states we're going to stay across this as the story develops now let's discuss the issue with rick sterling investigative journalist rick thanks for being with us here on our team international we're going to be here. all right now unfortunately the circumstances another school shooting in the united states. what might trigger a student to target his classmates or former classmates like this in this type of a matter. well we understand it is certainly an extremely tragic day and. the shooter has not been positively identified yet but it's understood he was a former student not a current student. one thing that needs to be noted about this is the incidence of these mass shootings is is increasing very sadly ten years ago there were three or four incidents like this happening a year last year there were eleven incidents of mass shootings and already want to have months into twenty eight hundred this is the second incident of mass shooting so this is a tragedy and there's something something wrong that's feeding this this horrific incident. you know there's always the debate the united states

room but you could also see that the students were visibly shaken and we discussed the issue with rick sterling investigative journalist who thinks a culture of violence in the u.s. is encouraged by policy at the highest level. well it's not hard to obtain weapons in the united states one can do it through a friend or through an online or go to a gun show or or there's all sorts of ways to obtain guns there's a. big problem here is that prevalence of weapons another problem is the prevalence of a violent set but at the state level in we know that the new budget that that's being implemented increases the military by eighty billion dollars so already we have the united states spending more on that on the military than the next eight countries combined just the increase in the u.s. military spending is more than the entire russian military budget eighty billion dollars just imagine if that eighty billion dollars was put to positive uses promoting conflict resolution. putting using it for improving social needs and resolving conflict instead of promoting violence and military solutions we might se

armed but you can also see those students who are visibly shaken and we discussed the issue with rick sterling investigative journalist who thinks a culture of violence in the u.s. is encouraged by policy at the highest level well it's not hard to obtain weapons in the united states one can do it through a friend or through an online or go to a gun show or or there's all sorts of ways to obtain guns there's a. big problem here is that the propellants weapons another problem is the prevalence of a violent set but at the state level in we know that the new budget that that's being implemented increases the military by eighty billion dollars so already we have the united states spending more on the on the military than the next eight countries combined just the increase in the u.s. military spending is more than the entire russian military budget eighty billion dollars just imagine if that eighty billion dollars was put to positive uses promoting conflict resolution. putting using it for improving social needs and resulting conflict instead of promoting violence and military solutions we might se

and it looks like there will be a thirty day ceasefire in eastern good investigative journalist rick sterling told us of the russian amendments to the ceasefire will allow anti terror operations to continue but i think a kid didn't get the resolution was the inclusion. that the syrian government can continue the fight against al qaida and isis in east and i think that was the reason that it did pass unanimously with the support of russia and the encouragement of the syrian government the united states is said it's kind of at a crossroads where they're going to allow the syrian government to regain full territorial integrity and basically eliminate terrorism or whether the west is going to continue to support the terrorist project there that's really what's at stake. in other news the u.s. house intelligence committee has just released a democratic party memo countering republican claims of f.b.i. surveillance abuses in related to the ongoing probe into alleged russian meddling in the two thousand and sixteen american presidential election and for the latest on this story i can bring in our to

agreed on by all fifteen members the council is going to be implemented investigative journalist rick sterling believes the russian amendments to the cease fire will allow anti terror operations to continue unimpeded. i think a kid didn't get the resolution was the inclusion. fact that the syrian government can continue the fight against al qaida and isis in east and i think that was the reason that it did pass unanimously with the support of russia and the encouragement of the syrian government is one good thing in the resolution is that it's was there quickly affirms the fact that the territorial integrity of syria needs to be preserved of course this is very relevant because right now the united states has illegally set up their bases and is occupying territory in eastern syria we've got turkish soldiers even in northern syria so this is this is a very important to keep reaffirming the principle of territorial integrity it's unclear how the ceasefire will affect northern syria as afrin region which has become another flashpoint in the conflict turkey's been carrying out a military offensive

