it's. takes me. back to put a. course. as all she's british contributor describes his thirty six hours of detention by ukraine a loss or she's a fee is a mounting for the well being of two russian journalists held in isolation by kiev since sunday. and overnight has sold out on the checkpoint in eastern ukraine reportedly leaves more than ten people dead and dozens injured as interim leaders and anti-government activists disagree over who is responsible. and some of the biggest names of finance and politics gathered for this saying it is about international economic forum but the heads of some major western funds or won't be there under pressure from their governments not to turn up the report from the

russian. international news and comments live from moscow this is all seen to national with me here thanks for joining us a thirty six hours in custody graham phillips the british journalist reporting for us he has been released by the ukrainian authorities he was arrested by the national guard in the country's east and was held under armed guard in what he says were intimidating conditions. i mean david levy mary pollard they were approaching the checkpoint the blog post and started filming and then suddenly you know the soldiers were sort of over and they were interrogating him and suddenly asking questions looking through the car and more tips in more detail than the done before they found the bullet proof vest i've been given is the line of duty here. you know the conflict situation here and then last thing to kind of escalate things

a bulletproof vest under this to ask me who i work with explained it was r t c russian canal and then that seemed to sort of trigger something in the next we were asked to pull the car over by the side of the road and we rolled account to take it into these two poor cameras which form this blog post war figures came sort military figures and i was taken off now and handcuffed i was taken off and gunpoint kept into a car where i was given a sort of god a guy that had an automatic rifle it was no it was a presence through checkpoints every time we did you know the guy would have his gun across my legs we arrived at all the barracks and all the base and i was put in a billet there. you know the guy made it clear my god you know if i were to make any move make any break in his orders were to you know to use whatever force needed to basically detain me so then it was it was a case they handcuffed pieces of my hands behind my back and the black sack cloth over my head and then was taken into the center of kiev and there was

a meeting there with officials with my embassy with the british embassy with officials here and one of whom i'd met a month before in kramatorsk of the airfield who drek annoys me and i have to say that that meeting at the end orientated towards my release still waiting hopefully to more to get all my possessions back. while grand phillips has walked free two russian journalists working for life news television channel haven't been so lucky their condition and whereabouts are still unknown after five days of the tension life news reporters are accused of aiding and to government fighters that are being described by careless terrorists russia's dismissed the claims as ridiculous and the russian foreign ministry has said it's so outrageous that key of continues to bar european security officials from getting access to the journalists representatives from the organization for security and cooperation in europe have been attempting to miss the crew for two days now with no luck international pressure has been mounting on the ukrainian authorities to release the journalists

human rights watch also drawing the release efforts voicing their concerns for the for their well being they're worried about their treatment or were worried about their status we believe they should be immediately released if there are some if there are specific concrete legal accusations against them let those like those charges be known but meanwhile they should be released pending any investigation if there indeed needs to be an investigation. even the u.s. state department who initially by accusations has since taken something of a stand by. we would condemn any unlawful detention of journalists and call on all sides to allow legitimate journalists to conduct their work free from interference and we would call on ukrainian authorities to investigate these incidents to release these people of their legitimate legitimate journalist and not involved in illegal activities so poor for the two journalists is also spreading on social

media with users posting photos of themselves would be hard. guys and celebrities joining the move and his american actress mila your garbage holding up a sign however kiev authorities still refuse to acknowledge they are detaining the journalists. and while reports of fierce fighting from the lugansk region in ukraine's east say dozens of people have been killed and danger during a night raid on a military checkpoint here holds local activists responsible while protesters themselves say there so it was staged by a policy you're not going to. hear live from the region or do we know at this point about what's happening that. what we know the exact cause but it has occurred on an army checkpoint early in the hours on thursday while in the interim officials in kiev are saying that the anti-government activists are to blame those activists are saying that they. are. are hinting at

a third party being involved armed militants who could be under who could belong could be sponsored by one. is a highly controversial figure he is a billionaire and also a governor of a. which is also neighboring to. rumored to have. actually some kind of a private troops you may say he is sponsoring a special battalion called me up but who are blamed for the deaths of several people during the referendum which has just passed and both. are regions just under two weeks ago now the situation here continues to be highly highly volatile there is sporadic fighting breaking out both in donetsk and lugansk regions so you can say daily and this is how residents describe what's happening on

the ground here. there's five hundred just all around the city people are used to thinking of their children from schools and kindergartens we don't know how many people are being killed or injured because we can't reach anyone on the phone from the battle started at four in the morning pro-government forces came with things from helicopters it was striking not only of their enemies but also destroying factories and other nonmilitary buildings near one village began to government forces blew up a bridge to block the vehicles the clashes nervous still in lugansk and to government fighters have been injured i don't know if there are any victims on the other side. now in a separate incident which occurred during the day we've seen fighting breaking out not too far from done yet and this is something different we're seeing usually the clashes between the antigovernment protests and the army or national guard are happening during the night but now they're happening during the day and it's

a clear. the standoff between the anti-government activists and the ukrainian army is. point is reaching a really high point in its course and of course several days before the elections which are taking place on may twenty fifth it doesn't predict doesn't look like a good sign and a lot of people here are very concerned about what will happen in the nearest few days. thank you very much the russian foreign ministry says cubes not adhering to the do you agreed in journey last month with bringing down tensions on the country's east it has ukraine's interim government has actually bruce said the miniature gratian aimed at its own people. the annual three day economic forum has kicked off in saying. because from around the

world means had also been dubbed the russian dolls. thousands of business leaders and politicians are coming to the bend a number of c.e.o.'s from major western companies have pulled out of the form of their representatives are still set to be president and as a marine corps serve over polls now it pays to stay away from politics. this year fifteen percent of delegates invited to attend the form are incoming many of them backed out over the divisive issue of ukraine and also we're heard from lot amir peretz and spokes person who says that many u.s. companies have faced unprecedented and direct pressure not to attend or many of the experts we've spoken to claim that this won't really have much of an impact but also in light of the historic four hundred billion dollars gas deal between russia

and china many of the c.e.o.'s are in fact sending other company representatives and stead let's discuss this further now with asia times correspondent pass the bar who joins me thank you very much thank you well my question is do these american and european companies can they afford to be plain hard to get especially after what we've seen happen between russia and china russia has really in essence in many said its business ties with china well the short answer is the american companies they simply cannot antagonize the white house what do i witnessing today the way i see it is the ultimate game changer it's the beginning of the integration of eurasia and i mean not only the russian people it's into china but the russian pivot to you terms of energy to south korea and japan to wards closer integration between all the major eurasian powers so when i see for instance the c.e.o. of the e.u. on from germany not coming to the st petersburg forum it doesn't make any sense and

this applies to all the other major telecom a agriculture and their chief european majors this is a huge this is one of the huge emerging markets in the world the brics brazil russia india china south africa this is the future thank you very much for your input will be talking see a lank you are the next coming days on this is marina call survive reporter forty from st petersburg. defense contracts are being fined by keeping a very close eye on the late developing for the same bit of fog we'll continue our coverage of the forum here on our international throughout the day. switzerland has rules that giving the nazi salute in public is perfectly legal so long as you don't mean to be racist according to new ruling the act is only punishable if you're looking to spread hateful ideology jewish groups have made

clear they're quite upset about it r.c. speech on a has been following the story the highest court in switzerland overturned a conviction for for rape on racial charges of a man who during a demonstration when people were giving the oath to switzerland he opted for giving a twenty second nazi salute now they said that this was not a racially racially aggravated incident that he was merely expressing his own convictions in it that was allowed they did say though that if the nazi salute was being used to to advertise a racial agenda that it was racist but that leaves it open to a lot of interpretation just to put into perspective what the salute still means here in europe here in germany in austria and in the czech republic well it's a criminal act and you could end up in jail for it it is though universally reviled as one of the most obvious symbols of hatred not just against jewish groups but

against all of those who were persecuted by the nazis when we look at incidents that happened when it has come up in public in the recent past just last year in greece the. athens midfielder. give a salute after scoring a goal he was immediately banned for life for ever slaying for the national side by the greek football association there but we have seen europe flirting with fascism over recent times we've seen the rise of golden dawn in greece we've seen your pic in hungary we've also seen in the u.k. the english defense league and although they deny that they have any links to fascism is enough evidence of their members giving the salute. being caught out on social media and it just giving the straight arm salute but this is certainly something that's ruling by highest court certainly going to cause upsets shock and well really it will make a lot of people very unhappy that they've deemed this legal in certain

circumstances. and to discuss this story for them now joined live by way and then bennett's from the group united against fascism mr bennett welcome to r.c. very nice to see you here what's your take on the swiss cause decision and you are think this is disgraceful we have a problem in europe at the moment particularly in parts of western europe where you've seen the read launch of nazi and fascist groups and i believe that they have to be a power because the last time that they were effectively been able to get into any form of government they were involved in the mass murder of millions of people who opposed them and this finding by the swiss court is actually a green light for people to continue to use a nazi salute and i think we should do something we should absolutely condemn me. the court ruled the nazi salute isn't a crime if someone's making a personal statement but it's criminal if it's used to spread nazi ideology isn't

that quiet isn't that quite a fine line between these two. i think when brevik was in court a man who was found guilty of trying to blow up the parliament a murdered children he gave a very similar salute and i think we have to set the when these people organizing this is a message to their own supporters and to others that they support those levels of politics it's not personal position when hitler gave that salute the muslim salute it was about pushing an ideology that ultimately led to the deaths of millions of jews and to thousands of other people who opposed fascism and many people were killed in a conflict in which they had to oppose fascism the nazis and i believe that the very minimum that people should do is when these groups start organized is that they stop them when they were small and i believe that the swiss cause made a mistake and it's it's if you like it's too neutral on fascist ideology and we we

have to be very very clear that when you start to see groups like le pen there's a danger in these european elections that you'll be convinced other groups may well come top these are the only jews are not just staying inside people's personal opinions they're coming out into our streets and they are also trying to take our parliaments this is a warning to us and we should stand for even against those people that put those messages out child why do you think we're seeing this rise of ultra nationalist groups across the. i think the truth is that since the crisis of two thousand and eight it's always possible to come up with scapegoats. to be only if your pick launched its campaign in synagogue and that was a message to people who they attacked romy people in this country you have the english defense league attacking muslims attempting to build a political street of these in order to push your lety that you blame people and

then i believe it starts off with blaming people and ends up with with murdering them it's a response to the crisis the banking crisis has taken place the imposition of hysterically and one of the problems we saw this in the 1930's and sadly it's repeating itself in a slow motion but never the less and that's why i think we've got this very very clear if people might not see salutes or say they make imitation that salutes we should be very clear that we reject that because we don't see the holocaust happen again where men ban it from a joint. united against fascism group but thank you very much indeed for sharing it with this ok thank you back with more news right after this short break including a look at the uncertain future phased by millions of afghans as international troops gare up to.

