nater sixty generally cheered in the u.s. congress as he talks of countering threats including from russia. thanks struggles for the number of migrants arriving by sea smuggling gangs are cashing in on the refugee crisis and investigative journalist shares with his a rare interview with one of the human traffickers involved. over. two thousand two thousand and five to four thousand you get totally to fifty per cent of. the phone. industry a port town in the south of france is suffering from severe pollution with locals registering above average rates of cancer and other illnesses.

good evening and welcome you watching r t international. pressure has once again been painted as one of the main threats to the world nato secretary general was cheered in the u.s. congress as the outlined three blocks build up in response to moscow 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 seven nations with the seven right to choose their own puff. on to their toes secondly general speech to the u.s. congress focused on four key points it looked at the importance of the alliances

and may well imagine also an increase in the spending of its members it also looked at expansion and of course the old fall 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 in not the kingdom support for ourselves murderous regime in syria. consistent cyber attacks on nato allies and partners targeting everything from parliaments to poverty routes. sophisticated this information campaigns and attempts to interfere in democracy itself. again stoltenberg also met the us president donald trump is vague 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 the clear message from prison term . help is having a real impact we see that many more than a dollars now meet the two percent gargano spending two percent of g.d.p. on defense and even those who are not yet reached a two percent guard 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 than we did twenty twenty four well stoltenberg as there was 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. prince promised a treason is 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 and in the not much has changed in the p.m.'s position to break the current impasse you know your m.p.'s were also less than welcoming to the p.m.'s latest role of the dice. true proposals put forward for across party cooperation to solve the brics a 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 house who will support or do you 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 point here prime minister it is you're having formal talks with the

leader of the opposition scotland will not accept the tory ordeal bieber breaks it does it remain the position of the prime minister that the leader of the opposition is not fit to govern they do not think that the labor party should be in government it is a conservative for different people but to do that we need to find a way of this house agreeing the withdrawal agreement and agreeing. and agreeing the way forward and that is on that basis that i have been sitting down with members across the house lift the reason main jeremy corbyn failed to reach consensus trees in may could try seeking a further extension from the european union but that could proven popular at home even forcing the pm to call an election or a second referendum if however main called an agree on the deal or that would put the u.k. on track to leave the e.u. by may twenty second to brussels though could refuse further talks which could lead to an exit without any deal whatsoever. some analysis now from political commentator and journalist john white joins me very good evening to you

john has not been much for briggs it is to cheer les do you think this cross party effort will lead to a way out of the impasse. i personally don't think so in your life i think this could be a trap for coulter and because prime minister to easily sarah lucas to condition to these talks that he must support of the drug deal and jeffrey kluger has a natural resource deal has talked through the of talk to schedule for closely that's what the original saying that talks were inconclusive and that he was surprised that the prime minister's position are not changed as much as he had thought it would be a child whereby the prime minister can engage in these talks about the right and then come out and believe it or recover from looking to accept and that will be a basis for calling any general election hoping that the bad publicity that cruised to generate kovan as a consequence will see him lose our election to the prime minister is an utter crisis a government is in crisis and there needs to be some kind of cathartic moment that

will release the pressure has built up over these past few weeks yet you see of course i personally at this juncture don't see that these talks will be assured in any meaningful sense. think it's possible to resume a might be running down the clock here because she's insisted on that original deal but she stuck with the a new she's not been offering other options because she just be using corbin as a way of muddying the waters and then the clock runs down and then people are told me the vote for my deal this time around or it's no deal. well to see me at this point is so deluded and so desperate that she is capable of anything so i don't there i don't doubt that she could be really notable she has been running their local up to this point but it's hard to see how that would work given that the parliament has refused to back up withdrawal deals after c. it takes it to shoot a commons and no deal seems to be well nigh off the table so i don't know what partner she would be trying to achieve in running down the clock she's already tried and it's field i think it's more likely that she's trying to as they see set

up an indicator see a reply she can accuse them of looking to exit and use that as a basis of perhaps calling a general election perhaps including and and to trying to get a real credible to the credibility of the tory party that is. the sunda first division and there's consensus now we have this division every ria the station into any part of all across the political class as a whole as this crisis continues to mature. if we just look at the slightly bigger picture you know briggs it was voted for the people of the u.k. voted to leave the european union and then that decision to leave was put in the hands of a group of unpaid so as i was on a predominately remain as it is that the lessons of the problem. it is it is a huge day go off between the political class and the general public but i am one of those who doesn't believe that people who teach to throw themselves into destitution are more poverty and more misery sure cause out of excess would be a toy picture given that the conditions that we know rise from it we should to

a party that is is lusting for more free market more austerity more wealth to the rich and more misery for the two and watching classes or not we can treat your investment you specially the last remnants of the real fish state particularly the ne chess so i don't think the public were voting for the senate who was cassatt as it were of anger at the status quo after forty years of saturate economics culminating in one years old brutal tory a city that was by and large cast on the basis of late the city and emotional who and i get a little anger is more than justified but i think we have to be careful that anger doesn't tempt who are into making people's legs look rather than better so we do live in a representative democracy and yuki and ease in peace have been elected to represent their constituents and do so in a way that corresponds to the the importance and the seriousness of the task and senate is no more serious an issue facing the country right now then direction. brussels officials going to gave the impression they were willing to be flexible

