now. i can think. of. prostration anger both in the u.k. and europe as british prime minister theresa may try for a 4th time to get her breaks a deal over the line sweeping at this time with a promise to m.p.'s to hold a vote on a 2nd referendum if they back it. as you're prepares to go to the polls in 24 hours tech giants say there is no sign of any russian interference despite much media and political hype to the contrary. and the u.s. state department says the syrian government is planning a chemical attack following a rapid response of so that as president trump claims he's under pressure from the military industrial complex to keep up american adventurism abroad.

you're watching our chief international coming to you live from the russian capital where it's just turned 4 pm welcome to the program. theresa may is up against it as she makes a 4th bid to push through her brics deal this time around the british prime minister is dialing the carrot to m.p.'s we vote on a 2nd referendum but that and other at last ditch concessions have been derided from practically all sides. well i feel. fulfilled but i won't go through other cultural disputes because it's basically a rehash of what discussed before the s. and p. roots of food for the deal to start to so you think you can see a single market where she promised a bold new offer and here is to reason may's fault the incarnation of a brags that bell she needed something different enough to sell to m.p.'s and there

are a number of concessions that she's made she's going to be making the case to the country over the next couple of weeks there are 10 main points too many to list but the 2 main headline grabbers are is that she will offer m.p.'s a vote on the option of a customs union that big big carrot that she's offered m.p.'s will get to vote on a 2nd way friend but only if they pass the deal in the 1st place the government will therefore include in the withdrawal agreement bill introduction a requirement to vote on whether to hold a 2nd referendum and this must take place before the withdrawal agreement can be rushed outside to reason mase never wanted it herself she's always said that she would just like to stick to implementing the results of the 1st one but she's trying everything she can to try her already dented political legacy she is after

all a one issue prime minister she came to power almost 3 years ago promising to deliver on gregg's it and she's still trying to salvage that take a listen to how grooming if a deal is rejected again some suggest leaving without a deal but whatever you think about outcome poland has been clear it will do all it can to stop it if not no deal then it would have to be a general election or a 2nd referendum. that could lead to red location. to resume a said that this is the last chance for m.p.'s to vote good deal through off to rule the default setting in october is for a no deal with drawl but it's also to reason may's last chance to save her political legacy and to deliver on the brags that she's promised throughout her leadership she's failed to pay a bill through parliament $3.00 times already she's failed to 6 weeks of cross

party negotiations the u.k. was meant to leave the e.u. on the 29th of march that didn't happen and the u.k. wasn't supposed to be taking part in the parliamentary elections which is happening so naturally all the questions at the end of that big speech from journalists trying to make sense of it focused on one issue and that was when is she going to step down some e.u. officials aren't particularly pleased with teresa mayes latest efforts are stressing that the block is in no mood to reopen negotiations and the internet has been having a field day. recently 1st of one that queen of making it up as you go along the bunch kept in chains and mother of chaos may's new deal she brags that to stop waits in school for no reason

lucian of brax. former director of research at britain's institute of economic affairs jamie whyte says trees may has no chance of getting her deal passed. there are 3 outcomes that are possible no deal breaks at all unlikely in a 2nd referendum i think it's increasingly likely or just continuing on until a full blown political crisis of emerges which results in a general election on the assumption that theresa may doesn't get this through they'll be a new leader of the conservative party soon enough that person was sent to be starting from scratch not completely because they'll know that there's resistance in palmer told us every possibility so that information is out but still with made no material progress in 2 years and we'll have a new leader who can be starting from scratch all britain hasn't left the e.u. yet it will take part in the e.u. elections on thursday senior brussels figures are especially pleased about the

prospect of seeing hardcore backstairs galloping into the european parliament with france is a commie minister for one thing the quicker the u.k. leaves the better some think britain's e.u. boat shouldn't even be happening. i mean a supporter of the 2nd referendum for about 2 and a half years it's just gone on too long and i never once heard up with. this i think this is a turd trying. to get here bricks if you stick to their hearing about it you can be voting in the european elections boys well i want to leave european well. we absolutely photo is really of course. i think it's completely useless and a waste of time for the english and a waste of money for the european union it's going to cost us a lot and it is only enough i don't want to don't know the english have never

