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hidden dangers a report claims that hundreds of household items sold in the european union could contain chemicals. 5 more years the world's biggest election c.c. incumbent prime minister under the number term in india we look at whether he perceived a leader of his closest rival proved to voters. in the midst of it could send additional troops to the middle east citing the growing security situation with the round after round says it's ready to face any pressure coming from the new. message joining us this evening this is all t. international. hundreds of european companies been flooding the market for years
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with items containing potentially harmful chemicals that's according to germany's largest environmental charity it's released a study warning consumers across the block could on wittingly be harming their health by using any of hundreds of popular everyday products the most dangerous item singled out however fall under the category of industrial substances which can cause genetic defects and cancer more commonly used products noted in the study include furniture toys and clothes which claims can put unborn children at risk because medical personel products said to cause serious i retain dizziness 654 companies were named as culpable most of the german british or dutch big names like exxon mobil and by a list other dubious keep it simple story. when it comes to using hazardous chemicals at home we're told to wear gloves and to rinse immediately if
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your skin comes into contact with the product but according to a new report by environmental lobby group phoned european consumers face exposure on day basis and we don't even know about it as consumers we are kept in the dark not knowing if every day products are safe or not range from clothes shoes and makeup even children's toys borne says these potentially harmful chemicals of widely being sold to manufacturers of household goods without having being properly vetted it says some of these chemicals could cause a range of health problems from cancer to bring disorders worse still the european chemical agency we see a.j. is accused of trying to sweep this scandal under the rug. has said on this problem for years we see the agency moving in the right direction by why all
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the secrecy the very foundation of e.u. chemical safety rules are being ignored bund revealed the top of the iceberg now it's on the to tell us the rest of this investigation shows around $650.00 companies and many households brands of breaking the law by failing to perform the required safety checks that are mandated by the e.c. ha's main safety regulation this includes some brands which are already making the headlines amidst major health scandals we have done and i'm a lot of work but that work i clearly and totally subscribe to is not sufficient and not enough. but we have looked at $700.00 substances up until now of those $702.00 thirds end up needing further data bund says the. it's not enough and is demanding that the e.u. and national authorities raise their game in a bid to ensure the products we use are simply just say the. show
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that people see not see parents on t. has asked some of the companies accused of wrongdoing to comment on those claims including b.s.f. seth and hank are both sapphic and tangle have responded saying that while they comply with all safety regulations they are committed to improving wherever possible your good my head's now and vajra mental ngo told us that he believes the study is only scratching the surface of the problem. i think there is a big possibility that behalf now can you close on the market to have the what's the solution please get in we house no clear information which chemicals we have no clear information which ones have been sufficiently checked the only thing to be can know for sure is that the system doesn't work properly we house can be closed. apparently not sufficiently control and that is a potentially
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a big danger so all the information recalled. basically. fast and complete. and this is playing with the lives of people. meanwhile activists a storm the paris h.q. a pharmaceutical giant bio which was mentioned in one study to state the protest against the health and environmental dangers posed by some of the products of bias of securing monsanto surrounding the monsanto weed killer roundup were brought into the spotlight recently when a california court ordered the firm to pay a record $2000000000.00 but the damages that some 2 a couple suffering from cancer which they successfully argued had been caused by the herbicide back in france of course there ruled that the company was liable for the sickness of a farmer who do stay monsanto weed killer despite the ruling simon santow byron. sister products are safe as regulators worldwide agree.
