the toxic environment continues to poison lives and we found these astronomically high levels of dioxin levels that my staff think maybe some of the highest levels ever in the united states for almost thirty years this very serious problem had not actually been addressed what will that investigation into the chemical industry secrets revealed. this. hello and welcome to crossfire where all things are considered. a saudi qatar spot continues with no end in sight and new sanctions on russia divide nato allies also

is the truth about ukraine finally coming to light lastly the west on civil society . stories in the news i'm joined by my guest here in moscow alex christopher oh he is the director and writer of the duran dot com we also have dimitri bobbitt he's a political analyst with international and we have exactly a morrow he is the founder of the center for political strategic analysis struck hard on cross talk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want and i were always appreciated and i want to stress to my guests and to our viewers that we do real news on this program here so the real story that i want to talk about alex is this simmering saudi qatar stand up and it is very very important because you know we saw the president the united states side with the saudis when the saudis called in other arab countries called qatar state sponsor of terrorism.

that's a bit rich and we still have the president the united states signing off on a huge thing twelve billion dollars arms deal what is going on here and it's most importantly we have to get but the united states has one of its most important military bases in the world in qatar eleven thousand troops by qatar twenty four and funded by qatar so i mean this whole situation with qatar and saudi arabia has really changed the game from what the alliances were drawn during syria so during syria you had a whole set of alliances between assad russia iran against saudi arabia qatar turkey etc and now with this recent spat with this with this conflict between saudi arabia qatar everything has turned upside down if you don't have turkey and iran siding with qatar you have russia trying to mediate but leaning a little more towards the qatari side you have the united states and trump tweeting about how saudi arabia should be supported qatar is the enemy and cetera but giving twelve billion in money and weapons to them so you have

a whole different dynamic now which is just really been a tectonic shift from what syria was to work with and these two countries are nominally american allies. well i think what we're seeing now is a breakdown a very long tradition in the western media would have been hearing for i think about sixty years do more chrissy don't fight each other american allies don't fight each other so do futile countries you know the cold when you. know where it all it's but they were bad well now we see how america now why saudi arabia and qatar are basically fighting each other and the problem is that they bought spawn some very very unseemly groups the only difference is that qadar sponsors of the so-called muslim brotherhood right. brotherhood in palestine in egypt most in brotherhood the wouldn't go. democratically at the certain moment

saudi arabia sponsors what so we have a very serious situation we have the united states with countries that indeed spawns extremist groups we can't lose us president at the mediately at saying that qatar has been funding terrorism and then seven weapons to qatar to the tune of twelve billion dollars it really opens up i've said to many people that in particular in america generally in western media is they don't criticize israel too much and don't say anything about it so here we're going to be but now it's. in the headlines and you don't have to dig very deep to find out what kind of regime the united states is supporting there in my opinion. of the good of this region because as you called. the selling weapons you want to get some money and. very interesting what's happening really. is my opinion. yes no no i mean it's even

been suggested in western media that he's not where deeply aware of american military presence there again i think. is more interesting what happens inside the united states and you want to have to do what you want inside you know it is that so we're ready to sacrifice. to. the u.s. foreign policy just to have the inside of it seems it seems that after his trip to riyadh the saudis feel very much in bold and then they can go down this are we have saudi arabia united arab emirates we have the israelis all of them have extremely powerful well funded think tanks in washington d.c. and it's being played out there they have actually they're well dug into social media technology companies as well because we also have the announcement that al-jazeera has a twitter went out for arabic went out for a day i don't even know if it's still doubt so i mean i think you see. type of

warfare across all axis is it's financial it's a blockade it's technology based it's media based so really you're seeing qatar kind of trying to stave off this sudden and very quick but you pointed out before i mean is the extremely vulnerable and that's true but they're all vulnerable because actually these are dictatorships and with dictatorship we have been known and i think since that time or didas that citizens democracy you will have fighters you keep soldiers if you care for a government which is more or less responsible to the people and that was the case in syria i mean now after they spat between saudi arabia and qatar we see they nischelle planned all of the west to have syria ruled by a kind of force us liaised with saudi arabia we've got our it is simply on the walkable because next day october when president assad they will start to each

