spiritual traditions are being. used to teach the student actually to listen to revoke or should. just let them speak to. us presidential hopeful fails to make it through to the next round of democratic debates becoming the most candidates online she's not questioning the d.n.c. selection process. the news a friend to appeal after losing his battle to protect people in his village from harmful pesticides we get reaction from the locals. i think the government isn't doing its job they're the 1st to say that there should be no path to sites if they did nothing we breathe the in the past the sites we did during testing the amount of pesticides we found was alarmingly high. the group of military experts is

pushing the pentagon to come clean over the number of u.s. bases overseas they claim the carved figure is all being hugely. we are surprised sometimes when young men and women are killed in places that no one even knew that we had a military installation they are. very good many thanks for joining us you are always welcome here. first this hour one of the most popular democratic presidential hopefuls has failed to qualify for the next round of t.v. debates why representative tells it was the most candid on google after the last 2 t.v. showdowns but this time around the d.n.c. says that she has failed to meet the criteria required something that is called into question. the 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 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 polling in 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 that that has something to do with that it is a partisan organization the democratic national committee so any poll say that may 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. 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 thomas 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 in the united states of america so what's the difference between 0 and $14000000.00 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 then does get rounded up to 2 percent whereas the 1.44 percent which is meaningless one can 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 gambler who says this doesn't smell like it's fair and frankly i agree with their i don't think it's mills atmosphere 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 when 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. transparence so as the list of

candidates gets whittled down to one final nominee voters will have to decide as to whether mr pereira's is living up to his promise. r.t. new york. meanwhile another democratic 2020 presidential hopeful bernie sanders come under fire for a remark made about china the u.s. senator praised beijing's efforts to reduce poverty from to come to nation from politicians and the media against the of explains. it's the strangest thing there is bernie sanders one of the leading democratic candidates for the nomination and that is the blue goo is it does something that new god fearing american should ever do said something almost complimentary about china. is a country that is moving unfortunately going to war with north korea where you number of directions but what we have to say about china in fairness to china and its

leadership is of i'm not mistaken they have made more progress in addressing the extreme poverty. so in any country in the history of civilization bad bernie good thing there are patriotic journalists free media and honest politicians to remind me that it's not nice to say nice things about china it was seen as bernie basically praising the chinese communist party you know which is probably killed more than any other regime on earth do you think this will be a problem for him going into the general election i think. as we think than it was a wild way to answer that question well the chinese socialists killed millions of poor people so there's that dead people are poor just dead they call that the great leap forward and after that they used a tool that bernie despises capitalism i wish there was a visual metaphor for bernie's argument. i just have to

keep watching i don't know why just to bring everyone up to speed what bernie meant is near enough food c. years ago about 9 out of every 10 people in china lived in poverty 9 out of 10 today 2019 it's one in 100 people one person in every 100 that's below the poverty line is that astounding yes that is great news for a 1000000000 people yeah but it's china if we lived in a fair world the send them a congratulation note and flowers don't china does something bad to raise hell about it does something good very well ignore it oh in russia forget brought here if they want to join us are knocking out isis that is just fine as far as i'm concerned worked together to beat

a monstrous group that's killed untold thousands and soon terror world. wide work together not a few are god fearing american donald trump believes that russia is our great ally against isis in syria but what russia is doing in syria is setting up missiles that only shoot down planes which isis does not have i think it's incredibly naive to think that blatter mere putin would do anything in the us press interest and then you may run among us presidents forgetting things like when jimmy carter praised yes praised hugo chavez well no he didn't really praise him but it's just too close we came to know a man who expressed a vision to bring profound changes to his country to benefit is specially those people who had felt neglected and marginalized and once again in the free media and patriots had to remind mr carter that chavez is bad and venezuela

together with china and russia iran may be turkey a little north korea definitely g.'s bernie better grab a pen them and more than a baddies and even if they do what america does you can't compare the 2 because you actually can't compare them it's entirely possible and even reasonable but because just don't as trump found out when asked by journalists about president vladimir putin being a killer do a lot of killers go out of killers where you think our country so innocent. well it's technically right but it's not what america wants to hear one patriotic american put it and no i don't think there's any equivalent i do think america is exceptional america is different there's a clear distinction here and when you're exceptional you don't have to make sense

