and wait. even. if you really need to realize that we need. the headlines this hour the u.s. is pulling the lead $12000.00 troops from germany payback the white house says for not paying enough into nato and secretary choice of words or something of an i o. . ports of nato any alliance sharing the project so we can all deter russia and avoid peace and open war. pigs text for the most powerful c.e.o.'s get a grilling by the u.s. congress over political censorship and competition concerns and hundreds of british health workers march on downing street to demand a pay rise in the sector saying that they are still back in the pandemic on the

front line and getting only praise in return. hello good afternoon you're watching r.t. international just gone 2 o'clock here in moscow now the united states is slashing its military presence in germany it is deploying nearly 12000 personnel and it is part of a long running dispute dong trump has with lynn claiming it's not paying enough into the nato military alliance although a slip of the tongue by the u.s. defense secretary did raise a few eyebrows. i've said very privately to my counterparts as well about the importance of nato any alliance sharing the burden so we can all deter russia and avoid peace in the course of he's paid all of us that morning pay us a clip is probably going to come back to haunt him we'll still a bit of

a worry though for germany isn't it but we've all had them kevin haven't we where we've said something just slightly wrong and let the words get away from us but mania of never being the defense secretary of a nuclear state 12000 american troops will be leaving germany 6400 of those will be returning to the united states 5400 will be redeployed elsewhere around europe donald trump the us president has called germany delinquent in the past over it stiffened spending they seems to have been the trigger that prompted this troop withdrawal. but there are one. let's be clear i think germany is the wealthiest country in europe germany can and should pay more to its defense it should certainly meet the 2 percent standard and i would argue go above and beyond that the number of troops

to be withdrawn these hyett than the $9000.00 that was quoted by the us president earlier this month the minister president of bavaria market zada a man who's also taped as a potential replacement for angle of merkel when she steps down from office next year has said that this move will won't damage german u.s. relations the u.s. government's decision was very regrettable use of this dream in the u.s. human relations it's not clear what the gain is from moods or standpoint. of the us itself in the long run but it's also prompted a lot of domestic politicking in the united states democratic senator from new jersey bob menendez has said that. champagne would be popping in the kremlin this news that's despite the reality that moscow's less than happy at this it will almost certainly mean that u.s. troops will be stationed in poland right on russia's borders but we've heard from

the foreign minister and the chancellor here in berlin is that donald trump being voted out of office in november won't automatically fix things that the relationship between germany and the united states that those problems go much deeper we grew up in the certain knowledge that the united states wanted to be and world power should the u.s. now wish to draw from that through all of the same will would have to reflect on that very deeply everyone who thinks everything in transatlantic partnership will be as it once was with a democratic president underestimates the structural changes there you go the united states to withdraw almost $12000.00 troops from germany and what would be so any one of the biggest shake ups in nato since the cold war is donald trump continues his policy certainly seems like a policy anyway of how to lose friends and alienate people diplomatically is one of the reporting there were earlier we spoke to a member of chancellor merkel cd party he says that the u.s.

troop withdrawal could be a good opportunity for germany to re-evaluate its defense strategy and its role in 1000. never been an alliance of equals but now of course been turned into a student of different directions and people trying to cling on to all structures for lack of imagination or maybe farfel fear of the unknown of course the year political elites and also core beliefs mostly think that we should keep in the way it is but there's a significant stream in the. us that will see less that's reduce it of course it's also a contentious issue and also an issue between east and west because i would see in the east of germany former g.d.r. most most people would say that's the most strongly to this ourselves. because this small established to russia in the west again it looks looks different looser the country is divided on this is true i for one welcome it and there's

a there's a group in germany where council official policy or policy makers don't want most of them. it's a chair yes some are if you thinking has to be done and i think. what trump is doing now is will remember those the thoughts and the thinking and that can only be for the good. now from casinos to hotels to office blocks the name trump is plastered on many prime addresses but an israeli settlement named after the u.s. president as a thank you for his backing in a territorial dispute is looking much less resplendent horsley reports what its president trump left more than seeing his name in golden letters on a big fat well praise and recognition one would say and here in northern israel he's got both trapped heights in the middle of nowhere thank you from benjamin netanyahu it is american baggage for doing what most of the international community would not recognize this area the golan heights as part of israel you have been an

