the little. man they know is bad wolf. financing terror hungry says they've caught a senior islamic state commander posing as a refugee had been issued with a prepaid debit card. to help newcomers. a newspaper exposé alleges british special forces are fighting alongside child soldiers in yemen but the saudi incursion has cast a shadow over london's arms sales to riyadh. and with the deadline for leaving the e.u. just ten days away the british problem it rejects all tabled options to resolve the break the deadlock making the prospect of cashing out without a deal more likely. the prime minister's deal is done it. refuses to compromise.

a very warm welcome to the program from all of us here at r.t. h.q. in moscow thanks for joining us this hour. the hunger in government is claiming a suspected you harness entered europe as a refugee and was given a prepaid debit card by the e.u. blocks issued some sixty four thousand such cards to newcomers are all over as more . imagine a suspected islamic terrorist receiving money for refugees not just any terrorist eisel command and not just any money taxpayer money and it gets worse reports say that he received monthly payments of five hundred euros on his debit card that's when over today's gross minimum wage in hungary these prepaid cards are issued to a joint project between the united nations and the european union there's supposed to be a strict screening process in place to make sure that only those eligible have access

to the phones but this wouldn't be the first time that a suspected terrorist hiding among refugees inadvertently being given taxpayer money. the european commission insists that the prepaid debit cards are not just handed out to anyone that they know exactly who these cards are being distributed to and check up on their status on a monthly basis so hungry is wondering why did brussels not know that they were funding a suspected terrorist this not only creates another pole factor it also raises

serious security concerns the citizens of europe have a right to know the problem of how to provide much needed funding and aid to refugees in europe isn't an easy one to solve but it's cases like these that fuel the popularity of anti immigration parties across the continent and with new parliamentary elections coming up next month question is will the establishment parties dealt another blow because laps of the territory that so-called isis was holding it will generate more people trying to get in through and that's why very carefully orchestrated an internationally coordinated this is where international cooperation is key i think the threat for a period of time will grow because foreign fighters will start to come back but i think what we're seeing now with. so-called isis and with al qaeda is we're seeing a time of transition they will transition into something different this is

a very very dangerous and very difficult period we need to monitor the transition very closely to be able to identify and track. the sort of coming through to run intelligence operation. as a trauma identify those terrorists that are potentially coming into europe and elsewhere in the world. british foreign secretary jeremy hunt is under fire after reaching a deal with germany or the export of weapon components to saudi arabia berlin unlike london has banned all arms sales to riyadh but a loophole was found to sell parts ultimately destined to the kingdom through the u.k. one of the reasons that arms sales to saudi arabia are controversial is its involvement in neighboring yemen.

the leader of the hoofy rebels says the u.k. foreign secretary cannot be both a peace broker and an arms sales but. if it wasn't for the joint british us saudi in u.a.e. naval forces the existing famine and the tragic humanitarian situation wouldn't reach such critical levels the saudi led coalition backed by britain commits war crimes and does not abide by his britain claims the most stringent guidelines for the export of weapons in the world and reports adding context to a tragic reality the u.k.'s man on sunday has reveals that at least five british special force commandos were wounded in gun battles as part of the secrets military campaign in north in yemen believed to be part of the special boat services said

that they are now back in britain recovering to spock to the contract to see the u.k. school says the relentlessly fighting alongside child soldiers here in the u.k. the news triggered protests and condemnation from an m.p. with the war in yemen already and it's over here i'm hit to express my outrage of the complicity of the british government of the war in yemen which soldiers were fighting alongside indentured schild soldiers. forced to fight in the yemen this is a war crime this is a crime almost against humanity and britain has been complicit in it and we must say no more inside westminster the shadow foreign secretaries questioning the scope . britain's involvement if that is in any way true because if it is then it will confirm the off forces are not just a party to this conflict but witnesses to war crimes when pressed on the issue mark fields from the u.k.

