Live from moscow youre watching r. T. International and Daniel Hawkins review our site thanks for tuning in with us tonight. And the u. S. President has lashed out at the British Ambassador in washington calling him a pompous fall after a leaked memo in which the envoy gave a damning assessment of the trumpet ministration the feud has put strain on the socalled special relationship between the 2 countries reports. Because this all began when this message this message was leaked would show the you can bust of the describing the trumpet ministration in really harsh terms describing them as being inept and not seeing the situation improving any time soon pops into call donald trump fashion the us president took to twitter to express his feelings about it he didnt pull any punches and he described the u. K. Ambassador as being a very stupid guy the one he ambassador that the u. K. Forced it upon the United States is not someone we are thrilled with a very stupid guy he should speak to his country and Prime Minister may about their failed break that negotiation and not be upset with my criticism of how badly it was now here in the u. K. Of course we are watching as the 2 candidates go head to head to be the next conservative leader and thus the next Prime Minister there of course the former foreign secretary Boris Johnson and the current one jeremy hunt and the 2 men responding in very different ways jeremy hunt quick to respond to mr trumps tweet and as far as he was concerned mr trump was being very disrespectful and wrong donald trump friends speak frankly so i will these comments disrespectful and wrong to our Prime Minister and my country you said the u. K. U. S. Alliance was the greatest in history and i agree but i always need to treat each other with respect as threes amaze always done with you as for mr johnson well he wasnt willing to take a combative approach to mr trouble in the United States and as far as he was concerned well there was a spare is a special relationship which shouldnt be disturbed by this fall out ive got a Good Relationship with the white house and have no embarrassment in saying that the United States is has been will be for the foreseeable. Future number one political military friend this is perhaps the biggest the most public forming out between the governments of the u. K. And the usa for many years how serious it will get and how much strain it will put on that socalled special relationship really depends on who wins that contest to be the next british Prime Minister as weve just seen that 2 very different responses to Donald Trumps approach and that will define exactly where this scandal goes from here Global Affairs analyst patrick says the dispute could have an impact on the leadership contest for the u. K. s Ruling Conservative Party certainly comes at an interesting time right in the sort of the midst of the conservative leadership contest britain is due to appoint a new Prime Minister very soon or at least the tory party i should say is going to appoint a new Prime Minister not britain theres 2 questions one is who benefits from this leak does anybody benefit from this leak certainly on the sort of the remainer side you could say that they might benefit from this does germy hunt benefit from this certainly Boris Johnson cant because hes the favorite in the leadership contest at the moment but then the other question is who leaked it and why and we dont know that yet. Music festival in the us city of detroit has been forced to change its ticketing policy after a backlash over charging white people twice as much as black people organizers said the policy reflected the white communitys wealth and privilege which disadvantages black people move drew criticism online. 1st of all charging different prices bees dont race well done intersectional radicals youve become the very racist you claim to stand against so walk so very walk for a future 1st equality means treating everyone the same also for a future 1st were going to charge people different prices based on their race i wonder how our future Music Festival will charge asians do we pay 15. 00 because were non white but privileged the 1st of all has now canceled that pricing policy that followed widespread compare complaints and even threats against the organizers and their families there is now a suggested donation option for people of color of the proceeds will go to a program that supports young black people in detroit the organizers though continue to defend their initial ticketing terms are to structure was built to ensure that the most marginalized communities people of color are provided with an equitable chance at enjoying events in their own community black detroit affording joint pleasure is unfortunately still a privilege in our society for people of color and we believe everyone should have access to receiving such but it wasnt only concert those angered by all this one of the artists on the bill pulled out in protest. I was immediately enraged just because i am bi racial i have family members that would have under those circumstances been subjected to something that i would not ever want them to be in its nonprogressive and its not solution focused in my eyes or we heard from attorney and author Reese Everson who supports the organizers while social conservative commentator Anthony Brown a local logan says by any metric it is racism. Well i cant really tell was going on here it seems like a one hand they dont want white people to come but on the other hand they want to text him they want to charge do more money they let people for this is a so you dont want to be here but you want to money i dont really understand what you have are people who are local to the Detroit Community who may have been under server economic minorities and theyre seeing an influx of money and wealth into their community that theyre not necessarily always able to participate in and so when you have this organizer seeking to put together and a vent to benefit these underserved communities what shes saying is this is for the native people of this community what if it were an hispanic event lets say it was an hispanic Music Festival and they say hey anybody to c. Span and youre able to pay x. Amount of dollars if youre not hispanic including black folks you got to pay more so they make you use a black person pay more to go to their view with the