no. during the great depression which old mr remember there was most of the family were unemployed working. there wasn't it was bed you know much worse objective listen today but there was an expectation that things were going to get better. there was a real sense of hopefulness there isn't today today's america where shape by the turn principles of concentration of wealth and power. reduced democracy attack so low down engineer elections manufacture consent and other principle holds according to no on. one set of rules for the rich opposite set of rules for. that's what happens when you put her into the hands of a narrow sector of will switch will is dedicated to increasing power for chills

just as you'd expect one of the most influential intellectuals of our time speaks about the modern civilization of america. and the week's top stories here are not see here at grant's the u.k. it's a week deadline extension is prime minister to resign my idea was to get support for a divorce plan both sides have come a bombshell report claims a group of american the ministries illegally traveled to haiti to help the caribbean countries president consolidate power and move eighty million dollars we speak to it so. they entered haiti. many of them without stamping their passports without going through immigration without customs they've come in with weapons. and a massive priority. it was facebook to slow to stop the spread of footage of

a mass shooting in new zealand but too quick to silence accounts of political gives it seems unsavory. if i put certain stories about certain political issues i can shout all bad so. that's what my concern is when they continue to ban these kinds of things can ban this kind of stuff that only going to petulant shadel. clothes are the latest developments in a look back at what's been happening over the last seven days to you watching the weekly here on r.t. international. now up to a million people marched across london on saturday calling for a second referendum the rally comes after either leaders agreed to give the u.k. a short extension to the draw deadline with parliament having twice rejected the prime minister's deal. nobody votes shoot. themselves poor nobody votes should

still make ourselves weak it was clear is really trying you know as a culture people put this up for this break didn't even have a plan and in never had a plan things changed. for the citizens who are still suffering it's the sick but usually the. script we need to refine particle fifty and if we can't do that then we need the people's vote what reason may has not been given a short extension of two weeks if she fails to get her deal through but until may the twenty second if she does however the pm has warned she will put the vote off until she gets enough support in westminster throwing breaks it into further disarray.

do it be able to insulate the eastern extension until the. twentieth of april. boot. that will hold yes. on to the very. according to to our poll. and there's still empty and learnt it means the ticket a lot of space. it was certainly long nights of discussion debate decision making and chopping and changing plans multiple times at the e.u. council summit and finally a decision that was reached officially and a final offer to to reason may and the u.k. for its breaks up plans for spurring that they'd line article fifty until the

twenty second of may conditional on to resume a passing up plan and parliament of course it's already been rejected twice by big majorities humiliating defeat for the conservative government and it's probably for that reason that the e.u. council added these conditions at the condition that you pass is that through if not they've added the option of a second extension up until the twelfth of april now if the u.k. chooses to go for that second extension of the reason may fails to put how plan through parliament as widely expected the u.k. will have to come up with some sort of plan with some sort of offer to continue that process in which case they will have to agree to participate in the european parliamentary elections but of course that would be rather silly and rather pointless because the u.k. is of course leaving the european union as. the reason may stated it in her press conference so come the twenty eighth of march depending on what happens in the house of commons she may have to go back to the e.u. once again the e.u.

may have to call another emergency council meeting to decide what exactly happens next so it does seem the brusk the brics saw go for now will continue. now it's been claimed that seven american mercenaries to try to help president consolidate power they allegedly arrived in the caribbean country made anti-government protests and were arrested today later but were released without charge. this would have missed an exile to be given out these men were mercenaries he says that they were here to attack part of the executive branch of the government.

seen those reports due to privacy considerations we're unable to comment further. what generous can i spy story for the online news outlet need to say. they were apparently going to transfer eighty million dollars out of the petrel caribbean account in haiti in the bank to another account which would be under the control of president joe from malmo we the petro caribbean account required authorization if you will from. his then prime minister nuri say ah and the bank president john by dan dubois so this was

apparently their mission they entered haiti many of them without stamping their passport without going through immigration without going through customs they had come in with weapons which is a violation not just of u.s. law but haitian law pressure from the u.s. embassy had them released in a completely illegal manner i spent a week in haiti speaking to haitian police officials justice department officials people. with any connection who had any knowledge at all of this operation disclose our source the. requested anonymity and so we have to protect our shores. however one of the mercenaries retired navy seal does dispute that version of events crystals in his says they were hired as security for a businessman in

