donald trump launches a lacerating attack on britain's ambassador to the united states after a trove of leaked documents revealed the diplomat described the president's ministration as uniquely dysfunctional. detroit music festival organized by members of the black community sparks controversy by charging white people double for tickets we get reaction. music. that you're able to pay x. amount of dollars. from. the u.k. government fights a block on sales to saudi arabia after a quarter earlier ruled supplying weapons to riyadh was illegal because they could be in the yemeni conflict.

one of the morning on wednesday here. for me in the team 2 news update this hour 1st for you then the british government says looking into the possibility that a hostile state leak the downing secret memos sent back to london by its ambassador in the united states the embarrassing revelations expose what he really thought about the american president and his administration and it seems the incidents put strain on that long lasting so-called special relationship between the 2 nations reports next from westminster. because this all began when this message this message was leaked would show the you can bust of the describing the trumpet ministration in really harsh terms describing them as being inept and not seeing the situation improving any time soon and perhaps in typical donald trump fashion the us president took to twitter to express his feelings about it he

didn't pull any punches and he described the u.k. ambassador as being a very stupid guy the wacky ambassador that the u.k. forced it upon the united states is not someone we are thrilled with a very stupid guy he should speak to his country and prime minister may about their failed break that negotiation and not be upset with my criticism of how badly it was. now here in the u.k. of course we are watching as the 2 candidates go head to head to be the next conservative leader and boss the next prime minister there of course the former foreign secretary boris johnson in the current one jeremy hunt and the 2 men responding in very different ways jeremy hunt quick to respond to mr trump's tweet and as far as he was concerned mr trump was being very disrespectful and wrong donald trump friends speak frankly so i will these comments disrespectful and

wrong to our prime minister and my country you said the u.k. u.s. alliance was the greatest in history and i agree but i like need to treat each other with respect and threes amaze always done with you as for mr johnson well he wasn't willing to take a combative approach to mr trump in the united states and as far as he was concerned well there was a spare is a special relationship which shouldn't be disturbed by this fall out i've got a good relationship with the white house and have no embarrassment in saying that the united states is has been will be for the foreseeable future our number one political military friend this is perhaps the biggest the most public falling out between the governments of the u.k. and the usa for many years how serious it will get and how much strain it will put on that so-called special relationship really depends on who wins that contest to be the next british prime minister as we've just seen there 2 very different

responses to donald trump's approach and that will define exactly where this scandal goes from here. global affairs analyst patrick henningsen says the dispute could have an impact on the leadership contest for the u.k.'s ruling conservative party. certainly comes at an interesting time right in the sort of the midst of the conservative leadership contest britain is due to appoint a new prime minister very soon release the. party i should say is going to appoint a new prime minister not britain there's 2 questions one is who benefits from this leak does anybody benefit from this leak certainly on the sort of the remainer side you could say that they might benefit from this does germy hunt benefit from this certainly boris johnson can't because he's the favorite in the leadership contest at the moment but then the other question is who leaked it and why and we don't know that yet. music festival in the us city of detroit has been forced to change

its ticketing policy after a backlash over charging white people double the price organizers said quote it reflected the white communities wealth and privilege which disadvantages black people despite the afro future fests logo stating equality means treating everyone the same and it's that which has become the focal point for criticism online. festival charging different prices bees don't race well done intersectional radicals you've become the very racist you claim to stand against so walk so very walk for a future fest equality means treating everyone the same also for a future fest we're going to charge people different prices based on their race i wonder how often a future music festival will charge asians do it pay $15.00 because we're non white but privileged of a festival has now canceled that pricing policy following widespread complaints and even threats against the organizers and their families there's now a suggested donation option for quote non people of color it said half the proceeds

will go to a program that supports young black people in detroit but the organizers continue to defend their initial ticketing terms. article structure was built to ensure that the most marginalized communities people of color are provided with an equitable chance at enjoying events in their own community black detroit affording joint pleasure is unfortunately still a privilege in our society for people of color and we believe everyone should have access to receiving such was not a concert goer as angered by all this one of the artists on the bill pulled out in protest i was immediately enraged just because i am bi racial i have family members that would have under those circumstances been subjected to something that i would not ever want them to be in it's non-progressive and it's not solution focused in my eyes. we heard from attorney

