spring allergy season brings a sudden onset of well ichi trigger fingers because this weekend we saw both u.s. national security adviser john bolton and u.s. secretary of state mike pump ale put their allergy to peace and common sense on display as they bang the drums for war with both iran and venezuela mr bolton declared to reporters on sunday evening that the u.s. is deploying the u.s.s. abraham lincoln carrier strike group and a bomber task force to the middle east in order to quote send a clear and unmistakable message to the iranian regime that any attack on united states interests or those of our allies will be met with unrelenting force. unrelenting force you say as opposed to golly gee whiz relenting force we normally reserved for helping allies meanwhile over in the state department. bail was rattling the saber over venezuela's refusal to allow the united states decided later when asked about his recent visit to the pentagon on friday pompei zero told

a.b.c. news chief white house correspondent jonathan karl that he was there to quote make sure that the president as a whole scale set of options diplomatic options political options options with our allies and then ultimately a set of options that would involve the use of u.s. military we're preparing those for him so that when the situation arises we're not flatfooted. when he says not if that's an interesting choice of words there mikey but is there any weight behind these w w e stop political promo spur war or is this nothing more than sunday talk show bravado by the resident chicken hawks of capitol hill let's find out as we start watching the hawks. the. real this is what. the plot of. the day like you that i got. with. this.

well going to watch the harks i am tired robot and i'm tap until. i get scared when behind me and i make. bold and come sneaking up behind you pointing out is rather unnerving i mean i'm just sick of seeing him quite frankly like he's ben in the political process here for too long and he has accomplished very little aside from making themselves look really terrible and out of touch one of the things i think has to be said about bolton and this whole thing and we've watched you know we watch c.n.n. and i must have big c. and fox news and everybody just obsessed over this like are we going to war with iran all these things here's was interesting so we have foreign policy analysts and

international observers who have correctly pointed out something a little bit interesting about this whole were sending strike force says the lincoln strike groups deployment to iran was already announced the like month before we went on there on the sunday evening more hiking that he dead. nobody can say what exactly the actions are that would have prompted this this whole you know whatever is referring to we can't say what it's for and they were already on their way there it's scheduled maintenance is literally scheduled maintenance and then they go back into their normal deployment it's not new they were moved there for a specific reason it was literally just what i was already doing he just used to make it seem as if we're something that happened earlier with north korea remember . about last year or so c.n.n. quoted on they have the officials always helpful on monday saying there were

specific and credible targets so doing the work of the trumpet ministration specifically mr bush. that they were targeting u.s. forces in syria and iraq and at sea and on land and there was a lamp and i don't know it out by the way this is the same c.n.n. . who had to correct a little reporting earlier when they incorrectly said that following elections in january that voters chose opposition won over majority for president was interesting is they just invented an election that never happened they realized it was never part of an election that's not actually what happened was nominated and they took two reporters to write that to reporters didn't notice such a massive error in reporting i just miss it when they were not there. i don't even like that anonymous sources. it was. it's interesting because speaking of venezuela that leads right into the pump a over the weekend doing essentially kind of the

same thing the. bolton bit of just kind of this idea of war hocking like well military use could be on the table it is on the table we're leaving that option open. when pump oil is out that the president believes yet afford to attack venezuela without the express the prove will congress quote i don't want to speak to that i'm very confident in any action we took in venezuela would be lawful. so no so the answer is no sorry doesn't think that so once again we have a president who thinks that they can rule by executive order whose cabinet thinks that they can just decide when people get droned when they get murdered whether you accept this and when we decide who is going to be in charge somewhere great so and literally no change it's almost like obama never left wow. what's more they do it but the congress is actually a few members of congress are actually stepping up against the are doing better as we would put military forces are in fact representative david. rhode islanders

introduced a bill that would actually specifically prevent from sending u.s. forces to venezuela without explicit the rest of the approval which is technically what is supposed to happen here in the united states we've kind of been ignoring me . in eleven and i was also been ignoring international law which is super important kind of important for you know things people to live together and i guess we all the rule of law that we all agree on. so mary ellen. law school professor there is a renowned expert on the subject of international law she told the university of notre dame news agency that international law permits force in response to an armed attack and self-defense not for regime change to secure oil or even to distribute food they have no we have no business. entering militarily into the situation we are not invited there this is this is how the worst of our

