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247 news live from moscow this is international from the team myself you know neal hello and welcome. the u.s. has ordered an additional 1000 troops to the middle east that made an escalation in tensions with iran washington says' the forces are for the fence purposes to address threats in the region i have authorized proximately 1000 additional troops for defensive purposes to address naval and ground based threats in the middle east we have received credible intelligence on hostile behavior by iranian forces and their proxy groups that threaten the united states personnel and interests across the region. well r t senior correspondent iraq does the of joins me to do with more on this hi there. you never quite know where you are when it comes to american

military presence donald trump saying we want to take more people out of the middle east now it seems they're putting more people in the are stepping up their presence is not safe to say well they've been building up forces in the middle east the round around for a while now we 1st saw through g.g. bombers being stationed there patriot. missile systems more and more troops just less than a month ago $1500.00 more troops were stationed in the middle east over credible threats that pro raney and groups were imminently going to attack us personnel. hasn't happened so far we didn't see the evidence but it was enough to justify sending more troops this time the united states is saying that showing photos and videos of what it says is evidence supporting its side of the story the recent tanker attacks in the gulf of oman have been the work of iran that iran is

responsible that iran is a danger in the region iran has come out and said you know this is all complete nonsense you're just trying to sabotage democracy you're trying to find an excuse for war and at the end of the day they said if we want to shut down the gulf the persian gulf and all the oil that flows through it we just do it. regarding the new incidents in the persian gulf if the islamic republic of iran decides to block an espresso war through the strait of hormuz it is military strong enough to do that foodie and publicly now these accusations against iran have been supported by the usual culprits iran's regional rivals that is israel and saudi arabia along with the united states but so far no one else no major players have gone along with the united states the evidence of what the united states is saying

and convincing we're talking here about russia the european union. china they've all said that they don't see any reason to join in on america's crusade against iran in terms of this troop buildup it very rarely happens just that this is this is one stage of the not said it tends to go in stages and more people join the more soldiers join up. what's the international reaction. to this and crease well as i said. there's a lot of because there's been no real evidence offered the united states 1st released a bunch of black and white blurry photos then they released some color photos showing an iranian patrol boat near one of the damaged tankers saying you know this is evidence that iran is behind the whole the whole attack and other countries of. convincing europe in particular europe in particular russia china others iraq for

example and they they see the united states using these attacks to justify applying more pressure against iran. musab. sober assessments and wait for some credible evidence to be presented which it is it's ridiculous to cite secrets in this case already. in the last days we've called for the maximum restraint the world cannot afford another crisis especially in an area like that. we call on all parties to remain rational and restrained not to take any actions to provoke the escalation of tension in the region which i'm not sure is books but it is interesting how critical donald trump was of barack obama of his predecessors a nice delays for sending troops to the middle east for fighting in all the various conflicts in the middle east he's been

a big proponent of bringing the troops home and yet here we are donald trump signing off for the troop build up. nevertheless he still seems to be critical of what's happening america's role in the middle east. i happen to think it was the worst decision made in the history of our country go into the middle it's like what it sounds it was a terrible decision terrible. and again it is donald trump so what he says and what he does may be 2 entirely different things nevertheless whatever evidence he was shown by his advisers by his military chiefs must of convinced him similarly to how it did with syria. want to bring our troops back home to place one crazy they want to keep them you have people here in why she wanted they never want to leave some day people will explain what this is really a hero to have you do have a group and they call it the military. so there you go remains to be seen where the

situation goes from here but so far it's just been an escalation of the escalation i guess the of on the news that an additional $1000.00 troops are being sent by the u.s. into the middle east thank you. all right to a different aspect of the pentagon's adventures around the world though in the way the effect the environment around us a study has revealed that the u.s. military produces more greenhouse gases than the entire nation such sweden or denmark most emissions are directly due to defense related consumption from the use of jet diesel fuel double quarter scott the story. forget single use straws and plastic bags there's a much bigger problem wreaking havoc on mother nature its war the pentagon's wars to be exact i