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the future. this is also international welcome bonk in afghanistan the taliban spring offensive is gathering pace with a spate of attacks on wednesday killing at least twenty two policemen and three civilians on the population as a bracing itself or even move on and says western troops ponder the bonds as they prepared to need the country has basic confidence in our reports. a life interrupted nearly claimed ilyasah used to sell bracelets at a busy outdoor market with his best friend in a wab but these days he prefers the quiet of this shop large crowds still make him nervous. he was just fifteen years old when a suicide bomber detonated an explosive device outside of a military base in kabul his legs were shattered by shrapnel. died instantly they

were as close as brothers it's been nearly two years since the attack but the pain of losing his best friend hasn't faded i was because we were only two or three metres from the blast you can knock me out i woke up one that in the hospital and thought i was injured too but then they told me he was dead there are physical reminders to them because as. you can see here the shrapnel is through in my leg the doctors told me they can't remove it it hurts a lot to walk. again is then is seeing more violence room victims to warm weather brought with it the start of the annual fighting season and we were on the scene when taliban militants attacked the election headquarters in kabul now you can hear the gunfire behind me the taliban have proven themselves capable of carrying out how profile attacks right in the center of kabul in some of the most secure areas now for the moment the attacks seem to be focused on generating fear

and creating headlines in the news media but many afghans here remember the days when the taliban ruled kabul when the taliban was in power in the country and the fear is once that western forces leave those days could be making a prom back the taliban change their tactics. they didn't face to face combat with nato and afghan security forces and mainly terrorist attacks the cost of war for. the cost of. for me thought and the afghan security forces increased. as have the casualties for afghan soldiers to this time of this year is a member of the quick reaction force when surgeons apte he's often first on the scene of doing nearly died protecting civilians in a recent taliban attack it's a thankless job he says. we don't have artillery we don't have tanks and we don't

have fighting planes to protect our country once the foreign troops withdraw there will be a huge increase in these kinds of attacks that pessimism is shared by aid groups like the international committee of the red cross which is reporting a surge in civilian casualties this whole period now with the possible withdrawal of troops this is only a chapter in history afghanistan as being in conflict for thirty years and sadly we don't see that this is going to stop just because so deadline at the end of this year as foreign combat troops draw down the war among afghans seems far from over you see catherine of kabul. as the situation in afghanistan is deteriorating further let's now take a look at a few funds showing how the country is bearing the brunt of the turmoil at least seventeen major terrorist attacks have been reported in afghanistan since the start of twenty four seam killing nearly hot one hundred and fifty people these include

suicide bombings and shootings the u.n. world food programme reports that almost a third of the population don't have enough food to live healthily the save the children foundation also says one in four children die before the age of five making the country one of the most perilous to be born in and foreign aid has almost half since twenty eleven well over nine hundred million dollars was invested to just over five hundred million in twenty thirteen and foreign troops are said to complete their was told by the end of the year but a former state department official believes the goals that were set out for the war haven't been accomplished. it's obvious after thirteen years of war that america's secondary goal remember the primary goal was to chase al-qaeda out of afghanistan and that took several years and it's unclear how successful that was america's secondary goal was then to oust the taliban from afghanistan well thirteen years later the taliban are still there and who's leaving america the list of things

america failed to do in afghanistan is a very very long one and certainly includes any efforts to diminish or eliminate drug production the united states found itself constantly plagued by short term thinking which often resulted in pairing and partnering with warlords who funded themselves through drug trafficking who funded themselves through the growing of poppies. it's appears that it's a has been getting down to some super sensitive business and the trimmings yes as the u.s. spy agency has been trying to squeeze secrets from b.b.n. a basement of security and cooperation in europe get the full story on our feet off . and also that courtroom camera to kind of phony a policeman filmed a shooting i suspect dead and what critics say is an excessive use of force moment as traumatic episode as hospital. rushes demanding an

official explanation from the u.k. after prince charles allegedly combat president putin to head the ed to the british throne apparently made the comment as he was speaking to a woman who fled the nazi regime during the second world war and joins us now live from all of this hi that police so prince charles could find himself and what will also what is reported comments couldn't he. well the comparison to adult hitler was reportedly made during a private conversation with the museum volunteer during prince charles as tool of canada and the prince reportedly said that putin is doing just about the same as hitler in reference to to the situation in crimea now the russian embassy in london has said that the remarks are outrageous and russia's deputy ambassador to the way is meeting with foreign office officials to try and establish what

exactly was said but the gas has of course raised eyebrows in russia but also here in the u.k. it has ramifications prince charles will one day be the u.k.'s head of state and comments like the one he's made make ministers in whitehall very very nervous domestically he's been accused of wading into politics in the past to such an extent that people have called him the meddling prince and of course this isn't the first time that the winds as have stirred controversy in relation to the nazis back in two thousand and five prince charles as son prince harry made a major sartorial gaffe when he wore a swastika armband to a fancy dress party but in relation to prince charles's latest comments clarence house his residence have unlike prince charles and self refused to comment but we do know that the prince charles and. are both set to attend d.-day celebrations in

two weeks' time in france and that might be a base of an awkward meeting. and surely can be paula thank you very much live from london thank you and coming up on our she is the latest edition of breaking the fed with the motion. recently a new los passed in russia that makes bloggers as more than three thousand viewers per day become part of the nation's mass media this is a big deal because they will have to meet a lot of new high standards for one thing anybody goes out the door and authors will have to sign their real life name to their blogs and they cannot promote

various breeds of what some would call extremist ideas or vole garrity there are reasons that such a law came into existence russians really do hate swearing in the media believe me have gotten a few youtube messages about it and many people believe that a certain world hyper power manipulates the russian internet with fake and paid accounts for example at the start of the korean conflict post from a daughter of an officer with a male name became legendary evidence of this foreign meddling but just because there are reasons for such a law does not make it a good idea this punishes the whole russian internet for the actions of a tiny minority and having a limit of three thousand viewers per day is so small that even blogs about knitting will become mass media and worst of all i am going to be fined for swearing repeatedly because i am not going to stop hacked the reason i like living in russia is because in a politically correct world at least for now we can call a spade a spade this country and i'm not backing down darn it but that's just my opinion.

what's happening y'all i'm out in martin and this is a break in the set so it's no secret that if you want to be president in this country you had better be religious after all what be a state of the union speech unless it ended with god bless america the results of a new pew poll are still pretty eye opening when it comes to how entrenched religion and politics really are in the u.s. to potential voters were asked about their feelings concerning various traits of a presidential candidate one you know being an atheist was chosen as the worst presidential attribute that's right

a whopping fifty three percent of respondents said that they were less likely to support an atheist candidate in fact atheism ranked even worse than never holding office having an extramarital affair and being really old it's also important note that disturbingly but one surprisingly i guess being gay or lesbian ranked near the bottom of the list as well but let's take a look at the flip side of the most admired qualities of a potential president leading the pack is serving in the military the ridiculous forty three percent say military service would make them more likely to vote for the candidate being a governor a business executive also apparently very admirable qualities a right behind those traits as being an even jellicoe christian with twenty one percent of respondents same that would make them more likely to vote for the candidate wow tells us a lot about why america is the way it is listen another what your views are in religion it's a truly sad commentary that the religious or non-religious persuasions of our

politicians are still such a primary concern of the american voting populace so if you think we should stop treating our elections like a papal conclave then it's time to break the cycle. league leaders they believe very hard to take outlook on life that actually would that hurt their little. league. the little. league. at least.

for the state of oregon has had quite an impressive month and it all started last thursday when portman officials announced the entire city is divesting from wal-mart city press release stated that quote the last of the city's wal-mart bombs will make churn in april two thousand and sixteen at which point the city will have a limited a total of thirty six million dollars invested in the company this announcement makes portland the first city in the largest entity to take on the corporation porton says the decision was made after officials determined the business was not quote socially responsible you can say that again now portland divestment will hardly make a dent in the wal-mart's profits considering that the mega company has the equivalent nearly earnings of the twenty third largest economy in the world nonetheless this move makes a clear statement that portland citizens are refusing to fund a company that thrives off corporate welfare and takes clear advantage of its employees and wal-mart's appalling record when it comes to workers is hardly

a secret for example take accusations made on behalf of one point six million women who attended a former class action lawsuit alleging that their male counterparts enjoyed higher salaries and faster climbed up. the corporate ladder in the company and while women are still fighting wal-mart for equal pay its workers across the board are making the near poverty level weighted wages excuse me barely scraping by on twenty five thousand dollars a year as a result according to a two thousand and thirteen study released by congressional democrats many wal-mart workers are forced to enroll in government programs like food stamps just to pay their bills this costs the average taxpayer about fifty eight hundred dollars per employee per year wow and all of this while the heirs of the walton empire of war wealth in the poorest forty two percent of americans you know all of this makes me wonder why portland is the first and only city to divest from this insanely crooked business model but amazingly the beaver state isn't just taking on mega

corporations on monday a federal court ruled that the state's ban on same sex marriage is unconstitutional making oregon the eighteenth state to legalize gay marriage right before pennsylvania because attorney general elena rosenblum does not plan on fighting the ruling same sex couples across oregon are now free to get hitched so congratulations the people of oregon here's to hoping that cities and states across the country will follow your lead. one of the biggest mysteries from nine eleven was the unusual stock trading activity that took place immediately prior to the tragedy according to c.b.s. a quote extraordinary number of trades that the stock price at american airlines would fail now put options are bet daily raise red flags on september tenth was

that more than eighty percent of the orders were that the stock would fall and c.b.s. sources say that they've never even seen that type of unbalance before for more wall street banker and host of the kaiser report max kaiser recently wrote an op ed on this very subject he joined me earlier to explain exactly how this all went down . the airline option puts trading as if an airplane had just exploded but that trading pattern was happening days before the event that's how we know that there was something very fishy going on i've been saying about this i've been talking about this for a number of years but importantly right now a new book has come out by jim rickards it's called the death of money and in chapter one he spells out explicitly that he had an eyewitness account in langley in the cia headquarters of the cia monitoring and insider transactions related to nine eleven in the book you suggest that those traits come from overseas i can tell you that my conversations with bankers on wall street tell me that they themselves

were trading and that this information came out of alex brown which is now owned by do it your bank and specifically buzzy crone guard who was then running who is the assistant deputy of the cia who had just moved from alex brown the brokerage firm and the missing money that nobody ever collected it was in alex brown account so i can add to it records explains in his book that he confirms that there wasn't a fact insider trading i can add my piece to the puzzle. i can tell you that it's related to buzzy crawled are it's related to cantor fitzgerald and it's related to everything going on alex brown and brokers who were could have escaped presumably we can only imagine that they stayed behind to trade these put options and i think that's a sad commentary on america today you've said that millions of dollars worth of the profits from the insider trading is on collected in alex brown account just down the road from the cia headquarters how do we know that was uncollected i mean isn't the whole point to collect that millions of dollars and then only or put it off

shore somewhere that information has not been talked about widely particularly in the u.s. press where of course the nine eleven episode has become a huge tourist attraction with the new museum the twin towers where they formally stood you can go to the gift shop and buy all kinds of nine eleven gifts and memorabilia if you want to be have something to tack on your wall or bring home to your kids and tell them all about the the great fun experience you had down there in lower manhattan at the gift shop at the nine eleven museum so nothing is beyond reproach from these folks they will monetise anything they'll sell their mother for a nickel they'll blow each other up for a petty that's that that's the danger that's what that's why the world is rejecting the u.s. philosophy of doing foreign policy that's why russia china iran created the shanghai cooperation organization to get out of the dollar the dollar is the world reserve currency but now that that's finished really what this shows is that the incompetent theory is really flawed max when people actually did make money off for

knowledge and then you're telling me the political establishment just had no clue. this is something that is it's just. not going to be talked about on the evening news in the us because it would open up a huge self examination it would open up some introspection there would have to be some thought as to why those events occurred in the way that they did and that might stop the u.s. from its current policy basically doubling down on starting wars all over the world to pay off this mounting multi hundred trillion quadrillion in debt that they keep accumulating that has to be paid off by by by starting wars that's why the u.s. starts wars to try to keep that debt ball in the air this is why you've got an enormous problem right now there's only three countries in the world of any importance that are not part of the u.s. federal reserve banking system china iran russia so now we're at the point history where those three countries are saying no we're not going to be manipulated by the

federal reserve we're going to do deals outside of the dollar we're going to do them in our own currencies and this is the end of the u.s. dollar empire before the u.s. dollar was the british empire the pound and then move to the u.s. and the u.s. dollar now it's moving east to either a combination of chinese russian currencies or something possibly backed by gold rush has been buying gold aggressively every month for years this quadrupled their purchases of gold because they know that the dollar is going to be completely destroyed as people wake up to the fact that oil and gas the price of oil and gas is going to be priced in something other than u.s. dollars so we're going to see in the u.s. inflation like we haven't seen in quite some time price of gas could double or triple in the u.s. and obviously that's a completely different scenario economically than we've had for decades it's a scary trend. we're hearing a lot about high frequency trading after michael lewis's book flash boys came out compare your time as a wall street trader to the kind of mean that's going on now with the sort of

technology where you write that the technology makes it possible to commit fraud. faster and more rapidly high frequency trading it's very similar to if you want your neighbor and you stuck a tube hose into the gas tank of their car and you siphon gas out of their car that's kind of what i for coffee trading is all about firms like goldman sachs they put a server right next to the floor of the new york stock exchange and as trades come in and they scalp those trades as they're being bought or sold for pennies here pennies there they're just siphoning cash out they're just stealing money lloyd blankfein of goldman sachs will tell you he's making a market he's adding liquidity that would be like me saying after iced siphon gas out of your car that no i'm making a market in gas this is just a ludicrous statement. that was max kaiser host of the kaiser report. coming up i'll talk about a new disease created entirely by the corporate media stay tuned. for

