one of the most into one show intellectuals of our time speaks about the modern civilization of america. brazil's president faces a political scandal. about his ties to violent paramilitary gangs in the country. germany's accountable for the deadly drug strikes in yemen directed it controlled from a u.s. base on german soil in a court case one by the families of victims. and scientists bug outrage among u.s. democrats dismissing party claims its only twelve years left to save the earth from global warming. just to midday or mosco on cavanagh and this is the international for us than the

president of brazil is being dubbed by the media as the trump of the tropics for his right leaning views and indeed it shows the united states is the destination for his first official forum visit to jumpstart that relationship the real donald trump was also keen to get things started to. go 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 civil to. respect whatever the ballots tell us on twenty twenty but i do believe donald trump is going to be reelected foully level cue up a little pasado assume cuomo thank you for a factory could be able to bless you and he began a cheery note the two leaders exchanging football shirts with each other's names on all this might come as a relief to for jiah both scenarios facing

a political scandal back at home over reports of his alleged ties to violent gangs caleb opens gulf side of it. was a little 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 wasn't torrijos for.

earlier this month two former police officers were arrested and charged with the killing of a. marielle franco a leftwing 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 both an r o's home in fact a photo of ball sonora with one of the suspected killers has surfaced when confronted about it also nara gave a flat out denial the media has always criticised me they wanted to simplistically a connection but i never saw the gentleman in my gated community i don't read is

going to have 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 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. of his friends it's. seen old full to the rest most pictures with militia and then with the school and then it is. a shift in the position of the president in the presidency 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 good but the absurd and could choose his way she said police

offices and quote sessions contributed to her having many enemies. so when balsa gnarl 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 also narrow 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 there 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 meantime more news lorenzo from the meeting president trying to use the joint briefing with the brazilian lead it islam president 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 interestingly while washington claims venezuela is completely impoverished we thought you want to see those two filmmakers who spent a month shooting a documentary in caracas and the situation as they saw it is not as bad as being patrolled in western media they said their findings with my colleague colin bray. but at best it's nice to have you know it made a year for some of the metals. that act as though in the us a i was going. to let you know things. before that if you're. just but just booked out of on a concert actually when i arrived in caracas before before actually i said 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 take a parcel going to venezuela you know the crime rate is 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 something people were still going to jobs people were still continuing with lives people going to find it hard to believe at the u.n. say 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. things like sheep like electricity bills water bills other things it was 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 columnist but i would say definitely the government has made mistakes but i would also say the u.s. sanctions and he definitely sort of feel you know the effect of u.s. sanctions in the sense of lack of u.s. dollars the lack of being able to use your us from actual instruments and i mean i would say that people here do eat. you know the of the society functions

well regardless of the conflicting information on the effects of the u.s. sanctions donald trump is set on squeezing venezuela's economy. but we haven't done the toughest of sanctions as you know we've done. i would say right down the middle but we can go a lot tougher if we need to do that. other knock on effects meantime america's sanctions on venezuela and iran a fuel oil prices would shoot to twenty nineteen high jus' day the rice has also been supported by ongoing supply cuts from all cartel opec last year us all production and exports plan significantly you see on the graph here that comes amidst washington's reliance on shale production.

sanctions play a key role in not only propping up the price of oil but also in allowing u.s. oil producers to gain a larger market share if you have sanctions and i you're reducing the opportunity for the iranians and then israel is to sell their oil well that means the u.s. shale produces can sell their oil through their refineries and on the texas coast in the northeast that previously used venezuelan oil for example i don't think that the price of oil can stay where it is i think it's slowly going to decline notwithstanding whatever the saudis and russia do and nigeria and others with regard to production cuts i think they have a slowing in europe and slowing in china and now the slowing of the economy in the u.s. and that's why the sanctions will probably continue and maybe even intensify to try

