headline of a small in crunch time for whistle blowers in the united states democratic senators failed to pass moves to protect their identities as republicans pushed to reveal the anonymous figure behind the trump impeachment scandal. tackling hate in hospitals health trust in england plans to root out racism by withholding treatment from people who abuse. the n.h.s. he said to treat people that should treat people. without question my mother was a nurse for most of her life for the n.h.s. and nothing was done about the piece that she. faced and there's no reason why she should have put up with that piece and france plans to tighten immigration rules and restrict access to health services normally. which is revealed across the

country millions of you wrote. hello there good morning this is international live from our wooldridge queue here in moscow it's just an 8 am this thursday 7 of my name is kevin stay with me for this headline round up 1st the u.s. democrats have failed as you heard to push through a bill to keep the identity of whistleblowers secret republican senator rand paul block the proposal accusing the democrats of spreading selective outrage the spot comes in the heat of the trump impeachment inquiry that was sparked by anonymous testimony from an insider 1st. reports on the fate of whistleblowers in america recently. for the democrats impeachment must now seem tantalizingly close all they need is the final piece of damning evidence to seal the deal and to senate

minority leader chuck schumer he has come out arguing for the protection of whistleblowers only rather of one intelligence officer whose insider info could make or break the impeachment dream the calls to make public the whistleblowers identity are despicable whistleblowers should be protected period period that's quite the radical departure from his previous comments on those exposing government abuses and each day that snowden is allowed to room 3 is another twist to the merits snowden is a one of the few picked up by the media he chose the path of raising his voice and go in cologne bowl unlike the hundreds of others who chose the path of least resistance you see they quietly launched official complaints hoping for the system to reform but they were out of luck because as

a damning report from an intelligence watchdog shows the cia and n.s.a. wouldn't 189 out of 190 cases of whistleblower complaints by had to send you the link but the report was shot down i wonder if mr schumer praised even remembers all those whistleblowers who ruled against what the name for example rich barlow bring about now living in a trailer in remote montana with his hunting dogs back in the late eighty's bhalo worked for the cia now he found himself in a patriotic di lemma when he uncovered what he said amounted to the u.s. helping pakistan become a nuclear power including by selling band technology and though he followed protocol he became the victim of a smear come. disgraced and discredited barely able to scrape together a living i was disgustingly patriotic and i thought the government is allowing

pakistan to develop and spread nuclear weapons and i got destroyed for trying to stop it what about former u.s. marine affronts kayo he thought he'd found a way of reducing the number of u.s. troops dying in iraq as a result of improvised explosive devices all that was needed was a simple swap of patrol vehicles and given the r u d s were responsible for over 60 percent of all american losses in the country between 20032008 surely the pentagon would have been interested the response was more of. an automated response he's not obeying our instructions he's he's gone off the reservation as we often say. and we've got to stop him from doing that and just as it took gail 7 years to restore his reputation it took just a few months to discredit peter van buren raising 24 years of loyal diplomatic

service from beer and found himself on the wrong side of the table when he shed light on state department mismanagement i'm waste in iraq what happens when you're thrown out of the government and blacklisted is that you lose your security clearance and it's very difficult to find a grown up job in washington you have to step down a few levels to find a place where they don't care enough about your background to even look into why you washed up there the list of nameless faceless and unrecognized whistleblowers goes on and who to blame them for choosing to do to free fall their complaints because if you follow and manning all snowden's footsteps sure you might end up with your name on a plaque card and become the face of the fight for transparency but you might also find yourself. bars and while you're sitting in prison think about how your brothers in arms only have a how to one and 190 chance of success whistleblowing protection

should actually exist in all countries because it helps the country to have people tell the truth about corrupt officials the united states pretends to have allies that protect whistleblowers but they often either don't work or they are deliberately sorted and certainly the government officials do not want anyone ever telling about things they do illegally the governments are basically wanting to control saying and control public opinion they put john kiriakou in prison for telling that for instance is that the cia was torturing so they normally absolutely do not want to protect whistleblowers and they actually hate anyone who tells the truth about their illegal activities schumer about him alongside the washington elite needs to clarify his position on whistleblowers if you are

