in parliament or indeed in schools gentle really appreciate your time and your views interesting discussion there political commentator andrew walker human rights activist peter tatchell thank you both. just a day after u.k. courts ruled the saudi arabia of lawful britain's biggest weapons manufacturer b. insists that it won't stop supplying riyadh. we continue to support the u.k. government in providing equipment support and training and the government to government agreements between the united kingdom and saudi arabia will assist the results of the u.k. government's reconsideration of its decision making on the basis by the court once it's been made and stay the campaign against arms trade won a landmark legal challenge against the u.k. government they argued that british weapons are contributing to the human toll in yemen which has faced the saudi military campaign since 2015 court of appeal judges also criticised u.k. ministers for ignoring the risk to civilians when signing arms deals with riyadh

really now puts pressure on downing street to suspend those agreements the un says that the yemeni conflict is the worst manmade humanitarian crisis in the world. a spokesperson for the campaign against arms trade told is the ruling will not stop the u.k. selling arms to riyadh. well the court decision has blocked future arms sales but it hasn't stopped the previous arms sales and as well as licensees it would be working under don't send the correct but be wouldn't stop its arms sales

by china anyway because he has had a long inching bull and disgraceful history of arming and supporting the site for decades despite repression and. people and despite the appalling atrocities which it has committed against the people yemen no surprise that the government is intending to appeal because the government has spent decades army and supporting human rights abusing regimes and dictatorships all in while and it is not going to give up was easily because they spent decades building them up and no matter how many atrocities committee with it has been the murder of shoghi or whoever it has been the trustees committed against yemen no matter how you look at saying so it's always been able to rely on the. uncritical political military support of you gave prime ministers a new government. that that they fully at the top of the hour see that.

greetings and salyut asians you know next to hollywood nowhere else in the world has as much self aggrandizing and pompous showmanship for the cameras and capitol here hill here in washington d.c. but it's when the cameras are off and our illustrious leaders have to put their money where their votes are that you often glimpse their true character and not the facade they put on display for voters in the news media take the recent house of representatives vote republican just

a mile just in the mushing democrats only law firms amendment to restrain the brutal reign of domestic surveillance under section 702 of the foreign intelligence surveillance act or pfizer voted down 252-2175 votes the amendment saw both republicans and democrats joining forces to bury it including mr rusher gate collusion hawk himself resistance leader democrat adam schiff i guess he really does trust president donald trump after all i mean why else would he would he give the donald of the ministration limitless authority to conduct mass warrantless surveillance on the populace and speaking of big technology and big government and lots and lots of rhetoric around it it appears that the trump administration's export ban is is actually affecting the business of all things while way as ars technica reports that wow is bracing for a 40 to 60 percent drop in international smartphone shipments. and while abusive surveillance and abuse of power in the free markets are big stories no form of

abuse affects our lives more personally and dangerously than domestic abuse and hawk watchers it appears that here in the united states the national domestic violence hotline had its busiest you're ever with more than half a 1000000 calls in 2018 so today let's talk about these examples of abuse and the lies that surround them the lives we are told and the lies we tell ourselves as we start watching our lives. like you know that i got. that we. would. welcome them on watching the hawks i am tyrrel but in terms of

a we once again put dialogue over debate as to what the wallace and myself bring you 2 distinct and informative discussions between topics and guess unique to our personalities and political viewpoints starting with my very own perception and perspective. all right joining me today to bring a little perception in perspective is the host of the big picture of holland cook our tea america producer brant you're border and live from toronto r.t. america correspondent alex mahela bitch all right i want to start things off with this latest vote by the u.s. house of representatives representatives against against reining in warrantless buys a surveillance busy should we be happy that we finally found something that can bring democrats and republicans together and that something is protecting the government's. right to abuse the 4th amendment alex i'll start with you what do you feel about this. and what did you expect i mean come on once you give the