foreign office said he would seek to get to the bottom of the allegations but khan's comment on the presence of u.k. soldiers on the ground as for the ministry of defense they apparently don't comment on the special forces but with a little sign as an answer to the conflicts we asked people here in london what they think about the crisis in yemen i'm very surprised that the troops are getting involved and didn't know that hypocritical of them to be saying. you know that they're kind of. trying to be the many conflicts are fueling the many conflicts and others are of anybody personally no i don't think they should be doing that they should be. with you know internally but i also understand yemen is you know phenomenally complicated situation some people we asked were unsure about the u.k. six at mission in yemen but then on the air you want to ask the secretary of state for defense what recent assessment he has made of the effectiveness of operations

involving british forces in the yemen in the last six months. with civilians bearing the brunt of the crisis and millions on the brink of famine doubts is again being cast on the u.k.'s role and whether it's his party to the conflicts commission set the party that. writer and commentator abdel bari atwan says the british public should be horrified. this is the first evidence that there are drinks on the ground fighting alongside the saudi forces under so i'll be back and this lovely will i believe it is it is at this hour so as to be honest for the british people to pay for this war from their own pockets. clean from their own taxes and finance a law which is you know a lot of crime is committed in yemen and to know that their special forces dissipating with the saudi who have been good sort of who are actually the. bombing

hospitals schools i believe this war actually wouldn't be ended by thieves or by war because there's a whole made that. the british government should actually uses knowledge to put pressure on saudi arabia in order to stop this war because the saudis tend to want to play is. that they sent also. they composed a coalition and all of the five this was hoping to win it and few weeks time but that i could go on for now four years if this is the fifth year is that it's where the case daily mail says its report has prompted a un investigation we've asked the un for comment. and a vaccine activists in the us have suggested they're being persecuted like jews during the holocaust donning the star of david to make the point that after underactive children were banned from entering certain public places. how are we

going to do you know how are we going to arrest you. if you want to just say well we did the last time so for you. to sit it jews york right now never thought this moment will come. are you still with you a polish holocaust museum has lashed out at the use of the star of david symbol used to label jews during the holocaust museum accuse the activists of belittling one of the darkest pages of history. instrumental lazing the fate of jews who are persecuted by hateful anti-semitic ideology and murdered in extermination camps like oh sure it's with poisonous gas in order to argue against vaccination that save human lives is a symptom of intellectual and moral degeneration according to the us government agency dealing with diseases in two thousand eight hundred the country suffered seventeen outbreaks of measles cases were registered mainly among unvaccinated

people in the orthodox jewish community the number of cases this year is almost four hundred and is expected to rise all of you are off with a jewish community advisor says the way the star of david was used by the anti vaccine activists cheap in its meaning. util star for the jewish people is about remembrance for us you know it's too much people because of what they owe we paid the jewish people paid a terrible price because of the so you know style jew and no jew you don't you have no right to use these symbols because you make them becoming part of political i would say game you make them becoming cheap. we cannot forget when children women and people were worrying what happened to them and what happened to them to have this too has to be burns to be sent to a guest chamber so if. people are doing so even. doing it to me

steak for me it's a did it been abused and i think it's it's so that that's would be punished by a little. the british parliament has rejected all four motions put forward to resolve the bracks deadlock m.p.'s held a second series of so-called indicative votes after the prime minister's withdrawal plan was resoundingly defeated with all plans failing to command a majority new third round of votes has been proposed by opposition leader jeremy corben if it's good enough for the prime minister's job three chances that a good deal. then oh i suggest possibly the house should have a chance to consider again. the options that we had before us today i needed to buy on wednesday so that the house can expect to see where the prime minister has value and presenting a credible and i can all make relationship with europe for the future to prevent

just crashing out with no deal the prime minister's deal is. refuses to compromise it is crystal clear in the last installment that our books in this times disrespect to the m.p.'s debated on four issues staying in the single market seeking a customs union another referendum and potentially cancelling breck's it altogether if no deal is agreed upon none of them gained a clear majority and the breaks the deadline is just ten days away meanwhile the government is struggling to come up with a clear plan on how to leave the european union prime minister may now has to either seek a longer extension from the e.u. offering some new plan of action or leave the e.u. without a deal professor of european law francisco reserve told us there is no clear way out for trees to make. she's really caught between a rock and. a. hole the customs union she's going to be on

the other hand. trying to be the only way she's going to get a deal of through because her resignation herded up without any agreement binding agreement on a customs union means it's going to touch on whether she's going to get any get through but if we crash now it will be but it is not stuff that really it's a minority view that we can just go the way in which she would be fine i'm sure with it even harder experience in the cabinet except that there would be one heck of a price to pay for the debates over bikes that have been pretty heated but some think that's not the hottest issue that needs addressing are other undressing. these environmental activists wanted to draw attention to the naked truth about climate change they stripped off in the house of commons public gallery people were