. 59000000 metric tons of greenhouse gases that's how much the u.s. defense department spewed into the atmosphere in 2017 alone brown university says the d.o.d. is both the largest oil consumer and institutional polluter in the world there are entire countries that don't emit as many fumes portugal finland and sweden to name a few how is that possible well the u.s. military does have a presence in over 150 countries it's 560000 buildings worldwide make up 40 percent of its greenhouse emissions the rest is from military operations which in 2016 used up 86000000 barrels of fuel that's in afghanistan pakistan syria you get the picture and it's not like americans are electing people who understand wars environmental impact the department of defense must do more than simply acknowledge or take piecemeal action to address climate change while it

increasingly threatens in homs o. militaries infrastructure and operations even the pentagon itself says it's worried about climate change the facts of the changing climate are a national security issue with potential impacts to department of defense missions operational plans and installations the top brass might say they're concerned but their words certainly are not matching their actions in fact the u.s. military budget may see its 5th consecutive year of growth in 2020 despite spending more than the next strongest militaries combined the d.o.d. is not cutting back it's actually preparing for more military ventures and considering u.s. iranian tensions are escalating in the persian gulf there are few signs of any turning back. the last 4. major national security threats both all of the identified. as being one of those

huge groups and years is soon activities on the. exam. there is this serious threat to global ready security i didn't mention which is time and year rather than doing serious to. problem literally expenditures do seem to be oriented towards crew to global. climate change and in many other ways. right to a story garnering a lot of interests of a controversial psychologist and author jordan peterson has launched a free speech platform called think spot it's got one key principle no censorship the alternative social media sites will only remove content if ordered to by u.s. authorities and the spike being not yet fully up and running it's already caused the stir as our teens probably boyko breaks down. if they won't let you in the club

just to set up your own that's the philosophy behind a brand new anti censorship social media platform that's hitting the web this think spot will be an intellectual playground for censorship free discourse that's according to its founder controversial academic and bestselling author jordan peterson the canadian professor is a divisive figure hated by the left and della fide by the right earlier this year he was snubbed by the most intellectual of british institutions cambridge university he was supposed to have a visiting fellowship that this sought him but that offer was rescinded after a backlash from star students this was jordan peter. since response to the decision at the time what do you think it says about free speech in britain that cambridge university made an announcement this week saying they were going to invite you to speak i don't think it says more about the nature of the universities in general

than about free speech in general i mean i don't see all that my disinvited taishan has compromised more in free speech ability because i have so many platforms on which i can discuss my ideas according to peterson's latest video think sport will be a subscription service where controversial creators will be able to monetize their free speech once you're on our platform we will take you down and list were ordered to by a us court of law that's nice if the idea so we're trying to make an anti censorship platform one of the b. to test is of the site will be anti feminist you tube or call benjamin his you tube channel saga on of a cad was recently downgraded after he made offensive comments about raping a british politician he was also banned from crowdfunding site patria and last year

olds right poster boy milo yet not police suffered the same fate for jordan peterson and his community patriotic actions to block these prominent commentators was the final straw doesn't look like moving to an alternative provider an alternative commercial product provider that's out of our bailiwick out of our control is going to be viable critics argue that an anti censorship platform could in practice turn into a safe place for extremists and the person who most publicly to test the platform is somebody who's not only joked about raping somebody but then doubled down on it saying well if i was junk enough maybe i would you know they said this man is very dangerous because. i mean he's interest very much overlap with mine and i mean huge student of you and many others that you and pizza is interested in but because he has that learning and speak something that this is going to but there is to support

the creation of peterson's think spot say that western society need somewhere to exchange ideas without fair of reprisals and clampdowns the major point that we have to. cultivate prioritize what i think gauging and the robust discussion in public life is that no situation anywhere as an adult is free of risk in that we enter into these things to try and get something out of it it's hard to argue with the numbers alternative thinkers like jordan peterson and the rest of his self-styled intellectual dark web have attracted millions of subscribers that suggests that audience is all gagging for their free speech barrows not to be gagged. a controversial ban on wearing religious symbols has been passed in the canadian province for some people working in the public sector lawmakers have

