10 minutes that's how close the u.s. came to a direct military confrontation with iran trump changed his mind and canceled the strike u.s. president reveals he's putting both slow and rapid new sanctions on tehran. and said i want to know something before you go how many people will be killed came back. approximately 150 and i didn't like it. thanks gently reveals his social media posts promoting anti russian conspiracy theories doing an investigation into a synagogue shooting. and a lesson in life a scottish student claims he was booted out of class for arguing there are only 2

genders. do you think and i knew quick. thanks for you if you want to see a clear very clear. giving thanks for joining us this is our international. donald trump says he called off 1st strike against iran with just 10 minutes to spare it was meant to be in retaliation for tehran downing a pentagon surveillance drone over the gulf region strait of hormuz he was pressed he will however put fresh sanctions on tehran some of them slowly very rapidly. they came in they said sure we're ready to go we'd like a decision i said i want to know something before you go how many people will be killed. in this case the remains they said came back.

approximately 150 and i thought about it for a 2nd i said you know what they shut down on may and. drone and here we are sitting with 150 dead people and i didn't like it the council strike is the closest the u.s. has been to direct confrontation with iran since the white house pulled out of the nuclear deal last year around said the u.s. drone had flown into its space washington insists it was operating over international waters this month washington also blame to around for attacking 2 oil tankers in the strait of hormuz randomised as accusations stating washington staged the attack. the u.s. has been also sending carriers and warplanes to the persian gulf and its impose crippling sanctions on iran while ending waivers on countries that imports iranian oil. and its election campaign donald trump insisted another middle east war would be a mistake but he's assembled a team known to favor regime change in iran in fact his cabinet appears packed with

people who contradict the president's views the more but explains. so trump has decided not to bomb iran for now he says it's for humanitarian concerns however national security adviser john bolton does not share trump's concerns apparently for protecting human lives in fact john bolton has been hitching to attack iran for a year or so you are you really must be made aware there will be tangible and painful consequences of the attack think the acquired to stop this regime from getting nuclear weapons policy of the united states of america should be the overthrow of the mullahs regime in tehran for 29 t. we here to celebrate in tehran it seems a bit strange that donald trump who campaigned on a platform of not wanting new wars and has reiterated that during his presidency would then go higher john bolton however bolton seems to fit an interesting pattern when it comes to trump appointees trump articulate one position very clearly and

then he hires someone with a completely different stance for example trump seems to be wildly critical of china we can't continue to allow china to rape our country however trumps secretary of transportation is elaine chao now elaine chao has more than close family ties to the chinese government she and her husband senator mitch mcconnell have reportedly received millions of dollars worth of gifts from family ties trump has wildly attacked the banking sector and he's promised to drain the swamp but when it came time to fill those financial posts many of the appointees were former exacts at the financial giant goldman sachs trouble also likes to attack drug companies like to bring a federal lawsuit against those companies a very very firm. because what's happening with drugs in this country and throughout the world but in our country it's a disgrace and we can stop it it has become a major crisis with the country facing an epidemic of opioids so who does donald

trump of point to. b. his drug price control regulator well trump's health and human services secretary is alex czar he is a former big pharma president who actually set some of the prices that donald trump slammed now trump has also been moaning the military industrial complex and its influence on foreign policy you do have a military industrial complex they do like war you know in syria with the caliphate so i wipe out 100 percent of the caliphate i shall want to bring our troops back home to place one crazy they want to keep the thing you have people here in wa she want it they never want to leave some day people will explain what this is and if you want to have you do have a coupe and they call it the military industrial complex troops 1st secretary of defense was a former boeing executive and then replaced him with somebody who used to work at raytheon trump speaks up on twitter about crucial issues facing america it seems like he doesn't seem to notice that some of the people he's appointed to solve

america's problems are those who created them in the 1st place. are to see new york . school come totally rockwell thinks that should get rid of war mongers in his cabinet if he wants to have a tragedy. and those cities in iran which is a country that's already proud that we've starving because of american sanctions and shutting down all and really strangling them economically and also with medicine as well as food terrible terrible thing there probably are many many people have died in iraq we probably will never know the number but it's on the conscience of the people who put these sanctions employees which include of course right of the president trump so he's if you want those things not to be on his conscience not to be there as a mass murderer you should get rid of these people and stop the warmongering.

and f.b.i. agent as likes a dental revealed in social media posts promoting anti russian conspiracy theories that happened during his investigation into a synagogue shooting in california the with details is that a trunk. oh the unbounded online world with all of its shady hidden corners you never know what you may stumble upon think of a synagogue shooting tragedy and an f.b.i. agent spreading anti russian conspiracies as parts of one single story weird one home well here's the story a couple of months ago a young man opened fire in a california synagogue killing one and one being 3 his sheriff says police were reviewing an open letter he posted on line on the last day of passover bloodshed in the middle of shot services the complaint alleges that ernest took one life and injured 3 other people including a child the f.b.i. put special agent michael j.

