ready u.s. presidential hopeful told seek out fails to make it through to the next round of democratic debates despite becoming the most searched candidate online she's now questioning the d.n.c. selection process. a french mayor files to appeal after losing his battle to protect people in his village from harmful pesticides we get reaction from locals. i think the government isn't doing its job they're the 1st to say that there should be no plans to site they do nothing we breed the in the past societies we did urine tests in the amount of best science with found was alarmingly high. and a group of military experts is pushing the pentagon to come clean over the number of u.s. overseas bases they claim the current figures of being hugely understated. we are

surprised sometimes when no young men or women are killed in places no one even knew that we had a military installation their. fellow you're watching r.t. international i'm as an awkward thank you for joining us. telsey gabbert one of the democratic presidential hopefuls most known for hard antiwar starts is now in a spat with the democratic national committee she's accusing the d.n.c. of bias after she failed to qualify for the next round of televised debates began to garner attention after her performance in the 1st 2 events she was the most searched for candidate on google following the 2nd debate in late july but this time around the democratic national committee says she didn't hit the threshold required something that has called into question saying the process lacks

transparency. 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 and alternately 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 to 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. 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 holing in the united states there is a. network of close associates and friends and they frown upon those polls that are either new or are now members of the club or the association so i would certainly speculate 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 tulsa gabbert 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 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 else again but who says this doesn't smell like it's fair and frankly i agree with their i don't think it's males that are now the d.n.c. doesn't exactly have a reputation for impartiality and fairness leaked emails in 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 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 pereira's is living up to his promise. r.t. new york. meanwhile another democratic 2020 presidential hopeful bernie saunders has come under fire for a remark about china the u.s. senate have praised beijing's efforts to reduce poverty prompting condemnation from politicians and the media as artie's murdoch explains it's the strangest thing there is bernie sanders one of the leading democratic candidates for the nomination and that of the blue gurus 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 see 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. of china does something bad to raise hell about it 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 vladimir putin would do anything in the u.s. press interest and then you may run among u.s. 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 the free media and

patriots had to remind mr carter that chavez is bad and venezuela together with china and russia iran may be a little north korea definitely geez 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 compare them it's entirely possible and even reasonable but because. just don't as trump found out when asked by a journalist about president vladimir putin being a killer do a lot of killers go out and kill as well you think our country so innocent roland well it's technically your 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 i think 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. in other news this hour a french man has lost his fight to protect people in his village from pesticides although he banned their use a court overruled him and he's now appealing the decision whether his case has inspired other mayors across france to take similar action as charlotte devinsky 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 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 phosphates a burning issue over health concerns he said the solution was not to issue a decree that doesn't comply with the law for macko if that's a double standard. i don't understand what is happening across 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 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 residence in this usually sleepy village. little children wit. the 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 testing 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 pesticides but 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. 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 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 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 around 20 other matters have followed his lead banning the use of pesticides close to homes farmers are furious and decry 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 in 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 images 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 decides brain i will advise in the coming days farming unions and the companies that produce pesticides ashore to have something to say about that but so too does make us who believe 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 jollity even ski for altie lang go it in pretty. donald trump has announced plans to slash by half the number of american troops stationed in afghanistan with further withdrawals dependent on the outcome of peace peace talks with the taliban we're going down to 8600 and then we 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

a very well controlled well after nearly 18 years of war there are currently around $14000.00 u.s. troops in afghanistan and even if half an hour pulled out it's unclear when the u.s. will fully withdraw and it remains very how the situation will change in the region back in 2017 there were 8400 soldiers stationed in afghanistan and that number has since almost doubled despite longstanding plans to withdraw all 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 and the afghan people will be responsible for their own security oh middle east expert at the 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 objection to any complete withdrawal i referred to lindsey graham of the well known republican senator who was also closely allied with trungpa 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 form of a u.s. vice chief of staff jack keane in that article graham and mccain said that the withdrawal shouldn't be a withdrawal which is all which meets the conditions of the taliban and shouldn't be there for a. process which only satisfy the demands of the taliban but should satisfy

the demands of america or meet the american conditions or so we do have these well known figures within the united states who have clearly objected to do to a complete with drew have been very vocal in that and it appears that bold trump has succumbed to those pressures there's a crack in the alliance between the united arab emirates and the yemeni government and the accusations flying of friendly fire in the conflict that will bring you that and more after this short break.

