one of ukraine's richest man is being linked to the massacre of anti-government activists in a desk or earlier this month in a series of leaks calls. a top u.s. army general says ousting syria's president won't help get the country out of the mess it's in that says washington reiterate its support for the rebels opposed to bashar lost his regime. and prepared to wait longer for your fast food while cash strapped restaurant workers try to squeeze a higher minimum wage from the industry's big names.

you watch nineteen a national coming to you live from moscow first a crew from righties agency ruptly has just come under fire from two armored vehicles near the city of slovyansk no casualties are in for that the city which is about six hundred kilometers from kiev was among the first to face a crackdown by government forces we'll bring you more information as we get it now one of ukraine's richest industrialists eager column noisy has been linked to the recent violence in a disaster in a series of leaked phone calls posted on you tube the conversation allegedly between two cranium businessmen immediately went fire all this article is more moderate islam article two new government or new york or goldenseal bootleggers as you can clearly see we want to let you know your question as well from official just freedom service at the bridge on this record store where you should look at the grid that manual. promoted to little summary what it's all going to be of the order to move to the comfort of the. but it's

a corker with her computer going to be very good looking for a book when you carry reusable mystery sort of jewelry if he has a hand in scores of major businesses and controls ukraine's biggest information agency plus one of the country's main t.v. channels he gained notoriety last month when a bank loans openly offered a ten thousand dollar reward for they had of any so-called russian sub the terrorists international affairs expert mark sloboda says that whatever the revelations about inner circle the west will continue to stand by them. in your column or ski is one of the shadiest and most interesting figures right now in ukrainian politics he was recently placed at as essential a few all of the baron over the territory of dinner propose in the southeast of ukraine with the intention that he represents the opposition

movement against the current regime that is taking control in kiev and there is the unspoken assumption which is proven true that he would hire his own army of mercenaries to further that alone i don't think that the western media will even bat an eye these revelations of unfortunate it is they've long ago chosen sides and a few massacres an involvement of all a dark figures in corruption is simply not going to chair into the narrative they're spinning in the western media at this point. also defense forces of the newly proclaimed enhance people's republic are urging a crane's military to withdraw from the region they say they will move against troops if the ultimatum isn't meant by the end of thursday gunfire and artillery have been heard outside slovyansk the city which is six hundred kilometers away from key of was among the first to face a crackdown by government forces and as are two supposedly reports after being under siege by the army for weeks now the city is on the brink of

a humanitarian catastrophe. we're now entering the town of slovyansk which is completely encircled by the ukrainian military this is a ukrainian army checkpoint and as you can see the cars are backed up a little way down the road there it will take me a better part of at least one hour to get in because of this because the town is so encircled you have a growing humanitarian crisis supplies simply cannot get in. get patients in the town are running out just many of them simply do not have any gas so we've driven out fine to come and fill up the car here. put on your actual supplies will run out so there will be nothing to run our cars on and we won't be able to get the local hospital is treating people who've been injured not only here in slovyansk but also in neighboring towns there's real concern that it's being pushed to crisis point and because of this ordinary people have been arriving with packets of food and

blankets toiletries as well as medical supplies to try and stop this from happening the gates has been closed here for the better part of two days this is the local grid factory where people are simply too afraid to come to work choosing rather to stay inside their homes as a result of the prices of bread and flour have skyrocketed and in the shops there are long queues to buy it. this is one of the largest supermarkets in the town they have been rumors circulating for days that the shelves are empty and that suppliers are not able to get in let's go have a class solves. all i'm scared and so was almost everyone i know i haven't felt this much fear in mind tara life. this is the fourth a.t.m. that we've been to and none of them are working they are at least seven banks that

have stopped operating in the town. as you can see the shops are closed and the streets on mostly empty people are choosing to stay home rather than risk coming to the streets there's a sense of anxiety and fear in the air a feeling that a military strike is imminent paula c. r t slovyansk eastern ukraine. now the syrian opposition will be incapable of governing the country if president assad was ousted and that's the view of a top military u.s. military commander general martin dempsey says syria would remain in the grip of terror and chaos with the opposition unable to root out lng groups meanwhile fighting continues in syria and on wednesday rebels detonated sixty tons of explosives at an army base in the northwest of the country it's believed the explosives were placed in a tunnel which the rebels have been digging for seven months washington says efforts have to be redoubled in syria and has pledged more support and if she can

reports. we're seeing a new push by the obama administration to fulfill a goal that he declared three years ago to topple the syrian president bashar assad has announced that syria will hold elections despite the war the us vehemently opposes those elections washington has already decided who the legitimate representatives of the syrian people are is the syrian opposition coalition president obama has met with a coalition leader ahmad jarba at the white house this week u.s. secretary of state john kerry told the rebels we've wasted a year in the fight against assad to the participants of the meeting said john kerry made the remark in the context of a discussion about renewed efforts to coordinate the flow of both aid and weapons to the syrian rebels the french foreign minister was also in washington this week and he said he quote unquote regretted that the u.s. had not bombed syria as its worth and all of this war talk amid the u.s. and europe saying that they want to find

a political solution to the. crisis in syria but we say there is no military victory meaning we being the united states there can be no military solution and every step that we're taking is a military step. and and so obviously what we're setting up is a longer term conflict more conflict the u.n. envoy for syria lakhdar brahimi has announced his resignation expressing regret for his inability to forge a coherent international response to the humanitarian catastrophe unfolding in syria the geneva talks have not led to a deal between the syrian government and the opposition although the syrian opposition has been largely unwilling to cut deals with the government of bashar assad nonetheless there have been instances of progress most recently thousands of syrians were turned to war battered parts of the central city of homs after the rebels left under an evacuation deal with the government but washington seems keen

to prompt the syrian rebels to continue fighting instead of cutting deals even though a deal could save thousands of lives in washington i'm going to check on our team. well let's now go back to our top story a crew from archies video agency ruptly has just come under fire from a two armored vehicles near the city of slovyansk we're going to get more on this from elisa phelan who is a producer with our agency ruptly lizzie can you hear me yes or can you tell us more about the incident. yes and one of our producers who's being the answer about the request i was on the highway to didn't meet with some of the journalists from russia's channel five. when about ten people and they were about ten can you meet this from beneath trumka to ukrainian a.p.c. with about ten. troops from the national guard from the ukrainian national god.

basically seemingly out of nowhere because the area is currently under the control of the vienna forces and began shooting into as very close to them obviously the driver that that was driving the car that they would. have to break suddenly and the which caused the cars the breakdown thankfully everybody who was that was fine older the people who i spoke to the put you to just thirty minutes ago and she said that it wasn't just them he was being shot that all shot very close to the. ukrainian national god also shooting towards an ice cream van that was in the area basically these two these just sped down the road sausage shooting for no apparent reason and then sped off. and very very quickly thankfully that car was repaired and i'm out on the way back to. the. well lizzie this is not the first on a roughly. has been caught in

a crossfire apparently what can you say about the conditions that a journalist working in is living on the moment. well obviously across the region of gun it's very unpredictable lacking half on monday to the next and obviously a job is to just try to cover events as best as possible while balancing the safety of all of our people here as best as possible so i make ensuring that they have all the best protective gear which of course that producers that the employer wearing at the time but yes it's very difficult and we've had a few closure shaves obviously not just in my area paula with terrible incident that happened on victory day last week where one of our producers was shot than is currently recovering and in moscow we also had a couple of other incidents where producers filming incident that was clashes between the national guards or like in my mask on sunday on referendum day when the

national guard spotted. one of the polling stations that we had a producer that who was filming the shooting that that type of obviously is a very dangerous situation and we see numerous incidents where it was not me but the situation seemed calm and then all of a sudden that incident by the national god just start shooting randomly and of course this is a very concerning situation for us as i said we have to balance that with this it would be prioritizing the safety of our people with ensuring that we cover exactly what's happening here as best as we can. all right lisa thank you so much for bringing us this was a film producer with our team video agency ruptly of course move bringing you more on the story as we get it and coming up here in our two national after the break of course fast food workers anger at their employers goes global and we are following the strikes that are set to take place in over thirty five countries worldwide to stay with us for that and more.

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just so plz about. the. welcome back you're watching are to international fast food not so fast these days as a people responsible for your big macs or classic whoppers take to the streets to participate in what is expected to be the largest amber strike against the industry the walkouts will take place in at least thirty five countries around the world to squeeze better wages from the faster giants while the images right here that you can see are the latest protests taking place in japan and here's marina port now with more on why the workers are running out of patience. the fight for

a decent living wage is a battle millions of citizens can relate to and it's also a battle that is not going away fast food workers throughout the u.s. are walking off the job in onto the streets thursday demanding a paid increase and the right to unionize you see fast food is a two hundred billion dollar industry but the majority of those who prepare and serve the meals for those folks they're living in poverty or close to it the problem is that the majority of workers are leading the way to us the federal minimum wage is seven twenty five an hour a pace so low that even after working forty hours a week most fast food workers have to rely on government assistance like food stamps to make ends meet it should be a lot more than minimum wage can live on for that it's hard you know i'm a single mom and it's hard to provide for my sons it's hard to put food on the table sometimes the fast food labor force is that man thing that minimum wage

increase to fifteen dollars an hour during the last day of action in december thousands took to the streets and that's when i received the first hand account from struggling workers about the purchase. i don't know why by the grace of god i am. i am going to show. trying to get out of there and i can do it because. some struggling you know and that's why i'm here. for me and else yeah so for right to take you to family well the single people when asked america away and i believe all fall in vision a country not full cooperation before the working man about another make way too much money for us to be treated like the one we give them the money they were the one turns and then it's like we're not going there because they want to take some money home according to reports the average yearly salary of a new york city fast food worker is eleven thousand dollars for the fast food see

those well they've earned an estimated twenty five thousand dollars per day more than double what their workers earn all year you know nobody likes not but those kind of numbers really put the disparity between america's rich and poor into perspective forty from new york we're in a fortnight our take. now as the day progresses and new strikes occur around the globe we'll bring you live updates right here on our teacher national and in our website we have extra stories including how a portaloo door was mistaken for a north korean drone leaving one so where is it in feeling rather flushed that's an r.t. dot com and while you're there get some world cup inside and reasons why global politics should stay out of sports our interview with former england football manager fabio capello is just one click away. when snipers gunned down dozens of protesters in kiev in february kumi years along with the western

media were quick to pin the blame on president yanacocha and he's elite police officers but investigators in the ukrainian capital now have evidence that contradicts these hastily reach conclusions are just a group is going off explains. the footage that shook ukraine and the entire world many say this was the point of no return protesters being shot one after another with live rounds during february's uprising showing images of riot police firing their weapons and many media outlets were quick to accuse them of being behind the massacre images of snipers in central kiev flooded the internet along with more accusations of the authorities while several western officials fanned the flames people who stood up against night burrs firing at them from the rubes who are fighting against the tyranny of having political opposition put in jail where you have seven of the ukrainian ambassador and london this morning to register i am

back to protest the event and to call for a media reaching trying to end the attitude of the ukrainian the power to. ukrainians were shocked and even those protesters who were ready for some sort of negotiations with the authorities we're now ready to push for the alternate goal dragging them from power president in accordance first flees the capital and then the country but denies accusations that he ordered the police to kill the officers who were seen opening fire and claim they were merely trying to scare the rioters away by aiming at the ground in front of them while leaks conversation between the story and foreign minister and the e.u. top diplomat gives his version that he's now stronger and stronger understanding that behind snipers they went it was not going to quote which but it was somebody that you know question but all that is widely ignored. instead of the new police chief announces the results of a hasty investigation putting the full blame on the riot police and arresting

twelve officers further splitting ukrainian society in the south we see more deaths in violent clashes between those for and against the new york forty's. and so. into town operations with the use of heavy military equipment in the country's east while the rift with the western provinces grows wider than ever. but now nearly three months after five years many parliament finishes another investigation going on expected outcome those bullets were not fired by the right believes. it would have been great if some things could be rewound not on t.v. but in real life who knows could the uprising have been successful if not for those accusations would you have come to the brink of a civil war like we're seeing now which is don't know nor do we know what's really behind those sniper deaths in february. r t moscow well

russia sent in their card exchange has proposed creating an international agency to combat the global drug trade victor ivanoff says the organization should be set up in afghanistan which provides most of the world's opium u.s. led occupation forces are now pulling out of the war zone having failed to stand the drugs flow even off stress the rush hour will continue to cooperate with america in the war on drugs despite a string of sanctions imposed moscow by washington afghanistan produces more than ninety percent of the world's heroin which has killed around half a million russians in the past fourteen years. just take a look at some other stories from around the world streets in the u.s. city of los angeles are flowing with oil after a pipe rupture in a suburban area nearly fifty thousand gallons of crude have spilled onto the roads and it is said to be me high in some places cleanup teams are working in the area.