really been in the europe they always had their conditions in the surrealist in absurd but. i think it's important that they can vote they are still a part of europe at the moment. i think that the british like the french and all europeans even democratic countries as long as democracy exists is necessary that everyone can express their ideas and ideally this some. good seems a duty to me. but it's difficult to motivate people to worlds to take election that they should know this but separating. or breaks that may be casting a shadow over the elections something that isn't is russian meddling artist peter our reports on how the kremlin influence despite being much talked about is nowhere to be found. earlier this week fans were gripped by the series finale of game of thrones but there's also plenty of fun of a nother fantasy tale the story of meddling in elections winter isn't the only

thing that's coming so is the risk of interference in our elections and guess who the suspect is we investigate the claims of russia's attempts to influence and undermine the democratic system in europe fears that russia is infiltrating the very heart of european democracy and we're starting to see the early signs of essential in kind of a repeat of what we saw in the us elections in regard to russian hacking and russian tampering but just as some fans of the wranglings of west roswell left disappointed by the way their show ended a dragnet operated by social media companies looking for misinformation and propaganda has turned up well nothing nothing from google. so far we haven't seen any interference on the platforms what about facebook there have been no published accounts of attacks specifically related to the election today twitter

that's full of angry people already they must have turned up something. we're always seeing a baseline level of it but nothing that has coalesced around a specific topic theme or group or even country but there was one area where it was said that there was evidence of russian interference the fact that we hear it r t the russian news service sputnik i've been talking about the e.u. elections they have been picking up the theme consistently over the past few months they do seem to be pushing slightly and he established messages. we've seen european politicians focus their attention on alleged russian meddling but what about real issues russia has been a very common scapegoat these past years i was in western democracies the narrative these past years must be careful there are russian does russian influence the russians are behind this russian is trying to just your the markets and now we don't have any proof and want to draw mr ass what have you got we don't have any

and the whole narrative just collapsed politicians today were for your party russia and moscow behind the rise in the populist movements don't have an argument anymore or they're using this argument every day and they're in a very bad situation once you prove that there is no more problem coming from a friend than you have to face the fact that the problem is coming from yourself and the teams that you chose intro the country. well moscow is staying out of it the same can't be said for a large corporations take german airline the fans are for instance which put a clear message on one of its jets reading say yes to europe music streaming service spotify meanwhile called on europe to quote get vocal putting together a special playlist ahead of the vote featuring artists from each block member the c.e.o. of arachnids investment managers tell us large corporations have a vested interest. the attitude of the big corporations banks has always been the same of course there are 3 in this in this european environment it's not

a surprise to me that they are actively and strongly supporting busy the growth. european views they have a very large network network and they use they use it they leverage in it in order to bring up their policies the policies they like the most many of the issues has been underestimated or even ignored by europe and by these large corporations there are real issues that europe and this large corporation didn't even gotten didn't respond to you know they come up with some ok europe is not is not perfect but you know there is something to fix where there is a lock to fix there is a lot to fix because they have moved too much forwards into a project without taking into consideration illegitimately issues raised by the population. the u.s. state department says it has intelligence suggesting the syrian government is planning chemical attacks and as a quick response it comes as donald trump claims he's being pressured by the u.s.

arms industry to keep thousands of american soldiers in syria and reports. so who sets us foreign policy well when it comes to the projection of military force of the constitution and common sense says that's the president your sound george w. bush put it but i'm the decider and i decide what is best but recent statements from donald trump throw that into question here is what he said if you do have a military industrial complex they do like war you know in syria with the caliphate so i wipe out 100 percent of the caliphate i shall want to bring our troops back home to place one crazy they want to keep but then you have people here in wa she want to they never want to leave some day people will explain what this is and if you will do have you do have a group and they call it the military does to a couple so according to trump he wanted to bring troops back from syria but he was compelled to leave several 100 of them there why well according to him the usa has

