r.t. america. the boeing seven thirty seven is the most common commercial aircraft type in the sky it's the only plane southwest airlines flies in the new seven thirty seven max jets are at their best seller. airliners ever yet over three hundred of them remain grounded some five thousand now on order our most of boeing's backlog as the investigation into what happened in two recent max crashes continues there are disturbing new questions for answers let's welcome jamie finch who served as the national transportation safety board rector of public and family affairs for eight years thanks for joining us thank you the wall street journal is reporting that you as oficial zz have said the government's recent shut down also halted work on the fix for five weeks and now the f.b.i. is looking into federal aviation administration boeing to certify its own systems and while other countries were quicker than the usa to ground the seven thirty seven max and acting commissioner was running the f.a.a. boeing re

r.t. america correspondent alex mchale of it has more on the anniversary of the conflict . this was serbia twenty years ago. on march twenty fourth one thousand nine hundred nine ruthless nato campaign against the small balkan nation began i was there at the time so i'm going to take you through a bit of a personal journey at the time i was living here serbia's third largest city northeast side which seemed to be a million miles away from the battles in kosovo that very evening i was chilling out on the couch watching t.v. with my dog when suddenly the earth started shaking and the sky turned a bright red warning the airstrikes had begun after the first explosion or ran down the stairs trying to get out of the house not knowing where the next floor was going to hit. the second i stopped at the store. looked up in the sky and there was a cruise missile flying over the house over there seconds later another explosion. that tomahawk missile hit a target in the hills above nobody saw it was one of fifty five u.s. cruise missiles used against yugoslavia that night after by hundr

r.t. america. has. trump and maddow did focus a lot of their meeting on venezuela talking about the importance of them working together in order to bring down a president what are some other on power now it's important to note that brazil was one of the first countries and after the u.s. with knowledge. claim president as the only legitimate leader of venice well now when trump and what's the matter we're talking about focusing on their meeting on venezuela he did mention cuba and this is what he had to say we call on members of the venezuelan military to end their support for madeira. who is really nothing more than a cuban puppet and finally set their people free trump also said that the u.s. has yet to impose the toughest sanctions on venezuela but he again reiterated that all options remain on the table and earlier before the meeting at trump when asked about possible military intervention this is what he said every options on the table with respect to venezuela they said that they don't want to giv

r.t. america sara month of thank you so much for joining you told me it is saturday there are lots of different stories i don't know left and right so so one of the main things to look at is the military. that remains there that didn't burn up were the actual aid that wasn't medical supplies or maybe maybe not that's not made it into venezuela so what is actually happened to that well it looks like it's just sitting out those borders or since february fourth so this is over a month ago already more than one hundred ninety five million dollars have been sent in government aid and this includes food medicine hygiene kits and other equipment now this has not made it like you said into it when asked whether now pompei i spoke at the state department just moments ago and let's take a listen to what he said. we always wish things could go faster but i'm very confident that the tide is moving in the direction of the venezuelan people and will continue to do so it doesn't take that it doesn't take much for you to see what's really going on there. so he went on and said that the humanitarian crisis is i

r.t. america's dan callan has the story. back in two thousand and sixteen then president barack obama was under pressure to be extra judicial assassination of civilians and secret wars across the globe he signed an executive order saying that each may the defense intelligence agency had to release its figures of how many civilians were killed by drones thanks to president trump's latest executive order the public won't have any knowledge is that figure rises signed on march sixth this executive order drops obama's requirement giving the u.s. military even less public oversight obviously the obama administration made more effort to appear to be transparent and accountable but the numbers of deaths especially the numbers of civilian deaths that the u.s. was willing to acknowledge have never been more than a tiny fraction of the true number of deaths being killed by drones or by other u.s. military operations this applies to countries like yemen libya pakistan and somalia among others it's a seemingly endless list of countries

r.t. america's john how did john thank you so much for coming on and you know bring us up to date on what's he got to venezuela why is nicolas maduro now asking his cabinet to reside and it hasn't happened yet what's the time why a timeframe of this yeah it's a good question time. it's good to be with you by the way we haven't heard if the entire cabinet has resigned news of this just to kind of set the scene for the news of this came from venezuelan vice president bill c. rodriguez who tweeted out yesterday that it had asked his entire executive cabinet to be relieved from their dirty duties in order to restructure the government she says in this tweet adding that the reorganization is aimed at protecting the as she says fatherland and goes on to say from any threat now this of course comes tyrrel as you and your viewers know is venezuela still really from you know the widespread blackouts that have really thrown the country into you know overall darkness really further exacerbating the ongoing political situation there and one that suggested could be the result of a high tech cyber warfar

