few years ago today has straw and stored it in the hall. and when they wanted to pick it up it was called because terrorists had eaten it. in the headlines this morning amnesty international raises the alarm of the u.k. defense secretary's amnesty proposal for british veterans rights group says immunity for criminal offenses is a dangerous president will follow that up. to the american nuclear test site in the pacific may be about to contaminate the ocean is the warning from the u.n. we hear from a former contract to the. day told us that we would not be exposed to any more radiation and having maybe 2 or 3 x. rays a year which was a total. on the north stream to gas pipeline project passes a big milestone 50 percent of the construction work now complete coming out we get a firsthand view from one of the vessels out there in the baltic sea.

this is where the project is all right. good morning. here in moscow this friday morning you're watching us international with me kevin and greater company sort of the stories in more detail than the 1st woman served as a u.k. defense secretary petty mordant off to a controversial start she's proposed immunity for british veterans from investigation and prosecution for crimes committed while serving in iraq and afghanistan further to extend that to to northern ireland has got the story. the new boss in here has proposed a new law one that would presume soldiers innocent of any offenses committed

throughout the course of june abroad more than 10 years ago although that rule could have exceptions for example if new evidence of alleged crimes were to come to light it is high time that we change the system and provide devide legal protections to make sure the decisions how service personnel take in the battlefield will not lead to repeated or unfair investigations down the line for the new defense secretary the new legislation is about making the system fairer and preventing what she called law fare repeated and unfair investigations against former soldiers this is no surprise at preventing someone who's committed a crime from facing justice this is about stopping in industries that surrounds these processes which is not about the pursuit of justice i had at the iraq historic allegations team spent 7 years trawling through allegations of murder

torture wrongdoing at a cost of 60000000 pounds to the taxpayer none of the claims resulted in a prosecution and in 2016 the unit was shot down just because i completed 7 tours nor all with the infantry or associated units i lost many men. and i was involved in fatality shootings i was investigated along with others. the investigations were. aggressive and bloody awful to go through so well former soldiers and members of the military say that the amnesty doesn't go far enough that it needs to include northern ireland 2 human rights groups are concerned that the government's desire to better protect its former and current servicemen and women will if. actively place them above the law it would be utterly disingenuous to have a presumption of non-prosecution for abuse yet at the same time claim justice is

being served british soldiers who break the law must face just like everyone else these proposals potentially set a dangerous precedent it's reported that there are around $150.00 investigations looking into alleged abuses by british soldiers in iraq and afghanistan the question is how the victims of those alleged abuses will ever get justice if these new proposals become law what they're trying to do is create an exemption from european human rights or for soldiers of fighters on the battlefield that's obviously really dangerous because obviously the back of the is one place that is not so very wonderful people civilians and armed people others who might not be argued about whose human rights need to get those soldiers should have understood what they knew to outstay just sr if you committed you resolutions you get punished if you haven't you don't so there shouldn't be any and blanket amnesty or exemption

for anyone anywhere the government couldn't find an easy way to say that we will now bring all of these veterans back into the court. and that's what the our intention from this. radioactive waste from a humorous atomic bomb test site in the pacific to the media danger of leaking into the ocean according to the 2nd general of united nations. there is a risk of leaking of radioactive materials that are contained in a kind of coffin in the area the consequences of nuclear tests have been quite dramatic in relation to health in relation to the poisoning of waters in some areas this place the marshall islands were grown 0 for $67.00 american nuclear weapons tests between $146.15 they included the most powerful detonation of the american hydrogen bomb which is about a 1000 times bigger than the atomic bomb dropped on the japanese city hiroshima many people who live on the islands are still suffering from the consequences of the test to this day the cleanup of the entire at war was not complete that is just

a portion of the radiation that it is on the apple a large amount was dumped straight into the ocean the entire atoll is contaminated not simply ruin it dom and the radiation affects us on a daily basis then we have many illnesses in our community personally as a mother if there finitely impacts me because when my children get sick i i wonder is that something more than just a cold or a flu worry is constantly there the island us have always attempted to bring attention to the fact of what has happened and what continues to happen to anyway and including petitions to the un court case. regarding environmental law and they are met with sirens and one of the big problems there a concrete dome built back in the 1970s on one island as a dumping ground for radioactive waste is now badly decayed it's been exposed over