a whistleblower you need to accept that harassment prison self-imposed exile we've just been consigned to the forgotten pages of history are all on the cards unless of course you happen to be that rab breed of whistleblower who finds himself in the right place at the right time with just the right exposé. so when you came next the city in southwest england has introduced a new red card to racism campaign against discrimination inspired by a similar one in sport after a rise in medical staff being abused by patients. but the heart didn't avoid is the question we are seeing in the wrong but we really do need to use it to safeguard our stuff and work with colleagues if 60 of us not got to be able to show their state so the campaign aims to cut out a wide range of abuse that hospital staff could face aside from racism the national health service will apply a 0 tolerance policy to sexism and offensive language and also inappropriate

behavior malicious allegations and intentional damage to property patients found to be abusive will face a sports like disciplinary system a warning or yellow card will be given 1st a 2nd term the patients will be given a red card that means treatment then will be withdrawn once a patient's condition is safe but is some of the reaction we got to the plan from women bennett of the stand up to racism campaign and the national secretary of the english democrats party stephen morris. the n.h.s. is there to treat people it should treat people. without question the issues of sexism racism it opens a massive can of worms because obviously the hospitals could be in breach of the only quality the only way you can address this is the people go into these hospitals or the heightened tension in a way because they need treatment they're not well so what you need to do is afterwards prosecute them racism sexism and homophobia are not a troll and actually my mother was a nurse for for most of her life for the n.h.s.

and nothing was done about the abuse that she see faced and there's no reason why she should have put up with the abuse after nursing people in very serious conditions and to turn into a limited where people can abuse people i can say i don't. like them well they begin to you as if you have. yes to some spurious solution because it's. been you following this for 5 years who wants to throw a system is unnatural it can be challenging reversed only those people who believe it should be tolerated actually resist any kind of basic principles. prosecuted the issue is what all the categories they put in place. may have a philosophical or religious belief about being treated by women are being treated by a certain person there are philosophical and religious beliefs have to be also respected and if the. only respect this is ridiculous and somebody says i'm not going to. see

it well there's no reason to respect a told me i don't care that somebody would be right but. i do care you know my worst know that it's not it's not up to them they got no right to do that if the n.h.s. service regardless of creative because they all know they go to church they have a close up call militarist police have to be respectful of philosophical grudges it is a matter of evil racist. view now it's just plain wrong. bro says it's going to impose tough new measures on asylum seekers who want to use its health care system entirely it was reported that last year alone it cost the country more than $1000000.00 euro to treat migrants who had free access to the universal system is fair though this is just the beginning of a wider campaign against newcomers to charlotte dube and ski reports next. corner was catapulted into the french presidency on a ticket of not being from the right nor the left it was a poor enabling him to attract votes from across the political spectrum and it was

a successful tactic halfway through his mandate and it seems to still not shy about pinching an idea here or there from his political enemies in order to pepper the french government's policies for some there's a feeling that maybe dipping too much into the pool of id. he is from the right with the crackdown on immigration high on his agenda take this. hang on that seems a bit familiar right now who are demanding a moratorium on immigration because the french ship is sinking and what about showing gain the same as sharing an area using the rules of the dublin regulation does not work anymore if you have to suspend shingle immediately the french public have been given more and more teases of policies to come policies that many feel wouldn't look out of place had they been announced by marine le pen's national

rally the country's prime minister has outlined 20 measures for tighter controls these include making it more difficult for migrants to claim benefits and health care under these new rules let me see claim asylum would have to wait 3 months after launching the claim before being able to access proxies universal health care france is also looking to introduce for the very 1st time economic quotas. possible but. we see in the post. another. letter went to college setting quotas for economic migrants is a u. turn from corn during his presidential campaign he had ruled it out so this is a clear attempt to appeal to right wing fotis for whom migration without limit is a huge issue that comes as recent figures showed france had received nearly

$123000.00 asylum requests last year not only a record high but an increase of 22 percent compared to the year before mcallen himself has admitted his party just can't ignore the problem of immigration. i have no problem with migrants because they don't see them but the working classes do and they are being seduced by marine le pen's and take immigration far right national rally may have thrown down the gauntlet in his attempts to pry voters away from the national rally but look penn isn't backing down either she's warned may want to act tough his party is somewhat softer than its leader proposals to prevent abuse of the asylum system were all shot down by his own party members although mcallen's attempts to reach out to right wing voters comes ahead of municipal elections it's