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if you've been watching local news and seven cisco lately might have heard about a terrible new disease affecting. because urban youth. many kids in the inner city are suffering from something you would never expect a way to create is here tonight with a new health and psychological problem that teachers have been seeing a lot lately they have been even the centers for disease control says that these kids often live in virtual war zones and doctors at harvard say they actually suffer from a more complex form of p.t.s.d. some college who a disease. actually one day only you are calling it a disease and this once again faced with an opportunity to report and examine a serious topic that's well worthy of coverage corporate media instead chose to turn the issue of inner city mental health and to say show lives to race baiting garbage to the creation of the term disease comes from new numbers released by the centers for disease control showing that thirty percent of inner city kids suffer

from post-traumatic stress disorder but instead of using this recognize medical term it applies to every other person with the condition a new special version of p.t.s.d. has been created just for young minorities in an article for the magazine and many berkeley university professor amani jetter even goes as far as saying quote to call it a disease suggests that there is something specific about living in the hood and have we even define what that means about other areas that are predominately populated by low income whites i think there's a spin on the idea that veers toward blaming the victim indeed that's pervasive mindset is everywhere you look in this country because of course it's simple for outsiders to see the level of violence in cities from chicago to detroit and nearly dismiss it as all inherent to minority communities in this by the enormous amount of media coverage of mass shootings so-called black on black crime rarely gets anything more than

a thirty second superficial spot on the local news because hey that's just another day in the hood. sirrah look at these issues in a vacuum without understanding the institutionalized and systematic reasons why the epidemic of physical and psychological warfare is happening in the first place consider that according to the and p. african americans are incarcerated at a rate that's six times higher than whites blacks and latinos make up a quarter of the population that comprise a whopping fifty eight percent of the prisoners in two thousand and eight not to mention sentencing disparities between crack and cocaine use which currently stands at eighteen to one or thirty five percent of black children in grades seven through twelve have been suspended or expelled from school at some point in their lives compared to fifteen percent of whites these are just a few of the factors that make it so difficult to escape from the criminal justice structure that results in poverty desperation unemployment and most importantly the

cycle of endless violence because once you're in the system it's nearly impossible to get out. so maybe instead of resorting to convenient oversimplified phrases like good disease we should realize that the real diseases and social cancer that we're all responsible for. this week disturbing footage was released of israeli defense forces gunning down to unarmed palestinian teenagers when they were simply participating in a protest their names for mohamed her and not deem. and they are right murder of these two boys highlights the impunity with which the i.d.f. operates and raises questions as to whether or not the soldiers responsible were ever held accountable for the crime or help tackle the issue of israeli impunity and the daily struggles millions of palestinians face daily earlier i spoke to me

go pilet son of a former i.d.f. general and grandson. one of israel's founding fathers is also the author of the general's son began by asking me to describe his own palestinian treatment recently had an airport in tel aviv. there's a sticker that you get as soon as you go. and the sticker has a barcode and a serial number and the serial number the start of the six is the one that raises a red mark mark. and i never got the number six is always talk about that number you know quite often and so at every point between when you walk into the airport to the terminal until you're actually on the plane you know if you're normal for a few days rather you don't notice you just go from one place to another until you show up but when you've got that number six they scan the barcode and they soon as number six comes up you know hold the for you to hold everything call a supervisor do special inspection do another set of another round of questioning

another round of baggage checks the open a laptop a few extra times and they insisted on doing a body search which we were i refused and i you know told them they had no right to i mean if they couldn't treat the palestinians different than they do me i mean either one of us has a criminal record or a terrorist record why should we take our pants off saying so they had us go through a metal detector a few extra times and. that sort of thing and made us wait and wait and wait and wait and wait it's just horrible believe all that only happens if you're posting. i wanted to ask you about rachel corrie's case her parents finally got that appeal the supreme court heard the case today and of course you won't hear the ruling for a couple months what do you think the outcome will be. i don't think there's going to be a different outcome that what they've had so far. over the years where you see. the israeli army israeli police shooting protesters with other things are not.

they're never held accountable they're never taken to court i mean. there's never. or there's a shield to protect the soldiers and the police from any kind of legal action and israeli courts and israeli judicial system has always supported the military has always supported the army and i don't think that's going to change i can't help but think would we even know who rachel corrie was if she was palestinian i mean ronald reagan on going to remember name probably not and also i mean we might have known their name but it would've been forgotten after twenty four hours. i think that her parents deserve you know all the respect you know god bless them they're wonderful people they work so hard and they're demanding justice and they're going against the stream and against you know the system there to incredible people really fighting on the ground there in jerusalem constantly i wanted to bring this to the horrific executions of the two palestinian teenagers fifteen year old mohammad tar seventeen year old not deem. a horrific footage here of just getting brutally

gunned down merely protesting just walking out of backpacks can you describe the details surrounding this case. well it's similar to other cases where there are protests and these are all the army shoots to kill i mean they shoot to kill it happened in the it was at the meeting it happened countless times i remember was that i mean because it happened on my birthday a couple years ago so it's a day i'll never forget and they know they're not going to be held accountable and sometimes that happens during what they call clashes which are you know protest legitimate protests in this case this was both a day that would palestinians commemorate their catastrophe and it was in front of a prison which is where palestinians are tortured interrogated and held and we had a. hunger strike that began with hundreds of strikers and now thousands of the entire body of palestinian political prisoners are on hunger strike. so it was in light of all of that that they are demanding justice and the israeli army shoots to

kill they have no there's no fear the i.d.f. has said even. this morning they were still saying that they don't have live ammunition they're open investigation but you're talking about accountability i cannot help but bring up this shocking statistic according to her at the i.d.f. has killed over five thousand palestinians and two thousand fifteen hundred of which have been children yet only six soldiers have been convicted for these offenses over the last fourteen years according to military police criminal investigation department and i'm telling you that in those six instances some of them are just a slap on the wrist three months probation etc how is this lack of accountability even possible but it's possible that the state which is a racist inherently a racist state of palestine and lives don't count for anything this is the reality in israel it's a racist state it's a racist regime palestinians are not counted their lives don't count this is why they're treated the way they are at the airport this is why they're treated the way they are when they're shot you know whether their children are adults it makes no difference during mostly peaceful protests. and even if they're not peaceful and

we're talking about rocks versus guns and tanks this is why palestinian communities inside israel israeli citizens on neglected and over fifty percent are below the poverty line it's an entire system it's an entire race the system and you did that wonderful piece about israel being an apartheid state you had it right you had the you hit the nail right on the head that's exactly what it is and these are all the different symptoms of a racist apartheid regime let's talk about mohamed and not the more protesting which is the insane amount of prisoners kept and definitely no charges no trial what kind of offenses are we talking about here that could land a palestinian in jail indefinitely well what they're protesting now and what they protested in the past in the hunger strikes is the what they call administrative detention where palestinians are held without charge now we're talking about the military judicial system which where the bar is set very very low. now these palestinians hundreds of them are held indefinitely even though no charges are

brought against them in other words even the military judicial system with its very low bar found nothing with with to charge these people yet they are held in prison indefinitely beaten tortured and so forth so the protest is against that you know and they began with several hundreds of them the actual administrative detainees. on hunger strike and then after that about a week or two later of the entire bodies some five thousand palestinian prisoners have started a hunger strike there's a massive hunger strike now and some aerosol he was of course one of the most famous hunger strikers he was released but now his family is being harassed his sister is awaiting trial she's on hunger strike now talk about. well this family is being harassed she's being harassed she is used very outspoken she's an advocate for palestinian rights particular prisoners' rights holders the i think the record for the longest number of days or the most number of days being on hunger strike and surviving saying it's insane i remember i was in belfast standing by bobby

sands grave when the summer was still in jail and everybody was praying that his fate would not be the same as bobby and the other irish men who died. and now she's held in prison again administrative administrative detention other words they can bring no charges against her and they're holding there and now the trial has been postponed some nine or ten months and she's supposed and she's supposed to just accept and the hunger strike is a powerful tool it's a painful tool i mean the. the pain and the suffering they go through and their families go through and the system doesn't care in other words these are all this really doesn't doesn't care these religious digital system is not supporting them and the world seems to not care either which is which is even more shocking the world seems to just think if you're a palestinian then you are a terrorist story or some sort of an enemy combatant really unfortunate generalization there. according to a report by the month because the center for. arab citizens of israel arab families living in israel four times likelier than their jewish counterparts to live in

poverty when you talk about the factors that you think are contributing to this extreme disparity and this really crossed this past dozens of laws that particularly and specifically target. whether it's buying a lot and whether it's you know development and so forth job opportunities you name it. besides that the whole environment of racism and discrimination that they live in which they live. and there's no way that an issue of law someplace just an issue of the reality so the lands of been confiscated so they have no room to grow they have no not a single dollar or you'd be hard pressed to find a single dollar ever invested in any kind of any kind anything in these communities nor permits given for them to build. they're restricted in terms of you know employment and education and so forth these really secret police is always you know breathing down their necks. even crime is not solved i mean i was just there you

know for a few days and i went to a wedding two days before the wedding of a friend in a palestinian town inside israel a man was shot to death in broad daylight the police will not come to investigate and this is one of dozens and dozens if not hundreds of cases where the police will not come in and investigate any kind of crime so this is the kind of neglect and the kind of reality of these in which these people live author of the general's son social activist really appreciate coming on thanks so much thank you. that's our show you guys join me again tomorrow night great to start all over again.

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of. the station coffees in my hands behind my back to put a black. head. british contributor describes as thirty six hours of detention by ukrainian authorities fear is a mounting for the well being of two russian journalists held in isolation since sunday. and overnight assault on an army checkpoint in eastern ukraine reportedly leaves more than ten people dead and dozens injured as interim leaders and anti-government activists disagree over who was responsible. for. some of the biggest names of finance and politics for the petersburg into. national economic forum for the heads of some major western firms won't be there under pressure from their governments not to turn up the report from the russian.

live from a studio center here in moscow this is r.t. international with the twenty four hours a day. after thirty six hours in custody graham phillips the british journalist reporting for r.t. has been released by the ukrainian authorities he was arrested by the national guard in the country's east and was held under guard of what he says were intimidating conditions. right mid day leaving mary pollard they were approaching the checkpoint the blog post and started filming and then suddenly you know the soldiers were sort of over and they were interrogating and and suddenly asking questions looking through the car and more depth and more detail than the done before they found the bullet proof vest i've been given is the line of duty here. you know the conflict situation here and then last thing to kind of escalate things

a bullet proof vest under this and asked me who i work with explained it was r t c a russian canal and then that seemed to sort of trigger something in the next we were asked to pull the car over by the side of the road and we rolled the counter to take it out into these two poor cameras which formed this blog post war figures came sort military figures and i was taken off now and handcuffed i was taken off and gunpoint and decamped into a car where i was given a sort of armed guard a guy that had a automatic rifle it was night we were passing through checkpoints every time we did you know the guy would have his gun crossed my legs we arrived at all the barracks and army base and i was put in a billet there told to get my head down get to sleep you know the guy made it clear my god you know if i were to make any move make any break in his orders were to you know to use whatever force needed to basically detain me so then it was it was a case of they handcuffed me sever my hands behind my back in the black sack cloth over my head and then was taken into the center of kiev and there was a meeting there with officials with my embassy with the british embassy with

officials here and one of whom i'd met a month before in kramatorsk at the airfield who drek annoys me and i have to say that that meeting at the end orientated towards my release still waiting hopefully tomorrow to get all my possessions back. graham phillips is now walked free the two russian journalists working for life news television channel haven't been so lucky their condition and whereabouts are still unknown after five days of detention their life news reporters are accused of aiding anti government forces that have been described by kiev as terrorists russia has dismissed the claims as ridiculous well russia's foreign ministry has said that it's outrageous that kiev continues to bar european security officials from getting access to the journalists they've been attempting to meet the crew for two days now with no luck there's been more international pressure mounting on the ukrainian authorities to release the journalists human rights watch also joined the release efforts voicing their concerns for their well being worried about their treatment were worried about

their status we believe there should be immediate release if there are so if there are specific concrete legal accusations against them let those. charges be known but they should be released pending any investigation if there indeed needs to be an investigation even the u.s. state department to initially back to kiev's accusations has since taken something of a step back. we would condemn any unlawful detention of journalists and call on all sides to allow legitimate journalists to conduct their work free from interference we would call on ukrainian authorities to investigate these incidents to release these people of their legitimacy the general journalist and not involved in illegal activities support for the two journalists is also spreading on social media with the users posting photos of themselves with a hash tag save our guys and celebrities are joining the move is american actress.

