no shots. actually. well. no there's no. point your thirst for. the u.s. is pulling nearly $12000.00 troops from germany payback the white house says for not paying enough into nato the defense secretary choice of words also cause attention. from the nato any alliance sharing the burden so we can all deter russia and avoid peace in the. big tex for most powerful c. get a grilling by the u.s. congress over political censorship and also competition concerns and hundreds of british health workers march on downing street to demand a pay rise for all in the sector saying they are still back in the pandemic on the

front lines and only getting praise in return. they're just gone 4 pm here in moscow you're watching international the united states is slashing its military presence in germany it is withdrawing or create the pulling nearly $12000.00 personnel and it is part of a long running dispute donald trump has with lynn claiming it's not paying enough into the nato military alliance and lowest slip of the tongue by the u.s. defense secretary did raise a few eyebrows to. 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 will 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 that the words get away from us but mean you have never been 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. or. was there 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i would argue go above and beyond that the number of troops to be withdrawn these high yet the $9000.00 that was quoted by the u.s. president earlier this month the minister president of bavaria market zada a man who's also taped as a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 game is from a military standpoint. in 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 what 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 a world power should the u.s. now wish to draw from that rule of the serial 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 it's all over there will a member of chancellor merkel see the party to tell us the treatment rule could

actually be a good opportunity for germany to revaluate his defense strategy and its role in night or. 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 corporate lives mostly think that we should keep in the way it is but there's a significant stream in the general public 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 say in the east of germany former g.d.r. most most people would say that's was drawn to this ourselves. the cause this small established to russia in the west again it looks different looser the country is divided on this is for you 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 though and. it's a chess some are if you thinking has to be done and i think both. what trump is doing now is will remember all of 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 primary presses 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 misspend and boris lear has more what is president trump left more than seeing his name in golden letters on a big sad well praise in recognition of what we'd see and here in northern israel he's got both trump heights in the middle of nowhere thank you from benjamin netanyahu it is american babbitt 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. stage which we are eternally grateful to much bad faith in 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 through which i can just enter the bit jarring of sentences 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 of a place not even a 2nd chance you see this this building used to be the common law say to the regional village for him and now 80 although he's been a fantasy name change a new settlement has filter tracked many residents today less than a dozen lives here and right now no one seems to be who. i know.

is in one poem 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 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 it's a job so that cater to this is going to want to see because we think it's roads are going to get. to do it. 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 say. r t trump 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 the heads of facebook google and apple face congress and so too did the world's richest man amazon boss jeff bezos. techs out to get conservatives that's not a suspicion that's not a hunch that's a fact single moms new families how with. the prices were driven up by the fact that you eliminate your main competitor well i don't really respect. amazon's dual role as a platform operator and competing seller on that platform is fundamentally anti-competitive and congress must take action please but messenger let's instagram

are the most now downloaded amps over the last decade your company sir owns them all and 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 but it is little wonder that there are monopoly concerns the combined market value of the world's big 4 is greater than the entire economy of germany plus with political appetite regulations increasingly in place it is suspected the social media giants do play a crucial role in elections too and are biased towards the democrats america discuss the issues. but about the timing of all of this why is it happening right now is there any significance to that well there definitely isn't the chairman of the subcommittee spoke out today when the hearings 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 part of the covert 19 pandemic these corporations already stood out as titans in our economy in the wake of corbett 1000. and more powerful than ever before as american family shifted 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 and recent history now as we know these tech companies are no. anger's 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 some 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 they're 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 dress 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 that you and i have been talking about this for years that essentially these companies they are abusing section $230.00 and acting 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. know every week at the height of the pandemic people

across britain did tonight to approve health workers it was appreciated to do but medical stuff did much on the street yesterday saying that what they really need is a decent pay rise across the sector. i thank. you. national health service staff are due an increase but not until next spring however unions do say that money is needed now especially as exhausted health workers are bracing for what could be an imminent 2nd wave campaign as the money is tight but say existing funds should be spread fairly. i completely agree that we're in a very tricky situation at the moment and things are move 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 we've also seen in recent times billions of pounds being hunted to companies and private

companies and businesses you know there are priorities that we can see yet just clearly not a priority in fact if even though ironically or you know quite scary the n.h.s. is being you know is continue to be dismantled continuously undervalued by the important oh the n.h.s. and has. since come through this out here in r.t. u.s. federal offices begin pulling out of the protests plague city of portland we'll have the details plus reaction on that just after the break. thank you.

