nato marks seventy years since its creation but the alliance has birthday bash is marred by members feuding over budget contributions and stop buying the weapons. you an expert says atrocities are on the rise in the west african country of mali where ethnic communities massacred despite a strong presence of french and u.s. troops. and the reunion rights activists claims western visitors to the customs country donoghue job thing they undermine efforts to abolish the law requiring women to wear the head covering we debate the issue. i think it's i think it's ridiculous i think. to comment when they come into a country to justice. inside iran there is a role and there's a lot i'm close enough unless you change the whole system.

a very warm welcome to the program from all of us here at our to h.q. in moscow thanks for joining us this hour. nato has marked its seventieth birthday with a lavish bash in washington d.c. but a feud between two of the alliances members dampened the party mood a little as the u.s. threatened to uninvite turkey sortation with russian made weaponry has turned rather more serious though is standing its ground insisting it will go ahead with purchasing the s four hundred missile defense system. as four hundred deal is a done deal and we will not step back from this in any case we have been always. trying to improve and strengthen and deepen our relations with allies particularly united states and be valued by that sort of nations if turkey completes its

purchase of the russian as four hundred missile system turkey risk expulsion from the joint f. thirty five program turkey must choose. does it want to remain a critical partner the most successful military alliance in the history of the world. or does it want to risk the security of their partnership turkey's vice president hit back over twitter saying it was the us that had to choose between friendship with turkey and continued support of the kurds in northern syria and accurate regards as terrorists by turkey wasn't the only alliance member rounded on at the nato birthday party the us vice president also lashed out at germany saying berlin didn't call cough up but mouth for nato especially given the size of its economy shortly after germany an ounce it would contribute one point two five percent of g.d.p. by two thousand and twenty three still short of the two percent minimum set by nato international relations expert hussein bag she believes the alliance isn't as unified as it once was. the moment is not in the harmony concerning

the american demand that until two thousand and twenty. members seem particularly to pm countries have to give two percent of their g.d.p. for defense purposes on the other hand also that president trump said that nato is obsolete it is not any more functional before nato remains definitely. america exist in a lot of conversation but the other twenty eight contrie if they are not always happy with the american policies like germany and turkey the moment americans consistently. threaten turkey not to provide for. thirty five turkey on the other hand had to choose the russian missile system

because out of necessity turkey is turkish borders do not have any defense systems. however the key focus of nato is latest gathering in washington has not been relations with turkey but russia again painted as a major global threat the nato secretary general got an enthusiastic response in the us congress as he outlined countermeasures against moscow trying to has more. he might not even have had it in mind when he was doing it but the great businessmen of all presidents made sure everyone in the club opening their wallets for nato's seventieth anniversary the clear message from president trump house. help is having a real impact we see that many more than a dollar meet the two percent god on the spending two percent of g.d.p. on defense can there be a better gift then. oh yeah let's keep in mind if you will the. 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 that's right there needs to be an excuse for the existence of the gigantic cash devouring juggernaut and for keeping on getting new members on board weapon making firms meet customers the biggest ones happen to be from where this man is in charge if you know what i mean though since the soviet union collapsed almost three decades ago even within the alliance there were some doubts about why nato still needs to be out there in research sponsored by the bloc you may have found stuff like this if they too was created notice to act as a deterrent to soviet imperialism and to counter communism and the perceived nuclear threat and what is its relevance today there was a point when a former nato spokes man gave lectures on how the alliance was struggling to find itself when the cold war was over even russia's nukes were no longer taken as

a big deal for the first time in almost fifty years the us stands on the verge of attaining nuclear promise e when mitt romney called russia out while he was running for the white house he was trolled by barack obama after all you don't call russia our number one enemy. not all kind of russia. unless you're still stuck in a cold war mind warp well those were the days if you think of it nato was big failures like afghanistan or libya kind of outweigh whatever the block would try to boast as its success anyway we even got to a point where someone from nato was daddy america the president i mean said they don't is obsolete it covers a soviet union which is no longer in existence and nato has to either be rejiggered reaching india changed for the better it didn't take long for mr trump to be reminded of russia i mean the scary version and that more folks other than saudi

