the bipartisan senate intelligence committee shocked the liberal media when it needed there was no evidence of so-called collusion between the trump world and russia so what have the last two years been all about and what is the damage left behind when russia gate fades from the news site. decision to quit the i.n.f. treaty takes the world a step closer to a nuclear holocaust that's the warning from the twenty twenty us presidential candidate who's introduced a bill paedo the. meantime the us president declares a national emergency to get funding for

a war on the border with mexico. french air force jets turn up late on rebel fighters in the central african country of chad using their firepower to help. and fourteen children with hiv and aids have been expelled from a school in indonesia or at the insistence of outrace parents speak to some of the children who were forced. to. go. to school and. good evening and welcome this is all to international. twenty twenty u.s. presidential candidate has announced a bill that could stop dog. trump withdrawing from the intermediate range nuclear

missile treaty known as the i n f. i that. are our united. ever. here. earlier this month washington said that it was suspending its obligations under the treaty signed back in one thousand nine hundred seven and said it would fully withdraw in six months time russia responded in kind of treaty bans land based missiles with ranges between five hundred and five thousand five hundred kilometers the two countries vowing to quit the deal fears a growing there could be a new arms race and recent remarks by trump on helping to quash those concerns perhaps we can negotiate a different agreement hearing china and others. or perhaps we can't in which case we will outspend and out innovate all others by far.

too he has already faced accusations in the media of being the kremlin's favorite two years ago the hawaii congresswoman met with the syrian president and this year has refused to call him an enemy of the united states. speaking david swanson american author and antiwar activist hello that david do you think that this is. genuine concern over the on if treaty or it is as much as anything else to do with a bid for the presidency. i can't say i much care i think i would probably prefer the latter because i would like candidates for elected office in the united states to do what the u.s. public wants and i would like them to understand that this is something the u.s. public wants i wish that her bill actually denied the president the power to undo what treaty without congress i think it's important that congress

claimed that power over treaties as i understand it from congresswoman gabrielle description of the bill what it does is for bid spending any money on any weapons that violate the treaty i think that is the next best thing and she is very much to be applauded for doing it however she does it on a day when the president just announced that despite congress refusing any money to build a wall he's going to build the wall anyway so so that if that power of the purse isn't up held through impeachment it goes away and it isn't any power at all and the president can simply announce he's going to build these weapons anyway i mean part of the reason that the long term gave for one is by counter the treaty was that he considered russia to be violating it the russia was a threat and something that we've heard from the chief of nato as well he said that we should prepare for more russian missiles based in the u.s. let's just see what u.n. stoltenberg had to say. there are also preparing for the world with out the

on the street to. the world with more russian me sites in europe nato has no intention of deploying new land based nuclear weapons in europe. so just to try and clarify i mean russia is partly in europe so obviously if missiles on russian territory they're there in europe where else could they be that he's talking about apart from the nato missiles which you know of course over in europe i can't tell you it's it is useful to understand here that the united states in the form of donald shrub is on the side of nato and against the position of russia on this while the us public is absolutely convinced that trump is lined up with vladimir putin and trying to destroy nato so it's nice to have this dose of of reality here but i think people need the historical context of nato's expansion and aggression toward russia and the refusal of friendship and

cooperation to russia to understand how these these treaties have fallen apart how would you rate the chances that this bill actually getting passed and stopping a u.s. withdrawal from the ana. i like to think fairly high i think what we saw from the house earlier this week on yemen was very encouraging although flawed and i think it's important to understand that if even one chamber of the u.s. congress really wants to insist on not spending money on something it can do so without the other one you wouldn't need the senate all that you would need both to actually send this bill to the white house for a signature i think it's possible that that the house will actually stand up on this but again if it doesn't bring up impeachment over the president's announcement today that he will leak nor congressional bans on on spending money where there

were congress doesn't want money spent then it's hard to see what value such a bill is about something that will be of concern to you and anybody who who supports policies n.b.c. news recently branded her another russian agent it's a it's a kind of a tarring and feathering approach that does work at times the association with russia do you think it could harm. ah it certainly could and it's desperately needs to be on done. anyone who expresses views. in the direction of peace and cooperation and against a new cold war and potentially a nuclear apocalypse is so branded and it's not just elsie gabbert and to her credit she has done a fairly good job in media interviews of pushing back against that nonsense so she may herself be helpful in on doing this this stigmatizing of what used to be

