We breathe easy to pass the sites we did during testing the amount of pesticides we found was alarmingly high. And a group of military experts is pushing the pentagon to come clean over the number of u. S. Bases overseas they claim the current figures of big hugely understate. We are surprised sometimes when young men and women are killed in places that no one even knew that we had a military installation there. Thanks so much for joining us youre watching on t. V. Internationals 1 am here in moscow. How i represented one of the democratic president ial hopeful says failed to qualify for the next round of televised debates that she was the most searched for candidates on google following the 2nd debate in late july but this time around the Democratic NationalCommittee Says that she didnt hit the threshold required something that just called into question. The whole process really lacks transparency. People deserve having that transparency because ultimately its the people who will decide who our democratic nominee will be an ultimate lee who our next president commander in chief will be and when you see that lack of transparency it creates you know a lack of faith and trust in the process its Primetime Television if you want to be anybody in the Democratic Party you better make sure you get on the stage at the president ial debates so what do you need to do to make it 2 things 1st to get over 130000 unique donations to get at least 2 percent in a National Poll but heres where it gets tricky not every poll is the same and if the Democratic National committee doesnt like you they can reject the poll results that show things in your favor now tulsa gabbert has met the donations threshold hes got over 2 percent 126 different National Polls however the Democratic NationalCommittee Says that doesnt count they have their certified list sure its important of that information its being provided but lets take a quick look at some of the polls that were rejected politico the economist reuters if these widely respected outlets and News Agencies arent credible in america then who is polling in the United States there is a club. A network of Close Associates and friends and they frown upon those polls that are either new or are now members of the club or the association so i would certainly speculate that has something to do with that it is a partisan organization the Democratic National committee so any poll say that may have a tradition of leaning republican or not considered to be in the mainstream of democratic artists and ship you know would be would be ruled out even the polls deemed credible. The Democratic Party have a margin of error of between 2 and 6 percent and when the criteria for being in the debates is only 2 percent a margin of error like that is a pretty big deal so tulsa gabbert could have between 0 and 7 percent support among American Voters now keep in mind there are over 200000000 people who are registered to vote in the United States of america so whats the difference between 0 and 14000000. 00 well whatever it is it is apparently not important to the Democratic National committee there is a margin of sampling error so if the margin of error is plus or minus 4 percent what is 2 percent in the polls if if its 1. 51 percent that the candidate has then does get rounded up to 2 percent whereas the 1. 44 percent which is meaningless one could argue the Democratic National committee is a private organization we can establish our own rules but then they also have to be open to the charges by somebody else again by who says this doesnt smell like its fair and frankly i agree with their i dont think its mills atmosphere and the d. N. C. Doesnt exactly have a reputation for impartiality and fairness leaked emails in 2016 show that the Democratic Party leaders were working pretty hard to defeat Bernie Sanders and make sure that it was Hillary Clinton who ultimately took on donald trump now after the outrage in 2016 the new Democratic Party chair tom perez promised to empower grassroots activists i am more committed than ever before to restoring votes is faith in the democratic process because even the perception of impartiality when unfair advantage undermines our ability to win that is unacceptable to that end the new d. N. C. Under my leadership is committed to the tosk of making sure that all 2020 nominating process will be unquestionably fair and. Transparence so as the list of candidates gets whittled down to one final nominee voters will have to decide as to whether mr pereiras is living up to his promise. R. T. New york. Meanwhile another democratic 2020 president ial hopeful Bernie Sanders is coming for making a remark about china the u. S. Centers of praise beijings efforts to reduce poverty and number 2 condemnation from politicians and the media alike. Explains its the strangest thing there is Bernie Sanders one of the leading Democratic Candidates for the nomination and that is the blue goo is it does something that new god fearing american should ever do said something almost complimentary about china. Is a country that is moving unfortunately going to war with north korea and where you have the directions but what we have to say about china in fairness to china and its leadership is of im not mistaken they have made more progress in addressing the extreme poverty. Than any country in the history of civilization bad bernie good thing there are patriotic journalists free media and honest politicians to remind me that its not nice to say nice things about china it was seen as bernie basically praising the Chinese Communist party you know which is probably killed more than any other regime on earth do you think this will be a problem for him going into the general election i think. As we think than it was a wild way to answer that question well the chinese socialists killed millions of poor people so theres that dead people are poor just dead they call that the great leap forward and after that they used a tool that bernie despises capitalism i wish there was a visual metaphor for bernies argument. Just have to keep watching i dont know why just to bring everyone up to speed what bernie meant is near enough 40 years ago about 9 out of every 10 people in china lived in poverty 9 out of 10 to date 2019 its one in 100 people one person in every 100 thats below the poverty line is that astounding yes that is great news for a 1000000000 people yeah but its china if we lived in a fair world that send them a congratulation note and flowers dont china does something bad to raise hell about it does something good very well ignore it or in russia dont forget brought here if they want to join us are knocking out isis that is just fine as far as im concerned Work