short time ago i spoke with investigative journalist rick sterling he says the latest cast ruling creates a terrible precedent i think it's clearly politics unfortunately this is a disaster for the individual athletes it's also a disaster at the olympics. which is explicitly against national discrimination it's this tragedy to see the olympic movement bending to the political winds and the western media it sets a terrible precedent and when you hear i want to talk they're always talking about clean athletes but apparently russians don't count and that by their ruling so this is really a travesty of justice there needs to be a lot more scrutiny of the mclaren reports itself however it's not just the russian athletes participation in the olympics that has led to controversy the north korean teams visit to pyongyang chang has seen a rather angry reaction. south korean activists protested thursday as a north korean orchestra gave a sold out performance on the eve of the games they were holding placards reading no pyongyang at the olympics while the event is supposed to be about sport and peac

a correspondent in new york the investigative journalist rick sterling believes the russian amendment is to this ceasefire will allow anti terror operations to continue therefore unimpeded. i think a kid didn't get the resolution was the inclusion. of the syrian government can continue the fight against al qaida and isis and. i think that was the reason that it did pass unanimously with the support of russia the encouragement of the syrian government one good thing in the resolution is that it specifically affirms the fact that the territorial integrity of syria needs to be preserved of course this is very relevant because right now the united states. illegally set up their bases and is occupying territory in eastern syria we've got to turkish soldiers even in northern syria so this is so this is a very important to keep reaffirming the principle of territorial integrity so led this the other elements meantime despite the cease fire resolution turkey says it's not going to hold its military offensive in the north of syria playing the decision doesn't apply to it that's new in been car

banning of athletes just because they are from one country or another investigative journalist rick sterling joining us live here on our c international thank you so much for your time and your insight thank you. around seven hundred and fifty thousand children are struggling to get basic medical services in the war torn iraqi city of mosul that's according to the un's children's rights body unicef and estimated seventy four million dollars a needed to rebuild health facilities for children seven months off of euphoria the greater the liberation of mosul from islamic state the iraqi city is still struggling to get back on its feet. the number of. health centers or hospitals is very limited the extent of the damage has affected it i was there in one of the health centers the other day and one family came in with their baby isn't two month old baby they wanted a vaccinated there was vaccine there was everything there and stuff we were seeing over one hundred children a day were able to vaccinate this child but those families have to walk far i also thought the baby unit nine incubate is six of

international sterling investigative journalist joining us live here on the program rick it's good to see you today some of the people the band have no prior convictions what so ever so certainly many might struggle to make sense of the ruling by. some people are already asking is this decision based more on sport or on politics. well i think it i think it's clearly politics unfortunately this is a disaster for the individual athletes it's also a disaster for the olympic movement which is explicitly against national the discrimination so last week you had the court of arbitration in war clearing twenty the athletes of any charges of open violations and yet they're all ineligible for participation in the olympic games so that in so is evidence of national discrimination it's a tragedy to see the olympic movement bending to the political winds and the western media and i recall that this all began two months before the rio olympics when as a big story in the new york times featuring rewrote change. om. began a an investigation and then it was just literally days and or a week before the

sterling is a little bit lower. rbs, averaging is selling assets. you also see a flow from the banks about dividends, about renumeration's, repaying the shareholders. talkinghad tim allen rick break. the ibex is a little stronger this morning, up 0.4%. let's see what's on the move. sally different complexion -- slightly different complexion this morning. overall, you have this equity markets opening slightly stronger this morning. financials are a little better off. let's see how the markets take the numbers from aberdeen. we are just flicking into the red. on thisome good runs side because of the miners reporting. we were talking about the overall change in sentiment toward the metals and the miners. oil is fairly good. if you look at wti, you are rising. arabia,ort and saudi they thought about taking u.s. assets and exporting to asia from the united states of america. they changed their mind. it wasn't going to be logistical for them. financials are going to be the key. germany is growing at the fastest rate since 2010. we are holding the bid in european equity markets. you've got the factors that can give you a slightly stronger day, but you are seeing a little tepidness