[000:00:00;00] i . sixty general is cheered see in the u.s. congress as he talks of countering threats including from russia. spain struggles with the number of migrants arriving by sea smuggling gangs are cashing in on the refugee crisis best of journalist shares with us a rare interview with one of the human traffickers involved. over reports one. thousand two thousand for four thousand. the totality fifty plus one room to put into your own. an industry a poor town in the south of france is suffering from severe pollution with locals

registering above average rates of cancer and other britons. leaving unwelcome this is r.t. international. russia's once again been painted as one of the main threats to global safety nato secretary general has been addressing the u.n. correspondent peter all over with more on this story peter what exactly has he installed a big had to say. well the secretary general speech to the u.s. congress focused on four key points it looked at the airport and some of the alliances you may well imagine also an increase in the spending all of its members it also looked at expansion and of course the old for. all russian behavior. including a massive military buildup from the arctic to the mediterranean and from the black sea to the baltic the use of military grade nerve agent in not your kingdom

support for ourselves murderous regime in syria consistent cyber attacks on nato allies and partners targeting everything from parliaments to public routes. where un stoltenberg also met the us president donald trump is bates twelve no bones about the fact he wants to see members of nato up there spending game and it's certainly something that the nato secretary general is on board with we see that many more nato allies now meet the two percent going on and spending two percent of g.d.p. on the fans and even those who are not yet reached the two percent called london have now more and more of them have put in place or submitted credible national plans on how to reach the two percent god would you turn to turn to for. well stoltenberg is there is in the united states as part of the celebrations for the seventieth anniversary of the creation of nato has been said that it's alliance of

a bygone era however former head of the cia says that russia has given nato a new lease of life. let's keep in mind if you will that vladimir putin is the greatest gift to nato since the end of the cold war and it has provided a new reason for living if you will for nato seventy years of nato and if you listen to what's coming out of washington for those celebrations it would seem it's going to be around for a fair few years yet. many thanks spring is that update peter oliver. a people smuggler shed light on the lucrative illegal trade revealing that it cost each migrant at least two thousand euros to be taken to europe from africa revelations came in a documentary by a canadian investigative journalist and filmmaker. people have to have to spend a lot of money where they had to spend two thousand you know four thousand for four thousand you know or two thousand for

a few bucks is not gotten to you when you're in there in a spot you are lucky you made them into the money you try again to have a lot of money. and how do you guarantee and then you on the board you know you go to the auto zone they said it so and that was you know in the. in the spin after you have one but they couldn't sell them into it they come. they pick the person and they go you speak how much money can you make. from the door to spain where you know. every person you can have two thousand two thousand five hundred four thousand. the totality fifty person. fifty person you do fifty person everybody and by two thousand five hundred you know two thousand five hundred and then run the blood into your head

a lot of money we spent to you lauren southern who filmed that interview with the moroccan smuggler. now the moroccan man we assume at the moment is someone that would have connections within the moroccan government or be able to ensure that the coast guard would leave because we were told multiple times by people on the ground that there is a cut that people on the coast moroccan coast guard receive to stop patrolling certain areas so that boats can leave from spain so this is a quite. intelligent business this isn't just a few people fleeing their country desperately getting on dinghies trying to get to spain this is a very structured business and at times he's saying it's around five hundred to a thousand people i mean you could ten boats in a day you're making one point three million dollars why is no one talking about this massive criminal syndicate it's crazy to me to to think that anyone has been

portraying this as well certainly on the moroccan or turkish side of libyan side as a humanitarian aid crisis this is almost entirely a business and anyone you speak to on the ground migrant trafficker or otherwise will tell you this is a business they are not looking to help people they don't care if you're persecuted they don't care about your race religion your gender in fact women are turned away often in some of these camps. spain is one of the main gateways to europe from africa since the start of this year more than five thousand migrants of arrived in spain by the sea twenty eight thousand almost sixty thousand made the crossing low and so then again so the little spain can do to control the situation. there's not much the authorities can do i don't doubt that some want to do something about this however most of these migrants and this causes chaos for both the spanish and for the migrants themselves on the advice of traffickers are told to throw their

passports into the sea or destroy them before entering spain and we actually saw it with our own eyes passports that had been ripped up on the ground in these camps and morocco when the reason they do this is so that once they set foot in spain they have no way of being deported but what this also achieves is that there is no way of processing these migrants they can't be imagine how long it takes to process a person that has offered all of their history their passport their work their banking records it still takes five six seven years to get citizen citizenship in a country a person rocking up with not even a passport how are they supposed to get processed how are they supposed to get a job or become a citizen or even be seen as a refugee so the police can't deal with this influx of people because they can't even identify who they are and the migrants cannot become a part of the european system because on the advice of these traffickers they threw

