critical thinking it's time to fight for the middle for the troops the time is now for watching closely watching the hawks. the 1st funerals are held for an american family brutally slaughtered in mexico by a drug cartel as it's revealed they were killed with weapons that originated in the u.s. we look at how the illegal arms trade is fueling violence. call a squeeze it's u.s. rival apple out you can do to the chinese market with a surge in global profits and that's despite washington's bids to discredit the tech giants and. brazil's x. president and leftist i called just so what is released from prison as he had killed his corruption case he was greeted by cheering supporters who believe the charges against a lot of basically most of it is. well those are the headlines will be bank

a with another round up in an hour and stay with us for the big picture next here on international. on this week's show what's a matter with kids today their faith thing and not just nick a team bullying is epidemic and grown up massage and he has said horrible example we'll talk to someone who's figured out how to talk sense to teenagers but 1st guess who's coming to dinner or is he what and who is on the menu and where were you 30 years ago this week when history happened as the world watched live holland cook in washington this is the big picture on our to get america. as we taped the show. on friday afternoon turkish president air to one's white

house visit this coming week is still on hard to believe after president trump's recent surprising syria bug out and his very on presidential letter to air to juan and let's ask former pentagon official r.t. america contributor and keen observer of the geopolitical landscape michael maloof the last time president ever to want visited washington was before recent remarkable events and even then the visit went south when his security detail roughed up protestors how surprised would you be if this visit doesn't happen. i would be a little surprised because i think something really needs this visit there are a lot of issues that need to be done of course there are going to be other demonstrations i'm told are going to be even larger demonstrations so we might see his security forces go at it again who knows that was a moment that. affected diplomatic relations between the 2 countries and

particularly u.s. perception of turkey be that as it may everyone's coming to town frankly with more leverage over trump than he than he's had in quite some time trump needs air to want to solve a lot of very serious problems and i think also trump respects the fact that there is that he's one of these tough guys along with a lot of near putin and he feels like he's got to be part of the group but frankly everyone has more leverage over trump less over putin and i think that. and also trump has got to deal with trying to overcome increasing congressional hostility toward erda one as a consequence so there's a lot on the plate a lot of challenges i mean the meeting could fall apart i doubt that. the wanting

coming to town is going to assuage any congressional feelings but who knows this we are in surprising times caught hell from some of his most stalwart congressional republicans over the syria thing so you can imagine reportedly ever to want scaf that that odd letter the president trumps saddam urging against doing what he proceeded to do the syrian incursion what is the status quo there and is anything likely to change as a result of what's said if this meeting does happen or has that map been permanently redrawn well 1st of all the letter went into the garbage can. promptly told very very promptly but i don't think it's i think things are going to remain as they are right now. air to once turkish forces i think will remain in the so-called safe zone. and the united states is not going to be able to regain that regain their back or kick kick the turks out there there permanently for for well

for the forseeable future at least i think he would like to stay there printer because that's part of his grand design for a needle autumn in empire right but at the same time the kurds are going to have been pushed further eastward into the area where we now have forces guarding the oil wells and ultimately however because the u.s. isolation there you're going to see increasing pressure both by russia turkey and. syria to ease the united states out of that area as well because that ultimately is 1st of all the united states was never invited into syria number 2 it's occupying resources that belong to syria oh guarding the oil and we're guarding the guard in the oil and trump is had not hid the fact that he wants some of that oil anyway you can't do that under international law and it has access absolutely set a very dangerous precedent in international law if given that occupation. right now

so minute ago you talked about the one triangulating with putin and trump air to one and trump this week who enters this encounter with the upper hand air to one clearly i believe because trump trump is not only not only does he have domestic problems but he's also got a hostile congress toward turkey the house has already passed resolutions binding for sanctions on the on the one hand on the non-binding resolution and declaring that the armenia. the slaughter in 1915 was was a genocide and then and there you have and now you have the senate on the other hand one is looking at possibly moving assets out of turkey namely the nuclear weapons that insolent air base and i would add that we also have the f. $35.00 issue which we haven't raised just yet and that's that's going to be a nonstarter because it looks like if everyone continues to buy russian products

the u.s. will slap sanctions on turkey because because of another law that says any anybody who buys russian military equipment will be sanctioned by the u.s. sure well this arms deal has been a hollow below all along they're buying russian missile defense systems we shot them out of the loop on the f. $35.00 yes but economic warfare is also underway across your asia got about a minute left how does turkey figure in and how do you expect that to be on the table for turkey dinner when trump an heir to one meet well i think that if the u.s. pushes air to further eastward you're going to see turkey look to moscow look to china for more more assistance while not pulling out of nato and necessarily but it will be successful for putin to drive that wedge. further webs between nato