r.t. america's natasha three has a story. for the time being los angeles county officials are banning the use of roundup after one of its ingredients has been linked to cancer the los angeles county board of supervisors are asking for all departments to halt the use of round up until public health and environment professionals can determine if it's safe for further use this all comes after a second court ruling finding roundup was a substantial factor in a consumer's not hodgkins lymphoma most recently in san francisco court ruled in favor of seventy year old edwin hartman's case hardiman reportedly developed the cancer after using the herbicide on his to know my california property for decades was the lack of sufficient warnings a substantial factor in causing harm to mr johnson answer yes last august a california court initially awarded one johnson two hundred million for his cancer after using round up on schools as a groundskeeper the payout later reduced to seventy million but it opened the floodgates of some one thousan

r.t. america big picture hosted resident holland cook joins us how much does this reflect the way we now shop holland what is this like i mean isn't shopping sort of like this but ometer tell us yeah you can measure it in miles per hour or kilometers per hour but you're going as fast as you're going that said how we shop is changing if you have been to the mall lately is the mall still open and if it is still a shopping center poignantly some twenty former u.s. shopping malls are being transformed into amazon depots malls were to the pre internet era of what e-commerce is to today everything in one place but you had to go there now amazon delivers free if you're amazon prime some day they tell us via drone and beyond where we shop how much we pay has evolved since brick and mortar pricing if you buy airline tickets or hotel rooms online you play the dynamic pricing game queen's university professor your eleven calls on line prices moving target and he offers for tips for playing the game in wired magazine tip one waited out having owned a hotel myself i can identify i could never sell an empt

r.t. america is damned cohen has the story and will have a fantastic discussion after stay tuned to watch for the hawks. after the previous stage of my career was over everyone wondered what i was going to do next the ball different clubs on one hand it is logical to say i know from fields where everything is familiar on the other i wanted a new challenge and the fresh perspective i'm used to surprising people and i saw one on t.v. . i'm going to talk about football not the or else if you think i was going to go. by the way ways of that slide here. you know world a big part of the lot and conspiracy it's time to wake up to dig deeper to hit the stories that mainstream media refuses to tell more than ever we need to be smarter we need to stop slamming the door on the bats and shouting past each other it's time for critical thinking it's time to fight for the middle for the troops the time is now for watching closely watching the hawks. starting to appear ark watchers that the political fight for the soul of venezuela has now come to the streets of the united states of america yes after wee

r.t. america's national banks has more on the crashes and the events that led to these announcements the pilot of the ethiopian airlines jet that crashed on sunday reported he was having flight control problems and wanted to return to the airport so this crash was the second fatal accident to take place involving a boeing seven thirty seven max jet and less than five months and i told her of last year max a jet crash in the java sea killing all passengers and crew on board and both instances the flight to experience a drastic speed fluctuations during ascent and both pilots tried to return to the airport a few minutes after takeoff but were unable to do so experts say a new feature was introduced to the max jets that would help prevent the jet's nose from raising dangerously high and in some cases accidently nose diving resulting in either a steep dive or crash it's not yet clear whether the feature was an effective due to the unknown more than fifty nations including canada australia brazil china the cayman islands the u.k. the netherlands south africa turkey spain and switzerland have taken

r.t. international. life expectancy in america is plummeting if you look at the chart it's shocking to look at that almostevery other country is kind of inching up on one side of the chart and that as an outlier is the united states is the way over here it's all crashing down from the drugs from the having junk food having junk culture having it's junk politics and fake news it's all fake and fake doesn't sustain life and you see it in the numbers it's clear. my son doing drugs my nephews was still in drugs my sister just with doing drugs it was like an epidemic of drug abuse america's public enemy number one in the united states is drug abuse we started going after the users in the prison population sewer we started treating sick people people who are addicted to these drugs like criminals while i was on the hill why we became convinced that the war on drugs was a mistake there are countless numbers of people who are in prison for inconceivable . sins for minor minor offenders in the drug trade it's a lot watching your children grow up and miss you in wave and say by day as you're walking out of a busine