a now deleted instagram post he said to you they were pawns in a public fight between the haitian president and also the prime minister u.s. senator marco rubio who met with the haitian president said the situation in the country demonstrated sharp political divisions were protests in haiti continue over soaring inflation and claims of government corruption they blame the current president who was sworn in on a pledge to increase employment and improve living conditions. certain irritant or certain combustibility to the situation. really all right. the latest spasm of. demonstrations the prime minister in fact when he was voted out by the deputies was in front of the senate. answering for what happened with these mercenaries so i think yes the whole mercenaries

story has played a role one from the questions everybody had about it. but our story has come out basically. torn off the liver pulled back the curtain on this story. this is going to create even more and more consternation. on the part of the haitian people. the new zealand has announced it will ban all types of assault rifles and semi automatic weapons the pledge comes after fifty people were massacred in a mass shooting last week they need additional ation is said to be in place by a preview eleventh ban also extends to weapons attachments as used by the christchurch attacker. such as high capacity magazines gun owners will be offered a buyback scheme as part of an amnesty period those in possession of a banned weapon after this period though could face punishment the prime minister.

says the cost of the buybacks is the price that must be paid to ensure the safety of communities of the suspected attacker published a manifesto a few hours before the shooting describing his motives and plans. this is one of new zealand's darkest days. while the shooter stream the attack via facebook the video then quickly spread across the internet something facebook was criticised for especially given how quickly it can crack down on certain types of political content new zealand's prime

minister demanded answers from social media platforms over the live streaming and rapid sharing of the terror attack i would call on our social media platforms of all variety to demonstrate the kind of responsibility that both lead to these have been and that includes stars who perpetuate their messages in the aftermath there is a lot of work that needs to be done for facebook to respond by saying the video didn't trigger warning systems it's introduced two steps to improve the way it combat hate speech we discuss the issue with our guests. i respectfully submit that when you show violence against human being it's a form of pornography we have to as a society say no facebook you can do much better for kids for people who would see this not necessarily because it would inspire the next shooting which you very well good because these losers need some form of acclimation out of just human decency without bringing in the government as laws

and penalties and we're hearing from officials government officials from the prime minister in new zealand talking about preventing future attacks like this and then going on to censoring when this attack happens how in the world does that prevent this attack we're spending so much time talking about we can have videos like this with as or so or think it might lead to more rather than answering questions that need to be asked i mean one of the main problems on the scene here is that we continue to put band-aids on gunshot wounds and we need to stop that we need to stop putting band-aids on we need to stop saying let's just stop everybody from there that he doesn't you know we can get rid of x. rated movies should it come down immediately yes should this be kept from the public yes take it down i want facebook and others abroad to have exactly what you whatever attitude allow your world or not they have we're talking to you now and you're doing about t.v. do you know that talking about arguing people will hardly blinded from these sightings will fellow lying dead but you're not talking about how will this prevent

it nobody's talking about provide to the question or should be banned i'm saying yes and what i want facebook to do is if i put certain stories about certain political issues i am shadow bad show fast and i want them to use that technology in their genius to figure out wait a minute we're having somebody right now people are being killed this is going to come down from our platform what my concern is when they continue to ban these kinds of things can ban this kind of stuff that's only going to perpetuate shadel ban and that's something i agree should never happen but we're giving sub. ject and our and authority to social media platforms to tent that is allowed so when to hurt us later we don't know who they're going to not like it's all subjective no matter what kind of computer algorithm at the end of the day it will be subjective now listen dr burke do me a favor if you see somebody shooting and killing people shut it down or talk about it later don't have a debate do you think that maybe we're giving one person die die die die die die

the right to automatically and who's to say whether this could one day be identified and people being shot dead whether this might include war coverage how many people would surprise me that while as we're debating this there's some kid somewhere which you ever talk about watching this seeing real time slaughter or the families of these people or whatever of this is violent pornography yes this is horrible that i never want to see this i never want my children to see this i don't want any person to be subject to this kind of violence in this horrible obscene material these publications but this is what i have seen governments cannot stop this these companies cannot stop this people who post something positive about donald trump are being taken off of social media because of social media heads and managers and so we want them to ban other things instead of us and that is my main thing is that they can't they will not but we have here nazis to come on the week

before you the us ambassador to germany is among local politicians will have a look at why just after the break. i think the. last. possible because there is a still more opportunity to. say. the same the position of serbia in the context. of the international law. are more more on the serbian side i think not on notice and. on the. final.