arrested over the starter stunt which was designed to impress upon m.p.'s and the public that there are more urgent matters even more than bracks. government troops to protect the venezuelan opposition leaders motorcade from an angry mob we have video of the incident after this quick break. thanks guys are saying that look like. the girl a. lot of jews if this is the central plank support going at the moment i'm going to call them right so you stop. so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy for them to you shouldn't let it be an arms race is also a spearing dramatic development the only move i'm going to resist i don't see how

that strategy will be successful very critical time to sit down and talk. welcome back there have been fresh clashes and venezuela where people have been rowing against cuts to power and water supplies protesters set fire to cars and threw stones at police the opposition claims president nicolas maduro but the

government says the power cuts are the result of general sabotage by opponents president announce a thirty day plan to russian electricity in order to deal with the crisis. meanwhile that as well as opposition leader has been touring the country trying to rouse support but he hasn't always received a very warm welcome video has emerged purportedly showing a group of protesters attacking his convoy. ah was a closer look reveals an interesting detail here is why does a car making its way past the angry crowd and these are government meaning of soldiers protecting it from being attacked or less max blumenthal gave us his thoughts on the video. it's ironic to see government security forces actually protecting a figure who's calling for the government to be toppled and who's actually

attempting to fragment the security services from within it's also ironic because we constantly hear about them this way less some kind of ruthless communist dictatorship but here you have a situation that certainly would not be tolerated in the united states or other countries where someone who's leading a coup is protected by the security services of the government he's trying to take out what kind of dictatorship is this well apparently it's not a very effective one and what's happening here is really interesting as an invite this is where nicolas maduro his base is this is where he is where his son actually lives why is quite over there why is he in why is quite there why is he in a government stronghold because the u.s. wants him to get arrested to create a provocation that's why he's there. police in england and wales are being given more powers and a controversial scheme to combat a knife crime epidemic campaigners have called the move regressive and are

concerned the powers can be abused but the home secretary says officers need protection to. the police and on the front line in the box against serious violence on his voice will we give them the right tools to do that jumps. the so called section sixty checks will be trialed in several hotspot areas officers will be able to search any person or vehicle without reasonable suspicion the change comes after forty nine people were fatally stabbed this year alone the families of victims have welcomed the move but they should have happened earlier critics though say the powers give police the opportunity to racially profile individuals. according to home office data there were almost forty thousand knife crime offenses registered in england and wales last year discussing the problem on r.t. earlier former london police officer peter kirkland and social activist jasper who is a former quality advisor to the mayor of london. i'm afraid discrimination is a fact of life disproportionality and racial profiling. is part of the culture of

policing in la gina cities has nothing to say if they recently disproportionality and i probably assume. that the racism of police officers that an officer of the law with out any reasonable cools. can stop and detain you is a fundamental breach of civil liberties e-com do the public health approach without establishing peace on the streets in the first place and the only way of doing that the only way of stopping someone getting stabbed tonight tomorrow next week next month maybe even next year is policing that's the only chance we've got of stopping knives that around the streets being used so i think a bit like the fly society people are just making stuff up to just defy their political position is very clear the prime minister has said that stop and search is on just looking to the police to sort it out and that's what they've always done in the past and the police have always had some contingency capacity in the past

but that doesn't mean there's not a role for police in that absolutely isn't class go. to show that they need to establish peace on the streets for these are the things to take a chance of taking root and having the longer term effects but i think that partly politicians are under pressure because of the media reports they are repeat killings of young people in all sorts of age groups really who've lost their lives on the streets of london and we see this repetitive cycle of media commentary police on the pressure call for more powers more heavy enforcement approach more people to criminalize situation doesn't get any better. a federal judge in the u.s. state of north carolina has ruled is schools policy unconstitutional after it required girls to wear skirts and a bid to promote traditional values the initial complaint from one of the pupils came in two thousand and sixteen when she argued that skirts limit girls physical activity the girl also claimed that wearing

