The rhetoric is much more aggressive much more ricin for us the agenda is much more pernicious and its become a centerpiece of u. S. Partisan politics the whole russia gate issue. Also announced he had signed an executive order to keep the Guantanamo BayDetention Center open and that is despite get more becoming a tourist for various human rights abuses including torture trumps the predecessor barack obama vowed to disclose the facility back in two thousand and nine but never delivered on that promise. In the past we have foolishly released hundreds and hundreds of dangerous. Only to meet again on the battlefield including the isis leader. Who we captured who we had who we released. So today im keeping another promise i just shot. Prior to walking in an order directing secretary to reexamine our military detention policy and to keep open the detention facilities in Guantanamo Bay i thank you when i came into power he said not only that he believes torture works hes going to fill guantanamo the only reason why i can say this is because theres no precedent for people being prosecuted for war crimes and i think its important that this would praise the said the war crimes carried out in kuantan a move by graham and all the other detention for the cities by the americans in fact recently now for the first time i think in recent history the i. C. C. The International Criminal court is finally investigating some of the abuses that the americans carried out in afghanistan and perhaps later in kuantan them and its an unprecedented move so to be saying that at a time when this investigation is taking place that im going to keep want on a more open is an affront to the very notion of justice. Donald trumps a speech to congress contained rhetoric about was uncannily reminiscent of that of a previous president george w. Bush or his killer martin as more. Trump is working very hard to convince us that hes not a bush era neo con war hawk republican obviously the war in iraq was a big fat mistake they lied ok they said there were weapons of mass destruction there was none and they knew there were none there were no weapons of mass ok. When it comes to north korea his state of the union speech sounded an awful lot like the leader he had previously denounced no regime has oppressed its own citizens or totally than the cruel dictatorship in north korea this is a regime that has already used poison gas to murder thousands of its own citizens north koreas reckless pursuit of Nuclear Missiles seeking weapons of mass destruction. These regimes pose a grave and growing danger i will not repeat the mistakes of past administration will not stand by as peril draws closer and closer were going to read some key phrases to new yorkers and ask them was it bush or was it trump we need to look at the deprived character of the regime to understand the nature of the Nuclear Threat it could pose to america and our allies. Actually trump talking about north korea. Right ill go bush. Trump right thats trump trusting in the sanity and restraint of this world leader is not a strategy and it is not an option trump its actually bush somebody talking about. Bush also yeah. Bush actually trump said that he wanted to stop toppling regimes and start putting America First but with words like these a lot of americans have to be asking themselves are we headed for yet another big fat mistake this time with nukes involved tale of mop and artsy new york. The russian Hacking Group fancy bears is claiming the Canadian Olympic Committee covered up a positive doping test of its National Ball ball champion prior to the rio olympics earlier my colleague nicky aaron discussed the details with arties in the interim. Well it looks like an raising email exchange supposedly between the people from the Canadian Olympic Committee and also their National Body that is responsible for sports ethics some pretty disappointing tactics in there it looked like attempts to play down an antidoping rule violation and some quirky damage control around the summer olympics in rio and here is the athlete at the center of this what can you tell us about him well its all of the case of the former pole vault champion from canada his name is shawn barber prior to rio he had tested positive for cocaine but instead of being thrown out of the olympics after several and terminal Disciplinary Proceedings with that in canada he was allowed to go and moreover this case was hidden from the international Olympic Committee for a while the see you see he was not permitted to disclose sean sue wish and prior to or during the games we do not condone this behavior sean has apologized for his mistake and poor judgment. Now for a moment just bear in mind all the treatment that the russian olympic athletes have been getting and listen to how shawn barber was cleared basically what he did was claimed at the hearings that he had inhaled or ingested the cocaine during a sexual intercourse with someone he called a professional woman she found him allegedly on a craigslist ad and the cocaine was transferred when a kiss happened so canadian officials were happy to let him go and keep the i. O. C. In the dark about this by the way just for your information the pole vaulter came out as gay a few months after the olympics and said that he was proud of it very interesting i presume the i. O. C. Has taken a saloon very seriously well i can tell you it was too late to take this seriously they couldnt do anything about that when they found out but apparently some people at the i. O. C. Werent so happy with the situation president thomas bought allegedly the called the ruling a decision that was influenced by National Interests but in the meantime if we go back to the emails some top canadian sports officials appear to have been trying to do everything to make sure that this case doesnt get any further attention and clued ng legal attention and if you look at the wording it