the secretary general of nato in the u.s. congress says he sets out military plans to counter the supposed threat from russia . smuggling gangs cash in on the flow of migrants from north africa to spain and investigative journalist shares with us a very interview with one of the traffickers involved. over. the fact you before you get to thirty to fifty per cent render put into. an industrial port in the south of france faces a pollution crisis with locals raising the alarm over soaring cancer rates.

for moscow what's your thought international with me daniel hawkins rev you are today 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 goodness of forces to people design so the nato response force modernized the 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 path think nato secretary general speech to the u.s. congress focused on four key points it looked at the importance of the alliance as

you may well imagine also an increase in the spending all of its members it also looked at expansion and of course the old fall we see a path or 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 be 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 though bones about the fact he wants to see members of nato up their 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 eight dollars now meet the two percent god on a 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 done within 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 for the 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 the 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 so if 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 an ultimatum to ankara at a nato meeting. if turkey completes its purchase of the russian as four hundred missile system turkey must choose those who want to remain a critical part of the most successful military alliance in the history of the world were doesn't want to risk the security of their partnership. it's a done deal it's a done deal earlier the pentagon halted deliveries of equipment thirty five stealth fighter jets which turkey's in the process of buying the u.s. says those supplies cannot resume unless and cools off its purchase of the russian s four hundred missile system turkey is one of washington's key allies within nato

and u.s. defense officials have said if turkey were to use the f. thirty five and the s. four hundred within the same integrated system it would gain back door access to crucial intelligence. live now to defense analyst and author ivan eland thanks for joining us good to have you on today the u.s. seems determined doesn't it to stop getting hold of the s four hundred why is this of such a concern to washington and is this just a security issue or is there more at stake here. well i'm certainly no technical expert on the system however it's very nice i'm very skeptical of their their view that this will compromise u.s. data on the plane it depends on what turkey does i mean the system has four hundred system might learn how to to. detect the stealth aircraft but of course if turkey

didn't give russia the data that you know they would they wouldn't have it and in fact it could go in reverse. nato should be able to get data on the system s. four hundred system and see how it operates simply because turkey is a nato member and nato could say well hey listen we need to know how the system works so you know if turkey was a good ally they might give this information so just depends on what turkey does i think mainly here and certainly i think this is a political argument as well as if there is any strategic value to our military value it's also a political argument i think the u.s. likes to sell arms. and that's part of nato as well is that the united states gets to sell its arms and of course that's not happening here so they're saying and then there's also the issue that turkey has been sort of wayward lately as a nato ally and i think all nato countries are

a little bit nervous about that i want to just touch on something mike pence said he said he has to choose between being a nato member and making reckless decisions that undermine our annoyance do you think this could escalate further than simply the cancellation of these fighter jet pilots. yeah i think it could because this is to my knowledge this is never happened in nato before nato is an alliance and they like inner operable weapons and that usually means buying u.s. weapons so that they can fight together if you have a russian systems in there i think it probably does. undermine any sort of inner operability to some extent if there were a war particularly with russia so but and peace time i don't really see any intelligence compromise necessarily but certainly you want your systems to be able to operate together so this is a this is a very central issue and i think that you know the u.s.

does have some leverage over turkey because most of the. weapons that spot have been from us in the west. both sides seem quite unwilling to compromise hadn't made it to us president hit back he said the u.s. has to choose as well between being shot by or joining forces with terrorists presumably that's reference of course to the u.s. relationship with could us forces in in syria iraq etc not assad looks like it's going to back down where do you see this going from him well of course the turkish hyperbole because the u.s. has been supporting. the kurds because of their efforts to go after isis and turkey doesn't like that because they regard the currents as terrorist but it's sort of overblown that that should be a core issue i think the real core issue is armaments and that sort of thing here in the alliance is turkey going to be part of the west or is it going to have

better relations with russia turkey is a very has some cards to play to turkey is regarded as a strategic. country simply because the you know the dardanelles of the bosphorus they're going from the black sea on out there and so it's always been a strategic bridge between age and so it's location of nothing more and also as a very big army so you know turkey has some cards it can play you can play both of these huge powers off each other and that's where the ceiling i think. is some calls on the table for both sides just depends if they conclude each other's bluff or not on this the friends i'm less than all thought of anyone thanks for your take that i hear when i see international thank you. 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 the bill however of course needs to pause to the house of lords as well to become law the reason may

