buddies' theory c.n.n. puts russian defense officials showing evidence that ukraine had the capability to shoot down the plane moscow is now saying ukraine did it showing evidence that it had the capability to do it contrary to what kiev is now say that claim is brushed off as propaganda information is now politically charged on all airwaves it seems many journalists have already handed down their verdict in washington i'm going to check on r t the us has released images it's a claims the russian military has been firing rockets a few korean territory these pictures courtesy of the state department claim to show the impact of multiple rocket launchers fired over the border from russia and aimed at ukrainian military units the images have been widely distributed on social networks in the media however no u.s. official has commented on the issue thus far the exact source of the data is

not clear let's bring in paul craig roberts columnist on the head of the institute for political economy thank you for speaking to us today now to a non-expert like myself doesn't seem to be much actually going on in these pictures just some military installations some are rows do they actually prove anything. more graphic and say as in former government official or more. of the wall street journal i think. confidence that information in this important will not be released in this way i also see that it was released at eight forty five am on sunday morning. this is a completely dead time in news many american cities aren't even up yet san francisco. los angeles seattle it's still early hours in the morning so. if this was released by the state department which i doubt

it so unprofessional. it would mean that the state department is trying to stretch propaganda about russia on social media now the way this type of information would be released if it was real would be at a press conference with high level government officials addressing the bureau chiefs of the major news organizations and it would be held in washington will. have very high officials and there will be experts explaining the meaning of the photographs and attesting to their validity let me just jump in there really quickly because i just want to all not point that you're saying because the images come from the news left were distributed by the state department there's been no official announcement as he said why do you believe that is the difference is there

. well i did i'm not even sure the state department sent this e-mail because it's an unprofessional way to release an important information and so that makes me believe the information is fake you. know the united states government has been desperate to produce information to back up its claims it would not release the information in this way social media has no credibility anybody can spread propaganda on social media this information if it's true would have been released by important government officials at a press conference in the presence of the journals that's the only way information this important would ever be released. and i just all not social media the state department's twitter feed actually says follow geoffrey pyatt who is the u.s. ambassador in kiev for new images of evidence of russia firing into ukraine is it

a quote but is it really the role of a diplomat to be getting involved in accusations like that no. no i think what the real issue here is is not the photographs it's the fact that someone is conducting propaganda against russia misrepresenting the truth and is content to spread propaganda via social media. the u.s. government if it had this information would not spread it in that way they would use a very credible way of presenting this information this is the least credible way of preventing presenting important information so i don't think the information has any credibility it's not believable and even the i have the e-mail here in front of me and it says it was released by the state department at eight forty five in the

morning almost sending this is not possible that they would have him they would want it out in a very important news time moreover as i have to repeat myself this kind of information would only be released in an important press conference ok paul craig roberts called mess and head of the institute for political economy we thank you for your time sir. coming up on our to international glimmer of hope in the standoff between israel and hamas the palestinian militant group says it's ready for another day long humanitarian truce softer earlier insisting that israel first pull out its troops. bring you the full story in a run fifteen minutes time in the meantime though it's french a couple times with kitty pilgrim.

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i live on the first to go to sell on case of no rain this week will be discussing the conflict between person i'm. from the type of weapons contracts to russia plus saudi arabia is up the stock market ok loses its russian go sky high and to cap it when he talks about drugs to stay tuned to the details of all of. the e.u. is set to target state owned russian banks the measures will european investors from buying new debts or shares of these banks access to capital markets arms and

energy technology will likely feature in the new set of e.u. sanctions now this comes the same week that the fight against secret offshore accounts has some promising results thirty seven billion euros was collected by governments across the world new details were unveiled of the next phase of the global crackdown on tax evasion which will allow the automatic sharing of data but we're now going to discuss how new sanctions on the fight against tax evasion could mean more reason to transport money they can make or i'm now joined by peter pan off the chairman of the board from the great so before we move on to tax evasion we're going to touch on that just a minute or two we've got these e.u. sanctions they're being finalized as we speak what will they do to the russian economy i don't believe those sanctions will be at the full scale and too harsh on the overall russian economy. the current believe that mostly and mainly state owned companies will be targeted and something else to keep in mind you russia is