police have used tear gas and water cannon on protesters in the turkish city of his mere thousands took to the streets mourning the hundreds that died in the coal mine disaster people are blaming the government for the tragedy saying it failed to implement proper safety regulations trade unions are holding a one day strike across the country and bodies are still being recovered from the site as the death toll reaches two hundred eighty. a car bomb and suicide bomber have struck in the center of baghdad at least nine people have been killed in the blast including three policeman the bombs went off in a busy commercial areas were a number of government buildings are located this is the latest in a series of car bombs to hit the iraqi capital since elections last months. well here's a reminder of our breaking news story a crew from our video agency ruptly has just come under fire from two armored

vehicles near the city of qom a tourist in southeastern ukraine no casualties are reported well you can follow the agency producer lizzie phelan on twitter and one of her latest tweets she says the vehicles were also firing at an ice cream truck from a tourist which is almost a seven hundred kilometers from kiev was among the first to face a crackdown by government forces what would bring you more on this story as we get it here r t international. and coming up and novel way for companies to clean up any poor pollution record they may have are breaking a sweat just a few minutes. the

quality is nice but there are a couple point one things just gets really for example for the last year even at the congressional level some democrats on the military association of atheists and freethinkers have been pushing to create atheist chaplains in the u.s. military a chaplain in the context the armed forces is a priest who goes alongside the nation's troops to give them spiritual counsel and boost morale and also myself was very skeptical that god created man i could tell you that this is just a bit odd what sort of spiritual or moral support as some sort of generic atheist chaplain going to provide he'd probably say something like well son everything you're fighting for in this tiny rocket in for universe is ultimately pointless and johnson who died yesterday he's not in heaven or anything there is no afterlife for me to our existence so he's just maggot food now you feel better yeah thanks for the counselling father i think this is just a case of me too me too politics where the demand for humanness truly jhon free priests is war despite christian soldiers rather than to actually do something to

help atheist soldiers but that's just my opinion. you sad that the european union has no alternative but to work with russia it is not trying to pretend that it is something different and i were basically a lot about what is russia as it is russia as it is as you said it's a country still in transition it doesn't really have recovered its identity is said to russia for russians is that russia is among. the cultural countries that russia looking for was asia russia looking more towards europe still suffering a kind of identity crisis after the breakup of the soviet union. the interview.

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guys i'm at a martin and this is breaking the set so this whole crisis in ukraine it seems that you know the country has been more supportive of version change and the us according to u.s. officials their support of the revolution in term government has nothing to do with imperialism resource grabs or kids new willingness to accept i.m.f. loans yes i am sure that obama vice president biden and secretary kerry are all motivated by pure altruism in fact take a look at biden iterating the west's commitment to the country. it is not just. a foreign policy judgment is a personal issue motional commitment as well. oh i was so excited to deliver democracy to the ukrainian people but he's moved beyond foreign policy interests how noble turns out joe biden is so personally invested in the development that he's sacrificing his youngest son hunter to sit on the board of directors of ukraine's premier oil company or c m a holdings even though it seems that the story

is obviously exposing d.c.'s agenda and establishing an economic partner resource beneficiary apparently the state department isn't worried at all about how this will be perceived. and wondering if there are concerns in this building about the perception. about how the russians and or the ukrainians we perceive the involvement of the son of the vice president united states especially given the situation no there are not. but as it turns out that blatant corruption isn't something to be ashamed of anymore so if you're sick of empires using democracy as a smokescreen to grab resources while throwing self-determination under the bus join me and let's break the sets. it was a. very large atlantic. with

their little. lately. in theory the u.s. patent system was created to protect entrepreneurs from having their ideas in original products stolen by competing companies and designers but over the last couple decades the patent system in this country has completely fallen apart and lead to outrageous intellectual property claims on behalf of multinationals take for instance amazon last week the leader in online shopping was granted one of the

most absurd patents in recent history thanks to the u.s. patent and trademark office amazon now owns the rights to taking pictures of people or objects against the white backdrop yes you heard me right amazon just patented one of the most common photographic techniques ever my submitting a diagram of a specific measurements and lighting designs so now every time i'm modeling a company or ad agency wants to use a simple white backdrop for their photo shoot maybe a pedophile better be prepared to go head to head with amazon's legal department but i guess this type of ridiculousness is to be expected from the same company that also patented one click shopping yes all the way back in one thousand nine hundred nine amazon was granted sole ownership. it but the concept of clicking one button to complete an online shopping order this patent is estimated to be worth billions of dollars and other online retailers such as apple now actually have to license one click shopping from amazon of course for the rest of the start of

businesses out there who want to make online shopping as easy as possible for their customers you better make sure that it takes at least two clicks to make a purchase unless you want to be delivered a season desist letter from an amazon drone but of course apple is just as guilty of abusing the system as amazon and two thousand and twelve apple was granted exclusive rights to a geometric shape. a rectangle specifically a rectangle with rounded corners you know the shape of pretty much every one of their tablets and smartphones not to mention their apps apple's use this patent to sue samsung for also creating smartphones and apps with rounded corners although thankfully the company lost its suit against the korean electronics giant last year speaking of perhaps no patent claim is more baffling than the one granted to game designer king dot com sea king dot com is the maker of the wildly popular app candy crush and earlier this year the company actually trademarked applied to trademark

the word candy which unbelievably was approved by the u.s. patent office yes companies are now resorting to try and own every day words and the trademark applied not just to online games but also educational services and clothing now thankfully the company with the drew their application after fierce backlash from other game designers so luckily if you're a stripper name candy you don't have to hide those engraved booty shorts with your name on it but perhaps no patent is more dangerous to the freedom of speech than the one granted to the pseudo company personal audio see personal audio was given a patent in two thousand and twelve for quote a system for disseminating media content representing episodes in a serialized sequence yes this ridiculously broad sounding patent is now being used to go after media companies that create podcasts. despite the fact that podcasting is one of the most popular forms of media in the world right now personal audio

claims that anyone who podcasts is violating the rights the company has even sued the likes of how stuff works and comedian adam carolla and even though the company claims to be a legitimate operation personal audio pretty much makes all of its revenue from patent trolling in this is a technique where fake companies are set up soley to establish as many partners as possible and then go after companies that infringe on their intellectual property the practice becomes so widespread that patent lawsuits have seen an exponential rise in the last decade due entirely to patent trolling so yet again an agency that was established to protect the little guy has become completely corrupted and usurped by monopolies corporate interests and the corporatocracy the only thing that apparently can't be trademarked yet are our souls at least for now.

i. charter schools are relatively new concept in the us but over the last two decades their popularity has grown by leaps and bounds these schools operate with a mix of private and public funding and were stablish as a way to test out innovative approaches to education without the burden of strict government regulations but a new report released earlier this month by the center for popular democracy and integrity and education paints a picture of a charter school system beset by fraud mismanagement and abuse according to reports over one hundred million dollars appropriated to the charter system has been squandered in the fifteen major cities that the study examined so where is all the money going and just how broken is the system want to discuss just that i'm joined now by a carpenter journalist for the nation who just wrote an article titled despite shocking reports of fraud of charter schools lawmakers missed opportunity to

increase oversight thank you so much for coming on again zoe so start by outlining some of those agreed just examples of fraud in this new report sure it's there are lots of examples some of the most shocking are the ones where charter executives used taxpayer money for personal gain buying cars buying houses throwing dollars at strippers going on cruises and then there are more examples of fraud in terms of increasing the funding for the schools they get from the federal government so pretending that students are enrolled who actually aren't old because they get extra funding per student or then there are cases of just mismanagement that put students at risk in terms of safety regulations properly vetting faculty and staff. proper services for special needs students so the range of uses is quite broad and but it really is endemic throughout the system in just fifteen states one hundred million dollars is a huge amount of money it really is and last week the house passed a bill called a success an opportunity through quality charter schools very long name what was

contained in that bill so that bill bradley was meant to support and expand the charter school networks across the country and increase federal fine. from two hundred fifty million dollars a year to three hundred million dollars a year so that's a significant percentage increase it streamlined some federal programs for charters and it encouraged expansion of existing charter networks even in states that have been more unwelcoming to charters it did have some provisions that charter critics were supportive of for example allowing schools to we the admissions for special needs students and english language learners to give them an extra leg up in the admissions process and as i understand the bill was quite watered down from its original bill its counter component that emerged kind of failed on a lot of a lot of sides in a lot of fronts wide talk about how it failed and also why did it have such enormous bipartisan support if it didn't actually address everything that needed to be sure so the missed opportunity was in

a series of amendments that was offered by democratic representatives to increase oversight and transparency accountability measures that could stop some of this fraud and abuse that we're seeing unfortunately most of those amendments all except one i believe were voted down and there really wasn't much democratic support for those amendments which is troubling for those of us on the left who who would like to see accountability here. and i think the bill had such wide support because charters are broadly popular there's a lot of money behind them from wall street from silicon valley and from the democratic side the president and the education secretary arnie duncan have been big proponents of the charter movement and so some of the sources that i talked to within the party said about has made it more difficult for democrats to speak out and really question whether we should be privatizing our public education system why do you think the democratic party has taken such a lead in to cement in this notion of privatizing standardization i think that's a really good question obviously there's a close relationship between a certain faction of democratic party and wall street and the silicon valley some

of the people who are putting money behind the charter movement and i think there is sincere concern about our public education system which is warranted you know the public. education system is in dire straits that's just an honest fact but if you look at the reasons for that it's a clear resources problem and we have a crazy tax system where schools are getting most of their funding from the local tast tax base you have a system where schools and poor districts are going to have a hard time educating their students and so it it's i think democrats when they're trying to be pro education charters are an appealing alternative but at this point there isn't really good evidence to suggest that creating two parallel education systems is really going to get better for everyone what about the studies that have kind of said that standardization actually tests higher charter schools rate so those reports are very mixed because you have to look at the kinds of students that are entering charter schools and there's a lot of evidence that charter schools have a much lower percentage of special needs students and

a lower percentage of english language learners and that's one thing good thing about this bill that it could start to help rebalance that there's also been anecdotal evidence evidence of charter schools pushing out students who are failing to meet their standards before the testing happens and so it's really not a very equitable test if you're just looking at test scores and. the whole problem standardization and in the long run is that you're just looking at numbers without really looking at the individual bases i mean what needs to be done to reform the charter school system and how can we actually completely eliminate this fraud why the mismanaged taxpayer dollars here well accountability and oversight that's that's a big a big thing and it's you can advocate for those things that actually engaging in the arguments about charters versus traditional public schools any industry and charters are industry they're publicly funded in part but they're privately managed any industry need some regulation and some oversight particularly when what's at stake is the education of america's children and. common sense things like having

open board meetings requiring financial disclosures you can actually see where taxpayer money or money is going. conflicts of interest requirements and then allocating some of the federal funding that's going to tartars to some of those oversight activities so that states actually have the resources to do the public auditing and then the whole there's another argument once you get into that bigger debate about whether we should have a two tiered system and i think that needs to be a debate that's engaged more seriously by the media and by lawmakers about whether we really want to privatize our public education system or have private companies being responsible for that definitely does need to be discussed more thank you so much larry card and early pressure coming on thank you for coming up on talk about a stunning new report that outlines how rampant order is around a world stage and very shocking.

