politics or business i'm sure i'll see you in. the end of nations being bombed into democracy biden's administration says no more u.s. backed regime change although we ask whether it's might die hard also to come the international criminal court which is a probe into alleged is ready for prime time. but israel hits back. the call of the i.c.c. ibut with the international circus of clowns. and children's books by famous author dr seuss to shelter over claims they contain stereotypes but the band then sends them to the top of the bestsellers list on amazon and meanwhile a poll finds the 64 percent of americans still believe that cancer culture opposed to freedoms we put the issue. we have to keep in mind that you have

a lot of people at home ideologies that simply should no longer exists well i would hate to live in a world where one people or heck even a group of people got to decide what was and wasn't racist and therefore what was and was not acceptable. and i like good afternoon just gone 2 o'clock in moscow you with r.t. international now washington has said it will no longer carry out military interventions abroad some are questioning its new commitment given america's long record of backing and joe biden supporting nato he's bombing if you can slavia assessing this latest switch on foreign policy his. we will incentivize democratic behavior. but we will not promote democracy through costly military interventions or by attempting to overthrow off regimes by force. we've tried these

tactics in the past. however well intentioned they haven't worked quite an interesting use of words but the pattern from the united states of intervening in the affairs of other countries destabilizing and overthrowing governments around the world is quite well known one looks at the history of iraq of libya afghanistan one looks throughout south and central america one can see many examples of the united states intervening in other countries affairs destabilizing and overthrowing governments in fact in recent years we've heard many calls from u.s. leaders for governments around the world to be overthrown and for leaders to step down assad needs to go we will continue to work with our partners in the international community to press. the to leave the time is come for nicholas mcdermott to go what's interesting is that just a day ago we actually had a tweet from anthony blinken in which she gave full support to one guede 01 grade 0

is an individual in venezuela who has proclaimed himself to be the president and has been engaging in violent attempts to destabilize venezuela to overthrow the elected government there of even u.s. military contractors that have been involved in those military coup attempts so having anthony blinken you know you know voicing support for one great oh the unelected individual who claims to be venezuela's leader kind of flies in the face of his claim that the united states won't be using force now if there was one loophole you could say in anthony blinken remarks he did create a pretext in which the united states would be continuing to use force against governments of course we will never hesitate to use force when american lives and vital interests are at stake now what exactly would constitute such a threat he did not lay out any specific criteria so it seems that though the united states through its new secretary of state is announcing that no more force

will be used many wonder if this will see. embley bia a changing of rhetoric looks like the united states will most likely be continuing its foreign policy activities but only time will tell he did leave that huge loophole where he said vital interests vital interests can mean almost anything are the moon you name it it could be a vital interest to america if a politician wants to say that's the case you know trump certainly had his own style that was very bombastic and out there and other presidents have been more reserved in their or in their description of activities but when you look at the actual policies we've seen no change and i think it sounds like rhetoric not something that we can count on yet you know president trying started a trade war with china and now president biden's talking about well we're going to cooperate with other countries but we're also going to have trade agreements that protect our workers and do this and that which in the end probably means the exact same policies as a national trade war so i don't see biden tearing up

a lot that is substantial i see him rebranding a lot of the same old thing but anthony blinken has repaid biden's america is back slogan and some is skeptical about what exactly that means. was. last. with. with. america is

back. what america does stand to say quite a bit of money if it puts a stop to for a minute tree interventions a recent report has found that the u.s. has wasted billions of dollars on unserviceable or abandoned buildings and the courts in its longest ever war afghanistan often the early $7800000000.00 in capital assets reviewed in his prior records special inspector general for afghanistan reconstruction identified by a $2400000000.00 in assets that were used to rebound and had not been used for their intended purposes had deteriorated over or destroyed. the sake of report there also found that since 2008 just over $1000000000.00 of u.s.