the decades to elements there's no effective bio rising sea levels to one former workers there told us that people are suffering health effects related to that site . i'm a simplest to go to the marshall islands and we talk of so one of the ones we aptly over 40 atomic bombs were dropped and the fifty's and i think into the sixty's i will say that in the forty's up to the sixty's to clean up everything there were on the northern islands which were the most contaminated they said any weeks art was contaminated the main island itself but yet it was they were supposed to take up to anywhere from $6.00 to $18.00 inches of snow all transported from whatever alan ate they collected on to the island of ruin it place it and one of the bomb craters the blast great is that were created by comic downstairs and then eventually kept that crater supposedly to contain it for ever they told us that we would not be exposed to any more radiation and have been maybe 2 or 3 x.

rays a year which was a total lie there was no radiation study with. certain ones would lead out and they would have the. big jug of europe roughly about 8000 men went there many of them have passed away since jan we're losing in a way to 6 to 7 a year and that's a very liberal number we have the facts with our children the government has no compensation for. that old stream to project a gas pipeline this intended to pump russian gas to europe where the baltic sea is past important milestone below 50 percent the construction complete we got exclusive access for you to one of the vessels laying the pipeline that. i'm above the seas somewhere between in helsinki and st petersburg and i have a vow to show you something that could cause a real scuffle between germany and its european coach and the us it is

a real gas pipes to get to the ship. this is where the north steamship project is born right to. the heart beat of the ship it's like you know just this gentleman controls the pieces the forms the kings the route. one makes the solitary 5 like vessel real technological marvel and the fact that they get rb here right on board. the 5 tanks is

out to be protected well and tested. just imagine you were real shopaholic you love going to all kinds of the stores but then at handing out comes out what you do is you swipe look for the best thing push the button and your shipment is ready so probably you're going to change your shopping habits a little bit but what if someone forces you not to do it this is probably not a perfect analogy but it does explain what's happening with the norns 32 projects if you will not supply me with someone else will but in the end. we still would only get shown to use. it's because we decided to have a guess where this project is low in washington they want american companies to sell liquefied natural gas to europe and send it there on ships america has

literally been fully europe with all kinds of rights the american ambassador in germany put on press to pressure on local companies sending out letters to them and just recently at raf bill has been opposed to the us senate suggesting that companies and individuals working on north street could have their assets frozen and they could even receive travel bans to the us could i do but to. do a job and so i think we all need. to come from somewhere when you hear these kind of things are you ever worried or do you ever think about it. to be honest the throwing of the finger bowl that i mean we apply all over the world. political view shouldn't really come in at the end of the day you've got to go but no matter what there you have it what's probably going to be long is the get the string and the world is making its way into the seawater and the pace is.

kilometers day when this kind of performance the team is expecting the project will be complete by the end of this year. but as we also have more correspondent there the projects being venally opposed by the united states which claims that you are at risk becoming too dependent on russian energy resources even threatening sanctions against anyone who refuses to comply with washington and that's a kind of treatment that's not exactly relished by the germans. does was become what angers me most here is that german companies and other european companies that want to build this pipeline are being threatened and told that they won't be able to do business in the us if they take part these are extra territorial sanctions that go beyond the u.s. they go against international law and in my opinion a completely unacceptable america is acting in this case like germany is its colony this is something i don't want to happen and we need to prevent this at all costs.

but as well a president nicolas maduro has condemned the detention of 4 activists who were arrested after staging a sit in at the venezuelan embassy in washington the protests for against the expulsion of the duros diplomats last month and the u.s. interference in the south american country generally. has got more. please enter the building around 930 but it wasn't until about 1115 that we saw those 4 activists being taken away in police transport vehicles now those 4 are from a group of activists who have been occupying the embassy for more than 3 weeks now and they say that their goal is to hold the building for the government of venice on president nicolas maduro despite the fact that the united states has recognized opposition leader one as the country's interim president now on monday we saw that police posted a notice on the door of the building and they said that any of the activists who were still inside would be arrested and charged with trespassing that's when the majority of the activists did leave but those 4 remain and it wasn't until today

that they were officially arrested now so far they have been charged with interfering with a protective order and it's not clear if they are going to be facing any other charges now i show chew over the lawyer for the activist and she said that this raises a lot of concerns under international law because she argued that it goes directly against the vienna convention which states that the united states can not enter the venezuelan embassy without approval from the feel like to venezuela and government and so as of right now we don't know exactly what the condition inside that building is we do know that we have seen a very heavy police presence here which has included secret service the d.c. metro police and federal agents who have gone inside the building and conducted searches but we're still not sure exactly what the future is for this embassy. the attention of some prominent figures lately to a wednesday civil rights figurehead jesse jackson arrived at the embassy to give food to the protesters it came off reports suggested that authorities were