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morally the same rate it is technologically right well not exactly in fact some could argue that it is stagnated at a moral level so despite the montreux that every human being is deserving of life liberty and the pursuit of happiness torture is still alive and well in one hundred forty one countries around the world according to amnesty international the stark reality exists a whole sixty six years after the un adopted the declaration of human rights against the barbaric practice which said that quote no one shall be subjected to torture or to cruel inhumane or degrading treatment or punishment the unacceptable notion of torture was further cemented in one thousand nine hundred seven when the un adopted the convention against torture basically every international body and human rights organization in the world has absolutely decreed and all out ban on torture under any circumstance including war but these laws don't seem to hold much water in today's reality according to amnesty international's two thousand and

fourteen torture report. dictators governments across the political spectrum and from every continent still collude in this ultimate corruption of humanity using torture to extract information forced confessions silent the scent or simply as cruel punishment now the most common torture methods against detainees today include beating electric shocks stress positions water boarding and sensory or sleep deprivation burning rape or threat of rape among many many others amnesties report also found that a startling forty four percent of people around the world are terrified of being tortured by authorities if they're arrested in the borders of their own country here in the u.s. that number is thirty two percent which isn't too surprising given this nation's trigger happy militarized police force that regularly brutalizes its people or the fact that america has twenty five percent of the world's prisoners many of which spend decades in solitary confinement which is also been defined as torture by the

un the fact that the bush administration employed a top down torture program that conducted some of the most inhumane methods on that list including sexual humiliation and waterboarding ghraib and guantanamo bay and given that none of the torture perpetrators in the u.s. were ever held accountable and are still justifying their horrendous crimes is it any wonder that the rest of the world considers torture ok and continues to employ the tactic and fact of the former un special rapporteur on porker told al jazeera that the u.s. quote that many countries have followed the u.s. is lead and cited national security interests as a rationale to justify the use of any means necessary to extract information from suspected terror suspects and the u.s. isn't just paving the way for the codification of torture but also give some of those brutal regimes hundreds of millions of dollars in foreign aid every year as a matter of fact the top ten recent bins of aid sponsored by u.s.

tax dollars are. all regimes that regularly torture their citizens which stands in direct violation of a u.s. law called the foreign assistance act like i said laws are outweighed by the empire's desire to host puppet regimes black sites and drone base is according to congressional research service for two thousand and fourteen the us gives uganda four hundred fifty six million dollars in aid then there's tanzania which will get a hefty five hundred and fifty three million dollars. and the same goes for one man which is set to receive a whopping five hundred sixty four million dollars in aid this year and there's iraq which has been under brutal military assault from the west for decades it will get five hundred seventy three million dollars jordan is set to get six hundred seventy one million dollars in aid

a country where you can't even criticize the king perhaps no other nation rivals nigeria and its horrendous human rights abuses which is going to get a hefty check of six hundred ninety three million dollars this year in addition to the widespread use of torture nearly a thousand people died in military custody in just the first six months of two thousand and thirteen nextstep pakistan set to get one point two billion dollars in aid but the country practices extrajudicial killings and disappears its citizens regularly moving on to egypt a country that still receives one point six billion dollars in aid from the u.s. despite why'd spread sentencing of thousands of people at a time to death for simply being members of the muslim brotherhood according to daily news egypt at least thirteen hundred protesters have outright massacred since the coup afghanistan is next currently under u.s. occupation sees a flow of two point two billion dollars in annual aid and sit in

a high number one is the us is biggest ally in the middle east israel see israel gets a cool three point one billion dollars from this government despite a tight in itself is the strongest democracy in the region it's an apartheid state that regularly tortures palestinians including children a recent report by the public committee against torture in israel described how deep pain children suspected of minor crimes have been sexually assaulted and kept an outdoor cages during winter. so maybe instead of squabbling about on an. point benefits and food stamps in your paycheck we should be demanding that the flow of aid is cut off until these countries can abide by basic human rights dignity and international law and the first country that needs to step up to the plate to do just that is this one.

so last friday obama headed to walmart of all places to talk about private sector energy and fish and sea and what better green company to tout than wal-mart a corporation whose carbon emissions have increased by fourteen percent over the last eight years according to a two thousand and thirteen report by local self-reliance of course based on the company's environmental sustainability campaign because retail giant was a leader and renewable energy but of course it's not just wal-mart that has launched a p.r. campaign to brand themselves as green or efficient and misleading the public in such a way as outrage environmentalist who of quoting this type of corporate scheming as something called greenwashing so joining me now to break down some infamous cases of corporate greenwashing from b.p. to nascar i'm joined by actress and comedian leak campos of the moment of clarity web series what is up dude how you doing what's going on man so let's start with

general electric's eco magination campaign let's lift look this is ridiculous example greenwashing first we have a kid who's trying to catch air in a jar with their commercials i don't know if we have that cued up but it's hilarious i mean why is this so ridiculously oh it's an amazing commercial. john do we have it yet. but it's you know eco imagination they created a word for that it's very important they know we're really eco monopolise because they're you know they'll put all this money into drilling and fracking and everything and meanwhile they're trying to stop wind power so they're trying to stop the other things that could be out there everywhere because they can't monopolize those as easily so they've you know they'll put all this money into deep sea drilling and they will put it to put a turd into solar power wind because they want to hang onto it there is the way they actually attempt to monopolize the wind industry they're hurting wind turbine sails making it real hard for other people to actually develop wind energy but you

know as long as you can just catch one in a jar you can really those machines going to go and go and that commercial means as much. as a kitten playing with an easter egg you could have just shown that and you would be like look it's green day so of course there pyramids why not talk about exxon mobil which was named get this the greenest company of the year from for. a surprise in two thousand and nine absurdity you're saying that's not accurate. really you couldn't find anything else forbes like i don't know ambridge him palace wasn't slightly greener than exxon but no i want to read this quote from forbes they said the engineering solution of the matter of carbon in the atmosphere causing global warming drill for natural gas which methane released is forty fifty percent less carbon dioxide than coal and a quarter less than petroleum so they're saying replacing all coal would cut c o two emissions by one billion tons a year they leave out something methane trapped eighty six times as much heat as carbon dioxide so there i mean that's like saying well you've got to ration your

hand chop off the hands solve the problem great solution exxon i'm going to rain and you have b.p. kind of trying to greenwash themselves of this campaign beyond petroleum now we don't care about what our what our entire corporation is based on which is petroleum british petroleum we're going to go beyond petroleum it's moved us beyond i think you misunderstand they want to go beyond petroleum but using it all up that's how they'll get there if they're trying to go beyond petroleum once i ordered eight hundred boxes of girl scout cookies and i had to get beyond girl scout cookies by eating them all one thing we call the oil i guess once they w.y.l. the entire planet then they have to go beyond. oh no you always have to remember with things like the gulf of mexico oil spill they're trying to be green by covering it up so it's green for you and me we don't see the dolphin carcasses so they're doing a lot of work and working hard to cover up that they were in the middle of the night they'd like take away dolphin carcasses so that we didn't see them and you know that's that's a caring move i remember a great palace telling me that b.p. had invested given an absurd amount of money to fund these scientists who were

saying that there was just algae in the gulf that would eat all the oil we don't write about great oil and. and kevin costner's magic going up machinery that they had going what greg palast did the numbers and you know kevin machine would have cleaned up about this much oil is a lot of running for six weeks or less just trust me on patrol and it's either going to a really good job of course exxon's also funding norman and climate change as studies really absurd there when you look at that dow chemical as another one element element campaign of course we're talking about an insanely agree just chemical company that's responsible for the bhopal disaster of the nearly three thousand people dead just disgusting this is a complete sham and the ad revenue i'm sorry the advertisements are just insulting the human element so i give actually give the most accurate one because they're viewing humans as an element and what do you do with elements you. know you combine with other elements to see what happens we're a giant science experiment so they are actually being quite honest the human

element we're going to see what happens. is actually really funny i don't know what examples about but it shows like kids' faces with like you know you on it and of course the class action lawsuit in midland michigan said it ruled the dow contaminated their properties with dioxin which resulted in the impairment of the immune system nervous system andrews seen system reproductive functions according to the world health organization so i don't really know they've. i don't think elements consume them so that's why they believe humans are so them so that you know you know them and they disclose holy above kind of ability there but greenwashing also happens with sports as well nascar this is absolutely hysterical featured al gore as its keynote speaker amazing ten minutes basically just green washing some of telling people to label their brands better nascar said that every they said that they were going to have a tree planting ceremony for every every circle the course of what occurred i guess

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it's eight pm here in moscow this is all to international headlining tonight two people are reported killed in eastern ukraine as the army opens fire on civilians amid reports as well the crew from oxys video agency ruptly. up to speed all this very shortly also. one of ukraine's richest men is being linked to the massacre of anti-government activists in odessa earlier this month in a series of leaks calls you've got that story to this. a top u.s. army general says ousting syria's president won't help get the country out of the mess it's currently in says washington reiterated support for the rebels opposed to push. to wait longer for your fast

food restaurant workers to try to squeeze a higher minimum wage for the industry big name. thanks. for all our or. if you join in for a good evening cheer it's kevin owen here this hour live from moscow on r.t. international and the breaking news we're getting through at least two people have been killed after it ukraine's army opened fire on civilians in the city of kramatorsk in the southeast of ukraine that's according to reports coming in from dinette self-defense forces out of the same area earlier today a crew from artie's video agency ruptly was shot at from armored vehicles no one was hurt in that incident is the feeling from russian explain what happened. well one of our producers you're being thanked in sundance for about the request on the

way in to give me something when about ten feet when it's from the national guard from the ukrainian national god came basically seemingly out of nowhere because the area is currently under the control of the n.r. forces and began shooting into as very close to ram obviously the driver that they would that was driving the car that they were in had to break suddenly and the which caused the cars that break down thankfully everybody who was that was fine ukrainian national guard were also shooting toward an ice cream van that was in the area basically these two a.b.c. just said down the road started shooting for no apparent reason and then sped off. very very quickly thankfully that car was prepared and then out on the way back to saudi and they could be. an agency journalists could share a job of it she's keeping up to date on the developments on twitter if you want to

keep up to speed as it will bring you more as we get it to course. meantime one of ukraine's richest investments ego komo ski's been linked to the recent violence in modesto in a series of league phone calls posted on you cheat the conversation allegedly between two ukrainian businessman immediately went viral let's take a listen ourselves more movies on medical the new government when you work or go to people who were these are huge companies where you would have literally any of them is critical to muscle just. really doing this work of store or do so with a degree that money will come out of the workable from the little bit of the. discomfort of the person. but you forgot that would. be good looking for a book when you carry reusable mystery. most has got to hand in scores of major businesses in controls ukraine's biggest information agency plus one of the country's main t.v. channels too he gave notoriety last month when a bank owns openly offered

a ten thousand dollar reward for the head of any so-called russian saboteurs international affairs expert mark for border told us that whatever the revelations about in a circle the west will continue to stand by them in your column or skiis one of the shadiest and most interesting figures right now in ukrainian politics he was recently placed at as essentially a feudal oligarchy baron over the territory of dinner propose in the southeast of ukraine with the intention that he represents the opposition movement against the current regime that is taking control in kiev and there is the unspoken assumption which is proven true that he would hire his own army of mercenaries to further that a war i don't think that the western media will even bat an eye these revelations are unfortunately it is they've long ago chosen sides and

a few massacres an involvement of oligarchy figures in corruption is simply not going to cherish the narrative they're spinning in the western media at this point or the developments self-defense forces of the proclaimed events people's republic are urging ukraine's military to withdraw from the region they say the move against troops they say they will move against if there's all to me that we broke this last night gunfire an artillery have been heard outside sliver of the city which is about six hundred kilometers from kiev was indeed among the first to face that crackdown you may recall by government forces and next result he is paul asli a reports after being under siege by the army for weeks the city is on the brink of a humanitarian catastrophe. we're now entering the town of slovyansk which is completely encircled by the ukrainian military this is a ukrainian army checkpoint and as you can see the cars are backed up a little way down the road there it will take me a better part of at least one hour to get in because of this because the town is so

encircled you have a growing humanitarian crisis supplies simply cannot get in. get patients in the town are running out just many of them simply do not have any gas and we've driven out five to come and fill up the car here. put on your natural supplies will run out so there will be nothing to run our cars on and we won't be able to get. the local hospital is treating people who've been injured not only here in slovyansk but also in neighboring towns there's real concern that it's being pushed to crisis point and because of this ordinary people have been arriving with packets of food and blankets toiletries as well as medical supplies to try and stop this from happening the gates has been closed here for the better part of two days this is the local grid factory where people are simply too afraid to come to work choosing

rather to stay inside their homes as a result of the prices of bread and flour have skyrocketed and in the shops there are long queues to buy it. this is one of the largest supermarkets in the town they have been rumors circulating for days that the shelves are empty and that suppliers are not able to get in let's go have a class solves. all i'm scared so it's almost everyone i know i haven't felt this much fear in mind tire life. this is the fourth a.t.m.'s we've been to and none of them are working there are at least seven banks that have stopped operating in the town. as you can see the shops are closed and the streets are mostly empty people are choosing to stay home rather than risk coming to the streets there's a sense of anxiety and fear in the air a feeling that a military strike is imminent paullus the r.t.