to reduce the supply to get the price back up. the german government pays legal responsibility for u.s. drone strikes directed and controlled from german territory that's according to a recent poll ruling in a case brought by families of civilian victims in yemen that you know whole control ports from belin. 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 re yemenis lost relatives five sell been. lost his brother in law been out of job who was an 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 had rented 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 data 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 that 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 he 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. strikes has carried on this has come in for criticism from human rights representatives i think it is definitely constant a contradiction that the german government is saying that the arms sales to the saudis for the were in yemen have to be stopped and 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 of family wanted it 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 yemen conflict. but the news is but a cheer and it optimism this lunchtime doomsday is apparently being delayed some fact checking by news agency exposes flaws in claims by u.s. democrats that there's just over a decade to save the earth from global warming trying to explain to them. even back when t.v.'s look like that kid's cartoons would portray those saving us from pollution as superheroes 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 scary 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 he 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 it snowballed 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 a fact 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 that's a rule he's right on climate and the a.p.

fact check is wrong it's the a.p. this is incorrect about climate change. not by a 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 it 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 in twelve years and not receive any pushback and there's no laughter there's no one going now 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 coreligionists of the room nodding and going yes it's terrible it must do something elections and in this country anywhere and out of our. there 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. well talking of the son of the twenty years ago for a fantasy book to hit it big exceptional script work and a ton of marketing with most probably sufficient to do the job but these days things are different and you expected not only to write insulting story but also to address current political and social trends so what do you do that if your old bestseller doesn't quite measure up to standards well of course you could tweak the characters a bit to fit the bill is the. i can't you can. i can describe. their relationship was incredibly intense it was passionate and it was enough

relationship i'm less interested in the section so i thought i believe there is a section to mention to this relationship. wow in other great percolation from j.k. rowling. j.k. rowling to from some cuts to the police to be ok everywhere except in the book so the movies there were scenes in the movie that look cut for time and had they remained it would clearly shown temple jewels the scale i just received an hour from here should not be. oh it was done to tell me voldemort has retained her don't phone demote jerry mike. white skin was never specified the knobs block my. mind's y.c. specifics now from behind a tree. you

read that book yeah what a guy great yeah he says he transgender. and i meet in a wheelchair i have down syndrome what's going to church is actually i don't know all of them. she pokes notes about gay relationships that simply a fact but obviously what she does do is after a few years you know where the ticket sales are down and what they sells the books with out there what she does he she just comes up. up with a few little things to get out into the media and there's a saying look good luck to us you know this is show business and she has a right to deal with that but i don't think that most people look at a harry potter book and think if one of the great works of gay liberation that has ever existed in the world i'm not lee so because it's intended for children i don't think that it's appropriate to explore very adult fables when you are dealing with children but some want some new stories of the day kind of have the break another

prominent politician jumped ship in canada over a corruption scandal is threatening to derail the prime minister's hopes for another term. manufactured. public wealth. when the ruling classes protect themselves. with the crime. nor middle of the room sick.

most of us are and believe we live in a society based on merit and equal justice the varsity blues college admissions scandal conformist both are true the rich and privileged can buy access for their kids the expense of families who are hard working and don't is the idea of marriage yet. again this is r t so as mentioned before the break a senior advisor to canadian prime minister justin trudeau's resigned in an ongoing corruption scandal michael wernick now is the fourth senior official to step down over trudeau's alleged interference in a bribery case it involves s n c level one of the world's largest engineering

construction firms back in twenty fifteen the company was charged with bribery and fraud in libya the ledge of the paid ninety eight billion dollars in bribes to gadhafi or officials to secure lucrative contracts including the world's biggest irrigation project the firm claims that all the people implicated in the case of since left the company. has been accused of pressuring the attorney general to drop the investigation he denies any wrongdoing by the way. i and my staff always acted appropriately and professionally since the allegations surface just into those approval ratings fallen from forty one percent in january to thirty three now and that's cast doubts over his chances of winning a new term in elections in october and the sandra bruno's an independent political analyst who thinks the corruption scandal is only the tip of the iceberg too. s.n.c. lower then it's hardly the only scandal and problem and embarrassment for the government . since eleven then scandal has taken the limelight away from the way