holding up her sign however kiev authorities still refuse to acknowledge that they are detaining the journalist. reports from the ganske region in ukraine's east dozens of people are being killed and injured during a night raid on a military checkpoint here holds local activists responsible while protesters themselves say the salt was staged by. some locals when you turn to one of ukraine's eastern governors you got it. he said to be using his own money to finance a fighting force less than two weeks ago his militia was accused of killing at least two people during the referendum on autonomy no one group has a monopoly on violence however villages around the regional capital of besieged by government troops and here's what locals have told us. there is fighting in villages all around the city people are he sleeping and the children from schools in kenya we don't know how many people have been killed or injured because we can't reach anyone on the phone. the battle started at four in the morning pro-government

forces came with doing some helicopters it was striking not only are there in these but also destroying factories and other nonmilitary buildings near one village the anti government forces blew up a bridge to block the vehicles the clashes nervous staub in lugansk anti-government fighters have been injured i don't know if there are any victims of be oversight. or attacks in ukraine's east continued throughout the the day. army also launched an assault on the neighboring dennet region reportedly using aircraft and government activists in the martial law is now in place as however contradicts promise of dialogue in the run up to the presidential election and for this weekend . the russian foreign ministry says that kiev is not adhering to the deal agreed in geneva last month aimed at bringing down tensions in the country's east it says ukraine's interim government has actually boosted the military operation aimed at its own people

the annual three day economic forum is kicked off in some petersburg as movers and shakers from around the world meet at what's been dubbed the russian davus. thousands of business leaders and politicians are coming to the event a number of c.e.o.'s from major western companies are pulled out of the forum but their representatives are still said to be present and reports now it pays to stay away from politics. this year fifteen percent of delegates invited to attend the form are incoming many of them backed out over the divisive issue of ukraine and also we're heard from lot amir peretz and spokes person who says that many u.s. companies have faced unprecedented and direct pressure not to attend or many of the

experts we've spoken to claim that this won't really have much of an impact they also in light of the historic four hundred billion dollars gas bill between russia and china many of the c.e.o.'s are in fact sending other company representatives instead let's discuss this further now with asia times correspondent pepe escobar who joins me thank you very much you all my question is do these american and european companies can they afford to be plain hard to get especially after what we've seen happen between russia and china russia has really in essence cemented its business ties with china well the short answer is the american companies they simply cannot antagonize the white house what do i witnessing today the way i see it is the ultimate game changer it's the beginning of the integration of eurasia and i mean not only the russian pivoting to china but the russian pivoting terms of energy to south korea and japan are towards closer integration between all the

major eurasian powers so when i see for instance this year all of the from germany not coming to the st petersburg forum it doesn't make any sense and this applies to all the other major telecom. agriculture and energy the european majors this is a huge this is one of the huge emerging markets in the world the brics brazil russia india china south africa this is the future thank you very much for your input will be talk and see a leg for the next coming days like this is marina call survivor quarter for it's a from st petersburg. now as the west and russia are locking horns over the crisis in ukraine trade representatives say that joint business interests should prevail over political discontent like a businessman now i gotta use it you know. visit businesses and those away when young the companies you know all of those are words on the stock exchange for china

united states from europe to russia every way so you know all i see now is a win to cooperate and between you and me in fantasy t.v. they are more powerful than the states of the time they are you today i saw this morning in zero four on some presidency or french company and german too and you know as a state say don't go too much to somebody has been zazi. and we are there saul zaentz and prove that you know we do what we want so the economy is stronger than politics in the western world what is important is to respect he'll be geisha and suppose sides so there has been no changes you know relations with the us problem. and second what we understand now what is interesting is that relationship between the regime. our company is so long. and has to stay on this long term partnership it is in the interest of all company and of us and i know that for russia

europe is very important so i'm sure that this will listen with the main thing over years. as contracts are being signed we're keeping a close eye on the latest developments in simply does but we'll continue our coverage of the form here on r.t. international throughout the day. switzerland has ruled that giving the nazi salute in public is perfectly legal so long as you don't mean to be racist according to a new ruling the act is only punishable if you're looking to spread hateful ideology jewish groups have made it very clear they're upset about it party's peter all of it has been following the story. the highest court in switzerland overturned a conviction for for rape on racial charges of a man who during a demonstration when people were giving the oath to switzerland he opted for giving a twenty second nazi salute now they said that this was not a racially racially aggravated incident that he was merely expressing his own

convictions and it that was allowed they did say though that if it were the nazi salute was being used to. advertise racial and gender then it was racist but that leaves it open to a lot of interpretation just to put into perspective what the salute still means here in europe here in germany in austria and in the czech republic well it's a criminal act and you could end up in jail for it it is the universally reviled as one of the most obvious symbols of hatred not just against jewish groups but against all of those who were persecuted by the nazis when we look at incidents that happened when it has come up in public in the recent past just last year in greece the. athens midfield the theist's give the salute after scoring a goal he was immediately banned for life for ever playing for the national side by the greek football association there but we have seen europe flirting with fascism

over recent times we've seen the rise of golden dawn in greece we've seen your pic in hungary we've also seen in the u.k. the english defense league and although they deny that they have any links to fascism is enough evidence of their members giving the salutes and being called out on social media and it marches giving the straight arm salute but this is certainly something that's ruling by switzerland's highest court certainly going to cause upset shock and well really it will make a lot of people very unhappy that they've deemed this legal in certain circumstances. whitman bennett from the group united against fascism believes that making the nazi salute legal could encourage radicals across europe the truth is that since the crisis of two thousand and eight it is always possible to come up with scapegoats in this country you have the english defense league attacking muslims attempting to build a political street armies in order to push an ideology that says that you blame people and then i believe it starts off with blaming people and ends up with with

murdering them it's a response to the crisis and the banking crisis of this taking place the imposition of asperity and one of the problems we saw this in the nineteen thirties and sadly is repeating itself in a slow motion. international life here most probably but with more news after this short break including a look at the uncertain future faced by millions of afghans as international troops gear up to leave. think you need the. economic ups and downs in the final months day long to do your sang night and the rest because it's going the take it will be every week on a. play

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interrupted nearly claimed ilyasah used to sell bracelets at a busy outdoor market with his best friend in a wab but these days he prefers the quiet of this shop large crowds still make him nervous. he was just fifteen years old when a suicide bomber detonated an explosive device outside of a military base in kabul his legs were shattered by shrapnel in a wall died instantly they were as close as brothers it's been nearly two years since the attack but the pain of losing his best friend hasn't faded because we were only two or three metres from the blast you can knock me out i woke up one that in the hospital and thought i was injured too but then they told me he was dead there are physical reminders to. do that you can see here the shrapnel is still in my leg the doctors told me they can't remove it it hurts a lot to walk. again is then is seeing more violence more victims to

warm weather brought with it the start of the annual fighting season and we were on the scene when taliban militants attacked the election headquarters in kabul now you can hear the gunfire behind me the taliban have proven themselves capable of carrying out how profile attacks right in the center of kabul and some of the most secure areas now for the moment the attacks seem to be focused on generating fear and creating headlines in the news media but many afghans here remember the days when the taliban ruled kabul when the taliban was in power in the country and the fear is once that western forces leave those days could be making a comeback the taliban changed their tactics. they didn't face to face combat with nato and afghan security forces and the. terrorist attacks the cost of war for. the cost of war. nato and the afghan security forces increased. as have the casualties for

afghan soldiers. this year is a member of the quick reaction force when insurgents act he's often first on the scene of doing nearly died protecting civilians in a recent taliban attack it's a thankless job he says. we don't have artillery we don't have tanks and we don't have fighter planes to protect our country once the foreign troops withdraw there will be a huge increase in these kinds of attacks that pessimism is shared by aid groups like the international committee of the red cross which is reporting a surge in civilian casualties this whole period now with the possible withdrawal of troops this is only a chapter in afghan history afghanistan has been a conflict for thirty years and sadly we don't see that this is going to stop just because the deadline at the end of this year. as foreign combat troops draw down

the war among afghans seems far from over lucy catherine of kabul now as the situation in afghanistan is deteriorating further let's take a look at a few facts showing how the country is bearing the brunt of the turmoil at least seventeen major terrorist attacks have been reported in the country since the start of this year killing nearly one hundred fifty people these include suicide bombings and shootings the u.n. world food programme reports that almost a third of the population don't have enough food to live healthily and the save the children foundation also says one in four children die before the age of five making the country one of the most perilous to be born in and foreign aid is almost hard since two thousand and eleven when over nine hundred million dollars was invested just over five hundred million in twenty. foreign troops are set to complete their withdrawal by the end of the year but a former state department official believes the goals that were set up for the war haven't been accomplished. it's obvious after thirteen years of war that america's

secondary goal remember the primary goal was to chase al qaeda out of afghanistan and that took several years and it's unclear how successful that was america's secondary goal was then to oust the taliban from afghanistan well thirteen years later the taliban are still there and who's leaving america the list of things america failed to do in afghanistan is a very very long one and certainly includes any efforts to diminish or eliminate drug production the united states found itself constantly plagued by short term thinking which often resulted in pairing and partnering with warlords who funded themselves through drug trafficking who funded themselves through the growing of poppies. it appears the n.s.a. has been getting down to some super sensitive business austrian media says the u.s. spy agency has been trying to squeeze secrets from the vienna h.q.

of the organization of security and cooperation in europe get a full story on that and ati dot com. goes on camera to california policeman to film shooting a suspect dead in what critics say is an excessive use of force on this dramatic episode of don't call him. a terrorist attack in the northwest in chinese city of she has left at least thirty one people dead and nearly one hundred wounded according to local media attackers ram two cars into a crowd of the local market throwing improvised explosive devices out of the car windows one of the vehicles then blew up it's one of the deadliest attacks in the region for years china's ministry of public security has called it a serious and terrorist incident let's look a little deeper now at just what is happening in the region for him she is far to the northwest of the major chinese cities beijing and shanghai is home to a muslim minority that's calling for its own independent homeland not the first

attack carried out in the area last month three people were killed in a similar sort local media is blaming separatists for the violence in the region. time now for a look at some other world news in brief thailand's army has imposed a curfew after it earlier announced it's taking control of the country from the government it also temporarily suspended the constitution and who follows a declaration of martial law on tuesday that military had said was aimed at restoring order after six months of political on the job he's also ordered all protesters to go home he said no more than four people are allowed to meet together in public places. chilean police have fired tear gas and water cannon to break up protests by thousands of students who say plans to reform the education system don't go far enough the mistresses threw rocks at security forces and also attacked police barricades the president michelle bachelet is putting forward her plans for schools to lawmakers students of health ongoing protests demanding free and fair

education. russia is demanding an official explanation from the u.k. after prince charles allegedly compared president putin to hitler the heir to the british throne apparently made the comment as he was speaking to a woman who fled the nazi regime during the second mobile has been. well the comparison to adult hitler was reportedly made during a private conversation with a museum volunteer in canada prince charles reportedly said that putin is doing just about the same as hitler in reference to events in crimea the russian embassy here in london has called the remarks outrageous and russia's deputy ambassador to the u.k. has met with foreign office officials in order to clarify what exactly was said but the comments have raised eyebrows both in russia as well as here in the u.k. where prince charles will one day be the head of state and remarks like the one he's made make ministers very nervous one and he has even said that if you want to

talk about these things he can abdicate and then put himself up for election and domestically he's been accused of wading into politics in the past as well so much so that one of his nicknames here in the u.k. is the meddling prince and it's not the first time the royal family has stirred controversy in reference to the nazis as well back in two thousand and five prince charles as son prince harry made a major sartorial gaffe when he wore a swastika armband to a fancy dress party but in relation to the latest comments clarence house prince charles' residence have said they won't comment however we do know that both prince charles and lied to may have putin are set to attend d.-day celebrations in france in two weeks' time and that might be a bit of an awkward meeting. everybody could there coming up after the break it is . or not international we'll be back with more for you just over half an hour.

