Hello there you watching r. T. International where its just gone 11 pm here in moscow the u. S. President on the trump has responded to irans missile strike onto u. S. Military bases in iraq by valuing to impose new sanctions. As we continue to evaluate options in response to a rainy and aggression the United States will immediately impose additional punishing economic sanctions on the Iranian Regime these powerful saying shoes will remain until around changes its behavior. The Iranian Military strike 2 weeks trump responding there were carried out in revenge the assassination of terrans top general customs for the money was killed in a u. S. Drone strike last week. Is following trumps address. Its quite a different tone than weve heard from trump in the last few days folks will remember the tweet where he threatened to destroy not only sites in iran but also cultural historical sites as well as other infrastructure and such in iran if iran dared to respond so quite a different tone we heard from donald trump whats also quite interesting is he seems to talk about continuing the sanctions against iran didnt specify however that the usa intended any retaliatory strikes for irans recent move and he also brought up the issue of Irans Nuclear capacity and allegations of Irans Nuclear proliferation the Iran Nuclear Deal which didnt seem to be related to the current controversy lets take a listen as long as im president of the United States iran will never be allowed to have a nuclear weapon. Good morning the time has come for the United Kingdom germany france russia and china to recognize this reality. They must now break away from the remnants of the iran deal who are j c p a way trump emphasized his opposition to the j c. P. O. Way the nuclear deal and was calling for different parties around the world to withdraw from it he saw it as a bad deal but he also seemed to indicate that he would be open to some kind of new nuclear conclusion or Nuclear Negotiation regarding the Islamic Republic and its Nuclear Energy program furthermore trump didnt shy away from praising u. S. Military equipment and weapons and he spoke of them in rather glowing terms lets take a listen to that our missiles are big powerful accurate lethal and fast. Under construction or many hypersonic missiles the fact that we have this great military equipment however does not mean we have to use it we do not want to use it and now many observers have commented on trumps demeanor and how he seemed to be lacking a lot of the boldness and bluster for which is supporters like him for and have praised him for and its also noting interesting that trump mentioned that isis and the defeat of isis was a good thing for iran and left an opening for the usa and iran to cooperate against the i still terrorist so quite an interesting change in tone many people wondering if this will in fact lead to a further deescalation of events but at the moment things have been known to change rather quickly all eyes are still on iran and on washington to see what the next move will be with them from speech does come off to tensions in the middle east so would over the past week heres a quick look back at high things escalated. The former u. S. Congressman ron paul says that he does hope the transactions of land america in a real. Its not totally unlike trump you know to make a lot of noise in the air and i get people all excited and stir things up and then back off a bit because i think basically im hoping anyway that he doesnt enjoy killing people and perp right provoking wars but we still have our problems because he still has too many neo cons to run them try to aggravate things and make things work but i wish we could be reassured that peace has broken out because theres too many problems there and i just think that the solution is something i suggested before it started it is dont go in and since weve been in and i say come in iraqis ask us to leave and i think we should leave but as long as we have this monstrosity of an embassy and in. Iraq its just going to be provoking and you know people to attack us so i it claims that he went in there and killed killed the later because he wanted to stop a war and of course i would lean toward the fact acting like that is more likely to start a war which i would like to make sure that we dont get into a real hot war. When just hours after iran launched its missile strikes ukrainian passenger jet crashed killing all 176 people on board the moment cinta flames was captured on video. Ukrainian president vladimir selinski has cut short a visit to oman to return to kiev on his Facebook Page and express his condolences to the relatives of the victims people are mourning the dead and waiting for any further information about the disaster but the cause still to be established is what is known cipher. Of it well the right side of the airplane and one end of it were completely on fire and i think the pilot made a great effort not to which president ial howse its the plane crash landed in largely park and destroyed the fence of a football then it took off again and exploded and was completely incinerated after one you know the concrete i was watching the news the iranians hitting us bases with missiles on t. V. After 10 minutes i heard a massive explosion and all the houses started to shake there was fire everywhere at 1st i thought the american success truck here with missiles and i went into the basement to take cover after a while i went out and saw a plane had crashed over there body parts were lying around everywhere. I. Rushed just to see out of 167 passengers to our ukrainian cities. Its on the person jews are citizens of canada germany sweden and afghanistan. Since their support for my oldest son is the steward my daughter called me from the us she told me that ukrainian aircraft crash she