out their passports assuming they would be entering to europe that is far more they imagine is far more wealthy and more like paradise than it actually is the reality is these people end up on the streets in france they end up on the streets in italy in spain unable to get a job unable to join the actual society because they can't be processed as citizens so the police can do what they want but there's not much they can achieve when these people cannot be identified. the u.k. is now claiming that it doesn't know how many civilian casualties were caused by strikes in syria and iraq comes after authorities face the wave of criticism claiming their actions in the n.t. also company resulted in just one civilian death. it was not our position that there has only been a single civilian casualty as a result of our military action what we are saying is that we only have evidence of what we believe to have been a single civilian casualty and according to the u.k. defense ministry they've all air force conduct

a nearly two thousand strikes during its engagement in syria and iraq in twenty fourteen resulting in the deaths of more than four thousand eisel fighters human rights organization amnesty international released a damning report last year the kids the coalition a failing to acknowledge the scale of damage to the campaign course evidence it is completely reprehensible that the coalition refuses to acknowledge its role in most of the civilian casualties caused let's not forget the minister of defense actually only trained one civilian had been killed after months and months of claiming you know the idea that you can know whether someone is an arsenal fighter or a civilian after a bomb has been dropped on them the idea that you don't have enough boots on the ground for one category of people to be identified but you do for another one i'm afraid there's just absolutely stinks of propaganda from our government i don't think the figures would change i don't think any figure that we've been given about

our involvement in syria afghanistan iraq libya have been to europe because we just don't know we keep rushing into these interventions with no idea about who retired getting the best thing and i'm for british troops and british planes to come back to britain. president emanuel michael insists that protecting the environment is one of france's priorities but along picture perfect results that it coastlines pollution is a critical problem even putting lives at risk your correspondent charlotte dubinsky has more. this is for so many on the one hand it looks like an idyllic seaside town in the south of france but you don't have to look very far to see the whole area is overshadowed by one of europe's largest industrial and port zones for years the oil refineries chemical factories and still companies have spewed out and noxious cocktail

a few residents say that plague the health problem or. the main problem comes from the industrial port area which emits ultra fine particles that get into our lungs and bloodstream and cause diseases the cancer rates here is ten percent higher than the average in france and aspirin diabetes levels also elevated this could all be avoided if the waste from the factories was processed properly daniels' not mean himself he's been diagnosed with diabetes and heart problems linked to the pollution. probably i shouldn't complain about having diabetes when some people here have several different types of cancer is an enormous problem just fifty kilometers from here none of this is happening so we can clearly see that it's a local problem with a local source there is a stark difference in pollution between our village and the ones further away french government reports have a good knowledge that residents here are more likely to suffer from chronic diseases like alzheimer's while women who participated in a study were almost three times more likely to have or have had cancer compared to

the national average even claims that citizens benefit from some of the highest environmental standards in the world and has pledged to continue cleaning up the continent but despite taking countries like france to court over air quality standards many people here believe that the actions just don't go far enough. they're too weak they say that they need to protect industries and of course we need industry but they need to stop cutting corners and do more to reduce pollution . the european commission even admits that twenty three of its twenty eight member states exceed air quality norms and it knows that poor air quality accounts for the premature deaths of four hundred thousand people every year with less than two months before e.u. citizens head to the polls environmental issues and concerns long been an advocate of ramping up the battle to combat climate change we are killing our planet's lead

to three it's there is no planet b. and if we do nothing our children will know a world of migrations of was of shortage of done for this world it is not a few queue we want for ourselves ma generation will do the best in order for your generation to have the choice to choose. but it will be the duty of your generation to do the job environmental campaigners have accused him of all talk and little action people in for so many seem to feel the same way you are now it's on the promises he hasn't done anything yet. if nothing is done then in future years the situation will become very serious. and i think he wants to tackle lots of problems but when it comes to implementing them i'm not sure he's succeeding at the moment

he has other things on his plate and this issue is not one of his priorities. i think there's still plenty of work to be done you know about the yellow vest movement and one of the conditions is improving the environment people here say that without immediate action the future remains their children a bleak prospect so it didn't ski r.t. for. western women who wear the hijab when they visit iran are insulting the nation that's according to a prominent iranian women's rights activist she believes that calling the part of iranian culture contradicts the efforts of those battling against the compulsory head covering law they say that this is a cultural issue with where it out of respect to the culture of iran calling it discriminatory law as part of our culture this is an insult to a nation around mandatory requires all women to wear it in public the activists condemnation of western women