government a little bit of power not just to take it away the government likes its power it keeps its power when they start moving in a direction like this it's really hard to reel it back unless you're going to radically change things with the government vote for somebody that's radically different and i don't see that happening anytime soon in the united states of america there's also the 2nd point tyrrel think about it when i go onto the internet when i get on my phone i assume that somebody is listening to me or watching what i'm typing each and every day this whole surveillance things laws no laws canada united states are you in europe are you in china i have a feeling somebody is watching us at all times and i just practice my stuff when i'm out there the internet the phone whatever it is i keep living my life because the whole thing is you know what i really have nothing to hide so if you really want to spy on me hey i'm here for all the spying you want alex has nothing to hide but we here in the united states we do it and usually those things they hide are

protected by the constitution which has the 4th amendment of illegal search and seizure which as i've word snowden and many others have revealed you know the pfizer warrantless and a lot of the things that came out of 911 the patriot act things about major definitely intrude on that especially so 5 surveillance i mean is this the thing that's going to bring is it sad to see so many democrats and republicans alike kind of throwing what they tell us on t.v. aside the morals they claim to have in the the hatred of trump on the democrats but will give more lists you know surveillance and then on the republican side it's all we hate buys a war and when they go after carter page and paul metaphor will vote for him here until about trump him self you know trump on the stump when he was the candidate was squatting about being surveilled since he's become president it's only more so and as alex alluded it's a slippery slope the loophole having ben it's ok to surveil. people here if they're in touch with people elsewhere and i think we're being a little naive in general because the genie is out of the bottle all this stuff you

see in the jason bourne movies we should assume and i think rightfully that there's stuff they're not telling us about what they're doing i don't wanna know all the black bag stuff and frankly i feel a little safer because it's out there but you're right about the political hypocrisy well i don't want to disagree too much with alex but i think when when this snowden situation kind of brought itself about i felt the same way as i don't have much to hide so why do i care if i'm being surveilled and also to hollands point i wasn't that surprised i've seen i mean this day i think we all have they essentially had a playbook that is exactly what snowden said you know and on the on the political aspect of it both left and right it's about expediency for these politicians they don't want to lose their job and the last thing they want is an opponent coming up to 2020 or whatever election and say hey you know so and so they voted against protecting this country from foreign entities this by being surveilling american

citizens so that's all they're concerned about is watching their own back and keeping their job remember they named it the patriot act who's going to vote against that i want to move really quickly over and talk about expected to see this 40 to 60 percent drop in international smartphone shipments and they're saying it's due to the export ban that the trumpet ministration put on them you know brant you work a lot of boom bust i want to run this to buy you should you know should we really i mean what is the why way things should we really be shaking in our boots over this cell phone company at the end of the day that you know over the technology you have i mean it is u.s. companies because to me it seems like government getting involved and saying look the free market kind of sorted out of people want to go buy it if they don't they don't there are a couple of things like i don't want to pretend that walk away is a honest broker completely ok it's a it's a chinese china's biggest company. so they're growing leaps and bounds we need to enemy that was beyond just the chinese government so i think that's probably where

the trump administration really targeted them but i want to be clear with something there is a little bit of course. the chinese companies are known for taking american appeaser from around the world and basically taking that is how they do things was it right to arrest their c.f.o. and probably not and also let's let's be clear about something once these trade disputes and everything are done while way it's going to have a bigger market share than they ever had been i don't know about you but i didn't know a whole lot about walk away before this whole thing blew up and so now i really want one of their phones they seem pretty cool they've got a lot of good stuff of autumn and so i think and i think their c.e.o. said something to the same factors like we can pay for this type of published in a sure that 40 to 60 percent that's a lot of because intel google they're going to have a hard time getting their their software and their chips out to them right now but eventually this is all there is also interesting to see this new frontier but i