asked where eagle fruit i stated to run and i sold a video of the plane crash. Now in turkey that im a putin and his turkish counterpart president have officially launched the stream natural gas pipeline project or supply the turkish and the markets with russian gas. I guess it is time to say happy new stream because the project has been a launch the official ceremony i was there for and i heard a massive round of applause and it was actually done by the leaders of 4 countries russia tarc he told gary and serbia and just how well things seem to be go and with the turkish frame which is going through the waters of the black sea i guess it is fair to say that its kind of a compensation for all the trouble with a different project which is called nord string 2. There was a thorny path now because of the latest round of american sanctions there was a pause and its construction but i can tell you that washington was keen to rail turkey stream as well however because of personal commitment by Vladimir Putin and thai period 2 on this commitment did show that when 2 major leaders team up to somehow oppose u. S. Pressure that could lead to real Success Stories and this is exactly what mr putin talked about during the Opening Ceremony because the relations between russia into the clear developing in practically sphere is just going to be a difficult situation in the world and efforts by some eggs National Players to prevent the expansion of mutually beneficial cooperation between our countries. Well let me just give you some of the specific details about the pipeline itself turkey stream consists of 2 lines one is intended for consumers in turkey the other one goes to Southern Europe it could be extended to as far as austria or italy but the 1st countries to receive russian nat. Well gas through turkish tree will be buggy area serbia and then like i said extensions are possible so the sea distance of that pipeline is some 900 kilometers and whats really important here and really impressive is the capacity because both the slides will be able to deliver more than 30000000000 cubic meters of natural gas again directly from the russian port city of a knob up to the shores of turkey and then further on to europe and to try and get that reporting from istanbul we did discuss the significance of the launch today with key plays and analysts already was initially starting from the late ninetys was to have diverse patient of troops not resources as your god. And Energy Supplies because its important for turkey as we are not just with you since so this is to extreme replace the western pipeline. It will pump more than we have received so far from the west by 5. U. S. Soldiers who say thats clear on various occasions that they were they were not happy about the establishment the 3rd stream or north to the americans would like also to sell their own gas and to for the for the energy that they have a huge capacity so far that. They would like to sell of a future from now this isnt the 1st time turkeys been threatened with sanctions by the United States as we know with the Russian Air Defense system that turkey purchased american threaten the turks with katzs sanctions but turkey went ahead with the deal and now its going to be operational in april according to the chairman of the turkish the bents industries show so the turks have showed that theyre willing to stick to their guns when it comes to matters of National Security it looks like the turks will go ahead with this despite anything but sanctions threats coming out of the United States energy. Security is an important part of the National Security portfolio and what this project gets 30 years of solitude given for the foreseeable future. Now the film awards season is in full swing but actors looking to bag britains highest moviegoing may find it hard this year if theyre not white thats after the British Academy of film and Television Arts was slammed for its picks with every single of its nominations going to whites performers bafta had admitted the lack of diversity but called on the industry to change i would like to see more diverse nominations and we will work harder in pushing new stream more but that shouldnt take away from those who were nominated this year but his nominations are joke not nominating a single woman for directing our best film no Antonio Banderas no look at the norcross phina. The with the most nominations yikes an all white slate of acting nominees in this of all years back after this is not good enough here we go again oh laura says in this the time for a sexist and racist nominations its not ok incidents its systematic. Ok well we can discuss this further than i with legal media analyst lionel political commentator milan saw who joined us i think we can go to the matter that they are i hope you can buy him a. Line lets start with the u. K. Is being slammed here for a lack of diversity in its nominations for film awards is it fair criticism. If that matters to you if instead of youre looking for whats the best film the best actor or actress the best plot the best the best anything if you go to see it or to see diversity then this is a homerun the problem is is that nobody thinks like this audiences dont think like this the only people who are talking about this are us right here we pretend that we care about this and the real problem is why didnt you go to the industry and why didnt you say to them why are new producing more films with more Diverse People and i guarantee you as soon as you have more women theres not going to be enough people of color and more transsexuals and krypto gendered and its this is this is this hash tag activism so if you want to go to theaters based upon the diversity of the people on the screen if thats if thats truly what you want not the quality of the film not the story but just the participants then you who are of the smallest minority of people because nobody really believes this they claim they do and also one more thing bafta wants to be in the same category as the Golden Globes because everybodys talking about the golden globe not because of Ricky Gervais bafta its got to make money being number 1. 