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welcome back my batteries could be heading towards a run in with russia. security chiefs that they say that they've they've arrested more than 30 russian mercenaries that they suspect of planning terrorism in the country you can start off expects so boleros is taking things very seriously in fact they have opened a terrorism investigation into what these men could be doing on the boat of russian soil but very little details so far no not just to us to the media but to the russian government as well the spokesman for the russian president dmitry peskov one asked as to what the kremlin thinks about the situation what they are doing he said that they don't have the full picture as well we still have incomplete information about what happened there was 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 also completely ruled out the possibility that it was some organization that sent those men to belarus on some secret mission he said that was completely impossible and out of the question but in belarus they are taking the situation as seriously as they possibly can alexander lukashenko for instance the president of bellows he met with the sea with the security council over the situation and here is what he had to say. we need to address the russian mass media and also the not to say no. jonson's 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 or the circumstances of how these men were detained or well i have to say they sound pretty odd for someone on a spy a mission because according to the information coming from belarus all these men of

the rooms of a single hotel and they were wearing military style clothes in public and that was how they got on the radar of the security services so talk about hiding in plain sight alexander lukashenko he is in the middle of his reelection campaign and this road to the next term is proving quite difficult quite rocky for him because people have been taking to the streets protesting against him staying in power and some even went as far as accusing him of jailing his political opponents so this situation that we're talking about only adds chaos to this campaign. now for the race in place protests in the u.s. city of portland saw crags tear gas stay for a night much of their anger was aimed at the federal officers sent down there to crack down.

think that. protest has set off fireworks but found themselves on the receiving end of take gas after ignoring police lab spica warnings there was also a concern saying that to tank campaign is happening tell that they will then be released if they agree to stay away from further protests for the federal offices sent in by don't trump the oregon governor says that they will be game with drawing on thursday they were deployed already this month to cities which doubled trump is the right that is being ruled by liberal democrats while the handling of the racial unrest may be pacing the white house against local leaders however from trump's political rival suspects his tough and response belies a big ego in his sights kind of open as more 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 us' crackdown and law being what mayors say donald trump is disregard by not listening to the message of the protesters 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 us safe and i stands with our friends in portland that is more like a block party atmosphere it's not an art take over it's not a military sprint 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 but can be fooled and playing 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 read 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 don't want lower order law in order will prevail in this president seeks to restore law and order law and order law and order stands for law and order this president stands with law in order and what the rule of law we want law and 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 use running a campaign based on fear come on that is all about trying to come up with a bizarre law in order 2020 campaign thing to try to scare the double numerical 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 and ing him another term in the white house it will come up and r.t. new york. statue in a potential garden in south korea has reignited a number sell the bitter war time to speak with japan it does show a man in front of a girl who symbolizes minute creek sex slaves euphemistically called comfort women

from japan's imperiled colonial era nearly a century ago but what's really annoying japan about it is the fact that the man here does look a little bit like prime minister shinzo are himself no stranger to him framing that speech japan says if it is based on our will seriously impact relations with south korea. duce got doggedly with her and i think such a thing is unforgivable in terms of international courtesy if the reports are accurate it will have a decisive impact on japan and south korea relations. or the bigger issue behind this is over repatriations for the so-called comfort stations they were in use from 932 to the end of the 2nd world war and women were by the offer of work only to be forced into providing sexual services to japanese imperial army soldiers it's thought that around $200000.00 mostly careen women were enslaved now attempts to resolve the dispute over the years have been pretty slow to say the least

a treaty to try and normalize relations came about in 1965 but it took japan until 993 to finally apologize and admit that the women were forced into sex slavery by 2015 her formal apology and deal was agreed with a fund to compensate victims but it didn't go far enough for many in south korea and that deal to almost fell apart campaigners say there is still plenty of unfinished business we will never have peace and asia and to japan brings this chapter took hold and finally unconditionally make an apology through its legislative will just as. the sculptor also says that she named the sculptor eternal at home and it could be mr. it could be any man it could even be the survivors are homeless and really need to

do there instead of trying to change our name or knows his shit so not. but i didn't. know what dependent. and bring justice. closure to the survivors. of this horrendous history. news just in here in total trump are suggesting that november's presidential election should be delayed he's been tweeting in the past half hour or so to you again complain that postal voting will make the election the most fraudulent in history severely lagging in the polls at the moment and his campaign team is worried about a surge of balloting so that people can vote while the daring to social distancing the republicans think it will be

a bonus for rival democrat joe biden trump himself doesn't have the authority to delay an election that power does rest with congress just in here. and i bring you up to date say with all the world be safe today we'll keep you updated throughout the.

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welcome to alex salmond show back in our studio where today we take stock of this year's dramatic developments in irish politics almost unnoticed in the shadow of a well pandemic stampedes election breakthrough by shin fein has sparked an historic realignment and i just politics whether i'm president today alliance between tribal cinephile and finical today we discussed with key players from sinn fein and the greens how this worship the future violent postbag sit and post pandemic and to ask even molly allen's most respected commentator to give us an overview of what these developments in the south mean for the politics of the north now in last week's show we asked the fake and longest serving tea check a prime minister says irish independence for his assessment this is what party hard to see like you is not that we should never do which of course i mean republican.

it is a game of going a lot straight up all the party i lead and for years and it was actively involved at every level at that unification to country but it has to be done properly a pretty organized political c.h.s. trying to convince people and you got away with it only leach it to our chip and say you're. and now with your tweets emails and messages in response to last week sure which featured in the belfast telegraph little to piece about alex's interview of bertie ahern and the son who read the piece in the belfast telegraph said respectfully it will not happen without unionist consent having lived in belfast for 76 years to call for united ireland we don't lead toward ted it is them sound then went off to actually watch our show i'm not back to say i watched your show last night i will confess i find nothing in the content that would be offensive to my unionist position i therefore offer you a sincere apology for a premature judgment. and he goes on to say i suggest you sue the.