funded assets were uses were used as originally intended while only $340000000.00 worth of equipment is quote maintained in good condition while the u.s. war in afghanistan began back in 2001 but despite pledges from various presidents to withdraw troops from the war torn country there are still around 2500 american soldiers there brian becker from the answer coalition believes american tax dollars could have been better spent this is amazing levels of waste fraud and abuse perhaps. you have $2400000000.00 of equipment that's no longer available to be used buildings that were constructed in can't be used because they're in disrepair but this is reflective of how the afghan war has gone from the beginning hundreds of billions of dollars have been spent. and i

would say tens of billions of dollars have either been looted by american military personnel or their allies in afghanistan or the money has been completely disregarded so it's fraud and it's abuse the reality is the american government the congress passes these giant military budgets almost a trillion dollars a year and there's no accountability at but if you have these huge bundles of money available to be spent then there's an incentive to make a contract with someone who's going to build a building and perhaps not really build it or build a building that's not needed take some of the money in the form of profit and give it to goes who made the contract for them in other words a kickback this is a big system of criminal activity and it is a form of corruption but because it's in the name of national security in the name of defense no one asks important questions. the international criminal

court has launched a probe into alleged war crimes by israel in palestine that increased the 2014 gaza war which was one of the deadliest conflicts between the take sides. the decision to open an investigation full of the painstaking problem and or examination undertaken by the office that lasted close to 5 years our central concern must be for the victims of crimes both palestinian and israeli arising from the long cycle of violence and insecurity that has caused deep suffering and despair on all sides. kwaku.

in february the trial chamber of the international criminal court determined that the hague court has jurisdiction for opening a criminal investigation into the activities of israel and the hamas leadership for alleged war crimes in east jerusalem gaza and the west bank the palestinians have said that this is a victory for the victims they say it's a landmark historic decision but as expected the israelis for some time has been campaigning against precisely what was announced today back in february the israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu had this to say when the i.c.c. investigates israel for fake war crimes this is pure anti semitism. this prime

minister of israel i assure you we will fight this barrage of justice with our might what this means is that hundreds of israelis could find themselves out on the wrong side of the law and we're talking here about the israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu why. dantes ministers and even ordinary soldiers the country's defense minister benny gantz has said that he's never been afraid of crossing over in the lines and this announcement doesn't make him feel for either the united states has been a longtime ally of israel and when the former president donald trump was in power way he sanctioned the international criminal court after a tried to open an investigation in the palestinian territories now however under his successor joe biden it is possible that there is pressure to lift the sanctions and of course israel is lobbying against this what remains to be seen is just what comes out of this investigation horsley reporting there were earlier my colleague

you know me or discuss the investigation with the taliban it is israel's former defense minister and current candidate for prime minister. this is a perversion of justice of any basic morals you know when one side or another the 2nd side has a right to self-defense the court is not a court you know they call it the i.c.c. i view it the international circus of clowns let me tell you something you know i thought in quite a few wars defending my family come us shoots rockets at israeli from within hospitals within homes within schools and then when we want to fight back then this i.c.c. thing tells us that we're immoral and you are saying that the militants were based in hospitals on schools but by firing bach were actually schools and nurses and doctors where working civilians were killed there is very much

a sense of proportionality to be to be held here isn't there and israel did not. is there you know if someone is shooting your kids your kids from within the school how proportional are you going to react well there's a sense of self defense of course i agree with but in terms of doing that do you not prolong the war on the victims in israel as well as palestine making it even worse for future generations surely there's a stage where you have to say listen we're going to go after these people but we're not going to try to kill as many civilians as we did before oh no you're distorting things we never are out to kill civilians being killed. oh they've been killed by their own government hamas which places rockets next to their children so yes let me but you know if your rep and ever places rockets from within civilians he is murdering his own people not israel there's an evil side that is an attack him there's a good side that's defending and the only side that holds any responsibility is the

offender let me be very clear you know if there is a list of people. or are going to the hard going to be at the top of the list we will never have an israeli soldier while defending itself. now amazon has seen a huge spike in sales of the classic dr seuss children's books that's after the publisher decided to discontinue the series for containing what it says are racial stereotypes these books put 3 people in ways that were hurtful and wrong sitting sells these books is only part of our commitment and there are a broader plan to ensure dr seuss enterprises catalog represents and supports all communities and families with the announcement that 6 books will be scrapped was made on the late author's birthday and after the statement book sales on amazon skyrocketed by over 5000000 percent in just 24 hours taking them to the top of the

bestsellers now u.s. researchers do say that several books contained examples of white supremacy and negative portrayal of asian people well they do also include the depiction of a japanese character with yellow face which was deemed to be racist the study also concluded so then an image of 3 asian people carrying a white person was an example of white dominance however the story of the grinch one of dr seuss's most famous works is still available. as christos. crisscross music. to the glory of my shop. well the author's stepdaughter supported the publishers decision but said that dr seuss didn't have a racist bone in his body editor director editorial director sorry julia river believes that the authors relative had no option though but to doubt down down to the woke brigade. all this has been manufactured to the point where of

