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a very welcome with us this. 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 blocks expansion russia's borders because that's said to be what russia's neighbors want it was mixed with calls for moscow to leave venezuela because that seemingly what washington wants. so we are stepping up our efforts. just agreed to the huge and we just agreed to package with more surveillance exercises on all the issues which we. strongly believe are relevant for the black sea region on of course with and working with all the partners georgia on

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 would draw its really terrible visors 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. to decide on 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 in the good news is we're in a good position a position of strength today or structures designed to empower each own not to subjugate it we maintain an outstanding degree of unity now germany in particular was called. doubt 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 expected from nato countries so it was a seventieth anniversary birthday celebration for the north atlantic treaty organization quite a few issues discussed there

a rather dark and pessimistic tone for a birthday party we heard from alexei pushkov chairman of the russian federation council's mass media committee he gave us his views on the ultimatum set by u.s. vice president mike pence. by saying that mr burns it's our rights and the reason is that. no member of nato including the united states will seriously consider the possibility of excluding turkey from nato turkey is a key member of the alliance it is a very important critical strategic position in the middle east and. he even if we can imagine that the united states. could consider to raise this issue european members will certainly disagree with that.

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 counter measures against russia or ahead of that nato they've bashed it up a trend as more. he might not even have had it in mind when he was doing it but the great business men of all presidents made sure everyone in the club open their wallets for nato's seventieth anniversary the clear message from president trump. help is having a real impact we see that many more and meet the two percent god on the spending two percent of g.d.p. on the fence can there be a better gift then me 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 cash devouring 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 in order 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 spokesman 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 nato as big failures like afghanistan or libya kind of outweigh whatever the bloc 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 up so early happy birthday nato and we see

a power 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 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 nineteen only one made has been wondering around on 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 have the berbers needs to find itself and what its relevancy isn't it needs to remain a military alliance. absent the 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 their threat in order to justify not only the continued existence of nato but actually to increase spending of their towards defense. russia's foreign ministry says it's open to dialogue with nato claims the alliance hasn't shown willingness moscow also says it's ready to deescalate tensions between russia and block this. france is leading the fight against fake news adopting a lot of battle misinformation however it does seem some social media giants are confused over just how to implement it charlotte do with the report. ahead of the e.u. elections the french government information service or g.i.s. launch their campaign aimed at boosting voter registration found that the we see

votes campaign is in violation of france's own anti fake news law and through acts it. and the storm broke twitter his actions were called out all day. to him to does not know how to do this at this time and has therefore decided to have a completely extreme policy cutting and is supposedly a political campaign they were slammed as 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 to 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 related to it after numerous discussions we have decided to allow an encouraging electoral put suspicion but 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 bought. even movie accounts have been suspended for no obvious reason take the pro-life film on planned off the raking in six million dollars at the box office on opening weekend it found its twitter account was banned though it was a late 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 birds circling overhead

charlotte dubin ski r.t. paris physical journalist and commentator elizabeth believes it will be a huge task for the government to find fake news. the danger in many ways is both of them for breaking the law and for the government also for breaking the door 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 tackled because the debate has become much more trident and violent with the social media taking up so much space and the coarsening 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 is perfectly understandable that it's not easy to do to decide no of the reasons in which you could make mistakes and that when was certainly a mistake it was you know it was a contained to good vote and just the fact that it was initiated by the government

it was the government in its rule as an abyss and as an administration more than a special specific political party they didn't say you should vote for syrians so. the number of people killed in flash floods in the southwest of iran has risen to sixty two the deluge which started 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. area to the safe areas actually be set up the camps and we distribute the tents for the four temporarily sheltering of the people and as well as distribution of the relief items well actually it is a living basically attempts were affected if they run their course and society they have their partner at one hundred ninety one national society that our partner and somehow we receive some condolences from them and in some cases like jemera those

we are going to receive relief bullets from jarrett grass and talk with christian talking shotguns and send relief items and that we have some some others just feel that there's that they announced their readiness to dispatch they're really fighting we have not received any one any any in in our accounts you to the sanctions against and so there are a lot of brought that wants 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 in the region. since groovy accounts of iran red crescent have been frozen by u.s. sanctions no one can send the financial aid from overseas. well that statement by the way in foreign ministry came on monday the u.s. government's though says iran only has itself to blame for its failure to cope with

the flooding rather than helping its currently drafting new sanctions. these floods once again showed the level of the iranian regime mismanagement in urban planning and emergency preparedness the regime blames outside entities when in fact it is their mismanagement this led to this disaster they even jail environmentalists for attempting to help iran prepare for these very issues.

