question. high school shooting in los angeles leaves 2 teenagers dead and 3 others seriously injured on the very morning the suspect turned 16. in the u.k. linked to beliefs including witchcraft is on the right while critics say political correctness is becoming a barrier to protecting vulnerable children. and. police in the u.s. attempt to detain an antiwar activist for allegedly assaulting a member of congress at a meeting on venezuela and the arrest file both officers came to. hide there is midday moscow friday the 15th oftener than brokaw and break with the news from r.t. international 1st for you that a 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 suspects who shot himself in the head and is not expected to survive his injuries is under police custody and hospital he just turned 16 on the morning of the incident. it was one and then for a quick minds and then bang bang bang. it was almost as if it were to happen at like a brunch or lines but there was less people like people were just waiting for their classes sorry. i just heard the sound of kids crying. 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 this time until you know again. it was a. meanwhile 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 given training sessions for schools across the country however u.s. democrats oppose the idea of trolls saying that they control the times 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 now. 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 this stirring to me more than 4000000 students underwent a lockdown or drill of their school in the 20172018 school academic year that included more than a 1000000 aged between 4 and 11 and thousands of even younger children had the same experience as well the number of school shootings in the united states has been overwhelmingly high more than 250 since the notorious columbine high school massacre in 1909 and which 13 people died now 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't focus and concentrate and they're just too nervous just living so you know it's something that we should share with them at home you know sort of make them aware but don't just drive them nuts and school unfortunately it's necessary my girlfriend didn't seem to be truck traumatized by it i think they should tape. and they remembered a atom bomb drools doodles and it's the same thing i think it's the reality we're facing today unfortunately i grew up doing 2 little drills and my kids are growing up doing active shooter drills i think life could be traumatic for kids you know but without a doubt i think that's why parents and teachers and psychologists psychiatrists need to be involved in doing this well we discussed all this with psychology expert to gina luden and iraq war veteran sergio culturing. 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 and they might if that's gonna it's kind of saying 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 dress which is nervousness which is exonerated. of fear over what the future might hold and how to safeguard against any eventuality has seen the survivalist industry flourish in the united states today i say we've got a feature length report for you 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 the bash. we are sitting in front of a blast proof bunker i have 575 bunkers and 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 the men haven't told me they haven't announced it it's a war of words on the news media now 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's going. the number of children in the u.k. known to have suffered abuse linked to witchcraft is rising according to local government figures but since most of those who practice it come from a poor with the british government's being accused of turning a blind eye of a fee if he could face accusations of racism and putting next his 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 f.p.m. or 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 f.d.m. back in february. despite that life threatening and dangerous practices like f.d.m.

put as many as 60000 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 indorsed 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 experts say there's a fear of being called racist i'm so good by these figures for so long the political power that black people have his being dismissed people are scared to talk of 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 fast f g m conviction earlier this year. measures have been put in place to help put an end to the epidemic of abuse including extra guidance for prosecutors and police each down to cultural

practices it's down to ideologies and he's damned political correctness i want to know where the feminists sung 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 it will 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 a prime minister says stand up and say that any way 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 stick where and to but it seems like calling a tower for what is maybe the only way to protect vulnerable children. american

antiwar activists being threatened with arrest after being accused of assaulting a member of congress the incident happened when she was forcibly removed from a news conference for opposing u.s. actions in venezuela but they are benjamin claims that she's being treated like a temperate. 5 police cars rode up to my house in motorcycles as well so around the house as if i were some kind of terrorist and said there was a bulletin for my arrest and i refused to go with them i said where is the warrant they didn't have a warrant and filmed 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 peace activists i don't insult anyone it's a travesty that the came to my house in such numbers and so intimidating. medea 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 held up a sign saying no cooed so in venezuela bolivia democratic congresswoman debbie wasserman schultz was speaking to the media when things turn out. i was not here i don't mind waving at us not at. all the stuff you're right. but even so she was shoved to the ground and threatened well congresswoman wasserman schultz claims she was the one who was attacked. to be physically assaulted by a putin and so freedom is really mind blowing but this why i anthracis to the 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 opposition 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. choked and thrown to the ground. the incident comes less than a month after another activist was arrested was detained for allegedly assaulting a supporter of venezuela's self declared leader during demonstrations at the country's embassy in washington but he benjamin says this all such a very dangerous precedent. there's another journalist max blumenthal who 5 months after the embassy incident. came up to his house just like they did mine and arrested him with a warrant 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 to glance 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. only us that other people who joined us. in the latest of what's been weeks of the protests in germany thousands again descended on hamburg to vent their anger at the government's new agricultural policies they were all 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 restrictions on the use of pesticides many pharma say that the new stricter regulations would stifle the sector among the measures that have provoked outcry over a ban on some pesticides and regulations to protect the groundwater from nitrates auntie's evangelos sepsis was with the farmers convoys that set out for hamburg. and. it is early and the morning 'd 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 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 or for

