president. i'm. talking about michael jackson's music michael jackson's music. of also a lot of suffering every time. i know for myself.

thanks for joining us this hour. the president has revoked on a rule requiring u.s. intelligence to publicly report the number of civilians killed in drone strikes and has more. a new executive order from the white house is reducing the amount of transparency when it comes to u.s. drone strikes now the executive order basically roof vokes regulations made by the obama administration in twenty sixteen essentially the director of national intelligence will no longer be required to release information regarding un classified u.s. strikes and the non civilian deaths that are associated with them and that would be in areas outside of active hostility the pentagon will still have an obligation to

report on civilian casualties in compliance with the national defense authorization act of twenty eighteen and twenty nineteen that was very clear and trumps executive order now this is certainly not the first time that donald trump has indicated frustration with the level of information related to military activities that has been made public with fighting wars and they're doing reports and releasing it to the public so the public believes the enemy the enemy reach those reports are still going to learn those reports should be part of the reports let him do a report. but they should be private reports it's also important to note that that we have a statement that is reportedly coming from a spokes person for the white house security council now it was given on the condition of anonymity it's being widely reported we cannot confirm it what it is saying is that apparently this was the activity of the intent of this executive order is minimizing to the greatest extent possible civilian casualties and acknowledging the responsibility when they unfortunately occurred during the

military actions but the same time getting rid of what they're calling supreme flew us reporting requirements that don't actually improve government transparency but rather distract intelligence professionals from their primary mission the history of drone strikes is quite shocking there have been a number of rather tragic incidents that have taken place over the years. so what we're basically doing is telling the american people these wars are so important but they're not so important that we actually have to tell you about them they're so important but in fact we can't carry them out with clandestine to be under the cover of darkness i think what it really means is that donald trump wants

to be able to have the pentagon commit war crimes and crimes against humanity and do so with complete immunity and impunity i think that they want to make sure that lockheed martin raytheon embarrassing and other major defense contractors can can continue to sell the germans and to sell their weapons this is a very very foolish way spotlessness dangerous and his erratic and send predictable and all of this things down toward. the pentagon has announced it's revising its arctic strategy in light of a perceived threat coming from russia and china or i guess their picks apart the geopolitical rivalry around the north pole. the arctic what comes to mind when you hear that word sea fish ice and how about their own russia because that is when the fall is most closely to their to their borders

they've begun to move on periodic times to the different weapons systems of control of the area dated our plans as a response as a result of that we've had to change the posture of some of our forces so that we in fact deter and we send a signal of the importance of the arctic to us it's always russia isn't it but there is a new gold rush brewing thanks to global warming it is opening the arctic up around fifteen percent of the world's undiscovered oil thirty percent of natural gas may be there perhaps more important though is the northern sea route by two thousand and forty there should be suitable eyes that ships will be able to pass year round terrible for the environment rate for shipping it would have the journey time for ships travelling from east asia to europe a journey that usually takes them through the suez canal it would save billions

upon billions for consumers companies governments ergo the gold rush contenders have been quick to make and file their claims and oil their gardens the united states is going at it intensely with military war games reportedly to train military forces to fight and win in the arctic the cording to the head of alaskan c'mon and biggest was nato strident juncture in norway one hundred and fifty aircraft seventy ships ten thousand vehicles more troops a u.s. aircraft carrier even crossed the arctic circle we. he announced it will send a warship on a freedom of navigation mission meaning in all likelihood it will passes close to russian territory as it can speaking of russia it hasn't been idle either during the recent exercise as it successfully tested

a new hypersonic antiship cruise missile that's it right there those exercises have become a common thing now with the navy the army the air force drilling troops to fight and win and survive in the frigid north cause there's also the flag which russia planted exactly at the north pole she bed a decade ago still annoys other contenders that norway another big claimant they're spending hundreds of millions rebuilding old the cold war facilities in the north our assignment is to establish a presence perhaps symbolically nor we also moved its military headquarters within the arctic circle in fact norway was so involved and enthusiastic about recent nato war games that one of its brand new warships ended up colliding with an oil tanker which is neither very covertly nor very fast people are still wondering how

