love it so much that we will often spread our brand of democracy around the world either by handshake or shake down but despite our great chest thumping over how golly gee great our democracy is when it comes that actually practicing it. take the recent two thousand and eighteen midterms according to recent data compiled by the center for responsive politics the two thousand and eighteen election was the most expensive midterm ever by a layer large margin with total spending surpassing five point seven billion dollars yet despite that massive amount of money spent by candidates parties committees pacs and outside groups only an estimated one hundred thirteen million people actually voted. but but tyrrell one hundred thirty million people that's a huge number all these political pundits and journalists told me it was

a banner year for us democracy well friends yet not really really especially when you look at the amount of voting age citizens who didn't vote in the two thousand and eighteen midterms which clocks in at roughly one hundred and thirty nine hundred forty million people that's more than fifty two percent of the electorate that's a terrible amount of nonvoters for a country that long since democracy like we do now there are many reasons for these bad numbers the terrible candidates not enough political parties terrible candidates gerrymandering terrible candidates the list goes on and on and on but for the good people of sandusky ohio they decided to knock one of the main ones off the list economic inability to get out in vote not enough time during the day how did they do this by declaring election day wait for it paid holiday and as an added cherry on top they did away with celebrating columbus day in the process to yes

sandusky ohio the home of tommy boy just chose to celebrate elections over genocide and if they can do it.