want to hit this before we run out of time as according to the numbers the national domestic violence hotline saw this 30 percent rise in calls online chats and tax you know for people calling in saying i'm in an abusive relationship and you know that kind of thing i want to ask you that i'll start with you alex what do you believe is responsible for this is that a rise in violence or rise because of me to another such things a rise in victims finally feeling empowered to call when they're in these abusive relationships. this is me to erode it honestly it's i mean women have been abused historically we know that oh i think we've all met somebody that has gone through this in their lives and the meat to movement has helped women come out and tell what's going on behind closed doors this is a very important thing one problem that we have up here in canada is the fact that as you know we have a lot of large immigrant population this country is now freeing the. those women and allowing them to express their issues that they're having at home and to tell

our legal force meant to hear you know what this is what's happening to me so i can it is actively trying to basically create bridges for the immigrant population having police officers that speak variety of languages that's very important here just basically community reach out this is all a part a part and parcel of one thing and that's something i mean that we should be looking at global you know we here were strange things coming out of the u.n. i don't know if you heard this today the u.n. was talking about artificial intelligence like your syria or your ally it's a female's voice so that's against women i mean come on let's not be ridiculous with what's going on here is something that is deep seated it's something that is dark we know also within our native community our aboriginal community here in canada people aren't talking they need to talk and meet to has freed women to a certain degree and i hope it just keeps moving forward until we don't know what it will be more it's disgusting it's disturbing it is we talk about you know women in this but let's also not to forget that men are also victims of domestic violence

and people realize this is the one in 4 men have experienced some form of physical violence by a partner one in 25 men have been injured by a partner one in 7 men and been victims of severe physical violence by the intimate partner and 5 men in the united states have been stalked in their lifetime those are actually big numbers yes women's numbers are much higher but it's still one to many no matter what when you talk about domestic violence why you would about a minute left why are men so afraid of they find their very afraid to admit they've been in the best advice social media it's got something to do with it because things that didn't used to get talked about are out there now just this past week acting defense secretary patrick shanahan had to withdraw stuff comes out now i don't know if you have showtime i just saw the preview for this roger ailes biotech russell crowe is roger ailes naomi watts is going to be gretchen carlson on this show her and. bottom of the executive suite stuff comes out got about 30 yet i was

going to to your point about men i mean i think it's still a little bit a masculinity machismo type thing i mean sadly i feel that's a way that men still feel is that it makes you less of a man to be abused and this is a big issue in the gay community as well as it is i'm not i didn't pull the stats off hand but it is an issue that they face quite a bit as well and it's just a shame thing sadly and the same way with women it's that you know when we go right now we were here talking about toxic masculinity it's coming out it is it is i think i would hope that all people that matter don't be afraid to call out domestic violence we're godless of your gender i want to thank everybody who came on the show today alex middle of it in toronto canada holland coast of the big picture of bridget board producer to america thank you all 3 for joining me today a fascinating discussion all around all right as we're going to break off watchers don't forget to let us know what you think of the topics we cover the facebook you tube and twitter and see our poll shows that are. coming up the top of the wallace welcomes us into the gallery was scott ceremony and rachel bloodworms stay tuned to

watch for the. politicians to. put themselves on the line. they did accept the overture. so when you want to be president. some want. to go right for us this is what the 3 of them will be. interested in the war. just driving the trumpet ministrations around policy is confusing contradictory and

even incoherent would be an understatement as members of his administration beat the drums of war the president suddenly inject themselves into the conversation with the words to the car what is the world thing. the u.s. bureau of labor statistics released its $28000.00 american time use survey this month and it showed that 84 percent of women and 69 percent of men spent some time doing household activities such as housework cooking lawn care what they call household management from 232018 the share of men doing food preparation and cleanup on an average day increased from 35 percent to 46 percent but while men are doing more women aren't getting to do less were actually still doing more and fact

the study showed working women spend an average of 2 hours a day unchildlike care which is 5 minutes more than the year before you know what has gone down working women's time for leisure and sports in fact we are averaging 15 minutes less time exercising and relaxing than we did in 2003 all while getting even leslie and in the u.k. bear maker brew dog had to pay approximately $1200.00 to a 27 year old software engineer in wales for what they call distress direct discrimination and breach of the u.k.'s equality act of 2010 c as part of a celebration of international women's day brew dog released a discounted parody beer called pink i.p.a. in bird dogs tweet they said we've created a bear for girls and it's pink because women only like pink glitter right hash tag sarcasm what show that enough is enough was there. so it was all in the spirit of what they call it. losing the sexist marketing techniques used to target women particularly within the beer industry so in order to get the discount brew dog