races yes or no so if they say that you can really take over the ability to exclude people if they say it is say it is you cant come at all because you blake would be racist is that he is i mean im trying to figure out yes or no would iraqis definition. So you say yes ok that would be raised that way. Now for a black person to do to a white person how would it be would at the races well if it were white people in the shoe was on the other foot then it doesnt really make sense because we know in our house that if you spend your energy minutes later when black people actually have that type of control again its discriminatory its a its a practice where you are setting a bad about andrea barrier but is it preventing someone from receiving an economic benefit you know what if it were the other way around if you were a white only if it was a coach Music Festival in any way it is not why you go to pay double to take your brace what would the reaction be for your races you neo nazi k. K. K. Obviously what were looking at right now is a young lady looking through the lens of history and deciding that its important for us as a people to begin to fix the issue from the lens of equity versus equality. The u. S. State department has given the green light to a major weapons deal with taiwan despite criticism from china the pentagon and taiwanese officials defended the move this proposed salable supported the Foreign Policy and National Security of the u. S. By helping to improve the security and defensive capability of the recipient an important force for political stability move to rebalance and economic progress in the region taiwan will speed up investment on defense and continued to deepen security ties with the United States and countries with similar ideas all american lawmakers now have 30 days to make a final decision on the deal if approved taiwan will receive over 100. 00 modernised times and 250. 00 defense missiles that along with other weapons takes her total bill to 2200000000. 00 the oil and of taiwan has been ruled independently since the chinese civil war ended in 1949. Well its only recognized as an state by 18 countries none of the major global powers china claim sovereignty over territory and therefore by doing sees International Interference as a domestic threat. The sale of weapons by the United States to taiwan seriously violates the one china principle grossly interferes in chinas internal affairs and undermines chinas sovereignty and security interests china which is the u. S. To immediately cancel the planned arms seo and stop military relations with taipei to avoid damaging sino u. S. Relations and harming peace and stability in the taiwan strait. China analyst and lawyer says the move is part of a wider u. S. Strategy to contain beijing on the all busy of the all the United States while its not just i want of a chess board all. Of this big security the other states in which the loudest is seeing as being. Being challenged by the rising china but as far as the laws. There is the relations act which are the legalizers sales the idea is to create. A kind of unsinkable clark area. As a kind of. A fortress. To contain china so i think that the arms sales theres this in that context as far as an artiste. Leading Us Democratic president ial candidate joe biden has defended himself after coming under a barrage of friendly fire from his own party they claim hes been too sympathetic towards racial segregation in the past the issue was raised late last month during the 1st Democratic Party debate ahead of next years president ial election biden hailed the days gone by saying back then he was able to reach a compromise even when his biggest rivals like congressman during the debate party diehards criticized him for even having dollar would such people after apologizing for his remarks biden said the words were taken out of context. Did you see the questions about your past positions from the perspective of race being as relevant as they are no no think the role of the taking out of context and so easy to go back and go back 304050 years and take a context and take it completely out of context nonetheless throughout American History the democrats havent always been pro integration morgan explained. Joe biden the current front runner in the democratic president ial race has come forward to howard gys about statements he made about working with advocates of racial segregation i regret it. Im sorry for any of the pain or misconception i may have caused him but. I dont think you have to be holding a personal relationship with people who will very brutal oh a segregationist it was hurtful. To hear you talk about the reputations of 2 United States senators who built their reputations and career on the segregation of race in this country now joe biden is still in the lead despite the scandal however it seems to have unearthed a strange reality in american politics the Democratic Party the party that brought us the 1st africanamerican president has a rather strange record when it comes to the issue of racism when senator robert byrd of West Virginia died barack obama gave him a stirring eulogy he was sent an icon he was a party leader he was an elder statesman and he was my friend. Thats all remember him. Prior to becoming a u. S. Senator robert byrd had been a high Ranking Member of the ku klux klan afterwards he reputed the views of the hate group but prior to that he had some strong views when it came to the issue of race of a fight in the armed forces with a negro bomb i saw id rather i should die a 1000 times and see old glory trampled in the dirt never to rise again than to see this beloved land of oz become degraded by race mongrels a throwback to the blocky specimen from the wilds bill clinton who was wildly popular among africanamericans gave a eulogy when he was president for j. William fulbright another democrat we come to celebrated. For the remarkable life of j. William fulbright. A life that changed our country. And our world for ever and for the better well the glowing words left out the fact that fulbright was a big advocate of. Keeping black and white children in separate schools back in the 1960 s. When john f. Kennedy and the northern Democratic Party organizations located in urban areas were pushing for racial integration the biggest pushback didnt come from republicans it came from the dixiecrats