incredible friend for israel and you've done extraordinary things for the. jewish state for which we are eternally grateful to much bad faith celebrations you might imagine an idyllic place the 1st thing you see is the settlement gate which doesn't close completely and there's a gap here which i can just go into the jar it gets into and then you find this no boulevard or fancy entrance leading into the village instead of hot overgrown with weeds and piles of stone a far cry from what you'd expect the entrance into trump heights would look like when you think a place like you had a 2nd chance you see this this building used to be the common law say to full view original village for him and now 80 although he's been a fantasy name change a new settlement has filtered tracked many residents today less than a dozen lives here and right now no one seems to be who. you know.

is anyone home hello. it's all captured this territory from syria during the 19676 day war and later and next to 981 now most of the international community considers that annexation illegal and does not consider the golan heights as part of israel locals don't take it seriously either in the flesh i think it's not a good location it's very hard it's a neglected area and i simply don't know why people go to live there for us into the u.k. richard is going to want to see it because we think it's a road i don't think it's. to do that. there's a very good work to produce this is an american issue that we're. going to. face really government says plans are underway to eventually house 300 families but in the years since truck prices been overrated nothing's been done maybe it doesn't

even matter if the un has been bestowed the facts on marginal after all we live in an era of fake news as president trying to get likes to see. are trying to heights northern israel. the most powerful bosses in big tech have had a dressing down from u.s. lawmakers over their market power and also claims of political censorship of facebook google and apple face congress and so too did the world's richest man amazon boss jeff bezos who made his 1st appearance big checks out to get conservatives that's not a suspicion that's not a hunch that's a fact think obama's new families how with. the prices were driven up by the fact that you will eliminate your main competitor so i don't really respect those who. amazon's dual role as a platform operator and competing so far on their platform is fundamentally anti-competitive and congress must take action this but messenger whatsapp

instagram are the most now downloaded amps of the last decade your company sir owns them all in we have a word for that that word is monopoly i believe it is in fact your company that is engaging in the election interference with wonder there are monopoly concerns the combined market value of the tech world is big forge greater than the entire german economy with political advertising regulations increasingly in place it is suspected that the social media giants do play a crucial role in elections and are perhaps biased towards the democrats or to america has been discussed in the concerts. what about the timing of all of this why is it happening right now is there any significance to that well they definitely isn't the chairman of the subcommittee spoke out today when the hearing started and he said that this is even more important now because as we're still dealing with a lockdown as a result of the coronavirus pandemic it is really hit small businesses the hardest

and in turn it has actually made these 4 big tech companies there they're talking about even more powerful than before take a listen to the code 900 demick these corporations already stood out as titans in our economy in the wake of 9 where they're likely to emerge stronger and more powerful than ever before as american family shift more of their work shopping and communication online these giant stand to profit locally owned businesses meanwhile mom and pop stores on main street face an economic crisis unlike any in recent history now as we know these tech companies are no strangers to privacy concerns and so there have also been a lot of questions about how they use all of the information that they gather from their users that are on their platforms and where that's going to go in the future yeah i think that's a really good point i think you have to look at the fact that essentially all these different companies could be i believe they are but could be violated antitrust laws in the fashion in some way or another they do seem to be engaging in very similar conduct which is essentially keeping competition from rising up using data

to hold back competition all competition goes away no one is big enough or rich enough to be able to compete and also as we all know these companies are kind of the say in that they're all data companies that's actually what they are their companies that mine our data and then sell that data that's how they're so powerful is anything actually going to be done by congress to address this or is this kind of an opportunity for those on the hill to do some grandstanding and ruffle their feathers. i think it's a lot of grandstanding i don't think much is going to come out of this and there's a couple of reasons for that you and i have been talking about this for years that essentially these companies are abusing section $230.00 and. not as platforms but as publishers there's really no discussion right now of removing that even though some members of congress want to do that the president has talked about doing that it's not happening and so the question becomes if you really want to get these guys in line there's a couple of things you can do and one of them is to say you are in violation we're going to revoke it from you. now every week at the height of the pandemic people

