post g 7 what is the lay of the land calls for unity demonstrate the opposite also iran is again in the spotlight just what is trumps foreign policy in this volatile . headlines this hour u.s. presidential hopeful bios to make it through to the next round of democratic debates despite becoming the most candid it online questioning the d.n.c. selection process also to come a french mayor is to appease the court decision that overturns a pesticide banning this time making using the french government of double standards we ask locals what they think. i think the government isn't doing its job they're the 1st to see that there should be no pesticides but they do nothing we bring in the past the sites we did during testing the amount of pesticides we found was alarmingly high. handicraft my documents reveal that 20 years ago the us knew

in the sea it would use terror to try and stop east timor from becoming independent but failed to act. good morning welcome you're watching r.t. international where it's just gone 10 here in. ny one of the most popular democratic presidential hopefuls has failed to qualify for the next round of t.v. debates why representative it was the most searched for candid on google after the last 2 t.v. show downs but this time around that the n.c.a.a. says she has failed to meet the criteria required something that is called into question. whole process really lacks transparency. people deserve having that transparency because ultimately it's the people who will decide who our

democratic nominee will be an ultimate lee who our next president commander in chief will be and when you see that lack of transparency it creates you know a lack of faith and trust in the process with more on the story his talent more pay . it's primetime television if you want to be anybody in the democratic party you better make sure you get on the stage at the presidential debates so what do you need to do to make it 2 things 1st get over 130000 unique donations to get at least 2 percent in a national poll ah but here's where it gets tricky not every poll is the same and if the democratic national committee doesn't like you they can reject the poll results that show things in your favor now tulsa gabbert has met the donations threshold he's got over 2 percent 126 different national polls however the democratic national committee says that doesn't count they have their certified list sure it's important of that information it's being provided but let's take a quick look at some of the polls that were rejected politico the economist reuters

if these widely respected outlets and news agencies aren't credible in america then who is wholly new to the united states there is a club. a network of close associates and friends and they frown upon those polls that are either new or are not members of the club or the association so i would certainly speculate the has something to do with it it is a partisan organization the democratic national committee so any poll say that many have a tradition of leaning republican or not considered to be in the mainstream of democratic artists and ship you know would be would be ruled out even the polls deemed credible by the democratic party have a margin of error of between 2 and 6 percent and when the criteria for being in the

debates is only 2 percent a margin of error like that is a pretty big deal so tell us again could have between 0 and 7 percent support among american voters now keep in mind there are over 200000000 people who are registered to vote. no in the united states of america so what's the difference between 0 and 14000000 well whatever it is it is apparently not important to the democratic national committee there is a margin of sampling error so if the margin of error is plus or minus 4 percent what is 2 percent in the polls if if it's 1.51 percent that the candidate has that does get rounded up to 2 percent whereas the 1.44 percent which is meaningless one could argue the democratic national committee is a private organization we can establish our own rules but then they also have to be open to the charges by somebody like chelsea gamble who says this doesn't smell

like it's fair and frankly i agree with there i don't think it's mills that is fair now the d.n.c. doesn't exactly have a reputation for impartiality and fairness leaked e-mails and 2016 show that the democratic party leaders were working pretty hard to defeat bernie sanders and make sure that it was hillary clinton who ultimately took on donald trump now after the outrage in 2016 the new democratic party chair tom perez promised to empower grassroots activists i am more committed than ever before to restoring votes is faith in the democratic process because even the perception of impartiality or an unfair advantage undermines our ability to win that is unacceptable to that end the new d.n.c. under my leadership is committed to the topic of making sure that all 2020 nominating process will be unquestionably fair and transparent so as the list of candidates gets whittled down to one final nominee voters will have to decide as to

whether mr perez is living up to his promise. r.t. new york. a frenchman has accused the country's government of double standards for a court overturned his ban on pesticides near his home time is now a painting the decision shell had to been reports. this tiny breton village of language has found itself at the center of controversy in the battle over the pesticides in may the local mag to court some saw as being a bold decision to ban the use of pesticides within $150.00 metre cordon over the village farming unions were furious on the matter and did up in court now the man daniel coeff had his band overturned but the debacle is now shining a light on the deep political contradictions so rounding pesticides in france well

