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to the world. international pleasure company. our top story the u.s. has ordered an additional. troops to the middle east i mean down the escalation in tensions with iran washington forces are for defensive purposes to address threats in the region. i have authorized approximately 1000 additional troops for defensive purposes to address air naval and ground based threats in the middle east we have received credible intelligence on hostile behavior by iranian forces in their proxy groups that threaten united states personnel and interests across the region. r.t. senior correspondent morocco's the it has been following the story and joins us live in the shooting to talk through it welcome how significant

a step up in terms of presence do you think this escalation is the step itself isn't entirely significant but they've been so many steps leading up to this less than a month ago a $1500.00 more troops was sent to the middle east they had strategic bombers stationed in the middle east additional strategic bombers they had pictured anti air defense system station in the middle east carrier battle group last time they justified it by saying that there was an imminent credible threat from pro rhenium groups that were going to attack u.s. personnel in the middle east we of course never saw any evidence or classified it appears it never happened but that was the justification last time this time they've offered videos and photographs. apparently showing that the united states is correct and that iran was behind recent attacks on oil tankers in

the gulf of oman iran of course denies all of this and says that we've seen these reports before the united states blaming other countries for the for things that are very questionable they're saying that the united states is trying to sink diplomacy and at the end of the day they say if they wanted to shut down the persian gulf and all the oil flowing through it they just do it. regarding the new incidents in the persian gulf if the islamic republic of iran decides to block an express a war through the strait of hormuz it is military strong enough to do that foolery and publicly. give us a sense of the international reaction to this house of playing out what what are people saying when it comes down or are they siding with just one side or is it more nuanced than that well iran's traditional rivals enemies if you want saudi arabia and israel. of course back the united states over these claims over these allegations they're willing to stand by the united states in case of an escalation

but. almost every doubts russia china the european union have taken this. with a deuce of skepticism i mean with these accusations before we see no real evidence supporting the united states in its claims that iran is the stabilizing the region that it is attacking international shipping so therefore now staying out of that. we call upon the sober assessments and wait for some credible evidence to be presented its ridiculous to cite secrets in this 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 it all parties to remain rational and restrained not to take any action yes collation of tension in the region and not to open a pandora's box. there might be the odd trump supporter right there who voted for

him and 2016 on the back of him saying you know our adventures in the middle east were going to come to a close it's costing too much money too many lives but yet the trouble are seemingly doing the same thing well back in the days of the election not a lot of not many people expected the administration to take the shape that it did john bolton becoming national security advisor this is this is a guy that you know. being the 1st to volunteer for any action where you get to pull the trigger easy this hawkish as they come among among. washington elites and . with people like john bolton in the administration there's little surprise that they're trying to. anyone the willing to stand up to them. who as you said present donald trump came to power by criticizing his predecessors by saying that enough is enough we should pull out of the middle east out of

afghanistan that we're sinking manpower resources human lives into conflicts we don't need to be in. i happen to think it was the worst decision made in the history of our country go into the middle it's like quicksand it was a terrible decision terrible nevertheless all the evidence that donald trump is being shown with regards to iran for example classified maybe nuff to sway him but it isn't enough to sway other countries including what to do in syria. want to bring our troops back home to place one crazy they want to keep them you have people here in why she want to they never want to leave some day people will explain what this is a year old to have you do have a coupe and they call it the military industrial complex talking us through the latest news that $1000.00 additional troops are going to the middle east courtesy of the us because the of our senior correspondent thank you. well let's bring in

a different aspect of the pentagon's adventures or run the world now in the way effect the environment indeed around us a study has revealed that the u.s. military produces more greenhouse gases than entire nations so we're we're not talking about islands in the pacific here we're talking countries such as sweden denmark indeed as well most emissions are directly due to defense related consumption from the use of jet diesel fuel. telling what story all means don't quarter of a look. 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 $150.00 countries it's $560000.00 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 take piecemeal action to address climate change while it's increasingly threatens in homs oh 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 that both have all of them identified. as being one of those huge threats and soon activities are leading to exacerbate that there

is this serious threat to global ready security i didn't buy a pension which is common and yet rather than doing anything serious to. problem miter expenditures do seem to be oriented towards crew to global. climate change and many of the worries. controversial psychologist and author of jordan peterson has launched a free speech platform called think a spot that's got one key principle censorship the alternative social media site well only remove content if ordered to do so by u.s. authorities are they protected the courts and despite being not yet fully up and running it's already caused quite a stir as are polly boyko great stuff. if they won't 7 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

