months of intensive school. wraps. and they save lives. the general cheered in the u.s. congress as he talks of countering threats including from russia. spain struggles as the number of migrants arriving by sea smuggling gangs are cashing in on the refugee crisis an investigative journalist shares with grab interview with one of the human traffickers involved. over. two thousand two thousand fractal four thousand. the totality fifty plus one. on. an industrial port town in the south of france is suffering from severe pollution with locals registering above average rates of cancer and other analysts

. welcome this is. russia's once again being painted as one of the main threats in the world the nato secretary general was cheered in the u.s. congress to see outlined the blocks build up in response to moscow's suppose that hostile actions. we have increased the redness of forces to people decide so the nato response force modernized our command structure bolstered i was cyber defenses and we have stepped up our support to our close partners georgia and ukraine sovereign nations with a sovereign right to choose their own puff. on today to the secretary general speech to the u.s. congress focused on four key points it looked at the importance of the alliances

you may well imagine also an increase in the spending of its members it also looked at expansion and of course the old four we see a path of 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 inaki kingdom support for ourselves murderous regime in syria consistent cyber attacks on nato allies and partners targeting everything from parliaments to poverty rates. sophisticated this information campaigns and attempts to interfere in democracy itself. again stoltenberg also met the us president donald trump is bates well 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 the clear message from president trump house. help is having a real impact we see that many more than eight dollars now meet the two percent going on a spending two percent of g.d.p. on defense and even those who are not yet reached a two percent guard longer have now more and more of them have put in place or submitted credible national plans on how to reach the two percent god on we turn to twenty four well stoltenberg as 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. britain's prime minister is a man has met with the leader of the opposition in a bid to move briggs it forward jeremy corbyn has described the talks as useful but inconclusive adding that not much has changed in the p.m.'s position to break the current impasse earlier m.p.'s were also less than welcoming to the p.m.'s latest role of the dice. two proposals put forward for across party cooperation to solve the great sea crisis one of them was to work with the leader of the opposition to deliver a major breakthrough one on the other was to work with the two hundred eighty employees across the carriers who will support her deal subject of a confirmatory referendum why does she trust the leader of the opposition more than the people british government is in westminster is completely dysfunctional the important part here prime minister that you're having formal talks with the leader

of the opposition scotland will not accept the tory ordeal leiber breaks it does it remain the position of the prime minister that the leader of the opposition is not fit to govern and they do not think that the labor party should be in government it is a conservative for delivering to people but to do that we need to find a way of this house agreeing that withdrawal agreement and agreeing the degree in the way forward and that is on that basis that i have been sitting down with members across the house if the reason main german corbin failed to reach a consensus trees are made could try seeking a further extension from the e.u. but that could produce if i were the main goal been agree on the deal well that would put u.k. on track to leave the e.u. by may twenty second brussels could go refuse for the talks which could lead to an exit without any deal. a people smuggler i shed light on the lucrative illegal trade revealing that it cost each migrant least two

thousand euro to be taken to europe from africa the revelations came in a documentary made by a canadian investigative journalist and. they had to spend two thousand you know. four thousand for four thousand euro two thousand for a few bucks is not guaranteed when you enter in a spot you are lucky. the moment you try again you have a lot of money. and how do you guarantee and when you're on the board you know you go to do. this it is so international the international. after you have won but they could sell them into. a people person and they go to spain how much money you make. from the door to spain where you know. every person you can have two thousand two thousand factories

or four thousand you know the totality fifty person you have to go fifty person to fifty person everybody by two thousand five hundred or two thousand five. hundred but. we spoke to lawrence 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 about the 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 imagine how much money you're making it's one hundred thirty thousand euros per boat 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 via the city twenty eighteen almost sixty thousand made the crossing over and saw them again says the little spain can do. 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. around in these camps of 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 a 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 are caused by strikes in syria and iraq it comes after authorities faced a wave of criticism for claiming their actions in the campaign resulted in just one