president might call and praised his intentions for tackling phosphates a burning issue over health concerns he said the solution was not to issue a decree that doesn't comply with the law so macko if that's a double standard. i don't understand what is happening in my craw and the ecology minister said that i am right and doing a good thing to protect my people but in the meantime i am facing court for a decision to keep pesticides at a distance of 150 metres i don't understand politics now it seems the decision by the court to take his ban all pesticides was illegal has also earned good residents in this usually sleepy village. to tell their own what lots of fields around long where and it's important health matter for us especially for children we breathe the in the press society we did during testing the amount of best decides we found was alarmingly high even though we eat organic and we grow

some of our own food that is also organic. but it was a bad judgment and the mayor wasn't heard i think the government isn't doing its job they're the 1st to see that there should be no test they do nothing you know i honestly think it was a bad legal decision by the quantity and it was and which genes are cured. we are in a small village that is close to a farm an area we need to protect people see we never know what kind of health issues could be created by pesticides so i think the decision by the mayor was intelligent and he needed to make a decision to protect the people but now he has difficulties with the justice system the world health organization has said phosphate often used to weed killer probably causes cancer while gov phosphate has hit the headlines over health concerns much corn had promised to ban the use of phosphate by 2021 that

provoked an outcry by farmers in union sue said they needed an alternative michael and then pushed the ban back to the following year when the current license will expire now across france the ban imposed by mcewan has gained traction he may have lost the 1st battling court but now around 20 other matters have followed his lead banning the use of pesticides close to homes. on the juris cry these bans as being politically motivated saying they are getting on the environmental bandwagon ahead of my overall elections. mir's are already thinking of the next election environmentalists are wreaking havoc on our agriculture and our only factories floundering the most these mayors are outstanding scientists they are taking advantage of people's fear to make this kind of decision which is good for their image is protectors of the environment and the population but it seems the government has been backed into a corner there must be

a minimum distance between residential areas and best decided sprain and will advise in the coming days forming unions and the companies that produce pesticides are sure to have something to say about that but so too does make us who believes that these things all the only way to protect people who live in their farms which use pesticides otherwise he says their health is screwed schalit even ski artie lange do it in pretty me. in other news the cranium president's office says that a prisoner exchange between moscow and kiev is under way but not complete although so far there's been no official statement or confirmation from the russian side well a few hours ago ukraine's attorney general posted on facebook suggesting ukrainian sailors might be among those being swapped moscow arrested $24.00 sailors back in

november last year of the crimea curch trade for violating the maritime border with russia is proposed also named ukrainian filmmaker like sense of russia sentenced him to 20 years in jail for plotting terrorist acts in crimea there is speculation that wednesday's release of russian journalist killed the shins from pretrial detention on bail in ukraine is part of the deal he was arrested in may 28th and has been charged with treason the shin ski's accused of publishing and training articles a claim he denies. now the us media are held in donald trump sites again this time over unverified reporting we'll have a look at that story because of this just off the break.

you know world of big partisan movies a lot and conspiracy it's time to wake up to dig deeper to hit the stories that made stream media refuses to tell more than ever we need to be smarter we need to stop slamming the door. and shouting past each other it's time for critical thinking it's time to fight for the middle for the truth the time is now for watching closely watching the hawks. manufacture consent to public wealth. when the ruling classes protect themselves. with the crime. be the one percent. we can all middle of the room.

welcome back here with the u.s. president donald trump has lashed out at u.s. media outlets over unverified reports about him the washington post was 1st to feel his wrath it published a report on his wall saying he joked he would pardon officials if they followed illegal orders despite noting that he was joking trump was not happy. another totally fake story in the amazon washington post lobbyist which states that if my aides broke the law to build the wall which is going up rapidly i would give them a pardon this was made up by the washington post only in order to demean and disparage fake news. the m s n b c news channel also came under fire to it has

retracted a bombshell report on donald trump and his suppose its ties to russia it alleged the us president had russian oligarchs cosign for him with that your bank on the basis of a single unidentified source. this single source close to a generic has told me. that the trump donald trump's long documents their show. that he has cosigners that's how he was able to obtain those loans and that the cosigners are russian oligarchs that would explain it seems to me every kind word donald trump has ever said about russia and vladimir putin but the story there backfired because trump's lawyer wrote to the channel accusing it of spreading false and defamatory news it also threatened legal action if the story wasn't retracted and s. and b.c. host lawrence o'donnell apologized for airing the claims but insisted they could