and author of the 7 who supports the organized as well conservative social commentator anthony bryan logan says by any metric it's racism. well i can't really tell what's going on here it seems like a one hand they don't want white people to come but on the other hand they want to text him they want to charge do more money they let people for this is a so you don't want to be here but you want your money i don't really understand what you have are people who are local to the detroit community who may have been under server economic minorities and they're seeing an influx of money and wealth into their community that they're not necessarily always able to participate in and so when you have this organizer seeking to put together and a vent to benefit these under-served communities what she's saying is this is for the native people of this community what if it were and hispanic event let's say it was a display music festival and they say anybody to c.-span that you're able to pay x. amount of dollars if you are not hispanic including black folks you got to pay more so to make you use

a black person pay more to go to their view with the races yes or no so if they say that you can really take over the ability to exclude people if they say it is say it is you can't come at all because you blake would be racist is that he is i mean i'm trying to figure out yes or no would iraqis definition. so you say yes ok that would be raised a great way. now for a black person to do to white person how would it be would at the races well if it were white people in the shoe was on the other foot then it doesn't really make sense because we know in our day how about if you spend your energy minutes later when black people actually have that type of control again it's discriminatory it's a it's a practice where you are setting a bad about andrea barrier but is it preventing someone from receiving an economic benefit you know what if it were the other way around if you were a white only if it was a coach music festival and they say anyway it is not why you go to pay double to take your brace what would the reaction be your races you neo nazi you k.k.k.

obviously what we're looking at right now is a young lady looking through the lens of history and deciding that it's important for us as a people to begin to fix the issue from the lens of equity versus equality. u.s. state department has given an initial green light to a major weapons deal with taiwan but china says the potential trade agreement could undermine its sovereignty the pentagon taiwanese officials have defended the move this proposed salable supported the foreign policy and national security of the u.s. by helping to improve the security and defensive capability of the recipient and important force for political stability move to rebalance an economic progress in the region taiwan will speed up investment on defense and continued to deepen security ties with the united states and countries with similar ideas. american lawmakers now have 30 days to make a final decision on the deal if agreed on taiwan will receive over $100.00

modernised tanks and $250.00 at defense missiles that along with other weapons takes the total bill to $2200000000.00 they are to taiwan has been ruled independently but since the chinese civil war ended in $149.00 however it's only recognized as a state by 18 countries none of the major global powers trying to claim sovereignty over the territory and therefore beijing seems international interference as a domestic threat. the sale of weapons by the united states to taiwan seriously violates the one china principle grossly interferes in china's internal affairs and undermines china's sovereignty and security interests china which is the u.s. to immediately canceled a planned arms seo and stop military relations with taipei to avoid damaging sino u.s. relations and harming peace and stability in the taiwan strait we spoke to china expert andrew young who says the move is part of a wider u.s. strategy to contain beijing. from the all of the all the. while it's not just.

all a chess board all. the security. seeing as being the. big challenge but i was in china but as far as the laws. there is the relations act which are the legalizers. the ideas that create. unsingable kariya. fortress. to contain china so i think. this is in the context. leading us democratic presidential candidate joe biden has defended himself after coming under a barrage of friendly fire from his own party they tell him he's being too sympathetic towards racial segregation in the past the issue was raised late last month during the 1st democratic party debate ahead of next year's presidential

election biden hailed it in days gone by saying back then he was able to reach a compromise even with his biggest rivals like congressman during the debate party die hards criticized him for even having dialogue with such people after apologizing for his remarks biden said his words were taken out of context did you see the questions about your past positions from the perspective of race being as relevant as they are no no think the role of the taking out of context is so easy to go back and go back 304050 years and take a context and take it completely out of context on the last throughout american history the democrats haven't always been pro integration as kind of more but now explained. joe biden the current front runner in the democratic presidential race has come forward to apologize about statements he made about working with advocates of racial segregation. i'm sorry for any of the pain or misconception

i may have caused him but. i don't think you have to be holding a personal relationship with people who will very brutal oh a segregationist it was hurtful. to hear you talk about the reputations of 2 united states senators who built their reputations and career on the segregation of race in this country now joe biden is still in the lead despite the scandal however it seems to have unearthed a strange reality in american politics the democratic party the party that brought us the 1st african-american president has a rather strange record when it comes to the issue of racism when senator robert byrd of west virginia died barack obama gave him a stirring eulogy he was a senate icon he was a party leader he was an elder statesman and he was my friend. that's all remember him. prior to becoming a u.s.