across britain did turn out to applaud health workers it was appreciated but medical staff marching on downing street on wednesday say that what they really need is a decent pay rise across the sector. i think. national health services starts june increase but not until next spring however unions do say that the money is needed and that i would specially as exhausted health workers are bracing for what could be an imminent 2nd if i'm paying this myth that money is tight but this thing funds should be spread more fairly. i completely agree that we're in a very tricky situation at the moment and things are more precarious than they were you know because the last 10 years we've seen a stare at the cuts we've seen a lot a lot of damage done to certain sections of the workforce in our society now but we've also seen in recent times billions of pounds being hunted to companies and

private companies and business is you know there are priorities that we can see yet just clearly not a priority in fact it's been since though ironically or you know in quite scary the n.h.s. is being you know it's continued if you do you think you can still continue on the value of by being the important oh of the n.h.s. and has that. you with r.t. for more that's still on the way for us federal offices begin pulling out of the protests plague city of portland we'll have details and reaction plus of the stories to just. join me every thursday on the alex salmond show and i'll be speaking to guest of

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you with our batteries could be heading towards a run in with russia security chief says say that they have arrested more than 30 russian mercenaries they suspected of planning terrorism in the country so let's get more details on this don office covering this story good afternoon eagle serious accusations who just better a say is detained well and these serious accusations indeed they have in fact opened a terror investigation into what these 30 odd men could be doing on the belorussians soil now so far not too many details on no not just to us journalists but even to the russian government in fact the spokes for russia's president spokesman. he has been saying. that they are still gathering information have a listen. we still have incomplete information about what happened there is no

information of the new legal action by these russians which could have been the reason for the detention we don't know anything about it now or better russian media have been reporting that all those people all those dozens of men that they are indeed mercenaries now but the spokesman richard prince called he has completely ruled out the possibility saying that it is impossible that some or like that some organization would be sending these men over to belarus but burroughs is taking this very very seriously in fact the belarusian president alexander lukashenko he met with the country's security council over this situation and here's what he had to say about this whole thing. we need to address the russian mass media and also the not to say nonsense if you are guilty you need to get out of the situation with dignity not guilty good we have no goals to discredit the country close to us so it has all the potential to become

a messy situation as for the as for the details as to how those people were detained there quiet order i should say because according to what we're hearing from better from belarus these men they all got rooms at a single hotel and they were wearing military style clothes and that's how they got identified that's how they got on the radar of the ukrainian special services so if that was a spy or paul speak about hiding in place in plain sight. plenty of questions still you got this is all happening isn't it just in the run up to the presidential election which happens next week and it's no lection that's proven to be a lot more turbulent than usual well indeed a legs out a look at it could be a bit of a rocky road for him because he is seen as a front runner but he has faced a lot of criticism for instance 2 or at least 2 of his of his rivals. the word detained themselves and some people are accusing go of

a political basically that was done for political reasons people have been taking to the streets as well to voice their discount and what's going on in the country and this latest development only brings more chaos to the situation. ok thank you igor you should run up there with the latest. now for the race and police protests in the u.s. city of portland saw crowds to gas stove a night with much of the anger aimed at the federal officers sent there to crack down. i. i. protest is set off fireworks but found themselves on the receiving end of tear gas after ignoring police loudspeaker warning this is also a concern to the tank campaigners have been told they'll only be released if they agree to stay away from further protests as for the federal officers sent in by

donald trump the oregon governor says that they'll start withdrawing later on thursday they were deployed early this month to cities which donald trump has the right it is being ruled by liberal democrats while the handling of the racial unrest may be pitting the white house against local leaders however don't want trump's political rivals to suspect his toughened response does belie a bigger goal in his sights with more on that his. the crisis playing out across the united states seems to be drawing a fine line between law and order order being what donald trump claims he is trying to achieve with his crackdown and law being what mayors say donald trump is disregarding by not listening to the message of the protestors demonstrators for racial justice represent the best of a democratic ideals the president's unilateral deployment to federal forces betrays them and does nothing to keep a safe and i stands with our friends in portland that is more like