that happened then there are the spoilers great britain for example nations with no arctic claims but rather than each to get involved we need to protect our national interests we will be launching our new defense arctic strategy the u.k. has unveiled a new arctic strategy where they plan to defend the arctic which may be difficult to do with britain's couple of ice breakers but they go to make up they've even sent a royalty to the arctic great. for the cabaret as. also china it has potentially hundreds of billions at stake just in trade ship transport

costs it recently launched the snow dragon to an icebreaker the doubles as a research vessel the least goes on and on frankly the degree of militarize ation is alarming but what choice is that russia for one filed its claims that the un will back by geographic data year is end years ago and nothing has beat almost no progress on the diplomatic front be a jew to political pressure or incompetence the fact remains that when diplomats have paralyzed the military but pays every nation state wants to grab all they can grab and go some are much worse than others so we have the us putting all their military in there because allegedly. there are afraid of the russians doing so us of course is as good it's its troops everyplace and all over africa or

asia all of a lot of america they're going to have i guess mr trump would like to have the more in latin america this is all terrible the us military budget is far too big it's as much as all the other countries in the world put together and of course they keep needing more and more more more more more killing machines it's a sad thing to see this happening in what is actually the spectacular beauty of the arctic but of course that. militaries never mind destroying destroying things. of american pop icon michael jackson and gathered outside a u.k. t.v. channels london h.q. on wednesday. i mean i the protesters had come to voice their anger over a new documentary featuring interviews with two men who claim they were abused by

jackson as children as the movie premiered back in january a global reaction has followed with radio stations in both kind of a new zealand dropping jackson songs. if you. want to be able to speak the truth. as loud as i had to speak a lie for so long leaving neverland as a joint production between channel four h.b.o. both alleged victims featured in the movie wade robson and james saved chuck for years the night they'd been abused they were called as witnesses for the defense objections trial back in two thousand and five when he was accused of molesting a thirteen year old boy now the new revelations immediately sparked public outrage the film has been condemned by the jackson estate which earlier issued a statement saying the accusers have testified under oath of the allegations are true our guests debated whether an artist's work can be evaluated separately from

the person. this is still pending and investigation and also the whole outrage is happening because of a documentary that is obviously one sided because we only have the version of the victims i really have a huge issue with access to art and to things that have been created in the past by somebody like i said who is dead and who cannot do anything about this at the moment if radio stations want to ban the music i think if the listeners of those particular radio stations are calling up and saying you know what this is criminal behavior that r. kelly and michael jackson have actually engaged in. and we're not ok with that i think that's perfectly fine it's a scary area if we all are judge him for ourselves with very limited facts with facts that we don't really quite cross-examine with actual evidence or you know interviews and documentaries that. those sergeant humanitarian show

a lot of evidence. well it's an evidence that it's not been again cross-examined in the court of law it's irrefutable we should not be talking about michael jackson's music michael jackson's music was created through decades of also a lot of suffering but actually i think maybe the real lesson in all of this is that you know every time a michael jackson song comes on i know for myself i'm going to think differently about it i mean i'm not going to say i'm never going to dance to a michael jackson song again because you know maybe it'll play at a wedding or vomits but i might start dancing but at the same token i said i am never going to think about michael jackson in the way i used to and maybe that's the real lesson so let me ask you this when you look at a picasso painting or you read a hemingway book or or you can look at a stop to that was created during the renaissance period where like you know the catholic church was you know torturing and killing people in the name of god are we not able to separate the our that was created the best moments of these artists

from the actual person who was a human being you know the fly made mistakes and some of them admitted those fair just good argument but i think also i think we're entering. a new era where i think people that engage in criminal behavior and sexual abuse shouldn't be rewarded in this society and i don't think there's anything wrong with that and if their music doesn't get played so be it. from fairy tales to spooky stories there is a book for every child to see no political process of becoming a bedtime must read not just for the parents. fighter for those struggling to be her fighter for those who need help girl call elizabeth warren u.s. democratic senator running for u.s. presidency twenty twenty.