called the move the right to have secular public services separate state religion now the legislation will affect government employees police teachers for example will apply to muslim headscarf jewish skullcaps on the other various symbols last minute changes to the bill also included the introduction of inspectors who will be tasked with ensuring people abide by the new law but some in quebec criticise the move for violating basic rights the prime minister has once again suggested they could make values are incompatible with fundamental rights. the 16th of june $29000.00 is a very said date that has just entered the history books of quebec a date that will forever mark a vision of quebec that divides rather than brings together that excludes rather than includes that stigmatizes rather than we can file of will there be police officers going off to people to check if they have religious signs we don't know

it's not clear we didn't even have time to analyze his modification clearly they did it in a very undemocratic way ok for a lower depth on this we spoke to a university lecturer a doctor or an troublous patrol and a leader of the canadian nationalist party down the rabbit hole we go because what is religious and what it's not i tend to believe that politics and religion are intertwined necessarily to a certain degree and at the end of the day when you say wedding rings could be seen as a religious symbolism the next step out of that could be the apparel people wear not just talking about face veils that dresses women wear or their clothes men wear and what this is really pointing to is a code back that is known in canada to be fierce about protecting their identity and that is why the quebec voters voted in

a nationalist busy populous government with this q. and right now as the premier vassileva out himself says they're getting exactly what they voted for. well the problem is whenever you're prevented from doing something that you feel that you should have the right to do or that something that's so important to you on a very fundamental level like some people as many muslims say about the religion you are really setting it up for a lot of i think both demonstrations and likely physical clashes because people believe that their existence is on the line and they feel that they are justified to use any means necessary to fight for what they feel is their right so if anybody feels that their rights are being taken away from them then we can expect there to be as i said i think physical punches and it's going to all be under the rubric or the guise of islamophobia they're going to say it's a blatant attack against

a particular group and when you're fighting for that cause this has you know potential ramifications globally where people say oh we thought canada was such a welcoming diverse country but it seems that at least part of it back is islamic phobic and who knows what kind of repercussions we can expect moving forward when people from other countries might decide to make a statement beyond a simple protest. still us to come on the program including a mental health crisis in their ranks a new york police commissioner speak side i bought a series of suicides in the n.y.p.d. . starting really in the 1980s under reagan and thatcher and deregulation you had the fed takeover and their sole purpose at that point was to try to squeeze workers

completely out of the global economy so wages never went up real time sense that but stock markets keep going up and there is. to justify this is that the fed will say we need to try to take care of deflation even now that they are causing deflation in an environment where their money printing is increasing the debt. seems wrong why don't we all just don't call. any of these yet to shape out these days become educated and engagement equals betrayal. when so many find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground.

20 minutes into the program welcome back police in new york city are urging action after a chain of suicides among officers in the latest case the 29 year old killed himself right side the precinct where he worked at that was the 3rd death by suicide in the city's ranks in the past fortnight the police commissioner described the situation as a mental health crisis that has to be addressed. depression is real and people need to understand that this is that ok i don't feel i don't feel myself i feel down i'll bring myself out of it sometimes it's a downward spiral that unless there is intervention from the outside it's not going to stop and something bad is going to happen you need to talk to someone. well wall nonprofit organization that collects data on police suicides sais that the number of officers who have killed themselves exceeds the number of deaths wives jussi it

also says the numbers have been on the rise since 26 the former policeman told us off the pressures. police officers are the single most treasured tested men and women on the planet everything they're doing is criticized by the public their personal problems are being criticized by their off families and bull then their behavior on both calls which is a mixture of both personal and private are private and professional actions are being criticized by the command staff the public doesn't understand the pressure that the street cops have that for the 1st responders do and that goes all the way through to the detectives but for the most part it is it's a basic concept that these men and women are in a daily pressure cooker from every single angle of their lives and they have no they have no escape from that. michel platini the former head of european football's governing body has been taken into custody in france it's happening amid

an investigation into alleged vote rigging for the right to host the 2022 world cup which qatar won here's our teeth alexy ownerships. the main allegation the core of the allegation is supposed bribery which may have taken place 9 days before the futile ballot was cast deciding the 2022 world cup host country which eventually went to jail but he wasn't the only person to be taken into custody on tuesday morning along with. a former advisor to and you could ask was the and also. the former head of administration they are also suspects in this case the allegation is that michel platini and a couple of persons from nicolas sarkozy's administration of held a meeting with then prime minister and the foreign minister of qatar and the investigators suspecting that they may have been bribed into voting for michel platini on numerous occasions back in the day said that he would contemplate voting