a skirt disrupts the learning process and makes some girls feel uncomfortable her mother helped her bring public attention to the issue a process that ultimately led to the court ruling. all i wanted was for my daughter and every other girl at school she had the option to wear pants so she could play outside. i sit comfortably and still warm in the winter we're happy to court agrees that it's disappointing that he took a court order to first a school to accept a simple fact that in two thousand and thirteen girls should have the choice to wear pants the judge ruled that the school's attempts to force girls to wear skirts violated the so-called equal protection clause noting that it imposes a burden on girls but not boys. the chance of a school board is amyloids in the opinion and will be meeting with council in the very near future to discuss their options moving forward we spoke to political activist kate smyth wait and she says gender linked uniforms are dated and it's high time for change. what it reminds us is that what we should actually be doing

is not waiting for parents to complain and start a lawsuit but legislating at national level to say you know what this is really important schools need to teach in a completely gender neutral way students should not be told what to wear or what classes to attend to what sports to play based on whether they're boys or girls it's so obvious that that school uniform needs to be something comfortable and practical and appropriate for the twenty first century and the idea that it's going to bear for half a boy's version of the girls' version all come on so discriminate towards children who don't want to do that for whatever reason there are so many reasons why children might not want to wear the particular uniform that's been assigned to their gender it's not it's not the right step so i think it's great that we're moving away from it. the u.s. has frozen arms contract with turkey in protest over ogress purchase of russian arms the pentagon says it is halting deliveries of equipment for f. thirty five stealth fighter jets which turkey is in the process of buying and washington is demanding cancel its purchase of the russian s four hundred

anti-aircraft system turkey is one of washington's key allies with nato and u.s. defense officials claim if turkey use the f. thirty five and the s one hundred within the same integrated system moscow would gain back door access to crucial and. elegans now this comes at a difficult time for turkey's president on sunday his party suffered a major blow in local elections was in control of key cities including the capital thousands of opposition party supporters have been out celebrating however the a.k. party is reportedly planning on challenging the results alleging there have been widespread voting irregularities despite the setback the ruling party and its allies still came out on top nationwide taking more than fifty one percent of the vote we discussed this with author and historian joe horn and ken stone from lee hamilton coalition to stop war. i think that there was dancing in the hallways at the pentagon this morning when news trickled in that mr a.k.p.

party might have lost not only distant but also. this is reflective of the sharp deterioration in relations between it and washington the u.s. needs the u.s. military industrial complex which is the most powerful economic and political force inside the usa needs to match maintain its monopoly over sales to all its nato allies and other allied countries in order to maintain change its profits and its power and its influence in washington so having a nato country like turkey turn down or using russian weapons is a very very bad precedent and they certainly don't want it to happen that's a global news update for this hour but don't forget you can always have to our website r.t. dot com for the details on all the stories and many more. breaks

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basis or watchers and it's not hard to see why given the industry that brought you if it bleeds it leads is a news station. as the old saying goes if you want to be depressed. turn on your news but not that today no this week we decided we'd bring you an april fools day show that will only focus on the most positive uplifting in the important news of the day that doesn't showcase the worst of us only the best of us. so let's start the show off with something truly great the great green wall of africa yes well u.s. president donald trump has been busy building or trying to build walls of barbed wire and hate metal in order to protect our southern border from poor people that don't look like farmers environmentalist and scientists working in more than twenty african nations have been building a wall of trees indigenous land use techniques environmental pretty good environmental protection to help combat the desertification of africa originally

started back in two thousand and seven with just eleven countries involved the ambitious project stretches across roughly six thousand miles eight thousand kilometers of drain that at the southern at the southern edge of the sahara desert in a region known as the. back by a qadri of conservation groups and governments around the world if the wall is completed it would be three times the size of the great barrier reef. with fifteen percent of the wall completed just ten years in the project there's still yes a long way to go but supporters are determined this grand green dream will work because unlike walls made of stone and concrete this wall is made with love and life which is the only walls truly worth building when you're watching the hawks. it's. like you know that i got. this.

because. while they were watching the hawks i am tyrrel but sometimes happens. this is the kind of well i love to see yes says although a fun show to. have measurable things to talk about i'm really excited about that. and i think this is one of the coolest things that we've seen as far as ecology and a whole continent involving numerous countries coming together to do that so the original plan is that this plan was to plan this great wall of trees that is going to be ten miles wide and ultimately forty three hundred fifty miles long and what it does sort of bisects about a dozen countries but it runs about senegal in the west and then just to djibouti in the east but the biggest problem.