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it's been an exciting couple of days in football's champions league title holders real madrid crushed out of shoes their well wednesday so poor so you go through to the quarter finals all three teams have one thing and call them they were all once managed by shows a marine who's back on r t with a new show on the touchline which premieres later today before that though here's the special one with is not so little getting a bit of pitch practice in. thank you thank. you. thank you thank you thank you. thank you.

thank you thank you it looks like my dad it's amazing i got experience groceries to do in the whole building time of the beach anyway playing with live right of course i played with him since he was a kid thank you i mean so every every second i can i can be with him i think length face will be on me because i think he plays better than me i thought i thought if i me. in just about a few moments time with some more global news headlines. country

has gone into a nihilistic fever. thank god it hit the road and get out the traveling across america what makes america take the show is the genius of the south american hero this is it we've come a point from which allen would have done something we always are on the current system. oh. we're starting last with. the beginning heading east into the swamp we're going into the belly of the beast i think i want to leave now doesn't get any more. we may be completely different in this to. join me every thursday on the alex salmond short and i'll be speaking to us from the world of politics sports business i'm show business i'll see you then.

welcome back to also international a new antidepressant spray that chemically similar to the highly addictive drug has been approved in the united states as ketamine as it's known comes with a strong government drug agency warning about the risks associated with misuse and abuse only trials show positive results among patients with severe depression. it's really interesting to come from a place i've been depressed for so long and so many years to not be depressed at all and to not feeling that feels really great all cats and also known as special

k. or victim in the case of popular clubbing drug causes dreamlike states and hallucinations you can also lead to an easier and delirium was mentioned ketamine is also an extremely addictive drug much like cocaine. based products it was initially developed as a horse tranquilizer nowadays the most commonly used in hospitals as a powerful anesthetic so this new ketamine based medicine will help address the widespread depression in the united states over three million adults have been dog knows with persistent depression psychiatrist is concerned the agency's decision will lead to addictive drugs being more readily available obviously we need to find better treatments for depression especially for people who have what we call refractory treatment depression meaning that all of our available remedies are not working for them having said that i am very concerned about the use of cat i mean

to treat depression particularly in this easily deliverable nasal spray and i am very concerned that the f.d.a. approval of these highly addictive drugs to treat these prevalent disorders can lead to more people being exposed to addictive drugs and therefore becoming addicted to these addictive drugs. united states is right setting up pressure on the venezuelan government vice president mike pence announced that seventy seven officials linked to venezuelan leader nicolas maduro will have the u.s. visas revoked forty nine people were also added to a sanctions blacklist on friday on tuesday and cohen has more. well the u.s. is threatening to impose sanctions on foreign banks if they deal with the venezuelan government national security adviser john bolton issued a statement this morning saying quote the united states is putting four in the

financial institutions on notice that they will face sanctions for being involved in facilitating illegitimate transactions that benefit nicolas maduro and his corrupt network the u.s. has also begun to increase pressure on cuba which it claims is controlling venezuelan president nicolas maduro the wrote in a tweet that the u.s. will continue to tighten financial restrictions on cuba's military and intelligence services venezuelan authorities in turn have declared the german ambassador daniel crean or persona non grata after what it called interference into its internal affairs he became the first european diplomat to be expelled from the latin american state however during his tuesday address to the national assembly one goh i dos says it's not the german ambassador who is the real persona non-grata everyone in venezuela knows who the persona non-grata is and he's the only one who is known in the region in the world because in the old accounts with the two they

recognize the venezuelan fight for democracy as a constitutional right duro responded by saying neither the opposition nor the united states wants to help venezuela and have their own interests like venezuela's natural resources russia's foreign minister sergei lavrov also condemn u.s. sanctions against those who support. it is yet another confirmation that american diplomacy is quickly losing its ability to use diplomatic instruments and is switching to a language that's never been used in diplomacy before now there are fears over military intervention the trumpet ministration continues to say all options are on the table but elliott abrams says the u.s. . we'll use other ways to push for what he called democratic transition in venezuela nobody is talking about american military steps except the regime and the russians actually. made it clear repeatedly our policy

