headlining international raises the alarm of the u.k. defense secretary's amnesty proposal for british veterans rights group says immunity for criminal offenses sets a dangerous president. former 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 resident of the marshall islands to. the cleanup of the entire at home let's not complete that is just. the radiation on the athlone a large amount was straight into the ocean. a little stream 2 gas pipeline project passes a big milestone with over 50 percent of the construction work now complete coming out we get a 1st time view from one of the vessels out there in the cold for. one. dollar 35

point that's all real marble. to get. right on board. this friday thanks for choosing our team to national with me kevin 0 in so the stories in more detail on the 1st woman to serve as u.s. defense the u.k. rather defense secretary penny more. to a controversial stop internationally plan to grant immunity for british veterans from investigation and prosecution for crimes committed while on active service. 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 so the human rights body isn't the only organization concerned about the proposal especially as probably more than once to extend that cover to northern ireland to pretty boy has got more. the new boss in here has proposed a new law one that would presume soldiers innocent of any offenses committed throughout the course of jews 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 not about 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 trolling 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 competed 2nd term as you know or 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 a concern that the government's desire to better protect its former and current servicemen and women will effectively place them above the law 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 battle is one place that there's lots of very wonderful people civilians and armed people and others who might not be after that who's human rights need to get those soldiers should have understood what they need to say just sr if you committed you

or if we should you get punished if you haven't you don't so there shouldn't be any market 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 un. and this will be our intention from this. radioactive waste from a u.s. atomic bomb test site in the pacific ocean a media danger of leaking into the ocean according to the secretary general of the 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 . for the marshlands we march from the colonial period or want to and the impacts of nuclear testing conducted more than 6 to get civil. only 27 years later and now facing the consequences of climate change

a potted history here the nuclear tests were carried out from one to 46 to 950 a far away from american territory in the marshall islands in the pacific ocean at the time there on the u.s. administration the tests included the most powerful detonation of an american hydrogen bomb which is about a 1000 times bigger than the atomic bomb dropped in the japanese city of a russian that many earl and his were forcibly evacuated from their property and resettled but for those that remained have been serious consequences. the cleanup of the entire at a was not complete that is just a portion of the radiation that exists on the apple a large amount was dumped straight into the ocean the entire at all is contaminated not simply ruin it all and the radiation affects us on a daily basis then we have many illnesses in our community personally as a mother there finitely impacts me because when my children get sick i

wonder is that something more than just a cold or a flu that worry is constantly there the islanders they've always attempted to bring attention to the fact of what has happened and what continues to happen to anywhere and including petitions to the u.n. court case. regarding environmental law and they are met with silence here the big worry is this thing this great big concrete dome built by could 970. one island uses a dumping ground for radioactive waste is now badly decay it's substantially this day 40 centimeters think more than a 100 meters across covering a 9 meters deep creative that's got a story that vast hole was created by the cactus nuclear weapons test back in 1958 that kind of covered it in and the cover was planned as a temporary fix only be cause of cracks there's a worry now that it could be about to leak radioactive waste and that's been exacerbated by rising sea levels too and the craters never been lined on top of it

a u.s. government report also warned of the risks several years ago and one former worker told us direct that people are suffering health problems related to the site. i'm nationalist to go to the marshall islands and we talk of so one of the ones we have lead over 40 atomic bombs. 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 and we'd start wasn't examinate it the main island itself but yet it was they were supposed to take anywhere from $6.00 to $18.00 inches of snow all transported from whatever alan ate they collected onto the island of ruin it place it and one of the bomb craters the last great is they were created by comic downstairs and then eventually kept there greater 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 starting with. certain ones would lead out and they would have the. big year or roughly about $8000.00 men went there many of them have passed away since jan we're losing anywhere from $6.00 to $7.00 a year and that's a very liberal number we have the facts without george and the government has no compensation for years. no one's trying to project a gas pipeline this intended to pump russian gas to europe where the baltic sea passed a really important milestone with over 50 percent of the construction completed we can bring in exclusive access to one of the vessels laying that pipeline. of the seas somewhere between in helsinki and sea petersburg and valid to show you something that could cause a real scuffle between germany and its european coal and the us it is

a real gas pipes yet to be shown. this is where the newest dream to project is born right to. the heart beat of the ship it's like you know just this gentleman controls the pieces the poles the kings the route. one makes the solitaire and 5 quite facile real technological marvel is the fact that to get the army here right on board. the 5

tanks you have to be protected well and tested. just imagine you are a real shopaholics you love going to all kinds of the stores but then at hand out comes out what you do is you swipe look for the best thing push the button and there 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 north st 2 project if you will not supplying someone else will but in the end. we still would only get shown that it was just because we decided to have a guess where this project is the lowest in washington they want american companies to sell liquefied natural gas to europe and send their on ships and america has

literally been pulling europe with all kinds of threats the american ambassador in germany put on president pressure on local. companies sending out letters to them and just recently and draft bill has been proposed in the u.s. senate suggesting that companies and individuals working on north st you could have their absence frozen and they could even receive travel bans to the u.s. can 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 i try not to think about it i mean we apply all over the world. political view shouldn't really come in at the end of the day we've all got a job to do but no matter what there you have it what's probably going to be the longest to get the string and the world is making its way into the

