i. headlines this morning brazil's president faces a political scandal after reports emerge about his ties to violent paramilitary gangs in the country. germany's accountable for deadly drone strikes in yemen directed and controlled from a u.s. base on german soil in a court case one by the families of the victims we'll bring you the details. scientists park outrage among u.s. democrats dismissing party claims twelve years left to say. good morning welcome to the program just ten ten am here in moscow this wednesday

the twentieth of march my name is kevin o. in the world the tropics as me for right leaning views and indeed he chose the united states as the destination for his first official foreign visit to jumpstart the relationship. also know that we're going to have a fantastic working relationship. we have many views that are similar and we certainly feel very very true to each other on trade i think brazil's relationship with the united states because of our friendship is probably better than it's ever been by far more soul to. respect whatever the ballots tell us on twenty twenty but i do believe donald trump is going to be reelected fooling you up a little pasado theme cuomo thank you for a factory. and he began a mature enough now to lead us exchanging football shirts and each other's names on all this might come as a relief. who's currently facing

a political scandal at the home of reports of his alleged ties to violent gangs kellam opens got more on the allegations. back at home also naro is facing a pretty serious political scandal not over his words but over his ties to right wing paramilitary groups something brazil isn't torrijos for.

earlier this month two former police officers were arrested and charged with the killing of mariel franco a left wing elected official now when the police raided the home they found one hundred seventeen automatic rifles as well as computers full of intelligence information on left wing journalists activists and politicians so where was this mini command center of extremism located well it turns out it was on the same block as bolton are as home in fact a photo of both sonora with one of the suspected killers has surfaced when confronted about it also nora gave a flat out denial the to that has always criticised me they wanted to simplistically a connection but i never saw the gentleman like gated community i don't read this can be as much time to you know you can gauge in social life with them this is not

the only tie to extremism back in january five former. the leaders of a right wing gang were arrested and it was revealed that the wife and daughter of one of the gang leaders was actually employed by bolsa narrow son flavio son of the brazilian leader joined his father in taking a photograph with the gang leaders at a birthday party furthermore flavio also gave an award to one of the gang members a medal of honor now there was an incident back in two thousand and eleven that also raise suspicion a judge was murdered after a controversial trial and we heard this interesting statement from balsa narrow son made his judge be with god but the upset and confused his ways she said police offices and quote sessions contributed to having many enemies. so when both scenarios sat down with donald trump he had some pretty serious charges hanging over his head a lot more serious than say unreleased tax returns now both scenario before he met

with donald trump sat down with another powerful u.s. entity the u.s. central intelligence agency now the cia's ties to right wing extremists and death squads in south and central america is hardly new information and at this point they have got to be folks inside of trump's team who are wondering if his photo op with this rightwing brazilian counterpart is really such a good idea to look him up and r.t. new york well as soon as i could by brazilian political analyst bruno. says even having his photo taken with the militias is a disgrace for the president. the president being seen in the old photographs of pictures with militiamen with the sportsman is. the position of the president and the presidency is. religion there is state because. security policies are real

is very much it's much more connected to the state's violence than to public safety . there's another serious area. i employ called this in his self that is very. very committed so. i would say the hard core belief there is. other news lines that came out of the meeting president trump also used the briefing to slam president nicolas maduro for choking venezuela's economy happening there is a disgrace this was one of the wealthiest countries in the world and all of a sudden it's just it's grief stricken poverty stricken no food no water no air conditioning no anything no power for

a long time last week no power and that's going to break down again because it's being held together by threats well washington claims venezuela is completely impoverished interesting to note two filmmakers who spent a month shooting a documentary in caracas say actually as they saw it the situation is not as bad as being patrolled in western media he said the findings of my colleague calling gray . but at best it's nice to have that and you know it may be that your. medals. don't live in the us they. don't think that you know things. before that you're. just but this book that i'm going to consume actually when i arrived in caracas before before actually as it's sort of take a few steps back before i went to venice where there are a lot of people i know in the journalist community is there well actually you know and maybe you should probably you should take a parcel going to venezuela you know the crime rates around us the economic and social situation is appalling not to mention the political situation and actually

when i arrived i mean life was still bustling in caracas i mean people were still going to jobs people were still continuing with lives people going to find it hard to believe at the u.n. so a three point four million but as wayland have fled to the country three point four million people don't leave the country if everything's ok or at least manageable well this is interesting i wonder where these figures come because according to the government. people that shooting last year seven percent of. you know school. during that particular mission it went five to seven percent. so also a hundred and twenty thousand. actually settle last year in minnesota. hyperinflation it concentrates on those things but it. seems like cheap like electricity bills bills other things give us

a rounded picture of this because you spent a month in venezuela more recently than the probably most of our audience did and let's face it you work in the news business you know that pictures of suffering sells more than than anything else but even in troubled countries life has a spectrum so give us a fuller picture then life in venice. tough as it is how is it really. as you said it is tough i mean it is hard i would say yes i mean this is our moment commerce but i would say definitely the government has made mistakes but i would also say the u.s. sanctions and the definite sort of feel you know the effect of u.s. sanctions in the sense of lack of us dollars the lack of being able to use us from actual instruments and i mean i would say that people here do eat. you know the of the society functions. more to brief you on this morning the german government bears legal responsibility for u.s.