quite a powerful military industrial complex and if our president is fighting against it it seems that he's hiding this fight rather well recently donald trump appointed patrick shanahan as his new secretary of defense shanahan spent 30 years at boeing which is one of the largest defense contractors in the united states and one of the world's biggest arms manufacturers and like many other companies contracted by the pentagon boeing is having a great year. folks in this industry have actually pointed to what they call the trump effect have you seen that in terms of our allies and our spending not only have i seen we think it's the best time we've ever seen in a long time for the defense industry but it's not just the truck presidency that has been a boon to the military industrial complex many different political leaders in the united states have campaigned on a platform of peace and then expanded wars once they've taken office. nations making progress toward freedom will find america is their friend. we're promoter of

values will. piece. we've lost thousands of american lives spent nearly a trillion dollars. and we're all in the calls of fighting a war for well over 5 years in a country that had absolutely nothing to do with the model of its acts. i will never send our finest into battle unless necessary and i mean absolutely miss and will only do so if we have a plan for victory with a capital z. .

it's as if we've learned nothing from history the 34th us president dwight d. eisenhower warned the public about unwarranted influences when he left office over 60 years ago in the councils of government we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence whether sought or runs on by the military industrial complex . the but pensions by the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist. we must never let the weight of this combination in danger are limiting our democratic process. we should take nothing for granted. in the american people don't want to work. as the peace candidate and then you know we never did leave the starwars even richard nixon during the vietnam war was only elected because he was seeing he had

a secret plan for ending the vietnam war as it turned out the secret plan was to escalate the war and more true. and enlarged it works all day you know these large monopolistic companies wanting to get a huge bunch of money they like threats of war they like active war of the. you know here and there the war mongers and they have an enormous amount of influence is that commensurate with the amount of money that they couldn't hand tames. coming up major u.s. footwear companies plea with donald trump to bring a halt to his trade war with china claiming consumers will be hit hardest on that after a short break. you

know world a big part of new things. and conspiracy it's time to wake up to dig deeper to hit the stories that made stream media refuses to tell more than ever we need to be smarter we need to stop slamming the door on the bad and shouting past each other it's time for critical thinking it's time to fight for the middle for the truth the time is now for watching closely watching the hawks.

welcome back in the u.s. dozens of major footwear companies have penned an open letter to donald trump urging him to halt plant tariffs on china that's amid the ongoing trade war with beijing the companies say consumers will suffer from the tariffs adding a 25 percent tax increase on top of these terms would mean some working american families could pay nearly 100 percent duty on the shoes this is unfathomable your proposal to add tariffs on all imports from china is oscon the american consumers to foot the bill it is time to bring this trade war to an end earlier donald trump high duties from 10 to 25 percent on 200000000000 dollars worth of chinese goods the spite the moves the president believes he will reach a new trade deal with beijing china in retaliation plans to raise import tariffs to 25 percent from next month till

a deals reached the trade spot between that world's 2 largest economies has been somewhat of a spirit raising challenge in china with this song going viral. meanwhile british mobile operators e and vodafone have dropped wall ways devices from the launch of their 5 g. networks the companies are trying to distance themselves from the chinese tech giant after washington banned a while way telecoms equipment in the u.s. . we go live now to steve keen crown for the professor of economics on paper and welcome to the program now if we start with the u.s. where makers letter to trump do you agree is the trade war harming the american economy and consumers. not to the group this saying but you know yes it will be harming them ultimately it's actually going to display disrupt supply chains more

that increases processes when tariffs are imposed particularly when you face domestic competition a lot of the increase in process would otherwise go to consumers absorbed by the importer to hang on to market share and rather than the process going up as by a 100 percent of the terror of it tends to go out the order of about 25 percent of the tariff so process will still rise but not as much as bays as being climbs and on the other side how much will washington damage china and while way with their tariffs and barons. quite it was not so much with the chairs for quite a lot with the band so if you. really is leading the world and technology and it's already embedded through many many countries already in its technology and roll out of the thought of j. so this is a highly disruptive and very hard to interpret it as anything other than america want to hang on to that market for itself even though it's behind technologically me because at the same time america is pressing its allies to enable it to spy on

