high school shooting in los angeles leaves 2 teenagers dead and 3 others injured on the very morning the suspect 60. in the u.k. beliefs including witchcraft is on the rise or critics say political correctness is becoming a barrier to protecting vulnerable children. and police in the u.s. attempt to detain an antiwar activists for allegedly assaulting a member of congress at a meeting on. the rest. home without a warrant. and then live from moscow this is r.t. international audience calling for

a welcome to news this friday at 11 am 1st for you the shooting at a high school in suburban los angeles has left 2 teenagers dead and 3 others injured the gunfire began at around 7 30 am on thursday local time the suspect 2 then shot himself in the head and is not expected to survive his injuries he is under police custody and hospital he just turned 16 on the morning of the incident . it was one and then for quick runs and then bang bang bang bang. it was almost as if it were to happen at like a brunch or lines but there was less people but like people were just waiting for the class to start.

i just heard the lot of kids crying we were scary we never really thought this would happen in our school. she burst out crying like crazy but i feel better because i knew the danger was gone i just wanted the whole time until i heard her him again and she was ok. then while a wide ranging report by u.s. intelligence says that many school shootings during the last decade could have been prevented recommendations in the document will be used in training sessions for schools across the country however u.s. democrats oppose the idea of drills saying that they could traumatize the children . my son's school is holding for active shooter drills this year the only clear impact of these drills is stress anxiety and confusion on the part of children and families i would end the drills or make them optional that our kids learn the right

things active shooter drills are traumatizing a generation of american children you are not expressing the urgency of ending trauma. that our kids are exposed to every single day as they go through these drills in every single school in this country is the stirring to me. more than $4000000.00 students underwent a lockdown of the school in the 20172800 school year that included more than a 1000000 aged between $4.11 thousands of even younger children also had the same experience of the number of school shootings in the united states has been overwhelmingly high there are 3 more than 250 since the infamous columbine school massacre in 1909 and which 13 people died recent research suggests that the majority of american teenagers are worried about the possibility of a shooting at their school with that in mind we asked people in new york what they

think about this kind of training for children. it does excites the little ones and then they can focus and concentrate and they're just too nervous just living so you know it's something that we share with them at home you know sort of make them aware but don't just drive them nuts in school unfortunately it's necessary my girlfriend didn't seem to be truck traumatized by it. we don't do those and it's the same thing i think it's the reality we're facing today and fortunately i grew up doing 2 little drills and my kids are growing up doing lots of sugar drawls i think life can be traumatic for kids you know but without a doubt i think that's why parents and teachers and psychologists a psychologist to be involved in doing this we go reaction from a psychology expert jean alluded and iraq war veteran senator joe carter in. i don't think there's anything wrong with doing periodic drills i think the danger is

when you have children who are away from their parents maybe for the 1st time in their lives young children who are impressionable some of whom have maybe been through some sort of traumatic experience in their life and you put them through an active shooter situation that's where the danger comes in especially to a particularly young child who is particularly vulnerable to such a traumatic suggestion when you get up into the high school age in the college age i think you have a less impressionable brain someone who is mentally perhaps a little more prepared to distinguish you know reality from something that we're rehearsing are preparing for but with younger children i think it's particularly dangerous it's totally insane actually see you do that kind of stuff i mean they might if it's gonna it's gonna say during the cold war they should of dropped bombs or they should've exploded ammunitions next to schools to make sure they kids get underneath the tables to get ready for

a nuclear fallout or it's creating a culture of fear where you basically indoctrinating kids to be afraid of everything creates a normalization of these behaviors which is stressed which is nervousness which is exonerate is. a fear over what the future might hold and how to safeguard against any eventuality is seen the survivalist industry flourish in the united states today on r.t. on online we've got a feature length report on the getting ready which looks at the growing demand for so-called doomsday shelters in america. what are you supposed to do when you receive a plan if. we are sitting in front of a blast proof bunker i have 575 bunkers we are now building this into the world's largest survival community i purchased this site in 2008