arabia will have to buy guns from his military industrial complex i said it was obsolete. it's no longer absolutely happy birthday in nato and we see a pattern russian behavior consistent cyber attacks on nato allies and partners targeting everything from paula months to poverty it's. sophisticated this information campaigns and attempts to interfere in the more crecy itself. oh you'll be all right for a very long time reexamination is called for for the existence of nato so is the. union in one thing only one made turtle has been wondering around without a purpose it's been looking for a purpose in the us it's gone out of the year or it's gone the other places trying

to there that have the berbers needs to find itself and what its relevancy is and it needs to remain as a military alliance. absent absent politics absent economic considerations because it's not the job of nato nato a strictly military the united states is trying to drum up the notion that moscow remains that threat in order to justify not only the continued existence of nato but actually to increase spending of their towards difference. russia's foreign ministry says it's open to dialogue with nato the alliance hasn't shown willingness also says it's ready to deescalate tensions between russia and bloc members. the security situation in the west african nation of mali is worsening despite the fact that french and u.s. troops have been on the ground for more than six years that's according to a u.n.

expert who spoke out following the massacre of one hundred and sixty civilians in what some fear is the beginning of an ethnic conflict or two charlotte devinsky reports last month hundred and sixty people were massacred in central mali. there are categories children and pregnant women the elderly and young people. well they were following an ethnic group who have been accused of having ties to tests of course it's a number about three million ninety percent muslim and a number of did join al qaida type groups as a result of the ethnic groups have told all of the same brush calling for the whole community to be labeled as a terrorist group. and you have to be the un has also warned that the following are being sought out for attacks these

people are deliberately targeted women men and children simply for being part of the community mali is a country which has been ravaged by conflict for seven years from six our eyes and the un all have a foothold but as part of a war on terror and to keep the peace but violence is multiplying not subsiding the threat from extremist groups has spread with a u.n. report outlining how attacks are going up we often hear so important is what's happening in the former french colony the president michel visited in his first week of taking office showing support for french troops are based there since two thousand and thirteen and while he may have been hoping for an exit strategy france is becoming more entrenched this week the country announced a new base for its anti jihadist force. it is time to continue to

invest in live chaco because our presence of the sea has virtuous effects that i think that the population is still happy to see the french army investing in this region. not corn has demanded more victories on the ground against the hardest but as western powers focus that effort still rooting out terror many are concerned what's really happening i rise of ethnic tensions that some likening to a genocide is taking place right and the noose is a large amounts of salamis they don't understand this war they don't they're not part of it they're not even part of our vision on this mission but many of their women and children in large numbers have been killed by government forces in front of u.n. officials in front of peacekeepers. way of getting out of this cycle of violence which seems to be between the governments. or that's usually supported by some

elements of the full line yes i do is the why the flow of the people who are being attacked in huge numbers as well they have been associated with either they'll be associated with them losing their loved ones by the government usually under the the umbrella of trying to the. western women who wear the hit job when they visit iran are insulting the nation that's according to a prominent iranian rights activist she says that regarding the hit job as part of the country's culture goes against the hard work of activists like yourself who are trying to abolish rules on the head covering 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's mandatory hip-hop law requires all women to wear it in public the activist condemnation of western women start mixed reactions online. while women in

the middle is to fight for their freedom from this religious tyranny westernesse think she job is a cultural it's good to. know they wear it because the told if they don't they can't get in a state they're just being polite but everyone knows it's mandatory they know they have to otherwise they may never return as a woman fighting against a compulsory he japanese brand it's more than painful to me when i hear people say it compulsory he job is our culture it is not just look at the picture of the rand before deny nine hundred seventy nine islamic revolution. we put the issue up for debate with journalist miriam sawyer and saudia hamid from the council of ex muslims in britain. 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 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 . of 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 the point is they have the right to your example and they have no right to your outside of iran. if you are on a secu 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 it's all yours it islamic that it was an artless read about was that. it wasn't this ok. volution but it was a people's revolution i think it's i think it's ridiculous i think asking women to come in when they come into a country. and way you can't do that not only for women from you know my countries they then start using that as a stick to beat them with they say to them look at these women that are coming into

