hey my clients. have been blown out and seventieth birthday candles nato pleasure the alliance's presence in the region is on russia's doorstep a washington calls on russia to withdraw its military advisors from. social media join with. the french government advertising campaign blocked it as part of its fight against fake news. the head of boeing says he's sorry for the three hundred forty six lives lost in two crashes involving the seven three seven that the company struggles to mend its damaged reputation.

from moscow what's your to international and daniel hawkins wherever you are today thanks for joining us on the program. the nato has marked its seventieth birthday with a lavish celebration in washington however it didn't take long for the anniversary to turn into a discussion of the brocks expansion near russia's borders because that's said to be what russia's neighbors wants mixed with calls from moscow to leave with venezuela because that's really what washington wants so we are stepping up our efforts. just agreed with the black sea region we just agreed that package with more surveillance exercises on all the issues which we. strongly believe or relevant for the black sea region of course working with our partners georgia ukraine they need to they need to leave. and we talked about that we talked about that in the context of russian efforts all around the world now the

inconsistency of the usa demanding that russia withdraw its military advisors from venezuela at the same time the united states is escalating its presence in the black sea didn't seem to be emphasized or really understood furthermore just prior to the meeting we had mike pence saying that turkey had to choose between being a nato member country and engaging what he referred to as a reckless decision that would be buying russia's military hardware however stoltenberg seemed to not be as critical of the arms deal as the united states is secretary-general do you see any resolution to the dispute with to keep on its plans to buy a russian missile defense system or ease nato going to have to do with what the turkish foreign minister says is that. it is a national decision. for you chuen it's on the to discard them determined capabilities however still member did emphasize that the purchase was indeed

a challenge within nato but that nato would facilitate dialogue to resolve that disagreement and the hosts of the seventieth anniversary gathering seem to emphasize the unity of nato countries let's take a listen and the good news is we're in a good position a position of strength today our structure is designed to empower each own not to subjugate it we maintain an outstanding degree of unity now germany in particular was called out by the united states for its lack of defense spending and we understand that most recently germany has increased its spending on military defense however it's only risen to one point twenty five percent still shy of the two percent threshold rather dark and pessimistic tone for a birthday party so moscow was once again painted as a major global threat the nato secretary general got an enthusiastic response from the u.s. congress as he. outlined countermeasures against russia are ahead of that nato they

bash it but franco has more. he might not even have had it in mind when he was doing it but the greatest businessmen of all presidents made sure everyone in the club opening their wallets for nato's seventieth anniversary the clear message from prison term. 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 the g.d.p. on defense can there be a better gift than money oh yeah but 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 that's right there needs to be an excuse for the existence of the gigantic cashed of warring juggernaut and for keeping on getting new members on board weapon making firms need 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 al qaeda russia. unless you're still stuck in a cold war mind warp well those were the days if you think of it nader 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 his 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 up so early happy birthday nato and we see a pattern behavior consistent cyber attacks on nato allies and partners targeting everything from paula months to poverty rates. sophisticated this information

campaigns and attempts to interfere in democracy itself. oh you'll be all right for a very long time reexamination is called for for the existence of nato so is the downfall of the soul of a union in one nine hundred ninety one nato has been wandering around on without a purpose it's been looking for a purpose in the us it's gone output of europe it's gone the other places trying to get over the berbers needs to find itself and what its relevancy is and it needs to remain as a military alliance. absent part 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 but claims the alliance hasn't shown willingness moscow also says it's ready to deescalate tensions between russia and bloc members. france is leading the fight against fake news adopting a lot of battle misinformation over it seems some social media giants are confused over just how to implement it charlotte dubin ski reports. ahead of the e.u. elections the french government information service or g.i.s. launched a campaign aimed at boosting voter registration but twitter found that the we thought campaign is in violation of france's own anti fake news law and twitter his actions were called out or a date. to does not know how to do this at this time and has therefore decided to

have a completely extreme pausing counseling and is supposedly a political campaign they were. illegal i thought it was an april fool's joke to do blocks public company for voter registration so as not to respect the un to fake news transparency rules appalling and illegal two of his priority should be to fight content glorifying terrorism not campaigns to register on electoral rolls of a democratic republic. after a lot of pressure twitter quickly relented it after numerous discussions we have decided to allow an encouraging electoral put the spatial such burns don't always end on a high note the social media platform is known for banning and suspending accounts often without reason including those it considers russian ports even movie accounts have been suspended for no obvious reason take the pro-life film on