let's talk now to political analyst nickel america which welcome to r.t. again this seems to be a particularly desperate act on the part of the migrants risking their lives in the first place and then risking prosecution for hijacking a ship is europe going to have to rethink its response on how it deals with refugees. house i think it has to rethink its whole position on this migrant issue and it's not just about welcoming these refugees it's about its cooperation with a lot of these african countries or asian countries where these refugees are coming from and don't forget that we were talking about all these refugees coming from libya and maybe european institutes start should start doing some reporting on to european countries which participated in the bombing of the united the united kingdom in france and who created the situation of chaos now we're not only is there are there thousands hundreds of thousands of refugees coming in since you have but also slavery which is going back to a country were hit was barren before so i think you have definite has

r.t. international. country has gone into a nihilistic fever. get out the traveling across america to find what makes america the showed sense the genius of this the quintessential american hero this is it we've come a point around which ultimate is done something we always are on the margins to this whole dung culture is moving forward. we're starting last with is to begin to headed east into the swamp we're going into the belly of the bees i think i want to leave now doesn't get any more gonzo than the me may be completely different and a mystery. well . come on. both you know what the cost. or your. focus on it you come from up there and i don't think i want to. give it up because a couple of i did want to show what a sneaky god time he. was for would be ok senator i want to know full well for you because i think you know how to. say to both fish and to hear all about it you want to be able to perform. it on faith no nothing. none of that in a way out of fear from. the photo one that will open tonight will be so. max kaiser this is the kaiser report you know you can't taper a po

r.t. up next the dark side of america's presence in japan and how the wife of a u.s. marine is giving voice. sees private companies that have got a lot of v.c. venture capital funding are ready to go public this year i saw the list they're all going out of the forty fifty sixty seventy billion dollars valuation so the prediction here is that it will be the end of this cycle you're going to have a like two thousand and one style crash. due to the fact that there's nothing to support the valuations of these companies and very quickly crash. into american women have launched an initiative to help people on the japanese island of okinawa who've been sexually assaulted by u.s. military personnel washington has over twenty five thousand troops in the prefecture hundreds of all the members have been convicted of serious crimes there in recent decades including rape we spoke to one of the women who's working with victims. and the reason that i wanted to create survivors you know and it's because it's been my you know our feelings we went through we went through i was so lost

r.t. new york. members of conservative party how flushed america's i'd spoken ambassador to germany after richard grinnell warned that the us could cut down on the intelligence and chairs with berlin should chinese telecoms giant weiwei take part in the country's five gene infrastructure project though peter all over reports german and busters elsewhere are not exactly part of diplomatic tact themselves. chancellor merkel is far from happy with the latest comments from washington's man in berlin richard grinnell said that should germany proceed with developing its next generation of wireless internet infrastructure alongside the chinese telecom company who while we're well then would be limited in the intelligence that was being shared with us from washington none of your business says angela merkel. the security particularly when it comes to the expansion of the five g. network but also elsewhere in the digital area is a very important concern for the german government so we are defining our standards for ourselves other politicians have also been quick to condemn the u.s. ambassador's approach the feder

r.t. sam next time so long for now. america's policy in iraq has never been a smashing success but apparently there's still room to make it worse the secretary of state's recent visit to the region was full of bold proclamations and quiet reversals water years trumps policy in iraq. as an officer of the two had to get up off the ground began to. herd them freeze on the sounds of. the grown man mislead essentially. through his return. to push through away from the officer. of his group. the obvious or did they kind of lunge for the web in one's midst and then when it happened on three swung and i didn't hit him i never saw any contact with. any kind of went back to where they were so the officers back here there try again fifteen feet apart at this point and that's when the officer is gonna need to turn three. this. midday from moscow seems clear might be the first g seven nations to join china's global trade network. despite growing concerns in other western countries about a. u.k. prime minister says the twenty ninth of march de

labelled to be extremist whether on the far left or the far right but in twenty twenty america seems to be in a new era. r.t. new york. us watchdog touted as a beacon in the fight against hate speech is at the center of racism and sexism scandal its president is stepping down saying that whatever wrong happened on his watch is his responsibility. now reports. they are the judge jury and exit q chanelle when it comes to what you or me post online amazon google facebook all of the major web monopolies use the southern poverty law center as their go to mentor to tell apart hate speech from ok speech the s.p.l. season nonstop operations are facilitated by half a billion dollars and relentless support from the mainstream media apparatus southern poverty law center put into the southern poverty law center the southern poverty law center reports on the southern poverty law center which tracks hate groups designated a hate group by the southern poverty law center and a plot twist the beacon in the fight against discrimination may have strayed from the narrow path of righteousness a long time ago if it was ever on i

