i. think. that. europe's dominant parties are dealt a blow in the e.u. parliament elections as the nationalists are right the liberals and of the greens enjoy a surge in the support. in the u.k. the newly formed brags of party storms to victory with support for the conservatives and labor evaporating. and the austrian chancellor is forced from office in a non confidence vote to over a crushing scandal. are

broadcasting live from our studios in moscow this is r t international and john thomas glad to have you with us now we start with some news from japan 3 people including a young child have been killed in a stabbing incident this according to local media the attack happened in a park in the city of kala saki to the south of tokyo another 16 people are reportedly injured including several children and one male suspect is in custody the motive for the attack is so far unclear of course our newsroom is staying up to date on the situation and they will give us information and we will bring it to you as soon as we get it in. its wishing gears now anti-establishment parties have scored a series of victories in the european elections along with strong gains for greens and liberals in the main centrist bloc has lost its majority in the european parliament the vote attracted the highest turnout in 20 years and 51 percent.

our ability to break down some of the key numbers for you in italy right wing party the league won 33 percent of the vote while in france marie le pen's at national rally overtook president emmanuel micron's party with 23 percent of the austrian center right people's party also saw surge in support and there was a blow in germany for the ruling coalition their share of the vote fell by around 7 per cent so how is this all expected to shape in the european parliament for the next 5 years let's take a look where looking at a fragmented grouping with established movements losing ground to smaller parties despite the gains though made by euro skeptic and right leaning parties pro e.u.

groups are still expected to hold onto 2 thirds of the seats the biggest blow of these elections of course will be dealt to parliament's a grand coalition of center left and right they are set to lose the majority that they have enjoyed for the past 40 years or to show devinsky reports now from paris . he sued the established parties of the center right down the center losing quite a lot of ground in that election and that of course could spell trouble for that either you grand coalition that's been the cornerstone of him since its inception it means that they will now have to leach out to a much smaller parties if they want to keep the steel ridge of the european parliament on cool they was a sujan vote for anti establishment parties across the bloc i would parties like the national rally here in france and a leak in italy actually talking the polls in their own countries.

to be nice hearty not only took the polls it looks like it's projected to gave around $28.00 seats in that this election a couple of seats from 2014 and so the need speaking to the press after those results are coming in said this was essentially the people in europe saying that they want to see anything different other than the your did you get your today's vote shows that the rules of europe are changing it's not just due to the choice of the italians but also of the french the germans the british the hunt guerin's the poles the finns the swedes the danes a new europe is born. well here in france we saw murphy in left pens national rally party topping the poll of course they also took the poll back in 2014 this time very slow each down on their turnout from the last election but still a very big result here in france particular as many people were seeing this is being

a referendum on president michel whose party came in 2nd place they would just pick to the post they are trying to brush this off as noticed by the losses they were expecting but marking the pen is now calling for those anti. mr parties to form a grand law within the european parliament to be a stronger voice and she's calling for a new shake up of politics here in france. the president has no other choice but to dissolve the national assembly and allow for a more democratic voting system in order to better represent this country's majority political opinion the feeding of traditional parties and the polarization between the national rally party and the renaissance party confirms that the political scene is now split between nationalists and globalists and that's what dominates our political life there are also big wins for anti establishment ruling

parties in countries such as poland and hungary the other big surprise of the night was the green folk which is up significantly here in france and also in germany and the projection is that they will get around 70 seats which is quite a surge compared to 2014 up around 20 seats on that but the reality is that make up now of the european parliament will be very different to that that we've known for not just the last 5 years but pretty much since its inception and what that's going to do is it's going to make it very difficult for the old guard to continue to keep watch and to push things down that agenda. former italian foreign minister franco frattini told us that the euro skeptic parties could work as a catalyst for a better europe the new parliament would be have really shrug. there will be many small groups not always on the same line on many

issues that. i think this new poll parties had believed to go movements which. is one that was very in the pan with the polish and other words. don't knock your present effect they care of presenting it pushing factor for the current elite to go towards a deep trance formation because they're what the economy and boards are totally talian by the many other countries do what is a transformation is to overcome to stage a school day should be conserved even just they want to keep this teacher's full 4 day old interests they should then be concerned eve day i would see a touched to the good for europe as a whole because the. impulse to push coming from those political parties

can be very useful for making europe less bureaucratic more attentive to all the request even to did this pair of many many millions of italian us. in the u.k. the brig's a party which was only created a few months ago won more votes than the 2 main parties combined and sally is in london with a breakdown of the results. the newly formed breaks of policy we should point out in fact they've won by far the most seats in those european elections for the u.k. and as you mentioned they're getting more than the conservatives and labor combined and then lead for raj he's somebody who has been a really a figurehead not just in these elections but in the push leading up to that referendum in 2016 for the u.k. to leave the youth and he believes that the birds of quality control can go on and be successful in general elections if we do not leave the european union.