Together to beat a monstrous group thats killed untold thousands and so on terror worldwide Work Together not a few are god fearing american donald trump believes that russia is our great ally against isis in syria but what russia is doing in syria is setting up missiles that only shoot down planes which isis does not have i think its incredibly naive to think that Vladimir Putin would do anything in the u. S. Press interest and then you may run among us president s forgetting things like when jimmy carter praised yes praised hugo chavez well no you didnt really praise him but just to clue we came to know a man who expressed a vision to bring profound changes to his country to benefit is specially those people who had felt neglected and marginalized and once again. The free media and patriots had to remind mr carter that chavez is bad and venezuela together with china and russia iran maybe turkey a little north korea definitely geez bernie better grab a pen them and more baddies and even if they do what america does you cant compare the 2 because you actually cant compare them its entirely possible and even reasonable but because just dont as trump found out when asked by a journalist about president Vladimir Putin being a killer a lot of killers go to kill is what you think our country so innocent rowland well its technically right but its not what america wants to hear one patriotic american put it and no i dont think theres any equivalent i do think america is exceptional america is different theres a clear distinction here and when youre exceptional you dont have to make sense youre just special you do bernie and be quite so nice here. For this mare is lost his fight to protect the people in his village from past the size of though he himself banned the use of court then overruled him hes now appealing that decision but his case is inspired other matters across france to take similar action dubin ski has more. This tiny Breton Village of long go it has found itself at the center of controversy in the battle over the pesticides in may the local mag to court some saw as being a Bold Decision to ban the use of pesticides within 150. 00 metre cordon over the village farming unions were furious and the matter ended up in court now that daniel coeff had his ban overturned but the debacle is now shining a light on the deep political contradictions so rounding pesticides in france well president might call and praised his intentions for tackling phosphates a burning issue over Health Concerns he said the solution was not to issue a decree that doesnt comply with the law so macko if thats a double standard. I dont understand what is happening in my craw and the ecology minister said that i am right and doing a good thing to protect my people but in the meantime im facing court for a decision to keep pesticides at a distance of 150 metres i dont understand politics now it seems the decision by the court to take his ban all pesticides was illegal has also earned good residence in this usually sleepy village. Shown to children with. Lots of fields around long where and its Important Health matter for us especially for children we breathe the in the pesticides we did your intestine the amount of best the science we found was alarmingly high even though we eat organic and we grow some of our own food that is also organic. I think the government isnt doing its job and theyre the 1st to say that there should be no past decides they did nothing and it was in the genes or q porsches we were in a small village that is close to a farming area we need to protect people too we never know what kind of Health Issues could be created by pay. So i think the decision by the mayor was intelligent and he needed to make a decision to protect the people but now he has difficulties with the Justice System the World Health Organization has said gleich phosphate often used to weed killer probably causes cancer while gov phosphate has hit the headlines over Health Concerns much corn had promised to ban the use of phosphate by 2021 that provoked an outcry by farmers in unions who said they needed an alternative mark and then pushed the ban back to the following year when the current license will expire now across france the ban imposed by mcewan has gained traction he may have lost the 1st battle in court but now are around 20 other matters have followed his lead banning the use of pesticides close to homes of farmers on the juris cry these bans as being politically motivated saying they are getting on the environmental bandwagon ahead of my own elections. Mirs are already thinking of the next election environmentalists are wreaking havoc on our agriculture in our only factories floundering unless these mayors are outstanding scientists they are taking advantage of peoples fear to make this kind of decision which is good for their images protectors of the environment and the population but it seems the government has been backed into a corner there must be a minimum distance between residential areas and pesticides brain i will advise in the coming days forming unions and the companies that produce pesticides are sure to have something to say about that but so too does make us who believe that these things all the only way to protect people who live in their farms which use pesticides otherwise he says their health is screwed so all it even ski for artie lange go it in pretty. Little time has announced plans to slash by half the number of u. S. Troops positioned in afghanistan with further withdrawals dependent on the outcome of peace talks with the taliban we are going down to 8600 and then we make a determination from there as to what happens well make a determination but were going down to 8600 were bringing it down we have a very well controlled. After nearly 18 years of war there are currently around 14000. 00 u. S. Troops in afghanistan even if half an hour pulled out its still unclear when the u. S. Would fully withdraw their remains vague just how the situation will change in the region back in 2 of the 17 though are 8400 soldiers stationed in afghanistan and that number has since almost doubled and that despite longstanding plans to withdraw all troops from the country. Starting next month we will be able to remove 10000. 00 of our troops from afghanistan by the end of this year and we will bring home a total of 33000. 