seawater and the pace is. kilometers a day when this kind of performance the team is expecting the project will be complete by the end of this year. present amount of mccrone to said paris will not block the operation of chinese telecoms john huawei in france joining the chorus of countries like the u.k. like germany which are also refusing to bow to u.s. pressure on the matter because comment comes hard on the heels of washington placing quali on a trade blacklist over alleged security concerns. the next today reporting from the technology conference in paris the french president made that statement. 5 g. is seen as being critical to the development of the digital economy in the next decade one of the major players is china's huawei but its presence in the field is a contentious issue and something that could cause for the tensions between the

e.u. and the usa why well donald trump has just signed an executive order declaring a national economic emergency the us president has empowered the government to ban the technology and services of foreign adversaries deemed to pose unacceptable risks to national security including from so i bet espinosa and sabotage it may not mention huawei by name but it's clear who it's a dad's 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 road out 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 to meet the notion no back doors standard so as the tech world cap is here in paris how worrisome 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 but 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 just so we don't just know the the different elements of the other companies so i think it's the same so i'm not really scared we just have to be a careful as you are going to respect a lot of. in france or in europe it would it would be ok australia and new zealand top already. despite assurances from huawei but with the stroke of a pen trump has seriously bumped 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 that they will stand steadfast gates to ban there was still a question about whether europe as a whole is prepared to go trunks rough on the 4 lights if it decides the future out lies with china show that you can see a lot see carries much more to come as long as what an embassy in the us a flashpoint an already fraught relations between the country. of the break. there's in petersburg international economic forum is a unique event in today's business world. over the last 21 years the forum has

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again thanks for watching out international live from moscow this so next is apparently now much more difficult to tell fact from fiction may not come as a surprise to the if you're in the u.s. news and reporting there according to a new study by the rand a 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 out to find that factual information that's coming in bias and the way we process information we like to be right we seek out things that prove that we're right we disregard things that things that were 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 into a graphic dollars these so the news in a digital age report examines the coverage of 15 media outlets think clues such pillars as the new york times the washington post also major t.v.

networks like c.n.n. and b.b.c. and fox all came under the microscope along with digital platforms politico breitbart and buzz feed to this report suggests that from $1809.00 to 2017 u.s. media's taken a gradual but nonetheless subtle shift towards subjectivity and away from facts and analysis he says online media in particular reflects personal frames and subjective references it also claims t.v. news reporting is being replaced these days with opinion based shows led by pundits prize winning journalist chris hedges told us the findings indeed are justified. i think on the cable news channels whether it's imus n.b.c. or c.n.n. or far they were actually given up on journalism. and replaced it with. reality show. you know news programs newsprint at the same time has become so anemic. that the 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 get a wizened to whatever particular political belief system or you know conspiracy theory did they happen to embrace to reinforce so if you look at the especially the electronic media fact is interchangeable with opinion people believe whatever they want to believe. but 2020 u.s. presidential elections already seeing a spike in the number of democratic candidates very good to challenge donald trump now new york city mayor bill de blasio has become the 23rd democrat to announce his campaign and it seems the party is focusing on divisions in us society rather than

unity and it is cullum open explains. 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 and found their way into the press now her supporters say that is not a legit concern that sexism and a coalition of women's groups has stepped up to say that the media's coverage of the 2020 race is the latest 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 do 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 europe. conant 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 who believe the same way they do last summer 2016 there was no so-called person of color on a democrat is a 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 a year a black person over a year in person over a year 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 is particular identities. that

as well a president nicolas maduro is condemned the detention of 4 activists who were arrested after staging a sit in at the venezuelan embassy in washington the protests were against the expulsion but there was diplomats last month and u.s. interference more generally in the south american country armed police raided the embassy building then on thursday morning venezuela crucially did not give permission for the police operation and says it never breaks international law if you spent more than 3 weeks in the embassy preventing officials of celtic play the interim president from entering it venezuela's permanent representative to the united nations says that it's the police with the trespass is there not the activists. there not just possibly coles. we are for all thought i'd say you know what i mean the republican is the only. full of footy's over this without which he's the government oppressed in my little over i seen them to stay there so they're not just passing that. 1st thing and 2nd

when they enter their forty's he said mean the local police and the secret service when they included. or broke into the right world into our premises they actually were breaking the vienna convention international law the actual trust. the police the local police are not the pacifist. the activists again detentions some pretty prominent figures too on wednesday civil rights figurehead jesse jackson arrived at the embassy to give food to the protest as it came after reports suggested authorities were preventing supplies from reaching them but just the junctions charitable act was criticized by the pointed to the u.s. of accused him of supporting human rights violators reverend jackson explained direct to us why he decided to help the protesters. because america could oh and that was not right but. in this case no one wins if he is

there as kind and does the room of the reconciled. real credible convene the u.s. cannot do it alone and replacing one government for another train is not an answer with the democracy it is and there's a lot within the movement. about international law and human rights and certain terminations with a nation must have been there and people must protest that but it's 126 the afternoon moscow time fans watching this balance and you know see in the coming hours to update you on any stories as they might break check it out come of course for the latest from us so many more stories to bring a child here i'm kevin i have a great friday. back geysers financial survival guide. housing.

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