a Splinter Group within their own party in 1968 George Wallace the democratic governor of alabama was so outraged to see anti racism become the dominant view within his own party that he ran as a 3rd Party Candidate then you ought to come on down to alabama we did keep you some low down there. But now it would seem that a democrat having such an agenda would be almost unbelievable in fact m s n b c mislabeled George Wallace as a republican check it out. Governor George Wallace stood outside the university of alabama personally blocking 2 black students from a drilling there. It is. Sure joe biden has come forward and apologized for his statements on racial matters but it seems like the country has forgotten that not so long ago his entire party had the same issue after the civil war as the Democratic Party that was the races. It was the Republican Party that was different the republicans were at the slavery lincoln was republican and 80 slavery it shanes the dixiecrat after segregation after the civil war they were the racists everything was a mess weve had president S Supreme Court justices who were members of that class and then some of them had to do that to join the ku klux klan for political reasons i dont understand why this now with biden this is an inside baseball inside the bubble issue. The president of ukraine says hes ready for dialogue with russia but people in his own administration seem to disagree stories coming up after the break. The problem that the Financial System cause from wall street throughout the rest of the world was so big that not just one central bank could make money cheap enough could create enough artificial money by itself and so the fed did collude did Work Together with the European Central bank with the bank of england with the peoples bank of china later that was kind of separate story with the bank of japan and so forth to create enough money to put into the Financial System to keep it safe for itself and ultimately what that did is a transferred all of that money into the banks into Financial Assets into burgeoning stock markets like like a ton of sort of crack into an attic up and up and i never took it away and that meant someone else was going to pay on the other side and the people to pay down the other side was everyone else and. Trying. To. Welcome back to the program with relations between kiev and moscow under enormous strain ukraines new president vladimir i dont ski has said he wants to hold a face to face meeting with Vladimir Putin but in an indication of just how fraught the situation is ukrainian authorities are accusing the countrys news one channel of treason over a proposed link up show with a russian state worldclass the which is banned in Ukraine Program which news one dropped after saying its journalists had received a barrage of threats was called we need to talk. Channels so the intention was to provide a platform for ordinary people from the countries to discuss the challenges facing ukraine and russia and the war in the east of the country as well its pointed out that a recent survey indicated 75 percent of ukrainians would support such talks the plans for the show though still outraged many including the president and on soften the deal in east the teleconference is just a cheap but dangerous p. R. Move before the elections the global reach is to divide us again into 2 camps. The shows announcement also triggered protests outside news ones h q with demonstrators setting off flares and chanting anti russians slogans russian t. V. Presenter who was supposed to be helping host the link up says the aim was to improve bilateral relations. That was say when i agreed to work on this teleconference i wanted to show what we had been reading listening watching worrying and during the 5 years when we didnt communicate with each other. Martin mccauley whos a historian and a russian expert suspects the authorities in kiev are anxious about ukraines upcoming parliamentary elections. It sounds very strange because treason is betraying your country and giving away secrets. From involving your country to another country which your country feels is to a disadvantage very difficult understand the word extreme word to use because this journalist was in fact trying to put forward and try to work on an exchange between moscow and here i think it has to do with the upcoming election is. Going to be a challenge to the president is very nervous because he was a majority in parliament. He may not get it therefore he wants to get as many votes as possible and it doesnt want an exchange if you have an exchange between moscow and kiev. In russian they may in fact influence the election because various questions will come up how do you see the situation. How do you see the situation. The British Government is challenging a Landmark Legal ruling suspending our new arms sales to saudi arabia a court found last month that ministers had failed to assess whether the weapons might be used to commit war crimes in yemen despite having promised to review the licensing process following the judgment london now seems eager to get its exports flowing once again the u. K. Has a license almost 5000000000 pounds worth of arms sales to the saudis since they launched their devastating intervention in yemen civil war back in 2015 that figure makes britain the 2nd largest weapons exports of the gulf monarchies of the United States with more on the story heres cape partridge. The u. K. s government is fighting the court of appeal ruling that arms sales to saudi arabia are norful in the latest challenge in the long running legal battle over weapons used in the yemen war ministers are trying to stay the judgement which means they could carry on licensing arms sales to the saudis and only. Outcome of its appeal last month the court said the u. K. Export licensing process was wrong in law in one significant respect the government made no concluded assessments on whether the Saudi Led Coalition had committed violations of International Community area law in the past during the yemen conflict and may not tempt to do so trade secretary liam fox was forced to hold an immediate review of almost 5000000000 pounds worth of weapons deals while this latest appeal seems to contradict foxs assurances to m. P. s that saudi arms sales would be halted handing a review as i said earlier we disagree with the judgment