you're just special you do bernie and be quite so nice here. french mayor has lost his fight to protect people in his village from pesticides although he banned their use a court then overruled him he's now appealing the decision this case has inspired other members across france to take similar action at a charlotte dubin ski reports. this tiny breton village of long go it 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 ban 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 phosphate 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 micron and the ecology minister said that i am right and doing a good thing to protect my people but in the meantime i'm facing court for a decision to keep pesticides at a distance of 150 meters 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 residence in this usually sleepy village. shown to children which. lots of fields around long where and it's important health matter for us especially for children we breathe the in the press the sites we did during test in the amount of best the sites we found was alarmingly high even though we eat organic and we

grow some of our own food that is also organic. i think the government isn't doing its job and they're the 1st to say that there should be no past decides they did nothing and it was in the genes or coupons as we were in a small village that is close to a farming area we need to protect people too we never know what kind of health issues could be created by the. besides 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 gleich phosphate often used to weed killer probably causes cancer well 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 unions who said they needed an alternative mark 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 a round 20 other mess have followed his lead banning the use of pesticides close to homes farmers on the juris cry these bans as being politically motivated saying they are getting on the environmental bandwagon ahead of my oral elections. mayors are already thinking of the next election environmentalists are wreaking havoc on our agriculture and our only factories floundering unless 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 ashore to have something to say about that but so too does make us who believes that these are 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 altie lang go it in pretty me. well yemen civil war this turning ever more fractured and strained the country's government has accused its ally the united arab emirates of bombing its troops denies the claim saying that its move was in self defense against an alleged attack they have committed themselves to injustice aggression and using armed forces against the yemeni people in the southern governor rates using the u. e's military arsenal in order to divide our country i call on riyadh to intervene

to stop these breaks and intrusion the recent aggravation in offensives against the arab coalition forces and civilians poses a menacing threat to the security of the coalition the countries currently split between the 2 things who oppose the government and are believed to be backed by iran and government aligned coalition forces at the same time or dobby supports and trained southern separatists who previously fought against who thought rebels in the north now the separatists that want southern yemen to become an independent state the scoundrel in the yemeni government or these confrontations come amid all of the world's biggest humanitarian crises. i.

think theme. music. writer and commentator. thinks that the crisis among the coalition forces could have serious consequences on the situation in yemen. i believe it is extremely dangerous development that's how the. united arab emirates have been solid allies and this yemen war for the last 5 years so when they actually split after the united arab emirates decided to

pull some or most of its troops from yemen this means that the collapse of this correlation between the 2 partners and this war and the most they did is think also they are not actually separated but there are fighting each other there is a war by proxy between united arab emirates and saudi arabia and aden and particularly and nobody anticipated this kind of dangerous development so if it does continue i believe they're both is in the north will be the main winner in this case and this could be that near the end of that yemen war. donald trump has announced plans to slash by half the number of u.s. troops stationed in afghanistan with further withdrawals dependence on the outcome of peace talks with the taliban we're going down to 8600 and then we make

a determination from them as to what happens we'll make a determination but we're going down to 8600 we're bringing it down we have a very well controlled. after nearly 18 years of war there are currently around $14000.00 u.s. troops in afghanistan even if half a now pulled out it's unclear when the u.s. would fully withdraw and it remains fake how the situation will actually change in the region back in 2017 there were 8400 soldiers stationed in afghanistan and the numbers since almost doubled and that despite longstanding plans to withdraw all of the troops from the country starting next month we will be able to remove $10000.00 of our troops from afghanistan by the end of this year and we will bring home a total of $33000.00 troops by next summer fully we're covering the surge i announced at west point. after this initial reduction our troops will continue

coming home at a steady pace by 2014 this process of transition will be complete in the afghan people will be responsible for their own security. at least expert at risk thinks the complete withdrawal of u.s. troops from afghanistan cannot be expected any time soon. trump is being subject to some significant pressures within america pressures from the deep state there are close allies to tromp in the republican party who have voiced their objection to any complete withdraw i refer here to lindsey graham of the well known republican senator who was also closely allied with trumpet lindsey graham has been very vocal in saying that deal with should not completely withdraw in fact he had an article in new york times with the former a us vice chief of staff jack keane in that article graham and mccain said that the