g 7 what is the lay of the land calls for unity to demonstrate the opposite also iran is again in the spotlight just what is trumps foreign policy in this volatile .

welcome back a group of military experts is calling on congress to full so the disclosure of the number of u.s. overseas bases and the less said they described the information carney provided by the pentagon as limited and frequently incomplete. the pentagon's annual a base 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 earlier my colleague jacqueline very spoke here in the studio 2 retired u.s. army colonel and signatory of the letter and write she thinks the u.s. is and should know whether military is. the received 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 insolation throughout the world and those roughly cost u.s. taxpayers about $20000000000.00 per year but 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 how 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. of 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 that transparent well that's probably what

the pentagon will be saying but we would say as citizens we need to know where our military we are surprised sometimes when the young men and women are killed in places and no one even knew that we had a military installation there officials say some $800.00 u.s. installations are located in up to 80 countries around the world but the signatories of the letter say the number could be hugely understated they insist a special report should be included in the 2020 national defense authorization act it's meant to increase transparency and avoid excessive military spending. yemen's civil war is turning ever more fractured and strained the country's government has accused its ally the united arab emirates of bombing its troops the u.a.e. denies the claims saying 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 raids using the military arsenal in order to divide our country i call on riyadh to intervene to stop these brayton didn't true. the recent aggravation in offensives against the arab coalition forces and civilians poses a menacing threats the security of the coalition. of the country is currently split between the 2 theists who oppose the government and are believed to be backed by iran and government aligned coalition forces at the same time abu dhabi supports untrained self and separatists who previously 40 gives to 3 rebels in the north now the separatists there want southern yemen to become an independent state thus countering via many government all these confrontations come amid one of the world's biggest humanitarian crises. oh.

well writer and commentator abdel bari atwan thinks 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 it would be and the united arab emirates have been solid allies and this yemen war for the last 5 years so

when they actually split after that you noted out of eminence decided to pull some or most of its troops from him and this means that the collapse of this correlation between the 2 partners and this war and the most dangerous thing also there are not actually separated but there are fighting each other there is a war by proxy between united arab emirates and so there may be an avian and particular and nobody anticipated this kind of danger is the very open so if it does continue i believe that host is in the north will be the main winner in this case and this could be that near the end of that human war. that's you want news round up for now i'm eyes on

a lot could not be back here in just over 30 minutes time with more headlines from around the world see them. in genoa. sequencer actually goes back or occupation we started that really before occupy wall street before the revolution in cairo before obviously the g.l.a.

shawl and france or the protests and they're all connected all these protests are connected they're all connected to a rebellion against fate of money and banks they're all global and treasury and banker occupation. a paradise with all year round turned into a round the experimentation field but agricultural chemicals we know that these chemicals have consequences they are major irritants there's no question otherwise why would that the chemical company workers themselves be geared up and suited up locals attempt to combat the on regulated experiments but 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. it's a form of environmental research going on in hawaii whether these companies feel

they can get away with it because the people have less political power. hello and welcome to cross talk or all things are considered i'm peter lavelle 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 region.

cross talking some real news i'm joined by my guest and he is a professor at the higher school of economics as well as author of that a case of western civilization and resurgence of russia we also have to me he's a political analyst and editor at me internet media project and in london we crossed alexander mackerras is a writer on legal affairs as well as the editor in chief of the duran dot com cross talk rules in effect that means you can jump back in any time you want and i'm very happy to be back from vacation and i'm glad that have all 3 of us on this program today it's but was a good vacation but we have much to talk about let me go to alexander make your us ok it's been a few days since the g. 7 i came to an end one of the probably the most useless annual event in the world right now. and the interesting thing is looking at the news coverage of it and particularly in the west it's all about trump everything's about trump and i think that really blindsides almost everyone looking at how international relations are evolving.