this is what will to create a new economy by low prices but if the price of gas that is so this was thirty cents for it's roughly two hundred b. the dollars last week you. know i marinate this is boom bust and these are the stories that we're tracking for you today. first up russia and china signed

a historic gas deal on wednesday one that will supply china with hundreds of billions of dollars worth of russian natural gas for the next thirty years argued katie philbin was in shanghai covering the story and brings us a full report from there and then we have it doug case the of preceding research on today's show he sat down with me to discuss one of the u.s. this most extreme forms of course an income tax yeah i said it and you definitely don't want to miss what he has to say about the subject and finally in today's big deal edward harris and i are talking about junk bonds and bear markets you won't want to miss a moment and it all starts right now. moscow and beijing signed

a contract to supply china with hundreds of billions. dollars' worth of russian natural gas and this is after ten years of negotiations now russia's gas problem and china's c n p c have finally signed this historic one that will provide china the world's fastest growing economy with russian natural gas for the next thirty years now russia's state controlled gaza prom signed the long awaited mega deal on wednesday and artie's katie pilbeam was in shanghai covering the landmark agreement and we go to her for a full report. yet the multi-billion dollar deal has finally been struck in shanghai there are smiles all round there was a little bit of attention because no one quite knew if it was going to come to the compromise that both russia and china wanted we know that china wanted a bargain and russia was standing firm on the price that they were asking for so this deal would change the face of the global gas industry as we know it and i'm sure europe is looking on rather cautiously at the moment because they too have

been trying to diversify that trade and this will perhaps give europe a little less leverage in terms of pricing with russia from now on so that's one to watch we know there's been tensions with sanctions going on as well so there's politics up play involved with this deal and that's why everyone has been involved and it is great timing for china because we know they've got a one point three billion people population and they are gas guzzlers the biggest consumer and russia has the biggest reserves of natural gas and so china wants to get involved with at the moment because the huge economic expansion that china has experienced over the last three decades has come at a cost and that is pollution you can really feel it in the air is somewhat the small gate is gray and misty and they want to move towards a cleaner which is natural gas it's a win win situation at the moment and russia is looking eastwards we must remember russia is part of europe as well as asia. that was katie pilbeam reporting from

a shanghai on gazprom a mega deal with china. charles tilley the renowned social scientist through the analogy that these states were a quote quintessential protection rackets with the advantage of legitimacy and continued the quote to say qualify as our largest examples of organized crime now tilly wanted to highlight how coercion and rent seeking more accurately describes the formation of the european state then the idea of social contracts or the emergence of the state as a protector of markets now i spoke to doug casey of casey research about the us is particularly extreme form of corage on the income tax and i first asked him why a u.s. citizen living abroad must pay to the u.s. on income earned abroad the business is abroad they don't have to take

a look at what he had to say well look there's no explaining the u.s. tax system nobody understands it nobody can possibly even read the new regulations that are written every year forget about the hundreds of volumes that constitute the tax code now well i can tell you is that it's insane and it's one of the things that's dragging the us down relative to other countries in the world. as you mentioned we're the only country in the world that taxes it's citizens based upon their source and show not on where they live in other words if you look at the u.s. today and never came back you're still obligated to pay taxes every year just as if you lived in the u.s. after an exemption they give you are living abroad now there's all these complications and saying look. i think it's possible this is going to sound outrageous but it's possible i'd like to abolish the income tax in the us.

and fire all the people that are working for the ira. mabee done it will be they won't be done until we have a genuine catastrophic crisis but it should be done and can be done i'm going to just ask you then as a follow up if you were in charge if you were in charge how would you go about doing that. well look first of all most of the u.s. government serves no useful purpose. most of the u.s. government is a dead hand on society and i think to start with we could abolish about ninety percent of it quite frankly including most of the military i know the average american loves the military seems like of the only part of the government that kind of works but actually the military u.s. military is not protecting us there they're actually an immense danger to us by having combat troops in one hundred different countries all these welfare programs should be abolished the post office should be privatized now it would be going to

be quite possible to cut the u.s. government by ninety percent and cut their taxes by that amount and so forth but it's not going to happen because of the deep state is totally insinuated in society and half of americans are net recipients of income from the government so nothing's going to change until we have a genuine. catastrophic crisis could be but it won't be now according to a bloomberg news u.s. ex-pats do you know if their nationality climbed to one thousand one in the first quarter this is just the first quarter of this year which is up from six hundred seventy nine in two thousand and thirteen and in all of twenty thirteen the number had already tripled to three thousand from the previous year now the united states is the only country in the o.e.c.d. that taxes its citizens regardless of where they live so do you think these facts are related. oh they're totally related but it's worse than what you just said because as of today because in a couple of months well

a new law called data goes into effect where. anybody that's got a foreign account of any size has to report it and if it or a report of the foreign bank or a brokerage firm asked report of. its complete and the out of control so are more americans going to read answer system shut yes in fact it's just started the curve is going to go hyperbolic in the years to come because it turns out that instead of being something you can be happy about american citizenship is like an albatross around your neck and it's just an expensive and dangerous albatross so you know not over the it's going to accelerate that that trend i'm glad that you bring that up because the i.r.s. has been going after tax evaders by going after the banks where they operate like you say and fact is only going to intensify that now ironically this is made life more difficult for all all of us ex-pats because foreign banks don't want the

hassle that comes with dealing with u.s. persons so are you concerned that the u.s. is overreaching here. overreaching about's that's an understatement look. at the us government is has got a life of its own at this point it's it's not representative of the people it's an organization that's as discrete from the average american as the mafia. it operates that way at this point and it's the natural tendency of any organization especially an organization that isn't bounded by property to last and being sustainable to grow old so yes of course the u.s. government's going to grow and it's actually become cancerous this point. i don't know i like i said before i don't know how to change it because that's so totally insinuated into all parts of us society it's

a very bad thing because you've got to remember that a government isn't a body all interests them it's about coercion and that's not a good thing in a civil society. that's the issue passports are just asking logistically how hard is it to give up a u.s. passport i mean what is the process. well. i'm still a u.s. citizen so i can't tell you from absolute first hand information which is kind of information but i have a lot of friends who've done this and you have to go to. a foreign embassy and have at least two interviews and talk to somebody about it. a lot of the embassies it depends on what country and make it quite hard for you to give it up in addition to the fact that if you have over a certain threshold of well two million dollars you have to pay an exit tax spaced

out a number of things so it's its purpose it's a lot like what the soviets used to have when the soviet union still exists that if anybody wanted to get out of russia they had to pay an exit tax that's pretty much what americans have to do today wow and now let me just play devil's advocate here just don't kill me i was going to put have had you can't now questioning the n.s.a.'s piggybacking on private data collection that's a one thing but giving up your u.s. passport is a totally different thing so here's the question are we all just kind of these economic mercenaries with no allegiance to the countries where we're citizens of except to the degree that they offer us the lowest tax rate we can get well look this whole idea of the nation state of these two hundred twenty five countries that cover the face of the earth like a skin disease in my opinion they're bad idea quite frankly just because you're born in a certain geographical area. why does that. necessarily make you

loyal to the government that's populated by the worst kind of people that all of these people and governments are the kind of people that believe them controlling other people so. i look i think if we were to have this conversation one hundred years from now most nation states in our present form aren't going to exist. that was doug casey of casey research. time now for a very quick break but stick around because when we return axel merckx of merck investment sits down with me to discuss quantitative easing and the possibility of the e.c.b. jumping aboard the q.e. bandwagon then in today's big deal edward harrison and i are discussing the russell two thousand index but before we go to break here are a look at some your closing numbers of the bell stick around. the.

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whatsoever just to scream at each other it doesn't do any good but what we need are there ways in which we can resolve this issue which is good for the your cranium people is good for the people is good for you and good for the whole. crisis in ukraine has revealed the extent of western media. unwillingness to report this important story the western narrative is closely mirror talking points generated for the powers that be the following question is what media merely the instrument of the rich powerful.

the u.s. u.k. and japan have all mounted a huge monetary experiment through quantitative easing buying back billions of dollars billions and billions of dollars of bonds in order to stimulate the economy now the u.s. is tapering its q.e. program while japan still isn't getting the inflation that it wants so q.e. is getting mixed results but even so some analysts believe analysts believe that

q.e. is in the cards for the european central bank come june to get a handle on japan europe and the u.s. i sat down with axel merckx of merck investments i first asked him about what he sees in the future of the japanese economy here's what he had to say. well the one thing our best change is the sentiment and so that's clearly a positive people feel optimistic but i don't think there is this growth is sustainable ultimately the japanese economy cannot grow its problems and in fact if they were to succeed they have a much bigger problem at their hands because if you get growth odds are the cost of borrowing is going to go up and makes it impossible to finance the deficit so in some ways the japanese are lucky to be stuck in this and is this world to nowhere and as you pointed out the growth in the first quarter was mostly due to consumption being taken up from because of the tax hike the value added tax hike actual japan's household savings rate has been declining and the traditional current account surplus is at risk of turning into a deficit permanently now what's going on here. well once you have

a current account deficit you're vulnerable because you rely on foreign us to finance your deficit a couple of years ago when the tsunami hit the yen went up as a shock to an economy means consumers are saving more and if you have a current account surplus which japan used to that's a positive for the currency new zealand at the time also had an earthquake but the currency plunged they have a current account deficit and you can see that that the that the end is no longer the safe haven it used to be that status is eroding because once you need to borrow money from foreign us to finance your deficits you need to offer them something and the japanese don't have enough to offer them and we don't think that the yen can ultimately survive that in the long term for now it's of course a lot of people have to pod into that trade and it's not a straight line down the yen is not a currency i would invest in for the long term at all you know what impact is the economy likely to have on the end j g b and the japanese stock market. well

last year was very popular today these instruments out there you can hedge out the currency risk to buy a market well those things work sometimes this year that hasn't worked so much and we think investors should actively manage the currency risk just taking it out do you leave too much on the table necessarily and and so for japan right now. looking good because the yen has depreciated but it's the fall in earnings that translate into yen domestically the things haven't picked up and it's very difficult when you d. base your currency you're providing a disincentive for businesses to reinvent themselves it's when you have a strong currency is that you have to compete on value and advanced economy cannot compete on price they have to compete on value and the japanese are not going in that direction that's why in the medium to long term i don't see japan being very competitive. let's move to europe now actually now the e.c.b. is big news these days because everyone is expecting them to next month but what are you expecting from the e.c.b.

and why. derogate is desperate to weaken the euro let's first think about what's been what has happened in europe though the cost of borrowing for the weaker euro zone countries has plunged and spain used to pay five six percent and is now paying about the same as the u.s. for five year notes that is an amazing stimulus but that's not enough the growth in these weaker countries has been lackluster the reason is because the banks they don't have enough power to lend and dragon con fix that with low rates so he comes up with other ideas and schemes but whatever he's going to come up with it's going to take a long time to implement for now he can top down the euro it's just a very very difficult for the euro to weaken in the context of everything else that's happening in the world but i want to ask you where do you see your a growing from here. when we put out a price target of one fifty which is substantially higher than then just about anybody else has out there simply because the the european central bank has more of

a demand driven way of servicing the market if banks don't want the liquidity well they don't take it if there's no take out there and they and the europeans don't have a current account deficit like the u.s. and so you have this lack of the growth you can have a strong currency with desperate measures we can get the year to be a one thirty seven it is a very very difficult for them to keep weakening the euro for now in the short term and down appears to be the path of least resistance by the we wouldn't be surprised if they are what trend is going to resume shortly now what impact do you see these developments having on stocks in europe. what of course it's difficult for stocks to do well when when when exports are not doing so well with a stronger currency at the same time that the world is now walsh liquidity and we have lots of yield chasing capital out the the money that fled emerging markets has made it into euro zone periphery mostly into the bond market but it's also helping to push up stocks but then reality kicks in again earlier we had the growth numbers and germany was doing well but the weaker countries were doing poorly so stocks

were inflated and they have come down now the good news though even though people are chasing yield chasing performance is this is risk friendly capital so what if prices come down we don't have the contagion anymore the next time a crisis erupts do you think this is another salvo in the currency wars that will eventually force reaction to us to pants that's when u.k. or the emerging markets. and certainly and if you just kind of think about it we have too much debt government debt in particular that culturally different countries will react differently to those things right now drive is trying to weaken the euro the japanese are trying to return c. and that while the federal reserve doesn't talk about it explicitly they'd be very happy with the currency as well and we'll get the f.m.c. minutes next week and they are not going to talk about tightening by a stretch of imagination is just a perception that we have the so-called exit it's not going to happen anytime soon because everybody is concerned about the strong currency these days now be u.k. seems to be leaning the other way right now so do you see the rate hikes and if so