preventing you supplies reaching them we spoke to reverend jackson direction i asked him what he thinks of washington's role in venezuela right now. rather than the national or human rights commission. people. must protest that because. of all they can while in the same congress will not accept subpoenas from the same white house and learns that. the congress also will not. treat people at the embassy and was in fact ransom loans the people of venezuela both leaders should be in the commonplace dismas to meet with him noon and. use a means of abt all business and i am as you know we get about. in venezuela then saudi arabia all of them billions with us for days away from some other 3 weeks away we have ever right ever reason and i have to say you know america we are

a great nation was one to the by him a sphere to them they spend this solace and that number was in their freedom as the good neighbor probably not with the hostile over the regime wall attitude. jesse jackson's charitable act was criticised by the quite appointed ambassador to the us accused of supporting human rights violators reverend jackson explained to us why he decided to help those protesters. earth to the murderer because the murder occurred though and that was not right but what has been written for all of this and this is no more than wins if you use the card and this room of reconciles . real credible can bring the us cannot do it alone and replacing one government for a moment. would put democracy next story may not be a big surprise to you apparently it's now much more difficult to tell fact from

fiction in news and reporting in the us according to a new study by the run think tank in america. so we end up in a situation where not only are we not sure what's true and what's not but we're not even really sure where to go to find that factual information that's cognitive bias and the way we process information we like to be right we seek out things that prove that we're right we just regard things that say that we're wrong technology changes fast and institutions change slow so schools haven't caught up in terms of providing students with the skills they need to be able to navigate that space and then finally polarization and we've alluded to it here several times in the political space but it's also important to think about social economic interacting polarization the report suggests that from $1.00 to $3.00 to $9.00 to 2017 u.s. media is taking a gradual and subtle shift towards subjectivity and away from facts analysis it says on line media in particular reflects personal frames and subjective references but also claims t.v. news reporting is being replaced with opinion based shows led by pundits on contact

host chris hedges says the findings of the dow justified. i think on the cable news channels whether it's m s n b c or c.n.n. or fox they've actually given up on journalism. and replaced it with. reality show. you know news programs news print at the same time has become so anemic. and that real journalism in most major cities has withered away you take for instance philadelphia live an hour from philadelphia the philadelphia inquirer was once one of the great newspapers with its own foreign correspondents and it's all gone and the internet is a kind of free for all where people are getting wise to into whatever particular political belief system or you know conspiracy theory that they happen to embrace

their reinforce so if you look at the especially the electronic media fact is interchangeable with opinion people believe whatever they want to believe. they are versus some contests coming up this weekend of course but it's not to put everyone in party mood will tell you why after the break. what is it calling the coin is magic internet money the new type of digital currency decentralized digital scarcity chancellor. of 2nd for bankers call the genesis blog for reason to calling it civil disobedience a source of optimism because i can control my own financial destiny it's just a new way of coming to consensus it's

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pressure over it because comments come hard on the heels of washington placing well way on a trade bloodlust over alleged security concerns. ski reports from a technology conference in paris where the french president made the statement 5 g. is seen as being critical to the development of the d.h. still economy in the next decades. one of the major players is china's huawei but its presence in the field is a contentious issue and something that could cause further tensions between the e.u. and the usa why well donald trump has just signed an executive order declaring a national economic emergency the u.s. president has empowered the government to ban the technology and services of foreign adversaries deemed to pose unacceptable risks to national security including from cyber espinosa and sabotage it may not mention whoa wait by name but

it's clear who it's a dad meanwhile in europe they seems to be a more open approach to the company the e.u. has demanded strict to security ahead of the rollout of 5 g. in a bid to protect privacy and business secrets but it seems that that may not be enough to satisfy the u.s. so what is huawei doing to try and ease the concerns over but its technology we're willing to sign no spy agreements with governments to commit ourselves to making our quitman meet the no spine no back doors standard so as the tech world gap is here in paris our worries at all say about huawei my opinion is that everybody is or is spying on us for our phones and computer so this is going to be an extent i don't know i don't think we can do anything about it really think it's pro-business same with. mobile phone a we are just we don't just know the the