clear this is about something bigger much bigger in fact 2 and a half years before the next presidential election in france polls are showing that kwame's only competition will likely come in the form of le pen the indication is that the race could be a tight one and corn in a bid to stay ahead is having to pull out all the punches even if that means possibly alienating many of those who put him in power in the 1st place charlot even ski r.t. . israel's top courts upheld a government decision to deport the regional head of human rights watch her who is a u.s. citizen can now be removed that under a law which prohibits public calls for a boycott of israel but the organizations warn it's going to set a dangerous president we spoke with at the center of the story 1st. neither human rights watch nor i as its representatives have called for boycotts we do not call

for a consumer boycott we do not call for a boycott of israel proper what we do do as we do throughout the world is call on businesses to respect rights and in the context of the west bank years of research has led us to determine that any company that operates in illegal settlements inherently contributes to rights abuses so we've called on companies to uphold the rights and stop those activities we've never called for a boycott of those companies much less israel proper. so reaction the european union spoken out in support of human rights watch calling on israel not to deport shakir the un too is said that israel must allow rights defenders to carry out their work without threat or intimidation the israeli court bases decision on a law introduced by 2017 which can deny entry to any individual company if they call for a boycott of the country over its actions or settlements in the west bank here again says the decision exposes the systematic oppression of rights activists. this

decision is coming in the context of many other measures that have been taken against human rights defenders just the last couple of months last week we saw palestinian staff member of amnesty international issued a travel ban for unspecified security reasons clearly a punitive measure given amnesty to work we've seen a campaign of incitement against groups like. that it's really groups like that said we saw a raid on the offices of palestinian prisoner rights group of the media that just in september what's happening here is a systematic pattern but now that the court has rubber stamped and said this has the near of legality under israeli law it really sends a chilling message and threatens to embolden the government to take further steps today it might be deportation denials tomorrow is that criminalizing the same kind of speech today it's boycotts tomorrow is that calling settlements illegal or the

west bank occupied it's an incredibly dangerous precedent. for iran to start a new phase in deviating from the nuclear deal by resuming your radio ridge with its photo facility president rouhani is announcement marks the 4th step the no in reducing the country's commitments under the iran nuclear deal since the u.s. unilaterally withdrew ronnie says iran would reconsider the decision if certain conditions are met. the department of energy on and if you didn't do well on the centrifuges starting out some. just like the previous ones that it is reversible. in. the nuclear deal was signed between iran and 6 other parties in 2050 no for almost 9 years of complex a cozy ations if so iran promised to stop its nuclear program in return for international sanctions relief but then of course last year united states pulled out and reimposed

a range of financial and economic sanctions since then european countries and iran have struggled to keep the agreement alive until company can stone told us the real destabilizing force he thinks is the united states than. the iranians are proceeding. according to international law it was the u.s. by abrogating this treaty that has caused increased instability and and the likelihood. further instability is exacerbated every time the u.s. tries to use its quote maximum pressure and further illegal sanctions for example the ones the other day against iran's construction industry all these the legal moves by the u.s. against iran threaten the peace and the instability of the region because it becomes increasingly clear that what the u.s. is after is not better trade deal or

a peaceful regime of iran's nuclear energy but rather what they're seeking is the actual 'd overthrow of the iranian government and that proposition is very dangerous indeed. going to watch the clock this thursday morning thanks for watching out international next tomorrow. encouraged to boost roads to boost rail and other infrastructure appears to be getting lost on route the us is playing to plow transport funds instead into asia as it competes with china even though americans back home are still contending with probably roads creaking railways and outdated airports all despite donald trump's election promise to sort it all out is kill it moving. china's one belt one road project of building infrastructure around the world is facing a challenger and the united states is not hiding its intent we have no intention of vacating our military or geopolitical position we are here permanently and we will

be continuing to invest more here and we will be continuing to have more bilateral trade and i'm spending much more time in the region but wait a mere year ago donald trump promised to channel money into rebuilding america's decaying infrastructure i've asked republicans and democrats in congress to come together and deliver the biggest and boldest infrastructure playin in the last half century a plan generates an unprecedented $1.00 trillion dollar investment in american infrastructure well it sounds great but those plans have been show now the american society of engineers has graded america's infrastructure and they are pretty unimpressed when it comes to bridges c. plus with more than 200000 around the country that are over half a century old dams d. more than $15500.00 of them are listed as high hazard drinking water d.