required him to say the words i identify as a woman at a bar which he saw as humiliation and apparently the judge agreed to $1200.00 and that means the struggles real for unbiased beer in cardiff wales finally this week swiss women celebrated the 20th anniversary of their historic 1991 women's strike in switzerland that led to a constitutional amendment that implemented legal protections from discrimination and gender bias in the workplace. i'm here to search for women through the right of us women from the least i want to all to have the same name is it isn't that all women the rights we're also thing that means in terms of the fight against discrimination in switzerland and on all day you're talking about a 20 percent difference in the salaries of women and that is that's a critical point it's been so let's appreciate the art of walking the walk and step into the gallery.

joining me here in the gallery to discuss sleep barrett equality is our team america correspondent sara montoya soca and rachel blevins and scottie nell here who's from news views here is catching up on her sleep. ok i'm sorry guys working right i have to say that study is the most accurate study i've ever heard accurate do you think you know looking at this you know it was we have more opportunities we work harder or we're getting more things done but at the end of the day we're giving up something really important and that's leap and that's leisure time and sports something that men haven't lost they still get the same amount scot do you tell me do you think this shows the more. and help around the house the more time we have to pursue our careers. it

means it's more time for us to make some money i've got to know if there's i do think men have stepped up as fathers and their roles within the house even in marriage and has been why there's not those traditional roles but that doesn't mean that i think women are saying ok now i get more time me time actually i think it means it gives more time to give back to the family to give back to society to get involved in more volunteer work i can guarantee we're going to you know we're not getting as much sleep but my biggest fears have is down the road what is this toll going to be on the women how long we live how happy we are and what tolls this has on our relationships because in the end i don't think it's gets the size that suffers or our sleep i actually think it's our friendships with others is what really suffers because i just don't have time right now to be a good friend sometimes that's come up a lot what do you guys think is that seems to be there is this you know that me time self care for women do you feel like as we get married as we have kids we have

these things that we're giving some of that up for success i think you it comes down to kind of a routine lifestyle sometimes that we get wrapped in whether it's work and exercise or whatever it is we do that is in a lot of me time especially somebody who's married now that i share my time so sometimes i think friendships do suffer a you know living far away from friends especially when you live far away and you don't have enough time or you don't really make the time because you just want to enjoy it when you're off work when you're not exercising when you're home just relaxing away to whether it's with your significant other your husband or wife or family or kids and we put so much time i think sometimes working overtime for work and not saying no to things that it's harder sometimes for us to be able to manage and balance that and it's a constant problem yet. i think especially in an industry like this when we're constantly working to get better and we put so much effort every day into work i

mean this isn't a job where we just come in and do the same thing every single day and it's really boring and there are a lot of women that have jobs like that so by the time that we make it to the weekend or to getting time off we're so exhausted that we're just trying to catch up on the regular everyday things versus actually going out and socializing or playing sports or something like socializing and actually doing things that levy but that's part of the thing is not having women having other relationships with other women or women outside of relationships outside of say their marriage and their kids and all of that so important and that was one of the things that came up with this west women strike is that it was very unified of class structure and you had people who are very far right and very far left marching together on equal footing and it's one thing i think this with did really well is that they didn't let their sort of political ideologies get in the way of this is something for everybody let me start with you again scotty. are we busy holding our ourself back from these things in life getting these things in life because we get caught up in