slovyansk eastern ukraine. the syrian opposition would be incapable of governing the country if president assad was ousted that indeed is the view of a top u.s. military commander general martin dempsey says syria would remain in the grip of terror and chaos with the opposition unable to root out al qaeda linked groups meantime fighting continues in syria on wednesday rebels detonated sixty tons of explosives at an army base in the northwest of the country it's believed those explosives were placed in a tunnel which the rebels have been digging out for seven months washington says efforts have to be redoubled now in syria that has pledged more support you can report. we're seeing a new push by the obama administration to fulfill a goal that he declared three years ago to topple the syrian president bashar assad has announced that syria will hold elections despite the war the us vehemently opposes those elections washington has already decided who the legitimate

representatives of the syrian people are is the syrian opposition coalition president obama has met with a coalition leader ahmad jarba at the white house this week u.s. secretary of state john kerry told the rebels we've wasted a year in the fight against assad the participants of the meeting said john kerry made the remark in the context of a discussion about renewed efforts to coordinate the flow of both aid and weapons to the syrian rebels the french foreign minister was also in washington this week and he said he quote unquote regretted that the u.s. had not bombed syria as its worth and all of this war talk amid the u.s. and europe saying that they want to find a political solution to the crisis in syria but we say there is no military victory meaning we being the united states there can be no military solution and every step that we're taking is a military step. and so obviously we're

setting up a. longer term conflict more conflict the u.n. envoy for syria locked are bringing me has announced his resignation expressing regret for his inability to forge a coherent international response to the humanitarian catastrophe unfolding in syria the geneva talks have not led to a deal between the syrian government and the opposition although the syrian opposition has been largely unwilling to cut deals with the government of bashar assad nonetheless there have been instances of progress most recently thousands of syrians were turned to war battered parts of the central city of homs after the rebels left under an evacuation deal with the government but washington seems keen to prompt. the syrian rebels to continue fighting instead of cutting deals even though a deal could save thousands of lives in washington i'm going to check on. the social minute of the time the syrian crisis escalated after last year's chemical attack in aleppo killed dozens of people with the government and the rebels blaming each

other at the time for the massacre move forward to june u.s. president throws in military aid to the syrian rebels for the first time now the crisis reached a peak two months later with western leaders calling for military strikes on syria citing another controversial chemical attack as the red line that was crossed but just as military intervention loomed larger diplomatic breakthrough was then brokered by russia you may recall which helped persuade syria to give up its chemical arsenal damascus began getting rid of its stockpiles in october and it's expected to complete the handover ahead of the deadline that's coming up in june the next step to deescalate the crisis came with that big meeting in geneva the big mention there were syrian government and opposition officials. face to face just about for talks for the first time but the negotiations ultimately failed to break the deadlock because both sides then resumed hostilities and now tensions of again escalated with the white house hosting the syrian opposition leader and pledging

fresh support for the insurgency i spoke to geo political analyst brian becker he told me the syrian people are the ones paying the price see it for washington's regime change ambitions it's an indication that the obama administration in spite of the fact that its policy has completely failed its haint half so to speak showing that it's based on in the legitimacy or so-called legitimacy of the united states certainly the power of the united states with the armed opposition in spite of the fact that the armed opposition does not have the popular pieces of work necessary that the government so they're just continuing with the same script the syrian people are the ones paying this terrible price in blood and treasure is that leading goes on i think it's wrong. talking to me earlier on what now that officials from eleven western and arab countries have met in london for a so-called friends of syria conference let's take a look at the countries that are in that club most of them are middle eastern neighbors of syria in europe for its part it's germany france the u.k.

and if the early that is standing firm there and of course the united states is also on that list now following the meeting the group promised more financial and diplomatic support for the syrian opposition we're following that story. now you speak with us coming up after the break fast food workers their employees goes global were following the strikes of the such to take place in over thirty five countries worldwide you're watching international. join me. for impartial and financial reporting contribute and much much. only on bombast and.

hello again fast food world partly not so fast these days as the people responsible

for the big macs or classic whoppers take to the streets to participate in what's expected to be the largest ever strike against the industry walkouts are set to take place in at least thirty five countries around the world to squeeze better wages from the fast food giant the images you're seeing here the latest protest is the one that took place in japan is more important with more on why the workers are running out of patience. the fight for a decent living wage is a battle millions of citizens can relate to and it's also a battle that is not going away fast food workers throughout the u.s. are walking off the job in onto the streets thursday demanding a paid increase and the right to unionize you see fast food is a two hundred billion dollar industry but the majority of those who prepare and serve the meals for those folks they're living in poverty or close to it the problem is that the majority of fast food workers are leading the way to us the federal minimum wage is seven twenty five an hour

a pace so low that even after working forty hours a week most fast food workers have to rely on government assistance like food stamps to make as meat. a lot more than minimum wage can live off of that it's hard you know i'm a single mom and it's hard to provide for my sons started to put food on the table sometimes the fast food labor force is demanding that minimum wage be increased to fifteen dollars an hour during the last day of action in december thousands took to the streets and that's when i received the first hand account from struggling workers about the purchase of these things i don't know by the grace of god i am. i am in a shelter trying to get out of there and i can do it because. some struggling. for me and they ask for right to take you to family well the single people last

america with and i believe all fall because envision a country not full cooperation before a working man a bad mother make way too much money for the beach where the one will give them the money the one earns and then if they are not the one who takes the money home according to reports the average yearly salary of a new york city fast food worker is eleven thousand dollars. as for the past pulled some clothes well they earn an estimated twenty five thousand dollars on a day more than double what their workers are all you know nobody likes those kind of numbers really like the disparity between america's rich and poor respect morning from new york bring up one night r t. what is the day progress is in new strikes happening around the globe we'll be bringing you live updates right here on r.t. international that our website we've got extra stories of course as always r.t. dot com including today how a portaloo daw was mistaken for

a north korean drone i'm not quite sure that i live in one the south seoul resident feeling rather flushed dot com for a check that out while you're there to get some world cup insight reasons why global politics should stay out of sport we've got an interview with former england football manager fabio capello just one click away great stories one that fits not among so many at r.t. dot com. russia's anti narcotics chief has proposed creating an international agency to combat the global drug trade victory even of says the organization should be set up in afghanistan which provides most of the world's opium u.s. led occupation forces are now pulling out of the war zone having failed to stem the drug flow even off stressed that russia will continue to cooperate with america in the war on drugs despite that string of sanctions imposed all moscow by washington afghanistan produces more than ninety percent of the world's heroin it's killed

around half a million russians in the past forty years. when you sit around the globe now in brief streets in the u.s. city of los angeles a flowing with oil pipe ruptured in a suburban area in the fifty thousand gallons of crude have spilled on to the road will mess that up with these pictures it's said to be need a high in some places cleanup to use a working in the area don't envy them that job. police have used tear gas and water cannons on protesters in the turkish city of is mere thousands took to the streets mourning the hundreds that died in the coal mine disaster the people the blaming the government for the tragedy saying it failed to implement the safety regulations trade unions are holding a one day strike across the country bodies are still being recovered from that awful site as the death toll reaches two hundred eighteen. a car bomb and suicide bomber struck in the center of baghdad at least nine people died in that incident in the blast including three policeman the bombs went off in busy commercial areas

where a number of government buildings are located this indeed is the latest in a series of car bombs to hit the iraqi capital since elections last month. now let's sure what we got here we've got an online cat video last worth watching and getting every bit of our attention look closely at security for the show this toddler happily playing on his bike his parents drive but watch this he was sitting prey for this dog next door went nuts and attacked the poor child guess who comes to the rescue why am i you know that they're devil cats slammed them up he ran for cover take another look at that amazing video on our website that dog got more than he bargained for kids ok. right back to more serious matters the number of romanians and bulgarians coming to the u.k. of a work's dropped over the last few months despite restrictions being lifted in january huge influx was expected when citizens of the eastern european countries get the same rights to work in britain as other e.u.

members but that hasn't proven to be the case so far let's talk about why that may be peter worldlings breakthrough of a british influence campaign to keep the u.k. in the european union either paty alive on r.t. you're talking to kevin o. in fact speaking with this or this is kind of an experiment wasn't it what are you putting it down to. well it was completely unexpected primarily because of the beginning of the year and in the end of last year most of the newspapers in the u.k. and the u.k. independence party led by nigel farage. frighten the british people to death by saying that on new year's day twenty nine million bulgarians and romanians were going to descend upon british territory. and of course the problem with that is it put a great deal of pressure upon the current political parties to justify a european good which is the ability of people to travel freely throughout the countries of the european union so first thing was people were frightened to death

the second thing was for five months down the line we see that none of this actually took place all they want is it and it does demonstrate that we have scaremongering in this country over immigration. well yeah or maybe is it because britain isn't maybe such an attractive place to come to these days could that be part of it as well if people want to go for a better life yeah listen to the politicians but i won't be that. well. it's a very good point and the issue of immigration is obviously compared very favorably to the fact that in two thousand and four the british government's sad when it and only one other country sweden opened its borders to polish immigrants the british government said only fifteen thousand of those polls would turn up in fact half a million pounds turned up and you are quite right to point out that this time it's different because this time all member states of the european union open the

borders to workers from remaining in the bulgarian and so consequently romanians and bulgarians more often than not will go to spain and italy rather than countries like the u.k. to settle so that. probably the reason why but nevertheless it does put into stark relief how the politics of immigration can be whipped up in a direction which is very bad for public opinion very very bad for the queer librium of the country a final thought while we're talking about the politicians there i wonder what this is going to do for you keep it knowledge of his membership you think. it's a very good question i mean clearly this is hugely embarrassing for nigel farage has been wondering the country saying four hundred eighty million european citizens have the right to send the ball in the u.k. and clearly for people who don't know this is the exception and frightening figure

so for ukip announcer for a fair argument i yesterday went on the b.b.c. in our financial forest to apologize to the british people for leading up the garden path the thing with nigel ferrars now is these go out just under a week to persuade the british people that he's not a man the lies to them when he's on your stage the lot no doubt will out there will have a moment to say his point i'm sure for now we've got to leave it so let's have a smuggler peter wild and the director of british influence in the line with us thank you very much our pleasure. and thank you for being with us to coming up to twenty five minutes past eight in the evening here in moscow in a couple of minutes boom bust on the air after the break asking tonight's u.s. senator wrong poll if pulling the strings in ukraine is really worth it for washington next live news update with me kevin no in thirty five minutes time.