senator robert byrd had been a high ranking member of the ku klux klan afterwards he reputed the views of the hate group but prior to that he had some strong views when it came to the issue of race of a fight in the armed forces with a negro bomb i saw i'd rather i should die a 1000 times and see old glory trampled in the dirt never to rise again than to see this beloved land of oz become degraded by race mongrels a throwback to the blocky specimen from the wilds bill clinton who was wildly popular among african-americans gave a eulogy when he was president for j. william fulbright another democrat we come to celebrated. for the remarkable life of j. william fulbright. a life that changed our country. and our world for ever and for the better well the glowing words left out the fact that fulbright was a big advocate of. keeping black and white children in separate schools back in the

1960 s. when john f. kennedy and the northern democratic party organizations located in urban areas were pushing for racial integration the biggest pushback didn't come from republicans it came from the dixiecrats a splinter group within their own party in 1968 george wallace the democratic governor of alabama was so outraged to see anti racism become the dominant view within his own party that he ran as a 3rd party candidate then you ought to come on down to alabama we did keep you some low down there. but now it would seem that a democrat having such an agenda would be almost unbelievable in fact m s n b c mislabeled george wallace as a republican check it out governor george wallace stood outside the university of alabama personally blocking 2 black students from unrolling their.

sure joe biden has come forward and apologized for his statements on racial matters but it seems like the country has forgotten that not so long ago his entire party had the same issue after the civil war was the democratic party that was the races it was the republican party that was different the republicans ran the slavery. lincoln was republican and 80 slavery it's a shame the dixiecrat after segregation after the civil war they were there races everything was a mess we've had presidents supreme court justices who were members of the klan the some of them had to do that to join the ku klux klan for political reasons i don't understand why this now with biden this is an inside baseball inside the bubble issue and without say the president of ukraine says he's ready for dialogue

with russia but people in his own administration aren't so sure we'll take a look at that for you after the break. join me every thursday on the alex salmond show and i'll be speaking to us from the world of politics sports business i'm show business i'll see you then.

hello again with relations between kiev and moscow under enormous strain ukraine's new president belong to me as a lenski has said he wants to hold a face to face meeting with vladimir putin but in an indication of just how for the situation is ukrainian authorities are accusing the country's news one channel of treason over a proposed link up show with a russian state broadcaster which is banned in ukraine the program which news one

dropped after saying its journalist have received a barrel of threats was called we need to talk the channel says the intention was to provide a platform for ordinary people from ukraine and russia to discuss the challenges facing their countries on the war in eastern ukraine and also pointed to a recent survey indicating that 75 percent of ukrainians would support such talks but the plans for the show still outraged many including the president and solemnly the teleconference is just a cheap but dangerous p.r. move before the elections the goal of which is to divide us again into 2 camps the show's announcement also triggered protests outside news ones h.q. with demonstrators setting off flares and chanting at a russian slogan a russian t.v. presenter who was supposed to be helping host the link up says the aim was to improve bilateral relations. that was say when i agreed to work on this teleconference i wanted to show what we had been reading listening watching wearing on this ng during the 5 years when we didn't communicate with each other marta

mccauley who is in a story in a russia or expert suspects the authorities in kiev are anxious about ukraine's upcoming parliamentary elections. it sounds very strange because treason is betraying your country and giving away secrets. from involving your country to another country which your country feels is to his disadvantage so it's very difficult understand that word extreme word to use because this journalist was in fact trying to put forward trying to work on an exchange between moscow and kiev i think it has to do with the upcoming right elections. zelinsky the president is very nervous because he wants a majority in parliament. he may not get it therefore he wants to get as many votes as possible and it doesn't want an exchange if you have an exchange between moscow and kiev. in russian they may in fact influence the election because