either to get the deal that they wanted for braggs it or perhaps even on the off chance that you know it might not happen in the end but what about the argument now that they'll be afraid of this dragging on so long that the u.k. takes part in the european elections and that might actually unsettle some of the other members of the block like you think brussels are to be willing to just get this over and done with by now. well the out over still looking to get this drawn to a conclusion about a conclusion that the. general riches to make sure that if britain does lead us on the worst possible terms as a possible solution doesn't satisfy their own or any of the other twenty seven member states to think that n.b.c. to leave the e.u. and given it with given it the rise of your skepticism across europe has become a mainstream political kind rather than the marginal clarinet used to be before i think the e.u. and upper and brussels bureaucracy i think they're starting to come to the belief

that there may be a chance of them will not leave the e.u. given hauteur long disgraces has been and given what the perceive as a growing sense of the country perhaps taking on a measure of that from the huge demonstration for a second referendum to police in london a couple weeks ago and there's and growing up that say for now for the country not to leave the e.u. this year to have a second referendum which the equivalent to city would result in the space of war against britain even e.u. i know that very much myself this country is polarized in a way that it never has been with the breakdown of the brics it will correspond to social economic cultural and national thought lines are being created across the zones dental for losers that it is i'm sure in many respects brics it is less a harbinger of britain's excess on the new e.u. and more of a harbinger of the possible break up of the u.k. . john your thoughts on this play. come to journalist john white is my guest.

a people smuggler has shed light on the lucrative illegal trades revealing that it cost each migrant at least two thousand euro to be taken to europe from africa the revelations came in a documentary made by a canadian investigative journalist and filmmaker. people have to have to spin out of money. they had to spend two thousand you know. four thousand for four thousand euro two thousand for a few what is not guaranteed when you enter in a span you are lucky. you try again to have a lot of money. and how do you guarantee and when you're on the board you know you go to the. international the international. after. one but they were meant to come.

bushman. in this piece how much money can you make her boat. from the door to space where you know. you can have two thousand two thousand five hundred or four thousand. and. fifty plus one. fifth of course when everybody. on their vehicle to go in. and put into. the phone we spoke to lawrence of the new film by an 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 received 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 imagine how much money you're making it's one hundred thirty thousand euros per boat 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 via sea in twenty eight thousand almost sixty thousand made the journey or in southern again says that there's 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 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 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. western women who wear the head jump when they visit iran are insulting the nation according to a prominent to rein in women's rights activist she believes that calling the head of iranian culture contradicts the efforts of those battling against the compulsory head covering law. they say that this is a cultural issue where where it's out of respect to the culture of iran calling it discriminatory law as part of our culture this is an insult to a nation runs mandatory the job low requires all women to wear it in public the activists condemnation of western women the mixed reaction online some calling about the hypocrisy while others have defended them. while women in the middle is to fight for their freedom from this religious tyranny westernesse think you job is a cultural good to. know they wear it because the 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 job in iran 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 the issue for debates with journalist. a spokesperson from the council of muslims of britain. well why do i have to respect the 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 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 people who are standing against this only in order to i think a promote the mass media. image of women as objects as sex objects

is just. not for one moment even consider the women thrown into prison. tortured raped by prison guards for choosing to remove you don't ever speak up for them you are 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 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

outside of iran you know if you are on sick you that are removing the 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 the i it's all yours it islamic god that it was an art to survive out was that if you moderate level. 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 wimmin to come in when they come into your country to justice and way you can't do that are not only that are for women from you know my our country is 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 his 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 people choose and majority of the people choose to be governed

by islamic law one of them is to wear the hijab and the has not does not demean women it actually makes them become human beings and i'm not even a known unavailable going to tell you mary how is that what you men than women who are veiled i'm not saying that there's another issue but inside iran there is a role and there is a lot of good. unless you change the whole system. is now claiming it doesn't know how many civilian casualties were caused by strikes in syria and iraq comes after authorities face the 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 our military action what we're saying is that we only have evidence of what we believe to have been a single civilian casualty according to the u.k. defense ministry the royal 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 fighters human rights organization amnesty international release the damning report last year the cues the coalition of failing to acknowledge the scale of damage the campaign calls civilians. it is completely reprehensible that the coalition refuses to acknowledge its role if most of the civilian casualties it caused let's not forget the ministry of defense actually only trained one civilian had been killed after months and months of claiming none 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 this 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 or afghanistan iraq libya have been accurate because we just

don't know we keep rushing into these interventions with no idea about who are targeting the best 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 as a matter of my common sense that protecting the environment to swan to france's priorities along picture perfect results study of coastlines pollution is a critical problem even putting lives at risk on your car spun a chart devinsky 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 will get into our lungs and bloodstream and cause disease in us 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 the local saw shop 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 the e.u. claims its 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 quality standards many people here believe that the easy 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. of course the european commission even admits that twenty three of its twenty eight member states exceed air quality norms and knows that poor air quality accounts the prime a child 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 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 lead to face it's there is no planet b. and if we do nothing our children will know a world of migrations of walls 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 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. 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 their 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 us. thanks to you with our international are back with updates for you in half an hour. i'm max kaiser one more of my guide to financial survival this is a hedge fund it's a device used by professional scallywags to earn money. that's right these hedge funds are simply not accountable and we're just getting more and more exposed them . totally destabilize the global economy you need to protect yourself and get in

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