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today we're looking at ethics now most business television shows don't spend a lot of time talking about business ethics but we aren't most business t.v. shows so what prompted us to address this very subject. fannie mae and freddie mac. yeah ethics and fannie mae and freddie mac. last summer a lawsuit was filed by perry capital and several other hedge funds which argues that the government is taking too much of the profits from fannie and freddie perry and other funds own preferred shares in the companies that they believe are worth not so small fortunes if only the government would stop holding all the profits now let me start back in the beginning back in two thousand and eight fannie and freddie were bailed out by the us government they were two of the biggest and earliest bailouts of the financial crisis hank paulson the treasury secretary at

the time place the companies into conservatories shift and provided them with hundreds of billions of dollars in backstop financing there was one catch though the government never wiped out the existing common or preferred shares because doing so would have bankrupt bankrupted some major midsize american banks which have been encouraged by regulators to use the preferred stock as bank capital what c.d.'s these now can stand on capital structure rules would dictate that the common preferred shares should have should have been wiped out but the government didn't want to do that and hedge funds piled in thinking that these things had huge optionality values and they were right now once the conservatorship and now once in conservatorship the government required and fred to issue super preferred stock to the treasury department stock which they do which they wouldn't repaid to the government before all other creditors are over a ten percent so they jumped in the line now what do you know by two thousand and

twelve fannie and freddie started accounting huge huge gains accounting gains now with the crisis behind it the government decided the common preferred stock should be worth zero and all dividends should go directly to the treasury no stops along the way common in preferred stock holders would receive nothing that of course didn't sit too well with the hedge funds and they sued now why i think these funds are vultures and investors like warren buffett right there on your screen wouldn't be caught dead participating in the shares i do understand however that the hedge funds are within their legal right to do this but that doesn't make it ok. now with that said when it comes to ethics who really is to blame here the government shouldn't have allowed the purchase of these common preferred shares in the first place and had the elected officials done the right thing six years ago they wouldn't have found themselves in the legal battle they are in today with the very guys that fund their campaigns you don't want to be fighting with them right near

a check now the government didn't want to buy the build in two thousand and eight and wiped out the shares altogether and they're now suffering the consequences of those actions they wanted to save certain institutions and because of that political desire they now find themselves in quite a bit of a predicament report just so. dr ron paul is a former congressman and a three time presidential candidate paul has spent his career public service pushing for freedom and liberty both domestically and abroad now he's a prominent libertarian in american politics who's advocated for free markets liberty and non interventionism throughout his life i sat down with dr paul to get his take on the u.s. foreign and domestic policy and i first asked him to explain what concerns he has about america's involvement in ukraine take a look. there are several first is i don't like our government getting involved in

the affairs of other people and leading only to trouble fall to the admonition of our early founders of the country that we should be involved in the entangling alliances throughout the world nor in the internal affairs of other nations so whether it's the middle east northern africa or whether it's ukraine i apply that principle so i do not believe it's to our benefit i don't hell i don't think it helps our national security i think it hurts our national security i don't think it helps in this particular instance the ukrainian people so i think it would be best for everybody for us to just stay out besides we don't have the money we have to go borrow the money if we decide and we're already spending money on this effort in ukraine and i don't think we should be doing it. dr paul i take it you believe the money spent by the u.s. abroad would be better used to shore up our finances here at home now in your view

what role does the u.s. government have in terms of projection of power or is a global super cop. well it's mainly to develop friendly relations with as many people who are that are open to it i was delighted with the collapse of the soviet system and i have been delighted with our efforts to end a lot of trade going on with not only the former communist nation of china. also with russia we've invested five hundred billion dollars in russia and they've invested four hundred billion dollars outside so there's a lot of trade going on to sordid defies this side dhea that a few people are stirring up enough trouble where they want to ruin all that so my effort in the world is to promote trade and promote friendship promote travel at the same time not be involved in trying to determine what's best for other people i don't want to do that individual lives and i don't want to do that for other

governments and other peoples in spite of the many many problems out there it's just impossible for us to do it if we don't have the authority and we're not going to be welcome and we don't have the wisdom to do it if things are to be done to help people who are in trouble overseas it should be done from our viewpoint of liberty it should be done voluntarily in the american people generally have been very very generous in helping people when they're in trouble but i want to i want our government our people to stay out of the affairs especially when they come to violence and and militarism now some people believe that u.s. political and military involvement in places like iraq afghanistan libya and ukraine is a big basically to maintain us global wealth by maintaining us global gemini what's your view on the on the subject. well i think there's a lot to that i think a lot of countries you know are interested i think whether it's russia or china when they invest overseas that goal may be the same and america's goal used to be

that we were much more designed to have a global presence by trading and investments and you know having friendly relations but no i think now we have fallen into the trap of saying well there's some that was in the whole reason that we went into the middle east oil was an issue there were other issues as well but china and other countries are investing overseas and they're investing in oil and different things and and right now we're giving russia tremendous incentive to go in do deals with more with china and india and these other countries where if the market was working we might be able to better provide these trade agreements that and then when when when we give them trouble and people resist what we do is do so that's why i don't think it's in our best interest now inside the u.s. we have a policy whereby the n.s.a. collects data on u.s.

citizens and mass allegedly to mine data in order to deter future terrorist attacks now are you concerned about this data collection and its impact on u.s. citizens and businesses well i would hope every american is except i do know there are some who i fully don't understand in our congress who say oh no we must do it this is the way we have safety i mean this is more a principle of on the floor of terri and dictatorship that they have to know what everybody is doing no i am a strong advocate of privacy i complain so much because our own government is very very secretive in a free society which we had a much better freer society once before we're supposed to know what the government is doing but now all the efforts in washington seems to be to make government very sick. then we're not allowed to know what's going on if somebody tells us the truth they're charged with treason instead of looking toward to our constitution the fourth amendment protecting our privacy actually when you have n.s.a.

they're doing exactly the opposite so our government and by the permission of the people the people have gone along with this because they have been complacent and think maybe they're going to benefit from this in the wrong people in charge so our government is not acting the way it was intended to and some of us are concerned about it matter of fact i'm very optimistic with a lot of young people and there's still a lot of americans who have been complacent but they they don't say oh i want to give up my freedom because government going to take care you care of me quite frankly right now they're starting to realize the government all governments the more authoritarian they are the more inept they are and that's why you see collapses. so many empires around the world and i think right now we're not improving our influence in the world actually we're causing more harm to the american people and i want to tell you about this the united states has about five percent of the global population but thirty five percent of the global wealth and

this discrepancy appears to be contract what should the u.s. do if anything about that contraction. oh. i don't know what you mean by contraction you mean the thirty five percent is going down yes the. oh well no as i i'm not i would measure those statistics i would measure the measurement of a freedom a free society that's productive and have property rights and trade they're going to because they produce more they're going to have more wealth that's what a free country does so if there's a discrepancy between the united states and say a country in africa which has no property rights and no freedom and no industrialization what they need is the concept of liberty and free markets and sound money in what property. meaning contract rights mean so you don't want to say well there's an imbalance in wealth and therefore we have to redistribute wealth that is not the answer to the problem the answer to the problem is how does wealth

get created and we used to know how to do this today we think wealth is created by the federal reserve if people come up short of the government wants to spend the people won something or we want to fight a war we don't have the wealth we're not producing so they think wealth comes from the federal reserve in fall asleep the foreign countries around the world say still take our dollars is what is the foreigners take our dollars we're going to be doing this bad that's going to diminish our wealth so statistically the country is the more wealthy are going to have and they should never be held. down for that they should be criticized for having wealth if they've earned that wealth. time for a very quick break but stick around because when we return we're bringing you park two of my interview with ron paul i asked dr paul how free markets would stimulate a faster american recovery rather than the muddle through economy we have right now then in today's big deal edward harrison and i are talking about

a new proposed minimum wage switzerland the u.s. is talking about ten bucks an hour swiss more like fourteen bucks an hour give me that's a like twenty four quite a bit of money and as we go to break here are a look at some of your closing numbers don't stick around. you said that the european here in hand has no alternative but to work with russia as it is not trying to pretend that it is something different and i wonder if you could get a lot of play down about what is russia as it is russia as it is as you said it's a country still in transition it doesn't really have recovered its identity is it russia for russians who said russia is a multicultural country is that russia looking to was. russia looking more towards europe it's still suffering

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much as eighty percent in some percentiles but stagnation or actual contraction of incomes for the poorest people those in the seventy fifth the ninetieth percentile globally which also happens to be the middle classes in developed economies like the us now do you think secular stagnation in the us middle class is a real phenomenon. i do but i really am very cautious not to join those who say well what we need is more government to do redistribute the wealth and see what capitalism does this is not free market capitalism this is crony capitalism it's collusion of governments and big business which is a philosophy that all governments indorse around the world right now and this is characteristic if you destroy a currency you can expect the middle class to be diminished since we have the reserve currency of the world and we're printing so much money you can expect our middle class to get poorer and poorer and the poor get poorer so much poorer so if you look at this distribution of wealth in this country you cannot blame freedom

for you cannot blame free markets where you have to blame these collusion of big government and big business and big labor this does not happen when we were a much freer country we had the largest in the richest middle class ever known to man mankind and that is what we need fortunately not only has america slipped away from the us i even think since the collapse of the soviet system there's been too much of an endorsement of this that we need we need government and big business working together and i don't like that because if that gets out of hand to be a benz itself toward more of a fascist system and i don't i don't think that's a good way to go now in your opinion one of the most important factors that can give america the best chance for prosperity in the future. well the best chance is to change people's minds about the necessity to work for free society and this is the reason i spend so much time with young people and my message is well

received on a college campuses because they're disillusioned they don't they don't buy into this thing the government going to take care of them they've spent tens if not hundreds of thousands of dollars on education and they're not getting any jobs so they know they can't depend on government they're sick and tired of the wars they think there's something very strange about the federal reserve system and just printing money out of thin air so the future comes from a whole generation of individuals who will become those individuals that will influence in teaching and writing in the media and writing books and doing movies and in the last hundred years the influence has always been with big government that government will take care of us and they believed in keynesian economics in the united states has in many other countries they haven't been socialist they have been more keynesians where they think that this mixture of big business and big government big labor that we'll have managers in washington will do it but no we

have to get enough people in a class which is would be called to you know the influential people to understand why it's in everybody's best interest to have a free society rather than dependency on government. dr paul women have credit based currency system so there is no limit to how much credit can be manufactured in such a system but how do we ensure that credit is not mal invested and that we sustain growth based on high return investments to prepare the country for the future is absolutely impossible if the government still distributing you know that the credit . but in a free market you can make sure that it's not mal investment it always will be there will always be mistakes you know for every hundred businesses get started in a free society you might have ninety five who will fail and you'll say well that was mel invested you know it was but they had to pay they had to suffer the consequences that they didn't anticipate right or made

a mistake and if they are successful then they have to be rewarded so it's all sorted out and that's so much different then when a bureaucrat the size and the politicians decide it and special interest decide it and money money people decided by influencing government that is very bad but mistakes will be made but if you want corrections and you want gross and getting rid of the mistakes immediately when the government passes the credit what happens are the bubbles are forming the mallets vestments form they're guaranteed and they're bailed out and it compounds the problem and then when you need a correction you don't get it and that's why the world is becoming mired in an economic difficulty that will not be reversed until a lot more people understand what i'm talking about. do you think the fed's quantitative easing and zero interest rate policy are having a distortionary effect that will lead to mal investment in the u.s. economy oh obviously you know our government now our federal reserve owns one point

six trillion dollars of bad debt that can't be helpful and the housing market is still is in bad shape there's a there's a lot of distortion it's a little bit different in nature because it's sort of some cities are worse than others. the mel investment has just been papered over i just think of the correction that needed to be had a current state of the fed by one point six trillion dollars and a lot of foreigners still owning owning some of our mortgage debt i mean that said if it's bad data needs wiped off those businesses need to go out but you don't need feeding may and freddie macin guarantee the guarantees that nobody fails guarantees that the problems will come and the corrections will be very very difficult now you just mentioned real estate and grow i'm glad that you brought that up because transcripts from a two thousand and two f o m c meeting show that the greenspan fed was worried about deflation after the technology bubble burst and that that and the bats was

a key reason for leaving rates so low then now after the housing bubble burst similar figures have popped up in a responsible for the fed's zero rate interest policy today so mike my question is where do you see this ending and your opinion destruction of the dollar and they can't keep doing it greenspan has been too low for too long and everybody acknowledged that they thought correction was to make them even lower actually they're below one percent the below zero right now they're negative because they're one percent or so but you have an inflation rate much higher than the governments will ever tell us so you have a negative rate and they even want to legalize they are in me and they are negative right so if somebody wants to put money in the bank you put in one hundred dollars in a year later you get ninety eight dollars back well that's that's pure theft when it comes to it when. steal wealth that way so no it's going to destroy the dollar and the dollar's pretty vital it's crucial it won't be an easy transition and you're not going to all of a sudden see another another reserve currency pop up and it be