then just as we've surprised people in these european elections we will go full would absolutely stunned them in the next general election there's a big wake up call here to westminster let's see whether they listen now the fortunes of the brigs that party in exact opposite to the decimation of ukip and they went through the full 2014 elections having won 28 piece but since then they'd suffer the number of defections my number of votes counted it's shifting over to the briggs and polity and in fact we could have a breakdown of some of the more prominent leadership of that bread party.

drugs that has been dominating the political sphere here in the u.k. to the point that perhaps voters off fed up with it all and just want the politicians to get on with it now the 2 main parties here in the u.k. labor in the conservatives they had bad nights and tories of course are gearing up to try to get a new leader in place and they're going through that process now it is also worth pointing out that while the brigs of party did. well last night the leaf parties in general did remain parties combined but the issue that the remained party face is a splitting of the vote between the lib dems who came 2nd in these elections and labor the greens and so on including the s. and p. who have done well in scotland so again while a very good night for. votes is on the birds and policy in general it's not as clear cut to say that this would indicate that they would win any 2nd referendum if that was want to be held. the founder of the movement that later became the u.k.

independence party says the governing conservatives should now put a break as a tear leader into downing street. theresa may just resigned as prime minister she was one of the was prime ministers in british history the party she led was obviously demoralized by have resignation since the conservative party in government had failed to take the european union on the day we were supposed to come out that was the 29th of march the voters a big stream the angry in the exit caught he would be high in the polls is a lose all which is what is the significance of the vote in britain and indeed in every other country in europe is how it effects the major parties in the standing in domestic policy and politics and what's going to happen is the conservative party in this incident saying. get a new leader who will take the european union deal or no deal by the 31st of the

polity having made its mark and having given a short to the established parties. will stay there waiting to see what the tory government under a new prime minister does if the new prime minister takes britain deal or no deal on the 31st of it. then i think there won't be a general election in 2022 in which case during that period the party will just dissolve all those conservatives who went over to will drift back to the conservative party. australia chancellor sebastian current has been removed from power along with his administration following a no confidence vote in parliament comes that week after the ruling coalition collapsed as a result of a corruption sting targeting the van vice chancellor. i can understand the feeling of revenge the wish to put yourself in

a better position for the election but what i truly can't understand is that this vote of no confidence against me is now being extended to the entire government only a few days ago the goal was to remove me as chancellor that's maybe understandable as a tactic but the wish to topple the entire governments a few months before an election this is something i think nobody in this country will comprehend. the no confidence motion was tabled by the opposition socialist party and approved by a majority of austrian lawmakers members of the right wing euro skeptic freedom party which was in a coalition with currents also voted against him the political crisis began with the resignation of curtis 2nd in command last saturday that was after video emerged of the freedom party's christian struck offering lucrative public contracts to a woman claiming to be a relative of a russian all the dark in exchange for political support suppression kurds

subsequent dismissed the interior minister also a freedom party member over his apparent unwillingness to criticize struck his actions the rest of the party's ministers then staged a mass resignation in protest and were replaced by civil servants elections are currently scheduled to take place in september in the meantime though the austrian president has appointed the former finance minister as caretaker chancellor. well despite the turmoil austrian voting patterns did not substantially change in the e.u. elections even the former vice chancellor straka has apparently secured a seat in the european parliament and kurtz's party made significant gains coming out as the country's top party. and you feel i'm usually not at a loss for words but i'm almost speechless we expected a lot we were optimistic but this is a fantastic result this is never happened before we achieve the best results of all time with the biggest distance from 2nd place of all time it is simply unbelievable

the freedom party regularly relieved to have early to say the least expected for themselves much of various sides so it was only about 2 and a half percent but if they don't it means that if we don't buy 3. days in the past. may be time. for him to elections was disrupted because at the time when there was the least most of the voters had already made up their mind so they might change their mind. and actions. for months. teachers in finland are complaining that the ramadan fast is having a negative impact on muslim students ramadan is noticeable due increasing sidey never day school life we cannot 1st feature nor give injections with nutrients or

