the secretary general of nato is cheered in the u.s. congress says he sets plans to counter the supposed threats from russia. smuggling gangs cash in on the flow of migrants from north africa to spain and investigative journalist shares with us a rare interview with one of the traffic visible. over. two thousand so the fact that a four thousand. two hundred fifty person on board. and industrial court in the south of france faces a pollution crisis with locals raising over soaring cancer rates.

live from moscow what's your theme. tonight thanks for joining us this hour. a russia has once again been painted as a key global threat the nato secretary general got an enthusiastic response from the u.s. congress outlined countermeasures against moscow. 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 a 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 rates. sophisticated this information campaigns and attempts to interfere in the more crissy itself. again stoltenberg also met the us president donald trump is a 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 president trump. help is having a real impact we see that many more than eight dollars now meet the two percent god on the spending two percent of g.d.p. on defense and even those who are not yet reached the two percent god 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 didn't turn to turn to for well stoltenberg is there 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 meanwhile the u.s. is ramping up the pressure on turkey to cancel the purchase of a russian missile system secretary of state raised his concerns over the s four hundred talks with the turkish foreign minister in washington that was after vice president mike pence threw down ultimatum to ankara a nato meeting. if turkey completes its purchase of the russian s four hundred missile system turkey must choose. does it want to remain a critical partner the most successful military alliance in the history of the world. we're doesn't want to risk the security of our partnership that. deal is a done deal. earlier the pentagon halted deliveries of equipment for the f. thirty five stealth fighter jets which turkey is in the process of buying the u.s. says those supplies cannot resume unless calls off its purchase of the russian s four hundred missile system turkey is one of washington's key allies within nato

and u.s. the fence officials have said if turkey were to use the f. thirty five and the s. four hundred within the same integrated system moscow would gain back door access to crucial intelligence the. cross our foreign policy analyst and china card thanks for joining us so good to have you want today now the u.s. of course seems quite the time to stop so i can get a hold of the s four hundred system. could you explain to us why this is such a concern to washington is this just a matter of security or is there something else going on behind the scenes. actually turkey is now breaking to. russia because turkey modern art of bench countries. in the cold war against russia and now it's time for turkey. from the western nations mr block and

reproaching which russia and this could just direct orders about turkey and u.s. relations and more significantly turkey a nato relations of course they're all tickle decision because if you look at tokyo united states nations there is that increasingly between the two sides so of course there is a strategic unit part of the story was also more important there is a call because i don't. actually united states is losing one of these or all this and because nato allies just on the neighbor who called russia and vice president my prime certainly didn't mince his words. said turkey had to choose. between being a nato member and making reckless decisions that undermine our alliance it sounds pretty straightforward doesn't it do you think the u.s. is ready to force turkey out of nato just over this. i think you know exchange. towards turkey. last six months if they should be started the american.

lives in from the united states. actually. to log all the embassy staff and culture of the nation and the dogs and. actually give up all game of all the claims about american past and lose inform the police and i think americans. then change the future which. you know they let me in turkish officials they get the results i think the american officials clinton's remarks in recent days can you see you know that they are determined and the new worked out and they are. so it is i just want to touch upon something you said there because obviously these weapon systems are

the only dispute between the u.s. and turkey the turkish vice president in fact the united states has to choose between wanting to remain as a turkish ally or joining forces with terrorists presume to speak about the kurdish forces in syria and iraq that doesn't allow any sides very keen to back down here how do you see this reserve escalating or do you see a resolution here. i mean it seems like as you mentioned the f. four hundred i'm not the only one why did why p.g. issue because why p.g. it showed two nations security and constant why pujas a terrorist organization being called. a party but for nato and or western l.o.'s why p.g. is part of the coalition fighting against isis but there are other issues for example. israel also looked so. i mean those are the issues that turkey and you know found each other on different sides of the

political decisions but also as i mentioned before there's a mistrust between to get into the leaders and i think. for the current political climate it's very difficult to talk about any particular push munt on this there's an economy or political change in turkey how far do you see this going i mean no country's ever ever left nato there's no precedent for that but if there was to be some sort of rift which did result you know the bigger rift between nato and turkey do you think you'd have to seek out new regional allies and join other alliances. i think what will expect next move from united states to use a financial measures to put. political pressure on turkey because previously it also looked. like economy. which also had a negative impact on turkey and nice situation but more significant the turkey's all economic programs. you should keep in mind turkey's biggest europe still fifty

five percent of the church exports go to europe and knowledge are experiencing difficult difficulties as well in terms of financial issues unemployment is on the right donations on the various small relation to the e.u. and nato does not on the present an important point issue but also those in. the baggage for turkey in terms of financial issues i think you know who used this financial clout on the. road to push turkey to come back. here certainly are wider issues at play here apart from money it's all about geopolitics isn't that foreign policy analyst emory challenged come thanks for your time today here in r.t. . the u.k. house of commons has just voted to force the prime minister to seek another bricks at the lady if she fails to get any deal through parliament and the bill however

