trump gives his annual state of the union address. talk about his presidential achievements given the democratic speaker nancy pelosi. is stronger than ever before the number one producer of oil and natural gas great economic success we did our job. this time there's no external influence to blame the democrats left red faced over a new low ball to make the voting procedure more efficient. for music festival in sweden draws a line is it allows children as young as 3 to create an avatar with a muslim headscarf we debate polarising meaning. they

developers are merely reflecting the culture that's taking place in their community many many. without any full understanding of what it represents. from moscow thanks for joining us on the international today daniel hawkins we do this morning welcome to the program. now in the last hour or so donald trump wrapped up his state of the union speech to the backdrop of his own impeachment trial the senate could see his fights one way or the other within the next 24 hours and there was a feeding the president spent a fair amount of time looking back instead of forward. this state of our union is stronger then ever before well the world would not now be witnessing this great economic success of the well

the united states has become the number one producer of oil and natural gas anywhere in the world i little companies are not believing they are coming back to the usa well i keep my promises we did our job well. at the beginning of the address trump apparently turned down nancy pelosi as hand-shake he also talked about efforts to counter terrorism mentioning the us killings of ice a leader al baghdadi and an arabian top management general have a trump also boasted about new legislation that will enable victims of crimes to sue so-called sanctuary cities the areas hosting illegal immigrants if they suffer due to decisions made by the old thirties and once again the president promised to bring home troops from afghanistan losses the channel r.t. america reviewed trumps address.

of a for we did out there let's go live now to our guest to get some more insight on this psychology expert gina loudon joining us live to give us some more dina thanks for coming on good to have you on as always classic truck perhaps a lot of this speech a lot of head shaking behind him from the from nancy pelosi will get about a bit later but what do you make of his address to the union. i thought it was truly if not you know if not the best speech he's ever given perhaps the best state of the union that i've ever heard as an american i thought it was incredibly uniting and i thought that it was contrasted pretty heavily by the things we've seen over the last 48 to 72 hours out of the other side of the political realm so i was i was very very encouraged that america's sort of in a new place with

a lot of americans really applauding the things that this president has done in the way that he's united the country and i think we're seeing this reflected in his approval ratings which are continuing to go up and up and up as the democrats contend to sort of stick more daggers at his back as he continues to keep his promises what about in terms of foreign policy he addressed the the venezuelan regime changes what it's like to listen to what it to say on the south american country. or is it a legitimate rule for a tyrant who brutalizes is people but murderers group and jury will be smashed and broken here this evening so very brave man who carries with him the hopes dreams and aspirations of all that is whelan's and he strong. from the president what do we can avoid seeing go to washington.

well i think it was to make a statement about his anti-socialist perspective and i found it especially interesting that this was one of the times where even nancy pelosi and many of the democrats cheered for this leader that really embodies and personifies anti socialism which has become the radical branch of their own party on the democrat side so that was very interesting to watch and there were a lot there was a lot of chatter and conversation about that specially in social media so very interesting and interesting the reaction of the democrats especially after the last several days of the iowa caucus and is willing people just in terms of some of the body language that was taking place to come back to nancy pelosi obviously he appeared to make a point of ignoring her handshake she does up a crumpled up the print copy of his address low level it is the. i'm not certain i don't know looking at it myself i wasn't certain that his missing

her hand there at the beginning was intentional i guess we'll have to hear from him on that whether that was intentional or not he's not exactly known for being understated i think he'll let us know whether he intended to give her that flight or whether that was just turning around quickly i could tell as far as her tearing up the papers that was most definitely intentional and seemed a little petty and jealous honestly it seemed like to me when you can't cheer for you know children getting to choose their schools and have opportunities that they haven't had the past and you can't cheer for diseases being cured and military families being reunited and you know people who have served in war and served their countries well when you can't cheer for those things you're willing to tear that up i think it says quite a lot more about nancy pelosi s resentment perhaps of her current status and perhaps this being her last state of the union address that ever knowing that probably she won't be speaker of the house ever again for