hindus advice parents not to force children to fast fasting for young children can be successful at home not at school without food. this year ahead of ramadan the authorities in the southern finnish city of tempe called on schools not to observe the fast as some institutions have reportedly been offering water and extended breaks to muslim students others though are trying to support the peoples in other ways the holy month of ramadan is the most sacred in the muslim calendar people abstain from food and drink from sunrise until sunset it is considered to be a month of purification and the 4th key pillar of islam. meanwhile politicians in germany including the health minister are calling for more compatible form of islam to be formed to preserve european traditions and culture instead of tolerating symbols of a reactionary miso journalistic form of islam we must promote the development of

a european islam which shares our values in order to preserve our free european way of life the crux of the rao came down to the line between faith and flexibility when we discussed it on the program earlier. young people are very religious and find the month of ramadan very spiritual i want to participate in the real key issue here is that there is a war against islam muslims are course europe finished. sensibly do run the best education system in the world with their liberal nordic minds decided that they wanted to help muslim kids out a little bit and are trying to inject a little bit of liberalism and a little bit of tolerance into people who otherwise should know better there is so called liberal societies like the scandinavian countries who talk about liberalism who talk of individual freedom of speech and freedom of choice but in reality you want to restrict that for one section of society another thing that's deeply wrong there is a wider discussion to be had you know the muslims are very passionate about practising

their faith and we've got to ensure that we educate our fellow citizens who are not muslim about the benefits but also about the challenges of fasting if you go to tampa and you meet the finnish muslims and my kids are half inish you will see that they are very accustomed very tribal eyes come from a certain culture and tradition they're not used to having open dialogue integration liberal tolerant values which came from the islamic traditions to europe in the 1st place so muslims do need to change they need to get back to a key understanding of what islam is what islam isn't and we need to get our house in order because muslims have got problems to deal with mental principles of the stomach faith are non-negotiable in the same where the jewish community want to be told what they can and cannot believe and i think that's a really dangerous precedent has been set by the german government but also across europe this war on islam which is about demonizing and taking away the rights of

muslims to practice their faith and i think the key point here is about tolerance it's about respect and for muslims it's about returning to the prophetic way which is one of tolerance of spectrum multi-faith co-existed you have a shift. can i kind of raise an issue here the islam you see today on not us are saying people should go to hard money came issue but we need to learn that values of tolerance and liberalism back from the europeans who took it from us in the 1st place and the islam that people are trying to meet but so you are not sure that's the way it should be. in the build up to moral day this monday the u.s. army asked the veterans to share their stories of how military service influenced their lives and got some unexpected results serve something greater than myself obviously we're going to do just that what do i give to others never take the ones i love and to better myself as a man in a way or how has serving impacted you the combat cocktail p.t.s.d. severe depression anxiety isolation suicide attempts never ending rage it

cost me my relationship with my eldest son and my grandson it cost some of my men so much more how did serving impact me ask my family i spend sleepless nights wrecked with guilt because none of the horror and suffering i've seen even matters because we're all just grist for a pay mill run by med men because if i speak up and say and this war is wrong my battle buddies fighting their own demons or me do i get to reply for the dad they can't get any more my husband became an ex because of his p.t.s.d. then he got agent orange cancer and died my cousin died of a rat chemical cancer my other cousin is in remission from the same thing at the moment and also has p.t.s.d. . to everyone who responded to this thread thank you for sharing your story your stories are real they matter and they may help others in similar situations the

army is committed to the health safety and well being of our soldiers. suicide is a major issue among veterans despite the reduction of the overall rate $6000.00 die every year mostly with firearms and its young service personnel under 34 years old or especially at risk the vice president of veterans for peace u.s. says that many soldiers are left to deal with their problems by themselves. and america people like to put soldiers on pedestals and create heroes out of them soldiers are last in their bind where they are being simultaneously hero worship and having to deal with really traumatic. experiences in minds is really negatively impacted my life and way is that i am just not even yet comfortable speaking about it made it difficult for me to have

a family i had p.t.s.d. and depression for a decade without even realizing it is not anything i would wish on anybody to join the military and yet i know some for some people it's their only way to try to get out of where they're at it's no wonder it's side rates are so high amongst the veteran happy lation because that kind of intense experience from people are still trying to figure out who they are as a person is just it could only. make life more difficult for the individual. south africa's new president is cyril ramaphosa has declared that his country is entering a new era but with his party and country deeply divided he faces an uphill battle one of the key problems the new president faces is that the legacy of apartheid and the enduring challenge of extreme inequality white people for instance currently