suggests that anyone whos concerned or anyone whos just even trying to ask questions about this is doing something terribly wrong it does not seem right that this is being suggested publicly would have found an independent bruces determine the athlete was a new fools in this case. And the i. O. C. Had the right to appeal the decision of the time and none of them did well this is a point where i once again want to mention all the russian olympic fans well everyone has their own understanding of the words double standards. We discussed the issue with a professor of sociology at Aston UniversityEllis Cashmore he believes there is a double standard at work given that russias athletes were banned even without testing positive for doping what is novel of course is this apparent relaxation of the warders rule of strict liability warders premise with all its other kind of rules regarding drugs is that the individual athlete is soley responsible for his or her own bodies if youre in a bar and somebody spiked shore drink your responsible for it even if youd left your drink on guarded while you went to the toilet or Something Like that or turned your back you or the perpetrator of the crime russian athletes have been banned from competing even without giving any kind of positive dont test at all being guilty by association so there is this kind of striking difference between the treatment that russian athletes are being given and those that have been afforded to north american athletes with the olympics looming only one hundred sixty nine russians will be invited to compete out of almost five hundred initially put on the list russian president Vladimir Putin has apologized to the athletes saying that the country failed to protect them but you know better than anyone else how hard it is to gain victories and how much effort you need and its two times harder when you score it is mixed with events unfamiliar to sport politics we apologize for not managing to protect you from that party spoke exclusively to a number of russian athletes who heard from the president. So youre going to theres a certain amount of pressure on all of us of course its quite a complicated situation i really want to do my best one to overcome my anxiety and distance myself from all the sturdy media is causing around us now i want to address our fans i want them to be more kind and to keep supporting us no matter what i need to forget about our desire to win forget that everyone is against us and just continue doing our job. Within ourselves we know what country were present it matters what we feel not what we wear just really look we have hard feelings for those who werent allowed to participate even though they were innocent and maybe were still a bit angry about. Us afghan as afghan and u. S. Forces have increased in their attacks against militant strongholds in afghanistan civilians are finding themselves caught in the crossfire in their own homes. Islamic state militants came here the government then dropped off a leaflet to warn us so we fled our village then the americans were martyred and destroyed these houses we demand the government help us. The three villages who were killed did not belong to i saw all the taliban they were in their houses during the bombardment a man a woman and their son were killed in that incident. We were on our way villagers said the u. S. Forces were coming here then we continue our trip tour its a Central District during this time they bombed us there were eleven of us and vehicle on the i survived theater ten people including my appearance in cousin were all killed the latest is to to take from the u. S. Air force makes the situation abundantly clear during the last year the United States docked more than four thousand bombs on afghanistan and since august the u. S. Has carried out twice as many airstrikes as in the previous two years combined American Military forces insist they take every precaution to avoid civilian casualties Robert Naiman policy director at just Foreign Policy joined us earlier with his analysis. Theres no way to do this kind of bombing without producing civilian casualties the main problem is the escalation the fact that the trumpet ministration has no political diplomatic strategy to end the war just more violence its been sixteen years the trauma administration has decided by administrations before it to continue kicking the can down the road the thing that needs to change nobody wants a no us politician certainly not the president its one of the last one before want to take responsibility for the past the implications of acknowledging that the u. S. That taliban cannot be defeated militarily therefore there has to be a political diplomatic solution the status quo is guaranteed to produce more on a serious civilian deaths accomplishing absolutely nothing. Israeli legal activists have filed a lawsuit against two New Zealanders one of them is jewish that is because apparently influenced the pop star lord to cancel a plan to get in tel aviv. Late last year the new zealand pop star law would announce that she was canceling a performance that she was scheduled to have given here in tel aviv in june of this year now it seems as if her announcement was made following an open publication of acorn by two New Zealanders urging her to boycott the country lord posted her response on her twitter feed noted been speaking with many people about this and considering our options thank you for advocating me i am learning all the time to now is really activists are suing those two New Zealanders in what appears to be the first lawsuit filed under it controversial israeli anti boycott law the law goes back to two thousand and eleven and it could open the door to civil lawsuits against those calling for a boycott of his role including of lands its occupied if it can be proven that that call knowingly a lid to a boycott now the noise part of the israeli governments