for the united states for the 20 to 22 world cup but he eventually will just focus on our and he also admitted to that every time there is a big world cup or a major football tournament going on there are a lot of scandals there are a lot of political control of the seas and conspiracy theories flying about we saw the same case in $22012.00 when the euros were held in poland in ukraine the same applied to russia the world cup last year there was a lot of safety concerns but we all know that everything went well so qatar is no exception to that seems 2012 there has been a major investigation. of bribery allegations of political masterminding of this world cup even more so we've heard an opinion from a number of investigators that several countries surrounding may have been plotting a campaign to derail the world cup and 22 into doing but all the officials from different football governing bodies including including you a for that i've been able to speak to over the last couple of years they've all

said in one voice that the world cup in qatar will take place and moreover just recently defeat for president jan infants you know. during a meeting in the kremlin told me that the will of the. the world cup will take place and moreover the plan to have 48 teams in qatar was scrapped leaving it to 32 teams but you still be sure that it will go on as. they want to bring attention to japan were victims of a $948.00 sterilization program are appealing a government compensation offer saying it did not cover the gravity of the harm that victims suffered the law which was suspended in 1906 allowed the government to force the sterlite disabled people to prevent hereditary transmission of diseases but compensation was only offered in april this year last month a court rejected victim's demand for more money because the statute of limitations . r.t. spoke to a relative of the victim who told us about the torment her sister in law experienced

. some sickle song my sister in law was star lies when she was 15 years old while susan thought great journalist until the age of 30 shocked and suffered from abdominal pains when i fossil of really big scar that was when i knew something was very wrong in the old records i found it was written that my sister underwent forced sterilization due to a hereditary developmental disability however she had an intellectual disability because of an overdose as these issues received when she was a baby i didn't believe my mother who gave consent of the operation because the disability was not inherited.

to you said. the chief judge declared that the old eugenics rule was unconstitutional he also showed it was impossible for us those who suffered from forced on isolation to demand an apology and compensation from the japanese government back that i feel is their parliament's lack of interest in the problem affected our trial and that we couldn't get a good result of the 20 britons who filed the lawsuit it's only my sister i'm one of the women who have managed to obtain official records relating to the star lies ations the others don't have them it was a member of the japanese diet that introduced an education means the government is responsible for the matter i think the japanese government should offer a proper point to g. to the victims. now why are governments and investors hoarding more and more gold looks they see the only kosher reporting have their say

it starts in the. join me every phone on the alex simon chill and i'll be speaking to guest of the world of politics sport this list i'm showbusiness i'll see you then. why a paradise with so much ground turned into a round experimentation feel to agricultural chemicals we know that these chemicals have consequences they are major irritants there's no question otherwise why would that the chemical company workers themselves be geared up and suited up locals attempt to combat the on regulated experiments but often in day you have many of these people one foot into the biotech pharma and the other foot in the government

regulatory bodies this kind of collusion is reprehensible while the battle goes on the chemicals continue to poison hawaii and its people so one has to ask the question whether there is a form of environmental research going on in hawaii whether these companies feel they can get away with this because the people have less political power. am.

i'm actually i was or was not very. well i guess it's time to find out what's happening in the big bad world let's talk with stacey hey you know 1st i want to say that we are going to go on our summer vacation so you will see some summer solutions pretty soon and we are planning those and those are looking really good just a little housekeeping for those out there but i want to look at this headline to set up the other headlines in this article and this is something that we have been saying for 10 years is that you know it's a it's a game of capital versus labor privileged by the central banks versus everybody else and there's no headline but this and this is from last week and but it's

really relevant to my headlines today stock market jumps as disappointing jobs report fuels hope for fed rate so there's a real conflict between the needs of the wall street speculators and the rest of the population you've said this before is that you know anything any time is good for the worker is bad for wall street so we've had now 35 years of great for wall street and any even little hints that wages are starting to rise or or workers are starting to have some sort of dignity again wall street crashes the fed steps and says go away workers we're going to smash you we're going to save on wall street well we have something called the business cycle and sometimes you'd have inflation as expressed by a rise in prices including wages was forced to raise.