00 because theres so many different awards shows that this is their latest entry maybe this will put them on the map its number. So ratings thats it ok numbers ratings people dont care. That was hysterical i was absolutely hysterical never have an argument so misconstrued in all my life. Cover things in context right above says the brother the oscars are members of that organization are 6000. 00 members youve got to pay about 500. 00 quid a year youve got to be an industry and the only thing is that those members were voting for films that lets say in a set period between johnny if every which is the post Christmas New Year period well you have massive corporations can afford to get. Movies in to see the miles and they kind of like hanging on in a hurry cause and star wars is another model movies its the new year and so you see people how many people those then people say its not 1000 will nominate things now they are. Certainly whiter richer less diverse then you find in society and after years and years and years when gene mooning about trying to get better levels of representation across the board argument on diversity in the Public Sector for government in the private sector of the sector for a couple decades now passed as long as a lot along with another number of other organizations have been trying to look at this and a couple years ago he put a new framework in place which said if you go to nobody in film its youve got to list how its for everybody diversity what the diverse storylines are you know youve got to really get into the detail in the guts of how you buy anything people in spite of that weve seen im sorry to politicize it follow it government become populist across europe and in the west and in american embryo and surprise surprise weve seen a total whitewash when the regulation said youve got to be tighter more diverse more explicit in how youre presenting protected minority groups they were 100 percent in the opposite direction to send a clear message we couldnt give a monkeys about what your values are going to. What we want we want to be a racist we will tell you point but just very briefly isnt the factor here is the lack of diversity in the Film Industry its not really the judges fault if there isnt the diversity there in the 1st place to choose from. John to look honestly we had so many great performances from a leading actress it is. Directors and producers of color women of color this year we. Had all the tests we not want to see a film is made in a balanced and fair way we see more diversity than ever before in face of increasing gauntlets and more diverse actresses Jennifer Lopez was amazing people there was so many great performances this year in the face of all of these Great Charities increasing push towards if you want. There was a great performance the last couple of years and in spite of this we have seen what was going absolutely no opposite direction and the question is why why why is that the case you think. Well i guess you want to have no affirmative action in movies is that what you want to do you want to for the 1st time you want to say i was thinking about this organization which is right now this horrific this sounds great for i dont know corporate institutions or by j. K. Said can you tell us to win the a lympics nass next you know i havent noticed anybody we dont have enough for example certain. Alaskans winning marathons or something well they cant do anything with the fact that maybe there are a lot of good films period and maybe Jennifer Lopez stunk may be a lot of other reasons and maybe there are factors let me just tell you something if if if studios making money exists lined up where we might want to buy not the right. 1st race is what it is studios if studios. And studios made money having nothing but diverse women or whatever what they would do it believe me theyre not going to do something just because of some ulterior motive so if you want to have if you want to have a really bad number of people who are in the basic story or different category not known as a line of thought i just smile i youre going to destroy. My letter lets if you have a 6 and a half 1000 members. I was just going to say. You had not encouraging more people from different ethnic backgrounds to get into the Film Industry i mean whats preventing them to do that or in your opinion is there already diversity there and they are deliberately being able to. Look like this we have to clear on this out of the last 10 years weve seen a change a shift a rebalancing in society towards out of interest which i find incredibly scary and very very ugly and even the people in the Mainstream Media channels are not prepared to call the stuff out only do i always have done under somebodys cost the fact is this if you start applying 60000. 