still be true tonight we are retracting the story we don't know whether the information is inaccurate but the fact is we do know it wasn't ready for broadcast and for that i apologize well however this isn't the 1st time m s n.b.c. has gone with the story it wasn't able to fully verify. russia can just shut off the electricity they have that ability now and it is like negative 50 degrees in the dakotas right now what would happen if russia killed the power in fargo today and intelligence officials now believe with a high level of confidence that russian president vladimir putin was personally involved in a covert effort to interfere in america's presidential race the only thing we do know is that putin's enemies have a way of turning up dead and that evidence has a way of being meticulously covered up when you have

a public figure in this particular case donald trump the president who is suing he has to show that the alleged defamatory statement was the product of actual malice either that the individuals knew it was wrong or they use it here's a word reckless disregard for the facts they are at the ratings basement there are baby monitors that have higher ratings than this they don't care and you soon as they're done with this lie they'll go to the next slide because they can drive as fast as they want through the street called mendacity and it's not even journalism it's not even remotely that it's i can say what i want and if it's wrong ok will give a little bit of an apple and move on not even a slap on the wrist nothing. some world news in brief now and protest organizers in hong kong canceled a march planned for saturday but after the authorities denied permission it's

unclear of protesters will still gather though from the north arise demonstration meanwhile activists say that 2 prominent protest figures have been arrested although police haven't confirmed that this is the case. elsewhere violent clashes between students and police have erupted in the chilean capital student protests against a new expulsion rule which grants schools wide ranging far exceeds what spells students involved in riots and thousands attended the 75th anniversary of the national uprising so back here back 200 army vehicles took part in the procession the vice chairman of the russian federation council also attended the commemoration speaking it eventually said what the nazis did to slavs and must never be forgotten . i. now the u.s. president donald trump says american troops will be withdrawn from afghanistan once

the deal with the taliban is reached. we're going down to 8600 and then we'll make a determination from there as to what happens we'll make a determination but we're going down to 8600 we're bringing it down we have it very well controlled meanwhile amnesty international warns that human rights defenders are attacked and harassed by the authorities the taliban and also islamic state in afghanistan its report states that the afghan government has repeatedly failed to investigate attacks on activists who are quote killed with impunity activists have even been told to take up arms to defend themselves human rights defenders are calling on the international community and those involved in the conflict to take action. national community must step forward and provide of ghana stance human rights community with the support of the euro gently need. my credit he coeditor of b s news says that the us shoulders the blame for civilian deaths in afghanistan.

the us military has been responsible for most of all deaths in afghanistan over the past 18 years or so in the case of afghanistan the u.s. military's been there for almost 2 decades now human rights of never once factored into the equation and what we see today is what we've seen in previous years many civilians being killed many human rights. and the carnage goes on because old the us and the coalition's presence in the country is too much a stage at the moment for. us representatives the rest government to be. genuine concern for human rights in afghanistan. on friday east timor marks 20 years since the un back to vote ended a bloody decade long occupation by indian engine forces and pave the way for it to become an independent nation straining prime minister scott morrison has arrived in east timor's capital dili with 10 the celebrations along with other dignitaries 2

decades on the wrist being little justice though for the families of those who died in post independence referendum violence which was eventually quelled by straightly led united nations peacekeepers in the declassified documents meanwhile reveal that the us knew months in advance that indonesia would try and disrupt the vote but washington refused to act instead punishing or sorry instead pushing for closer military ties with jakarta. as more. one of the youngest nations on this planet will celebrate 20 years of independence now at the end of august east timor is remembering the referendum which made it possible among those on the guest list as america's assistant secretary of state but let's put that aside for a moment and dave there's lots to commemorate because the price that east timorese paid before and after the vote to be free of indonesian rule is immense or probably

there's no proper word for it so many lives were lost. so to do with this would be. exposed to something this is a story you do believe. and insists. this was i'm just. using.