with the idea of converting it into a nuclear hardened bunker your government and our government and all the other major governments of the world know what's going to happen and when it's going to. but they haven't told you they haven't told me they haven't announced it it's a war of words on the news media i've never seen a country so divided as america is right now so divided that people are buying bunkers in record numbers to protect their family from the unknown because they don't know where their country is going. to number of children in the u.k. known to have suffered abuse linked to witchcraft is rising according to local government figures but since those who practice it's come from abroad the british government is being accused of turning something of a blind die over fears that it could be charged with racism reporting next to shoddy edwards' dashti. hidden under the guise of religion faith and belief

witchcraft is an ever increasing threat in child abuse cases in britain the number of such incidents has risen by more than a 3rd in just 2 years as local councils say they are housing the equivalent of 38 cases every single week the shocking research released by the u.k.'s local government association also highlights s.g.m. all female genital mutilation it puts numbers at a record high with 1000 children having already been abused or at risk of it in the last year while it's more common incessant african communities the u.k. did have its 1st conviction for s.g.m. back in february.

despite that life threatening and dangerous practices like f.d.m. part as many as $60000.00 girls at risk every year there's a misconception that the ancient custom of s.g.m. is a religious one even though it originated some 2500 years ago meaning it predates both islam and christianity and is not mentioned in any holy scriptures nor endorsed by religious leaders but the cultural often described as a barbaric tradition mainly occurring in africa isn't being fought as it perhaps should be as i say there's a fear of being called racist. i'm so angered by these figures for so long the political power that black people have has been dismissed people are scared to tackle s.g.m. and witchcraft is this scared of being accused of racism but it's racist to ignore it it's more races to look away it really hurts that we still have to tell people the black kids need protecting following the 1st f g m conviction earlier this year more measures have been put in place to help put an end to the epidemic of abuse

including extra guidance for prosecutors and police is down to cultural practices it's down to ideologies and he's damned political correctness i want to know where the feminists are on this issue there is not enough we mean speech about this and it's because when women like me speak up we are told we are racist and he has to stop that's where you have the political correctness has got to go where we each is like a cancer and he stops people from breaking the silence we need more words we need strong words we need government and politicians and prime ministers to stand up and say that anyone anybody who is involved in this practice if there is even a remotely suspicion children need to be looked at medically but much doesn't happen either for so long abuses like f.e.m. have been hidden doused in sticker or into but it seems like callie

a towel for what it is maybe the only way to protect vulnerable children. an american antiwar activists being threatened with arrest after being accused of assaulting a member of congress the incident happened when she was a forcibly removed from a news conference for opposing u.s. actions in venezuela medea benjamin claims that she is being treated like a terrorist. 5 police cars rode up to my house and motorcycles as well so around the house as if i were some kind of charisse and said there was all the bulletin for my arrest and i refused to go with them i said where is the warrant they didn't have a warrant and i feel them them and we stayed outside my house and in the end they didn't arrest me no i don't know if that is the end of this or they will get a warrant and try to arrest me but the fact is that i am a peace activist i don't result anyone and it's a travesty that they came to my house in such numbers and so intimidating.

benjamin earlier denounced the creation of a so-called venezuela democracy caucus it's a bipartisan group in the u.s. congress created to support the opposition in venezuela she held up a sign saying no coups in venezuela bolivia democratic congresswoman debbie wasserman schultz was speaking to the media when things turn. on the slow down you're on the line waving a flag. on the stump you're right. but even so she was shoved to the ground and threatened while congresswoman wasserman schultz claims that she was the one who was physically assaulted. to be physically assaulted by opponents of freedom is really mind blowing but this why i anthracis to do we needed to come together on a bipartisan basis to make sure we can bring freedom and democracy once again to the venue so when people we were at the press conference there were about 6 of us

and the rest of the group was people who support the venezuelan position and when we held up our signs every single one of them was grabbed from our hands by these. even somebody had their phone grabbed from his hand and i was just standing there and then all of a sudden i was being dragged down pushed out choked and thrown to the ground and the incident comes less than a month after another activist who was arrested my experiment was detained for allegedly assaulting a supporter of venezuela's self declared leader white though during demonstrations of the country's embassy in washington but here benjamin claims that this all sets a very dangerous precedent. there's another journalist max blumenthal who 5 months after the embassy incident they came up to his nose just like they did mine and arrested him with the war and 5 months later so they could come to my house at

