African nation as reasons behind the. United nations says its gracing for a further exodus of range of muslim refugees from already over half a million have arrived in bangladesh in the. Next week features on the drugs for in the philippines donald trump. How does the Philippine Government justify its controversial drug war which has left thousands dead almost a countrys foreign minister and later ill speak with two Mental Health experts who say donald trump is psychologically unfit for office and the danger to the world. Alan Peter Katonah thanks for joining me up front is your countrys Foreign Policy on north korea to isolate the hermit kingdom economically and to abides by u. N. Resolutions over its Nuclear Program because on the one hand you have joined a fair few other countries imposing trade sanctions on north korea on the other youve actually increased imports from exports to the d. P. R. K. This year when president that theyre to came into power part of his program is really peace internally with our muslim brothers in the south with the communists and in our region you know so from. Having a dialogue with china to getting closer to the sea and that was our objective so when the north korean started the testing of the missiles president that there was more prepared you know to play a peacemaker role but the problem is not only with the philippines but with the c. N. N. Individual states north korea keeps telling us that the we are our friends they are our friends and they have warm relationships but they dont give an opening to talk of how to stop the Nuclear Weapons program there you know so what happened is that when the Security Council did in fact. Passed its resolution before that a c. And that by the philippines as chairman a very strong resolution and we have i have communicated to our trade. Minister. So we are actually going to start do you know what ari that trade sanctions economically strangulate your isolating north korea could lead to an economic collapse in north korea and a regional humanitarian and refugee crisis thats what worries the chinese it doesnt worry the philippines. Ordinarily in a different case it would concern us and wed be more discerning how it affects their people but when you have the north Korean Leader claiming to have missiles that would reach higher reaches and youd have his hand on the trigger then you have the United States saying were watching you and ready to to do anything including your destruction you know theres no room for comfort theres no room to doubt whether or not i hope north korea does not have the Nuclear Weapons but we cant assume that are you more worried about president trumps finger on the bomb. Finger on the boat because both of them have said some pretty fiery controversial things in recent weeks more worried about what the difference is the president has an accountability to the u. S. Institutions u. S. Congress and the rest of the world far as news he doesnt hear nukes in the space of a few minutes without checking with anyone he can but if north korea also has nukes then no one will win lets talk about the most controversial aspect of your governments record in office so far at least in the eyes of the International Communities president due to the socalled drug war between three four five six seven thousand dead depending on which figures which study you look at including many innocent children Senior Police officers admitting to executing suspects planting evidence at crime scenes is it any wonder that the Catholic Church in your country has described your governments drug war as quote a reign of terror. If you wont believe the filipinos and wont believe philippine surveys lets believe american surveys that p. T. W. The pew they just came out at the survey that Seventy Eight per cent of filipinos support the crusade against crime corruption and drugs sixty eight percent believe that the drug war is actually working ok why is it because we believe in Human Rights Violations that we believe in killing people no the perception that were strolling to the. To the International Community was led by certain human Rights Groups associated with our opposition and associated with some people in the whole of the in the Catholic Church but they did not give the International Community the correct facts so when the you said you should believe the u. S. And you quote poland im not disputing that filipino support president didnt support it im not disputing that were just getting the record the u. S. Assistant secretary of state for Southeast Asia says we have a very sustained and deep concern that the drug war is operating outside the rule of law with a growing number of extra judicial killings is troubling we have raised those concerns the u. S. State department the Catholic Church theyre all just biased against the philippines yes because the point is filipinos will not support Human Rights Violations were very spiritual people whether muslim or christian filipinos believe in the dignity of life if i ask you how many additional killings in the philippines in twenty thirteen or twenty twelve or twenty eleven the minimum was eleven thousand five hundred the maximum was sixteen thousand ok every year eleven to sixteen thousand and let me just end it with a regular let me just you is the foreign minister of this government your position is that a few years ago under the last government there were eleven thousand deaths but this year i dont believe any of the numbers about thats not very convenient isnt it thats number one died on the last government nobody died under your government even the human Rights Groups but the u. S. State