wars get started and on top of it you have bowled no one savard to promote an improper we're going to have two wars one in the middle east one in south america and we know we don't have money for anything but somehow we have another few trillion dollars and another decade to lose fighting on and then wars for nothing all to save people for democracy and democracy now. during the twenty sixteen election politicians promised coal mining states like montana and west virginia that america was really going to dig coal again now two years later a new report from the institute for energy economics and financial analysis shows for the first time in u.s. history renewable energy sectors which include hydroelectric biomass wind solar and geothermal are outperforming coal according to the report in april of two thousand and nineteen renewables provided two thousand three hundred twenty two thousand megawatt hours per day while coal only produced one thousand nine hundred ninety

seven thousand megawatt hours per day which makes sense as we've recently saw the u.s. consumption for coal sell below the seven hundred million tonne per year for the first time in four decades i.e.e.e. as a research analyst dennis was dead states in the report that five years ago this never would have been close to happening the transition that's going on in the electric sector in the united states has been phenomenal it is also estimated that the u.s. will break its previous record for most closings of coal mines and power plants and according to the energy information administration they believe that coal fired electricity will drop from thirty nine percent of the mix in two thousand and fourteen to twenty seven percent this year and twenty nineteen so when it comes to the choice between coal in renewable the energy sector seems to be preparing for the future all our politicians just can't seem to take their pick between coal and anything but coal. this is great news for environment you know folks who care about

the environment things like people who like clean air but the thing that blows my mind about this is what to move the goal in two thousand and sixteen will probably see a repeat of that in twenty twenty if nothing changes but that's all everyone has one to focus on with saving the jobs of coal miners while the rest of us are going like we've been uses coal anymore right in the energy for the future you know the idea was that we sold a lot to china now as that was where the big thing was go will keep most of the. china still using a lot of coal. but we're not now and it's sort of silly at this point and it's it's we have you know time after time know one thing to keep in mind about these numbers at least number specifically for this month is they always tend to drop with call this time of year in the spring a lot of called plants are purposely taken offline for maintenance because it's the least amount of time we need it we've gotten past the cold season and we're not into the summer season where people are using their air conditioners again so that's part of it but there is

a huge shift that we've been seeing and it's not just coal mines it's coal plants it's anything to do with coal the people are getting away from and more and more energy sector companies and places and nonprofits are moving toward renewables because they're more efficient they're less money yeah and that's kind of like you know when you see the damage that we've done over the years you know use of coal mining and all that kind of thing breathlessly know no more what do you do what do you do when you have to close a coal mine there has to be an answer to there are actually because you know a lot of people bring up that thing it's like ok well we're putting these coal miners out of jobs what do we do all of this will just this past monday governor of washington the state of washington and president candidate jay inslee you have this to say about how washington handled the transition from cold renewables let's take a listen. you recall coal for player it's truly a war. but we are going through your position where your feelings to work for

gerges is very creative fifty five every dollar for to help those theories. you know that you and we're used to build small businesses and we hope it will. for infrastructure because you're good americans really do we start to care for the hope that through this transition. so again. when we're sitting there one thing is washington can sort of say like they've done it they've closed down a number of coal plants power plants and then it's it's not as easy as just saying well we're going to help you with pensions we're going to help you it's a cumulative effect and so i think a lot of politicians are failing because they're turning in this into you know alexander ocasio cortez you know come to kentucky and talk to our coal miners and some have called miners in kentucky but it is that thing where you turns into a pandering it's a tool to use against your opponent not something to really think about the long term which is sad because the truth is we can we can't rest on our laurels from an

environmental standpoint because the reason coal went down a big chunk of that is natural gas and fracking so we're still using a fossil fuel but at least it's not quite a burn slightly slightly less horribly than that but it would be nice to get those numbers down but if we've we've we've driven so much up in renewables we just have to keep making them more palatable for people yes we do and you know what's really interesting because we can see behind you you know basically. air power you know windmills and all of this you know we something so rare rare of them what i was like wow people are building wheels but what's really interesting to have is actually you would you could not guess the state that is like the leading the way in windmill technology or technology. definitely not tax us actually it definitely is texas back to texas home about

a quarter of all wind power capacity in the country with the ability to generate twenty five thousand megawatts so we're seeing that up rise in renewable energy resources i mean things like that and then when you see in a place like texas which is known for oil when they are saved for oil when big oil says big wind makes more sense. so this is good news it's good news. all right as we go to break court watchers don't forget to let us know what you think of the topics we've covered of facebook you tube and twitter and then come and see your poll shows that are to dot com coming up we bounce around the globe with the latest from north korea israel palestine and the larger than life story of the himalayas so stay tuned in the hall.