with 2 trillion gallons of treated water lost every year essentially wasted and energy lines are also pretty weak take a look around new york city the richest city in the country the brooklyn queens expressway is falling apart city planners say that by 2026 big trucks will no longer be able to use it for gifted children sign about london bridge falling down it's the brooklyn bridge that's visibly breaking apart a few years ago 5 people were injured after pieces of granite fell on to the underpass of the iconic brooklyn bridge in fact that bridge is said to be structurally deficient $683.00 bridges in new york city are in disrepair and then there's the subway. system constant delays the escalators keep breaking down in fact only $31.00 out of $472.00 subway stations are listed as having all structural components in good repair the should be paying attention to what's going on in this

country 1st and foremost before we start spending out to look around new york and tell me if that's what we don't need to do absolutely look at the subway system so 100 something years old and it's still like something from the turn of the century we need to invest in our cities our country and make our country a better place to live it was worse when i was a kid so clean lot of people say u.s. infrastructure is just in a mass i mean do you buy that yes i would because i drive a lot of drive it depends on where you live to new york for instance the bridge is in bad shape. and i guess you should take the initiative to really fix. yes public opinion seems to feel pretty strongly that we ought to focus on fixing things up here before we go around the world and try to beat china at its own game . r.t. new york. talk about go around the world we'll go here next a small historic town in southwest england has apparently found itself on the front

line in the battle against racism is the story a local councilor put forward a motion to change its centuries old nickname because he says it sounds like a racial slur not everyone in the town agrees. if this word is not removed the town council could be classed as a racist white supremacist therefore this issues should be rectified immediately. all who have traveled through the delicious scenery of north devon must needs know the little white down a bit if. i can imagine why it would get. shocking. every

body. over the top. and everybody's. i think it's stupid. little white town is it white town for a lot of the properties if i did want nothing to do with rice it's unbelievable political correctness. crosses affirmative votes and i was not going on at least that's why some of the main news stories were across shaping up this thursday morning so much more on our side are to go together up any breaking news of a strange mobile device or you'll have missed the thing for now though coming up to 8 25 in the morning moscow time. it was sort of a great day. i

put them so. they get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be president. or some want to. have to go right to be close that's what before 3 of them or 10 people get. interested always in the waters of. their ship. thousands of american men and women choose to serve in the country's military and the decision. every song came to a complete. the day that i was raped and. you know told to shut up what they'd

kill me and i see how it destroyed my life any screamed at me and he made me come in and he gram my arm and he raped me with his birthing area if you take into account that women don't report because of the extreme retaliation it's probably somewhere near about half a 1000000 women have now been sexually assaulted in the us military is a very very traumatizing tat happen but i've never seen trauma like i've seen from women who are veterans who have suffered military sexual trauma reporting rape is more likely to get the victim punished don't be offended and almost 10 year career or chose very invested in and i gave that up to report a sex offender who was not even put to justice or put on the registry this is simply an issue of tower and violence male sexual predators for the large part of target whoever is there to prey upon whether that's a man or one. dimension of the c 35 that you have or what career and career involves using your

i phone in your computer and things that they've been in office. perhaps you sort of getting is going to give to you could have to. stop doing all this and this is how you lose the minutes before. my world became smaller and smaller and smaller until i ended up winning it in a box. or out at a very strong magnetic field held in my head. think of it like a real hard pressure my skin burns and that wireless access point there just continues all day with our students in the schools. we are just continually bathing our citizens in this microwave radiation it is certainly electoral small and it's getting worse. time of the time corporations repeat the same mantra sustainability it's very

important it's accelerate the transition to sustainable prize board sustainability stay number man at a more equitable and sustainable world. they claim their production is completely harmless. it does not the companies want us to feel good about buying their products while the damage is being done far away and this is something i'll do just as he wants any minute i mean look. this is the moon and you listen to me do me man i'm strong theme that may be best understood so going and. join me every 1st week on the all excitement and i'll be speaking to us of the world of politics sports business i'm show business i'll see of that.

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from somebody on the hill to someone in the pentagon saying hey turn on the dogs the hills out to get our program the guys in the senate are on board we need you to turn on the good guys to straighten this thing out the guy's been the lobbyist. and what this does is just lock the system up and that's the whole name of the game it's it's called political engineering and i'm like political science political engineering is real. one of the most important things done and it essentially creates what we call a self licking ice cream cone. and it's like a motion machine for getting ever increasing defense budgets the way we do it is by downplaying the future consequences to start a new weapon we over promises performance under promise it's cost we then systematically spread dollars jobs and profits to as many congressional districts as quickly as possible so that everybody has skin in the game.