your country and wearing your job when you're in your country you have to be moved 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 islam across one of them is to wear the his job and his job does not demean women it actually makes them become a human beings and i'm not going to unveil we're not saying america is human and women who are veiled i'm not saying that this is another issue but inside iran there is a role and there is a lot of good. unless you change the whole system. defense ministry is heavily criticized after claiming it has evidence of only one civilian death from seventeen hundred of its middle eastern bombing raids or and that after a short break. what politicians do something. they put themselves on the line they get accepted or

rejected. so when you want to be president i'm sure. you somehow want to. let you go right to the press this is like the three of them all the people. i'm interested always in the lawyers in the. city. you know world of big partisan movies. and conspiracy it's time to wake up 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 we're watching closely watching the hawks.

come back britain's armed forces minister is facing a backlash after some thought he implied that only a single civilian death was caused by seventeen hundred u.k. air strikes in syria and iraq mark lancaster rushed to clarify his position claiming that he was misunderstood. it was not our position that that 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. into the british defense ministry royal air force strikes conducted since two thousand and fourteen have killed more than four thousand islamic state fighters human rights organization amnesty international released a damning report earlier in march accusing the u.k.

of being in denial of civilian casualties in mosul and iraq. the u.k. is claiming to have carried out massive aerial bombing of densely populated cities with virtually zero civilian casualties this biggest relief and shows just how deeply in denial the movie actually is over its role in the mass bombing of mosul and bracco peace campaigner russell wedding says it's impossible to distinguish and i saw fighter from a civilian after an airstrike. let's not forget the ministry of defense actually only trained one civilian had been killed after months and months of claiming numb 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 do think the figures would change i do 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 retired getting the best thing to do would be to leave the people of syria to have their own destiny in their own hands and to british troops and british planes to come back to britain. the u.s. is developing a rescue plan for that as well as economy designed to pump cash into the country through banks smartphones and apps but even though the trumpet ministration isn't rushing to reveal the details the plan has one key conditional. timeline as to garrett about their oil. i have no idea when that's going to be that would begin immediately it's a question of. getting hold of the what i call the machinery of government meanwhile the venezuelan opposition plans a rally in the capital on saturday as it tries to keep up the pressure to oust president nicolas maduro calls to install one guy though the leader of the

opposition are also being heard in the us the some there are being a bit reserved with the truth as to why they support him up and explains. with venezuela in conflict the media definitely needs voices to explain you know analysts to assess the situation in the country and it also helps if they can speak perfectly fluent english so meet joanna hossam and speaking in an editorial for the new york times about venezuela this movement on the american left against any u.s. involvement in this way that is gaining traction dangerously glorifying the brutal dictator and promoting inaction final is a social democrat appointed by the national assembly the only remaining democratically elected institution left in venezuela venezuelan american and she's a comedian she loves to call out critics of u.s. foreign policy because how dare they think they might know more than her when she is an actual venezuelan and furthermore she gives full support to juan guede oh the

self-appointed u.s. backed president of venezuela but here's a detail the new york times failed to mention her father is ricardo hossam and the economics professor from harvard university and ricardo haas and her father is currently the envoy of wand wedo to the interim merican development bank the biggest lender in latin america looks a lot like miss hosmer has a pretty big dog in the fight however the new york times presents or is just a liberal minded venezuelan who wants what's best for her people it should be news or that her father has a lot to gain politically and professionally should regime change happen very cool of the new york times not to mention you know the fact that john houseman's dad is an economic advisor focus now the folks who handle ethics of the new york times have a special section dedicated to possible conflicts of interest from contributors stuff members must be sensitive that perfectly proper political activity by their spouses family or companions may nevertheless create conflicts of interest or the