any time i think this is meant to leave us in a state of uncertainty worrying looking behind our back all the time and it hasn't just happened like partner tighe barry was falsely arrested and accused of assaulting a police officer it took him 6 months to get the charges dropped this is selective prosecution and it's bogus they make up things against us again as a way to intimidate not only us but other people who want to join us. in the latest of what's been weeks of protests in germany thousands again descended on hamburg to vent their anger at the government's new agricultural policies they brought traffic to a halt as the city played host to a conference of the country's federal and regional environment ministers they were discussing among other things imposing further restrictions on the use of pesticides many farmers say the new stricter regulations would study for the sector among the measures that have provoked outcry or a ban on some pesticides and regulations to protect the groundwater from nitrates

of an fellowships this was with the farmers convoys it set out from humbug. it is early and the morning that they should be working on their lands but instead of these german farmers have hopped on their tractors and will be rolling into amber to make a big point. as the country's regional and environmental ministers are meeting here in hamburg the farmers want to make it clear that the shifting balance between ecology and arkie culture is putting them out of business as the ever tightening e.u. and national regulations on the use of chemicals from wheat killers and fertilizers to roots now we've become from the german government is so hard for us that we

cannot drag on our farms we cannot have made good crops. have followed a frozen for the dairies at the root of the rigorous restrictions is the protection of wildlife and habitat the farmers agree that looking after nature is the core to the job but what infuriates them more is how they were shut out of the conversation of how to go about implementing fundamental changes in their life put off on this today we are staying here and spending a shoulder chill it's a ministerial environment here in germany and we invited here to come here she is staying involved and she don't speak to us and we needs a communication that's to support lemus the biggest problem is that the politicians don't talk to us we'd like to have a dialogue with them and participate in the decision making processes and that's that's what we're here cool would hurt. the government insists that germany's farmers are not abandoned no i expect something from farmers yes they do and that

is change but i don't do. to them supports in them financially what is important is that we together was our european partners have direct payments as an instrument to support small and medium sized farms and this is a very important signal for many farmers that they have certain insurance against fluctuations but the german government is under pressure itself by the european commission over its sluggish and environmental protection record there is even the prospect of huge fights and legal action if they do not do more having tried time and again to quietly highlight their problems germany's farmers are now having to be more tough with ever public protests while they might be outflanked by the increasingly influential green lobby and the e.u. pushing the government for more reforms they're determined not to lead generations of farming families wrought in the process eventually success for artsy. more

ahead for you this friday morning from a rural americans a bad people who've made bad life choices comments from an academic in the united states spark outrage and it's among a story still ahead. in the last 6 to become my. point is not to be good at them you see. how insane the west is the so-called individual is the poisoning this. strong belief that afaik society and the freedom of the individual.

should seem wrong. just don't call. me. yet to see how this thing comes out to. engage me because the trail. went find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground. again a philosophy lecturer in the united states has stirred anger after calling americans who live in rural areas bad people who deserve uncomfortable lives i unironically embrace the passion of rural americans they as

a group are bad people who have made bad life decisions some i assume are good people but this nostalgia for some imagined pastoral way of life is stupid and we should shame people who are pro city hate jackson kernahan stereotyping is a weak way to make a point yes some sense about rural people elitism cruel you know everything people think is wrong with higher education but you do not speak full professor. try feeding yourself without a farmer body on jackson county and later apologized for the tone of what he wrote but not for the ideas his twitter accounts now been deleted and turn berkeley university where he's given elected stress that it doesn't have an elitist approach towards any social group well who rivera reactionary times dot com says that the gap between coastal and heartland america was wiping. it's one of those things where you know you don't want to obstruct people's freedom of speech but at the

same time you have to be careful who's saying what because these are actually the people who are in charge of shaping the minds of the elite sectors of academia and of politics you know the so-called ruling class these people think they're so much better than just regular old heartland americans think their heartland americans are less intelligent academically inferior and just you know negative in a lot of different ways and i think it's really un-american there's a lot of social changes that are you know being enacted right now in american than they were progressivism but it's not really progressing the country is actually causing a real gretchen and a lot of people are having problems you're having all sorts of new mental health diagnosis is and you know graduation rates are still horrible in the inner cities you know all these places that continually elect these liberals are actually performing the worst. well ever on the east coast of the united states for menudo university professors launched