a very popular liberal position within my lifetime which is that was that we needed to be more friendly and less hostile toward russia and it does seem kind of strange that being anti will suddenly becomes pro russia anyway it's great to speak his voice david david swanson my guest american author and antiwar activist thank you. and ever since to raise the head above the parapet and announce the bid for the twenty twenty presidency she's been taking flak in case you missed it his police work. gets you misstate russian stooges only coyly would rate claims there are none for ages and then turns out not all at once. russia. is making want to take the easy fin twenty sixty politicians no longer need compelling arguments or persuasive policies to all that if you're up against a tough opponent the kind that is popular with votes is just cool of the russians

these stooges are just human versions of those russians but we've heard so much about they don't actually have to be real to walk sure having your own stooge in a position of power would have its advantages but even better is being able to accuse your enemies of being one a career and russians do jury is one of the most diverse in politics just look at the select members of the us when you ask the crew is democratic presidential hopeful tulsi gabbard who suggested that bad relations with the biggest nuclear power in the world may not be in everyone's best interests she says simone american hindu female socialist following in the prestigious footsteps of the saunders an old white american male socialist and jeremy called in an old white british male socialist and don't trump an old orange american male republican opportunist so literally anybody can be a russian stooge and those are just the anti hillary and anti war ones and here are

the pro-war pro hillary clinton ones. so how do you even become a russian stooge. herath the russians stooge recruitment academy we have positions available from entry level all the way up to executive level don't worry about applying for the job mainstream media. analysts and establishment want to titian's will forward it to you whether you want to or not the majority of our most successful employees simply fell into the job without noticing experience or knowledge of russia all russians is not essential the only qualification required is that you question the status quo publicly at least one if you are successful in your application we will inform you via m s n b c or fox news good luck to you did.

global security is widely viewed as a complex issue however during the opening day of the annual munich security conference the u.k.'s defense secretary made it clear he knows where the world's evil is centered peter was following the speech. well the speech by governor williamson was a well certainly something that drew attention of the day that didn't really have its flaming moment but what we heard from the british defense secretary was how he saw the world at the moment and how we saw the better protection of the world he wants to see which is a nation. who holds dear the values of democracy tolerance and justice we must not be cowed or intimidated. that's why our military continues asserting its legitimate freedom of access in action across the globe it does sound

a little bit like what we've heard before from the in one thousand states basically do what we say or we're going to send in our troops williamson is being talked about sometimes in the voices as a potential future leader of his party potentially a few chip prime minister of great britain the former fireplace salesman though has made himself somewhat notorious when it comes to statements that he's made he has said in the past where he wants to see britain become a global brand you want to see great britain go global he address not by announcing that it would be sending a aircraft carrier with a full fighter bomber contingent to the south china sea it does though come back to russia when it comes to govern williamson and we certainly heard from him when he spoke today in munich russia's breach russian adventurism remains a threat russia's illegal activity russian recklessness russian governmental

subversion we heard russia quite a bit their government williamson went on russia very much in focus when it came to the british defense secretary speech we need to bring all pressure to bear to bring them back into line the united states britain and others are all siding with one guy who's announced himself as the interim president of venezuela we're expecting more statements when it comes to venezuela and what to expect with the international reaction to venezuela coming from the security conference i'll be here throughout this of course bring you all of the latest here on r.t. . russia's foreign minister circular. who's attending the conference they packed will today russia's top diplomat met with the secretary general of nato in stoltenberg focusing on european security in light of washington's withdrawal from the i.m.f. treaty of also sat down with the foreign affairs chief at the ecomog arena as we

discuss the situation in venezuela syria and ukraine. france has conducted air strikes in the central african country of chad in a bid to avert a coup did tom the aerial attack help the chaldean army capture two hundred fifty fighters but french support for the current leadership in chad is drawing criticism into trenker explains just to the south of libya in between countries like nigeria and sudan there's a rare patch of relative stability called chad well it's just been bombed by france and you know what it's become even more stable after that because you've gone president deby asked us in writing to intervene to prevent a coup d'etat and protect his country. so they saved the government from the rebels the militants on dozens of pickup trucks had crossed over from libya thinking they could take the capital but chad's president deby is lucky enough to have such good

friends. the french jets nipped the rebels' coup plan in the but by the way guess how interested became to power almost thirty years ago and it crew ever since then has been an ally for the west and dealing with all kinds of islamist thugs in the area so his government's legitimacy deserves to be protected the former french colony is not a regime by any means to see to the fic with our intervention was totally in line with international law and the prime minister has informed the president of the senate and the national assembly a few more facts about mr dombey has just tweaked part of the constitution to be able to stay in power till twenty thirty three he's like victories have been questioned by international observers he's even been accused of war crimes and his country's doing very bad when it comes to the economy job is