is as i just stated diplomatic political economic financial pressure. moving toward a peaceful democratic transition in venezuela that's what we want now we've just learned that the attempted delivery of so-called humanitarian aid on the bridge crossing at the border of colombia and venezuela nearly turned into a bloodbath according to a report in bloomberg news two hundred exiled soldiers were preparing to clear the way for the aid trucks but the plan was actually scrapped by the colombian government why do we also learned was planning to tour european capitals after finishing his tour of latin america but the united states told him to return to venezuela for fears that the that his movement was losing momentum so this suggests that it is not go i don't know who's calling the shots so much but it's

actually the white house and sit with us i will see you again in thirty minutes for the latest global news headlines. when you'll make the manufacturer consent to public wealth. when the ruling classes have to protect themselves. in the final merry go round be the one percent. we can all middle of the room see.

my son doing drugs my nephews was still in drugs my sister just with doing drugs it was like an epidemic of drug abuse america's public enemy number one in the united states is drug abuse he started going after the users in the prison population sewer we started treating sick people people who are addicted to these drugs like criminals while i was on the hill. then the war on drugs was a mistake there are countless numbers of people who are in prison for. certain sins for minor minor offenders in the drug trade it's a lot watching your children grow up and miss you in waves and say bye daddy as you're walking out of this is just it doesn't get easier.

thank you. thank you. welcome to the alex salmond shu today we take a well to celebrate from brix it to visit the sun kissed the beaches of the indian ocean that is one problem with this island paradise the people have been replaced by an air force base for that has been the fate of the ship was eons her majesty's subjects cleared from the holy land half a century ago to make way for american service personnel. or the two programs we consider how this bitter legacy of colonialism still impacts tittle initial we look

at the human cost of the people cleared from the islands in the second part we examine the political and legal implications for the united kingdom standing condemned last month before the international court of justice and now facing a full united nations debate on this but first alex with your tweets your messages and e-mails before stop as i assess them who makes a very interesting point she says happy tuned in to watch this at seven thirty am and all we got was trump trump trump no mention of or harm to the alex i'm unsure but i assume i did actually not a suspicion knowing my relationship with the president of the united states that perhaps he'd broken off his talks with chairman kim to knock off the first broadcast edition of osho or. donald anything's possible daughter cause says fantastic sure to make my son is half german from the east i believe scotland and germany have extremely strong ties i consider germany and my second home and seven

anthea's says very good short tonight i like as always should guess an interesting and informative keep up the good work well we intend to anthea and lymph illness and says best show yet elmar brok cured my heart and james most must write it all he said scottish independence gets nearer the closer we get to blacks it a minute white says i've always thought that these are me was a closet black city year who played both sides to get into the top job and jump airplay concludes by saying hi ek hopefully you can run ashore from here in our broth next april to celebrate the declaration of scottish independence seven hundred years on and sides of sauce of which the scots gallic for freedom. no country likes to be reminded of its marquee past but this is exactly what has happened to the u.k. standing in the dock of the international court of justice over the last few years culminating in a hostile judgment last month at the heart of the case britain as

a colonial power stood condemned of a sustained track record of shame and injustice towards the families of two thousand people dispossessed from the indian ocean home in the one nine hundred sixty s. and seventy's it's a shame that looms large in the history of the shakers islands an archipelago whose tiny size and vast distance from everywhere amplifies a degree than just a suffered by its people these people were cleared from the islands by mixture of blackmail on building and by authorities who had their fate and trusted to their care they are injustices dating back to the british acquired the islands from france as part of the larger colony of malicious and for slaves to mozambique and madagascar to work on colonial coconut plantations they are injustices which continue to this day with third generations to go since who have made their home.