met with the leader of the opposition jeremy call been seeking to break what she called the bricks at log jam members of parliament know were unimpressed by her belated attempt 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 point here prime minister is you're having formal talks with the leader of the opposition scotland will not accept a tory audience leiber 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 who have to reason may and jeremy corwin fail to reach a consensus to reason may could try seeking further extensions from the e.u. i could prove unpopular at home even forcing the prime minister to call an election or a second referendum if however may and corben do agree on a deal and get the support of parliament that would put the u.k. on track to leave in the e.u. by may twenty second brussels though could refuse further talks which could lead to an exit without any deal if you go commentator and journalist john white says that to reason may's trying to shift the blame for her failed bracks a plan to the labor party. i think this could be a trap for coburn because prime minister to use and he said he would do christie condition to these talks that he must have who are the draw do this who could be

a trial whereby prime minister can engage in these talks in bad faith and then come out and believe it or recover from looking to accept and that will be a basis for going to really general election bring 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. a people smuggler has shed light on the lucrative illegal trade revealing it cause seems migrant at least two thousand euros to be taken to europe from africa the revelations came in a documentary by canadian investigative journalist and filmmaker. people have to get to spin that the morning where. they had to spend two thousand you know.

four thousand for four thousand you know or put on for a few bucks is not got until they're in a spot you are looking into the moment you try again. and how do you guarantee in the door when you're on the board you might not go to do. this it is so and that in this you know in the. in this bit of. one but they were meant to. be bush one and they go in and they speak how much money can you make. from the door to space where you know. you can have two thousand two thousand five hundred or four thousand you know the totality fifty plus one optic i think it was deposed one. fifth of course on everybody and by two thousand five hundred people two thousand five. hundred into. the phone and we spoke to loren

southern who filmed that interview with the moral can 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 about 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 can 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 and spain is of course one of the main gateways to europe from africa since the start of this year more than five thousand migrants have arrived in the country by sea in twenty eighteen almost sixty thousand the way buttressing or in southern india the 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 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 well headlines coming your way just off of the short break. comedian has won the first round of ukraine's presidential election. doesn't have

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welcome back to the program western women who wear the hit job when they visit iran are insulting the nation that's according at least to a prominent iranian women's rights activist she believes calling his job part of raney and 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 iran does mandatory his job law requires all women to wear it in public the act of his condemnation of western women has mixed reactions online. while women in the middle is to fight for their freedom from this religious tyranny westerners think your 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 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. or put it up for debate with journalists. spokeswoman from the council of muslims of britain. 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 a 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 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 point is they have the right to your example and they have no right to

your outside of iran. and you are on cue 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 one of these guys that it was an artless read about was that if you moderate. well it wasn't as it was largo volution but it was a people's revolution i think it's i think it's ridiculous i think asking women in to come in when they come into your country to justice and way you can't 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 they're coming into your country and wearing your job when you're in your country you have to be moved and them taking away their choices those are the women we never ever talk about one people choose

a 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 willing mona unveiled we're not saying america now 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. unless you change the whole system. french president claims that protecting the environment is a national priority but no industrial pollution crisis on the south coast threatens to shatter that image our europe correspondent charlotte do with this report. 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 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 causey's about. ten percent higher on average in france and i. believe this could all be avoided if the way to. daniels you know what i mean himself he's been diagnosed with diabetes and heart problems linked to the pollution. plate 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 and none of this is happening so we can clearly see that it's a local problem with the locals there is a stark difference 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. claims that citizens benefit from some of the highest you know large mental 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 levels 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 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 are climbing the agenda meanwhile president michael has long been an advocate of ramping up the battle to combat climate change we are killing our planet's let us face it there is no planet b. and if we do nothing our children will know the world of migrations of was of shortage of done for this world. it is not the few q we want for ourselves ma generation will do its 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 campaign is happy accused him of all talk and little action people in foster mare seem to feel the same way you know you are now it's on the promises he hasn't done anything yet. show you anything if nothing is done and 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 that i'm not sure he has succeeded in 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 commissions is improving the environment but people here say that without immediate action the future remains that children a bleak prospect so what do you want ski altie for. there's the headlines this hour thanks for staying soon from the team of myself here join us again in thirty minutes for the latest global news update.

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greetings and salutations today arc watchers let us look to the sky as we take a plunge. into the unfriendly world with the latest on all things drone warfare that beautiful technological gift from the heavens that brought us nothing but flowers and rows of the battlefield drones starting with the news that the u.s. navy is apparently assembling a team of the vendors that includes engineers researchers and even hackers to take on the deadly scourge. of cheap commercial drones really yes defense one reports that james hunt hogarth's the out of the navy acquisitions wrote in a memo that this is necessary to enable the navy to game a complete gain a competitive advantage over the commercial advancement of unmanned systems technology and potential for nefarious use against facilities in assets with the navy my friend so freaked out over all those nefarious cheap small camera.