and will seek permission to appeal alongside this we are carefully considering the implications of the judgment for Decision Making while we do this we will not grant any new licenses for export to saudi arabia and its Coalition Partners which might be used in the conflict in yemen Opposition LeaderJeremy Corbyn says the latest efforts to halt the ruling ridicule the governments position that human rights take priority over profit despite clear legal warnings that the sale of arms to saudi arabia has contributed to the worst humanitarian catastrophe in the world the conservatives are determined to allow sales to carry on regardless this makes a mockery of their own commitment to hold all new sales while the review takes place into civilian casualties Human Rights Watch has documented the use of u. K. Made weapons in apparently are lawful airstrikes foreign secretary jeremy hunt says suspending british exports would diminish the u. K. s influence over the course of the conflict but the campaign against arms trade argues the sales have meant british bombs have been used to kill civilians what the government has applied for is a city which would mean that if it is granted that their arms exports can continue under the present under the present process and this is the same process which the court of appeal has phoned was illegal. Pins means that there will be more arms sales and that means for all the more trusses hes committed because for 4 years no u. K. Made fater jets u. K. Made bombs and u. K. Made missiles have played a devastating role in creating the worst humanitarian crisis in the world and yemen is no surprise the government is appealing this verdict because it will do everything it can to maximize arm seals. Because for decades and decades to stage a dictatorship has been the largest buyer in the world of u. K. Weapons the Saudi Led Coalition says it wasnt deliberately targeting civilians but thousands have been killed the United Nations says 3300000 yemenis are displaced and at least 2 thirds of the population need help in the long running lethal battle is no end in sight. Partridge. Thats all for now across folks coming your way next were back at the top of the hour with the latest global News Headlines see you then. Just. A little. Up. And you try and be professional you try and leave it outside the door you try and put in a come up compartmentalize its new bright and so you can forget about it but little by little these. These little whispers come and for me it was actually putting some ice into my wifes glass of gin and tonic and the saw it and the sound of ice cream to the glass reminded me of how we kept the bodies cool in bali which was with banks of supermarkets on its. Just up to your home with no one wants to put in your circles want to stick. It into the menu much for the privilege of a little extra minutes to get annoyed when their. Good. Looking white english lit up when you here already in the sims but never you know made it seem to trace. To be. That that plane. Hello and welcome the crossed off were all things are considered im Peter Lavelle why is it when you hear the word diversity its at the expense of unity then there is inclusion but only inclusion when you agree with a certain political thought and world view and of course we can forget about identity politics if you disagree then youre called a dog whistle how did we get here. Across the Political Correctness im joined by my guest joe concha in new jersey hes a media reporter for the hill in charlottesville we have David Swanson he is the executive director of world beyond war dot org and Campaign Coordinator for roots action dot org and in washington we cross to arvin for a he is a Libertarian Party president ial candidate as well as author of pull out men modern life and mutiny are gentlemen crosstalk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want and i always appreciate let me go to joe joe very broadly speaking speaking has Political Correctness just simply poisoned political discourse because what weve gotten down to is people only talking to people that agree with themselves and and what its done is it is its really completely corrupted and a kind of debate i debate people all the time with different political views and i learn something and i enjoy it but i dont see that happen its happening less and less where people of different views speak to each other because when they do their call they call the or interlocutor amoral. Or go to some historical reference a nazi or Something Like that they go very quick. To that point without really any kind of goodwill discussion then when youre talking to a person that disagrees with you go ahead joe yeah we call it safe spaces here and in this country and not just on College Campuses anymore it happens in the way people consume news as well they will watch certain channels or read certain publications that validate their own worldview without trying to to your point learn about anything else here a different perspective weve become more closed minded than ever before and to your point about Political Correctness as youre asking the question fortunately for computer right in front of me i googled it because i wanted to reference a poll that i read recently 52 percent of americans and clothing a majority of independents said they are against the country becoming more political politically correct and are upset that they are too there are too many things that people can say any more about a 3rd said theyre in favor of the country becoming more politically correct like to meet those folks and like you want to people are being more sensitive in their comments about others so yeah youre not youre not alone on this a majority of americans say were becoming a way to pull out of the correct and as a result the discourse is being muted and were not learning anything were simply just staying in our safe spaces as i mentioned and probably just getting more and more angry or even let me go to you i mean it seems to me instead of a substantive political debate its basically birches legally signaling if we go google we go back and look at the democratic the for the 1st 2 democratic debates thats all what it was ok i mean everybody was like the red guard everybody has to get lined up and agree and put up your hand and and if you look at a lot of the issues that were discussed during that to