a stir mixed reaction online some calling them out pope ocracy while others have defended. while we were in the middle as to fighting for their freedom from this religious tyranny westerners think your job is a cultural haute couture. no they wear it because they're told if they don't they can't get in a state they're just being polite but everyone knows it's mandatory they know they have to otherwise they may never return as a woman fighting against a compulsory he japanese brand it's more than painful to me when i hear people say it compulsory he job is our culture it is not just look at the picture of the rand before deny nine hundred seventy nine islamic revolution. ok let's discuss this further now with journalist saleh. saudi humming it is a spokesperson for the council of exposed limbs of britain welcome to you both if i may come to you first mario so we heard the activists are getting more western

women. in iran the claim is they support a discriminatory law and therefore in so women who are fighting against it what's your opinion. why do i have to respect the laws when i go to another country and when for example even as a veiled person i am insulted i am stopped at airports just because i am a muslim woman because i choose to wear the his shop and this is something that is not mandatory for me this is something that i choose and this is part of women's freedom and if we want to go into the conversation about the issue of freedom and fair think there's a lot of things that we can we can say about that when we talk about iran iran what was based on an after the one nine hundred seventy nine revolution everybody knows that it was a people's revolution and this people's revolution made way for a referendum for the people to choose they chose that they want an islam a republic and when i mean by islamic republic i mean the true islam i don't mean

a diet short of the isis on as far as i'm talking about the true islam that goes by respecting all people as human beings women and. and men women in iran are respected as human beings i as a veiled person have the right as just like any man i don't have to be unveiled i don't have to be an object in order for me to get to acquire my rights and my freedom as a human being and this will be helpful for other people to look at me as a human being so why do we not first backed people's law this is a law that people chose why don't they do another reference they talk to other women who are freely wearing the hijab or other women inside iran or say that no they are with this law why is it always this highlighting that that it is women that are against wearing this his job or as this is inaccurate this is just from a very few and chosen selective people who are standing against the only in order to i think

a promote the mass media. image of women as objects as sex objects for may just interrupt. if you just want to bring inside and give a chance to respond i can see that she's she's enthusiastic to have a say go ahead. it's just. not for one moment she even considered the women the. tortured raped boko haram guards choosing to remove you don't ever speak for them and you're not full you have real value when you go when you are not forced to yes yes there was lots of proof but you're not going to take into account any of those women's voices because it doesn't fit your narrative you refusing to you're just lying about the about you know being made to take off your veil yes you're not allowed to cover your face in some countries it is the law they have a law on banning you of of obstructing of of any covering of face but they don't

force you to remove your value is not comparable the women the women that. go to iran can those valves off and of being persecuted as a result talk about them or you just going to let's not an issue of lying look i don't know if i have the chance to talk to talk right now but you as a person you are insulting at least half a billion veiled woman not inside iran outside iran as well it's not just about the veiled woman the point is they have the right to your example and they have no right to yell outside of iran are you merely you know you are many and you are on either persecuted our very moving director who is no lawyer and they have the freedom they have the freedom to be at his ranch outside are not in or around me that is not it's not only because your arms are your determination your your information women in iran are olympic medalists they are award winning mathematicians they are physicists they are members of parliament also got a job it's not easy and the only way i don't wear the veil i will tell you they are

not allowed to him and that he was in junior high is respected in that law. i'm not bush you don't know like little bull shit your own country are you but you did you start your eyes to see if you could read right and remember you are not getting your brain for a new. idea. what the point the saudi is making there is that there is no choice for women and iran is something that they have to do and if they don't then they will be punished in some way shape or form do you disagree with that but not only that they're not allowed even constitute marianna's on take part in normal things are you asking the question i'm is the ira our police. well excuse me but there's a there's a lot of inaccuracy here i think you need to be very accurate when you talk about these things i don't know if you're not living in iran so you don't know what's happening inside i'm not an iranian myself i'm going to monitor iran several times but i know from details i know i've visited iran many times and i have many iranian

friends what i do know is that iran after the one nine hundred seventy nine revolution and everybody knows that it was a people's revolution the i it's all yours it islamic one of these guys that it was going to not to survive out was necessary if you lot of people it was in this ok was lot of illusion but it was a people's revolution and now that it's every single person inside iran wanted to change that to run a cold dictator at that time it was the shah who by the way did not give women any sort of right and women were second class citizens m.p.b. even third class citizens there were only have to follow a mattress out and iron objects is all right well you are an electorate they were not in the political life they were not in the they were not even i mean the judges were not given that you can get in universities or schools after you you can say i am lying you have to give me proof i can i do you all know you know what you go to iran yourself go back to the land of origin go by what is going to be wrong because you have to wear the veil you want they want to be out of your friend you go to iran and take longer to remain already knew how would you run and make