civilian death it was not our position that there has only been a single civilian casualty as a result of a military action what we are saying is that we only have evidence of what we believe to have been a single civilian casualty. well according to the u.k. defense ministry the royal air force conducted nearly two hundred thousand deaths strikes during its engagement in syria and iraq in twenty fourteen resulting in the deaths of more than four thousand deisel fighters human rights organization amnesty international released a damning report last year the kids the coalition of failing to acknowledge the scale of damage to the campaign core civilians it is completely reprehensible that the coalition refuses to acknowledge its role in most of the civilian casualties caused let's not forget the ministry 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 russia's thing to do would be to leave the people of syria to have their own destiny in their own hands and for british troops and british planes to come back to britain. present a minor my common sense protecting the environment is one of france's priorities but along picture perfect resort studded coastlines pollution is a critical problem even putting some lives at risk iraq correspondent charlotte do basically has more. this is for some 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 support

zones for years the oil refineries chemical factories and still companies have spewed out and noxious cocktail of feels residents say that plague the health problem or. the main problem comes from the industrial port area which emits ultra fine particles will get into our lungs and bloodstream and cause diseases of 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 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 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 member states exceed air quality norms and knows that poor air quality accounts the permit your debts of four hundred thousand people every year with less until. once before e.u. citizens head to the polls environmental issues and concerns like those in force so now are climbing the agenda meanwhile president matt corn has long been an advocate

of ramping up the battle to combat climate change we are killing our planet's latest phrase it's there is no planet b. and if we do nothing our children will know a world of migrations of walls of shortage done for us world it is not a few queue we want for ourselves my generation will do the best in order for your generation to us 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. show unity 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 a. german car giant diamond which owns miss sadie's is opening a plant near moscow is an important milestone in recent german relations the move is expected to create up to a thousand jobs not easy to stand up brings us up to speed. the production of mercedes benz some of the most prestigious cars in the world is coming to russia dimly the owner of the brand has invested some two hundred fifty

million euros to launch its factory in russia. its production capability is some twenty five thousand cars per year as for russia though it's gaining more than just money or prestige point its economy could add up to a thousand jobs thanks to this factory alone. while the opening of this factory in fact is seen as such an important thing the russian president vladimir putin himself came here to take part in the opening ceremony he was joined on the podium by germany's economy minister who flew into moscow from berlin and his visit to moscow was seen as a symbolic thing i should say because it comes at

a time when washington has been applying more and more pressure on germany for its business deals with russia it doesn't mean that this plant is a problem or at least for now but another business project is i'm talking about north stream gas pipeline from russia into europe in german companies who are building it together with russia they have been almost reticent to with sanctions for their participation in the project and they were told to drop out by washington and what this would lead to was a diplomatic scandal the flag of the i think no one wants to be unilaterally dependent on russia but we received russian gas not only the d.d.r. where i lived but also in west germany during the cold war and they don't see why the. times today should be so much worse that we can no longer see russia really apart not now this factory of course can't match the nord stream project in scale but still mercedes-benz has become an integral part of germany's identity alongside

with its national football team or autobahns or well beer and today berlin has once again shown that it is ready to stand up for the rights of its companies to do business independently i'm done of r.t. . only u.s. vice president joe biden who's to run for the white house in twenty twentieth's been fending off allegations of sexual misconduct and that swirl of negative press has taken attention away from another potentially damaging revelation ukraine's former top prosecutor speaking to political website the hill is accused by dint of pressuring kiev into sacking him kill him or pin digs deeper. former vice president joe biden is caught up in a bit of a scandal his name has been floated for the last year or so as a possible democratic challenger the donald trump in the twenty twenty elections but now everyone is talking about his habit of getting frisky with both women and girls in public he leans down smells my hair and then plants this big long

kiss on the top of my head joe biden is presidential campaign hasn't even officially begun and people in china not go out of the running joe biden is facing new accusations of inappropriate behavior joe has a habit of doing things right out in the open and while everyone is focusing on this rather touchy subject some of his earlier deeds are not getting as much attention last year in an interview joe bragged about getting ukraine's general prosecutor fired he says he was standing up to corruption got a commitment from poor shouldn't go they would take action against the state prosecutor they did this to them tell you not get the hours i said you not get the bill you know i'm going to be leaving here i think it was about six hours and we're going to reduce sixteen hours if the prosecutor is not fired you're not getting the money. put in place someone who was solid and time well just so happens that the general prosecutor was investigating