department the county. Church i want to thank you for your records not all the point the point is that the people did god knows the the past administration changed the definition ok they said its only extra dish out if you are a union leader if youre really just leave there if youre a journalist if its ideological so they started reporting fifty one hundred one hundred fifty ok when that that that came in they went back to the old definition and anyone murdered or killed was charge against the drug war but the opposite is happening in the country where he would have thirteen to sixteen thousand killings because of drugs not because of the police or the drug war but hold a hold of your own report say thirty eight hundred people have died in anti drug a previous thirty eight hundred people yes you think thats fine. Killed by who Police Officers like limited whove admitted that many of those killings were false killings know that they were dressed up thats absolutely not true Filipino Police have not visited any two yet if you know Police Officers have not admitted no to any false can obstinately there are a couple who we are told they have admitted their no they have not admitted because theyre guilty of no guilty guy with the couple of policemen who were caught murdering and theyre being charged with murder and every single one of the three and a half thousand people who was killed was a drug dealer yes how do we know that you didnt try them you didnt prosecute them you didnt show that you showed them one saw and thats not a democratic way of solving crime is it youre absolutely saying it if youre not on the ground come and look so if if i pull a gun on you here right now and you shoot me its your fault hold on hold i forgot i thought i lost i said three hundred thousand people have been killed there not enough thousand people all they all quit all they all criminal drug is how do you know because none of them were tried nobody you arrest somebody put them on trial the philippines is just killing people in the u. S. Or even in any country youre surely shown if someone pulls a gun on the police they have to bring them to court first before they fire back the police are doing what they can we trust the Philippine Police yes the press. It doesnt trust them we dont the filipino president doesnt trust your police you know the trucks the road police in and out saudi said you can do to a president who said you police rid of the most corrupt your corrupt to the cool its in your system to the well i wrote it in your system as time i checked hyperbole and figures of speech are allowed forty percent of the police in the philippines are corrupt he says is that true or false thats his estimation the chief of police estimation is two percent so who is right for a president of the chief of police i cant believe that are your boss under the bus im not throwing him under the bus is the president correct forty percent of the Philippine Police is a simple yes or no answer is he correct in your view if the Philippine Police are forty percent of them are corrupt when you make an estimation is that a correct estimate of the net nor is it a good rate to estimate that if he may be a study all fifty thats not the point the point is hes trying to clean up the police and he said yesterday the problem find so theres a problem here in trying to clean it up and maybe forty percent maybe less than forty percent but the same police of kill throw it off thousand people youre not saying we should trust the police know that your president and we have searched them weve said we should follow the law which is some sort of regularity but investigate each how many investigations of that into the three and a half thousand killings two and a half thousand there have been fantasizing the rounds of them are being in the gate the most independent observers are said to have not been investigation thats not the rulings thats not true. Independent investigators have seen the progress its the ideological and the by us human Rights Groups they said there are three thousand cases they picked out twenty eight cases no Scientific Method of picking out twenty eight they only interviewed the families of the death of the alleged pushers they did not interview anyone from the government. So its not fair to you and then they came up with their findings generalizing the three thousand from the twenty eight without interviewing the other side and then what did their report say that they believe that possession of drugs should be legalized so you tell me is that a kind of group that is there to investigate or sort of be made the judgment for them any country that thats not legalized the possession of drugs is not handling the drug case properly weve invited them to investigate now let me tell you where the confusion comes in western countries use heroin. And also cocaine none of these drugs is associated with violence and pot and all you do that you sir its the drug sellers who fight it out but methamphetamine hydrochloride has been proven by the w. H. O. By the un office on drugs crime to have been annoyed and but you should hand treat these people not just shoot them in the head youre helping fund a yes youll get nothing from the you will know you but attention thats not true yes you know its not were not sexy a Million Dollars to fifteen Million Dollars its not true twenty eighteen but i thought it was in the budget its going into the buildings and where were putting up billions worth of drugs centers all around you about it to treat drug addicts yes im in there yes but if they have a gun and theyre going to shoot at you all through an