r.t. new york political science professor collin ask about police america's pastime rhetoric is not healthy. with the trumpet ministration is doing is forcing us. and other countries to choose are you going to war this is a gross. who elected government of venezuela or are you going to go. aboard this this government the united states does not like so is international. the venezuelan conflict on a very dangerous basis because countries now are being forced to or they're going to go with aggressive action or they're going to those who are democracy and the rights of the people who are. a british born man in syria has accused the u.k. of racism off to london stripped him of his citizenship over alleged ties to this took a sheriff described himself as an aid worker and denies any wrongdoing but admits to previous. combat in syria and the society except the story. to care sharif has spent years in syria as a prominent aid worker described as one of the most high profile for nationals in ablett. series appearances on prominent news networks as well as dispatches via his live updates from syria b

labelled to be extremist whether on the far left or the far right but in twenty twenty america seems to be in a new era. r.t. new york. sunday hundreds took to the streets of belgrade to mark twenty years since one thousand started its bombing campaign against the former yugoslavia what nato claimed was a humanitarian operation to help the country separatists local saw as a regime change campaign in which thousands were killed the protesters condemned the nato bombing and i'm overtired truth that many still view as the nation's historic heartland nation insists its actions were legitimate and motivated by quote the humanitarian cause. nato became involved in yugoslavia in march two thousand nine hundred ninety nine to sectarian tensions between the and cost of the now violent the alliance bank the latter without any un mandate nato bombed only three months straight leaving many parts of devastated antti america correspondent alex. the conflict. this was serbia twenty years ago. on march twenty fourth one thousand nine hundred nine ruthless nato campaign against the small balkan nation began i was there at t

r.t. international with me making our top story this hour russia's foreign ministry has accused the u.s. of treason in latin america like a colony the comments come in response to washington's claims of russian military interference in venezuela r.t. still a quarter has more. we can give way to big hype over russian military planes appearing in caracas carrying cargo and about one hundred military personnel now the move to send military personnel to venezuela sparked serious criticism from washington who has been pushing for regime change in the country mike pompei on monday stated the move is increasing tensions and national. security advisor john bolton said he won't tolerate any foreign countries in the u.s. his backyard prompting a pushback from moscow united states will not tolerate whole style foreign military powers meddling with the western hemisphere's shared goals of democracy security and the rule of law the venezuelan military must stand with the people of venezuela top u.s. representatives who failed to change the lawful regime in caracas partly thanks to russia's steadfast position on the maintenance

r.t. international. russia's foreign ministry has accused the u.s. of treating latin america like a colony the comments come in response to washington's claims of russian military interference in venezuela on the quarter explained. this weekend gave way to a big hype over russian military planes appearing in caracas they were carrying cargo and around one hundred military personnel from the russian federation now we've seen russian the russian foreign ministry's explanation for their presence there now and they're suggesting that there was nothing illegal or clandestine about it saying that it was all within the bounds of international law and the military technical agreement they've had with the venezuelan government since two thousand and one now the move to send what moscow calls military advisors to venezuela sparked serious criticism from washington who is now pushing for regime change in the country now mike pompei on monday said that this move seriously increased tensions in the region while national security advisor john bolton said he would not tolerate any meddling

america. i mean what. are. the stories that shaped the week here on r.t. international new zealand mourns the fifty people killed in a terror attack on two mosques a man who made a white supremacist sign in court has been charged with murder in connection with the mass shootings and has to face for their charges. not just the monument a splash of money and i'm simple my vote for my vote is going to happen to me now it was fun to believe people and everybody distraught over the bad colds just to save themselves. after weeks of political stalemate over bricks at the u.k. parliament votes to try and delay the country's divorce from near zero.