different element of the older companies so i think it's the same so i'm not really scared we just have to be careful as users are going to respect a lot of noise in france or in europe between it would be ok australia and new zealand have already followed it troubles me despite the. sure and see huawei but with the stroke of a pen trump is seriously ramped up the pressure on european allies to follow suit and to find the way from 5 g. networks although the dutch and the germans said they will stand steadfast a gate step back and there was still a question over whether europe as a whole is prepared to trucks rough on the 4 lights if it decides that teacher lies with china show that you can ski all t. carries. the 20 turns u.s. presidential elections are already seeing

a spike in the number of democratic candidates eager to challenge donald trump new york city mayor bill de blasio become the 23rd democrat to announce his campaign and it seems the party's focusing on divisions in us society rather than unity is it explains next. the way politics is supposed to work candidates are expected to win the hearts and minds of voters by promising ways that they can fix up the country's problems and pointing the way forward for america however in 2019 it seems that a lot of candidates are arguing rather that who they are in terms of age race and gender is more important than any policy proposals i think we need to articulate the values of our philosophical commitments and then develop policies off of that joe biden and bernie sanders both of them elderly white men are the 2 top candidates for the democratic nomination in the year of $20.20 now regardless of their policies that fact alone has got top democrats crying sexism i think is just

gender bias i think people are genuinely biased against women i think. young women they're just bias and it's real and it exists but you have to overcome it's a female candidate amy clovers shar has been accused of being too harsh stories of her mistreating her former staff members and creating a harsh work environment of found their way into the press and her supporters say that is not a legit concern that's sexism and a coalition of women's groups has stepped up to say that the media's coverage of the 2020 race is laced in sexism and gender bias now it's important to note that hillary clinton made similar arguments back in 2016 i haven't been shouting but sometimes when a woman speaks out some people think it's shouting democrats have been quibbling about the importance of women and minorities to counter trends so-called white identity trump has perfected white i didn't the politics the republican party is

increasingly a white identity politics party in today's america why come up with complex policy proposals when you can simply run on the basis of what you were born asked and why defend yourself with logical arguments when you can simply decry you're a poet. as being a big hit in today's america it seems that identity politics is a new reality as the country shapes up for the next election all the identity politics come from the left because that's what they've been enjoying their campaigns over the past few years they're creating division all to try and get certain people on their side believe the same way they do last summer 2016 there was no so-called person of color on a democrat is a huge battle over who's going to be the actual came to date there's going to be some identity politics going on there if joe biden is successful people may say oh where you have a woman over here a black person over here in person over here while we're there liked it and then if

a person is not a straight white male becomes the nominee then the problem will be if they lose it was because they are of disparate people it in particular identities. was thems in israel are outraged after your vision song contest a village has been placed right in front of a mosque jury about a month of ramadan is this where shippers say the festivities is making it difficult for them to pray paula slee is there for us. to overlook the. behind me is the human fishing village the heartbeat of a tease here in tel aviv but if you just walk across the road here is a mosque one of many in the nearby vicinity. of observing the holy month of ramadan and some of been complaining that the noise and parties interfering with faint praise some of the kind of complaints coming from jewish rabbis who complaining that final hazels on saturday to dissipate the holy day of sabbath let's take

a look and ask people what they think. you're a vision coincides with ramadan which came as a surprise to the people who prayed at the nearby has a son back. pres only last up to 40 minutes said they could have should yield a break in the contest to give people least 25 minutes to pray and then kept going as normally for the rest of the night it would have been a mark of respect to muslims i think it's very good publicity for israel i think it's very great for economic like for businesses as say i mean my district should be jewish and this one should be for because people break here it's not normal to see walking their own health make it during ramadan as a muslim but a lot of muslims go to the mosque was another people come here to swim their own i'm a muslim so i go to the mosque is not good for us all to be in the same place people don't like it i think it's great it's happy it's very very lovely

a lot of people and i hope there will keep on coming russia sort of final of course it's all on tomorrow night where things look in so far this morning from moscow check it out t. dot com for the latest from us any time my name is kevin now in for me in the rest of the day thanks watch it and have a great friday. there was a very well known case of art show that was stolen in 69 in. very important painting and somebody from the mafia just said a few years ago that they had straw and stored it in the hall. and when they wanted to pick it up it was called because dress had eaten it.

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