that for the dairies at the root of their 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 shot out of the conversation of how to go about implementing fundamental change. just in their life would offer them this today we are staying here and spend your shoulder chose a minister of environment here in germany and we invited here to come here she is staying in bali and she don't speak to us and we needs a communication that's good support lemus the biggest problem is that the politicians don't talk to us and we'd like to have a dialogue with them and participate in the decision making processes but that's what we're here who would hurt. the government insists that germany's farmers are not a bad no i expect something from farmers yes i do and that is change but i don't do so without support in them financially what is important is that we together with

our european partners have a direct payments as an instrument to support small and medium sized farms and this is a very important and signal from and if 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 fines and legal actions 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 what in the process eventually success for r.t. . this is a safer moscow how's this for a statement rural americans a bad people who've made bad life choices comments from an academic in the u.s.

no prizes for guessing how that's gone down on line we'll get into that for you after the break.

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 democracy is in retreat. again that philosophy in the united states has stirred anger after calling americans who live in rural areas bad people who deserve uncomfortable lives. and i run it clee embrace the passion of rural americans as a group of people who have made bad life decisions. some i assume

a good people but this nostalgia for some imagined per stroll way of life is stupid and we should shame people who aren't pro city. hate sex and kernahan stereotyping is a weak way to make a point your assumptions about rural people elitism cruel you know everything people think is wrong with higher education but did not speak for all professors try feeding yourself without a farmer body. jackson county and later apologized for the tone of what he wrote but not for his ideas his twitter account is now been deleted and the university where he's given lectures stressed that it doesn't have an elitist approach towards any social group well julio rivera of reactionary times dot com says that the gap between coastal and heartland america is widening. 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 mind 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 america and they were progressivism but it's not really progressing the country is actually causing a really great action and a lot of people are having problems 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 former new york university professors launched a campaign of his own he started an online crusade against what he calls a collective hysteria surrounding russia related stories after airing his thoughts

that he claims that he faced the accusations of being a russian spy and a nazi my correct involved initially created an anonymous twitter page which he used to criticise political correctness he lashed out against numerous liberal ideas and movements but after his identity was discovered the professor claims his life on campus was made on bearable and it forced him to quit we spoke to him. 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 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 were attempting to make the university into a kind of. surveillance system where everyone was basically surveilling on each other and prepared each other this secret biased reporting hotline where these

biased teams would adjudicate cases behind closed doors with no transparency and nobody told you what bias was what what a biased infraction was and yet this was announced all over the university they were promoting it widely they tried to get me to put it on my syllabus i refused they did not like the fact that i was criticizing the dominant ideology and that was not tolerated 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 silenced and effectively marginalized basically treated like a pariah and utterly completely. shut out that's what they try 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 services 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 running into trouble from a few pennies. warmings the classic cartoons such as the jungle book and fantasia because they contain racially sensitive elements. that play a. role of. the i don't want you to. be

. on top stupidity disney plus squinted warning for cultural defections and classic animated movies. how did we get by all these decades without warnings. this news making disclaimers about all the depictions. 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 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 race shut up play the movie and let kids watch it after all it's just a movie schist a cartoon that simple. ok that's the way looks from moscow so far this friday cross talks up next on who might be pulling the strings in bolivia's political upheaval. seems wrong. why don't we all just don't call. me. yet to shape

out these days to come to advocate and in games from an equals betrayal. when so many find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground. 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 and they haven't told me they haven't announced. imagine something as big as the earth is going to cause tidal waves earthquakes volcanoes are going to wrapped and it's going to help. so very for

a while right. my great grandfather's. nobody would care about the law or prison so you'd have wallace those should have. a terrible life between the and the. hello and welcome to cross talk where all things are considered i'm peter lavelle 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 to libya's democracy is in retreat. cross talking bolivia i'm joined by my guest problem no but at the in london he is a journalist and documentary filmmaker as well as coeditor of dot net an independent voice on latin american politics culture and media in washington we have what. she is an associate professor at the shar school of policy and government at george mason university and in santiago we crossed to francisco he is a political analyst as well as a former u.n. officer in asia and africa or across the uk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want and i always appreciate it but i will let me go to you 1st in london i peruse the american media landscape about the events that happened in bolivia the coup i will use the word but they won't a.b.c. news morales resigned simply c.b.s.

news because of weist widespread protests the new york times said because of an infuriated pop population fox news said the people were angry over election fraud none has been shown to date and the miami herald well said that it was what was overthrown was a full blown dictatorship what's the media coverage in the u.k. i bet it's similar. very much so i mean i think the british media and this this includes from the riots the so-called progressive left have been very much on the playing the fact that it's the coup that's taken place in bolivia they talk of a power vacuum they talk of resignation but they don't really use the words to and i think this is not surprising for anyone that's been looking at the media the.