a campaign of his own he started an online crusade against what he calls a collective hysteria surrounding russian related stories that after reading his thoughts he claims that he's faced accusations of being a russian spy and a nazi i correct involved initially created an anonymous twitter page which he used to criticise political correctness he dashed out against numerous liberal ideas and movements but after his identity was discovered the professor claims that his life on campus was made up bearable and forced him to quit we spoke to him earlier. the university has turned into this is broadly speaking an indoctrination center for so called social justice which is anything but just i got back to campus after being put on an a paid leave of absence immediately being denounced by a committee calling themselves the diversity equity and inclusion group which i call the conformity inequity an exclusion group they basically tried to isolate me to exclude me to basically say that anybody had

a view that differed with this dominant ideology which is social justice as they call it. must be silence that effectively marginalized basically treated like a pariah and utterly completely shocked and and shut out that's what they tried to do so we have a university system where you supposedly different views different perspectives alternative ways of thinking are supposedly engaged in instead the university is becoming a single stream social justice indoctrination center. disney's brand new streaming service is proved hugely popular since its rocky launch on tuesday a technical glitch caused it to briefly crash and it was unavailable to some clients but it's also run into trouble from some view is in warnings to classic cartoons like the jungle book and fantasia because they contain a racially sensitive element.

tell us how. the what i don't want you to. be a. little correctness is on top stupidity disney plusnet squinted ruining for cultural depictions and classic animated movies. how did we get by all these decades without warnings. disney is making disclaimers about all of the depictions in them but do people really get heard that easy.

why are we explaining jim crow laws to a child the child sees a car true it doesn't understand that but when you tell somebody you see what this is this is racism what racism this is racism why are they were racist because people hate people because of color why you actually can do more harm so is this a good idea is you know it's the wrong message so what have you done have you made me smarter or have you shown me the diversity and the perhaps even the splendor of of racial symbolism sometimes we just explain too much sometimes it's best just to shut up play the movie and let kids watch it after all it's just a movie schist a cartoon that simple. but should use for now. next 30 minutes with outspoken chinese artist ai weiwei who goes head to head with sophie shevardnadze next on the

all to. those who consume corporate media will believe the bolivian army rightfully overthrew the democratically elected president of bolivia the word coup is not mentioned but this is exactly what happened the tried and tested color revolution playbook was on display for anyone paying attention bolivia's democracy is in retreat. time after time called parisian to repeat the same mantra sustainability it's very important it's accelerating the transition to sustainable prize board sustainability stay number man a more equitable and sustainable world. they claim their production is completely hama's.

companies want us to feel good about buying their products while the damage is being done far away and this is something this must be done to anyone and i mean look. we do. understand that. welcome to. contemporary art can be a very powerful social commentary but now for their idea my guest today a legendary i way way. i waits really great to have you on our

program today welcome thank you. so now that i have you here there are so many things that i want to ask you for instance your art mainly. commentary on certain events is a reflection on things situations and that's understandable because you speak from your whole experience your whole life experience behind that art but. i just want to know your perception in terms of is it just important to have a so frequent reflection on your own experience or do you expect this to actually change people's lives as well. well as you said my work really relieved my south experience and. struggle our people struggle it changed my life and also on the. benefits me would benefit other people

but do you do you feel like it's your mission to change other people's life with your art or this is not something that. it's not something i am looking for you know i'm not. certain you know my art for certain public people go but i do believe you really mean i assume i'm being. this intentional change and that it's always there so i'm very happy to be part of it so when we talk about contemporary art and here we are because i'm not a person who sees contemporary art and loves it and there are very few people who are like that actually because contemporary art is usually not a visual thing it's more about the concept behind it and unless that concept is explained you don't really understand why that installation is there or why this painting is here and there are

a lot of people like me who are very visual people and they don't get conceptual art unless someone like you are an artist is there to explain do you feel like. that art should be more adapt to people so that we understand it's more easy to for us to understand more accessible i think you're right i would not say i like contemporary art. practice my art could be related to tradition to clear old the concept and most of the combat berard. it's just the rubbish it's not really designed the for the people there i reckon they push people away and the lead of the guard has nothing to do with ordinary people which is a very sad situation yes also there's a problem with what i see as contemporary art.