with this manufacturer to send to the public well. when the ruling class isn't protect themselves. it's certainly the. middle of the room six. so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy. let it be an arms race off and spearing dramatic development only personally i'm going to resist i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical time to sit down and talk.

is this is a stick up from the water bottle phone in the stomach of a fish the brand is spawns of the coca-cola company which sells millions of bottles of soda every day the idea was that let's tell consumers there are the bad ones there the litter bugs are throwing this away industry should be blamed for all this waste the company has long promised to reuse the plastic. that seems. special projects funded. on the. fun now the mountains of waste only grow. what politicians do. they put themselves on the line they get accepted or rejected

. so when you want to be president and you. want to. have to go to be pros which is what the four three of them all can't be good. i'm interested always in the waters about how. this should. be. kim jong un and north. we are back making headlines again hawk watches but not just for nuclear deals missile tests and saber rattling according to the united nations roughly forty percent of north korea's population is now an urgent need of food after the country suffered its worst harvest in a decade united nations relief agencies told the media that quote the situation could further deteriorate during the lean season from may to september if no proper

and urgent humanitarian actions are taken un security council sanctions have deprived the north koreans government from major sources of income and that has played a significant role in the country's ability to import food during the chronic food shortages the nation has faced in the past joining us now from miami to bring us the latest on north korea's recent headline making actions is r.t. america correspondent john hardy thank you for joining us xan well you're welcome good to be with you jim always a pleasure john no of course the big news of the week was that north korea conducted yet another missile test this time believe the missiles were short range of a right to judge what we know so far about the details of the latest launch. yeah tyrell on top of that we know that north korea launched several short range missiles as you were just talking about some rockets into the sea of japan from fifty miles to about one hundred thirty miles off shore this happened saturday morning local time in north korea which would have been friday evening here and also tested the use of

tactical guided weapons though there's differing of opinions about what exactly those weapons were that were being tested u.s. secretary of state mike pompei o said over the weekend that at no point was there any international boundary that was crossed with north korea's missile test as there has been in the past there was never a threat to the u.s. or japan as there has been a prat past and he says that the missiles again were not intercontinental ballistic missiles as north korea have tested has tested in the past firing missiles actually over japan still clearly raises questions if this was perhaps an attempt by kim jong un to basically push forward some kind of breakthrough in the stalled negotiations with the united states after as you recall president trump walked out on the vietnam summit back in february or that perhaps can drone on is just showing frustration with the lack of continued talks so at this point you know that remains

to be seeing you guys what has the internet access and our national reaction been to this task and of course i guess the big question now is how has this task affected the trump administration's relationship with north korea as these talks on . well president trump tweeted over the weekend he tweeted saturday that i and he said this quote i believe that kim jong un feel fully realizes the great economic potential of north korea and will do nothing to interfere and did he also knows that i am with him and does not want to break his promise to me deal will happen so if you take the president around at his word you know that that quote unquote bromance continues if you will well that said yesterday on a.b.c. news this week u.s. secretary of state my palm pale maintain that the u.s. will continue to pursue diplomatic efforts with north korea here is what he said listen this. well we don't think we still believe that there's an opportunity to

get him to go shoot it out come where we get fully for verify denuclearization cermak him has repeated that he's repeated that quite recently in fact and so we hope that this act that he took over the weekend won't get in the way we want to get back at the time we want to continue to have these conversations the sanctions the global sanctions put on put in place by the u.n. security council they're still in place. and me the issues of the sanctions on north korea and north korea really remain a major stumbling block in the negotiations between the u.s. and north korea so whether that changes you know also remains to be seen as you know it's interesting because i think one of the reasons i in my estimation of this is you know it's possible that he's launching these rockets because as you mentioned earlier we have these food shortages that are about to become true but how you get we've got to get back to the table you have everybody looked at me i'm still here we've got to figure this out is there any idea what comes next out of this you know kim jong un is now met with the chinese leaders from china you know

met with vladimir putin in russia now u.s. leaders you know what is next is there going to be anything in the horizon the we're hearing over that you can see. well it's a great question you know and there is the dynamic going on between not only kim jong un and the united states but also with his relationship now with a lot of with south korean leaders with chinese officials all of whom have had meetings with with with kim in the last basically since two thousand and eighteen so you know as far as the meeting with vladimir putin perhaps you know that was prudent stepping in to try to work a deal that president trump could not or some other strategy between russia and north korea maybe even kind of picking up where the united states left off but but that said you know the president did speak with japanese prime minister shinzo abi today about the developments with north korea and moving forward and what exactly that entails again remains to be seen but there is this dynamic between the u.s.