needs to pass through the house of lords to become law earlier to reason may met with the leader of the opposition jeremy corbyn seeking to break what she called the bricks at log jam members of parliament they were unimpressed by her belated attempts to find a consensus. two proposals put forward for cross party cooperation to solve the brics 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 young 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 factor 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 the conservatives are 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 of the reason may and jeremy corbin failed to reach a consensus to reason made could try seeking further extensions from the e.u. but that could prove unpopular at home even forcing the prime minister to call an election or a second referendum if her from a call in do agree on a deal and get the support of parliament that would put the u.k. back on track to leaving the e.u. by may twenty second brussels though could refuse further talks which could of course lead to accept without any deal but it will commentator and journalist john white says to reason why is trying to shift the blame for failed brakes are planned to the labor party. i think this could be a trap for coburn because they're trying to step through and he said he would do christie condition to these talks that he mustn't were told you could be

a child whereby prime minister can engage in these talks and bowed and then come on believe it or recover from looking direction and that will be a basis for going to really general election hoping that the bad publicity that cruised to jericho and as a consequence will see him lose our election given that the prime minister is in utter crisis the government is in crisis and there needs to be some kind of cathartic moment that will release the pressure as both took over these past few weeks yet you see of course by passionate this juncture to see that talks will be assured and a neutral sense. of people smuggling has shed light on the lucrative illegal trade for a feeding and costs each migrant at least ten thousand euros to be taken from europe to africa from africa to europe rather the 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 may have been into the mine you try again. and how do you guarantee and then you're on the board you know you go to the auto zone they said it so and that was you know the international. spin after you have won but they couldn't sell them into it they come. they pick the person and they go to spain 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 into your head a lot of money and we spoke with lauren southern who filmed an interview with the moral can smuggle. 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 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 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 get ways to europe from africa how since the start of this year more than five thousand migrants of arrived in the country by sea last year almost sixty thousand may that crossing are in southern again says there's 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 and 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 far 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 and 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 more stories come you know i just thought of a short but. people in america have no money. and yet and house prices are skyrocketing relative to their wages but the government says that's not inflation

health care costs are galloping ahead ten or fifteen percent a year and. government says that's not in full. in other words there's been a concerted and decided exercise a sense of the workers in the united states. in a world of big partisan law and conspiracy it's time to wait to dig deeper to hit the stories that mainstream media refuses to tell more than ever we need to be smarter we need to stop slamming the door. and shouting past each other it's time for critical thinking it's time to fight for the middle for the truth the time is now for watching closely watching the hawks.

i. thought international western women who wear the his job when they visit iran are insulting the nation that's according to a prominent the reigning women's rights activist she believes calling the head job part of iranian culture contradicts the efforts of those very same activists battling against the compulsory head covering law. they say that this is a cultural issue we're very 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 iran is monitoring his job laura cause all we're going to wear out in public the activists condemnation of western women has third mixed reactions online while women in the middle east to fight for their freedom from this religious tyranny westerners think you job is a cultural good to. know 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 job and he ran 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 and we put the issue up for debate with journalist mariam sol i and saudi i mean the spokesperson from the council of x. 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 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 just. 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 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 top 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 outside of iran. if you are on a secure that you 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 i it's all yours it islamic it was an artless read about it was that. it wasn't it's ok of illusion but it was a people's revolution i think it's i think it's ridiculous i think asking women to come. when they come into your country do justice and way you can do that are not only done for are 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 your country and wearing your job when you are in your country you have to be moved them taking away their choices those are the women we never ever talk

about one of people choose the majority of the people choose to be governed by islamic law one of them is to wear the her job and his job does not demean women it actually makes them become human beings and i'm not meaning no unavailable going to tell you mary how is that what you mean 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. unless you change the whole system. for its president claims protect. national priority but no industrial pollution crisis on the south coast threatens to shut about him is or your correspondent has this report. but 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 in the industrial port area which emits ultra fine particles will get into our lungs and bloodstream and cause disease in us the cancer rate 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 and daniel's not i 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 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 cancer 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 and. 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 the permit your 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 a 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 let us face it 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 the future you 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 generation to do the job environmental campaign is 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 commissions is improving the environment people here say that without immediate action the future remains for their children a bleak prospect so what do you want ski r.t. for. that service out join us again in thirty minutes for the latest global news updates. after the previous stage of my career was over everyone wondered what i was going to do next the ball different clubs on one hand it is logical to go from fields where everything is familiar on the other i want to the new challenge and

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