when and why. yes when makani the head of the bank of england james came to the post everybody thought he'd be super dovish but just about when he came a couple of good indicators came out for the economy and he's had tailwinds ever since so he's kind of forced into the other end of the spectrum and he might have to raise rates as early as in about a year from now and that's been reflected in the sterling and part of that is as well that because everybody had such a dovish perception of the bank of england that people will call it of god that's one of the reasons why the sterling has appreciated distilling is historically quite volatile and so we expect them yes they will raise rates in about a year from now and then they still might get much stronger on that backdrop condo's at the same time very good at also talking down a currency so if it does get too strong expect a couple of words come out in that quote unquote currency game you want to look through that the u.k. for the time being is better position than many of those long term they have all abilities but in the short term i do think that the distilling should should

appreciate. now how about the u.s. the central tendency median fed forecasts these hikes starting sometimes next sometime next year now do you see this happening. well you've got to look at who's actually going to be voting in a year from now with charlie evans the super dovish fed president from chicago is voting next we have janet yellen at the helm going to be backed by stand facia now stand fishes made is that you and he is the former head of the bank of israel considered a very high reputation but his main montra is that central banks ought to ignore the noise translated to a yellen fed it means he's going to tell janet yellen whatever you want don't get distracted by the data don't get distracted by the by the markets too much if you want to focus on unemployment make sure employment comes down i don't think they're going to tighten anytime soon and so as they eventually will have to push in that direction i think they will be firmly erring on the side of keeping the real

interest rates negative for for as far as the eye can see janet yellen that was absalom work of merck investments time now for today's big deal. big deal time with that word harrison who's having an active. profile thing there with us here today we're talking about junk bonds and bear markets now we want to understand what these stories can mean for the markets moving forward so first up the russell two thousand index which is a small cap market index for the u.s. and has been taking a nosedive from twelve twelve to a low of ten ninety one that's a drop of ten percent yeah yeah the second story here is about junk bonds the wall street journal came out with a story that said quote large investors are rushing into the riskiest corporate bonds frustrated by low interest rates on safer investments and convinced that even

companies the shaky finances are in little danger of to fault so we're let's start with the junk bond story now the wall street journal article it said that investors are buying up these triples. we rated bonds which is junk speculative risky trash so the question is you know. what's going on the market why are investors doing something that's nonsense so is it just coming out and tore the entire town over well for it that's a good well you know i would actually work with say that right at the end when you're talking about keeping real yields negative that's really would have boils down to when you have low nominal yields negative real yields basically investors a star for yield so they're going to go out in terms of increasing risk by increasing maturities or going into speculative grade assets like a yield and so you know triple c's are now trading at incredibly low yields because there's so much demand for high yield investments high yield is having

a record year in terms of issuance because people want to get that yield and they're willing to go up the risk curve to do so especially with the fall rates at a low level you know what effect will stockpiling these jump on is have on the market as a whole will basically means that you would see a lot of companies go out and issue a debt and as a result of that you might get a skew in terms of who gets into the debt market you know what i'm looking at is when you look at the russell two thousand versus what's going on in junk and you think about the real economy a lot of people are concerned about the russell two thousand falling out of bed and that this could mean you know maybe we'll have a correction maybe even a crash down the law. but when you look at what's really happening in terms of junk we have now gotten a huge default. people are still piling in the junk like it's no one's business and the real economy is not showing any signs of market weakness in terms of you know

definitely we're heading for recession so you know from my perspective what it says is that maybe we're in a consolidation phase and that you know you want to look. the bonds are sort of leading as opposed to the russell two thousand and why they bring that up because let's move on to the russell two thousand now since the russell two thousand charts the fortunes of small companies and the idea is that smaller companies are more sensitive to underlying changes in the economy it begs the question is something amiss so let's review the russell two thousand graph now you see the drop you can definitely see that but now let's pull up the s. and p. over the same period. or let's not. ok. now you can see right there looks quite different quite different so as to what is the story here what's going on so basically what's going on is people are rotating out of the russell two thousand so we've had three hundred percent gains in these small cap stocks we're talking those companies like athenahealth or right which are

much smaller than s. and p. five hundred companies and they have seen monster gain since the lows in march two thousand and were simply. higher dividend yield you get more defensive so people are rotating out of the smaller cap into s. and p. five hundred doesn't mean this is the market is going as a whole is going to go down but there is that concern in the question because you know is the broader economy suggestive of weakness that would cause you to have these consequences and so for i think you know when might consult it but you know you could go to march after ok so you know investors are point out of junk bonds and and the russell is looking better so basically the question is what's the relationship between a weak market an investor searching for yield in these risky assets we don't have much time but i would love to hear and i think that what you're seeing basically is a real economy still hold people are going to continue to take

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reported eastern ukraine interim leaders an anti-government activists disagree over who is responsible for stoking the. flames. as artie's british contributor describes as thirty six hours of detention by ukrainian authorities is a mounting for the well being of two russian journalists held in isolation since sunday. also this some of the biggest names of finance and politics gathered for the petersburg international economic forum but the heads of some major western firms will be there under pressure from their governments not to turn up the report from the russian.

live from our studio center here in moscow this is a national with the twenty four hours a day. attacks in ukraine's east have intensified both the military and anti-government groups say dozens of their men have been either killed or injured in the last twenty four hours activists internet say that the army has used increasing force in its attacks deploying both aircraft and rockets also reported twenty of their people were killed by the military thirty government troops are thought to have died in what authorities say was an attempt to defend the checkpoint. reports of dozens killed in the also came in from the neighboring region of lugansk locals say the gunshots first heard in the morning last and throughout the day.

there is fighting in villages are in the city people he's sleeping on to children from schools and kindergarten we don't know how many people have been killed or injured because we can't reach anyone on the phone. the battle started at four in the morning pro-government forces came with doing some helicopters it was striking not only are there in these but also destroying factories and other nonmilitary buildings near one village the anti government forces blew up a bridge to block the very vehicles the clashes nervous staub in logans county government fighters have been injured i don't know if there are any victims on the other side. in lugansk unknown militants attacked an army checkpoint at five in the morning here told local activists responsible while activists themselves say the assault was staged by a third party some locals link the attack to one of ukraine's eastern governors a billionaire who said to be using his own money to finance a fighting force the same two weeks ago his minister was accused of killing at

least two people during the referendum on autonomy. or the russian foreign ministry says kiev is not adhering to the deal agreed in geneva last month aimed at bringing down tensions in the country's east it says ukraine's interim government has actually boosted the military operation aimed at its own people. lot of thirty six hours in custody graham phillips the british journalist reporting for r.t. has been released by the ukrainian authorities he was arrested by the national guard in the country's east and was held under armed guard in what he says were intimidating conditions for us to pull the car over by the side of the road and we were all to count to taken into these two poor cameras which formed this blog post war figures came sort military figures and i was taken off not in handcuffs but was taken off and gunpoint i was night with a presence through checkpoints every time we did you know the guy would have his gun crossed my legs we arrived at all the barracks and all the base and i was put in a billet there told to get my head down get to sleep you know the guy made it clear

my god that you know if i were to make any move make any break in his orders were to you know to use whatever force needed to basically detain me so then it was it was a case of they handcuffed pieces of my hands behind my back and put a black sack cloth over my head a name was taken into the center of kiev and there was a meeting there with officials with my embassy with the british embassy with officials here i have to say that being at the end oriented towards my release still waiting hopefully tomorrow to get all my possessions back while graham phillips is now walked free the two russian journalists working for life news television channel haven't been so lucky their condition and whereabouts are still unknown after five days of detention the live news reporters are accused of aiding anti government fighters that have been described by kiev as terrorists russia's dismissed the claims as ridiculous moscow said it's outrageous that kiev continues to bar european security officials from getting access to the journalists they beat

attempting to meet the crew for two days now with no luck as being more international pressure mounting on the ukrainian authorities to release the journalists human rights watch also joined the efforts voicing their concerns for their well being. we're worried about their treatment or we're worried about their status we believe they should be immediate release if there are some if there are specific concrete legal accusations against them let those that let those charges be known but meanwhile they should be released pending pending any investigation if there indeed needs to be an investigation. even the us state department who initially brought accusations has since taken something of a step back we would condemn any unlawful detention of journalists and call on all sides to allow legitimate journalists to conduct their work free from interference we would call on ukrainian authorities to investigate these incidents to release these people of their legitimacy the gentleman journalist and not involved in

illegal activities support for the two journalists is also spreading on social media with users posting photos of themselves with a hash tag save our guys and celebrities are joining the move is american actress. holding up her sign and we have a queue of authorities still refuse to acknowledge that they are detaining the journalists. the annual three day economic forum is kicked off in some petersburg as movers and shakers from around the world meet at what's been dubbed the russian in davos. thousands of business leaders and politicians are coming to the event a number of c.e.o.'s from major western companies have pulled out of the forum but their representatives are still said to be present. for the reports it pays to stay

away from politics this year fifteen percent of delegates invited to attend the form are incoming many of them backed out over the divisive issue of ukraine and also we're heard from lot amir peretz and spokes person who says that many u.s. companies have faced unprecedented and direct pressure not to attend or many of the experts we've spoken to claim that this won't really have much of an impact they also in light of the historic four hundred billion dollars gas still between russia and china many of the c.e.o.'s are in fact sending other company representatives instead let's discuss this further now with asia times correspondent pepe escobar who joins me thank you very much thank you well my question is do these american and european companies can they afford to be plain hard to get especially after what we've seen happen between russia and china russia has really in essence cemented its business ties with china well the short answer is the american companies they simply cannot antagonize the white house what do i witnessing today

the way i see it is the ultimate game changer it's the beginning of the integration of eurasia and i mean not only the russian pivoting to china but the russian pivoting terms of energy to south korea and japan after wards closer integration between all the major eurasian powers so when i see for instance this year of the eon from germany not coming to the st petersburg forum it doesn't make any sense and this applies to all the other major telecom. agriculture and their chief european majors this is a huge this is one of the huge emerging markets in the world the brics brazil russia india china south africa this is the future thank you very much for your input will be talk and see a link to the next coming days this is marina call survivor quarter forty from st

petersburg. now is the western russia lucky horns over the crisis in ukraine trade representative say that joint business interests should prevail over political discontent. i saw this morning in zero four on some presidency or french company and german to i mean it was a state say don't go too much to say. we are there so all that is approved that you know we do what we want and so the economy is stronger than politics in the western world but we understand what his own interest is that relationship with the ratio of our company is so long. and has to stay on this long term partnership it is in the interest of our company and us and i know that for russia to europe is very important so i'm sure that this what they said would be maintained over years it is business as usual but here it is not as you would i would say and

. it's a little bit of pity because i have expected. that a lot of. international companies are coming despite that political distress because there is actually i think an old ban for them to come the idea is is that if if companies leave now i think it will be very hard for them to restore wish and souls at some point in the future for the ones who do study the clear messages that. they're in the books they have the most opportunities long term and i think generally people expect the things will switch over as they have done a couple times already. as contract savings time we're keeping a close eye on the latest developments in st peter's but we'll continue our coverage of the form here on r.t. international throughout the day. russia is demanding an official explanation from the u.k. after prince charles allegedly compared president putin to hitler and to the

british throne apparently made the comment as he was speaking to a woman who fled the nazi regime during the second world war but he has more. well the comparison to adults hitler was reportedly made during a private conversation with a museum volunteer in canada prince charles reportedly said putin is doing just about the same as hitler in reference to events in crimea the russian embassy here in london has called the remarks outrageous and russia's deputy ambassador to the u.k. has met with foreign office officials in order to clarify what exactly was said but the comments have raised eyebrows both in russia as well as in the u.k. where prince charles will one day be the head of state and remarks like the one he's made make ministers very nervous one m.p. has even said that if you want to talk about these things he can abdicate and then put himself up for election and domestically he's been accused of wading into

politics in the past as well so much so that one of his nicknames here in the u.k. is the meddling prince and it's not the first time the royal family has stirred controversy in reference to the nazis as well back in two thousand and five prince charles his son prince harry made a major sartorial gaffe when he wore a swastika armband to a fancy dress party but in relation to the latest comments clarence house prince charles as residents have said they won't comment however we do know that both prince charles and putin are set to attend d.-day celebrations in france in two weeks' time and that might be a bit of an awkward meeting. i'll be back after a very short break with more news including taking tolerance to switzerland ok's nazi salutes said only as they intended to praise fascism even look for survivors

and many among the public scratching their heads. although foreign troops are preparing to complete their would draw from afghanistan the war is set to continue for its people that i'm wolf in just a few moments. with economic downturn in the final. days. and the rest.