piece i want the nobility of all borders. join me every first week on the alex salmond show and i'll be speaking to guest of the world of politics or business i'm show business i'll see you then. again welcome back to the weekly next year when politicians have called for the expulsion of u.s. ambassador to germany richard grenell he came after he openly criticized plans to reduce its defense spending. nato members clearly pledged to move towards not away from two percent by twenty twenty four that the german government would even be considering reducing its already on acceptable commitments to military readiness is

a worrisome signal to germany's twenty eight nato allies mistake or not is a total failure of the diplomats all of this behavior is rather borish with his repeated clumsy provocations mystical now is harming transatlantic relations. since mr grinnell took up his post as ambassador in berlin he has on several occasions quite conspicuously interfered in the internal affairs of the federal republic of germany his behavior in the host country is anything but diplomatic and brother reminiscent of the governor of an empire well this does come despite germany military a german military sorry spending increasing sorry spending increasing five billion dollars in twenty eighteen it's not the first time grenelle has hit a german policy criticizing issues from iran to the use of equipment from chinese tech giant huawei donald trump has also been a vocal critic of germany spending accusing them of freeloading off u.s.

military might. german companies doing business in iran should wind down operations immediately. never tell the host country what to do. where not of banana republic. on except one side tightening the turn. a former u.s. diplomat jim to trust us think the berlin is starting to question its alliance with washington. mr grinnell does have president trump personal support now there was

talk that mr grenelle might be moved to the united nations when nikki haley left but that didn't happen so i think it would be very embarrassing for the administration who would draw him the problem is is that we have now have an american ambassador who is throw on polish about it especially with demands about spending more money on nato and you can't have five g. from walk away and you must not be buying russian gas and complete the north stream to pipeline that it's starting to get on their nerves and maybe beginning to dawn on some people in germany that maybe this american relationship is not all it's cracked up to be now some people want to say this whole question of style but i think it's becoming clear that it's really more a question of substance. and i finally doomsday has apparently been delayed because some fact checking by news agency has expose for was in claims made by us democrats

that this just a decade left to save the warming with more his trunk. even back when t.v.s. looked like that kid's cartoons would portray those saving us from pollution as superheroes i am didn't want to. be. on it j. c and one day 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 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 signs. 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 that's right on climate and the a.p. fact check is wrong it is the a.p. this is incorrect about climate change not. 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 it is a matter of faith and belief by guys like 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 crow rigidness 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 middle they're about turning out your base and keeping the other guy's votes 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. you can watch and we can hear a nazi international thank you company to south to name a back again at the top of the. i've been saying the numbers mean something they've mastered us is the one trillion

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welcome to the world a part of twenty years ago nato launched its first military operation without the approval of the un security council the talent bombing off yugoslavia was celebrated as a turning point in the history of warfare proving that a conflict can be won by air power alone to take it on does it still seem like a victory to discuss that i'm now joined by a. professor of political sciences at the university of belgrade professor some good to talk to you thank you very much for your time. first of all let me ask you what do you remember of that day march twenty fourth nine hundred ninety nine where warrior when the bombs started falling on the yugoslavia i was in my place in belgrade and the bombing started late afternoon on the fourth of march. expected because. we have

a process was finished with. the preparation for the war. were very frightened. by the government and by media so we did expect that. to situation that you said a moment ago that you saw it coming and yet i read somewhere that because of the tide state control over the media in the weeks prior to the offensive very few ordinary people expected to belonging or that it would be as massive as it was most of the people hold that diplomatic deal with be made was it perhaps because you were a part of the government that you were better informed than people at large. as a matter of fact it is a difference between the. unbelievable. bombing. public

because i mean rationally speaking nobody expected to the bombing by the end of the twentieth century but for everybody now her. objections are best in countries particularly neat and usa i could have spent expect this scenario those aries did bring slobodan milosevic into compliance he did what the west wanted and withdrew all the forces from cos of a but obviously at a very huge cost around five hundred people killed many thousands injured and norma's damage to the infrastructure looking back to a do you think the west could have achieved its objective without such some would argue disproportionate show of force. in terms of military action the western. is the not. objective

because. x. he was an army was not actually removed from across all quarters to the. agreement but it was not so not so damaged as nato forces expected in terms of political. serbia should accept that as an interim vent for forty four but it was not of the forty feet but something i would say positive zero point zero point from which serbia yugoslavia enough of the rez be. defined in the mass or international position to reserve a hostile intent or here it is well documented at this point that the campaign was initially designed to destroy the.