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islamic states may have been all but routed from syria but the hardest is still wreaking havoc in the country the latest incarnation of what was a front as attacked syrian army positions in northern italy province the last rebel stronghold in the country but by simply rebranding the extremists appear to have fooled some in the west rather explains. this late in the civil war by any measure this offensive was huge he had to do that show more h.g.'s widely viewed as al-qaeda is winning in syria nusra front fielded hundreds of jihad ists for this offensive according to russian intelligence 30 pick up trucks equipped with various guns 7 tanks for a.p.c.'s to jihad no beals or vehicles packed with explosives and driven by suicide bombers as i said a huge offensive aimed at taking
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a government held town and the border. according to the russian come on the syrians held out against 3 waves the jihad the stews in more than $100.00 fighters for tanks most of their pickup trucks also reportedly launched missiles at the russian airbase in may mean you know those that got close were shot down un security council is none too pleased russia and the regimes decision to launch air strikes sends a terrible signal of disregard toward the u.n. political process russia has claimed this so called return it she strikes surgical
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i quote surgical in their precision i hope i do not need medical treatment in moscow if surgical accuracy means what we've seen. we refused to consider terrorists as untouchable and will continue to fight them despite the objections of some of our partners united states reader it's that any escalation in violence in northwest syria would destabilize. the region. we have our own view on who is destabilizing the region. both sides blame each other for this latest escalation fighting had been building up escalating for days now and as often happens in the rebels' jihad this crying foul saying ass adds gassing them we continue to see signs that the assad regime may be renewing its use of chemical weapons the regime's attacks against the communities of northwest syria must end remarkably nowhere in their press statement does the us mention al qaida though age
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c.s. denies any affiliation they were branded change their name from nusra front but that is seen as a rule to avoid the harshest scrutiny nothing has changed in their behavior still executing infidels fielding suicide bombers so imagine our surprise when we did some digging and found that the initial source of these chemical attack allegations which so concerned the us initial source was h.t.s. looser front al qaida worth noting though is that the u.s. is saying they can't verify anything bombing attacks which have been indiscriminate in very vicious have sent some 152200000 people in it most of whom are already internally displaced people to move again to temporary housing and create a huge burden on our very broad humanitarian effort that we in the internet rest of
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the international community are making so we're watching this very closely also the reports of chemical weapons use so far we cannot confirm it but we are watching it it's an interesting situation the u.s. europe allies spending billions infiltrating bombing fighting isis al qaida in afghanistan. in iraq in somalia all over the middle east yet in syria's illiad al qaeda is biggest stronghold taking their side if in directly demanding that the syrian government leave them alone taking seriously their claims and statements about chemical weapons zeiss a remarkable. terrorism specialist jennifer britain says the muskets should go on the offensive in italy. it's not going to be possible to to fight terrorism without going to the terrorist strongholds and that's absolutely necessary we're talking
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about a group h.t.s. which is an offshoot of al nasra linked to al qaeda so this is a very serious terrorist organization and it's also a terrorist organization that's in a place with a very large civilian population most of these civilians have been displaced are internally displaced because of the war because of other terrorist organizations and so it's crucial that this area be targeted to undermine these terrorists i think that the concern is whether chemical weapons have been used or whether there have been any said she is of chemical weapons because of the large civilian population that has also been terrorized by the strong hold that allen has or offshoot h.t.s. has on this area. the world's biggest election in india is drawing to an end with the incumbent prime minister narendra modi securing and of the the p.m.'s been celebrating his victory with supporters scindia house around 900000000 eligible voters over 600000000 cast ballots these made opponents rahul gandhi has
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conceded defeat and these are trying to look so why gandhi dubbed the candidate of the elite to make human rights. have a look at this simple guy modi as a child the prime minister helped his dad sell t. out a railway station ever heard of the caste system in india well his was officially classed as backwards there was even a t.v. show called the journey of the common man showing his tough life path. now let's compare that to opposition leader who gandhi's background his father was
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a prime minister preceded by guess who his grandmother his great grandfather was the founder of modern india and what matter the ukase super the cambridge university how's that for a contrast gandhi's not seen as a serious challenger to mr not in the mold because dynasty is not it doesn't appeal to the young people in the country anymore if you contrast that dynasty of. gandhi let's see that the prime minister noted. who actually has risen from the bottom he comes from the very poor section of society he comes from a cost which is known although back what the costs will be see so given the fact that there is a lot of appeal from people who come in from the very bottom and rising i think died on cross you know that dynasty of congress and the calmness has almost pleaded
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for the last almost 70 years because completely lost it's of the. year on year it's becoming clear politicians all around the world should have realised being a part of the elite is now out of fashion shall i remind you of what's been going on with the people's voting habits everywhere lately. i want you to imagine how much better our future can be if we did clear independence from the elites who lead us from one financial and foreign policy disaster to another. they don't know people what. to do heard me talking. of all the people in the hall are abusing.