course she's probably going to say something like that because it's the smart thing to say so that long term it doesn't damage the dr seuss brand going forward because let's face it i mean that's their families money maker they don't want to get canceled the imagery that people are are kind of harking on and making a big deal about i guess could be considered by people who are extremely sensitive and probably looking for something to be upset about but but again i think that this is an example of you know 1st world problems let's call it that when you've got nothing else to worry about then this is what you're going to focus on kind of nonsensical stuff and i think that the cancel culture the p.c. police we live in a time of phony outrage maybe i'm a little bit different maybe just whatever and i don't know if it's the way that

i'm wired but i don't personally find offense to it but then again i don't walk around online watching t.v. walking the streets looking for something to be offended by you know to me that's not really you know. something that we should be upset about like you know the anti-semitism of the 1930 s. in germany is something that merits outrage dr seuss's books do not somehow he goes from being this great children's all sir that you know cream up with these great stories that if you know provided wonder to children for years to being in some sort of odd nazi or something it does appear that people in america are all guessing at that time to cancel culture that's according to a recent poll we'll have the details on not because of the stories take just often a sprint.

because i'm a metabolife small molecule little bodies maker and i make less of it as we get older this is one of the things i work on it. and because we have less of it we become more prone to infection and the crazy thing is that current 19 sars could be to one of its ways of attacking the body to deplete the body even more of that chemical which we need to fight infections. so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy confrontation let it be an arms race in. spearing dramatic development only personally i'm going to resist i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical time to sit down and talk.

again you with us hey now the rise of so-called council culture is being seen by some as such a threat to freedom of speech that one u.s. lawmaker is now calling on congress to address the issue council culture is a dangerous phenomenon and whether you agree or disagree with the views been censored if cancel concert continues unchallenged it is not just the unpopular controversial viewpoints that are its risk. well a recent poll did find that 64 percent of americans do agree that boycotting or removing certain types of content does pose a threat to freedoms in the country it also concluded too that 80 percent of republicans consider cancell culture

a threat while only 48 percent of democrats now the issue has been highlighted by a number of high profile cases over the past year or so last week amazon pulled a book by a conservative author that challenges the transgender movement earlier to democratic representatives also called on cable companies to stop posting conservative leaning news channels and then in 2020 an editor at the new york times resigned over an opinion piece by a republican senator advocating the use of military force in protests we discuss the census sensitive issue here with a panel of guests. the problem with cancell culture is that when we're looking into people's past 20 years ago 30 years ago in some cases what does it look like holding people responsible now for things that they have done i mean almost a generation ago can't people change can't people become better people as time goes on council culture does not allow for that have i said things that i think you know in 20 years maybe you'll look and say oh you should have said that while that's

true and it makes us all need to be more mindful of how we conduct ourselves and what we say it's not ok to just speak so freely about people of different colors of different races socioeconomic status or handicaps we need to be mindful that our society is locals about so many types of people there are of course racist people out there is the best way to change their minds and improve race relations to simply silence anyone who goes against the narrative or should we actually be doing more to engage with those people and maybe explain why their actions might hurt others or try to change their opinions how many people have had their mind changed by being silenced it just doesn't seem like a long term strategy that will work our society has largely built on greyson's of our society is largely built for on things that are just and racism to some integrity to who america is that to strip people that racism seems anti american and some who have people who want

a little better instead she's all know this with my great great grandfather well ok but her great great grandfather who need that black people were from both of them and that they should have rights so you know we have to keep in mind that you have a lot of people wholly willing to ideologies that simply should no longer exist well i would hate to live in a world where one people or heck even a group of people got to decide what was and wasn't racist and therefore what was and was not acceptable in the public sphere that goes just intrinsically against the concept of freedom of expression which is essential if you hope to have a culture in a society where different people with different. indians can actually live peacefully together we're not going to continue to coddle racism in america that's simply not the role that we we should probably take it's best that we began to doubt all of the structures that are harmful whether they're on facebook or a mine in a park it's time to take those down and move forward and here with us or you're not . the f.b.i.