will be if we. are. switzerland has ruled that giving the nazi salute him public is perfectly legal so long as you don't mean to be racist according to a new ruling the act is only punishable if you're looking to spread hateful ideology the jewish groups have made clear they are not happy about it artie's peace all over has been following the story. the highest court in switzerland

overturned a conviction for for rape on racial charges of a man who during a demonstration when people were giving the oath to switzerland he opted for giving a twenty second nazi salute now they said that this was not a racially racially aggravated incident that he was merely expressing his own convictions and it that was allowed they did say though that if the nazi salute was being used to. advertise racial and gender then it was racist but that leaves it open to a lot of interpretation just to put into perspective what the salute still means here in europe here in germany in austria and in the czech republic well it's a criminal act and you could end up in jail for it it is though universally reviled as one of the the most obvious symbols of hatred not just against jewish groups but against all of those who were persecuted by the nazis when we look at incidents that happened when it has come up in public in the recent past just last year in

for greece the key athens mid-field take your tickets at the d.a.'s give a salute after scoring a goal he was immediately banned for life for ever playing for the national side by the greek football association there but we have seen europe flirting with fascism over recent times we've seen the rise of golden dawn in greece we've seen your pic in hungary we've also seen in the u.k. the english defense league and although they deny that they have any links to fascism is enough evidence of their members giving me salutes and being caught out on social media and it marches giving the straight arm salute but this is certainly something that's ruling by switzerland's highest court certainly going to cause upset shock and well really it will make a lot of people very unhappy that they've deemed this legal in certain circumstances. well to talk more on this i'm joined live by ralph too long he's from the group united for intercultural action rolf why do you think

switzerland made this decision. well. i really don't know why switzerland to the decision or the swedes judges i read the article about it or the news of all of the news about. the verdict there was no conviction but i don't really know the details of the case but apart from that. i would say it is not a good sign that if anybody uses the hitler greeting this is highly hitler and is not conflicted in a court depends depends of which additional system it is not a good sign and without a doubt there is a rise of right wing sentiment now spreading across europe why is that happening do you think. well i think there are more reasons for this so

we have seen a growth of far right parties we have seen a growth rate in politics for for some years now and as you know there will be e.u. elections next sunday and the expectation is that there will be a shift towards more extremist parties in the european parliament now first of all yes we have a crisis and many people feel in secure because they lose jobs they lose houses they lose income and this general in general is. good for parties who take advantage of this so who will blame others very easily and it is very easily too easy to blame like minorities or migrants for anything that. goes wrong in society so at the moment given the crisis many people i'm afraid or more people more voters will follow what far right parties are saying

this is blaming. my friends groups minority groups for whatever goes wrong so all those people who want to be targeted and all those groups you could be targeted in the future who are feeling a lot of pressure now and those who are concerned about the spread of fascism throughout europe there's not a lot you can do about it if these groups are forming under what appeared to be a legitimate political party. maybe i can give another example in the netherlands there is a far right party. whose leader mr wilderness has called poor on facebook he compared it to mine come. which is i would say quite shocking he was brought before a court but the court said that the highest court in the netherlands said that this in fact is not something for judges to decide upon but it is something. to be

discussed in the political arena now you ask me for what are their reasons or what are the reasons for the rise of these far right extremist parties i think here's another one over the years we've see. a growing support of these parties but also a lack of. how do you see this reaction and response from other parties to describe both of for example racist language or to the blaming of. islam or muslims and i think there's another reason why this has been going on for quite a while and i'm afraid this is one of the reasons we will see. in the upcoming elections. growing support for these parts well it was certainly very interesting to see the result of these european elections thank you very much indeed for

sharing your thoughts with us for a long for the united into cultural actually for joining us. i'm afraid we've run out of. thank you very much you really are against time stories thank you. it appears the n.s.a. has been getting down to some super sensitive business. media as the u.s. spy agency has been trying to squeeze secrets from the organization of security and cooperation in europe and get the whole story. caught on camera two california policeman a film shooting a suspect dead in what critics say is an excessive use of force more on this dramatic episode and r.t. . that's going to start the taliban spring offensive is gathering pace with a spate of attacks on wednesday killing at least twenty two policeman and three civilians the population is bracing itself for even more violence as western troops pack their bags as they prepare to leave the country. reports. a life

interrupted nearly claimed ilyasah used to sell bracelets at a busy outdoor market with his best friend in a wab but these days he prefers the quiet of this shop large crowds still make him nervous. he was just fifteen years old when a suicide bomber detonated an explosive device outside of a military base in kabul his legs were shattered by shrapnel in a wall died instantly they were as close as brothers it's been nearly two years since the attack but the pain of losing his best friend hasn't faded because we were only two or three metres from the blast you can knock me out i woke up one that in the hospital and thought i was injured too but then they told me he was dead there are physical reminders to. do that you can see here the shrapnel is still in my leg the doctors told me they can't remove it it hurts

a lot to walk. afghanistan is seeing more violence more victims too warm weather brought with it the start of the annual fighting season and we were on the scene when taliban militants attacked the election headquarters in kabul now you can hear the gunfire behind me the taliban have proven themselves capable of carrying out how profile attacks right in the center of kabul and some of the most secure areas now for the moment the attacks seem to be focused on generating fear and creating headlines in the news media but many after. ruled kabul when the taliban was in power in the country and the fear is once that western forces leave those days could be making a prom back the taliban changed their tactics. they avoided face to face combat with nato and afghan security forces and the light mainly on the terrorist attacks the cost of war for. certain introduced in the cost of war for

nato and the afghan security forces increased. as have the casualties for afghan soldiers this time of year is a member of the quick reaction force when insurgents act he's often first on the scene of doing nearly died protecting civilians in a recent taliban attack it's a thankless job he says. we don't have artillery we don't have tanks and we don't have fighter planes to protect our country once the foreign troops withdraw there will be a huge increase in these kinds of attacks that pessimism is shared by aid groups like the international committee of the red cross which is reporting a surge in civilian casualties this whole period now with the possible withdrawal of troops this is only a chapter in history afghanistan has been conflict for thirty years and sadly we don't see that this is going to stop just because the deadline at the end of this

year as foreign combat troops draw down the war among afghans seems far from over you see catherine of kabul up next it is worlds apart with oksana blocker. recently a new los passed in russia that makes bloggers as more than three thousand viewers per day become part of the nation's mass media this is a big deal because they will have to meet a lot of new high standards for one thing anybody goes out the door and authors will have to sign their real life name to their blogs and they cannot promote various breeds of what some would call extremist ideas or vole garrity there are reasons that such a law came into existence russians really do hate swearing in the media believe me have gotten a few youtube messages about it and many people believe that a certain world hyper power manipulates the russian internet with fake and paid

accounts for example at the start of the korean conflict post from a daughter of an officer with a male name became legendary evidence of this foreign meddling but just because there are reasons for such a law does not make it a good idea this punishes the whole russian internet for the actions of a tiny minority and having a limit of three thousand viewers per day is so small that even blogs about knitting will become mass media and worst of all i am going to be fined for swearing repeatedly because i am not going to stop hacked the reason i like living in russia is because in a politically correct world at least for now we can call a spade a spade this country and i'm not backing down darn it but that's just my opinion.

i don't know welcome to all the parts us policy makers have talked a lot about imposing costs on russia without admitting that any confrontation is a luxury in and of itself can be not. or to russia and what would it mean for our common security as well to discuss that i'm now joined by michael kantor former u.s. secretary of commerce and. president of the pacific council on international policy gentlemen thank you very much for being here thank you both are members of a delegation assembled by the pacific council and you come to russia at the rather challenging time for the relationship between our country what brings you here dr can't we're here simply to learn and to exchange ideas with counterparts russian counterparts regarding the issues of the day whether it's about the ukraine or about russia and our economic relationships or all the relationships that we

have with the europeans it is a we're trying to also impart some ideas we think or are taking hold in the united states and see what the reaction is here in russia and we hope we are we are doing something positive be helpful is this relationship is somewhat tense at this point. you mentioned before we started recording that this trip was planned even before the events in ukraine blew up and part of the mission for for these delegation is to promote goodwill and understanding between russians and americans but i wonder what is it that you want your russian counterparts to understand on the issue of ukraine because as far as russians are concerned america created yet another mass this time going to russia's own border. it blames russia for that exclusively russia it wants to punish russia for everything that happened in ukraine and that doesn't seem to be

a very conducive context for any sort of understanding well i better time to come when in fact there are issues that need to be examined first hand and need to be understood and certainly. this trip was planned long before ukraine there are areas in which the united states and russia actually have collaborated very closely which seem not to be discussed very much and some of that cooperation has been suspended because of the recent tensions some has and some hasn't p. five plus one the negotiations with iran the deal over syria in which the united states and russia relied heavily on one another so look it would be it would be foolish to argue that there are not significant tensions between moscow and washington but having said that there is no more and porton time to talk about these issues in the now when there are these difficulties and we are here because

we want to hear from the russians what they think and we will take the message back i think what russians need to ask themselves is to what degree are they being successful in making their case to the american people and frankly i think that the you might do a better job well i think part of at least our t's goal is to. russian perspective been known in the united states and speaking about that mr cantor as far as i'm concerned and i'm talking about the situation in ukraine i think it's a prime example of a chain need jerk reaction because i don't think that the united states strategically planned for the ouster of unocal government neither do i think that russia schemed to restore control over crimea but i think this whole debacle is very symptomatic of the larger u.s. policy which is you know a policy of assisted democrat i was stationed and as seen from from moscow this policy never leads to any anything good i mean it usually results in bloodshed and

chaos be it syria be it lead beer you know some other countries and now ukraine so the question many russians are asking including the russians and. problem is what's the point of sticking to the same policy one time and time again and it is not proving very efficient and successful and sometimes it doesn't sometimes it can give there are not years of no absolutes in life and therefore a reaction to one set of circumstances may be affective one day and not effect of the next and what the events in kiev which cause instability should have naturally led us all to understand there were going to be problems in the crimea and that russia had a serious interest as does the united states but our interest in stability and in peace and economic progress not in sticking fingers in each other's eyes that is

not very helpful it's not very helpful but i think you may understand why russians are a bit concerned because ukraine is directly on our border three i think point five million your craniums leave here you know they have jobs and you know they have families here if there is any instability in your crane that threatens russia directly where is the united states as concerned it may be about the fate of ukrainian democracy is. the part of the united states is not interested in stability in the region that's the last thing the united states wants that's not in the u.s. interest. u.s. didn't create what happened in kiev nor did it exacerbate the issue in the in the crimea. the we understand that russia has a serious interest in what happens in the region however what we hope that both sides russia us and the europeans as well as your queens can get together and say

what is one of the solutions to this can we have a peaceful vote on the twenty fifth of may. unaccompanied by force and by violence that would be helpful what would be the results of can we stick to the results of that election to the degree that we can then move forward do we look at more regional power or do we look at what what happens the russian language and what happens there those are things we need to look at the always see is now looking at that we need to support that effort you know there is a saying not only here in russia but mania american and western policy analysts say the americans and the west in general have very short memory and they they would rather prefer to forget you know what happened in ukraine a couple of months ago and move or have them analyze what actually led to that situation but if i can turn to you mr green i've heard many. people

prominent americans including zbigniew brzezinski for example say that the game in ukraine for the united states is democratization and of westernization of russia that if there is a positive change in ukraine if democracy takes hold there that's would have a positive influence on russia but i don't think democratization in the western isolation are necessarily synonyms can russia be a democracy of its own variety of strong rule of law diverse media environment all the usual trappings of democracy and still be opposed to the western. policies of intervention because we are not objecting to democracy in ukraine we are objecting to some rather have a hand the tactics that. russia believes the united states employed there well i can't speak for dr brzezinski but i've been reading a lot of what he's saying about ukraine and it's actually been very very practical pragmatic it's not ideological and it is mindful of russian concerns and american