a fish on the market if the market had to choose on this they would pick an asset commodity for money and the one that's been the most popular for six thousand years has been gold in second place is been sober and that would restore the confidence and that's why the richard nations who are in better shape financially. and others they're buying gold even india is buying gold so this. there was former congressman and presidential candidate dr ron paul time now for today's big deal. in today's big deal edward harris and i are discussing a big very big payday in switzerland now a referendum on when may eighteenth might put swiss minimum wage at twenty two francs and. twenty two francs is about one thousand euros in about twenty four to

twenty five u.s. dollars but nice now now this proposal is made by the specific aeration of trade unions and supported by the socialist and green parties a recent opinion poll found that sixty four percent of voters are against the proposal put referendums can have surprising outcomes now cue the arguments about the minimum wage this government argues that it would have it would threaten jobs and make it harder for young people to find a job in the first place now supporters they argue that the wage would help people who work full time live decently and switzerland is of course notoriously an expensive place to live however can you tell me a little bit more about a social and economic position right now and basically what is the unemployment rate in that country at the moment there are positions pretty good. in fact it's they have an unemployment of in the three to four percent range we have a graph here that shows their unemployment been coming down recently and you know the have been doing so well in fact that their currency has been appreciating to

the point where the swiss national bank had to buy up the currency by a foreign currency in order to stop their currency from appreciate so switzerland is doing pretty well ok you know when i ask you can you tell me more about this minimum wage itself like how did they come up with the number twenty two friends who they came up with in terms of you know the percentage of. the actual salaries so basically you know four thousand francs a month which would be forty eight thousand francs a year would be about sixty six percent of the median salary within switzerland which would be about ten percent of the people who are actually below that number so that's where the number really comes from. the question of course is that is that a really high number because when you think about it that's fifty thousand dollars a year as a minimum wage that's

a task that's pretty amazing you know switzerland actually has a pretty high standard of living in norway and switzerland have the highest. standard of living in terms of purchasing power parity they're the most expensive countries so really we're only talking about a minimum wage of fourteen dollars a purchasing power parity basis but nonetheless in nominal terms we're talking fifty thousand bucks and a lot of people who work in switzerland especially in industry i see commute from across the border like in italy a lot of italians were in switzerland or here in geneva even the airport is not running for her france and france are going to jump back and forth that would be nice so if you work in italy you can go work in switzerland make fifty thousand dollars a year and then come back to italy were. or the standard of living where the cost of living is a lot lower that's awesome sounds going to me. here's my follow up on the wage effect switzerland's job market and basically what sectors of the industry are these jobs in kind of that would be affected most by this minimum wage so we're

talking like hotels retail things like that you know this goes back to what we were talking about a few days ago which is basically that we've done studies in the united states would show when you look at the aggregate studies from nineteen seventy two i think to two thousand and eight basically most of the data shows that minimum wage changes don't have any appreciable impact on employment so if they were to institute i mean this is a massive hike the question is what kind of impact will we see on the unemployment because obviously you know a company that is employing someone has a small medium sized business and has to have a massive high might go out of business right so when you talk about a hike of this of this magnitude. are you going to get that sort of almost no effect on unemployment that we've seen from studies in the u.s. or is there going to be an impact now edward you know this whole minimum wage thing

this is a pretty aggressive way for the government to intervene you know just just make a flat minimum wage never has to the question is is this appropriate what do you think i think it really has to do with the social values because basically you know the people on the left there the green party and the socialist they really want to have a social safety net which is very. very strict that means that no one can fall through but at the same time what we're definitely seeing is intervention by government in a way that really. tricks things for specific individual companies and i think that it's that trade off they have to deal with and i think that in the united states we feel uncomfortable with that kind of trade off with minimum wage that. well talk about this more it's a fun topic and i really like it that's all the time we have for now you can see all seven skittered in today show on you tube you tube dot com slash boom bust r.t. we also love hearing from you the please check out our facebook page at facebook dot com slash boom bust r.t.

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over a good evening very good have you with us if you just joined us this is art international from moscow and the developing news story been talking about the past couple of hours are here now at least two people have been killed after craig's army opened fire on civilians in the city of kramatorsk in the southeast of ukraine that's according to reports from the donetsk self-defense forces and in the same area a crew from marty's video agency ruptly was shot at from armored vehicles in that incident there's a feeling from roughly explain just what happened. well one of our producers they can study and for free we're on the way you can let me talk about penn state went from the national guard from the ukrainian national guard. basically being me out

of nowhere because they are currently on. it and began shooting in the ad very hard . but that was driving the car that they were in fact that break that me which caused the car to break down thankfully everybody who was very fine ukrainian national guard. came forward and i think that was in the area code i think maybe it had done the right. thing for no apparent reason and then. what happened very very quickly thank. the. thing is with an agency. who is actually at the scenes keeping you up to date with developments on twitter if you want to stay abreast of it one of the latest tweet she's posting a picture of a bullet. so as we get more we'll bring it to you as well here.

well if you crane's richest in the industry your skis being linked to the recent violence in a desart a series of leaks phone calls posted on you tube the conversation allegedly between two ukrainian businessmen immediately went viral let's take a listen in more movies on michael to government when your cargo gets you a boot reduces your company we want to let you know your question is of muscle just reformative agree with you on this walk the store or reduce it we could figure that money will come out of the offical some of our little government we have ordered a little bit of comfort of the. but it's a corker for a comparative literature very. good looking for a book when you carry reusable mystery story as it goes are those the words you go . as and in scores of major businesses in controls and ukraine's biggest information agency plus one of the country's main t.v. channels to he gained notoriety last month when a bank owns openly offer the ten thousand dollar reward for the head of any

so-called russian saboteurs as it was put international affairs expert marks the border told us that whatever the revelations about kids in a circle the west will continue however to stand by them in your column or skiis one of the shadiest and most interesting figures right now in ukrainian politics he was recently placed. as essentially a feudal on guard to be carried over the territory of deliberate tosk in the southeast of ukraine with the intention that he ripped the opposition movement against the current regime that is taking control and there's the unspoken assumption which is proven true that he would hire his own army of mercenaries to further that a war i don't think that the western media would even bat an eye these revolution is over unfortunately it is they've long ago chosen sides in a few massacres an involvement of oligarchy figures in corruption is simply not

going to challenge the narrative they're spinning in the western media at this point so defense forces of the new proclaimed donetsk people's republic meantime origin ukraine's military to withdraw from the region they say they'll move against troops if fields are made was met by the end of today thursday gun fired artillery has been heard outside sliver the city which is about six hundred kilometers from kiev was among the first you may recall a face that crackdown by government forces as artie's paul asli reports next to being under siege by the army for weeks know the city is on the brink of a humanitarian catastrophe. we're now entering the town of slovyansk which is completely encircled by the ukrainian military this is a ukrainian army checkpoint and as you can see the cars are backed up a little way down the road there it will take me a better part of at least one hour to get in because of this because the town is so encircled you have a growing humanitarian crisis supplies simply cannot get in get patients in the

town are running out just many of them simply do not have any gas or we've driven outside to come and fill up the car here put on your natural supplies will run out so there will be nothing to run our cars on and we won't be able to get. the local hospital in history from people who've been injured not only here in slovyansk but also in neighboring towns there's real concern that it's been pushed to crisis point and because of this ordinary people have been arriving with packets of food and blankets toiletries as well as medical supplies to try and stop this from happening the gates has been closed here for the better part of two days this is the local grid factory where people are simply too afraid to come to work choosing rather to stay inside their homes as a result of the prices of bread and flour had skyrocketed and in the shops there

were long queues to buyers. this is one of the largest supermarkets in the town they have been rumors circulating for days that the shelves are empty and that suppliers are not able to get in let's go have a look last solves. i'm scared and so is almost everyone i know i haven't felt this much fear in mind tire life. this is the fourth a.t.m. that we've been to and none of them are working they are at least seven banks that have stopped operating in the town. as you can see the shops are closed and the streets are mostly empty people are choosing to stay home rather than risk coming to the streets there's a sense of anxiety and fear in the air a feeling that a military strike is imminent paula see r.t. slovyansk eastern ukraine. the syrian opposition would be incapable of governing

the country of president assad was ousted dirty deed is the view of a top u.s. military commander general martin dempsey says syria would remain in the grip of terror and chaos with the opposition unable to root out al qaeda linked groups meantime fighting continues in syria on wednesday because this rebels detonated sixty tons of explosives at the army base in the west of the country it's believed those explosions were placed in the tunnels that the rebels have been digging up for seven months washington says efforts have to be redoubled in syria and has pledged more support got a future khamis the latest. we're seeing a new push by the obama administration to fulfill a goal that he declared three years ago to topple the syrian president bashar assad has announced that syria will hold elections despite the war the us vehemently opposes those elections washington has already decided who the legitimate representatives of the syrian people are is the syrian opposition coalition president obama has met with a coalition leader ahmad jarba at the white house this week u.s.

secretary of state john kerry told the rebels we've wasted a year in the fight against assad the participants of the meeting said john kerry made the remark in the context of a discussion about renewed efforts to coordinate the flow of both aid and weapons to the syrian rebels the french foreign minister was also in washington this week and he said he quote unquote regret it that the u.s. had not bombed syria as it's wet and all of this war talk amid the u.s. and europe saying that they want to find a political solution to the crisis in syria but we say there is no military victory meaning we being the united states there can be no military solution and every step that we're taking is a military step. and so obviously we're setting up a longer term conflict more conflict the u.n.

envoy for syria locked our brain me has announced his resignation expressing regret for his inability to forge a coherent international response to the humanitarian catastrophe unfolding in syria the geneva talks have not led to a deal between the syrian government and the opposition although the syrian opposition has been largely unwilling to cut deals with the government of bashar assad nonetheless there have been instances of progress most recently thousands of syrians were turned to war battered parts of the central city of homs after the rebels left under an evacuation deal with the government but washington seems keen to prompt. the syrian rebels to continue fighting instead of cutting deals even though a deal could save thousands of lives in washington i'm going to check on r.t. but to stay committed to reacquaint ourselves the timeline here the syrian crisis escalated after last year's chemical attack in our lead we can't forget it killed dozens of people we recall the pictures with the government the rebels blaming each other for the massacre fast forward to june president barack obama upping the ante

by authorizing military aid to the syrian rebels for the first time then the crisis pig two months later with western leaders calling for military strikes on syria so the other controversial chemical attack is the red line that have been crossed obama talked about at length but just as military intervention loomed large then a diplomatic breakthrough was brokered by russia which helped persuade syria to give up its chemical arsenal damascus began getting rid of its stockpiles in october it's expected to complete the handover ahead of the deadline that's coming up in june the next step to deescalate the crisis came in geneva a big meeting with syrian government and opposition officials just about for talks for the first time but the negotiations ultimately failed to break the deadlock because both sides resume to a still ities no tensions have again escalated with the white house hosting the syrian opposition leader and pledging fresh support for the insurgency jim political analyst brian becker told me the syrian people of the ones paying the price of washington's regime change ambitions it's an indication that the obama

administration in spite of the fact that its policy has completely failed its haint half service speak showing that it's be stowing the legitimacy or so-called legitimacy of the united states certainly the power of the united states with the armed opposition in spite of the fact that the armed opposition does not have the popular base of support necessary to oust the assad government so they're just continuing with the same script the syrian people are the ones paying this terrible price in blood and treasure is that leading goes on i think it's wrong. and now officials from eleven western and arab countries met in london for a so-called friends of syria conference let's take a look at the countries in this club most the middle eastern countries bordering syria in germany for its part in europe rather it's germany france the u.k. italy thinking the same thoughts and of course the united states. also on that list following that meeting the group promised more financial and diplomatic support for

the syrian opposition it's a story we'll continue to follow up after the break fast food workers anger their employers goes global we're following the strikes the take taking place over thirty five countries worldwide and a lot more to for you right here tonight. you said that the european union has no alternative but to work with russia as it is now trying to pretend that it is something different and i wonder if you put a lot about what is russia as it is russia as it is as you said it's a country still in transition it doesn't really have recovered its identity is it russia for russians is russia as a multicultural country is that russia looking towards asia russia looking more towards europe still suffering a kind of identity crisis after the breakup of the soviet union.