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taking advantage they are going to go in. class and while the animals are any main task is to bring into the politics in our country on a completely new people fresh decent people who actually care. what have sume government hopefuls will begin misplacing their bag rounds just like some do with parts of their tax returns. that the syrian challenger professor and dana at the school of international affairs believes there's no longer a national opposition party in the country i think essentially it shows that the people of india continue to believe and invest their hopes for india's rise and for upward mobility and for economic growth and to become a great poet in world politics all of this you know all the movies the carrying of
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the hopes of the people of india just because he won doesn't mean that it's all going to be easy but definitely he has the massive mandate of the public behind him saw i think that would give him strength in the 2nd term as he embarks on what he calls the you know the journey to a new india so that is actually not national opposition party what to do anymore and they have to blame themselves for it because they lost sight of the needs of the changing times and of the changing water psyche. the top of ministration appears to be taking seriously what it's called a substantial threat coming from iran washington said that it's ready to post its military presence in the middle east over security concerns let's go live to new york and philly in particular when it caleb moore connect caleb what exactly has been said. well we have now heard from the pentagon's
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acting chief that would be patrick shanahan and he has confirmed that yes indeed the reports that it is being considered for in an increase in the u.s. military presence the sending of more troops to the middle east that he is indeed correct now he denied these specific numbers that were being raised in some of the press reports but he did confirm that yes the idea of increasing the u.s. military presence and sending more forces to the middle east region in order to counter a perceived threat from iran that's true this is what he said what we're looking at is whether there are things that we can do to enhance force protection in the middle east and the conditional troops now we've also heard a response from the iranian president hassan rouhani he has said that iran is ready to face any pressure and to defend itself even if the usa ends up using bombs against his country they are prepared to stand strong and defend themselves now on wednesday the u.s.
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senate foreign relations committee took a vote and the idea of the vote would be to not fund any unauthorized action against iran taken by the white house now the vote did not pass it failed so this motion that would have been you know prevented any funding any federal funding to go through an unauthorized strike against iran didn't pass now in response to the vote not passing we heard from senator chris murphy he's a democrat and he warned that the trumpet ministration could utilize certain loopholes in the existing u.s. law in order to carry out a strike against iran without the authorization of congress this is chris murphy's concern. maybe trump will say but iran these and see but that's a loophole that would have any president to claim any number of middle east crisis as an emergency and then congress will never be able to object to a non-sale again. now secretary of state mike pompei o along with acting pentagon
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chief patrick shanahan recently went to capitol hill for a meeting behind closed doors with members of both the house and senate members of congress now the meeting was you know not public it was behind closed doors but afterwards we heard some interesting comments from the press not everyone was too happy with how that meeting went this is some of what was said. our biggest focus at this point is to prevent the iranian miscalculation. very much but intentionally or unintentionally we create a situation in which a war will take place this is about deterrence not about war that's been our worry from the beginning of this blind escalation with the hope that the iranians will come to the table and i'm hoping that this show of force will result in the escalating not escalate i think when you do that you're talking about a war that will go on and on and on now
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a recent poll was conducted among the american people to see how they feel about the danger and possibility of an escalation with the islamic republic of iran now the poll showed that more than half of americans do believe that in the coming years there will be a war between the usa and iran however only 12 percent favored a 1st strike favored the usa launching this war while over 60 percent were adamant that the usa should not launch such a conflict should not take action to spark a conflict between the 2 countries so at this point as many are nervous about the apparent escalation about the talk of u.s. troops on their way to the region many people are keeping their eye not only on the middle east but also on capitol hill and on the white house wondering what will happen next between life from new york for the scalable but thank you. turkey's refusing to back down over its this isn't to buy the russian made s.
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$400.00 miss on defense system that's despite washington threatening it's a nato ally with sanctions if it follows through with the multi-billion dollar deal made back in 2017 which sent personnel to russia has 400 training that will begin in the coming days and will span the 4 months news of turkey reaffirming its commitment to the deal comes after the u.s. reportedly issued an ultimatum saying ankara must turn its back on these 400 by june in favor of a u.s. made alternative it warned that turkey would otherwise face repercussions from nato some the 1st time though that washington sought to pressure its ally over the agreement with russia. turkey most choose its potential acquisition. of the 100 will result in a reassessment of turkey's participation in the f. 35 program those who want to remain a critical partner the most successful military alliance in the history of the world we are against the having some of our partners and allies around the world
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potentially purchase that's for hundreds of potential sanctions or doesn't want to risk the security of their partnership washington assigned to the us for hundreds in compatibility with nato technology as the reason for its opposition it also said that there's a risk of russia could gather sensitive information about the u.s. made f. 35 fighter jets sticky has and its force now has consistently defended the deal saying that its neighbor greece has an older model of the s 400 and they haven't faced any blowback from the us signed back in december 27th in the price tag on the 4 us 462 and a half $1000000000.00 around half the price of the u.s. and senate if the 1st she's due to be delivered early this summer but china and india they are also signed up for the s $400.00 the former editor of the state says that washington's rhetoric of ultimatums is simply not conducive to cooperation. i think the propensity. for the u.s.