a state of the union address i think that might be what was going on there more than anything else thank you i think a lot of people if you can describe this address in one word it will be. defined you know given the ongoing impeachment trial of his that we could find now it's heading in the next in the next day or 2 is that something you'd agree with that this was a message to those. perhaps people who are on the trail the message the dollars as a message to those who are talking that look i'm still here i'm still strong my ratings are up and things are going pretty well regardless of what's happening you know politically with his impeachment. i know i kind of the 1st word that came to my mind when i heard it honestly was uniting i thought that the things he said especially at the end were many new very inclusive many of them policies that democrats proport to believe. that democrats a claim to run on in the past i thought that many of those things would be things that the democrats would agree with him on there was environmentalist policy

certainly you know things like opportunities zones that benefit minorities and poor people these are things that democrats have traditionally said they espouse so i thought there was a lot to unite americans on and i fully did not expect nancy's bizarre reaction at the end. i thought there was a lot that americans could unite over but i certainly think it's a very clear choice for americans with the upcoming elections one party is positive and upbeat and and generally you know looking forward and one party seems resentful and angry and rather socialist and upset and i think that americans see the clear choice and i think that's the reason why the president's popularity is growing is the good old year is it for american politics i have to see what puns over the next days and months thanks for coming out against it aloud and he went on to international thanks so much. i mean well the oil

a democratic party has revealed early results from the key caucus more than 24 hours later with 62 percent results not reported pete bush a judge has the lead with 27 percent of the democrats tried to consolidate all its power against trump of the mess as indicated discordant division inside it caleb open house more. after the apparent failure of the impeachment proceedings in the u.s. senate all eyes were on iowa to see the democratic party as it was moving toward picking its nominee to run against donald trump in the november presidential election well what the whole world saw at the iowa caucuses can pretty well be described as utter chaos the only results from the iowa caucus at this hour are chaos and confusion never good to get ready for a crash course in chaos ok os in iowa what happened in iowa now in the absence of actual results several candidates claimed they were winning by all

indications we are going on to new hampshire victorious. we don't know exactly what it is yet but we feel good about where we are. a good feeling we're going to be doing very very well here. as the night went on no results were announced the reasons given were technical glitches quality control and inconsistency the supporters of bernie sanders were crying foul saying that this was an establishment attempts to undermine they socialist upset again this time bernie sanders was looking stronger than ever topping the polls and having the biggest crowds and what is right here is the bunny and sue. right there of all those homes and that was your garden so they're actually moving through homes and the role of armies or is it your but then something strange happens with an app. as precinct caucus results started coming in the iowa

democratic party ran them through an accuracy and quality check it became clear that they were in consistencies with reports the underlying cause of these in consistencies was most immediately clear and required investigation which took time and then it was revealed that one of the main opponents of bernie sanders beat buddha she had been giving money to the company that was responsible for the app that caused the glitch now that made outrage get even louder the word rigged was all over social media. what is happening in iraq is not only scary it's unimaginable this clearly is being raped. the democratic nomination is rigged again i believe the iowa democratic buntu never intended to announce the winner last night looks like mayor cheat has rigged the iowa caucuses apparently the trolls will come to you if you say the word big so let me just say vague big big big

tweaked but it didn't just start in iowa rank and file democrats were already outraged about the fact that the rules were changed by the democratic national committee in order to allow michael bloomberg into the debates michael bloomberg former new york city mayor has spent $180000000.00 on his own ad campaign and despite not having anything near the donor base of some of the other candidates the red carpet has been rolled out for him words like oligarchy are being used we should be ashamed that as american people believe in democracy all of guard if you have more money you can buy your way now my group former u.s. senator from alaska had over 67000 different donors but the democratic national committee said that was not enough and he was not welcome on the debate stage michael bloomberg is mega rich and he has donated $250000.00 to the democratic national committee needless to say he has been deemed worthy of prime time in light of this whole embarrassing beginning of the democratic selection process an online

petition has been started calling for the head of the d.n.c. to resign the whole incident shows a major split in a party that has been pushing a united front against donald trump for the longest time and donald trump couldn't be happier. big win for us in iowa tonight thank you now many assume that donald trump was referring simply to the fact that many republicans turned out to vote for him as the presumed nominee in iowa but maybe he meant more than that with the election in november or months and months away it looks like the meltdown on the other side of the aisle has already started democrats are going to have to decide to come together and just not talk about iowa anymore for this election whatever the results are the best thing for them would be to say look either we won or i lost and let's just move on because this makes us look really foolish that we can't even get this process right how are we going to run the country we see divisions