a very poor country and with or without petrol with or without the oil money it's going to remain a very poor country and it needs it needs. many of the country it needs humanitarian help this very. true should basic help the country needs and wants needed i think is a really sustained sight against in particular against government which is becoming very widespread and very very serious problem in the country and case he didn't know the french army however has a history of standing by president deby oh we have got french taxpayers' money is going in. to defend chad's current president that was going to block. many human rights watch groups it's totally hype. on the behalf of michael how can you on one side support the rebels in venezuela and attack them in chad there's no logic chad is one of the poorest countries in the world so why is france

intervening to defend such a region that is if it chatting to the people of chad was decide what what is their future and what political system they want to install in suffer america. we see less french interest but enough for a car and in venezuela the french government to seize these crises as an opportunity to show some understanding of the united states to side with the americans to show some solidarity be armored car but of course a job order to go to interest are always more important than the border to go to ideologies and this is why you can find some different attitudes in different countries if things stay the way they are don't mess with those in charge of chad for. what was it. another fourteen years.

number of children with h.l.v. unaids been expelled from school in indonesia and that's after some of the parents of their classmates expressed outrage that infected children were attending class we heard from some of the kids who were kicked out. parents strongly objected to the fourteen children sometimes and it's because they are h.i.v. positive we tried to. follow in their protests we took the children out of the school and now we are helping to find a new school for them if i think

i think of the soul i think i. want. to talk of classics. we also spoke to the head of an ngo helping children with h.l.v. in indonesia. that for almost

a week these children have been staying home and not going to school they are very upset about it and really want to play with other kids again big keep asking me when they'll be allowed to go back i think children should be treated equally they should all have the right to go to school these children have faced so many obstacles since entering school after kindergarten it's become the norm but we will stay strong i think there is no need to hide the location of the next school for these children if we are open it will be easier to explain to the public that their disease is in their body and will not easily spread to other. friends schools may be forced to replace the words mother and father with parent one and parent to the national assembly has approved the amendment to champion what it calls the diversity of old fashioned family models they said it could still block the bill that the m.p. behind the move says it's time for change. this amendment aims through to lord

children's family diversity in administrative forms submitted in school. i'm pleased to say that i can speak to radio host and columnist john gaunt and also peter tatchell human rights campaign and director of the peter tatchell foundation very getting to you both gentlemen peter first of all. what exactly is the situation we're talking about here is this in an amendment to try and make the children feel less uncomfortable less awkward or is it about making the parents feel better. i think it's probably both you know in western societies today we're undergoing a fundamental rethink about issues of gender and sexuality and that is helping make to make life easier for hundreds of millions of lesbian gay bisexual and transgender people which i think is a good thing this particular proposal is to try and ensure that the

kids in the school the staff and the parents all feel included that in the case of you know two women who are parents to a child that is obviously not appropriate to have mother and father there are two mothers and the same with gay dads you know two gay men who bring up children they are not mother and father bit to fathers so this attempt to try and get away from these traditional labels is just trying to be more inclusive i really don't see what the fuss is. john i mean the points made pretty clearly there it's just you know voicing any kind of awkward moments where people feel that they're excluded by the labeling do you think it's a positive move. well it's pathetic isn't it because they can be called moment mom what that what they propose relax she actually says he's parent one and parent two this is actually another attack on the traditional family the traditional family set up only five percent of children of him broads have been let's call the norm

traditional or no normal family set ups no this is nonsense this is virtue signaling is a necessary are find it hard to get worked up about because it's frankly so far out on the stupid level it's not really worth my blood pressure if they want to call them momand mono has got a problem with that nobody's got a problem with a kid who now has got to two moms everybody understands that these things happen just like divorce happens but we don't need to legislate for it parent one and parent two why do we just give the kids a number number seven it's nonsense it beats john clearly thinks those things pretty ludicrous but that there when there is a point in there in the sense that are we going to have to wipe out huge parts of of traditional vocabulary will it end up with words like mom or dad being outlawed . but i would like to see an outboard but take up john's point yeah you know just the fact that he was a parent our minority doesn't make discrimination or second class status right i