communications between its own citizens that's already been or was a part of what they call the fog was surveillance system has already been passed by the australian parliament so it's very much a case of the pot calling the kettle black when the americans accuse the chinese of spying and how much would you say leverage does beijing have over the us especially given the fact that they hold over a trillion dollars of its debt that's irrelevant this is one of the important people think it's going to be effective america has the oil is the only issue of american dollars the american federal reserve and the private banks and create money if the federal reserve decides to borrow a trillion dollars worth of bonds it can do that and in fact it's been doing it every year for the last 10 years in what they call quantitative easing so china could say his is a $1000000000.00 bonds ha ha an american say here's a $1000000000.00 in your bank account what else have you got and it would be irrelevant. why don't we hear chinese companies complaining as much about the trade

war like we have these where companies. good question but i think we are going to see chinese companies from planning a lot more because this really is becoming a clash of cultures a clash of civilizations and that's where that that song you played is very much about that and the chinese remember the wall is what america and europe and britain and france in particular fought to maintain the rajah solatium to china because they couldn't find anything else that china wanted subodh return for its exports of porcelain and quality silks and so on back in the 19th century so this will not go away i think realizes what he's playing into there so at the end of the day the question is what needs to happen for the u.s. and china to reach a trade deal once and for all. i don't think it's possible unfortunately because the american dollar is necessarily valued because it is a global reserve currency this is not necessary thing for international trade the

americans imposed a spec at the bretton woods agreement i thought carryings wanted because if only the american dollar tried you have a huge demand for the dollar and you would have it was just wrong it's american goods it's something in between 3100 percent whole lot of cross than it should be so of course it's always going to run a tried deficit so the only real way out is to is to design an alternative monetary system that doesn't use the american dollar for international trade and i know china russia and europe are talking about that so if you as well with a different system i sincerely hope one of those develops takes away the capacity that america has to weaponize international tried to do you see that happening any time soon. it wasn't feasible 3 years ago was being talked about by the head of the chinese central bank over a decade ago now but i thought it would never happen but i think in fact because trump is pushing this so. i hope the chinese and the russians in particular and the will working with the europeans behind closed doors would need to bring about an

alternative to the american dollar and i think they also have drastically improved on the tromp and that would be i think a hell of a. unexpected punch from the side if that was done that it would use the power of american financial capital and i think that's a whole most is an organiser using the power of the military could and military industrial complex steve keen crowd funded professor of economics on patron thank you for joining us on the program welcome. that's a global news update for this hour but don't forget you can always had to our website are 2 dot com for the details on all those stories and many more. after the previous digit. my career was over everyone wondered what i was going to do next the ball different clubs on one hand it is logical to go from fields where everything is familiar on the other i wanted a new challenge and

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a crackdown on russia but what if there was no syrian chemical weapons attack what if it was a fabrication as catastrophic as that by tony blair in iraq u.k. journalists arguably have short memories and didn't question more here is one suggesting that the labor m.p.'s support for war was a leadership bid to presumably because war is popular democracy at the moment over this is who is certain is far as the labor party is concerned is a complete shambles as i suggested to the labor party leader do you still genuinely have total confidence in him and in the end is all this about nursing your own leadership positions it certainly is not that and i do have total confidence in jeremy and i threatened to mentally disagree with what you've just said about the labor party because jeremy decided i really welcome it that we would have a free vote why did you do that that takes strength and courage as a leader you know yes that was a labor m.p. selling war on syria and celebrating jeremy corbin's decision to give a free vote and here is the woman whose policy hillary been supported justifying

aria bombing let me set out why we have taken this action. last saturday up to 75 people including young children were killed in a despicable and barbaric attack in duma but was syria responsible for the doomer attack just as mainstream journalists didn't cover saturday's israeli your vision bombing of syria they didn't appear to recall this from britain's former ambassador to syria a year before duma they will very likely an operation similar to what they did in the document by the united nations in august last year they mounted a chlorine gas attack on civilians and they try to make it look like a regime operation mark my word. and it will happen and when it arguably did happen britain's former ambassador was told by a u.k. statement dated journalists to move beyond facts let's move let.