awful lot of people have you gotten smaller doesnt just not thats not where you think theres a. Problem to the philippines and see because youre talking from space with what theyre saying now you with the respect of course the u. S. State department steve Human Rights Watch and the philippine Catholic Church and youre saying im in space i can learn and i can only give you those references if youre the feeling. There its safe for an hour and if you were as if i thought them about it you know they said that the philippines struck them both pushers and users i talked to our ambassador and its a wrong translation then they are not there. It on the subject of wrong message that were speaking filipino on the subject of wrong translations as foreign minister is it hard for you to do your job and travel around the world when you let me finish the question of a president who says stuff like who jokes about raping a woman who calls the pope the son of a prostitute who calls the u. S. Ambassador the gay son of a prostitute that must be hard for you to be the face of a Philippine Government where the president says hes outrageous offensive thing thats not all filipinos are now than ever because all the things you said was being said by western media which the president did not see the president did say no he did not ok son the father and son the father the way it said the american something. Get the f. Out of here and what about you know what about joking about the rape of women which you know what he was joking he didnt came out and said i didnt mean he did that joke ok no he was talking about what happened in the eightys and what he said and what the context of it he never jokes about rape its very much about rape and its one of the safest place i mean he seems to be understood president the world since mom not in the philippines not in the middle east not in china not in russia not the three point five million filipinos in america. Thanks for joining me and im frank you very much think like that. Next week millions in the americas will celebrate Christopher Columbus and his legacy but is it one of discovery or destruction from producer lucas radebe this weeks reality check. Fourteen ninety two column but the ocean yes its that time of year again come this day millions of children have been taught the tale of the brave navigator brought civilization to the americas the discovery of the new world by an intrepid european explorer whats not to celebrate. It turns out theres quite a lot to celebrate first of all you may have sailed the ocean blue but he didnt discover anything new and sophisticated for the. Patients had been in the americas for millennia before columbus mother jones and even if were talking about europeans crossing the atlantic its still a couple centuries later even if it had discovered something is not exactly the type of character he wanted to roam on actually columbus is a rival for the start of the genocide that would wipe out millions of Indigenous People many died because of a devastating cocktail of foreign diseases columbus and his men also massacred those with surprisingly werent so happy about europeans plundering all their resources who would have thought right and the columbus is went far beyond his reach even one of its fellow explorers at the time he went too far announcing that their work was to ravage kill mangal and. Thats one hell of a Job Description turns out its a pretty accurate one to be organized hunts to kill Indigenous People just for their own amusement and chopped off big ears and nose as the locals would in surrender their goal. Effectively became the first of a long list of european invaders to massacre natives across the american continent. And hes also credited with being the first to send slaves back to europe from the americas great guy right and well yes some have renamed columbus day as a way to mark the start history calling it indigenous day or day of cultural diversity. Of the us states still recognize columbus day as an official holiday so its about time that we were by the magic surrounding columbus and make sure the text books reflect the sadistic genocidal invader that he really was. Furious tirades conspiracy fantasies are diversion to fact and an attraction to violence those are some of the common traits of a mentally ill person they also happen to be traits ascribed to the president of the United States in a new book called the dangerous case of donald trump its an unprecedented and controversial collection of essays. Twenty seven psychiatrists and Mental Health experts all offering a pretty bleak assessment of the president s Mental Fitness but is it even possible to diagnose trauma from a far in this way or does this new book provide an essential Public Service for all those concerned about the sovereignty of the most powerful man on earth joining me to discuss this about an assistant clinical professor of psychiatry at yale school of medicine and the editor of this new book and betty tang a trauma therapist and one of the contributors to it thanks both for joining me on upfront but really let me begin with you you conceive dove and put together this new book about president trumps Mental Health you convinced numerous Mental Health professionals to contribute their assessment all of which together paint a very dire picture of the mental state of the president of the United States why did you write this book and in a sentence or two what is the main message of this book i would first say if i may like to make clear that im speaking on my own behalf and not representing the views of Yale University school of medicine or Yale Departme