planned off to raking in six million dollars at the box office on opening weekend it found its twitter account was banned though it was later reinstated mysteriously around one hundred fifty thousand followers were dropped and doesn't stop but from the left to the right of politics twitter often acts as the judge and the jury so enraged to users that many are leaving the platform altogether the problems become so embarrassing to twitter that it's now going to stop and none saying how many uses it keeps using twitter may have appeased the french government for now but all the goods circling overhead charlotte dubin ski r.t. paris political journalist and commentator elizabeth believes it will be a huge task for the government to fight fake news. the danger in many ways is both of them for breaking the law and for the government also for breaking the rule and

they decided not to take the risk to be hard to regulate fake news because it's a difficult subject it's got to be done with the social media taking up so much space and the cost the need of the debate is pushing everybody to all the extremism and it just something which basically has got to be framed into into a sort of more rational discourse so i think that it's perfectly understandable that it's not easy to decide knew all of the reasons in which you could make mistakes and that will was certainly a mistake it was you know it was a contained to good food and just the fact that it was initiated by the government it was the government in its rule as an abyss as an administration more than a special specific political party they didn't say you should vote for so and so. the c.e.o. of boeing has issued a public apology for two crashes involving the same aircraft what all within the last six months claimed a total of three hundred forty six lives we had boeing are sorry for the lives lost

in the recent seven thirty seven max accident the history of our industry shows most accidents are caused by a chain of events this again is the case here then a small number going on to say that the ethiopian airlines incident in march and the indonesian crash in october were both caused by the same technical malfunction as asses involved a boeing seven three seven max a torch has stalling features called the maneuvering cow for sticks or mentation system the s or the c.e.o. explained that in both cases the m.c.i.'s reacted to incorrect data that caused the nose of the plane to be forced down on the pilots were trying to gain altitude. if european airlines jet was. from nairobi carrying one hundred fifty seven people from thirty five countries the products had reported difficulties with the aircraft they were granted were tied to the apple unable to retain control now according to a preliminary report from the ethiopian authorities the pilots followed boeing these guidelines we had from commercial airplane pilot keith wells and he said the

pot it should always be able to override to moms from planes with might and systems . easily kicked in and the pilots were forced to fight against it that is as you say a terrifying concept we should always be able to override any electronic system software system protection system on the airplane that stability augmentation system was from the angle attacks answers the question that i would ask is why was it feeding that information to the system is there something wrong with the angle of attack sensors the way they were installed the way they were connected to the aircraft systems was their manufacturing defect i think those sensors were not manufactured by boeing but perhaps by a third party supplier but i think everybody is focusing on the software that caused the nose down motion when i think the initial question should be why is it

giving bad information. dozens of people have been killed in flash floods in southwest iran will have moral not just still to come. in a world of big partisan group. and conspiracy it's time to wake up to dig deeper to hit the stories that made history media refuses to tell more than ever we need to be smarter we need to stop slamming the door on the back 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. 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. not in full. in other words there's been a concerted and decided next ice age. the worker in the united states. much of the program the number of people killed it two weeks ago has swept away key infrastructure local aid organizations say sanctions are preventing vital help from getting through. through the helicopters we try to move people from the dangerous area to the safe areas actually be set up the camps and we distribute the tents for the rich for temporarily sheltering of the people and as well as a distribution of relief items well actually it is

a living basically attempts were affected people they run their cars on society they have their partner one hundred ninety one national society that our partner and we somehow we receive some condolences from them and in in some cases like jemera because we are going to receive relief bullets from jemera gras and talking about christian talk you should send and send relief items and that we have some some others if it's just for you that there's that they announced their readiness to dispatch their relief items we have not received any one any any in in our accounts you to the sanctions i can say and so there are a lot of people in our broad that wants to to help us and want to donate their money especially iranian people who are living abroad but they cannot use our foreign currency at. the iranian foreign ministry confirmed that sanctions were hampering relief efforts. since all the accounts of iran red crescent have been

frozen by u.s. sanctions no one can send the financial aid from overseas with us they went by the iranian foreign ministry came on monday the u.s. government both said iran only has itself to blame for its failure to cope with the flooding rather than helping it's currently drafting new sanctions. these floods once again showed the level of the iranian regime mismanagement in urban planning and the emergency preparedness regime blames outside agencies when in fact it is their mismanagement this led to this disaster the environmentalists

for attempting to help iran prepare for these very issues.