summer i 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 dariya 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 sort of him but that offer was rescinded after a backlash from star students this was jordan peterson's 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 or you think it says more about the nature of universities in general than about free speech in general i mean i don't see all the 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 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 call benjamin his you tube channel saga on of a cat was recently downgraded after he made offensive comments about raping a british politician he was also banned from crowdfunding site patria and last year old right poster boy milo yet not police suffered the same fate for jordan peterson

and his community patriotic as 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 this is this man is very dangerous because i mean he's interested in much overlap with mine and i mean to have student of you and many others that you and pizza is interested in but because he has that learning and speaks some sense this is going to be fiery but very 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 defend and 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 of quebec for some people working in the public sector lawmakers have called the move the right to have secular public services on separate state religion the legislation will affect government

employees police and teachers for example i will apply to muslim headscarves jewish skullcaps and 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 of criticized the move for violating basic right the prime minister has once again suggested that quebec values are incompatible with fundamental rights the 16th of june 21000 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 reconciles will there be police officers going after 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 or for some more on this we spoke to university lecturer dr or in. the leader of the canadian nationalist party. down the rabbit hole we go

because what is religious and what is 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 after that could be the apparel people wear not just talking about face veils but the 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 combat voters voted in a nationalist populist government with the ca hume and right now as the premier mistily go out and south 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 as something as many muslims say about their religion you are really setting it up for a lot of class 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 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

islamophobia 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. ahead on our international mental health crisis in their ranks new york's police commissioner speak size about a series of suicides in the n y p d p. what politicians do. they put themselves on the line they get accepted or rejected . so when you want to be president and. want to.

have to go right to be close it's like the 3 of them all can't be good. interested always in the was. just approaching 20 minutes past 3 pm here in moscow welcome back police in new

york are urging action up to a chain of suicides amongst officers in the latest case a 29 year old placed in kill himself right at the precinct where he worked that was the 3rd death by suicide in the city's ranks in the past fortnight the police commissioner described the situation us a mental health crisis that has to be addressed. and 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. yes pretty startling figures here one non profit organization which collects data on police suicide ses the the numbers of officers who have killed themselves exceeds the number of deaths whilst judy it also sees the numbers have been on the rise since 2016 a former policeman told us of the situation he faced. 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 families and then their behavior on both calls but which is a mixture of both personal and private or private and professional actions are being criticized by the command staff the public doesn't understand the pressure that the street cops have that the 1st responders do and that goes all the way 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. all right let's turn attention to a developing story the former head of european football's governing body has been taken into custody in france it's amid an investigation into alleged vote rigging for the right to host the 2022 world cup which qatar warned michel platini was

barred from any football ruled in 2015 over a number of corruption scandal on return from the just 3 months go here start alexy ownership ski with what we know today. the main allegation the core of the allegation is supposed bribery which may have taken place 9 days before the few football it 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 him the way beyond the form advise it and you could also cozy and also clogged the former head of these administration they are also suspects in this case the allegation is that michel platini and a couple of persons from nicolas sarkozy's ministration that held a meeting with then prime minister of qatar 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. would contemplate voting

for the united states for the $20.00 to $22.00 world cup but he eventually voted for qatar 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 controversies 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 on 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 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 in 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 the fee for president you know. during a meeting in the kremlin told me that the meeting will that the world cup will take place and moreover the plan to have $48.00 teams in qatar was scrapped leaving it to $32.00 teams but you still are you sure that it will go on as. it would take a few moments to talk through a story from japan were victims of a 1948 sterilise ation program or appealing a government compensation offer saying it does not cover it the gravity of the harm the victims suffered the law which was suspended in 1906 allowed the government to forcibly sterilized disabled people to prevent hereditary transmission of diseases but compensation was only offered in april this year last month if we go to then a court rejected victims the mums for more money because the statute of limitations

has passed and we also spoke to a relative of the victim who told us about the torment her sister in law experience . someone use a course on my sister who was star nice when she was 15 years old while susan thought great journalist until the age of 18 she often suffered from a terminal pains when i fossil of waited next call that was when i knew something was very wrong in the old records i found it was written that my sister underwent forced sterilizations due to hereditary developmental disabilities whether she had an intellectual disability because of an overdose as these or should receive 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 so did the chief judge declared that the old eugenics rule was unconstitutional he also showed it was impossible for us those who suffered most 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 the shortlands 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 of g. to the victims. part a dice but with pesticides

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