the c.e.o. of boeing has issued a public apology for two crashes involving the same aircraft model within the last six months which claimed a total of three. hundred forty six lives. we had boeing or 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 dennis miller went on to say that the ethiopian airlines incident in march and the indonesian crash in october were both caused by the same technical malfunction the disasters involved a boeing seven three seven max which is an anti stalling feature called the maneuvering characteristics system the c.e.o. explain that in both cases that system out reacted to incorrect data causing the noses of the plane to be forced down when the pilots were trying to gain altitude the airlines jet was traveling from out a suburb to nairobi there was one hundred forty seven people on board from thirty five countries the pilots had reported difficulties with the aircraft and were granted to return to the airport they were unable to regain control according to a preliminary report from the ethiopian authorities the pilots followed boeing's guidelines we cannot cross live to stray vacation security expert thanks for

joining us so good to have in the program today obviously the apologies have come today from the boeing c.e.o. you say he's sorry for the lives lost but the company does. remain confident in the fundamental safety of that particular model. how confident do you think passengers are be do you think there's going to be a reluctance now to for people to get on that plane. no. unfortunately this is not a new phenomenon they are past accidents that is taking place for almost the same reason different technology and while those airplanes survived the. reputation that was caused by the accidents so will boeing seven thirty seven max it's the issue is fundamentally due to the according to the news reports. the angle of

attack sensor and the case there are previous accidents that had. resulted in the same type of today and. there are plans one being the lucky delta eleven and the other being an airbus a three ten. volt survives. the repercussions of the accidents the issue right now is. if in fact it's the angle of attack sensor it raises the issue that that is apparently a common cause of several accidents not just. thirty seven max so. if. six is to replace those sensors and sensors that are more reliable. then unfortunately it's the sensor

that actually the aircraft that's. the problem. a lot of a lot of crosses over caused by human error by pantera but according to preliminary reports at least the crew performed old procedures repeatedly provided by boeing but was still not able to get control of a croft does this make matters worse for boeing. i know that miss sara lee because what we don't know is if in fact the procedures were followed and areas out completely to the fullest extent. from the information i've heard and again even from news reports that intersect the system let's turn the focus and then turn back on again raises some serious questions the. we don't know is war

previous reports. considering the same issue did it happen to the same airplane prior to the accident and that another piece of information we need to know about in the case of long hair we know that there were three previous incidents that occurred before the accident took place and we also know that crews react act to the same problem prior to the sentence that took place the question i have right now is. was there. problem that took place with looking fresh and then my next question is didn't check the crew carry out the maneuvers to the fullest extent that needed to be taken or did they do something in the interim that allowed the system to congestion problem until the airplane crashed and that's my question and i ask that question

not as a. in any type of journalistic fashion my question is from a accident investigator perspective. indeed and hopefully more diesel reports will come out in future which will give us some insight into the reasons exactly behind that crash. aviation security expert thanks for your time today here on r.t. international. thank you for having me you know. 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 is third by venezuela's leader nicolas maduro spain's foreign minister outlined his objection 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 then else the law change won't now come into effect until may the first that had been expected in mid april initially no reason was given for those changes or u.s. decision to allow the lawsuits related to cuba's confiscation of american property following the nine hundred fifty nine revolution it's all part of all trumps pressure campaign on have over if the solution to back. me controlled by the cuban military or protected by a private army of two brazil. is a cuban that's one of the reader of spanish history at the university of newcastle . thinks there's a high chance the u.s. will worsen its trade relations with the e.u. over this decision. i mean this britain interests lie and to cross. out in the united states are going to be probably probably cultures

a threat if it actually happens that could lead to a chaotic situation within the united states courts and then to another catholic situation in terms of international law because even if the foreign policy of the united states has been crap take in the last and last years and the shooting found a way to really seriously whether it's worth. it to practice action and to risk. a commercial war a trade war without you can you say for us our join us again in thirty minutes for the latest global news updates what's your r.t. international.

