will is dedicated to increasing virtue. one of the most influential intellectuals of our time speaks about the modern civilization of america. scrapping. weaponize ing space moscow warns against spiraling into a new arms race in the twenty first century. also ahead this hour mired in controversy at home over his family's alleged to our own military brazil's president heads to washington in an effort to jumpstart relations with the u.s. . and critics of u.s. drone operations in yemen when a small legal victory in germany where a court house ruled in favor of increased oversight on the american or a base to coordinate strikes.

in the afternoon here in moscow this wednesday march the twentieth hello and welcome i mean and o'neill their top story run greater scale than the cold war speaking at a conference on disarmament in geneva said he regrets america's willingness to undermine some cornerstone treaties on controlling weapon stockpiles west to our to the north for more of the details on this maria certainly an issue it must've ramifications what else did the foreign minister have to say. hi you didn't while speaking at the design conference the international forum that brings together sixty five states russia's foreign minister sergei lavrov i have to say has been very critical and has in fact accused them. erica of destabilizing world security

lover of has expressed his dippers concerns frustration and theories over the current situation in the field of nonproliferation of weapons and global arms control emphasizing that africa is designed to destroy global basic agreements that prove to be doing their job well in guaranteeing world security and protecting international peace are rising and this is a very dangerous tendency a lover of has particularly referred to america's recent we draw from the intermediate range nuclear forces treaty known as the i am after treaty signed between moscow and washington back in one thousand nine hundred eighty seven warning that the recent developments may turn threats of nuclear warhead into a groom reality let's take a listen now. because. what we are now hearing is talk of the possibility of unleashing a limited nuclear war for russia and i hope all the other countries represented

here such a prospect is unacceptable however such a scenario could become a reality if we together fail to find a sensible alternative to recent tendencies aimed at undermining the very edifice of arms control treaties should there be a new arms race a lot of countries will rely on their nuclear and missile arsenals as the only guarantee of their national security. following america's weeks drawl from the i.n.f. treaty of russia has responded by saying that it will also suspend its obligations under the agreement but speaking of the conference in geneva earlier on wednesday minister lavrov has stressed that it wasn't russia's decision it wasn't russia's initiative russia has simply responded and russia remains open for the dialogue and is not interested in any way in arms race with their washington but as most cokin see right now washington is not ready for these dollars and this is what minister lover. it has rita rated one more time and he has brought among other things

america's recent steps aimed developing space missile defense program alarming steps as in the let's take a listen. to what. the us funds have been earmarked for the establishment of a space missile defense system as well as putting strike capabilities into orbit this is opening pandora's box. well as you can hear a lot has been sat including many critical things but as minister lavrov has said russia helps and believes that its western partners colleagues are responsible for global security and at the end of the day the future of the mankind will hear russia's voice and follow the right path back to you bring us the very latest maria for national thank you. the president of brazil was dubbed last year as the trumpet of the tropics for a likeness in both his persona policies so it was perhaps

a little surprise joe you're both sonorities first official foreign visit song touched on in the u.s. this week the real donald trump was keen to get their relationship off to a good old story. you 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 for. respect whatever the ballots tell us on twenty twenty but i do believe donald trump is going to be reelected foully. thank you and the meeting began almost cheery note with the two leaders exchanging football shirts with each other's names will be jovial atmosphere was props of the so. i'm

responding for a bowl so noro who's facing a political scandal at home over reports. to violent gangs can bring us up to date on its 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 balsa naro 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 want to do simplistically. 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 wrist most pictures with militiamen with the school is just a shade of 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 god but the absurd and could choose his way she said police offices and court sessions contributed to her 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 up and r.t. new york while president used his joint news briefing with the brazilian leader to castigate nicolas maduro for his rule in fermenting venice we lose economic crisis . 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 and while washington famous venezuela is completely impoverished to filmmakers who spent a month shooting a documentary in caracas say the situation is not as bad as it's being portrayed in western media they shared their findings with my colleague cullen bray. but i guess this was. you know it made a year for some of the worst possible medals also. delivered in the us a as well and i don't think we'll ever know all the things. before that. they just bought this book that i'm going to consume actually when i arrived in

caracas before before actually as a 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 a 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 for 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 sheep like a 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 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 you know us from actual instruments and i mean i would say that people here do eat. the other society functions well regardless of the conflicting information on the effects of u.s. sanctions donald trump is set on squeezing the venezuelan economy little bit more. 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 but america is existing sanctions on venezuela and iran have all ready caused a surge in oil prices which had a twenty one thousand high on tuesday that rise has also been supported by ongoing supply cuts from oil cartel opec american seems to be the big winner here last year it's all oil production and exports climbed significantly at a time when washington has been pushing hard to domestic shale production.