nations namely u.s. and turkey and that's that's one of the goals is to weaken nato in that respect not withstanding the fact this coming up on its 70th anniversary but but but he is and if the u.s. imposes any more sanctions at this point he definitely will look eastward and he will buy. military equipment from russian military equipment and quickly because i'm almost out of time but those dollars and cents and fewer dollars lately with this whole b.r. i think give me the reader's digest version for people who aren't up to speed on what he's part of turkey will figure very handily into the belton road initiative it's a china. program along with russia's eurasia economic union and when you combine those 2 and they are complimentary it's going to be very very big and portends an alternative world order of which turkey will benefit and greenbacks are off the table greenbacks will be off the table thank you former pentagon official

michael maloof thank you. unless you're a teenager you remember where you were on 911 if you're my age you remember where you were when we heard the president kennedy was shot and then between on november 9 1989 the berlin wall came down and around the world we saw it happen on live t.v. it was a moment many germans on both sides never thought they would live to see. she is proud. to be able to walk through brandenburg gate on this day when the wall fell the police were there but they let us through that was a real emotional rush for me i grew up in both the east and west sectors and this experience was something special with and everything that came after it could not compare to this day it was impossible to imagine when everything that was set in stone just fell as if this is something that keeps happening in the history of

humanity but when you're really an eyewitness to such an event it is truly something very moving and it makes you realize that everything can be changed that is as a 30 years ago ended what began in 1961 a concrete monument to the cold war that prevented east berliners from defecting to the west some who tried were gunned down from guard towers or shot attempting to scale the wall and all that ended 30 years ago. the 9th of november 89 was 1 of those defining moments in history which changed the world. that is why watching footage of that night when the both is still so moving for all of us today . probably very few of us who lift with the wall it's a hard political reality i would have thought that it would be toned down within our lifetimes standing here today in front of these pieces so the violin wall is

the time to remember how far we have come together in just a generation as city a country a continent the transatlantic alliance transformed the berlin wall also a scar on the face of europe through gun towers and god dogs it tried to keep people in an out but it failed. because our vision and our values were stronger freedom democracy and human dignity back to the future what that wall then means to us now you have a whole generation of people that didn't experience the cold war didn't experience communism and in a way you don't know what they were missing and what you know life in the european union has allowed them to enjoy in terms of peace and stability so that's one of

the ironies of history that in a way by forgetting how bad things were we allow them to get bad again the berlin wall was built to keep people in and how our president wants to build a wall is to keep people out but the reason these walls and evidently tumble is the human spirit that's carved into this wall the 1st amendment to the american constitution is carved into this wall on pennsylvania avenue here in washington this is the freedom forum newseum the museum of news where you can see the biggest chunk of the berlin wall that is not in germany seeing it will give you chills but you better look quickly the newseum closes on december 31. coming up our children our at risk from every direction what every parent needs to

know this is the big picture on our t.v. america. in my i phone i have a 1000 times the capability of the of the computers we had on board the spacecraft at that time. i mean it's ridiculous that in my back pocket i have much much more capability than we do the entire apollo program. nobody wants to look at the wildfires and say the obvious number one the taxes are being misused and they're not being adequately distributed to where they are needed on the infrastructure side because there's a government failure number 2 climate change regardless of whether you believe it's

happening or not the damage that is going to be applied to your pocketbook that you will pay for climate change whether you believe it or not you know it's still the price is still there. our children are at risk in the threats are coming from every direction fate being is in the headlines and we're still learning about the grave danger it poses one way or another cannabis is now legal in more states than not as if the black market wasn't already eat fish and and on you tube there were bullying videos shot by the bullies is the social minefield that today's kids traverse more tempting more dangerous than what we baby boomers coped with when we were young

let's ask michael deeley own who presented assemblies and seminars at $616.00 schools and 40 states last year and he's still at it michael is the founder of scared straight incorporated a nonprofit nonsectarian non political organization helping young people understand the positive and negative choices in their lives their website is steered straight or which parents and educators should see michael joins us from the world's capital of negative choices las vegas michael welcome. they so much however have made a walgreens in kroger are among a growing list of chain retailers that have stopped selling nicotine vaporing devices several governors have taken executive action suspending the sale of e. cigarette hardware and product the wall street journal which has been running a lots of full page ads by manufacturer jewel now reports that the trumpet