an energy firm in which joe biden's son hunter biden was heavily invested bris milah holdings is an energy corporation in ukraine and hunter biden the son of the former vice president has made a rather handsome profit from it especially in the aftermath of the twenty fourteen events in ukraine in which pro e.u. forces took power that prosecutor was looking into three different instances of foul play from under his cash cow however all it took was a phone call from papa joe and that prosecutor was out we had. heard and the crime investigation. into the. hundreds of. members of the blue detained funds as well as another u.s. based legal entity rosemont said they could see for consulting services one might argue that perhaps joe biden had no idea about his son's financial interests they say he's the vice president perhaps he was too busy running the country to pay

attention to his son's finances however if he watched any american media he could in the mist it. back during the ukraine events of two thousand and fourteen the white house dismissed any notion that hunter biden's financial dealings had any impact on their decisions i'm wondering if the state. or anything. presidents joining the board of directors of this ukrainian. gas company know he's a private citizen so as real isn't real as a video show that joe biden has some pretty strange proclivities and more women come forward saying they do not appreciate his affection at this point it's pretty clear that joe has an even stranger skeletons in his closet that he would like to keep very. artsy new york responding to the accusations of sexual harassment

and said he never had the intention to act inappropriately as a surprise supporter. if you've been sexually harassed or assaulted write me to as a reply to this tweet. hate to say sheen all you you have daughters. i believe dr christine blasi forward. what i did feel was an invasion of my boys only autonomy and then they should hold my space you don't expect to be touched and kissed and caressed by the vice president of the united states in no circumstance is that appropriate.

i'm proud to call joe biden a friend i believe that joe biden's in town has never been to meet anyone uncomfortable and that he's kind empathetic leadership is what our country needs especially now. these two it's well not age well you're losing credibility and you're the same person who'd made excuses for bill clinton i thought he said women on the tsunami or he said only what it's politically can be. these are democrats who have championed the me too movement standing up for believing every woman but when it comes to one of their own that clearly is going against a woman's will touching them in appropriately with sexual advances coming up behind them kissing them on the back of the head or on the back of the neck and groping them and either in private or in full public display the democrats seem to have

a two tiered or a double standard i should say when it comes to one of their own and when you have a me too movement that becomes. bastardized and weaponized for people that have nothing but political objectives in mind and we're not real victims you then take the real victims and you discredit them and you and they lose their voice and that is the real tragedy here is that the me too movement has been weaponized by people in politics who are trying to use it against their political opponents and that's what we see time and time again particularly from the democrat party weaponize in this me too movement against the conservatives for their own political gain. western women who wear the when they visit iran are insulting the nation according to a prominent to rein in women's rights activist she believes that calling his job part of iranian culture contradicts the efforts of those battling against the compulsory head covering law they say that this is a cultural issue we're very it's out of respect to the culture of iran calling it

discriminated law as part of our culture this is an insult to a nation. runs mandatory he job law requires all women to wear it in public the activist condemnation of western women is the mixed reaction online some calling them out for a while others have defended them while we were in the middle east to frighten 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 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 we put this issue up for dividing through journalist madam saleh. spokesperson from the council of muslims

of britain. well why do i have to respect laws when i go to another country and when for example even as a veiled person i insulted i am stopped at airports just because i am a muslim woman because i choose to wear the his job and this is something that is not mandatory for me this is something that i choose and this is part of women's freedom i have people who are standing against this only in order to i think promote the mass media. image of women as objects as sex objects is disgusting. not for one moment she even considered the women thrown into prison. tortured raped by prison guards for choosing to remove you don't ever speak for them and you're not full you have 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 it'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 women not inside iran outside iran as well it's not just about the veiled woman point is they have the right to your example and they have no right to yell out outside of iran. if you are on a secure that are removing there is no law and they have the freedom what i do know is that iran after the one nine hundred seventy nine revolution everybody knows that it was a people's revolution it's all yours it islamic one of these guys that it was an artist you have you found was that a lot of it wasn't as large of illusion but it was

a people's revolution i think it's i think it's ridiculous i think asking women in to come. when they come into a country to justice and way you can do not only that 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 that are coming into our 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 one a people choose and majority of the people choose to be governed by islam a call one of them is to wear the her job and the job does not demean women it actually makes them become a human beings and i'm going to unveil we're not saying america now is human and then women who are veiled i'm not saying that this is another issue but inside iran there is a role and there's a lot of good as a result unless you change the whole system. will be back with updates for you and

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