other if you look at the. so it's. very clear that it's a very bad army. it's very expensive or you know it is very expensive military defeat against. me in yemen. the troops coming for a. palestinian from arabs nobody would die for the king of saudi arabia so i have to agree with you that there is. and we have a point if they don't you know they have deep pockets but those pockets are not as deep as these because it's changed gears a little bit guys. angle merkel the german chancellor with the foreign minister of come out against new sanctions that have been passed in the u.s. senate against russia and against iran and the germans are not taking it lightly alex and neither are the austrians taken. by. german and austrian companies

involved in the energy sector and so they're going to get dissension these companies are going to get punished by these sanctions german and austrian companies and i find this absolutely hilarious and it's extremely ironic because what i thought it was russia that always divided america and europe and no it's not to it's not russia and i remember a few years back when russia did want to build a pipeline called south stream via turkey through to greece so greece would be a hub of energy towards europe what the e.u. backed by germany do they blocked it why because of sanctions because it's. coming and now they're doing this north stream turenne bridge which is the second. the main energy pipeline to europe another building a second one but you're germany the germans are fine with it no problem ok. because they have. those they have their energy security that we have now trope. so it's really kind of interesting is that the you know she's angry at the americans and now the other european countries going to be angry with her because she's putting

her country's energy interests above the e.u. she is seemingly the leader of the e.u. in the eyes of the liberal world i think what we see here is a total victory i deal with aggression if i go what you're already konami interests because look which are the most problematic countries in europe italy and greece they're the most indebted ones so the russian project saltine which was supposed to supply cheap russian energy to the state it could solve the evils problems you know italy and greece could have industries revived so what the e.u. as an ideological organization killed as a solace to project if you haven't. been to you know now the united states which is even more ideal with guys than the european union he skated north steam to project which was supposed to take fifty five billion cubic meters of gas a year from russia with the year two thousand plinking and here germans are suddenly saying wait wait wait i do all. it's good but we want industry we want to

guess with germans historically it is important you know. who died this week all there be tourists about him say that he was a great man but he put politics before economy at a certain moment when he was that is driven it you know right united before it was economically prepared to do it so it cost germany huge amounts of money and it started the idea of i just really shouldn't over the your project we actually see really you know it's really interesting is that some estimates here put the last three years of sanctions is that the russia has been impacted by them it is you know i think it's one percent of g.d.p. per year but the europeans dollarwise have been hit twice as hard and you know you know you have the american congress you john mccain lindsey graham the usual suspects are saying we want more sanctions against russia are they thinking about

their european allies it's even worse because for russia there is some size of the sanctions are good for. imports substitutions nothing good for europe because for instance europe the french farmers and german forever they're lost some markets were with the recruiter and they won't ever get it on the contrary you would have. to be still be in france or in germany we have created one of the. competitor in the in the in the euro so i mean alex. is right here it is it is ideology that is trumps everything here it's not even the really difficult because in my opinion the key to it is a two thousand and nineteen because at this time ukraine to reimburse the loan they get from the european u.s. institution it's about sixty billions and allows they will pay that with such a new situation if at the same time because two thousand and nineteen. it's

a date when the crew on contract between russia and ukraine. transit will be over and so a new one will be set and of course if you have to and the deals are project it will be not the same game for having me because you give me twenty seconds here because you ukraine wants to stay into this energy equation ten seconds i think ukraine is a symbol of this why you all would you or what economics because no one in crisis europe didn't gain russia didn't gain. ok i missed the point a way to continue to talk about ukraine after our break and after a short break we'll continue our discussion on stories in the media stage with arctic.