drone strikes directed and controlled from german territory that's according to a recent court ruling in a case brought by families of civilian victims in yemen daniel hawkins this morning reports from berlin. landmark case in germany with the court in the city of months the ruling that the german government does bear at least partial responsibility for ensuring that the use of its air base in the southern city of ramstein by the united states air force does out here strictly to international law in two thousand and twelve three yemenis lost relatives five sell been. lost his brother in law salim been eligible who was an m r alongside his brother will lead in a u.s. drone strike the germans through an air base on german soil were involved in these strikes and what had happened to my family and it is possible that my family would not have been a target of such strikes and i drenched an air base not provided such information the case was initially dismissed by

a court in cologne back in twenty fifteen the court has now ruled that in fact the base did play a central role in facilitating the relaying of dates for drone strikes in yemen judges ordered the government to take all appropriate measures through ensure that the u.s. force was complying with international law and to press washington. if necessary to get the answers they required it also ordered the government to investigate the questions and the concerns put forward by the family surrounding the legality of that airstrike selim gave a sermon he addressed the killings conducted by al-qaeda and challenge them to present a religious authority that is willing to debate with him so we can demonstrate to the people that this behavior of al-qaeda is wrong he was taken out by the american strike unfortunately he was not killed by al qaeda he was killed by an american missile germany is a country that stopped arms shipments to saudi arabia which is

a key player in the yemeni conflict described as one of the worst humanitarian catastrophes of this century and also a key u.s. ally however the use of the ramstein air base for facilitating drone strikes has carried on and this has come in for criticism from human rights representatives i think it is definitely a constant a contradiction that the german government is seeing there the arms sales to the side of the were in yemen have to be stopped in at the same time. do not intervene to stop the drone strikes on yemen via ramstein air base this court case hasn't played out entirely how the job or family wanted it to they were hoping for a complete ban on the use of ramstein air force for anything to do with u.s. drone strikes in yemen any german government has said they will look into the ruling they will study it carefully but this can be viewed as an important first step in perhaps looking at the legality of various international legal framework

surrounding the use of ramstein air base for conducting unmanned drone strikes in the yemen conflict. elsewhere around the world today fire crews are battling a massive blaze the petrochemical plant and so hoost in the u.s. state of texas the fire that's been raging for three days is a storage for. the highly flammable components for gasoline fluid and his crew said just but managed to contain much of the fire there's now minimal risk of explosion since some improvement all employees have been accounted for no injuries have been reports. one is full of the good news seems doomsday surprisingly being delayed for a bit anyway seems it claims by us democrats that there's only twelve years left to save the earth from global warming of improved inaccurate scientists say the party's been mistaken in using those claims for their campaigns and the boffins faced a backlash as a result of it too late for trunk has got the story even back when t.v.'s look like

that kid's cartoons would portray those saving us from pollution as superheroes i am captain i want. to. see today you just can't be a successful democrat and presidential hopeful without being a bit of captain planet democrats be like how do i sound quare and make republicans look bad at the same time. thank god there is climate change the scientists are absolutely unanimous on this that we have no more than twelve years to take incredibly bold action on this crisis what the intergovernmental panel on climate change say is that we have twelve years twelve years and we're like the world is going to end in twelve years if we don't address climate change why this kerry deadline of twelve years a few months ago u.n.

environmental experts put together yet another alarming report showing the earth is continuing to heat up it's bad for the planet and everyone who lives on it some interpret it the following way experts say that we have until twenty thirty to avoid catastrophe the world has little more than a decade time is running out to prevent global warming and it says the time's up andrea that the world has to do something we're reaching the cliff edge a little faster quite a bit faster and so with snowballs into a big trendy protest children have the impression their generation could be doomed . that we have twelve years to turn this around but suddenly there's that hoops moment the associated press checks what those who want to run for the white house after say for facts what was it that mr o'rourke said again the scientists are absolutely unanimous on this that we have no more than twelve years

so a.p. actually got in touch with the scientists the panel did not say we have twelve years left to save the world this has been a persistent source of confusion the report never said we only have twelve years left well have a look at what they wrote on some liberal websites after the a.p. piece came out. right on climate and the a.p. fact check is wrong it's the a.p. this is incorrect about climate. change not by rule oh sure how can a democrat candidate get something wrong especially when his party essentially chose to rely on the so-called green new deal ahead of the election it's a set of proposals to address climate change you just can't lead down your next generation of voters as a matter of faith and belief by guys like bedo and others who will walk out and say the world is going to end it's twelve years and not receive any pushback and

there's no laughter there's no one going well you've got to be kidding me there's no one standing up to them and say you've clearly lost your mind but you have a bunch of probably just a nodding and going yes it's terrible it must do something elections and in this country anyway or are not about the super bowl they're about turning out your base and keeping the other guy's votes home and if you want to turn out your base if you're a leftist candidate preaching about climate change and how the other side is determined to see us all die horribly that's going to do get the job done for you. but what we're talking about a sign of the times twenty years ago for a fantasy book to hit it big exceptional script work and a ton of marketing will most probably sufficient but these days things are different you are expected not only to write and thrilling story to address current political and social trends or good stuff what do you do if your old bestseller doesn't quite measure up to new standards will perhaps you could tweak the character is a bit to fill is the idea. i