this brings me to the reason why i mention the top u.s. diplomat all those declassified u.s. security papers so many times they've led to red faces at some very uncomfortable moments in august 29th one release revealed american officials were perfectly aware of what the indonesian military was up to the cia notes said their methods were to kill you drive out or intimidate into silence independence activists and to the general population into acceptance of phonies to morrow. under the current is control the pentagon was at the time very keen to keep up with indonesia there's another document which shows a us admiral referring to the head of the indonesian army as a friend digging a bit further into the past has led us to more awkwardness or even ugliness how about this on the part of australian diplomats in the seventy's an embassy memo

pointed at daily torturing raping and exit puting the captured population on the island of to more yeahs spec then that was also on the hands of indonesian troops the ugly part is this handwritten remark by an aussie diplomat it says sounds like fun another dark page in indonesian history was when the government got rid of hundreds of communist sympathizers throughout the sixty's guess who helped put together the lists of alleged communists the us embassy here's how one of its staff recalls that support it really was a big help to the army they probably killed a lot of people and i probably have a lot of blood on my hands but that's not all bad there's a time when you have to strike hard at a decisive moment so again there's hardly any doubt the americans knew exactly what the rulers in charge in jakarta were like and so time magazine found no better words to describe their rise to power than the west's best news for years in asia

so this friday do watch out for any redness on the face of the assistant secretary of state or perhaps you'll need some very powerful optics well i think unfortunately most countries including the us back in the 1990 s. and early 2000 would would be guilty of engaging and political alliances for a geo political aspirations and for things other than preserving the rights of other people of course. state government's 1st priority should be to its own civilians but unfortunately we don't see that in many countries now that being said what we're talking about and used to more in indonesia since the us had interest with the indonesian government and the military and or actions were taken alliances made and even violence allowed to preserve an interest to preserve an interest of the administration but it is true that countries all governments should absolutely make sure that the 1st priority is the maintenance of their people their own

economy before they go into to preserve other interests in another place even if it's under the false guise of human rights and that brings you up to date that's how things are looking so fast today here or not he was back again in just about half an hour. g. 7 what is the lay of the land calls for unity demonstrate the opposite also iran is again in the spotlight just what is trumps foreign policy in this volatile. oh why paradise with some around turned into a round the experimentation field but agricultural chemicals we know that these

chemicals have consequences they are major irritant there's no question otherwise why would the chemical company workers themselves be geared up that suited up locals attempt to combat the on regulated experiments that often in day you have many of these people one foot into the biotech pharma and the other foot in the government regulatory bodies this kind of collusion is reprehensible while the battle goes on the chemicals continue to poison hawaii and its people so one has to ask the question whether there is a form of environmental research going. in hawaii whether these companies feel they can get away with it because the people have less political power. most people think to stand out in this business you need to be the 1st one on top of the story or the person with the loudest voice of the biggest raid in truth to stand out of the lose business you just need to ask the right questions and demand

the right answer. question. i'm. ready ready ready ready ready sure to stop at the continuing to grow. i just never know very good about the idea of bringing. it into the world because i didn't feel like things were in very good shape the life was just going to be a lot of software programs. there's no reason the more. you take things that are to me the movies on the move something else that. everybody's

scared to talk about is survival is really dependent on us addressing this issue and if we can even talk about it if we can even have a conversation of that is then. we're in trouble ready. welcome to sophie and calm sophie shevardnadze if he knows how to hunt down a masterpiece lost for decades no matter if it's decorating somebody's backyard or hidden beneath the murky waters of the underground art world the indiana jones of lost art historian and arthur brand is my guest.

pretty feeble still purses and wallets others might come as all hells as well some still hold budgets but there is a criminal underworld with exquisite taste in which people. steel contemporary and ancient selling the finest crafted treasures on the black market what kinds of dials can the dark auto accidents and why is that crime culture world more sophisticated than other speeches and how do you underworld to retrieve lost masterpieces. are there brand historian and our detective welcome to the show great to have you with us mr brand so. the media call you indiana jones of the art world but as far as i can tell from your own accounts your job isn't as action packed i mean it's more like a day and brown oh well you said that you deal with it and underworld and obviously

you're risking your life sometimes so what i like the most dire threats you were saved i don't know in the colombian necktie or where your family lives do you take this threat seriously. sometimes you get threats it's normal in the underworld in the criminal world they cannot go to a judge they do not have access to the to justice so de have to use threats so they also do it to me but i don't take them too serious you know. if you keep your words with criminals or with somebody else most of the time you're quite safe but it does mean that i do have to keep my words and of course i have to be cautious. keeping your word and always depend on you yes because if they don't keep their words what can i do but it's very important to keep my words disputable as says they cannot go to the police they can not go to school.