between north korea between russia between you know south korea and china that's all part of this overall puzzle about what you know how you know what what goes on moving forward at this point you guys john always a pleasure thank you so much for coming on and informing us of brilliantly informative jahnavi from miami you're welcome. this we're going to. violence between israel and palestine the more than twenty palestinians reportedly killed including two pregnant women with war between the two countries once again looking like a very real possibility possibility a miraculous cease fire was called on monday from tel aviv you resort to these policies later were restored. when the truce between israel and the war in gaza faxon's went into effect on monday morning it was broke. and the united nations it came off to the worst fear of violence between the sides once it was some seven hundred rockets raining down on southern israel and these may be

a force bombarded hundreds of locations inside gaza destroying and damaging maybe buildings now being. bradys have not confirmed that they were in talks with hamas because they cannot publicly acknowledge that they are negotiating with an organization they regard as a terrorist movement but on monday morning the israeli defense forces gave the order to lift security restrictions on the south of the country so effectively just amend the situation back to normal schools we opened businesses we opened and people left they bomb shelters we do understand that the terms of the truce include an israeli commitment to lift the siege on gaza to ease the fishing restrictions off the coast of gaza and also to provide fuel and electricity to the strip not the vine and so will some twenty five hundred students killed among them soup ignorant women and toddlers israelis did not if they were killed at the hands of the strikes

instead saying that the women died in the inches that were being fired from the gaza strip israel has also resumed its policy of targeted assassinations it killed a man in his thirty's while he was travelling is caught inside gaza who is responsible for distributing cash that comes from iran and to various factions inside gaza now among the buildings that was hit by the israeli warplanes was your office so crucial state run news agency not to take this president as a one has publicly criticized israel and take actions between and televisions have increased on the israeli side for what israelis would kill this is the highest casualty number that israel has suffered in some five years since the last israel gaza war back in two thousand and four team you know the feeling on the ground both inside gaza and israel is that this is merely allow infighting and that

unfortunately the flare up will happen again we have heard from hamas off to the cease fire threatening as well that if it doesn't come up to lift the receipts try if it were. it's rocket attacks and speaking to israelis here in the south of the country many feel that they've been abandoned by the israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu many israelis would have liked him to have conducted a full scale war inside gaza to quote them once and for all deal with the situation the next two weeks are jam packed on the israeli calendar you have israeli independence day memorial day you have the one year anniversary of the america moving off its embassy from tel aviv to jerusalem you have knocked the day which is the palestinian commemoration of what they call the catastrophe the declaration of these really independence back in one nine hundred forty eight and all of this comes before the year of vision song face to both slated to begin on the fourteenth of may the saints very much is that miss on yahoo does not want to disrupt any of those memorial days any of those celebrations and that he's perhaps planning to

deal with the situation in gaza off to a fortnight as far as your vision is concerned there are some twenty thousand tourists who are expected to descend on television where the world's largest singing competition will be held you really have international groups who have a arrived on the way and both organizers of the competition as well as the israeli foreign ministry all the pains to point out that the show must go on at this stage there are no known cancellations from into us coming so far no this cease fire is holding but as i say there's a real sense that this is merely along in the fighting for watching the hawks tel aviv. one of the theory of bipedal creature about it but at the center of the logical debate the first century is maybe even longer or in a bomb man is said to live deep in the mountains of the himalayas and what many have tried to capture the biggest on film the indian army says footprints these

snow we have footprints measured thirty two inches long and fifteen inches wide was found near the monk who ruined national park bait. camp where the yeti is believed by many to hide called the made today by the himalayas and is protected in certain areas like the nation of bhutan in these national parks even if one has never actually been found and while scientists mostly think of the yeti is just a bear the people who believe in the yeti will not be deterred from their belief in the beast with a human soul that lives deep in the snowy mists while there's a good word around and that is our show for you today remember everyone in this world we are not told that we love them enough so i tell you all i love you i am a rover and and on top of the while i sleep on watching those arcs and i'm a great day and night everybody.

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