ministration wants to ban all east cigarettes except those that taste like tobacco on menthol these are all body blows to an industry estimated to do 6000000000 dollars this year but michael even if the entire product category is shut down tom morrow lots of toothpaste is out of the tube talk to parents and young people watching and listening about how a ping is harmful. right exactly so you know you're right 2 cases out of the tube it's pandora's box is open and you know they've been this very harmful it can alter nerve cell function which is is one aspect of it in the team development in the brain and in the body each tool pod they say is equal to $200.00 cigarette puffs like smoking a pack a day in reality it's a lot higher than that but the source of that figure is jewel labs so even the head

of the american cancer society is out saying one joule pot is equal to one packs but it's far higher than that because jewels don't use nicotine tools use that contain salts and i'll explain that they've been lowers the body's ability to fight infections so our immune system is pleaded with these devices the chemicals and of a smoke causes popcorn long acid toll is one of the main chemicals with flavoring and other broad kill problem c o p d c l r d acute respiratory distress syndrome and it's not talked about very much but live . on powered the batteries can blow up your and not only blow up but the side of they've can crack when it's heated up the out of my eyes or inside levels of the nicotine are completely lacking in any control in quality there's no oversight and there is 0 regulation of this entire industry metal part particles and metal traces

can be deadly and most of these devices are made in china and china puts lead in absolutely every metal that they manufacture so there's no strict guidelines as these products come into america no regulation whatsoever they also have from all the high bombing fluid which is from all the propelling glycol vegetable because serene vitamin the acetate dye acid tall none of these chemicals have been tested heated up into an aerosol there's 0 regulation and you know oversight of these chemicals in the pneumonia is something that's really not being considered a lot you're a much higher risk of the monia with these devices as you poison the respiratory system and then early studies link a much higher association to depression and we're not going to see that for a long time the actual numbers because the pharmaceutical industry psychiatrists really really are focusing on that higher depression numbers and all these kids

that are using these devices and so there's no there's virtually no long term studies of how these devices will affect overall the body much less the adolescent body the brain much less the adolescent brain and the studies that are done the studies that are out there they've all been funded by the industry so i don't know how much you know like like for instance one joule pot equals one joule pot that source is jewel out and it's completely erroneous so we can't depend and rely on these studies because they were made with an agenda yeah even with all of the scary data you've just given us the question still out number. the answer is because this is a fairly new phenomenon and anybody who is watching this on you tube i would urge you to forward this video to friends who have teenage kids and are vaporing in carefully worded ads jewel had been offering its product as a way to quit cigarettes is it no absolutely not yes there are

people adults set of quit smoking even the american cancer society calls it harm reduction their official statement is smokers who can't or won't quit should be encouraged to switch to the least harmful form but i could tell you for every adult that quit smoking there's 81 children that begin they think so if an adult can get off the cigarettes by going on a vapor. for it 7000000 people die worldwide from cigarettes every year so for the adult to quit smoking by going on a vague that to me is not worth 81 kids beginning chool knew exactly what they were doing jewel is jewel is that the doctor industry that evacuated or knew exactly what they were doing this was not to help people quit smoking this was a way to hook the next generation and they could take in well big tobacco is also smelling money with legal we need and most states have decriminalized or legalize marijuana if only for medicinal purposes when referred by

a health care professional and we've read and seen stories about parents praising the outcome when otherwise their children's chronic conditions were acute how do we draw that distinction versus recreational use to young people. so you know the can of this plant. or sativa basically 2 different strains there's 300 to 400 molecules in the in the cab of this plant so there is no such thing as medical marijuana that's a completely erroneous term there's marijuana marijuana is marijuana we don't have a medical marijuana and a recreational marijuana the only difference in the states versus you know medical versus recreational marijuana is tax there's less tax on medical marijuana and this states have shown and told the voters that medical marijuana is good but maybe we don't want to do recreational marijuana but it's completely erroneous so there are

medical molecules within the cat of this plant that have shown tremendous medicinal benefits can have a dial c b day but the the market is like the wild wild west there's no regulation and oversight and the marijuana industry basically is that the doctor with history does not go in this race going to use the marijuana industry to divert so many of the kids in the flavored pods into the cat of this industry into the marijuana industry because most of these bands from these governors are going to. omit the marijuana they're not going to be subject to the bans so many of the kids that are addicted to flavored pods on nicotine are now going to be moving into the marijuana flavored pods that market is phenomenal it's the wild wild west well so medical marijuana might be you know a term that people think they understand but they really need to do the research while the bigger drug story is opioids now a national crisis which we have been covering as one multimillion dollar settlement