appearance of conflict but in the end the new york times didn't really care they presented her as just another voice we were aware of her for this biography before publication but miss housman. is an independent adult woman has built a popular following on her road by producing a portfolio of argued videos about venezuela. and it wasn't just the new york times she made her rounds to buzz feed c.n.n. and the four freedoms forum none of them thought that her blatant family ties to one grade zero were of any concern and not presenting the full picture is not all that uncommon in american media there was a lot of outrage recently when a c.n.n. q. and a with presidential candidate bernie sanders stuffed the audience with people tied to elite think tanks and the democratic party but presented them as just average citizens with tough questions how could a voter like me. feel confident in your ability to represent the party. good evening.

there's a lot of misinformation regarding your plans for universal health care. perhaps the most blatant example of media concealment was now euro and her tearful testimony before the congressional human rights caucus it took could be because i don't think it is. to think abuse i'm officially going to do it because she failed to give her last name but her tearful testimony plucked america's heart strings and it paved the way for u.s. support for kuwait during the gulf war it turned out that no year zero was actually the daughter of the kuwaiti ambassador and her story could not be verified and furthermore she had arranged to testify without taking an oath making it illegal for her to lie yes when it comes time to push for a certain agenda the media seems to ignore rather inconvenient facts but remember

behind every face is a story a little up and r.t. new york. meanwhile but as well as have been organizing themselves against a possible u.s. backed military intervention redfish investigative project has released a new documentary on the country's people's militia here's a quick preview. little will be a good thing. to look at the beauty with the job but if you didn't. feel like it was a good job at. home you'll know the enemy and all the way to that and so when you know it's going to keep their son you know and you know it's going to sway them in some respects reckons the promo gets another thing yeah and i'm on the first oh no sandy i don't stammer. get it same day maybe that evidence showing up a little so that i'm looking a little on the fly you say. is that you there you can link the set for me getting

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needed when i was a baby boy i had a bad childhood. there's always been single mothers in african-american communities ever since slavery. i think it's more of these teenagers having kids then you can expect a fourteen or fifteen year old first daughter now order for and there be a far there and he's a check out. we actually lost our place in october my car end up breaking down and i was unable to get to work on time so they let me go in with my paycheck that i bring home i have nearly enough to pay my car insurance. the gas in my car. i didn't think the numbers mean so they've mattered us a little bit one trillion dollars in debt more than turn white collar crime

stamping this. eighty five percent of global wealth you long to be old rich eight point six percent the bull market goes thirty percent some with four hundred to five hundred three first record per second and this one rose to twenty thousand dollars. china's building two point one billion dollars a.r.u. industrial park but don't let the numbers overrule. the only number you need to remember in one one business show you know bored to miss one and only one book. ok imax has or this is the kaiser report. that's right not x.

kaiser max kaiser what is happening in the world of whatever stacey well i've got some interesting headlines here from central banks of the you know their monetary experimentation and what it entails well the first headline let's look at a chart this chart partly explains the rally of stocks and bonds and q one central banks have pumped almost one trillion in liquidity into global markets so you can see the global money supply and s. and p. five hundred are going up in lockstep so either you can say wow look at this markets it's a booming economy as donald trump would say and this is a sign that i'm doing amazing as the president or it could be the central banks pumping one trillion dollars into the markets all of this is a real crisis this is a central bank crisis there's never been any tightening there's not been any quantitative tightening there hasn't been any tightening now for ten years or more

i guess you could call it financial pollution or a financial tsunami just like those tsunamis that came in during the boxing day tsunami back there in asia and wiped out those beaches remember the people are like oh my gosh i've got twenty six two thousand and six right this is a tsunami of liquidity or central bank money and it's flooding over the real economy is being destroyed well that income gap is collapsing life expectancy in the u.s. and the u.k. is shrinking people are living less time on planet earth due primarily due this this crisis of money printing that's just drawing the incentive system in the global economy so that you have mal investments and you have bad actors being rewarded and true entrepreneurs.