within the party and in every single election and certainly there are players like bernie sanders who are kind of on the outside of the inner circle and so that is part of the process is working through that tension and fighting amongst each other until people either drop out because they're embarrassed or they're shown to be incompetent and they run out of money and so democrats are going to really be looking for who's the person who can stand up the most to trump. after the wakeup call of trump's victory in 2016 the democrats felt they were lagging behind in terms of technology on the campaign trail so the launch of a new mobile app meant to deliver results faster than ever for the iowa caucus but it did backfire despite all the optimism. you have a nightmare scenario and if so what do you do about it these are probably the most prepared we've ever been as a party for these caucuses and we've run through a few different scenarios but i can tell you we're ready this is an embarrassment all they had to do was count the votes the polling stations counted the votes all

they had to do was add together the tallies what a 10 year old could do in a calculator the democratic party couldn't this mess was caused by a new app designed to speed up votes counting made by a secretive company called shadow inc that i suppose was the 1st clue who contracts a company called shadow to build an open transparent voting app democrats the people who shouted loudest about russia threatening american elections that breaking news russian hackers tried to hack wisconsin's election system russia's hacked into a lot of things russian hackers the criminal class and it certainly looks like they're at it again and with an eye towards helping this president to combat strums popularity democrats created 2 organizations acronym and paquin him to flood the internet and t.v.

with trump and the russian propaganda trump spent $10000000.00 on a commercial for tonight's super bowl we fixed it for him under president trying. to steal your veteran's setting isis prisoners free losing don't reconfirm ladies and gentlemen the worst is yet. here comes the incompetence part these groups a pact with people. who ran and sank hillary clinton's campaign including shadow in crowded by a former clinton campaign manager they've spend fortunes an amateur a propaganda and apps that don't work all that todd money the effort just to see trump have the last laugh when will a democrat stop blaming russia russia russia instead of their own incompetence for the voting disaster that just happened in the great state of iowa it's sad. all the

complaining and mooning about how russians were out to ruin american elections most of the russians that did it it was the democrats their paranoia and competence they turned liberals and democrats against each other screaming and shouting accusing each other of foul play or russia could never do the democrats did we've heard the people who are responsible for this catastrophe in iowa or the democratic establishment claim that it was russia's intention to undermine integrity in our voting systems in our election process the question is who really threatens us elections and now i think a lot of voters within the democratic party are finally seeing what the real threat is and it's with it's within the heart of the democratic party establishment the more that we talk about the reality of our election systems the more this russia

gate hysteria just begins to fall on deaf ears and voters particularly younger voters who are social media savvy reject it angrily. the online debate of a wearing of the heads of has been rekindled in sweden but softer mobile to a song competition allowed users of all ages to address their on screen image with the traditional muslim head scarf for women.

bluto normalizes my zation every person with children should be terrified and disgusted. in the other public services and politicians not only how. to tour this but also actively spreading it. women in muslim countries it's fine to male oppression and. here. here's money making my children believe that it's normal for to cover up. women across the globe have also been polarized by world her job day celebrated internationally on february the 1st event calls the women of all faiths the cover of their head for a day as a sign of solidarity running paolo on social media was the hashtag job day with women all doing the traditional head scarf as

a symbol of oppression put the issue up for debate with activist and reese in a woman's rights advocate. app developers are merely reflecting the culture that's taking place in their community i think right now what the media what magazines and you know the beauty standards are trying to do is just be more inclusive and say there is a spot for you here i do feel as though only one narrative is shown. in the west when we talk about the job it's often a very positive narrative but i think that the other side also has to be addressed many many girls are forced into wearing the job without any full understanding of what it represents and that how difficult it will be to leave to take it off there's definitely a community where this is a very real and present apparently you know issue and concern and so we have to just allow the app designers to kind of. basically play to their audience if you will i do find a huge problem in perpetuating this idea that children as young as 3 need to wear