represent 9 percent of south africa's population but own over 70 percent of private farmland the president has been trying to play down the risk to investors and landowners of the government's bill which could see land seized without compensation a special r t report looks at how the dispute is threatening to rupture the social fabric. i feel that my life and the life of my family members and the future of my children under 3. and no one has a new talk just who's some damn to have i carry a weapon for 20 years already because we are murdered brutally on the farms the problem that we face as a people. in south africa and also within the african continent. is the education of our country and the continent by a white minority it is very biased. because your

skin is white there's definitely a white genocide. to. the. politics of the country at this stage want to explore put a land without compensation apathy bridgie way let me understand this country continued to take the lead to lead people if we had to live by the way to us owns the advocate for a free and just society that spends make people we must struggle for the return of the land that people suffer in this country about half of the population lives in poverty in this country the old propaganda is that if ever you were. you were a feat but we're speaking of the age of conquest speaking over don't you know why people i'm on prepared to pay my grandfather was diverted on our family falls a brother he was killed in

a uniform attack we are paranoid you can see it all eyes like any other white horse will find themselves affected by crime and we are also affected when we say columbus believes that a civil war in south africa is inevitable we have 15 with a ticking time bomb. it doesn't for me i'll be back in 34 and a half minutes with another look at your news you are watching argentina's.

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going on the ground of the 93rd birthday of the so-called butcher of cambodia or alleged war criminal henry kissinger recently praised by britain's foreign secretary jeremy hunt the former us secretary of state is accused of torture killing in displacement of tens of millions coming up in the show will the west survive the impending economic collapse we speak to the adventure capitalist who made billions with george soros about the ever growing debt that will cause the worst crash in history and as mainstream media obsesses over who will be the next. week examine the issues that really matter from wiki leaks to with brush with legendary writer and musician. coming up in today's going underground but 1st away from the u.s. economic wars of the e.u. russia. venezuela and iran to its attack on the superpower of the 21st century china is what the doldrums not yet resigned f.b.i. director christopher ray says about china it's a threat to our economic security and by extension it's a threat to our national security but it's even more fundamental and that is

behavior that violates the rule of law it violates principles of fairness and integrity it violates our rules based world order that's existed since the end of world war 2. put plainly china's scene's determined to steal its way up the economic ladder at our expense we've been unable to secure an interview with the chinese ambassador to london about allegations like these that china is a rogue state bent on theft suffice it to say that the us is clearly violated the post 945 rules based order from career in vietnam to palestine nicaragua or in cuba here though is what china is saying about us policy if the us and china will have to respond to me fine it's never afraid of any pressure on china certainly has been pressured he has a us cable news presenter telling the world not even to be surprised by revelations from former cia contractor edward snowden now in moscow for safety it's not a huge surprise that the u.s.

military is engaged in off fans of cyber attacks yes but the usa is not just offensively hacking countries it is involved in full spectrum surveillance as revealed by edward snowden arguably making accusations against chinese companies like wall way even more risible joining me now via skype from the british colony of bermuda is guinness world record holder jim rogers he founded the quantum fund with george soros and is the author of a bull in china investing profitably in the world's greatest market jim welcome to going underground so you've said trump is making china great again do you think something chinese communist party officials a law fing at the latest sanctions against weiwei well trump called out of the trans-pacific partnership and the chinese looked around and said well that means we're the only ones left so they can take over asia now. maybe that's what mr trump is they can make america great but it's doing a lot to make china great because now they don't have any major rivals in asia and the pacific for mr rich you know but you've been talking for years about the end of

the dollar or perhaps the end of the dollar as a reserve currency do you think china will be seeing this and the developments of the bank as they try and promote that as as presaging. the end of the dollar well as you well know several people were several countries in the world looking for replace mark least a competitive with the u.s. dollar it is starting to happen there are the banks that the chinese and others have developed to compete with the u.s. dollar and it's happening i mean when the pound sterling lost its status it didn't happen in a year didn't happen in a decade but it happened and the same thing is starting to happen with the us stock i know you've been saying it for a while lots of people been saying for a while and you you just put your historian hat on there saying mentioning the british empire why has it taken so long for countries like russia china iran to start using currency swaps in rubles and romney me. first of all there's no went for structure to grow all of your back.