a huge country and the sixth economy in the world so in any way if you would like sanctions to be effective and really course pay for the economy economy has to be isolated completely it's close to possible to isolate the russian economy completely from all markets for all financial markets for war all that just to call routes to acknowledge resources etc so all these sanctions will only go half way in europe. and in cuba. of russia and a big country with the the economy russia will definitely retaliate so these sanctions will be two way to a and russia will find ways to be for our european union and at some point if i'm from the states i want to move on to tax evasion because i did mention this week there's been some new measures are we know this but i will fight against the anything that politicians as rational process seems to agree on they say is. the most anxious more rules and regulations that sometimes

means the more breaking off do you think that because there are going to be more hurdles that people will be more inclined to jump over those hurdles and find loopholes to get rid of that money elsewhere to copy a secret even the face of it's impossible in russia i would not be honest and frank with you from that is that russian government successfully was fighting against the shadow areas of economy over the last decades and the current russian tax regulation is actually targeted towards limit is much bigger much more profitable to be open. to the shuttle so business is very vocal and russian government is listening to business and the trying to implement measures for show is a sure and or increasing taxes changing with the very close contact and dialogue with the business and business is very vocal about saying if you push business to

to hard business can go and stop being transparent and go into the shadows of space both of these topics sanctions are tax evasion as far as russian money is concerned all means more money going to asia. most likely most likely i think russia has a great opportunity to find itself in the eastern markets. find investors in the eastern markets find new partners in the in the eastern markets because unfortunately i don't want to elaborate on the cause of the sanctions is beyond my area of expertise but i think the message is very strong that under certain circumstances western part of this can pretty much give up on russia and drop the contracts proprietor events and russia will definitely retaliate short term because we know sort of rumors that russia can nationalize some of the. international oil and gas companies including you know x.

and mobil shelby pete cetera is going to very painful that would be a disaster they wouldn't what it will be disaster for everybody here and it's not nobody wants this that's why west should think twice about russia too too hard and too for b. to panel thank you so much for coming in thank you so much i was able to say to you yes on a so i appreciate you coming into our lives. and staying with the conflict surrounding ukraine but this time between burson from british prime minister david cameron criticized france for its that of two warships to russia but across party parliamentary report later available more than two hundred u.k. licenses to sell weapons to moscow or may. intact just give us an idea of how huge the global weapons industry is we'll have a look at the countries that make the most money be able to see the u.s. remains the largest exporter of conventional weapons in the world accounting for thirty percent just that or about seven billion dollars a year russia is second with twenty three percent which is about four point five

billion here then is germany france and. so considering these numbers despite all the horror that's happened over the last week or so it's clear to see why there is so much tension over these multi-billion dollar contracts so for more analysis i'm now joined by rodney shakespeare political analyst from the global justice movement ok mr shakespeare there's lots of pointing and blaming going on at the by mint thought in your opinion politics aside it should be stopped to russia right now. well i don't think you can avoid the politics i regret the assumption that we should be talking about trade relations and sanctions against russia it's not russia that's conducting a deliberate extermination of the women and children in gaza it's not russia conducting the slaughter of millions hundreds of thousands perhaps in syria and

iraq and it's not russia that proposed the elimination of the russian language for ukrainian russian speaking people and you know it is how the rhetoric is changing on the downing of the plane as people asked the questions as to why the plane was directed over a war zone and why they lowered the altitude of the plane but your questions also regards sanctions. the reality is is that in the long run that the west will lose out of the sanctions that europe cannot afford a sanctions france can't afford it if it lost that one point two billion for those two aircraft carriers the u.k. is big token here pretty hypocritical it has. two hundred fifty one ongoing contracts for sniper rifles and drones and the bottom line of course is that russia can strike back and cannot or lies assets of say shell and b p so i'm afraid all this sanctions talk is going nowhere it will be.