rod on a mission to dig into the crime eventually the application for a search warrant against the shooter was published online there were screenshots from an online platform called a chan known as an ultra right community the shooter was an active user and even reportedly posted a pre attack warning there a way special agent broad didn't just observe it turned out he actively posted on a chair and presumably for the sake of the investigation mr rodd screenshots revealed his platform id and a bit of flicking through the web archives revealed to the f.b.i. man wrote way more stuff than seen in the screenshots a lot of these posts look like they were from some of the staunchest russia hating conspiracists i believe that the shooter did post on here but there's also more i've been here all day there are at least 2 others that are posting in a bot shill like fashion to promote this this thread would never have made the 1st

page where i found it this morning i think there is outside involvement likely russian this was posted by one of the shills that. knew of the shooting prior notice screenshot is that 20100 that correlates with ukraine and western russia if you do the math when someone trolled the user that appeared to be f.b.i. agent rod the reply was no not most not stop attacking the board and slighting this thread sloppy job putin. or there you have another exchange. it's balls let putin know your psyop worked but you did up with your english i presume you were chosen because you said you could talk speak and type like american this makes you wonder is this the new guideline at the f.b.i. get supremacy a store any other folks the agents are after to buy your russian bots are

everywhere rant on laws and you'll get to the bottom of anything when you have the the political leaders or the directors at the top who designate a priority then in order to get a promotion in order to really climb the ladder if you want to become a boss or a special agent in charge you are going to have to fall in line with those priorities unfortunately any time they have a priority they put so much emphasis on that priority date it often leads to abuse it's because they put so much emphasis in priority on organized crime so it it doesn't matter what the priority as they essentially kind of lose their ability to be more balanced in more critical thinking and they go with that priority and it just was a needle that flip flops and it actually often causes mistakes in abuses when they do that and we have asked the f.b.i. to comment on the story we await their reply. a 17 year old

scottish student claims he was kicked out of time us after arguing there are only 2 genders he secretly filmed being told off by the teacher i am stating what is a national school of thought at the policy ok not every policy is scientific muddy and you can come out here and say that i'm not being inclusive so much so i didn't see the research i said what you just seeing you as not being inclusive of all costs so you know what you think and i know what that authority thinks i know what the authorities point if you want to say anything clear very clear that you make no discrimination on the grounds of videos you make in discrimination i'm simply saying that 2 genders male and female anything else is a personal identification i'm sorry but you chose to make an issue of making a point which is quarterly to policy. the local authorities say the video does not

show the full context of the exchange aberdeenshire council added it wants good relations between different groups and schools and an inclusive environment for all . it is important to understand the context of any video clip taken without a person's consent in our schools fostering good relations among different groups can be a real challenge but our aim is to support a fairer inclusive environment for all. we put the issue up for debate. i think from what we've seen obviously the people was was fairly challenging but i think it's within the bounds of reasonable debate and i think the teachers are actually quite stern and dismissive and maybe there is more to the exchange than was in the video but i think it's healthy and right that peoples and teachers should have a robust exchange of views think it is wrong and it is disruptive to video a private discussion between the pupil and the teacher that is deeply unfair to the teacher and it is deeply destructive i think the teacher was wrong to throw the boy

out of the class and i think the boy was wrong to video the exchange however it is a fact that there are basically 2 genders are these morally wrong that anybody who says that should have any trouble from any public call for it say in the united kingdom or elsewhere where there are 2 genders male and female but there are people who have variations of both server example intersex people have a combination of both male and female chromosomes hormones and genitalia so it isn't strictly true that there are only male and female i'm not concerned about the science of brain gender or anything like that i simply say if you wish to transition from a man to a woman you own your body you have the right to do it but actually there is an issue of rights here if the teacher is right then what do you suggest to gays that the policy of the council is that you cannot say that there are only 2 genders and

if you say that that is something that should be confined to the home absolutely this is a free speech issue peoples have a right to free speech that people will you agree with him or not has a right to freedom of expression and that what he's the right he was exercising in that school class should be a place where ideas are expressed with their challenge where they. refuted critiqued supported amplified that's what a good school is a good school as a place where ideas are contested. phobic provocation that's our moscow has slammed 2 days of large scale demonstrations in the georgian capital tbilisi $240.00 people have been injured including 80 police officers while more than $300.00 have been detained the claim is announce the ban on passenger flights between the countries from next month what happened in georgia yesterday is nothing but a rueful big provocation the decision to suspend air service as explained by