be extremist whether on the far left or the far right but in twenty twenty america seems to be in a new era cable mop and r.t. new york. ukrainian authorities have been involved in special operations which they knew in advance could result in a large number of civilian casualties at least that's according to a former employee of the ukrainian security service who has been cooperating with moscow so let's get more on this now with the sort of man close to death he says the press conference today but i'm what i said. well the man's name is. off and he claims that he's been working with the russian secret services for the last five years right after the government coup in kiev in that's when fifteen russia's foreign intelligence service are yet to comment on his statement that he's been working with the russian special services for five years already well in about an hour this double agent revealed that say ukraine's secret service. is behind most of the criminal events that took place after the government coup in a key of a just a few of his allegations while he claims that there are secret prisons of the cran

equally lord no not venezuela but the largest country in latin america brazil here is the now jailed presidential candidate speaking on r.t. to former ecuadorian president rafael correa before he was banned from running for president again. for my party wants me to run for president they support my candidacy and i'm greatly to win the election and it is possible to restore brazil's economy to make sure that we see economic growth again create new jobs and help the poor become less pool they know that i can achieve those things if they don't want to but who are they because this is what lunas lawyer queens counsellor an internationally renowned human rights barrister geoffrey robertson q.c. said on monday's show there is a mentality in the judges. i determined no matter what to keep him in prison so the whole scenario has a clear run lumia world would have beaten both so naro not according to the brazilian embassy in london they told going underground unfortunately the words of mr jeffrey robinson do not correspond to the truth in brazil the judiciary is fully independent and due process of law is faithfully observed the s

be extremist whether on the far left or the far right but in twenty twenty america seems to be in a new era a little up and r.t. new york numbering jobsite here are not safe at this hour back again.

equally lord no not venezuela but the largest country in latin america brazil here is the now jailed presidential candidate speaking on r.t. to former ecuadorian president rafael correa before he was banned from running for president again. my party wants me to run for president they support my candidacy and i'm greatly to win the election and it is possible to restore brazil's economy to make sure that we see economic growth again create new jobs and help the poor become less poor and they know that i can achieve those things if they don't want to but who are they because this is what lunas lawyer queens counsellor an internationally renowned human rights barrister geoffrey robertson q.c. said on monday's show there is a mentality in the jug juice. why determined matter what to keep him in prison so that. has a clear run would have beaten both so naro not according to the brazilian embassy in london they told going underground unfortunately the words of mr jeffrey robinson do not carefully observed the specific case of former president lula has already been analyzed by different judges in different levels of jurisdiction

r.t. . country's gone into a nihilistic fever. i think we've got to. get out the traveling across america to find what makes america the charlotte. this is a point. system. culture . we're starting last with is going to headed east into the swamp we're going into the belly of the beast i think i want to leave now doesn't get any more. it may be completely different. join me every thursday on the alex simon sure and i'll be speaking to guests of the world of politics small business i'm show business i'll see you then. these three this saturday c.n.n. is facing questions of a diversity within its top brass itself to several groups of diversity has been running the american brokaw stuff. what people in europe in america ought to be proud of what they should be celebrating all the remarkable achievements diversity diversity in the workplace diversity inclusion respect featuring several black news anchors and correspondents c.n.n. seems to lack such representation and its top ranks that includes executive producers vice presidents and other senior positions as well the national association of

r.t. international smalling the u.s. secretary of state alleges that russia's interfered in every single election in america since two thousand and four on the george w. bush era. the us bill china's biggest danger since the soviet union a notion beijing dismisses it. colonialist and racist the renowned french universe slammed for its students production of a greek tragedy. good morning live from art international's main studio h.q. in moscow for this thirty minute updates kevin owen with your great if you company first and well the twenty ninth of march was supposed to go down in history as that day when britain finally divorced from the european union what a long two years it's been of the go all that's been turned on its head though and instead there's expected to be yet another crucial vote on to reason may's breaks it will draw agreement a bit later and this is takes a look at what's in store today. finally the date is here march twenty ninth twenty nineteen and the story for britain marking its departure from the european union. or wait a second. a day like any other except with less clarity about what happens next then

r.t. dot com coming up next award winning also calvin ramsey is the guest on sophie and co talking about america's history of racial segregation and joy that. sophie shevardnadze the oscar winning drama green book racism in america back in the spotlight this is a problem with being of the past or is it still an issue of very much alive i ask alexander ramsey an award winning author and playwright who traveled across the united states collecting memories of the jim crow. of a century after the crime is on the. controversial presidency we'll see. blue bloods groups find a way to mount fresh campaigns against racial a twit in america have dropped it in the bell connex is where it's been forgotten and can racism of the truly be rooted out from the united states. calvin alexander ramsey award winning writer and playwright welcome to the show it's really great to have you with us today mr ramsey now you have been digging into the green book for a long time the travel guide for african-americans during the jim crow laws that help them avoid painful discriminations and segregated south jame crown may be a