00 pounds to about cost of a degree youre going to alienate some parts of the society that will get through if you if you if you smoke much more difficult to keep hold sustained maintain a job even of citizenship status if they want to if you background if most things and 8 times more likely to run in florida if 80 percent of them are on a below the poverty line and u. K. If you have these ball you are spreading across europe and then you say what you got making brilliant films that thats kind of insulting but at the same time if we dont exclude them out of the industry measure the films that they are not being able to get in to see the miles on it and then we make sure we have a well being white racist prejudiced audience who are then meant to be voting for these interests they want back to winners who have been racist and abusive to me on social media over the years i mean theres one who is a thing is a product as you have jimmy saudis are about i mean there are no checks and balances so fitness and prophetess of these people and if were asking them to start on who is itself to hold up and who is diverse and bases in the face of increasing diversity increasing regulations on making sure we all represented its a disgrace its a scandal ok law no. Regular you want to have youre going to have diversity regulations in art and im still using already things nobody is a really see as yes we did all we did all out who dont have simple and excellence excellence means that. People like ideas out where we put rules in place i let alone to continue let me go you started lining up myself. If you want to if you want to destroy whatevers left of this industry and you know and i know its Going International and by the way does this mean the story audiences or were not even going to get there but if you want to kill this by applying this affirmative action lets do this quote of. Those ari not enough if you want to kill it seriously if youre a snowflake i know youre a snob and your diet is low and your views will pause with you. I know i know i know and let me tell you something if you dared to try to get on any board any place and you tried to revive an industry with this claptrap with this drivel with this pollyannish saccharin nonsense its over hash tag activism me to this its great for certain things but the Film Industry excellence or art you want to do this you want to know this i know i know that she was for years blah blah. Blah no question but i want to bring up a before we have to go. To start here about gender discrimination women was shown on screen the before the sheer but women the 3 times more likely to appear and you need to see the men. One step forward and 2 steps back do you think. Wait a minute are you saying they are willing to or they happen do or they are forced or thrust into the nude scenes listen i think to do this but it and i dont mean this in any way please dont take this the wrong way but do you have any idea of how insane this conversation is that were having not you mind you but just the idea of taking governmental. Regulations quote his. Heterogeneity diversity and applying it to movies and films i mean do you have people right now are going to want watching this angle laughing hysterically at what were even probably. Why i look this listen listen i want to sponsor this coverage live longer you. Let me have my talk and so you have to listen im this is your life and its really look you im standing for days always i could say i miss you all day long but lets be quite clear the world in which my kids and hopefully their kids were going to have a few tough challenges and some bumps in the road on the way hes going to want to be increasing diversity increasing pluralism and secularism and these arguments about i dont want to. Start the well let me off its not going to happen ok were going to have increasing diversity again more basic needs more muslims more immigrants more much everything sex you want to see him shiny and better phones and better no no to me i dont know whether you want your you know. This is going to happen i do you get used to the idea of more diversity what you can tolerate and how was it not how are you i dont know you and i dont i dont like not you go its all time but youve got a room and i say im going to have to say goodbye to try to break down the concrete walls ok then i was changing except if i were going to have to say goodnight same. Time saving that was my once our political commentator and legal and media and this line of thank you. So thats the new so far here and i think were back again at the top and. It is physics physics is nothing but the harmony something. Vibrating strings that is chemistry chemistry is the melody the melodies you can play on strings it is the universe the universe is a symphony of strings. Hello and welcome to cross talk were all Things Considered im Peter Lavelle the Economic System known as competent as in has generated more wealth than any other system in history in many ways that is defined maternity itself hundreds of millions have been lifted out of poverty however competent lism has also witnessed growing income inequality the appeal of socialism currently on the rise in capitalism work for all. Across talking capitalism im joined by my guest Geoffrey Tucker in new york he is editorial director for the American Institute for Economic Research in los angeles we have piii and he is an independent economic and geo political analyst former commodities trader and Strategic Planning advisor and in indianapolis we Cross Alexandra hudson she is an independent scholar writer consultant and speaker right cross type rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want and i always appreciate its go to pi 1st because i one of my rules on this program we always go to the person that got up early is that you got up really early for this program and im very much appreciated by you know theres a lot of talk about how capitalism is. Performing and for home and we look at the generation x. We look at the middle millennial as we see the attraction of socialism in the polls so my question is very broad and its a very deep question at the same time as it is capitalism working if it is for whom go ahead. Well its a great question you know kind of response question is whether capitalism who is capitalism i mean its 201920 years ago we had the strongest economy known to man with you know Everything Technology in the promises of the internet and efficiency the lowest real rate of unemployment back then versus real