party politics or your right i'm last year the sign that and sort of doing that do you think that holds us all back from from coming together. that's exactly right i mean there are women who are republicans are women who are democrats and they're women across the board it doesn't matter play the party the key is that we are women same thing with ben and when you're talking about things about equality and gender pay those issues should not be something that is defined as a republican or democrat issue it's something that we could actually find common ground on the fact that says hey listen equal work equal pay it's not hard that's just a good thing you know good and versus bad right versus wrong evil versus i guess good again evil versus angelic that's not a political discrepancy that's just being a human and that's being a good human versus a bad human and i think it's on issues like this that we should be able to find common ground but. unfortunately when political parties get involved then obviously people to their polarized polarized places what you guys think absolute i think

we're going to see more of that here in the united states with women putting aside political parties or even economic status even if it's not something that they think may benefit them a lot just the fact they're standing up for other women i think could make a big difference and maybe they'll take after this latest purchase i think it's important to find common ground especially nowadays one party lines and everyone is so divided especially when you live in cosmopolitan cities a lot of washington d.c. new york l.a. all of these cities san francisco that are so divided i mean even even here being just around politics breathing eating it every single day people who stop being friends over police and instead of being able to agreeing and respectfully disagree we decide and i think this is important to find this common ground like the swedish did because in the end we're all one in the same. move but cataclysmic one can make

one point on this record i think we're missing on this here's the thing a lot of this gender pay grab comes from the fact that women have a hard time going in and fighting for themselves i will go in and fight hard for anybody else but when it comes to myself i back off i don't want to create trouble but i'll fight for any of you you want me to go in and fight for a raise or if you don't have that same problem men don't have that same problem as much and that's that has nothing to do with politics that has a that just has to do with a society and just who our personalities are and i think that's something that you know the swiss might have be able to have better conversations with but until we you know it's not like we can march or walk into our boss office right down to hey i want you to release the salaries of all of us and let's look across the board nobody would do that and walk into their boss's office and say that unless they're expecting a pink slip within the next few weeks setting on their desk be some men. but i think those you know it's simple things like that that don't have anything to do with politics and more just has to do about who we are what our personality traits

and what might be identified with different genders as to who they are. well i don't c want to run out of time before we get a chance to talk about unbiased beer because that's really important. so there's a story about this guy walks into a bar wants to for a dollar for your o.b. are not the 5 euro beer even though they're exactly the same and one just has a different label series gets $1200.00 fun fact do you guys know that there was a $2800.00 study in the current drug abuse reviews that showed that men who drink beer regularly saw their testosterone levels decrease also fun fact that same study found that women who drank excessive amounts of beer their testosterone went up so . we got a minute 30 seconds they should gender specific to be allowed. and let me just say this i think the killer probably makes the testosterone go for men because the logic you think that they are a bull in

a china shop. abs it's across the board but you know here's where it comes out fair razors why do women have to pay more for razors and i think that the major injustice forget the beer it's all about the body hair. a couple minutes ago and for your waxing for every man i will pay more if we can make sure that every male in america is wax i'm just saying it's so sure and videotape it to yes. it's true i think i think it should be fair across the board i mean these gender discounts ladies they all and what's a difference of your i want to get a beer pay the extra dollar yeah it is why are you even going out to the bar if you are of the up for it if you are young you made an extra $1200.00 off of that you immediately had a lot of every time i mean maybe there are some the women if you really want to paint a pair yes i don't know i want to thank you all for is that they are going to talking about you know beer inequality and all of this good things scotty nellie hughes from news views here thank you so much for joining us and also. and rachel blevins

r.t. correspondent thank you so much for the new directive from the gallery. well that's our show for you today remember everyone as my co-host tyrrel ventre always says in this world we're not told that we're left enough so i tell you all i love you i'm top of the wallace keep on watching the hawks and have a great day and night everyone thank you thank. the own food. that was. was. was thanks. was. a little. thanks thanks

thanks. thanks. mr president says he called off a strike at the last moment after he found out the number of casualties. speak of the georgian parliament resigns after mass protests in the capital 240 people including 80 police officers have been injured in clashes. in facebook's under scrutiny again is a report claims appalling working conditions by contractor allegations come from a group of an employee's who filter extreme content for the.