concerns and of course ukrainian concerns you used earlier the assisted democratization and you mentioned it in a way that appeared to be negative i don't appreciate this policy of the in an ideal world we would have unassisted democratization and let people speak for themselves and let people make their own choices and let people make their own decisions and certainly there have been things happening in russia the situation of n.g.o.s the situation of gay people and others and what is the situation there because it appears to us and if i'm wrong if i'm wrong this means your government is not being particularly effective in educating us about the truth it is our perspective and i could be as wrong about this is as perhaps you might be about the us the rights of actually declined in these communities and i think there's an end an appearance rather than or maybe

a deliberate portrayal of the events taking place in russia because gay rights as well as angio rights there have been some changes in the legislation but by no means the rights of gays or lesbians or angelus have been curtailed they have been asked to comply with certain rules but that's democracy as you pointed out earlier a marketplace and democracy but it would be interesting and again i can't tell you this but to what degree this is allegedly a democratic process have these people had some right or some to use some sort of role in determining both these these laws and their applique. and if i'm wrong then again what i would say is is russia needs to tell its story more effectively to the nursery he's allowed to tell its story to the american people because there's a lot of you know let me not to interrupt you but your consul general in san francisco the pacific council in los angeles would love to have the russian

ambassador to the united states be given the opportunity to tell his story and he can tweet as much as he wishes i'm not sure about former ambassador mcfaul tweeting is is is is appreciated here but there it is if you want to respond to what you just said we personally invited to. fall numerous times on this program as we have also invited numerous american officials to engage in an open conversation but unfortunately they all declined they all few odds any russian channel as propaganda and i guess this mr counter to say if i can turn to you can you really have a productive constructive dialogue run one side constantly looks on to the other side from a position of a mentor or at least you know somebody who will always have to keep on your interlocutor because you know russia is being constantly criticized for you know

a shortage of democracy for the lack of media free those whatever but. it is never being treated on an equal basis and this is ultimately what russians are asking treat us with respect and an equal basis and we are ready to discuss whatever issues you watching that you say that i'm old enough to remember the cold war and that russia certainly was treated on equal basis both sides of course had had concerns with each other and we were literally eyeball to eyeball in a nuclear age which was very dangerous we backed off of it now when the soviet union broke up. there has been at least it seems to me in russia a sense that somehow you've lost your power that russia is not is respected as russia was before therefore the u.s. and others but mainly the u.s. is not paying attention and wants to mentor russia nothing like that we're not we're not interested in mentoring. but let me just say you know what you see that

is when we disagree with or should we feel like we have the right to speak out and say we disagree and when you support armed incursions into the eastern ukraine which you did and you do and we know that and that's fine you don't even deny it the fact is we need to come together and say how do we resolve this issue in a peaceful manner which will lead to progress and stability in the whole region well i hope we can get down to that to that issue that you just mentioned in the second part of the program but since you mentioned this suppose it's russia's support for aren't incursions in eastern ukraine i think we also should keep in mind that a couple of months before that the united states supported unconstitutional group of people taking over the democratically elected government so if you accuse one country or one side of fusing. keep in mind then the other side is just

as experience which would be very good for the interview if we buy we were factual the united states only supported the government in kiev after that occurred not before had no no interest whatsoever in it and in fact it was not in our interest that that kind of instability occur once it did of course the u.s. supported what it believed to be a more democratic form or a democratic government in kiev. of course mr counteracting it was assistant secretary of state victoria nuland to the united states and vested over five billion dollars in the so-called building of democracy in your crane and. i think some of that funds may have to groups that are not considered democratic in in the united states but unfortunately we have to take a very short break now when we come back our guest today seek to foster understanding between russia and the united states but have a calm to the right place that's coming up on worlds apart.

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post only what really matters at r.t. to your facebook news feed. welcome back to worlds apart of discussing the standoff between russia and the united states over ukraine and other matters with former u.s. secretary of commerce make a counter and gerald green the president of the pacific council on international policy. mr cantor earlier this month i was watching the senate foreign relations committee. on russia's largest intervention in ukraine and for more than three hours one senator after another competed in who would say the nastiest thing about this country and its leadership was centrally it was portrayed as this bloodthirsty imperialistic greedy irrational no. and what surprised me is that none of the senators ever looked critically at the actions of

the state department i wonder if you are really in the right place here since you're trying to foster ties between our countries because it is the u.s. congress that consistently resisted any attempt to normalize the relationship between russia and the united states and even if you achieve anything good on this mission you know that's not going to be taken positively on capitol hill well we don't expect to solve all the problems between russia and united states on our trip as much as we would like to we appreciate what you're doing in having this discussion the fact is discussions like this and in the united states which bring some historical perspective to what happened and where we are today and one of the choices that we have where we have to go. for instance it's not been widely publicized in the u.s. the president putin himself. as it is said that what we don't need is to to

annex eastern in the eastern ukraine he has said it directly that's an important statement he said he wants to pull troops back from from the border that's an important statement. he should cooperate with the always see all sides we all agree with it so i think some things positive things are going on as we worry about where we are look in the heat of the moment you can't expect people to be totally rational in the moment what you can help hope is that people will have discussion and dialogue and rationally than talk about where are we what are our choices and how can we operate together to get to where we want to go to create stability of the region dr green speaking about. rationality i just mentioned this senate hearing and there are many outrageous things as far as i'm concerned but one statement really stood out for me and this was

a statement made by senator marco rubio who whose name has been mentioned as a potential presidential contender let's have a listen i mean if there's any doubt on the minds of anybody on this committee nor probably on this panel for that matter what's going to happen next they're at least what russia's going to attempt to do i think this is a very typical framing of the ukrainian iran's in the united states what's going to happen there or rather what russia will attempt to do as preemptively assigning all the blame for everything that may happen in ukraine on to russia isn't out to be done fair because we know let's admit it the united states has been involved in ukraine past its own strategic interest in ukraine it is one of the major pillars of the bilateral relationship they have been many disagreements on how to deal with the post salvi in space for decades so why can't we have rational discussion of the doctor mr cantor was alluding to on an equal basis rather than you know assigning

the blame. and blaming russia preemptively for whatever may happen in ukraine i think the take one sentence by one senator in which he says there's no doubt only it's not. you know as a student of american politics you would know was well as anybody the democrats can't speak for public and republicans can't speak for democrats and when they they present a position of unanimity if you were to talk to the individual members of the of the foreign relations committee independently you would get absolutely a much more diverse set of views but congress is is just a hot bed of ideas which if they all rise and to agree on the russian issue where you only you only you know in a very narrow poor i'd respond to all of that like i listened for three and a half hours of them without hearing and they never expressed. my point is just that for a second and i think jerry would it you didn't hear hillary clinton say that well i

didn't hear jeb bush by the way i mean it's amazing what i heard of hillary clinton is her comparing the president of this country to adult hitler and shit later sought to mock module a that statement saying that she wasn't really making a direct comparison she was offering a historic perspective but if. the nasa for about the presidency compares the leader of this country to you i don't hitler that was and it shows the atmosphere of specter in your terrific and i really appreciate your having us here today she didn't say that she didn't even if there are u.s. columnists in the u.s. thinkers who you would agree with it would agree with you on some of the aspects who have said we've got to look historically and worry about are they perspectives here that it has it's happened before she was just citing that she wasn't citing it that is just not true well there are some of the public record and you know i

invite our viewers to go and find a fairly direct statement she made comparing. what russia has done to adolf hitler i just find the don't read this is is not it's a very sad. sort of issue obviously in. a very sensitive issue in the united states as well and it would make no sense there's no reason she should she should say it but again i think the issue is important is we are here if we had made up our mind we never would have come we would have sat in california and we would have joined the litany in the course of people saying how awful russia and. we're going to absolutely appreciate and you know i am not looking for gratitude but the thing i would add though is we've talked simply bilaterally the united states and russia which is important to lead the european union and europe out of this conversation in china and others i think makes the issue smaller than it is these are issues of

global significance this goes beyond simply the u.s. absolutely beyond the years and russia and yet those dynamics that exist between our countries and sometimes there is dynamics are somewhat hostile i think they do a fact not only of these current crisis but also what is happening around the world and mediation in other potential problems and i would like to take you back a little bit mr counter to the soviet to the waning days of the soviet union and back down the soviet leader mikhail gorbachev said during one of his conferences that russians did an awful thing to americans by depriving them of anatomy and it seems that this injustice is now being rectified at least some part of the american political establishment are rediscovering an anime or at least an opponent in russia and i wonder if that is animosity or hostility is necessarily a bad thing because at least it leads to some sort of plurality as far as the

global affairs are concerned well we don't need animosity what we need we can disagree and we can even or you and we can be adamant about our positions but we need to. here what the other side is saying if there's another side look we're in a global economy we literally are joined at the hip russia and the u.s. and the e.u. china the rest of the world and we need to understand that cooperation coordination discussing issues resolving them in a meaningful way is where we have to be it does us no good whatsoever just to scream at each other it doesn't do any good but we what we need to say are there ways in which we can resolve this issue which is good for the your cranium people is good for the russian speaking people in the euro crane is good for and good for the whole region i think there probably are and i was. privileged enough when in

government to negotiate over two hundred trade agreements there were always fights and arguments over each one of those agreements bringing russia into the w t o there were fights in arguments but it worked and it's working well and i hope it continues to work well in doing those things you get over that or humans you fun common ground and you make progress i think you're talking like a crime an insider this is everything that they have my goodness are you going to hurt me back in the us. here i mean this kind of approach is something that i think most gruff has been calling for all along that i think they have the problem from the kremlin point of view on the willingness all of the united states and the european union to discuss these issues or the issue if you're crying openly from the very beginning but speaking about animosity dr green if i can turn to you i know that you're an expert on iran and i think the u.s. a rainy and relationship is a fairly good example of how you can foster animosity for thirty plus years now admittedly the salvias american or russian american relations have never gone bad

bad at least we can tame diplomatic ties have never broken our diplomatic ties but i wonder if you can learn anything from the. relationship with iran in terms of just maintaining good ties is it expensive to have and means is it something that the countries all the countries ultimate to pay for there's no reason logically for the united states to sort of seek x. terminal enemies so as to sort of obscure domestic political disagreements or racial you can see it is and operated that way we really have i mean maybe you know you only have country that identified the axis of evil i mean you have i mean that that's your whole foreign policy of dividing the entire world into your allies. well but what's so interesting is we're spending so much time no negotiating with those who would have been our adversaries but aren't our adversaries anymore in the

negotiations with iran are very very serious on the denuclearization it's an element in which the united states and the europeans and the russians are all on the same side in a very constructive way and i think i see absolutely no no reason to not support that there's great look there's skepticism in decades of distrust don't disappear but this is a very good example of a pragmatic attempt to resolve a problem which we are on the same side mr counter you advocated taking these rationale. equality based approach and i wonder if that is really possible i mean when you go back to the united states do you think there would be people there who would criticize you for talking to russians and for him gauging even on this show because we had a lot of people in the united. in the united states have been calling for even

sanctioning our it's you know cutting our broadcast in the united states so when when when you talk about being open minded you know what exactly you you have in my lovely eye before having it broadcast even more prominent in the united states not . yes the more we talk the better off we are a great supreme court justice in the us once said the the the answer for talk you don't like is more talk we need more communication we need to work together and we are look we cooperate in space both countries have done a marvelous job and specialist and again that corporation that is now. under risk of being suspended gentlemen i don't the bases of the united states so we wanted to go forward a well i think that was a response to some of the sanctions that were proposed by by the state i understand where you're going to war in international affairs to walk and chew gum at the same time we all have to understand that we have to make progress here we can't just keep reilley each other let me end with not only will we not be criticized for

having called me here i formally invite you. come to los angeles give a talk as a russian journalist on the russian perspective on us russian relations i guarantee there will be extraordinary interest and respect for you so well i really look forward to it but unfortunately at this moment we have to wrap up i really appreciate your calling. in our students and even more so being here in our country a very challenging time and tell our viewers please keep our conversation going on twitter you tube and facebook pages and i hope to see you again same place same time here in a while the party. line

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