a few iranian women can you go to iran and i take you leave. the question was posed to me you need to let me you're trying to make this other people in the west not know the truth about the veiled woman the veld women are also free to do whatever they want to do when they are free to do anything veiled i mean on the women of the not mass media lies going on which how do you get women who really know you luck and this trying to to to to divert attend people's attention from they don't want to see that women in iran are treated as human beings and not as objects not as objects like in the western world where we're. or women whether in the advertisements are needed oh yes they are they are jogging around a lot of money form of can still be president why because they still look at her as an object they can't look at women as human beings you have to face the truth the truth is in what you did there was a woman wanted money on

a bash of women hungry money to run the country in iran talking about iran allow me to talk when i was in a female leader in iran you need to listen i think you have a point i think you have a problem of the light and i think if you go to iran to talk to people i think you will see a difference i think you will have a great enlightenment i think you will be i how you are a hundred times on that i remember when where i was not going to go and you can do whatever you want and by the way just to let you know women that were not there and you turned on you are wrong on the you know what however they want if you would run with be unveiled in front of mud that is their personal that is their person just slightly outside of just lying maced on the referendum on the people's choice it was a people's choice to wear to follow islam a cruel inside iran a part of us or a cruel is the head shop and mostly that really risks let's people respect them you are not the one who is going to be respected it's the woman with a limp and it's the iranian olympian who goes all of the world and gets not only mean that and moved them

a little she was how the bamiyan were to remove all those you know that computer you just as you just kind of i remember going in your little world as a human being i don't think you have that same respect i don't think you will earn that same respect that other women will that iranian woman who is well is that i wear a veil is it not you have been to make something out if you do not respect women children are of a group that as you say you don't add one and a lot to spend very anti you will go on the other is here a lot of it back you don't even hear about it you're blocked you just want to say this is an iranian revolution you want to create that stereotypical image that the west is trying to show that veiled women are suppressed. now we have even two ok right now it is a yes sound like a nut job you have how you been talking about in the west who how she missed out in the wesley's how do you know the sort of language that you're using your washing done now in your results you want to demean yourself and use that language that's

up to you because you're creating that disrespect you will be what are you even to longer about their son i have already had is not going to tell us that it had i don't know i'm not desired i want to be someone who so side of my and that is this is going anywhere you want you don't want your listeners on a crazy you don't even want to listen did you ever let know i don't want to listen because you sound like you're lazy because you haven't speak to anyone inside and all the other women that are deserving of receiving i got to wonder where the hedgehog around without a job. so before me interject at this point where you both just take a breath. and i want you say to those people who are who say it's up to each country to decide what the rules of what the laws are and people who come to that country should respect them. i think it's i think it's ridiculous i think asking wimmin to come in when they come into our country to justice and way you can't do that not only that for our for women from you know my our countries they then start using that as

a stick to beat them with they say to them look at these non muslim women they're coming into your country and wearing your job when you're in your country you have to be more pious and them taking away their choices those are the women we never ever talk about the women that are being thrown into prison let's talk about them i suppose marion she's going to lie about this and say that's not even happening of course it's happening why don't you actually listen to these women why don't you listen to that woman who put out that tweet who works tirelessly to see every day for for women to be able to choose whether they want to or do not want to ask him to impose you know this sexy culture on them she's not asking everybody to remove their jobs she's saying i simply want them to be able to choose that's something that iran hasn't allowed. the claim there is that if women don't wear the veil in iran though with they could be thrown in prison they should have the choice

do you disagree with them. well of course there's a there's a long discussion that we can talk about when it comes to the issue of whether it should be enforced or not but like i told you after the ninety seven i revolution this is something that everybody has to know there was a rough around and people chose people chose to be governed by islamic rule and i mean once again i have to remind everyone that we're talking about true islamic rule i'm not talking about the type of a slum or coral that demeans women or. womanlike diets used to are almost are doing and they really slowed down the slaughtering and things that have nothing to do with islam i'm talking about the true islam make teachings and one of those is treating women as human beings and that's what i mean that's what i'm trying to tell and being more than i am out of date i understand how allowing the husband to be a hundred lachie lose is to be governed by i didn't interrupt you i let you speak your words come in just say we've got about thirty seconds left for the final so.

so what was one a people choose the majority of the people choose to be governed by islam across one of them is to where the his job and the his job does not demean women it actually makes them become human beings and i'm not going to hang known unavailable going to saying america is human and women who are veiled i'm not saying that this is another issue but inside iran there is a role and there is a lot of good sense as a result unless you change the whole system unless you ask for all women and i probably requires nor statistics or another referendum. is going to. fail does not mean as i'm afraid many thanks to both of you for your participation my guess is our study of how many spokes person from the council of britain journalists thank you to you both ladies. that wraps things up for this news are we

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