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talking to. their own. sons only just. don't. tell him. welcome back to crossfire all things are considered i'm peter lavelle to remind you we're discussing stories in the media. ok name i want to go back to you i was going through the pages of the washington

post and i came across a very interesting article here it is titled ukraine's alter right militias are challenging the government to i showdown written by a mr joshua cohen now it's a short little piece here my first reaction was this guy must have been living under a rock for the last three years because if you've been watching this program for the last three years we would have said we told you so well he's not the only. you know the former n.b.c. correspondent in moscow. the whole book about ukraine where he mentions the go to go to the national interest com they have a brilliant review well go ahead it is absolutely and the nation also james came to publish there's something very good about it but the whole idea is that cold mentions the fact that there are all right extremist groups that would make this stop or you know who participated in that my he if he mentions the fact.

it's going to cut off food and water by the regime ten thousand people among them three thousand civilians were killed during the civil war there of course three thousand civilians i can tell ninety nine percent of them were young which is support us or russia supporters because they were all killed in action regions and still despite all that mr trump and mr obama meeting mr poroshenko he's come into what he's their candidate here and the ukrainian media presents it's actually huge victory over russia trump is going to meet. before putin he is going to but we have to listen also saying the secretary of state is that he's saying the obvious you saying the minsk accords are not going anywhere the normandy format is going nowhere and you suggested to get a go around it merkel doesn't want to put a stop to about ukraine's turning into their problem or you think ukraine now is

a european problem for sure and i think that the u.s. is definitely walking away from it i think trump will meet with bush and go fine though given enough money to. give it enough just to skate by just to skate by they're not going to save it there's no way that the u.s. is going to especially trump that the u.s. is going to get involved in trying to mediate the ukraine crisis try to find a way out of it and then the whole washington post article to me is absolutely stunning it's still his yes he's victoria nuland suddenly came it's having dinner with these. this during the my dad is photos of. cedars. so don't forget that two months ago the three chiefs of the you tried in ukraine for border in a cynical poos sign an agreement to push. you yeah so open

war against me opened up this pandora's box so you could overthrow a government you don't like ok we have a new government we're going to overthrow this one this isn't bad practice it's a religion it's it it's hardly ever talked about this is the bar in my heating the e.u. in every sense from north stream to ukraine it's just karma coming right back to the. old the country with this fresh is groups because believe me on this is party or this in the pulpit ruskin's oppose it with the private sector always overturn a tsunami people we love and rest and. yet when you when you look at what it's like the roman legions you wanted them out in the i.c.u. you don't want them coming home ok and they can go back to camp anytime they want and there is an interesting fact this week two times. troops abundance some positions on the front. you can see that and in turn it on air and then there are forces coming and buying is abundant position from the from so

it's been. taken seriously it was to hold the line of doing that and preferring coming back to to care too because it's not so dangerous than being in the fighting against their own in their army and i am afraid we are going to stay for a while for two reasons first. it's already caught he shut his eyes when the so-called extremists cut electricity to create near west yes so russia had to supply all the electricity itself he shot his eye. when the extremists stopped the shipments of call. us now in fact in fact basically pushing it away from you and then we go to the older nationalist issues like language access to the internet here i mean again i don't know western puppet is against. speech yes.

but that russian social networks in ukraine which is like pretty big in facebook in canada and but the problem is he will stay because of these he already showed up snatched extremist forces from probably sector and all that and second if there is a rebellion against him unlike on the quality in the other coverage because a license to shoot from the west if he just shoots all of his opponents you know that you know the west is going to say he just shot that point is almost all that she says chiefs of the nurses groups there are m.p.'s it is immunity you get you can see them for as friends of this on a stretcher and. somebody does. this who director and it wasn't punished but of course the european union doesn't like to say the obvious thing about this regime ok that's where i found this washington post or that ever was so interesting you know because they we they had an agreement before the coup they would have a political process

a transition loosening up the powers of the presidency and unocal which signed it you agreed to it and the next day there was the coup the european union would not saying illegal behavior of partners that it has in the european union be trade agreement yes if you create that agreement if you mean it if you leave it it's a betrayal of the agreement to induce the little people barbeques but on this program many times before you pointed out very very clearly they do know a day before they were shaking unico but use hand and patting them on the back at a boy bad guy and then they walked away from him they walked away from the only agreement that they were and. pretend that there was absolutely no reason for him to leave come on they want to do q. and there's a reason he just flared into the middle of the night yes the new york times writes great fiction of other gentlemen i want two other things are we going to show. we do remember that over the last week there was the b. republican congressman that was shot by a lunatic bernie sanders supporter. and he was looking for republicans