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again this is us international for a good morning or if you tuned in around the world so much before the break a senior advisor to canadian prime minister justin trudeau as resigned in an ongoing corruption scandal michael wernick is the fourth senior official to step in over trudeau's alleged interference in a bribery case some background on and involves s.n.c. level in one of the world's largest engineering construction firms but in twenty fifteen the company was charged with bribery and fraud in libya it allegedly paid ninety eight million dollars in bribes to gadhafi era officials to secure lucrative contracts including the world's biggest irrigation project the firm now claims that all the people implicated in the case of since left the company as for prime minister trudeau he's been accused of pressuring the attorney general to drop the investigation he by the way denies any wrongdoing. i and my staff always

acted appropriately and professionally since the allegations surfaced just in trudeau's approval rating has fallen from forty one percent in january to burn rubber at thirty three percent that's cast doubts over his chances of winning immunity in elections in october sandra bruno an independent political analyst thinks that the corruption scandals are actually the tip of the iceberg. a sense you know and it's hardly the only scandal and problem and then barest meant for the government. since eleven then scandal has taken the limelight away from the hallway scam fact china is now pushing the case and they say that counters definitely influence and it's. just as with politics. trudeau has ruined his brand he's no longer the sun around which everyone else wants to revolt they're trying to wash away the scandals but the problems are just accumulating and he's become a liability not to mention then the budget and increasing the deficit which will

play into the hands of a conservative so a number of issues piling on the government for its bursting. us jury is ruled weed killer produced by a chemical giant monsanto was a major factor in causing cancer in a man in california he's about the second person to successfully sue the firm on the same allegations the latest lawsuit was bought by a guy called edwin hardman who used roundup weed killer for more than twenty five years in twenty sixteen he was diagnosed with a cancer that affects the immune system monsanto which is based in the us and owned by the german chemical giant denies that the product causes cancer it contains a chemical called it was discovered by monsanto scientists back in the one nine hundred seventy s. and has become one of the world's most widely used have decided since no twenty fifteen the international agency for research on cancer classified it as quote probably carcinogenic to humans calling cavil's an associate professor of political

science and thinks that monsanto will continue to make huge profits as long as it has u.s. government support. sergio and its parent company bear is making big dollars so they're making tons of money and the u.s. . agency that's supposed to regulate these agricultural chemicals serves the round of is not better mental to humans you know why is it so as long as they have the green light from the u.s. government they can sell and market there's round up around the world moreover other companies can now put life in their agricultural products and so they also are benefiting greatly and i was just a selection the top stories make the run smart international so far this wednesday

for all the latest is so much more dot com could go up of course since the headlines break go straight to mobile device great thing i'm kevin zero in for the rest of the morning team here in moscow have a great day. breaks at countdown. i do think the numbers means they've met us with over one trillion dollars in debt more than ten white collar crime every day. eighty five percent of all the wealth he longs to be old rich each week six percent of the world market goes thirty percent some with four hundred twenty three per second per second and if we rose to twenty thousand dollars. china's building two point one billion dollars a are you industrial park

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that's when the officer his gun anybody. greetings and salutation. you know i'm getting flashbacks hawk watchers after witnessing the bernie sanders presidential campaign battle with the washington post like it's march of two thousand and sixteen all over again you see on march fifteenth this year while sanders was on the campaign stump through charleston south carolina he delivered one of his usual fiery zingers towards our good friends on wall street declaring quote not one major wall street executive went to jail for destroying our economy in two thousand and eight as a result of their greed recklessness and illegal behavior no they didn't go to jail they got a trillion dollar bail out. this quote naturally sent the big bank loving corporate

democrat wing into the into a flutter but then fully washington post back jack or glenn kessler stepped in to write this terrible terrible wrong and he awarded sanders to put nokia o o's because according to washington post math with the great bank bailout was just over five hundred billion or half a trillion not a full trillion because i guess that to happen a billion makes all the difference between deciding if the big banks and wall street are just greedy scum or incredibly greedy scum these sanders team and others who reported extensively on the bailouts like my at mattei e.b.u. rolling stone were quick to point out and cry foul on the washington post back checkers rather sketchy math when the number might actually be in the trillions when you factor in federal reserve emergency loans this is of course caused back checker kesler to break out the tomato tomato car regarding what should or should

not be considered a bailout and while this great debate over trillions have trillions bailouts or no trillions or non bailouts that's going to go on and on and on and on meanwhile for us you know us citizens and for us citizens of color the only numbers they see from the big banks when seeking the american dream is a big fat no let's start watching the whole us. get the. real deal it's like. the bottom. like you that i got. with. this. well the number one the one.