after another is made headlines and every expert we have interviewed made 2 points to grownups talk to your doctor about alternatives and keep these pills away from children michael when you talk to kids about opioids what do you tell them to counter temptation. right so the long term you know outcomes that are more often than not reality by experimenting with them the danger from the mitchell point you don't know what your brain will how your brain will react you don't know how your body will metabolize and opioid you could use an opioid and not you know be urge craving another one you might use one pill and you might be hooked so it's very very dangerous it's like playing russian roulette with 5 bullets in the gun so i tell kids to avoid it at all costs no adolescent should be even considering these of overlords without strict oversight from then from doctors from

dentists and from parents but i don't want to just focus on opioids with kids or anyone because then so that as a pin's is skyrocketing we're about to see the opioid area of pharmaceuticals move to stimulants and then so that as opinions we're in the middle of a huge shift between these 2 classifications of drugs and we are behind the 8 ball just like we were hoping to aids is going to get very very bad so i tell kids to avoid the opioids at all cost and i urge parents to ask their doctors many many many questions hey i want to introduce you a moment ago i asked a question that i think i know the answer to we baby boomers were better off than kids now who see these bullying videos on you tube i've only got about a minute left but this is real important what is your message for young people and their parents about bullying. you know we have to go back to the golden rule

and still into kids. so it really becomes their idea that they own and that they internalize about being kind of treating other people the way you want to be treated the real long term consequences of getting involved in violence putting your hands on other people the way that we are portraying women and in the sky. tree bullying that 5 minutes of fame on you tube people kids are so connected disconnected and so they're connected through some sort of social media platform and social norms change their perception of you know consequences they look at the 5 minutes of fame on a bullying video like they were going to get accolades but they don't look beyond the immediate 5 minutes they don't look beyond the consequences the consequences are real violence aggravated assault charges assault charges and those those charges can last and those consequences colossi the rest of your life and i tell

these kids what you do on social media and what you put on social media can and will affect you long term there are many kids that are capable of the one college scholarships but as colleges look at their social media platforms and see these videos they don't want to get involved with the kids so somebody with incredible athletic ability academic ability might not even know why they weren't selected for a college these colleges are looking at social media you can have long term consequences right putting things like this out there michael daly known steered straight dot org thank you for your time and for the work you do. thank you for watching the big picture if you see us somewhere else you can also watch r t america live with you tube dot com slash our d.m. erica and we're live on direct t.v. channel 321 super cool pluto t.v. . 9 and dish 280 and all of our shows are available

anytime anywhere on any device at youtube dot com slash the big picture our. holland cook in washington and at holland cook on twitter where if you follow me i'll follow you question more. you know world a big part of the lot and conspiracy it's time to wake up to dig deeper to hit the stories that mainstream media refuses to tell more than ever we need to be smart 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.

today there are good terrorists and bad debt is the bad news in yemen the united states deems to be a threat the good. lord in syria the cia and the us military were engaged in covert actions really throughout the world. where they were assassinating populist leaders they were backing up right away military windows funding and arming death squads there's no end because there's always a small people for a really good. profit. hello welcome to sophie cohen visionaries i'm not saying this year mark states 50th

anniversary of the 1st landing on the moon and i've spoken to someone who will actually. take place space tinier apolo 9 are not rusty shrank aren't. great to have you with us today so going to start with couple questions about a poem 9 this serious anniversary of the mission that was devoted to preparations the flight to the moon but compared to a poll 8 which was all about trajectory and testing to detect jury you guys had to do the real stuff test the equipment you know how that the moguls were working with the docking of the models between each other and and it wouldn't last support for your suit the real stuff when you were taking off to that mission how did you estimate the danger i mean basically it's like a test a new vehicle only space. well the main danger if you will and

we didn't see it as dangerous we had done simulations for you know for years so you're ready for anything that can happen or at least you hope you're ready for anything that can happen but the main challenge from the standpoint of danger was that during the mission we would among other things we would separate the lunar module from the command module by 100 miles in orbit and of course we would have to get back and doc successfully in order to return to earth because the water module . could land on the moon can't land on earth and so to get home we would have to successfully return and dock and. join our he again so that was the sense of danger that's what people saw as being very.