mean you know jewish people a small minority but i hope no one would want to you know say the jewish people from barcelona bar because all of their faith all this history. but anybody back to the point i think that in this case. you know if a child has two moms or two dads then i think it's probably not correct to say father and father because obviously one will be the biological father and the other one won't serve example i've got friends who two gay men or several gay men i know who couples and they have parents children. that you know raise those children through or can see those children through sorry can see or donor insemination bernie one is the father so to say father and father would not technically be correct i would suggest that possibly as an alternative or less profitable and charge behooves them to come accompany

a compromise might be mother to give people the option mother father or legal guardian so that the word legal guardian would account for the other person in that same sex relationship. you get i mean you can go ahead john i was just going to ask you how do you give that a how do you say give me forgive me hold on to the net. just forgive me when my mother died when i was eleven and it would have been my own say so my own t. was my legal guardian and she was my own c. nobody batted an eyelid and the same resists you can be called legal guardian peter that's not well they're suggesting they're suggesting you can't use the word father or mom and dad that's well there suggested was that lesbian friends where they've got children from previous relationships who meant well through surrogacy or whatever or drop. that chord moment moment there's no need to make this first this just separates out gay people just like transgenders when they say you will score

me they will shoot you or whatever it is just nonsense it just attacking the mainstream way that most people live now it isn't about purges i thought you'd bring in the jewish people was rather bizarre i don't think it's anywhere on the scale this isn't about being racist or sexist or homophobic this is just plain common sense there's a mom there's a dad and sometimes there's two moans and sometimes his two dads what's a load of cobblers i think you are actually agreeing in a kind of a roundabout way in some of just contrived to explain that in a moment coming back to peter i mean you've suggested you'd like to see a kind of variation on what they're suggesting in france and i wanted to say to you i see that you want inclusion. same sex parents but can you understand that it feels that exclusive to people who just want to be called mom and dad. well i can sort of understand that and you know our we're not say this this is this is not meant as an attack upon your traditional families this is just an attempt to

broaden the terms or make the terms more gender neutral so that everyone feels included and i'd be very upset if you know traditional mothers and fathers and families felt offended or felt slighted that was no that's not the intention of this proposal the intention is to be inclusive and to avoid sort of inaccurate labeling you know where you know in a same sex tammy there are two moms or three dads how do you feel about that john would you go along with peter's alternative suggestion which includes everybody basically you can choose you can put mother or father legal representative whatever you want and everybody's got an option. it doesn't really bother me is serious sure certainly should be a route there's no point in legislating for. if somebody goes to the school and says hey listen we're both gay but this guy here he's the biological father so. are

certain dads i'm not the biological he calls me pain who cares right we don't need this and this whole idea of gender neutrality it is actually peter's peter's not being completely fair on his talk maybe he doesn't understand the story this is an attack on the ninety five percent of people not only in france for around the world who are in the traditional family the traditional family is constantly being attacked at the moment by globalists all around the world you get somalia age and you treat it as if your gammon whatever that means dead to vote for breaks it you're a new dragging fascist and probably a racist to boot the whole world is going crazy these minorities have got too much influence in the media and the rest of the sun in the mainstream media which is why we end up having conversations like this look if you're gay and you've got child whichever way that child is produced or not bothered we've got equal rights whether

you're foster parent or you've adopted the child whichever way it is it doesn't need legislation for in this way this is so daft and what happens is this i think you try to allude to in one of your questions earlier which elude to people getting more and more angry with the guy lesbian transgender community whatever it's called because people say who are they all about now. why can't we just live together i want can we let the children just have their childhood this is nonsense i hope it's thrown out when it goes to the next level because there's just no need for it let's stop emphasizing our differences let's come together and let's put the children first so we got about i would say a minute left i just want to sort of point you and i have two beautiful daughters and congratulations to your knowledge about very quickly to peter's want to ask is there a danger i mean these might seem like small changes to a lot of people that actually want to start in this direction it's never ending because then it seems unfair to a parent some people say well i don't want to be

a parent is that a dangerous rabbit hole to go down that never ends. well i agree that we can have a we can have a debate about what the terminology should be right the principle of being clues is a good thing and certainly this is not an attack or not intended as an attack upon traditional heterosexual families i say live and let live and that means trying to make language inclusive and not specific so that everybody feels part of it and i'm very pleased that i really do believe the you both in essence agree with each other on this one even if you may not realize it many things sentiment radio host the columnist john go and rights campaigner peter tatchell pleasure. and it's a pleasure to have you guys with us thanks for staying with r.t. updates and often our.

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