extremist and the russian threats in georgia and might be directed against our tourists we cannot seem different when anything threatens the lives of our citizens . then shouting nationalist slogans of last an attack during an interview by russian state t.v. into policing has been of a travel agency chief was kicked on the floor while his wife was being interviewed about russia's ban on flights to georgia. tensions between russia and georgia broke out thursday evening have to russian and peace. fighting to open a parliamentary assembly on orthodox christianity was followed by mass protests on the streets of the capital the head of the assembly called the protests a provocation by nationalists and radicals during the session the russian m.p. sat in the speaker's chair of parliament and that sparked outrage from the opposition and georgian people gov reel of claims he had the right to take a seat there as he was invited to do so by the georgians. but is the optimal you

only see it as a president of the assembly i have the right to take this seat in any country where the assembly session is held in this case the place was offered by the georgian side the session was invaded by radicals who shouted threats to our lives we tried to continue but more radical activists showed up with cameras and posters with anti russian and insulting slogans we decided to finish the session in the hotel nearby radicals tried. storm the hotel they attack members of parliament including me when we tried to leave. the speaker of the georgian parliament resigned following the mass protests authorities have called on demonstrators to refrain from illegal acts protesters are now demanding the interior minister resign he said he's ready to do so but has demanded protests are stopped georgian president pointed the finger at russia over this incident saying the protests benefit nobody but the kremlin is again he believes that accusation is wrong because you basically fusion georgia is

one of the largest trade partners of russia a lot of georgians work in russia russia would not want to end the russian protests into parliament assembly of orthodoxy was used as it's a big international forum with a lot of international guests from europe asia and africa making it so much easier to attract attention i believe all of this is the racist styria in the wake of protests to take power. little trump senior advisor has unveiled a middle east peace plan jared kush and says the 10 year deal will focus on massively boosting the economy $50000000000.00 will be pumped into egypt jordan lebanon the west bank and gaza the idea is to creating 1000000 new jobs and slash unemployment the white house has reducing poverty will stabilize the situation in the region. but it's already been pushed back from the countries mentioned palestinian authorities insist the measures won't change anything senior palestinian official

one on the economy will grow not for u.s. money but by lifting the siege of gaza and ending israel's occupation and mass officials out that palestine is not for sale israel however is welcome the plot. thing down to former u.s. diplomat jim johnson good to have you on jim so we've outlined the the plan the sort of question is can pad his proposal to the marshall plan that the u.s. implemented after the 2nd world war to see the comparison. not really there are there are basically 2 assumptions behind this plan one is that the palestinians will get only what the israelis are willing to give them and the palestinians are unwilling to accept it well the next offer will be worse than this one and they have no other alternative there other assumption is that the u.s. gemini in the middle east will be maintained indefinitely in their countries like

saudi arabia and the emirates and other countries like japan for example which i understand is supposed to pay for the record or that connects gaza to the west bank will continue to cough up the money to make this plan worthwhile i think those clues ious are somewhat and dependent on how things go within the region that are subject to change for example with what happens next with the united states in iraq . now the dispute between israel and palestine is largely about land isn't it so when you look at the fact the trims already conceded to jerusalem and to the israelis is there really any amount of money that will be enough to placate palestine. no but again i think that's dependent on the assumption that palestinians have a new place to go you don't like just feel great wait till the next one which is even worse for you you don't like then we took the next one which will be even worse. yes it is all about land alternately and and i think that the

palestinians understand whatever their alternatives are that not only will the israeli settlements remain on the west bank but the areas controlled by israel will expand the water control to expand and that they have no choice but to accept whatever not perfectly attractive deal is offered them that's the israeli contra calculation based on 100 percent backing washington. is there a point in that you know people will say that palestine needs to recognize the reality on the ground and this often might actually be the best of the could feel. that is the assumption look at the real world here a little bit and there are many people around the world who it's thought about the courage of various countries that he said we have the deal that history has dealt them and this may be the best one palestinians are going to get i don't know that the palestinian cause is any more sacred than those of many other people around the world whose state who did not materialize the way they were hoped it would i'm not

saying that's necessarily a good thing or a bad thing i do ask the question why the united states should be the midwife for the knesset and be telling other people there's the israelis or the palestinians a lot of kurds of iraqis that the iranians how they should structure their internal affairs frankly i'm not sure what this has to do with us. jim what are the measures do you think that the the u.s. or any other power as could be offering head to palestine to to try and come up with a deal that they would be happy with well they're not going to offer the palestinians any deal they would be happy with i remember of her for a number of years the united states along with many other countries was was married to the so-called 2 state solution there would be a sovereign palestine and it's already israel and i think that was a no nonstarter for the very beginning that the israelis were never going to accept that and even though the americans released on the obama administration i believe going to the bush administration where we're willing to accept the idea of