way to try and deal with the boycott sanctions and disinvestment movement there has been growing traction against israel in recent years it does allow the courts to impose damages against defendants now critics of the law of course argue that it stifles freedom of speech and freedom of expression. After much anticipation from football firms the english club leeds united unveiled its new badge only to receive floods of criticism quite quickly give them and is now living supporters trues a different design made public world. By the dozen for mail be back in about thirty four minutes with a full look at your headlines youre watching are to international students. I want to show people in russia that there is a knob there a point of view of this is the goal of my complaint i know you cant win on the elections where only point it always wins for there is no thought of talking what would be if i would win i will. Never win on the elections like. Where covering a week. They were going on the ground as top e. U. Officials hosts an extraordinary session in brussels to discuss Donald Trumps plans to got aid for vital u. N. Programs in palestine coming up in a show thats tourism a arrives in beijing today tory groan the u. K. Lord select Committee Member board flight welcomes the government getting off its backside to forge a new post for exit opportunities in the communist peoples republic and what is the u. K. s role in this months massive civilian death toll in afghanistan we speak to form a new political advisor in afghanistan words about the catastrophic legacy of decades of anglo u. S. War there plus in the headlines if you want to find a secret u. S. Military base just follow the dog and the man from the feds whos run out of time although some are coming out today is going underground but first who are the black cats and who are the white hats the u. S. And u. K. Intelligence agencies and governments want us to be against and for thousands have been killed in the conflict between british baqir forces and those living in donetsk in the hands following the nato backed coup detat in ukraine in twenty fourteen and just hours before the pope appealed for peace in the Eastern Ukraine there has been renewed fighting in recent days one journalist who has tried to illuminate the real foundations of nato powers defacto backing fascism in europes largest country is bob kerrey he died on saturday after a series of strokes and the founder of Consortium News was always clear about ukraine. In being one of the front lines of what new i am chomsky calls the manufacture off consent ive been to a journalist in the city since one nine hundred seventy seven. I worked for the social depress the newsweek and public broadcastings front line as well as starting Consortium News dot com and as an investigative website. And i have to say that in all these years i cant think of a time when there has been a group thing as single minded as the one weve seen over the past year or so in the ukraine crisis when accepting the i. M. F. Stone medal for journalism at Harvard Perry was clear that after the pentagon papers and watergate successive u. S. Administrations devised a strategy to combat socalled vietnam syndrome using black hatted villains to cajole a war weary us public and so wars would kill maim or displace millions across the middle east let alone us backed contra death squads attempts in the karada to exterminate the sandinistas black hats and white hats much of these same techniques used to create the black billons continues to the present everybody is how we treat everybody now saying was good were seeing it with the saw it was you who we see it over and over and over again where there are people saying well yeah there are real problems of the part. There it is the whacked out turned out it was much easier for blacked out some people white because why that sort of easy. Part is for instance these guys arent white. But it was easier to even artists and nice. Than it was to me pointers and angels in the manichean world given to us by elite media some stories are decontextualized for instance this ones my. Slaughter in afghanistan catalyzed of a decades by nature of nations and their backing for islamism the mojahedin white hats would you dont we become blackouts when morphed into al qaeda after nine eleven today on the last day of january twenty eight hundred the black hats communists of china will become white hats because u. K. Minority government needed to resume its flying there to find out more on why shes going to beijing im joined now by britains former tory shadow paymaster general lord flight lord flight welcome back to why is it taken Prime Minister to raise a may so long since the referendum to actually visit china and Start Talking about trade when i put it the other way around and id say that brics it has stimulated her. To actually get on their bikes go out there meet the people and get some trade giving. Briefly the superpower of the century i think shes had quite a lot on her plate as you will obviously be aware but i think the key point is that brics it is a sort of huge stimulant to the city and other parts of the british economy to actually get out there and see what business they can do what we dont obviously gossip like other programs like individuals particularly you have already written about something pretty concrete suggestions are going for china style or short term reasons visa free transit why are we not hearing this from the front bench but help. Them actually rather agree i think is simply crackpot we we havent put it into practice you just as lonely figure in the lets talk about china can do it we can do it all i would say im constructive in the. Hope that my having raised it will get it done is it because they just dont understand how business is done i think that theyve got lots of things on their minds you said what about Hong Kong Style new visa require