scandal the fact that china is now pushing the case and they say that count as definitely influencing its. justice with politics. trudeau has ruined his brand he's no longer the sun around which everyone else wants to revolve 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 the conservatives so the number of issues piling on the government where it's bursting. over the u.s. a jury's ruled that a weed killer produced by chemical jar monsanto was a major factor in causing cancer in a man in california he's the second person to successfully sue the firm on the same allegations now this lawsuit brought by edwin hartmann who used roundup we kill of 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 are known

by the german chemical giant bay it denies all along the line this products cause cancer it contains a chemical called life as it was developed by monsanto scientists back in the seventy's and has become one of the world's most widely used overside since twenty fifteen the international agency for research on cancer though classified it as probably carcinogenic to humans calling cavell an associate professor of political science he thinks monsanto will continue to make huge profits as long as it has u.s. government support. monsanto and its parent company bear is making billion dollars so they're making tons of money and the u.s. . agency that's supposed to regulate the agricultural chemicals serves the round of is not there to humans utilize it so as

long as the hand of the green light from the u.s. government they can sell and market is round or around the world moreover other companies. you know lifelessly they are agricultural products and so they also are benefiting greatly not sort of just runs and runs as not you can find all the others too out of sight out the door kome twenty six mosco tom kevin zero in this is all t. thank you for watching. i was up i'm. i'm up. here in here if. i. was.

was. join me every thursday on the alex simon sure and i'll be speaking to us of the world of politics this list i'm show business i'll see you then. eleven the wealthy in america decided we're all playing anymore we're going to just grab as much as we can of the cash out there in the system and put it you know offshore and that's why there's not twenty two trillion offshore and so there you battle of credit in the system strong central bank instead of punishing the banks just flooded the system with more of the fia money and then those who are the paranoid have yachts versus the have nots decided you know we're going to put that more offshore so they just keep printing and shipping it off shore and it's

completely bypassing the economy and so the economy is getting more starved for credit and the people are getting more rest. time after time they were going underground as u.k. minority government leader theresa may sound on the brink of resignation i made the continuing wreck that chaos coming out of the show ahead of the one year anniversary of the great march a return to that sort of a six thousand palestinians killed and injured we speak to the palestinian ambassador to the u.k. about allegations of british backed israeli war crimes and is britain just another e.u. member selling out its people's wishes we speak to a greek series be known for being the economic hit men of the new liberalism plus from the headlines why posturing pompei was too scared of war crimes inquiries

while common core and seems to be gunning for more inquiries into bloody sunday dollars or more coming up in today's going on the ground a first many statistics show so-called christian terrorism supplanting so-called islamic terrorism this after successive attacks from nation states and lone gunmen on muslims and the left all around the world all so-called terrorist attacks last year in the usa were apparently right wing the head of christ church but the response to the new zealand massacre has been puzzling to those familiar with the founding of the former british colony take a recent new zealand t.v. investigation nearly two hundred years since the worst of the british settler genocides that appears to have suddenly discovered the meanings of kiwi statues and investigation by t.v. theories the nation has uncovered some unpleasant history behind many of new zealand's public statues as him across the reports genocide and racism can be linked to some well known and celebrated colonial figures there's a surprise then there while new zealand has arguably still not come to terms with

its white supremacist past the country has been sending its soldiers to support nato actions in predominantly muslim countries afghanistan for instance. this was originally a us. and the yearly dies in new zealand first came in here into private but i think it doesn't matter we don't any of our missions kiwis have this the same here and desire to continue to build and build and build new zealanders in iraq to date the astray and you don't build panic capacity task he's trying to approximately twenty one hundred iraqi soldiers and officers this is a significant contribution to the iraqi for you can station in already we're now looking forward to trying to fill two thousand soldiers in the coming weeks and like nato nations do zealand's ties with israel are growing no surprise then that on syria new zealand policy is so close to that of israel and the u.k. is the country's pm justifying military action.