we speak your language i mean some of the well or not at the end. will use programs and documentaries and spanish what matters to you. but will turn it into angles story. here to. the spanish find out more visit. hello again fast food well probably not so far as the people responsible for your big plastic walkers take to the streets to participate in what's expected to be the largest ever strike against the industry the wall cosa set to take place in at least thirty five countries around the world to squeeze better wages from the fast

food joints but the images you're seeing here the latest protest has taken place in japan it was meant to pour she's got moral why the workers are running out of patience these days. the fight for a decent living wage is a battle millions of citizens can relate to and it's also a battle that is not going away fast food workers throughout the u.s. are walking off the job in onto the streets thursday demanding a pill and the right to unionize you see fast food is a two hundred billion dollar industry but the majority of those who prepare and serve the meals for those folks they're living in poverty or close to it the problem is that the majority of workers are even minimally you ask the federal minimum wage is seven twenty five an hour i've paid so much that even after working forty hours a week most fast food workers have to rely on government assistance like food stamps to make ends meet. a lot more than minimum wage can live off of it's hard

you know. it's hard to provide for. hard to put food on the table sometimes the fast food labor force is demanding that minimum wage be increased to fifteen dollars an hour during the last day of action in december thousands took to the streets and that's when i received the first now from struggling workers about the march. i don't know about the grace of god i am. i am in a shelter. trying to get out of there because. some struggle. for me and they ask for right to take you to a family where the single people last american way and i believe his vision a country not full cooperation before the working man. way too much money for the beach where the one who gave them the money.

according to reports the average yearly salary of a new york city fast food worker is eleven thousand dollars for the past four would see those earning an estimated twenty five thousand dollars per day more than double what their workers earn all year i know people like me but those kind of numbers really put the disparity between america's rich and poor respect morning from new york tonight our take. well as they progress is new strikes happening around the globe will bring you live updates right here now it's international expect the next ones in a couple of hours from now on our website because actual stories as always including tonight how a portaloo door was mistaken for a north korean drug yes you hear me correct it's left so residents feeling rather flushed. get some. reasons why global politics should stay out of

sport great interview with former england football manager fabio capello one not totally ready has just click away. next the number of romanians and bulgarians coming to the u.k. for work has dropped over the past few months despite restrictions being lifted in january a huge influx was expected when citizens of the eastern european countries gain the same rights to work in britain as other e.u. members but this anticipated surge in fact didn't happen apparently a campaigner for keeping britain in the told me there are plenty of other places that workers can choose to go. all member states of the european union open their borders to workers from romania and bulgaria and so consequently romanians and bulgarians more often than not will go to spain and italy rather than countries like the cape to settle so that's probably the reason why but nevertheless it does

put into stark relief how the politics of immigration can be whipped in a direction which is very bad for public opinion a very bad for the librium of the country when cyprus gunned down dozens of protesters in kiev in february cool leaders along with the western media were quick to pin the blame on president going to cohabit elite police officers but investigators in the ukrainian capital now evidence that contradicts those easterly reach conclusions are to take a piss cannot explain. the footage that shook ukraine and the entire world many say this was the point of no return protesters being shot one after another with live rounds during february uprising showing images of riot police firing their weapons and many media outlets were quick to accuse them of being behind the massacre images of snipers in central kiev flooded the internet along with more

accusations of the authorities while several western officials fanned the flames people who stood up against night burrs firing at them from the rubes who are fighting against the tyranny of having political opposition put in jail where you have some of the ukrainian ambassador and london this morning to register our emphatic protests at the event and to call for immediate and far reaching trying to end the attitude of the ukrainian the power to. ukrainians were shocked and even those protesters who were ready for some sort of negotiations with the authorities we're now ready to push for the alternate goal dragging them from power president in accordance first philly's the capital and then the country but denies accusations that he ordered the police to kill the officers who were seen opening fire and claim they were merely trying to scare the rioters away by aiming at the ground in front of them while leaks conversation between the story and foreign minister and the

e used top diplomat gives his version that he's now stronger and stronger understanding that behind snipers they went it was not going to quote which but it was somebody that you know question but all that is widely ignored. instead of the new police chief announces the results of a hasty investigation putting the full blame on the riot police and arresting twelve officers further splitting ukrainian society in the south we see more deaths in violent clashes between those for and against its new york forty's. and so. called anti terror operations with the use of heavy military equipment in the country's east while the rift with the western provinces grows wider than ever. but now nearly three months after five years mayhem parliament finishes another investigation with a not expected outcome those bullets were not fired by the right believes.

it would have been great if some things could be rewound not on t.v. but in real life who knows could the uprising have been successful if not for those accusations would you have come to the brink of a civil war like we're seeing now which is don't know nor do we know what's really behind those sniper deaths in february you were just going off r t in moscow. more tonight's big news headline streets in the u.s. city of los angeles a flowing literally with oil after a ruptured in a suburban areas a real mess there nearly fifty thousand gallons of crude have spilled onto the road said to be knee high in places teams of working in the area don't envy them our job police have used tear gas and water cannon on protesters in the turkish city of izmir thousands took to the streets mourning the hundreds the died in the coal mine disaster the people of blaming the government for the tragedy saying it failed to improve proper safety regulations in time trade unions are holding when they strike across the country over bodies are still being recovered from the site the death

toll has now reached two hundred eight. car bomb and suicide bomber struck here in the central baghdad at least nine were killed in the blast including three policeman the bombs went off in busy commercial areas were number of government buildings are located it's the latest in a series of car bombs to hit the russian capital since elections last month. is more like video at last worth watching take a close look security footage showing a toddler happily playing on his bike his parents drive very nice but he was sitting praver next those dog then went nuts and attacked but along comes the family cat to the rescue or so the slums into the dog the pesky mother then runs for cover wolf well if want to see that again you can on our website r.t. dot com so a happy ending to what could have been tragedy there. russia's anti narcotics chief has proposed creating an international agency to combat the global drug trade

victory even off says the organization should be set up in afghanistan which provides most of the world's opium us that occupation forces are now pulling out of the war zone of course having failed to stand that drug zone even off stress that russia will continue to cooperate with america in the war on drugs despite a string of sanctions right now posed on moscow by washington afghanistan produces more than ninety percent in fact of the world's heroin and it is killed around half a million russians in the past forty years. keep up to speed nola developing news stories twenty four seven online at our home here after the break russian media relations come under the spotlight in the world's.

equality is nice but there are a couple point when things just get silly for example for the last year even at the congressional level some democrats on the military association of atheists and freethinkers have been pushing to create atheist chaplains in the u.s. military a chaplain in the context the armed forces is a priest who goes alongside the nation's troops to give them spiritual counsel and boost morale and also myself was very skeptical that god created man i can tell you that this is just a bit odd what sort of spiritual or moral support is some sort of generic atheist chaplain going to provide he'd probably say something like well son everything you're fighting for in this tiny rocket in for universes ultimately pointless and johnson who died yesterday he's not in heaven or anything there is no afterlife for me and to our existence so we just maggot food now you feel better yeah thanks for the counseling father i think this is just a case of me too me too politics where the demand for a humanist religion free priests is war despite christian soldiers rather than to actually do something to help atheist soldiers but that's just my opinion.

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hello and welcome to worlds a part of a part of europe or apart from the europe russia's place within the continent has long been a subject of debate a debate which has become particularly heated up with a crisis in ukraine doesn't rush out to really belong to europe well to discuss that i'm now i'm joined by fraser camera and director of the e.u. russia center mr cameron thank you very much for being on the show pleasure now this month's your center marks its eighth anniversary and it was a sad hour back in. may two thousand and six with a specific goal of promoting closer ties between russia and the e.u. and it would seem that the events of the last eight months have essentially undone all the progress that was made over the past eight years is the relationship now wars than it was when you started the center of salute this is the worst crisis and you russia relations for more than a decade certainly since the collapse of the soviet union and this is essentially

because there are very different views on how to protect the independence of the neighboring countries and in the e.u. we believe that ukraine should have the right to decide its own foreign policy in russia there's a very different approach well i think mr cameron in russia there is also believe that ukraine has the right to decide its own foreign policy and its own associations even if the e.u. or the west in general disagrees with that vision but let's delve directly into it he just mentioned the difference of opinions between russia and the west and traditionally at least such difference of opinions is very much tolerated in ukraine in the ear rather it is taken as a sign of plurality and yet when it comes to this recent crisis over ukraine any attempt by russia to explain itself is taken as propaganda this very channel r.t. is often referred to as the mouthpiece of the kremlin you know people who are

sympathetic or at least understand the logic of russia are denounced as putin sympathizers and i'm sure you will be also criticized for appearing on r t why do you think there is such a push to do it just to my eyes the russian side of the story what's the difference really between the propaganda and just an alternative point of view well if you look at it very objectively the propaganda. is arguably the worst since the height of the cold war there's no attempt at objectivity. i mean the very top with claiming that the world wide web is some kind of plot which is utter nonsense written saying one day that there is no russians in crimea than two weeks later meeting that there were russians in crimea so how do you expect the e.u. to actually look upon russia this is the kind of you know black is white white is type of propaganda so in the last few weeks and months the propaganda has been

totally one sided well you just mentioned the propaganda being totally one sided but getting the west is being totally transparent when it comes to ukraine and the tactics that it uses there. the question of one hundred percent pure on the other side zero percent there are shades but i mean in terms of the objectivity of reporting you have far more different channels far more different sources of information about what's going on in ukraine from the european media broadcasters than you do from if you are living in russia well i beg to disagree with you because here in russia we are also exposed to western media i mean most of the people who are who are interested in ukraine can watch ukrainian challenge they can tune into western channels they can tune into russian channels i'm not sure that such diversity of views is afforded to you many citizens of the west but just recently i saw you writing an article on ukraine and in that article you mentioned

the so-called putin's paranoia and populism and you contrasted that with the west and with the e.u. still being a big can that inspires people around europe and people around the world and i wonder if that portrayal of the a russian divide isn't just a little bit too binary you know like evil down versus good ass when you're writing you want to make sure people and. and your point that it's not a case of black and white i'm sure millions of russians who would like a liberal democratic russia based on the rule of law and the rule of law simply doesn't exist in russia today and that's i think a fundamental difference people want the freedoms that we enjoy in the e.u. and people around the world want these freedoms to. agree with you totally that people in russia want all those liberal freedoms i would just question your assumption that those freedoms don't exist in russia freedom of speech we are

capable of discussing ukraine as we are doing actually on this show the rule of law you just mentioned surely russia has some difficulties and that the main by the you know it's understandable russia is a transitional country and compared to let's say one thousand nine hundred ninety s. i would argue that the rule of law is much more prevalent in this country than it used to be just a decade ago you look at the decision of all the member states of the council of europe to suspend russian membership shows that there's a very broad international consensus of the absence of the rule of law in russia today well i think the decision of the council of europe to suspend russia's membership was not only temporary day for some reason didn't want to suspend russia's funding of the council of europe which shows that at least on some point there is an interest to keeping russia within the framework but let's go back to the portrayal of this crisis which i think is a very interesting topic

a number of western policymakers angela merkel john kerry kerry asserted that. russia and most importantly putin are is essentially constructing their own reality that is divorced totally divorced from the events on the ground and i wonder if this approach when you essentially denounce the other side as crazy is something that actually contributed to this reason stalemate because you can have me go. productively if you decry the other side as simply not. i think you will agree that you know a pretty season politician probably one of the most respected leaders in the world and when she resorts to this kind of language she obviously does it after some careful consideration she probably has the best relationship or close relationship with putin of any western leader but she has now come to the conclusion that he is someone who simply cannot be trusted yet but on the other side when we use your own