apparently had on his person after he was killed a list of g.o.p. lawmakers that he wanted to i suppose assassinate here what is this is another indication for me that for me that this is a cultural civil war that is very real it was underlined by the. violence from the left in the u.s. we have some some very dangerous results and in my opinion that's what we because we said we see in media this is anyone but trump media i see it is this is this is a sarah good for these type of man that shot you know that lunatic he is responsible for his own actions ok i'm not taking the atmosphere feeds into the media's feeding it and they know what they're doing i mean people are saying ok the man is

responsible everyone agrees on that but the media in the united states the liberal left media the m.s.m. it's their fueling this radicalization and they know they're doing you have a shakespeare in the park play in new york which is cool or find the assassination of trump you have kathy griffin holding a holding a truck head in a. ritual and the media doesn't say anything they call or five stars these actors you have you have hollywood stars calling hollywood to not hire white ok bad as actors you're creating this huge division where are the radicalisation if you. been comedian held up ahead of barack obama in this isis like fashion that person would be roundly condemned but that's the double standard that we see today well again it's you can come in to rule first i lived in the united states in one thousand nine hundred one i remember these calls every day keel that saddam you know so the sport issue of demonizing you know personalizing your enemy it's it's politics as

i've said on this program before the regime change paradigm that the west and its allies around the world. i want to talk about oliver stone i don't know if you've seen any of the interviews it's really quite fascinating but what's more fascinating for me is the reception of. stone's work in western media it's really shocking it shows i have to admit that the the the the western propaganda effort against russia has been largely successful. you know the most interesting part about it is a lot of interviews with oliver stone when he was promoting the showtime piece and just about everyone that was interviewing him began the interview with one sentence i have been seeing all the stephen all to go but to go here very nice to put it of . him it's a very very friendly approach so all right away you have these these these people

that are interviewing oliver stone saying i haven't seen it i don't know what it's about but i don't like the tone you're taking to humanize this and this president of great power the only interview that was very fair was talking processor interview where he actually just sat back and listen to what oliver stone had to say that's what gave you an appendicitis so it's amazing to call the american media for gordon their own warts i mean when they when they now see when they write all all of a story about torture and that it's cold want to kind of humanize and they do. tape that they forget that for decades they have been saying that what it was stolen was an exception exhibit was the only unknown hollywood here director hero of the last exactly it was an american course. and he was serious he all of us don't is the all american director that was not influenced by it when he knows how to

tackle issues so they are lying to themselves you know they have to admit that at some point they were lying even now when they say you know he's a kid because this whole ideology you've been talking about it's like a secular church and now he has sinned and now he must be sharp ok and in france we got such an experience it was a two three years ago a famous french woman he said good interview from god to be with you and yet through can eyes he's very clever we ask him if you want to use there is some question he doesn't want two year. no but you better be ready because you know if you were to talking about a new word at least they could a short but of the interview where no conform to the police or the correctness in france well they they always will censor it no we're out of out of town but the bill always censor to keep their narrative in line we've run out of time many thanks to my guests here in moscow and thanks to our viewers for watching us here r.t. see you next time and remember crossed. by

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their plane you've told us the sickness of trusting our enemy we came to face. what i call a lack of blackness or understanding the blues have been black. sheep to blues have been black sheep mandate that we attack knowing how when in what to do you come this simple in his national is be black simply tan the feeling blue is black and blue. i don't see clear strategies and anyway i always see tactical. figures good for today of course the more. you have teams forward brief period of time and then you know divorce immediately i feel that we are

a. bad historical moment in the middle east and it is very difficult to predict how things will because. this is our team breaking news russia's military hopes cooperation with the u.s. in syria after the downing of a syrian fighter jet by an american warplane russian officials say u.s. backed aircraft will now be tracked as potential targets over syria also headlining this hour. this was an attack on muslims near their place of worship. hits a crowd of worshipers outside a north london mosque injuring several people and leaving one dead at the scene in what's being treated as an act of terrorism. and iran launches missiles targeting militants in eastern syria in retaliation for recent terror attacks in tehran claimed by i so.