withdrawal shouldn't be a withdrawal which is or which meets the conditions of the taliban shouldn't be there for a. process which only sort of survives the demands of the poly ban but should satisfy the demands of america or meet the american conditions so we do have these warlow and figures within the united states who have clearly objected to a complete withdrawal who have been very vocal in that and it appears that board trump has succumbed to those pressures. a group of military experts is calling on congress to force the disclosure of the number of u.s. bases that are overseas in their letter they have described the information that's currently provided by the pentagon as being limited and frequently incomplete they say the official number of bases could be hugely understated the pentagon's annual abase structure report provides some information about the number and size of base sites overseas however it fails to report on dozens of well known installations in

countries worldwide and frequently provides incomplete or inaccurate data many suspect the pentagon does not know the true number of installations abroad and a little earlier on my colleague jacqueline vegas spoke with a retired u.s. army colonel and signatory of that letter i am right he thinks the u.s. citizens should know where the military is. there we're seeing this letter requiring asking the pentagon to be more transparent about its u.s. overseas bases why did you choose to sign that leathered well i'm a u.s. army colonel i spent 29 years in the us military and i think it's very important that american citizens know how many bases we have where they are and how much it costs to run them most americans don't realize we have over 800 bases now and that we have new bases that are being established particularly in africa do you think that this is a problem that's specific to the u.s.

do you think other countries are more transparent about the amount of bases they have well there are very few countries have bases outside their own countries i mean the u.k. has the french have some russia has a few mini china has a few not many but it's primarily the united states overwhelmingly has the overseas bases or bases in other people's countries in that letter it says that there are some $800.00 installation throughout the world and those roughly cost u.s. taxpayers about $20000000000.00 per year but do you're implying in this letter that that's not an accurate number how much bigger do you think is the actual amount of money that is used from u.s. taxpayers well we think it may be double that up to $15000000000.00 that are being spent by the u.s. government to. equip train have military operations for. men and women in our military and also department of defense affiliates that are

assigned to these bases you know we have large numbers of bases still in germany and japan and south korea but most people don't realize that we now have some in eastern europe right on the border of russia and in fact the military exercises that the united states has been having both in eastern europe and in scandinavia is one of the concerns that we who signed that letter. or half do you think that disclosing such information as the number of military entities abroad will enhance u.s. national security or could it be a risk is that why it's not necessarily about transparent well that's probably what the pentagon will be saying but we would say as citizens we need to know where our military is we are surprised sometimes when young men and women are killed in places that no one even knew that we had a military installation they are signatories to than those who want to special report to be included in the 2020 national defense authorization act so and to increase transparency and to enable better oversight of pentagon spending experts

and so i think that it would help avoid excessive military expenditure and enhanced national security. we spoke to investigative journalist david swanson he thinks it's normal for taxpayers to want to know where the money's going. but u.s. does something very strange because it both brags about its reach and its extent and its dominance of the world and tries to hide it and cover it up so if you watch a sports event on t.v. in the united states they thank the troops for watching for 175 countries and there's lots of celebration of that but if you ask in washington d.c. exactly where are the bases and what are they costing and what purpose only therefore it's very hard to get answers if this is not a radical claim a proposal that the u.s. public ought to know where it's paying for what and how much it's you know what the purpose of those things is if you're going to wage all these wars and extend all

these bases in the name of democracy why not have a little bit of democracy around the issue. some of the world's best pilots have been putting their skills to the test of the max international asho that's just outside of moscow performing some pretty breathtaking maneuvers that event is a showcase for the latest in aerospace and defense technology all 140000 people have packed their way into the event of the last 3 days. by.

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manufacture to send to the public well. when the ruling class is protect themselves. that's. sick. doing. readings and sal you take today i think it's time we we have a little talk about priorities watchers priority it's those things that take

precedence before others because our values deem them to be more important than most our children are often our priorities our health our families all are generally considered to be universal individual priorities in all of our lives but what about the priorities of our communities or our countries to the united states of america for example now one would think that here in the self-proclaimed world's greatest democracy the boating and maintaining the sanctity of our voting system would be an important priority for the country one would think that however a quick look at the state of our voting systems in the federal election commission and you'd see that the integrity and sanctity of those systems. isn't really quite cut it as a top priority for us to take the federal elections commission or f.e.c. which supposedly serves as a bipartisan watchdog in force or of campaign fine.