00 troops by next summer fully were covering the surge i announced at west point after this initial reduction our troops will continue coming home at a steady pace by 2014 this process of transition will be complete in the Afghan People will be responsible for their own security at least expert at risk thinks that the complete withdrawal of u. S. Troops from afghanistan cannot be expected any time soon trump is being subject to some significant pressures within america pressures from the deep state there are close allies to trump in the Republican Party who have voiced the objection to any complete withdraw i refer here to Lindsey Graham of the well known republican senator who was also closely allied with trumpet Lindsey Graham has been very vocal in saying that deal with sources should not completely withdraw in fact he had an article in New York Times with the former a year where survives chief of staff jack keane in that article graham and mccain said that the withdrawal shouldnt be a withdrawal which is all which meets the conditions of the taliban and shouldnt be there for a. Process which only satisfy the demands of the taliban but should satisfy the demands of america or meet the american conditions so we do have these well known figures within the United States who have clearly object to a complete withdrawal have been very vocal in that and it appears that bold trump has succumbed to those pressures. A group of military experts is calling on the u. S. Congress to reveal just how many military bases the country has. More on that story after the break. Join me every thursday on the alex simon sure and ill be speaking to us from the world of politics sports business im show business ill see you then. Post g. 7 what is the lay of the land calls for unity demonstrate the opposite also iran is again in the spotlight just what is trumps Foreign Policy in this volatile. Global insurrection against banker occupation we started that really before occupy wall street before the revolution in cairo before obviously this all in france or the protests and theyre all connected all these protests are connected theyre all connected to a rebellion against the out money and banks theyre all global and treasury and banker occupation. Welcome back group of military experts is calling on congress to force the disclosure of the number of u. S. Bases overseas now in the letter they describe the information currently provided by the pentagon as being limited and frequently incomplete. The pentagons annual a base Structure Report provides some information about the number and size of base sites overseas however it fails to report on dozens of well known installations in Countries Worldwide and frequently provides incomplete or inaccurate data many suspect the pentagon does not know the true number of installations abroad earlier on my colleague Jacqueline Vega spoke with the retired u. S. Army colonel and signatory of the letter and write she thinks that u. S. Citizens should know where the military is. They received this letter requiring asking the pentagon to be more transparent about its u. S. Overseas bases why did you choose to sign that leathered well im a u. S. Army colonel i spent 29 years in the us military and i think its very important that american citizens know how many bases we have where they are and how much it costs to run them most americans dont realize we have over 800 bases now and that we have new bases that are being established particularly in africa do you think that this is a problem thats specific to the u. S. Do you think other countries are more transparent about the amount of bases they have well there are very few countries have bases outside their own countries i mean the u. K. Has the french have some russia has a few mini china has a few not many but its primarily the United States overwhelmingly has the overseas bases or bases in other peoples countries in that letter it says that there are some 800. 00 installation throughout the world and those roughly cost u. S. Taxpayers about 20000000000. 00 per year but do youre implying in this letter that thats not an accurate number how much bigger do you think is the actual amount of money that is used from u. S. Taxpayers well we think it may be double that up to 15000000000. 00 that are being spent by the u. S. Government to. Equip train have military operations for. Men and women in our military and also department of defense affiliates that are assigned to these bases you know we have large numbers of bases still in germany and japan and south korea but most people dont realize that we now have some in Eastern Europe right on the border of russia and in fact the military exercises that the United States has been having both in Eastern Europe and in scandinavia is one of the concerns that we who signed that letter. Half do you think that disclosing such information as the number of military entities abroad will enhance u. S. National security or it could it be a risk is that why its not necessarily about transparent well thats probably what the pentagon will be saying but we would say as citizens we need to know where our military we are surprised some times when no young men and women are killed in places and no one even knew that we had a military installation there. And Officials Say theres some 800 u. S. Installations are located in up to 80 countries around the world for the sick duties of the lets say the number could be hugely understated they insist a special report should be included in the 2020 National Defense authorization act its meant to increase transparency and to avoid Excessive Military expenditure. I spoke to investigative journalist David Swanson who thinks its normal for taxpayers to want to know where the moneys going the u. S. Does something very strange because it both brags about its reach and its extent of its dominance of the world and tries to hide it and cover it up as so if you watch a sports event on t. V. In the United States they thank the troops for watching for 175. 00 countries and theres lots of celebration of that but if you ask in washington d. C. Exactly where are the bases and what are they costing and what purpose therefore its very hard to get answers this is not a radical claim of proposal that the u. S. Public ought to know where its for what and how much its a you know what the purpose of those things is if youre going to wage all these wars and extend all these bases in the name of democracy why not have a little bit of democracy around the issue. Your watching International Thanks for staying with this is saving updates on the top stories coming your way in just over half an hour. You know world of big partisan movie lot and conspiracy its time to wade to dig deeper to hit the stories that Mainstream Media refuses to tell more than ever we need to be smarter we need to stop slamming the door of the bathroom and shouting past each other its time for Critical Thinking its time to fight for the middle for the truth the time is now for washing clothes for watching the hawks. 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