a 2 state solution for peace or at least never would and given the strength of the israelis have with the american political class i mean zat was a dead idea from the start and frankly i have my doubts even under the best of circumstances whether that would have been viable jim good to speak to him i guess the sound seemed generous former u.s. diplomat thank you. as syria returns to recover from 8 years of conflict it seems a new war is brewing over wheat a u.s. funded think tank claims the crop will prove a decisive weapon in the country comes as farmers battle fires engulfing wheat fields across the country's northeast the al has a car regions known as syria's bread basket and as historically been a key source of food for the capital damascus but now this and 2 other provisions provinces which together account for nearly 70 percent of the country's entire week production mostly lie in the hands of kurdish led opposition the us backed forces say that they will ban wheats else to damascus but claim it's just a strategic move for the region. it is not a political decision to impose

a siege on the mask is not at all it is a decision to keep the harvest of the region for local consumption or you could say that the fires were started deliberately but haven't pointed the finger of blame damascus they claim is the kurdish side was responsible for some laughs in the damascus center for strategic studies believes the kurdish plan is an attempt to force damascus to safeguard their autonomy. in these here. one of the best years in arraigning. government sources talking to more than one millionth on. this year cornish forces we want to contour all. season maybe they were they will make business for the sailing. to the talkie from one side and we need

to train this here government to be the future to be very glitzy and be able to get benefits from this is a very dangerous orientation anyway i go it is working for that government to give the farmers very good surprise but what we are noticing in this year that there is some mounts we don't know. started to firing could be far more. worried that we because they don't want the farmers to give the wheat to the monk because i think that considering that wheat is one of the factors of the national security of syria . back with updates on our top stories in half an hour. one i often say like you the enemies of empty car we should not forget if you could

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action or times you were going on the road as bricks it's continues to dominate the british political leadership crisis just after a potential power little italian currency overshadowed a meeting of euro zone leaders in brussels coming over to show progress versus parasites from the euro. on to the i.m.f. a new book by one of the architects of bricks and douglas cars well argues that supranational liberal organizations are creating the conditions for a global repeat of the fall of the roman empire and will the high court decision to ban arms sales to saudi arabia mean an end to british involvement in the world's worst humanitarian crisis we investigate the children in britain covertly recruited

as part of a tory master plan join up in future plus if the right honorable gentleman is referring to a current member of this house i don't know whether years he or she should be extremely careful in the language he uses the speaker of the house of commons appears to issue a warning against those who might call boris johnson a racist liar all the more coming up in today's going underground but 1st who are the fraction of one percent who votes in the next u.k. pm they will have to contend with bricks if he has one m.p. who predicted it in 2015 on this program i suspect that we're going to have a referendum perhaps next september perhaps the year after 2017 but we are going to have a referendum it's pretty funny balance at the moment but i think that the majority of people can be persuaded to vote to leave if we phrase the argument properly and then i think it would get incredibly exciting well douglas cause wells new book progress versus parasites is out now and he joins me now douglas welcome back to going underground tell me about the new book in there it begins with discovering

a stone while digging potatoes well when i was named. relax by having a vegetable garden and one evening when i was in my vegetable garden i came across what turned out to be a stone age hand-axe and as as often happens i got a very simple thought which turned into a book i was holding this stone age hand axe and one hand i took a photograph of it with the i phone in the other struck me all the funds are available other things are available and then i suddenly thought to myself hang on how how how do we get from a human society where the most advanced technology was a piece of shop in stone to one. well we've got you know a small phone in pretty much every pocket and the more i looked into it the more i came to realize that actually there's been incredible human progress but it's all happened very very recently within in many conference and countries in the past generation or 2 but even within western europe only within the past 23 maximum 400 years relatively recently i want to get on to progress was in who the parasites are

in the title but while you were writing it did you think and this is a kind of history of the world there was more than a little calm works in the book given that it seemed to talk about the power of capitalism and it was at the core minutes when the festival no well i was in love with the with capital and actually i would say it's a repudiation of comics his view of history karl marx tends to look at history as a story of claw struggle i certainly agree that throughout history many societies have had small parasitic elites but marx then argues that actually the the answer is to try to organize society by blueprint by design and i did mean marxist prescription but before you get to the prescriptions you talk about the power of capitalism to transform human societies this recent phenomena this is talk of absolutely the driving force for human progress i argue historically has been the free market they've built.