sanctions play a key role in the 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 you're reducing the opportunity for the really ends and the israelis to sell their oil well that means the us. shill producers can sell their oil through their refineries non the texas coast in the northeast that previously used those well in oil and for example i don't think the price of oil can stay where it is i think is slowly going to decline notwithstanding whatever the saudis and russia do and nigeria and others with

regard to the production cuts i think the 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 supplier to get the price back up. the german government bears legal responsibility for u.s. drone strikes directed uncontrolled from german territory that has been decided by a court in a case brought by families of civilian victims in yemen daniel hawkins is in berlin a landmark case in germany with a 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 base in the southern city of ramstein by the united states air force it does at here strictly to international law in twenty twelve yemenis lost relatives five cell been.

lost his brother in law salim been out of a job who was an m.r.i. alongside his brother will lead in a u.s. drone strike the germans through french 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 data for drawing strike. 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 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 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 saudis for the were in yemen have to be stopped in at the same time. do not

intervene to stop the drone strikes and even via ramstein air base this court case hasn't played out entirely how the job of 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. another prominent politician jumped ship in canada over a corruption scandal that's threatening to derail the prime minister's hopes for another term we've got the details on plenty more by science right after this.

most of us believe we live in a society based on merit and equal justice the varsity blues college admissions scandal conformists that both are true the rich and privileged can buy access for their kids at the expense of families who are hard working and is the idea of marriage yet. the wealthy in america decided we're up playing anymore we're going to just grab as much as we can of the cash out there in the system and put it off shore and that's why there's not twenty two trillion offshore and so there you battle of credit in the system the central bank instead of punishing the banks just flooded the system with more of the fia money and then those who are the paranoid. versus the have nots decided you know we're going to put more offshore so they just keep trying and shipping it

off shore and completely bypassing the economy and so the economy is getting more starved for credit and the people are getting more rest. twenty minutes into the program welcome back doomsday has a partly been delayed some fact checking by news agency has exposed flaws in claims made by u.s. democrats there's just over a decade left to save the earth from global warming. reports. even back when t.v.'s look like that kids cartoons would portray those saving us from pollution as superheroes i am. coming 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 cool 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 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's no balled 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 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 and just can't lead down your next generation of voters does 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 anyway or are not about convincing the middle they're about turning out your base and keeping the other guy's boats home

and if you want to turn out your base and 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. all right moving north of the border from there a senior advisor to canada's prime minister justin trudeau is resigned in an ongoing corruption scandal michael wernick is the fourth senior official to step down over trudeau's alleged interference in a bribery case it involves s.n.c. live alone one of the world's largest engineering and construction firms in twenty fifteen the company was charged with bribery unfurled in libya and allegedly paid ninety eight million dollars in bribes to get fischel it's to secure lucrative contracts including the world's biggest earth ation project their firm claims not all the people implicated in the case have since left the company prime minister trudeau has been accused of pressuring the attorney general to drop the

investigation he denies any wrongdoing. i and my staff always acted appropriately and professionally well since the allegations surfaced justin trudeau his approval rating has fallen quite considerably as well forty one percent in january it was it's today thirty three percent and it's cursed dot's over his chances of securing a second term in government because there is no election coming in october independent political analyst or some other bruno thinks however that the corruption scandal is really only the tip of the iceberg. s.n.c. lower then it's hardly the only scandal and problem and then barrus meant for the government. since eleven len scandal has taken the limelight away from the how are we scandal the fact that china is now pushing the case and they say that cantors definitely influencing its. justice with politics trudeau has

ruined his brand he's no longer the son around which everyone else wants to revolve their 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 the 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 ok just a reminder you can always get stuck into more and week stories on our website twitter page will keep you informed right up to the minute as well i'll be here in just over thirty minutes more great programs though in the meantime. breaks it killed joan.

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weapon once missed and there would have been done tree swung as observations didn't hit them i never saw any contact with. any kind of went back to where they were so the answer is back here there try again fifteen feet apart at this point and that's when the officer saw his gun and he did it on three. the wealthy in america decided 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 shrunk the central bank instead of punishing the banks has 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 more offshore so they just keep trying and shipping it off shore it is completely bypassing the economy and so

the economy is getting more starved for credit and the people are getting more restless. if the government wishes to bring food aid new proposition. that he's not only the same nor substantially the same as that disposed of by you the house on the twelfth of mo this would be in time of the in. won't the government camel the just some of the do these to resubmit to the house the same proposition will substantially the same proposition as that suv last

week which was rejected by one hundred forty nine. and just like that breck sic talks are back to the drawing board yet again with the days to the deadline day when dealing down this is boom bust broadcasting around the world and covering the world of business and finance and the impact upon all of us i'm bart chilton in washington d.c. we're so pleased that you're on board coming up today time is ticking down near the thames river as the saga of teresa mayes brecht that deal hits more roadblocks to work forward to see you of market standing by with the latest plus those boeing had too much way on the f.a.a. former national transportation safety board official jamie finch will be here i'll ask him if boeing's relationship with regulators is a little too cozy plus opec has russia are continuing their production quotas and abstraction opec meeting to even discuss the circumstances are two producers side.