the job in any in any form and i would also like to say that he job is not a culture it is very much a religious symbol see when i myself see a little brown skinned girl on a t.v. commercial as a little girl i believe i can grow up to be that person so what we don't want to do is not show women and have jobs because we don't want you little girls who wear who jobs to feel as though they can't be a part of this larger story that we all are a part of i think that women should be able to choose what they wear and that is exactly why i'm an advocate for no good job day because i stand for the choice to take it off which is something that is just not extended to people around the world and people within even my own community here in the in the u.k. . a sexual abuse scandal in french sport a seen paris prosecutors open up a broad investigation that's off for former ice skating champion broke

a silence of 30 years in a recently published book sara a big bowl x coach of rape following the revelations francis was minister as the man of the figure skating president resign short of the whiskey has the story. when a minister makes a public pronouncement you probably would hope that they had checked all of the facts just like when in 2017 france's former sports minister declared that at the height of me too there wasn't a problem in her sphere the former uk fencing champion must now be considering for laying on her sought after the latest explosive revelations of rape by sports coaches have emerged they've been made by frances 10 times the national skating champion sara a bit in a new book she accuses her former coach year of regularly raping her in the ninety's when she was aged between 15 and 17. i was sleeping with my teddy

bears and he woke me up with his torch it was a nightmare it was horrible and it still horrible today and that's why i'm talking about it as unfortunately i'm still not well i'm taking antidepressants and i'm speaking up for all the other big tims who can speak themselves this extinct 2 year old former coach admits having sex with a skater but his version of their relationship differs though my memories of the exact circumstances differ from hers i am aware that given my duties and her age at the time these relations were in any event inappropriate it's not the 1st time questions have been raised about a year sarabeth poll says she previously spoke out against him in the us including to the then minister of sport john points while a more but was shut down. one called me back and he said to me listen to me yes we have

a file on him but we are going to close our eyes let more says he doesn't recall that conversation i do not question at all what she say's but i have no memory of this exchange above all if i have. knowing these horrors that i discovered today i would never have advised sarah a big ball to close her eyes according to the sports newspaper keep she were investigations were carried out by a year in the early 2000 including one white sports ministry now his contract as a technical advisor was terminated following the 2nd one a bit but although it is not the only person making accusations 3 other former skaters say they too were raped by their coaches including by ear when they were minors suggesting the problem was much deeper accusations which of either being denied or declined to be commented on questions are now being asked about the leadership in french sports with the current sports minister demanding the

resignation of did you get the books of french skating along with other allegations of sex abuse in other sports many are suggesting that these revelations are just the tip of the iceberg and the front has done precious little to protect its sporting hopefuls and he. challenged even ski r.t. paris. the e.u. has condemned the united states' decision to lift a ban on the usage of personnel landmines saying it could cost thousands of lives around the world this in the minds the global norm against anti-personnel mines a normal to say tens of thousands of people in the past 20 years the use of the weapons anywhere at any time and by any actor remains completely unacceptable to the european union well the u.s. state department says the ban imposed by barack obama's administration has put the u.s. army at a disadvantage. well the land mines are buried in the ground and detonate when

stepped on another up to top of such mines the old one called be deactivated by itself but the new so-called smart ones have a function to self-destruct trump to use that argument to say landmines are much safer now while lifting the bad mosts nations of course against the use of landmines back in 99 the atol what treaty was agreed on by 160 countries. you know it is states however abstained former pentagon official michael maloof thinks that such a decision could escalate u.s. tensions with other states the trump administration's decision just adds one more layer of. tea to warfare and encourages it it's very difficult to determine. what where these mines would be laid and and how they could be deactivated even though the they claim they're going to be fielding

a new and new type that can deactivate on its own but that's not sure certainty the obama administration however had agreed to. even though it would not sign the ban it agreed not to deploy them except. along the demilitarized zone in separating north and south korea i think the land mines are just terrible they they they affect civilians primarily and i don't think there's any foolproof way of developing a what i would call a smart land mine that could deactivate itself. even remotely or on under a particular time timeline. coming next that's dogged by dog or the documentary shuttle exploring the reality of puppy mills in the united states we're back in 30 minutes with the latest.

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