washington's latest attempts to ramp up the pressure on venezuela are raising concerns in some european countries madrid slammed the decision to allow u.s. citizens to sue foreign firms working in cuba a nation which has stood by venezuela's leader nicolas maduro spain's foreign minister outlined his objections in a meeting with u.s. officials. spain read to rates from rejection as a matter of principle to the xstrata rhetorical application of national sanction boards considering that contrary to international law or us secretary of state has since the doubts the law change won't now come into effect until may the first that had been expected in mid april no reason was given for the changes the us decision to allow the lawsuits related to cuba's confiscation of american property following the nine hundred fifty nine revolution it's all positive all trumps pressure campaign on have over its decision to back were. controlled by the cuban military and protected by

a private army of two principal. is the. cuban public that's one of the reader of spanish history at the university of newcastle a candle could auger thinks there's a high chance the u.s. will worsen its trade relations with the european union over its decision. i miss britain andrews lyon cross and hence i think the united states are going to be probably probably causes a threat if it actually happens that could lead to a catholic situation within the united states courts and then another tragic situation and. international law because even if the foreign policy you know it's been hard to wrap take in the last and last years they should conform to it really seriously whether it's worth. it to practice action and to risk. a commercial war a kind of war without will continue. western women who wear the head job when they

visit iran are insulting the nation that's according to a prominent iranian rights activist she says that regarding the his 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 cover 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's military heads up law requires all women to wear out in public the activist condemnation of western women has mixed reactions online while women in the middle east to fight for their freedom from this religious tyranny westerners think your job is a cultural it's good to. know they wear it because they're told if they don't they can get in a state they're just being polite but everyone knows it's mandatory they know they have to otherwise they may never return as a woman fighting against

a compulsory he japanese brand it's more than painful to me when i hear people say it compulsory he job is our culture it is not just look at the picture of the rand before deny nine hundred seventy nine islamic revolution put the issue up for debate with journalists. from the council of ex 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're not vul 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 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 point is they have the right to your example and they have no right to yell out outside of iran. if 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 that it was an artless read about was that a lot of it wasn't as. of illusion but it was a people's revolution i think it's i think it's ridiculous i think asking women in to come in. when they come into your country do justice and way you can't do that not only for women from you know my our countries they then start swimmin 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 a people choose the majority of the people choose to be governed by islam across one of them is to where the has job and the 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 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. for the self-esteem of our so folks are saying soon that all teams that are still back in thirty minutes with more global headlines.

they said when you can the politics of this is in the what's in the because. you do not know what the next step on the major development. but the. idea like the field. in elections and you have. a lot of developments which would not be possible to come in where you would move this so this is why politics is so interesting. china has arrived in europe in a very big way and not everyone in the west welcomes this italy's support of china's belgian road initiative is a game changer the washington consensus that has dominated the world for the past seven decades is being challenged but turned to the east us veterans who come back from war often until the same stories. were going out for the people who were

killing civilians they were not interested in the wellbeing of their own soldiers either there already several generations of them so i just got this memo from the circulated branch offices we're going to attack and destroy the government in seven countries in five years americans pay for the wars with them money others with lives. if we were willing to go into harm's way and willing to risk being killed for a war surely we can risk some just come for. your . broadcasting around the world covering business and finance and how it affects you

this is boom bust. for bar chilton in washington word. coming up. as the stock has seen a major stumble over the past few days as the company's deliveries take a dive peter schiff of euro pacific capital lends us a hand to break it all down plus tobacco stocks are taking a hit as news breaks that the f.d.a. has a big thing in the. r.t.s. correspondent alex the hell of it joins us to cut through the snow. and finally we hit all all the time here but what are some lesser known that could be a boom teller letterman a simpler trading help those shelves and into some of the up and comers all of that directly ahead but first let's have some headlines. another sign of a slowdown in europe's largest economy leads our global report germany's better also statistical office shows a four point two percent slump in february manufacturing orders your rear that's an

eight point four decline that's huge while germany is not technically in a recession it appears to be right on the cusp the last two quarters came in slightly negative and flat if it had been two consecutive quarters that were negative that would have been a textbook recession case and germany economy ministry cited a lack of foreign demand which they expect will continue to weigh on economic growth. in the united states unemployment claims have fallen to their lowest total since one thousand nine hundred sixty nine the u.s. labor department reports the number of jobless claims for the last week was two hundred and two thousand coming in below expectations the four week rolling average of jobless claims is currently two hundred and thirteen thousand. on the wage front the target corporation and now its workers will be paid a minimum wage of thirteen dollars beginning in june up just.