various questions will come up how do you see the situation. how do you see the situation in. british governments challenging a landmark legal ruling suspending you arms sales to saudi arabia co-found last month the minister said fail to assess whether the weapons might be ques to commit war crimes in yemen despite having promised to review the licensing process following the judgment london now seems eager to get its exports flowing again the u.k. is licensed almost 5000000000 pounds worth of arms sales to the saudis since they launched their devastating intervention in yemen civil war back in 2015 and that figure makes britain the 2nd largest weapons exports of the gulf monarchy after the us with more on the story here's kate partridge. the u.k.'s government is fighting the court of appeal ruling that arms sales to saudi arabia are norful in the latest challenge in the long running legal battle over weapons used in the yemen war ministers are trying to stay the judgment which means they could carry on licensing

arms sales to the saudis until the outcome of its appeal last month the court said the u.k. export licensing process was wrong in law in one significant respect the government made no concluded assessments of whether the saudi led coalition had committed violations of international humanitarian law in the past during the yemen conflict and may not tempt to do so trade secretary liam fox was forced to hold an immediate review of almost $5000000000.00 pounds worth of weapons deals while this latest appeal seems to contradict fox's assurances to m.p.'s that sadly arms sales would be halted pending a review as i said earlier we disagree with the judgment and will seek permission to appeal alongside this work carefully considering the implications of the judgement for decision making while we do this we will not grant any new licenses for export to saudi arabia and its coalition partners which might be used in the conflict in yemen opposition leader jeremy corbyn says the latest efforts to halt

the ruling ridicule the government's position that human rights take priority over profit despite clear legal warnings that the sale of arms to saudi arabia has contributed to the worst humanitarian catastrophe in the world the conservatives are determined to allow sales to carry on regardless this makes a mockery of their own commitment to hold all new sales while the review takes place into civilian casualties human rights watch has documented the use of u.k. made weapons in apparently are lawful airstrikes foreign secretary jeremy hunt says suspending british exports would diminish the u.k.'s influence over the course of the conflict but the campaign against arms trade argues the sales have meant british bombs have been used to kill civilian. what the government has applied for is a sticky which would mean that if it is granted that the arms exports can continue under the present under the present process this is the same process which the

court of appeal has phoned was illegal and if that happens means that there will be more arms sales and that means for all the what atrocities committed because for 4 years no you can read fater jets u.k. made bombs and u.k. made missiles have played a devastating role in creating the worst humanitarian crisis in the world and yemen is no surprise the government is appealing this verdict because it will do everything it can to maximize arm seals. because for decades and decades to stage a dictatorship has been the largest buyer in the world of u.k. weapons the saudi led coalition says it wasn't deliberately targeting civilians but thousands have been killed the united nations says 3300000 yemenis are displaced and at least 2 thirds of the population need help in the long running lethal battle is no end in sight a partridge. about it from a daniel hawkins is here to update you next after your latest report.

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enough to remember there was and most of my family were unemployed. and it wasn't it was bed you know much worse objective listen today but there was an expectation of the things were going to get better. there was a real sense of hopefulness there isn't today today's america was shaped by the 10 principles of concentration of wealth and power. reduced democracy attack solo down engineer elections manufacture consent and other principles according to no i'm chomsky one set of rules for the rich offices. that's what happens when you put her into the hands of a narrow sector of will switch is dedicated to increasing power for chills just as you'd expect one of the most influential intellectuals of our time speaks of. the

modern civilization of america. and you try and be professional you try and leave it outside the door you try and put it in a comma compartment in the eyes it's new bright and so you can forget about it but little by little these. these little wisp it's come and for me it was actually putting some ice into my wife's glass of gin and tonic and the saw it on the sound of the ice cream to the glass reminded me of how we kept the bodies cool in bali which was with bags of supermarkets on ice. just up to your culpable in with no one wants to put in your circles want to. get into the much for the good with a little extra minutes from the night when they're. good. at.

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a mean line because they burst against you. they don't have what the cool a civilized way of life but i'm not saying we built this image just understand that we are different. if you the white man did you so bad now that riad racist this is the racism this is the racism this is the racism going to stand out i mean it has developed what's your definition of racism from a biblical point of view because that god created the different races. they believe he gave every. place to stay apart they defended the diversity that god made according to my own definition. according to the definition of methodist.