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administration and now the congress to impose sanctions on anything that they don't like. is very unfortunate have seen this in the case of iran and not returning sanctions. on countries that purchases $400.00. is in my judgment lawful and necessary for i think. america. make products more technology and more price competitive. trying to. force countries. to make choices. in life to the imposition of tension the sanctions it's wrong it's all lawful it's illegal . japanese tech firms the sheep and panasonic have suspended
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certain shipments to china's weiwei they joined the likes of google and intel we've also altered relations with the company over u.s. strictures it's the type of ministration accuses weiwei of spying for beijing something that the firm has denied washington has blacklisted while away many american firms can no longer trade with it and this all comes amid an ongoing trade war between the u.s. and china it's seen america impose tariffs on $200000000000.00 with the chinese goods in retaliation beijing is planning to raise import tariffs to 25 percent from next month in response president trump a started to raise stakes even further it by introducing tariffs on an additional $300000000000.00 worth of chinese imports. but the u.s. $173.00 companies including i did as a nike have written an open letter to donald trump urging him to call off tariffs on china they're arguing that american consumers will be the ones who lose that. adding a 25 percent tax increase on top of these tariffs would mean some working american
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families could pay a nearly 100 percent duty on their shoes this is unfathomable your proposal to add tariffs on all imports from china is asking the american consumer to foot the bill it is time to bring this trade war to an end economist richard wolf as discussed the impact of the trade war on china on artie's boom bust program you can check out the full version of that on our website artie dot com. well the trade war dispute between the u.s. and china left many businesses in a state of confusion and uncertainty and i expected beneficiary emerges be at naam companies operating in china have been subject to increased tax on exports to the u.s. so businesses are making a smart decision to move manufacturing and production over to it badly thought their neighbor but how much of it has to do with tariffs for companies both chinese and foreign in china they looking always for the cheapest labor they diggin long before the tariffs to look around elsewhere in asia particularly for example in the
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where the wages were and still are considerably cheaper now they have a 2nd incentive not only will they make more profits by cheap wages in vietnam but the united states has not yet put tower of sand vietnam these goods so that they don't have that problem either every company and every country in the world is watching the aggressive economic nationalism make it risky to do business with an american company or with anybody from the united states because you could be cut off suddenly by some politician who is looking to advance his career the way mr trump is a little mean taking a step back from business with america cutting a deal with another producer was not a very good even if that's not the best price because you don't have to worry about any history of politicians interfering in this dramatic way.
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is some breaking news that has just come in the united states department of justice has announced 17 more charges against wiki leaks co-founder julian assange the new indictment claims that a songe revealed names of individuals who were working with the u.s. government thereby putting their lives at risk and. each of those charges carries a potential maximum penalty of 10 years in prison whistleblowers currently serving a 50 week sentence in the u.k. for skipping bail can 2012 washington's been pushing for his extradition to the states primarily to date on the charge of conspiring to hack a government computer. so that story has just come in now that will bring you updates on nots and the rest of today's top stories.
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we are not to shy to talk about how to turn chinese navy into a blue water navy actually we have made it clear that if i need a century a will be developed hopefully into a world class military that would even crude of the class the chinese navy. you know world of big. lot and conspiracy it's time to wake up to dig deeper to hit the stories that mainstream media refuses to tell more than ever we need to be smart we need to stop slamming the door on the back and shouting
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past each other it's time for critical thinking it's time to fight for the middle for the troops the time is now we're watching closely watching the hawks. really there's there's not much happening in the global economy as a result of the us trying to so-called trade war just to put things in perspective most things that are exported from china see united states are exported as finished products of the same holds true for most things exported from the us to china so if any tariffs on those products while they might affect the price levels in the us or in china and they might affect the level of trade between the us and china. they simply don't destroy mobile splotch the rest of the world is hardly affected at all .
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