claim are about putin's paranoia much of that was arrested previously at least on the russian assertions that the west was using dirty tricks in ukraine and just a couple of days ago germany's one of germany's leading newspapers came out with a report citing german intelligence services that they are actually american military contractors deployed in ukraine so it seems that after all you know all that putin's paranoia as you term it wasn't without a ground if you go back to the very beginning there was always some skepticism. in the west about whether ukraine could and should be an independent nation you remember president bush sr speech goes down history as the chicken kiev speech questioning whether ukraine should really be independent so there's never from then on been any desire. by the e.u. or nato to somehow bring ukraine into western clutches that simply nonsense the

ukraine has made its own choice it wanted to sign an association agreement with the e.u. and then suddenly at the last minute putin obviously put pressure on you kind of decided not to go ahead with it and this is what led to the current situation isn't the president we are witnessing at the moment the very manifestation that ukraine never made that decision about european association all equally with you know it's allegiance with russia it was always in the middle there are many divided countries in europe including the one i live in belgium but people agree on is that they you have to respect the will of the people and the majority in the elections and parliament the government also under was negotiating an association agreement with the e.u. and that was supported clearly by the vast majority of the population and this only changed in the very last minute last november when putin put pressure on ukraine

not to sign the agreement why did if it was support it saw a uniformly by the majority of the ukrainian population why do you think people in the east are so unhappy with this current government you know they're willing to do with you know raised our own lives to fight off the regime and key if. there's been a lot of propaganda to go back to the first question trying to portray the interim government in kiev as some kind of puppets of the e.u. or the united states which is utter nonsense there's also been a state of the tiny number of the extreme right radicals who participated in my day and they were. blown out of proportion. i think it's in russia's interest to have a stable relationship with ukraine and if it goes wrong the way it is i think ukraine is going to be not a very friendly neighboring country towards russia and that surely is not in russia's long term interest the e.u. has just as much of a stake in having

a productive and friendly relationship with ukraine and with russia and some would argue that its recent policies are putting the relationship with both of those countries at three c. but let me go back to germany and i know that you are teaching at one of the german higher institutions and you mentioned the very principled position of angela merkel just a few minutes ago and yet we know that from many polls conducted in germany that the majority of the german population actually don't support the current stand stance of the german government that doesn't mean that they support putin's position but this is certainly see some of the logic in his actions and there in a number of polls to support that do you attribute that also to the russian propaganda job of governments to lead not to follow public opinion the whole time of course there is concern in germany as in some other countries about the possible . sanctions on german jobs or energy supplies from russia that's quite natural and

understandable there are big issues at stake here in terms of the whole future of the european security order and certainly what chancellor merkel understands do you think the skepticism that the german public has with regards to the western official narrative of ukraine has anything to do with the massacres in. deaths or murder you or indeed those recent reports of american contractors being employed deployed rather in india crane. their own american military experts there are quite openly. they're supposed to be helping the ukrainian forces carry out reform of the security apparatus that was at the invitation of the ukrainian government so there was nothing hidden about this the e.u. has also said they were willing to provide the rule of law mission to try and reform the whole security sector in ukraine something that's long overdue so this i

don't think it's called tribute to the position of the german population not at all mr cameron we have to take a very short break but when we come back what the leaders have long extolled win win solutions in their ties with russia does when and when still mean again for both or rather a double strike for one that's coming up in a few moments on worlds apart. trying to. give. everybody.

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a few months ago we had former state department official angela stance here on the show and she made a very interesting observation she said that the term when when doesn't really translate well into the russian language and i guess there must be a reason for that do you think that's russians still see the world in terms of these win lose mentality and unfortunately yes i'm always astonished when i meet colleagues in the studio and i refer to balance of. spheres of influence and situations which is something you really don't hear about and. you we are constantly trying to look for win win situations in terms of relations with countries and the e.u. russia relationship should be a win win situation it's obvious that the economies are complementary it's obvious that we have so many issues we have to go in common from terrorism to climate

change and yet the elites in the kremlin is still obsessed by threats from the west which is simply not true in the real security problems from russian perspective obviously come from the south and from. islamic fundamentalism has nothing to do with the west while i don't think the kremlin has ever a large that it sees the e.u. or the west in general as an enemy i think he. said justin was that the west routinely ignores russia's security interests and this win win stance was pretty much ignore it last fall when the rallies in kiefer are still ongoing because mr berger also the european commission president was very categorical in his refusal to have any talks with russia on your crane he did he did he refuse to have any try party negotiations it seems that win win is a very attractive proposition when it is. you know exercised by your rival but not

so attractive when you yourself have to follow suit this is simply not true the european commission. has constant talks with the kremlin last year they discussed trade deals that it's just the impact of the association agreement on russia and russia at no time until the very end made any critical comments or remarks about it. so this idea that somehow the e.u. russia in the dark is nonsense i'm not saying that the e.u. kept russia in the dark but mr barroso is on the record saying that he has no intention of bringing new. into discussing the possible impact of the association agreement on the russian and ukrainian economy he is on record refusing saying that russia has to have absolutely no part to play in discussing economic ties between the european union and ukraine again taken out of context because mr barroso has

set up a task force to actually look at the whole trade relationship between the e.u. and russia and the eurasia union is very conscious of the potential impact of any agreement with ukraine and russia the reality is that any agreement is obviously w.t. compatible and there would be no knock on effect in russia was flooded by cheap imports from the e.u. this simply cannot happen under the association agreement and russia knows that perfectly if russia knows that perfectly well i don't understand why the e.u. or mr burr also. couldn't discuss that or read to raid that point with moscow one more time and that leads me to my next question i wonder if you see any divide between elected european officials people like uncle and merkel rich people who have to follow all of that populations and hear to what people have to say even though you don't believe apparently that european leaders have to follow their populations and unelected officials like mr burr also because some would argue that

it is the very uncompromising ultimatum like position that but also adopted that ultimately led to this current stalemate. and not just go off and go see it and agreement with russia or any other country on his own he needs to do this you have to get the authorization and agreement of all the member states mr cameron your center describes itself as a nonpartisan organization and throughout these interviews you've been pretty critical of russia and the kremlin's position but very sympathetic i would say to the positions adopted by the. asked is there anything that you believe that the west has done wrong in the leading up to the crisis in ukraine the west is certainly nothing in principle wrong we have negotiated with independent country who had stated quite clearly its objectives of wanting an association agreement with the e.u.

at the same time we have been the go stating for many years with russia on a new partnership and cooperation agreement knows exactly what has been going on in terms of the negotiations with ukraine and other countries i would remind you that russia was invited to join the eastern partnership that the e.u. created a number of years ago but it declined to do so that's why we negotiated independent . agreement with russia which is not yet completed snow on ice now. russia's domestic politics has long been a very important part and played a very crucial role in all those negotiations that you mentioned earlier is it possible for the west to ever. negotiate with russia on an equal basis rather than putting those possible agreements into the dependence on russia's domestic politics of course you have to negotiate with whoever is in the kremlin we don't choose who

russian leaders are so we negotiate with mr. mr putin is quite clear that the same time we want a long serious strategic relationship with russia i mentioned before those so many when when opportunities and the number of international issues that have to be dealt with both on the global terrorism climate change foreign policy issues middle east iran syria so we really need each other to work out solutions to these problems so it doesn't really matter who's in the kremlin we have to deal with them . it's interesting appro ish and i saw you mentioned that earlier in one of your articles i think it was in january two thousand and ten you said that the european union has no alternative but to work with russia as it is not trying to pretend that it is something different and i wonder if you could elaborate on that what is russia as it is russia as it is as you said it's

a country still in transition i think it doesn't really recovered its identity is it russia for russians is russia as a multicultural country is that russia looking more towards asia russia looking more towards europe still suffering a kind of identity crisis after the breakup of the soviet union but this is not surprising when disintegrates including the british or french it takes a long time to actually discover a real identity that people can align themselves with so i don't think it's surprising that russia struggling to find its own identity today do you see do you see that struggle over identity as the main hurdle in a way of building a productive relationship between russia and the e.u. why would that be a problem for building bilateral ties well obviously we have a closer relationship with countries that share common values in terms of respect for democracy human rights the rule of law or liberal values and we have

a very close relationship with the united states but that doesn't mean that we don't disputes and differences with the united states sometimes and value issues we criticize the united states for continuing the death penalty for example we have numerous trade disputes with the united states as well so one doesn't exclude the other we have to accept the world including russia as it is and try and work out the best possible deal which is to our mutual benefit implied in your answer there was an assertion that russia somehow doesn't share those liberal values about the rule of law and democracy do you have any proof of that. and is there any evidence for that claim why do you think russia is somehow different when it comes to all those liberal values because i think russia has always struggled throughout its history in terms of opening to the west you know going back to peter the great strong forces of conservatism in russia and i think the orthodox church takes a very conservative view of society and russia has no exposure.

i think social trends in western society to help influence the liberal changes in the center for interacting with here talking about social trends and i don't see how social chance really to the rule of law or their respect for liberties for elections and so on i mean those a political issues and on political front i think russia has stated very loud and clear that it wants to be a liberal democracy it does not necessarily mean that we have to embrace all the social values that the west currently espouses it is a question of tolerance tolerance for minorities tolerance for other people so show . religious sexual rights i think that's a problem for groups in russia today and linked obviously to fundamental issues like the rule of law but the other big issue is the problem in russia the role of money and corruption if you look at the members of the duma they're not exactly

ordinary workers representing the people they're all basically millionaires of one kind or another we don't have any significant control in the executive so the problem the point is there is no real separation of power in russia well mr cameron i agree that some of the members of the duma are pretty rich man and who used those money to get into duma but i think the same could be said about american politics i think that applies to the american politics even more so than to the russian politics and since we mentioned and you mentioned the united states earlier i think washington is always. a third party interior any discussion on the new russian ties but i wonder if there's real a possibility for russia and the e.u. to build that ties on a bilateral basis without always bringing washington into the fall well of course on many issues we don't involve the united states that told me we have a far bigger trading relationship with russia the united states i mean that's an

issue that is a purely bilateral issue i think we're probably closer to russia on climate change issues than we are to the united states and to quite recently they have a rather different agenda with russia in terms of arms control and disarmament issues getting out of again they stand for example to some extent the middle east and so the relationships are actually quite different and we don't work in tandem with the united states and believe russia if the relationship are so different and indeed the convergence of interests between russia and the e.u. in europe is far more prominent why is there such a high demand and request for unity when it comes on the issue when it comes to the issue of ukraine because apparently russia and the european union have much more in common and much more in stake when it comes to european security than the united states that american vision of security on this continent is probably. quite

different even from the european vision and yet. most politicians in the west insist that brussels and washington need to stand up together to face this face from this threat rather from moscow well it is because on this case of ukraine you're actually seeing a change of borders unilaterally without the consent of the government i mean russia was a signatory to the nineteen ninety four good a person member and i'm guaranteeing the territorial integrity of ukraine if they gave up the nuclear weapons russia as the secretary to. and you which also have principles stating that there should be no violation of borders so i mean this is a fundamental point of principle that has changed with the actions that russia has taken with regard to crimea and eastern ukraine but mr cameron i think the the events in ukraine were also very exceptional of the events leading up to the

situation in crimea were also quite exceptional in a way that it was the first time in the ukraine that the government was ousted unconstitutionally out of office and i think the events ever since you know the massacres and mary opal and the massacres and the deaths of burning people alive it is also something that is very out of ordinary haven't seen anything like bad over the last let's say twenty years ever since the conflict in the balkans so i don't think it's only russia that he's. acting i'm usually here or the government in ukraine is not unconstitutional and the covert fled the country paula meant follow the constitution and elected an interim government perfectly constitutional the point is that russia refused to recognize that for some reason and you come to hiding somewhere in russia for somebody looking you know maybe it's a good time there's maybe a ukrainian population under russian protection what mr cameron i'm fortunate i

have or have to leave it there let me just mention that russia had very strong reasons to reject the government not to recognize the legitimacy of the recognition of the new york was in violation of the ukrainian constitution but unfortunately we have to leave it there we have run out of time i do appreciate your appearing on the show and to our viewers please keep the conversation going on our twitter you tube and facebook pages and i hope to see you again same place same time here in the world apart. we think of why we think that there are good. for all sand beaches.

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