director has labeled the capitol right protesters domestic terrorists during a hearing the senate judiciary committee he said that the threat they pose to american society is actually similar to that of the so-called islamic state that attack that siege was criminal behavior plain and simple its behavior that we the f.b.i. fused to most of terrorism back in june of 2019 under my leadership we all of the aided racially and ethnically motivated violent extremists to our highest threat pro are on the same level with isis and homegrown streams well the hearing did focus on the f.b.i.'s handling of a report on the right warning of possible violence the f.b.i. said it was passing information we did pass the information on to the capitol police deny they actually received it 5 people died as a result of the rise including a police officer and

a man who shot to shield try to enter the house chamber f.b.i. head chris of a re also said that there is no evidence to suggest that any trauma groups organized the right contrary to what some republicans believe earlier we spoke to jennifer the master and anti terror expert and also the glenn list. we cannot have an f.b.i. that downplays violence against us like b.l.m. even if it's not the majority and there must be equal justice under the law we must discuss threats equally clean when the george floyd riot started were allowed to have thousands of people on the streets looting businesses burning down buildings threatening it threatening people arson all over it and so the kind of violence that we saw coming from that you're looking at 2 side by sides if you haven't seen it reported seeing this is a completely mostly peaceful protest with buildings on fire behind him and on the other side of the screen you're seen a guy with some horns walking around taking selfies with capitol police and one of

those has been called horrific domestic terrorism the other one has been called mostly peaceful we have a problem it is concerning what when depending on your political ideology you can get away with literally burning down somebodies building burning down some is livelihood as long as you're part of the right political ideology. the local council in the u.k. has called for a parliamentary inquiry into paying reparations for britain's involvement in the slave trade the proposal was approved by bristol council making it the 1st authority outside london to do so city council a kid lake proposed the measure believes that bristol hasn't managed to shake off the shadow of its past. brew still mooches grew reach through african slave mint and this legacy is still with us not only in the buildings that surround us but also the rife inequalities of wealth and up at unity across our city it does

come 8 months after protesters tore down a statue of slave trade edward colston and threw it into bristol harbor we put the sensitive issue of slavery reparations up for debate. paul african and caribbean heritage speak who constitutes one of the greatest crimes in human history the legacies of which are still being felt today so these are very real world consequences even today and i think that the. motion produced by bristol city council has been a great explaining cool city boutiques well it's the call of the exploitation and genocide of millions of africans to drive past into biking said i'm sorry but what i'd like to know is where those reparations get paid to whose pockets to they go into how is that all managed i'd also like to know how that goes any way you talk about it you talk about the cost consider this slavery it's been

a slavery trite you talk about the consequences of that but actually those consequences today need to be addressed i mean money out for something that happened 100 years ago and will that we put a stop to it is not the also the also race to stop this divisive talk about heated this heated deitsch mine that they should apologize for this and we should focus on taking everybody as they are based on like their merits that character their contribution to society not taking up these things we continue continue doing that it will never end when we drove through a lot it's for you now it's reparations but what about me ok i might say i might i'm not i'm not saying i want reparations for what liking to liking state 1000 years ago why not where we draw draw a line i tell you where we draw the line we look to the future where we draw the line is where those crimes continue to present day legacies that's where we draw the line and nobody can doubt slavery the issue like supremacism racism continue to

the profound legacy not just here in the united kingdom of african caribbean people . coming. it was simple call out all over the world so those are the australian little bit where you wear those least oracle transgressions by state parties you continue to have it really it's called the joy of the nation in real time as are all joys of activation like our gas money to actually solve this problem wherever so much is not so i will allow answer the question about where this money should go not quite and short some of it could be regionally cultural artifacts that are stuck in the museum of they should be returned to their countries of origin. like we had already and i have a quick look this world news in brief this era man wielding an axe is indeed a table in sweden where a 20 year old suspect was shot by officers and taken to hospital police say they're investigating possible terror motives behind the attack

a number of the victims are in a serious condition to according to a police spokesperson the incident happened in the town of that land 340 kilometers south of stockholm and central grace has been rocked by a 6.3 magnitude earthquake hundreds of buildings there have been damaged in the quake which was felt as far away as albania and also kosovo we know reports there are serious injuries there and 6 people have been rescued from the rubble of that collapsed. so i bring you up to date watching r.t. just coming up to half past in the afternoon in moscow will be back again at the top of the. the spring carmen's this.

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