a block party atmosphere it's not in our takeover it's not a military junta how long do you think seattle in those few blocks looks like this . i don't know we could have a summer of love the white house continues to highlight what it's portraying as a prolonged episode of rioting and lawlessness meanwhile the protesters are refusing to throw in the towel when it comes to highlighting their issue of racial injustice. the black lives matter movement has gained traction worldwide with millions coming to understand its message and call for racial justice however many u.s. analysts are saying that in the short term it could be down will trump who actually games from the episode of prolonged on rast vandalizing our downtown gives don't

trump the images he wants and the justification he seeks to send federal troops into merican cities what can be folded and plain to his twisted campaign strategy violent protesters lighting fires and using violence in portland should wear donald trump buttons this is who they are helping progressives in portland need to call them out including the mayor reed tweet police don't allow violent people to help donald trump some are making the analogy of the 1968 presidential election in which richard nixon won in a landslide following the assassination of dr martin luther king jr the protests in the streets are created an atmosphere of fear now george floyd can hardly be compared to dr martin luther king but the widespread protests sweeping urban centers are certainly reminiscent of that era bring about law and order we want a law and order they all want lower order law and order will prevail in this president seeks to restore law and order law and order line order stands for law

and order this president stands of law and order in one of the most we want a lot of order. against the wishes of local mayors donald trump is sending in a heavy handed federal agents now some say he could be inciting more violence however others think he has no choice but unfolds largely around the courthouse cannot reasonably be called protests it is by any objective measure an assault on the government of the united states the current wave of unrest is being dubbed the costliest in u.s. history meanwhile there's been a spike in violent crime with some voices blaming that on the calls to define the police democrats are calling out donald trump saying that yes running a campaign based on fear come on that is all about trying to come up with a bizarre law and order 2020 campaign thing to try to scare the dumb on american

people so is donald trump perhaps going to win over a silent majority is it possible that something that looked like the end of donald trump and 21 with black lives matter in our streets could actually result in the democrats anding him another term in the white house it will come up and r.t. new york. finally the winners have been the ones for this year's r.t. awards and journalism in conflict zones held every year in honor of a colleague of ours who was killed in syria while working for us or to tell you the witness and why the wards theming so much is the head of our teens are a big channel this is the 3rd time that r.t. is holding up the international memorial awards covered 1000 counseled our plans for commemoration but it couldn't stop the tradition of honoring even if distantly those brave journalists who pandemic or not continue to risk their lives at the

front lines in order to tell us the truth. khalid was one of them on july 30th 2017 he was killed by isis in syria while covering arm is offensive near homs for our channel r.t. arabic he was only 25 years old but already so determined so ambitious to reveal to the world the real face of war in his home country. shortly after his death r.t. as editor in chief military this in mind young announced the launch of the annual memorial awards for war journalism not only to remember and honor him but also to remember that right now as we speak there are so many journalists out there in the hot spots around the world risking their lives to bring the troops we thank you for your bravery and your sekret feiss. this year journalists from

16 countries took part in the competition covering conflicts in the middle east africa south america south asia and it's my pleasure to announce today the winners of 2020. me morial awards. the award for best video journalism from a conflict zone short form goes to mohammad ali from syria for his report from one of the most dangerous conflict zones of 2020 ellipse frontline . the award for best video journalism from a conflict zone long form goes to alexander. from russia for the series of reports covering russian military in syria. the award for best written journalism from a conflict zone ghost to an indian journalist ruchi kumar for her in-depth coverage

of a rainy and depredations of afghan refugees muhammad ali alexander can average which he kumar congratulations even though we cannot be with you in the same room we are by your side we hope that this award will serve as a reminder that your work is seen and appreciate it around the world. iraq graduations to all of them of us haven't you just looking so fast that i hear an artist kind of asked what must i look back again in 30 minutes.

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