in a partisan speech donald trump sets the republican agenda for the twenty's one the zero actions but it's a different. way as week. which agenda will this party go with we'll explore that topic on this edition of. the new politicking on larry king only last week donald trump promise an immediate repeal and replace with obamacare and this weekend threaten to shut down the us mexico border as part of his tough stance on illegal immigration on tuesday however the president said health care reform will be saved for the twenty twenty g.o.p. agenda and his border shutdown threat went from imminent to uncertain as advisors

warn trump of the economic disaster a lockdown would cause so what is the president's and his party's agenda going to be the twenty's when he was to begin there with the political power in dallas george c. republican strategist and in chattanooga tennessee brian joyce host the brian joyce show on talk radio w g o w f.m. ok george you have to surprising many people last week including his own party with a pledge to immediately replaced the affordable care act the president backed tracks and says wait will the twenty's when the election what happened george. well it was a real head scratcher of first larry and then i came to the conclusion that he's really just trying to appeal to the base with the health care red meat chatter and with the border red meat chatter and i kind of wish he pivot to the ten to twenty percent of the electorate that are open minded and fair and kind of more in the

middle and with that with that group he needs to be talking about jobs and the strength of the economy and how he's promoting american interests overseas with strength and vigor whether it's nato not paying for their obligations or china cheating on trade i think there are some issues that most fair minded americans would agree with automatically and health care reform was dead on arrival with this congress because the democratic house is going to block anything you tries to do so i think he was more posturing than doing any anything serious but obviously we all had a serious caper case of whiplash last which watching the back and forth very understand so brian what did you make of this whole thing. well i think the problem larry with repeal and replace is the same problem republicans have had for nearly ten years now they don't have a replacement and to me it's absolutely ridiculous because again when you talk about obamacare you talk about the affordable care act this is going back almost ten years and for ten years the republican party has been telling us we are going

to repeal this and replace this in ten years later they still haven't come up with a plan to replace it so i think george is right president trump trying to appeal to the red meat base he's telling them we're going to repeal and replace oh he realized once again just like the entire republican party they don't have a health care plan now look i was never a huge fan of the affordable care act i have a lot of problems with the individual mandate but it's something and the fact of the matter is ten years later republicans have nothing georgism of the sag but the affordable care act is pretty popular. i think it's slightly popular i think that it it's been pretty much a major disappointment though in terms of the number of americans who've signed because they're skeptical of it they don't trust it and the reality is both on the right and on the left and in the middle health care is a gigantic problem in our country and nobody's got a good solution for it and there has not been a bipartisan effort to reach one and if you look at the statistics medicare and

medicaid over the next thirty forty years are going to blow a sixty to seventy trillion dollar hole in our budget and bankrupt our country and the fact we have not put forth any reasonable solution yet is disheartening both on the right in the left george you are a republican in a borders seat do you support closing the us mexico border. i do not that's that's incredibly extreme what i do support is a bipartisan solution in the congress to effectively control our borders and prevent this onslaught of immigration we're having which i was struck by the fact that whether you live in wisconsin or massachusetts or maine versus texas dramatically colors your view on how much of an emergency or crisis this is it's an emergency down here absolutely we had over one hundred thousand immigrants illegally in her last month and it's a tidal wave and we've got to do something about it we've got to secure the borders before we can deal with the folks that are already here illegally and the inability

to do that within the federal government without the president threatening to take an emergency action is a failure on everybody's part both the democrats and the republicans i'm not in favor of an emergency action because i think it's a bad precedent and should not be used for common governmental actions like keeping our border secure but i also would put a pox on the house of the democrats in not agreeing to any reasonable solution to give us a better border security in the in the interim fry and the president is moving to turn some five hundred million dollars in u.s. assistance to some of the one hundred of them allah one of the potential economic in global standing implications for the united states desk guatemala honduras and el salvador larry i think that's what fox news refers to as three mexican countries right. i don't think look the president's if you want to call it a plan i don't think the president is really thinking this out very well number one

this idea of shutting down the border is absolute.